Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

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When Wang Tao returned to the small courtyard, it was already two o’clock in the morning.

The meteor shower had lasted a full four hours, and he wondered how many meteors had fallen on this planet.

Wang Tao had intended to go out to the base to see for himself, as there were so many meteors inside the base, there must have been some outside too. However, after seeing the army deploy a large number of helicopters to fly out, he reconsidered and decided against it, thinking it wouldn’t matter since he already had some meteorites.

Now, he was very curious about what else might be contained within these meteorites.

Wang Tao looked at his Space Backpack.

Not counting the Energy Crystal Meteorite he had opened before, he still had seven left. @@novelbin@@

It felt quite ridiculous when he thought about it. He had spent two ordinary quality Level 4 Crystal Cores, and as a result, he obtained one ordinary quality Level 4, Self-Destruct Crystal Core... such a loss!

He wondered if the other Energy Crystal Meteorites would also be a similar letdown.

In fact, for Wang Tao, even if there were a fourth-order monster inside, it would be lucrative. After all, monsters were treasure troves, capable of dropping Loot Packs. His only fear was encountering more useless items like the Self-Destruct Crystal Core...

The seven Energy Crystal Meteorites Wang Tao held varied in size; the largest were as big as two household bathtubs, and the smallest about the size of his fist.

However, the size of a Star Meteorite wasn’t directly correlated to the size of the contents within, since he had previously opened a bathtub-sized meteorite that contained only a single Crystal Core.

Out of the seven meteorites, two were Level 5, and the remaining five were Level 4.

Among them, one of the Level 5 meteorites was of excellent quality and required eight Level 5 Crystal Cores to open. The other was of epic quality and needed ten Level 5 Crystal Cores!

Opening these two meteorites in the short term seemed impossible.

The other five Level 4 Star Meteorites could be classified as one excellent, two excellent, one outstanding, and one epic.

To open them, they required four, six, eight, and ten Level 4 Crystal Cores, respectively.

The Level 4 White Rank Meteorite he had previously opened required two Level 4 Crystal Cores.

Wang Tao began to discern a pattern with the Energy Crystal Meteorites—the quality of the meteorite affected the number of Crystal Cores needed to open it!

To open a white quality Energy Crystal Meteorite, two cores of the same level were needed; blue required four; purple required six; red required eight; and orange required ten!

Although these meteorites had no color differentiation, and it was impossible for others to tell their exact quality, the positions for placing the Crystal Cores hinted that those with slots for two were of ordinary quality, while those with slots for ten were of epic quality.

Since different numbers of Crystal Cores were needed to open the meteorites, Wang Tao speculated that the contents must also vary.

The items from an orange meteorite needing ten cores could be the best, whereas those from a white one needing only two could be the worst.

Of course, describing them as "good" or "junk" might not be entirely accurate because these things could contain monsters!

For Wang Tao, releasing a fourth-order monster was highly likely to be profitable—that’s "highly likely" because if a monster as strong as a Giant Zombie emerged, he would not be able to defeat it.

But for others, especially those below Level 4, releasing a monster could spell disaster... unless they had prepared and surrounded themselves with a large group of armed forces when opening the meteorite.

Wang Tao also had a minor problem now.

That was whether the quality of the Crystal Cores used to open the meteorites would affect the contents inside?

For example, if he used ten ordinary quality and ten epic quality Crystal Cores to open the same meteorite, would the results be different?

Wang Tao felt tempted to open a few meteorites to experiment, but he refrained.

If he opened them now and a monster emerged, it would be problematic. After all, the base had just been through chaos, and everyone was on edge. There was no need for him to create more panic.

Another reason was that Wang Tao did not want to use his own Crystal Cores for the opening.

Most of the cores he had featured Abilities, and nowadays, most cores retrieved from zombie brains lacked Abilities.

As one can imagine, even the white quality cores with Abilities would become very valuable, so it would be preferable to use cores without Abilities for the openings. Discover stories with NovelBin.Côm

Lastly, he could let others do it first and then inquire about the contents. Wang Tao believed that others could not resist. Especially the city hall, they probably had many star meteorites and would definitely experiment with them...

These seven meteorites were still in Wang Tao’s possession; Ding Yuqin had not even had the chance to examine them. Wang Tao handed over the stones for them to study and cautioned them not to open them. Then he turned his attention to the loot from the Cockroach Monster.

It was an unexpected reward. He had killed a Level 4, Monster Lord within such a safe base... a rather peculiar feeling.

By killing the Cockroach Monster, he obtained 100 Awakening Energy, 1 Advanced Special Energy, and 1 Awakening Key. He now had 27 units of Advanced Special Energy and 12 Awakening Keys.

In addition, the monster had dropped five items and five Loot Packs.

[Received: Level 4 Crystal Core x1]

[Received: Awakening Energy Pearl x1]

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