Chapter 13: Face Chen Chen again. Everyone in your base, including...
Tang Ning was almost mad as a puffer fish on the inside, but he still had to smile on the surface.
Another of the man's men also said: "Boss, we came too late and have nothing left, but these crystal cores can be regarded as compensation for our losses. It's not in vain."
The man nodded slightly to show that he understood, but did not say anything. He seemed to be a taciturn person.
"Wait a moment." Ji An slowly stood up with Tangning's support. He still felt weak and asked faintly, "Excuse me, are you from the Jing City Base?"
The man turned his head and looked at Ji An. His eyes were dark and deep, like an endless tunnel, which made Ji An feel inexplicably dangerous, but the man did not answer Ji An's question.
Instead, the man's subordinate said, "We are from the Jing City base. Which base are you from? Which base is so bold as to release a third-level psychic non-combatant?"
Ji An still couldn't figure out why these people knew his special abilities and their levels.
"We are..." Tangning was about to answer when Ji An pulled her back.
"I know that the Jingshi base accepts ordinary people and people with special abilities with clean backgrounds all year round. We want to join the Jingshi base. Can we go with you?" Ji An took out the third-level zombie crystal core he had obtained before. "We can provide supplies. Can these crystal cores be counted as our travel expenses?"
"Level three crystal core, of course this is possible..." The man's subordinates were excited to accept Ji An's crystal core, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he felt a cold wind blowing on the back of his neck. He turned around and saw his boss's cold eyes.
The man's subordinate swallowed the rest of his words, choked, and then retracted his hand, touched his nose through the protective suit, and said embarrassedly: "Well, you have to ask our boss about this."
The man's lackey asked, "Boss, do you think this is okay?"
The man coldly withdrew his gaze, looked at Ji An with his dark eyes that showed no emotion, and said, "No."
"Why?" Ji An and the man's men asked in unison.
Ji An was fine. Tangning was also curious and supported him in asking. But the man's subordinates were in a miserable state. They were covered by the mouth by the cool girl and dragged away, the way they would drag a dead dog.
“Wuwuwu…” The man’s subordinates whimpered and struggled desperately, but unfortunately they could not break free.
The man then spoke again: "Not enough."
After hearing these two cold words, Ji An understood what the man meant. He meant that these crystal cores were not enough for travel expenses.
But the performance of his men just now clearly showed that this was enough, perhaps even far more.
Ji An took a deep breath and said, "I have experimental equipment in my hand. I am willing to hand over all of it."
When he heard the word "experimental equipment", the man's expression changed immediately, including his subordinate, who stopped playing around and all looked over.
Ji An took out several precious experimental instruments from the space, and then quickly took them back. Although his movements were fast, they were still clear enough for everyone present to see.
Although Ji An could only see the man's eyes, he could see that his expression had turned serious.
"You are also a space ability user, a dual ability user of mental power and space ability. Oh my God! Can mental ability users awaken other abilities?" The man's subordinates started yelling again.
But no one paid any attention to him. "I still have a lot of experimental equipment in my space. I am willing to hand it over."
"Conditions." A man would never be so foolish as to think that he could use so many precious equipment as travel expenses. There must be other conditions.
He is a smart man, Ji An thought. It is easy to talk to smart people. He said, "In exchange, the Jingshi base will accept the two of us and provide us with accommodation. We don't have to live in a dormitory, we can live in a single room. It would be best if we have our own house, one or two bedrooms are fine.
In addition, we need to be provided with meals for three years, and the most basic meals at the base will be enough.
I also want a separate laboratory, and I want to have lifelong use rights to all the experimental equipment in the base."
There was a lot of food in Ji An's space, so he had no shortage of food. But Tang Ning did not. As an ordinary person who had not yet awakened her superpowers, she had to fight for food with her life.
Moreover, Tangning had put in a lot of effort in collecting the experimental equipment and hunting zombies. Even if it was distributed according to work, this was what she deserved.
Three years of food is more than enough for Tang Ning’s contribution this time.
The man looked at Ji An with a strange look in his eyes. Silence spread between the two. For some reason, Ji An always felt that this man must be difficult to talk to, so he said: "If you can't make the decision, you can take me back and I will talk to your commander."
The man glanced at Ji An, didn't say yes or no, and turned and left!
What does this mean? Is this okay? Give me some advice!
Ji An was confused for a moment, but the man's men had already come over. He was much more friendly than the man, just like winter compared to summer. "The boss is the highest commander of our base. He can make all the decisions about the base."
The female psychic whose voice sounded very cool also said: "This is how the boss is. You will know in the future. Don't take it to heart."
"You don't know, the residents of our base privately call our boss a humanoid killing machine, a machine without emotions that only knows how to kill. His handsome face is as cruel as his personality is."
The man's subordinate scratched his head and said, "But speaking of it, the boss was indeed very strange today. Even though he was cold-hearted in the past, he was never as strange as he is today! Is it because you are too good-looking? The boss can't stand seeing anyone prettier than him, but you two are obviously different types! The boss is the kind of masculine handsome guy, and you are the kind of androgynous beauty."
"Shut up!" The woman rolled her eyes.
The man didn't know why he was being scolded, so he shrugged his shoulders.
"Let's go." said the woman, and followed the main group.
Ji An was completely exhausted and leaned on Tang Ning. Tang Ning was an ordinary woman who had not awakened any special powers. She had limited strength and could not support Ji An at all. After taking only two steps, they both fell down.
Tang Ning pressed his whole body on Ji An, which was already weak, and the situation became worse. Ji An couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
The man walking in front and making a lot of noise turned around and said, "I'll carry you."
"Thank you." Ji An knew his physical condition and did not try to be brave.
The man's men came over and squatted in front of Ji An. Ji An was about to climb up when suddenly darkness enveloped his head. When he looked up, he met a pair of cold eyes.
Then Ji An's body felt lighter and he was picked up by the cold man.
Ji An was stunned, his face disheveled by the wind, and he couldn't understand what this man meant.
Didn't he hate him? He was obviously very difficult to talk to just now. He was unwilling to take them back to the Beijing base even with a reward far exceeding the travel expenses. In the end, he was impressed by his experimental equipment.
Why are you still offering to help him now? Shouldn't you pretend you didn't hear it even if you heard it?
Ji An didn't know that the man's men had opened their mouths wide enough to dislocate their joints.
Their boss actually took the initiative to hug someone? Doesn’t their boss have an allergy to humans?
However, Ji An soon discovered something was wrong. As the man carried him along the way, almost all the psychics who saw him stopped immediately and saluted.
This is very abnormal.
The man carried Ji An up the stairs. As soon as he came out, he found zombies that had come because of the smell.
Flame tongues, wind blades, wood vines...all kinds of superpowers emerged one after another, pouring out from behind them. But in the blink of an eye, they opened a path for the two of them.
There were several vans parked on the side of the road. The man walked to the middle one, opened the door, put Ji An in, and then turned around and sat in the driver's seat.
The man's men followed him out one after another. Ji An saw Tang Ning trying to catch up, but was placed in another car.
Everyone got in the car, and the zombies behind followed. Ji An looked through the rearview mirror and found that this wave of zombies was divided into three groups.
The man sitting next to him leaned half of his body out of the car window and threw two grenades backwards.
Grenade was thrown into the pile of zombies, blowing them into pieces, leaving limbs and arms broken. A fire-type mutant sprayed out a red dragon, which instantly burned the zombies to ashes.
"Hello, we'll be in the same base from now on. Nice to meet you. My name is Kong Zhongcheng, and I'm a level 4 early stage power user." The man's subordinate bumped Ji An with his shoulder. "The one driving is the boss of our Jing City base, Gu Jinsheng, a level 5 peak power user of both the lightning and wind systems."
Kong Zhongcheng whispered, "That tomboy is called Wan Xueying, a level 4 peak psychic."
Wan Xueying was the cool and cheerful woman. She sneered when she heard the words, which made Kong Zhongcheng shiver. He smiled at Wan Xueying in a flattering way.
"I was scared to death." Kong Zhongcheng patted his chest and said, "By the way, what's your name?"
"My name is Ji An, and I have both spiritual and spatial abilities."
"You are really amazing. This is the first time I have seen a non-combat psychic type who can awaken into a dual-type level 3 early stage psychic."
Kong Zhongcheng blinked his eyes. "Hey, Ji An, how does it feel to be hugged by our boss? Do you know that our boss has never hugged a living thing other than you? Can you believe that he is still a virgin at this age?
"Do you think our boss hates you or not?" Kong Zhongcheng's eyes flashed with gossip.
Wan Xueying's eyes were rolled up to the sky.
Ji An was silent, how could he know!
The mental pressure in the last days is high and many people have mental problems. Is it possible that their boss has schizophrenia and has two personalities, so he does things in a split way?
Ji An didn't know if he had two personalities, but the team he led was really amazing. He took the initiative to attack zombies when he met them along the way, and he was not afraid of the zombie swarms. He threw a few grenades to blow the zombies to pieces, and then burned the zombies' bodies to ashes.
After many psychics kill zombies, as long as there are fire-type psychics, they will burn the zombies' bodies.
Because zombies carry zombie viruses, even if the zombies die, the viruses will not die. These viruses will rot with the zombies, seep into the land, and then pollute the land and water sources. If they are accidentally eaten by animals, the animals may be infected with the zombie virus.
Therefore, any capable team of psychics will burn the zombies to ashes with fire after hunting them down.
Along the way, Ji An witnessed the strength of this team, and also understood the gap between Chen Chen's base and the Beijing base.
There was no shortage of level 3 top-level psychics in the Jing City base, but there were only enough to be a team leader. However, Chen Chen could be the base commander, and he was a gap in the third base.
Seven years after the apocalypse, the Jingshi base has begun to take shape and most of its pre-apocalyptic infrastructure has been restored, making it a city.
Many factories and workshops in the base have been reopened and have basically returned to their pre-apocalyptic conditions.
Ordinary people can work as workers in factories without having to risk their lives. Although they don’t earn as much as people with special powers, they will definitely have no problem supporting themselves.
Ji An listened to Kong Zhongcheng's introduction along the way and gained a preliminary understanding of the Jingshi Base. He also knew that the Jingshi Base attached great importance to scientific researchers.
Ji An knew that he had come to the right place.
About three days later, when their team was one kilometer away from the Jingshi base, they met teams from other bases.
The other party first turned on the double flashes, indicating that they had something to say. When they got closer, a familiar face stretched out from the car. It was Chen Chen.
"Hello, may I ask, have you seen a Level 2 Psychic? Is there an ordinary woman with unawakened powers beside him?"
As if he was afraid that he couldn't explain it clearly, he added: "He may also pretend to be an ordinary person, and he may not be accompanied by an ordinary woman. But he is very beautiful, the kind of androgynous beauty?"
Hearing the other party's question, Kong Zhongcheng, who was sitting next to him, immediately turned to look at Ji An, his eyes wide open, flashing with a strong desire for gossip.
"I didn't see him. Who is that from your base?" Wan Xueying, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, asked, leaning her head out.
"I'm ashamed to say this." Chen Chen said with shame: "It's all a scandal of our base. That person is a traitor of our base. He stole our base's supplies and absconded."
At this moment, Gu Jinsheng, who was sitting in the driver's seat, suddenly sneered, "Waste!"
Chen Chen's face changed. He never dreamed that the other party would scold him like this.
Wan Xueying seemed to be afraid that Chen Chen would not understand, so she explained: "What our boss meant was that your base actually allowed a non-combat psychic and an ordinary person to steal the stored materials in the base warehouse. Everyone in your base, including you, is trash!"
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