Chapter 14: The Caucus
He slowed down his pace and lightly touched the door of the hotel, and before he could make a sound, a zombie looked at him, and the white crystal in the middle of the zombie's brow was enough to show that it was different.
In the last days, zombies, like humans, are divided into ranks of strength.
The nucleus in the body of a zombie is generally located in the middle of the zombie's forehead, of course, there are exceptions, but the general position is very different. Divide their ranks by color, the core of the first-order zombies is white, the second-order zombies are green, the third-order zombies are gray, the fourth-order zombies are yellow, the fifth-order zombies are blue, the sixth-order zombies are purple, the seventh-order zombies are orange, the eighth-order zombies are red, and the ninth-order zombies are black.
In his previous life, he was fortunate enough to have seen an eighth-order zombie, and a ninth-order zombie had only heard of it, and by the time he crossed over, he had never seen what a zombie with a black corpse core in the middle of his forehead looked like.
The first-order zombie walked directly towards him, and its movement speed was slightly faster than that of an ordinary zombie, equivalent to the speed of an adult walking briskly.
It was wearing a crumpled suit, the suit was covered in red blood, its face and hands were covered with scraps of flesh, and it was obvious that it had devoured a lot of bodies before, but it didn't know if those bodies were human or zombie.
This zombie actually evolved into a first-order zombie in such a short period of time, if it hadn't met him, it would definitely not have died here early.
According to its evolution speed at this time, among the zombie kings who will shock one side in the future, it will definitely have its foothold.
Looking at the zombie walking towards him alone, he was like a great enemy, his hands holding the axe trembled slightly because of the force, but there was no timidity in his heart, and a strong battle intent burned in his heart.
In terms of the strength of his previous life, there was no problem with such a zombie at all, but his current strength was far from his previous life, and in his previous life, he was also a sixth-order evolutionary, but now he has just become a first-order evolutionary, and his heels have not yet been established.
Although his strength is not as good as before, so many years of combat experience have not disappeared with rebirth, but are deeply engraved in his bones.
At this time, the ring he had hidden faintly emitted a glimmer of light and directly integrated into his body.
Although he didn't know what was going on, he suddenly felt a surge of infinite power in his body, which directly swept away the fatigue of cleaning up the hotel, and now he was in the same state as when he first left the room.
He kicked the ground and slashed at the zombie's head with his axe at great speed, but his axe did not hit the zombie's head, but went directly down the zombie's temple, cutting off one of its ears and getting stuck in its shoulder.
He tried hard to pull out the axe, but with all his strength, he directly dragged the zombie in front of him down, and when he saw the zombie lying on the ground, he didn't have time to pull out the axe stuck in its shoulder, so he directly took out the dagger tied to the calf and stuck it in the back of the head.
The dagger slashed hard, splitting the zombie's head in two, stretched out his hand to grope around his head for a while, and finally touched an irregular hard core, took it in his hand and observed it carefully.
Corpse core, sure enough, I didn't expect him to be able to find this thing that can make people advance quickly in this life, but in his previous life, he spent a lot of money in exchange for some first-level corpse cores.
You must know that if an evolutionary wants to evolve, he must rely on corpse cores of the same level, even if you have many high-level corpse cores, as long as the level is not in harmony, it will be of no use.
Evolution is also risky, and he has also seen many fifth- and sixth-order evolutionaries who failed in the process of advancement and turned into zombies, and their heads were directly chopped off.
Using a large number of first-order corpse cores, it is possible to make ordinary people become evolutionaries, although the probability of success is not very high, but there are still many forces willing to try, there are still very few people who are proud of the sky, and the talents who become ordinary survivors account for the majority, in order to expand their own power, many forces will later acquire a large number of first-order corpse cores.
Therefore, the first-order corpse core was also speculated at a sky-high price for a certain period of time later, and the exchange ratio even exceeded that of the corpse core several orders higher than itself.
The zombies outside who didn't find him at the first time were also attracted by the sound of the previous fight, and he finally had time to pull out the axe stuck on the zombie.
Although the axe had undergone special treatment, he could still see a very small opening at the very edge of the blade, which made him frown secretly.
The ordinary zombies outside walked towards him in turn, but they were very slow and regular, and they didn't pose any threat to him at all. He walked out as he slashed and killed the zombies that had gathered around, and it was only then that the street outside clearly caught his eye.
What was once a bustling city is now full of overturned vehicles, and many of the roadside storefronts have been damaged. There was blood of various shapes all over the road, in the car, on the walls, and some torn clothes on the ground, but he didn't see a single human. Those humans who have not become zombies should have been swallowed by the zombies dangling outside, and if they were not eaten, they would have already become zombies.
The zombies on the road look much more embarrassed than in the hotel, most of the zombies in the hotel are still wearing the clothes they had before they were alive, and they are quite neatly dressed.
Few of these zombies on the road had complete clothes on their bodies, and almost every one of them had traces of being bitten, as if some wild beast had passed by here. Some of the internal organs were exposed, but there was not much blood oozing out, and the rotten flesh at the wound was already slightly blackened, and it looked extremely oozing.
The next thing he has to do is very simple, kill the zombies as much as possible, and by the way, look for any zombies that have evolved the corpse core. Now is the best time to kill zombies with corpse cores, zombies are generally more evolved than humans, and when a green corpse core appears on their foreheads, it will take a lot of effort to deal with them.
There are two ways for humans to evolve, one is by killing zombies, the advantage of this is that if you successfully advance, 100% will not be zombies, and the disadvantage is that no one knows how long it will take. There is also a way to take the corpse core, which is much faster than killing zombies, but there is a probability of zombieization of about 50%.
The second method is completely a process of luck, and the corpse core itself contains the zombie virus.