The next day.
Ashira propped herself up on her elbows, her legs together, toes on the ground, abdomen tightened, muscles tense all over, and large beads of sweat dripped down from her forehead with a pitter-patter sound.
She had been holding this plank position for almost an hour.
Her whole body was drenched in sweat as if it had been soaked in water.
In just these days, while eating three pots of rice daily, Ashira had become thinner. But this thinness wasn't in terms of weight, but in terms of physique.
Her entire body had visibly slimmed down, her muscle lines were tight and clear, her body fat percentage plummeted, abdominal muscles had appeared, and her loose, soft muscles were gone, replaced by a sense of power ready to erupt at any moment.
At the same time, her mental state had undergone a dramatic change. Maintaining exercise kept her spirits high at all times.
And Ashira was originally a bad guy with a brutal nature; her bright and sharp eyes formed a stark contrast with the fearful and listless ordinary people outside at this moment.
Just her gaze alone could suppress a group of people. This was the difference between a fierce beast and a flock of sheep.
She gritted her teeth, making her final stand on the mat. The muscles all over her body felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, the sore and swollen pain causing sweat beads to fall like rain from her forehead.
Pain!
The pain was so intense her muscles started to tremble. But... She couldn't give up! Persevere!
Every extra second of persistence was a breakthrough in her physical ability, and more importantly, the reward time was about to end!
Just as her jaw felt numb from clenching and she was about to reach her training limit, a familiar voice sounded in her mind.
[Ding—Physique enhancement time ended!]
With a thud, Ash collapsed onto the yoga mat, gasping for breath. It was over. She could finally rest for a bit.
At this moment, she couldn't move a single finger on her entire body. The intense pain she endured also brought her rewards!
[Starting evaluation! Host physique enhancement—100% complete!]
[Speed enhancement—100% complete!]
[Endurance enhancement—100% complete!]
[Strength enhancement—100% complete!]
[Congratulations on obtaining S level reward!]
[Congratulations on obtaining doubled physique!
Doubled speed!
Doubled endurance!
Doubled healing speed after injury!
Reward: Over-Era Combat Technique - 1!
Longevity up to a hundred years without major injuries!]
Ashira: "!!!"
After the rewards were issued, she immediately felt drastic changes in her body. Her body, which had just been drained, seemed to be instantly refilled. Her entire body was filled with inexhaustible strength!
Ashira leaped up from the ground, finding that her agility had also greatly increased. She walked outside the Base, looked at her beloved armored vehicle in front of her, and felt an urge to lift it!
In fact, she actually did it! Ashira grabbed one side of the vehicle frame, took a horse stance with her feet, and exerted force with her hands.
Ashira actually lifted one corner of this most advanced 8x8 armored vehicle one centimeter off the ground! Don't underestimate that one centimeter; this armored vehicle weighs over 20 tons!
Ashira then tested her Speed, running at full speed in a Outbreak, easily achieving a world Olympic level! At the limit of physical ability, every small improvement represents a chasm-like barrier.
And the reward the system gave her was a direct doubling!Her Strength and Speed had reached the absolute ceiling for the human body!
Ash even felt that in the future rise of abilities, her current state could directly rival those ordinary Speed Ability users and Strength Ability users!
This reward is truly excellent!
After testing her physical abilities, Ash entered her space. At this moment, a combat technique book lay within her space. Ashira immediately opened it. After browsing a few moves, Ashira's eyes lit up.
All the moves were precise, vicious, and specifically designed to kill human bodies and Zombie-like organisms, with numerous surprising points of attack.
No wonder it was called combat technology far exceeding the current era; every move was a summation of decades of experience from veteran martial artists. Ash treasured it and immediately began to learn.
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Another 4 days passed in a flash...
These past few days, Ashira had been holed up in the Base, training, training, and more training.
Every morning, she would take her usual run around the mountain, and after warming up, she would start practicing the combat technique.
During this time, the rice cooker would cook rice. After she and storm finished eating, she would add food to the chickens, ducks, and sheep, and tend to the vegetables and fruits.
Her chicken eggs and duck eggs were more than she could eat daily, producing about 20 eggs each day. Ashira only took a few for her daily consumption, leaving the rest in the coop for the mother hens to hatch.
The vegetables in her patch also grew exceptionally well. Ashira estimated that in another 10 days, short-maturing crops like chives and bok choy could be harvested.
The Base was thriving, developing in a very good direction. Meanwhile, the City outside had undergone dramatic changes again in the past few days.
Yesterday evening, Ashira stood on her tower, looking around, gazing at City A in the distance. A little past eight o'clock, the scattered lights in the City flickered out one by one, extinguishing in large sections, extending from front to back.
The power had been cut off early. In her previous life, the electricity lasted for a long time, but this time it only lasted for about half a month.
After all, the Zombie virus had erupted early, and all uncontrollable factors were changing; the power plant should have been completely finished.
However, it seemed that this life was much more difficult than the previous one. Because electricity is a basic energy source, in her previous life at home, when the natural gas was cut off, Ashira had always relied on electricity for cooking and heating.
Moreover, at night, she could observe the Zombie situation through the sound-activated light outside the gate and real-time monitoring.
Now without electricity, the difficulty of survival in the City would increase significantly! Standing on the tower, Ash seemed to be able to hear the piercing screams and car honks drifting from the City ahead.
"Broom broom broom!"
She saw many vehicles speeding out onto the road at the end of the small path outside her air-raid shelter, visible at the farthest range of her infrared camera.They were fleeing into the City like madmen, with a long string of Zombies chasing after them.
In the darkness, many escaping vehicles crashed, the speed and crash sounds particularly clear in the night.
Half a month was enough time for everyone to accept the reality, especially the fact that they couldn't wait for rescue. The City-wide power outage today would be the last straw that broke everyone's back. Now, they cared about nothing but desperately fleeing the City. Ash knew that a new wave of escape was about to begin.
The next morning, when she stood on the tower again to look, she saw a large number of car crash scenes on the road outside her small path. The number of Zombies wandering on the main road began to increase.
Some of them gathered near the vehicles at the crash scenes, feeding on corpses, while others wandered aimlessly nearby.
Some even wandered into her territory. Ashira picked up her crossbow, intending to shoot a Zombie that didn't know its place, but then she stopped.