Chapter 118 Raising Little Zombies in the End of the World 2 Arriving in S City

The road to S City was severely damaged, and the convoy stopped and started along the way, which delayed them for a long time. It was time to rest for another day. Shen Qian received some supplies and sat down to rest and eat at a place far away from everyone else.

That day she tried to call upon her purification ability, but failed. The level 0 purification ability was originally just a decoration, and she couldn't even call upon it smoothly. The little bit of purification ability she had was difficult to use.

If you want to get out of this predicament, you have to find a way to upgrade to the first level.

But all she killed along the way were ordinary zombies. There were some mutated zombies, but they were all snatched away by the team members. She couldn't compete with them, and she was too lazy to compete with others. Most of the crystal cores she had collected were ordinary crystal cores, and she had to give some to the team. She would exchange the rest for supplies on the black market when she arrived in S City.

Another half month passed, and the Dawn Team finally arrived at the survival base in City S. Shen Qian originally thought that she would never see this team and its members again, but she didn't expect that on the day of disbanding, Zhuo Lin stopped her.

"Your name is Shen Qian, right?"

"……Um."

"Look, we're going to be carrying out a mission in City S next. If you're interested, you can continue to join our team. Although you're only Level 0, I heard that psychotic mutant zombies have appeared in City S recently. We have a purification ability user in the team, and they might be useful. Are you interested?"

In fact, this statement is far-fetched. Shen Qian himself knows that the original owner spent three years and failed to upgrade from level 0 to level 1. He only has a little more practical experience than the original owner. How can upgrading be that easy?

Besides, even if it can be successfully upgraded to level 1, it will still be powerless against the mentally mutated zombies, so what use will it be?

However, Shen Qian was still moved.

Although the other party was the male protagonist in the book and she should avoid him, but after spending time with him along the way, Shen Qian also knew that Zhuo Lin's leadership and fighting abilities were quite good.

Next, she still has to look for her son in the huge S City. Following the Dawn Team, the possibility of finding the child will increase.

"Okay, I'll join in." Shen Qian agreed after careful consideration.

After hearing this, Zhuo Lin said with a half-smile: "Chen Qian, this is the first sentence you said to me."

Shen Qian also smiled and brushed it off lightly: "Really? Captain Zhuo is probably too busy. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

Zhuo Lin looked at Shen Qian's leaving back, his eyes darkened.

He was basically certain that this woman was avoiding him, but he didn't know why she was avoiding him.

He admitted that he was indeed interested in her, but he was not sure what the reason was for this interest.

She was pretty, but not young anymore, and was only a level 0 mutant. He had countless reasons not to extend this invitation, but he still invited her to continue to join the team.

At this time, people still treated him coldly. Zhuo Lin felt a little empty for a moment and couldn't figure out what he wanted to do.

The survival base in City S was much larger than Shen Qian had imagined. The towering concrete walls and iron fences separated the two worlds.

Within the high walls live the city’s only tens of thousands of survivors. Although the place is gray and dilapidated, it provides the survivors with their last refuge.

Shen Qian first went to the trading area, which was an area in every base. She had accumulated some crystal cores and wanted to exchange them for some ammunition and survival supplies.

It has to be said that City S was indeed a metropolis before the apocalypse. Even the trading area of the survival base was much larger than where she had stayed before, and there were more things that could be bought.

The common currency here is credit points, but they are only used in various bases of all sizes in City S and cannot be used outside this area.

"Canned stewed potatoes, within the expiration date, 200 points each, only two left!"

"A bottle of purified water only costs 100 credit points!"

"Primary fire energy crystal core for sale. Anyone interested can participate in the auction tonight."

Hearing these shouts, Chen Qian felt a little regretful. If her purification ability could be raised to level 1 and could be used smoothly, she could at least purify some drinking water, food, etc. and sell them in the trading area, and she wouldn't have to work so hard to kill zombies.

This is what the end of the world is like. It is very difficult for ordinary people without super powers to survive, but once the super powers are awakened and upgraded to high-level super powers, the quality of life will immediately improve qualitatively.

After walking around the trading area twice and asking about the exchange prices, Shen Qian locked on his target.

She walked towards an inconspicuous stall. The stall owner was a middle-aged man with dark skin and wearing a monocular. A sign hanging above his head read "Collecting crystal cores, exchanging for supplies, fair trade."

"Ordinary crystal core, would you like to take it?" she asked.

"Look at the appearance." The man raised his head and adjusted his glasses.

Shen Qian poured out thirty of the crystal cores and placed them on the stall. The man picked up one and cut a small corner of the outer layer with a knife, revealing the purity of the crystal inside. After a moment, he nodded. "The purity is okay. I'll give you the market price - one for one hundred credit points."

"It's only a hundred points, is a hundred and twenty okay?"

"If you think my price is too low, you can find another dealer." He said bluntly, "If you really want to sell, I'll take thirty ordinary crystal cores in a package and give you three thousand five hundred credit points."

"I also want to exchange supplies. Can they be cheaper?" If you buy and sell from the same store, you may be able to get a slight discount.

Shen Qian didn't hesitate and made his demands: "Two sets of clean clothes, a bed, some clean water, food, and a map - all bases and dangerous areas in S City."

The man raised an eyebrow at her, but said nothing. His bony fingers flicked through the datapad: "Two sets of clothes: 150 points, four bottles of purified water: 200 points, three days' supply of dry rations: 200 points, a map: 100 points, an old quilt and a cushion: 250 points... a total of one thousand."

Shen Qian made the transaction on the spot, and the remaining 2,500 credit points were her only remaining savings.

As she was leaving with her supplies, she heard the stall owner shout from behind: "Go to dangerous places on your own. Leaving the base without a team is courting death!"

Shen Qian waved without looking back.

After coming out of the trading area, Shen Qian went to the residential area.

The residential area of the base is divided into two sections. The fixed residential area is close to the inner city. Only people with high contribution values can live here, or those who have enough high-level crystal cores or special resources can exchange them for a place in the fixed residential area. It is very safe there and the prices are very expensive.

Another section is the mobile settlement, which is located outside the base near the wall. It is home to many displaced survivors from other places. Due to limited conditions, there are mobile houses, abandoned trailers, wooden sheds, and some people even directly get containers and renovate them to live in. This area is like a huge slum with all kinds of people living together.

The security and conditions here certainly cannot be compared with fixed residential areas, but the management here is loose, there is no threshold for moving in, and you can easily find many temporary rental houses with simple conditions. It is very popular among low-level psychics and ordinary survivors.

Chen Qian found a relatively quiet house with cheap rent without much effort. It had a bedroom, a small living room, and a small yard. There was also a half-collapsed utility room in the corner of the yard.

Some vegetables can be grown in the yard, but there are not many uncontaminated seeds nowadays. If the vegetables mutate, the loss will outweigh the gain. There are also few purification ability people like Chen Qian, so almost no one grows vegetables in the mobile residential area. It is better to go out and fight zombies instead. Basic survival supplies can be exchanged for them at the trading area or the base management office.

After Shen Qian settled down, she cleaned the room from inside to outside, and put on the old mattress and bedding she had just bought in the trading area. This was her home in S City.

For the first meal after moving in, Chen Qian treated himself to a meal by boiling water and cooking a pack of instant noodles.

For low-level psychics like Chen Qian, even supplies like instant noodles are extremely difficult to obtain, and being able to eat a bowl of hot instant noodles is already a luxury.

I hope I will have better luck on the next mission, kill more zombies, and find my son soon. Before falling asleep, Shen Qian made this wish in his heart.

…

After resting for three days in S City, the Dawn Action Team set out again to carry out some cleaning and transportation tasks.

These tasks were just right for Shen Qian. She could follow the action team to the various survival bases scattered throughout S City to inquire about her son's whereabouts.

The action team will also go to some dangerous areas to carry out zombie clearing missions. If Shen Qian cannot find his son at the base, he is mentally prepared to go to the dangerous area to look for him.

It has been three years since the end of the world. Most people have tried to find ways to enter the survival base, while some people, for various reasons, have remained in their original homes and refused to leave.

The original book did not mention any specific details about the original owner's son before her death, only mentioning that he had always stayed in City S.

Shen Qian followed the action team to several nearby survivor bases, but there was no news of her son. She even went to the management offices of each base to register a missing person notice, but still no response.

Shen Qian's search for her son did not escape the attention of the team members, and Zhuo Lin soon learned that Shen Qian was married and had a son.

An indescribable feeling of unwillingness and bitterness welled up in his heart, but he quickly suppressed it. He thought it was just his own momentary confusion and he didn't blame anyone else.

Perhaps from the beginning to the end, he was just curious about Shen Qian and had no other thoughts. Now that everything has settled, he can finally let it go.

However, Zhuo Lin kept all this in his heart and did not show it, nor did he let anyone notice any clues.

On this day, the Dawn Team assembled again to carry out the task of clearing the danger zone. This time there were a few new faces in the team.

Shen Qian stood at the edge of the team, his eyes lightly sweeping over two of them.

She recognized them immediately. One of them was her stepsister, Lin Wan, the heroine of the book, and the other was her best friend Xu Yingshuang.

As soon as the two women appeared in the team, they became the focus of everyone's attention.

Lin Wan is a level 2 fire-type mutant, and Xu Yingshuang is a level 2 healing-type mutant.

Healing and purification are both auxiliary abilities, but for the action team, healing is much more useful than purification, not to mention that Xu Yingshuang is level 2 while Chen Qian is only level 0.

Originally, some people in the team were dissatisfied with Chen Qian's continued presence in the team. Now a Level 2 Healing Specialist came, and everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Chen Qian.