CHAPTER 42: CHAPTER 42: SCREAMER

Su Changxing spent 2400 points to exchange for two Speed Enhancements. As the white light entered his body, this time he could no longer feel the bone-chilling cold, only a faint warmth.

Name: Su Changxing

Power: 4 (stronger than the average human)

Speed: 5.2 (far above the average human)

Physique: 3.7 (stronger than the average human)

Perception: 1 (something average humans don’t have)

Spirit: 5 (far above the average human)

Status: Healthy

Evaluation: Your speed is approaching the limit that postnatal training can achieve, the limit of the purely human body.

The first speed enhancement increased speed by 0.4, and the second by 0.3, totaling an increase of 0.7. Overall, the benefits of Speed Enhancement are getting smaller.

"It means that Attribute Enhancement is equivalent to replacing postnatal training and can only reach the human body’s limit at most."

"However, this limit is terrifying. Even some extreme athletes probably haven’t reached it."

Although Su Changxing’s speed hadn’t reached the human body’s limit, he figured his running speed wasn’t much different from some top sprinters.

The only difference might be in some technical aspects. With some training, winning an Olympic gold medal would be more than enough for him.

He roughly browsed through the shop section.

[French bread, quantity 5, 10 points

550ml bottled water, quantity 10, 2 points

Baseball bat, quantity 5, 10 points]

Su Changxing spent 120 points to exchange for all these items, put them in the sack, and seeing that the inventory also had T-shirts and jeans, spent 200 points to buy two sets.

[Total points: 6898]

After changing out of the soiled clothes, he immediately felt much fresher. Clothes soaked in blood always leave a sticky feeling.

In just five minutes, Su Changxing reappeared outside the Mysterious Shop, the roars of zombies echoing in his ears, four zombies charging toward him from not far away at the same time.

Though he had been fast enough, some zombies still emerged in the area he had just cleared.

Su Changxing released an arrow he had nocked long ago, piercing a zombie’s skull, then charged at them with a steel saber, slicing through another zombie’s upper skull in a semicircular arc in the night.

As his strength grew stronger, he could clearly feel that when the blade struck a zombie’s skull, a strange force augmented it, making it easier to split open the zombies’ heads.

This must be the power of "Split Head."

This power wasn’t Su Changxing’s own but an auxiliary external force triggered under certain conditions.

With a significant speed increase, Su Changxing’s striking frequency and explosive power also rose. In one encounter, he killed two zombies, easily taking down the remaining one with a slight dodge.

Su Changxing looked at the zombie corpses on the ground, feeling a bit excited. A 1.3 speed increase had given him a significant combat power boost.

It’s hard to imagine what terrifying level his combat power would reach if his speed and power were increased to 6.

Su Changxing carried the sack, entered the adjacent passage, went up to the second floor, found a room, cleared out the zombies inside, locked the door to rest, and meanwhile sold the basic resources obtained from the shop on the forum.

Lucky Child: Looted resources again.

550ml water, 10 bottles, 100 points.

Baseball bat, five, 100 points.

French bread, 5 bags, 300 points.

First come, first served.

Reply 1: Once again, the boss has looted resources, I guess the boss can fly.

Reply 2: This must be resources from a Mysterious Shop; the boss keeps looting the Mysterious Shop.

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This resale wave earned him 3000 points, bringing his total points to 9948, a bit more than before he entered the Mysterious Shop.

"Is this what they mean by the more you spend, the more you earn?"

Su Changxing found that if a Mysterious Shop’s basic resources were not looted, he could resell the basic resources and even earn a small profit.

He drank some water, ate half a piece of bread, rested for a while, and saw many posts about a purple monster appearing on the forum, one of which was particularly detailed and popular.

Love to Eat Fish: A purple monster appeared tonight, and I’ve temporarily named it ’Screamer’ because it emits a sharp sound, extremely piercing.

This monster is different from zombies, possessing some intelligence. It’s around three meters tall, glows all over, has sharp claws, and its speed and power are off the charts, plus it can climb walls.

No, you didn’t hear wrong; it can climb walls.

I saw a Screamer climb to the third floor and drag a person out to eat alive. Luckily, I was far away at the time and wasn’t discovered.

In my view, humanity can only rely on thermal weapons to combat Screamers.

I’ve got to say, this game has no balance whatsoever, and a monster appearing on the third day of the game is unbeatable.

Ha, it’s just there’s no way to complain to the officials. If this were in a real-world game, the developers would be flooded with complaints.

Trust me, seeing purple means danger, so stay as far away as possible.

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This person was clearly a hardcore gaming enthusiast before, as their posts have a strong strategic guide flavor, mixed with a sense of despair.

Su Changxing agreed with this person’s view; a Screamer is virtually unbeatable at this stage and isn’t something humans can contend with.

Unless there are guns, using the powerful penetration and destructiveness of bullets might be able to kill it.

Now, someone probably has firearms, but there’s been no word about guns on the forum.

The Screamer sparked massive panic on the forum, as it meant hiding in rooms wasn’t necessarily safe anymore.

There were many replies discussing the Screamer under the post.

Reply 1: So, do Screamers appear during the day?

Reply 2: How can people even live with such monsters appearing? You can fight back against zombies, but with Screamers, you probably can’t even run.

Reply 3: Sooner or later, we’ll all be eaten by these monsters bit by bit.

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Su Changxing browsed the forum posts, estimating that the number of such monsters should be low and the chance of encountering one should be small. So he tidied up his things, left the room, and continued searching for Mysterious Shops.

An hour later, Su Changxing found a new Mysterious Shop again and noticed that there weren’t many zombies nearby, suggesting it had been cleared before, with a few fresh human corpses even lying on the ground.

He knew that someone had visited this Mysterious Shop, but he still entered with a fluke mindset to check, confirming that items had already been exchanged for everything.

"It seems there are more people who know about the Mysterious Shop than I imagined,"

Su Changxing judged, looking at the number "A0180" in the corner of the blue light screen: "And the placement of Mysterious Shops isn’t as simple as I thought before; just following an equilateral triangle search can find them."

Leaving the Mysterious Shop, Su Changxing returned to the street, ready to continue finding another Mysterious Shop.