While the ladies were bathing, Li Ke was also busy.
Because he had maxed out his stamina.
The instant he reached max stamina, he felt his body was completely different from before. The feeling of swinging his fist was entirely different! It seemed as if all his activities had no energy expenditure whatsoever. Even after expending all his energy as much as possible, he could still feel that he could continue as long as he wanted!
Even if he threw a full-force punch, he could feel the slight exertion, but he could immediately feel his body recover its energy.
It could be said that he had completely surpassed humanity!
"Incredible."
Holding the female merchant's buttocks, Li Ke felt his still energetic and vibrant body and couldn't help but praise it.
It wasn't just about stamina and hardness; even the quantity was greater! Before, it took three times to fill up; now, one time was enough!
And his recovery was also very fast; he could reload in just one or two minutes!
There's just one thing…
"It's really draining my nutrients…"
Feeling his stomach starting to rumble with hunger, Li Ke immediately realized that this powerful energy didn't come without a price: the nutrients, protein, and water in his body.
But that's normal. It would be strange if it didn't drain his nutrients at all. He'd already eaten a lot more due to the increased workload, mainly high-fat, high-calorie canned food and meat, which was why he was able to keep going. If he continued to squander his nutrients like this…
"Will I starve to death?"
Feeling his "brother" automatically shut down due to insufficient nutrients, Li Ke nodded.
That's scientifically sound.
But he also knew that if he ate and drank his fill and then develop desire, then his "brother" would be quite a torment.
"I need to find some clean, soft fabric to make underwear quickly. Damn it, how come I never realized underwear was such a great invention before?"
Because Li Ke dislikes being restricted, he sleeps naked, and sometimes when he's in a rush for work, he doesn't wear underwear at all. He never thought much of it before, but now he clearly feels how inconvenient it is not to wear underwear.
Finally, Li Ke squeezed the soft, yet remarkably firm flesh, mentally pressed the E key again, and opened the female merchant's shop.
The female merchant's disheveled hair, the fine sweat on her forehead, and the flush on her face vanished instantly, and Li Ke began browsing various items.
Then he noticed that the female merchant's goods had refreshed!
This time, not only were there dozens more pieces of meat, but many useful items had also appeared. Li Ke slowly moved around, observing what had been added.
The female merchant's shop now included seeds that had never appeared before, and even rotten flesh for sale—something Li Ke had never seen before.
However, these weren't necessities for now; he immediately turned his attention to the weapons section.
The 15-round magazine capacity of the iron pipe machine gun was still too low. Even with a fast reload speed, there was still a downtime. However, the weapons from the female merchant were still extremely expensive, costing several thousand Duke Casino Tokens each. Although Li Ke had acquired over ten thousand Casino Tokens through missions and transactions in the past few days, he wasn't spending them like this.
Moreover…
"She actually sold the furnace and the chemical stan this time?"
Li Ke looked at the chemical stan in the female merchant's inventory, gently twirling the strawberry in his hand as he pondered.
Gunpowder was not lacking at all. Even though manual synthesis was slow, there was no need to worry about production, because Tsunade's mining ability was there; there was no need to worry about running out of it.
However, Li Ke still bought it along with the furnace, to ensure that the three of them could move and attack faster.
Li Ke temporarily ignore those item, continuing to browse the female merchant's inventory.
However, in the end, Li Ke only bought some medicine and food, the furnace and chemical stan, 40 incendiary bombs, and all the gasoline. He bought nothing else, leaving him with 5,000 Duke Casino tokens in his inventory.
"Give these to Kiri and the others. See what they need."
Half an hour later, Li Ke finally left the merchant's hut. Despite being very hungry, he still looked through the workbench to see what he could make and immediately found something.
"Steel frames..."
Li Ke thought for a moment and then crafted 300 steel frames, because the description said they provided a full 10,000 health points.
And steel frames seemed to offer higher defense than wood, right?
The only problem was the extremely long crafting time—two and a half minutes to craft one frame. By the time this batch of steel frames was finished, it would be tomorrow morning at the earliest.
"Let's make some and see. After all, Kiri said she can repair that cement mixer. If the reinforced concrete's defense is higher than the steel frame, then we won't waste resources making this."
Li Ke thought for a moment, opened his furnace, and immediately found that there were already over ten thousand steel ingots inside, and the furnace was still full of iron, undergoing smelting.
"Tsunade's mining speed…"
Li Ke couldn't help but complain, because it was truly amazing. He even had to make only a few dozen boxes to store the amount of ore Tsunade mined, and the furnace's smelting speed couldn't compare to the speed at which Tsunade mined.
So he immediately took out some steel ingots, placed them in the workbench, and started making the steel frame, and put all the bullets into his inventory.
"We should have enough bullets, right?"
Looking at the more than ten thousand bullets in his inventory, Li Ke was unsure. He didn't know if it was enough, after all, there were so many zombies.
Li Ke still vividly remembers that feeling of despair, those densely packed, seemingly endless hordes of zombies.
"Hopefully, this will be enough."
Taking a deep breath, Li Ke returned to his camp. He exchanged some items with the two ladies, gave them some food and ammunition, and then went to take a shower.
Eating went smoothly. The area around the shop had been dug out, leaving only a short path for them to enter and exit, so there was no need to worry about zombies.
But…
Li Ke realized something when he went to sleep.
He had forgotten to build a new house and bed again.