Chapter 21: Harvesting the Infected
Zhou Chen rushed into the Chinese medicine store with an arrow, and without saying a word, pulled down the earthy yellow roller shutter.
The sky was very dark, it was about to fall into the night, and the door was closed, and the Chinese medicine store was dark for a moment.
Zhou Chen held the sword in front of him with his right hand, standing at the door and groping on the wall with his left hand.
"Smack!"
Turn on the lights
The shop is as bright as day.
Although there is little chance of a monster in the Chinese medicine store, Zhou Chen still carefully checked around, and after making sure that it was safe, he went directly to the area of precious Chinese medicinal materials to rummage.
"Ginseng."
"Ganoderma lucidum."
"He Shou Wu."
"Ejiao."
……
They are all familiar and precious Chinese medicines.
Zhou Chen heard that the Chinese medicine store is divided into an outer indoor room, the outer room is a popular product, the inner room is a high-end goods purchased at a high price, such as ginseng, the outer room is artificially planted mass production goods, a plant of tens or hundreds of yuan, and the inner room is dozens of years and hundreds of years of wild old ginseng, a plant of hundreds of thousands or even millions.
Zhou Chen found that there was a door on the wall, pushed the door in, turned on the light, and found that it was a living room inside, with a small area and high-end decoration.
No, a bit of extravagance, to be exact.
There was also a closed black wooden door in the depths of this room, which could not move when pushed.
Zhou Chen poked a sword above the keyhole, drew a circle around the door lock, removed the lock and pushed the door in.
The room was very small, only three or four meters long and wide, and as soon as the door was opened, one could see a tall brown wooden cabinet that occupied the entire wall, with twenty or thirty large drawers on it, and each drawer was pasted with a large red paper to indicate the storage of medicinal materials.
"Musk."
"Leopard bones."
"Bear bile."
"Twenty years of wild ginseng."
"Pure wild Tianshan Snow Lotus."
"Two-bar deer antler velvet."
……
Zhou Chen's glance swept over, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Wipe!
In addition to wild ginseng, all the remaining medicinal materials are contraband!
Tianshan Snow Lotus is a national third-class endangered species, and in 2000, the State Council Document No. 13 has explicitly banned the mining of wild snow lotus.
As for musk deer antler velvet, leopard bones, bear bile, etc., these Chinese medicinal materials are taken from animals, and many of them are first-class endangered protected animals, which are as precious as giant pandas.
"In peacetime, the owner of this shop was caught and shot eighty percent of the time."
After complaining, you still have to take it.
Zhou Chen is not a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and does not know much about Chinese herbal medicines, so he can only open his mobile phone Baidu and search one by one to see the specific effects of these traditional Chinese medicines.
After some searching, Zhou Chen made a choice-
Two-bar deer antler velvet: a nourishing holy product that can restore the health of the weak and make the average person stronger.
Twenty-year-old wild ginseng: solid foundation peiyuan strengthens the body, and the function is similar to that of two-bar deer antler.
What can be synthesized by these two Chinese medicinal materials plus the heart of the mutant python?
"The energy required to craft is 13, is it synthetic?"
Hearing the system prompt, Zhou Chen's forehead was full of black lines.
After killing the Giant Hammer Infected, his whole body adds up to exactly 13 points of energy, and the Mutant Python Heart is an E-grade high-quality material, and it takes all body energy to synthesize it.
"No!"
Zhou Chen was not in a hurry, because he had to leave a few points of energy to charge the energy burst and save his life at the critical moment.
Like a civet cat, he quietly went to the second floor, turned on the lights to check the house to make sure it was safe, and then turned off the lights and crouched next to the window to observe the street.
A large number of virus infections came to this street, large and small, the big ones were more exaggerated than the giant hammer infected, and the small ones were about the same as the blade infected, and there were at least dozens of them as far as the eye could see, and the black pressure occupied a section of the street.
In fact, when Zhou Chen was collecting medicinal herbs, the rumbling and fighting on the street were endless, and the clanging bell was non-stop, but he just didn't hear it.
When I saw this, I was immediately shocked by the battle scene.
There was a mess next to the corpse of the green anaconda, groups of virus infected people were fighting, the ground was pitted and bleeding, mutilated and incomplete dead bodies could be seen everywhere, most of the cars on both sides of the street were overturned, and some fuel tank explosions were on fire and black smoke was soaring into the sky.
The fight between these virus infections is hard-hitting, simple and rude, but it makes people's scalps tingle.
"It turns out that the virus infected body is not monolithic, they will fight for life and death for food."
Zhou Chen was quite surprised, but it made sense to think about it.
Humans infected with the virus and dying become monsters, with no intelligence, no self-awareness, only the instinct to swallow, and whoever prevents them from eating will be killed.
After the Fabai virus was implanted on the earth, one after another human beings died and became infected by the virus, so far the number of deaths is not much, but the frightening thing is that people keep dying, people continue to become monsters, there is no safe place, and the monsters are more terrifying than the other, ordinary people encounter a dead end, and even hundreds of ordinary people gather together to meet one can only flee for their lives, without the power to resist.
If the virus breaks out instantly, it should be damned, and it should be lived, so it will be easier, at least you don't have to worry about the people around you suddenly dying and becoming infected with the virus, and turning your head to kill yourself.
Zhou Chen quietly opened a crack in the window, and aimed the bursting crossbow at a virus infected body below that was seriously injured and unable to move, lying on the side of the street howling.
Energy Burst!
The white arrow trough fades rapidly from top to bottom, while the black alloy bolt turns white at a visible rate and emits a slight hum as it is charged.
"Whew!"
The sound is like fireworks, which shoot into the virus and blast it to pieces.
"Energy +2"
"Enhancement +1"
The streets are too chaotic for the slightest movement to attract the attention of infected people.
At this moment, Zhou Chen turned into a hunter lurking in the dark, showing his hideous fangs against the virus infected.
One, two, three......
Continuous charging uses energy bursts, because killing virus infectants, the energy does not decrease but increases, and soon breaks through the 20 mark.
Zhou Chen was excited, this is a good opportunity to improve his strength!
However, what puzzled him was that he stood still when he reached [Bubble: Nine-Star Enhancement].
"Isn't it the same as playing games to level up, and it takes a lot of experience to get to the tipping point?"
Zhou Chen didn't know, just guessed.
After a tragic battle on the streets, coupled with Zhou Chen's covert hunting, the number of virus infections dropped sharply in just ten minutes, and only single digits remained.
Zhou Chen put away the bursting crossbow and lay on the ground, and the whole person disappeared into the darkness.
The remaining virus infections on the street are more terrifying than the other, which can be described as the peak combat power of the current level, and some even notice this, but there is too much food on the street to take care of Zhou Chen.
If Zhou Chen attacked again, maybe one of the infected people felt threatened with death and would rush over and break him into pieces.
Because there was too much food, the remaining infected people no longer attacked each other, and each ate and devoured the corpses of the cyan anaconda and the same kind.
Zhou Chen slowly moved towards the staircase like a thief, and it took nearly half a minute to walk a short distance of more than ten meters, and then he walked upstairs lightly to the Tibetan medicine secret room.
Mutant Python Heart + Two-bar Deer Antler + Twenty-Year Wild Ginseng
"Synthesize!"
Brush!
A dazzling white light flashed, and Zhou Chen subconsciously closed his eyes and turned his head.
This time, the light lasted for two or three breaths before dimming, and Zhou Chen opened his eyes and saw ten marbles and big red pills lying quietly in the palms of his hands.