Chapter 348 The Person Disappeared
Cheng Zhen thought that Jiang Xiaoxin was just playing around as a child and didn't take it seriously.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw her expression: smug, a little arrogant, and determined.
Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he went up to the little girl, served her a bowl of steamed egg custard, and then picked out two pieces of lean braised pork to show his attentiveness.
"Honey, do you know something? Tell me quickly."
"This child is teachable!"
The young girl, having picked up the phrase from who-knows-where, sighed briefly but didn't mince words, telling him, "I don't know now, but I can send my men to inquire!"
Cheng Zhen and Jiang Wan couldn't help but exchange a glance, and then they suddenly realized!
She has ten mutated rose assistants to command! These mutated plants can go out and blend into the wild without attracting anyone's attention.
Moreover, they are plants themselves, so finding minerals or landmarks is not difficult for them at all!
Cheng Zhen couldn't help but burst into laughter: "That's great, Xin Xin! You really are our lucky star! Tell them to go out and inquire right now! The sooner the better!"
Jiang Xiaoxin did not refuse. She told the ten mutated rose assistants the characteristics of the items they needed to find, as Cheng Zhen described. They immediately shrank to a few centimeters in size and then split into ten different directions, disappearing into the wild to search for the target.
With their help, Cheng Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. But in the blink of an eye, he saw the little girl looking at him with a half-smile.
He immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you help me for nothing. Just tell me what you need me to do!"
Jiang Xiaoxin smiled and generously said, "I'll pay you back when I remember. It's not the first time anyway."
Cheng Zhen nodded and immediately agreed, "Okay, okay."
I owe this little girl two favors!
But Cheng Zhen's facial expression told Jiang Wan that he was happy to do it.
Jiang Xiaoxin's message came very quickly:
First, the water on the other side of the river has become clean, and all the zombie fish have disappeared. In their place, there are some strange-shaped fish that, based on preliminary analysis, do not require oxygen and have no offensive capabilities.
Secondly, the forests in the wild are now teeming with many creatures, both fierce and harmless, of all sizes, and of similar species to those found in the wild before the end of the world.
They all share two common characteristics: they do not require oxygen, and they can coexist peacefully with mutated plants and zombies.
Third, the fresh flesh and blood of humans in their two cities are a great temptation to the mutated plants and zombies on the mountain.
Fourth, this message was about oxygen storage materials, and it arrived quite late, five days after it came.
The oxygen storage materials are located 800 kilometers to the north, in a large building materials market with ample supply.
The fifth message concerns materials for making weapons and ammunition.
If we source this material locally, there are plenty of natural minerals two or three hundred kilometers away from here; you can find almost anything you need.
However, if that seems too much trouble, there is a very rich material warehouse more than 600 kilometers to the west, filled with semi-finished military equipment.
Why these things are there remains a mystery to them.
This is undoubtedly good news for Cheng Zhen and his team, as it can save a lot of production time.
Cheng Zhen immediately dispatched three teams, one of which would take enough space-type ability users to the north to collect oxygen storage materials, as much as they could.
One team continued clearing the mountain path. Now that the river across the woods had become clear, they needed clean water even more to irrigate their crops and forests.
Cheng Zhen personally led the city guards and space-type ability users to the west to obtain semi-finished products for manufacturing weapons and ammunition.
The superhumans he had previously taken out, whose strength had all increased by chance, were all divided equally among the three teams to enhance their individual abilities.
Jiang Wan was also a space-type ability user, so she set off with Cheng Zhen.
They originally thought they would encounter many dangers along the way, such as Cheng Wenshan secretly coveting their territory, or being attacked by zombies or monsters.
However, the reality is that everything went quite smoothly for them.
There wasn't even anyone guarding the weapons and ammunition depot; there were no living people there. The only guards had all turned into zombies, and the lowest kind at that, completely incapable of fighting.
There's a lot of inventory here, but Jiang Wan's tree hole space can be expanded according to demand, so she can handle it all by herself, even if she has to collect all the goods in the entire factory.
The process went quite smoothly here, so they turned north to help Long Wanzhi collect oxygen materials. Each of their teams brought two or three Rose assistants with them.
With Jiang Xiaoxin around, they could easily obtain each other's geographical location.
But when they actually found the place, they discovered that things weren't so simple.
Everything went smoothly before, but it was just a prelude to the troubles that are now.
This building materials factory is very large, and it has a lot of oxygen-storing building materials. When they arrived, there were many zombie corpses lying on the ground, which were obviously killed by humans.
However, Long Wanzhi and the others had disappeared.
Cheng Zhen asked Jiang Xiaoxin, "Are you sure they're all here and haven't left?"
"We've confirmed that they're all here and out of danger."
Jiang Xiaoxin gave a very confident answer.
Jiang Wan: "But there's not a trace of them here."
"Now that the person is here, let's search around again, and be more careful."
Cheng Zhen still trusted Jiang Xiaoxin. Just as everyone was about to split up to search, Jiang Xiaoxin suddenly said:
"No! No! They're in danger! There's a monster... that looks like an eagle but has horns on its head attacking them!"
Jiang Wan's first reaction was that they had encountered a species from the Classic of Mountains and Seas again.
Based on Jiang Xiaoxin's description, it was immediately confirmed: "It should be a Gu Diao, which eats people!"
Cheng Zhen immediately looked up at the horizon, but saw nothing. Everything was calm and peaceful. They didn't see a single bird, let alone the terrifying Gu Diao. The sky was empty, with nothing at all.
Just then, Jiang Xiaoshu suddenly sensed something was wrong. He used his purification ability to explore his surroundings, but suddenly ran into a wall at the entrance of the building materials market.
He found it strange and tried to probe again, but was bounced back by a powerful force.
The opponent was quite strong, and he was caught off guard and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Jiang Wan was startled and quickly shielded him, asking, "Xiao Shu, what happened?"
Cheng Zhen looked thoughtfully at the open space at the entrance, and then, like Jiang Xiaoshu, released his purification power in that direction.
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