As early as when Lu Chen sent word that he could make a deal with Li Xin'er, Lu Zheng had already started preparing crystal cores.

100,000 crystal cores is not a lot for the Spark Base.

Lu Zheng nodded in agreement and handed the list to the dozen or so people in protective suits who had been eagerly waiting beside him.

"Take your men and go."

These dozen or so people were mostly older, some wearing glasses. Judging from the way they looked at the equipment, it wasn't hard to guess that they were researchers working on related projects.

"Yes, Commander!"

Those people led several small teams to count everyone one by one. Lu Zheng was still standing next to Li Xin'er.

"Can we also use high-grade crystal cores?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xin'er became interested. It really had to be the Starfire Base!

What level?

Lu Zheng hesitated for a moment, then said uncertainly:

"We currently do not have a clear standard for classifying levels; the only certainty is that the colors are different."

"It has color, so it's at least level 3."

Li Xin'er hasn't specifically gone to hunt zombies for crystal cores recently. The highest-level crystal core she has is the level 2 crystal core that Carl and the others gave her.

She seemed quite interested in level-three crystal cores, and even mentioned it specifically.

“One level 3 crystal core can replace 1,000 level 1 crystal cores. I prefer level 1 crystal cores to level 2 ones.”

Li Xin'er made no attempt to hide her fondness for advanced crystal cores, which momentarily stunned Lu Zheng.

If he wasn't faking it, this was probably the most direct and straightforward businessman he had ever met.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Okay, we will try our best to use high-grade crystal cores when trading with Miss Li in the future."

Li Xin'er understood; it seemed he didn't have many on hand and probably wanted to keep some for research.

As for what to say afterward, it was a test to see if she intended to continue or make the deal permanent.

Li Xin'er went through all this trouble, but of course, it wasn't for this one deal.

“No problem, as long as the crystal cores are in place, we can trade again at any time.”

At this moment, Li Xin'er suddenly felt an energy fluctuation different from superpowers coming towards her mind.

Unaware of any intention to harm, Li Xin'er deliberately loosened the barrier, allowing it to easily penetrate and track its movements, eventually discovering the intruder's purpose.

The other party wanted to read her memories.

Just as the other party was about to succeed, Li Xin'er shut him out and pushed him out of her mind.

If the other party could be visualized, it would be like a tiny tentacle that curled up after being pushed out.

It then reached out to test it again, but this time it was like hitting a brick wall, and it didn't have a chance to get in at all.

Perhaps it was a little surprised, and after hesitating for a while, it left.

While chatting with Lu Zheng, Li Xin'er used her soul power to track him down.

She wanted to see what this thing was and who was after her.

Following along, the soul force extended all the way back to the tallest building at the front of the base.

There are three rows of high-rise buildings in front of the base, with four buildings in each row. Building No. 1 is on the right in the first row, and so on, for a total of 12 buildings, all of which are the same height of 52 floors.

These twelve buildings are connected horizontally every few floors, and the ten underground floors are even more interconnected.

They had just landed at Building 10, and the energy was heading straight for Building 9, which was right next to Building 10.

Hospital?

Li Xin'er saw a female doctor in a white coat carefully helping an elderly man with white hair to examine him.

Her smile was gentle and kind, and her voice was soft and patient. The white-haired old man kept praising her.

After seeing the person off, the female doctor quickly returned to her office, her expression changing drastically—from gloomy to twisted, almost grotesque—a complete contrast.

In a fit of anger, she slammed the stethoscope hanging around her neck onto the table.

"Old man, you're such a troublemaker."

If it weren't for the fact that Yousu was his nephew, and the only relative he was currently with at the base, she wouldn't bother serving him.

Li Xin'er scoffed inwardly upon seeing this; this woman was quite capable.

She didn't recall ever knowing this person, yet they came straight for her. Interesting.

She glanced at the female doctor's name tag and confirmed the woman's name—Yu Wanling.

Li Xin'er followed that energy and silently entered Yu Wanling's mind.

At that moment, Yu Wanling also opened the system to view the information about Li Xin'er that the system had collected.

"An orphan? A female celebrity?"

The materials Yu Wanling was looking at stopped before the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala.

"System, what happens next? The post-apocalyptic data is gone?"

Strategy System: "This is all the information that can be found."

It would never say that it was blocked by something strange.

"What's this! 100 points, and you're showing me this!"

Yu Wanling erupted in fury once again.

"How did she meet Lu Jin'an? What kind of superpowers does she have? What about these things?"

The strategy system still says the same thing.

"This is all the information that can be found."

Upon hearing this, Li Xin'er guessed that this person was targeting her because of Lu Jin'an.

Lu Jin'an's admirer?

This system is even more intelligent than Xiao You from her spatial supermarket, and it can even project and invade her memories.

The information the system gave Yu Wanling was her information from before she transmigrated: her orphan status, which schools she attended, and her schedule after her debut. These were not secrets at all.

Yu Wanling was furious and afraid of dying of anger, so she stopped talking to the system.

Meanwhile, on Li Xin'er's side, Lu Zheng's men had finished checking the goods and confirmed that there were no problems.

Lu Zheng handed over the 100,000 crystal cores he had prepared to Li Xin'er.

Li Xin'er didn't have time to count them all, so she put them all into her spatial storage first, believing that Lu Zheng wouldn't shortchange her.

The group returned the way they came. Li Xin'er declined Lu Zheng's invitation to lunch and went directly to the room arranged for her to rest.

Lu Zheng had other things to do and had arranged to have dinner together that evening, so he left first.

Lu Jin'an and the officer he knew, You Su, were responsible for taking Li Xin'er to her residence.

The base's accommodations were all underground. Li Xin'er went to the fifth basement level of Building 7, room 0518.

After walking through the long corridor, it looked like a compact hotel from the pre-apocalyptic era.

However, unlike the hotel's decor, the corridors and floors are made of silver-white metallic materials, exuding a futuristic and technological feel.

Yu Su was also in the guard team just now and witnessed Li Xin'er's skills. At this moment, he deeply understood the importance of this distinguished guest.

He treated Li Xin'er with great respect and politeness, pointing to a red button near the doorway inside the house and explaining:

“Miss Li, if you need anything while you are at the base, you can press this button to call me, or you can ask the guard outside the door to contact Captain Lu.”

The task the base commander gave him was to cooperate with Lu Jin'an and be fully responsible for Li Xin'er's daily life and safety during her stay at the base.

Li Xin'er glanced at the button, confirming that it was just a pager for making calls and didn't have any monitoring or eavesdropping functions, then nodded.

"No problem, you guys go ahead and do your work, I need to rest for a while."