November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, also the first day Zhang Yanhang entered the Ashen World, at 6:55 pm, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Terra City.

After undoing the Transformation Technique, Zhang Yanhang, returning to his ten-meter height, was flying while devouring monster corpses on the ground and dropped treasure boxes, sweeping past like a heavy attack aircraft skimming the ground, shattering countless windows along the way.

During the past five minutes, after collecting the dropped treasure box of the T-103 Super Tyrant, he went around to hunt more monsters to test his current hunting speed.

The results were as expected. Zhang Yanhang, now habitually using Spiritual Qi Blessing, maintained his speed at twenty-eight Machs, resulting in a massive increase in hunting efficiency. Whereas he used to measure his hunting efficiency by minutes, he now had moved to counting in seconds.

Previously, when clearing monsters in the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, Zhang Yanhang was often limited by terrain and his speed, including treasure box collection, clearing only a few square kilometers per minute. But now, according to test results, he can clear an area of five square kilometers in just one second.

It must be said, with the ability to fly and the casual regular attack delivering nuclear blast-level damage, such results are inevitable. However, when surrounded by dense monsters, Zhang Yanhang preferred using the Death Wave, as monsters killed by it left behind intact corpses.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang spent roughly two and a half minutes clearing an area of seven hundred and fifty square kilometers. As for what he did afterward, obviously, he was collecting monster corpses and treasure boxes.

Indeed, given that killing monsters itself doesn't consume much time, Zhang Yanhang spent nearly the same amount of time going back and forth, which meant, superficially, if ignoring the collection of dropped treasure boxes and monster corpses, he could clear five square kilometers per second.

However, factoring in the time to devour treasure boxes and monster corpses, the clearing efficiency dropped to only 2.5 square kilometers per second, but it wasn't much of an issue. Even clearing 2.5 square kilometers per second is significantly faster, as it equates to one hundred and fifty square kilometers per minute, a considerable upgrade compared to before.

Indeed, clearing 2.5 square kilometers per second equates to one hundred and fifty square kilometers per minute, indicating a vast improvement over previous speeds.

"When the clearing speed reaches counting in square kilometers per second, waiting several seconds at the same spot for treasure boxes to refresh is indeed unwise. Better to hunt other monsters and return later to collect the refreshed treasure boxes."

After reflecting quietly for a moment, Zhang Yanhang spat out the recently devoured treasure boxes from his mouth. Notably, besides dropped treasure boxes and monster corpses, he also devoured some reinforced concrete adhered with monster blood and flesh.

As for why, aside from the Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill's massive suction automatically ingesting the ground along with the monster corpses, other factors are incidental, with some adhered to fragments of monster meat or simply absorbed while passing by.

Since he keeps the Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill active throughout his flight, he's too lazy for precise operation, maxing the suction power indiscriminately. Consequently, while passing areas devoid of monster corpses, he inevitably absorbs miscellaneous items, like entire apartment buildings or street shops.

Thus, his flight path is highly noticeable—wherever buildings and the ground appear gnawed or missing significant chunks, it's sure he just passed through.

Compared to Raccoon City, Zhang Yanhang in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, due to rank promotion, indeed has significantly enhanced his destructive capability toward the city. If one day he demonstrates his prowess in the Main World, these hunting-process accumulated advanced 'destruction experiences' will surely be useful.

Of course, compared to reinforced concrete and similar things, monster corpses are far more important. In just a few minutes, Zhang Yanhang successfully tested the absorption efficiency of T-103 Super Tyrant corpses.

Overall, it's similar to other Ashen World monsters, capable of being absorbed at half the usual speed. However, given the T-103 type Tyrant is a Third Tier Two-star monster, its corpse is slightly more resistant than those of the Bloody Reindeer monopolizing Christmas Permanent Transmission Channel, a Third Tier One-star monster.

Apart from rank, Zhang Yanhang considers corpse's volume might be a factor, given the T-103 Super Tyrant is five meters tall, while the Bloody Reindeer of Christmas Permanent Transmission Channel is merely two to three meters, with volume disparity not merely double but several times greater.

If a Christmas Reindeer corpse is absorbed in seconds, the T-103 Super Tyrant corpse requires close to ten seconds to absorb completely—a notable difference indeed.

"The first stage of the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field clearing plan, specifically Terra City's area, totals 3,800 square kilometers. I've cleansed 750 square kilometers, wishing I had cleared fifty more to round up to 800 square kilometers.

I now have 3,050 square kilometers left to complete the first stage clearing plan. Proportionally, I've cleared approximately 19.7% of Terra City, nearly a fifth, leaving four-fifths remaining."

Clearing a fifth of Terra City in mere five minutes, Zhang Yanhang speculates he might cleanse the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field before the Raccoon City Transmission Channel closes, given his current hunting efficiency unless encountering unforeseen events.

After regurgitating the recently devoured treasure boxes from the stomach space, Zhang Yanhang retrieved the treasure box dropped by the first T-103 Super Tyrant he had killed from his waist bag, placing them together.

Being the first treasure box in the new area, Zhang Yanhang intends to open these treasure boxes first to see what valuable items the new area's treasure boxes might yield before continuing to cleanse Terra City.

Zhang Yanhang first counted the dropped treasure boxes, ultimately acquiring a total of one hundred eighty-nine dropped treasure boxes, all dark purple treasure boxes from T-103 Super Tyrants.

Though he didn't count carefully, Zhang Yanhang roughly recalls that during clearing this area of 750 square kilometers, he probably eliminated over three thousand T-103 Super Tyrants.

"Thus, calculating from these numbers, the T-103 Super Tyrants in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field have a treasure box drop rate of approximately one for every eighteen killed."

Regarding this drop rate, Zhang Yanhang anticipated it. Thanks to his dark purple quality Tarot Card Set granting him two extra luck values, each point offsets a rank penalty from a low-level monster; two points naturally counteract two.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances when facing monsters with a lower rank than himself, due to the rank penalty, twenty monster kills usually drop only one treasure box.

"But this statistical rate applies to Third Tier Two-star low-level monster treasure boxes. It remains unclear what the drop rate for same-tier monsters in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field will be.

Logically, with my luck values, dropping a treasure box should require less than ten kills; however, the lower, the better in such matters. Ideally, it would take merely six or seven kills to drop a treasure box."

As for the specific drop rate of the Fourth Tier monsters in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, we can only wait for Zhang Yanhang to actually defeat some before knowing.

Before opening the treasure box, Zhang Yanhang, as usual, first checked his soul points balance to know how many soul points he gained just by killing monsters.

[Soul Points: 1866407 (+1857350)]

"After eliminating over 3000 T-103 Super Tyrants, my soul points balance finally returned to seven figures at 1866407 points from the initial four figures of 9057 points, a total growth of 1857350 soul points."

But although this nearly two million soul points are considerable for the Third Tier, it is indeed not much for Zhang Yanhang, who is already in the Fourth Tier now; it's even a bit less, considering he needs to spend twenty million soul points to upgrade his skills now. This 1860000 soul points will only be enough for a tenth of the upgrade requirement.

"But fortunately, I can still open treasure boxes later, as compared to the soul points obtained from killing monsters, the ones obtained from monsters' drop treasure boxes constitute the bulk."

Zhang Yanhang estimated that the 189 dark purple quality drop treasure boxes from T-103 Super Tyrants could at least yield a few million soul points, maybe enough to upgrade the cultivation method level of Limitless Universe Skill.

After checking the soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang soon casually picked a treasure box from the ground and chose to open it.

[Do you want to open the 'Drop Treasure Box (T-103 Super Tyrant · Awakened Form)'?]

"Yes, open."

Although wanting to open coins, besides coins, Zhang Yanhang also wants to obtain some new equipment that can improve physical recovery speed.

Of course, if both can be combined, Zhang Yanhang feels that's also doable; after all, if he can stack a few hundred coins that all enhance physical recovery speed, he might obtain infinite stamina, being able to instantly recover even if all stamina is drained.

This beautiful vision is indeed excellent and greatly helps in improving his power, since infinite stamina recovery would allow him to consistently maintain the Dharma Body State, thereby maximizing his combat power, and beyond that enabling infinite use of Indestructible Golden Body and other skills.

[Please select the specific contents of 'Drop Treasure Box (T-103 Super Tyrant · Awakened Form)']

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

"As the first drop treasure box in the new area, even if it doesn't yield coins, please don't open something garbage..."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang is just saying this casually; in reality, with the ability of multiple choice, he would only select the best item from the box, generally ensuring that as long as the box itself isn't too junky, the contents opened are basically fine.

"Moreover, besides new gear that enhances stamina recovery speed, if it opens something that increases strength, that is also acceptable."

Zhang Yanhang has always been open to effects that, although simple, indeed can effectively strengthen his power, like enhancements in strength and speed, as written in the Tarot Card Set, "Strength is Justice!"

[Item One]

[Option One: Anti-infantry Magnetic Mines, Dark Purple Quality, Weapon]

[Option Two: 2750 Soul Points]

[Option Three: 5500 Soul Points]

"As expected from the Umbrella company's mastery in energy weapons, they even developed magnetic mines, and it's a dark purple quality weapon; just based on this quality, it wouldn't just be anti-infantry, you say it can be anti-tank as well; I'd believe it, even anti-tank power could excessively overflow."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that five minutes ago, he was talking about Umbrella company's electromagnetic black technology, and now the first drop treasure box immediately opened related magnetic mines.

We can only say, after all, it's the unique giant monopoly company in the world, wealthy like a developed nation, besides researching biological weapons, just spending some money to casually research energy weapons to control biological weapons in case of runaway can reach such a level, it's indeed quite formidable.

But thanks to such weapons, otherwise, given Umbrella company's sieve-like storyline leaks, the biochemical virus might have leaked a hundred times already, humanity might have been destroyed countless times.

But it must be said, Umbrella company's technology tree is indeed crooked, since the T-virus thing as a research outcome, compared to the initial research objective 'Immortality,' can't be said to be identical, but can only be described as vastly different.

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