Chapter 19 Enhancement

A surge of heat instantly spread from the arm where the injection was administered to his entire body, accompanied by a stinging sensation. This feeling was very different from using crystal cores.

Li Chenzhou had naturally never used an evolution serum before, so he carefully experienced the sensation. Duan Lei and the others guarded the surroundings while occasionally glancing at Li Chenzhou inside the car.

At this moment, both Grey Bear and Duan Xue were panting slightly, especially Duan Xue. Although Li Chenzhou had carried her backpack and Xiaoya on his back during the battle, after such a long fight, even Grey Bear, who was a police officer and frequently trained, was exhausted. Not to mention her, a young woman.

Xiaoya was still unconscious and had been placed on the back seat of another car by Duan Xue, who was leaning against the car, not getting inside.

In just about two minutes, Li Chenzhou opened his eyes, opened the car door, and got out. The three of them looked over and saw excitement in Li Chenzhou's eyes!

Host: Li Chenzhou

Slaughter Points: 138

Evolution Level: 1

Rank: Private

Strength: 15

Agility: 20

Endurance: 15

Spirit: 40

Talent: War Fog (Passive: Increases Spirit to maximum and doubles it! Active: Upon activation, a fog forms around the user, isolating sight, hearing, and taste. The user and designated allies are unaffected. Requires continuous Spirit consumption! Maximum radius of ten meters.)

Skill: Fatal Strike, Level 1 (Passive: All melee attacks ignore 20% of the target's defense. Active: Upon activation, can instantly traverse a maximum distance of five meters to launch a fatal strike on the target, dealing true damage that ignores all types of defense. This attack cannot be evaded!)

Followers: 2/5

1: Duan Lei, Loyalty: 100, Combat Power: 40.

2: Zhang Hu, Loyalty: 92, Combat Power: 10.

Looking at his stats, Li Chenzhou was indeed excited, because the effect of this evolution serum was even better than he had imagined.

Using crystal cores allowed one to become a Strengthener or Evolver, but the increased stats were very small. A level-one crystal core only increased stats by 3-5 points, and even a level-four or level-five crystal core would only add a random number between 5-10 when absorbed.

This was why crystal cores were so scarce in his previous life, because everyone wanted to max out their stats. Therefore, even level-four or level-five Evolvers would first choose to absorb the crystal core themselves to increase their stats after obtaining it.

For example, if you were a level-four Evolver and obtained a level-four crystal core, and there were several level-three Evolvers in your team, would you choose to give the crystal core to them or absorb it yourself?

From the team's perspective, the crystal core should naturally be given to the level-three Evolver so that they could not only increase their stats but also potentially break through and become a level-four Evolver like you, which would undoubtedly be the greatest boost to the team's combat power.

However, most people would still choose to absorb it themselves. People are selfish after all, and increasing one's own strength is the most important thing.

In comparison to crystal cores, the stats increased by the evolution serum were clearly much greater.

This evolution turned Li Chenzhou into an agility-based Evolver, and he didn't become a spirit-based Evolver because of his spirit-type talent.

If he had used a crystal core, Li Chenzhou's stats wouldn't be as good as they were now. He would basically have around 12 agility, and it would be good if his strength and endurance reached 10.

But the evolution serum not only maxed out his main stat but also nearly doubled his strength and endurance, turning them into fifteen.

Moreover, he also gained an agility-based skill. The passive ignored twenty percent of the target's defense, and the active completely ignored defense, dealing true damage.

This was clearly a skill for killing bosses. When dealing with King Kong earlier, if Li Chenzhou had this skill, he wouldn't have needed to switch to a pistol and could have taken it down with a dagger.

And although that passive seemed insignificant, his skill was only at level one right now. After leveling it up, the percentage of defense ignored would definitely increase.

As for his talent, perhaps because he already possessed War Fog, no new talent appeared. But even so, Li Chenzhou was still an Awakened One, just like Duan Lei, and his total stats had reached an exaggerated 90 points.

Looking at his stat panel, the satisfied Li Chenzhou simply spent another hundred Slaughter Points to buy himself a combat suit.

He hadn't bought one before because he wanted to see what type of Awakened One he would become and what type of skill he would get before deciding what to buy. If it was a ranged skill, he would save up to buy a bow or a sniper rifle.

But now that his skill was melee, a combat suit was the obvious choice. Although he wasn't afraid of even level-one strengthened zombies with his current strength, Li Chenzhou was still very cautious.

No matter how awesome you are, don't be flamboyant. This is the apocalypse, and anything can happen. Don't let yourself get a scratch from a Demon Shadow after just becoming an Awakened One, because then... you'll have nowhere to cry.

Changing into the combat suit as quickly as possible, Li Chenzhou looked at the other three:

"Alright! You've practiced enough. Now we need to speed up and get out of the city as soon as possible. We must reach the picking garden before dark. So, I'll clear the path, Xiaolei will clean up the zombies I miss in the cars, and Xiaoxue and Grey Bear will be on guard!"

"Yes! Boss!"

Duan Lei nodded immediately. He knew why Li Chenzhou was asking him to clean up the zombies, because he was the only one of the three who was Li Chenzhou's follower, and killing zombies would give him Slaughter Points. Duan Xue and Grey Bear were just wasting resources by killing zombies right now.

Although Duan Lei hoped that Li Chenzhou would also take Duan Xue as a follower, Li Chenzhou hadn't mentioned it since, so Duan Lei didn't bring it up either, because he didn't know if there were any restrictions and didn't want to ask too much.

With his physical stats doubled, especially with agility reaching twenty, Li Chenzhou's body was much more agile than before, so his killing speed also greatly increased.

"This..."

Looking at Li Chenzhou's changes, Grey Bear couldn't help but open his mouth wide. Although he had been shocked by Li Chenzhou's combat before and even wanted to become his apprentice, he could clearly see that Li Chenzhou's strength and speed at that time were actually about the same as his, or even a little worse.

But now, Grey Bear felt that Li Chenzhou had completely crushed him in terms of both strength and speed. Even without such rich combat experience, it would probably be as easy as playing to abuse him.

Just injecting that serum made him so fierce. Was it chicken blood or an energizer?

"Dad! Mom!"

Just as Grey Bear was shocked by Li Chenzhou's increase in strength, Xiaoya, in Duan Xue's arms, suddenly woke up and cried out with a sob...