Five or six zombies stormed into the staircase in a swarm.
But what met them was a downpour of kitchen knives.
The fiery zombies were instantly hacked down, never to rise again.
The door to the staircase was shut again, isolating it from the outside world.
Wu Heng descended from behind the skeletons, started conjuring Bone Manipulation Skill, and six skeletons got up.
He furnished the skeletons with kitchen knives, looked at the sky, and it was already dusk.
Joining the professionals and learning skills took up most of his daytime.
Killing zombies would be a bit risky now. Better wait until tomorrow.
He went back to Black Stone Town, ate, practiced spear, and went to sleep.
...
The next day.
Wu Heng got up early, life without video games made him energetic.
After breakfast, he headed straight to the occupation hall.
In the morning, there weren't many people here.
Wu Heng approached the counter, asking: "Could you check for me, is my commission done?"
"Sir, Please show me the ticket for commission."
Passed the ticket over, the staff started to look up the progress according to the number on it.
"The commission is done, and you need to pay another 15 silvers and 32 coppers."
Finally, it's over.
But the price is ridiculously high.
15 silvers, enough to buy three regular iron swords.
But without any hesitation, he immediately paid the balance, and the antidote along with a test report was handed over.
[Customized Antidote Potion]
(Description: Potion aimed for fixed toxins.)
Packed away the antidote potion and quickly returned home.
Zombie World.
Reached the rooftop, took out the potion and report to check them out.
Wu Heng didn't know about this world's alchemy.
But the effect of alchemy potion, had many magical aspects, even in the technologically advanced modern world, the effect of immediate relief was hard to attain for drugs.
If not for the fact that the modern world turned into this, setting up a Potion Company would surely have been quite lucrative.
Aside from the potion, there was also a paper slip.
The slip recorded the test result for the Corpse Core and ingredients for potion preparation.
Both were requested by Wu Heng in the commission.
The test showed nerve toxin, corpse poison, and several other toxic substances, and the suggested use for Corpse Core was as Alchemy Materials, it did not mention ingestion directly.
As for the antidote materials, the names were complicated and he didn't recognize any of them.
After roughly glancing over it, he put it away directly.
Took out the remaining 'Corpse Core', placed the antidote on the side.
He had held this Corpse Core in his hand for several days, luckily, it didn't smell foul.
Otherwise, the money he had spent would have gone in vain.
After sterilizing it with white wine, without any hesitation, he swallowed it down directly.
Initially, he didn't feel anything.
[Physique+2, Strength+1, Agility+2.]
The system notice appeared instantly.
Even before Wu Heng could rejoice, a burning sensation started spreading from his abdomen to his entire body.
His veins started turning greenish purple and appeared on his arm and neck, while the burning sensation turned into agonizing pain.
"Shit! As expected, it's poisonous."
Pop!
Opened the antidote and directly gulped it down.
After gulping down the potion, the pain immediately lessened, the spreading greenish purple veins also gradually began to disappear.
Lastly, they vanished completely.
About five or six minutes later, Wu Heng, was lying on the ground, gasping for breaths.
Whew~!
"Fortunately, I had this Customized Antidote, otherwise I might have killed myself."
When the pain was completely gone, and his mind was clear, a sense of joy surfaced in his heart.
Boosted by five attribute points.
According to the upgrade, it was equivalent to a two and a half level up.
[Attributes: Strength 10, Agility 13, Physique 15, Intelligence 16, Perception 10, Charm 13.]
Although the attribute points were added to Physique, Strength, and Agility, but attributes directly reflect the physical state, having any high attribute would be beneficial.
And it's not only the Intelligence that is beneficial for a Mage.
After being elated for a while, he calmed down a bit.
Took out the potion recipe and examined it again.
"Is it possible that I can continue to absorb Corpse Cores and keep increasing my attributes..."
If this speculation was correct, then his attributes would increase unlimitedly.
Even if the level upgrade doesn't increase his attributes a lot, he can enhance his attributes through absorbing Corpse Cores.
Both can compensate each other.
After resting for a while and finding no abnormal feelings in his body.
He got up again and started today's leveling under the command of skeletons.
The whole night passed, clean downstairs, three more wandering zombies appeared out of nowhere.
He opened the staircase door, and gave a direct order, "Attack."
The next second, the skeletons surged out of the staircase like a long dragon.
Pounced onto the zombies outside.
Zombies were knocked down by the crowd of skeletons, before they could get up, they were crushed into a mush by countless kitchen knives.
The fight here also attracted the attention of nearby zombies
They rushed over from the opened staircase and the back of the building.
"Attack!" Wu Heng also stepped out of the corridor and shouted the order.
The skeleton warriors all raised their cleavers in unison, rushing toward the attacking zombies.
There was continuous loud roaring and chopping.
Thud thud thud~clatter clatter!!
One after another, the glass of the building in front shattered, and zombies fell from the windows above.
The higher ones fell to a mush, the slightly lower ones broke their lower limbs and crawled forward.
"So many?"
Zombies rushed out from all directions and then attacked the skeleton camp.
Although still within the ability of the skeletons, it was significantly more compared to the number estimated from the rooftop.
The skeleton dog would sporadically leap out of the skeleton camp, knock down one or two zombies, bite their necks, and violently shake its head.
When the zombies gathered, it promptly jumped back to the back of the skeletons, not forgetting to wag its waist towards the skeletons.
The mocking and provoking connotation was extremely strong.
Wu Heng stood at the back of the skeletons, observing the situation on the scene while releasing the Bone Manipulation Skill.
To supplement the lost number of skeletons.
They were getting less and less, and finally, only a few scattered and zombies that jumped from the building and broke their legs were still crawling towards this side.
"Go," kill those paralyzed ones." Wu Heng ordered the skeleton dog.
The skeleton dog wagged its tail, directly leapt out of the skeleton group, and killed the crawling zombies one by one.
Soon, the ground below was piled up with about forty zombie bodies.
The skeletons collected all the bodies, stacked them up into a small hill.
Wu Heng began to release the Bone Manipulation Skill.
Summon a few, rest for a while, to avoid excessive spiritual exhaustion.
He didn't want to experience that stir-crazy feeling again.
The sky gradually dimmed again.
He looked at the remaining bodies that weren't transformed, and finally gave up the idea of transforming them overnight.
You can't drift, you have to develop carefully.
...
After returning to Black Stone Town, Wu Heng had dinner in the tavern.
On the way, he also heard some information discussed by the other tavern guests.
What discounts which brothel is offering, the blacksmith shop is raising prices due to a lack of ores, and so on.
This was the most effective way for him to understand this world.
Asking others might draw attention, but listening to others brag could also provide a lot of useful information.
After eating and drinking enough, he began to walk towards his place.
He was quite satisfied in his heart.
"What a turnaround!"
Good things have been happening one after another in these two days, feels like he hit a lucky streak.
Everything becomes smoother, and the future is promising.
"Got to hang in there, improve attributes, increase the number of skeletons." Wu Heng emphasized.
He hurriedly walked towards his residence.
However, as soon as he turned into the alley where he lived, he stomped his footsteps abruptly.
He quickly retreated outside the alley and opened the gun case.
There were three figures standing at his doorstep.
A man and a woman, plus another person wrapped in a black cloak, who couldn't be recognized as a man or woman.
A wanted criminal coming for revenge? It's not even night yet!
Wu Heng was alert.
The three people in the alley also noticed the noise here, one of them said: "Wu Heng?"
"Yes, how can I help?"
"The nomination from the headquarters has come, the steward asked to bring it to you, along with your skeleton."
As he said this, one of them pulled the hood off the figure behind him, revealing a skeleton warrior with a Soul Fire glowing in its eye sockets.
A slight mark on the lower jawbone proved it was the wanted criminal that Wu Heng killed.
"I apologize, please come in." Wu Heng apologized, stepped forward to open the door, and invited the two in.
In addition to his skeleton, two people came.
A man and a woman.
The man was probably in his forties, with brown hair combed back, a stern and resolute face, dressed in silver armor and a longsword hanging around his waist.
The right chest position of the armor bore the emblem of the Professional Association.
The other person was a young woman, with blonde hair, a sharp and exquisite facial feature, tall, wearing a brown leather armor top and tight leather pants, her legs were slim and straight.
She gave off an impression of being smart and capable.
As soon as she entered the room, her eyes were continuously looking everywhere.
"Please, have a seat." Wu Heng signaled the two to sit down, opened a bottle of iced tea, and poured a cup for each.
After he also took a seat, the man finally took out some things.
He placed them one by one on the wooden table and said, "My name is Autruck, the captain of the Fourth Squad stationed in Black Stone Town, this is member 'Cavina'."
The woman nodded in acknowledgment.
"Hmm, good afternoon to both of you."
The middle-aged captain took the objects in his hands and put them one by one on the table, saying: "These are the appointment letter from the association and the armor issued to you, take good care of them, the armor is a welfare reward, it's not mandatory to wear it."
There's also armor reward, that's really good.
The man continued: "According to the distribution of Black Stone Town's Professional Association, you are now a member of the Fourth Squad."
Wu Heng understood, so that's why these two came.
Turns out, the squads have already been divided.
"Okay, our squad only includes three people?" Wu Heng curiously asked.
"Professional squads are between three to five people, our squad is newly added, currently we only have three members."
Professional squads mainly undertake professional rescues and assist in local guard work.
The number of people won't be as many as patrol teams.
If the number of people is too large, it might actually cause local resistance.
The captain continued: "Also, we have to carry out a task tomorrow, we will set off early in the morning, gather at the West City Gate, and don't be late."
Wu Heng was startled, "So soon?"