Chapter 3: Card Upgrade

  Tang Tian counted them, and there were eighteen zombies in the hall, seventeen of whom were chefs, and only one was dressed as a student. This was all he could see, but there were also two kitchens where it was unknown whether there were any zombies present.

  "Eighteen zombies, this is going to be a problem. If I go and kill one of them, it will definitely alert the others. Well, I have Xiaoying with me, so even if things get out of hand, I can just hide behind him."

  Evil is born from the gall, Tang Tian swiftly led Xiao Ying towards the nearest zombie.

  This dining hall has an area of over a thousand square meters, with eighteen zombies scattered all over the place, and it's impossible for them to gather together in a short time.

  Roar! As Tang Tian approached, the nearest zombie discovered him and immediately turned around to pounce on him.

  Rooooaaaar!!! The other zombies were startled by this zombie's voice and swarmed in this direction.

  "Xiao Ying, quickly break this zombie's legs!" Tang Tian ordered urgently.

  As soon as Tang Tian's voice fell, the ghostly assassin behind him materialized and darted out, surrounding the lone zombie in a swift circle. With a few swift swings of his inferior dagger, he severed the zombie's legs, sending it crashing to the ground.

  "It's like that," Táng Tiān was delighted in his heart, and immediately ran up, swinging the stick in his hand to smash the zombie's head.

  Bang, bang, bang, several sticks hit down, the zombie's head instantly became a rotten watermelon, crawling on the ground motionless. At the same time, a weak white light emerged from the zombie's body and finally entered Tang Tian's body.

  Tang Tian deliberately observed the attribute panel in his mind and found that the experience bar behind the level had changed from 60/100 to 80/100.

  "It's really like that, killing one more will allow me to level up. Xiao Ying, cut off the zombie's legs as well." Tang Tian's heart was filled with joy, and he immediately gave the order.

  Having received Tang Tian's order, the ghost assassin swiftly darted out and severed the legs of a zombie that had pounced close.

  Tang Tian rushed up and with a few loud thuds, he smashed the zombie to death. Instantly, a white light burst out from the zombie's body, and at the same time, a black coin dropped out.

  With the black coin grasped in his hand, white light also entered Tang Tian's body, and Tang Tian instantly received a hint of sound.

  "Congratulations, after a hard-fought battle, your level has been upgraded and all attributes have increased. You are currently at level 1. Additionally, you have been specially rewarded with 5 evolution points. Please choose the direction of enhancement. You can choose to enhance any basic attribute."

  "Three points of strength and two points of physique", Tang Tian quickly chose his strengthening direction.

  As soon as Tang Tian finished speaking, he suddenly felt a surge of magical power entering his body, and his strength increased greatly, while the fatigue in his body was also relieved.

  "A hint of spiritual money" Looking at the black coin in his hand, Tang Tian got a simple hint. Immediately afterwards, Tang Tian casually threw this black coin into the ring, he felt that this thing would be useful in the future.

  Roar! Just as Tang Tian was basking in the joy of leveling up, the other sixteen zombies also rushed forward, and the situation became extremely critical.

  "Xiao Ying, retreat!" Tang Tian didn't dare let the ghost assassin and sixteen zombies fight it out, this was his life-saving thing, so he immediately commanded.

  Tang Tian brought the ghost assassin back to the kitchen again.

  But just as Tang Tian entered the kitchen, sixteen zombies immediately surrounded the kitchen, and the doors and windows were smashed loudly.

  "This won't work, we have to eliminate them, or else these zombies will break in sooner or later", Tang Tian thought to himself.

  Tang Tian didn't care about that anymore, and quickly pushed the kitchen's cold storage to the back of the kitchen door. After opening the door, it just happened to allow a zombie to pass through.

  As soon as the door opened, a zombie rushed in.

  Tang Tian raised the club in his hand and struck it down, with two loud thuds he knocked the zombie to the ground. Tang Tian felt a thrill of excitement, before leveling up he needed three or four clubs to kill one zombie, now only two were required.

  With this gap in the door, Tang Tian one by one put the zombies inside and then one by one used his new wooden stick to smash them to death.

  In the meantime, Tang Tian just let the ghostly assassin guard against zombies running in from the window.

  As the last zombie fell to the ground, Tang Tian finally let out a slight sigh of relief. The entrance was now piled high with the corpses of zombies.

  "Haha, this is simply a card trick! If I hadn't thought of this method, these sixteen zombies would have surrounded me together and I'd probably be torn to shreds in no time!" Tang Tian sat down on the ground with a thud, muttering to himself.

  Order Xiao Ying to pick up all the things that these sixteen zombies exploded, Tang Tian rested for a while before starting to check his harvest.

  Eight black divine coins, he didn't know what they were used for, so Tang Tian simply picked them up.

  There is also a black skill book, three gray treasure chests and a set of gray clothes.

  "Primary Skill, Basic Swordsmanship, Skill Description: After learning this skill, you can proficiently wield any sword-type weapon, greatly enhancing your combat ability. This is a passive skill and does not occupy an active skill slot. Do you want to learn it?"

  Tang Tian chose to learn without hesitation. Since it wasn't a main skill, Tang Tian was naturally happy to increase his strength. After choosing to learn, the first-level skill book transformed into a black light that entered Tang Tian's mind. Suddenly, Tang Tian felt as if he had practiced using knives for many years. Even though he was only holding a wooden stick, when he swung it, there were many changes and its power increased greatly.

  Although there is no knife now, I think there will be one in the future, Tang Tianxin thought.

  Then three grey treasure boxes were opened, two of which were empty with nothing inside, and the last one revealed a pair of gloves.

  "Low-quality gloves, the most basic equipment for new hands, Defense 1. Equipment description: It's just the most basic defensive equipment, its purpose is that even if you touch a zombie's flesh and blood after wearing it, you won't be infected. Equip?"

  Having received the hint, Tang Tian immediately chose equipment, joking that even a small mosquito is still meat.

  "Low-quality clothes, the most basic equipment for newbies, Defense 2. Equipment description: It's just the most basic defensive gear. Wearing it will give you a slight defense, but that's not enough to make you safe. Will you equip?"

  Looking at the last sentence of the zombie explosion equipment, Tang Tian got a hint and chose to equip it on himself without hesitation.

  Tang Tian took one last look at his own attribute panel.

  Name: Tang Tian

  Rank: 1 (160/200)

  Occupation: None

  Title: None

  Strength: 12/10

  Physical strength: 12/10

  Spirit: 10/10

  Agility: 8/10

  Skill 1: Level 5 Summoning Spell, active skill, can summon a ghost assassin to fight for you, consumes 20 points of spiritual power, cooldown time is one month.

  Skill 2: Basic Swordsmanship, a passive skill that allows you to proficiently use any sword-type weapon, greatly enhancing your combat effectiveness.

  Pets: None

  ……

  After checking his own attributes, Tang Tian found that there wasn't much change, only that after leveling up, all of his attributes automatically increased a bit. His strength had been strengthened by 3 points and his physique had been strengthened by 2 points. Then, in the skills section, the two skills he was currently learning appeared. Additionally, the experience required to level up had risen from 100 to 200, and the experience gained from killing a zombie had decreased from 20 to 10. This gave him a sense of urgency, as if leveling up would become increasingly difficult from now on.

  After resting, Tang Tian stood up again. He had to get familiar with the outside situation and see what this world had become.