However, they were unable to leave the city successfully.
The city guards of Zhusha City blocked all the city gates and entrances, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving Xiangcheng and Jiulongcheng.
A group of soldiers blocked their way. The officer in charge spoke in a very arrogant and impolite manner: "What do you think our Vermilion City is? You think you can just come and go as you please?"
"Let me tell you, once you enter Vermilion City, you must abide by our rules. You need a pass from the relevant department to enter and exit the city gates! If you don't have one, you'd better stay inside the city obediently!"
"What are you doing out of the city? Are you trying to collude with mutated plants or zombies outside? Are you trying to bring danger to our Zhusha City?"
If it were just a simple obstruction, Jiang Wan might not have gotten angry, but this person's words became increasingly impolite and excessive. Jiang Wan could no longer tolerate it and directly took out her rattan whip, lashing it across the other person's face.
He angrily shouted, "What kind of person are you? Can't you speak properly?"
The other guards were enraged by his whip, and they all rolled up their sleeves, ready to fight.
"Hey! You're pretty tough, aren't you? What do you think you're doing outside? You think you can take advantage of our Zhu Sha City's protection and steal our Zhu Sha City's crystals? No way! Stay inside and behave yourselves!"
The group of people joined together, cursing and shoving them to back away.
Jiang Wan and the others finally understood. It turned out they were afraid they would go out and steal the crystals from the zombies!
Oh right, how could they forget about these zombie corpses? The mutations of zombies were more or less influenced by crystals. Many zombie corpses contain crystals, some large, some small, some good, some bad. It's just that digging them up is a bit disgusting. In comparison, Jiang Wan would prefer to dig them up from the ground.
Cheng Zhen didn't tell her these things because he was afraid she would feel disgusted. He only instructed Yu Fen and Yu Yuan to collect as many crystals as possible while they were in the wild.
Now that Jiang Wan knows Zhu Shacheng's ulterior motives for stopping them, she is even less likely to let them get what they want.
She sneered, "Are you sure you don't want us to leave?"
"Didn't your City Lord Zhang or Deputy City Lord Luo tell you that we're all infected with the mutated zombie virus? If we bite you... tsk tsk, you might get infected too!"
Upon hearing this, the soldiers who had been blocking their way all retreated.
In an oxygen-deprived post-apocalyptic world, survival is difficult, and they don't want to lose their lives in vain.
"Heh." Jiang Wan looked at their cowardly appearance, sneered, and led Yu Fen and the others away.
The guards at the city gate wanted to come over, but they didn't resist or fight. They just bared their teeth and bared their teeth. If anyone dared to come up and stop them, they would bite them, and that's how the virus would be transmitted!
Who would dare to come now?
So by the time the higher-ups received the news and sent people to stop them, Jiang Wan and his group had already left the city gates and appeared in the wilderness.
Jiang Wan assigned tasks: "Five people follow me, shovel snow and dig up plants, the more the better."
He owed 5,000 gold coins. If it were just ordinary plants, he would have to dig up 5,000 plants and ensure that at least 500 different varieties were used.
That's quite a challenge!
There are only five days, which is too tight!
She could only hope to find some Class II protected wild plants; she didn't think much of Class I ones, as she felt her luck wasn't that good.
The remaining superhumans and city dwellers then obtained the crystals from inside the zombies and underground, respectively.
Jiang Wan's luck was indeed not very good. The first patch of snow she decided to target was full of ordinary weeds. She dug up more than a dozen varieties but still couldn't collect 200 gold coins.
This is just too inefficient!
She suddenly regretted not bringing Jiang Xiaoxin with her when she came out. With her there, they might have been able to find the Class II protected wild plants much faster.
Just as she was thinking this, a dark portal to another dimension suddenly opened beside her, and Jiang Xiaoxin and Jiang Xiaoshu walked out of it.
Jiang Wan was pleasantly surprised: "Why are you here?"
Jiang Xiaoxin proudly shook her head: "Let's help Mommy!"
Jiang Wan glanced at the negative 4800 gold coins displayed on the tree hole space shelf and couldn't help but laugh helplessly: "That's right, Mom really needs your help."
Jiang Xiaoxin's greatest desire was to have her abilities proven, so she happily winked at her brother, her little expression seeming to say, "See? See! I'm useful after all!"
Jiang Xiaoshu remained silent, activating his purification ability to prove his strength through action. Jiang Xiaoxin didn't argue with him, but instead activated her sensory ability and asked Jiang Wan, "Mom, what kind of plant do you want to find?"
"If we can find a Class II protected plant, or..." Jiang Wan paused, feeling that she shouldn't go into too much detail, so she explained simply, "It would be best if we could find a relatively rare plant."
Jiang Xiaoxin nodded to indicate that she had made a mental note, and then gave an adorable OK sign, assuring him, "Don't worry, I'll definitely find it for you."
Her sensory ability, simply put, is that she can communicate with mutated plants, which in turn communicate with other mutated plants further away, until she gets the answers she wants.
The mutated plants outside Zhusha City had been almost completely wiped out, and a large-scale zombie siege had just occurred here. Cheng Zhen was not comfortable letting them go any further; the furthest they could go was here. Therefore, Jiang Xiaoxin's sensory ability took a long time to work.
By the time Yu Fen and the others had received a considerable amount of crystals, enough for the ability users in Xiangcheng and Kowloon City to absorb energy.
Jiang Xiaoxin then ended this sensing session.
"Mom, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
Jiang Wan has always been an optimistic person, so she said, "Then tell me the good news first."
Jiang Xiaoxin then said, "There are some rare roses on a mountain 50 kilometers north of here."
"There is a type of rose that is said to have very beautiful flowers, and it can also produce very beautiful and delicious fruit."
"It has beautiful flowers and produces pretty and delicious fruit?" Jiang Wan had a rough idea in mind, then asked, "Are there many?"
Jiang Xiaoxin nodded: "There seem to be about ten of these."
Jiang Wan did the math and figured that even if there were only ten trees, they would still be worth 500 gold coins. There must be other plants nearby, so it was definitely worth the trip. She made her decision almost immediately: she had to go.
Seeing that her mother had clearly forgotten another piece of news, Jiang Xiaoxin quickly reminded her, "Mom, you forgot there's bad news!"
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