The task completion time was extended to 10 minutes!
This was like a bolt from the blue for Luo Xiao Le.
It had only been a day since the zombie outbreak, and she had already faced life-threatening crises due to stiffening twice.
If she couldn't complete the task and the stiffening time increased, she looked up at the sky powerlessly and thought she might not last three days.
Work hard to earn money, level up, and save her life!
She had to get stronger quickly, otherwise, dealing with such troublesome zombies would make finding supplies a big problem.
Thinking of trading, she subconsciously glanced at the group chat.
Perhaps everyone was disheartened, as no one had spoken in the chat for a long time.
She thought for a moment and slowly typed a line: "Weapons that can deal with zombies for sale. Anyone who needs them can find me."
Luo Xiao Le's sudden announcement stirred up a storm in the group chat.
"There are special weapons that can deal with zombies?"
"No way, if she had them, why wouldn't she have brought them out earlier?"
"Could it be firearms? Setting aside whether you have them, even if you did, the moment you fire, the zombies in the entire building will be alerted. Getting surrounded then would be a loss, pointless."
The doubts grew louder with each passing moment.
Luo Xiao Le rested her chin on her hand, looking a little worried.
Everyone had seen what happened during the day. Even strong men with seemingly complete weapons had to work hard together to eliminate one zombie.
What weapon could easily deal with zombies?
Luo Xiao Le saw the mocking words in the group chat, put down her phone, and didn't reply.
Since they didn't believe her, she would demonstrate it to them and let them see for themselves.
Luo Xiao Le decided to enhance the items she could.
She had just received 2,000 mall coins from the system, and she found many items at home that could be enhanced.
While the little chubby guy and the others were asleep, Luo Xiao Le closed her eyes, recalling the feeling of her first enhancement, and silently called out to the system in her mind.
[Enhancement Skill Activated: Razor Sharp!]
A familiar golden light flashed faintly.
[Cleaver * 3, Fruit Knife * 2, Hammer * 1, Scissors * 2, Thumbtacks * 2 boxes have been enhanced, costing 2000 mall coins. Balance: 0 mall coins.]
After a round of enhancements, for some reason, Luo Xiao Le felt a little dizzy and weak all over. She felt like something in her brain was being drained.
Surprisingly, these enhanced weapons felt as light as feathers when she picked them up, with no weight at all.
Moreover, they could be controlled by her will, freely changing in size and being placed in her pocket, making them very convenient to carry.
After the enhancement, Luo Xiao Le couldn't help but cry out to the heavens. She had just received the system and already became a pauper!
…
She didn't sleep well that night.
As soon as it was dawn, Luo Xiao Le woke up.
She stared blankly at the thumbtacks she had enhanced last night for a while, picked one up, flicked her wrist, and threw it at the wall.
She analyzed her own weaknesses.
Her body was full of aches and pains, her chopping power was insufficient, her stamina was lacking, and she was terrible at close combat.
With her current condition, she could only pin her hopes on some ranged weapons.
So, starting today, she would train throwing thumbtacks and make them her primary weapon.
She practiced for two hours.
It wasn't until the other three slowly woke up that Luo Xiao Le came back to her senses, rubbed her slightly sore wrist, and spoke about today's plan.
Last night, a resident on the 7th floor had asked for help in the group chat, saying someone in their household had an asthma attack and hoped to trade food for asthma medication.
Luo Xiao Le remembered that her sister also had asthma, and the asthma medication at home was no longer in use. She might as well go out again and exchange it for some food.
She could also record scenes of her weapons being able to deal with zombies, to make the people in the group believe her. Otherwise, her future trades might not be able to scale up.
"No way, look at what happened yesterday. We have enough food. Going out now is like sending ourselves to our deaths!" Wang Hao was the first to object.
"I... I don't want to go out..." Zhu Hui also looked at her timidly.
"Actually, I agree with going out..." Luo Shu, however, spoke up with unusual seriousness.
"Food will only become scarcer from now on. We should stock up as much as we can. It will only be more troublesome to find food later on."
Luo Xiao Le glanced at him with admiration.
Fewer people meant easier movement. In the end, Luo Shu decided to act with Luo Xiao Le.
Luo Xiao Le paid close attention to the information shared by everyone in the group chat.
Suddenly, one person mentioned seeing a small team from the 6th floor going out and encountering a group of wandering zombies, who were currently in a fierce battle.
Luo Xiao Le listened carefully, and indeed, there seemed to be movement upstairs.
"Yo, here's an opportunity," Luo Shu said, nervously rubbing his hands.
Luo Xiao Le peeked through the peephole and saw that the zombies in the corridor outside had indeed been drawn away!
She quickly tied the enhanced thumbtacks around herself. This way, even if she suddenly stiffened, she wouldn't be completely defenseless.
The two of them cautiously opened the door and, from a distance, quietly followed behind two zombies that were preparing to go upstairs.
Taking advantage of the zombie-free corridor, they also slipped upstairs.
They were originally heading straight for the 7th floor.
However, upon reaching the sixth floor, Luo Xiao Le suddenly spotted a familiar trouser hem.
The white, blood-stained trouser hem, like the wind, swished into the corridor, followed by a slide tackle that knocked a zombie, which was about to bite someone, to the ground.
Only then did Luo Xiao Le see that the person was a young man about her age, with dark black hair and ink-colored eyes that held no emotion, like a pool of cold spring water.
The person turned, lifted a foot, and stepped on the zombie's throat, rendering it immobile.
Raising a steel pipe high, he twisted his wrist, and the sharp tip of the pipe flashed with a cold gleam, plunging fiercely into the soft cartilage of the zombie's head!
Death!
Clean and efficient.
Luo Xiao Le was stunned.
She was truly envious of the young man's skills.
But a zombie behind him, which had been in his blind spot, suddenly lunged at the young man. Its sharp claws were about to pierce his spine.
Everything happened in a flash, and the young man didn't even have time to dodge.
Luo Xiao Le's hand moved first.
"Clink!"
It was the sound of a thumbtack piercing the ground.
Stuck to the ground along with the thumbtack was the zombie's foot.
The zombie, pinned down and unable to move, bought the young man precious time. He finally had time to step back a large distance.
Then, he grabbed the other person, who had been knocked to the ground by the zombie, by the hood of their hoodie and lifted them up.
The two of them instantly retreated out of the zombie's attack range.
Luo Xiao Le was surprised. Her initial impression was that this person might be arrogant and treated life as worthless, but she had misjudged him.
She considered for a moment.
Then she gestured for Luo Shu to take out his phone and start recording. She took out an enhanced fruit knife from her pocket and threw it towards the young man, along the tiles.
The young man understood. He hooked his toe, and the fruit knife on the ground flew up with his force, which he instantly caught.
He immediately plunged it into the left zombie's throat, then pulled it out.
The small knife traced a beautiful arc in the air, was caught by his right hand in an instant, and with a horizontal slash, the right zombie's head was instantly severed!
Only then did the zombie with the stabbed throat on the left, unyieldingly, fall to the ground.
Luo Xiao Le was amazed and couldn't help but want to applaud him.
The young man also seemed astonished by the power of the weapon, pausing for just a moment.
Then, with a stride, he covered the distance to her in two steps.
"Are there any others? I'll take them all." The handsome guy looked up, his ink-like eyes as deep as the ocean.
However, upon seeing Luo Xiao Le, he froze for a moment, a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
Luo Xiao Le didn't have time to observe his expression. She was overjoyed in her heart, having made her first sale right after going out.
"Yes!" she chirped.
Then she took out all the weapons from her pocket, leaving two boxes of thumbtacks and two other fruit knives, and handed over the rest to him.
The ice-cold guy took out his phone and added her on WeChat.
He initiated the transfer.
[Your account has received 6000 mall coins. Balance: 6000 mall coins.]
She had originally thought that since the weapons were so powerful, she could set a higher price.
Who knew that the system would suddenly prompt her that to prevent price discrepancies from causing system collapse in the early stages, the price of each weapon could not exceed 1000!
Therefore, selling 6 weapons for 6000 was already the most money she could earn at the moment.
The sound of the money arriving in her account made Luo Xiao Le feel somewhat satisfied. After the next batch of trades, she would be able to complete the mission and permanently acquire the Razor Sharp skill.