Chapter 197 Sweeping the Periphery

The Dark Blood War Chariot remained stationary in this zombie-infested area. Everyone entered the Dark Blood's living room, and Li Chenzhou distributed an evolutionary serum to each of them.

Currently, only Duan Lei and Li Chenzhou were at level two in the team; the others were still at level one. Since leveling up would solidify their attributes, Li Chenzhou wasn't in a rush to have the others upgrade.

Only Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei were suitable for leveling up now. Duan Lei's attributes, except for Spirit, were all at ten, with no room for improvement. Li Chenzhou's attributes automatically maxed out when his battle analysis reached ten percent.

So, both of them could have leveled up long ago. As for the others, their attribute上限 (shangxian – upper limits) would solidify upon upgrading. For example, if Grey Bear's Strength attribute was 16 at level one, it would remain 16 even after using the evolutionary serum to reach level two.

The attribute上限 (shangxian – upper limit) for level one was twenty, and for level two, it was forty. But if Grey Bear's attribute was only sixteen when he upgraded, his level two Strength attribute上限 (shangxian – upper limit) would become thirty-six.

This was why Li Chenzhou hadn't allowed them to upgrade.

Now, Li Chenzhou only needed one person to level up. It didn't matter if he or Duan Lei reached level three. However, they were a team, and the others might feel left out if he or Duan Lei became a level three Awakened One.

Therefore, Li Chenzhou decided to have everyone upgrade this time. Of course, only he and Duan Lei would reach level three; the others would just reach level two for now.

The Slaughter Shop sold attribute potions, each capable of increasing an attribute point by one, but they couldn't break the upper limit, and they were expensive, costing 500 Slaughter Points per bottle, the same as an evolutionary serum.

Li Chenzhou could afford to raise everyone's attribute上限 (shangxian – upper limits) to twenty points, but he didn't have enough Slaughter Points to raise them to forty points for level three.

Besides, attribute points could be increased through combat and consuming the meat of mutated beasts, so Li Chenzhou didn't want to waste them unnecessarily.

Fortunately, Li Chenzhou had enough Slaughter Points now. So, he directly exchanged for attribute potions, maxed out everyone's attributes, and then allowed them to use the evolutionary serum.

Of course, not everyone could use the evolutionary serum at the same time. Even inside the Dark Blood War Chariot, someone had to be on duty. Thus, Duan Lei and Fatty were chosen for the job.

Duan Lei's authority in the Dark Blood War Chariot was second only to Li Chenzhou. He had all the permissions except the ability to grant permissions to others, including using Slaughter Points to repair the chariot's defense value.

In other words, as long as either Duan Lei or Li Chenzhou was present, the Dark Blood War Chariot was safe.

Leaving the chariot to Duan Lei, Li Chenzhou and the others returned to their rooms, each injecting themselves with the evolutionary serum...

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Three days later!

Li Chenzhou's team had long since changed positions. For the past three days, as the team collectively leveled up, they began a frantic sweep of the city to adapt to their new powers, pushing towards the city center in circles.

They were now at the edge of the zombie horde. After their encirclement failed, the Corpse Demon disbanded the horde, scattering them in all directions. Eventually, they all returned to the city center, but because of their sheer numbers, they still occupied a vast area.

Li Chenzhou and his team weren't polite, constantly sweeping through the horde. They didn't enter it, but instead, they slaughtered from the outside. With Grey Bear's infinite-ammo rifle and eight vehicle-mounted machine guns, their firepower was considerable.

The Corpse Demon couldn't do anything about Li Chenzhou, because, warned by Li Yunshan, Li Chenzhou's team wouldn't delve deep into the horde to attack the central stadium. Moreover, even if the Corpse Demon wanted to use the mobile horde again to surround Li Chenzhou, it was completely impossible.

Tian Ya was on the rooftop of a nearby building, the highest point in the area. All the movements of the horde were under his watch, and he was within communication range, able to report what he saw to Duan Lei inside the chariot at any time.

This made the Corpse Demon extremely uncomfortable. If he counterattacked, Li Chenzhou would retreat immediately. The Dark Blood War Chariot's speed was definitely beyond the reach of the zombies.

But if he didn't counterattack, he could only watch his zombies being continuously consumed by Li Chenzhou and his team. Although the Corpse Demon didn't care about ordinary zombies, they were still his power, and he would feel the pain if too many were lost.

However, because of the sheer number of zombies, the Corpse Demon couldn't protect them. The central stadium was large, but it could only accommodate 100,000 zombies at most, making it impossible to place all of them under protection.

And his light beam cannons had limited range. He couldn't reach the Dark Blood's current location at all.

Li Chenzhou hadn't asked Li Yunshan about the design of the light beam cannons. After learning about the power of the Seven Star Controller, Li Chenzhou knew that the Dark Blood couldn't withstand those cannons, so he wouldn't actively try to provoke them.

However, he had looked up the range of the light beam cannons in the shop. After getting an idea, he only roamed outside the range, not giving the Corpse Demon any chance.

As a large number of zombies were slaughtered, Li Chenzhou's Slaughter Points were constantly increasing. He hadn't exchanged the mutated crystal cores yet, and he had spent tens of thousands of Slaughter Points to level up the team, but he still had over 100,000 Slaughter Points.

This feeling of sudden wealth made Li Chenzhou feel great. He even directly exchanged infinite-ammo rifles for Fatty and the others. Although these things were expensive, when he considered that handgun bullets required Slaughter Points to exchange for, using infinite-ammo rifles was more suitable in the long run.

Thus, Tian Ya, Fatty, Duan Xue, and Grey Bear, with their four infinite-ammo rifles, plus the eight vehicle-mounted machine guns, became the nightmare of the horde. In three days, countless zombies fell under the pouring rain of bullets.

Of course, killing zombies was one aspect, but what Li Chenzhou was most concerned about now was whether Li Yunshan could provide information, and what that information was, because it was related to whether his guess was correct!

Fortunately, Li Yunshan didn't disappoint Li Chenzhou. On the third day, he sent a special operative, transformed into a strengthened zombie, to the periphery to deliver the message to Li Chenzhou.

He didn't go to their previously agreed location because it was too far. Now that they were at the edge of the horde, the special operative could meet them as soon as he left the horde...