Chapter 42

When Gu Fan reached the sixth level of Qi Refining, his spiritual consciousness could only be projected one meter outward.

When she reached the ninth level of the Qi Refining Stage, her spiritual awareness could already cover an area of ​​100 meters.

Lu Ya, an S-level expert, can only rely on his mental power to sense the possible metal bunker space underground, and cannot confirm whether there is anyone inside. If it were Gu Fanlai, she could use her spiritual sense to see everything within a radius of 100 meters centered on her.

Long before the beast tide arrived, the base had been constantly notifying the 20 million people in the second ring to hide in underground shelters. Now that the surface has been destroyed, it is very likely that there are a large number of survivors underground.

Time waits for no one, and whoever can be saved should be saved, especially since Gu Fan no longer needs to hide secrets from Lu Ya.

Lu Ya knew Gu Fan's secret, so he was worried that she would be restrained by other forces in the base, so he came to find her as soon as possible.

In order to deal with the beast tide, he distributed two thousand flesh-growing and blood-replenishing pills to the strong men in the four armies. Now that the beast tide battle is over, those strong men who have used the flesh-growing and blood-replenishing pills are discussing the pills in their hands. They can definitely guess that the pills came from Gu Fan, the outsider retailer who sold "magic pills" such as hair-growing pills and scar-removing pills in the base.

Lu Ya did not regret his choice. If he had the chance again, he would still distribute the muscle growth and blood replenishing pills. However, since he exposed Gu Fan's secret for the sake of the base, he had to be responsible for Gu Fan's safety.

Lu Ya did not hesitate to respond to Gu Fan's words and released his supernatural power towards the range pointed by Gu Fan.

Four metal pillars supported the underground shelter there and it slowly rose up. In less than a minute, nearly two hundred ordinary people in the basement were exposed on the ground.

Three days have passed since that night. These two hundred people have survived until now with just a little bit of dry food. They look miserable, but none of their lives are in danger.

Lu Ya released a flare into the air, and a rescue team immediately rushed over.

Lu Ya led Gu Fan to change direction. From the outside, it seemed that Lu Ya was leading the rescue of the two people, but in fact, it was Gu Fan who whispered the direction to Lu Ya first.

The two worked together in perfect harmony. Lu Ya provided safety for Gu Fan, and Gu Fan's spiritual sense was the most powerful life detector in the base at that time.

When Lu Ya detected any monsters that had managed to survive, he killed them all. When he detected any trapped humans, he rescued them all. When he encountered the wounded, Gu Fan immediately used his healing skills.

With the two of them working together, the speed of post-war rescue was greatly improved. In the end, there were five rescue teams taking turns following the two of them, and Lu Ya no longer needed to send out flares.

The cruelty of war makes people despair, but the survivors who continue to emerge after the war give people hope.

Gu Fan and Lu Ya did not stop throughout the whole day, and finally completed the exploration of the entire second ring, rescuing more than 50,000 ordinary people and more than 10,000 seriously injured psychics. Those psychics who were not injured had already freed themselves and joined the rescue.

Performing healing magic will exhaust Gu Fan's spiritual power, but spiritual power can be replenished with spiritual stones. However, the continuous release of spiritual consciousness gave Gu Fan a splitting headache. For the first time, she needed real sleep. Only sleep could restore her spiritual consciousness. Without an stable spiritual consciousness and a stable mind, she could not enter into meditation to practice.

"I need to rest."

"Do you have any sleeping pills?" Lu Ya asked while supporting her. She was obviously having a headache and might not be able to fall asleep on her own.

Gu Fan shook her head. She had never thought that people would have insomnia problems.

Lu Ya suddenly took out a white pill.

Gu Fan looked at him in surprise.

Lu Ya said: "Sleeping pills, there are no side effects."

Gu Fan took the pill and put it into his mouth.

By the time Lu Ya carried her to a temporary rest area fifty miles away from the base, Gu Fan had already fallen asleep.

Lu Ya's landing place was just outside the tent of Xinghe and others.

Hearing the noise, Xinghe and the other three came out.

Lu Ya said to Xinghe: "She needs to rest and just took sleeping pills."

The expressions of Xinghe and the other three changed. They had known Gu Fan for so long, and he was always energetic. When did he need to take sleeping pills to force himself to rest?

Lu Ya carried Gu Fan into the tent, put out a bed for her to lie down, and left.

Qing Teng walked to Gu Fan's bed, looked at Gu Fan's pale face, and silently released the wood-type healing ability.

There was no change in Gu Fan lying on the bed.

Fenghuo couldn't help but ask, "Have you treated Fanfan?"

Qing Teng gave him a cold look and explained, "It's probably because his mental strength has been exhausted."

Fenghuo sighed softly.

Xinghe said: "The tasks in the next few days will be very heavy. You three can rest. I will keep watch tonight."

They were all very sad about Taishan's death, but in this damn apocalypse, even long-term grief was a luxury, and they could only move on.

——

At four o'clock in the morning, Gu Fan woke up.

As soon as she moved, she felt someone walking towards her. Gu Fan opened her eyes and saw Qing Teng.

She sat up and looked to the side. On three simple beds were sleeping Xinghe, Fenghuo and Meng Lianying respectively.

The team of five was only missing the strongest and most muscular Tarzan.

Qing Teng sat down next to Gu Fan, lowered his eyes and recalled, "There were too many monsters. Taishan was bitten on the head by an A-level tiger and leopard in order to save me. We didn't even have time to get his body back."

The little girl didn't cry, but her expression was even sadder than if she had cried.

Gu Fan touched her head.

Qing Teng took a deep breath and asked her, "How are you? Are you hurt?"

Gu Fan: "No, I just kept rescuing people and my mental strength was exhausted."

"That night, Fenghuo's mental strength was also exhausted. His group attack is the strongest, and his mental strength is also exhausted the fastest. Fortunately, he took some beast-avoiding pills when he was dodging, otherwise it would have been difficult to avoid the noses of those A-level beasts."

Gu Fan nodded, although she did not expect that the beast-avoiding pills given to the Xinghe team would work inside the base.

After the two of them talked, Xinghe and the other two woke up.

Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention Mount Tai again.

Fenghuo patted his empty right sleeve and said to Gu Fan with a wry smile, "I won't be able to make delicious food for you anymore. Will Fanfan dislike me?"

Gu Fan: "We can help you. It's embarrassing to leave you alone in the kitchen all the time."

Meng Lianying: "Yes, yes, yes. I feel ashamed every time."

Fenghuo glared at him: "When you were grabbing the food, I didn't see any shame in your eyes."

When the two quarreled, everyone seemed to be back to the time when nothing had happened.

"Sleep a little longer, you'll be busy during the day."

After Gu Fan finished speaking, he lay down and started practicing, taking the time to replenish the spiritual energy in his body.

——

At seven o'clock in the morning, Lu Ya came to pick up Gu Fan.

Gu Fan came out of his cultivation state and followed the Xinghe team out of the tent. He saw a long convoy of vehicles parked outside. There were heavy bulletproof vehicles used by the army, and various types of vehicles used in bases. Almost all the usable vehicles were parked outside. More than five million ordinary people were queuing up to get on the vehicles.

Lu Ya took out a tablet and called up the latest map of the Jiangnan base clearance plan area.

Before the beast tide occurred, the Jiangnan base was white, the surrounding one-fifth of the orange area represented the cleared area, and the remaining more than three-fifths of the red area were the most dangerous areas to be cleared.

Now, half of the area centered on the Jiangnan base has turned white.

"Yesterday, Marshal Wang Shu led the army out to investigate and obtained this conclusion. I believe the vast majority of the monsters in this white area joined the beast tide and perished in the nuclear explosion. The remaining small number, although not participating in the beast tide, were also deterred by the destructive power of the nuclear explosion and fled to further locations overnight."

"As the deterrent effect of the nuclear bombs fades, low-level monsters and a small number of high-level monsters will return, turning the white zone into an orange zone. But one thing is certain: this half of the area will maintain the safety level of the orange zone for a considerable period of time."

"After a military meeting last night, we decided to lead the remaining humans to Anshi and establish a new Jiangnan base. Starting today, Generals Wang and He will protect the civilians as they migrate to Anshi. I will lead the search for any remaining humans at the base and take away any resources that can be used to rebuild the base."

Xinghe understood: "Then we..."

Lu Ya: "Your team is under my command for the time being."

Meng Lianying breathed a sigh of relief. At a time like this, they must obey the military's command. Rather than being controlled by someone they didn't know or trust, it would be better to follow their cousin.

"You are responsible for collecting resources, Gu Fan, come with me." Lu Ya handed a space crystal core to each of the four people in Xinghe, and then set off with Gu Fan. Today's detection target is the entire inner ring.

Flying in the air, the ruins inside the base came into view more clearly.

Gu Fan saw Phoenix Mountain near the inner ring. Her herbs must have been destroyed. Fortunately, she left a complete plant of each in the space. She was afraid that something might happen to the herbs one day and she would have to go outside and cross mountains and ridges to collect herbs.

But what use are those ordinary herbs?

Fifteen million people are gone just like that, and perhaps the remaining five million people still need hair growth pills and scar removal pills, but Gu Fan no longer has the mood to sell medicine.

She sells medicine to make money and earn merit points so that she can live a good life in the base. However, the human base is not reliable and can be destroyed at any time. What’s the use of her earning merit points?

Ultimately, life is what matters most.

Gu Fan once placed his hopes for safety in the sect, but the sect collapsed.

When she came to Earth, she hoped to find stability in the human base, but in the end, the Jiangnan base also collapsed.

They are weak, like the 15 million ordinary people. When danger comes, they can only die, hide to survive, and wait to be rescued by the strong, including herself. If she had not been spotted by Lu Ya because of her special skills and finally had the opportunity to enter the explosion-proof zone, she would have definitely died in the monster's mouth, or died in the devastating explosion.

If she was strong enough, she would not need to come to the human base at all. She could just find a mountain forest with abundant spiritual energy to practice.

If she is strong enough, even if it is only strong enough to exceed the speed of S-class monsters, she can move freely around the earth.

If she is strong enough, she can protect her companions when danger occurs. If she is strong enough, she can also be kind enough to help humans to accumulate merits and kill those who covet her.

Once upon a time, she was limited by her low-grade five-element spiritual roots and thought it was impossible for her to break through the foundation-building stage. She also thought the rewards of training were far less than the effort, so she hid in her sect and dared not take risks.

Now, Gu Fan is only one step away from building his foundation.

All this was thanks to her several experiences traveling outside the Earth, which improved her cultivation and state of mind.

Danger is a double-edged sword. It can take lives, but it can also bring opportunities.

Hiding in the cave is safe, but being safe means missing out on opportunities. What's more, she has nowhere to hide now.

Before landing in the inner ring, Gu Fan looked at the distant sky.

She thought she knew what to do next.