Chapter 342: Hundred Elite Zombies

It was easy to imagine that if the stone marten could continue resurrecting like this, then when fighting someone else, it might still be difficult to say who would win or lose. But against Joo Joowon and Hwi, it would definitely be able to find an opportunity to turn the tables and defeat them.

Joo Joowon put away the three cards dropped by the stone marten, then carried Hwi, who was already very tired but still remained highly alert, and left the area.

The stone marten had resurrected again and again as if there were no end to it, so Hwi did not dare relax at all at this moment.

"Alright, it’s already dead." Joo Joowon pulled Hwi into his arms and took a moment to look at the equipment dropped by the stone marten. His mood was truly not very good.

For one thing, he had never expected that just one Elite Zombie that had come out of the red mist could be this strong. For another, after putting in so much effort to kill the Elite Zombie, the zombie core it dropped had not even reached rare quality.

The other two card drops were not much better either. One was an Energy Potion, while the other was a common-quality piece of equipment.

Joo Joowon was truly speechless.

Strictly speaking, the stone marten’s individual strength could not really be considered strong. Even Level 5 Hwi could kill it in a one-on-one fight. It only had an especially thick HP bar.

However, its ability to resurrect, combined with the fact that every resurrection would specifically improve its ability to deal with its enemy, greatly increased how difficult it was to deal with.

Joo Joowon guessed that perhaps the stone marten had become an Elite Zombie because of the red mist. This situation might have caused it to provide less EXP, just like those Elite Zombies he had encountered before that had not yet fully evolved. However, who would have thought that this time, its EXP had not been reduced at all, while its drops had been reduced instead?

For Joo Joowon, this was even worse than having its EXP reduced!

After all, EXP was already not as useful to him as it had been in the past, while drops could potentially bring him some pleasant surprises.

However, things had already come to this point, so there was nothing more to say. Joo Joowon glanced at his remaining Mental Power. He had not been drained completely by the stone marten. He was only somewhat tired from overusing his Mental Power, and his condition was actually a little better than Hwi’s.

He put away the cards and had Hwi tell him about what he had seen.

Hwi gathered his energy and carefully began telling Joo Joowon everything.

His ability to express himself was quite ordinary, and he could not do arithmetic. His way of thinking was even simpler, so Joo Joowon did not expect to obtain particularly accurate information from him. Instead, he simply guided him by asking questions.

For example, when he went inside, had he seen any strange buildings? Did he feel that there was anything unusual about the red mist? How many zombies had an aura similar to the stone marten’s?

After asking him a series of questions, Joo Joowon was completely numb.

Because according to Hwi, every zombie he saw after entering gave off an aura similar to the stone marten. Some of them even had an aura that was stronger than the stone marten’s.

At the very least, when facing the stone marten, Hwi had not felt that he would be unable to defeat it. However, some of the auras deep within the zombie group made Hwi feel that if those creatures wanted to kill him, he would not have much ability to resist and could only choose to run away.

Joo Joowon had not counted the exact number of zombies in the group. However, even a rough estimate put their number at more than a hundred.

This meant that if Hwi’s senses were not mistaken, they would have to face more than a hundred Elite Zombies, and they would be more than a hundred Elite Zombies that could resurrect.

If every Elite Zombie could resurrect as many times as the stone marten, with ten resurrections each, then it was equivalent to them having to face more than a thousand enemies that would become increasingly difficult to deal with.

Moreover, this method of luring an Elite Zombie out and killing it alone could work once or twice, but it could not be used repeatedly. The other side would not keep falling for the same trick. By then, they might have to face a group of Elite Zombies attacking them all at once, and they would still be high-level Elite Zombies.

Joo Joowon painfully covered his head. Where was he supposed to find enough capable people to deal with so many Elite Zombies?

And if even the minions were already this difficult to deal with, then what about the red mist?

Was it really going to leave them no way to survive?!

Although Joo Joowon and Hwi had stayed in the same place with the stone marten for such a long time and had caused quite a lot of noise, for some unknown reason, even now, none of the other zombies within the red mist had come over to check what was happening.

Of course, this was partly because Hwi had run quite far away. However, considering the hearing ability of transcendent creatures, it was impossible for them not to hear the commotion if they were paying attention.

Therefore, during the previous battle, Joo Joowon had always been paying attention to the movements around them.

To be safe, he did not let his guard down now either. After taking the cards, he first left the battlefield with Hwi and returned to the hillside.

Joo Joowon had no intention of returning home just yet. He felt that he at least needed to figure out whether the red mist would spread outward, and if it did, how fast it would spread and how much preparation time it would leave him.