Chapter 38 Cooperation

Lin Yingjie gritted his teeth, a pleading expression on his face. "Boss Jiang, whatever conditions you have, please feel free to ask. As long as we can meet them, we'll do our best." The sharp roars and banging sounds of the monsters outside the gate continued to reach their ears, making their hair stand on end. They had nowhere else to go now. Staying here was their only chance of survival. Even if they could hand over something, it would be better than going out and dying now.

Jiang Zhan didn't respond. Instead, Qiao Yu said gently, "Okay, we're leaving tomorrow anyway, so I'll leave this house to you. But you can't enter the main house tonight. You can stay in the other houses as you like."

"What? You want to leave, then what should we do?" The voice was spoken by a young woman. Perhaps she was too shocked by Qiao Yu's words, and her voice was a little sharp.

Jiang Zhan never liked noise, so when he heard the voice, his brows immediately furrowed.

Seeing Jiang Zhan's bad face, Lin Yingjie hurriedly turned around and glared at the woman as if warning. Seeing that she lowered her head in panic, he turned around and carefully apologized to Jiang Zhan and Qiao Yu: "Please don't blame me, Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang. This is my niece, Lin Kexin. She has been spoiled by her family since she was a child and has no manners. You two adults should be magnanimous and not make a fuss about her." After a pause, he continued, "It's just... are you really leaving tomorrow?"

Qiao Yu chuckled, "Boss Lin, what good is there in lying to you?"

"But there are monsters everywhere..."

"I heard there's a survivor base outside that can protect them. We're going there," Qiao Yu interrupted Lin Yingjie. "Yunming Mountain is surrounded by alien species, and this place will be taken over by them sooner or later. Even if the gate is strong and can hold them off for a while, they'll still die once the food runs out. It's better to leave as soon as possible."

"Alien?...Survivor base? Where is it? How did you know? Is the information accurate?" The tall man asked this question.

"Haven't you guys listened to the car radio before? It said those monsters are called aliens. There are actually quite a few survivor bases, but they're all quite far away. The closest one to S City is in G City."

Although Qiao Yu hadn't learned about the survivor base through a car radio in her previous life, she knew that the government activated radio stations everywhere immediately after the apocalypse. However, radio communications were also affected by the apocalyptic magnetic field, so they only worked at the beginning of the apocalypse. As for whether there was any news coming out now, she didn't know.

Qiao Yu looked at Lin Yingjie lost in thought and chuckled in her heart, but she kept a calm expression on her face. As she turned around and walked back with Jiang Zhan, she said, "We'll go back and pack our bags first. Mr. Lin, please do as you please."

After Qiao Yu and the other three entered the house, the others outside remained standing still. Seeing that Lin Yingjie hadn't spoken, the tall man hesitated for a moment, then leaned over and whispered, "Second Uncle, I think they have a point. Although this place is sturdy, there are not many living people outside. If all those monsters come over and we're trapped here, even if they can't get in, we'll starve to death sooner or later. Otherwise, why don't we just go to City G and go with them? Maybe we'll be safer."

The four people from Qiao Yu's side returned to the house. Jiang Zhan asked Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen to go back to the room to pack their luggage first, while he and Qiao Yu waited in the living room.

After waiting for a long time without hearing any movement outside, Qiao Yu sighed softly, took Jiang Zhan's hand, and asked uncertainly, "Will they come?"

Jiang Zhan curled his lips and touched the top of Qiao Yu's head soothingly, "I will."

"It doesn't matter. If they don't come, we can just go on our own." Qiao Yu scratched Jiang Zhan's palm. "We're sure to run into aliens along the way anyway."

However, just as Qiao Yu finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.

Qiao Yu first winked at Jiang Zhan with a sly smile. Then he put away his expression, stood up calmly, and opened the door.

Only four people came this time, in addition to Lin Yingjie, there was the tall man, the short and thin man and a young woman.

"Mr. Lin, is there anything else?" Qiao Yu stood at the door and didn't seem to have any intention of letting them in.

Lin Yingjie took a deep breath and said sincerely, "Mrs. Jiang, are you interested in...cooperating?"

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When Cheng Sinian came downstairs, he saw a group of people sitting on the sofa in the living room. Jiang Zhan's expression remained calm as he listened to Qiao Yu's conversation with those people in silence.

"Boss Lin, since you said you can help us, then I guess there must be someone special among you, right?"

"An alien?" Lin Yingjie was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Oh, is it someone who suddenly gained superpowers?"

"Yes." Qiao Yu nodded. "Since you want to come with us, then show some sincerity and tell us who the aliens are and what their abilities are. Don't worry, we have no ill will towards aliens. We just want to know how much combat power you can increase for us."

Lin Yingjie didn't want to hide it. He originally wanted to use this as a "token of allegiance".

"Mrs. Jiang, the four of us with special abilities are already here." Lin Yingjie pointed to the tall man beside him. "This is my nephew Lin Chi. He has the same ability as me—great strength. With one punch, he could shatter the stone steps outside the villa." He then pointed to the shorter, thinner man next to him. "This is my brother-in-law Deng Minglang. His ability is fast running." Finally, he pointed to the young woman and continued, "This is my daughter, Lin Han. Her ability is exceptionally sharp ears. She can hear sounds from two or three hundred meters away."

There are eleven people, four of whom are enhancement-type mutants; two are strength-type, one is speed-type, and one is hearing-type.

No wonder it’s been almost a month since the apocalypse, and this group of people are still alive and well.

However, this also proves that the abilities of the aliens in this life are indeed no different from the abilities of the aliens that Qiao Yu knew in his previous life.

Qiao Yu had already been pretty sure of this, having seen that her, Jiang Zhan's, and Cheng Sinian's abilities hadn't changed, and that Luo Zhenzhen's abilities, who had recently joined, were within her intelligence range. However, because the four of them possessed unique abilities, being rare naturalists, she had no way of knowing if the abilities of the other psychics had changed, which was why she decided to save them.

Furthermore, because they had used crystal cores to replenish their abilities from the beginning of this life, and with the blessing of fruit water, their abilities were increasing much faster than in their previous lives. This made Qiao Yu vaguely uneasy, and she was eager to know what the current abilities of ordinary mutants were. In case her rebirth triggered a butterfly effect, changing the trajectory of the apocalypse, she had to try her best to grasp it in advance.

"Mr. Jiang, Mrs. Jiang, although we can't compare to you, we have killed alien species after all. There is strength in numbers. If we all go together, we can look after each other on the way, right?"

Many people within the villa complex had witnessed Qiao Yu and his companions killing the aliens at the gate. Although their abilities were too far away to be clearly seen, their speed in killing the aliens was clear to all. Thanks to them, the villa complex had barely managed to hold on until now.

Qiao Yu was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Okay, we can take you with us. But let me be frank. I don't need to tell you how dangerous this journey will be, and you should be able to imagine it. Although we are working together, everyone's abilities are limited. So if danger arises, we will save you if we can. If we can't, then we'll just save our own lives."

Lin Yingjie nodded hurriedly, "Of course, of course... Then we're settled. Mrs. Jiang, when do we leave tomorrow?"

"We'll leave tomorrow morning when the fog clears."

"Okay, then we'll go back and prepare."