Chapter 645 - 615: Cloud Burst Bomb

After leaving, Lin Xinghai led the Xinghai Squad straight to the armory.

Once there, he transferred the 100,000 Huaxia Coin credit he had received to Little Fatty, telling him to restock on ammunition and buy more if necessary.

As for himself, he found the person in charge and requested a Cloud Burst Bomb.

When Lin Xinghai got his hands on the Cloud Burst Bomb, he was a little surprised. The device was half a meter tall and about as wide as a person’s waist. It felt incredibly dense in his hands, weighing over a hundred pounds.

"The Cloud Burst Bomb has an explosion diameter of 100 meters. Be careful when you use it, and try not to get caught in the blast."

"Also, this button is for manual detonation. You can set a time delay. This is the remote firing mode, which has a maximum range of 10 kilometers."

"Of course, the Cloud Burst Bomb’s flight speed is limited. If you run into a Fourth Level Mutated Zombie, you can’t expect to hit it from a distance. Its flight speed might not even be able to match the zombie’s movement speed."

"So, the best way to use this thing is to pull it out and intimidate the Fourth Level Mutated Zombies," the manager said earnestly as he handed the Cloud Burst Bomb to Lin Xinghai.

Lin Xinghai was speechless. ’So the most important function of this Cloud Burst Bomb is just to intimidate, not to kill?’

"Then what if I actually use this Cloud Burst Bomb to kill a Fourth Level Zombie? How would the Points be calculated?" Lin Xinghai asked.

This question was crucial for him, as it would determine his course of action if he ever encountered a Fourth Level Mutated Zombie.

After all, if he could get enough Points and the situation was right, it was worth taking the risk.

The manager’s expression turned a bit strange when he heard Lin Xinghai’s question. It was the first time he’d ever seen a student squad dare to even consider targeting a Fourth Level Mutated Zombie.

His mouth worked for a moment before he finally answered, "A Fourth Level Mutated Zombie is even stronger than someone in the Divine Demon Realm. Killing one, no matter the method, is a great merit. So, even if you use a Cloud Burst Bomb to do it, the Points won’t be reduced in any way."

"Also, I should remind you that these new Fourth Level Mutated Zombies are far stronger than the old Third Level Zombies. In terms of defense and regenerative abilities, at least, they’re easily more than twice as powerful."

"Therefore, the Cloud Burst Bombs we’ve prepared for this are somewhat lacking in lethality."

"According to our original design, a close-range detonation of these Cloud Burst Bombs could kill even a Death Claw—everything except the Armored Corpse, which has the highest Defense Power."

"But now that they’ve recovered their original strength and become Fourth Level Mutated Zombies, the bomb can only severely injure them at best. Of course, it can still kill some of the weaker ones, like Spitters and Hunters."

Hearing this explanation, Lin Xinghai’s eyes lit up. He was genuinely tempted.

Since the Mutated Zombies had been reclassified by Level, the Points awarded for killing them had also been adjusted.

The Points for First Level Mutated Zombies remained unchanged. As for the new Second Level Mutated Zombies, their strength was only at the Marrow Tempering Realm, so killing them awarded half the Points of a Body Shaping Realm zombie.

As for the Third Level Zombies, which were comparable to the Marrow Tempering Realm, and the Fourth Level Mutated Zombies, comparable to the Divine Demon Realm, their strength had increased significantly. Therefore, their Point rewards were doubled from the original amount.

Previously, among all Mutated Zombies, even the one with the lowest reward, the Spitter, granted 500,000 Points upon being killed.

Now that the reward was doubled, killing one would directly grant 1 million Points. More importantly, since he hadn’t even reached the Body Shaping Realm, he still qualified for the double Points bonus.

In other words, if he killed a single Fourth Level Mutated Zombie, he would earn a minimum of 2 million Points.

And that was just for the Spitter, the lowest-reward target. For the highest-reward ones like the Death Claw and Shadow Demon, the base was 1 million Points. Doubled, that’s 2 million, and with his bonus, he could get a staggering 4 million Points.

Killing just one would launch him to the top of the Points leaderboard, leaving everyone else far behind.

Of course, Lin Xinghai wasn’t greedy. Killing any single Fourth Level Mutated Zombie would be enough.

So, holding the Cloud Burst Bomb, he left, completely satisfied.

By this time, Little Fatty and the others had also finished restocking on the necessary ammunition.

In truth, Little Fatty had already prepared more than enough ammunition. The extra 100,000 Huaxia Coins’ worth was just icing on the cake.

"Boss, I’ve got everything. Are we heading out now?" Little Fatty asked as he walked over.

His eyes were glued to the Cloud Burst Bomb, his curiosity piqued. A superweapon like that was something not even the Hongyu Group could ever hope to acquire.

"Yeah, just about." Lin Xinghai nodded. But then a thought seemed to strike him, and he suddenly asked, "By the way, did you bring any of those Combat Robots for collecting Elemental Crystals?"

"Uh... no." Little Fatty, though confused, quickly added, "But some of our Hongyu Group personnel were mobilized to the front lines. We’re responsible for a few of the production lines out here. If you need robots, I can have a batch modified and brought over right away. I could even get my hands on some second-generation Combat Robots."

Lin Xinghai was surprised to hear that, but after a moment’s thought, it made sense. After all, even though the Hongyu Group was a private corporation, it was massive. Plus, it specialized in manufacturing Mecha, so it wasn’t surprising that some of its personnel would be requisitioned at a time like this.

"How long would that take?" Lin Xinghai asked. If it took too long, it wouldn’t be worth it.

"It won’t take long, ten or twenty minutes should be enough. We already have second-generation Combat Robots on hand; they just need a few slight modifications," Little Fatty said quickly. He’d only found this out from a message his dad sent him earlier today.

He was also curious and asked, "Boss, doesn’t the military collect all the Elemental Crystals? What do you need the Combat Robots for?"

"I’m not going to collect Elemental Crystals. I want to check the Abyssal Creatures for Blood Bags." Lin Xinghai then briefly shared the information he’d gotten from Zuo Wenyao with the others.

"Of course, according to Instructor Zuo’s theory, these Abyssal Creatures shouldn’t spread to the outer regions until tonight or tomorrow, but I believe in preparing for the unexpected."

"We’ll have the Combat Robots check. We might get lucky and find something others missed. After all, what if some Abyssal Creatures ran straight for the perimeter and we just happen to run into them?" Lin Xinghai explained his reasoning.

The others couldn’t help but nod in agreement.

After all, the effects of the Blood Bag that Lin Xinghai described were just too appealing. A single Blood Bag was equivalent to ten Nine Yang Blood Pills.

That medicinal potency alone was enough to make everyone drool with envy; after all, many of them were reluctant to use even a single Nine Yang Blood Pill during their Cultivation!

Even more incredible was the rapid absorption effect—it was like condensing more than half a day’s worth of Cultivation into just ten or twenty minutes!

If they could get their hands on a large number of them... The mere thought made everyone’s breathing grow heavy.