Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife.

After successfully changing his job, Pipi had grown significantly in size, and his standing height was not much different from that of some medium-sized dogs. He accidentally pounced on Zhang Shi, and his huge force almost pushed him down.

Zhang Shi rubbed Pipi's head and checked its attributes, and found that its strength attribute was as high as 27 points, only slightly lower than his own.

Name: Pipi

Race: dog

Experience value: Level 15

Grade: Advanced

Strength: 25+2

Agility: 16

Constitution: 10

Mana: 3

Talent: Combat Mastery

Ability value: 14

Zhang Shi noticed that Pipi had added a new talent, Combat Mastery. He clicked on it and saw that this was the talent mentioned in the job transfer instructions that would increase his attributes. As long as he and Pipi entered combat together, Pipi would increase his strength by 5 points and his agility by 5 points.

Zhang Shi rubbed Pippi's head lovingly and joked softly.

"It seems that if there is a battle in the future, I will have to take you with me."

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At sunset, all the staff in the shelter stopped working as usual and prepared to face the blood moon and the zombie tide at night.

Ge Dalong told Zhang Shi that due to several days of hard work, the proficiency of Gong Er to Gong Wu also met the requirements for upgrading and they were successfully promoted to craftsmen.

Being promoted to a craftsman means unlocking more strange and bizarre crafts. Zhang Shi trotted to the research center with great anticipation.

When the engineers saw Zhang Shi coming, they saluted and stepped forward to introduce their abilities.

Zhang Shi listened and found that the manufacturing processes they unlocked were all irrelevant at the current stage and could not help in fighting the zombie tide.

Instead, Gong Yi gave Zhang Shi another surprise. Using the scrap cars Zhang Shi brought back, Gong Yi actually transformed an armored vehicle.

"My Lord, this vehicle can carry up to 15 soldiers at a time. I have also specially designed a matching carriage to transport supplies."

Zhang Shi nodded in satisfaction. He didn't expect that Gong Yi could really turn waste into treasure and make a truck with his hands. This thing would be of great use when the shelter expanded outward in the future.

After several days of hard work, the shelter's resources were sufficient to handle the massive zombie horde. Zhang Shi adjusted the soldiers' workload to allow them to rest better.

There was another reason why Zhang Shi did this. That was that he had seen more kinds of mutated zombies during this dungeon trip. He was worried that the zombies in the wilderness world might also mutate into this state. In order to prepare for the tough battles that might arise in the future, he needed to let his soldiers recuperate.

Inside the fortress, Zhang Shi recounted the general situation of the dungeon trip to his companions, focusing on describing the characteristics and abilities of those mutated zombies.

Ge Dalong rubbed his chin, pondering for a moment. He concluded that Zhang Shi's fears were likely to come true. The current zombie horde, while exhausting, wasn't fatal. It was merely a bit tiring and troublesome, which wasn't in keeping with the Wild World's customs. The temperature had dropped to around 30 degrees Celsius today, making it more suitable for survivors. The average survivor encountered only a handful of zombies each night, not a significant threat.

"Some high-quality zombies have appeared in the past few days, but they're just a bit larger and faster than regular zombies. During yesterday's zombie tidal wave, the number of high-quality zombies did increase significantly. I didn't mention them because they didn't cause much of a stir. This suggests that the zombies are likely evolving."

Sure enough, when the blood moon came, the zombies used their ultimate moves right away.

The plain's surface suddenly shook violently, cracking the ground. A massive, blood-red head slowly emerged from the ground. Its skull was covered in dense veins, and its eye sockets held dozens of eyes, resembling the compound eyes of an insect. Even those with trypophobia would be overwhelmed by the sight.

Those dozens of eyes stared in the direction of the shelter, then roared, causing the ground to shake even more violently.

Many fortifications were destroyed by the earthquake. Not long after, the monster stretched out its hands and "pulled" its body out of the ground. A dark red giant monster filled with blood appeared on the plain.

Zhang Shi watched from afar. The giant monster was as tall as a three-story building. Like the Titan zombie, it had no skin and was covered in blood. Its body was made up of the corpses of countless ordinary zombies.

There are also giant tumors growing on its joints, but unlike the zombies in the copy, the tumors are orange-yellow and flicker faintly in the night.

It was like a giant made of flesh and blood, roaring to the sky, and the entire ground shook violently with its movements.

Afterwards, dense swarms of zombies crawled out of the dungeon, including some mutated zombies that Zhang Shi was familiar with.

The zombie tide rushed towards the shelter. Due to the loss of the two defensive barriers of the small river and the deep pit, it was difficult to stop the dense zombie army with only the chevaux de frise. Under the destruction of the tall iron arm, the zombie tide quickly broke through the chevaux de frise and rushed to the bottom of the wall.

On the wall, the soldiers opened fire at full force, throwing all kinds of crossbows, explosives, and Molotov cocktails downwards like crazy, greatly slowing down the advance of the zombie tide.

The giant zombie was like a commander. Seeing that the zombie army was blocked, he squatted down, picked up a ball of mud with both hands, kneaded it into a ball, and threw it towards the city wall.

With a loud "bang", Zhang Shi was almost knocked down by the huge impact force. He hurriedly got up to check the condition of the wall.

Fortunately, the golden stone was extremely strong, and the giant zombie's attack did not cause much damage to the wall.

Seeing the giant zombie being so arrogant, Zhao Feng's anger was ignited and he shouted loudly.

"Fire, fire! Shoot at its head. I want to see which is harder, the cannonball or its head."

Then, ten cannons fired at the same time, and all the explosive shells hit the giant zombie's head, blowing the tumor on its head into pieces.

The giant zombie wailed in pain, then turned around and tried to distance itself from the shelter.

Seeing that the giant zombie wanted to escape, Zhang Shi quickly flashed behind the heavy crossbow, pulled the bowstring to its full length in one breath, triggered a triple strike, and fired at its leg joints.

Zhang Shi used all his strength in this attack. With the help of various BUFFs, the steel crossbow arrow, as thick as his arm, emitted a sharp sonic boom and contained unimaginable destructive power. It accurately hit the tumor on the giant zombie's leg and then penetrated through its leg.

The giant zombie howled again, and then its body, as tall as a mountain, collapsed to the ground, crushing many zombies into meat paste.

Zhao Feng saw the giant zombie fall to the ground and was about to cheer when it suddenly underwent a strange transformation. Its flesh and blood disintegrated, then quickly reassembled. In the blink of an eye, three smaller giant zombies appeared in sight, intact.