Lu Feng stared at the game world in disbelief.

Amidst the corpses and blood covering the ground, one figure, impossibly, had not fallen.

It was a bald man. His clothes had been completely shredded, revealing a massive gray wolf head tattoo.

A thought surfaced in Lu Feng’s mind: ’This guy must be Gray Wolf.’

Covered in blood, the man turned his head to look around.

This was fucking unbelievable.

Although Gray Wolf was covered in lacerations...

But how could he possibly survive an explosion like that?

With a thought, Lu Feng took out the laser rifle from his backpack.

In the bank lobby, Gray Wolf surveyed the scene, his face a mask of savagery.

He never imagined that after the people from this survivor outpost fled, they would leave him such a "gift."

If he weren’t an ability user, that explosion would have killed him. Even so, the energy within him was nearly depleted.

But his men had been completely wiped out by the blast.

After acquiring that munitions production line, he had spent a long time building up these forces.

"Damn it! Unforgivable!" Gray Wolf roared in anger.

Since he hadn’t died, he would make them pay the price.

Just then, Gray Wolf watched in astonishment as a figure materialized out of thin air before him.

The moment Lu Feng entered the game and saw Gray Wolf, he pulled the trigger of his laser rifle without hesitation.

A laser beam shot instantly toward Gray Wolf.

But then something surprising happened. Special runes suddenly materialized on Gray Wolf’s body, coalescing into a transparent Energy Shield that blocked the laser beam.

"So that’s how it is." Lu Feng instantly understood how the man had survived the explosion.

He was an ability user with such a special power.

But Lu Feng fired again without hesitation. He could clearly see that after being hit by the laser rifle, the transparent Energy Shield the man had formed was significantly weakened.

Laser beams fired out one after another. A moment later, the remaining nine shots all struck Gray Wolf.

The first two beams were blocked by Gray Wolf’s Energy Shield, but the following shots all hit his body, piercing gruesome holes through him.

Gray Wolf’s eyes widened in disbelief. He never imagined there would be another ability user here who could appear out of thin air—and who, crucially, was armed with a laser rifle.

His own energy, however, had been nearly exhausted in the earlier explosion.

Gray Wolf collapsed heavily to the ground, dead but his eyes wide with indignation.

[Congratulations! You have killed a depraved, murderous ability user. You have gained 3000 EXP!]

Lu Feng was genuinely surprised to get 3000 EXP.

After all, a Mutated Striped Bull was only worth 150 EXP.

However, he figured that while Gray Wolf’s strength accounted for some of the 3000 EXP, most of it was due to the extent of his evil deeds. After all, many members of his Gray Wolf Mercenary Corps were so malevolent they were worth 50 EXP each.

As the leader of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Corps, it wasn’t surprising that his EXP value was higher.

Lu Feng checked his character attributes: LV 8: 11,434 / 12,800 EXP.

’I’m about to level up!’ This was a pleasant surprise. It meant that the Gray Wolf Mercenary Corps and Gray Wolf himself had given him a total of nearly 10,000 EXP.

At this rate, all he needed to do was find a horde of zombies and blow them up, and he’d level up.

After killing Gray Wolf, Lu Feng looked at the densely packed corpses and severed limbs all around him.

Thanks to his previous experience, the feeling of disgust was much less intense this time. He no longer felt the strong urge to vomit.

It seemed you really could get used to anything in this world, even killing.

In this game world, more than 200 people had already died at his hands.

At this point, he could probably be called a butcher.

But then, Lu Feng’s attention was drawn to Gray Wolf’s corpse. Two items, wrapped in balls of white light, were floating above it.

One was a bottle filled with a red liquid, and the other was a transparent crystal inscribed with some kind of runes.

’He dropped loot?’

’Two items at once?’

’Does this mean it’s not just monsters like Mutant Beasts and mutated zombies that drop items?’

Lu Feng didn’t have time to dwell on it. He hurried forward and picked up the two items.

The white light surrounding them vanished, allowing him to get a clearer look at the blood-red potion and the Crystal Stone.

He was stunned for a moment when he saw the blood-red potion.

’Isn’t this a Life Potion from the game? The kind that drops from killing monsters and people during story quests.’

Moreover, no matter how badly you were injured, even if you were down to your last sliver of health, using a Life Potion would rapidly restore it.

’The real game world can drop this stuff too?’

’The drop rate just isn’t as high. They don’t drop all over the place like in a typical game.’

But on second thought, it seemed normal. After all, even skill cards could drop.

Lu Feng immediately used the game’s Scan function to check the Life Potion’s information:

[This is a special Life Potion. Upon use, it can rapidly restore life force. Health restored: 200!]

This Life Potion’s description was clearly the same as in the game.

In the game, characters had a health value. As your level increased, your total health increased. When attacked, your health would decrease, and if the value hit zero, you would die.

The meaning of "Health restored: 200" was self-evident: it could restore 200 points of health.

He just wasn’t sure what effect 200 points of health would have in this real game world.

In any case, this thing was definitely valuable. He just needed to find some time to test its effects.

Next, Lu Feng used the game’s Scan function on the other crystal.

[Special Ability Skill Crystal Stone. Upon use, you can obtain the special Energy Barrier skill!]

[Special Energy Barrier: The ability to form an energy barrier around your body!]

[Use? Yes/No?]

A look of delight instantly appeared on Lu Feng’s face when he saw this.

He knew from the description alone—wasn’t this the exact ability Gray Wolf had just displayed?

’Killing an ability user can drop their ability?’

’The real game world has a mechanic like this?’

Lu Feng had seen the power of Gray Wolf’s ability with his own eyes—it had allowed him to survive the explosion of all those gas canisters.

How could he possibly hesitate? He immediately chose to use it.

The next moment, the Ability Skill Crystal Stone lit up, then liquefied and quickly burrowed into his body.

After entering his body, the liquid split into two streams. One coursed through his entire body, while the other flowed toward his head.

A marvelous sensation began to spread through him.

At the same time, system notifications appeared:

[Congratulations! Spiritual Power +1!]

[Congratulations! Spiritual Power +1!]

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[Congratulations! Spiritual Power +1!]