Damn zombies, how dare they disguise themselves as humans!

"It turns out it's not just about feeding a dog with human lives."

"If they continue to feed it secretly without being discovered, it will eventually cause the dog to mutate and go out of control again, killing everyone."

"Damn pervert, there are more and more perverts these days."

Looking at the information file, Luo Tian couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.

First there was Du Hai, then Yang Lihua; each one more vicious than the last.

If this happened a few years after the apocalypse, it wouldn't be a big deal, but if the situation continued to deteriorate, he could almost imagine what the survivors would become.

But now, only a few months have passed since the apocalypse, and some people have already become so depraved and perverted.

After a moment of reflection, Luo Tian opened the rewards interface.

[Cleanup complete]

[Target: Yang Lihua (deceased)]

[Level: B-Level]

The rewards are as follows.

[1. Points +70]

[2. Choose one: life-sustaining rations or food exchange]

[3. Choose one from random rewards, physical enhancement skills, or skill fusion.]

As is customary, Luo Tian first looked at the skills.

[Strengthen Body: Passively enhances and strengthens the body, increasing strength by 100%.]

"Another passive skill?"

"Doubling physical strength?"

What Luo Tian wanted most was, of course, an active skill.

Each additional type means having another trump card, which can be used to both fight the enemy and save one's life.

In addition to the recent double reward from the mutated cat, this passive skill seems rather lackluster in comparison, which makes him very dissatisfied.

It's like having just finished a feast of delicacies and then being served a simple meal.

However, compared to being forced to choose random rewards to gamble on luck when encountering useless skills, this is obviously much better, especially since it is the type that enhances combat power.

The greater the strength, the stronger the combat power.

In the long run, this passive amplification skill far surpasses the one-time consumable item like the random magnetic storm grenade.

Luo Tian wasn't ungrateful; it was just a slight emotional fluctuation caused by the disparity in his feelings.

"70 points..."

After glancing at the points rewards, Luo Tian couldn't help but frown slightly.

He initially thought the reward rules for points were related to the strength of the target.

But now it seems that this is not accurate, at least not only in relation to the strength of the target.

For example, after Du Hai was bitten by a zombie, he mutated into a special zombie-like physiology and the ability to infect others, but he himself was very weak, just like an ordinary person. He could kill the zombie with a simple attack to the head, and a group of his subordinates died at the same time. In the end, he got 90 points.

Although Yang Lihua is also an ordinary person, she can control a mutated dog, so her overall strength is definitely stronger than Du Hai's, but she only got 70 points.

Therefore, besides strength, are the rules for determining the amount of points awarded also related to the future threat level of the target? Or are there other factors involved?

After thinking about it, Luo Tian gave up on getting to the bottom of it, as he couldn't figure it out for the time being.

"Claim your reward."

"The second type of survival food."

"The third option is to choose a physical strengthening skill."

As soon as he uttered the command, a system notification immediately sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Reward is about to be issued.]

As the sound faded,

A bag of energy cubes appeared out of thin air beside him.

At the same time, a blazing heat suddenly arose and flowed throughout my body.

Wherever it passed, the flesh beneath the skin rippled like waves, and even a series of cracking sounds of bones could be faintly heard.

The process was equally quick; it was over almost as soon as Luo Tian began to feel it.

"Tsk tsk, that's outrageous."

"This kind of system improvement is faster than taking hormones; it's practically instantaneous."

Luo Tian raised his arm and clenched his fist, marveling at the bulging arm muscles.

Although there were no major changes on the surface of the body, the muscles had become noticeably firmer. With a slight clench of the fist, the taut muscles could be made as hard as iron, and one could feel the enormous power contained within them.

He clenched his fist, put away the bag of survival rations beside him, and then went downstairs with his knife.

After searching floor by floor, they finally found a wandering zombie in the inner side of the corridor on the second floor.

Upon seeing a living person, it didn't hesitate to move its clumsy, pathetic steps and "charge" over.

Luo Tian did not draw his sword to prepare for battle; he simply stood and waited.

Only when the zombie was right in front of him did he suddenly reach out and grab it by the neck.

As we all know, zombies are very powerful.

Putting aside the fatal flaw of infection from bites, this is its only advantage; ordinary people simply cannot compete with it.

But at this time,

The exponential increase in strength allowed Luo Tian to hold the zombie firmly with one hand, preventing it from advancing an inch.

Unable to get close to its target, it just stared with its pale, dead fish eyes and its mouth full of black filth, waving its hands incessantly.

Unfortunately, his arms were too short to reach Luo Tian's body.

After waving its arms in vain for a while, it finally reached for Luo Tian's arm out of instinct.

"Whoosh!"

He stopped and swung his knife.

The zombie's head fell off instantly.

"His strength has indeed increased considerably."

"Even if you are accidentally surrounded by a small group of zombies in the future, you are not necessarily going to die."

The experiment yielded results, and the last remaining dissatisfaction Luo Tianxin felt completely disappeared.

It's true that zombies are slow, but they are incredibly strong. Once they get close and pounce on you, it's very difficult for you to get up. If an ordinary person gets bitten in the process, they can only wait to die.

With his unique constitution, which makes him immune to bite infections, what he fears most is being surrounded.

As I said before, you won't die from the infection, but you'll be bitten to death.

A horde of a dozen or so zombies rushing in and tearing at you will inevitably cause massive bleeding, or even dismemberment.

But with a force to contend with, even if surrounded or tackled, there is a chance to push them away and fight your way out to avoid being torn apart.

"System, search."

After quickly finishing his rations, Luo Tian didn't dawdle and tried to complete as many tasks as possible in a day.

[Consuming 20 points, starting the search for targets to be cleared.]

[Searching...]

Search complete.

[Three targets to be eliminated have been detected within a 2-kilometer radius.]

[Target 1: Northwest direction, approximately 950 meters, Class B target.]

[Target #2: Approximately 1.2 kilometers to the due east direction, Class B target.]

[Target #3: Due west, approximately 1.8 kilometers, Class B target.]

Please select one as your tracking target.

"Number 1!"

As usual, choose the nearest one.

It can shorten the travel time and prevent accidents on the way due to the long distance.

……

After half an hour,

Luo Tian, ​​carrying a knife, turned out from beside a building.

But as soon as he came out, he shrank back like lightning, only sticking out a little bit of his head to look ahead.

On the road within sight,

Two middle-aged people, a man and a woman, were fleeing in panic, not knowing where to go.

The middle-aged man was holding a little girl who looked a few years old, making them look like a family of three.

Behind them followed a massive, dark mass of zombies, their chaotic roars clearly audible.

They were probably exhausted from running for a long time, so the two of them moved very slowly, their steps almost as unsteady as zombies, and they would occasionally look back in a panic.

Not long after, the middle-aged man carrying the child could no longer run, his legs gave way and he fell to the ground, pulling his wife down with him.

They were already struggling to move forward, and when they collapsed, they were unable to get up again. Both of them looked pale as they stared at the horde of corpses behind them.

As the horde of corpses drew ever closer, and after struggling to get up but still unable to, the two gave up in despair, tightly embracing their child and trembling as they nestled together.

Without weapons, they couldn't even commit suicide.

however,

Just then—

"Bang bang bang bang bang!!!"

A series of gunshots, clearly equipped with silencers, suddenly erupted.

Moreover, their numbers were extremely large, and their hit rate was extremely high. Under the faint but dense gunfire, the entire horde of corpses fell down in large swaths.

Following the sound of gunfire, Luo Tian glanced at the large iron gate a few hundred meters away and the soldiers standing in neat rows behind it, armed with guns.

Then, they turned to the sign hanging next to the iron gate.

"Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Viral Infection?"