“This…”

Grizzly was shocked. He hadn't seen Li Chenzhou's War Fog, so in his mind, some enhanced zombie must have attacked Li Chenzhou.

Without hesitation, he threw open the car door, jumped out, and raised his pistol at the black sphere—all in under a second. He was a special agent, the elite of the elite!

But the shot didn't ring out, because Grizzly couldn't pinpoint Li Chenzhou's location within the black sphere, or the unknown enhanced zombie's position. If he fired, and the bullet hit Li Chenzhou…

Then, Grizzly's eyes widened abruptly, because the black sphere vanished, and Li Chenzhou reappeared, unharmed, continuing to slaughter the zombies around him, muttering to himself.

“Minimum diameter of one meter, lasts one second, consumes one-thirtieth of my mental power. So, at a rate of one release per second, I can use it thirty times! A total of thirty seconds!”

Li Chenzhou pierced a zombie's brow with his staff, withdrawing it the instant it touched the back of its skull. He then turned and smashed another zombie's head, kicked away a zombie trying to grab him, and shot the one clinging to his leg. All the while, he muttered:

“Now, let's try the shortest duration!”

As he spoke, the black sphere reappeared, lasting only 0.1 seconds before vanishing again.

“Excellent!”

Li Chenzhou was delighted with the result. Though the minimum range was one meter, he was very satisfied with the minimum duration.

Even though 0.1 seconds was extremely brief, it could be decisive in combat, especially given his current level of combat awareness!

Most importantly, splitting it into 0.1-second intervals meant he could use the War Fog three hundred times!

Considering mental power regeneration, that number might be even higher. This gave the War Fog talent even more combinations and variations, making it adaptable to more types of combat!

Excited, Li Chenzhou immediately put his idea into practice. The War Fog began to flicker rapidly, and Li Chenzhou no longer relied on dodging, blocking, or using zombie corpses as shields as much as before.

Now, when faced with danger, like a zombie about to grab or bite him, he simply used War Fog to halt it momentarily, then smashed its head.

This pause, usually controlled between 0.1 and 0.3 seconds, undeniably disrupted the combat rhythm.

Imagine listening to a song with a 0.1-second stutter every second. What would that feel like? Especially if it happened over three hundred times? Maddening!

In the King's Canyon arena, imagine facing an opponent with a smooth connection while you lagged 0.1 seconds every second, constantly, no matter what you tried. How would that feel? Frustrating, enough to smash your computer! Rage quit the game!!!

Of course, as the initiator of the War Fog, Li Chenzhou's rhythm remained unbroken. His only regret was that he was killing zombies, who didn't experience any negative sensations, and the stutter didn't affect their emotions.

But what about facing Devourers in the future? Surely, those guys were intelligent beings. When that time came, even if he couldn't beat them, he'd lag them to death, disgust them to death!!!

Thinking this, Li Chenzhou's mood suddenly brightened, and he killed with even more gusto, using War Fog more frequently.

He wanted to test how many times he could use it while regenerating mental power, using War Fog every second!

Li Chenzhou was having a great time, but Grizzly was going crazy, watching Li Chenzhou turn into an egg, then "hatch" again, his eyes practically bleeding.

Even a fool would realize that the black "egg" was something Li Chenzhou created himself. While he didn't know its exact effect, Li Chenzhou's killing speed clearly showed it was effective.

“It’s not an egg, it’s a stone! Yeah! That’s it! A stone, that makes sense! Damn it!”

Grizzly muttered a few times, then got back in the car, slamming the door shut, not worrying about attracting the nearby zombies...

Soon, the zombies stopped pouring out, and there were no more living zombies around Li Chenzhou, with the corpses of about two hundred zombies piled up around him.

Li Chenzhou stood in place, the War Fog still activating once a second, because he was calculating numbers, so he wouldn't stop.

From Grizzly and Duan Lei's perspective, Li Chenzhou was just standing there blankly, turning into an egg and then reappearing, like a strobe light in a bar, just slower.

“321 times!”

Finally, Li Chenzhou's mental power was completely exhausted, and he had the number he wanted, a faint smile on his lips.

He started using it at a rate of one second per use, but the previous durations weren't always 0.1 seconds. So, if he changed it to all 0.1-second intervals, used at a rate of once per second, this "stutter" could last for at least six minutes.

“Looks like all abilities can be more effective if you find the right way to use them!”

Li Chenzhou murmured.

“Let’s keep going!”

Seeing that Li Chenzhou was no longer "flashing," Grizzly couldn't help but poke his head out and shout at him.

“Wait a bit, I need to rest!”

Li Chenzhou turned to look at Grizzly.

He dared to completely exhaust his mental power for the experiment because they had just entered the city, and Duan Lei hadn't even really entered the urban area. Even if something unexpected happened, they could quickly retreat, even back to Wu Village.

Now that Li Chenzhou's mental power was completely depleted, even though he felt like continuing wouldn't be a problem, and he had a pistol and Fatal Assault to use against an enhanced zombie, he still chose to rest and recover some mental power before continuing.

In the apocalypse, the most important thing is caution!

“Alright!”

Hearing Li Chenzhou's words, Grizzly was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Although he didn't know about the War Fog, he could imagine that Li Chenzhou's previous ability must have had some limitations, either time or consumption, so stopping now was for that reason!/

Duan Lei also drove the car over, got out, and walked towards Li Chenzhou. He was about to speak when he suddenly turned to look at an alley on the left.

“What’s wrong?”

“There… there’s the sound of a child crying!”

Duan Lei pointed to a two-story building in the alley and said…