After scouring the gun arsenal at Raccoon City Police Department, Zhang Yanhang entered the sewers through a nearby manhole cover.
Looking at the murky water filled with excrement and domestic garbage in front of him, Zhang Yanhang silently activated his shield, expanding it into its initial eggshell shape, because he really didn’t want to physically feel like he was walking through a sewer.
"Fortunately, I have Technique Immunity, otherwise, I probably wouldn’t even think about coming down here." Although Zhang Yanhang wasn’t a clean freak, he usually liked to be clean, so he didn’t really want to venture into the sewers, not to mention that even people who aren’t very tidy wouldn’t likely enjoy entering sewers either.
Fighting in a place sewer was really disheartening. If Zhang Yanhang didn’t have the energy shield, and if a monster knocked him down, he would end up swallowing a few mouthfuls of filthy water, and maybe even some indescribable solid matter. Perhaps the Eighth Elder would find it tasty and enjoyable, but Zhang Yanhang really couldn’t stomach it.
As Zhang Yanhang moved forward, occasional bits of solid garbage hit the energy shield with the flow of sewage, but Zhang Yanhang chose to ignore it all, not wanting to delve into the inner structure of these things.
He hadn’t gone far when he encountered the first zombie, which had a blood-stained sanitary napkin on its head and was playing dead on the ground. Before it could get up, Zhang Yanhang had already shot it dead.
[Successfully killed a First Tier Zero Star Monster ’Worker Zombie (ordinary)’ × 1, Soul points +1.]
Zhang Yanhang stood still for a few seconds, a treasure box appeared next to the corpse of the worker zombie. Most of the time, the dropped treasure box floated in mid-air, so, fortunately, it didn’t get soiled by the filth of the sewer.
Although Zhang Yanhang had the isolation of the energy shield, and even if he fetched the box soiled by filthy matter it wouldn’t dirty him, it was still just as disgusting, so the fact that most treasure boxes floated mid-air was something Zhang Yanhang found quite pleasing.
A dozen minutes later, Zhang Yanhang encountered the first Gamma-type Hunter in the sewer. Its skin color was a bit like that of a water droplet fish, flesh-colored, and its body was somewhat frog-like with powerful hind legs, but the forelimbs had degenerated into little fins. Moreover, where its eyes should have been, there were densely packed yellow pustules.
Overall, the appearance of the Gamma-type Hunter was extremely ugly and quite frightening, enough to make children cry. It was completely different from the Beta-type Hunter.
The Beta-type Hunter had a streamlined body, made from the fertilized eggs of reptiles, covered with scales, looking like an upright lizard, which actually wasn’t quite ugly, and could even seem handsome to some. However, the Gamma-type Hunter was truly hideous, with clusters of yellow pustules around the eyes making one feel their SAN values drastically drop after seeing them.
[Gamma-type Hunter (ordinary)]
[Level: First Tier 3 Star]
[Talent: 1. Slow Corrosion. 2. T-virus Carrier (Biological Weapon).]
[Slow Corrosion: In Zombie state, decay speed is reduced by 90%, Physical Strength consumption speed is reduced by 90%, Physical Strength +10%.]
[T-virus Carrier (Biological Weapon): Gamma-type Hunter manufactured by the Umbrella company based on human embryos combined with the DNA of T-virus and amphibians. Its body is covered in a slippery mucus, possessing respectable combat abilities with a mouth that can split into four parts and is filled with sharp teeth.
Compared to its manufacturing prototypes, the Alpha Hunter and the Beta-type Hunter, the Beta-type, due to its amphibian DNA, cannot live in overly dry places and must reside in warm water sources, requiring extremely strict environmental conditions. Hence, its mass production value is very low and has been abandoned by Umbrella company.
Its most distinctive feature is a body covered in an abundance of muscle and subcutaneous fat, providing thick, flesh-colored skin that can deflect some bullets. Additionally, due to the incorporation of amphibian DNA, the Gamma-type Hunter has degenerated vision and claws but is extremely sensitive to light and vibrations. This text is hosted at NoveIꜰire.net
Although its claws have degenerated into short fleshy fins, its powerful hind legs can still support the Gamma-type Hunter’s body and keep it upright.
Because of the claw degeneration and its extreme sensitivity to light and vibrations, the Gamma-type Hunter instinctively preys on any enemies it encounters, consuming them whole, unlike ordinary zombies which spread the T-virus through scratching and biting.
[Life Value: 225/225]
[Skills: 1. Charge. 2. Quick Prey.]
[Charge: The Gamma-type Hunter charges at the enemy, increasing Movement Speed by 15% for 3 seconds, with a cooldown of one minute, consuming a small amount of Physical Strength.]
[Quick Prey: The Gamma-type Hunter quickly opens its four-part mouth, filled with sharp teeth, to prey on the enemy’s body and grind it into minced meat inside its body, with a chance to cause instant death damage (immune if Constitution is over 30 points). Cooldown time is five minutes, consuming a large amount of Physical Strength.]
"How come this Gamma-type Hunter looks even fiercer than the Beta-type Hunter? It even has instant death damage, isn’t that terrifying? The Beta-type Hunter’s Death Claw only causes fifty points of Armor Penetration Damage, but this Quick Prey, once it hits, could potentially kill me instantly?"
By the way, Zhang Yanhang has been bitten by this skill, otherwise he wouldn’t have the leisure to check the Gamma-type Hunter’s attribute list.
Zhang Yanhang had just walked to a corner, about to turn, when a Gamma-type Hunter suddenly charged from afar. It immediately wrapped its tongue around his Energy Shield and then tried to lift him up to swallow him directly.
Clearly, the Gamma-type Hunter succeeded because Zhang Yanhang didn’t resist. It lifted him up smoothly and brought him to its mouth, but at the mouth, due to the egg-shell shape of the Energy Shield being too large, it couldn’t be swallowed. Thus, it was stuck, colloquially known as being "egg-blocked."
So, now, it’s as if the Gamma-type Hunter’s prey skill was directly unsuccessful, causing not even the normal damage, let alone any instant death damage, which was simply not possible to trigger.