Survival in the Apocalypse: Max Level Drop Rate with Abundant Resources

The stone steps descended, disappearing into the depths of darkness.

Shen Xi stepped onto the rough stone slabs, his footsteps echoing in the narrow passage. The golden light of the Eye of Truth flowed in his pupils, and his gaze pierced through the layers of rock walls, taking in the entirety of the second level.

Honeycomb-like cubicles, densely packed passageways, and women lying on wooden beds…

His steps paused slightly.

He witnessed all of this last night when the ghost child was investigating. Seeing it with his own eyes now, the impact is still intense.

Being family-oriented is unworthy of being a human being.

Shen Xi took a deep breath, suppressed the surging killing intent in her heart, and continued downwards.

Deep inside the second level, in a hidden secret room.

The dim light shone on the mottled walls, and the air was thick with the smell of medicine. Various bottles and jars were piled up in the corner, some containing dark brown liquid, others soaking unidentified organs, floating and sinking in formalin.

A simple operating table was placed in the center of the room, and a young woman lay on it.

She was naked She was emaciated, with bluish-purple veins clearly visible beneath her pale skin. Her belly was swollen high, a full size larger than that of a normal pregnant woman, her skin stretched so thin it was almost transparent, revealing the twisted outline of the fetus inside.

That's not a normal child.

The fetuses had disproportionate limbs and abnormally shaped skulls, with the faint outlines of scales and bone spurs visible. They wriggled inside the mother's body, each movement causing her to tremble violently.

The woman's eyes were vacant, her face numb, and her lips cracked and bleeding; it was impossible to tell how long she had been lying there. There were marks on her wrists and ankles from being strangled with ropes; the bluish-purple bruises were a shocking sight.

Beside the operating table, an elderly man was bending over and doing something to her.

The old man was in his early seventies, with gray hair, a thin face, and wearing old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses. His hands, gloved with rubber, were pressing on the woman's belly, feeling for the movement of the fetus inside.

Gu An, the head butler of the Gu family.

The person Gu Tianxin trusted most was also the actual person in charge of this breeding base.

"Mother number 37, fetal development is normal, cesarean section is expected in seven days." Gu An muttered to himself, picking up a syringe from the tray next to him. The syringe contained a pale yellow liquid. "Another injection of ripening agent should bring it to five days earlier."

He inserted the needle into the woman's abdomen and slowly pushed in the medicine.

The woman's body trembled violently, and a hoarse groan escaped her throat. Her belly began to writhe violently, and the fetus inside struggled frantically, as if it had sensed some kind of stimulation.

After Gu An finished administering the medicine, he pulled out the needle and nodded in satisfaction.

"Record: Mother No. 37, fifth injection of ripening agent, good response. Fetal activity increased, expected..."

Before he could finish speaking, the door to the secret room was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Gu An frowned and turned his head away.

A young man in his early thirties stumbled in, his face pale, covered in sweat, and his voice trembling: "Butler...butler! Something terrible has happened!"

Gu An's face darkened: "What's the panic? Speak properly."

The young man swallowed hard and managed to say, "Tai...Tai Chu! Tai Chu has broken in!"

"The beginning? What beginning!"

"What did you say?" His voice suddenly rose.

"The Beginning!" The young man's voice was filled with terror. "He came in from the south entrance, all alone! He fought his way from the first floor to the second!"

Gu An's face instantly turned ashen.

He abruptly ripped off his rubber gloves, slammed them onto the operating table, and strode to the door.

"Tai Chu? Which Tai Chu?" His voice was hoarse, disbelief flashing in his eyes. "The Tai Chu who brought the Gu family to this state? How could he possibly have found this place?!"

The young man nodded frantically: "It's him! The one ranked number one in the China region, Tai Chu! He... he fought his way in from the first floor all by himself, with just an axe! Our people couldn't stop him at all!"

Countless thoughts flashed through Gu An's mind.

In the beginning, a man came alone.

But Gu An didn't panic.

"How many people are coming?" he asked sternly.

The young man was taken aback: "Wh...what?"

"I'm asking you, how many people did Tai Chu bring?" Gu An's voice was somewhat impatient.

The young man stammered, "It was...it was just him. He was the only one who came in from the south entrance; I didn't see anyone else."

Gu An frowned.

A person?

wrong.

When Taichu came alone, it wasn't for revenge; it was suicide. He wasn't stupid; he couldn't possibly not understand this.

unless……

"Where's Mingying?" Gu An asked abruptly. "Where is Mingying, the one who was inseparable from Taichu?"

The young man was stunned, then shook his head: "No... I didn't see anything. There was only Tai Chu on the first floor; I didn't see Ming Ying."

Gu An sensed that something was wrong.

Mingying didn't follow.

That means that in the beginning, there was definitely not one person.

Gu An's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat. He whirled around, rushed to the corner, grabbed the walkie-talkie hanging on the wall, pressed the call button, and shouted:

"Attention all units! Attention all units!"

"Attention all units! Attention all units!"

"Taichu has stormed in from the south entrance! All alone!"

"His purpose is most likely to attract our attention!"

"Mingying isn't with him; he likely has a backup plan!"

"Immediately increase security at all entrances and exits on the north, east, and west sides!"

"First floor, second floor, everyone abandon the search and immediately retreat to the core area!"

"Third floor, all combat personnel, assemble!"

"Shoot down Tai Chu at all costs!"

His voice echoed throughout the base.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the second floor.

Shen Xi walked through the narrow passage, his Eye of Insight constantly activated. His gaze pierced through the layers of partition walls, taking in everything on the entire second floor.

The rooms are like a honeycomb, with a dense network of passageways.

His steps did not stop.

The overall combat strength of this floor is relatively weak.

Killing them is a waste of time.

Shen Xi's goal was clear: to go straight for the third level.

Gu Tianxin must be on the third floor.

He quickened his pace.

Just then, three members of the Gu family rushed out of a cubicle from around the corner of the passage ahead. They were dressed in black combat uniforms, holding long knives, and their faces were filled with terror.

The three of them froze the moment they saw Shen Xi.

"Tai...Tai Chu..." The first voice trembled.

Shen Xi glanced at them.

The three men shivered simultaneously and instinctively took a step back.

Shen Xi simply raised her hand slightly, and the three of them turned into three corpses.

Shen Xi moved quickly through the passage on the second floor.

He didn't want to waste his time here.

But those who value family clearly don't think that way.

The broadcast continued.

They could only do their best to stop the beginning.

Shen Xi stopped in her tracks.

In the vision of the Eye of Truth, many people were converging on his location from all directions.

They rushed out of each cubicle.

Shen Xi sighed.

I didn't want to kill you.

Since they've come to us, we shouldn't blame them for being impolite.

The first one to rush in was a burly man with a face full of scars.

He held a huge iron hammer in his hand, its head covered with sharp protrusions, weighing at least a hundred pounds. He roared and swung the hammer in a wide arc, aiming it at Shen Xi's head.

Shen Xi turned to the side, the iron hammer grazed his shoulder, and smashed to the ground, sending shards of stone flying.

Pangu's axe swept across.

A dark golden arc of light exploded in the dim light, and the burly man's head flew off. Black blood gushed from his severed neck, splattering onto the faces of the men rushing up behind him.

Shen Xi did not stop.

His body spun like a top, and the Pangu Axe drew a deadly arc in the air.

Death Cyclone, activate!

All thirty-two people were wiped out.

Black blood rained down, and bits of flesh flew everywhere.

Shen Xi stood in the middle of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood. The automatic cleaning function of the Kyoto Rhythm uniform was running wildly. On the silver-gray uniform, the black blood decomposed and disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But more family members are still arriving.

Kyoto Guardian Mark, activated.

An invisible ripple exploded from Shen Xi's chest, instantly covering an area of ​​hundreds of meters.

Kyoto Intimidation: If the sum of all attributes does not exceed that of the host's enemy player, all attributes are automatically reduced by 15%. This effect cannot be exempted or dispelled.

Those Gu family members who had rushed halfway through the journey suddenly felt their bodies sink, their speed drop sharply, and their strength diminish.

But it's not over yet.

Kyoto Glorious Badge, activated.

Kyoto Backlash: After any hostile player attacks the host, all attributes are reduced by 15% for 5 minutes. This effect cannot be exempted or dispelled.

Under this double pressure, all of these people's attributes plummeted by 30%.

Their attributes, which were already far inferior to Shen Xi's, were now completely crushed.

But it's not over yet.

Eye of Truth, Illusionary Eye, activate!

Shen Xi's eyes instantly turned pale gold, and two golden rays shot out from her pupils, spreading rapidly in the void and turning into countless tiny golden specks of light, drifting away like fireflies.

Those points of light fell into the eyes of the Gu family members, and their eyes instantly became dull, then turned into chaos, and from chaos into madness.

"kill!!!"

The first person to fall under the illusion roared and raised his knife to slash at his companion.

"What are you doing?!" His companion stared at him in disbelief.

But what that person saw was not a companion at all; what he saw was a rotting corpse.

A knife.

Heads fell to the ground.

"You're all insane! You're all crazy!" Another man tried to run away, but as soon as he turned around, he was stabbed through the heart by someone behind him. He looked down at the tip of the knife protruding from his chest, his eyes filled with confusion.

confusion.

Utter chaos.

The group of over a thousand people, under the dual attribute suppression and the shroud of the Illusionary Eyes, completely lost control. They frantically attacked everyone around them, swords flashing, flesh and blood flying everywhere, screams, roars, and curses mingling together.

Shen Xi stood in the middle of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, hands behind his back, coldly watching everything.

He doesn't even need to lift a finger.

These people are killing each other.

More than ten minutes later, the last person collapsed.

In the passageway on the second floor, thousands of corpses lay scattered about.

Shen Xi glanced at the corpses, then turned and continued forward.

The entrance is on the third floor.

A heavy iron gate stood at the end of the stone steps, its surface covered with densely packed runes that glowed faintly and seemed to flow slowly as if alive. A dim light shone through the cracks in the gate, and the faint sounds of commotion could be heard coming from behind it.

Shen Xi stood in front of the door, and his Eye of Truth instantly activated.

Golden light pierced through the iron gate and the runes, revealing the scene behind it.

A vast domed hall, a white marble platform, floating fragments...

His pupils suddenly contracted.

"This is……"

Just as Shen Xi was about to push open the door, a mechanical voice suddenly appeared in his mind...

[Buzz...!]

[Player "Taichu" is detected about to enter the core area of ​​the Gu family's secret base!]

[A deep causal entanglement has been detected between player "Taichu" and the Gu family!]

[Player "Taichu" is about to engage in a final battle with the Gu family!]

[Mission triggered!]