Due to the aftereffects of the anesthetic, Xu Zhengyang slept soundly until eleven o'clock the next day, only to be awakened by a delivery call.
After going through the familiar process of checking the goods, settling the bill, moving, and installation...
A series of system notifications appeared before Xu Zhengyang's eyes: [Main Quest: Water Resource Treatment Center (Completed)]
[Reward: Building Effect · Leak-Proof]
...
[Building Effect · Leak-Proof]
[Effect: When your Water Resource Treatment Center is intact, the waterproof performance of the shelter is increased by 100%]
The facilities in Xu Zhengyang's shelter were built without sparing any expense, to the highest standards. Now, with this building effect, he no longer had to worry about issues like seepage or leaks in the shelter.
Seeing this, Xu Zhengyang nodded in satisfaction, then opened his task list to check the latest main quest:
[Main Quest: Heart of the Blood Plague (In Progress)]
[Through relentless efforts, your shelter has begun to establish a foothold in the apocalypse. With a stable rear, it is finally your turn to take the initiative!]
[Task Objective: Destroy a Heart of the Blood Plague near the shelter]
[Task Reward: Attribute Awakening Injection]
After reading the task details, Xu Zhengyang was left dumbfounded.
Heart of the Blood Plague?!
What on earth is that? It can't be a monster that only emerged after the apocalypse, can it? If that's the case, wouldn't he have nothing to do before the apocalypse arrived? Just thinking about this gave Xu Zhengyang a headache. So, he decided to take a chance and asked Da Bai, "Da Bai, is there such a thing as a 'Heart of the Blood Plague' near our shelter?"
As soon as Xu Zhengyang finished speaking, Da Bai sent an aerial view of the entire White City to Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses.
Then, Da Bai said to Xu Zhengyang, "Master, although I haven't found a Heart of the Blood Plague, if such a thing really exists in the world, it is most likely hidden here."
While speaking, Da Bai played several surveillance videos on Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses.
A small-scale Blood Plague Zombie Horde; Giant Tyrant Zombie; Frenzied Zombie; Impostor...
According to the recent surveillance footage filtered by Da Bai, all four zombies had first appeared at the northwest basement exit of "Pride of the World," the largest commercial area in White City! "Oh?"
Xu Zhengyang felt a surge of excitement and immediately said to Da Bai, "Da Bai, quickly check the surveillance in the basement!"
Da Bai replied helplessly, "Everything else in Pride of the World is normal. Only the surveillance in B2 Zone - Level 3 has been physically disconnected since yesterday. I suspect the target might be over there."
While speaking, Da Bai played a video from a surveillance angle on Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses, "Moreover, B2 Zone in Pride of the World has been completely sealed off. So even if there isn't a Heart of the Blood Plague there, there is definitely a formidable monster!"
"I see..."
Xu Zhengyang nodded and said, "Then I'll go take a look after dark. You keep an eye on that area for me. If anything happens, alert me in time; if not, I'll act tonight!"
"Understood, Master," Da Bai replied.
After finishing his instructions with Da Bai, Xu Zhengyang went back to his bedroom to sleep.
...
At two-thirty in the morning.
After such a long sleep, the remaining anesthetic in Xu Zhengyang's body had finally been completely metabolized!
Feeling his spirits high, Xu Zhengyang nodded in satisfaction. After having a meal and freshening up, he changed into his Flight Combat Suit.
Driving at night was too conspicuous, so Xu Zhengyang took his single-wing aircraft out of the Dimensional Space Pocket and flew directly through the air!
...
Landing, retracting the Dimensional Space Pocket, and activating the wingsuit...
After completing a series of familiar tactical maneuvers, Xu Zhengyang safely landed in the greenbelt of B2 Zone in Pride of the World...
Ten minutes later.
Xu Zhengyang bypassed all the sentries and had just exited the stairwell of Level 3 in B2 Zone when he saw a layer of visibly blood-red mist ahead! In the past, whenever Xu Zhengyang encountered an unexpected situation, the system would pop up an emergency task for him.
But now, there was clearly a major problem in the underground Level 3 of B2 Zone, yet the system remained silent, without a single task reminder! "As expected!"
Xu Zhengyang was filled with excitement!
He had been wondering what kind of strange thing might be in Level 3 of B2 Zone. But now that he was right in front of it and the system hadn't given any alerts, it was clear that the anomaly here was definitely caused by the Heart of the Blood Plague! The blood mist in Level 3 of B2 Zone was dense in the center and lighter at the edges.
Because of this, Xu Zhengyang only needed to walk toward the area where the blood mist was thickest to inevitably find the Heart of the Blood Plague!...
Xu Zhengyang walked about one or two hundred meters toward the denser blood mist, and the fog had become so thick that he could barely see his hand in front of his face! With such low visibility, Xu Zhengyang couldn't even see his own feet when he looked down!
Moreover, due to the scattering and absorption of light by the water droplets, as well as the energy emissions from the moisture itself, the fog and rain severely limited the thermal imaging system's visibility range.
So at this moment, even if Xu Zhengyang activated the thermal imaging function of his contact lenses, it would be of no use.
Just as Xu Zhengyang was pondering how to break through this situation, suddenly!
He heard a continuous buzzing sound coming from his left front.
Xu Zhengyang cautiously moved forward following the sound, and after about a hundred meters, the buzzing grew louder! Moments later, Xu Zhengyang's vision suddenly cleared!
Before him were twenty armored vehicles! The armored vehicles were connected end to end, forming a circular defensive perimeter.
Inside the defensive circle, two diesel generators were working at full capacity!
The tail ends of the diesel generators were connected to over two hundred industrial-grade fans.
As these fans operated at full power, they forcefully blew away the blood mist, reducing its density by several levels!
And in the left front of the armored vehicle defensive circle stood a giant heart that reached from the floor to the ceiling, at least three to four meters tall and two to three meters wide! "Heart of the Blood Plague!"
Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but exclaim upon seeing this!
Surrounding the Heart of the Blood Plague were purple-blue blood vessels and grotesque-looking tumors forming a fleshy carpet.
This fleshy carpet covered an area of about two to three hundred square meters, firmly protecting the Heart of the Blood Plague in the center!
On top of the fleshy carpet were numerous tumors of varying sizes.
Some were about the height of a person, while others were two to three meters tall, totaling eighteen in all!
Every five to six
seconds, the Heart of the Blood Plague would emit a flash of red light from within, followed by a powerful thump, sounding like a drumbeat of "thud thud."
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