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The density of cat demons in the forest was much higher than he had expected. He encountered three after walking less than 500 meters. One was squatting alone on a tree root licking its paws, while two others were walking together through the bushes.

Su Mu did not fire.

He discovered a pattern... these cat demons reacted to gunshots completely differently from the zombies. Zombies would swarm at the sound, but the cat demons did the opposite. After killing the cat demon with the first shot, he noticed that the rustling sounds that had been around suddenly stopped after the gunshot.

They are running away.

Su Mu tested it a few times. He stealthily approached a lone cat demon with a wrench, smashed it down, and killed it instantly. There was no movement around. But when he fired and killed the second one, there was a clear, rapid rustling sound coming from the surrounding bushes... the other cat demons ran away.

This thing is afraid of gunfire.

This discovery made him decide to use guns as little as possible. It wasn't that he was worried about the bullets... he had plenty now... but rather that he didn't want to scare away all the cat demons around him. He was counting on these things to upgrade his character.

So for the rest of the journey, Su Mu used a wrench for most of the time.

A cat demon crouched under the tree, its back to him. He crept over quietly, swung the wrench, and brought it down...

Pfft. Pfft.

[Defeat a Lv2 Cat Demon, experience points +1]

A cat demon peeked out from the bushes, its eyes meeting his. Before the demon could pounce, Su Mu swung a wrench. The wrench spun in the air and struck the cat demon squarely on the head.

Pfft. Pfft.

[Defeat a Lv2 Cat Demon, experience points +1]

Two cat demons crossed the forest clearing one after the other. Su Mu waited for the one in front to pass, then suddenly rushed out, smashing a wrench at the one behind. Having dealt with one, the first one had barely turned its head when the wrench was at it again.

Pfft. Pfft.

[Experience points +1]

[Experience points +1]

He would only draw his gun when he encountered small groups of three or more, or those that were exceptionally agile and difficult to approach. One shot was enough... Although these cat demons had a constitution of around 26, they couldn't withstand a single shot.

Based on his guess, without armor, his M500 has a base firepower of 22, so he should be able to deal 22 damage, and a critical hit would deal 44 damage.

Of course, this is just his guess, because this thing doesn't display damage, and there's no detailed information about the monster, so there's absolutely no data to support it.

After the gunshot, there would always be a commotion in the surrounding bushes, which would then quickly quiet down.

He continued fighting and moving forward, and after more than an hour, his experience bar rose to 108.3/200.

Thirty-one points of experience.

Thirty cat demons.

He stopped, leaned against a tree, took a sip of water, and took the opportunity to summarize his discoveries along the way.

The density of cat demons in this forest is high, but there are almost no other monsters. We haven't seen a single zombie along the way. This indicates that different types of monsters have territorial boundaries and don't live together.

Another finding is that the proportion of level 2 monsters is much higher than before.

In the previous zombie-infested areas, the ratio of Level 1 to Level 2 zombies was approximately 20 to 30 to 1.

But here, about one in three cat demons is level 2. Although they are all level 2, the difference in their attributes is quite large... He encountered one that was significantly larger, with a strength close to 25 and an agility of over 20, making it much more difficult to fight.

Su Mu glanced in the direction of his target. He was less than a hundred meters away from the coordinates of the Blood Ginseng.

Instead of continuing forward, he stopped, found the tree with the best view, and climbed it.

Based on previous experience, there's always something powerful guarding such a treasure. The intelligence says there's a Lv2 monster, but he estimates it's at least green quality, maybe even blue.

He lay on the tree branch and stared at the area in front of him for a full five minutes.

It was a relatively open clearing in the woods, bathed in direct sunlight that illuminated the ground. In the center of the clearing was a large rock, next to which grew a clump of low shrubs. However, the blood ginseng was nowhere to be found.

He could only determine the location of the blood ginseng by looking at the green dot marked on the intelligence report.

Su Mu stared at that spot, then scanned his surroundings again.

There was nothing there.

There were no wandering cat demons, no lurking figures, not even a small animal to be seen. The area around the clearing was eerily quiet, with only the rustling of the wind through the treetops.

What about that Lv2 monster?

He waited for a while, but nothing happened.

Either it's hidden too well for him to find, or it simply doesn't exist... The previous times were just lucky; he just happened to run into situations where monsters were guarding the area.

Su Mu has no intention of gambling.

He touched the grenade at his waist and then looked at the location of the blood ginseng.

Walking straight over is too risky. What if that monster is hiding underground, or can become invisible? Getting close would just be suicide.

Use a hand grenade.

But he didn't plan to throw it on the blood ginseng... If he accidentally blew the fruit apart, the whole trip would be for nothing.

Su Mu slid down from the tree, retreated twenty meters, and found a spot where he could see the open space but wouldn't be directly spotted. Then he pulled the pin on a grenade and threw it towards the edge of the open space... about five meters away from a plant...

The grenade traced an arc before landing in the bushes.

It landed precisely on the roots of that plant.

Weakness lock activated.

boom!

Soil, gravel, and broken branches were blasted everywhere. The shockwave flattened the surrounding bushes, and dust rose more than a meter high.

Su Mu held up his gun, staring intently at the direction of the blood ginseng through the smoke and dust.

The smoke and dust slowly dissipated.

In the center of the open space, the large rock and the bushes were still there, but a huge crater had been blasted out, and thick smoke was billowing from them. There was nothing else around.

No monsters rushed out, no roars were heard, and there was no sound at all.

Su Mu waited a while longer.

There's still nothing there.

Either the monster was killed by a grenade, or... it wasn't even here.

He slowly stood up, gripped his pistol, and walked step by step toward the open space.

The gun was always pointed in the direction of the blood ginseng. He walked very lightly, stopping every few steps to scan the area.

Thirty meters.

Twenty meters.

ten meters.

There was nothing there.

Even so, Su Mu remained cautious, holding his weapon to ensure he could spot and fire at any moment.

The gun was always pointed in the direction of the blood ginseng. He walked very lightly, stopping every few steps to scan the area.

Keep going forward.

The air still smelled of gunpowder, and in the distance, birds were faintly startled by the explosions, fluttering their wings and flying into the sky. But here, it was eerily quiet... There were no insects chirping, no wind, and even one's own breathing sounded exceptionally clear.

Even after Su Mu reached the coordinates, he still did not find any monsters.

He frowned and glanced around.

He originally thought that once he got here, he would have to dig for a long time, like digging for wild vegetables, before he could find the blood ginseng.

After all, the sky should be buried in the soil, and he doesn't recognize the exposed parts at all.

However, when he looked down at the ground, he was stunned.

It's not because we can't find it, but because... it's too obvious.

Because... what plant bleeds?