Chapter 28
“Equipment: Excellent Three-Edged Armor-Piercing Arrows”
After Fang Bai returned home, he took out the equipment arrows and examined them carefully once more.
“There’s no increase in physical attributes. This should be a difference caused by the varying nature of equipment. In the game system’s view, these arrows are classified differently from weapons like knives, swords, and bows.
After all, once an arrow is shot, any added attribute values would disappear.
But what do these two attributes mean?”
“+1 Armor Penetration is easy to understand. It should be an enhancement in terms of weight, strength, etc., specifically strengthening the armor-piercing effect.
Then what about +1 Damage? How exactly should this be understood?
Does it add one point when calculating damage after hitting the target?”
“That’s not realistic. This isn’t a purely data-based online game.”
After pondering for a moment, Fang Bai fetched the compound bow and a wooden board. He placed an arrow on the bow, pulled the bowstring back a few centimeters, and released it.
The arrow shot towards the wooden board. The instant it hit the board and pierced it, surges of sharp energy emerged from the arrow, swirling and churning about a centimeter from the arrowhead.
The arrow itself had only penetrated two centimeters, but a large hole, three centimeters wide and three centimeters deep, appeared on the wooden board!
“Is this the added damage?”
Fang Bai stared at this scene, quickly picking up the arrow like a treasure and storing it in his bow bag.
“Simple, crude, awesome!”
After putting the arrow away, Fang Bai opened his attribute panel.
“Level: 5.”
“Strength: 10 (6).”
“Constitution: 5.”
“Agility: 5 (4).”
“Mental Power: 12.”
“Free Attribute Points: 1.”
“Continue adding to Mental Power.”
Without any hesitation, Fang Bai directly allocated the attribute point to Mental Power.
He had also considered adding to Strength, but with the current equipment enhancement, ten points of Strength were sufficient. Furthermore, adding to Mental Power could also provide a good enhancement to his existing strength.
Most importantly, considering the preciousness of attribute points and his future intention to change his class to Mage, Fang Bai didn’t want to waste any attribute points on other attributes.
With Mental Power increased to thirteen, Fang Bai’s mental power detection range was strengthened once again. Naturally, his thinking speed and mental calculation abilities were also enhanced in sync.
The newly strengthened Fang Bai went to the window, looking down at the zombies wandering in the street below, his gaze directed towards the areas where he had encountered large zombies.
During his zombie hunting, Fang Bai had encountered a total of four large zombies, but he had always been afraid to approach them, silently detouring around them.
In fact, Fang Bai had discovered that these large zombies weren’t uncommon. They were mainly prone to appearing in areas with a slightly higher population density.
Therefore…
“Let’s hunt large zombies. One large zombie is at least equivalent to two hundred ordinary zombies. Whether considering efficiency or logistics, they are a better choice than ordinary zombies. Moreover, there’s a chance of them dropping green equipment.”
Fang Bai pondered for a moment.
“Although there’s a certain risk, as long as I’m prepared, the risk is controllable and acceptable compared to the benefits.”
After experiencing two days in the apocalypse and witnessing the rapid changes in human nature, Fang Bai finally took this step.
Originally, Fang Bai’s goal was simply to survive. Now, his goal had begun to shift towards becoming stronger and living a better life.
Leaving his home, Fang Bai went straight to the neighboring residential area. There was also a large zombie resembling a small giant at the entrance of the neighboring area.
Fang Bai arrived at the entrance of the neighboring area, observing the large zombie, two strong zombies, and sixteen ordinary zombies slowly wandering near the guardhouse, as well as over twenty zombie experience packages on the ground inside.
Fang Bai immediately climbed onto the roof of the guardhouse from the other side.
The roof of the guardhouse was a V-shaped structure, covered with glazed tiles. Fang Bai went directly to the top and stood there, drawing his bow and aiming directly at the large zombie’s thigh.
Fang Bai knew that these large zombies had very keen senses. Directly s*ooting at the head would easily allow them to dodge. Even if he did hit, Fang Bai seriously doubted that the arrow would be deflected by the bones. He had noticed during his previous large zombie hunts that arrows shot into the eye sockets showed no signs of penetrating through to the other side.
While the physical qualities of these large zombies had improved, their bone density had also greatly increased. If the arrows weren’t specialized armor-piercing arrows, they couldn’t penetrate the defense. Only hitting the eyes could k*ll them. But how difficult was it to hit the eyes while they were still moving?
S*ooting the body wouldn’t cause effective damage.
The legs, which were easier to hit and could affect the zombie’s agility and running speed, became the best choice.
Whoosh!
The arrow pierced through the air.
At this moment, the zombie was only about thirty meters away from Fang Bai. At such a close range, Fang Bai’s s*ooting accuracy was extremely high. Even though the zombie had already made a dodging motion, the arrow pierced through its thigh.
“Roar!”
The large zombie let out a roar. Instantly, all the zombies charged towards Fang Bai. The large zombie bent down, put its hands on the ground, and its four limbs moved rapidly, running like a gorilla.
“Hmm?”
This zombie’s situation surprised Fang Bai slightly. Did this large zombie’s arms also seem to have grown a bit longer?
The thirty-meter distance was crossed in the blink of an eye by the large zombie. It bent its legs slightly, kicked off the ground, and its hands grabbed the edge of the roof, attempting to climb up.
The distance of more than ten meters was always enveloped within Fang Bai’s mental power. Seeing this scene, Fang Bai smiled.
“I’ve been waiting for you!”
Before his voice faded, the arrow, which had been charged for a long time, locked onto the large zombie’s head, which was about to emerge.
However, just as he was about to release the string, Fang Bai’s mental power observed the large zombie’s movements. His heart stirred slightly, and the arrow’s lock-on position shifted a few centimeters down and to the right.
Normally, this would likely hit the side of the large zombie’s face and glance off. But…
Whoosh!
The arrow pierced through the air, and the large zombie dodged down and to the right upon seeing this. The three-edged broadhead arrow, which would have missed, instantly pierced through its pupil and directly into the large zombie’s brain.
Thump!
The large zombie’s massive body crashed to the ground with a muffled thud.
A stream of experience points flowed into Fang Bai’s body. This incredibly smooth scene stunned Fang Bai.
However, in the next moment, Fang Bai was startled by the roars of the zombies. He quickly drew his bow and shot, killing a strong zombie that had climbed up.
One after another, in the blink of an eye, the zombies at the entrance of the residential area were easily killed by Fang Bai. The survivors inside the buildings who were watching this scene were dumbfounded.
“I thought he was here to d*e, but…”
“Hiss, this person is so strong.”
Fang Bai’s actions of alerting the zombies with his roars had attracted their attention.
He wasn’t the only one who had provoked the large zombies. The corpses on the ground were evidence of that, and so was the large zombie itself.
They had initially thought he was another one coming to d*e, to deliver himself as zombie food. Just as they were about to open their windows and yell angrily, they suddenly realized that Fang Bai had already killed the large zombie.
At this moment, they were all stunned!
Ah, this…
The large zombie blocking the entrance was just dead like that?
Even their window-opening actions froze.
Fang Bai killed the zombies too quickly. They hadn’t even had time to curse. Only…
“Coming to feed the zombies again, are you fcking stupid…”
The shouts echoed within the residential area. Fang Bai looked up in confusion. The voice upstairs paused, seemingly realizing that the large zombie was already dead. In a daze, the tone instantly changed, switching to a flattering smile.
“Stu-stupid… awesome Big Brother who killed the large zombie, right?
It’s nothing, it’s nothing. You’re Big Brother, I’m the stupid one. You continue, I didn’t say anything.
Thank you, Big Brother, for helping us k*ll this zombie. Thank you.”
Fang Bai couldn’t help but chuckle at these words. He lowered his head to retrieve the three-edged broadhead arrow from the large zombie’s body, turned around, and left.
