Chapter 701: Nightfall

Three pieces of equipment, among which the belt serves as a substitute for the spider-silk belt, and it can actually save him the time of drawing weapons from the ring.

Especially, Chu An specially crafted twelve weapons from mutant materials for him before he left.

Although the forged weapons are not considered equipment, in terms of hardness and durability they can easily crush ordinary blue equipment.

In Chu An's design, he only considered whether the weapons could withstand Lin An's burst of power.

The Doomsday Ring has a brief delay each time an item is drawn from it.

Although this time was negligible in past battles.

But as the battle level rises, each pause will affect Lin An's timing of attack.

The ring, however, is not bad; it counts as a support-type prop.

What interests Lin An is communication that ignores language barriers.

Although the Doomsday System automatically translates, its target is limited to communication among survivors.

Communicating with monsters?

Thinking of the Milei scalpel transforming into the monster's special effect, he couldn't help but think of some additional uses.

As for the Eye of Mutation, it is considered a supplement to the telekinetic crystal.

Although it adds few attributes.

But just based on this effect, it is already top-tier among blue equipment.

He's in a good mood.

After storing the other "useless" equipment into the ring, Lin An glanced, somewhat surprised, at the beaming Xiong Hanzi.

This guy actually picked up quite a few good things.

But that makes sense.

In the trade channel, actually, few people are willing to sell truly good items.

After all, in the apocalypse, what could be more important than strength?

Feeling Lin An's approving gaze, Zhang Tie shook with pride and couldn't help but ask:

"Captain Lin, what should we do next?"

"I've seen that along the way, there have truly been a lot of deaths."

"Between many war zones, they've already begun to slaughter each other."

"You said the deaths will cause a big incident—what kind of big incident?"

Lin An listened to Xiong Hanzi's question, gave a light smile, and casually put on the newly acquired ring:

"Wait."

Having said that, he suddenly lifted his head to look at the gradually darkening sky and asked softly:

"Have you picked up..."

"the equipment on those corpses killed by humans?"

Huh?!

"It's definitely taken by the person who struck, after killing them..."

The sentence was cut off halfway.

After hearing that, Zhang Tie instinctively recalled, then slightly opened his mouth.

Damn!

Not right!

The equipment will be taken by the human side, but what about the corpses!?

There will always be someone who ambushes and kills the Awakened Ones fighting monsters.

Some corpses may not have their equipment looted.

The next second.

The piercing air-raid alarm suddenly blared.

"Wuuuuu!!!"

The fourth air-raid alarm sounded.

A team of Awakened Ones from the Nordic War Zone, currently in the police station, instinctively collapsed to the ground.

They wanted to rendezvous with another unit.

In group mode entering the trial ground, it seems each group can have at most 50 people.

If over 50 people, they are split into two teams and sent to random locations.

But precisely this limitation instead gave them a chance to catch their breath.

To find the main force, they had no choice but to weave through the mist.

If it weren't for the safe period after the air-raid alarm, they would have already died.

"We can't rush before the alarm!"

"This is really too dangerous!"

An Awakened One with large tattoos covering his body, which didn't look like ordinary tattoos, sat down on the ground, still shaken.

His hands and feet trembled.

Just a second earlier, in the police station they wanted to rush into, a wandering Arbiter actually appeared.

Upon head-on collision, he nearly got split in half alive.

Fortunately, the alarm sounded instantly, and that monster also vanished.

He sat on the ground.

The speaking Awakened One wore a gear-like leather jacket, exposing his chest, and had a shaved head.

His burly physique looks extremely violent.

After the apocalypse broke out, he is a peak second-level awakened one.

His conduct can be described as overbearing to the extreme, making the entire safe zone's survivors feel terrified.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't provoke powerful mutants, ordinary zombie monsters pose no threat to him.

But now...

"This damned place! I don't want to stay here for even a second!"

His voice even carries a hint of crying.

Everyone listening to his intense emotions felt no contempt at all.

The fear in their hearts is not much less than that of men.

"Thanks" trial.

It let them once again experience the fear when the apocalypse first broke out.

Here, everywhere are monsters that can easily kill oneself.

"We still need to regroup..."

"We only have twelve people; we must find Du Lun Te's team."

"Along the way, I felt someone lurking in the dark watching us."

His voice was hoarse.

An awakened one who had his left arm cut off, with a pale complexion, said.

Everyone fears the arbiter's pursuit, yet they must still complete the mission.

No one is willing to quit before the final moment.

The punishment is too cruel.

The wallet-man who sat slumped on the ground hammered the floor after hearing it; behind him was an office desk burnt to charcoal.

"Damn it! This damned trial might as well just say kill people!"

"Why kill monsters at all?"

"35 points of strength! It's impossible for any awakened one to reach that!"

He kept cursing nonstop.

"Minus equipment, how could anyone in this world have an awakened one with such high attributes?!"

In private communication, among the entire North European War Zone, the highest bare-gear attribute holder only has 33 points.

This is already exaggerated to the extreme; it's practically the strongest produced by an entire safe zone's support.

"Perhaps North America and the Huaxia War Zone have..."

Taking advantage of the safe period, several people prepared to go upstairs to investigate.

The place where the monsters disappeared is at the police station's entrance.

After fleeing all day, they discovered that the triangular monster does not pursue.

As long as one is not directly seen, there is no danger to life.

Stepping on the rust-stained stairs, with only rebar left, several people chatted while looking.

"These two war zones have many people coming in."

"Among them, there might be a pervert among perverts."

The red-haired man walking in front casually replied:

"Lin An? Or that short guy who wields a hammer, with arms as thick as a cannon barrel?"

The somewhat older awakened one wearing full-body armor slightly shook his head:

"The possibility of that hammer-wielder is greater."

"Lin An seems to have been squeezed out by the Huaxia military."

"If he were strong, this wouldn't happen."

He smiled.

"Perhaps this Lin An is similar to Ron from the North American War Zone; both stole military supplies."

Several people nodded in deep agreement.

"I don't know if we'll run into those two guys; killing them would earn points, not to mention."

"Maybe we could even drop those equipment."

"Those two damn lucky bastards—who knows what the system rewarded!"

In the chat, several people again mentioned the encirclement situation:

"Not long ago, our main force sent news saying they were considering whether to unite the three war zones to find a way to encircle and kill the Huaxia military."

"They have the most people and pose the greatest threat."

"To be honest, I think it's feasible."

The full-body-armored awakened one, with a low voice, slowly walked into the office area.

The ground was covered in scorched black, and the walls were smoked like a fireplace.

Just looking at everything before him, he always felt that nothing looked right.

The stairs were burned down to just the steel framework; why are the wooden floors still preserved, merely charred?

In the strangeness, a team member's voice sounded:

"Then let's do it together."

"The mission requires at least 5 points! I calculated that this trial means at least 80% of people must die!"

"This still refers to awakened ones dying at the hands of monsters; it can't be too many."

Otherwise, we could never gather what the mission needs.

Surround and kill the Huaxia side, and we can at least guarantee twenty people will complete the mission!

After settling on the tone, several people voiced their agreement.

As for killing monsters, they simply have no confidence.

But killing Awakened Ones left with only strength attribute? That couldn't be easier...

During the scattered search, a shadow crossed the jacketed man's eyes.

After wiping out the Huaxia war zone, then...

Once it's divided among us, the points will surely fall short.

When the time comes, who should we kill?

His fists clenched tight.

Under the dim sky, the suffusing fog turned the color of ink.

Standing at the intersection, inside the burnt police station, several people prepared to head down to the basement.

"Drip-drip"

Unnoticed, drop after drop of bright red blood slowly dripped from the hall's ceiling.

The wind blew by.

The jacketed man about to go downstairs caught a curious glimpse of a scorched newspaper on the ground.

(... ignite.. sacrifice)

(Evil... burn her to death..)

A scorched yellow corner of the newspaper bore a blurry photo.

It was a photo showing only half a face, blurred and indistinct.

(Case trial..)

(Not guilty!)