November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang entered the Ashen World, at 6:50 PM, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field.

Upon actually entering the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Zhang Yanhang found that it seemed not only unconfined, but rather very open, at least as far as his eyes could see without reaching the edge.

According to his observations, he was currently on the outskirts of a modern urban area, or perhaps the suburban part. Looking forward, he could see an endless modern steel jungle, while looking back, he could see a very expansive mountainous region and even some towering mountains in the distant clouds.

"As expected of the Umbrella company's biochemical test field, it's indeed still this modern style."

Zhang Yanhang even felt that perhaps apart from being the Umbrella company's biochemical test field, it might also be a large base of the Umbrella company.

"Forget it, better hurry and scan the specifics of this Umbrella Biochemical Test Field."

As Zhang Yanhang spoke, he casually triggered an option about whether to step with his left foot or right foot first in the coming steps. He glanced at the option briefly, probably because it was triggered quite casually, so the content didn't provide any useful information, just simply letting him choose which foot to step with first.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang quickly ignored this option and began to scan the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field carefully using Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil.

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Due to his fast speed and the expanded Perception Range from Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, it didn't take Zhang Yanhang long to scan the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field.

From the terrain and landforms' perspective, the whole Umbrella Biochemical Test Field was wrapped in a continuous series of valleys, the overall terrain possibly being somewhat sunken.

But at the same time, though the exterior was a continuous stretch of valleys, the interior was quite flat, basically a vast plain with few hills or ravines, but you could occasionally see small rivers which, at present, didn't affect Zhang Yanhang at all.

Overall, indeed, this place is worth being called the Umbrella company's biochemical test field, it's certainly very concealed and very hard for outsiders to find.

Additionally, the surrounding mountains provide not just concealment but also partial enclosure. Zhang Yanhang scanned some underground setups and a bunch of mechanical devices with unknown uses there, he imagined that once monsters tried to escape, they'd surely receive a 'cordial greeting' from the Umbrella company.

"So, this Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, although different from the closed test field I imagined, is indeed deserving of the name of a biochemical test field."

Honestly, Zhang Yanhang even initially thought this might be a kind of 'simulation' of Tokyo or New York, similar to the Resident Evil movies, where a giant construction artificially forms weather to test monsters' combat capabilities and adaptability in a modern urban environment.

To be frank, if it were really such a case, Zhang Yanhang would rather think it's preferable, after all, he might get to play with a few clone girls used for testing, as humans generally should be willing to try new things to keep their mindset 'young'.

But unfortunately, here is more natural, without clones or fancy gigantic spherical screens to broadcast the sky in real time. The sky Zhang Yanhang saw was the real sky, well, the 'real sky' sliced by the Ashen World, but it's very normal, as each different region's sky is somewhat different.

The classic scenario is the one in Raccoon City and the adjacent Goblin Plain. The sky in Raccoon City is overcast and murky, with no sunlight, visibly afternoon-like, while Goblin Plain is bathed in sunlight, clearly in the morning to midday period; the reason lies naturally in the Ashen World slicing both the region and the sky.

Besides this, Zhang Yanhang thinks the reason the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field didn't have the movie-like scenario but rather a more natural setting is mainly due to its size.

Simulating Tokyo and such underground bases, even if they simulated the entirety of Tokyo, the whole of Tokyo City, including its administered areas, only covers about two thousand square kilometers, which is just a sixth of Qin Island City.

Two thousand square kilometers might have seemed large to Zhang Yanhang previously, but now it feels somewhat small to him; this goes not only for him but also for a Fourth Tier Awakener, two thousand kilometers is indeed not large.

Following the principle that the higher the area rank, the larger the area, based on Zhang Yanhang's scanning results, this Umbrella Biochemical Test Field is unprecedentedly large. In its face, let alone Tokyo, even Qin Island City isn't impressive; it covers a whopping forty thousand square kilometers.

And this is without counting the mountain region, which constitutes the largest area of the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field. If you include the mountain area, the entire field's land area is at least over a hundred thousand square kilometers.

As for why Zhang Yanhang didn't include the area over there, it isn't for any other reason but simply that there are no monsters there, not a single one.

Zhang Yanhang estimates that the area was originally where Umbrella company's researchers and security personnel resided, but when the Ashen World sprinted over this region or copied it, it didn't copy the humans there, possibly because ordinary humans can't match the rank of this area, so they weren't copied.

This situation, frankly speaking, is quite normal. After all, Zhang Yanhang rarely sees life forms apart from the main monsters in other regions, such as various insects and small animals, which should be everywhere with soil and ground, but he hasn't seen a single one so far.

Honestly, Zhang Yanhang had thought before out of boredom about catching a little kitten in Raccoon City to play with, but unfortunately, such creatures don't exist, only various zombie dogs.

But anyway, even if there are no monsters, that mountainous area still indeed belongs to the Umbrella Biological Experiment Zone, only, combined with it, the entire Umbrella Biological Test Field is ridiculously large, already equivalent to the combined area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, both of which are about 100,000 square kilometers.

Of course, in some sense, this is already more or less equivalent to the size of a country. After all, not all countries are as vast as the Empire, some small countries, such as South Korea, are precisely around 100,000 square kilometers in size.

It can be said that once Zhang Yanhang clears this Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, it's basically equivalent to having the ability to quickly destroy a country.

Although it's just a small country, it can still rank at a mid-level among the more than 200 countries and regions. For instance, Portugal, Hungary, Iceland, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Jordan are roughly at this level, and their rankings are around the 100th mark.

Therefore, from a practical standpoint, countries ranked in the top 100 may still need a temporary buffer, but once Zhang Yanhang has cleared the Umbrella Biological Experiment Zone, he feels that he can easily wipe out countries ranked beyond 100 for fun, swiftly and without creating any refugees.

Given his speed, no one could possibly escape, whether on the ground or in the air. Based on his seasoned methods of monster clearing, this point can absolutely be guaranteed.

"But from the perspective of clearing monsters, the 60,000 square kilometers of the mountainous area indeed don't need to be included. Just clearing the plains surrounded by mountains or, more specifically, the valleys is enough."

Moreover, although the valley area also seems quite large, according to Zhang Yanhang's scan results, the monster density in this area has a very rare large disparity, extremely uneven.

Simply put, Zhang Yanhang found that in an urban area, if encountering a higher density, there might be ten monsters per square kilometer, whereas in a lower density suburban environment, one might not encounter a single monster in ten square kilometers.

But in some sense, this environmental disparity leading to monster density differences is quite normal. After all, compared to suburban and mountainous environments, in modern society, urban environments are indeed where BOW biological weapons are most frequently used. Deploying more monsters there for experiments is very reasonable.

And speaking of this monster count, according to Zhang Yanhang's rough statistics during his scanning process, there are at least over 90,000 monsters in the entire Umbrella Biological Experiment Zone, possibly even over 100,000.

"The Christmas Permanent Teleportation Channel I cleared in Greenland, even after tenfold refresh, only resulted in 200,000 monsters in total. In normal status, there might be just about 20,000 monsters, similar to the Demonized Swamp."

But this time, the Umbrella Biological Experiment Zone has five times the number of the Christmas Permanent Teleportation Channel, which is quite outrageous.

If this Umbrella Biological Test Field could refresh a Permanent Teleportation Channel in the Main World, wouldn't that mean nearly a million monsters could be directly refreshed after tenfold refresh?"

The mere thought of it made Zhang Yanhang excited to death—oh, no, actually somewhat terrified, because even though such a Permanent Teleportation Channel is great for someone like him who delights in high monster density,

For other Awakeners, especially those responsible for cleaning these Permanent Teleportation Channels, such a number is probably quite torturous. After all, even a million pigs would be troublesome to handle, let alone a million powerful Third Tier and above monsters from the Ashen World.

And here, it's worth mentioning that according to Zhang Yanhang's scan results, the weakest of these 90,000 monsters are above the Third Tier. Compared to the Christmas Teleportation Channel, they absolutely dominate in both quality and quantity.

For Zhang Yanhang, this is indeed great news, as it means he might be able to directly obtain a B-level Initial Talent to upgrade the SS-level Talent Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea this time.

Now, Zhang Yanhang has significant confidence in upgrading the SS-level Talent Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea. A high probability B-level Initial Talent, combined with the number of 90,000, means that even if there's a Rank Penalty, Zhang Yanhang still believes he can easily upgrade Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea to XX-level, possibly even XXX-level.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang can't help but look forward to potentially obtaining new abilities after the promotion of Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea. To be honest, he doesn't want to ask for much else, just getting a new ability that boosts Physical Recovery Speed would be enough.

After all, he's really lacking Physical Recovery Speed right now. It takes over ten hours to recover once his stamina is depleted. It should be reduced to within ten hours at the very least.

Moreover, the enhancement attribute of Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea is the Stamina Limit. If he can't increase Physical Recovery Speed, it means the higher he upgrades, the relatively slower the recovery speed becomes.

Considering the significant boost in abilities above the X-level Talent, Zhang Yanhang has every reason to suspect that once he upgrades the Talent Level of Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea, it might take up to 24 hours, or over a day, to fully recover his stamina.

"Aside from talent, I also have a great need for new equipment that can boost Physical Recovery Speed."

Zhang Yanhang recalled that the last time he obtained related equipment was in the Demonized Swamp, which was back when he was at the Second Tier. It's been two ranks since then, as now he's in the Fourth Tier, and indeed urgently needs new equipment that can boost Physical Recovery Speed.

For Zhang Yanhang, Physical Recovery Speed is of utmost importance. After all, most of his skills and abilities are driven by stamina as an energy source. If he runs short on stamina, especially in protracted battles, it could become a serious disadvantage. Taking it lightly is not an option.

Sometimes, Zhang Yanhang even wishes he could convert some of his abilities to be powered by energy. After all, he's got an excess of Energy Value that replenishes over 35 points per second, and compared to that, his Physical Recovery Speed is seriously lacking.

Moreover, only with sufficient Physical Recovery Speed to make his endurance more lasting, can he freely use skills like Fatian Xiangdi, Three-Headed Six-Armed, Indestructible Golden Body, Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil simultaneously during battles, to engage enemies in his most powerful complete form.

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