Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 374 - 204: Mall

Chapter 374: Chapter 204: Mall

Maya reached out to stop Lin Wu from opening the door, "We’re going to face NPC mercenaries. Right now, we’re short on bullets, and can’t afford injuries, we can’t undertake this mission now. To do this mission, we must stockpile weapons and ammunition." What Maya was really worried about was not whether they could complete the mission, but that with their current situation, they would inevitably lose members.

Shadow wasn’t without resources. Apart from Forest Wolf, the assault rifles, and the grenade launcher they just acquired, they also had rocket-propelled grenades. They even had shock bombs and hand grenades. If they were to fight, it wouldn’t be today.

Shana said, "Let’s make a bold guess, could this hotel be the player mission center? The 35th floor is locked, and the floors below are also locked. The 35th floor is for evacuation missions, what about the 34th floor?"

Maya said, "Let’s go down and take a look."

Shana was right, there were missions on the 34th floor as well. The mission was to find the Deep Blue Star, a gem set in a necklace. The necklace’s owner was a female celebrity. After the zombie virus outbreak in Left County, the whereabouts of the female celebrity were unknown, and a wealthy individual in Day After Tomorrow City offered a hefty reward to find the Deep Blue Star.

Players, after obtaining the Deep Blue Star, could hand it over to the uncle at the Bounty Hunter Hall to receive a reward. The reward was unknown.

The catch was also here; one must first take a token to the bounty hunters to accept the exclusive bounty task before starting the mission. It was the same for the 33rd and 32nd floors. Only mission tokens were provided, and the quantity of mission tokens was unlimited; anyone could take a token to accept the mission, first-come, first-served.

Lin Wu complained on the fly, "Why can’t you just hand in the Deep Blue Star to complete the mission?"

Little White Rabbit explained that this was to avoid players completing all missions at once, hence this threshold was set. Each group of players could only accept one exclusive mission at a time, and there was a mission deadline.

Little White Rabbit also revealed two pieces of information: the first was that after a certain amount of time, once a floor mission was complete, it would reset to another mission. The second piece of information was that players who completed a mission could use the elevator to go to any floor of their choice.

Lin Wu appreciated Little White Rabbit’s cooperation today, as they didn’t give it a hard time, but he quickly realized he was wrong because there were explanations written near every elevator entrance on each floor. It was just that he hadn’t noticed before. You couldn’t blame Lin Wu; he had examined the 35th floor very thoroughly, but since it was not a bounty mission, there were no explanations. When they reached the 34th floor, everyone headed straight to the point and missed the details.

By now, the four sewer access points of Sewer 99 had been thoroughly explored. Access point 1 was near the industrial residential area and had excellent looting potential but was far away with a high density of zombies en route. Access point 2 was in the underground parking lot of a mall and was the best resource looting spot. Access point 3 was directly connected to the Fortress Company office building and had an extremely high-risk factor. Access point 4 was the Bounty Task Hotel; to undertake these missions, one must first clear the route to the Hunter Hall.

After weighing their options and discussing, Maya and Shana unanimously decided that starting tomorrow, the base’s main focus would be the management of access point 2.

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The group retreated back to the base, and the first thing to do was to test the grenade launcher. The meteorological station sentry post was the highest point, and Lin Wu, following Maya’s instructions, adjusted the height of the grenade launcher. The gun body was kept balanced with a level on top, and if he couldn’t hold the gun steady, he could open the bipod of the grenade launcher and set it on the ground.

The second step was to adjust the angle.

After that, he loaded a grenade into the chamber, racked the slide, and pulled the trigger. With a muted ’puff’ sound, the grenade flew out, landing somewhere. They heard an explosion but didn’t see where it hit. Maya made some adjustments, then fired another round, hitting a fire station a hundred meters away.

The grenade exploded between a Titan and three zombies, throwing the three zombies ten meters away, while the Titan was pushed forward by the blast wave, stumbling forward two steps without sustaining fatal damage.

The third grenade was launched, hitting the Titan right on the head and exploding. The Titan staggered at first, then continued to stagger backwards several steps before falling to the ground.

"Lin Wu is too awesome," Lin Wu excitedly fired another round; this time the grenade exploded three meters from the Titan. All three shots were at the same height, the same angle, but there was a deviation of several meters. Lin Wu explained, "I deliberately aimed off."

Maya replied, "I know." She didn’t engage in a meaningless argument with Lin Wu, whatever he said was fine.

After playing around a few more times, Lin Wu lost interest. The advantage of the grenade was area damage. The disadvantage was insufficient damage; zombies about three meters from the blast point were unlikely to die. Of course, this was characteristic of zombies, where only the head was vital. Another downside was the cumbersome loading; the refreshed ammunition was on a belt, and he had to first remove the grenade, load it into the grenade launcher, and during this process be very careful, constantly checking the level indicator.

None of these were a problem; the real issue was that it was impossible to hit the target directly with one shot. To change from point A to point B required one or several shots to adjust. In contrast, snipers and assault rifles were so much better, just aim and fire.

The others shared Lin Wu’s view; compared to the grenade launcher, they preferred firearms. But to their surprise, Stone quite liked the grenade launcher, saying the youngsters didn’t understand the art of explosions. So, the grenade launcher became Stone’s sidearm when on duty. Since the grenade launcher was quiet when fired, Stone would also take it out and shoot around when he was off duty and bored without bothering to level it, just slanting the gun upward and firing, letting it land wherever it may.