Chapter 140 The Overall Strength of the Base Is Improved

"What's wrong?"

Han Rui asked a little strangely.

"fine……"

Wang Tao shook his head, but he did not say that outrageous idea.

Although it is possible, there is no need to say it now. He would have to find an opportunity to come back later to explore the reality of this green-eyed zombie...

On the way back, everyone saw another destroyed street.

"The orangutan zombies are here!"

Everyone felt a little heavy.

According to the frequency of destruction by the orangutan zombies, it feels like we will be able to find the Mizusawa base soon!

There are hundreds of people in the Shuize base, and it is impossible to hide them. As long as it is discovered by the orangutan zombie, it will definitely not give up...

Become stronger, you must become stronger!

There were no twists and turns on the way back, and we returned to the base smoothly.

In the conference room, Wang Tao told everyone about the situation he encountered on the first floor of the hospital.

Everyone was a little envious when they heard that Wang Tao could kill dozens or even dozens of elite zombies with just one strike, and they didn't resist. This sounds great!

But when Wang Tao mentioned that he saw a pair of green eyes on the second floor, everyone shuddered subconsciously.

Because everyone thinks that the reason why those elite zombies have become so stupid may have something to do with the owner of these eyes!

If Wang Tao and Han Rui had not left in time, would they have become as stupid as those zombies?

It’s scary to think about it!

"Then we won't be able to go to the hospital in the future?"

Xiang Hongbin felt a little pity.

Except that there are so many elite zombies here in the hospital, the elite zombies in other places have to be found slowly, which is very labor-intensive.

Wang Tao thought for a while and said:

"That's not... that zombie underground in the hospital. It should have been there a long time ago. At least it might have been there when the orangutan zombies went there. After that, we hunted many elite zombies there, and it has always been there. It hasn’t come out yet. So it’s possible that it’s unwilling or unable to come out? Of course, this is just my guess. We have to wait and see. I’ll go back and investigate later. ”

Along the way, Wang Tao was thinking about the green-eyed zombie with 15,000 HP under the hospital.

According to the current situation, there are a total of four second-level zombies in Shuize County.

The zombie Shao Yong has been killed by him, and the hooded zombie has also been killed by him. Now there are only the gorilla zombies and the green-eyed zombie under the hospital.

If these two second-level zombies are killed, Wang Tao will most likely be promoted to the second level!

But the problem is, if Wang Tao cannot advance to the second level, he will not be able to kill these two second-level zombies!

This seems to be a dead end.

But Wang Tao is not discouraged. After all, the hooded zombies have been killed by a group of first-level people like them. It is not impossible to kill the green-eyed zombies in the hospital and the orangutan zombies outside...

The topic of green-eyed zombies has been left behind for now, and next is the crystal core.

On the way back, Wang Tao fused all the crystal nuclei that could be fused, and now he has taken out all of them.

"I'll go! So many crystal nuclei!"

Looking at the crystal core that Wang Tao took out, everyone exclaimed.

"Take what you need, and leave some of it to train the base's superpowers.

Wang Tao said with a smile.

Wang Tao originally thought that they should not be in a hurry to fuse other crystal cores, otherwise the second level might require a lot of promotion crystal cores, which would be very troublesome.

But after hunting hooded zombies, fighting gorilla zombies, and seeing the green-eyed zombie underground in the hospital, Wang Tao felt that it was not a question of whether they could advance to the second level, but if the gorilla zombies came to the base now, what would everyone do? An unstoppable problem.

Therefore, how much strength can be improved now, how much strength must be improved! It would be best to elevate everyone to their peak state! This way, you will have a greater chance of winning when facing orangutan zombies in the future!

Naturally, everyone understood Wang Tao's thoughts and nodded. At this time, I really don’t have time to think about it that much.

After giving the crystal core to everyone, Wang Tao went to visit Lu Gang.

"You're here, how was your harvest today?"

Lu Gang, who was on the hospital bed, saw Wang Tao coming over and immediately wanted to sit up. Chen Zhuang next to him quickly went over to support him.

"Not bad, I got a lot of crystal cores. How are your injuries?"

Wang Tao said with a smile.

Lu Gang was still injured, so he didn't tell him about the second-level zombies in the hospital.

"Haha, I'm fine! I feel like I'll be fully recovered in another three to five days!"

Lu Gang laughed.

Wang Tao shook his head. It is definitely impossible to recover in three to five days. After all, one of his ribs was broken. Although it was repaired by Chen Zhuang, it could not grow back so quickly.

But Lu Gang is recovering really well now. After all, Wang Tao used many medical kits on him, which not only saved his life, but also increased his blood volume a lot.

He has now recovered to more than 3,000 blood. Even if he is lying on the hospital bed, if he really gets up to fight, his fighting power will not be weak.

"I still have some crystal nuclei here..."

Wang Tao gave Lu Gang some crystal nuclei. Lu Gang's precise shooting and sprinting were at full level, but he could fuse two kinds of crystal nuclei. He had told Wang Tao before that he preferred throwing mastery and concealment abilities.

Wang Tao now gave Lu Gang his throwing mastery and concealment cores.

"Wow! So many purple, red and even orange crystal nuclei!"

Lu Gang looked excited. With these crystal nuclei, his strength could be greatly improved!

"You should fuse it slowly. When you fuse the crystal core, the energy of the crystal core seems to repair your body. Maybe you can get out of bed in three or five days!"

"Thank you!"

Lu Gang said gratefully.

"What are you thanking me for? This is what you deserve!"

Wang Tao patted Lu Gang on the shoulder.

"No, I mean when I was fighting the hooded zombie before, if you hadn't thrown two axes at me and hit the zombie, I would have died long ago..."

Lu Gang sighed.

"You mean that! Actually, I had no choice at that time. Fortunately, you are strong enough!"

Recalling the previous hunting of hooded zombies, Wang Tao was also a little scared. If he had thrown it wrong, Lu Gang would have died.

"Alas, it's actually my fault... I thought I was so far away that the zombies couldn't find me. I should have been more cautious..."

Lu Gang was a little annoyed.

After fighting zombies for a long time, it is easy to relax vigilance in some things. For example, he thought that zombies had no brains and that zombies would not find him...

"It's not your fault, that zombie was too powerful... Anyway, we should remember this lesson and learn from it in the future!"

"Yeah! You're right!"

After visiting Lu Gang, Wang Tao returned home and called Gao Hua. In addition to Gao Hua, Ding Yuqin was also there.

Wang Tao asked them what kind of crystal cores they wanted.

After fusing the hidden crystal core, both of them could continue to fuse.

"I want copper skin and iron bones..."

Gao Hua scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

Wang Tao looked at him with some surprise. He was planning to max out his defense ability, both hidden and copper skin and iron bones.

"No problem."

Wang Tao gave him a copper skin and iron bones crystal core.

"Thank you, brother!"

Gao Hua was immediately grateful.

"With your current health, you should be able to sense whether you can continue to fuse other types of crystal cores, right?"

Wang Tao asked again.

Gao Hua closed his eyes and felt for a while, then said:

"I feel like I can fuse two more types..."

Gao Hua has only fused Concealment now, which means he can fuse three types of crystal cores in total.

"Three types? That's pretty good. Do you have anything else you want to fuse? I still have some crystal cores in my hand, so I'll give them to you."

Wang Tao said with a smile.

"Let me think..."

Gao Hua's eyes lit up immediately.

He never took the initiative to ask Wang Tao for something, but as long as Wang Tao gave him something, he never refused it, not even pretending to be polite. Because he knew his position very well, he regarded himself as Wang Tao's younger brother, and the things given by the boss to the younger brother were rewards, so there was no reason for the younger brother to refuse.

"I want a Throwing Mastery Crystal Core, okay?"

Gao Hua thought about it. He already had two defensive abilities, so it would be nice to have another offensive ability. But he didn't want to rush up to fight, which was his weakness. So he thought it would be best to have an ability to attack from a distance.

According to his understanding, there are only two abilities that can attack from a distance, one is Throwing Mastery, and the other is Precision Shooting.

He thinks Throwing Mastery is more suitable for him. This is a passive ability that does not consume mana and does not require any foundation. As long as this ability is integrated, there is a natural sense of intimacy and familiarity with throwing objects.

If we really want to talk about the upper limit, Precision Shooting is definitely higher. But Precision Shooting is for those who have shooting skills. For people like him who don't know how to shoot at all, Precision Shooting doesn't improve them much.

"Okay."

Wang Tao gave him another red Throwing Mastery Crystal Core.

"Thank you, brother!" Gao Hua thanked him again, and then he said with a look, "If you don't have anything to do, I will go back to fuse the crystal core first!"

"Go."

After Gao Hua left, Wang Tao looked at Ding Yuqin.

"Sister-in-law, what crystal core do you want to fuse?"

"I don't know either, I'll listen to you!"

Ding Yuqin hugged Wang Tao's arm and said.

Wang Tao looked at Ding Yuqin, and he thought that if Ding Yuqin fused a long tongue, maybe it would feel different? But after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. It's better for my sister-in-law to keep it as it is.

"Then you should also fuse a throwing mastery first. It's always good to have more attack methods."

"Okay!"

As for Han Rui, except for the perception ability, all her other abilities are already at the maximum level, but she can't touch the perception zombies, so there is no way to improve. Like Wang Tao, her strength has temporarily reached the upper limit.

...

The next day.

The committee issued a notice at the base, saying that it would train another batch of psychics.

The first batch of psychics, excluding the security forces, only had 6 people. This number is still very small, after all, there are now 700 people in the base.

So many people are waiting for the opportunity of the second batch. They thought that this would definitely take a long time.

But unexpectedly, just a few days after the first batch of crystal cores were distributed, the committee was ready to train the second batch of psychics!

This news made the survivors very excited.

There are now more than 700 people in the base, of which 300 are hunters.

Originally, there were not so many hunters, but because many newcomers to the base registered as hunters, coupled with the attraction of becoming a superpower, the number of hunters increased dramatically. After all, everyone knows that superpowers are selected from hunters.

This is of course what the committee wants to see. The more hunters there are, the richer the base's supplies will be.

So the committee is going to train 50 psychics in the second batch, not 6!

Now Wang Tao has a lot of crystal cores, which is enough to train 50 psychics.

Of course, Wang Tao only wants them to become psychics. As for the subsequent psychic level upgrade, Wang Tao doesn't care. They have to hunt elite zombies by themselves.

Soon, the registration for the election of psychics began.

This time, Ren Jie no longer designates the candidates right away, but everyone can sign up.

After signing up, show your strength and wait for the committee to notify you.

As long as you sign up, you have a chance. However, the final right of interpretation still lies with the committee.

There are many people who sign up. There are only more than 300 hunters in the base, but more than 400 people have signed up. Obviously, some ordinary survivors have also signed up.

These ordinary survivors will definitely not be selected, but it is a good thing that they can sign up. Maybe they will register as hunters in the future.

It took a day, and the quota for the second batch of psychics was finally determined.

Wang Tao personally handed over these 50 crystal cores to them and told them to work hard. The important task of adding bricks and tiles to the base was given to them.

Since there were many crystal cores taken out this time, there were also many types. Including quagmire, coughing smoke, vitality... even big stomach king and other crystal cores were taken out.

Wang Tao actually always wanted to know, some crystal cores that seem to be useless, such as quagmire and big stomach king, are they really useless?

So this is also an experiment, let these people fuse to see if these crystal cores are useful or not.

Of course, these crystal cores were synthesized by Wang Tao, so the side effects in them are gone. If there are still side effects, it would be pure pitfall.

After one night, these people were all fused.

Wang Tao specially summoned them to see their abilities.

Don't say it, Wang Tao really found something different.

Like the quagmire crystal core, it seems useless according to the introduction. But the actual effect is actually quite good!

The effect of the quagmire is "consuming energy and creating a quagmire around the body."

A mutant who has only fused one quagmire crystal core can form a quagmire with a diameter of ten meters around his body.

Whether it is a human or a zombie, the speed in the quagmire will be greatly slowed down. Especially zombies, they can easily fall into it and can't move!

Of course, if it were just these, it would not be enough to make Wang Tao happy. What really made Wang Tao happy was that the effect of this quagmire can be superimposed!

He asked five mutants who learned the quagmire to stand together and release the quagmire, and the quagmire formed was five times the size of the previous one!

And this quagmire is permanent! As long as the water in the quagmire does not evaporate, as long as the soil is not dug away, the quagmire can always exist!

Wang Tao immediately felt that this was a very strong control skill!

If he got a group of mutants who knew the quagmire, let them release their abilities at the same time, and make a large quagmire. Then lead the zombies into the quagmire, the zombies will be unable to move once they come in, and can only be slaughtered!

Wouldn't that be equivalent to a continuous version of vomiting mucus?

Wang Tao thinks he can give it a try!

However, there are some disadvantages.

That is, the release speed of this quagmire is relatively slow, unlike vomiting mucus, which can be vomited out in one mouthful. The quagmire needs to be released slowly, and immediate combat is definitely not possible, so it needs to be prepared in advance.

And there is another point, that is, when this quagmire ability is released, it is a little disgusting - this is the mud flowing out of the holes and pores of the body...

According to these quagmire ability users, they themselves are not uncomfortable, and even when the mud flows out, there is a feeling of decompression. But Wang Tao feels very uncomfortable...

In addition to the quagmire, the ability of the big stomach king is also possible.

The effect of this ability is "the more you eat, the fatter you grow, the higher your defense."

Wang Tao specially found two fat men to fuse this crystal core. In the end times, fat men are still relatively rare, and these two fat men are the two fattest people in their base.

Now it is impossible to meet the condition of "eating more", but "getting fatter" can be barely achieved.

After they merged this ability, their defense increased immediately. Wang Tao tested them before and after the fusion.

Wang Tao felt that this Big Eater Crystal Core was equivalent to a weakened version of Copper Skin and Iron Bones. Although the defense is indeed not as strong as Copper Skin and Iron Bones, this is a passive ability and does not require energy consumption!

And more importantly, the upper limit of Copper Skin and Iron Bones is fixed and can only be improved by fusing crystal cores. And the upper limit of this Big Eater is higher. Increasing the size, eating more food and fusing crystal cores can all improve defense!

Equipping these two fat guys with full body protective equipment, shields, etc., can let them walk in front as meat shields. If they can also fuse the powerful crystal core and the vitality crystal core, the effect is estimated to be even better!

Wang Tao thought so and did so.

He immediately promoted the two fat guys to the key training targets of the base.

Wang Tao also personally took them out to hunt elite zombies and refresh their health bars. This treatment is not something that many people can enjoy.

However, it was not only Wang Tao who took people out to replenish their health bars. Wei Zhenguo and the others also took some psychics out to hunt elite zombies.

After all, their strength has reached the upper limit, and there is no way to improve it for the time being. It is better to help other psychics in the base to improve the overall strength of the base.

With the efforts of Wang Tao and other committee members, the overall strength of the Shuize base has been greatly improved after a few days-

All hunters have more than 1000 blood, some psychics have more than 2000 blood, and others have reached more than 3000 blood!

As for Wang Tao and other committee members, they naturally have more than 4000 blood.

With the overall strength of the Shuize base now, it is hard to say whether it can resist the gorilla zombie, but it will definitely not be as embarrassed as before when facing the hooded zombie.

Wang Tao felt that it was time to go to the hospital to check the strength of the green-eyed zombie...