After the zombie tide ended, 12,000 level 3 crystal cores, 2,000 level 3 crystal cores, 23 level 3 crystal cores, eight level 5 crystal cores, and one level 6 crystal core were confiscated.

When Xu Bai sat in the office and looked at the counted crystal cores, she, Jiao Nanmu, and Shi's father worked out a bonus plan to divide the obtained crystal cores.

Xu Bai only took away a sixth-level spiritual crystal core, and left the rest to the two of them.

And he ordered them to find someone to repair the city gate as soon as possible.

During this zombie tide, the front city gate was smashed open. If it weren't for Mingliang and a group of people with earth-type abilities who desperately used their abilities to maintain the city gate, the zombies would have broken in long ago.

After they left, Xu Bai locked the office door and began to absorb the sixth-level spiritual crystal core.

Cross-level absorption crystal cores are generally used when one is about to break through the sixth level.

She placed the crystal core in the center of her palm, clenched her hand tightly, and closed her eyes. As she closed her eyes, the crystal core in her palm continued to grow whiter and smaller...

Xu Bai felt like she was still in that white, hazy state. After running for a long time, her vision gradually cleared up. She saw many of her spiritual energy lines tangled into a large ball. It was even more chaotic than when she had broken through to the fourth or fifth level...

Outside Xu Bai's office.

Shi Qinghe paced back and forth anxiously, and just raised her hand to knock on the door, but gave up after thinking about it.

"Ah Heng, you said Xu Bai has been in there for two or three days and hasn't come out yet. Could something have happened?"

Ji Heng stared at the office door and didn't speak immediately. When Shi Qinghe thought he wouldn't answer, he said, "No."

"But it's been two or three days. Even if Xu Bai has a space and won't starve himself, there's no need to lock himself up in there, right?"

"Isn't the commander of Xiwang Base still waiting?"

"Then let him wait a little longer."

Shi Qinghe was speechless when she saw Ji Heng closing his eyes to rest again.

"It's okay to wait. Do you understand what I mean? I'm worried that something might happen to Xu Bai, understand?" Shi Qinghe stood at the door with her hands on her hips, squinting her eyes and trying to see through the crack in the door.

The door opened.

Shi Qinghe fell down. Xu Bai turned slightly to the side and let Shi Qinghe fall to the ground without helping him up.

Shi Qinghe bared his teeth, rubbing his shoulders while looking at Xu Bai, who had a more powerful aura, and exclaimed: "You advanced?!"

"Yes." Xu Bai raised his left hand and moved his five fingers slightly.

The mural hanging on the wall not far away fell down instantly.

This is a different move from Xu Bai's previous ones.

Did she successfully transform her psychic abilities into wind blade-like attacks?

Shi Qinghe couldn't see clearly, but he vaguely saw that when Xu Bai made his move, a faint blade flew through the air, and then the mural fell down.

"What do you want from me?"

"It's nothing serious. I was worried something might have happened to you since you haven't appeared for a few days. And Commander Xiwang wants to cooperate with you?"

"Cooperation? Didn't we cooperate before? Just leave this matter to Director Jiao." Xu Bai frowned, puzzled. He pulled up the system panel and looked at the name of Xiwang Base on the list of bases cooperating with Shuguang City. He was sure that there was cooperation between the two bases, but he didn't understand what it was.

Shi Qinghe stood up and rubbed his butt. "I don't know. It seems that they want to become a branch base of Dawn City, but they didn't say anything specific."

"A Heng, right? We only found out about this after asking Director Jiao."

After the zombie wave ended, Xu Bai and Ji Heng had no contact. He did hear that Ji Heng went out of the city alone to kill zombies, but since he didn't see Ji Heng, Xu Bai didn't ask.

Xu Bai walked up to Ji Heng and looked him up and down.

"Who told you to run out of the city and kill zombies at will? What if you get scratched by a zombie?"

Xu Bai's tone was serious. She couldn't bear the thought that a major villain in her previous life had turned into a zombie right under her nose.

She didn't know whether Ji Heng awakened his psychic ability after becoming a zombie in his previous life, or whether he had awakened it before becoming a zombie. Although Ji Heng had strength ability in this life, there were many people with dual abilities. It was possible that Ji Heng awakened his psychic ability after being scratched by a zombie.

The sixth-level psychic zombies were enough to give her a headache.

In this life, zombies are advancing rapidly in their cultivation. With Ji Heng's strength of level seven in his previous life, he might become a level ten spiritual zombie in a matter of minutes.

However, the current situation will become the same as in the previous life, where zombies and humans are incompatible with each other, humans cannot eliminate zombies, and the population is decreasing.

Twelve years to go.

This time point appeared in Xu Bai's mind again, and he thought that as the human population becomes smaller and smaller, the number of zombies will increase, and then the whole world will fall into a world of zombies.

Zombies cannot reproduce.

Can it still be called a normal plane if only zombies who know how to eat human flesh remain?

High-level zombies are conscious and can think, but that doesn't change their love for fresh blood.

Only now did Xu Bai understand what it meant to advance to the next level.

Only with people can society develop.

Seeing the concern and solemnity on Xu Bai's face, Ji Heng was touched and said, "I'm not injured. I'm fine."

Shi Qinghe, who was standing nearby and opening her mouth to say that Base Commander Xiwang was still waiting, felt that the atmosphere between them was not right, so she held back her words, tiptoed as best as not to make any noise to disturb them, and left quietly.

"I just wanted you to rest well and not worry about the zombie horde when you wake up."

"Get rid of the zombies as soon as possible."

"But my strength is not yet up to par. There are still a few hundred zombies left to deal with. You will have to work hard after you rest."

As he spoke, Ji Heng laughed at himself.

As a fifth-level power user, when facing the zombie horde, it was the first time that he felt sorry that he had awakened a power other than fire that could perform long-range attacks.

As soon as Xu Bai came to his senses, he saw Ji Heng's guilty look.

She thought Ji Heng had realized his mistake, so she patted him on the shoulder and said righteously, "Next time this happens, wait until there are fewer zombies."

"Zombie tide, being bitten by zombies is terrible, and once you wake up, you will see the Yin and Yang."

Ji Heng couldn't help but reach out and touch Xu Bai's head.

Xu Bai: “……?”

Xu Bai subconsciously took two steps back and looked at Ji Heng in confusion, "What are you doing?"

"Don't worry, I will put my own safety first." When you are not around.

Ji Heng didn't say the last sentence.

He didn't know when he had silently placed Xu Bai in his heart. Maybe it was because the apocalypse had just arrived and he had carried Shi Qinghe away from school when Xu Bai suddenly appeared and saved them. Maybe it was because they had worked together many times, or maybe...