Chapter 1026

Quickly scanning the equipment information, Lin An's eyes flickered as he began to think.

Yingshadow provides the lowest attributes, accompanied by stealth skill and armor-piercing effect. Ice shards and Thunder Fury respectively add two types of elemental damage.

Moreover, both weapons come with a control effect and a damage skill.

Thunder brings paralysis, summoning a chain of lightning; shards cause freeze and slow, the skill creates an extreme cold domain that reduces enemy movement speed.

It's obvious that among the three weapons, the latter two are relatively better, after all they have multiple control skills.

But after much deliberation, Lin An still decided on the Shadowblade.

The reason is simple.

The Shadowblade's attributes are purely about pursuing extreme damage, with no control ability whatsoever.

If his opponents are of the same rank or lower, naturally the two elemental weapons would be more useful.

But Lin An clearly realizes that for a long time to come, the enemies he will face will only be higher ranked than him, and in great numbers!

Then the Shadowblade with its hidden trait can truly shine.

Having made up his mind, Lin An directly asked Zhang Tie for 3 prestige points and exchanged for the Shadowblade.

A flash of white light, as prestige instantly dropped to zero, a translucent thrust sword like an invisible blade appeared in his hand.

Gripping the hilt reverse-handed, Lin An felt it as light as nothing.

With a casual swing, the blade seemed to encounter no air resistance, slicing silently through the air, leaving only a faint afterimage.

Let's test the skill!

With a thought, after silently chanting in his mind, Lin An instantly activated the equipment's built-in skill effect.

Stealth!

"Hum"

An invisible ripple, in an instant, Xiong Hanzi, who had been experimenting with the new equipment, stared in astonishment as Lin An vanished before his eyes.

"Holy shit!? Captain Lin!!"

A few seconds later, a shadow slowly emerged from behind the somewhat panicked Zhang Tie.

Not bad.

Looking at Zhang Tie with his back to him, Lin An glanced satisfied at the Shadowblade in his hand.

In stealth state, he is like invisible, not only able to evade enemy sight but also to slip into shadows and launch a backstab attack.

One must say, this sword's concealment and lethality are simply perfect.

Combined with his own Blink skill, Lin An could imagine himself appearing instantly in an enemy's shadow, becoming a terrifying assassin!

Come to think of it, this weapon could totally be saved for Jing Tian later...

After testing the equipment, Lin An directly stored the Sunwalker's corpse, as if thinking of something, and turned his gaze toward the huge pit previously blown open.

If I'm not mistaken, underground where the Sunwalker was, there seem to be some books?

"Come on, let's go check."

Holding a faint doubt, Lin An directly charged into the wobbly pit.

"Captain Lin, what are we looking for?"

Never having gone underground before, Xiong Hanzi asked doubtfully as they went, but discovered Lin An seemed to be pondering something.

"Some books."

"Maybe, there are also some other things."

"Huh?"

Not understanding Lin An's meaning, he simply stopped asking and just followed behind Lin An with a grunt.

The distance wasn't far; after just a few seconds, Lin An rushed into the dark pit.

At a glance, on the rock wall blasted open by violence, one could faintly see quartz rock melted by high heat.

Recalling the Sunwalker's various abnormalities, Lin An subconsciously felt that perhaps those books might be problematic.

The Sunwalker's strength was excessively strong.

Especially, its abnormal regenerative ability.

Perhaps this monster's strange ability is related to those things?

A mutant, guarding a pile of "torn books"?

Under a strong intuition, Lin An suppressed his doubts and went straight to where the Sunwalker had been.

As expected, in the gloom, Lin An's eyes flashed silver, and he instantly saw a heap of Russian-written books, haphazardly piled in the cavern.

Walking up to the books, Lin An quickly scanned them.

Imagining, this pile of books might be some mysticism, or perhaps the Sunwalker brought back the human miners' technical manuals left at the mine for some special reason.

But relying on the system's translation function, Lin An mildly astonished to discover that these books were actually all theoretical textbooks.

"《Principles of Wireless Communication》, 《Theory and Disassembly of Ore Radios》, 《Electromagnetic Field Theory》..."

"《General Meteorology and Climate Evolution》, 《Flux Equations》.."

"《Principles of Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics Research》"

"Captain Lin, what the hell is this!!"

Looking at the books Lin An found, Xiong Hanzi roughly flipped through the basics, casually asking in surprise.

Good grief, he recognized each character on the cover, but put together he had no idea what they meant.

Without responding, Lin An slightly furrowed his brows, vaguely sensing something, his eyes searched and instantly found a notebook amidst the mountain-like pile of books.

Under the True Eye, this notebook was the most flipped through and left with the most traces.

It seems to be, a diary of some sort of reading reflections?

Looking at the somewhat blurred name on the notebook, Lin An simply proceeded to examine it.

"2032 September 13, clear."

"Recently, the mining company invited me to be their technical consultant; I hesitated for a long time, after all, compared to geological prospecting, I prefer studying solar flares."

"But they offered too much, a generous salary; I really couldn't refuse."

"Alright, I'll just treat it as saving up funds for my next research."

"2032 September 17, overcast."

"Today I had an argument with colleagues from the institute; they don't agree with my academic views."

"A bunch of idiots corrupted by capital!"

"Clearly, global climate change is related to solar activity, not the damn greenhouse gas emissions! This bunch of scumbags who took black money from environmental organizations have lost the basic morality of scientists! They're deceiving the public!"

"Data doesn't lie! After humanity entered the industrial era, the annual temperature rise has absolutely no mathematical correlation with greenhouse gas emissions!"

"I've compiled statistics for twenty years; every temperature change is caused by solar variation!"

"That thing hanging in the sky is like a super huge plasma cannon, hurling fireballs at Earth every day!"

"I am Pi Er Si Ke Er Bin! I will absolutely not collude with them!"

"2032 November 16, not visible."

"Today is the fourth day of the Apocalypse outbreak; I haven't eaten for two days.."

"Damn it, I personally saw my most hated colleague gnaw off the head of my family's bull!"

"I really don't know how long I'll have to stay hidden here... Unbelievable, there actually are zombies in the world.."

"Also, my body seems to be undergoing some strange changes.."

"I seem to have become an Awakened One?"

"Lin An looked at the notes, which were like gibberish, and quickly realized this was a survivor's diary. It recorded the random musings of someone who seemed to be a professor researching the sun, in meteorology and geology."

"Even after the Apocalypse outbreak, the diary's owner kept recording continuously."

"Lin Dui? This person became an Awakened One?"

"Xiong Hanzi leaned in, finally seeing a few characters of Awakened Ones he could understand, and curiously asked Lin An."

"Although he was familiar with most of the insults, the mixed content gave him a headache."

"For the time being, there was no reply; Lin An merely narrowed his eyes and quickly flipped to the last few pages."

"After a moment, his expression gradually grew solemn."

"The notes at the back are very long, but the handwriting on the last few pages has begun to slant, mixed with a familiar scent."

"Taking a deep breath, Lin An seemed to have reached some unbelievable conclusion; his gaze complex, he spoke in a low voice:"

"No."

"He is... a Sun Walker?!"

"On the blank paper of the diary's last few pages, a fine scratch remained."

"That, is the trace of a blade."