Chapter 566: Regret
Li Zhuang didn't look at him, but shouted to Antonio, who was sipping milk tea with Dean in the living room, "Go and tell the people in charge of cooking to be alert."
Antonio raised an eyebrow at him, looked at the team leaders, nodded, stood up and walked out, asking, "Should we eat hot pot when it snows?"
"I want to eat lamb," Dean immediately raised his hand to express his opinion.
"You can choose one between human flesh and zombie flesh," said Li Zhuang.
Dean made a vomiting gesture and looked around to find an ally. Xu Sa stuffed a roasted sweet potato in his hand and said, "Go find Lu Xi, persuade him, and Uncle Lu will find a way."
Dean's eyes lit up and he immediately ran out. Antonio reached out and grabbed him, then looked back at Li Zhuang with helplessness.
Li Zhuang waved at him speechlessly, and the two left quickly.
"You know that too?" Xu Sa asked.
"Know what?"
"Don't worry about knowing. I just want to know if our base really wants a thousand S-level crystal cores?" Ye Jia didn't wait for anyone to answer. He waved his hand to stop others from speaking and asked excitedly in a low voice.
Several others also looked over.
"One thousand, do you think that's possible?" Li Yan sneered.
"That's what I said, scare me..."
"Only a few hundred..."
“Ahem…”
Li Zhuang's sudden response caused Ye Jia to cough violently, and the other people immediately looked over at him.
"What's so strange about that? What's the level of the people coming to support from other bases? What's the level of our base? What weapons do other teams have? What weapons do we have?" Xu Sa heard what he said and continued.
"The bases that Kyoto base asks to come for support are limited in capacity. Not every base can come. After all, what they have to offer is unique and attractive enough."
Ning Yuan had told Li Yan about this in general terms before he left. He knew the most and explained, "So the Kyoto base requires that no ordinary people be allowed to make up the numbers when they come to the base. The base number must be 20,000 with A-level or above psychics. If the level is not enough, the multiple or the number of weapons must be increased."
"As the base with the largest storage of thermal weapons and the largest number of high-level psychics, our base has made clear requirements for both of these items."
"So, the items also want corresponding benefits," Yue Qiwen continued.
"Do we really want the crystal core?" Ye Jia became excited again, staring at Li Yan, turning to Li Zhuang from time to time, and almost said "look at me" out loud, which made Li Zhuang laugh a lot.
"Indeed, but it's not for our base. To be precise, it's for the base commander," Li Zhuang answered for Li Yan.
"Base Commander?"
"Captain of the Land Base?"
"Yes, to be honest, Team One has its own set of rules for upgrading each team member. Since the beginning of the apocalypse, everyone has been trying their best to push forward a high-level psychic. Then, the successfully upgraded psychic will gather the strength of all the team members to prepare enough crystal cores needed for everyone's upgrade." When Xu Sa heard Li Zhuang push the matter onto Lu Weiyi, he understood what he meant and immediately took over the conversation.
"Normally, the crystal cores we store would be enough for all team members to successfully upgrade, but..." Xu Sa paused, and seeing that everyone was interested in him, he continued, "The base commander's unexpected upgrade this time consumed all the stored crystal cores. This is the reason why only two members of the team have been upgraded to SS level so far."
"Your team has always been like this? It's been five years, and no one has any objections?" Ye Jia's thoughts were clear, and his tone was full of envy. "Isn't the base commander worried that you will be dissatisfied?"
Xu Sa looked at him strangely. "Why are you dissatisfied? Didn't we all upgrade successfully?"
Ye Jia wanted to say something, but Du Ping stopped him and motioned for Xu Sa to continue.
"The base commander needs a supply of crystal cores, so the base has dispatched a large number of thermal weapons support this time, and also exposed the SS-level psychics who were originally planning to hide and catch the enemy by surprise." Xu Sa said, and glanced at Li Zhuang casually, "Of course, the S-level psychics who came this time did not come for nothing. According to the original plan, everyone will get an S-level crystal core. As for whether it will be of their own attributes, this cannot be guaranteed."
There are more than seventy S-level psychics coming to Yueban Bay this time, which means that the crystal cores they will get will definitely be more than seventy. This number alone is enough to make people shocked, and even more of it makes their heartbeats speed up when they speculate.
"I didn't tell you at first because I was worried that the news would be exposed and cause unnecessary consequences," Li Yan explained with a serious look on his face. "You don't have to think too much and think that the base is deliberately concealing it. I believe we have cooperated so many times over such a long time and you have your own standards for how the base is doing."
He said solemnly, "The base commander has never treated anyone who treats the base well badly."
"So do we!"
Seeing his solemn expression, the people together were silent. Finally, the oldest one, Du Ping, spoke up, "We and the base share weal and woe. We definitely won't have such thoughts, but..." He frowned and looked at the others.
Yue Qiwen was still polite and calm, "As the various bases are about to cooperate, this news should have been kept secret, but it was exposed at this critical moment. This is..."
"Tsk, someone doesn't want to pay anymore," Ye Jia said nonchalantly.
"We now have two SS-level psychics in our base. Which team is so pessimistic?" Song Xian was surprised.
"Unless..." Li Zhuang tapped the table with one finger, making a crisp sound, "They are confident that they can compete with us."
"You mean they also have two SS-level psychics?"
“Who is most likely to upgrade?”
"Major General Lu?"
"No...no," Liu Rui, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "He...he will...the fire element..." He pointed at himself and gestured, "Give it to me."
"Uncle Lu gave you the S-level fire crystal core?" Xu Sa explained for him.
"Yes," Liu Rui nodded heavily. If it weren't for the crystal core with the same attribute, he wouldn't have been able to upgrade so quickly.
Lu Xiao also has fire-type abilities, and giving away the fire-type crystal core means that he himself will not be able to upgrade in a short period of time.
"That's Zhao Qiang," Xu Sa said with certainty. Without a big team to back them up, the small and medium-sized teams below would not have the courage to do so.
"So he was the one who spread the news?" Li Yan frowned.
He couldn't quite believe it. Compared to Zheng Yi's various little thoughts, Zhao Qiang had always been noncompetitive, never sticking his head out, and even stood with them at times. Li Yan couldn't believe that such a person would do such a thing.
"I remember Lu Weiyi once commented on Zhao Qiang, saying that he was an upgrade maniac. Under normal circumstances, there would be no problem with his character, unless..." Xu Sa carefully recalled the few comments Lu Weiyi had made about several people in the Kyoto base.
"If someone blocks his path to upgrade, he will definitely get rid of that person at all costs."
When Lu Weiyi said this, his tone was unusually serious, and he said it with a childish face.
"Don't test anyone with interests."
After Xu Sa finished speaking, he sighed, as if human nature was always fragile and could be broken at the slightest touch after the end of the world. "I will have someone investigate the source of the spread of the specific information, but the suspicion of Zheng Jiajun cannot be ruled out."
"Everyone should be more vigilant at this time. The other bases will definitely have opinions about us. You should control your men and not to conflict with them. I will communicate the results to the Kyoto base as soon as possible," Li Yan reminded.
"What's there to remind you? The worst that can happen is we can just fight again. We have two SS-level psychics in our base. What are we afraid of..." Ye Jia didn't finish his words when he felt a huge amount of energy spreading out not far from the Kyoto base. Energy ripples formed in the air and spread out into the distance. The rest of the words were stuck in his mouth.
Other people in the living room also felt the energy and immediately stood up and walked towards the door, stopping under the eaves and looking in the direction where the energy came from. Several people with the same attributes hesitantly asked each other, "Is it?"
"What is it? Why are you still playing charades?"
"It's the energy fluctuation after the earth-type mutant upgraded." Li Zhuang squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, a trace of interest flashed across his face.
"It seems that we guessed it right. The Kyoto base now has two SS-level psychics. Shall we guess who will be the first to break the contract?"
Several people ignored Li Zhuang's obvious bad taste, discussed countermeasures for a while, and then left.
As soon as the team leaders left, Xu Sa's face darkened instantly, "Are you trying to stir up internal strife among us?"
"I was the one who told them about the rumors outside," Li Yan took the initiative to say, "After Major General Lu asked Re to remind me, I was worried that they would think too much about it if they heard about it from other people."
"At this time, we need to unite and face the outside world together," Li Yan concluded.
It's a bit of a shame to give away fifty or sixty S-class crystal cores, as they were probably originally going to be used by the base army for upgrading.
Even though he may still have enough for upgrades now, the probability of his subordinates getting them is even lower.
The higher a psychic's level is, the more difficult it becomes. Low-level crystal cores are of little use, and high-level crystal cores are hard to obtain. This is why even after five years of the apocalypse, there are still very few S-level psychics in many bases.
However, among the people who came this time, there were only more than 4,000 who belonged to the base army, and most of them were ordinary people. Even if there were two SS-level psychics to support them, it would still be very dangerous once the others were shaken by interests.
"I've asked someone to report this matter back to Ning Yuan. He will try his best to control the families of each team. Before we return, no one will have the chance to leave the island."
"Okay, have you asked Zheng Yi when he will pay the reward?" Xu Sa asked without waiting for Li Zhuang to speak.
"Yes, Zheng Yi said that after the old man's funeral, I was embarrassed to mention it when we met just now, I will go to see him later." Li Yan pinched his eyebrows, "However, if they really regret it..."
He looked at Li Zhuang and Liu Rui and said hesitantly, "Can you two...beat them?"
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