Lucia was right, Copper Mine Town was a small place, lacking everything but the Copper Mine, food, water, weapons, materials, and even mutated creatures. It may be an ideal place for ordinary people to live, but for hunters and evolutionaries, it is a place that restricts the development of their own strength.

So leaving here is for sure, but not now. Ding Hao plans to move up one level and learn stealth skills before leaving Copper Mine Town and starting his own wasteland journey, after all, he still has a life-threatening time-limited mission.

At noon the next day, Oak and Lucia left the copper mining town directly after receiving the task reward, while Ding Hao came to the small bar in the copper mining town in a leisurely manner.

"Yo, I heard that your kid is rich? Do you want to have something today? Seeing Ding Hao come in, the boss who was wiping the wine glass greeted him with a smile. Is it food, weapons, or another mission? ”

"It's still the same as before, let's have something to eat first, then look at the weapons, and finally a mission." Ding Hao directly found an empty table and sat over.

Charcoal-grilled ant meat, creamy ant egg mushroom soup, and a pitiful fruit salad are part of the bar's limited-edition low-radiation meal today. It is not impossible to eat meat in these years, and there are four more common ones: rampaging rat meat, mutant dog meat, double-headed venison, and brahminin meat (two-headed cow). But the radiation value in these meats is not low, and eating too much will increase the radiation content in the body, which will cause a series of bad physiological problems such as weakness and internal bleeding, so Ding Hao is usually willing to eat those tasteless nutrients than these things.

After eating and drinking, Ding Hao bought another M9 and 90 rounds of ammunition from the bar owner.

"Why don't you buy a shotgun? How powerful is this thing? Looking at Ding Hao, who was holding a gun in both hands to try his hand, the bar owner asked a little curiously.

"It's too heavy to run fast with a big gun on your back." Ding Hao inserted the two M9s back into the holsters on the outside of both thighs.

Both the M1014 and SPAR12 guns weigh about 4 kilograms, so it's best to travel lightly in the wild, and if you can't beat the mutant creatures, you can at least slip away. Moreover, these two shotguns are cumbersome to load, and the bullets need to be stuffed into the cartridge one by one, and at this time, Ding Hao can use the pistol to directly dry the other party into a sieve.

After buying weapons, Ding Hao took a collection task from the bar owner: collect 3 kilograms of luminous fungi for a reward of 1,000 yuan. The initiator of this quest is Dr. Ferraray of Coppertown.

"Glowing fungi? Do you make radiation? Ding Hao looked at the picture on the task card and asked curiously, luminescent fungi is a new species that appeared after the nuclear war, usually growing in places with high radiation, which can speed up the rate of biological metabolism of radioactive substances in the body.

"Yes." The bar owner explained. "Because of the two rains some time ago, many people have suffered from radiation sickness, and now the inventory of the clinic in Copper Mining Town is almost exhausted, and it needs to be replenished urgently."

After the end of the nuclear war, radioactive fallout polluted the oceans, obscured the sky, filled the soil, and most of the mutated creatures in the wilderness attacked with deadly radiation.

"Alright then, I'll try to come back as soon as possible." Ding Hao put away the task card, then turned around and was about to leave.

"Be careful on the road, I've heard that a pack of rotting wolves has come over there recently." The bar owner shouted at Ding Hao's back.

"Got it." Ding Hao waved his hand, unscrewed the door and walked out of the bar directly.

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Like regular mushrooms, luminescent fungi prefer to grow in dark, damp places, such as near tree roots or in crevices near ponds, and with their fluorescent properties, finding them is actually very simple.

But there's one thing to be particularly concerned about, and that's the dangers that are everywhere in the wilderness.

Ding Hao hid behind a tree stump, quietly watching the big drama of the rampaging mole rat vs. cyst fly being staged in the open space in front of him. The mutated mole is as large as a dog, with stubby limbs that are strong and powerful, and can dig holes in the earth and run and jump wildly. The rampaging mole has two layers of teeth, the outer layer is a thick and hard front tooth, a single bite can bite off a wrist-thick tree root, and the inner layer of the mouth has fine and sharp teeth, which can grind hard stones. The cyst fly is a huge fly as large as a human head, characterized by a disgusting parasite with strong radiation from the abdomen, enough to shoot 20 meters away, the parasite sticks to the body will cause radiation, acid burns, and biological parasitism. However, the large size of the cyst flies makes it very clumsy to fly, but ranged attacks can make up for this shortcoming.

Under the influence of radiation mutations, these monsters are all highly aggressive. Ding Hao saw five big flies buzzing around in the woods like bombers, and from time to time they shot follicles containing parasites at the rampaging moles on the ground, and the vesicles hit the moles and sizzled, and the pain of acid corrosion stimulated the moles to squeak. The three moles scurried around the woods with four paws, and from time to time they burrowed into the ground to avoid the attacks of the cyst flies, and by the way, they moved through the underground burrows to the underside of the cyst flies, and then broke through the soil layer and pounced on the cyst flies.

The mole and the flies fought back and forth, and finally ended in the victory of the mole side. After all, cyst flies are not high-defense insects of crustaceans, and they will be killed directly if they are pounced on by moles. The rampaging mole rat has been traveling underground for a long time, with rough skin and thick flesh, and has a strong resistance to the attack of cyst flies. But Rao was so, and by the end of the battle, only one of the three furious moles was still alive, and the other two had long been corroded and riddled with holes, and the white and fat maggots were wriggling happily in the acidic rotting fluid.

Ding Hao saw that the surviving mole first tore open the corpse of the cyst fly, pulled out a dark green gland and ate it, and then ate the maggots on the corpse of his companion. When the food was eaten, the mole's skin began to wrinkle and crack, and dots of green light emerged from under the skin.

This is...... Evolve! This berserk mole rat is evolving into a luminous species, which is equivalent to an evolutionary among mutated creatures, with many magical abilities.

For the sake of his own life, Ding Hao certainly couldn't let it complete its evolution, so he slowly pulled his bow and shot an arrow at the mole's head.

The furious mole, which was halfway through its evolution, was instantly pierced through the head by the hunting arrow from the eye, and the arrow was castrated, and it was directly nailed to the tree with the mole. The mole that was about to evolve into a luminous species had extremely tenacious vitality, and it was still struggling through its head, and the blood that emitted a green shimmer flowed down the shaft of the arrow, and was caught by Ding Hao with a blood bag just when it was about to drip down.

The blood of the luminous species is a very important research material, and it is very versatile, it can be sold for at least 10 yuan per milliliter, and Ding Hao, who is shy in his pocket, will not waste any opportunity to make money.

It wasn't until Ding Hao filled the small half bag that the poor rampaging mole completely choked. Then Ding Hao found a glowing fungus in the mole's cheek pouch, and when he took it out, he found that it weighed half a catty.

Anyway, the glowing fungus that has been bitten by a mole should be usable, right?

After taking out the glowing fungus, Ding Hao smashed the mole's skull with a stone, and found a white fluorescent crystal nucleus in the glowing mole's head. The probability of a berserk mole producing a crystal nucleus is very small, but no matter what kind of mutated creature it is, as long as it becomes a luminescent species, then it will definitely produce a fluorescent crystal nucleus. In terms of value alone, the value of fluorescent crystal nuclei can reach more than 100 times that of ordinary crystal nuclei, and there is no market for them.

After all, glowing seeds are rare, and each glowing seed is a very powerful and ruthless character, and it is not easy to kill them. Ding Hao can be said to be purely picking up leaks this time, and the sneak attack was successful when the opponent was halfway through evolution, and he would be killed with one blow.

After collecting the precious fluorescent crystal nuclei, Ding Hao continued to collect luminescent fungi. Fluorescent fungi are small, light, and grow in dispersion, so it is not easy to collect up to 3 kilograms. Collecting all the way, Ding Hao gradually went deeper into the forest and came to a babbling stream.

The water flow of the creek was very clear, but the gurgling Geiger counter on Ding Hao's waist showed that the creek contained a high dose of radioactive material, and a large number of luminescent fungi formed two green fluorescent bands on both sides of the stream.

It seems that the creek is also a breeding ground for luminescent fungi.

Ding Hao rolled up his sleeves and injected a shot into the vein to eliminate radiation, so that the absorbed radiation material would be quickly metabolized out without causing damage to himself, and then Ding Hao began to pick the glowing fungi on both sides of the stream.

At present, this behavior made Ding Hao can't help but think of Little Red Riding Hood picking mushrooms...... Wait, is it Little Red Riding Hood or a little girl picking mushrooms? Ding Hao scratched his hair. Forget it, whatever it is, as long as you don't run into the big bad wolf......

Roar! A menacing roar rang out. Ding Hao slowly raised his head and found that there were no big bad wolves, but there were 7 rotten wolves that were even more ferocious.

The rotting wolf is a mutation of the gray wolf, which is considered a ghoul version of the wolf, the rotting wolf has a withered, thin body, due to dehydration causing hair loss, hardened skin, fangs and claws are very prominent, and it looks aggressive. The rotting wolf is more agile and durable than a normal wolf, and is a team player, making it one of the most dangerous enemies in the wilderness.

Looking at the rotten wolf that gradually surrounded him, Ding Hao couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and pulled out the M9 pistol pinned to the outside of his thigh with lightning in his right hand, and at the same time flicked his left hand, an acid bottle was taken out by Ding Hao from his personal space, Ding Hao threw the acid bottle towards the rotten wolf, and then held the M9 with one hand and shot the bottle in the air.

Upon contact with the air, the acid in the bottle directly turns into a blazing fireball.