The Walking Dead: I Sell Arms as a Sixth-Rate Seller in the Apocalypse

12:25 pm

Underground Research Institute Area A

[Ding! Host detected that you have reached a critical plot turning point. A special mission is now issued to you: Accompany Coacheta Solomon to the biological laboratory to rescue his wife, Diane Roseworth (both must survive). Advanced mission: Please kill every single zombie in the biological laboratory.]

[Special Mission Reward: The base facility repair function is unlocked. The host can consume points to repair all items within the damaged base with a single click, including experimental equipment and all other base-owned items, restoring them to perfect condition.]

[Advanced Mission Reward: Vehicle modification function unlocked. The host can spend points to transform an ordinary vehicle into a wild, apocalyptic war vehicle.]

Rick's mouth watered at the sight of the two new rewards. As he looked at the system description, he immediately thought of Coacheta and Diane's modified Hummer. Although the two vehicles did not have onboard weapons, the two of them managed to drive recklessly, repairing the car as they went, and eventually made their way from the east end of the city to the west end. They then drove north on the highway and finally boarded General Sherman's Black Hawk helicopter to leave Evan City before the nuclear explosion.

"System, you still understand my needs best."

[Host, stop being so cheeky. Do you still want to claim the rewards for the main and advanced quests you completed earlier?]

"Huh? What kind of task and what are the rewards?"

[Host, you have a terrible memory. The task of spending 1000 points on your wife and the reward of purchasing two high-level selectable weapons are, respectively, unlocking and exchanging a multi-functional capsule and binding the universal enhancement system to you.]

"Oh dear, what a mistake, I completely forgot about this. System, hurry up and calculate the mission rewards!"

[Host, the War Vehicle System invited me out. The reward is for you to discover; I won't announce it now. I'm leaving.]

The system sound went silent.

While chasing Kocheta with Mieko in tow, Rikuro browsed various capsules in his system shop.

After flipping through a few pages, he finally found the pregnancy-preserving capsules and then saw the introduction about them.

Pregnancy-Preserving Capsules: 10 points (1 box of 10 capsules). After taking this product, the user can return to their pre-pregnancy state. Regardless of the stage of pregnancy, the user's physical condition will not decline. No matter how much the user engages in physical activity, it will not affect the fetus. Regardless of the number of pregnancies, there will be no difficult labor or severe bleeding during delivery. It guarantees a safe delivery for every child and significantly reduces the pain experienced during childbirth. [Warning: The capsules will immediately become ineffective if the user dies, the fetus does not meet the minimum survival requirements, or the user voluntarily undergoes an abortion.]

Looking at this introduction, Rick even had the idea of ​​opening a maternity hospital. As long as you take this capsule, no matter what kind of delivery you have, it will be no problem. With this medicine, cesarean sections will become a thing of the past, and childbirth will no longer be the only path that every mother has to take.

With that in mind, Rick immediately spent 10 points to redeem a box, then closed the system shop and opened the newly unlocked All Things Enhancement function.

After opening the interface, Rick saw two ways to enhance the weapon. One was to spend points to enhance it directly. This method guaranteed that the weapon would not be damaged due to enhancement failure. It could even invest additional points to ensure that the weapon would not lose level or attributes after enhancement failure. This was known as the "pay-to-win enhancement method".

Another method involves consuming specific materials for enhancement. These materials can be collected, crafted, or purchased from the system shop. Unlike the pay-to-win enhancement method, if the weapon enhancement fails, the weapon may be damaged. Even if it is not damaged, its attributes will be reduced. Enhancement protection tickets can be purchased from the system shop to protect the weapon.

Rick immediately spoke to Mieko beside him.

"Wife, materialize your Beowulf assault rifle for me, I'll enhance it for you."

Upon hearing this, Mihoko, still in a daze, immediately materialized a Beowulf assault rifle from her ring space and handed it to Rick.

After Rick took the weapon, he used his mind to make it disappear from his hand and then reappear in the system enhancement interface.

Rick saw the Beowulf assault rifle's attributes in the enhancement interface. The Beowulf assault rifle has a total of 6 enhancement options, including power, range, recoil, weight, durability, and a special enhancement.

Rick curiously opened the special enhancement option, and there he saw the description.

Special Enhancement Option: This option grants special attributes to enhanced items. Weapons can unlock this option after 10 successful enhancements. Note: Each weapon can only have one special enhancement attribute.

Upon seeing this, Rick clicked on the pay-to-win enhancement method. A single enhancement requires 20 points, while a ten-time enhancement only requires 150 points, and also comes with a 30% success rate bonus.

Seeing this, Rick didn't hesitate and immediately selected a ten-shot upgrade for the Beowulf assault rifle. Then he chose to upgrade the recoil and took a deep breath, shouting in his heart.

“I am willing to sacrifice 10 years of Rick Grimes’ lifespan in exchange for the success rate of these 10 enhancements.”

Then I clicked the button for a 10-pull upgrade. As 150 points were deducted, an upgrade progress bar began to appear below the Beowulf assault rifle in the upgrade interface.

Meanwhile, Rick Grimes was bound hand and foot by a black man named Thomas and stuffed into a van. In the back seat of the van, Rick Grimes suddenly sneezed, while Carl, who was also bound hand and foot, sat next to him, staring blankly and helplessly at the scenery outside the window.

Rewinding to before the blood-red full moon, Grimes looked at Lori, who was snuggling up to Sean, with a heart full of resentment and helplessness. He hated Sean for stealing his wife, he hated his own incompetence for not waking up before the apocalypse, and he hated even more that this damned apocalypse had brought his marriage to an end.

Fortunately, he still had Carl, his son. When his Asian brother of the same name personally taught Sean a lesson, he was filled with gratitude towards Rick. However, after this incident, his Asian brother of the same name made a complete 180-degree change in his attitude towards Sean, which put Grimes, who originally planned to volunteer to be the second-in-command of the camp, in a difficult position.

Just then, his biological son, Carl, came out to comfort him, saying that if he could, he would leave the camp that he loathed with his biological father.

Upon hearing this, Grimes hugged Carl and kissed his forehead. Carl, like a child who had found an outlet, hugged Rick and cried as he spoke of how he missed his father in the apocalypse.

Hearing Karl's tearful account, Grimes felt a lump in his throat, and the father and son wept loudly in the woods far from the camp.

Carl recounts Sean's crimes of taking his mother away, including Sean's advice to Lori to persuade Carl to have a half-brother or half-sister and to abandon Grimes' surname and change it to Welsh.

Upon hearing this, Grimes' face flushed instantly. Their cries attracted a zombie. Just as Grimes was about to lose his mind in anger, the zombie appeared in his field of vision. Ignoring the pain on his face, he immediately rushed to the zombie and, before the zombie could raise its arm, headbutted it on the missing bridge of its nose.

With a furious headbutt, the zombie was knocked to the ground. Ignoring the wound that had been reopened by the blow, the enraged Grimes began to vent his anger on the fallen zombie.

Under his relentless attacks, the zombie's arm was kicked off, and both legs were broken and unable to stand. It could only stretch out its relatively intact left arm and scratch wildly at Grimes.

This scene made the already agitated Grimes even more furious. He seized the opportunity to grab the zombie's arms with both hands, while his right foot was firmly planted on the zombie's shoulder. He twisted the zombie's arms forcefully, while his right foot pressed down hard on the zombie's shoulder to prevent it from moving.

Then, with a strong pull, Grimes ripped the zombie's arm off completely, and the dark red blood stained his police uniform.

The zombie, its arm torn off, still stared at the irrational man before it, its foul-smelling mouth gaping open, trying to bite off a piece of his flesh.

Grimes roared at the zombies at his feet.

"You damned beast, you want to eat my flesh? You should eat your own flesh first."

Having finished speaking

Grimes shoved the zombie's severed arm directly into its mouth. When the zombie bit into the flesh, it couldn't tell what kind of creature it was. It tried to bite off the flesh from the arm, but without an arm, it couldn't tear the arm out of its mouth.

Upon witnessing this scene, Grimes roared at the zombies.

"Eat up, bite up! Weren't you just trying to eat me? Why can't you bite me now? You brainless idiot."

After roaring, Grimes grabbed the arm that was being bitten so tightly with both hands and pulled down with all his might. With a crisp snap, the zombie's jaw dislocated, and its teeth were deeply stuck in the arm inside its mouth. Seeing this, Grimes continued to pull down with all his might. Finally, the enraged Grimes ripped the zombie's jaw, along with some tissue from its neck, off its body.

After losing his jaw, the zombie lost all desire. He ignored Grimes and stared aimlessly elsewhere.

This scene enraged Grimes, who roared at the zombie.

"What? Even you look down on me? You brainless walking corpse, I'll personally..."

Before Grimes could speak, Carl plunged a dagger into the zombie's eye, freeing it from its father's torment.

The father and son stared at each other in silence for several seconds in this atmosphere. Then Grimes picked up Karl and walked towards the road outside the abandoned quarry camp. From that day on, no one in the camp ever saw the father and son again.