"Leo, you and Buddy go check the surroundings. That noise might have attracted zombies, and we need to move quickly. Also, look for an escape route." Ryan said seriously.
Leo nodded and headed off with Buddy in different directions, scanning the area warily.
Ryan took a few steps away, picked up the shotgun, and loaded it while keeping an eye on Candy beneath the truck.
"Cough cough cough…" Candy rolled her eyes, blood frothing from her mouth. Her once fair face was now as pale as paper.
"You think I don't know your weakness?" Ryan sneered inwardly.
Candy had many advantages, including her raw strength, but the most dangerous was the information gap.
Aside from Ryan, no one else knew what a rabid state was or what her true weakness was.
But now, it was all over.
Ryan pressed the shotgun against Candy's forehead and pulled the trigger. With the sound of the gunshot, blood splattered, ending her life once and for all.
[Hunt Task Completed]
[Ding, due to your global first kill, you have unlocked an additional reward: Body Enhancement Agent ×1]
Ryan raised his eyebrows in surprise. "A global first kill? Since Candy is the first pathogen to be killed, I received an extra reward?"
"Body Enhancement Agent, what is that? It sounds like a tool for modifying the human body. I didn't expect this game would have such items." Ryan took it out of his backpack and examined it closely.
It looked like a red liquid contained in a vial, with a note beside it.
[Body Enhancement Agent (can be consumed directly)]
Ryan nodded and, without a moment's hesitation, lifted the vial and drank it down.
In an instant, a warm sensation flowed from his abdomen throughout his body, but that was all.
"It seems like there's no noticeable effect." Ryan shrugged and moved on, what he cared about most was still the reward for completing the hunt task!
[Hunt Task Rewards Distributed]
[Received Rewards: Immunity Serum ×1]
[Select High-Level Material Chest ×1 (Can be upgraded)]
Seeing the words 'Can be upgraded' behind the high-level material chest, Ryan paused slightly. "What does that mean? I've never seen that before."
So, he chose to check it out.
[Upgradeable: Destroying other players' vehicles will yield vehicle cores that can be used to upgrade the chest's quality]
[Current prizes in the chest: Universal Key ×1, AK47 Blueprint ×1, Strength Enhancement Agent ×1]
[Would you like to open it?]
Ryan's eyes widened slightly. There were three high-level materials in the chest, all of which were exceptional.
Whether it was the Universal Key or the AK47 blueprint, if Ryan got them now, he would thrive in this game, especially in this city dungeon!
Thinking of this, he swallowed hard, feeling a bit impatient, but in the end, he forced himself to suppress the urge to open the chest.
"Not opening it." Ryan made his choice, he decided to upgrade the chest before claiming the rewards!
The prizes in this chest were already great, so what would they be after the upgrade?
He packed the chest along with the serum into his backpack and then began to search Candy's corpse, rummaging through her backpack.
[Discovered Player: Candy's Backpack (Deceased)]
[One-Click Extraction Available]
"Extract." Ryan thought this felt just like looting in a battle royale game, and just as he was enjoying the moment, he suddenly remembered that killing Candy would trigger an announcement.
At that moment, an announcement suddenly appeared in the chat channel for everyone to see.
[Ryan has completed the hunt task!]
[Task rewards have been distributed!]
Instantly, the entire channel erupted with excitement!
[What? This hunt task was just released three minutes ago, and it's already completed? No way!]
[And the one who completed it is none other than Ryan!]
[It's safe to say that everyone who was invited to team up with Candy is dead. That bitch was really strong, yet Ryan took her down in just three minutes…]
Many players who had entered the dungeon were itching to hunt Candy after hearing about the hunt task, with several already on their way.
After all, the tempting rewards were not something anyone wanted to miss!
But who could have imagined that in just three minutes, Ryan's name would ring out in everyone's ears once again.
It was just too fast!
As for the astonishment of others in the channel, Ryan barely glanced at it. He wanted to keep a low profile, but his strength wouldn't allow it, and he couldn't close the announcement.
"Next, I need to figure out how to upgrade the high-level material chest. By the way, I didn't expect the core to be so useful!" Ryan's eyes narrowed as he solidified his next goal.
He was sure that the vehicle core had more uses beyond upgrading the chest and his own vehicle!
This meant Ryan would need to kill other players, but he didn't feel much moral burden because he was certain that there were already players out there who wanted to kill him!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Suddenly, Ryan heard the sound of arrows slicing through the air near his ear.
His expression shifted, he hadn't even turned around, yet it felt as if he could see what was happening behind him, and his reaction speed had dramatically increased!
"Drink!" Almost as soon as he sensed the danger, Ryan leaped to the side and landed safely!
When he turned to look, he saw several arrows embedded in the ground where he had just been standing.
"What? He dodged that? Is he even human?" A voice came from the nearby bushes, laced with surprise.
Ryan frowned, someone had ambushed him. The three arrows had been aimed at his vital points, and if they had hit, he would have been severely injured or worse.
Recalling the way he had dodged, Ryan suddenly remembered the enhancement agent he had consumed.
"That's it! It must be the effect of the enhancement agent." He felt no physical abnormalities, had he not just experienced it, he wouldn't have realized how much his reaction speed had improved—he was several times stronger than before.
He had surpassed the limits of human capability!
Moreover, he sensed that the effects of the body enhancement agent were not limited to just that.
Of course, he didn't have time to explore it further at the moment because the person who wanted to attack him was right in front of him.
He looked in the direction of the voice and spotted several muscular men.
They varied in appearance, some wore sunglasses, others wielded machetes or carried wooden sticks. But they all shared a common feature: black lightning-shaped tattoos on their shoulders.
The leader among them held a bow, and the failed ambush clearly irritated him, but he quickly regained his composure. "He is the target we're looking for!"
The people around him were discussing among themselves:
"This guy seems pretty capable. Ruben is an expert archer, known as the sharpshooter, and so far, he's the only prey who has managed to evade him."
"If he didn't have some skills, how could he possibly steal our business? It's gotten to the point where our boss personally ordered his death!"
"But that's alright. Today, we've got him cornered, and this is his time to die!"
Ryan sensed the killing intent from them, but he remained unfazed. "Let me guess who you are. You must be the unscrupulous merchants who were selling glasses earlier, right?"
There was a surge in demand for goggles, and a group of people wanted to cash in on it. At that moment, Ryan's bone goggles appeared out of nowhere, leaving them with nothing!
"You have quite a good memory." said Ruben, who was holding a bow and arrow, his smile not reaching his eyes. "Soon, you'll learn the cost of ruining our plans!"
Ryan ignored the blatant threat and focused on extracting items from Candy's corpse, putting them into his backpack.
Aside from the oil extraction device blueprints that Leo had instructed him to retrieve, Ryan also found quite a few valuable items on her.
Not to mention the ordinary basic materials, he discovered two types of blueprints: one for a crossbow and another for bullet production.
Additionally, Ryan found the coveted electronic components on her, but unfortunately, since this guy didn't need to eat, there was no food on her at all.
However, even with all these spoils, Ryan was already feeling excited!