After seeing the intel, Su Chen immediately examined it.
[Name]: Pig-Killing Knife [Number]: Anomalous Object 120010 [Traits]: A pig-killing knife capable of evolving. It absorbs various anomalous objects to improve itself. [Weakness]: It is very hungry and urgently needs flesh and fat. When external intake is insufficient, it will devour its host's flesh. End battles quickly, and make sure the hunt succeeds. (Note: Coated in black dog blood, it can currently gain a slight increase in armor penetration and deal true damage!)
As Su Chen read the Pig-Killing Knife's description, he immediately noticed its number.
Over a hundred and twenty thousand?
A knife that wasn't particularly powerful.
Then what exactly was the anomalous object ranked first like?
Su Chen couldn't help yearning for it.
It could evolve?
Could the Pig-Killing Knife rise to first place?
Of course,
for now, he could only dream about it.
A weakness?
It could also be called a price.
The anomalous object evolved by devouring flesh, and flesh and fat were necessities too.
Sacrificing his own fat?
That worked better than any weight-loss product!
Before the apocalypse, this knife might have been very popular.
After learning about the anomalous object, Su Chen felt a little excited.
He looked at the dark figure again.
[Name]: Purple Stiff [Number]: Weird Entity 99216 [Traits]: Moves by hopping up to 50 cm high. Slow-moving but silent. As strong as two adults, with sharp nails. Its corpse poison can infect others and create new zombies. [Weakness]: Fears light, flames, and similar things. Its movements become stiff when exposed to light.
Its number was over ninety thousand?
Su Chen's heart skipped a beat when he saw the number.
Over ninety thousand.
But.
The Pig-Killing Knife only ranked over a hundred and twenty thousand.
The comparison made it seem terrifying.
The key was,
as far as he remembered, zombies weren't weak at all.
The intel's description said the same.
It moved without a sound.
Impossible to guard against!
It was as strong as two adults, which was no small amount of strength.
These traits made it feel threatening.
From the system's description, Purple Stiff was actually relatively weak in the apocalypse.
Was this a joke?
Then how terrifying was the weird entity ranked first?
Su Chen admitted he had double standards.
He wanted anomalous objects to be as strong as possible, and weird entities to be as weak as possible.
Clearly.
There were powerful anomalous objects and weird entities alike.
The weak one
was simply him!
Su Chen skipped the number and traits, focusing on Purple Stiff's weakness.
It feared light?
No wonder it hadn't dared approach while the lights were on by the vehicle door.
After seeing Purple Stiff's weakness, Su Chen felt a little more settled.
With a weakness, it seemed possible to deal with it.
"Can I help?"
Holding his stun baton, Huang Wei walked up to Su Chen.
He realized.
The walking corpse had been created because of his own stupidity.
Su Chen said to Huang Wei, "Officer Huang, get in the car, turn on the lights, and run it over!"
Su Chen had no intention of using the Pig-Killing Knife.
If a car could handle it, who would risk their life fighting it with a knife?
"Right!"
"We can run it over. Should I get the truck?"
Yang Defa caught on as well.
There was no need for his father to risk himself dealing with that thing.
Using a vehicle seemed feasible.
"I'll do it!"
Huang Wei was already moving, getting up and climbing into the police car.
He would solve his own problem.
After getting into the car, Huang Wei switched on the rear lights.
The dark figure became clearer.
The dead man's entire body was purple, with blackened blood vessels and wounds.
Quite a few muscles could be seen writhing around his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, with roots, branches, and leaves among them.
He didn't look like a traditional zombie.
Just looking at him was terrifying.
Fortunately.
Once the light hit him, he immediately stopped moving.
"Thud!"
Huang Wei drove into him, sending the walking corpse flying.
The tires jolted.
He stepped on the accelerator and drove forward over it again.
Still uneasy, Huang Wei ran it over repeatedly.
Until the walking corpse became a pile of minced flesh.
Under the car lights.
The minced flesh still writhed.
It was highly active, with parasite-like tendrils moving inside it.
"What are those tendrils?"
After coming closer, Yang Defa saw the earthworm-like tendrils.
He felt a little sick.
He looked toward Su Chen, hoping for an answer.
Earlier, Su Chen had told them to turn on the car lights, and the walking corpse had stopped moving.
Su Chen had known that too.
It made him instinctively trust him.
Su Chen looked over and obtained some intel.
[Name]: Tree root [Traits]: These roots belong to a weird entity and have a preference for flesh. After merging with a corpse, they can cause it to mutate. [Weakness]: Fears burning.
"Stuff from the banyan tree. Get some matches and burn it."
Su Chen offered an explanation based on the intel.
Huang Wei glanced at Su Chen.
He wasn't a fool.
After going through killing the walking corpse, he too realized that Su Chen had a major secret.
"Su Chen, hold on to the knife!"
"I'll get some matches, and we can burn it in a moment!"
Old Yang handed the Pig-Killing Knife to Su Chen, then turned to fetch a lighter and firewood from the woodshed.
After taking the Pig-Killing Knife, Su Chen recalled its earlier notification.
He carefully approached the minced flesh and thrust the Pig-Killing Knife into it.
The walking corpse's flesh began to dissolve away.
Su Chen didn't know whether he was imagining it.
He actually saw a pig's head gulping down mouthfuls of flesh.
When Su Chen looked again, the sight was gone.
Like an illusion.
Before long.
After absorbing more than half the flesh, it stopped changing.
The Pig-Killing Knife seemed unable to eat any more.
When he looked, its ranking had changed.
[Name]: Pig-Killing Knife [Number]: Anomalous Object 120001
It had risen nine places.
That was already pretty good.
Old Yang brought straw for kindling and matches, then lit a fire on the pile of flesh.
"Hiss!"
Once the flames rose, the chunks of flesh and roots gradually charred.
A foul, scorched smell spread through the air.
Watching the first weird entity being dealt with, Su Chen was somewhat lost in thought.
The system?
Could it be an anomalous object?
It now had three functions: refreshing intel based on time, refreshing intel based on location, and detecting intel.
And there were the weird entities.
When a corpse was placed beneath the banyan tree at the village entrance, it became a Purple Stiff.
The system's intel detection listed Purple Stiff and the tree roots separately.
Yet the two had merged?
Could weird entities merge?
He recalled those first few pieces of intel.
The banyan tree in front of the village.
The graveyard behind the village.
Could something similar to this walking corpse be happening there, with things merging too?
Su Chen also drew another piece of intel from this.
Still, that no longer had much to do with him.
Even repeatedly running over the walking corpse hadn't really dealt with it.
Their strength was far too insignificant.
Of the thirty-six stratagems.
Retreat was the best!
Driving away was the sensible thing to do.
Su Chen understood very well that curiosity killed the cat.
The intel also said.
They could stay in the village for twelve hours.
That meant daytime would be more dangerous.
The walking corpses clearly feared light.
So, would the mutated banyan tree be more active during the day?
Should I head toward the back of the village tomorrow?
As Su Chen was thinking about tomorrow's plans, he heard movement inside the house.
Bang!
Just then, a noise came from the front door.
"Open the door! Let my brother in!"
Su Xi's sobbing voice came through the gap in the front door.
There seemed to be an argument inside.
Clang!
Su Xi's wheelchair seemed to have been shoved over, crashing to the floor.
Su Chen had not been this angry even when the door had been shut on him earlier.
He had long known what those two women were like.
But his sister was being bullied.
He could not tolerate that at all!
Su Chen looked at the lock and tried chopping at it with the Pig-Killing Knife in his hand.
Clang!
The lock cylinder actually snapped at the blow, and the door swung open with a push.
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