Chapter 105

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After the bus and truck stopped steadily, the group disembarked in single file.

Not far from the Shang Cheng entrance, scattered zombies howled and charged out, and the ground bore many signs of past battles.

No one paid attention to the zombies rushing wildly; although the players present were not Awakened Ones, they had each gone out several times to scavenge supplies.

Moreover, with Lord Lin An present, they had no worry about the Safety problem at all.

「Give it a try. 」

Lin An encouragingly looked at the somewhat nervous Gao Tian and patted his shoulder.

「Judgment Eye! 」

「Hum—」

Pale blue mist rose, and the nearest zombies instantly had three red weak points marked on them.

「Beep, detected zombies: 2472. 」

「Beep, detected mutant: 1 Fourth Rank (1). 」

「Beep, detected unknown organism:???. 」

「Beep, detected 24 players, Awakened Ones count: (3). 」

Are there other Awakened Ones nearby? Lin An felt slightly puzzled but didn't pay much heed.

In his perception, that Awakened One's spiritual energy fluctuation was not strong; unsurprisingly, they should be hiding nearby.

With Lin An's current mental strength, bolstered by the Resentful Skull, he can already detect all information within a 300-meter diameter around him; at this stage, hardly anyone could ambush him.

「Release your mind, link spiritual power. 」

In the team channel, Lin An directly linked his spiritual power to Gao Tian's sea of consciousness, and the weak-point information detected by Judgment Eye was uploaded simultaneously.

Hearing the sound, Gao Tian quickly nodded, and his compound bow instantly aimed at the foremost zombie.

「Hunt Lock! 」

A dark purple light flashed from his eyes, and the ordinary compound bow was wrapped in a faint purple aura.

「Any effect? 」

Lin An couldn't help but ask, and Gao Tian's skill was indeed similar to the activation of Judgment Eye.

One second later, a joyful voice sounded from the channel.

「Yes! 」

「Brother Lin, I saw it! 」

Gao Tian was overjoyed, his steady hands trembling slightly.

「Whoosh! 」

Unable to hold back any longer, Gao Tian instantly nocked and shot an arrow; the arrow, which usually flew a bit faster than ordinary arrows, suddenly let out a sharp whistle under the purple mist's enhancement.

「Bang! 」

The arrowhead, like lightning, easily pierced the zombie's skull; the tremendous force sent the body flying backward, knocking over the Rear zombies in succession.

One-hit instant kill!

Gao Tian excitedly looked at the damage he had caused, then drew the bow again.

Although he could normally kill a zombie with a single arrow, the burst of force was absolutely not this great.

It works! The damage bonus absolutely reached a 300% severe injury effect!

「Whoosh! 」

「Whoosh! 」

The ceaselessly fired arrows, like a sniper rifle, easily eliminated the nearby zombies; occasionally, an arrow carrying a corpse would strike the ground and trigger a small-scale explosion.

The ordinary compound bow in his hand transformed into a large-caliber sniper rifle, even comparable to a hand cannon!

Lin An also couldn't help but feel excited.

It really works! His guess was correct!

With Judgment Eye's blessing, Gao Tian's skill can completely skip the 9-second preparation time, and each attack can deal three times extra damage.

「Let's go find a mutant to test, see if the 【Deadly Point】 can also shorten time! 」

「Good! Brother Lin! 」

Gao Tian nodded repeatedly, feeling happy yet a bit sour inside.

He had thought his talent was extremely poor, the worst among Awakened Ones. After all, nine seconds of time only equaled the power of a sniper rifle, which was too useless for Awakened Ones.

Never expected that with Lin An's help, it would improve this much.

「Mo Ling! 」

「Go to the other side's ground parking lot, summon zombies, and lure out that big guy inside! 」

Lin An smiled and ordered Mo Ling; he brought her out this time precisely to make use of her abilities.

The interior space of the building is cramped; he need not fear zombies suddenly rushing out from dark corners, but others cannot.

Even Awakened Ones could be scratched by zombies in a hurry, let alone these ordinary players.

But with Mo Ling, it's different; the little girl can summon all zombies within the area out of the building.

Zombies exposed in the open ground and light are practically like targets.

「Received. 」

Mo Ling nodded upon hearing it, expressionless, and ran to the side to serve as a tool.

「Remember to come out and pick me up later; last time I climbed for two hours and still couldn't get out. 」

Lin An saw Mo Ling's eyes clearly showing displeasure, and gave an embarrassed smile.

The last time he planned to have Mo Ling artificially create a zombie tide, the summoned zombies took too long, causing the little girl to be stuck in the Corpse Horde for half a night.

After returning to the base, the zombie stench clinging to Mo Ling almost choked Zhang Tie to death.

The group hid beside the road, waiting for Mo Ling to activate his skill.

Although Lin An could easily charge in and instantly kill the mutants, he could only slowly deal with the remaining zombies.

After all, he lacked an area-of-effect skill, so he could only chop slowly with his knife.

Without Wen Ya's mental sharing, the Divine Stab skill would exhaust his mental power after at most nine uses, and using it against zombies would be overkill.

Even with the Space Ring, relying solely on himself, he couldn't move everything from the mall.

On the open ground of the parking lot, Mo Ling slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were instantly covered in deathly white.

The faint breath of the living instantly transformed into an eerie deathly aura.

"Summon the Dead!"

"Boom!"

A strong deathly aura emanated from the girl, condensing into a soaring vortex of deathly energy.

Witnessing Mo Ling activate his skill for the first time, a flicker of astonishment flashed in Lin An's eyes.

This appearance is quite impressive...

He looks just like the big villain in a movie.

"Undead who have returned from death, obey my summon! Come to my side!"

The girl standing at the center of the vortex chanted softly, and when the final syllable was finished,

"Hum-"

Like ripples, the grayish deathly aura spreading around instantly diffused outward; the moment the ripple passed through Lin An, a strange yearning rose in his heart.

The power within his body seemed to revel in the deathly aura, as if eager to answer the summon.

What's going on!?

Lin An felt somewhat startled in his heart, but the strange feeling vanished instantly.

Is... it an illusion? Or is it because I died once and was reborn?

Not having time to think further, a huge number of zombies' howls suddenly came from inside the mall, swarming out like an ant colony.

"Pfft-"

"Pfft-"

On the mall floors, almost every level had zombies frantically jumping out of the windows, falling to the ground like rain.

Under the summon of the deathly aura, even if their limbs were broken, these resurrected dead still writhed their bodies swiftly and crawled toward where Mo Ling was.

Gao Tian watched the scene before him with difficulty; the zombies' performance was shocking.

Zombies that fear neither death nor pain will always instill an instinctive, heartfelt fear...