The incident happened suddenly, but Freya resolved it quickly. Only then did everyone realize why Shion had designated a large, most dangerous area as soon as she spoke.
At the time, everyone thought it might be too difficult, since the exploration area was divided into several levels of risk, from low to high, and this area was one they had never set foot in before. It was remote and had been designated as the most dangerous area in advance.
This area was originally marked as requiring key exploration, yet it was extremely dangerous.
The original plan was for many expedition teams to approach from all directions, starting with low-risk areas and peeling back layers like an onion, eventually surrounding this high-risk area as the center, proceeding in this cautious manner.
No wonder she was so bold this time; it turns out Freya is really that strong.
In the distance, Shi Yin let out a deep sigh.
How can humanity easily defeat that so-called new world?
These people, who should have been chosen by the new world, have already made great strides and achieved remarkable progress without her guidance or the return of any of their memories.
Among the humans chosen by Shi Yin, Ye Shaoheng, who was the luckiest, Lin Beiyue, who worked the hardest, and Gu Changge, who was the most talented, were clearly a level below.
After turning into a zombie, one's genes will change, stimulating aggression and offensive capabilities throughout the body. Therefore, theoretically, one's strength will double after turning into a zombie.
Humans place more emphasis on intelligence, clustering, and flexibility, at the cost of sacrificing some offensive capabilities.
The swarm's attack was originally a dense, large-scale attack, with pink energy covering a wide area. Only less than 10 swarms of bees managed to escape, but after a brief moment of panic, they charged at the people below with renewed fury.
Lin Beiyue and the others reacted quickly, and their teamwork was quite good. They had been observing from a distance for a while and had gotten used to it, so they acted without hesitation.
Yun Ce raised his hand, and several gusts of strong wind blew the bees that were flying towards him together. His wind ability was already very strong, and the bees that rushed in mindlessly had almost no ability to resist and were blown into a ball.
They were completely enveloped in Lin Beiyue's sturdy net.
Immediately afterwards, a burst of orange-red flames turned the bees into fireballs. Lin Beiyue also thoughtfully dug out a firebreak to prevent the flames from spreading to the surrounding bushes and burning them off.
"Great! Now we can eat, right?" Freya looked at the honey on the tree and couldn't help but swallow hard. She turned around and called out to her sister, "Sister, let's eat together!"
"Huh? Freya, you can sense where Sister Yin is?" Yun Ce was surprised. Even as someone with the ability to control the wind, he couldn't tell where Shi Yin was from the wind.
"Of course, I'm very good, but I cheated on this." Freya blinked: "I won't tell you the secret."
Freya was adorable, with a face as beautiful as a peach blossom. Her exotic lake-blue eyes were even more captivating in the blink of an eye. Yun Ce instinctively turned his face away, his ears turning red with embarrassment.
There was nothing they could do; the apocalypse came suddenly, and both he and Yan Qi had never been in a relationship.
Shi Yin paused for a moment after being called out, but still jumped down from the tree.
It's no wonder that someone who absorbed a part of her to form their superpowers has such a keen sense of her. Whether Freya gaining this superpower is a blessing or a curse remains to be seen.
He Chu was quick and agile. Her special ability was to create clones, and these clones were quite unique in that they could each accelerate. At this moment, three or four clones used professional tools to cut off a large piece of honey each, and the aroma became even more intense.
"Wow, I didn't expect there to be extra food today!" Yan Qi rubbed his hands together happily. There was no honey to eat in the shelter.
Because of the blizzard, human living space was compressed to a very small size, and naturally there were no beekeepers to produce honey. Recently, as the blizzard has passed, various industries have begun to recover one after another, but there are very few beekeepers left.
People were puzzled as to why Toki had built dozens or even hundreds of shelters specifically to house various animals and insects.
Now everyone understands that, on an earth teeming with strange animals and insects, they still have normal insects and animals.
After all, it's unlikely any beekeeper could keep bees of that size...
The group quickly found a relatively open area in the jungle, cleared away the surrounding bushes, and set up their tents. Lin Beiyue set up three layers of elite electric netting in their camping area and created a semi-circular iron ball to shroud everyone in shadow.
It gets particularly hot around noon, lasting for about three hours.
Going out during this period will consume a lot of physical strength, and there is a high chance of getting sunburned or even suffering from heatstroke without realizing it. Therefore, even the most elite superpowered teams need to rest for more than three hours at noon before continuing their journey.
As the heatwave worsens, this period will become longer and longer, eventually escalating into a period of evacuation.
Lin Beiyue's space was very large, with an experimental field divided by a single door, and there was also something like a spiritual spring, from which one could drink a sip to refresh and relieve fatigue.
Using the daisy's special ability to dry small daisies and steeping them in spring water from the space to make chrysanthemum tea is definitely a great way to cool down, relieve summer heat, and restore physical strength. It can even slightly help improve one's special abilities.
"We didn't see any humanoid zombies in this area, but there were quite a lot of people in the other areas we went to before," Yan Qi said while cleaning the food. "Last time we explored a school, there were probably twenty or thirty humanoid zombies inside."
"And they were mostly infiltrators and manipulators..." Yun Ce recalled the experience with lingering fear: "Even low-level zombies use some strange abilities, and I almost got killed."
"What ability?" Nan Zhu asked casually when she heard this, as she was studying how to process the ingredients.
Nan Zhu usually stays at the Doomsday Beacon to handle official business. This time, she only came out with Shi Yin because of him. She has only read about these anomalies in writing.
“For example, you know that my superpower is wind, but last time I encountered a zombie that could also control the wind.” Yun Ce recalled carefully: “I can guarantee that it was definitely not a mirror zombie, it’s just that they used their abilities like instinct, which is incomparable to us.”
"The ability to learn? Are you sure you're talking about ordinary zombies?" Freya was also somewhat surprised. "Advanced zombies might have learning abilities, but ordinary zombies... isn't that a bit too eager?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe the zombies have mutated too, and like humans, their abilities seem to have limits," Yan Qi added. "After they exert all their strength, their bodies crystallize, turning into a human-shaped giant crystal core."
This should be good news for humanity, since previously only a purple crystal core the size of a fingernail could be extracted from an ordinary zombie of this size.
But now, they can use a piece of their little finger from a crystallized zombie as a crystal core.
The downside might be that those zombies were too strong. If Lin Beiyue hadn't rescued him quickly, Yun Ce might have been caught off guard and cut into pieces by the wind blades.
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