Chapter 1153: Traitor

Looking at the few people summoned before him who stood honestly, and the third-rank whose legs were cut off and curled on the ground, Lin An compared the information and quickly began to think.

The opponent obviously occupied the gathering place earlier, so it's likely they simply spawned inside rather than knowing extra information.

The problem now is that he doesn't know where the opponent is.

He actually wanted to compare with other Awakened Ones to see if anyone else also suddenly kept smelling a strange fragrance.

After suppressing the thought, Lin An spoke again:

"Tell me, how many points do you have?"

"How do you plan to buy your own life?"

"Information, special items, intelligence—anything goes."

"Making use of trash."

He glanced at the Brahma Heaven third-rank who barely had any blue equipment; Lin An didn't have high hopes. These people could serve as cannon fodder, but producing anything was still difficult. Although, after they died, everything would be his.

"Equipment!"

"All the equipment on me I offer to you! I really have nothing else!"

With a mournful face, Shuang Bi Nan reluctantly presented his weapons, then planned to take off his boots.

Although he was a third-rank, he only had three blue items of equipment in total.

Two daggers, his main weapons; a pair of boots providing evasion, speed, and a silent effect.

Receiving the offered equipment, Lin An raised a hand to stop the other's boot-removing motion.

These Brahma Heaven people reek of curry; I don't know why they still eat this every day after the apocalypse.

After a glance at the two weapons Shuang Bi Nan offered, Lin An threw them back a few seconds later.

Well, it's indeed trash.

One armor-piercing blade with a stab effect, one bleeding blade with a backstab effect; placed among blue equipment they're just average.

Equipment of this quality, he had plenty better than this when he was second-rank...

He didn't know if all Awakened Ones in this war zone were this poor, like beggars, or if these few people before him were simply that useless.

Seeing Lin An seemingly dissatisfied, the dagger man's heart gave a sudden jolt.

It's over; Lin An indeed didn't fancy their equipment.

But the problem is, that's all he had to trade for his life! Heaven pity him, after advancing to third-rank he hadn't even eaten a few spirit-ability fruits; these pieces of equipment were hard-won! Feeling bitter, seeing Lin An's unhidden equipment aura, he felt like crying.

Is it trash? Is it junk?

Equipment isn't that easy to get! Not everyone is like you, Lin An, running around looting like bandits.

Another third-rank, struggling to stay on the ground with a pale face, was also panicking at that moment.

He saw that Lin An was very dissatisfied with the equipment they offered, and might kill them in anger.

Unable to hesitate, he quickly spoke through the pain:

"Lord Lin An! We can be insiders!"

"Please, don't kill me!!"

"I know who's valuable!!"

"Huh?"

Lin An raised his eyebrows and instantly looked at the speaking third-rank.

Quite sensible; he had actually planned to have them do this. He thought they might object to betraying their own war zone, but instead a traitor stepped forward.

Six minutes later, in front of the Spirit Ability Tower.

After several captured Brahma Heaven Awakened Ones unanimously declared they would help him attract Awakened Ones, Lin An nodded in satisfaction.

Compared to him running around hunting Awakened Ones, having them come to him was definitely best.

He saw that a first-rank Awakened One was worth 0.1 points, about the same as a bug.

Second-rank was worth over one point. Killing a third-rank was worth 1017 points. It seemed to be calculated by strength.

Although not much, only third-rank was valuable, but there were so many of them!

If he killed nearly a hundred Brahma Heaven third-ranks, he could easily reach a hundred thousand points, earning a Rule Fragment.

Tens of thousands of second-rank would also yield a Rule Fragment. As for the first-rank...

Forget it; killing them would waste spirit ability, at most exchanging for an Epic Tier equipment.

"Not enough to kill..."

Lin An muttered quietly, troubled by the scarcity of points. He now had only over a thousand, the bulk coming from that bald-headed man's contribution.

With his strength, theoretically no one could stop him if he went all out slaughtering Awakened Ones.

Starting from the peak of third-rank, his defense basically ignored concentrated fire from second-ranks.

Unless dozens of third-ranks pinned him down, continuously draining his spirit ability, perhaps he'd be in mortal danger; otherwise, a sea of tactics against him was just a joke.

The problem is...

"The battlefield is too huge; just searching for people wastes a lot of time. Slaughtering all of Brahma Heaven would only yield that much..."

"But if we count Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, that would be enough..."

Lin An gently rubbed his brow, feeling it a bit tricky.

If he went around hunting Awakened Ones, he wouldn't get gathering-point rewards; luring them over was ultimately limited. No one knew, he had already calculated how many points the Awakened Ones of the entire Asia War Zone were worth.

Accustomed to killing, aside from his own war zone's people he might hesitate to kill; to him, others were just walking points. Anyway, if they didn't die by his hand, they'd die in the insect tide or at others' hands. Better to contribute himself—at least they'd die honorably.

Directly exchanging heavily at the Reputation Shop for consumable props, Lin An then threw them to several Brahma Heaven people.

"Find a way to contact the Awakened Ones of your war zone and have them team up and come over."

"Just say that this gathering point has many points, but you're about to lose hold of it. Pretend to be weak as much as possible."

"Well done; I might not even consider killing you, and possibly even give you some points."

Calmly speaking to give orders, Lin An readily agreed.

Having a traitor as an insider, they believe it can attract a large number of Fantian people.

With the death seed in hand, the spiritual energy he spends killing people is actually less than that spent killing insects; as long as they come in batches, the problem isn't big.

The only thing he cares about is whether the subsequent insect tide will keep growing in scale, and...

That touch of strange fragrance.

He always feels that this Apocalypse battlefield isn't that simple.

Although, it's already extremely difficult...

Before the spiritual energy tower.

To test his own idea, Lin An directly threw the corpse of a Heavenly Eye person smashed by a Fantian three Fourth Rank into the tower.

"Go, absorb the spiritual energy."

The appearance time of the strange fragrance comes from after he absorbs Heavenly Eye spiritual energy; therefore, Lin An plans to test it by elimination.

Having received Lin An's order, that legless three Fourth Rank looked doubtful, but had no choice but to brace himself to prepare to absorb.

Is this good? Smashing his own leg, yet giving him spiritual energy replenishment?

Not knowing Lin An's intention, he somehow felt that Lin An was actually quite good...

Just like Stockholm Syndrome.

Hastily absorbing the burned corpse of the Heavenly Eye person, after a moment, the broken leg three Fourth Rank was suddenly startled:

"So much spiritual energy!"

"I feel like my leg might actually recover!"

The next second, Lin An's nostrils, which had been silently observing, also twitched. He didn't pay attention to the fact that this spiritual energy also had a restorative use.

What he cared more about was where this strange fragrance came from.

And now, he knows.

The fragrance, on their bodies!

After absorbing spiritual energy, everyone will emit this eerie fragrance!