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Anthony vigorously shook off the blood from the machete and felt a slight fatigue. He had cleaned up alleys one, two, and three on Yanghe South Road in the morning, collecting at least 500 crystals in his backpack. It can be said that for the next month, he wouldn't have to worry about energy points.

However, in addition to Yanghe South Road, there were also Yanghe North Road, Yanghe West Road, and the Yanghe School located in the middle of them. These main roads belonging to the Yanghe community had a population of at least over ten thousand, including over five thousand students and teachers in the school. If they all turned into infected, there would be at least fifteen thousand zombies. There was still a long way to go.

Putting away the machete, Anthony headed back to the base directly. He opened the conversion chamber and poured all the zombie crystals from his backpack. The remaining energy points on Anthony's data panel immediately jumped. "Remaining energy points: 602.58." Looking at the three-digit energy points, Anthony felt a sudden feeling of being rich. He immediately opened the base equipment panel.

"Energy points required for upgrades: Level 2 Cultivation Room (100 energy points), Level 2 Storage Space (50 energy points), Level 2 Conversion Chamber (100 energy points), Level 2 Hibernation Chamber (100 energy points), Level 2 Base (1000 energy points)."

If he didn't upgrade the base, the total energy points required for upgrading all the equipment would be 350 points. It was within his tolerance. After considering it carefully, Anthony said directly, "System, upgrade all the upgradable devices except for the Base."

"Ding! It will require 350 energy points. Do you want to upgrade?" The system asked again.

Anthony was straightforward, "Upgrade."

"Ding! Upgrade successful! Remaining energy points: 252.58."

"Level 2 Cultivation Room: Covers an area of 5 acres. It can automatically cultivate with a daily consumption of 5 energy points. The crops cultivated mature once every three months and can be automatically harvested. It consumes 2 cubic spirit pools per acre. The cultivated crops can be consumed three times a day, enhancing each time by 0.3 attribute points (strength, agility, and spirit). There must be a three-hour interval between each use."

"No wonder it's a level 2 Cultivation Room after upgrading, but the consumption has also greatly increased. I wonder what the effect of enhancing the spirit attribute points is." Anthony muttered to himself, then looked at the information of the next upgraded equipment.

"Level 2 Storage Space: Total area of 5000 cubic meters. Time stands still within the storage space. The stored food comes with a small attached spiritual essence. Consuming it automatically increases 0.1 (strength, agility) and can be strengthened once a day. It automatically consumes 0.5 energy points per day."

"I didn't expect it to have such an effect." Anthony couldn't help but sigh. The heavy feeling he had due to the JK skirt was dispelled to some extent. He continued to read the information of the next upgrade.

"Level 2 Conversion Chamber: Together with all the waste from the house, it automatically absorbs scattered external energy and converts it into energy points, increasing the conversion rate by 0.1 times."

A conversion rate of 0.1 times? In other words, previously, a regular zombie crystal could only convert into 1 energy point, but now it could convert into 1.1 energy points. He continued reading.

"Level 2 Hibernation Chamber: Each entry consumes 0.5 energy points. Resting for six hours can restore body attributes and repair most injuries, and each hibernation increases the spirit attribute by 0.1."

After reading the upgrade effects of all the equipment, Anthony was very satisfied. Overall, the increased attribute points had significantly improved. The daily attribute increment increased from 1.5 to 1.7, including a 0.1 increase in the spirit attribute. This was still without the crops in the cultivation room maturing. If they did, the daily increment of attribute points could increase by an additional 0.9. However, The energy point is still a little short. Previously, he only needed 5.1 energy points per day, but now it had increased to 14 energy points. With the 252.58 energy points he currently had stored, he could last for a maximum of 18 days.

Seeing this, Anthony's mouth twitched. He felt like he had gained something, but at the same time, it felt like he hadn't fully gained. It was like thinking you had gone from being a worker to a boss, only to realize that while you earned more, your expenses also increased, and in the end, you were still just a worker.

However, the only device left for him to upgrade was the base. A Level 2 Base, costing a whole 1000 energy points. He wondered what changes it would bring. Anthony had a faint sense of anticipation...

Baiyin Avenue. Walmart Supermarket. It was bustling with people's voices last night, but this morning, all the survivors inside had turned into zombies. However, these zombies were abnormal. Their eyes were bloodshot, and they bit their own kind when they caught them.

Inside the supermarket, which was the size of a football field, there were more than three hundred zombies like that. The commotion attracted more zombies from outside, and the number of zombies continued to increase. The scene was bloody, violent, and disgusting.

After an unknown period of time, all the zombies fell to the ground. Their heads had been torn open, and the zombie crystals inside had disappeared. Only two and a half human-sized bloody meatballs stood in the center of the supermarket. At first glance, they looked like two huge insect eggs. Occasionally, there was movement inside the eggs, as if something extraordinary was incubating.

Since the appearance of the insect eggs, the zombies outside the shopping mall no longer poured in. They even automatically left after approaching the mall, as if there was something inside that scared them. In a short time, a vacuum zone appeared around the mall, as if the zombies in that area had disappeared.

In a corner of the mall, a man's head emerged. He looked around and, after confirming it was safe, immediately signaled to his companion not far away, "Come over here, there are no zombies here."

Receiving the signal from her companion, a girl immediately ran over. After reaching the man's position, she still seemed worried and whispered, "Kelvin, let's go back, alright? We still have some food at home, enough to last us until the rescue team arrives."

Before she finished speaking, the girl's fair face immediately swelled up. She covered her face, looking incredulously at her boyfriend and said, "Did you hit me?"

The man's face was full of disgust as he said, "Damn right, I hit you. I've put up with it for too long, Irene!"

In the girl's angry gaze, the man slapped her again. Seeing the two handprints on the woman's face, The man finally released his discontent.

"Kelvin, you're a fucking beast!" Irene, being continuously slapped, immediately disregarded everything and cursed, "Kelvin, what gives you the right to hit me? I've been with you for three years. During these three years, you've been living off my family, staying in my house, and my parents never complained about you being poor. They even planned to reduce the dowry from 300,000 to 200,000. And this is how you repay me?"

"Heh, if you hadn't brought it up, I wouldn't have been so angry!" Kelvin was also annoyed and grumbled, "It's all because you said you didn't want to separate from your parents, and you clung to me persistently. That's why I agreed to stay at your place. I only make a total of 4,000 a month, and I give your parents 3,000 for their living expenses. You don't even work, but every month you keep buying this and that. Isn't it my money you're spending? What do you mean by me living off your family? And as for that damn dowry! Your dad is a security guard at a mall, earning only 3,000 a month. Your mom spends her days playing mahjong outside, and your family doesn't even have a house. The whole family crams into a fifty-square-meter rental house. With your conditions, you have the audacity to demand a 300,000 dowry from me!"

Irene felt her confidence waver as she listened, but she still forced herself to say, "As a man, shouldn't you support your wife? Besides, after the apocalypse broke out, our family didn't kick you out."

"Heh, yeah! Support my wife! Don't think I don't know that a few years ago when we were about to break up, you went out and slept with someone else. You almost got mistaken for a prostitute by the police. Do you think I don't know about that? Your two lazy parents who do nothing but eat and sleep at home, Let them come out looking for food, lest they die. It's only me risking my life these past few days to find something to eat. If it weren't for me, your whole family would've been done for!" When Kelvin said this, Irene fell completely silent.

Seeing the other party yield, Kelvin also didn't bother wasting any more words. He said directly, "Cut the silent act, hurry up and come with me. If we don't find something to eat soon, we'll end up feeding the zombies."

"Oh." Irene muttered quietly and followed behind Kelvin. The two of them cautiously entered through a side entrance of the mall, relieved to find no zombies inside. Kelvin's face was filled with joy as he proceeded toward the supermarket on the second floor through the passage.

However, as soon as the two stepped into the supermarket, they were shocked by the sight before them. The floor of the supermarket was covered with zombie corpses, almost everywhere. "What... what happened here?" Irene gulped nervously.

Kelvin impatiently replied, "Never mind anything else? We need to get the supplies out of here before the zombies get here!"

"You're right," Irene nodded.

"Remember, only take food, don't pick up anything useless!" Both of them pushed a shopping cart and swiftly began scavenging. But what they didn't notice was that in the middle of the shelves in the household goods section, two blood-red giant eggs suddenly cracked open.