Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 124 - 104: Dividing the Base

Chapter 124: Chapter 104: Dividing the Base

Lin Wu and his group of three had an awkward combination in battle, especially since Maya became addicted to the repeating crossbow. In close combat, she would always snatch the kills. Fortunately, Maya still had to pick up her arrows, which gave Lin Wu and Little Knife some space to level up.

The leveling between Lin Wu and Little Knife was also not cooperative. Little Knife could confront the zombies head-on. If there were a few zombies, she would just trample them to death. If there were many, she would grab one and throw it. When facing a Frenzy, she didn’t give Lin Wu a chance, knocking it out with a punch before stomping it to death.

Lin Wu was the only one who couldn’t face a large number of regular zombies head-on. Throughout the leveling journey, he was essentially slacking off. Maya progressed quickly and, after getting proficient with the repeating crossbow, started to challenge the Frenzies. Since Frenzies charge in a straight line, her first shot usually hit its mark. After a Frenzy’s head exploded, it would fall to the side, close to Maya, who had no choice but to run away, using stamina to create some distance before turning back to shoot another arrow.

This shot was very risky because Maya did not know the distance to the Frenzy. She had to shoot the crossbow arrow while stopping and turning at the same time, and the shot had to be a headshot, or she’d get injured and infected. She had to face the same danger again, all because of another weakness of the repeating crossbow.

With ten zombies standing, Maya would estimate the distance to the second zombie as she shot the first, allowing her to continue shooting and exploding the zombies’ heads. A headshot would knock the Frenzy to one side, causing a significant shift in the position of the head and body. A pistol could continue firing at a moving target, but this was unfriendly for a light crossbow, as arrows fly slower than bullets.

Maya tried twice. Although she killed the Frenzy on both occasions, she got seriously injured each time, having to bandage her wounds and take painkillers after killing each Frenzy. Even with an abundance of medical supplies at the base, it was too costly to sustain, so Maya gave up on the idea of fighting Frenzies alone.

Little Knife couldn’t stand to see others upset and comforted Maya, "Next time you have to face a Frenzy, you will definitely be the last one standing." After all, no one else had the ability to kill a Frenzy alone.

Since the two women had things under control, Lin Wu started practicing the Quick Gunner skill. He would rest when out of stamina and use it up whenever he had some. Perhaps it was due to handling guns every day, Lin Wu’s Quick Gunner skill level had increased to the second level before he even realized it.

The second-level Quick Gunner increased the headshot chance from 15 meters, 15%, to 20 meters, 20%. If it was just that, Quick Gunner would still be a useless skill, only cool to show off when Dawn was acting up. The second level came with an independent skill, consuming double, or 30%, stamina to ensure a headshot within 3 meters. Using the Quick Gunner skill on a player or zombie within 3 meters assured a headshot.

This...

As Lin Wu watched the two sisters effortlessly slaughter zombies on either side, he sat down to study the Quick Gunner skill silently. After a while, Lin Wu felt that what he needed was a Barrett Anti-material Sniper Rifle, given that a full charge of stamina allowed for only three uses of Quick Gunner. It just didn’t seem right to run within 3 meters of zombies and fire a Barrett.

Could he shoot a Titan? Of course not, one would have to be crazy to go near a Titan to die. Besides, even if he somehow got within a three-meter range, he probably couldn’t see its head when he looked up. Lin Wu thought it was about shooting players: Wind Stab Displacement, Quick Gunner Lock Head.

Wind Stab could strike the opponent’s head and give a chance to stab again, with a great chance of taking the opponent down. If it failed, he would have to resort to pistol Lock Head, a close range double Quick Gunner combo. The combination could be adjusted to Lock Head Quick Gunner and regular Quick Gunner, based on the situation.

Wind Stab was a dagger skill, and Quick Gunner was a gun skill. Players could designate one of their hands as the main hand, and only the weapon in the main hand could use its skill. This necessitated quick switching between a dagger and a firearm. No wonder it was called Quick Gunner.

Beast Trap was suitable for dealing with the charging Frenzies but not with bears or Titans, nor could it handle players unless it was an ambush. And if he was going to ambush, why use a Beast Trap when he had a 3-meter Wind Stab?

Having nothing better to do, Lin Wu followed the two female heroes, pondering aimlessly. Meanwhile, Little Knife and Maya were having fun. Once Maya ran out of crossbow arrows, she took out her machete and started chopping like cutting vegetables.

Lost in thought, Lin Wu reflected that it wasn’t just Maya who liked the repeating crossbow; probably everyone in Bai Ban’s group did. How would Maya allocate the use of the repeating crossbow? Although the arrows had a high recovery rate, they couldn’t handle 12 hours of continuous use, leading to the base’s spare parts all being made into arrows.

That’s when Lin Wu thought of Silencer. Since he got a hold of Silencer, Lin Wu had monopolized it, and Stone even told others not to claim it. Silencer was found by Lin Wu and Shana, with the main credit going to Lin Wu, so he monopolized it, and no one else had much to say.

But claiming the repeating crossbow was a different story. Sigh... one must be really idle to worry about Stone and Maya’s troubles.

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At five in the morning, Horse Soul applied for a repeating crossbow and all 30 crossbow arrows in the base’s inventory. Two pieces of Splintered Wood and one piece of scrap iron could be combined to make one light crossbow arrow, which in principle wasn’t too consuming and also had an 80% recovery rate. Perhaps because the material cost was low and the usage requirements simple, everyone wanted to try the repeating crossbow.

Lin Wu was awakened by a knock on the door. He got out of bed, pulled aside the screen, and saw Little Knife with a bitter face. Lin Wu squinted at her for a while, "Causing trouble again?"

"I’m in a bad mood." Little Knife didn’t care about the cramped space and pushed her way in, forcing Lin Wu to climb up to the upper bunk: "Su Shi scolded me, waaa!"