August 2nd, 8:00 AM, property managent storage room in the residential complex.
Guan Tong had returned around 1 AM and had just woken up from sleep.
Since the rule still had one hour left to end, the sky outside was still dark.
"Truly exhausted..."
Guan Tong sat up from the folding bed, rubbing his slightly sore and stiff right shoulder. During the previous stretch of over ten hours, he had been holding the Silver Hunt the entire ti. Even though the gun itself wasn't heavy, the duration was simply too long.
As for the total number of living dead he had eliminated, he couldn't rember clearly.
Just that one wave at the industrial park warehouse, the living dead eliminated numbered at least two hundred. After bidding farewell to Shi Jingyi, he had wandered alone within the city, eliminating so stray or clustered groups of living dead.
"Let's wait until 9 o'clock to see the statistical results from the Terminal."
Guan Tong took out his phone and decided to surf the internet for a while since there was still one hour left.
Judging from posts and other information online, the number of casualties in this rule event wasn't very high.
Due to the fourth rule, [Snow in June], many individually occupied houses had collapsed, so many people were still gathered together in rally points for survival.
This led to a situation where, after the fifth rule was announced, everyone quickly united to build defenses at the rally points, blocking entrances and exits with various debris to prevent the living dead from entering.
After that, official ard soldiers quickly intervened. Accompanied by powerful firepower sweeps, the zombie hordes within major cities were swiftly eliminated.
However, it seed so smaller cities initially failed to handle the situation properly. Coupled with the fact that the "Matriarch Converter" was never eliminated, more and more humans were converted into living dead. In the end, the survivors could only hunker down, hide, and wait for the rule's ti limit to expire.
Guan Tong saw online that the "Matriarch Converter" wasn't eliminated in every region. Because this monster possessed a certain level of intelligence, it would consciously avoid large-scale ard soldiers. Additionally, it couldn't be killed by non-Mind Power weapons, making its elimination not so easy.
Moreover, when it sensed danger, it could summon large numbers of living dead through its shrieks to "protect the carriage," which made eliminating it even more dangerous.
Guan Tong also saw soone post that in their location, soldiers would assist ordinary people in passing the rule challenge. But they only assisted in achieving the 10 kills required for the challenge. Once the 10 kills were t, they imdiately moved on to assist the next person, absolutely not allowing anyone to get one extra kill.
There were also so individuals who felt powerful enough to spontaneously form teams, leave the safe zones, and actively seek out zombie hordes to eliminate and farm Ascension Coins. Successful ones posted to show off, while the failures certainly wouldn't appear online again.
One hour passed quickly as Guan Tong browsed. As soon as 9 o'clock arrived, the Fire Thief's voice sounded punctually.
[Rule ti has ended]
[Congratulations on passing the test of the fifth Doomsday Rule]
[During this rule, you eliminated 367 living dead, earning an additional reward of 367 Ascension Coins]
[During this rule, you eliminated 1 Matriarch Converter, earning an additional reward of 500 Ascension Coins and a random item]
[Rewards have been delivered to your Storage Box]
[The Ascension Store has listed more products, viewable through your Personal Terminal]
[The "Team Formation" option in the Social function has been enabled]
[In thirty days, Ascendants holding the item "First Ascendant Challenge Tournant Invitation" will participate in the challenge tournant. Please prepare in advance]
[This challenge tournant supports team participation with 1-5 mbers. Participants who decide to team up must be in a team state before the competition begins]
[The sixth Doomsday Rule will be announced in forty-five days]
After the Fire Thief's voice faded, Guan Tong had already gotten off the folding bed.
What surprised him the most wasn't that he had accumulated over a thousand Ascension Coins this ti, but the information about the challenge tournant—it actually supported a team competition mode with 1-5 mbers!
Although Guan Tong had previously been looking forward to this challenge tournant, he now couldn't help but feel sowhat frustrated.
It seed he didn't have any potential teammates to form a team with for the competition.
"Forget it..." Guan Tong felt he didn't need any teammates. "Shadow" and the "Silver Hunter" were his best teammates.
"The challenge tournant starts in a month, and then the sixth rule is announced half a month later... I need to hurry up and prepare."
Since he had decided to participate in the team tournant as a lone wolf, there was no doubt that the preparations he needed to make had to be more extensive than others. Only this way could he compete against other teams with his own strength.
Guan Tong opened the Terminal and first checked his panel.
[Na: Guan Tong]
[Nickna: Shadow]
[Title: Order Keeper]
[Mind Power: 96 (128) (50)]
[Ascension Coins: 1047]
[Comprehensive Biotric Evaluation: Excellent]
His Mind Power upper limit had increased by 1 point. He wondered if it was related to the excessive combat throughout the day.
As for the Ascension Coins, just as Guan Tong expected: the original remaining 30, plus the fixed 150 for successfully passing this rule challenge, plus the 867 from eliminating the living dead and the Matriarch Converter, smoothly broke through the one thousand mark!
This amount excited Guan Tong sowhat. He knew it definitely couldn't compare to the resources large organizations or official departnts could mobilize, but for an individual, it was quite impressive.
He then opened the Storage Box. Inside was one additional item, the extra reward for eliminating the Matriarch Converter.
[Corpse Whistle]: Consus 20 points of Mind Power. When blown, it can summon 3 living dead to appear, lasting a maximum of 15 minutes. During their existence, they will act according to the whistler's commands. This item can be traded.
"This..."
Seeing the item he obtained, Guan Tong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Summoning 3 living dead that last for 15 minutes... Honestly, with the living dead's frenzied dog-like behavior, they possess so combat power, but not much. Facing elite Ascendants, they'd probably be instantly killed.
If one were to speak of its value, it lies in the fact that it's not a single-use item. Moreover, it can be used repeatedly by consuming Mind Power, and it has no cooldown ti.
"In other words, if I had infinite Mind Power, I could keep blowing it, continuously summoning an army of living dead..."
Guan Tong knew infinite Mind Power was pure fantasy. But upon careful thought, the value of this item to him was definitely much higher than to other Ascendants.
Because he could reserve Mind Power through the [Wordless Book]. This ant that at critical monts, if needed, he could indeed consu large amounts of Mind Power in a short ti to continuously blow the whistle and summon a bunch of living dead. Saying it could form an army scale was too far-fetched, but forming a small-scale zombie tide was certainly possible.
"...Just a mont ago I was complaining about not having teammates for the challenge tournant, and then I get this item," Guan Tong thought. "Is this implying I should use the living dead as teammates?"
Jokes aside, he actually thought this item was pretty good. He definitely wouldn't trade it on the market and would keep it for his own use. When the combat power of the living dead beca irrelevant to him, then he could consider selling it.
However, relying solely on his current resources, Guan Tong felt it wasn't enough to participate in the challenge tournant. The over one thousand Ascension Coins in his possession wouldn't earn interest just sitting there. The wise move was definitely to spend them as soon as possible, converting them into actual combat power.
"As for spending... the Terminal's Ascension Store has new arrivals. I can check if there's anything I need. Then I can also browse the market to see if there are any items worth acquiring."
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