"Um, you must be Li Xuanzu." A young man who looked quite healthy stepped forward and spoke with Li Xuanzu.
"No." Li Xuanzu glanced at him, too lazy to pay him any attention.
This kid was the one who was jumping around the most, especially when he heard that he was among the people coming over. His expression was worse than if his parents had died.
“You…” The man didn’t expect Li Xuanzu to say that, but he didn’t dare to accuse Li Xuanzu. Instead, he continued, “I’ve seen you before. I can be sure that you are Li Xuanzu.”
"Then why are you asking? Just say what you want to say." Li Xuanzu was holding two sacks and helping Qian Li put the other spirit cores into them.
"I...I wanted to ask if you could lend me some spirit cores. I can exchange them for supplies later." The man, remembering the purpose of his trip, disregarded Li Xuanzu's harsh tone.
"I only accept exchanges of spirit cores; I don't lack supplies," Li Xuanzu replied while busy with his own affairs, without glancing at the other person again.
The man was furious; he simply couldn't accept Li Xuanzu's dismissive attitude towards him.
“I can write you an IOU, and I’ll pay you back when I have the spirit core,” the man insisted.
"Let's talk about it when you have it, so that if you die, no one will return it to me." Li Xuanzu had already packed the spirit cores and carried two sacks towards the truck.
"What do you want from me to give me a spirit core? Even a first-tier one will do! I'm begging you." The man gritted his teeth, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Li Xuanzu stopped and looked the other person up and down a few times.
The man was good-looking, but his figure had become out of shape due to prolonged hunger, though his facial features still revealed his natural features.
He saw Li Xuanzu finally turn around and look at him, and hope shone in his eyes.
"You're begging me? Who do you think you are, to have some kind of influence with me? You think you're begging me? Get your facts straight, you fool." Li Xuanzu sneered, making no attempt to hide the sarcasm in his eyes.
When did these losers who like to gossip about him online start to feel respectful in front of him?
If it weren't for Elder Huang's request, Li Xuanzu would have killed him the moment he confirmed his identity, without even giving him a chance to speak.
The man's face was flushed, probably due to insufficient blood, so it didn't look as red as Fu Yu's, but you could still tell how anxious he was.
"What right do you have to look down on me? You're just lucky to have obtained a spirit core a few steps ahead of me. If I had obtained a spirit core at the beginning of the apocalypse, I would definitely be stronger than you!" The man had finally mustered up the courage to ask a "enemy" he had been slandering every day for help, but he was humiliated by the other party. Of course, he was anxious.
"Hahaha, interesting. So the strong people you thought they were were just lucky?" Li Xuanzu stopped and gestured for Qian Li to go first.
"Then...what else?" The man, who had been following behind Li Xuanzu, stopped when he saw that Li Xuanzu was not moving.
"Guess how I killed the first mutated zombie, and guess how many I killed in one go." Li Xuanzu put down the sack and took a step closer to the man.
The man was intimidated by Li Xuanzu's imposing aura and tried to back away, but he lost his footing and fell to the ground.
"I'll give you a homemade iron hammer and send you to kill two level one zombies. If you can do it, you can work for me from now on, and I'll give you plenty of spirit cores. If you can't, then you'd better behave yourself and stop making a fool of yourself here." Although Li Xuanzu looked like a teenager, his aura was clearly not what one would expect for someone his age.
"I... what wouldn't I dare to do?" The man panicked a little, but his ridiculous pride made him make a decision against his conscience; in layman's terms, he was just being stubborn.
"Well, you're pretty stubborn." Li Xuanzu looked around and saw several level one zombies wandering in the distance.
He then vanished from his spot in an instant, and a few seconds later, he reappeared in the same location, holding two level-one zombies in his hands.
"Don't say I'm making things difficult for you. I'll give you a chance to back out. From now on, keep a low profile and stop trying to get attention." In the end, Li Xuanzu didn't want to kill anyone anymore, after all, what this person did wasn't wrong.
Even Li Xuanzu admired his courage, though of course, the only courage that the weak can be admired is that of the ignorant.
"Then...I...don't want to!" The man struggled for a moment, then saw that Li Xuanzu's grip loosened a little, and one of the zombies moved a little closer to him, almost hitting him.
The man finally got scared and ran away as fast as he could.
Li Xuanzu watched his disheveled figure, crushed the zombie's head in his hand, took out the spirit core, picked up the sack, and left.
Sometimes, the root of stupidity is being stupid without realizing it. But if they weren't stupid, how could they not realize it?
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