Chapter 7Three Kills!

 After killing the zombies, Chu Xun continued to follow the main road.

　　Since a merchant caravan would come to Chu City every three months and would clear out the dangerous creatures on the main road, creatures with a little bit of crisis instinct would avoid the main highway from afar and dive into the mountains and forests. In other words, as long as Chu Xun advanced along the avenue, then the possibility of encountering a high-level zombie or mutant beast would be much smaller.

　　Of course, it was only a lot smaller, it wasn't impossible to encounter them. It was said that two weeks ago, a bounty hunter team encountered some kind of terrifying creature on the avenue, and the entire team of twenty-seven people survived without a single life, and among them, there was even a second-ranked mutant!

　　Therefore, in this world, no place was absolutely safe!

　　There were quite a number of zombies roaming outside of Chu City, and due to the virus that was at work, so much so that those who died would often turn into zombies, these disgusting things were like weeds that could never be completely eradicated.

　　For Chu Xun, it was too easy to find zombies to hunt, because as long as he was close to within 100 meters of the zombies, the zombies with an amazing sense of smell would smell the scent of a living person on his body, and then pounce towards him like a mad dog.

　　The only problem was that no one could guarantee that there would be a few zombies rushing over!

　　"Hungry ..."

　　When Chu Xun heard that familiar roar ringing continuously from the woods beside the road, he knew that trouble was coming.

　　Sure enough, in the next second, three zombies rushed out from the woods beside the road. Unlike the weak zombies from before, these three male zombies were much sturdier, and judging from the tight-fitting combat uniforms they wore they should be zombie hunters who hunted wandering zombies outside of the city for a living.

　　However, in this world, the identity of the hunter and the prey is always changing, and if one is not careful, one will be like these zombie hunters, from hunter to prey.

　　At this moment, the identity of hunter and prey was also shifting between Chu Xun and these three zombies.

　　"Three, it's not easy to deal with!" Looking at the three zombies charging towards him, Chu Xun's expression became gloomy. These three zombies were clearly too much stronger than that medicine picker in life, and their bodies were also more complete, so both their strength and speed were far superior to the zombie Chu Xun had encountered before.

　　"Must take the initiative!" Chu Xun quickly came to a conclusion in his heart, because he knew that once he was surrounded by these three zombies, then he would be in danger. After all, the strength of his body was still far from being strong enough to withstand the zombies' tearing.

　　Thinking of this, Chu Xun's eyes instantly turned cold, then with his right hand holding the knife, his left hand pulled out the alloy dagger from his waist, and he took the initiative to charge toward those three zombies in a two-handed bladed stance.

　　"Hungry ... "Seeing the food actively charging towards them, the three zombies obviously became even more excited, they let out a burst of roar, then increased their speed and pounced towards Chu Xun side by side.

　　Under the effect of the ant gene, the muscles in Chu Xun's legs became more powerful, causing his speed to be increased to a certain extent, very soon, he rushed to the front of the three zombies, then his right foot violently stomped on the ground, and his body that was originally charging forwards steeply turned and rushed towards the leftmost zombie.

　　After losing its self-protection mechanism, although the zombie's strength had been improved, its body's balance had greatly decreased, and Chu Xun's steep change in direction immediately caused the two zombies on the right side to be somewhat unable to react. By the time they staggered to a halt and turned around to prepare to pounce towards Chu Xun, Chu Xun had already arrived in front of the leftmost zombie, then swung his sword and slashed.

　　"Kill!" Learning from the experience of the last time, Chu Xun did not choose to slash vertically this time with his battle sword, but directly chopped horizontally towards the zombie's head.

　　Puff!

　　The sharp steel blade, propelled by Chu Xun's terrifying strength, cut through a silver light, and then ruthlessly chopped on the zombie's head. In an instant, half of the zombie's head was directly sliced away by the blade, and the filthy and sticky brain matter also shot towards the back along the blade, spilling onto the ground.

　　With its head destroyed, the zombie's body also trembled violently before falling hard onto the ground. The remaining brain matter and black and red corpse blood began to pour out continuously along half of the zombie's head ...

　　In just a single glance, he had easily decapitated a zombie, it had to be said that compared to when he first came to this world, Chu Xun's combat skills had already improved quite a bit.

　　However, this was not enough!

　　After decapitating the zombie in front of him, Chu Xun immediately felt a dense putrid odor approaching behind him, his face slightly changed, then he immediately turned around and without looking, swung his sword towards his back.

　　Puff!

　　There was another muffled sound, and the 40-centimeter-long battle knife ruthlessly chopped at the chest and abdomen of the zombie behind him and then swept through. Immediately, the zombie's fragile body seemed to have been chopped by a guillotine, breaking in two from it, and a large number of internal organs, corpse blood, and intestines gushed out from the zombie's decapitated body, dyeing the ground incomparably wet and slippery.

　　Under the effect of the ant gene, Chu Xun's strength was at least more than a ton when he struck out at full strength, so even if it was just the simplest flat chop, he was able to inflict a girdle chopping-like horrifying kill on the zombie!

　　However, the wound of the waist cut was not fatal to the zombie, after the zombie's upper body fell to the ground, it was still moving, and it grabbed Chu Xun's right foot pulled desperately, and opened its mouth, and prepared to bite on it.

　　At the same time, the last zombie also rushed to Chu Xun's front and opened its arms towards Chu Xun to hug him, if those who didn't know what was going on, saw this kind of "passionate" performance, they would have thought that this was an old friend who hadn't met for a long time.

　　For food, zombies are always full of passion!

　　"D*mn it, get out of my way!" Facing this kind of situation for the first time, Chu Xun was also a bit flustered, his face changed, and his left hand brandished a dagger and stabbed directly at the pouncing zombie, while his right foot fiercely kicked in front of him, trying to shake off the zombie that was holding his right leg.

　　Thankfully, Chu Xun's strength was indeed big enough, only to see that under his violent kick, that half zombie was like a ball of skin, being directly flung away by him, then ruthlessly smashed on top of a boulder in the distance, bloody and motionless.

　　At the same time, the dagger in Chu Xun's left hand also stabbed into that zombie's body. It had to be said that the second-rank alloy dagger was indeed extremely sharp, and Chu Xun barely felt any resistance before the dagger pierced into the zombie's chest cavity. At the same time, the tremendous power attached to the dagger also caused the zombie's body to tremble, and its forward momentum slowed down.

　　"Die for me!" Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chu Xun unleashed his final strike, only to see him let out a stern cry, then gripping the dagger that had stabbed into the zombie's chest cavity, he violently pulled it upwards. In the blink of an eye, the zombie's chest cavity was completely cut open by the sharp dagger, then the neck, and finally, even the entire zombie's head was cut in half by the dagger from bottom to top.

　　Pfft!

　　The dagger split open the zombie's head, revealing the sharp blade that glistened with metallic luster, at the same time, a large amount of brain matter, corpse blood, and some even more disgusting corpse liquid also gushed out, staining Chu Xun's body and coloring him into a bloody man. The rich stench of corpse and blood smoked so much that Chu Xun almost didn't vomit.

　　In addition to that, a light blue crystal the size of a soybean also slipped out of the zombie's disemboweled head and eventually landed in the pool of blood, emitting distinctive dots of blue light.

　　"Primordial crystal core?" Seeing the light blue crystal that fell in the pool of blood, a trace of joy immediately appeared on Chu Xun's face, and even the blood stains and corpse stench on his body were no longer a concern, as he directly squatted down and picked up that crystal.

　　If he wasn't mistaken, this light blue crystal was the so-called primordial crystal core, the predecessor of the standard crystal core. This kind of thing had a very high value, and although it was theoretically possible for any zombie to condense a crystal core in their body, in reality, according to the statistics, the chances of an ordinary zombie condensing a crystal core in their body were only a pitiful 2%.

　　So, Chu Xun's luck today was indeed good!

　　Although tThree Kills!Three Kills! he primordial crystal core could be devoured as well, it contained too many impurities as well as viral energy that would cause uncertain side effects in the long run, so Chu Xun didn't dare to use it indiscriminately, and just put it away carefully, preparing to exchange it after returning to the city.

　　However, he didn't know that the pair of eyes hidden in the grass, after seeing this scene, the greed in their eyes became even more intense.

　　Regarding the danger in the shadows, Chu Xun didn't notice anything, after all, he was still a bit young and his sense of danger wasn't sharp enough. After storing the crystal core, he took out a map from the small belt pouch he had with him and examined it carefully.

　　"It shouldn't be too far away ... "A moment later, Chu Xun re-collected the map and looked at the road ahead, pondering.

　　According to the map, not too far from the front would be a small stream, and after crossing the stream and continuing to walk for another seven kilometers or so would enter the truly dangerous zone.

　　In order to prevent Chu City from being destroyed by an insect plague like the "White City" in the neighboring mountains, the Lord of Chu City had spent a large sum of money to purchase the "infrasound insect repellent device" from a merchant fleet more than twenty years ago, so apart from the ants, which were the most primitive of all insects, most of the insects had been repelled by this infrasound repellent device. Therefore, except for the most primitive insects such as ants, the vast majority of insects were expelled to the dense forest ten kilometers away from Chu City by this kind of acoustic wave that they detested extremely.

　　Because of this, the dense forest ten kilometers away from Chu City became a truly dangerous zone, because there were not only all kinds of mutated creatures, zombie creatures, but also countless mutated insects!

　　However, in order to become stronger, in order to complete the mission, Chu Xun could only take a risk!

　　Afterward, Chu Xun organized his equipment and continued forward. On the way forward, he once again encountered a few wandering zombies that had caught wind of the situation. However, after many killings, Chu Xun's combat experience, as well as skills, had begun to gradually improve, and coupled with his oppressive strength, as well as his sharp weapons, so all of these zombies that came along on the wind eventually became prey under his battle knife, and weren't even able to pose a real threat to him.

　　Of course, this was also because Chu Xun's luck was good enough, and the zombies he encountered were all single zombies. If he had encountered a horde of zombies, then he would only be able to run away.

　　As his killing experience increased, Chu Xun's combat skills became more and more pure. He was already a smart person, not to mention that under the stimulation of the life and death crisis, his potential was further utilized, and his overall strength naturally increased greatly.

　　And just as Chu Xun killed the tenth zombie and then prepared to take a little rest, that icy cold voice in his mind finally sounded once again.