Chapter 104 - 103: Aftereffects of Berserking

Chapter 104: Chapter 103: Aftereffects of Berserking

After cleaning away the dark red gel, Zhou Mei was able to get a clear look at the wound, and she quietly sighed in relief.

The wound looked like a bloody mess and the gash was long, but she knew it was only a flesh wound. It hadn’t damaged the tendons in his arm, let alone the bone.

Zhou Mei carefully took out alcohol and iodine to clean Bena’s wound.

Ten minutes later, Bena’s arm was finally bandaged up, and he was also injected with a treatment shot produced by the shelter.

[Treatment Shot (White)]

[Upon use, wound recovery speed increases by 100%. Satiety and Hydration consumption speed also increases by 100%. Duration: 24 hours. Cannot be used again for 48 hours after use.]

With his arm injury treated, Bena didn’t dare to delay.

As the team’s main combatant, his arm was now injured, reducing his combat effectiveness by at least 20%. If they ran into another accident, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to handle it.

He quickly led the others in scavenging the supplies inside the shelter and processing the mutated black bear’s corpse.

Fortunately, the accident he had feared didn’t happen, and the five of them quickly drove back to their shelter.

Ye Yun was startled when he saw Bena’s left arm, which was wrapped up almost like a mummy’s.

He had never imagined Bena would get hurt on this trip, let alone so seriously.

After all, before they had set out, he had used the assessment system to check the risk level of this expedition. The risk had only been 0.013%.

’It seems I can’t let my guard down just because the risk level is low in the future.’

’A 0.013% risk just means problems are unlikely, not that there’s no danger at all.’

Take this lightly injured black bear, for instance. Under normal circumstances, Bena, wearing his exoskeleton and cooperating with the others, could have definitely taken it down with ease.

But it just had to go berserk at the critical moment.

That’s what led to Bena’s injury. If the bear hadn’t been able to go berserk, the mission most likely would have been completed smoothly.

After arranging for Bena to rest and recover, Ye Yun finally had a moment to look at this trip’s spoils.

[Damaged Bear Hide (Green)] x2

[Description: Hide taken from a mutated black bear. It is tough and offers some protective properties.]

[Mutated Black Bear Claw (Green)] x4

[Description: A claw from a mutated black bear. It is sharp and hard, and can be used as a weapon.]

[Mutated Black Bear Tooth (Green)] x2

[Description: A tooth from a mutated black bear. It is sharp and hard, possessing some offensive capability.]

[Black Bear Gallbladder (Green)] x1

[Description: The gallbladder of a mutated black bear. It contains a large amount of bilirubin and has some medicinal value.]

[Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)]

[Description: A special core from inside an advanced bionic person.]

[Upon use, randomly increases one attribute by 1 point.]

[Has no effect on targets with an attribute value of 6 or higher.]

[Damaged D-Grade Radiation Core (Green)] x1

[Description: A special core obtained from a powerful mutated creature. The exterior is damaged for unknown reasons.]

When he saw the first few items from their haul, Ye Yun didn’t notice anything amiss. However, his brow furrowed instantly when he saw the [Damaged D-Grade Radiation Core (Green)].

’Wait a minute!!!’

’What’s going on???’

This wasn’t the first time Ye Yun had dealt with a large mutated creature. Normally, one such creature would yield a [D-Grade Radiation Core (Blue)]. Why did it turn into a [Damaged D-Grade Radiation Core (Green)] this time???

However, he quickly thought of a possibility.

’The mutated black bear’s berserk state!!!’

’Could it be that because the mutated black bear went berserk, its internal radiation core was damaged, dropping its rarity from Blue to Green?’

Based on Bena’s description of the bear’s state after it went berserk, this possibility seemed quite high.

After realizing his blue-grade component had turned into a green one, Ye Yun immediately noticed another serious problem.

The number of materials harvested from the mutated black bear this time was also noticeably smaller. All the green-grade materials combined didn’t even add up to ten items.

This sudden loss of over ten green-grade components made Ye Yun’s heart ache a little.

’It seems I’ll have to order Bena and the others to end fights as quickly as possible if they get the chance.’

’After all, if every large mutated creature goes berserk, we’ll suffer huge losses.’

However, Ye Yun also knew this worry was somewhat unnecessary.

The 0.013% risk level showed that the probability of this happening was extremely low. This time, his luck had just been bad.

As Ye Yun pondered how to avoid similar situations in the future, he didn’t forget to inspect the other special item from this haul.

[Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)]

[Description: A special core from inside an advanced bionic person.]

[Upon use, randomly increases one attribute by 1 point.]

[Has no effect on targets with an attribute value of 6 or higher.]

Looking at the familiar Advanced Bionic Core, a hint of joy appeared on Ye Yun’s face.

He had already used two Advanced Bionic Cores before, successfully raising his Strength and Stamina attributes to 6 points.

This was the very thing the shelter’s expedition to the ruins had been for.

Without any hesitation, Ye Yun immediately used the Advanced Bionic Core.

[You have used [Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)]]

[[Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)] successfully used. Observation attribute increased, 5 > 6.]

Ye Yun immediately opened the system to look at his current attributes.

Looking at the data, Ye Yun nodded in satisfaction. He just needed four more [Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)]s to get all of his pure attributes to 6 points.

Because Bena’s left arm was injured, Zhou Mei said that while it wasn’t a major issue and he had received the treatment shot, it would take at least one to two days for a basic recovery, and three to four days to recover completely.

Therefore, Ye Yun temporarily shelved the idea of searching for other shelters.

Originally, his plan was to take out the few surrounding shelters as soon as possible, before they had a chance to develop.

But now, he could only wait for Bena to recover before continuing with that plan.

Ye Yun glanced at the time. It was still a while before he needed to rest.

So he opened the chat room to see what new discoveries the other managers had made recently.

As soon as he opened the public chat room, he keenly noticed that it seemed distinctly different from before.

After thinking about it for a moment, he immediately realized what was different: the refresh speed of everyone’s messages.

Before the second crisis, every time Ye Yun opened the public chat room, he would see a large group of managers chatting enthusiastically.

The chat messages scrolled by like a waterfall; if you looked away for a second, you’d lose the message you wanted to see.