Chapter 98 Allies (First Update)
The place where Zhou Yan invited the brother and sister to dinner was where he was living now. Due to current conditions, there were no restaurants in the security zone. Although Zhou Yan's position in the army was not low, he did not have a separate house. Instead, he lived with his comrades in a four-bedroom, two-living-room suite next to the security hospital.
Because Zhou Yan had asked someone to go back and prepare food in advance, when he brought Fang Yuxin and Fang Yuyang home, the food was already ready and the whole house was filled with tempting aroma.
Compared to other survivors, their food was pretty good. Not only did they have fragrant rice, but they also had delicious canned meat and vacuum-packed smoked meat and sausages.
Such a meal would be very common before the end of the world, and even considered simple for many people, but in such an end of the world, it is considered quite sumptuous. Zhou Yan had people prepare these foods, and it was obviously quite sincere.
In addition to Zhou Yan and the Fang siblings, there were seven other people eating together, all of whom were Zhou Yan's comrades-in-arms, totaling 10 people. The dining table was two small folding tables put together, and everyone squeezed together and sat cross-legged around the table. There was not only food on the table, but also a bottle of white wine.
At the beginning of the apocalypse, wine was not too rare, but later on, it could be sold at a sky-high price. However, Zhou Yan did not have much wine, and if it was not for thanking the brother and sister, he would not have been willing to take it out.
Seeing the bottle of wine, the seven soldiers' eyes began to glow green, and they urged Zhou Yan to open it quickly. Zhou Yan opened the lid himself and poured a little into everyone's bowl. When it was Fang Yuxin's turn, he specifically asked, "Miss Fang, do you want to drink?"
Fang Yuxin can drink, but she doesn't usually drink much. Zhou Yan's hospitality made it hard for her to refuse, so she nodded and said, "I can drink a little."
Zhou Yan, considering that she was a woman after all, symbolically poured her some wine. After pouring the wine, he took the initiative to raise the wine bowl and said excitedly: "Come on! Cheers! Cheers to Miss Fang! Thank you for curing our comrade!"
"To Miss Fang! Thank you Miss Fang for healing our comrade!"
The atmosphere instantly became heated.
After finishing this bowl, Zhou Yan didn't let anyone drink any more, firstly because there wasn't much wine left, and secondly because he was worried about causing trouble.
"Okay! Let's eat now!" Following Zhou Yan's words, others served their rice and started to wolf it down with chopsticks.
The soldiers ate very quickly. After they gobbled up most of the food on their plates, they left the remaining small portion for the Fang brothers and sisters.
The brother and sister looked at each other and had to speed up their meal.
After dinner, it’s time to get down to business.
Fang Yuyang glanced at Fang Yuxin and said to Zhou Yan, "Captain Zhou, we have something to say to you. Can we ask these friends to step aside for a while?"
Zhou Yan frowned slightly, looking at the brother and sister in doubt. Then he suddenly thought of something, his face changed instantly, and he said to the others: "You guys go out and be on guard first, be careful, don't let others get close to here, and don't let anyone notice anything."
The seven people obviously listened to him. After hearing his words, they just looked at Fang Yuyang and Fang Yuxin in confusion and walked out together.
The heavy security door closed behind them with a dull thud that was especially noticeable at night.
Zhou Yan deliberately lowered his voice: "If you two have anything to say, you can say it now."
Fang Yuxin didn't waste any words and directly said what he had thought of at the beginning: "Captain Zhou should still remember the residential building surrounded by zombies? It was too unusual for that mental zombie to surround that place. After killing it, my brother and I found something."
Captain Zhou guessed that what Fang Yuxin had discovered must be very unusual, so he asked eagerly, "What did you find?"
Fang Yuxin took out the water element crystal from his waist bag and spread it on his palm to show Zhou Yan: "This is it."
"It? What is this?" Zhou Yan looked at the water element crystal in Fang Yuxin's palm in confusion. The whole crystal was as big as a longan, and it emitted a strange energy fluctuation that was different from the crystal core. Zhou Yan hesitated for a moment, stretched out his fingers and picked up the crystal. As soon as he took the crystal in his hand, he felt its difference, "Miss Fang, what on earth is this? Is it also used for absorption?"
As soon as he got the crystal, he sensed that it could be used for absorption. However, he had already awakened his fire ability and could not absorb the water crystal at all, so the sense was not very strong.
Fang Yuxin said: "I don't know what it is. My brother and I found four of them. Three of them were accidentally absorbed by our parents and Qianqian, leaving only this one."
Zhou Yan was even more surprised, and at the same time he understood the difference of this Yuan Crystal from her words. As far as he knew, those three people were ordinary people. If they could absorb this kind of thing, then...
Zhou Yan was not sure about his guess, so he asked, "Miss Fang, if I remember correctly, your father, mother, and that little Qianqian should be ordinary people, right? How could they absorb this kind of crystal?"
Fang Yuxin nodded, confirming his guess: "They did absorb it, so I guess this kind of crystal should be something that ordinary people can absorb."
Zhou Yan's breathing became rapid, and a guess that he dared not even think about arose in his mind: "So, after they absorbed this crystal stone, did anything change?"
Fang Yuxin seemed very calm, in stark contrast to his anxiety: "They have awakened their superpowers."
"What!" Zhou Yan exclaimed loudly, completely losing his composure, "Ms. Fang, are you telling the truth?" Although he had just guessed this possibility, it was too unbelievable and he didn't dare to believe it was true!
After seeing Fang Yuxin nod affirmatively, Zhou Yan immediately asked: "Ms. Fang specifically told me this news, so I believe you know how to find this kind of crystal stone, right?" After Zhou Yan finished speaking, he stared at Fang Yuxin.
He was actually very nervous. This news was too important. If it was true, and if they could find this kind of crystal, then ordinary people could also awaken safely and become psychics!
But why did Fang Yuxin tell him such important news? What was her purpose?
Zhou Yan was not a fool, he quickly became suspicious, and then he thought of Zheng Tianhe. Zheng Tianhe has been working on the research of awakening superpowers and zombie virus vaccines, and now he has set his sights on Fang Yuxin, which makes him think more!
Thinking about it carefully, Fang Yuxin told him this news for a very complicated purpose! However, no matter what her purpose was, he was very grateful that she told him such important news!
But he couldn't understand. Fang Yuxin was Qiu Yiming's fiancée. Why didn't she tell Qiu Yiming such important news, but told him instead?
Zhou Yan didn't think Fang Yuxin had told Qiu Yiming. If she had told Qiu Yiming such important news, there would be no need to tell him again. The army was divided into many camps, restraining each other. He and Qiu Yiming were not in the same camp. If Qiu Yiming knew this news, he would definitely not let Fang Yuxin tell him again!
In other words, Qiu Yiming probably doesn’t know anything at all!
He took a deep breath, looked at Fang Yuxin deeply, and waited quietly for her answer. He had a hunch that Fang Yuxin knew more!
Fang Yuxin laughed at this time. She did not directly answer Zhou Yan's question, but said: "Captain Zhou should know how important this news is. I told Captain Zhou because I trust Captain Zhou and want to be friends with him. Captain Zhou also saw today that Team Leader Zheng had bad intentions towards me, so I hope Captain Zhou can help me solve this problem. In addition, I don't want anyone to know that I told Captain Zhou this news."
Zhou Yan didn't think much about it and agreed immediately, but he also had a plan: "As long as we can find more crystals like this, Team Leader Zheng's problem won't be a problem. I guarantee it with my personality!"
Fang Yuxin still admired Zhou Yan's character, so she said: "In fact, among the four crystals that my brother and I found, one of them was covered with a layer of black stuff, like stone."
"Black... stone..." Zhou Yan's face changed, and he stood up hurriedly and walked to the inner room. When he came out, he was holding a black stone in his hand. "Miss Fang, is this the stone you are talking about?"
Fang Yuxin and Fang Yuyang were both very surprised. They didn't expect Zhou Yan to have collected Yuanshi. Fang Yuxin looked at the fist-sized Yuanshi in his hand and pretended to be unsure and said, "It seems to be this kind. Captain Zhou, where did you find it?"
Zhou Yan got such a big news from Fang Yuxin. Although Fang Yuxin had selfish motives, he did not hide it. He said in return: "I picked it up by chance when I was on a mission. I found it too hard and felt it was a bit strange, so I brought it back."
In fact, he had about a dozen such stones in his hands, all of which were extremely hard. He once wanted to cut them, but there was no way. Even bullets couldn't penetrate them. It was really weird.
He also handed one of the stones over, and it should have been sent to a secret research group, but for some reason the people there were unable to figure it out.
After he was surprised, he suddenly realized that three crystals had been absorbed, and the remaining crystal was not covered with black stone. His heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help asking, "Miss Fang, have you found out how to cut this black stone?"
Fang Yuxin didn't hide anything and simply told him: "Qianqian has awakened his spiritual power and accidentally discovered that he can use spiritual power to cut this kind of stone."
It’s actually mental power!
Zhou Yan was extremely surprised, he had thought of many ways, including using his fire ability to burn it, but he never expected that this strange stone could only be cut with mental power!
If Fang Yuxin hadn't told him, he didn't know how long it would take him to discover it!
I have only written one chapter and it is now in draft form, so the rest of the updates will still be late.
(End of this chapter)
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