Chapter 24 Unexpected Harvest
Liu Yang then used the same method to ignite the remaining nine buildings.
The flames roared furiously.
The ten high-rise residential towers crackled and popped violently as they burned.
Right at that moment, from the top floor of one of the towers, a survivor leaped out into the open air. With a sickening thud, they slammed heavily onto the ground, their head splitting open instantly as brain matter splattered across the pavement.
Watching the scene unfold, Liu Yang was slightly taken aback.
He hadn't expected survivors to still be alive inside the high-rise towers.
They had tenaciously survived for several days trapped by zombies, only to jump to their deaths because of the fire?
No emotion appeared in Liu Yang's eyes, nor did he feel any self-reproach.
The moment they were trapped in those residential towers, their life clocks had already begun counting down. They were merely clinging to borrowed time. Starving to death was only a matter of time, and they had no chance of breaking out on their own.
Their ultimate fate was either dying of starvation or being mauled to death by zombies while searching for food.
By igniting the fire and forcing them to jump, he was actually granting them a swift release.
Truly an immeasurable act of merit.
As the fire raged, a system prompt chimed in Liu Yang's mind.
"Congratulations Host! You have killed 6,600 zombies in total, earning 660 attribute points!"
Receiving this prompt, Liu Yang was instantly overjoyed.
He had already killed over 6,000 zombies?
He had killed fewer than three hundred zombies in the villa area. Yet after burning down the high-rise towers, the tally jumped directly to 6,600.
That meant the zombies inside the residential towers had exceeded 6,000!
Allocating 660 attribute points equally among his four basic stats meant $660 \div 4 = 165$ points added to each.
This instantly doubled his attribute stats!
Previously, his triple-kill reward had only granted 30 points to all stats, and his quintuple-kill reward had added just 50. All his previous achievements combined had only brought his stats to 160.
Yet burning down ten residential towers gave him a massive 165 points in one go!
Once distributed, his four core stats would reach 325!
That was 6.5 times the average human baseline of 50 points!
What did that mean in practice?
While an average human took 12 seconds to run 100 meters, Liu Yang would need less than two seconds!
He was practically a superhuman!
Without hesitation, he chose to allocate the attribute points.
"Prompt: Congratulations Host, attribute points successfully allocated!"
"Current Stats: Strength 325, Speed 325, Stamina 325, Spirit 325!"
Reading the prompt, Liu Yang clenched his fists, feeling overwhelming power surging through his body.
He felt that with his current physical raw power, even without using supernatural abilities, he could blow a zombie's head off with a single punch!
Just setting a fire yielded so many attribute points-this reward was simply incredible.
Liu Yang pondered in his mind:
'It seems I need to deal with even more zombies! Getting one attribute point for every 10 zombies killed is far too tempting to pass up!'
'The university is right next to the villa area, separated by just a single wall. You can get inside by scaling it-which is why so many rich second-generation kids lived in this villa area. Looks like I should climb the wall into the campus next to see if I can set a few fires there too!'
'While I'm at it, I can raid the campus convenience store and cafeteria, taking all the food for myself!'
Ten high-rise residential towers had yielded over 6,000 zombie kills for Liu Yang.
This left him thoroughly thrilled.
There were roughly 30,000 students enrolled at the university.
Aside from those wealthy second-generation kids who could afford off-campus apartments, most students lived in the dormitories.
Furthermore, the outbreak occurred on a weekend morning.
Many students were likely still sleeping in their dorms, having not yet woken up.
This implied that the university's zombies were heavily concentrated inside the ten dormitory buildings.
Five male dorms and five female dorms.
If he burned down these ten dormitories, he might eliminate as many as twenty thousand zombies!
Wouldn't that yield two thousand attribute points?
The mere thought made Liu Yang tremble with excitement.
He immediately initiated his next Future Deduction.
Inside the deduction space:
He arrived at the perimeter wall.
Only a single wall stood between him and the campus.
Liu Yang crouched slightly and exerted force, leaping clean over the three-meter-high wall and landing smoothly on the school grounds.
A few zombies happened to be wandering nearby. Upon seeing Liu Yang land, their eyes lit up with excitement as they crazily pounced toward him.
Liu Yang raised his fire axe, taking them down one by one with single chops.
In just a few seconds, all the zombies were eliminated.
He then sprinted straight toward the school cafeteria.
When he arrived, since the outbreak hadn't occurred during mealtime, the cafeteria wasn't crowded with students. Only a few dozen cafeteria workers had turned into zombies. Liu Yang wielded his axe and swiftly cleared them out.
He then headed into the cafeteria's back kitchen warehouse.
Seeing the warehouse packed with supplies, Liu Yang was instantly thrilled.
"Jackpot! Over 50 fifty-kilogram bags of rice and flour each! Take them all!"
"More than a dozen ten-liter barrels of cooking oil? Take them all!"
"Piles of fresh fruits and vegetables? Take them all!"
"Assorted fresh meats, cooked dishes, and marinated deli items? Take them all!"
"Induction cookers, gas stoves, gas tanks? Take them all! In a pinch, those gas tanks could even double as explosives against the zombies!"
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Liu Yang systematically swept through the cafeteria. His Dark Space was vast anyway.
Whether useful right now or not, he stashed everything inside.
It might seem useless now, but who knew if it would come in handy later?
After clearing out the cafeteria, he headed to the convenience store.
The store was filled with packaged snacks: bread, sausages, biscuits, vacuum-sealed chicken legs, milk, and beverages.
Liu Yang swept all of it into his spatial storage.
This massive quantity of food was enough to sustain him, Su Xiao, and the others for years!
With his stash secured, he stepped outside.
He prepared to head to the dormitories to burn down all ten buildings.
Before entering the campus, he had prepared plenty of gasoline bottles in his Dark Space.
All he needed to do was reach the dorms and pour the gas.
As Liu Yang made his way toward the dormitories, he passed by the campus infirmary and noticed several zombies wandering outside. One of them was continuously battering its head against the infirmary door.
Liu Yang frowned. This was clearly unusual.
Zombies only battered doors when targeting survivors.
Moreover, only zombies possessing a small degree of intelligence exhibited such behavior.
The wooden door of the infirmary was already cracking from the impacts and would break open before long.
When the zombies spotted Liu Yang, their gazes snapped toward him, and they immediately charged.
Without hesitation, Liu Yang swung his fire axe into action.
Very quickly, all five zombies were eliminated.
Liu Yang approached the infirmary window to peer inside.
Sure enough, a female student was inside, trembling with fear!
Liu Yang pushed the door open and stepped inside.
Seeing Liu Yang enter, the woman shrank into the corner, terror written all over her face.
Liu Yang said to her:
"Don't be afraid, I'm not a zombie. I can take you somewhere safe. Follow me."
"Are you... are you from a rescue team? Did you come specifically to save us?" Seeing Liu Yang, the girl's face lit up with hope.
"No, I just came to scavenge food. But saving you on the way doesn't bother me," Liu Yang replied.
The light of hope in the girl's eyes instantly dimmed.
Noticing her disappointment, Liu Yang added, "I have plenty of food, though."
Upon hearing those words, a spark of hope glinted in her eyes once more.
Liu Yang felt pretty fortunate.
He had originally come to the campus to burn down dormitories and farm attribute points, not expecting to stumble upon a pretty girl.
This was truly an unexpected bonus!