The system is three years ahead of schedule, but the apocalypse has never come!

Su Bai walked towards that special zombie, while Song Chaoming still stood there stupidly, somewhat doubtful about life.

After seeing this incident, Xiao Wu and Xiao Lu, who originally thought that their leader had been sacrificed, disappeared from their hearts and ran over in a hurry.

After checking his captain's body and finding no wounds, Xiao Wu whispered: "Captain, that...couldn't it be Su Shen?"

"it's him."

Song Chaoming nodded somewhat depressedly.

"It's really Su Shen!" Xiao Lu's eyes lit up and he exclaimed in a low voice: "I didn't expect to see a living person here! He even rescued us!"

"By the way, Captain, you look unhappy?"

"It's nothing." Song Chaoming waved his hands feebly and sat on the ground: "You two, don't talk to me yet, let me rest."

He can't tell his two subordinates that he failed the assessment, right?

although......

If you fail, there will probably be no consequences.

But when he thought of the look that Su Bai had just looked at him with, Song Chaoming felt particularly guilty.

The other side.

After burning all the black and red plasma on the ground to ashes, leaving only dots of crystals, Su Bai had already arrived in front of the special zombie.

at the same time.

The system's prompt tone also sounded in real time:

[Warning! Warning! Warning! The host has encountered the sixth-level zombie queen! The host has attracted the attention of the zombie queen! With the host's current strength, once caught in the zombie tide summoned by the zombie queen, it will inevitably end in death. !Please host to escape as soon as possible!]

Level six.

King's rank.

Zombie Queen.

Apart from the little kittens and butterflies that he cultivated by himself... this is the first time Su Bai has encountered a zombie with a level as high as sixth level!

Taking spiritual attributes as the direction of evolution.

The screams released not only contain extremely powerful spiritual attacks, but can also summon zombies on a large scale, forming a zombie tide.

Judging from the rank, this zombie is only a first-level zombie.

But from the perspective of threats... Su Bai estimates that even some zombies that will reach the third level in the future may not be able to compare with this zombie queen!

Song Chaoming and the two soldiers of the rescue corps were mumbling these things.

Su Bai ignored it.

All his attention was attracted by this future zombie queen.

As a zombie with first-level spiritual attribute evolution, the zombie queen's wailing scream is somewhat similar to a supernatural power, which is released by consuming mental power.

Every time the zombie queen wails and screams, it will attract a large number of surrounding zombies.

The range of this attraction is about five hundred meters.

After screaming several times in a row to attract all the zombies within a radius of 500 meters, no matter how much the zombie queen screamed, no new zombies would arrive.

after all.

Even the summons of the Zombie Queen is based on the presence of zombies around.

The Zombie Queen's weak mental impact was not even enough to scratch Su Bai's mental attributes, which were hundreds of times higher.

Su Bai did a rough calculation.

This zombie queen only screamed three times before summoning all the zombies within a radius of 500 meters, and was killed one by one by Su Bo.

After these three wails and screams, it wailed seven more times.

Ten times in total.

By the time all ten wails and screams are used up, the Zombie Queen's mental power will probably be exhausted.

Although she was still standing there, even though her mouth was still as big as blood, there was no longer that penetrating, sharp wail accompanied by the mental shock.

After wailing and screaming ten times, if she were in a densely populated downtown area, this zombie queen could easily summon thousands of zombies, forming a large zombie tide!

This kind of threat, not to mention the soldiers who leave the stronghold for rescue, even to the entire rescue corps relying on the stronghold for defense... is a big threat!

certainly.

There is no solution either.

Rely on the fortifications of the stronghold to resist the attack of the zombie tide, and then find the location of the zombie queen as soon as possible and kill it with a sniper rifle... This is the best way to deal with it!

Instead of being like Song Chaoming, who tried to break into the zombie wave and kill the zombie queen amid the siege of thousands of zombies, even though his strength was still at level zero.

This kind of behavior of a lonely brave man may be possible by Song Chaoming in the future, but it is definitely not something that Song Chaoming can do now!

Compared to the somewhat reckless Song Chaoming.

Li Xiangling, who is doing her best to save people while also weighing her trump cards against the zombies' strength, will be much more sober.

At least.

She would not choose to break into it knowing that she would die, or that there was a high probability of being caught in a zombie wave.

The Zombie Queen's mental power was exhausted and she completely lost her threat.

In a short period of time, this zombie queen may not pose a threat to survivors as much as the most ordinary zombie.

but.

Su Bai always felt that the Zombie Queen's bloody mouth, which reached from her ears to her ears and was full of jagged fangs, affected its beauty, so he snapped his fingers.

A tiny vine crawled from the Zombie Queen's body to its face, took root, split, and twined around its bloody mouth, and soon sewed the Zombie Queen's bloody mouth shut with fine roots.

"not bad."

"She is a great beauty."

Seeing that her mouth was sewn shut, Zombie Queen Su, who had no zombie features except for her skin which was still as pale as a dead person, nodded with satisfaction.

Then.

He walked in the direction of Song Chaoming.

One after another, vines stretched out from the ground like a relay, binding the zombie queen with long hair and white clothes to follow behind him.

Walking up to Song Chaoming, Su Bai asked, "Do you know where you went wrong?"

"You shouldn't go into the zombie wave alone!"

Song Chaoming stood up straight, like a primary school student who was called on by the teacher, and replied: "We should evacuate in time [relying on the fortifications and procedures of the stronghold and using firearms to kill this special skinner!"

This is the right idea.

But it is not an idea that is in line with Song Chaoming's philosophy.

Because he was not sure whether the defenses around the stronghold could block the thousands of zombies, and he was even less sure whether he could successfully kill this special zombie before the zombies broke through the stronghold.

The correct way of thinking may not necessarily be the appropriate way of thinking.

If he was strong enough, Song Chaoming would still choose to break into the zombie tide and kill that special zombie to avoid the risk of the stronghold falling.

Seeing Song Chaoming's seriousness on the surface and stubbornness in his heart, Su Bai nodded, shook his head and said, "Your biggest mistake is that you are not strong enough!"

"If you are strong enough, no one will say you are wrong even if you kill the zombie queen with one hand, let alone break into the zombie wave alone!"

Song Chaoming's eyes lit up.

yes.

In the final analysis, I am still not strong enough.

If you are strong enough, even if you are only one-tenth of Mr. Su's strength, when the zombie queen and the zombie tide appear, it will be too late for you to show yourself as a saint. How can you escape back to the stronghold in despair and bring disaster to the stronghold? control risk?

Compared to the so-called correct thinking.

Of course he prefers the idea that he is not strong enough!

Su Bai stretched out his hand and made a move, and bits and pieces of crystals left over from the thousands of zombies he had killed suddenly flew over and stopped in front of him.

These crystals, which are as bright as diamonds and as big as peas, are the zombie crystal nuclei that are born in the bodies of first-order zombies.

Based on the zombie wave just now, Su Bai has roughly deduced that at this point in time, the number of zombies that have evolved into first-level zombies accounts for about one-tenth of all zombies.

As time goes by, this ratio will get higher and higher, eventually settling at around one-third.

When the time comes to the tenth day of the end of the world, some of the one-third of the first-level zombies will evolve towards the second-level zombies; when the end of the world comes one month, some of the second-level zombies will evolve towards the third-level zombies. Level zombie evolution.

And so on.

The higher you go, the fewer the number of high-level zombies.

As for ordinary zombies, which account for two-thirds of the total number of zombies, even if they are bathed in the black mist for a long time and are infected and corroded by the black mist, their end point is basically the first-level zombies.

so.

In the middle and late stages of the apocalypse, there is a high probability that there will be no zero-level zombies in this world. The lowest-level zombies will also become first-level zombies due to being bathed in black mist for a long time.

First level zombies.

Zombie crystal core.

Su Bai picked out the largest one from the pile of hundreds of zombie crystal nuclei, put it in front of his eyes and observed it carefully, and from time to time he used his mental power to penetrate into it.

Discover its secrets.

A few minutes later.

Su Bai let go of the zombie crystal core in his hand, feeling quite emotional.

Black fog is the source of the apocalypse.

Zombies are the products of creatures corroded and distorted by the Black Season.

And the combination of the two... gave birth to a magical substance like zombie crystal nuclei - a substance that is only useful to living creatures!

That's right.

Zombie crystal nuclei are not only not vital to zombies, they are not even necessary, but a kind of existence similar to impurities and stones in the body of zombies!

A rough description of its principle is:

The black mist is actually harmful to all creatures and materials in this world, and is only beneficial to the creatures and materials that are infected and distorted by the black mist.

In the former, the one with anus is naturally a zombie.

The latter, of course, refers to minerals.

However.

Not all ingredients in the black mist are beneficial to zombies.

Just like there are haze and poisonous gases in the air, there are actually some components in the black mist that are not beneficial to zombies but beneficial to living beings!

When placed on humans and alien animals that can only maintain body balance, there is naturally not much difference between these beneficial and unhelpful ingredients.

But it’s different when it’s on a zombie!

Black mist is not only the source of their birth, but also the source of their evolution! Black mist means more to zombies than oxygen does to humans!

While bathing in the black mist all the time and absorbing the evolution of the black mist, the zombie's body will instinctively gather and solidify the impurities in the black mist that are useless and harmful to itself, and what is finally formed is what is in Su Bai's hands. Such a zombie crystal core!

The essence of the zombie crystal core is actually an impurity extracted and gathered from the zombie's body instinct, which is harmful to the zombie and beneficial to the living being!

…Please give me flowers…

Isn't it ridiculous?

Zombie crystal cores, a crystalline treasure that can increase the four-dimensional attributes of human beings, enhance the level of supernatural powers [and even restore human injuries and physical strength... are actually stones in zombie bodies?

But that’s the principle!

The emergence of black mist turned the living into the dead.

The resurrection of the dead brings zombie crystal nuclei and the hope of evolution to the living.

The magic of reincarnation of all things is nothing more than this.

As for how to use the zombie crystal core... it's even simpler.

If the spiritual attribute breaks through to the first level and an evolver of spiritual power is born, he only needs to probe his spiritual power into the zombie crystal core and draw the energy essence contained in it back into his body.

Zombie crystal cores without attributes only improve basic attributes.

The zombie crystal core with attributes increases the level of superpowers.

In this process, the only thing you need to pay attention to is probably not to overabsorb.

after all.

The extraction and collection of zombie body instincts are not so precise. Even the zombie crystal core contains some ingredients that are beneficial to zombies but harmful to living creatures.

Except for the purest energy essence in the core part of the zombie crystal core, the remaining part, if too much is absorbed, will still cause physical distortion or even zombie transformation.

certainly.

If an ordinary person who has not been born with spiritual power wants to absorb the energy essence contained in the zombie crystal core, he must first purify and process the zombie crystal core before absorbing and using it.

Anyway.

Although the birth of the first-order zombies has caused the rescue corps and survivors to encounter greater and more dangers, the zombie crystal cores they produce have also opened up an evolutionary path for the rescue corps and survivors. the road.

As long as you continue to hunt zombies, absorb crystal cores, and improve your basic attributes, the rescue corps and survivors will become stronger and stronger.

In the later stages.

Even if the thermal weapons are completely ineffective, they will not be helpless when facing zombies.

After exploring the mystery of the zombie crystal core, Su Bai's eyes returned to Song Chaoming.

That hasn’t changed in nearly a year.

Even after a lot of interference, Song Chaoming finally returned to his original trajectory.

Not only is he the leader of the Linjiang City Rescue Corps, he is also one of the founders of the largest survivor settlement in Linjiang City in his past timeline.

Even the way he uses fire powers, as well as the weapons and skills he is best at... are gradually moving closer to the original timeline.

Su Bai has already checked Song Chaoming's attribute panel.

His basic spearmanship has become a skill, and with the continuous understanding and application of spearmanship, the proficiency and level of basic spearmanship will gradually increase.

Even the method of applying the fire power is exactly the same as in the previous timeline.

It's also a fire ability.

Some people choose to gather it into a fireball, and as the superpowers advance, its temperature and explosion power continue to increase, until finally a fireball is released, which is as powerful as a nuclear explosion.

Some people choose to divide the flame into countless tiny fireballs, surround themselves, and increase their penetrating power. Once they encounter an enemy, countless fireballs will fly out like a violent storm, causing a blow like a hail of bullets.

Song Chaoming's choice is to attach, attach his fire ability to the weapon he is good at, and increase the power of the weapon like a fire enchantment!

There is no right or wrong way to advance your abilities, only whether it is appropriate or not.

Even if it is the same basic ability, in the hands of different people, the direction of advancement and evolution will be different according to different people's understanding.

Song Chaoming's choice was naturally the right one.

Because in the original timeline, he followed the battle route of supernatural enchantment.

If there are shortcomings, there are probably two reasons.

The first one is that he has not yet found the superpower seed related to blood and failed to fuse it with the fire superpower, eventually forming the fusion superpower of blood inflammation.

Second, although the metal spear in his hand was made with modern technology... it was obviously not strong enough to withstand the high temperature caused by the fire enchantment for a long time.

For the former, Su Bai had no choice. After all, he himself had never developed any blood-related powers.

For the latter, Su Bai can help him.

A thought came to my mind.

He exchanged a silver-white and green rare-quality spear from the points mall. Su Bai pushed the silver-white spear, together with fifty mourning crystal cores, to Song Chaoming:

"This spear corresponds to the second-level evolver. It should be enough for you to use for a while."

"As for these zombie crystal cores... they are the same as those described in "The End of the World", they can improve your basic attributes. But you must be careful, before you find the appropriate processing and purification methods... .It’s best to only absorb the most essential part of the energy!”

"Energy that contains too many impurities will absorb too much, but it will be distorted and even turn into zombies!"

"Accept them and strengthen yourself."

"I hope that when we meet next time, you will have become stronger and more rational."