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

Footsteps echoed in the stairwell.

Shen Xi walked ahead carrying the Corrupted Bone Battle Axe, with Ming Ying silently following behind. The shadow of the Bone Concealment Hat covered most of his face, revealing only his eyes.

The first floor was deserted.

Several office doors were wide open, desks and chairs were overturned, and documents were scattered all over the floor. Dark brown bloodstains ran along the walls, from the ceiling to the floor, a shocking sight.

Shen Xi glanced at it but didn't stop.

Continue up.

The second floor.

Several corpses lay in the corridor, rotting beyond recognition and emitting a strong stench. Two rotting corpses were gnawing on the bodies; upon hearing footsteps, they both raised their heads.

"roar!"

They pounced.

Shen Xi didn't move.

Mingying had already dashed away.

The bone-bladed twin blades drew two pale arcs of light in the dimly lit corridor!

"Snap! Snap!"

The arms of the two rotting corpses were severed at the root, and black blood spurted out!

Shen Xi stepped forward to finish off the enemy, unleashing a sweeping attack with his Bone-Corroding Battle Axe...

Two heads flew up.

[Killed 2 level 2 rotting corpses, +12 experience points!]

Current experience: 1048/1200

The ball of light floated up, and Shen Xi casually picked it up and threw it into his storage space without even looking at it.

Continue up.

Third floor.

There were noticeably more rotting corpses here. Five or six were wandering in the corridor, and the doors to several offices were ajar, from which faint roars could be heard.

Mingying was still at the forefront.

His speed was astonishing; his twin bone blades weaved through the horde of corpses, each strike precisely severing the limbs of the decaying bodies, crippling them without killing them.

Shen Xi followed behind, the Corrupted Bone Battle Axe falling again and again.

Heads flew off, and corpses fell to the ground.

[Killed 1 level 3 rotting corpses, +7 experience points!]

[Killed 3 level 2 rotting corpses, +18 experience points!]

[Killed 1 level 4 rotting corpses, +9 experience points!]

[Killed...]

The system notifications were flooding the screen.

The experience bar is rising rapidly.

Finally, after slaying the last level 4 elite corpse...

[Experience points reached the cap, level up!]

[Congratulations to player "Taichu" for reaching level 9! All base attributes increased! +5 free attribute points!]

A warm current instantly flowed through my entire body!

My muscles bulged slightly, my senses became clearer, and power surged through my body!

Shen Xi took a deep breath and opened the attribute panel...

[Player: Primordial Beginning (King of Newcomers)]

Level: 9 (Experience: 14/1500)

【Strength: 57】

【Spirit: 50】

[Agility: 52]

[Physical Fitness: 53]

Free attribute points: 35

[Reputation: 11100]

Gold Coins: 11100

[Skills: Whirlwind Triple Slash (Silver), Bloodlust Berserk (Silver), Bloodlust Charge (Bronze)]

[Equipment: Corrupted Bone Battle Axe (Silver), Mine Owner's Bone Blade (Silver), Storm Cloak (Silver), Bone Nightmare Boots (Silver), Power Bracelet (Bronze)]

[Items: Ghost Child's Rag Doll (Silver), Eye of the Watcher (Bronze) x1, Molotov Cocktail (Bronze) x1, Corpse Lure Grenade (Bronze) x1]

Storage space: 21 cubic meters

[Task: None]

I've finally reached level 9.

I'm less than 1500 experience points away from level 10 and changing jobs.

Shen Xi nodded in satisfaction, turned off the panel, and looked at the stairs ahead.

Fourth floor.

carry on.

For the next two floors, Shen Xi deliberately slowed down her pace.

He wanted to test Mingying's true combat strength, to see just how powerful this self-mutated, leader-level corpse really was.

After all, since being subdued, Mingying has only ever played a supporting role of "clearing the way and crippling the enemy." Although it has the legendary talent [Obsessive Guardian] and the legendary skill [Resentment Burst], Shen Xi has never seen what it would be like to unleash its full potential.

Five rotting corpses were wandering around in the fourth-floor corridor.

"Mingying, you handle the rest from here on out," Shen Xi said, standing at the top of the stairs. "Go all out."

Mingying nodded slightly.

The next moment...

He moved!

It was so fast that even Shen Xi, if she wasn't paying attention, could barely see it!

Two pale white flashes of light erupted from Mingying's twin bone blades in the darkness!

The first corpse didn't even have time to react before its head flew off!

Not just crippled, but killed outright!

The second corpse had barely turned its head when the blade flashed across its neck, and blood spurted out!

The third one, the fourth one, the fifth one...

three seconds.

All five rotting corpses collapsed to the ground.

【僕从「明影」击杀4级腐尸×2，3级腐尸×3，经验值+53！】

[Servant's current experience: 198/1200]

Shen Xi's pupils contracted slightly.

That speed...

This attack power...

It was even more terrifying than he had imagined.

Moreover, he noticed that when Mingying killed these corpses, she didn't use any skills at all, only the most basic normal attacks.

What if we activate [Resentment Outburst]?

All attributes +50%, attack speed and movement speed +50%...

That would be a living killing machine!

Shen Xi took a deep breath to suppress his shock. The stronger he was, the happier he would be. He wondered who was stronger, Mingying or Guitong, Tara.

"continue."

The two continued upwards.

Fifth floor.

Another wave of rotting corpses.

This time, Shen Xi did not let Ming Ying kill them all. Instead, she continued to use the previous tactic: crippling Ming Ying and then finishing them off herself.

After all, he has the Heavenly Explosion Rate, which guarantees item drops when killing monsters, and such an opportunity cannot be wasted.

[Killed 2 level 4 rotting corpses, +18 experience points!]

[Killed 4 level 3 rotting corpses, +28 experience points!]

Experience points are steadily increasing.

One by one, the orbs of light rose up, and Shen Xi collected them all.

The fifth floor was cleared out. Looking at the management committee with so few rotting corpses, Shen Xi was also a little curious. Perhaps it was because the place had been abandoned for a long time, which was why there were so few rotting corpses.

Without stopping, continue upwards.

The sixth floor.

The door to the stairwell was ajar, and behind it was utter silence.

Shen Xi stopped in her tracks.

Not right.

Shen Xi stopped in her tracks.

Not right.

From the first floor to the fifth floor, although the number of corpses was not large, there were rotting corpses wandering around on each floor.

But when we got to the sixth floor, there wasn't a sound at all? It was unusually quiet.

He gestured to Mingying, and the two of them, pressed against the wall, slowly pushed open the door.

Behind the door was a long corridor.

Dim and silent.

The emergency lights had long since failed, and only a faint moonlight streamed in through the window at the end of the corridor. In the moonlight, one could vaguely see things scattered on the floor…

Shen Xi narrowed her eyes.

It was a rotting corpse and its remains.

They were everywhere.

Severed arms, broken legs, shattered heads, internal organs... they were densely packed all over the corridor, leaving almost no room to step. Some of the limbs were dry and blackened, while others still bore fresh bloodstains, as if they had just been torn apart.

The air was thick with the stench of decay, but beneath that stench lurked a strange, bloody scent.

Shen Xi's pupils contracted slightly.

He slowly crouched down and carefully examined the severed limbs.

The cut is very irregular.

It wasn't chopped with a knife or axe; it looked more like it had been ripped apart by something. Some of the severed limbs had clearly visible, huge, and gruesome tooth marks.

Mingying stood behind him, her deep eyes scanning the surroundings, and suddenly let out a low roar.

That's a warning sign.

Shen Xi instantly gripped the Corrupted Bone Battle Axe, her gaze sweeping across the corridor.

There was nothing there.

But he sensed it too.

"There's something there," he said in a low voice. "And it's very strong."

…………

Meanwhile, at the end of the corridor, in a closed office.

A man was huddled in a corner, trembling all over.

His name is Li Xiang, and he is a solo player. He originally thought that there were relatively few corpses in this area, so he came here to try his luck. Then, he stumbled upon this place and began to explore it carefully.

He found relatively few decomposed corpses inside the building, and thought the place was safe.

Until he went up to the sixth floor.

He saw the ground littered with rotting corpses and mangled limbs.

He heard chewing sounds coming from the darkness.

He realized he was in trouble, so he desperately hid in the office, locked the door, huddled in the corner, covered his mouth, and dared not make a sound.

But that thing still found him.

Through the crack in the door, Li Xiang saw a pair of eyes.

What kind of eyes were those?

Crimson red like blood, vertical pupils like snakes.

It glowed faintly in the darkness, staring intently at him through the crack in the door.

Li Xiang wanted to scream, but fear rendered him speechless. He dared not move, for fear of disturbing the unknown creature in the darkness.

A moment later, the eyes disappeared.

Li Xiang was just about to breathe a sigh of relief...

"Bang!"

The door was flung open with tremendous force!

A huge dark shadow rushed in!

Li Xiang finally let out a scream...

"ah……!!!"

Screams erupted from the sixth floor, echoing through the silent corridor.

Shen Xi suddenly turned her head!

The sound came from the end of the corridor, and the screams stopped abruptly.

Immediately afterwards, a strange sound came...

Click, click.

A faint chewing sound was heard.

Shen Xi gripped his battle axe tightly and walked step by step in that direction.

Mingying followed behind him, her twin bone blades gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

The corridor is very long.

Each step he took landed on the rotting corpses and limbs, producing a sickening "crunch" sound.

Finally, they arrived at the office door.

The door was shattered, and wood chips were scattered all over the floor. The room was pitch black, but by the dim light from the corridor, one could vaguely make out a person lying on the floor...

No, it's already been half eaten; it's half a person.

The upper body is still there, but the lower body is gone.

Fresh blood was spilled all over the ground, still steaming.

Beside this person's corpse, a huge dark shadow was crouching.

It was facing away from the door, engrossed in gnawing on something. Hearing footsteps, it stopped.

Then, he slowly turned his head.

Crimson eyes gleamed in the darkness.

It was a reptilian creature, lying on the corpse. It had a face twisted to an extreme degree. This mutated corpse was the first non-humanoid creature Shen Xi had encountered since her rebirth. The corpse had long limbs and looked more like a cheetah.

"A mutated, decaying animal carcass. I didn't expect to encounter it so early. No wonder, this is a place that ordinary people can't find."

It stared at Shen Xi, letting out a low growl.

That roar actually carried a hint of... mockery.

Shen Xi also stared at it.

"Oh? Want to play a cat and mouse game?"

The man and the corpse stared at each other for a few seconds.

"Who is the cat and who is the mouse remains to be seen!"

Then, Shen Xi's lips curled into a cold smile.

"I've found you."

The moment the words left his mouth, the dark figure moved!