The new rules meant that the once-empty abandoned city would be filled with various “surprises” and “accidents”.
After reading the prompt, Lu Chen’s brows furrowed.
He may have had enough firepower, but it was easier to dodge an open attack than a hidden arrow.
If he accidentally made a mistake similar to yesterday’s basement… he was all alone now.
“It seems I need to be careful.”
Lu Chen’s combat power had greatly increased, but the danger of this area was also increasing.
It gave a feeling of impending crisis, like the water temperature was gradually rising.
As mentioned before, this time, only Lu Chen was teleported near the area, no one else.
Perhaps this was the norm that everyone would face after being teleported.
The last time he was teleported to within 10 meters of Sakurajima Mai was due to the power of his keyword.
“The location I’ve been teleported to today should be in the city center.”
Quickly scanning his surroundings, Lu Chen came to a rough conclusion.
Yesterday, he was teleported to the outer ring of the city and didn’t go too deep.
Today, he was directly in the city center, surrounded by skyscrapers.
Combined with the lead-grey sky that seemed to never clear, the atmosphere was rather depressing.
The disorder of the streets was even worse than what he had seen yesterday.
Everywhere were traces left behind after the outbreak of conflict, including but not limited to dried blood, rotting bones and garbage.
A few ugly, scantily clad zombies with their hair already falling out were slowly strolling in Lu Chen’s field of vision.
This was a sight that didn’t appear the last time he visited the “Doomsday City”.
“Indeed, ‘wild’ enemies have begun to appear.”
“But judging from their appearance… they don’t seem to have much vitality.”
It made sense, this city looked like it had been abandoned for many years.
Even zombies need to consume energy to move.
If they haven’t “hunted” any human survivors, these zombies are probably unable to sustain themselves.
They’re already in a very extreme state to be able to move now.
While they didn’t seem threatening, Lu Chen still remained on high alert.
As he approached several lazy zombies, he flicked his wrist, and a pistol instantly appeared in his hand.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three shots were fired in rapid succession, directly blasting the head of the nearest zombie.
Sensing the fresh “flesh” scent, the other few zombies immediately made excited and hoarse, strange noises, and pressed towards Lu Chen.
Their movements were a bit faster, but still very stiff and rigid, like rusty wheels, stopping and starting.
Seeing this, Lu Chen wouldn’t let go of such a good attack opportunity, and continued to fire his gun, killing the remaining zombies.
He didn’t need to worry about bullet consumption, it was just satisfying to shoot!
The entire battle process was uneventful, and within a minute, several corpses lay on the ground.
The zombie corpses gradually faded and disappeared.
The remaining few gear copper coins automatically flew towards him with a wave of Lu Chen’s hand.
As they got close to Lu Chen, the gear copper coins suddenly scattered into specks of starlight and entered the wristwatch he was wearing.
A constantly rolling number also appeared on the wristwatch screen.
【Gained 4 gear copper coins】
【Currently have 1324 gear copper coins】
This was also one of the hidden functions of the wristwatch, digitizing the game currency for easy storage.
When he received the reward email for “Top Survivor,” Lu Chen was still wondering where the 1000 gear copper coins that should have been sent to him had gone.
He later discovered that they were all stored in the wristwatch, he hadn’t missed any rewards.
“It seems the wristwatch should be standard equipment for all players, these functions are too useful.”
Lu Chen wasn’t too excited about his first victory.
This level of battle was considered a warm-up for someone who had experienced the difficulty of the 5th hour survivors.
After clearing the enemies in his field of vision, Lu Chen walked towards the newspaper stand at the intersection with a clear goal.
This was his second time visiting the “Doomsday Waste City” and he wasn’t in a hurry to search for supplies.
Instead, he wanted to explore the city more deeply.
At this time, if he could get a map of the city, it would be great.
“Whew… this place really hasn’t been looted.”
Forcing open the rusted iron door, Lu Chen squeezed into the newspaper stand.
Apart from the damage caused by natural factors like rain.
Surprisingly, many of the magazines and newspapers in the newspaper stand were still intact.
It seemed that the survivors after the apocalypse were only concerned with filling their stomachs and didn’t have the heart to enjoy these “spiritual food”.
“Politically correct “Playboy” … tsk, foreign guys’ aesthetics are getting worse and worse.”
“Fashion magazines… Mai should be reading these often, it’s a pity she’s not here.”
“Evening news reporting on strange epidemics… the bad news is they didn’t prevent it at all.”
“City travel guide… there it is! This one!”
From the dusty pile of paper, Lu Chen finally found what he wanted - a travel magazine with a city travel map!
Although it’s a travel map, there are plenty of markings and it even has descriptions of landmark buildings.
“City Library”, as the largest library building in the area, is naturally included!
The street sign at the intersection was barely legible, showing the name of the street, and after comparing them, Lu Chen quickly determined the location of the street block he was in.
“It’s not close to the City Library… but it’s not too far either.”
“Taking into account the time spent on killing monsters, I should be able to arrive within two hours.”
As Lu Chen pondered, a few zombies suddenly refreshed from a distance.
Compared to the “wild” zombies he encountered earlier, these zombies looked much “fresher”
Of course, they were also more active and aggressive.
Upon seeing Lu Chen, they began to close in on the location of the newspaper stand.
“Hmm?”
Lu Chen was about to take out his gun to shoot the newly refreshed zombies, but after counting the number of enemies, he had a strong sense of doubt.
The first 10-minute zombie refresh… why are there still only 4?
Yesterday, he and Mai only refreshed 4 zombies together.
The rules haven’t changed much, it’s unlikely that the difficulty would suddenly double.
So, there’s only one possibility left…
There are other players of the survival game nearby!
“Why don’t they show up? Or…?”
An idea came to mind, Lu Chen discreetly observed his surroundings with the corner of his eye, then shot and killed the refreshed zombies one by one.
After all the enemies were eliminated, he continued to fire a few shots into the air, signaling with gunshots.
“Friend hiding in the dark, the zombie threat is gone, can you come out and show your face?”
“You want to use my hand to clear out the zombies… just say it, no need to be so roundabout.”
“If you don’t want to come out, I’ll have to find you.”
The strong voice drifted through the silent and empty city center on the breeze.
Lu Chen tensed, his mouth felt a little dry, thinking he should find some water to drink later.
At this moment, a crisp sound of footsteps finally came from an inconspicuous alley corner on the inner side of the street.
Judging from the sound of the heels colliding with the concrete floor…
This person is actually wearing high heels?!
“The footsteps are getting further away, she’s sneaking away!”
Lu Chen reacted quickly, his eyes immediately turned sharp, and he quickly charged towards the alley.
A blonde figure was constantly running away in the depths of the alley.
From the rapid breathing due to strenuous exercise, and the two white jade legs constantly moving under the short skirt, this should be a girl.
Just when she thought she had almost shaken off the man behind her.
A sudden force of suction instantly shattered her balance, and with a low cry of “ah”, she fell to the ground.
“Oh no!”
The blonde girl was instantly pale with fright, her heart filled with foreboding.
And Lu Chen, who had finally caught up to her using the power of his ability, saw the girl’s appearance and showed a look of realization, as if he had known all along.
“Isn’t this Mai-san’s sister… Toyama Kazuka?!”
Actually, when he recognized that the person running away was a young woman with blonde hair, Lu Chen had a slight hunch.
“You… why are you chasing me?!”
The fallen blonde girl gritted her teeth, like a fluffy kitten, nervously said to him.
“I didn’t do anything to you, I just happened to pass by… is there something wrong with that?”
This child’s personality is indeed just like what he remembers, she’s like a little tiger.
Seeing Toyama Kazuka’s attitude of biting back, Lu Chen didn’t hesitate, and directly raised his hand to brush a keyword for her.
He wanted to see if Toyama Kazuka would also have a “Love at First Sight” keyword, and how her attitude would change.
However, the next moment, both of their expressions froze for a moment, and they both showed strange expressions.
【Ding! Player “Toyama Kazuka” gained special keyword: “Tenfold Sensitive”!】
(Tenfold Sensitive: This player’s senses will be ten times more sensitive, lasting for 24 hours)
“It seems…”
Lu Chen swallowed, staring at the slightly distorted beauty idol, silently thinking.
“I played a bit too much!”