Chapter 27: Task - Collect Wooden Boards

Chapter 27: Mission - Collecting Wooden Boards

Fang Heng was greedy.

He needed to build a shelter, but he couldn't neglect leveling up his character either.

The mutated zombies in the basement were good loot; eliminating them could yield a significant amount of intact evolution crystals.

This was his hope for upgrading!

Fang Heng rode his mountain bike to the Doomsday Merchant's camp.

After clearing the prison plaza and Building No. 3 yesterday, he had accumulated 13,782 survival points.

"Hi, Fang Heng, we meet again."

The Doomsday Merchant, Wirtel, waved to Fang Heng enthusiastically.

"You've come at the right time. I've got a new batch of goods. So, are you interested?"

"Really? What a coincidence."

High favorability was indeed a good thing.

Fang Heng opened the merchant's hidden exchange interface to take a look.

Oh?

Stun baton.

A powerful close-range weapon capable of inducing a paralysis state in zombies.

A quite practical weapon, but unfortunately, it wouldn't work on mutated zombies.

Shotgun!?

This was good too!

But it was too expensive, and the reload speed was too slow; it would be a struggle to deal with even a single Spider Zombie.

There were too many Spider Zombies in the basement.

The danger was too high.

Fang Heng scanned through the exchange list but failed to find a suitable weapon, feeling somewhat disappointed.

"Do you have any powerful weapons?"

Fang Heng tried to explain.

"I want to deal with Spider Zombies."

"Spider Zombies... those things are quite difficult to handle. Let me think."

The Doomsday Merchant tapped his index finger against his head, deep in thought.

"I have a type of composite adhesive mine. It could be useful, but it's hard to come by, and the price is high. One costs about 3,000 survival points."

"No." Fang Heng shook his head. "I need something offensive, not just for defense."

"I see. In that case, I think you'll definitely be able to use this."

Wirtel pulled a notebook from under the counter, opened it, and flipped to a specific page.

He pointed to one of the pictures.

"The Focused Flamethrower M-021. It can instantly spray high-intensity focused flames. Zombies fear this most."

A good item!

Fang Heng's eyes lit up.

He had an impression of this thing.

In his memory, he had seen a video where a player used this focused flamethrower to ignite waves of zombies.

The extremely high temperature was something even mutated zombies could not withstand.

And Spider Zombies didn't have much health.

"Its only weakness is that it cannot be used for long periods, otherwise, it will be damaged due to overheating."

Seeing Fang Heng's interest, Wirtel continued.

"I don't have it in stock. If you want to order it, you'll need to pay a 10,000 survival point deposit first. I will restock within three days."

The merchant lowered his head to calculate and quickly gave an exorbitant price.

"Additionally, you'll need fuel. Including three bottles of fuel, the total will be approximately 26,200 points. What do you think of this deal?"

"It's great, but unfortunately, I can't afford it right now."

Fang Heng spread his hands quite bluntly.

"Do you have any missions for me to do? I want to earn some survival points."

"I see. In that case, you can look at the missions here and see if any suit you."

Fang Heng opened the mission panel again.

Last time, because of the SSS-rank mission, Fang Heng hadn't had time to look closely and had hurriedly accepted the mission and left.

Today, Fang Heng patiently scrutinized the mission list.

Broadly speaking, the missions provided in the panel were divided into several categories

Clearing zombies, searching for items/people, collecting resources, and exploring environmental areas.

Hmm!?

Collecting resources!

There were missions like this?

Fang Heng's eyes brightened as he filtered for keywords in the mission panel.

'Collect'.

Mission Name: Collect Iron Ore (Repeatable). Requirement: Collect 300 units of iron ore. Reward: 600 survival points.

Mission Name: Collect Coal Ore (Repeatable). Requirement: Collect 300 units of coal ore. Reward: 600 survival points.

Mission Name: Collect Wooden Boards (Repeatable). Requirement: Collect 300 units of wooden boards. Reward: 600 survival points.

Wait! Wooden boards?!

Fang Heng saw something extremely exciting.

It was actually collecting wooden boards?!

In a forest environment, the one thing never in short supply was wood!

His zombie tool-men could work twenty-four hours a day without rest to produce wooden boards.

Then, he could turn around and sell the finished boards to the merchant!

I'm going to be rich, I'm going to be rich!

His heart raced. He wondered if he had discovered a bug in the God System?

For a moment, Fang Heng even felt an impulse to empty the Doomsday Merchant's shop!

"I want to buy a modified motorcycle."

"Alright, that will be 5,350 survival points in total. Do you need to buy some fuel?"

"No need, thanks."

Modified motorcycle acquired!

Fang Heng rode his mountain bike all the way back to the prison.

...

Liao Bufan and Liu Lin had walked around Building No. 3 in the morning, inspecting it thoroughly to see if there were any dangerous breaches.

The exterior walls of Building No. 3 were completely intact, exceptionally sturdy.

The two back doors of the building had also been locked and sealed from the inside.

The only entrance and exit was the wooden door Fang Heng had placed last night.

After his patrol, Liao Bufan had reinforced it three more times to ensure sufficient durability.

Overall, the defenses of Building No. 3 were several times higher than the small wooden hut they had stayed in last night.

At this moment, Liao Bufan and Liu Lin were teaming up on the first floor to "open mystery boxes" by clearing zombies.

"The boss is truly amazing. He actually cleared the entire prison. I just can't figure it out—how on earth did he do it?"

Even now, Liao Bufan's mind was full of question marks.

He completely couldn't understand how Fang Heng had managed to clean out the entire prison.

"I know."

"Huh? Why? How did he do it?"

"Hmph, but I'm not telling you."

As they were about to move into a higher-security shelter, Liu Lin was in a great mood, and she intentionally teased Liao Bufan.

"The more you know, the faster you die. Don't go prying into Fang Heng's secrets, lest you be silenced."

"Hiss..."

Liao Bufan drew in a breath of cold air.

"Is the boss actually that terrifying?"

"Yes, of course. Extremely terrifying. Otherwise, have you ever seen anyone clear that many zombies in just two days?"

"No, I mean, that..."

Liao Bufan pointed to the window beside them, gesturing outside.

"What do you think those zombies are doing?"

Zombies?

Weren't they just moving supplies back and forth between the hut and the prison?

Curious, Liu Lin also leaned toward the window to observe the situation outside.

On the prison plaza outside, nearly twenty zombies had split into three groups.

One group was using firewood to make wooden boards, another group was using the boards to make wooden frames.

The last group of zombies was dismantling the wooden frames back into scraps of firewood.

They repeated this process in a continuous loop.

The boss plays this wildly?

Liao Bufan was completely baffled. With a look of utter confusion, he could only ask Liu Lin.

"What do you think the boss is doing?"

Liu Lin was also puzzled.

What was the point of these zombies dismantling and assembling things at the same time?

Good grief, wasting productivity?

Both of their gazes simultaneously shifted toward Fang Heng, who was sitting in the plaza, letting out an inadvertent, silly grin.

Liao Bufan scratched his head.

"Could the boss have suddenly gone stupid?"

Liu Lin glared at Liao Bufan.

"Can't you say anything nice? What good does it do you if Fang Heng goes stupid?"

Liao Bufan obediently shut his mouth.

That made sense; he was still relying on Fang Heng as his long-term meal ticket!

Liu Lin looked at Fang Heng outside the window, nodded in thought for a moment, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

Could he...

Could it be...

He's farming experience?!

(End of Chapter)