Ashen God
Chapter 104: Decrease in Cleaning Efficiency

Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Decrease in Cleaning Efficiency

It must be said that the Prototype Tyrant’s heart boasted impressive defensive power and resilience, as it managed to retain its overall shape even after enduring three punches from Zhang Yanhang. It’s no wonder it could withstand the assault of bullets.

Ignoring the immobilized Prototype Tyrant in his hand, Zhang Yanhang immediately turned to confront another Prototype Tyrant. Because his three punches had taken less than a second, the Prototype Tyrant to his left had only just managed to stop its Charge Skill and hadn’t even had time to turn around.

Zhang Yanhang quickly rushed behind the Prototype Tyrant and grabbed its exposed white spine. Accompanied by the sounds of bones breaking and flesh tearing, he incredibly yanked the spine out of its body with brute force.

Zhang Yanhang had thought that this would be enough to incapacitate the Prototype Tyrant’s ability to attack, but the creature defied biological common sense. Despite losing its spine, it still managed to retain some mobility. Its right hand, with its joints twisted, thrust its enormous claw straight toward Zhang Yanhang’s skull.

Zhang Yanhang raised the spine in his hand, still clinging to some rotting flesh, to strike the Prototype Tyrant’s right arm claw, but the spine snapped into two pieces under the immense strength of the Tyrant.

Since he couldn’t block it, he simply didn’t try. Waves rippled across the Energy Shield enveloping Zhang Yanhang as he perfectly took the blow. Taking advantage of the situation, he pulled out a grenade and shoved it into the festering back of the Prototype Tyrant.

After planting the grenade, Zhang Yanhang immediately spun around and started running back. Due to the delay before the grenade’s detonation, it was only after Zhang Yanhang had run several tens of meters that he heard the explosion sound from behind.

Boom!

The already charred body of the Prototype Tyrant was blown in half by the grenade.

[Successfully killed a Second-tier One-star Monster ’T-001 Prototype Tyrant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul Points +30.]

[Successfully killed a Second-tier One-star Monster ’T-001 Prototype Tyrant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul Points +30.]

In fact, besides the spineless Prototype Tyrant being blown to death, the grenade also happened to kill another Prototype Tyrant lying corpse-like beside it due to a ruptured heart.

Although real men never look back at explosions, Zhang Yanhang still used his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil perception to sense the death process of the Prototype Tyrants behind him. Hearing the death notification of the Prototype Tyrants, he headed straight back to the pizza shop.

The two Prototype Tyrants Zhang Yanhang had just finished off might not have dropped treasure boxes, but the Licker and the Beta-type Hunter, which were inadvertently killed by the grenade, each dropped a treasure box. Therefore, he had to go back and pick up these two treasure boxes. Moreover, the most important Storage Box had not yet been collected, which was his reason for coming here in the first place.

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Sixteen hours later, in the Outer Zone of Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, unit 301.

"I just woke up, but why do I still feel so tired..." Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but start recalling what he had been doing before going to sleep.

Zhang Yanhang had fallen asleep eight hours ago and slept straight through for eight hours before waking up. Before going to sleep, Zhang Yanhang had spent a little over eight hours clearing a four-square-kilometer area of the middle layer of Raccoon City, yes, just a mere four square kilometers. In comparison to the outer zone, Zhang Yanhang’s efficiency in clearing the middle layer had decreased by more than half.

Although Zhang Yanhang was aware that the efficiency of clearing the middle layer would be significantly lower compared to the outer zone, he really did not expect it to decrease this much. It took him two hours just to clear one square kilometer of the middle layer area.

The reason behind this was that the zombies in the middle layer were different from those in the outer zone; most of them stayed indoors, with very few outside. Therefore, he had to go door to door to clear them, which was truly troublesome.

Of course, this was only a secondary reason. The primary reason was the presence of Prototype Tyrants and Beta-type Hunters in the middle layer. Zhang Yanhang would expend a large amount of physical strength when fighting the Prototype Tyrants. If he wanted to conserve strength and quickly kill the Prototype Tyrants, it would consume Energy Value, and there wasn’t a very good solution.

As a result, due to the large amount of physical strength consumed in the fight against the Prototype Tyrants, there was a decline in Zhang Yanhang’s cleaning efficiency.

Moreover, unlike the outer zone where Raccoon City had many single-story houses, there were many more high-rise buildings in the middle layer, which also decreased his efficiency in clearing the area.

As for why Zhang Yanhang would experience such great consumption of physical strength in the battle against the Prototype Tyrants?

For example, an ordinary person might be able to lift a 1-kilogram dumbbell a hundred times without a problem, but if you ask him to lift a 100-kilogram barbell, putting aside whether he could lift it or not, even if he could lift it by force, he would probably feel too exhausted after one or two lifts and then experience muscle soreness in the arms the next day due to muscle strains.

Zhang Yanhang’s battle with the Prototype Tyrants was similar. He was, after all, fighting beyond his class. The Strength Attribute of a Second-tier One-star Prototype Tyrant was higher than his, and their Constitution and Agility attributes were also above twenty points.

Therefore, this meant that unless Zhang Yanhang used Spiritual Energy, he simply couldn’t kill the Prototype Tyrants quickly. Once he got entangled with them, he would inevitably have to consume a large amount of physical strength to take down the Prototype Tyrants.

In the beginning, Zhang Yanhang could quickly kill the three Prototype Tyrants he first encountered by relying on Spiritual Qi Blessing. However, subsequently, he killed five more Prototype Tyrants, and at that point, his Energy Value was already running low, so he had to fight the Prototype Tyrants with normal attacks.

With Spiritual Qi Blessing, Zhang Yanhang could burst the heart of a Prototype Tyrant with one punch, but without it, it took three punches to burst the heart of a Prototype Tyrant, drastically reducing efficiency.

So, for all these reasons, combined with some other factors, Zhang Yanhang’s efficiency in clearing was directly halved.

In these eight hours, Zhang Yanhang had altogether killed eight Tyrants, ten Beta-type Hunters, twenty Lickers, four hundred Ordinary Zombies, sixty Zombie Dogs, and twenty Police Zombies.

Yes, it was probably because the Police Zombies in Raccoon City were nearly extinct that there were only twenty this time, and also, the numbers of other Ordinary Zombies and Zombie Dogs had decreased to varying degrees. This was because the zombies in Raccoon City were already close to being completely eradicated by Zhang Yanhang.

Zhang Yanhang estimated that if he went to check the completion status at the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box now, it should be at least around sixty to seventy percent.

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