Star-Level Promotion

Although these nuclei couldn't promote them to a higher star level, they were good for replenishing stamina and energy.

It could be said that as long as they had enough five-star nuclei, they could keep fighting indefinitely.

These two didn't eat much, just five at a time, and then handed over the rest to Dylan.

Dylan patted the heads of the bird and the dog to show his appreciation.

At this moment, Second Dog's ears perked up, and it immediately sprinted towards the innermost part of the farm.

The coal ball flapped its wings and flew over. Seeing this, Dylan smiled.

This saved him the trouble of checking each place himself.

Dylan hurried to catch up, but before he could arrive, he saw four laser beams shooting out.

Shortly after, there were cries of pain, and then silence.

When Dylan approached, he found four dead bodies of black pigs lying on the ground, each with a charred hole in its body.

It was evident that they had been killed by the coal ball with a single strike.

Approaching to inspect, Dylan found that these four black pigs were actually wild boars.

Each had a pair of long tusks.

Moreover, there was a faint green light flashing on their foreheads.

It turned out they were mutant wild boars.

No wonder the coal ball had to use its skills to attack.

However, Dylan wasn't surprised to find wild boars on the farm.

Some pig farms would crossbreed wild boars with domestic pigs to cultivate new breeds. The resulting crossbred black pigs had delicious meat and fetched a high price.

Especially the meat of wild boars, it tasted even better.

After giving four one-star nuclei to the coal ball and Second Dog, Dylan collected the bodies of the four mutant wild boars into the space.

This was also delicious and must not be wasted.

After cleaning up the four wild boars, Second Dog ran to the front of a house and kept scratching at the door, but it didn't bark.

Dylan kicked the door open and found five people crouching in the corner of the room, looking at him with fear.

Four adults and a child seemed to be a surviving family.

On the floor of the room lay a pig's skeleton, with the meat almost completely stripped.

It seemed that the reason this family survived was because of this pig's meat.

However, it seemed they all ate it raw.

Dylan glanced at them and said, "The outside has been cleaned up. You can go out and move around."

After speaking, he left without looking back, taking the bird and the dog with him.

After Dylan had walked for a while, the family cautiously walked out.

When they saw the corpses of the zombie pigs in the yard, they were stunned.

They ran to the gate but found that Dylan had already driven away in the off-road vehicle.

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Dylan didn't linger and drove to a pickle factory next.

Inside, there were dozens of wandering zombies, but Dylan didn't need to take action. The coal ball and Second Dog took care of them.

After collecting the crystals, Dylan wandered around the factory and stored all the packaged pickled vegetables into the space.

Next, Dylan separately went to a food factory and a flour mill.

The zombies were cleared by the coal ball and the dog, and he was responsible for collecting the supplies.

However, these factories were small, and there weren't many supplies or zombies.

But Dylan didn't care. Today was just for training the coal ball and Second Dog. The amount of supplies didn't matter.

In the afternoon, Dylan went to rabbit farms, cattle farms, sheep farms, poultry farms, and so on, one by one.With Dylan's coordination with the coal ball and Second Dog, the animal zombies inside were quickly cleared out. They even managed to kill eight one-star animal mutant forms on the side.

After rewarding all these one-star nuclei to the bird and the dog, Dylan calculated that with two more one-star nuclei, he could elevate their levels to two stars.

Seeing that there was still plenty of daylight left, Dylan decided to clean up a few more farms to see if they could encounter two more mutant forms, allowing the bird and Second Dog to reach two stars today without having to wait until tomorrow.

It was strange indeed. From morning till now, Dylan hadn't encountered a single two-star mutant form.

He speculated that it might be because the probability of farm animals becoming mutants was extremely low, similar to domesticated pets.

Moreover, the chances of them becoming two-star mutants were even lower.

For a one-star mutant to advance to two stars, it needed to consume ten one-star nuclei.

With mutants being scarce here, it was no wonder they hadn't encountered any two-star mutants.

If they were in a large forest or wilderness, they would probably encounter mutants as high as seven or eight stars by now.

Just like the zoo they had visited a few days ago, where they encountered a seven-star elephant mutant.

Anyway, the more wild animals there were, the higher the chances of encountering high-star mutants.

However, Dylan couldn't afford to provoke mutants of such high stars at the moment.

But Dylan had already made up his mind to find a way to quickly kill the mutants in the zoo.

That way, he would have a chance to upgrade his space ability to level 7.

Dylan was eager to know what new skills he would gain once his ability reached level 7.

For the last stop, Dylan chose an ostrich farming base.

Next to it was a dairy farm.

With two farms, he didn't believe they wouldn't encounter two mutants.

Entering the ostrich farming base, Dylan saw that the area was quite large.

It was surrounded by fences that were taller than a person, with several rows of sheds deep inside.

Second Dog was barking incessantly outside the fence.

It seemed there was something inside.

By now, Dylan could distinguish the meaning of Second Dog's barking.

A fierce and loud bark meant there were mutants inside.

A loud but normal bark meant there were ordinary human or animal zombies inside.

A low whine and scratching at the door meant there were surviving humans inside.

And now, it was barking ferociously, indicating there were mutants inside.

Sure enough, upon hearing Second Dog's barking, two tall ostriches ran out from the innermost shed.

These two ostriches were obviously taller than ordinary ones.

Even their long legs were almost as tall as a person.

And there was a flicker of green light on their foreheads.

Confirmed, two mutant ostriches.

Dylan thought they would directly leap over the fence.

However, they stopped at the fence and stretched out their long necks, trying to bite Second Dog.

Fortunately, after a day of training, Second Dog was much stronger now.

It reacted quickly, dodged the attack, and then bit one of the ostriches on the neck.

Now, the ostrich was in trouble.

Its neck was its weak spot, and with Second Dog biting it, it couldn't move.

The other ostrich tried to help by stretching its neck, but it was immediately taken down by a laser from the coal ball.

At the same time, Second Dog exerted force and snapped the neck of the first ostrich.

With just one move, both mutant ostriches met their demise.