Inside Raccoon City.
Chu Ruoxue and Chen Yuxuan sat cross-legged with their eyes closed on the top floor of the Twin Towers.
Beneath them, countless hideous zombies roamed the streets.
This was a world they had opened up just for themselves.
Here, they had GM management permissions.
They could move to any location at will and could revive repeatedly.
During their trial play at Liar Tavern, both of them had already injected the T-Virus three times in this world and had fought against countless high-level zombies.
The process was straightforward: first use the Basic Comprehension Skill Book, then inject the T-Virus, and then try to comprehend the T-Virus's mutation, triggering the effect of the Comprehension Skill Book during the comprehension period.
Chu Ruoxue, aside from the first time when she couldn't resist and her will was eroded, mutating her into a zombie, succeeded in the subsequent two attempts.
She also successfully comprehended her talent skills.
But unfortunately,
neither of them met Chen Yu's requirements; even Chen Yuxuan, who achieved the highest, only reached blue quality.
"A Xuan Sister, isn't this too difficult?"
After a long while,
Chu Ruoxue opened her eyes and said with a bitter expression.
The skill she comprehended this time was still white quality.
Another skill book was wasted.
That was bought with 100 soul crystals; Chu Ruoxue felt a pang of heartache just thinking about it.
The money belonged to Chen Yu, but they were already sharing the territory's honor and disgrace, so of course, they were reluctant to spend money carelessly.
"Xiao Xue, don't rush..." Chen Yuxuan also opened her eyes and sighed.
"Take your time; let's first thoroughly analyze the reasons."
Chen Yuxuan's expression was also somewhat complicated.
She prided herself as the ace of the strategy team, yet she couldn't even comprehend purple quality.
It was somewhat of a blow to her self-confidence.
"So difficult..."
"Indeed, this time I'll go find a Tank and try fighting it; maybe that will work."
Chen Yuxuan clenched her fists, her gaze firm.
A strange blackness emanated from their eyes; this was the power of the T-Virus.
After injecting the T-Virus and successfully controlling it,
both of them clearly felt their physical attributes enhance, but their sanity would gradually disappear; this was the price of the zombie virus.
However, as Contract Adventurer, it wasn't a big deal; at worst, they could revive after losing their sanity.
Comparatively,
precisely because of this side effect, the T-Virus's physical attribute enhancement effect was higher than other talent skills.
It's just that they didn't know why...
The T-Virus they comprehended only reached blue quality at its highest and could no longer be improved.
"Can it only reach blue quality?"
Chen Yuxuan frowned in thought.
Chu Ruoxue said, "Let's first sort out the differences between white, green, and blue qualities!"
White Quality: All attributes increased by 20% after activation, sanity lost at a faster rate.
Green Quality: All attributes increased by 30% after activation, sanity lost at a faster rate.
Blue Quality: All attributes increased by 30% after activation, sanity lost at a slower rate.
Upon losing sanity, one will mutate into a zombie.
Chu Ruoxue furrowed her brows, thinking, "From the perspective of improvement, the green quality T-Virus offers a higher increase than the purple quality talent I saw in the system's encyclopedia."
"Indeed, having side effects is good; the potency is stronger than what big workshops offer."
"It's just that once it reaches blue quality, the attributes no longer increase; it only reduces the rate of sanity loss."
Chen Yuxuan couldn't help but complain, "Does it need to be lowered? It would be better if it was crazier, wouldn't it... Especially for a certain little lunatic, seeing this talent would make her scream with excitement."
"So... are we not crazy enough, which is why we can't unleash the true power of the T-Virus?"
Chu Ruoxue made a hypothesis.
Chen Yuxuan shrugged, "I don't know; let's try again."
Another skill book appeared in each of their hands.
"How's your comprehension coming along?"
At this moment,
Li Ruoshu also arrived.
"Ruo Shu Sister." Chu Ruoxue turned her head and recounted everything that had just happened.
After listening,
Li Ruoshu merely frowned slightly, and after a brief thought, said, "Let me try first."
With that said,
Li Ruoshu appeared in the laboratory and obtained a T-Virus injection from it.
Immediately, she reappeared in front of a Tank Zombie.
Seeing Li Ruoshu suddenly appear, the Tank Zombie let out a roar and was about to charge over.
Li Ruoshu remained unhurried.
She picked up the syringe in her hand and injected it into her bloodstream; the T-Virus instantly erupted within her body.
The toxin rapidly eroded her consciousness, causing her vision to briefly black out.
A few seconds later,
Li Ruoshu suddenly opened her eyes, only to see that her pupils had turned a strange black.
The Tank Zombie roared and charged towards Li Ruoshu.
At this moment, there was no emotion left in Li Ruoshu's eyes.
She brandished the military knife in her hand and began to fight the Tank Zombie.
More than ten minutes later,
Li Ruoshu appeared on the top floor of the Twin Towers, with some bloodstains on her body, and the blackness in her eyes deepened.
Chu Ruoxue was a little scared and asked weakly, "Ruo Shu Sister, are you okay..."
"I'm fine; I've already comprehended it." Li Ruoshu released her T-Virus form, and her pupils returned to normal.
"How is it?" Chen Yuxuan asked eagerly.
"Purple quality!" Li Ruoshu replied.
The two couldn't help but exchange glances, and Chen Yuxuan said with a wry smile, "As expected of you; you comprehended purple quality right away."
Li Ruoshu didn't notice the disappointment in Chen Yuxuan's eyes; after checking the skill's effect, she gave up on comprehending this skill, as it was too low for her.
She had only tried it out just now.
After giving up, Li Ruoshu added, "I feel that comprehending purple quality doesn't seem difficult; you shouldn't be unable to comprehend it. Is something wrong?"
"But we also followed these steps: inject the T-Virus, then fight monsters."
"Ruo Shu Sister, what are the attributes of this skill of yours?" Chu Ruoxue asked.
T-Virus · Assault: After activation, all attributes increase by 30%, attack power additionally increases by 20%, and sanity is lost at a faster rate.
Li Ruoshu simply recounted it.
"Huh?"
Chu Ruoxue and Chen Yuxuan exchanged glances and said with some surprise, "Why does it have a suffix?"
The three immediately realized that this T-Virus skill seemed a bit unusual.
White, green, and blue qualities might be fixed attributes.
But after purple, there seemed to be some changes.
The three then looked at the zombies below, different types, different strengths.
They were all infected with the T-Virus, but there were indeed significant differences between them.
"It seems we still need to spend time researching this," Chu Ruoxue said excitedly; she loved researching these things the most.