Ashen God
Chapter 66: Prize Pool Refresh

Chapter 66: Chapter 66: Prize Pool Refresh

Before moving the slot machine downstairs, Zhang Yanhang first activated Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil and checked the nearby monster situation. After witnessing monster corpses turn to ashes with his own eyes the last time, he had an idea: could it be possible that the Ashen World also refreshed monsters in this manner?

First, he surveilled the key Dulda Apartment, and perhaps due to luck and being close to the Transmission Channel, there were no zombies. However, the streets were a different story. There were indeed zombies where there should have been none since he had already cleared those areas. A scattering of Ordinary Zombies and Zombie Dogs appeared.

Although their numbers weren’t great, only around a dozen, it confirmed something: monsters in the Ashen World did indeed respawn.

You might ask why Zhang Yanhang could be so certain that the monsters respawned rather than simply wandering over from another place? That’s because some monsters appeared in completely sealed rooms.

While zombies like to wander aimlessly, those that do can only enter a new room by breaking the door at most. However, some rooms were completely intact, with neither doors nor windows damaged and with no secret passages to speak of.

Therefore, if a zombie still appeared in such a room, the only explanation was that it had respawned out of thin air; after all, zombies don’t know the Wall Penetration Technique. Besides, he had used the Enemy Seeking Radar last time to thoroughly clear the nearby zombies, so there definitely couldn’t be any leftovers.

"Although in some sense it’s good that monsters can be harvested repeatedly like chives, having to clear areas I’ve already cleaned is quite annoying."

When playing games, Zhang Yanhang’s favorite activity was clearing the entire map, so he could run wild without restraint. But in the Ashen World, even if all the monsters are slain, they would respawn, which interfered with his Raccoon City Outer Zone clearing plan to a certain extent.

Fortunately, because he had only left for three to four days, the number of zombie respawns wasn’t too many. He estimated that even if he had to clear the previously cleaned areas again, at most he would encounter slightly over a hundred zombies—a mere trifle compared to the peak period when thousands of zombies filled those regions.

"However, before I restart the Raccoon City Outer Zone clearing plan, I still need to deal with the zombies inside the slot machine," Zhang Yanhang said casually as he carried the slot machine downstairs. Upon finding the hole he had previously dug, he put the machine back in its original place.

When his Strength was only in the teens, Zhang Yanhang already found the slot machine light. Now that his Strength had reached 21 points, he could easily lift it with one hand.

Testing his Strength when he had nothing else to do, he found that he could now lift a minivan with both hands and walk steadily. The minivan weighed about 1.2 tons.

You may wonder why a naturally lazy person like Zhang Yanhang would do such a thing. It was because while scanning the neighborhood, he happened to find a minivan mysteriously parked in his parking spot.

Though he didn’t own a car, the parking spot he paid for definitely couldn’t be used for free by others. So, he carried the minivan and walked all the way out of the complex. Then he found a narrow place where the van could only be removed with a crane, tossed the van in there, and went back home.

Even in the Spiritual Qi Recovery Era, passersby couldn’t help but frequently look back and eventually gather around him, faced with what could be considered a performance art. After all, even though everyone was a cultivator, no one (mainly due to insufficient Cultivation) would carry a car over their head and walk.

Passersby speculated about his actions: some thought that Zhang Yanhang’s behavior might be a ’flash mob’ promotion of green environmental protection by advocating for walking to reduce carbon emissions.

The only obstacle was needing facial recognition to exit the compound, but Zhang Yanhang was wearing a helmet at the time and couldn’t free his hands because he was holding up the minivan. Seeing this, a security guard proactively opened the gate for him.

While it could have been because the guard didn’t want to risk being hit by the minivan and possibly being transported to another world for a job that paid a few thousand yuan, Zhang Yanhang felt that the guard’s proactive approach was more likely due to his personal Charm.

After all, he did have a Charm value of eight points. Even though the guard couldn’t see his face, this very fact indicated that his personal Charm had taken effect—at least that’s how Zhang Yanhang saw it.

Of course, upon reflection, Zhang Yanhang thought of a better solution; for instance, he could have put the minivan directly in his Waist Bag. The volume of a minivan is at most about ten cubic meters, and with his current Waist Bag capacity, he could easily fit two or three minivans.

This would prevent the overt behavior of carrying a minivan over his head, and it would also effectively reduce onlooker gatherings.

After placing the slot machine back in its original position, Zhang Yanhang gently pulled the metal lever.

[Please choose the specific content of the Lucky Slot Machine draw]

[Option One: ☠☠☠ (Third Prize, Lady Zombie, First Tier Zero Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

[Option Two: ☠☠☠ (Third Prize, Police Zombie, First Tier Zero Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

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[Option Twenty-One: ☠☠☠ (Third Prize, Doberman Zombie, First Tier One Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

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[Option Forty-Three: ☠☠☠ (Third Prize, Licker, First Tier Two Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

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[Option Two Hundred Seventy-Six: ✰✬☆ (Fourth Prize, thanks for playing, no physical prize.)]

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"Zombie Dogs? Lickers? Are there now such high-level goods in the slot machine? That’s quite nice; it means my Soul points gain could increase further."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the last time he played the slot machine, all one hundred zombies were Ordinary Zombies with First Tier Zero Stars. But this time, Lickers and Zombie Dogs had appeared, and now he began to suspect whether it might be possible for monsters like Tyrants to spawn in the future.