Chapter 356: Encountering a Survivor

[Level 4 weapon·Iron beetle]

[HP: 50000/50000 (upper limit 100000)]

[Status: Awakenable]

[Amplification: independent attack, armament (health, attack, defense, acid)]

[Fitness: 10%]

Wang Tao had discovered before that when the iron beetles devoured Zerg corpses, they would inherit some of the characteristics of the corpses.

For example, the other iron beetle in its hand devoured the Zerg that had only a certain fire resistance before, so it also gained a fire resistance.

But the prerequisite for obtaining this ability is that the corpse eaten by the iron beetle has this ability.

For example, the iron beetle in Wang Tao's hand, the carapace of the insect corpse it devoured has fire resistance, so it can gain fire protection.

When Wang Tao saw the twin-tailed scorpion and the acid worm, he thought about which one the iron beetle should devour.

The two-tailed scorpion will release poisonous needles, and the acid bug will spray corrosive acid, but this is their awakening ability, and they should not be able to inherit it even if the iron beetle devours it. However, the two-tailed scorpion itself is poisonous, and its poison is in its tail; the acid worm should also have acid in its body, just in its belly.

Therefore, Wang Tao felt that if the iron beetle could devour these two corpses, it should be able to gain an additional ability.

But the problem comes again. The tail of the double-tailed scorpion can be used to make weapons, which is the poisonous scorpion whip that Wang Tao made before. Although whip weapons are more difficult to use, the attributes of the poisonous scorpion whip are still good. If the iron beetle swallows the scorpion tail, it is equivalent to missing two weapons. The equipment blueprint for the acid explosion is an ordinary armor made of its carapace, and has nothing to do with the corrosive acid.

So Wang Tao finally decided to use the tail of the two-tailed scorpion to make a poisonous scorpion whip, and then feed its body to Lightning. The body of the acid worm is eaten by the iron beetle to see if the iron beetle can gain an additional ability.

Facts have proved that Wang Tao's speculation was correct. As expected, this iron beetle has acquired the ability of [Acid Liquid].

However, the Acid Bug’s awakening is [Corrosive Acid], while the Iron Beetle’s ability is [Acid]. There must be a big difference between them...

Wang Tao activated the Iron Beetle Armament.

Buzz——

In the blink of an eye, the iron beetle turned into a huge "Zerg mecha". If you just look at the appearance, you can't find any difference.

Wang Tao directly entered the Iron Beetle. After walking around in a circle, the Iron Beetle suddenly opened and spit out a large amount of acid at an abandoned house.

Wow——

The entire house was covered in acid, and it also had some corrosive effects, but it was much weaker than when the acid bugs awakened before.

And the acid bug seems to be able to spray corrosive acid without limit, just like awakening energy for free. But the iron beetle cannot spit infinitely now. It can spit once in about three minutes... Generally speaking, it can be regarded as a weakened version of [Corrosive Acid].

Of course, this is already very good, after all, it is an ability that comes for free.

Wang Tao disarmed and then briefly explained to Jiang Shixue and others. Everyone was very surprised.

"If that's the case, then these Zerg corpses with some special abilities will be very valuable in the future?"

Lan Yulian said suddenly.

"It seems so...but this thing is not easy to store, unless you have a magical stomach pouch. Doesn't this mean that the magical stomach pouch will become more and more valuable?"

Wang Tao shook his head.

Lightning has devoured the body of the two-tailed scorpion, gained 1500 HP, and grown slightly larger. It ran over and rubbed against Wang Tao. Wang Tao smiled and touched its head.

"When you grow older, then I can ride you and run away."

Although riding a dog is a bit weird, if the dog is big enough, it should still be very handsome...right?

"Woof~"

Lightning was wagging its tail wildly.

"Okay, let's continue shooting meteorites. There are still five last ones."

Wang Tao took out the second level four epic meteorite. This meteorite was about the size of a basketball. After opening it, a garbage crystal core was revealed inside.

Wang Tao was unmoved and continued to open the third epic meteorite, which contained a fourth-level promotion crystal core. Very profitable.

A monster appeared on the fourth epic meteorite.

This is a Zerg with a somewhat fat body but covered with carapace. It seems to have very strong defense. In fact, its defense is indeed very strong.

[HP: 150000/150000]

[Blue amount: 100000/100000]

[Level: Level 4·Lord]

[Impurities in the body: 50%]

[Awakening: Solid]

[Strong: All basic attributes are improved, and defense power is greatly improved]

Its awakening passively increases defense power. This is the first time Wang Tao has seen this kind of awakening.

But the problem wasn't big, it was just a matter of high defense. Wang Tao and others swarmed up and took some time to deal with the monster.

It exploded a lot of items, and there was a shield crafting blueprint that seemed pretty good.

After packing up the loot, Wang Tao did not let Lightning swallow the corpse immediately. He was thinking about the possibility of an iron beetle coming out.

As a result, the fourth epic meteorite revealed an entity awakening key, and the fifth and sixth epic meteorites each revealed a Zerg monster!

Although he failed to get the second Iron Beetle in the end, it was still good to get so many monsters. Not only did Wang Tao get high-level special energy and other materials, but also Lightning reached 122,000 HP.

Overall, the 24 excellent meteorites and 6 epic meteorites that Wang Tao opened were all profitable. Although he encountered many monsters, he could get a lot of loot, not to mention an Iron Beetle...

After all the meteorites were opened, it was already night.

Several people packed up their things and came to the underground factory.

This is a temporary camp prepared by people who go out. Anyone can use it, but it needs to be cleaned up after use. This is a tacit understanding of survivors.

The underground factory is not small in size, and there is a special passage to drive the car in, but there is still no one inside. For safety reasons, Wang Tao reinforced some traps around and placed ultraviolet strip lights at the door.

Night is the time when night demons are active. Night demons have very sharp perceptions and may be able to discover a group of people in the underground factory. If they are blocked at the door and harassed by night demons, it would be quite annoying. Wang Tao is not interested in ordinary night demons. If there is no night demon lord, he has no need to take action.

Ultraviolet rays are something that night demons hate and fear very much. If a night demon really appears, these ultraviolet strip lights will not be a problem to block the night demon.

After all this was arranged properly, Wang Tao began to make all the equipment drawings he had obtained before.

A moment later, Wang Tao got a lot of equipment again. Although he couldn't use them, he could give them to other teammates.

Wang Tao looked at his advanced special energy, which was more than fifty. It can increase his success rate of secondary awakening by 5%.

Now that the meteorite has been opened, Wang Tao is going to go to the coordinates of the zombie monster he bought before.

It would be best if he could find a fourth-level lord, but it doesn't matter if he can't find it. Anyway, he is still pulling a car of zombie heads, so he has to hatch some night demon lords, right?

Once these hatched Night Demon Lords are killed, Wang Tao's success rate for the second awakening should be greater than two-thirds. This is the bottom line that Wang Tao can accept. If it is lower, it will feel unsafe. If this success rate still fails... then it can only be said that he has done everything he can. If it is really a matter of luck, then there is nothing he can do.

At night, when Wang Tao and his party were resting, they suddenly opened their eyes.

"Something is coming!"

There are some early warning devices outside this temporary camp. If something steps on these devices, it will send an alarm to their information watches, and the watches will vibrate violently.

Just now, the watches of Wang Tao and several others began to vibrate.

"Let me see what's going on!"

Wang Tao turned on his watch and called up several surveillance screens.

These cameras are also things in this temporary camp. As long as you enter the camp and connect to this regional network, you can use them. However, the temporary camp does not provide electricity, and you need to find a way to get electricity yourself.

Wang Tao will drop some materials when he kills zombies, including a battery. This battery looks small in size, but it has a lot of power, which is enough for this temporary camp to use for a period of time.

"It's the survivors and the Night Demons!"

The cameras in the camp don't have infrared devices, but there is a moon today. With the faint moonlight, you can vaguely see a few survivors being chased by a large group of Night Demons. The number of Night Demons is at least hundreds!

The direction these survivors fled is their temporary camp.

"A lot of Night Demons..."

Several people looked at Wang Tao, meaning whether to take action or not.

Now is the end of the world, some survivors are more hateful than zombie monsters, and there is even a saying that "in the wild, I would rather meet zombies than meet my own kind."

But no matter what, we can't generalize. There are many scumbags now, but there are also people who struggle to survive in the end of the world.

Wang Tao's code of conduct is that if you meet a survivor in the wild, you should save him if you can, provided that you are not in danger. If you really save a person with bad intentions, you will kill him later.

"With their speed, they should be able to run over. We just open the door and let them in."

Wang Tao said.

He observed through the surveillance. Although there were many Night Demons outside, there were no Level 4 Night Demons. Not to mention the Lords, there were not even any Elites.

If there were Level 4 Night Demons, Wang Tao would definitely take action. Now that there were none, there was no need to go out. Anyway, with the speed of this group of people, they could run over.

"Okay."

Lan Yulian and the others nodded.

...

On the other side, a group of people were running for their lives.

One of the thin men shouted:

"Everyone hold on, the temporary camp of the town factory is coming soon! We will be safe if we go in!"

The only woman in the team replied:

"But boss, these Night Demons are following too closely, what if they follow into the camp?"

The defense of this temporary camp is very tight, especially at the two gates, which are large iron gates with mechanical devices and high defense.

But it takes some time to open and close. The Night Demons are following so closely, there must be a chance to get in.

"Don't worry, at worst I will risk my life to block you for a while! Believe me!"

The boss gritted his teeth.

Fighting with so many Night Demons would definitely result in casualties, even for the strongest man. But as long as he could save the team from being wiped out, he would not lose even if he died!

"Boss..."

Several other people choked up when they heard this.

"Stop talking nonsense and run!"

Several people hurriedly ran towards the abandoned factory, but the closer they got to the factory, the uglier the boss's face became.

"There's someone in the camp!"

What he fears most is that the camp will be destroyed and there will be people in the camp.

Even to a certain extent, having people in the camp was scarier than being destroyed.

Because even if the camp is destroyed, unless it is extremely completely destroyed, it still has some degree of defense. Especially since this is an underground camp, its defense is inherently stronger.

But if there are people in the camp, they can't open the door from the outside, they can only open it from the inside. And when the people inside saw them coming with such a large group of night demons...it would be weird to open the door to them!

If it were him, he most likely wouldn't open the door. After all, there are hundreds of night demons here!

"It's over!"

Everyone else was heartbroken.

He was about to escape, but he ended up dead...

Several people were a little desperate, and they subconsciously looked at the boss.

The boss gritted his teeth.

"Let's go! Let's continue rushing to the camp!"

Their physical strength is not very good anymore. If they run to other places, they will die; if they run to the camp, if they meet some kind-hearted people inside - although this possibility is extremely rare, there is still a slight possibility!

Everyone had no choice but to follow the boss and run to one of the entrances of the temporary camp.

After turning a corner, several people saw a door leading to the underground. Just seeing the door, several people were stunned.

"Why is the gate purple?"

“I didn’t know—the door was open!”

Only then did a few people realize that the big iron door was actually open!

Although he didn't know what was going on, the boss didn't hesitate and yelled immediately.

"Brothers, rush!"

The Night Demon behind him was getting closer and closer, and the last few people could smell the rancid smell in the Night Demon's mouth. Their faces showed panic, and when they saw that they were about to catch him——

Stab——

All the night demons suddenly came to a screeching halt.

"ah?"

Several people rushed directly into the door, and then they saw with confused faces that the night demons outside just roared in the distance and did not take a step forward.

Looking carefully, I found that these night demons were outside the range of the purple light.

"This thing is... an ultraviolet lamp?"

Everyone was confused.

At this time, I heard the door buzzing and starting to close.

Several people were completely relieved.

At this time, there were footsteps.

Several people quickly turned around and saw a tall figure appearing.

"thanks, thanks!"

They quickly thanked him and almost knelt down.

Wang Tao waved his hand indifferently, and then asked curiously.

"How did you provoke these night demons?"

Those few people subconsciously looked at their boss, who gave a wry smile.

"Well, we plan to take advantage of the night to take a risk and take a look at the Night Devil's lair. Don't they all say that since the Night Devil comes out at night, the Night Devil's lair is not dangerous at night. As a result..."

"..."

Wang Tao was speechless.

The Night Demon's lair is indeed safer at night, but that is compared to daytime. Don’t you know what your own strength is?

But when it came to the Night Demon's lair, Wang Tao became interested instantly.

There are so many night demons in this lair at night, so the size of this lair is not small, right? He still lacks some advanced special powers!

Sure enough, what the boss said next made Wang Tao's eyes light up.

"It's all my fault... Who knew that Night Demon lair was so big! It's like a dungeon..."