Chapter 712: Advancement to Level 1

Wang Tao quietly entered a residential building in an old community. After making sure that there were no zombies chasing him, he began to check the spoils.

The crystal core that exploded from the sledgehammer zombie was, as expected, a shock wave.

[First-order crystal core·Shock wave]

[Quality: Epic (100%)]

[Purity: 50% (Side effect: Eyes are afraid of light)]

The properties of the shock wave crystal core are no different from those in the previous life, and it also has the side effect of eyes being afraid of light.

Wang Tao will definitely not fuse it for the time being, but it is not a big problem, and he can synthesize it later.

The reason why Wang Tao is so sure that he can get another shock wave crystal core is because there is a shock wave crystal core in the blue light ball that exploded from the sledgehammer zombie.

[Obtained: First-order crystal core·Shock wave*1]

[Obtained: Strength potion*1]

There are two things in the blue light ball, one is a shock wave crystal core, and the other is a bottle of strength potion.

The crystal core is of blue quality. Although the quality is not high, it is enough to be combined with the orange quality shock wave just now.

And this bottle of strength potion is somewhat different from the strength potion that Wang Tao had seen in his previous life.

[Strength potion: increase your own strength, duration 10 minutes, cooling time 1 hour]

Strength potions are no longer divided into "large, medium and small", and the introduction has become extremely simple. It does not say how much it can increase.

The most important thing is that its duration has changed. Before, the strength potion could only last for one minute, and the cooling time was 1 to 12 hours. The cooling time of the small strength potion was long, and the cooling time of the large one was shorter.

And now this strength potion has a duration of 10 minutes, and the cooling time is only 1 hour.

In terms of duration and cooling speed, the current strength potion is better than the previous life. After all, 10 minutes of time has a higher tolerance rate.

As for the effect of the improvement... Wang Tao directly used the strength potion.

Puff--

Wang Tao instantly felt that he was full of strength all over his body, and he looked at his attribute panel.

【Strength +100%】

Wow, the strength has doubled!

"Not bad, not bad!"

Wang Tao was very satisfied with this strength potion. The strength potion in the previous life had a higher upper limit, but the increase was unstable and the duration was short. The current strength potion doubles the strength directly and lasts longer. Overall, the current potion is better.

At this time, Wang Tao started to synthesize the two shock wave crystal cores in the space backpack. In the blink of an eye, a crystal core without any impurities and side effects appeared in Wang Tao's hand.

Without hesitation, Wang Tao put it directly into his mouth, and a warm current instantly spread throughout his body, and then... it was gone.

"Ah? Where is my ability?"

Wang Tao was a little confused.

Logically speaking, after successfully fusing the shock wave crystal core, he will have 100 mana and an additional [Shock Wave] ability.

But now, he does not have 100 mana and no shock wave ability.

What is the effect of the crystal core?

If Wang Tao's level had not changed from level zero to level one, he would have thought that this 100% success rate crystal core fusion had failed!

Although with Wang Tao's current strength, he actually doesn't need superpowers, his talent is stronger than superpowers. But the problem is that without superpowers, there is no way to awaken, without awakening, there is no way to comprehend the domain, and if you can't comprehend the domain, you can't be promoted to level seven...

No!

Wang Tao shook his head again hurriedly.

According to the experience of the previous life, humans can't be promoted to level one without learning superpowers, and can only be ordinary people of level zero. But now he has been promoted to level one, and he can clearly feel that his strength has improved a lot!

Is the experience of the previous life useless? Or is it his own fault? After all, he has both talent and physique in this life, which is completely different from the situation in the previous life...

Wang Tao thinks it is most likely the latter. After all, the crystal core says that there are superpowers, but Wang Tao didn't get it. It's impossible that the crystal core is fake, right?

Since he has no superpowers, Wang Tao doesn't force it. Anyway, with his current talent, let alone superpowers, even awakening can't compare. When he becomes stronger, it won't be a problem to surpass the domain!

This is not Wang Tao's arrogance, but his "talent" and superpowers, awakening, and domain are not in the same system at all.

Take the law domain for example, the law domain is to control the elements within a certain range for its own use. If two fire domainers fight, the stronger one will control more fire elements, and the number of fire elements in a certain range is limited, so the weaker one can only control a small amount of fire elements. This will form a situation where the strong are always strong and the weak are always weak.

Wang Tao's talent is different. When he uses his talent, he neither consumes mana nor awakening energy, and he doesn't need to mobilize the elements between heaven and earth. He only consumes physical strength... So even if he encounters a domainer, he will not be restrained!

Thinking about it this way, it is a good thing that he doesn't have superpowers. The premise is that he can be promoted to the fourth and seventh levels.

Whether he can be promoted or not, we will know when we go back to the third level. Wang Tao is still optimistic about this.

As for now, although Wang Tao has no superpowers, he can clearly feel that his strength has improved a lot!

The most intuitive ones are [Super Perception], [Steel Body] and [Flying in the Sky].

At the zero level, he could only sense the movement in an old residential building, but he didn't know what was making the movement.

But now, he can tell through the sound whether the movement in the building is caused by humans or zombies. Because zombies can't breathe, but people need to breathe.

In other words, as long as he is willing, he can hear the breathing of everyone in the entire residential building, not to mention conversations!

In addition to hearing, vision and smell have also been greatly improved. Including mental power, it could sense within one meter around itself before, but now it can be directly extended to a radius of ten meters!

In terms of perception, none of the superpowers who specialize in perception can match Wang Tao.

Then there is [Man of Steel], which is a very simple improvement in physical strength, mental strength, physical fitness, etc.

Especially when combined with [Air Control Flight], the effect becomes even more obvious. Wang Tao felt very tired after flying for a while before. But now it is no longer a problem to fly continuously for three to five minutes!

"This can be called flying in the air! Before, it could only be regarded as jumping..."

Wang Tao is very satisfied with this.

He took out his cell phone and looked at it. It was still early, so Wang Tao looked at the dense zombies in the square in the distance.

Although they are all first-level ordinary zombies, they can also explode crystal cores. You’ve come here, if you don’t get more crystal nuclei, then it won’t be in vain!

"Just a chance to test my current strength..."

Whoosh——

Wang Tao flew directly out of the residential building and then hovered in the square.

Since the effect of the concealment potion he had injected before had not worn off, these zombies didn't seem to see it.

Wang Tao's eyes glowed red.

Sizzling——

The two heat rays instantly concentrated and penetrated several zombies. Then Wang Tao slowly turned his head, and the zombies fell in pieces! Just like cutting grass, the ray is the sickle and the zombies are the grass!

In just a moment, not a single zombie in the entire square was intact. Minced meat was everywhere, and crystal cores and trophy light balls exploded all over the place.

"Phew - using thermal energy rays and flying in the sky together for a long time is indeed a bit tiring, but it's so refreshing!"

Seeing the lethality of the heat ray, Wang Tao grinned.

Whether it is a zombie with 500 health or a zombie with 1,000 health, as long as the head is touched by the ray, it will be killed instantly!

The only pity is that there are no elite zombies here. Wang Tao cannot test his current upper limit of attack power. After all, they are all instant kills.

Boom——

Wang Tao landed on the ground and quickly searched for loot.

After making sure that nothing was missing, Wang Tao took off again and flew back to the residential building where he just stayed.

He planned to eat something first, replenish his strength, and fuse so many crystal nuclei by the way, and then go find other elite zombies.

Wang Tao took out the fast food from his space backpack, and after eating it briefly, he started to synthesize crystal nuclei.

Wang Tao previously thought that these ordinary zombies would only explode [HP] crystal cores. Now that he is hunting more zombies, he has discovered that this is not the case.

He had just killed thousands of first-level ordinary zombies. In addition to [HP], the crystal cores exploded by those zombies also had [Mana], [Physique], [Agility] and [Spirit]!

This made Wang Tao very curious. He immediately synthesized the crystal nuclei. After there were no impurities, they began to fuse.

Wang Tao first fused [Blue Amount], and as expected, Wang Tao did not have a blue bar. I don't feel like I've gotten any improvement.

Obviously, this [blue quantity] crystal core is completely useless to Wang Tao.

Then Wang Tao tried the [Physique] crystal core again. After the fusion, Wang Tao clearly felt that his physical fitness had increased a little.

Finally, there is [Agility] and [Spirit]. After the fusion, Wang Tao also feels that his speed is a little faster, his flexibility has increased, and his mental power has also been enhanced a little.

"These five attributes may be the basic attributes of human beings. If humans want to become stronger, it is not enough to just have superpowers. They also have to hunt zombies and fuse these basic crystal nuclei!"

Wang Tao put the [Blue Quantity] crystal core into his space backpack and began to fuse the other four crystal nuclei. The total number of these synthesized crystal nuclei was five hundred, and Wang Tao poured them into his mouth like eating beans.

It took some time for Wang Tao to fuse all the crystal nuclei.

Wang Tao felt it carefully and found that his overall strength had improved a little. He is still very satisfied with this. Human beings in the previous life could only fuse crystal nuclei related to their own powers, which had great limitations. In this life, more crystal nuclei can be fused, and the upper limit will obviously be higher.

"Should we announce the news related to the crystal core..."

Wang Tao frowned.

Although the world is in chaos now, the network signal has not been cut off, and the survivors can still go online and make calls. So if Wang Tao wants to share some knowledge, other survivors should be able to see it soon.

The reason why Wang Tao hesitated was not because he was unwilling to share, but because he had a preliminary plan for this life - to increase his strength crazily and ignore other humans.

In his last life, Wang Tao knew the rules that "the stronger the average strength of human beings, the stronger zombies and monsters will be" and "the strength of zombie monsters will be higher than that of humans."

If human beings develop step by step, their overall strength will never be stronger than zombie monsters. That may ultimately lead to the same fate as in the previous life.

But this is not without a solution, and that is the method that the bishop used before - he improved his strength by himself, ignoring other people, and even deliberately suppressed other people to prevent other humans from becoming stronger.

In this case, although the bishop is very strong, the average strength of humans will not be too strong, and the strength of zombie monsters will not be too strong, so the bishop can be the savior.

Unfortunately, the protagonist's method was destroyed by Wang Tao, because Wang Tao not only improved his own strength, but also helped the people around him and the entire Changhe base to improve their strength. The result is that the zombie monsters are getting stronger and stronger, and they can't beat them...

In this life, Wang Tao is not going to care about other people. When humans were generally weak, he quickly improved his strength. Even if his strength is very strong, as long as it is divided equally among all humans, the average strength of humans will not be too strong. Only in this way can Wang Tao have a chance to solve the apocalyptic crisis!

So Wang Tao hesitated a little, whether to announce some news about the apocalypse. If all the survivors become stronger because of this, it will increase his difficulty!

But after thinking for a while, Wang Tao decided to announce some news. At least the method of how to save his life must be announced.

Wang Tao wants to solve the apocalyptic crisis, but not just his own apocalypse, he wants to save all mankind.

If all zombies and monsters are dead in the end, and the apocalyptic crisis is completely resolved, but all other humans are dead, and he is the only one left... then for Wang Tao, this is still the apocalypse, the apocalypse that belongs to him alone. Wang Tao definitely doesn't want this.

The so-called greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. He has been reborn, if he can't save all mankind, then what's the point of his rebirth? And the previous number of uses of [Time Travel] is also suspected to be used by him. If he can't save all mankind, then he will be sorry for his past efforts!

So Wang Tao plans to announce some news after returning home at night. He will not take the initiative to help human survivors improve their strength, but if he can save their lives, Wang Tao will also lend a hand.

And the more humans survive, the lower the average strength will be. Just like in the Changhe Base, when there is a relatively safe environment, most humans are unwilling to take risks to improve their strength, so they can lower the average strength of humans, which is also good for Wang Tao's plan to save mankind.

After thinking about these, Wang Tao also rested for a while.

He went out again, ready to look for elite zombies.

Suddenly, a tall shadow flashed past at a distant street corner.

"Lord zombie? A lord zombie appeared so soon?"

Wang Tao immediately chased after it.