It was around noon, lunchtime, and there were quite a few other pyers having lunch in the restaurant of Hope Town.

  The restaurant in Hope Town offered a wide range of food, from the steak Zhang Yi was eating, which cost 50 Silver Coins per serving, to steamed buns that cost only 10 Copper Coins each. At this stage, pyers didn't have much money, so most of them were eating fried rice or noodles that cost 1 Silver Coin per bowl. In terms of cost-effectiveness, fried noodles were the best choice, being cheap and providing a decent hunger recovery.

  A bowl of fried noodles could restore 10% of hunger, while steak restored 50%. The difference in taste was indescribable.

  When the pyers around saw Zhang Yi sitting alone, eating steak and drinking red wine, they cast envious gnces his way as they ate their fried rice and steamed buns.

  "Wow, this guy is eating a 50 Silver Coin steak? He's living rge!"

  "Stop staring and eat your fried rice. He's got money, something we can't envy. Let's finish our meal and grind more monsters this afternoon. Maybe we'll earn enough to have a good meal tonight!"

  Zhang Yi ignored the whispers around him, eating his steak while browsing the regional chat channel of Safe Zone No. 886. When he saw the rapidly updating chat records, he almost spat out his wine—

  [King's Glory] (Male, Level 10 Archer): "Damn those Storm Family dogs, they killed half of my King's World today. I've got it memorized, just wait, I'll make sure your Storm Family doesn't st three days in Zone 886!"

  [Storm Dragon King] (Male, Level 11 Warrior): "All you do is talk big. Besides talking tough, what else can you do? You ran faster than a wild horse in Goblin Forest today. If you're so tough, why did you run? Coward!"

  [King's Glory]: "Damn, if it weren't for Yinuo Qingcheng helping you, and him giving my Silver Moon Bow to your boss Storm Crap, would your trash even stand a chance against us in King's World?"

  [Storm Angel]: "Didn't you say several times you were going to kill Yinuo Qingcheng? Why do I feel like every time you see him tely, you're like a mouse seeing a cat?"

  [King's Glory]: "I *****"

  These two teams really had time to spare. But this was good; with the Storm Family's help, Zhang Yi found it easier to wipe out the King's World team.

  Unknowingly, Zhang Yi also used the Storm Family to change the course of history. In the previous life, at this time, the King's World people had already started oppressing solo pyers in the Safe Zone. In this life, their focus was entirely on Zhang Yi and the Storm Family, leaving them no time to target solo pyers or implement their pn to take over Hope Town.

  Closing the chat interface, Zhang Yi finished his lunch, with both hunger and fatigue reaching saturation.

  Next, it was time to go out, complete a quest, and level up to pass the afternoon. Then, in the evening, he would find Ili to get a weapon. After another power boost, he would be ready for the bigger challenge coming tomorrow.

  In his memory, it should be the third day after the server opened. Every small zone in the entire Apocalypse world would face a disaster. If pyers could overcome this disaster, they would have a chance to significantly boost their overall strength. Otherwise, the Safe Zone would be destroyed, and all pyers belonging to the same Safe Zone would die.

  Therefore, before that, Zhang Yi needed to work hard to improve his strength and prepare for tomorrow.

  In Zhang Yi's view, the magic staff Ili was forging was at least a two-star weapon. A two-star weapon above level 10, enhanced to level 25, could directly double Zhang Yi's strength!

  As a reborn pyer, Zhang Yi remembered some opportunities within or around Safe Zone No. 886, but many required a certain level or strength. With his current strength as a level 10 first-turn Beastmaster, many opportunities were still out of reach.

  So in the afternoon, Zhang Yi honestly accepted a common quest with a difficulty coefficient of 120 from the Appraisal Shop Owner in the Safe Zone. The quest involved hunting Mutated Octopuses and collecting 200 Octopus Encyclopedias.

  After stocking up on a rge supply of red and blue potions at the store, Zhang Yi followed the map's guidance to the outskirts of the Safe Zone, near a closed high school in the suburbs.

  This school was the habitat of the octopuses. According to the quest description: After the apocalypse crisis broke out, countless infected and mutated octopuses ran down from the hill behind the school, invaded the school, killed all the students and teachers inside, and fed on their corpses, living in the school for a long time.

  Taking out the Fme Staff from his bag, Zhang Yi stepped into the campus, greeted by a pungent smell of blood.

  Amidst the low growls and roars, he saw numerous level 12-15 octopuses scattered throughout the rge campus, feasting on severely decomposed, foul-smelling human corpses in student uniforms.

  With his current level of 10, Zhang Yi could not only complete the task of collecting Octopus Encyclopedias by hunting these octopuses but also engage in the Survival Quest of Infinite Hunting.

  Given Zhang Yi's current attributes, he could easily take on level 12 octopuses, and even level 13 ones posed no problem. However, to maximize the efficiency of his skill Chain Lightning, which had only an 80% damage coefficient, Zhang Yi chose the lowest level 12 octopuses as his initial targets.

  A level 12 octopus had 120 attack power, 50 magic resistance, and 350 health.

  Locking onto the three nearest level 12 octopuses, Zhang Yi swung his staff, casting a Chain Lightning at one of them.

  Zap!

  The purple lightning struck the octopus, bouncing to attack the three level 12 octopuses, each taking 125 damage and triggering the Burning talent, causing an additional 39 burning damage per second.

  The next moment, the three attacked octopuses screeched and crawled rapidly toward Zhang Yi.

  Unfazed, Zhang Yi stood his ground, lightly waving his staff. "Biu biu biu," three purple orbs representing normal attacks flew toward the three octopuses—

  -156!

  -234! (Lucky Strike)

  -156!

  The octopus hit with the Lucky Strike was immediately taken down, while the other two perished from the continuous burning damage before they could reach him.

  Each level 12 octopus provided 50 experience points, and the three octopuses gave Zhang Yi a total of 150 experience points.

  Picking up the loot from the octopus corpses, Zhang Yi found that only one Octopus Encyclopedia had dropped from the three octopuses!

  It seemed a long battle awaited him.

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