"Next up, it's the last item. I hope it'll turn out to be a Soul Point..."
Although he was hoping for a Soul Point, Zhang Yanhang had very low expectations after experiencing the previous items. By now, he just felt grateful if the item didn't relate to feces; he dared not hope for more.
[Item Five]
[Option One: Single-lens Infrared Night Vision Device, Grey quality, Artifact]
[Option Two: Head-mounted Thermal Imaging Night Vision Goggles, White quality, Equipment]
[Option Three: Enemy Seeking Radar, Green quality, Equipment]
"Enemy Seeking Radar? Just the name sounds useful." Zhang Yanhang hadn't expected to really pull something unrelated to feces, as he initially thought there was a high chance of getting something feces-related like the Goblin Shaman's alchemy tools made from feces.
[Enemy Seeking Radar]
[Quality: Green]
[Type: Equipment]
[Origin: Ashen World, Faris Fortress, A-15 Military Factory, Line 3.]
[Durability: 30/30]
[Defensive Power: 10]
[Special Attribute: Search]
[Search: Detects non-allied hostile life forms within a 500-meter radius, with a chance of crashing when the nearby density of hostile life forms is too high. Cooldown time 60 seconds, consumes 1 Energy Point.]
[Usage Requirements: Intelligence 5 points.]
[Score: 30 (Green quality items score between 11 and 30.)]
[Briefing: A friendly reminder—please do not use this in heavily crowded areas or on the front lines (over a thousand people). If the Enemy Seeking Radar crashes, it can cause a sequence of malfunctions including freezing, smoking, catching fire, exploding... as mentioned in the dying words of a soldier who managed to run thirty meters away but still was fatally injured by the explosion of the built-in energy source.]
"Holy shit, is this a radar or a bomb? Running thirty meters away and still getting killed by the explosion? Is it that tragic? Plus, the list of malfunctions in this warning is like full-service—it starts with freezing, then smokes and catches fire in the process of restarting, ultimately leading to an explosion."
Zhang Yanhang could even imagine the scene as it happened. The expressions of the surrounding soldiers must have been both helpless and desperate, as there was definitely no chance to outrun it.
"But still, although it crashes when the density of hostile life forms is too high, it can be used to search for enemies, which is definitely better than any thermal imaging night vision goggles..."
Zhang Yanhang disapproved of the thermal imaging night vision goggles mainly because they were useless against zombies; since they were dead, their body temperature would typically match the surrounding environment.
Therefore, Zhang Yanhang thought if he wore these thermal imaging night vision goggles to fight zombies, the zombies around him would essentially be like wearing invisible camouflage, greatly increasing the likelihood of being ambushed and bitten by a hidden zombie.
While he could definitely still see human outlines and attack zombies based on that, not wearing thermal imaging night vision goggles not only allowed him to see zombie outlines but also their colors. Thus, wearing thermal imaging night vision goggles to fight zombies would be utterly pointless and inferior to infrared night vision goggles.
Of course, this was only true for zombies with abnormal body temperatures. If fighting Goblins, then thermal imaging night vision goggles would certainly be more useful than infrared ones.
But after all, whether there is night in Ashen World remains uncertain. When Zhang Yanhang looked at the sky before, he neither saw the sun nor a blue sky but only a dense, foggy haze enveloping everything.
"So, I choose '300 Soul Points,' 'Alchemy [Incomplete],' 'Small Magic Recovery Potion (one bag),' and 'Enemy Seeking Radar.'"
After making his selections, the Time Pause ended, and Zhang Yanhang took out Alchemy, Small Magic Recovery Potion, and the Enemy Seeking Radar from the small box and set them aside. As for the three hundred Soul Points? They had already been directly added to Zhang Yanhang's Soul Point balance.
First was the Alchemy. The item's appearance was a golden small light ball, about the size of a lychee. Zhang Yanhang squeezed it casually and learned the skill on the spot, since the skill seemed quite useful.
After learning Alchemy, Zhang Yanhang opened his data list to glance at the Skill Effect.
[Alchemy [Incomplete] (Active Skills)]
[Skill Effect: Transforms one thing into another, no cooldown time, each use consumes 1 - ??? Energy Points depending on the complexity, quality, volume and other relevant factors.]
[Additional Attributes: Manufacturing]
[Additional Attributes: Fusion]
"While it indeed bears the suffix 'Incomplete,' the description of this skill effect is too simplistic, just thirteen words that don't clarify anything, and the additional attributes of Manufacturing and Fusion don't even provide a single word of explanation."
Although Zhang Yanhang's instinct told him this thing should be useful, the skill description really left him feeling helpless; he could only experiment with it later to discover what effects the skill truly offered.
After examining Alchemy he looked at the Small Magic Recovery Potion. These nine potions were packed in a small cloth bag filled with straw to cushion and prevent accidental breakage of the bottles.
Finally, the Enemy Seeking Radar. This device's appearance somewhat resembled the Dragon Radar from Dragon Ball, but more advanced. After using it once, Zhang Yanhang discovered that besides marking the enemies' positions, it could also detect the structure of surrounding buildings, making the enemy's position marking quite accurate.
This exploration informed Zhang Yanhang that the apartment building where he was currently located had six floors, each with twenty rooms. More than half of those rooms didn't contain zombies, but the remaining rooms together housed over seventy zombies. The room with the most zombies was 608; it was hard to imagine what they were doing before they died, crammed into an area of just thirty to forty square meters, accommodating eight zombies.
Looking at the zombie distribution, the zombies on the first three floors of the building totaled only about fifteen, roughly one-sixth of the total zombie count. The higher the floor, the greater the density of zombies, especially on the topmost sixth floor, which housed over thirty zombies, almost half of the total number of zombies.