Chapter 4: Agile Properties

  Step by step, she slowly moved up from the cement stairs, Zhou Yue didn't even dare to take a deep breath, her heart was racing like a drum, and she really wondered if it would jump out at any moment.

  Cold sweat had already soaked through the entire body, then dripped drop by drop onto the concrete steps, splashing up some barely perceptible dust, and that faint sound was like a death knell!

  Zhou Yue dared not think too much, he was very clear that at this moment, the more he thought, the more illusions he had, and the sooner he would collapse. He didn't want to be like that night shift otaku who was useless and only knew how to hide in his room shivering. He must break through, break through his own psychological limit!

  Although he had been encouraging himself all the time, in fact, from the fifth floor where he lived to the seventh floor, just a few dozen steps, Zhou Yue actually took three minutes to walk up, fortunately, he never found any signs of evil spirits.

  "Maybe there really isn't one?"

  Zhou Yue comforted himself like this, and the tension in his heart also eased a bit. However, when he walked to the corner of the stairs between the 7th and 8th floors, he happened to see that the anti-theft door of a household on the 8th floor was wide open.

  Joy's heart suddenly jumped to his throat, and for a moment, even his legs began to tremble, and the urge to urinate started to emerge. Fortunately, he held it in this time and didn't wet his pants!

  Looking at the extremely quiet and wide open door, Zhou Yue instinctively felt that there must be one or several evil spirits in that household. At this moment, his brain started to frantically produce an extremely strong impulse, which was to turn around, turn back, and escape back to the fifth floor at the fastest speed.

  After a long and arduous battle between heaven and man, Zhou Yue still managed to restrain himself with great difficulty. He knew that if he were to turn around and escape now, he would be a qualified and excellent coward for the rest of his life, which was something he absolutely could not tolerate. He would rather die in a desperate situation than cower in a corner, living in fear and prolonging his life in a state of desperation, no matter whether it was the end of the world or not!

  He took a deep breath, quickly scanned his surroundings, and then quietly walked to the corner of the stairs and stopped. However, this was not because he wanted to retreat, but because he felt that this corner provided him with solid defenses in two directions. If there were not one, but two or three evil spirits hiding in the room, then with the wooden shield in his hand and his current position, he might be able to save his life!

  With a resolute expression, Zhou Yue lightly tapped the wall with the machete in her hand. The sound was very faint, but the effect was quite obvious. A low growl came from that room, followed by the sound of flowerpots falling to the floor on the balcony. As soon as the sound fell, an evil spirit wearing a nightgown, with disheveled hair and a ferocious face, with a yellow talisman stuck on its forehead, had already rushed out.

  After seeing Zhou Yue at the corner of the stairs, the evil spirit let out a low growl again and suddenly pounced down from the steps above, instantly exerting a great force on Zhou Yue's body. If this were in any other environment, even if Zhou Yue had a wooden shield to protect himself, he would definitely be knocked to the ground by this pounce. However, at this moment, his back was against the hard concrete wall, so there was no need to worry about that.

  At this time, Zhou Yue was almost tense and unable to move, only knowing that he held the wooden shield in front of his chest, then shrunk his head, while the evil spirit was fiercely slapping and tearing at the wooden shield with its claws, but the excellent defensive performance of the wooden shield was revealed at this moment, and those claws couldn't do anything about it!

  This way passed the first few seconds, Zhou Yue finally regained the courage to counterattack, while continuously using the wooden shield to defend against the evil spirit's claws, trying to attack with a machete.

  But after trying more than a dozen times, Zhou Yue's right hand with the cleaver still couldn't find an opportunity to attack, because this thing was too short, and that evil spirit's pair of claws swung at a very fast frequency, it was simply impenetrable!

  In this way, Zhou Yue gradually fell into a disadvantage, after all, he was tense and sweating profusely, his physical strength was greatly consumed, but the evil spirit's energy seemed to be endless. Gradually, the evil spirit's claws came crashing down, slowly knocking him from standing to squatting position. Fortunately, this special terrain saved him, otherwise he would have been doomed. If this continued, his fate would be sealed.

  At this moment of extreme anxiety, Zhou Yue suddenly caught sight of the two smooth and tender thighs in the evil spirit's sleeping clothes, which had not changed position at all. In an instant, he thought of a method, and without hesitation, he used his left hand to hold up the wooden shield to protect his head and chest, while his right hand swung the chopping knife straight down towards the knee joint!

  Zhou Yue's move was not light, and with the weight of the knife, a cracking sound was heard. The evil spirit's knee joint was severed, although it was still connected to the skin and flesh, but it could no longer support the balance of the entire body. Suddenly, it tilted to the right side!

  Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zhou Yue let out a loud cry and jumped up from his half-squatting position. His right hand swung down with the machete, directly chopping at the evil spirit's left neck. Unfortunately, the force behind this chop was insufficient, and the angle was slightly off, so the machete only chopped halfway through before getting stuck there!

  The evil spirit's claw swung over just in time, and in an instant it slashed open his arm, and in the blink of an eye five strips of flesh were gone. The wound was so deep that bone could be seen, and fresh blood spurted out like a fountain. The pain made Zhou Yue's tears fall directly, and his right hand went limp, unable to hold onto the chopping knife, and the subsequent attack came to an abrupt end!

  However, Zhou Yue was also clear that this was a crucial moment, so the moment he dropped his hatchet, he gritted his teeth and ignored the injury on his right arm. He directly used both hands to grab the wooden shield and then slammed it into the evil spirit's neck with a series of rapid and forceful blows. When the hatchet finally sank completely into the evil spirit's neck, a warm current suddenly appeared in Zhou Yue's body, flowing rapidly throughout his entire being. Under the effect of this warm current, even the severe pain in his right arm seemed to subside greatly.

  At this time, a message also appeared in Zhou Yue's mind.

  "Kill 1st level evil spirit, upgrade 1 level, increase life value upper limit by 2 points, get 2 free points, can be freely assigned to life value, vitality, strength, agility and defense among the five attributes."

  It was a very simple piece of information, but it made Zhou Yue extremely happy. In that instant, he understood where the terrifying power of Zhao Dashi and Li Dan came from.

  She spat out a mouthful of turbid air, and Zhou Yue first took out the apple she had previously taken out and quickly ate it away. Then she picked up the small bag that was flashing with faint light beside the evil spirit, and then quickly returned to the fifth floor.

  After roughly bandaging the terrifying wound on his right arm, Zhou Yue first looked at the items that had fallen out of the small bag. What made him stunned this time was that what fell out was actually a copper coin, with one side written "The Blue Sky is Dead" and the other side written "The Yellow Sky Should Rise".

  With a wry smile, Zhou Yue tossed the copper coin that was probably issued by the Yellow Turbans into his pocket and began to ponder how to allocate those two free points.

  Health and endurance are definitely not needed, what about strength? Zhou Yue looked at his own small arms and legs, feeling that it was unnecessary, because even if he had these two points, his strength would not be overwhelming, let alone his goal was to escape from Chishan City, so the agility representing speed and flexibility was the most important.

  Without much hesitation, Zhou Yue made the decision to add those two free points to agility. However, he didn't feel any significant change, just a brief feeling of weightlessness, as if he had fallen onto a pile of cotton, and then his body returned to normal.

  "Really? No change?"

  Zhou Yue was stunned, he still thought that even if he couldn't fly or walk on walls, he should at least land silently! However, when he stood up and walked a few steps, he was surprised to find that things were not quite as he had imagined. Although he didn't feel any obvious increase in flexibility, the coordination between different parts of his body had changed dramatically. This change couldn't be felt when he wasn't moving, but it took effect when he made movements. In other words, the more complex the movement, the more pronounced the effect!

  "It's actually like this? Haha! This time it's prosperous!"

  Zhou Yue couldn't help but secretly rejoice, his brain was still quite useful, and he immediately saw the huge effect that these two points of agility brought to him. To take the fight with that evil spirit just now as an example, he could have made even more complex and agile changes, then seized the evil spirit's weakness and quickly ended the battle!

  At this moment, if it weren't for the severe injury to his right arm, he really wanted to rush out and find another evil spirit to try again. Now, after the life-and-death battle that had just been delivered to his doorstep, he no longer had any fear of those evil spirits, as if he had been reborn through nirvana, and this was the greatest gain!

  After the surprise had passed, Zhou Yue once again carefully recalled that previous battle which hadn't had any highlights. In this recollection, he discovered many weaknesses of those evil spirits, for example their claws would only attack upwards, while downwards they lacked defense, especially at the knee joints. As long as he quickly chopped one knife, he could destroy their overall balance, then take advantage of the opportunity to attack the exposed neck area above. If he could coordinate with his wooden shield and complete this entire set of actions quickly, then the time it took to kill an evil spirit would be shortened to an unbelievable few seconds!

  Thinking of this, Zhou Yue felt that his decision to add those two free attribute points to agility was the most brilliant one. Now his agility attribute had reached 11 points, which was just a little higher than those evil spirits, and it was exactly this difference of one point that could decide victory or defeat!