Chapter 8: Insect Crystal

The death of the Cat Demon did not catch Xu Feng’s attention. Instead, the newly obtained Insect Crystal was constantly played with in Xu Feng’s hand.

“This is the first Insect Crystal I got in this life. I did not expect to get such a white One-Star Insect Crystal on the very first day of the apocalypse. It really makes me sigh.” Xu Feng shook his head and said in a low voice.

In his previous life, Xu Feng’s strength was very low. He was only at R-level strength. By the time he grew to One-Star strength, those monsters parasitized by the Insect Race had already broken through to One Star. It became almost impossible for him to hunt a One-Star Insect alone and get an Insect Crystal. In the end, he had no choice but to join a gang and become the lowest member. In every fight, he was used as cannon fodder and pushed to the front. But when it was time to share the loot, people with low strength like him could only stand aside.

In that life, the first time Xu Feng got a white One-Star Insect Crystal was already three months after the Earth’s apocalypse.

Insect Crystals were the essence condensed by the Insect Race. For humans, Insect Crystals were comparable to Fate Points. Sometimes, the value of Insect Crystals was even stronger than Fate Points.

A white One-Star Insect Crystal could improve the attributes of creatures below One-Star strength. Each Insect Crystal could randomly increase 1 to 3 Attribute Points. It was very helpful for players to break through their strength.

Even an ordinary person who just had their body datafied, in theory, only needed five Insect Crystals to raise one attribute to One-Star and achieve One-Star strength.

“Insect Crystals are good, but the Cat Demon that has evolved once also has other valuable materials.” After playing with the Insect Crystal for a while, Xu Feng put it away and began to check the thoroughly dead body of the Cat Demon.

“Fangs, and the right front claw. Heh, the right front claw has attacking ability, and the fangs can easily tear through a creature’s skin. Not bad, to choose such an evolution direction, I am really lucky!” After carefully inspecting the Cat Demon’s body, Xu Feng said quietly.

Drawing the Bone-Cleaver, Xu Feng spent some effort to remove the Cat Demon’s two Fangs and right front claw. Even if he sold these two materials to Earth’s Will, he could get a lot of Fate Points. But such materials were best used to practice his own life skills. Selling them to Earth’s Will was actually the least cost-effective method.

Now, Xu Feng had not learned life skills like Skinning, so he could only collect them himself. This method had a high chance of damaging the materials and would also lower their quality. But before learning those life skills, he could only do this.

Xu Feng stored the Cat Demon’s Fangs and right front claw, picked up the Bone-Cleaver, and continued forward. He had just taken two steps when he suddenly heard a woman’s screams from ahead.

“Help, help! Someone save me, wuwu~”

Xu Feng frowned and instinctively wanted to turn around and leave. However, this road was the fastest route to the Wandering Merchant. Other roads were either occupied by the Insect Race or would take a long detour. Wandering Merchants usually did not stay in one place for too long. When they found no profit in the area, they would quietly slip away. Next time, no one knew when they would appear or where they would be.

While hesitating, a woman with disheveled hair, wearing a professional suit, ran towards Xu Feng in a panic.

As she ran, she shouted for help. Behind her, several Insect Humans, still unsteady and not yet familiar with their human bodies, were following.

“They’re just a few newly parasitized Insect Humans. Anyone with a weapon could kill them. Is there a need to scream so desperately? Be careful not to attract a few One-Star Monsters.” Xu Feng muttered quietly, then rushed forward with the Bone-Cleaver.

Seeing Xu Feng, the woman’s eyes lit up. With a face full of hope, she rushed towards him as if he were her life-saving straw.

“Save, save me, save me! There are monsters chasing me! Please, save me!” Crying and shouting for help, the woman ran desperately towards Xu Feng.

“If you don’t want to die, shut up!” Passing by her, Xu Feng growled at her, then charged up to the several Insect Humans and hacked off all their heads with his blade.

Watching the heads roll on the ground like balls, the woman’s face showed a dazed expression, and soon she bent over, leaning against the wall, and vomited.

“Be careful. Shouting so loudly can easily attract stronger monsters.” Xu Feng glanced at the woman, kindly reminded her, and then continued walking forward.

“Wait, wait for me! Wait for me! Can I go with you? Can you protect me? I, I’m really scared, wuwu~”

Seeing Xu Feng walking away, the woman quickly wiped her mouth and ran after him.

Looking at her delicate face, full of tears and pleading, Xu Feng hesitated. But soon, he hardened his heart.

“Sorry, I have more important things to do. I can’t protect you. I suggest you find a handy weapon now and protect yourself.” Xu Feng said coldly.

“Ah, it’s, it’s you?” The woman seemed to recognize Xu Feng, staring at his face, and said loudly, “You, you’re that boy who was sleeping in the train car…”

Xu Feng frowned slightly and looked carefully. It turned out to be the girl who had woken him up when he first returned after rebirth, in the subway.

Wang Ying’s heart was filled with pain and fear. In just a few hours, this world had changed beyond recognition, completely different from the world she remembered.

Wang Ying had always felt that her life was miserable. In a big city like Linhai, she had a job that could be replaced at any time, earning a meager salary that barely made ends meet. At work, she risked being taken advantage of by her supervisor. She always felt like she was living in hell.

But today, Wang Ying’s thoughts changed drastically within just a few hours. Suddenly, large numbers of insects appeared, living people were eaten alive, and there were these strange monsters. What had happened to this world?

“God, Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, I was wrong, I was really wrong. My previous life was actually good. Please forgive my previous complaints. Those were stupid words I said without thinking. I will never complain again. Let me return to my previous life, wuwu, I’m so scared!” Wang Ying walked cautiously through the remote alley. She wanted to return to her rented room, but there were too many monsters and insects along the way, so she gave up that idea. She could only wander blindly through the remote alleys, trying hard to avoid attracting the monsters’ attention. But in the end, she was still discovered by a few newly parasitized Insect Humans and chased all the way here.