Mu Bei opened the Contractor's mark and brought up his personal information.
He found that besides the Luck attribute, a '+' appeared after every other attribute. Additionally, two more prompts appeared.
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Strength: 5 (+)
Constitution: 4 (+)
Agility: 5 (+)
Intelligence: 8 (+)
Charm: 5 (+)
Luck: 0
Remaining World Power: 0.32 ounces
Remaining world source: 0.11 ounces
Prompt 1: When body attributes are 10 points and below, enhancing 1 point of a body attribute requires consuming 0.1 ounces of World Power.
Prompt 2: world source is the essence of World Power, and can be diluted into World Power through the Heaven Forsaker talent. The current conversion ratio is 1:3.
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In that case, let's try adding some Strength first.
Mu Bei used his will to click the plus sign behind the Strength attribute.
A warm current instantly surged within his body, primarily affecting his muscle tissue, giving Mu Bei a feeling of comfort akin to an orgasm. He forcefully swung his fist, clearly feeling his body was more powerful than usual.
"Is this what it feels like to become stronger? I've never felt this good!" Mu Bei couldn't help but mutter to himself.
He immediately brought up the personal information interface again:
Strength: 6 (+)
Constitution: 4 (+)
Agility: 5 (+)
Intelligence: 8 (+)
Charm: 5 (+)
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'I need to carefully consider how to add points next to maximize the benefits.'
At this stage, Charm shouldn't be added at all—Zombies don't care what people look like when they eat them.
Adding Intelligence points might not yield significant benefits. When facing sudden situations, if the body can't keep up with the brain, one will still die when it's time to die.
Adding Strength increases attack power, which will be very useful when killing Zombies and surviving Humans.
Adding Constitution increases the margin for error. After all, Mu Bei cannot guarantee that he will make zero mistakes.
Adding Agility increases nerve reaction speed and body coordination, which might make dealing with sudden situations easier, further increasing the margin for error.
'It's decided. I'll primarily add points to the three attributes: Strength, Constitution, and Agility.'
Just as Mu Bei was full of ambition, preparing to make his mark in this World full of Zombies and dangers, Paradise sent a prompt, pouring cold water on him.
【Contractor has been infected with the Zombie virus. Expected Zombie transformation in 19 hours.】
WTF!
He clearly wasn't bitten or scratched by a Zombie just now!
Mu Bei looked at his current HP through the panel:
100%/100%
He was indeed not injured, so there was only one reason left for the Zombie virus infection—airborne transmission.
【This World is filled with the Zombie virus. There are sparse viruses in the water, soil, and even the air.】
This was a prompt on the task panel.
Under normal circumstances, for a virus to spread between different life forms, it must meet at least two conditions: sufficient quantity and survival.
The virus concentration in the air is very sparse. Under normal circumstances, even if it enters the Human body, it will be quickly inactivated by the Human body's immune system, failing to meet the survival condition, thus preventing the virus from infecting the Human body.
But as mentioned, that's the normal situation, so there must be abnormal situations.
For example, Mu Bei's immune system is still very poor, even after his Constitution attribute increased from three to four.
It probably improved from 'as good as non-existent' to 'better than nothing'.
Severe defects originating from genes cannot be compensated for by just a few attribute points.
Therefore, Mu Bei was undoubtedly infected by the virus in the air.
'Calm down, don't panic, calm down...'
If increasing the Constitution attribute by one point is not enough, then increase it by two points.
If increasing it by two points is still not enough, then three points.
Mu Bei brought up the personal information interface again and clicked the '+' after the Constitution entry.
【Due to the Contractor's Constitution attribute increasing by one point, the Zombie transformation time has been delayed by 8 hours. Zombie transformation is now expected in 27 hours.】
There's a chance!
【Due to the Contractor's Constitution attribute increasing by one point, the Zombie transformation time has been delayed by 8 hours. Zombie transformation is now expected in 35 hours.】
Mu Bei had reason to believe that if his Constitution attribute was high enough, perhaps the next prompt from Paradise wouldn't be about delaying the Zombie transformation time, but that he was already immune to the Zombie virus.
"I want to exchange all the world source for World Power."
【Prompt: world source is related to the comprehensive evaluation after returning to Paradise. This action will reduce the rewards given to the Contractor after the comprehensive evaluation.】
"If I can't keep my life, no matter how high the comprehensive evaluation is, it's meaningless. No need to say more, I still choose to exchange."
【world source -0.11】
【World Power +0.33】
'Strength +2, Agility +1.'
The reason Mu Bei didn't choose to continue increasing his Constitution attribute was because he understood that without the support of Strength and speed, with only HP, he would just be a sandbag.
Furthermore, 35 hours isn't short. He can earn back this 0.3 ounces of World Power by casually killing three or four Zombies in a few minutes.
Before leaving the apartment, Mu Bei continued to search for useful items or food.
Finally, he found a baseball bat, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, and three bottles of 96% alcohol.
Except for the baseball bat, the other items were put into his storage space for emergencies.
As for edible food and drinkable water, he didn't find any.
'It seems I should be more worried about dying of thirst than turning into a Zombie.' Mu Bei joked to himself in his heart.
Now, there was nothing useful left in this apartment.
Through the peephole on the door, Mu Bei carefully observed the situation in the hallway.
After confirming that he wouldn't encounter a 'door ambush' situation, he gripped the baseball bat tightly with his right hand and gently pushed open the apartment door with his left.
At this moment, in the hallway, three Zombies stopped their aimless wandering. A glimmer of light seemed to suddenly Flash in their hollow eyes as they smelled the scent of fresh flesh and blood.
These beings, once Human, now only had a craving for life and the instinctive urge to hunt.
"Roar!" ×3