Chapter 268： Two pieces of news (please ask for a guaranteed monthly pass at the beginning of the month)

Chapter 268 Two News (asking for a guaranteed monthly ticket at the beginning of the month)

This hunting operation must have been a great success, but Wang Tao's losses were not small.

I won’t go into details about his own injuries and the injuries caused by the entangled tree roots. They can all be recovered and are not a big problem.

Mainly the loss of equipment.

The tear-proof black sweatshirt and black sports pants he was wearing were damaged; the third-order Night Demon breastplate and leg armor were also damaged; even his assault suit was damaged - he had been hiding from the giant zombies before It took a while, but I didn't escape this time.

In fact, the damage to his equipment cannot be entirely blamed on the fire monster, because after Wang Tao triggers his rage, his size will become much larger, and these equipment have limits...

At that time, although Wang Tao could put his equipment back into his space backpack, these equipment were all for defense. For the sake of his own life, he could only let the equipment block damage.

So Wang Tao is now looking forward to the equipment blueprints released by this fire monster.

【Get: Black Stone Armor Top Production Blueprint*1】

【Obtained: Black Stone Armor Trousers Production Blueprint*1】

【Drawings for making black stone armor jacket: You can make a black stone armor jacket, required materials: black stone armor*1, fourth-order crystal core*1】

【Black stone armor top: with attributes of "defense, mental defense, elemental defense, and built-in abilities"]

【Drawings for making black stone armor trousers: You can make a piece of black stone armor trousers, required materials: black stone armor*1, fourth-order crystal core*1】

【Black stone armor trousers: with the attributes of "defense, mental defense, elemental defense, and built-in abilities"]

This black stone armor top and trousers are a bit interesting. The only materials they require are black stone armor and crystal cores, and no other materials are needed.

And generally the equipment has "unknown attributes", but the two introductions have four entries! .

Wang Tao started production immediately.

After a while, the production is completed.

When Wang Tao saw the appearance of these two pieces of equipment, he was stunned for a moment.

This top and pants look very close-fitting, much like...a set of black autumn clothes and long trousers?

These two pieces of equipment don’t look like anything special, but their attributes are very explosive!

【Black stone armor top】

【Level 4 (epic)】

【Durability +200, defense +100, mental defense +50, elemental defense +10, fire resistance, ability: not embedded (requires awakening energy to activate)】

【Black stone armor trousers】

【Level 4 (epic)】

【Durability +200, defense +100, mental defense +50, elemental defense +10, fire resistance, ability: not embedded (requires awakening energy to activate)】

This is the strongest equipment Wang Tao has ever seen so far!

The durability was directly increased by 200. Among the equipment he had seen before, the one with the highest durability was the mutation-proof explosion-proof shield, but it was only 100.

Then the defense is also increased by 100! This is the same defensive power as that mutated explosion-proof shield!

But the most important ones are the following attributes.

Psychic defense +50! This is the first time Wang Tao has seen this attribute. This should be the inherent attribute of the "Black Stone Armor" material.

Wang Tao doesn't know whether the 50 mental defense is strong, but judging from the fact that the flame monster directly ignored his mental attack, this value should not be weak.

Then there is elemental defense +10. What fire or water element might this be a defense against?

And the one who has this ability seems to be awakened... In other words, it is equivalent to having a certain defense against the awakening ability?

Wang Tao has not yet awakened, so he is not very clear about this "element" yet.

The last thing is fire resistance and superpowers.

Fire protection is probably about the same as entangled tree roots, maybe even stronger. After all, it is something dropped by the fire monster.

As for this ability, Wang Tao can only say that it is awesome!

Looking at this situation, this top and trousers should be able to be inlaid with two different crystal nuclei! After all, this is an ability that comes with a single piece of equipment, not a set.

However, he cannot embed the crystal core for the time being, because in order to embed it, he needs to awaken energy to activate it. Wang Tao has not awakened energy yet.

“Awakening energy...it seems that many places above the fourth level need awakening energy!”

Yang Changhong had fallen asleep, and Wang Tao went to try on some clothes.

Not to mention, this set of equipment is the most comfortable one Wang Tao has ever worn.

Wang Tao suddenly thought that if you wear this suit inside, you can also wear other equipment outside!

“Night Devil Suit…”

Wang Tao touched his chin.

He lost the Night Demon breastplate and the Night Demon leg armor. He thought that maybe he could hunt the Night Demon again and see if he could reveal another blueprint...

Wang Tao looked at the last trophy package, which contained something that looked like a key.

【Obtain: Awakening Key*1】

【Awakening Key: Key required for Awakening】

“Huh? Can this thing explode?”

Wang Tao was shocked.

The awakening key he obtained by killing the fourth-level lord zombie is not a physical object, it is similar to special energy. It is only in his attribute panel.

Of course, he himself can also feel that there are a few more light spots in his body.

But no matter what, this is not a real thing, and he can't take it out.

But now, I actually see the actual secret key to awakening!

This awakening key gave him the same feeling as the virtual awakening key in his body. He can also fuse this awakening key like a crystal core!

However, Wang Tao is not in a hurry to integrate. He can fuse it again when needed, but once it's fused, he can't extract it.

After looking at all the loot, Wang Tao took out the fourth-level promotion core.

He felt a little excited. He wanted to see what awakening was all about.

Wang Tao quietly left Yang Changhong's room.

He will have to awaken and advance to the fourth level next. He may have to fall asleep again, or something else will happen. He will need someone to help watch him.

Yang Changhong is too tired and is sleeping soundly now, so there is no need for Wang Tao to disturb her.

Wang Tao returned to his room.

"elder brother?"

Jiang Shixue was sleeping on his bed, and she seemed to sense someone coming in, so she immediately opened her eyes.

Lightning, who was lying next to the bed, suddenly rushed to Wang Tao. Wang Tao touched its dog's head, and then said to Jiang Shixue:

“I will fuse the fourth-level promotion crystal core later. I don’t know if there will be any other situations. Please help me keep an eye on it.”

"good!"

Jiang Shixue was refreshed.

Wang Tao took out 4 fourth-level promotion cores, two outstanding and two epic. Excellence has an 80% probability of success, so there should be no problem. After all, Wang Tao has never been the kind of person with a dark face.

Wang Tao took a shower, blow-dried his hair, put on his new "autumn clothes and long trousers", and then found some incense sticks from nowhere and lit them in the room.

Finally, Wang Tao took Jiang Shixue's little hand, put it in his own and rubbed it.

“Lend me good luck!”

Integration!

A moment later, the first superior quality promotion crystal core was successfully fused! The ability of promotion is "Iron Wall".

Fusing a fourth-order crystal core increased the mana amount by 800, which Wang Tao expected.

After possessing his first fourth-level ability, Wang Tao immediately felt different. But he couldn't tell exactly what was different. He had to test the power himself to know.

Wang Tao had no time to experiment, so he continued to fuse the crystal core.

Soon, the second promotion crystal core of excellent quality was also successful. The ability that was promoted this time was "Frenzy Amplification".

The two excellent quality crystal cores were all successful, which finally made Wang Tao feel relieved.

The next two epic crystal nuclei were successfully fused one after another without any surprises. His remaining two powers, "Integration" and "Yin-Yang Harmony", were also successfully promoted to the fourth level!

Wang Tao looked at his attributes.

【HP: 110000/110000】

【Blue amount: 49200/49200】

【Special Energy: 500000】

【Awakening Key: 3】

【Level: Level 3】    【Body impurities: 3%】

【Hidden attributes: physical fitness, night vision, plant affinity】

【Power: Level 4, Level 1·Iron Wall, Level 4, Level 1·Violent Amplification, Level 4, Level 1·Integration, Level 4, Level 1·Yin-Yang Harmony】

This attribute cannot be said to be very strong, but it should be no problem to be invincible at level 4 or below.

As for the fourth level and above...Wang Tao has seen how powerful those who have awakened are. He knows that his attribute is definitely not good, at least not for the fourth level lord, unless he also awakens.

Wang Tao is not ready to remove the impurities in his body for the time being. He will use medicine to remove them after he is promoted. After all, the impurities will be halved after the promotion, and he can save a bottle of medicine.

Wang Tao closed his eyes and carefully felt the awakening and promotion.

After a moment, Wang Tao had a look of surprise on his face, but soon he frowned again.

“Brother, what’s wrong with you?”

Jiang Shixue, who had been paying attention to Wang Tao, asked immediately.

“Something’s wrong. I seem to be unable to wake up for the time being.”

Wang Tao touched his chin and said.

"ah?"

Jiang Shixue's face suddenly became nervous.

“Don’t worry, it’s a small problem. Didn’t I fuse that little flame before? Before that hidden ability comes out, I can’t awaken it now…”

Wang Tao explained.

He probably already understands the matter of awakening. It is like a promotion. As long as you meet the conditions, some information will vaguely appear in your head. You will understand it after a little research.

And this awakening is much more complicated than promotion.

Awakening is carried out at the same time as promotion to the fourth level. As long as the awakening is successful, you can be promoted to the fourth level.

For normal promotion, as long as he completes the fusion of the promotion core, determines the promotion time, and then takes a sleep.

But awakening is different. There are many preconditions for awakening.

He must have 100,000 health, all abilities must be at level four, and must have at least one hidden ability.

Once these three conditions are met, the awakening key can be activated. Wang Tao is now activated.

After activation, he had some more information in his mind, and he knew how to use the secret key. At the same time, he discovered a rather deceptive piece of information—awakening is not 100% successful!

Awakening for the first time requires consuming 1 awakening key, but this is not a 100% success. It may fail!

Wang Tao doesn’t know the specific probability, but there is a probability of failure anyway. He didn't know whether it was related to strength or luck.

If it succeeds, it will be easy to say. But if it fails, the awakening key will be wasted.

At this time, you can try to awaken for the second time. The second time you need to consume two awakening keys!

Whether the probability of success the second time is higher or lower than the first time, Wang Tao is not clear yet.

If you fail again for the second time, you can still try to awaken for the third time. The third time consumes 4 awakening keys!

Failed for the third time, naturally there will be a fourth attempt, and the fourth time will consume 8 awakening keys...

If you keep failing, you can keep trying.

In other words, the number of secret keys consumed for each awakening is multiplied by 2, which is a bit too cheating.

If you are unlucky, how many awakening keys will be consumed!

Wang Tao has 3 awakening keys on his body, plus one in his space backpack, for a total of 4. He can try to awaken twice at most. If he fails twice...he will have to hunt the fourth-level lord zombies again!

As for the effect of the Awakening Key, Wang Tao has probably sensed it - after he activates the Awakening Key, his 100,000 HP, a random fourth-level ability, and a random hidden ability will be merged together!

“100,000 blood volume” plus “fourth-level ability” plus “hidden ability” equals “awakening”!

No wonder activating the Awakening Key requires three conditions: blood volume, superpowers, and hidden abilities. It turns out that’s the case!

The reason why Wang Tao is unable to awaken now is because he has a hidden ability that has not been fully integrated. It is now in a semi-finished state.

Awakening requires the random fusion of a hidden ability. He has a half-finished product, so there is no way to do it randomly. Therefore, he cannot awaken now and has to wait for the fusion of the small flames to complete.

If he hadn't fused that little flame, he should be able to awaken by now.

But Wang Tao is not in a hurry, it is only ten days, he can afford to wait.

 And a hidden ability seems to represent an awakening ability. If it has four hidden abilities, doesn’t it mean that it can be awakened four times?

If it is possible, the improvement in strength brought about by awakening once and awakening four times will definitely be different. Wang Tao is looking forward to it very much.

It’s just that he doesn’t know whether the superpower and the blood volume are still there after they are integrated with the 100,000 blood volume.

If the HP is not there, wouldn’t it mean that he has 10,000 HP?

Wang Tao would still feel a little distressed if his superpowers were not there. After all, his superpowers are all fused with many crystal nuclei...

Wang Tao told Jiang Shixue all this information. Jiang Shixue breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that it was just a small accident.

“It scared me to death, I thought...”

Jiang Shixue patted her chest.

“Haha, it’s okay.”

Wang Tao rubbed Jiang Shixue’s hair and then said:

“Okay, go to sleep and tell them the news tomorrow morning.”

Wang Tao went to bed.

"Um."

Jiang Shixue hummed, and then naturally got into Wang Tao's arms.

Early the next morning, Wang Tao called everyone over and told them his situation.

Everyone was a little disappointed to hear that Wang Tao could not awaken now. After all, they are looking forward to seeing what the awakened ones look like.

It only takes a few days, so it’s not a big problem. They don't go out these days, they just wait in the base for Wang Tao to wake up.

Wang Tao thinks so too. Since he can awaken, it would be better to wait until he awakens before going out to hunt zombies. There is no need to take risks now, just stay in the base.

“It just so happens that there are still some equipment in the base that I haven’t remembered to get yet. I can do some research now and see if I can contact other people...”

He Jijun said.

The means for military bases to communicate with the outside world includes not only radio but also wired transmission.

Previously, the connection between the base and the capital was through wired lines. But later the wired connection was cut off. But the military base definitely has more than this line. If you try and do more research, you might be able to contact other survivors, assuming there are still people alive.

"Okay! Then I'll get familiar with my fourth-level abilities." Wang Tao nodded, then looked at the others, "You can move around freely. If you can't stay idle, you can go outside the base to kill zombies, but don't run too far. ,be safe…"

"good!"

Wang Tao and his party were suddenly free.

When people are free, they like to think too much.

Wang Tao suddenly thought, should he fly to Zijing City to take a look?

The military base now has two aircraft, whether they are helicopters or jet transports, it should be no problem to fly to Zijing City.

But there is a small problem - Wang Taokai may be able to make the plane fly, but he may not be able to make the plane land...

Hence, he would definitely not dare to do this kind of thing himself. For something as technical as flying a plane, He Jijun would have to do it.

He Jijun was studying various communication equipment in the military base. He didn't have time now, and Wang Tao didn't have to go, so Wang Tao just thought about it and didn't tell He Jijun.

But when he talked about going back, Wang Tao thought of Ding Yuqin, Han Rui, and Wei Zhenguo. They were running to the Red Stone Base.

There were not many second-level zombies at that time. There were second-level superpowers among them, plus the large amount of supplies Wang Tao left for them... So Wang Tao felt that without encountering third-level zombies or monsters, they should be Can make it to the redstone base alive.

Wang Tao also had the idea of ​​​​looking for them before, but there was a third-level lord black mist monster blocking the way. Unless he took a big circle, it would be too far and the danger would be great. So Wang Tao directly targeted the military base.

Now, Wang Tao's goal can be considered half successful. Although the military base is not very safe here, after all, the zombies in the nearby Wuyang City are too strong, but at least he has two planes that can fly to other places.

“After awakening, first go to the city to hunt level 4 zombies and save some crystal cores. Then go back to the Bauhinia Base to meet Lan Yulian. Finally, fly to the Red Stone Base to see if Ding Yuqin and the others are there!”

Wang Tao quickly made his next plan.

But plans often fail to keep up with changes.

On this day, He Jijun suddenly found Wang Tao. His face looked a little excited and a little sad.

"The communication equipment I tinkered with actually made contact with a survivor base! This group of survivors is in the next province, not far from Wuyang City and Zijing City. Their base has lines left by the previous military. , they repaired part of it and contacted us unexpectedly!”

In the apocalypse, survivors rarely have contact with other people or forces. If you can contact others, that is naturally good news.

“This is a good thing!”

Wang Tao’s eyes lit up.

He Jijun said again:

"But they told me that they are facing a life-and-death crisis right now - a large number of zombies have surrounded their base. There are a lot of zombies. They have been trapped for half a month and have almost run out of ammunition and food. They are attacking me. Asking for help. And they said that not only them, but also some other survivor bases they knew were surrounded by zombies..."

“Tide of corpses?”

Wang Tao frowned.

"Yes. They don't know where the corpse wave came from. Anyway, it came suddenly and caught them off guard."

Hearing this, Wang Tao suddenly thought that on the way to Zijing City, he and Yang Changhong also encountered a large group of corpses!

If the tide of corpses did not disperse, but instead grew larger and larger...

“Redbud Base!”

Today’s first update is ahead of schedule, and the second update is at 6 p.m.

(End of this chapter)