The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

But he neither exposed her nor intended to rob her.

It wasn't that he couldn't, it was that he didn't want to. Although this woman was incredibly shrewd, she had never done anything to wrong him from beginning to end. On the contrary, the information she provided and the blueprints for the transaction had genuinely helped him.

Some lines must not be crossed.

Su Mu collected all the items he had taken from the hunter, stood up, and dusted off his knees. The sky was still dark, but at the very edge of the distant horizon, a faint, almost imperceptible grayish-white light had begun to appear. That was the first ray of light before dawn.

"Where are you going next?" Su Mu asked.

Lin Yuwei swallowed the last bite of the compressed biscuit, patted the crumbs off her hands, and thought for a moment: "I'll go grab something and then head back to the cable car."

Su Mu nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

Lin Yuwei stood up, dusted off her pants, and then took out a palm-sized object from her backpack and handed it to Su Mu. It wasn't a transaction interface; it was a physical item... a scroll, rolled into a tube shape with dark brown kraft paper, sealed at both ends with wax, and stamped with a blurry seal at the seal.

"The zoo," she said. "The information I gave you before was located near the south gate of the zoo. The information I have is located at the north gate of the zoo; the two locations are not far apart."

Su Mu took the scroll, but didn't open it; he just weighed it in his hand.

"I'm prepared to go with you," Lin Yuwei said, her tone less like a discussion and more like stating a decision she had already made.

Su Mu glanced at her: "I won't protect you."

Lin Yuwei snorted and pulled a thin chain from her collar. At the end of the chain hung a translucent stone the size of a fingernail. The stone glowed faintly in the moonlight, and the air around it was slightly distorted, almost imperceptible unless one looked closely.

"With my invisibility ability, do I need your protection?" Her tone carried a hint of smugness.

Su Mu didn't refute. He had seen the effect of her environmental assimilation cloak... Even Bai Liuxi could only vaguely sense something was wrong, but couldn't pinpoint the exact location. And he was completely unable to detect it; in this city full of monsters, this ability was more practical than any high attack power.

However, this also served as a reminder to Su Mu.

At present, he has two fatal weaknesses: he has no means of countering sneak attacks, especially those using stealth abilities.

At this stage, the reversal is being forced entirely by attribute advantages, which is very unsafe.

Another point is that his pursuit ability is poor. For example, he is helpless against hunters who are determined to escape.

Poor pursuit ability also means poor escape ability, which is even more fatal.

However, neither of these two things can be changed overnight.

Shaking his head, Su Mu looked at Lin Yuwei.

"Then why did you send me to save you?" Su Mu asked.

Lin Yuwei tucked the chain back into her collar, paused for a moment, then opened her mouth, then closed it again.

In the end, she just rolled her eyes at him and didn't answer.

Su Mu didn't press further. He could roughly guess... that cloak could keep her from being discovered, but it couldn't make her disappear into thin air.

The fact that the hunter was able to track her all the way to the Dark Zone means he has some means of pinpointing her location. No matter how well the cloak conceals her, it can't erase that lock. It's not that she can't defeat the hunter, it's that she can't escape.

"You can come along if you want," Su Mu said, "but I won't be going for now."

Lin Yuwei blinked: "What are you going to do?"

"Grinding monsters." Su Mu turned around and walked towards the dark zone monsters slowly wandering the street. "You haven't killed any since you came in?"

Lin Yuwei followed behind him, keeping a distance of about five or six meters. She glanced at the gray-white zombies and wandering giants on the street, her brows furrowing slightly: "The monsters here are all level five or higher. I'm not as freakish as you."

She paused, as if suddenly remembering something, and quickened her pace to Su Mu's side: "By the way, when you killed the monsters here, was there anything special?"

Su Mu thought for a moment. He'd only been to this area once, and the secret of the Dark Zone experience boost wasn't exactly crucial intelligence. Even if he told Lin Yuwei, she wouldn't go around telling everyone... That woman was shrewd; she knew what to say and what not to say.

"There's an experience bonus," he said. "The more you kill, the higher the bonus. My current bonus is 20%. But there are limitations."

Lin Yuwei's eyes lit up for a moment, but quickly dimmed again: "What restrictions?"

"You need to kill a level 10 monster to unlock this. If you don't, you won't be able to transfer any of the experience points."

Lin Yuwei paused. Level 10. She looked up at Su Mu, a complex emotion flashing in her shrewd eyes... not fear, not surprise, but a sense of powerlessness that made her think, "How could this possibly be possible?"

"Isn't this a trap?" she said. "You kill a bunch of monsters, accumulate experience points but can't collect them, and then you have to fight a level 10 monster to unlock it. Who can beat a level 10 monster?"

After she finished speaking, she suddenly turned her head and looked at Su Mu with a scrutinizing gaze. That gaze carried a hint of suspicion, a hint of uncertainty, and a touch of guilt that she herself might not even be aware of.

"Su Mu, you haven't already killed a level 10 monster, have you?"

Su Mu shook his head.

Lin Yuwei visibly relaxed and patted her chest: "You scared me. If you had said you had already killed someone, I would have really thought you were a monster."

Su Mu didn't reply. He continued walking forward, his gaze sweeping over the monsters from the Dark Zone roaming the streets, mentally calculating the route and efficiency.

"The next target," he said, his tone as casual as if he were talking about what to eat for breakfast, "is a level 10 green one."

Lin Yuwei stopped in her tracks again.

This time she stood there for a long time, so long that Su Mu had walked more than ten meters before she came to her senses and jogged to catch up. She didn't say anything, but her eyes were fixed on the back of Su Mu's head, as if trying to see some secret in his hair.

Level 10 (Green).

She had seen what level 10 green monsters looked like. Some of the giants wandering the square were level 10 green monsters, the size of a small mountain, capable of smashing a hole in a building with a single punch. But this man in front of her said he was going to kill one, his tone as casual as if he were going to the supermarket to buy a bottle of water.

She recalled the battle just now... Su Mu and Bai Liuxi clashed, and Su Mu gained the upper hand; Su Mu shot the hunter in the back of the head, and although he didn't kill him, the bullet almost took his life; Su Mu rushed into the house and killed six people in two seconds, so cleanly and efficiently that it didn't seem like he was killing people, but more like he was weeding.

She took a deep breath, suppressing the jumbled thoughts in her mind. Then she pulled a pistol from its holster, weighed it in her hand, and waved it at Su Mu.

"Sell me some bullets."