I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 16

Chapter 16

“They’re coming, they’re coming, get ready!”

Someone said in a hushed voice, just as Bai Qing came running with a group of zombies. Among the zombies, one was significantly taller, with prominent muscle lines.

This zombie was extremely fast, directly surpassing the other zombies and quickly approaching Bai Qing.

Hearing the rapidly approaching footsteps behind him, Bai Qing cursed in a low voice.

“Damn it!”

Bai Qing’s pace couldn’t help but quicken. If he didn’t hurry, he felt he would be killed by this zombie before reaching Fang Bai. Bai Qing was truly running for his life.

Fortunately, Fang Bai and the others were also paying attention to this side. Seeing this, they hurriedly moved forward to meet him.

As Bai Qing ran past Fang Bai, he said breathlessly,

“I’ll leave it to you!”

Fang Bai didn’t speak, his eyes locked on the zombie in front of him. Instead of retreating, he charged directly towards the zombie.

Bang!

The claw hammer in Fang Bai’s hand collided directly with the zombie’s claws. Flesh was still unable to withstand steel, and several of the zombie’s five fingers, which had transformed into claws, instantly broke.

However, Fang Bai, feeling this force, realized that the zombie’s strength was not much stronger than his own.

“This zombie’s Strength attribute is at most ten points.”

Fang Bai laughed when he realized this.

Its Strength was only slightly higher than Fang Bai’s, unable to achieve an overwhelming power difference. Moreover, Fang Bai’s Perception completely enveloped the zombie. Fang Bai could instantly detect every movement of the zombie and make the most appropriate response.

At this moment, this zombie posed no threat to Fang Bai at all.

After a few moves, Fang Bai smashed his hammer onto the zombie’s temple.

Bang! Crack!

The zombie was killed!

Unfortunately, only seven or eight copper coins appeared in front of the zombie’s corpse, with no sign of equipment condensing.

However, Fang Bai was already used to the low equipment drop rate and wasn’t too disappointed. He directly turned his head to look at Bai Qing’s side.

Five people against more than a dozen zombies was still a bit difficult. Although each person had a small shield, they had only killed four zombies by now.

Seeing that the situation was stable, Fang Bai didn’t go over to snatch the zombies. He directly picked up the copper coins beside the zombie’s corpse, opened the Attribute Panel, and looked at the experience bar to make a rough estimate.

“I still need to kill about forty or fifty zombies of this level to level up?”

Fang Bai frowned slightly.

“Calculated at a ratio of five to one, wouldn’t that be equivalent to killing two hundred and fifty ordinary zombies?”

Fang Bai calculated this number and felt a little dumbfounded.

“I’ve only just reached level four, why is it so difficult?

You need to be level ten to change jobs. I haven’t even passed the level ten novice period, why is it so difficult to level up?

Is this still a game?”

Fang Bai suddenly froze.

“Wait, if it were a game, it would seem very easy to level up after killing only a few dozen low-level monsters.”

Fang Bai fell silent. Alright, there’s no problem with the mechanism, then what’s the problem?

“Okay, I’m weak.”

Fang Bai sighed.

“But my progress shouldn’t be slow. I want to see how strong I’ll be after I change jobs.

The difficulty is so high.”

“Melee combat is still too restrictive. It’s easy to be surrounded by zombies, which directly leads to slow zombie killing. Maybe it will be much better after I get a bow.”

Fang Bai rubbed his temples. After Bai Qing and the others killed the remaining zombies, they walked over. They looked at the zombie corpses on the ground, then at Fang Bai, with envy and yearning.

“Fang Bai, how’s it going? Let’s go?”

Bai Qing spoke.

“Mm.”

Fang Bai nodded, then continued,

“There should still be some zombies inside the club. It’s best to be careful when we go in.”

After Fang Bai finished speaking, he walked forward from the roadside.

The twenty-odd zombies were not all the zombies on this street, they were just all the zombies blocking Fang Bai and the others from going to the Archery Club.

So, although these twenty-odd zombies had been dealt with, Fang Bai and the others still had to be cautious on the road.

Using the trees by the roadside as cover, the group approached the Archery Club bit by bit.

During this process, they passed by one car after another. Fang Bai and the others could often see a zombie trapped in the driver’s seat, letting out low growls.

After a while, Fang Bai arrived at the entrance of the Archery Club and carefully looked inside.

At this moment, although he had Mental Power, Mental Power excelled at omnidirectional, penetrative detection without blind spots, but its range was only ten meters. The ten-meter detection range couldn’t see as far as his eyes.

After a few glances, he saw some zombies, but only three or four ordinary zombies. He didn’t find many or strong zombies.

“Let’s go, we can go in.”

Fang Bai said softly and immediately walked in, easily dealing with the few zombies inside.

After gaining experience points, Fang Bai glanced at the experience bar and found that it had only moved a tiny bit. To level up, he really needed to kill about two hundred to three hundred ordinary zombies.

When the others heard Fang Bai’s words, they followed him in. Bai Qing noticed this and suddenly realized a problem.

In just this short hour, Fang Bai had taken a dominant position in the team.

The reason was simply that Fang Bai had demonstrated his strength.

“Fortunately, Fang Bai is planning to go solo and doesn’t intend to stay together, otherwise it would be difficult for me.”

Bai Qing thought to himself, and at the same time, he realized another problem.

“It’s the end of the world, the strong are respected. Strength is the foundation of everything, and only with strength can you gather a group of people and make them obey!”

Bai Qing pondered as he followed Fang Bai into the Archery Club.

After everyone entered, Fang Bai directly locked the Archery Club’s door. Only after locking it did he continue inside.

The Archery Club was divided into two floors, mainly consisting of a shooting range, storage room, changing room, bathroom, office, and other rooms. The shooting range occupied the vast majority of the space.

There were also two zombies at the front of the shooting range. Two people casually went to deal with them, and Fang Bai led Bai Qing all the way to the room where the bows and arrows were stored. As soon as the room opened, a room full of bows appeared before Bai Qing and the others.

“Most of the bows here are American hunting bows, which are a type of recurve bow.

I think this type of bow is more suitable for actual combat and for beginners.”

Fang Bai casually picked up the body and string of an American hunting bow and explained to everyone.

“As a type of recurve bow, American hunting bows are generally unstrung for storage after use. Because if they are not unstrung for a long time, they are prone to losing poundage and twisting.

You still need to pay attention to the maintenance of bows and arrows.”

After Fang Bai finished speaking, he pointed to the American hunting bows beside him and said,

“These are twenty-pound American hunting bows. You are beginners, I suggest you start with twenty pounds.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Qing and the others curiously picked up a bow and then learned to string it like Fang Bai. Not long after, the five of them were standing in front of the shooting range, while Fang Bai held a bow and said while demonstrating,

“Shooting arrows, the stability of your head and torso determines your accuracy.

After raising the bow, lower your shoulders, yes, just like this.”

After teaching the five of them some basic operations, Fang Bai called Bai Qing aside alone. Bai Qing suddenly realized something and asked,

“Are you leaving?”