Survival in the Apocalypse: Max Level Drop Rate with Abundant Resources

With the boost from the Heavenly Evolution's drop rate, Shen Xi completely let loose and unleashed her true potential.

He leaned against the mottled wall of the corridor and brought up the attribute panel.

[Player: Primordial Beginning (Dawnbreaker)]

Level: 1 (Experience: 5/20)

【Strength: 20】

【Spirit: 16】

[Agility: 18]

[Physical Fitness: 15]

Free attribute points: 10

[Reputation: 1000]

Gold Coins: 1000

[Talent: Unawakened]

[Skill: Triple Strike (Bronze)]

[Equipment: Fire Axe (Bronze)]

Storage space: 3 cubic meters (increases with level)

[Mission: Survive in the Corpse Dormitory for 5 days (0/5)]

10 free attributes.

Shen Xi did not rush to use it.

In his previous life, he had seen too many people pour all their attribute points into strength or agility in pursuit of early-game thrills, only to find themselves missing out on the hidden class when they tried to change jobs, and it was too late for regrets.

"Hidden class..." he murmured, then closed the control panel.

Now, I have no problem protecting myself with my attributes.

I roughly estimated the time.

There are less than four hours left until 8 p.m.

The first wave of zombies is coming soon.

Shen Xi gripped the fire axe tightly. He needed to level up as much as possible within these four hours, at least to reach the threshold of level 3.

[Regional Channel - Corpse Dormitory] (Currently Online: 93/100)

"Just a rotting corpse!"

"Look, our Brother Qiang killed one too! There aren't enough rotting corpses to go around in the west section on the second floor!"

"Anyone want to team up? We need a tank (611 units), and we'll split any loot!"

"Heh, look at the leaderboard. The Primordial Master is already level 2, and you guys are still teaming up to fight mobs?"

"..."

"..."

There was a few seconds of silence in the channel, then it exploded.

Shen Xi glanced at it but did not participate.

He snapped out of his thoughts and walked back along the emergency exit.

405. 407. 409.

Most of the doors were tightly closed, and a faint stench of decay emanated from the cracks.

Shen Xi knew that behind every door might be a sleeping monster, but he couldn't just rush in. The sound of opening the door would alert them, and if more than three were attracted at the same time, even he would have a hard time.

He selectively pushed open the rooms where he remembered fewer corpses.

411.

Upon arriving here, Shen Xi subconsciously stopped in her tracks.

The door was ajar.

A sweet, cloying smell of blood wafted out from under the door.

He didn't want to see it, he swore he really didn't want to see it, but his eyes involuntarily darted through the gap.

The young man in the floral shirt was standing by the bed.

Jiang Luqing's body lay on the bed.

Her head was sewn back onto her neck in a crooked and awkward manner.

The man in the floral shirt was lying on top of her, making satisfied moaning sounds.

Shen Xi's stomach churned violently.

During the apocalypse of the decade, he witnessed cannibalism and far too many human tragedies.

But this is only the first day.

Before the apocalypse could kill people's bodies, it first peeled off their faces.

"...What a talent." Shen Xi squeezed out these words through gritted teeth.

He didn't go in.

He couldn't be bothered with the matter.

That kind of thing no longer deserves to be called a human being.

When the zombie horde arrives, he will naturally be eliminated.

As for the others, perhaps out of fear and the threat of Shen Xi's killing, they all hid back in their rooms.

Shen Xi forced herself to look away and quickened her pace to leave.

Room 405.

The door was closed, and Shen Xi gently opened it.

The room reeked of a strong stench of decay.

Two rotting corpses lay on the ground, their limbs twisted at unnatural angles, their grayish-white skin covered with lividity.

They didn't move, like two real corpses, but Shen Xi knew they were just asleep.

He tiptoed and slowly approached.

The first axe blow.

Triple hit!

The fire axe traced three silver arcs in the air, striking the same corpse's neck almost simultaneously. With the Bronze skill and the Dawnbreaker's attribute bonus, the axe blade sliced ​​through the corpse's head without resistance.

"puff."

The head rolled off. Black blood splattered.

The second corpse was awakened by the noise. It opened its cloudy, grayish-white eyes, let out a hiss, and its limbs convulsed as it propped itself up, opening its blood-red maw to bite straight at Shen Xi!

Shen Xi did not back down.

He squatted down, and the rotting corpse's teeth brushed past his head, bringing with them a foul stench.

The next second, he pushed off the ground with his feet and spun around behind the corpse like a spring.

Dawnbreaker Double Attack, activated!

Raise the fire axe overhead with both hands, use your waist and abdomen to generate power, and bring the axe blade down with the weight of your whole body!

"Click."

Spinal fracture.

The rotting corpse had a horrific gash cut open from its shoulder to its ribs, its internal organs spilling out onto the ground.

Before it could even let out a second roar, it broke in two and collapsed.

Killing one level 1 rotting corpse grants +10 experience points.

Shen Xi leaned on the axe handle, panting heavily.

Double attack used up, triple attack still on cooldown. Taking on two at once is still too much of a stretch; if my positioning had been even slightly off, I'd be the one lying on the ground right now.

He calmed his breathing and bent down to pick up the two orbs of light next to the corpse.

[Roast Chicken 1]

【Cola 1】

I've got a supply depletion card.

Shen Xi put the two round cards into the 3-cubic-meter storage space.

not enough.

Far from enough.

Once the zombie horde begins, anything can happen.

Over the next four hours, Shen Xi searched the third, fourth, and fifth floors three times.

A rotting corpse.

He needs a rotting corpse.

Shen Xi was about to curse.

In their previous life, they encountered over a dozen rotting corpses on the very first day in their building alone. This time, however, why are they all hidden away?

His rapid breathing echoed in the corridor.

Finally, with fifteen minutes left until eight o'clock, he blocked a rotting corpse trying to crawl into the ventilation duct in a toilet stall on the third floor.

Activate the skill directly and take them down with a single axe blow.

Killing one level 1 rotting corpse grants +5 experience points.

[Experience points reached the cap, level up!]

[Congratulations to player "Taichu" for reaching level 2! All base attributes increased! +5 free attribute points!]

Shen Xi leaned against the wall, her whole body soaked in sweat. It wasn't from killing the rotting corpses that she was tired, but from finding them.

Level 2, this day was a complete waste of time.

[Regional Ranking - Corpse Dormitory Building]

Primordial - Level 2

Brother Qiang - Level 1

Elvis Presley - Level 1

……

Zhou Qiang, on the seventh floor, stared intently at the leaderboard.

"Brother Qiang, what do we do?" the skinny guy asked, huddled in the corner. "That guy's already level 2, and we've only just reached level 1... Avenging Young Master Gu... this is way too difficult!"

The bespectacled young man adjusted his glasses: "Brother Zhou, it's not that I'm afraid of trouble. But in our current state, going up against that Primordial One is suicide. We might even lose ourselves."

Zhou Qiang remained silent.

He stared at that name on the leaderboard... Taichu.

After a long pause, he spat out a curse: "What are you afraid of? It's only the first day."

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over the piles of clutter in the room before settling on the door leading to the corridor.

"We're not sleeping tonight." His voice was deep and fierce. "We'll play all night and try to reach level 3. I don't believe he can do what he does."

The skinny man wanted to say something, but the bespectacled youth stopped him with a look.

Silence fell inside the room. Outside the window, the gray sunset sank below the horizon.

Room 444.

Shen Xi sat on the wooden bed, holding the fire axe across her knees.

In the darkness, his senses became even more acute.

The faint sounds of hurried footsteps and muffled curses could be heard in the corridor.

"At a time like this, you still dare to run around outside."

He closed his eyes.

In my previous life, the first wave of zombies lasted for a full six hours. That night, there were 100 people in the dormitory building, but only 71 remained the next morning.

29 people were forever left behind on that first night.

Shen Xi took a deep breath.

The axe handle felt icy cold to the touch.

Shen Xi opened his eyes. In the dark room, his gaze was eerily calm.

In this life, he must at least live.

Live on, and become stronger in this apocalypse.

The sky outside the window was completely dark.

In the distance, a sharp roar ripped through the silence of the night.

Then came the second, the third... a hundred or so roars merged into one, like the low murmur before a tsunami, simultaneously echoing from every corner of the dormitory building, every floor, and behind every door.

The zombie horde is coming.

Shen Xi gripped the axe handle and opened the chat channel.

"They're rotting corpses, so many!"

"I live on the first floor, and I saw them running up from the basement, so many of them, I couldn't count them at all."

"There are too many! Everyone run! Run upstairs!"

"Help! They're chasing me! Help..."

"Several people have been eaten, everyone run for your lives!"

…………

In the chat channel, people on lower floors started posting photos, fleeing to higher floors for their lives.

Those who manage to escape will undoubtedly die.

Shen Xi shook his head inwardly, gripped the fire axe tightly, and waited for the zombie horde to arrive.

In my previous life, the zombie horde lasted for six hours, gradually receding in the latter half of the night. Once the horde had receded, I was left with only a few lone, rotting corpses, and it was time to fight back.