Chapter 69 All Members Mobilized

When Zuo Shan woke up the next day, she recalled what had happened the day before. She raised her wrist and looked at the light purple crescent moon mark left by Wanwan. She finally believed that it was not a dream. She had really been bound to a contract by a seed that had offered itself to her.

To use the phrase Mao Li learned from her, she just got incredibly lucky.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is that she has now awakened her superpowers and become a gene warrior (or perhaps a post-gene warrior?).

Whichever it is, does that mean she can join a mercenary group from now on and never have to be a miserable scavenger again?

She gritted her teeth and spent 100 star coins to activate the cheapest basic internet package.

The advantage of this package is that it's ready to use immediately, and many basic common sense tips can be downloaded for free. If she doesn't want to use it anymore next month, she can also terminate the contract at any time.

The downside is that you can only view basic information, and there are regional restrictions. You have no right to access network information within the 40th district, nor do you have the right to log in to Green Star's major network platforms to read news, and you are not qualified to participate in posting and discussion.

However, Zuo Shan is no longer interested in those things, since the area within the 40th district is too far removed from her current life.

After subscribing to the basic internet plan, she immediately went online to search for information about superhuman levels and joining mercenary groups.

Upon investigation, it was discovered that mercenary groups would not accept someone with zero superpower level like her unless she possessed special abilities, such as extremely high close combat skills, proficiency in using melee weapons, or extremely high accuracy with firearms.

After all, the mercenary group's main task is to clear out mutated beasts in the wild. As a level zero ability user with no special skills, you would only be a hindrance if you went along.

In short, she's no different from an ordinary person now. The only advantage of opening this network is that she can find job postings and rental information outside of District 40.

Most of the job postings are for areas within the 48 districts, so she'll have to wait until she moves to find a job.

As for rental information, she looked at many places, but none of them were as good value for money as the one that Uncle Wu Qiong recommended.

Sigh! That hundred dollars is like throwing money down the drain. It didn't solve anything, and the mercenary group is still a galaxy away from her.

However, I did find some basic methods for improving one's ability level, such as frequently absorbing the cores of mutated beasts, the wood spirit cores of mutated plants, pure energy stones, and frequently eating the meat of mutated beasts below the second tier.

There's another way that doesn't cost money: use your superpowers as much as possible. After all, use it or lose it!

Zuo Shan was quite happy to have obtained this useful information.

For poor people, this is the best way. Since she is suspected of having speed-type superpowers, long-distance running training can only be increased, not decreased, in the future.

She also found out how to help contracted beasts and contracted plants improve their ability levels. It still requires them to absorb energy stones regularly and in fixed quantities. The only difference is that mutated beasts can only absorb beast cores, and mutated plants can only absorb wood spirit cores. They cannot absorb energy across species.

From this perspective, humans are still more powerful than mutated beasts and mutated plants, as they can eat anything, regardless of whether it's raw or raw!

After a tiring day yesterday, Zuo Shan originally planned to take a day off today, but after checking this information, he decided to continue his morning exercise.

Not only does she want to practice, but Xiao Bao can't fall behind either. Mao Li also strongly insisted on going along today. Last time, her master took Xiao Bao out alone and almost didn't make it back. Now, unless her master goes out with a mercenary group, Mao Li is determined to go along.

Left fan's lips curved into a smile, very good, everyone move out! Run!

Whether it was psychological or the awakening of her superpower, Zuo Shan ran exceptionally fast and effortlessly today, and she was overjoyed.

She would occasionally turn around to look at Xiao Bao, who was panting heavily from exhaustion, and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Baby Achen inside her belly seemed to sense her joy and began to wriggle and roam around in her belly.

Xiao Bao glanced resentfully at Fanzi Jie, who was laughing heartlessly, then rolled his eyes at Mao Li, who was watching him make a fool of himself, and gritted his teeth to quicken his pace.

It doesn't want to be left behind!

Zuo Shan chose a route that was an extremely secluded path from the original owner's memories. It was an area where she and Qi Yang had once tried their luck during an extremely cold day when they were starving.

That year, the extreme cold weather came earlier than usual, and before he and Qiyang had stored enough food to get through the winter, the snow began to fall.

If they don't go out and find something to eat before the snow gets too thick to walk on, they definitely won't survive the winter.

So, the two of them mustered their courage and chose the area that led to the southwest.

The area had originally been cleared by mercenary groups, but because a type of ghost thorn vine with extremely strong reproductive ability grew along the way, its seeds could take root as soon as they landed, and a ghost thorn vine could grow into a forest in just a few years.

In addition, its plant is covered with poisonous thorns, making it extremely difficult to clear. Over time, it blocked the road leading to the southwest. The scavengers in District 50 gradually gave up on that area.

The reason she and Qi Yang chose this route was because all the leaves that could be picked in other areas had been harvested, so they had no choice but to take the risk and try their luck there.

As it turned out, they were extremely lucky that time. A stick that the original owner had casually picked up to clear a path actually moved aside on its own when it touched the ghost thorn vines, making way for them.

This allowed them to successfully traverse the thorny vines and find a mutated peanut forest.

That day they harvested a full fifty pounds of peanuts, which helped them get through that long, extremely cold period.

As for why they didn't go back the following year, it was because Qi Yang accidentally burned the stick as firewood, and they were never able to find a stick that could make the Ghost Thorn Vine avoid it.

Although Zuo Shan didn't know what kind of plant the stick came from, she thought she had to try it before she would be satisfied.

That's a mutated peanut forest! Each peanut is as big as two walnuts, and nobody goes there year-round, so there must be plenty of edible peanuts to harvest.

So I have to go, even if I don't gain anything, I'll just consider it training my superpowers.