Chapter 132 The Most Difficult Promotion (Asking for Monthly Votes)

"Wang Tao, what's wrong with you?"

Han Rui looked at Wang Tao in a strange way.

"I'm fine. You can finish off the next zombies."

Since he doesn't gain blood when killing elite zombies, these elite zombies can't be wasted, let Han Rui kill them all.

"Ah? Really let me do it? Aren't you going to increase your strength?"

Han Rui was a little excited. She definitely wanted to become stronger, but it was agreed before that Wang Tao would be the main one.

"I've reached the upper limit, and there's no way to improve my strength for the time being."

Wang Tao shook his head helplessly.

"Upper limit?"

Han Rui was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, I've reached the upper limit of the first level. I have to find a way to upgrade to the second level first, otherwise killing these elite zombies will be useless..."

Before, when he had 1000 blood, killing ordinary zombies would not add blood, and he could only kill elite zombies.

But this time the situation is different from before. Before, he could at least increase his blood to 1000, but now he is stuck at 4999 and can't increase it.

His previous guess that 5000 HP can be promoted to the second level should be correct, but this 5000 HP cannot be obtained by killing zombies alone. Wang Tao thinks the reason should be the crystal core.

He killed Shao Yong the day before yesterday and got a second-level promotion crystal core. This crystal core can upgrade a superpower to the second level.

And the crystal core can only be fused with the second-level crystal core after it is upgraded to the second level.

Is there a possibility that if a superpower wants to be promoted to the second level, he must first upgrade his superpower to the second level?

Maybe Wang Tao has to upgrade his superpower to the second level before he can continue to gain health by killing zombies!

If this is true, then Wang Tao is helpless.

After all, he has learned four superpowers. Don’t you have to upgrade all four superpowers to the second level? Or does it only take one second-level superpower?

If he can be promoted to the second level with only one superpower upgrade, then it’s okay.

But what if all four abilities have to be promoted... Let's not talk about whether he can kill so many second-level zombies, it's not easy for him to find so many second-level zombies!

At present, the second-level zombies he knows are only the dead zombie Shao Yong, the hooded zombie with 6,000 blood just seen, and the gorilla zombie with 10,000 blood. Apart from that, he has never seen other second-level zombies.

He definitely can't beat the gorilla zombie, but he can think of a way to kill the hooded zombie, but even if he can kill it, the number of crystal cores is still not enough... Oh, headache!

Shaking his head, Wang Tao stopped thinking about it for the time being and concentrated on cooperating with Han Rui to kill zombies.

Although the horn prepared by Wang Tao was crushed by the hooded zombie, the effect was still achieved, and many elite zombies were led outside the hospital.

Wang Tao and Han Rui took advantage of the effect of the concealment potion to kill the zombies. With the combination of the concealment potion and the crossbow, these zombies can't find them at all.

It took two days, and all the more than 30 elite zombies that came out this time were killed by the two of them.

Wang Tao also tried it once, and after he reached 4999 blood, he really couldn't increase the upper limit of blood volume.

Except for the time he tried, all other zombies were killed by Han Rui.

Han Rui was completely satisfied with the killing!

She directly added nearly 2,000 blood! Her total blood volume also reached "3030"!

In fact, it felt that these zombies could be dealt with in an afternoon, but Han Rui needed to sleep to increase her blood volume, so she wasted some time.

Of course, Han Rui's speed was still very fast, much faster than Wei Zhenguo and the others.

There was no way, after all, with Wang Tao escorting her, and the number of elite zombies here was large, she couldn't help but improve quickly.

However, after these zombies were killed, there were no elite zombies outside the hospital. If you want to continue killing, you have to either lure them out or go in.

Wang Tao's horn was gone, and it was not easy to lure monsters, so the two decided to hunt inside the hospital.

But Wang Tao didn't forget that Shao Yong, who was so strong, was trapped in the hospital.

So the two decided to stay at the door of the hospital and not go deep inside.

But after entering the hospital, they found that there didn't seem to be so many elite zombies.

"Have they been killed? It shouldn't be! There were so many before..."

Wang Tao looked at the big hole in the inpatient building that was hit by the gorilla zombies before. He felt that the zombies could be inside.

"Forget it, let's not think about the zombies in the building. Let's just clean up the zombies in the yard."

Wang Tao thought it was better to be safe.

"Yeah!"

Han Rui naturally had no objection.

There were not many elite zombies in the yard, only 8 zombies in total, which increased Han Rui's health to "3470".

The two of them stopped when they saw the good and went back to the apartment directly.

"Wait another day. If the zombies in the building don't come out, then we will go home."

Wang Tao thought about it.

In fact, he wanted to directly increase Han Rui's health to 4,000, after all, the opportunity was rare.

But the zombies in the hospital didn't come out!

If these zombies come out, Wang Tao not only wants to increase Han Rui's health to 4,000, but also wants to bring Wei Zhenguo over to increase their health.

As long as everyone is strong, Wang Tao can let everyone help him hunt down the second-level zombies!

But imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel.

By the next day, not only were there no elite zombies in the hospital, but even the ordinary zombies disappeared...

"Forget it, retreat!"

There was no other way, so Wang Tao decided to go home and rest.

However, on the way home, Wang Tao suddenly heard a rumbling sound.

"It's the gorilla zombie!"

The two hurriedly left the car and hid in a building.

Not long after, they saw the gorilla zombie passing by them. It was still as destructive as before, and Wang Tao was worried that he would abandon his car. Fortunately, the gorilla zombie walked from the next street, and his car survived.

"Go, go, go! Go back quickly."

After the gorilla zombie left, Wang Tao drove away.

The appearance of the gorilla zombie seemed to have some benefits, that is, along the way it passed, not only all kinds of obstacles were knocked away, but even the zombies were gone.

The car was unimpeded all the way and ran very fast.

And Han Rui in the car frowned a little, she looked at Wang Tao uncertainly and said:

"Look at the route taken by this gorilla zombie, it seems that it will pass by Li Qiuyu's house..."

Wang Tao pondered for a while, then shook his head.

"We can't do anything about it. We can only hope that she will have good luck."

If it's a piece of cake, Wang Tao doesn't mind saving it. But this is a second-level zombie with 10,000 HP. With Wang Tao's current strength, going there is no different from seeking death. He can't joke about his and Han Rui's lives.

"Well..."

Han Rui felt a little sorry. She tried to contact Li Qiuyu with the intercom, but failed. She just hoped that Li Qiuyu would have good luck.

Two hours later, the two returned to the Shuize base.

They stayed outside for three days. During these three days, a big thing happened in the base-the first batch of 20 survivors who were selected became superpowers!

Since they were selected as superpowers, it is naturally impossible to say that giving them a crystal core is enough. If they succeed, it's fine. If they don't succeed, they will continue to give them crystal cores until they succeed.

So all these twenty people became superpowers.

The overall strength of the base has been greatly improved.

Ren Jie and the others were a little excited, but when Wang Tao said that he could not advance to the second level for the time being, everyone's excitement suddenly decreased a lot.

They did not expect that it would be so troublesome to advance to the second level. Especially today, the gorilla zombie appeared again. If Wang Tao could not advance to the second level, it would be difficult to deal with the gorilla zombie...

"Next, you should hurry up to kill zombies, improve your strength, and collect more crystal cores. If you encounter a suspected second-level zombie, contact me immediately. As for me... I will think of a way."

Wang Tao looked at everyone and said.

"Okay!"

Anyway, improving strength is the most basic. If the five or six hundred people in the base are all first-level mutants, then they can't beat a second-level zombie?

After Wang Tao returned home, he frowned and thought.

He did have a second-level promotion crystal core in his hand, which was still red. But this crystal core had impurities... He was hesitating whether to use it.

If he continued to synthesize crystal cores without any impurities as before, he would need 3 crystal cores!

In case of the worst case scenario - he has to upgrade all four abilities to the second level before he can be promoted, then he needs 12 promotion crystal cores!

This requires at least 12 second-level zombies to be killed... Where can he find so many second-level zombies!

"Or, use one first to try..."

Wang Tao hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind and decided to use this promotion crystal core!

Isn't it just some impurities accumulated in the body? As long as it is controlled in a relatively small range, it is still very safe.

The main reason is that the threat of the gorilla zombie is too great. It may come to the base at any time, not giving him the opportunity to slowly collect crystal cores...

Wang Tao took out the promotion crystal core.

There is a faint "+" shadow inside the promotion crystal core, which may indicate the meaning of promotion.

[Second-level Crystal Core·Promotion]

[Quality: Excellent (80%)]

[Impurities: 45% (no side effects)]

[Promotion: After fusion, you can randomly upgrade one ability that has been fully fused to the second level]

Wang Tao currently has two abilities with +10, namely shock wave and bronze skin and iron bones.

One for attack and one for defense, no matter which one is upgraded to the second level, he can accept it!

Wang Tao directly put this excellent quality promotion crystal core into his mouth.

After the crystal core entered his mouth, Wang Tao felt that it turned into a gas, which filled his limbs and bones in a very short time.

Wang Tao's whole body was warm, with an 80% success rate and no accidents.

"Comfortable~"

After a while, this warm feeling disappeared.

Some of Wang Tao's previous fatigue disappeared instantly.

He quickly looked at his attributes.

The health bar did not change at all, still 4999, but the blue bar changed, it was 2500 before, and now it is 2700!

In other words, a second-level crystal core plus 200 blue?

Then, as expected, Wang Tao had one more attribute.

[Impurities in the body: 0%]

Seeing this impurity, Wang Tao felt helpless and hoped that there would be less impurities in the future.

And I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, Wang Tao always feels uncomfortable when there are impurities in the body...

As for the key point of this crystal core promotion - the promoted supernatural power, Wang Tao had already sensed it before looking at the attribute, it was a shock wave.

Looking at his attributes again, the +10 in the lower right corner of the shock wave icon is gone, but there is an extra "two" in the lower left corner, which should mean the second level.

There is no change in other things.

Wang Tao is going to go out and try this second-level ability, and find an elite zombie by the way to see if he can be promoted to the second level.

He still called Han Rui, and the two of them walked around outside. I don’t know if the elite zombies nearby have been killed by Wei Zhenguo and his team, and they can basically not see them. Finally, I saw one, and it was a self-destructor.

But as long as it is an elite zombie, it will be fine, Wang Tao will use it to practice.

Carefully sneaked near the self-destructor, a slime grenade controlled the self-destructor, and then he used a void axe to attack the self-destructor.

A visible shock wave appeared from the axe blade, and then hit the self-destructor heavily.

Then.

Bang——

The self-destructor exploded!

But the sound was not loud, because it did not self-destruct, but was shattered by the shock wave! The solidified white slime on its body was also shattered.

"Amazing! This is a second-level superpower!"

Looking at the broken meat on the ground, Han Rui exclaimed in a low voice.

And she suddenly thought of a problem. If Wang Tao could kill the self-detonator in one shot and prevent it from self-detonation, then he could save the slime grenade and save a lot of time - just walk to the self-detonator and chop it with an axe!

This is the suppression of the second level over the first level!

"No, to be precise, this is only the power of the second-level superpower. I am not a second-level superpower yet."

Wang Tao was not happy at all because he still did not add blood. The most unfortunate situation appeared - perhaps he had to upgrade all four of his superpowers to the second level before he could be promoted to the second level...

"Ah?"

Han Rui was stunned for a moment, and then after hearing Wang Tao's explanation, she felt a little regretful, and then thought of herself again.

She currently only has two superpowers, namely perception and charge. But she can feel that she can integrate two more superpowers. That is to say, she can learn four abilities at most, just like Wang Tao.

But if Wang Tao wants to upgrade to the second level now, he may need at least four promotion crystal cores!

If he only knows one ability, then he may only need one promotion crystal core... She now knows two abilities, so she only needs two, which is half as difficult as four...

"Strength comes at a price!"

Wang Tao sighed.

Although the ability users who have fused four crystal cores are more powerful, the difficulty of promotion is also doubled!

When he found out that he could fuse four different types of crystal cores, he thought it was too little. If he could fuse dozens or hundreds of them, it would be so powerful!

And now, Wang Tao just thinks it's a good thing that he can't fuse so many types of crystal cores!

Otherwise, if he can really fuse so many, then it will be a problem whether he can be promoted to the second level in this life...

"Then... do we still hunt zombies?"

Han Rui looked at Wang Tao and asked.

"Kill!"

Wang Tao nodded.

He has to find crystal cores! At least we need to get three more promotion crystal cores and search for second-level zombies.

Wang Tao now knows two second-level zombies, namely the gorilla zombie and the hooded zombie. Even if we can kill these two, they can both explode promotion crystal cores, so there is still one crystal core missing...

And he also needs to improve the level of precision shooting and self-healing. One of his two abilities is +4 and the other is +1... He needs to hunt more zombies to get first-level crystal cores!

Wang Tao and Han Rui stayed outside until dark before going back. Today's luck was bad. In one afternoon, they found 5 elite zombies.

This is really far from the hospital. It's a pity that the zombies in the hospital didn't come out.

"Go back and have a good rest."

Wang Tao said to Han Rui who got off the car.

"Okay!"

Han Rui added a lot of blood this afternoon, and now it has reached 3700! Not far from 4000 blood.

However, Han Rui was a little entangled in the issue of fusing crystal cores. Wang Tao said that he still had a lot of crystal cores in his hand for the time being. If Han Rui was willing to fuse, she could ask him for them.

But the more types of crystal cores that are fused, the harder it is to advance. Han Rui is now a little unsure whether to continue fusing.

After all, reality is not a game. In the game, you can slowly endure time, but reality does not give you time to develop...

...

The next day.

Wang Tao asked Han Rui to go out and hunt zombies together again, but this time there was not only Han Rui, but also Ding Yuqin, Gao Hua and Chen Zhuang.

The three of them all had more than 1,000 blood. Killing ordinary zombies did not increase blood, so they had to kill elite zombies.

Wang Tao did not bring them before because they had no experience in killing zombies, and bringing them out would only hinder them. Now after a period of training, they are basically qualified hunters. Even the most inexperienced Ding Yuqin can fight several ordinary zombies alone at the same time.

So Wang Tao brought them out to get more familiar with the characteristics of elite zombies, so that they can face them more calmly when they encounter them in the future.

Today's luck is better than yesterday's. I encountered 16 elite zombies in one day!

Han Rui's health reached 4,000 directly and fell into a deep sleep. Ding Yuqin, Gao Hua and Chen Zhuang also made up for it and felt the pleasure of killing elite zombies.

After returning to the base before dark, Wang Tao felt that there were many more unfamiliar faces today.

He asked Ding Yuqin and the others to go back first, and then drove Han Rui, who had not yet woken up, back to her home.

At Han Rui's house, Wang Tao unexpectedly saw Sun Weiguang.

Wang Tao hadn't seen Sun Weiguang for many days. To be honest, he felt that it seemed more exciting when Sun Weiguang was around? Ahem——

"Commissioner Wang!"

Sun Weiguang was a little surprised to see Wang Tao carrying Han Rui upstairs, but he still helped Wang Tao open the door very considerately.

"What have you been doing recently?"

Wang Tao asked with some curiosity.

"Ahem, I've been with Ou Yingying recently. I came here today to formally tell Han Rui that I hope we can part ways amicably and live our own lives from now on..."

"Oh, then I won't bother you."

Wang Tao nodded.

He put Han Rui on the bed and left. Then he came to the complex building and asked Ren Jie curiously:

"Why are there so many unfamiliar faces today?"

Ren Jie replied:

"It's because of that gorilla zombie... Many small family-style survivor bases have been destroyed! Those who survived want to join our base."