"Hello, Miss Xu." At the front of the team, Captain Yang, whose military uniform had many patches, greeted Xu Xuening enthusiastically. He didn't look very old, but his hair was already full of white, and his dark yellow face had several fresh scars.
Xu Xuening saw confusion and fatigue in his eyes. It was the confusion about the future after experiencing repeated failures in the end times. He clearly wanted to survive, wanted to survive in this turbulent and dangerous era, but his heart and his body were not ready.
Most people do not have the ability to deal with the apocalyptic crisis, and they haven't even adjusted their mindset.
They were still in a daze, not knowing what they could do. They just wanted to wait for rescue and thought they would be rescued.
However, because of this mentality, in the two months before the end of the world, which were also the two months with the highest number of casualties, many people died in the cities where they stayed.
He missed the best time to escape and set out on the road alone. In the end, he didn't even get out of the city gate before he was bitten by zombies.
Only a small number of people escaped.
Just like the group in front of us.
Captain Yang was a decisive person. After seeing the situation, he immediately organized people to start rescue and led the rescued people towards Huacheng.
"Among so many cities, why do you want to go to Huacheng?" Xie Yan looked at Captain Yang and asked.
Captain Yang gave a wry smile, "Because we only have zombies left."
Xie Yan: ...
There was silence, and the atmosphere immediately became cold.
Xu Xuening knew that the fall of entire villages and towns was not uncommon. Humanity simply didn't have the necessary capacity to cope with the zombie virus outbreak. The annihilation of entire cities was commonplace during the later stages of her escape. By that time, living people might have become a rare sight.
The fact that he was able to take these people away showed that he was not the kind of person who stuck to the old ways.
"You've done your best to bring so many people out." Xu Xuening thought it was nearly impossible to lead a group of tens of thousands of people. It would be a large target and difficult to manage. Even the military couldn't directly manage such a large population, not to mention that the ordinary people of Anxie were simply not prepared to deal with zombies.
Hearing Xu Xuening's words of comfort, Captain Yang let out a wry smile, "So many people died, alas... let's not talk about this anymore."
He raised his head and looked at Xu Xuening, with a hint of expectation in his eyes, but he hid it carefully, fearing that he would scare the woman in front of him or offend her.
Captain Yang mentally composed his words before cautiously asking, "Um, Ms. Xu, I just heard from Boss Xie that you, no, are you really willing to share the method to improve your superpowers?"
Xu Xuening nodded. "Don't be so reserved. Even if I don't tell you, I believe you will find out soon."
"What?" Captain Yang looked at her curiously.
"If you want to gain superpowers, start by killing zombies. Zombies have crystals in their bodies. But not all zombies have them. The more powerful the zombies, the more likely they are to have them."
"But we had a military doctor perform an autopsy before, and they didn't see the crystal you mentioned at all." Captain Yang shook his head.
It’s not that no one in the team has read fantasy or science fiction. After the young soldiers encountered the zombies and received the order to kill them, some of them had already searched the area and didn’t find any crystals.
Seeing zombies appear but no crystals really hit a group of innocent older babies.
"The zombies you dissected were when zombies were first discovered, right?" Xu Xuening asked.
Captain Yang nodded honestly.
"Back then, zombies certainly hadn't formed crystals." Xu Xuening remembered that when Duan Wei kidnapped Xiao Hai, the zombies he found were identical to the zombies from her previous life. However, since she came down the mountain, she'd noticed a lot of things were amiss, starting with the zombies' evolution.
"Zombies have also begun to evolve. The crystals I found are basically only found by evolved zombies." Xu Xuening explained to Captain Yang.
Captain Yang immediately became interested. "Then why not look for those zombies that run fast? They are considered evolved."
Hearing this, Xie Yan shook his head. "No, my lab has done research and found that those zombies that run fast may not have crystals. At least, I had never seen any crystals before Xu Xuening came."
That’s true.
Xu Xuening thought of Xie Yan's small base. With such a well-equipped laboratory, they'd barely managed to develop a few zombies before internal strife completely crumbled. With their family's spirit stones, they'd probably only managed to cultivate a few capable individuals.
Unfortunately, this Young Master Xie was extremely unlucky. One of his capable men died, and the other one even rebelled and became his grandfather's subordinate.
When Captain Yang heard what Xie Yan said, a look of disappointment appeared on his face.
He looked at Xu Xuening, hoping that he could give him a good idea, at least to improve the capabilities of the soldiers in their team, so that they could have fewer deaths.
Receiving Captain Yang's expectant gaze, Xu Xuening tilted his head and thought about how he had dug up the zombies in the first place.
"Most of the time I rely on my intuition. Some zombies walk very slowly, but I always feel something is wrong. I will take action before a zombie attacks me. Usually this feeling is very accurate, so I can find the crystal quickly."
"Then Miss Xu, can you show me the crystal you mentioned?" Captain Yang looked at Xu Xuening expectantly.
"Okay." Xu Xuening nodded and took out a few small stones from her pocket.
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