To Chen Luo's relief, after absorbing their crystals, the others didn't keep sitting around. Instead, they began training to dodge attacks.
The death of a teammate that afternoon had shaken them deeply. Working a little harder now would give them a better chance of surviving later.
Chen Luo also began absorbing crystals. At level four, he could absorb around sixty-five level-one crystals in one sitting.
The level-three Dharma King could only absorb thirteen.
Level-one crystals were still too low in quality for Chen Luo. After all, he was already level four, and the very lowest-grade ones had no effect on him at all.
Chen Luo estimated that it would take him around twenty days to reach level five. In his previous life, he had been lucky and only needed a month.
That wasn't much faster than in his previous life, because back then, most of the crystals he absorbed at level four had been level-three crystals. Naturally, absorbing level-one crystals couldn't compare.
It was like Chen Luo was level forty, fighting level-ten monsters. He was lucky he could level up at all.
The next day, they continued killing zombies. Things went well that day: only one team member was seriously injured, and they managed to save him. No one died, and everyone completed their quota of five crystals.
Yet the team members felt even more weighed down, because the odds of encountering zombies that could cast spells had doubled since yesterday.
Yesterday, only one in three zombies could cast spells. Now it was two in three.
Surviving in this world was getting harder and harder.
Chen Luo watched coldly. If they couldn't keep up with the zombies' evolution, their casualties would only grow worse.
If survivors hadn't kept killing zombies, causing their numbers to plummet until survivors outnumbered them in