Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 398 - 213: Reunion with Blood Heart_2

Chapter 398: Chapter 213: Reunion with Blood Heart_2

Lin Wu said, "There’s still one damn screamer left."

Maya asked, "At what o’clock position?"

Lin Wu asked, "Do you mean my current front, the side facing the wall, or my side profile?"

Maya said, "From your current position. It’s like a 360-degree compass."

Lin Wu said, "At the 7 o’clock direction."

Maya pulled Lin Wu over, raised her crossbow, peeked out, and shot the screamer, but the process attracted the attention of Blood Frenzy. Frenzy immediately roared. Maya said, "Retreat."

It wasn’t that they couldn’t beat them, but they shouldn’t fight. Besides the two Blood Frenzy, there were seven or eight zombies, and a direct confrontation would lead to two problems. First, there would be no time for corpse looting, and second, there was a possibility of getting injured.

After running full speed for 20 meters, only Blood Frenzy could keep up. The capable die first. Maya shot a bolt into Frenzy Alpha, breaking their coordinated attack. Lin Wu used his Wind Stinger to take down Frenzy Beta, which was leaping at him. However, Blood Frenzy had a hard head, and Lin Wu had to stab it several times before finally killing it. Then he quickly turned to face Frenzy Alpha and easily took it down.

Throughout the entire process, Maya stayed back to provide support without stepping forward. Even if Blood Frenzy didn’t catch a player, the palm wind it created could infect the player with the virus. If they hacked away for an hour without looting a single Serum, but instead had to use one, Maya would definitely object.

After the two Blood Frenzy lay dead, the pair searched the corpses, and, almost simultaneously, each found a bottle of Serum. Lin Wu said, "It’s still Blood Frenzy that counts."

Maya agreed; the cement factory had been the same situation. A ground littered with zombies rarely yielded a bottle of Serum, but Blood Frenzy averaged one bottle for every five. With good luck, Serum could drop consecutively. However, Blood Frenzy were scarce, and to acquire a steady source of Blood Frenzy one must hunt Serum, and when Serum became enraged, it would inevitably summon Blood Frenzy.

Maya said, "We need to change our mindset. Let’s look for rope."

Lin Wu asked, "You mean to rappel down to the Blood Heart layer using the rope?"

Maya nodded. "It’s a viable option."

Lin Wu said, "I don’t think such a high-end office area would have rope. If they were going to kill themselves, they’d typically choose to jump off the building."

Maya rolled her eyes, but couldn’t deny Lin Wu’s point. The possibility of finding long rope on this floor was very low.

Lin Wu suggested, "How about we build a workshop and make rope out of cloth strips?"

Maya asked, "How much cloth would we need?"

Lin Wu recalled something Su Shi had mentioned in conversation, "About 20 pieces of cloth for one meter of rope."

Maya calculated. With each floor being about three meters in height, totaling 90 meters, they would need 1,800 cloth scraps. However, since the Blood Heart was in the upper half, only 900 were necessary. But a single rope was not enough; at least two were required, so they needed 1,800 scraps in total. Considering the drop rate of cloth scraps, she would have to kill 3,600 zombies. With one scrap every 20 seconds, it would take 72,000 seconds, equating to 20 hours.

After hearing Maya’s calculation, Lin Wu immediately said, "Let’s still search for rope—that sounds more reliable." He didn’t want to spend 20 hours looting just for a piece of rope. In theory, such things should be so common they’re everywhere.

Maya clapped her hands, as if she had thought of something, and hurried back to the base, with Lin Wu following. The two returned to the base’s balcony, where Maya dismantled the stainless steel railing around the cylindrical structure. After finishing, she stuck her head out and looked downward.

Lin Wu followed her gaze and saw a building cleaning crane parked around the 18th floor. His hands reached out from the edge of the balcony, less than two meters from the crane’s steel cable.

Maya said, "From the neighboring small office, we could slide to the 18th floor relying on the steel cable."

Lin Wu said, "Do you think Blood Heart is on the 18th floor?"

Maya shook her head, "Idiot, there are ropes on the crane; safety ropes prepared for the cleaning staff."

Lin Wu saw a half-open equipment box on the crane, with a white rope poking out. He said, "You mean I should go by myself."

Maya nodded. "Mhm."

Lin Wu asked, "Will it count as a work-related injury if I fall to my death?"

Maya said, "I’ll light three sticks of incense for you at a memorial, for every one of us."

...

The neighboring small office was a secretary’s office for the large office; anyone wanting to see ’Boss’ had to get past the secretary first. The window had no glass, and Lin Wu could reach the steel cable just by extending his hand. The crane was lowered from a boom on the rooftop, something Lin Wu did not recall seeing on the rooftop. However, with walls all around the rooftop, he regretted not investigating more thoroughly.

Gripping the steel cable, Lin Wu leaped out the window; the situation turned out different from what Lin Ma had expected. The steel cable didn’t have friction like a rope, and Lin Wu didn’t dare to grip it too tightly, lest a non-healing bleeding wound emerge. Descending, he urgently wrapped his sleeves around his hands and braked at the last second. Despite a hard landing, he at least avoided the tragedy of crashing onto the crane.

Standing on the crane, Lin Wu looked up, intending to see Maya but instead saw inside the window to a world beyond. It was a multi-functional meeting room of about 150 square meters with a Blood Heart prominently present, its tentacles stretching across the entire room. Accompanying the heart-like beat of its main body, streaks of Blood Mist blew in all directions.

The Blood Heart was innately friendly towards players; if you looked at it, it wouldn’t harm you. From that perspective, it was just another life form. Yet, such a benign entity was the source of all evils. It didn’t kill people; it could make zombies do that.

Lin Wu reported, "Blood Heart." No wonder the crane stopped on the 18th floor. Dawn’s calculations were too strong.

"Ah?" This was not good news. The crane lacked protection on all sides, less than three square meters in area, and engaging in battle on the crane was certainly unwise. If Lin Wu used Wind Stinger, he could likely be thrown off the crane. Lacking Tom Cat’s ability to stay afloat or reverse gravity, engaging Wind Stinger would be akin to suicide.

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