"You must think that it's a good thing that zombies gather into a zombie tide and stay put in one place, not running around, right?"

As if guessing Li Chenzhou's thoughts, Zhu Haitao asked him. Then, without waiting for Li Chenzhou to answer, he continued,

"Your city is full of zombies, you can encounter them almost everywhere you go. This certainly makes your city extremely dangerous, but at the same time, it's also your opportunity!

You must be an ability user too, right? I can't see your strength, which means your level is higher than mine!"

Looking at Zhu Haitao's questioning gaze, Li Chenzhou nodded.

Zhu Haitao was a Level 2 ability user. This strength, in the apocalypse, if calculated according to Li Chenzhou's previous life's timeline, was actually quite good. At least, in his previous life, Li Chenzhou wasn't even a Level 1 ability user at this point!

"See! This is the first difference. Very few people here become ability users. Do you know why?"

Zhu Haitao asked.

"Because of the zombie tide! Since all the zombies are gathered together, you can't kill them, so naturally you can't become ability users, and thus can't raise your level or strengthen yourselves!"

Li Chenzhou answered with certainty.

In his previous life, he had never heard of such a bizarre city as Jin City, where such a huge zombie tide appeared within the first three days of the apocalypse, and the tide didn't even leave its gathering place.

But after all, Li Chenzhou had survived to almost the mid-apocalypse in his previous life. At that time, most cities had zombie tides of this scale.

Then, cities were human forbidden zones, because no one dared to go to where zombie tides gathered. It was like a game, where a player could fight two or three monsters at a time, and the monsters were scattered all over the map.

In this situation, players could lure the monsters over little by little to fight, gaining experience and equipment, money, and other items that could strengthen themselves!

But if there was a map where all the monsters were gathered together, and as soon as you attacked one of them, all the rest would immediately engulf you, how could players play? Who would dare to go to that map?

That must be the situation in Jin City. Moreover, because of the summons, other parts of the city probably didn't have any stray zombies either. Even if there were any, they would be very rare, those who were trapped for various reasons and couldn't respond to the summons!

In this situation, it was quite easy for the survivors of Jin City to find supplies, because other places were definitely safe, with no zombies at all, except for the zombie gathering place.

But the problem was, this apocalypse wasn't like the *Walking Dead* apocalypse. In this apocalypse, people could become ability users and constantly level up. If they couldn't find zombies, how could they become ability users and raise their levels?

Even Li Chenzhou, who possessed the Slaughter System, would probably have a hard time developing if he was "born" in Jin City, this novice village, at the beginning of the apocalypse. Because he couldn't kill zombies, he couldn't get a large number of Slaughter Points! So naturally, he couldn't exchange for any items!

"That's right! Although more of us have survived than in other cities, it's because of the problem you mentioned that we can't become ability users!"

Zhu Haitao nodded.

"Actually, before, we were quite fortunate. Although the survivors in the central urban area definitely couldn't get out, because their homes were within the range of the zombie tide.

But because of the zombie tide, it became very easy for us to gather resources, because we couldn't see any zombies at all. We just had to be a little careful when opening some rooms to see if there were zombies locked inside.

See our base? It's because we could collect supplies on a large scale that we were able to build such a good base!

At that time, we didn't know anything about ability users, and we hadn't seen ability users or strengthened zombies. We just organized people to collect supplies every day and then come back to build our base.

In those days after surviving the disaster, we were very busy, but also very happy, because we felt that we were very lucky that so many of us were able to escape in such a disaster!

Moreover, we had chosen a suitable place and built a base, with water sources and a large amount of supplies that we had collected in the city, which filled us with hope for the future!

While building the base, we also sent people to other cities to determine whether this apocalypse had swept the world. As a result... it had!

It was also because of those people that some people from other cities came to our base! Then, we learned about the existence of ability users, and we also learned that inside the heads of those strange-looking and more powerful zombies, there was a crystal that could make people stronger!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Haitao picked up another can of beer that he had opened, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, crushed it into a ball and threw it out hard.

"Unfortunately, in our Jin City, it's hard to even see ordinary zombies, so where can we find those powerful zombies?

We tried a few times, like pulling monsters in a game, going to the edge of the zombie tide to lure some zombies out!

But those ugly things are quite smart. No matter what method we use, they won't leave the zombie tide. We can't lure them out at all! Even firecrackers and other things that can make loud noises, or blood, have no effect on them at all!

Finally, we discussed it. Because most of the city is open to us, we found a lot of firearms, and there are some soldiers and police officers in the base who know how to use firearms.

So, they started using firearms on the periphery to kill zombies, but this still couldn't cause any changes in the zombie tide. There were too many of them, and our ammunition couldn't possibly eliminate the zombie tide!

Later, we tried countless methods, fire, flood, etc. Although we killed a lot of zombies, the zombie tide still didn't react. We even used sniper rifles to snipe a few of those strong zombies that were said to have crystals!

But the zombie tide didn't move, and all our efforts were in vain. We couldn't even get the crystals out of the bodies of those big zombies that we killed!"

"You're a Level 2 ability user now, right? Since you can't get mutated crystal nuclei, how did you become a Level 2 ability user?"

Listening to Zhu Haitao's words, Li Chenzhou couldn't help but frown slightly. Then, he stopped Zhu Haitao from continuing and asked the doubt in his heart...