Huang Zhao stored the Level 6 energy crystal into his special ability space.

The mutated kapok tree has no chance of ever recovering.

"Finally solved!"

Huang Zhao breathed a sigh of relief; the mutated plant was indeed resilient.

However, the rewards for killing them are also enormous.

A level-six energy crystal, containing nearly 100,000 kapok flower fruits within the supernatural space.

This is a great thing that can be directly absorbed as an energy crystal.

The mental perception system covers the area, and there are nearly a million zombie corpses still lying beneath the ground!

These are all zombies killed by the mutated kapok tree within the area shrouded in its red mist.

How many people lived within a 10-kilometer radius of Guangzhou before the apocalypse?

Huang Zhao had not learned the specifics, but there were nearly four million people within a ten-kilometer radius of Dawn City.

Guangzhou's population is clearly no smaller than that of Shanghai.

The nutrients from these zombies enabled the mutated kapok trees to grow at an extremely rapid rate.

But this also made him a target that the human survivors had to eliminate.

Huang Zhao planned to inform the Southern Theater Command about the zombie situation so that they could consider digging out the zombies and extracting the crystals when they were free to deal with the situation.

but...

Huang Zhao glanced at the endless hordes of corpses in the city.

I think killing the zombies outside is much easier and faster than digging a hole.

It was getting late, and Huang Zhao piloted Daqiang towards the Southern Theater Command base.

Chen Run, with an indifferent expression, was carried on his back. Covered in alloy armor, no one would notice anything unusual about him.

Huang Zhao was also curious about what the military region commander wanted to talk to him about.

The main body is still in the northern district, protecting the military soldiers as they clean up the battlefield.

The number of energy crystals collected has exceeded 200,000!

This is enough to equal the total number of crystals that the war zone base has collected so far in its fight against zombies.

Almost everyone in the war zone has absorbed crystals and broken through to level one.

However, this was still not enough for everyone to absorb it freely; only some officers and warriors with awakened superpowers could receive priority access to crystal energy to upgrade their levels.

With this achievement, the overall strength of the Southern Theater Command base can achieve a leap forward.

Thinking of this, Commander Zhang's gaze towards Huang Zhao softened considerably.

Huang Zhao didn't feel much about this; he could produce more than 200,000 energy crystals a day in the incineration pool in Dawn City.

Now he values ​​high-level energy crystals more.

The newly acquired level-six energy crystal was exactly what he needed right now.

In a good mood, Huang Zhao manipulated Da Qiang to do several 360° spins in the air.

It then landed on an open area of ​​the war zone base.

His consciousness shifted to Chen Run's mind as he walked toward the approaching war zone officer.

"Please come with me."

At this moment, Huang Zhao's consciousness was at a level roughly equivalent to that of a level four ability user who had just broken through to the fourth level.

Even if one's perception is expanded to the maximum, the other party can still detect his probing.

Huang Zhao controlled the perception area, which was about 400 meters, and compressed it to about 100 meters again.

Using the techniques he had previously learned from exploring with Qin Yi, when the pressure was reduced to about one-third, his mental perception would not be detected by other ability users.

There was no need to hide it before, so Huang Zhao had always expanded to the maximum extent possible.

At this time, it was known that the superhumans in the military region had studied this area.

Out of respect for the other party, Huang Zhao decided to restrain himself a bit.

Sitting down in a conference room in the underground base, Huang Zhao met with Commander Wang Jiaobin again.

In his mental perception, there was a faint pink glow, but Huang Zhao had not yet confirmed the other party's ability type.

"Is this our first official meeting?"

"Since you know about spiritual perception, you should understand that there is actually not much difference between meeting in this context and meeting in perception."

Huang Zhao answered neither humbly nor arrogantly.

A young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses behind Wang Jiaobin pushed up his glasses and said:

"Chen Run, 21 years old, is the sole heir of the Chen Group in Shanghai. He stockpiled a large amount of supplies and built a shelter before the outbreak of the apocalypse."

"Huang Zhao, 21 years old, from Huadu District, Guangzhou, graduated this June."

"Ning Chuxia, 20 years old, from Huadu District of Guangzhou, is a sophomore at East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai."

Upon hearing this, Huang Zhao looked up at the young man, not surprised that the other party could so easily find out his information.

Turning to look at Wang Jiaobin, who was still scrutinizing him, he asked:

"The investigation is complete, so what's next?"

"Commander Wang wouldn't have just called me here to say this, would he?"

Wang Jiaobin chuckled lightly, and seeing that Huang Zhao seemed somewhat angry, said:

"It doesn't mean anything else. Communication always requires some basic understanding. This information is based on what I guessed from the two survivors you took away."

"I know you came all the way from Shanghai. I asked you to come here today because I have something I'd like to ask you to do."

Huang Zhao curled his lip, feeling somewhat speechless at their behavior.

He still prefers to speak his mind directly, rather than beating around the bush.

"Just tell me, and if it's not too much trouble, I can help you out."

“Our military region currently lacks the means for long-distance raids and is unable to contact other military regions. We hope you can bring this USB drive to Commander Lin of the Eastern Theater Command.”

Wang Jiaobin took out a USB drive and pushed it in front of Huang Zhao.

The Eastern Theater Command is located in Nanjing, about 300 kilometers northwest of Shanghai, which is indeed not far.

How could Wang Jiaobin be sure that the other side could also preserve the items intact, just like the Southern Theater Command?

Furthermore, the Southern Theater Command's strength was still relatively intact at this time, which piqued Huang Zhao's curiosity, so he asked:

"Since there's no way to communicate over long distances, how did you confirm that the Eastern Theater Command hadn't fallen?"

Upon hearing this question, everyone present showed unusual expressions.

This piqued Huang Zhao's curiosity even more, and then he heard the other party reply:

"The changes after the apocalypse are too great. Do you believe that anyone can accurately transmit information over a distance of 2,000 kilometers?"

"On the first day of the apocalypse, I received a message from the capital city, which consisted of only one sentence."

"Zombie crystals, rescue survivors, activate the shelter."

"Inspired by this statement, I led the remaining troops to recapture the occupied military region by relying on the absorbed energy crystals."

Hearing this, Huang Zhao was shaken and began to have some guesses.

This is probably the message conveyed by the prophetic ability user in the capital city, known as the Dragon Kingdom's Prophet.

However, the fact that they were able to use their supernatural abilities to send messages to the commanders of various war zones right after the apocalypse broke out must have come at a great cost.

Sure enough, Wang Jiaobin added:

"But since then, I haven't received a second message."

"However, given the warnings, the situation in other war zones shouldn't be much worse than mine."

Huang Zhao's facial expression was well hidden inside his armor and was not revealed.

The other party was willing to reveal this information in order to intimidate him.

The official Dragon Kingdom has powerful superhumans, which makes unofficial superhumans with real power more restrained.

"I can promise to deliver the USB drive to the Eastern Theater Command."

"However, I also have a few questions I'd like to ask. I wonder if Commander Wang could answer them for me?"