“I'm sorry.” Xia Sanfu, both scared and resolute, plunged the rusty boning knife into the Night Demon's chest.
The Night Demon suddenly opened its eyes, letting out a hoarse roar, its crimson eyes seemingly wanting to devour her, but it was held in place by the newbie protection period rules, unable to move.
How could this be.
Is physical attack useless?
Xia Sanfu looked at the Night Demon she had woken up and struck its head with all her might.
But the knife was too dull, and its head too hard; both of them grew red-eyed.
Xia Sanfu then switched to a steel pipe, one hit, two hits, three hits, and finally, on the tenth hit, she smashed its skull.
“Congratulations, Player, for clearing a Level 0 Night Demon. Battle Points +10.”
Her arm was so sore she could barely lift it; it was too exhausting. Why was fire so effective before?
Could it be that these aren't living organisms in the usual sense?
How long would it take to kill all the Night Demons in this supermarket? She needed to find some accelerants.
At the supermarket exit, one direction led to the first floor, and the other to the B2 parking lot.
Xia Sanfu took the escalator down to B2. It seemed there had been severe chaos here; vehicles were crashed together haphazardly, and Night Demons stood among them like specters.
She casually shone a light, and a human face was reflected in a car window.
Xia Sanfu's heart couldn't quite take it, but what was exciting was that most of the vehicles here seemed intact, and the tools and fuel inside might still be there!
She opened a gas tank. This gas tank had no anti-theft design; she just inserted a shoelace, pulled it out, and half of it was wet.
There was indeed gasoline!
However, the gasoline had a pungent smell and a dark color; it had already deteriorated.
Xia Sanfu suspected that this shopping center was previously a doomsday gathering place, because the aging degree of these vehicles was significantly lower than those outside, there were signs of modification, and the gasoline had not completely evaporated.
She moved the open flame a bit further away. Deteriorated gasoline, when exposed to air, easily forms flammable gas.
But now she had the material to burn the Night Demons.
All she needed now was a soft hose to siphon the oil.
Xia Sanfu's mind spun, and she recalled seeing a broken tea dispenser in a restaurant restroom.
Anyone who's changed the water knows that the water bucket on a tea dispenser is connected to a soft hose for siphoning water.
She quickly went to find the hose, wiped it with her clothes, inserted one end into the gas tank, then sucked on the other end. Before the gasoline entered her mouth, she pressed the hose and lowered it.
Under the principle of siphoning, gasoline continuously flowed out along the soft hose.
Xia Sanfu was bustling around, collecting cushions from cars and placing them under the gas tanks to let the flowing gasoline soak them.
At the same time, she pushed over shopping carts and stuffed the gasoline-soaked items into them.
She siphoned about twenty gas tanks in total, successfully obtaining sixteen shopping carts full of accelerants.
“Rest in peace, everyone!”
Xia Sanfu used the accelerants to start fires everywhere. The dazzling flames rapidly spread, and the sleeping Night Demons suddenly woke up, twisting and struggling.
Under the restrictions of the newbie protection period, these Night Demons could not move actively or attack the player, so they just danced wildly and roasted in the fire.
The heat, the smell of charring, and the already heavy, peculiar odor in the supermarket mingled, making it stuffy and suffocating.
Xia Sanfu watched for a while, then hid in the parking lot.
“Congratulations, Player, for clearing a Level 0 Night Demon. Battle Points +10.”
“Congratulations, Player, for clearing a Level 0 Night Demon. Battle Points +10.”
“Congratulations, Player, for clearing a Level 1 Night Demon. Battle Points +100. Dropped a Normal Treasure Chest.”
...
“Congratulations, Player, your Battle Points have reached 1000. You have advanced to Level 1 and received an advancement gift pack.”
“Friendly reminder: Night Demon Hatred Value +930. You have achieved ‘My Eyes Are Only On You.’ In a crowd, it will prioritize attacking you.”
...
The burning wasn't finished yet, but Xia Sanfu had already nimbly descended to B2, setting fires all the way up, circling from the B1 exit back to the ground floor, and searching the four ground floors!
In this building, Night Demons were mainly concentrated in the supermarket, with fewer in other places. Xia Sanfu grew more and more excited as she burned; the fear she felt when first entering the game was gone, leaving only the thought of leveling up.
With fire in hand, the advantage is mine, burn, burn, burn!
“Congratulations, Player, for continuously clearing 100 Night Demons. You have obtained the title ‘Demon Slayer Warrior.’ When the title is equipped, your damage against Night Demons +5.”
The system notification sound continued for an hour before stopping. She checked the history logs: this big fire killed 91 Level 0 Night Demons and 5 Level 1 Night Demons. Including the initial 4 Level 0 Night Demons and her first kill bonus of 100 points, her total Battle Points were 1550.
A Level 0 Night Demon only gives 10 Battle Points, and it's hard to break its skin and bones. If it weren't for their weakness to fire, killing a hundred of them would take until night!
She vaguely remembered a few Night Demons with fuller flesh and longer fangs; those must have been the so-called Level 1 Night Demons.
But what the hell is Hatred Value!
Will this thing chase her after the newbie protection period ends?
Xia Sanfu opened the advancement gift pack.
“Congratulations, Player, Free Attribute Point +1, Mysterious Lucky Bag +1, Skill Blind Box +1.”
Xia Sanfu checked the descriptions of the three items. Free Attribute Points could be added to the body to increase the development value of the body and brain.
The Mysterious Lucky Bag had a chance to draw resources most suited to oneself.
The Skill Blind Box would develop a certain part of one's ability into a specific skill.
Xia Sanfu had originally planned to open the Mysterious Lucky Bag and Skill Blind Box immediately, but now she hesitated. She was quite mediocre in all aspects; what good things could she get?
She decided to save the Lucky Bag and Blind Box for a while, to use them when the potential development value of her body or brain was higher.
She added the Free Attribute Point to her Body Development Value.
ID: H0081554088
Player Name: Xia Sanfu
Body Development Value: 4/10 (Finally reached the average level for Blue Star humans)
Brain Development Value: 8/99 (Barely excellent)
Battle Points: 1550/2000 (Oh, that's pretty fast, but still trash)
Combat Level: 1
Total Mileage: 0.17 km (Poor wretch, underestimating mileage will cost you~)
Points: 0 (Points are whole numbers, didn't expect that, did you, poor wretch)
Negative Status: Night Demon Hatred Value +1550
Unclaimed: Mysterious Lucky Bag +1, Skill Blind Box +1
Xia Sanfu was broken by the sarcasm in the parentheses. What was with this mileage? Didn't her running up and down count as mileage? Did only cycling count as mileage?
She immediately went out and cycled furiously for a round, finally getting one point, proving that only cycling counted as mileage.
After venting her emotions, she returned to reality. Between points and levels, she chose levels.
At least the benefits of level advancement were visible.
She was quite superstitious about her own strength, and now she was in a monster den with the newbie protection period buff. It would be inexcusable not to try and advance a few levels.
The points could be put aside for now.
Xia Sanfu continued to investigate the supermarket.
She remembered the system notification that when a Level 1 Night Demon died, in addition to 100 Battle Points, it also dropped a Normal Treasure Chest.
The supermarket had just been burned, and the air was thick and suffocating. She covered her mouth and nose as she walked in, spotting a white square box among a pile of charcoal. It could be opened by unfastening the clasps.
Xia Sanfu carried the treasure chest out. To be cautious, she squatted behind the chest, lifted the lid, and only after nothing happened did she turn the chest around to look at its contents.
Inside the box was a normal scimitar.
A scimitar in the standard sense of 'normal.'
Inside the lid of the treasure chest, a line of bloody words was engraved:
Scimitar, Normal-grade equipment.
After taking out the knife, the box automatically disappeared.
This left Xia Sanfu quite disappointed; a box was also a resource.
Countdown: 10 hours 38 minutes 35 seconds
Xia Sanfu stood in the shopping center plaza, looking up at the surrounding tall buildings, and turned her attention to the 32-story hotel; that was high enough.
Given that Night Demons fear fire and hide in the dark, they might also fear light, so a shelter would be best in a well-lit place.
She tied the collected fabric and wood to her bicycle, placed kindling in a stainless steel bucket, and quickly cycled towards the hotel two to three hundred meters away.
This hotel had been heavily scavenged; the wooden cabinets and wooden floors inside had all been pried off, as if the people here at some point were particularly short on fuel.
Xia Sanfu pondered carefully: if Night Demons' weakness was fire, then how did Night Demons come about? Did the original inhabitants fight against them? Did they also gather fuel to deal with them?
Where did the original inhabitants go? Are there still living people in this city?
Never mind, first, burn the Night Demons.