Go to the most prosperous place to grind monsters!

Xu Xiao did not want to fall out with Wang Xuyan, so she could only reply flatly:

"I'm fine. I called you over just now because I wanted you to save him, but then..."

Xu Xiao pointed at Chen Hao's corpse, about to say, "But then Lu Li killed him."

But the words changed as they reached her lips:

"...but he couldn't hold on and died from excessive blood loss."

Upon hearing this, He Shufen, who had been hiding at the very back, immediately squeezed through the crowd to inspect him.

After confirming that Chen Hao was truly dead, she limped unsteadily forward and spat viciously on the corpse twice.

"Pah! Good riddance! You bastard, shooting me..."

"What about Ying Zi'an and Tian Yuhao? How did they also..."

Wang Xuyan swept her gaze over the other two corpses, her eyes narrowing.

"Ying Zi'an was shot dead by Chen Hao. As for Tian Yuhao..."

At this point, Xu Xiao paused again instinctively, intending to make up an excuse for Lu Li.

But Lu Li directly admitted it instead:

"I killed Tian Yuhao. I killed Chen Hao too."

Everyone turned their heads in unison, their gazes at Lu Li filled with disbelief.

Lu Li, a useless guy who had awakened the [Scout] ability, could actually kill people?

And he had killed two in a row!!

Cheng Duoduo poked her head out from the crowd and said softly:

"But Chen Hao was still first on the Ranking List a few minutes ago. How could he have been killed by a Lv.0 Player like you..."

The moment she finished speaking, she realized she probably should not have spoken at a time like this and fearfully shrank back.

"He let his guard down. He didn't dodge."

Lu Li spouted the nonsense with a straight face.

While everyone was still stunned, he quickly walked over to Wang Chao and traded five Second-Order Mana Crystals for the Third-Order Mana Crystal.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first. If there is something, save it for next time. Alright, everyone, until we meet again!"

With that, Lu Li strode toward the entrance.

Only after his figure had completely disappeared from their sight did everyone come to their senses.

Something was wrong!

Lu Li's awakened ability was [Scout], and he did not even have a weapon. How had he killed Chen Hao and Tian Yuhao?

Just as they were about to ask Xu Xiao for an explanation, the class monitor lowered her head dejectedly.

"Everyone, let's drag these three bodies to the back mountain and bury them. Tian Yuhao and Ying Zi'an were our classmates, after all..."

He Shufen was the first to object:

"If you want to bury them, go do it yourself. That bald bastard shot me twice before. He deserves to be left out in the wilderness!"

Wang Xuyan smiled awkwardly.

"Xiao, I fully support you helping our classmates with their final arrangements. But going to the back mountain is too dangerous. I don't have much ability to protect myself, and I'd only hold you back. Why don't I wait in the classroom for you to come back..."

The other girls also shook their heads, showing no intention of helping.

Instead, the timid Cheng Duoduo raised her hand.

"X-Xiao, I can help. My ability is [Storage Space], so I should be able to help transport the bodies..."

After leaving the teaching building, Lu Li headed straight outside.

When he had searched Chen Hao's body earlier, he found a set of car keys.

He guessed that Chen Hao might have driven to school, so he had specifically come out to look.

Before long, he found the Hummer that had crashed through the school gate.

Although Lu Li was only a high school student now and did not have a driver's license, in his previous life, he had done plenty of "unlicensed driving."

He had driven all kinds of luxury cars until he was sick of them!

The Hummer before him was naturally no challenge.

He closed the door and started the vehicle.

Lu Li stepped on the gas and drove away from the school, heading toward Tianyi Square.

As the commercial plaza with the highest population density in Yong City, Tianyi Square had seen the most monsters appear when the apocalypse first descended.

It was Lu Li's first choice for grinding monsters!

On the way to Tianyi Square, they kept coming across humans being chased down by monsters.

Lu Li released the Soul Soldier Mantis to kill them.

Whenever they encountered larger numbers, he got out and dealt with them personally.

With the combination of [Swarm Deterrence] and [Lightning Arrow], Lu Li's attacks were almost always lethal.

Over the course of the journey, he accumulated 20 Soul Points.

The talent ability [Blade Arm] triggered an advancement quest once again.

[Quest Objective: Kill 500 insect creatures within forty-eight hours!]

[Quest Reward: Challenger's Chest ×3, ability "Blade Arm" advances to Jade Rank!]

[Kill Count: 0/500.]

"Five hundred insect creatures... Is this ever going to end...?"

Lu Li's lips twitched, but he was not too worried.

If he got lucky and found a few Bug Nests in Tianyi Square, he could easily complete the quest.

Accompanied by the roar of the engine, the Hummer slammed into a Blade Mantis feeding on a corpse by the roadside, killing it before charging fiercely into Tianyi Square.

The once-prosperous commercial street was littered with mangled corpses. Blood covered the ground, nearly dyeing the entire square red.

Lu Li got out of the car, scanned his surroundings, and chose the direction with the largest pile of corpses.

The Soul Devour ability activated continuously, and his Soul Points rapidly soared!

He also Plundered more and more abilities, though the vast majority were only Black Iron or Bronze Rank.

There were very few above Silver Rank.

Moreover, because the corpses had been dead for quite some time, no option to preserve their soul consciousness appeared.

Lu Li did not care about that. The corpses along the road were merely a bonus; his real purpose here was to farm monsters.

Yet after circling around several times, aside from the Blade Mantis the car had killed at the beginning, Lu Li did not encounter another monster.

The entire Tianyi Square was deathly still, as though Lu Li were the only living creature left.

"What's going on? Don't tell me someone cleared this place out ahead of time?"

Frowning, Lu Li opened his panel and checked the Global Announcement.

There had been no changes.

There were no changes to the names on the Ranking List either.

The only difference was that after Chen Hao's death, the number one spot on the list had become a Lv.3 Player named Qi Ze.

Lu Li checked the man's location and found that he was north of Yong City, quite a distance from Tianyi Square.

He should not have been the one farming monsters here.

Could the families have cleared them out ahead of time?

That did not make sense either!

According to Lu Li's memories from his previous life, Tianyi Square in Yong City had eventually become a massive Bug Nest.

Logically, if a family had come here to farm monsters, they would have uprooted the problem before it could grow.

The giant Bug Nest would never have formed.

Then what had caused the current situation?

Lu Li racked his brain for information from his previous life, trying to find some clue.

"Bug Nest... What insects did Tianyi Square produce in my previous life... It seemed to be Burrowing Bees. Wait, Burrowing Bees?"

As if he had thought of something, Lu Li swiftly began searching the square.

Before long, he stopped in front of a subway entrance.

As their name suggested, Burrowing Bees were monsters that liked to burrow into the ground.

When the apocalypse game first descended, these creatures had erupted en masse in urban underground facilities such as subways and sewers.

Unlike Blade Mantises, which appeared alone, these creatures were social from the very beginning and exceptionally united!

Killing one often brought retaliation from the entire hive.

If his guess was correct, all the monsters in Tianyi Square were hiding underground.

He stepped into the subway station. Before he had gone far down, Lu Li caught a foul acidic smell.

The number of corpses before him suddenly increased, but they did not belong to humans.

One after another, they were all Iron Shell Beetles...