Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Zombie Carrying a Monument
Translator: 549690339
“Yin Soul Wood, Grade 3 material, can be used to create special items. Usage Requirements: None.”
Having collected more than twenty Yin Soul Ghost Trees, only one piece of Yin Soul Wood appeared. It was only after upgrading to level five Chopping Skill that they were able to collect such a rare piece. It indicated how precious Yin Soul Wood was.
“This property description isn’t clear. Special items, what kind of special items?” Song Jian frowned lightly, staring at the piece of Yin Soul Wood in the bundle for a long while. However, he couldn’t figure anything out, so he had to put it aside and place it together with the hard pine wood.
Hard Pine Wood is also a third-grade wood, but Song Jian subtly felt that Yin Soul Wood’s properties should be stronger than Hard Pine Wood’s. After all, apart from being “hard”, Hard Pine Wood didn’t have any other characteristics, whereas aside from being “hard”, Yin Soul Wood also had a chilling, gloomy aura.
Li Ke’er began to reinvigorate herself from the side, “heave-ho, heave-ho”. Holding a small, delicate iron ax, she chopped Ghost Trees, took a break to eat a piece of fried meat to recover her Vitality Points. The efficiency of third-grade Chopping Skill in collecting Ghost Trees was not very high, but the wood yielded was several times that of previous small woods, which made Li Ke’er’s eyes curl up with laughter.
As the two carried on with their collection, they headed deeper into the forest. Looking up, Song Jian saw several stone monuments standing on the ground within less than a hundred meters. The inscriptions on them were somewhat blurred and some of them were even crumbling, looking quite dilapidated.
As the two were busily collecting Ghost Trees, a horrific howling sound rang out by their ears, startling Li Ke’er into trembling.
This sound was much like a human screaming at the top of its throat, only more sorrowful. It was full of the brutality and insanity of a beast, like an injured wild animal going mad.
Li Ke’er looked terrified, quickly coming over to Song Jian and whispering through the collar of his shirt, “What, what is that thing? Is it a BOSS? It’s such a terrifying sound.”
Song Jian pulled Ke’er behind a Ghost Tree, peeking out.
A robust beast-like creature crouching, with its hands drooping in the likeness of an orangutan. The back of its hands, dragging on the ground, held talons about half a foot long, like sharp daggers, flickering with a chilling light. Its hair was sparse, its skin was rotten, and its upper body was bare. It had a tight leather skirt around its waist, with its thighs protruding, and a layer of black scales subtly appearing.
This beast only had one eye, located on its forehead. This eye dominated half of its face, pushing the leftover nose and mouth to the very bottom, making it look repulsive and fierce.
On its back, it carried a giant stone monument, about twice as large as the surrounding ones. The surface of the black monument glowed a faint purple and the face of the stone was filled with tiny characters, resembling tadpoles. Song Jian took one look and felt dizzy.
Curious, Li Ke’er peeped and quickly retreated after seeing the creature’s appearance. Her quickened breath, numbing scalp, and rapidly beating heart revealed her fear.
Song Jian studiously observed the beast for a moment, noticing the small red words floating above it.
“LV7 Zombie with Monolith (Elite), Vitality Points: 600/600, Characteristics: Super Strength.”
Song Jian’s face turned sullen. During the trade, Zhao Sihai had said that the BOSS here was only level five, but the BOSS in front of him was level seven. No wonder the system had said that the accuracy rate of the transaction content was only 92%. Song Jian originally thought the deviation was due to the specific location, but unexpectedly, it was the level of the BOSS that differed.
“Little Cheap Brother, do we… do we fight it?” Ke’er tremulously asked.
“Fight!” Song Jian gritted his teeth: “This BOSS’S characteristic is super strength, we can’t fight it head-on. 1’11 distract it, Ke’er you attack from a distance. Control your power during the fight so as not to attract the BOSS’S attention to you.”
Ke’er nodded and reassured, “Don’t worry, Little Cheap Brother, I won’t OT.”
“Get ready, I’m going up!” Song Jian charged at the boss, aiming with his pistol and pulling the trigger.
Bang, bang
in the blink of an eye, all ten or so bullets plunged into its body, five-six of which precisely hit its head, causing purple-black blood to burst out.
Although this BOSS’S defense was relatively lower than the “Robust Mutant Zombie,” it was still limited. Every bullet inflicted two to three points of damage. The bullets that hit the head resulted in around six points of critical damage. However, this damage was a far cry from consequential for a boss with six hundred vitality points.
“Roar-”
The Zombie with the Monolith was furious, picking out the bullets embedded in its body, and lungishly lunged at Song Jian using all limbs.
“Hiss, that monument should weigh at least five to six hundred jin, right? How come it doesn’t seem to affect it?” Song Jian’s heart sank, he dared not face it head-on, avoided hastily to one side, changing his gun to a double-barreled shotgun and shot towards the BOSS’S backside.
Two large shotgun pellets, from the moment of projectile out of the gun barrel, broke into hundreds of tiny steel beads, enveloping the BOSS entirely.
A series of damage points interspersed with ‘MISS’ surged from the BOSS’S head. Though the damage was minimal, the amounts were substantial. This course, stripped at least thirty of the BOSS’S Vitality Points.
The BOSS turned around, roared and charged towards Song Jian. There was no time to retract the shotgun. He could only rollout, dodging the BOSS’S attack, hugging the shotgun to his chest.
The strong winds grazed his face as if they were small knives cutting into it.
Boom-
One of the Yin Soul Ghost Trees was directly knocked down by the BOSS, causing a spine-chilling cracking sound. The Ghost tree tumbled down, leaving the BOSS somewhat dazzled by the impact, causing it to stumble slightly, and nearly fall.
Song Jian sheathed his double-barreled shotgun, holding “Tusk Fang Stinger” as he lunged towards the BOSS’S back.
Simultaneously, Ke’er aimed at the BOSS with her handheld crossbow, pulling the trigger. She leapt to the left, shooting a half-transparent arrow towards the BOSS’S eye.
Given that the Zombie with Monolith was a level seven elite monster, its resistance was significantly high. It shook its head slightly and promptly resumed normalcy. Lowering its head, it dodged Ke’er’s arrow and charged towards Song Jian.
Song Jian’s dagger pierced into the boss’s arm, inflicting thirteen points of damage and an additional poison mark. However, this time around, Song Jian wasn’t able to dodge the BOSS’S onslaught and was compelled to shield his chest and head to absorb the impact.
Boom-
Song Jian’s body was sent flying by the strike, blood spewing out of his mouth. He was well protected by his Zombie Commander Armor.
-86
This blow took away more than eighty of Song Jian’s vitality points. If it were an average player, this hit would have killed them instantly.
One-third of his vitality was depleted in an instant, pains shot through his chest and abdomen. Rather than scaring Song Jian, this attack infuriated the ruthlessness hidden within him.
Spitting out a mouthful of blood-streaked saliva, Song Jian charged towards the BOSS again.
