Chapter 064 Zombie Apocalypse 2
It took Xie Yunsui some time to defeat all four people in the store and made each of them drink a bottle of drowsiness potion.
The last world was too peaceful, so he got lazy and didn't persist in practicing swordsmanship. This time, facing the siege of four people, he only managed to avoid being defeated by relying on the dodging skills he had learned from being beaten by the tree.
Xie Yunsui took note of his negligence. There would always be accidents in the future world, and no one should be careless.
With four more "defeated generals", Xie Yunsui directly retrieved the life experiences of these four people.
The world was originally in a peaceful era, and these four people were ordinary people busy studying and working.
Just one year ago, a disaster struck. A virus called "Zombie" swept the world. Ninety percent of the human race was transformed into monsters that were neither human nor ghost under the attack of this virus.
These monsters' brains have been eroded by a virus, leaving them without any intelligent consciousness. They act solely on mechanical instincts, but they have sharp hearing and a keen sense of smell, able to detect movement and the scent of blood within a ten-meter radius. Initially, these mutated monsters prey on humans to replenish their energy.
The survivors struggled to survive in such a large-scale disaster. Three months later, the first major evolution broke out among the survivors. One percent of the survivors possessed the power to manipulate special energy, which they called "superpowers." People with superpowers are called superpowers, and the place where energy gathers in the superpowers' bodies is the crystal core.
They thought this was the hope for the surviving humans, but when they discovered, the living dead were also evolving silently. The difference was that their crystal cores were only gathered in the brain.
Xie Yunsui saw from the "life" of the fire-type mutant that humans and the zombies are now in a tit-for-tat situation. Humans kill the zombies, dig out the crystal cores in their brains to practice and exchange for scarce materials. The zombies scratch and bite humans to death, and then follow their instinct to dissect out the crystal cores in the human body and devour them to strengthen themselves.
The crystal core has replaced the original monetary system and become the new circulating currency.
In Xie Yunsui's eyes, these crystal cores are energy bodies, equivalent to ginseng in the deserted island world.
Xie Yunsui also found two fire crystal cores from this fire-type mutant.
It's funny. Only the crystal cores in the human body have various supernatural properties, such as fire and earth, while the crystal cores in the zombies' brains are just gray-white crystal cores without attributes.
It seems that the team leader's hands are not very clean either.
Xie Yunsui glanced coldly at the four people in the store. He thought that these people did not understand the situation and regarded him as an enemy, so they attacked him. Now he realized that they might have regarded him as prey from the beginning.
From the life stories of several people, Xie Yunsui also discovered that he was in the central area of City C, and there were four major bases outside the central area that were eyeing this fertile land.
The four major bases originally had prestigious names like Longqi, Tianxiang, and Huwei, but because they happened to occupy the four areas of southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest of City C, they were later simply called the four districts of southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest. Ji Tianyuan's team came from the East District base. Because they had two psychics, especially Ji Tianyuan who was a second-level psychic, and the other team members also had rich combat experience, the team's strength ranked among the top five in the base.
This time, they heard that the other three major bases had sent teams to the Central District to inquire about the situation. They wanted to be the first to swallow up the Central District and expand their influence. So they couldn't hold back their thoughts and took the initiative to apply to come and investigate.
If they set out one day later, they would receive news that all the teams from the other three bases had gone and never returned.
It's a pity that they probably can't go back.
While Xie Yunsui was checking his life records, Little Bee also came back with a map.
Judging from the map, Xie Yunsui's convenience store is almost in the center of the central area of City C. Next to it is an apartment building. The area five kilometers away from the apartment building is completely filled with green mutated plants.
Mutations are not limited to humans. Plants and animals have evolved to varying degrees. People are unable to distinguish between plants and animals that have successfully or failed to evolve, and they all call evolved plants and animals that are different from those before the end of the world mutated creatures.
Not many of these animals and plants are intelligent, and their evolutionary directions are free to play, but almost all of them develop towards gigantism.
When Ji Tianyuan woke up, he was facing a Venus flytrap, the serrated edges of its huge leaves almost touching his face.
His heart trembled, and he leaned back suddenly, only then he saw that the Venus flytrap had been cut off at the root, with only two leaves left, spread out to the left and right, like two thick cushions.
The shop owner was sitting on a wooden chair, staring intently at the Venus flytrap that occupied almost half of the shop.
Ji Tianyuan didn't know if he was being too suspicious, but he always felt that the owner's expression when he looked at the Venus flytrap was very complicated. His eyes fell on the Venus flytrap, and it seemed that he was just recalling other things through the Venus flytrap.
"Are you awake?"
Xie Yunsui raised his eyes and glanced at Ji Tianyuan, saying in a kind tone, "How about we wait until your teammates wake up before discussing the compensation issue?"
Ji Tianyuan was startled: "You!"
Just as he was about to stand up and rush forward, he found that he was restricted by something. He looked down and saw that there was no restraint on his body, but he could not take a step forward.
Ji Tianyuan was shocked and tried to rescue his teammates, but found that he couldn't even touch them.
It seemed as if there was an invisible circle restraining him. He gathered his energy and condensed a fireball and struck it out. It passed through the invisible restraint and landed on the Venus flytrap, leaving a charred mass.
Ji Tianyuan was delighted. Although he could not get out, he could use his special abilities to get out!
Just as he was about to gather his strength again, he heard the shop owner say calmly, "Think carefully before you act. Are you sure you can hurt me?"
Ji Tianyuan's heart sank and he calmed down.
"What do you want?" Ji Tianyuan said coldly: "We are from Longqi Base. The leader of our base is a third-level lightning ability user. You should know that lightning ability users are inherently more powerful than those of the same level. If you kill us, it is equivalent to going against Longqi!"
Xie Yunsui laughed in anger: "I wanted to do business with you with good intentions, but you were the first to attack me over a disagreement. Now I have to go against you?"
Ji Tianyuan: “…”
It seems that he was the one who started it first.
wrong!
Ji Tianyuan: "You don't even have a single item on your shelves, and you're still saying you're doing business out of kindness?"
As long as he puts a pack of instant noodles on the shelf, he will not think that the owner has any ulterior motives.
"Sorry, I told you in advance that the store has just opened and the merchandise hasn't been put up yet."
In front of him, Xie Yunsui took out a box of purified water, a box of hand-torn milk bread, and a portable medicine box out of thin air. Seeing Ji Tianyuan's eyes widened, he took out a juicy apple.
fruit!
Ji Tianyuan swallowed unconsciously. It had been a year since the apocalypse, and he had almost forgotten the taste of fruit.
When groundwater sources are polluted, large areas of cultivated soil are the first to be affected, and field yields are reduced or even completely eliminated. The crops grown in some fields are completely inedible. Not only do the tastes become unacceptable, they are even toxic.
Most of the fruits we can eat now are canned fruits produced before the end of the world.
It's hard to find a can of this.
Ji Tianyuan instantly forgot his previous unpleasantness and asked, "How much are the apples?"
Xie Yunsui said: "One hundred zombie crystal cores."
The monsters created by the living dead virus are generally called zombies, which is more catchy.
Ji Tianyuan licked his dry lips. One hundred zombie crystal cores were not cheap. They could all be exchanged for a fire crystal core.
Those zombies outside have no sense of pain. They can still chase people even if their hands and feet are cut off. Only by completely smashing their heads and digging out the crystal core in their brains can a zombie be completely eliminated.
Killing one zombie is hard enough, let alone killing a hundred zombies.
However, for those with special abilities, this is just a matter of time.
Ji Tianyuan said: "Okay, if you let me out, I will give you the crystal core."
Xie Yunsui tossed the two fire crystal cores in his hand and said, "Is this what you're talking about?"
Ji Tianyuan froze, his voice hoarse: "One fire crystal core is worth about a hundred zombie crystal cores. This is the current market price."
"The market price is for normal customers. These two apples are compensation for my mental damage. If you want to buy this apple, you have to pay twice the price." Xie Yunsui smiled slightly.
Ji Tianyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Mental damage compensation, right? ... I'll pay you. I won't buy this apple anymore. Just let us go."
"You can leave, but they can't." Xie Yunsui found a square wooden table for himself, felt his stomach and seemed very hungry, so he took out a hot and spicy boiled fish, paired it with a bottle of sparkling water, and began to enjoy it as if no one was around.
The aroma of the boiled fish seems to have magic, making people salivate.
Ji Tianyuan's three teammates woke up to the explosive aroma and said drowsily, "Captain, I seem to be dreaming of going back to the time before the apocalypse."
“I really want to eat hot pot…”
"I smell it! It's the aroma of boiled fish!"
"I'm about to die, but it's enough for me to smell the aroma of boiled fish before I die..."
When they opened their eyes one by one and saw everything clearly, they didn't care that there was a Venus flytrap in the middle of the store, and wanted to rush directly to the store owner's table, but were circled by an invisible force.
"Boiled... huh?"
"What is this, Captain?"
Ji Tianyuan whispered, "Don't try, you can't get out."
The seriously injured earth-type mutant was still not giving up and tried to lift the floor, but it was in vain.
Ji Tianyuan conveyed what he had just said to Xie Yunsui to the three team members. However, the three team members seemed to have no interest in his words at all. Their eyes were only on the boiled fish that Xie Yunsui was eating.
"Add some noodles."
"Some biscuits would be fine too."
“…Is that sparkling water ice cold?”
Xie Yunsui smiled when he heard the last sentence: "Yes."
The decisive blow!
The earth-type mutant asked eagerly, "How many crystal cores do we need to buy a box of boiled fish like this?"
"One thousand zombie crystal cores."
Ji Tianyuan was jealous: "You are asking for too much!"
Xie Yunsui said, "You don't have to buy this, but you can't escape the ransom of 200 zombie crystal cores per person."
"You've searched too, and we don't have that many crystal cores on us."
Xie Yunsui put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and smiled kindly: "I can let you go first. When you go back and collect enough crystal cores, you can come back to redeem your teammates."
Ji Tianyuan was delighted, but then he thought of something and hesitated, "There are so many mutant creatures outside. I can't go back."
"Why can't you go back? Just leave from where you came from."
Xie Yunsui waved his hand and removed Ji Tianyuan's confinement formation. Ji Tianyuan, who was originally leaning on the barrier of nothingness, staggered half a step and was almost pricked by the sharp thorns on the edge of the Venus flytrap.
The reason why he let Ji Tianyuan go was that this person had the highest level of supernatural powers and was the only one among these people who had the possibility of escaping the encirclement of mutated plants.
Xie Yunsui saw from the life experiences of the four people that in the original world line, only Ji Tianyuan returned from this trip to the Central District.
Secondly, although this person is indifferent to human life, he is still nice to his teammates. Ji Tianyuan has more than just two fire crystal cores. As long as he can go back, 600 crystal cores can be gathered quickly.
Three of his brothers died on this trip. If he gave up on these three teammates, he would have no brothers to command in the entire Eastern District.
Although he could still rally the team with his strength, people's hearts were unpredictable in the end times, and Ji Tianyuan didn't dare to take the risk. He needed very loyal teammates.
Furthermore, Xie Yunsui also wanted to help Ji Tianyuan advertise this small convenience store through his mouth.
As long as the reputation of the small convenience store spreads, judging from the fact that each major base has undercover agents from other bases, it means that all four major bases know about it.
The entire East District base currently has a permanent population of 30,000, and the other three bases are not far behind. With survivors from various places joining the large base, the number of people will increase.
Xie Yunsui originally wanted to take it slow, but while several people were asleep, he discovered that the energy points of the Wanjie Shop were actually being deducted!
In just five hours, more than 200,000 energies were deducted.
If this small convenience store has no transactions within a month, his more than 30 million energy will be deducted.
At the end of the last world, I felt that I had more than enough energy, but now I am worried that I don’t have enough energy.
The key point is that Wanjie Shop is like dead. It didn’t give any response and didn’t even give an explanation. Xie Yunsui could only run the store for the time being.
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