"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have received a Supply Card [One Pack of Barbecue Seasoning]."
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have received a Supply Card [One Power Bank with Only 50% Battery]."
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have received a Bronze-tier item [Eye of Investigation]."
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have received a Supply Card [Delicious Krabby Patty]."
As soon as Lin Zhiluo approached the zombie's corpse,
a flood of information rang in his ears.
He was instantly dumbfounded.
He hadn't even been able to hear what he'd gotten!
"Come on, Auto-Pickup is convenient and all, but these notification sounds are ridiculous," Lin Zhiluo complained.
"Ding! Apologies. This system failed to consider the Host's feelings. Auto-Pickup will now be optimized for the Host."
"Ding! Auto-Pickup has been optimized. From now on, it will only announce equipment and items obtained by the Host."
"Ding! Supply Cards will be automatically sorted into categories and stored in the Host's Storage Space."
"Nice, that's really thoughtful." Lin Zhiluo sounded pleasantly surprised.
He checked his Storage Space.
Sure enough, the Supply Cards had already been sorted into several neat piles.
The pile on the far left was food.
There were also water, tools, junk...
The categories were incredibly detailed and thoughtful.
Next time, Lin Zhiluo wouldn't have to search through a thick stack of cards to find something.
Aside from the Eye of Investigation, there was nothing else special among the supplies Auto-Pickup had just collected.
He didn't pay them much attention and walked out of the Tennis Hall.
He checked the time. It was already noon.
Darn, he'd miscalculated.
He'd planned to open a Silver Chest on the third floor and be done.
He hadn't expected to run into a Zombie Cat, which had cost him a lot of time.
There wasn't enough time left to enjoy a leisurely lunch.
He needed to hurry to the Li Family Manor.
This time, he wouldn't have to deal with the several hundred zombies on the first floor.
Because...
Lin Zhiluo opened a window in the hallway.
Then he leaped out.
Under normal circumstances, jumping from the second floor of the gym would have been extremely dangerous.
The gym's second floor was much higher than an ordinary floor, at least a dozen meters above the ground outside.
That meant he'd be jumping from a height of more than ten meters.
Even with his current attributes, it would be difficult to pull off.
Not to mention the enormous commotion his landing would make and all the zombies it would attract.
But don't forget Lin Zhiluo's Temporary Mid-air Suspension.
Outside the window, Lin Zhiluo plummeted toward the ground.
The White Wing Cloak on his back snapped in the wind.
Just before his handsome face was about to hit the ground, Lin Zhiluo activated Temporary Mid-air Suspension.
His rapidly falling body instantly slowed.
He spun through a 180-degree flip in midair, then landed steadily on both feet.
Lin Zhiluo put his Hidden Mask back on.
Though he hadn't activated its ability to conceal his information,
in the early days of the apocalypse, when not everyone knew how to check someone's attributes, it was a good way to hide his identity.
Li Family Manor.
In the lavishly furnished living room, Li Haobo lay with his head on a woman's lap while another woman gave him a full-body massage.
"Why aren't they back yet? Are all those freeloaders good for nothing? They've spent the whole morning looking for just two people?"
One moment, Li Haobo was flirting with the woman. The next, he slapped her across the face, then bellowed.
The Silver-haired Butler stepped forward and said, "Young Master, the Hunting Mercenary Group only set out for Modu University at seven this morning. There are many zombies there, and the situation is complicated, so naturally it's difficult to search."
"Damn it, zombies again! I'm sick to death of them!" Li Haobo snapped.
"What kind of stupid game mechanic is this? I'm the one killing the zombies, so why don't I get any experience?" He pointed at the sky and shouted.
As it turned out, when Li Haobo heard that leveling up in the Doomsday Game could increase his attributes,
he'd been quite tempted.
He was already a little frail. Wouldn't increasing his attributes this way be a great idea?
He had his subordinates weaken the zombies, then went in to finish them off himself.
But after killing ten zombies, he'd only gained a single point of experience.
It was bad enough that he hadn't leveled up. He'd nearly wrecked his already frail body in the process.
Li Haobo didn't know that this was a special mechanic of the Doomsday Game.
To prevent high-level players from helping low-level players power-level,
experience gained depended entirely on how much the player personally contributed to each kill.
Trying to cheat the system or swoop in at the last moment to steal a kill and its reward was extremely difficult.
Just as Li Haobo was flying into a rage,
the doors to the villa's main hall swung open.
A man dressed in black strode inside, carrying a large black bag.
The bag looked quite heavy, and as he drew near, a faint smell of blood wafted from it.
"Uncle Rong, you're back. Did you find that little bitch and that orphan?" Li Haobo hurriedly asked the man in black.
"Young Master, we found the woman, but the man was nowhere to be seen." The man in black dropped the bag to the floor and spoke calmly.
Li Haobo's eyes lit up when he heard that they'd found Yao Jinghan.
But when he heard they hadn't found Lin Zhiluo, his expression changed.
"You found her? Where is she? Tell her to get over here and see me! How dare she hide from me!" Li Haobo's face darkened.
"She's here." The man in black pointed to the bag he'd just dropped.
"Here?" Li Haobo repeated, not understanding.
"Using the information you provided, we found a roommate of hers in her dorm who was still alive."
"Her roommate said that when the woman left, she muttered, 'What a pain. I still have to go to the abandoned warehouse behind the sports field.' So we searched the entire abandoned warehouse and eventually found her corpse inside a large barrel, along with a man's shirt covered in blood," the man in black explained.
Li Haobo didn't answer. He stepped forward and opened the bag.
A strong stench of blood hit him.
Inside lay a body tortured beyond recognition. Yao Jinghan's blood-covered head was marked with a series of lines, and her eyes were wide open.
Li Haobo couldn't take it.
"Ugh!" He bent over and vomited straight into the bag.
He'd always thought he was very good at torturing people.
Killing and tormenting people had always come easily to him.
But faced with a sight this disgusting, even he couldn't hold it in!
The yellowish vomit landed right on Yao Jinghan's head.
Giving her a "facial."
The two women behind Li Haobo saw the scene and fainted on the spot.
The man in black spoke with a placid expression.
"Judging from the wounds all over the woman's body, the cuts on her neck, and her shattered body, she endured extremely brutal torture before she died."
"The wounds were all on areas of the body with the most sensitive pain receptors, including the acupoints emphasized in Dragon Kingdom culture. Even a professionally trained assassin couldn't have been this precise."
"Each time the knife went in, it seemed to use an extremely unusual vibrating motion. The surrounding muscle tissue was shredded. Even the world's best assassin, the 'Wraith,' whom I once worked with, couldn't match such utterly inhuman methods of torture."
"Unimaginable methods of torture, terrifying knife skills, and a hatred for this woman beyond all measure."
"So, Young Master, do you know who killed this woman?"
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