Chapter 572: Repairing the Plank Road

Li Zhuang didn't care what they thought at all, and watched the group of people gradually become excited.

It was a kind of person who wandered in the gray and black area, who was used to not taking human life seriously, and had a bloodthirsty look.

Zheng Yi glanced at Xu Sa and Liu Rui beside him and found that the two of them were actually a little excited, which made Li Yan's nervousness look more like a normal person.

Wen Jing and Chen Guozhong, together with the team leader of Cangnan base, took a step back tacitly, looking as if they were not involved, but it was also obvious that they were reaping the benefits.

The leader of the Changhong base immediately wanted to step forward and stand with Kyoto. When he saw their reactions, he paused. Finally, when he saw Pang Xinghuo hesitantly standing in the middle, he stepped forward and stood next to him.

This made Tang Bai, who was originally enjoying himself, feel extremely awkward. If he stood by and watched, the base was too close to Yueban Bay. Who could guarantee that they would not settle accounts with him in the future and get involved...

He was also afraid that Yuebanwan would fail and he would become cannon fodder.

At this point, it is neither possible to advance nor retreat.

The atmosphere became tense in silence. No one spoke, but everyone's communication devices in the conference room began to ring continuously. The hurried footsteps outside the window could be heard rhythmically. Without looking back, one could imagine the scene of being surrounded.

The enemy fighter planes that were originally hovering in the air gradually gathered here, and the buzzing sound rang in everyone's ears, like a death warrant.

"Do you want to destroy Kyoto, which Mr. Zheng spent his life defending, in the hands of humans?" Lu Xiao, who had been invisible, slapped the table in the conference room hard, and it shattered into pieces.

He looked straight at Zhao Qiang, making no secret of his knowledge of the instigator, "If you want it, go and rob it yourself. What kind of man are you if you hide in the gutter and stir up trouble?"

He ignored Zhao Qiang's ugly look, took the document on the table, and signed his name neatly, "Lieyan accepts this bill."

He handed the paper to Zheng Yi and said, "Look at the people outside the window. Winter is coming and we can't afford to waste time."

Zheng Yi looked out the window again. This time, what he saw was no longer the fighter planes in the air and the psychics who surrounded the entire conference room, but ruined houses, heavy snow, and thinly dressed people.

Zheng Yi sighed, stretched out his hand to sign, then turned to look at Zhao Qiang, whose muscles bulged from his bitten teeth, and said, "Two votes passed, and now I will pay for the crystal core."

He called the guard over and asked him to count the number of crystal cores that Li Zhuang had agreed to, and pay on the spot.

Two hundred S-level crystal cores flashed with colorful lights and were handed to Li Zhuang, who then passed them to Liu Rui to store them in his space.

Xu Sa immediately felt that everyone's eyes turned to Liu Rui, as if they were those of a long-hungry carnivore seeing his prey. He stepped forward and put all the remaining crystal cores into his own space.

Li Yan watched as the two parties settled the account and breathed a sigh of relief.

"We will hold the first anti-zombie alliance meeting in the afternoon. We hope that the Yuebanwan base will arrive on time by then." Seeing them turning around and about to leave, Zheng Yi immediately said, "And you..."

He paused and reminded, "Be careful."

Having so many high-level crystal cores in hand is not a good thing. Just look at the eyes of everyone around and you will know how many people are coveting it.

Once they walked out of this door, they were truly standing on the opposite side of all the bases.

Li Zhuang turned his back to him, made an OK gesture, and led the three people behind him to push the door out like an army of thousands.

Members from various bases were already standing in rows outside the door. When they saw the four people come out safely, they all stepped back to make way for them, their eyes lingering on them and the room behind them, as if they were observing what was happening, or checking where they put the crystal cores they had obtained.

Li Zhuang still walked down the stairs slowly with his leisurely steps. People he met along the way avoided him as if they saw some fierce beast, which made Xu Sa couldn't help laughing out loud.

The entire conference room had been completely surrounded by Yuebanwan’s troops. After seeing the enemy fighters circling in the air successfully get out, they retreated one by one and returned to the temporary base to land.

At the gate, Gu Qingji was standing in the front, his body wrapped in emerald green plants, with the tender yellow tips at the end winding around from time to time, catching the falling snow. Just being able to maintain this activity in this season is not something that low-level mutant plants can achieve.

Lin Sheng, who was waiting, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the few people were unharmed. Du Ping and several other psychics silently asked with their eyes whether everything went well. After getting Xu Sa's confirmation, they all smiled.

Yuebanwan's deployment plunged the entire Kyoto base into a tense atmosphere again. Heavy snow fell, and the streets were deserted. People who hurried by carefully avoided them when they saw them, reducing their presence.

The group hurried back to their temporary residence. Li Zhuang's tense nerves were completely relaxed when he saw Antonio sitting idly in the living room.

Antonio made an OK gesture to him and glanced at the ground vaguely.

"Li Yan, arrange for security, and come with me." Li Zhuang's eyes swept over several members of Team 1 at the scene, not sparing Dean but also Lu Xi.

Except for Antonio who looked understood, everyone else was a little puzzled. Li Zhuang signaled Lu Xi to shield the area around the room, and then asked Antonio if he had a smooth journey.

"It went smoothly. No one noticed me leaving," Antonio said, pointing to the ground. "The few people who went back with me had their powers overdrawn. Ning Yuan replaced Zhou Nan and the others."

The earth-type mutants in Zhou Nan's second team of the base army are the ones with the highest level of ability except for the first team. Antonio was worried that if he let them come up they would be discovered, so he still asked them to hide quietly underground.

"What, what? I don't understand what you are talking about? Antonio is back to the base?" Xu Sa's eyes turned between the two of them, and the others also looked at them.

Antonio shrugged and didn't argue.

Li Zhuang did not give any specific explanation, but signaled Liu Rui to take out all the S-level crystal cores.

This amount of high-level crystal cores is enough to make anyone jealous. Antonio couldn't help but step forward and ask, "How many metal-type crystal cores are there?"

"There are not many, I will leave them all for you." Li Zhuang lifted up his hand that was about to touch them, picked out the rare ones of the lightning, metal and spiritual types, and took a few more.

"Purify these first, okay?"

"Not sure, I'll try my best." Antonio carefully took out a few ordinary mineral water bottles from the space. The water inside was clear and transparent, and there was nothing abnormal. Antonio carefully put the crystal core in.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that this is exactly the same container that Lu Weiyi used to collect snow water in the early days of the apocalypse.

"That's all we have. It's the trump card of our base. I don't know if it's right to use it so early," Antonio muttered.

Li Zhuang ignored him and turned to look at the others who had remained silent, without any intention of explaining. "I will distribute the crystal cores later and let them absorb as much as possible. As for the rest..."

Li Zhuang kept thirty and gave the rest to Lu Xi, "These are all the crystal cores we have this time. Put them all into the space and return to the base while Kyoto is in chaos."

"Me?" Lu Xi was incredulous.

"Yes, use your mental power to block all detections along the way. There will be earth-type mutants to help you clear the way, and Antonio will accompany you to protect you. After you go back, ask Ning Yuan to arrange for the members who can currently be upgraded to upgrade as much as possible, and hurry up to prepare to pick us up."

As he spoke, he glanced at the mutated plant on Gu Qingji's wrist and said, "Can he follow Lu Xi?"

Gu Qingji looked down at his wrist in silence. After a moment, he glanced at the crystal core not far away with an awkward expression. Li Zhuang took out two wood-type crystals and handed them over, "This is what you two deserve this time."

"No need, we..." Before Gu Qingji could finish his polite words, a flash of green quickly shot out from his wrist, snatched the wood crystal core from Li Zhuang's hand, and gave one of them to Gu Qingji very reasonably, and immediately absorbed the other one himself.

"Eh..." Gu Qingji failed to stop him and looked embarrassed.

"It's okay, it participated, so it should have a share."

Gu Qingji lowered his head with a serious expression, and communicated with the mutated plant on his wrist. After a moment, he said to Li Zhuang, "It will protect Lu Xi's safety."

Xu Sa waited until he had arranged everything before asking, "Are you worried that someone will take action?"

"Someone will definitely take action. Fortune and wealth must be sought at the cost of danger. Who knows, people from other bases might come to ambush us," Li Zhuang affirmed. "You will spread the news that we are going to use S-class crystal cores to exchange for supplies. Let everyone know that there is a chance to obtain S-class crystal cores safely."

"Change what?"

"Steel, rare earths, heavy metals and special materials," Li Zhuang said and turned to Lu Xi, "You know about the raw materials used in weapons manufacturing at our base, tell Xu Sa."

"Really?" Xu Sa glanced secretly at the crystal core in front of him, reluctantly, "We can get those things ourselves by spending some time."

However, it is not easy to encounter S-level zombies, and it is even more difficult to hunt them safely.

"We don't have that much time," Li Zhuang thought about everything again and reminded, "Remember to mix in some other materials to confuse the audience."

Xu Sa made an OK gesture, and seeing Lu Xi's childish face, he felt a little worried, "How about I go with you? If we hurry, it will only take a day to go back and forth."

"No, you'll attract too much attention. If you disappear for a day, it will definitely arouse suspicion." Li Zhuang paused here, "But..."

His brows twitched, and he laughed before he continued speaking.

Just as the people in the room were arranging the next things, members of each team gathered in twos and threes outside the door, their attention vaguely focused on the small villa in the center.

Seeing Li Yan busy arranging defenses, with a hint of pity in his eyes, someone couldn't help but come up to Li Yan and ask in a low voice what they were doing.