Chapter 396 - 172: A New Game World, Instantly Subduing More Than Ten Superhero Allies
Shen Fei controlled a vine and snapped the neck of one of the tattooed thugs.
Even if I killed a hundred of these Zu'an grunts, I wouldn't wrong a single innocent person!
"Ah!!!"
"Mercy! Lord Mage, have mercy!"
The tattooed leader, hanging suspended, screamed in terror. He never imagined that Shen Fei was the kind of ruthless person who would snap a neck over a single disagreement. Then, he spilled his guts, answering every single one of Shen Fei's questions in a torrent...
After hearing the tattooed leader's confession, Shen Fei couldn't help but think, He really is just a minor grunt! He doesn't even belong to any of the Alchemist Barons!
The man tied up before him knew nothing. He hadn't even heard the names Shen Fei asked about, like Jinx and Ekko!
The intelligence he'd gathered wasn't what he'd hoped for. Without another word, Shen Fei waved his hand. With a series of sickening cracks, the entire gang of tattooed grunts—thugs who had robbed countless people and crippled even more—all had their necks snapped, their bodies slumping into the foul gutters of lower Zu'an...
WHOOSH~
Having dealt with the grunts in one fell swoop, Shen Fei waved his hand again, summoning 100 Defense Towers to surround him.
By killing those grunts, Shen Fei had accomplished two things. Not only had he disposed of sinners, but more importantly, he had learned the HP of low-level grunts in this world. He discovered their HP was around 100.
Although this was much higher than on Earth, where ordinary people only had 3 to 5 HP after the Version 4.2 full datafication, it was not the scenario Shen Fei had worried about. He had feared a situation where the Comprehensive Combat Power of the 18th Ring Secret Realm was boosted by hundreds of thousands of times, meaning even the most ordinary grunts would have hundreds of thousands of HP.
Determining the HP of ordinary grunts was extremely good news for Shen Fei.
Instead of inefficiently searching for more people to interrogate, Shen Fei, now armed with basic Combat Power data, summoned Defense Towers to guard him. He then quickly activated the Detection Tower and unleashed its detection sensors with full force...
Zu'an is fifty kilometers in area! It's seven or eight kilometers deep! The entire Underground City has many layers...
With the help of the omnipotent Detection Tower, Shen Fei quickly got a crystal-clear picture of Zu'an's terrain. He discovered that the city, which could be considered a nation in its own right, was not very large. Of course, Shen Fei didn't look down on the city just because of its size.
Rune Land is a special world where all kinds of powers converge. Zu'an might not be large, but its power, or rather, its energy level, was very high.
The simplest manifestation of this was that the city's Defense Power was very strong. For example, Shen Fei's Defense Tower Cluster Attack could probably blast a crater several kilometers wide on Earth with a single shot—and that was an Earth that had been enhanced for nearly three weeks. But in Rune Land, in Zu'an, his Cluster Attack probably couldn't cause that much damage. This was something unique to a world with such a high power level.
Ordinary people have too little HP. They're no good for testing! If I want to test what this world has become after its Combat Power was boosted by hundreds of thousands of times, I need to find a Hero!
Muttering his objective to himself, Shen Fei quickly used the Detection Tower to scan everything in Zu'an.
There!
Half a minute later, his senses swept over a peculiar pipe. Inside it, Shen Fei saw a strange, puddle-like creature, green and elastic like slime. He instantly recognized it as a Hero from Zu'an—the Biochemical Demon Zaka!
The moment he saw Zac, Shen Fei controlled countless Vine Towers, sending them to bind him forcefully! This wasn't a reckless move, because according to the lore of Rune Land, the Biochemical Demon Zaka's Combat Power wasn't very high in this Game World.
If he had to be overly cautious when facing a Hero with such a low background Combat Power, then Shen Fei might as well give up. If he couldn't even defeat Zaka, how could he ever kill the Dragon King or a Star God? He might as well just lie down and wait for death!
BOOM!
SWISH!
Zac, resting in a pipe after having gained sentience from a special toxin, was about to spring up and defend himself against the suddenly attacking vines. Unfortunately, before he could react, a massive number of them had already bound him tightly.
Once dragged by the vines into the Aura range of the Domain Defense Tower Shen Fei had activated, Zac was slammed to the ground with a THUD...
Just finish him?
Seeing that the HP displayed above Zac's head was only 100 million, Shen Fei felt the urge to crush him. By killing a Hero, he could gauge the specific Combat Power level of this world.
WHOOSH~
However, before taking action, a thought struck Shen Fei. He first pulled an item from his inventory: [Zu'an's Kiss]!
Shen Fei instantly retrieved Zu'an's Kiss, the large Divine Artifact he had obtained from the Great Chaos Secret Realm.
Previously, when he confirmed that the 18th Ring was the Game World of Rune Land, the reason Shen Fei had been so shocked was twofold. First, Rune Land was a vast world filled with numerous powerful individuals.
More importantly, he possessed a super item from this very world in his backpack—Zu'an's Kiss.
He just so happened to have a Divine Artifact from Zu'an in his inventory. The final ring of his mandatory mission then forced him into that very Game World. To top it all off, he and his companions had appeared right on the outskirts of Zu'an.