I collect zombie kings in the apocalypse.

Chapter 39: Controlling the Surge in Zombie Numbers!

When observing his own condition, Lu Chen first noticed his skin.

He rolled up the sleeve of his left arm and leaned close to the window, carefully examining it in the dim morning light. The surface of his skin looked no different from before, but when he touched it, he could feel the difference. It felt firmer, as if there was an invisible layer of fascia under the skin.

He took a fruit knife and lightly made a cut on his arm, leaving only a faint white mark that disappeared in a few seconds.

He increased the force slightly; before breaking through, this force would have been enough to cut a gash, but at this moment the skin was only slightly red, without breaking the skin.

"Is this an improvement in defense?" Lu Chen muttered to himself.

The most obvious improvement is in skin resilience. While it's not invulnerable, the epidermis is noticeably stronger than before.

With this first discovery, Lu Chen was even more eager for other changes.

He walked to the corner of the living room, bent down to pick up a package that had been placed in the corner yesterday. It was a cloth bag full of rice and flour, weighing at least sixty or seventy pounds.

He had tried to move it once before, and it took both of his hands to lift it.

This time, he lifted it with one hand, and the moment the cloth bag left the ground, he paused for a moment.

It wasn't that he couldn't lift it, but that he used too much force. He used about the same amount of strength as before, and as a result, the cloth bag jumped up to chest height and almost slipped out of his hands.

"My strength has indeed increased." He put the cloth bag down and weighed it again. "This bag of things feels at least half the weight."

He ran back and forth around the living room several times.

The living room of 501 is not big; the straight-line distance from the balcony to the door is only seven or eight meters. However, he runs a round-trip route, which requires him to stop suddenly, turn around, and accelerate again. The test of agility and coordination is more demanding than a straight-line sprint.

After running several laps, he stopped to catch his breath, but his expression brightened even more.

The increase in speed is more noticeable than the increase in strength!

It's not the kind of improvement that's "just a tiny bit faster than before," but rather an overall sense of lightness. My feet feel more agile, my body is more stable when turning, and the acceleration time from start to full speed has been significantly reduced.

The time it used to take to run around the living room is now less than two-thirds of what it used to take.

In other words, his physical fitness has been improved in all aspects.

He estimated that his physical fitness was now about twice what it was before his breakthrough. The exact figure would require further testing, but the general range would not be too far off.

Of course, he is a superhuman. Breaking through his cultivation level and improving his physical attributes is just a side effect; the most important thing is the change in his superhuman ability itself.

Lu Chen closed his eyes again, calming his mind to sense the energy network that connected him to the zombie.

The first and most important change is that the upper limit on the number of zombies has been increased to 30.

A three-fold expansion means, in actual combat, that his horde of corpses expanded from a small squad to half a platoon.

Of course, this refers to ordinary zombies.

Elite zombies still require 3 slots, but he now has 30 slots, so controlling a few more elite zombies would be more than enough.

The second change is the control distance, which has doubled. It has increased from the original 300 meters to 600 meters.

What does 600 meters mean? If he wanted, he could control zombies to go to any corner of the neighborhood without even leaving the house, and even send zombies to the next street to carry out missions.

From that moment on, the entire Xiangyang residential area was under his absolute control.

The third change is that his ability to precisely control zombies has reached a new level.

Before his breakthrough, he could only precisely control two zombies at the same time to launch high-precision attacks, such as simultaneously controlling a coordinated attack like "two pillars to pierce the eyes and three to chop the neck".

He can now precisely control four zombies.

The impact of improved control on combat power is absolutely enormous.

Last night, when fighting the elite zombies, if he could accurately control 4 zombies at the same time and attack the elite zombies' 4 vital points simultaneously, no matter how fast the zombies reacted, they wouldn't be able to block them all.

Even without relying on cannon fodder, they can still fight to a draw.

Of course, this kind of precise control is different from the ability to multitask that comes from strengthening mental power.

Multitasking is a special effect of mental enhancement, allowing him to split his consciousness into two independent perspectives at the same time, truly achieving the ability to control two bodies simultaneously, with both perspectives operating without interference.

The precise control over four zombies is a qualitative change resulting from a quantitative change in the ability itself. It's more like a single brain rapidly switching and processing data in parallel across four control channels, much like the precise control of four threads in a computer.

After experiencing the changes in himself, Lu Chen couldn't sit still any longer. The abundant energy in his body made him feel no fatigue at all, and he just wanted to go out and do something.

He got up, pushed open the door, and went into the hallway.

It was almost 6 a.m. when a faint glimmer of dawn appeared on the horizon, illuminating the entire fifth floor.

Everyone went to bed very late last night, and after the battle, we spent a long time eating a late-night snack. Most people didn't lie down until almost 2 a.m.

So the corridor was quiet at this moment, and apart from a few zombies on guard, there was not a single person in sight.

Lu Chen didn't wake anyone else. He summoned the zombies in the corridor to stand guard beside him, then walked up the fire escape stairs to the fourth floor.

He soon arrived at the room where the zombies were being held; this room on the fourth floor was specifically set aside as a "zombie warehouse."

There used to be 30 zombies here, but after a big battle last night, 20 were killed in the cannon fodder tactics, leaving only 10.

However, in order to control the elite zombies, they successively released the control of three more zombies. The zombies that were released from control were then tied up again by Gao Yuan and his team and stuffed back into the fourth floor.

So at this moment, there are 13 bound zombies waiting for him in this room.

Lu Chen stepped forward and placed his hand on the waist of the nearest zombie.

The superpower is activated; control will be completed in 10 seconds.

Then came the second one, the third one... Unlike last night, after the breakthrough, the total amount of supernatural power in my body increased significantly. I controlled 13 of them in one go, and only a small portion of my supernatural power was consumed.

After he had controlled all 13 zombies, the number of zombies under his command increased from 8 to 21.

The 13 newly added zombies, although not as strong individually as elite zombies like Da Zhuang, are definitely considered strong among ordinary zombies. Once equipped, they will at least not be a hindrance on the battlefield.

Lu Chen immediately felt a strong sense of security.

With this little wealth, he could do whatever he wanted in this small area of ​​Xiangyang Community.

As for now, there is one more thing he wants to do.

Test your current physical fitness level to see what level you've reached.

The method is very simple: just compare yourself to these zombies.