Chapter 55 Reappearance of Civilization

The woman looked up blankly and found two men with guns staring at her.

"Can you call that talent? It should be called superpower."

Superpowers?

The woman looked down at her hands again. She remembered that she hadn't been grabbed by a zombie, and she had never seen a zombie mutate to this color.

Remembering the zombies engulfed in fire before, could that be her power?

Rong Yi emptied her magazine and was reloading when a zombie engulfed in flames approached. She calmly finished reloading and shot it dead.

The hundred zombies were easy to deal with the large group, but some zombies scurried out from the corners and five people were scratched and infected. Four of them turned into zombies within a minute, and the remaining one fell into a coma.

Rong Yi killed the newly mutated zombie and walked over to the unconscious person.

"What happened? He fainted after being scratched?" she asked the person next to her.

“Yes.” An older woman nodded hurriedly. “I saw him fall to the ground a few seconds after being grabbed, like he had an epileptic seizure, and then he stopped moving.”

The players ahead also approached and saw Rong Yi squatting there looking at the unconscious person. "He was grabbed by a zombie," he said with certainty.

The indigenous people on the side nodded.

"She's probably awakening a superpower," the female player with pigtails said crisply, noticing everyone staring at her. "That's often written in novels. Getting captured doesn't necessarily turn you into a zombie; you might awaken a superpower. Didn't a woman with a child just awaken one? Well, that woman awakened it on her own."

"Observe him for a while, and if it really doesn't work, drag him along." The man who spoke looked at the crowd, "You guys discuss who should drag him."

The indigenous people looked at the rifle hanging on his chest and abdomen, and none of them uttered a word of objection.

The unconscious man began to get hot. Wei Yanqing took out something that looked like a sled, with four wheels and two ropes extending from the front, so that two people could pull it together.

A father and son stepped forward and lifted the man onto the trailer. The middle-aged man, who looked to be around fifty years old, said, "We'll tow him away."

His son had already grabbed the rope.

Rong Yi gave each of them a bottle of water, saying, "You can give him some water on the way, but you can drink the rest yourselves."

If the unconscious man truly awakens his superpowers, he would be a valuable asset to the base, which grows and develops gradually thanks to individuals like him.

However, it cannot be ruled out that he will not survive and will turn into a zombie. Therefore, a rope was tied to the trailer to prevent him from suddenly jumping up as a zombie and to keep him from falling.

After explaining this, the player team continued to walk at the front. Wei Yanqing pulled Rong Yi aside and quietly told her about the new discovery, "The newly mutated zombies have crystal cores on the back of their heads. It seems that the crystal cores formed earlier than we thought."

Rong Yi thought of Jiang Zhuyu, whom she had dealt with. Rather than the fact that Jiang Zhuyu had a crystal core in her head right after being mutated and dealt with, she was more curious about something else: "Did the crystal core levels of those ordinary zombies change?"

For them, only those that show obvious changes are considered evolved zombies; otherwise, even if the crystal core is level two, without any special enhancements, they are still considered ordinary zombies.

"They're all level one; the lowest level of evolved zombies nowadays is level two."

Rong Yi was overjoyed. In the past few days, the gray text would pop up from time to time, reminding her to let the crystal cores absorb. Rong Yi gave her a fixed amount of thirty crystal cores each time, but the progress was still 0%, which was extremely disappointing.

Now that ordinary zombies have all advanced to level one, those that haven't advanced can be given more.

Of course, she couldn't give it all away at once; she needed to keep some for herself.

The players in front weren't idle either. They surrounded the woman they said had awakened superpowers, asking her how she was feeling. The two children, held in their arms, felt even warmer in their mother's embrace.

Ning Qiuhe never expected that heaven would be so kind to her, allowing her to awaken her supernatural abilities. Perhaps her husband's divine protection was also a factor.

"I don't feel any discomfort, just a little hungry. I just ate some bread."

Ning Qiuhe certainly didn't flee empty-handed. She wouldn't let her children go hungry, so in addition to taking care of the two children, she also carried two bags.

Fortunately, the child was sensible and didn't whine or ask to be carried, no matter how tired she was from walking.

The orange-redness under her skin has faded. The only change is that she no longer feels cold and her strength has increased, so she can now carry two bags while holding two children without flinching.

But now I get hungry quickly, and the few pieces of bread I ate have been almost digested, and my stomach feels slightly tight.

The female player with pigtails nodded. "It's normal to be hungry. You need energy to use your powers, so you should eat more. Don't worry about food. With your powers, why would you worry about not being able to get food in the future?"

Ning Qiuhe thought her words made a lot of sense.

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Currently, apart from Ning Qiuhe, an indigenous superhuman, the rest of the team are ordinary people. The condition of the man tied to the trailer is still unknown.

To ordinary people, Wei Yanqing is also a superhuman; many people have seen him snap the necks of zombies out of thin air.

Rong Yi felt that there were too few superhumans among humans. If things continued like this, unless ordinary people had firearms, they would just be easy prey for zombies to devour, given how quickly zombies evolved.

Around noon, they walked to a square near Jin'an District. It used to be a place for people to stroll around, but with the rise of square dancing, the place was occupied by elderly people.

The closer they got, the more frequently the zombies appeared.

Until they saw thousands of zombies gathering in the distance, completely blocking the square and the wide road, with road barriers scattered all over the ground.

This situation looks hopeless, at least to ordinary people. To the players, these are all crystal cores!

Rong Yi felt like he was back in the mall. There was a mall here too, but it was completely surrounded by a horde of zombies. Unless you could fly, you couldn't get in from the ground.

The group stopped moving forward and carefully retreated, worried about alerting the large horde of zombies.

"Let's take a detour," someone suggested.

The players shook their heads. "You can take a detour. We need the crystal cores from the zombies' brains; they're very important to us."

The twin-tailed female player who was currently getting along well with Ning Qiuhe said to her, "It's also very important to you. You're an ability user, so you definitely need crystal cores to upgrade."

Ning Qiuhe was caught in a dilemma. Of course, she wanted to become stronger, but her two children were still young, so how could she entrust them to strangers?

Rong Yi observed the area around the square. The mall and the buildings on both sides of the road were now completely surrounded by zombies, so he had to find another way to reach the higher floors.

“The launcher works, but it will inevitably break the glass and attract them.” Wei Yanqing considered this point. It would be easy to carry out if it were just him and Rong Yi, but this was a large team.

Rong Yi slightly raised his head, looking meaningfully at the players, "No rush, it mainly depends on how they decide."

Being in the group meant following the others, ensuring that she and Wei Yanqing could protect themselves even in the event of an accident.

When the natives heard that the player was going to stay, they were disoriented, as they had become accustomed to the player scouting ahead and killing zombies.

For a moment, no one knew what to say. Should they advise the players to take the detour with them? People have weapons and they need crystal cores, so why listen to them and stay? There are so many zombies, they're not just there to be looked at.

(End of this chapter)