"Let's rest for a while first, and we'll check the surroundings for hidden monsters later~"
"If there are none, we'll spend the night here!"
Ye Feng said, glancing at the darkening sky.
It was already noon when they arrived at the outskirts of the City of Despair. After some travel, they waited for a while by the city walls.
Then, after entering the City of Despair, a series of tricky events unfolded one after another...
"Ling Xi, what do you think?"
Finally, Ye Feng didn't forget to ask for Ling Xi's opinion.
After all, Ling Xi was the first to discover the spatial teleportation array, and she clearly had more knowledge about it.
"Yes, that's fine!~"
After carefully observing the surroundings, Ling Xi nodded, "This place shows no signs of an unstable spatial teleportation array!"
"Oh, then it's settled~"
Seeing Ling Xi agree, Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Being inexplicably dropped into a strange place and encountering unfamiliar monsters was indeed troublesome.
If it happened while sleeping, it would be terrible!
"Okay~!"
Xiao Xiao also nodded, feeling quite happy.
To be honest, even with her exoskeleton armor, she was quite tired after the afternoon's endeavors and sudden changes, both mentally and physically.
After a simple rest, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Ling Xi got up and began to search the area.
After all, they were going to rest here tonight, and none of them wanted to be ambushed by lurking monsters while they were sound asleep...
...
In the evening,
After a sumptuous dinner, Xiao Xiao had already fallen asleep. Ling Xi was contemplating the night sky, her delicate eyebrows occasionally furrowing.
Ye Feng, on the other hand, was meticulously examining the freezer containing the desperation serum, which he had obtained from the laboratory.
"It really is a survival coin!~"
After Ye Feng's thorough investigation, he discovered that the round metal piece inserted at the bottom of the freezer was indeed, as he had suspected, a survival coin with the number 734 on it.
"Is this survival coin the energy source for this freezer's cooling? Something like a battery?"
"Speaking of which, survival coins have quite a few uses~"
Ye Feng couldn't help but recall the special communication method Li Bao had mentioned outside the City of Despair's walls.
"It seems my understanding of survival coins is far from sufficient!"
Ye Feng frowned.
He had previously thought that these round metal pieces, taken from treasure chests, had no use other than being absorbed by the system.
But now it seemed that survival coins had much broader applications than he had previously imagined...
"Hmm?"
"Reinforcement Serum?"
As Ye Feng was about to examine the research document on the desperation serum inside the freezer, suddenly, in the corner of the freezer, three syringes with a familiar appearance caught his eye.
Immediately, Ye Feng picked up the syringes to examine them.
"What the heck, it's not reinforcement serum, it's a zombie virus neutralizer?"
Seeing the patterns on the outer casing of the three syringes, Ye Feng was somewhat surprised.
Similar to the one he had injected into Xiao Xiao earlier, these three syringes were also engraved with a zombie symbol with a cross 'x' next to it.
"Wait!"
Suddenly, Ye Feng frowned.
He noticed that these three vials of zombie virus neutralizer were different from the ones obtained from the City of Zhanbi. The zombie pattern was specifically accompanied by other text.
One vial was labeled "Tier 4 Primary," another "Tier 4 Intermediate," and the third "Tier 6 Peak."
"Could it be that these three vials of zombie virus neutralizer are specifically for dealing with Tier 4 and Tier 6 zombie viruses?"
"And after Tier 3, zombie levels have more refined classifications?"
Ye Feng speculated. But immediately, Ye Feng had another question, "Why weren't the zombie virus neutralizers from the City of Zhanbi labeled?"
"And why is there zombie virus neutralizer in the City of Despair? And those exoskeleton zombies look like they evolved from the zombies in the City of Zhanbi after consuming reinforcement serum!"
"Does the City of Despair have some connection with the City of Zhanbi?"
For a moment, many questions flashed through Ye Feng's mind.
"The number on the survival coin from the Bronze Treasure Chest is 100, Black Iron is 200... Steel is 400... Silver is 800... The one on the freezer is 734..."
"Huh?"
Thinking of this, Ye Feng's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Does the number on the survival coin represent the quantity of some special substance it contains?"
...
Afterward, Ye Feng flipped through the research document on the desperation serum.
One point that greatly interested Ye Feng was that the research and manufacturing of the desperation serum were related to a mysterious divine stone...
The desperation serum was successfully produced due to the irradiation of the divine stone.
At the end of the document, there was a sentence: "All organisms directly irradiated by the divine stone died..."
"What the hell is this?"
Ye Feng was utterly confused and perplexed.
...
Thinking about the survival coins, the desperation serum, the reinforcement serum, and the documents in the freezer, Ye Feng unconsciously fell asleep.
...
Middle of the night,
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Ling Xi were all asleep.
"Chirp chirp chirp chirp!~..."
Suddenly, a series of unpleasant, piercing sounds rang out.
Upon hearing this sound, Ye Feng's eyes snapped open, his expression solemn, and his AK47 already appeared in his hand.
Because the sound was the alarm from the infrared alarm he had set!
Ling Xi and Xiao Xiao, who were not far from Ye Feng, also woke up, weapons in hand, their gazes fixed seriously on a particular spot.
"Hey, hey, Bing, I thought we were the first ones here, but I didn't expect someone to arrive before us!"
"And even set up camp and an alarm!"
From the darkness ahead, a male voice that Ye Feng found somewhat familiar echoed.
"Jiang Si Shan?"
Hearing this voice, Ye Feng was also somewhat surprised.
"Indeed!"
At this moment, the voice of the person with the flower mask also sounded.
"Clack!~"
Suddenly, with a crisp sound, a searchlight was turned on not far in front of Ye Feng, illuminating a considerable area.
Ye Feng then clearly saw the two people who had just spoken. They were indeed the flower-masked person and the young man who had previously driven the red armored vehicle, Jiang Si Shan.
"Huh, it's you guys?"
Jiang Si Shan was surprised to see Ye Feng and his companions.
Ye Feng remained silent, tightening his grip on the AK47, and mentally communicated with his spatial storage, ready to throw grenades or the like at any moment.
Because the intentions of the two people in front of him were unknown, and that flower-masked person possessed terrifying power...
"Uh... you don't need to be so tense!"
"Our goals are different, and we won't compete with you for any desperation serum!"
Seeing the solemn expressions of the three, Jiang Si Shan shrugged and explained.
Ye Feng's expression did not relax in the slightest; instead, his vigilance increased.
Although Jiang Si Shan didn't seem to be carrying any weapons, Ye Feng felt that the other party was dangerous. It was an instinctive feeling...
Like the instinctual feeling when facing a powerful beast in the wild...
Seeing that Ye Feng remained silent, Ling Xi and Xiao Xiao also said nothing, but watched the flower-masked person and Jiang Si Shan with guarded expressions.
For a moment, the atmosphere was tense and awkward...
"You don't show any signs of zombification?"
"Do you have zombie virus neutralizer?"
Suddenly, the flower-masked person, who had been scrutinizing Xiao Xiao, spoke.
...