The effects brought by a Luck attribute of -5 immediately became apparent.
Zhongli Yi's complete death did not bring Mu Bei any relief; instead, it made him feel a deep and pervasive malice.
Mu Bei could faintly feel hostility coming from all directions in the air, hostility directed at him, hostility from the entire World.
From the air, to the land, to the water flow, it was as if everything, as if every atom, tended to move towards the possibility most detrimental to himself.
The reality was far less exaggerated; it could only be said that Mu Bei's psychological effect amplified his feelings.
At this moment, Mu Bei only felt that the gunshots, explosions, and sounds of collapsing buildings coming from outside the City Lord's Mansion had become particularly grating.
He looked around, searching for equipment in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion that could further increase his protection.
When Luck was normal, there wasn't much feeling, but now that it was -5, Mu Bei realized how fragile the Human body actually was.
His Constitution attribute was already 64.5, but his body was full of vital points that would be severely injured or even killed if hit: eyes, carotid artery, wrist artery...
In a corner of the backyard, Mu Bei found some riot shields.
These shields looked sturdy and heavy, made of high-strength composite material with an inner layer of super-hard steel plate and an outer layer of black wear-resistant protective coating. They were rectangular, about 1.6 meters high and 0.8 meters wide, and weighed about 12 kilograms.
After activating his Scouting skill, Mu Bei selected the three shields with the most remaining durability.
He placed one shield on his back, held the other two in each hand, surrounding himself with the three shields so he could better deal with stray bullets from all directions.
Besides these three shields, Mu Bei also stripped some relatively intact armor from the soldiers' corpses to replace some damaged equipment on his body.
After preparing, he walked out of the City Lord's Mansion fully armed.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
The value of -5 Luck revealed the tip of the iceberg at this moment.
Just as Mu Bei stepped out of the City Lord's Mansion's threshold, he felt the shields on his body being hit by three stray bullets from unknown directions.
Before he had run two steps, another rocket flew towards him.
In the dark night, the bright trail immediately caught Mu Bei's attention, so he immediately lay flat on the ground.
The rocket grazed the shield on his back, scraping out sparks, then hit the wall of the City Lord's Mansion and turned into a shockwave and countless splashing fragments.
Dense fragments and steel balls hit the shield on his back, producing a dense but brief metallic collision sound.
Mu Bei looked along the rocket's trajectory and saw a soldier nearby reloading the next rocket into an RPG.
With his extraordinary hearing, Mu Bei could hear the soldier's low murmur at this moment, even with all the surrounding noise:
"Damn Zhongli Yi! Not only did he steal my wife, but he also got my daughter pregnant! Everyone who comes out of the City Lord's Mansion must die..."
Just by listening, he knew this guy was a man with a story, but Mu Bei had no interest in hearing more.
The guy who was reloading the rocket only felt a strong gust of wind, and looking up, he saw a shield slapping towards him.
Subsequently, the consciousness of this man with a story fell into complete darkness.
After putting the newly reloaded RPG into his storage space, Mu Bei continued to collect World Power, killing Humans and Zombies indiscriminately.
That's right, he killed both Humans and Zombies.
Although these Zombies had helped Mu Bei attract the attention of most Human ability users and the army, the World Child was now dead.
Now, the only remaining value these Zombies held for him was as World Power and virus cores.
So, it was time to kick the donkey after it had done its job.
Of course, even if Mu Bei didn't actively kill Zombies, most level 1 and 2 Zombies would still attack him proactively.
Because if they were far away, the Zombie Lord couldn't effectively control the low-level Zombies with extremely low Intelligence attributes.
Even if orders were given not to attack Mu Bei, these low-level Zombies couldn't understand them at all and would still attack upon seeing Mu Bei, a living person.
Moreover, their attack priority was extremely high:
Even if a living Human stood in front of these low-level Zombies, they would ignore the Human before them and turn to attack Mu Bei, who was more than ten meters away.
This was because the virus within these Zombies instinctively craved symbiosis with a powerful body, which drove them to attack stronger Humans and infect them with the Zombie virus.
Therefore, compared to ordinary people, Zombies were more inclined to attack Human ability users and strong soldiers.
And as a living person whose Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Intelligence attributes had broken through the limits of this World, Mu Bei naturally became the Zombies' 'favorite'.
For example, right now, several Zombies that were gnawing on a girl lying on the ground stopped Gnawing upon smelling Mu Bei's 'scent', and some even spat out the meat they were chewing.
They immediately got up and stumbled towards Mu Bei, who was more than ten meters away. The latter found them too slow and proactively stepped forward to smash them to death.
Just as Mu Bei turned to leave, he felt something pull the shield he was holding in his right hand.
Looking down, it was the girl who had just been gnawed by Zombies.
"Save... I am the City Lord's... woman, pregnant..."
To survive, the dying girl used her last strength to call for help from Mu Bei.
From the girl's relatively intact face, it could be seen that her real age was probably not even 16.
At this moment, the girl's appearance was extremely gruesome; her limbs had been gnawed to the point where the white bones inside were visible, but this was still the better part.
The worst part was her abdomen: a large hole had been bitten into it by Zombies, amniotic fluid mixed with blood flowed everywhere on the ground, there were also her large and small intestines on the ground, and one could even see the fetus inside the uterus whose head had been bitten off by Zombies.
Although the girl's plea for help was incomplete, combined with the context, Mu Bei could understand her meaning: she was Zhongli Yi's woman and was pregnant with Zhongli Yi's child.
Looking at this extremely physiologically discomforting scene, Mu Bei didn't feel it was anything special, only feeling a bit surprised:
She could still move after being injured to this extent? However, she was also dying; her plea for help at this moment was just a final resurgence of life.
The Human body is truly wondrous.
Sometimes it's fragile to the point of death, while at other times it's miraculously strong, giving a Schrödinger-like feeling.
Looking at the girl's face, Mu Bei thought of the man with a story he had just killed, the one whose wife and daughter were both taken by the World Child. These two looked somewhat alike; they were probably father and daughter.
Even a small fly is meat; dying from bleeding out is too wasteful.
Thus, under the girl's gaze, which intertwined hope and despair, Mu Bei didn't hesitate to brutally chop off her head with the not-so-sharp edge of his shield.
The next moment, besides the usual notification that he couldn't obtain world source and the notification that he gained a small amount of World Power after his Heaven-Lost talent was triggered, he also received a less common notification:
【Due to the Contractor's excessive killing behavior in a short period of time, Charm has decreased by 1 point.】
The last time Mu Bei received such a notification was yesterday afternoon; in the interval between the two notifications, he had only performed less than 2000 killing acts.
However, this would not prevent Mu Bei from continuing to collect World Power.
Not long after putting the girl out of her misery, he moved to another location to continue collecting World Power and saw from afar a group of Zombies surrounding the entrance of a store.
They kept hitting the glass door, and inside the glass door, it was packed with people fleeing from the Zombies.
Some people inside the store saw Mu Bei not far away, thinking he was an ability user who had come to rescue them. They all showed expressions of pleading, and some shouted loudly:
"Lord Ability User, please save us quickly! The glass door won't hold much longer!"
Because of the equipment he was wearing, Mu Bei was once again mistaken by others for a Warrior from Jinzhou City.
Don't worry, I'll soon free you from this suffering World.
Mu Bei plunged a shield into the ground, fixing it by his side, then half-knelt on the ground so the shield could completely cover him. Next, he took out a loaded RPG from his storage space, aimed at the store, and pulled the trigger.
The rocket, leaving a bright trail, flew over the Zombies' heads, pierced through the glass door under the horrified gaze of the people inside the store, and exploded after hitting the reinforced concrete wall.
The steel balls inside the rocket were given lethal kinetic energy after the explosive was detonated, bouncing back and forth in the confined space, turning the people inside into sieves.
Ultimately, all the people seeking refuge in the store turned into Mu Bei's World Power.
This was the first time in his life that he had fired an RPG. He silently gave himself a thumbs-up in his heart as he looked at his results.
It was quite accurate.
The Zombies surrounding the store also noticed Mu Bei and ran towards him one after another.
It was another one-sided slaughter.
A Constitution attribute of 64.5 brought Mu Bei extremely powerful stamina and physical recovery speed.
When killing these minor characters whose attributes weren't even a fraction of his, the stamina he consumed was even less than what he naturally recovered.
Mu Bei prioritized killing the Human ability users who were guaranteed to drop treasure chests after death, and of course, he wouldn't miss out on the World Power he could harvest along the way.
...
Throughout this night, Mu Bei was hit by bullets fired from various types of guns:
Pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, and even anti-material rifles.
Many rockets and grenades also exploded near Mu Bei, but no explosive directly hit him.
Although his current speed wasn't as fast as bullets, he could still dodge these explosives.
During these experiences, Mu Bei truly felt the power of the -5 Luck attribute.
Among them, the most dangerous was being hit by a bullet fired from an anti-material rifle.
The power of this type of rifle, specifically used to hit armored vehicles and tanks, was astonishing:
Fired from a straight-line distance of approximately 250m from Mu Bei, after piercing through his riot shield, the remaining power could still penetrate a helmet.
The situation at the time was extremely dangerous. If Mu Bei's current scalp and skull strength hadn't been quite high, he would have been headshotted then.
Furthermore, it was fortunate that he immediately chose to duck after feeling the shield take a heavy hit.
Otherwise, what would have been penetrated were Mu Bei's goggles and his eyes!
Mu Bei located the damn sniper in less than half a second, then ran to the sniper's side in about 10 seconds, and finally smashed him into a pulp with his shield.
Besides this sniper, Mu Bei also encountered many strange and varied ability users:
There were those who could breathe fire, those who could spray water, those who could fly, those who could burrow, those who could shrink, those who could grow, those who could become soft, those who could become hard...
Although the abilities of these ability users were strange and varied, they all had one thing in common, which was:
No ability user was a match for Mu Bei in a single exchange; Mu Bei didn't need a second hit to kill them.
Throughout this night, Mu Bei used up the durability of nearly a dozen shields, and his armor was also replaced again and again.
Whenever the durability of a piece of armor on his body was insufficient, he would find a relatively safe place and quickly change his equipment.
He tried his best to ensure that all the equipment on his body remained in optimal condition.
For Mu Bei, this was another bloody night of slaughter, but also a night of great harvest.
Not only did he harvest countless World Power, but he also obtained many blue-quality treasure chests.
It wasn't until the first ray of morning sunlight pierced the darkness and shone upon the land that the bloodthirsty Mu Bei realized how much time had passed.
At this moment, no gunshots could be heard within Jinzhou City anymore, only the roars of Zombies remained.
In the past 2 hours, Mu Bei had killed from the East Gate to the West Gate, then from the West Gate to the North Gate, and finally from the North Gate to the South Gate.
His figure shuttled like a ghost between streets and buildings, killing countless beings, mostly low-level Zombies with low Intelligence, and very few Humans.
Those Zombies couldn't resist his attacks at all; they were as fragile as paper in front of him.
This once prosperous city had now become a place of deathly silence and ruins. Foreign and local Zombies wandered aimlessly on the streets, searching for their next prey.
As the sky gradually brightened, Mu Bei's pace gradually slowed.
He was now standing in front of a ruin in the South of the city, wiping bloodstains and minced meat from his goggles with his sleeve. Looking up at the gradually brightening sky, a somewhat indescribable emotion welled up in his heart.
Unlike the extremely boring days in the sterile ward, during the non-stop killing last night, World Power flowed in continuously, giving Mu Bei an unprecedented sense of gain.
This sense of gain was far more intense than when he had mastered some new knowledge during his life in the sterile ward before.
Mu Bei felt that he had fallen in love with such days.
His thoughts returned to reality. After tidying up the equipment on his body, Mu Bei took a deep breath and turned to look at the Zombies slowly surrounding him.
Among the Zombies surrounding Mu Bei, low-level Zombies accounted for a large proportion.
But these unintelligent idiots didn't run directly towards him to attack like before; instead, they stopped and formed a seemingly impenetrable encirclement.
If this situation occurred, there was only one possibility: the Zombie Lord, A Ling, was nearby and directly controlling these low-level Zombies.
Mu Bei opened his Contractor's Mark with his mind and then found the summoned creature interface.
After reading the information inside, Mu Bei discovered:
Why was the information inside different from what he had seen two hours ago? Had the Zombie Lord secretly evolved while he was harvesting World Power?