The zombie virus evolved at a speed far exceeding Li Xuanzu and his companions' expectations.
Second-tier animal zombies have begun to appear in various places, along with a small number of second-tier mutated plants.
According to national intelligence, the spiritual cores of these mutated plants and animals can be absorbed by humans.
Their spirit cores are also more diverse and even more powerful.
But that's an extreme case.
Some people who absorbed plant and animal spirit cores found that their spiritual energy had little effect after it was solidified, and they could only wait for a third-tier spirit core to make changes.
The vast majority of those who absorb the spiritual cores of plants and animals are ordinary people who cannot afford a first-tier spiritual core and can only participate in national experiments to test spiritual energy on their own.
However, most of these spirit cores are not powerful. The strength of their spiritual energy can be seen when hunting zombies. How could the higher-ups allow such a powerful but unstable fighting force to leak out?
Aside from a few whose effects on the spirit core were likely distorted due to psionic mutations, almost all of them were just ordinary people who were only slightly stronger than ordinary people.
Moreover, without a similar spirit core, they will probably be stuck at this level for the rest of their lives.
As I've said before, in the apocalypse, you need to have an exceptional talent in one of three areas: luck, strength, or vision. Otherwise, you'll just drift along with the crowd for the rest of your life.
And these psionicists are even more pathetic.
They would watch helplessly as others slowly accumulated new coins to exchange for spirit cores, and as others gradually grew stronger, while they themselves could only be like frogs at the bottom of a well, watching the coldness around them, slowly rotting in this dry well.
Did I get lucky and obtain a Tier 3 Spirit Core?
Even if Leng An had reached the level of a sixth-tier psionicist in her previous life, a third-tier spirit core was still a rare commodity.
Ultimately, these people ended up like this because of laziness.
Can't afford a spirit core if you have a normal job? Not necessarily. If you cut back on normal living expenses, you can save up enough new coins to buy a spirit core in as little as three or four months.
As for the fear of a shortage of jobs, that's even less likely.
As long as you are a member of the workforce, the government can assign you a job—search, garrison duty, setting up temporary safe points—each of which requires a large population.
If everything required psionicists to do, the country would have collapsed long ago.
But there are always people who are unwilling to work, living off the emergency food provided by the state, hoping that one day the state's spirit core reserves will exceed the total population of the Dragon Kingdom, and spirit cores will be distributed for free.
These people all share one thing in common: they're slackers.
He was the kind of person who, even before the apocalypse, was idle and a petty thug who collected protection money at the school gate.
He was a useless person before the apocalypse, and he remains so after the apocalypse.
Human nature is hard to change.
Instead of hoping someone will suddenly change, you might as well hope they get possessed by another soul.
Some useless people, if they never experience any major changes in their lives, will remain useless for the rest of their lives.
When Li Xuanzu was wandering around the capital, he saw many people who were just as idle as he was.
Despite having no spiritual energy, he showed no signs of being busy.
You can even encounter the same people for several days in a row.
His clothes were filthy, and his eyes were glazed over.
How pitiful, how pathetic.
But now is not the time to consider these people.
The two zombies, Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang, have taken over the entire Sichuan province, and the Chongqing region has not been spared either. All the survivors have either moved away or retreated, and the rest have died at their hands.
The only saving grace is that, due to the emergence of the New Year's Day zombies, there weren't many humans in Sichuan and Chongqing provinces to feed on, so their numbers didn't show any signs of further expansion.
However, there are a few zombies that are about to break through to the third level.
This is not good news for the Chinese government.
But when Li Xuanzu saw this announcement, his eyebrows practically shot to the sky.
Here we go, take care of two zombies, and there are so many freebies too!
If we count them up, excluding the two zombies that might advance, we should be able to get at least four Tier 3 spirit cores this time.
One for each person, and there's one left over.
As for Big Black, let's not give it to it yet.
What would a weirdo need so many spirit cores for? It's such a waste.
If Dahei knew that Li Xuanzu was thinking this way, he'd probably be scattering pearls in a corner.
But Li Xuanzu had his reasons for doing so.
First of all, the abilities of those four third-tier zombies are unrelated to mental attacks or other forms of spiritual energy. Letting them absorb them would be counterproductive. It would be better to use them as nourishment for Li Xuanzu and the others to help them reach the fourth tier as soon as possible.
Secondly, Dahei, having just absorbed a third-tier spirit core and advanced to the fourth tier, is somewhat unstable. If it absorbs too much energy again, it will cause its foundation to become unstable.
Just like when Fu Yu just absorbed the third-tier spirit core.
In short, they simply won't give it to us.
After making this decision, Li Xuanzu placed his hands behind his head, closed his eyes, and concentrated.
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