Chapter 098 Zombie Apocalypse 36
"I heard that after being treated by that healing psychic named Lu, one can become immune to the zombie virus."
"What the hell? There's such a good thing?"
"It's true. Did you know that Ji Tianyuan's team takes people out to clean up zombies every day? I saw with my own eyes that one of their people was scratched by a zombie, but as long as he went to a convenience store for treatment, he was fine and didn't turn into a zombie."
"Yeah, I saw it too. They had a big show."
"Then let's go to the convenience store and treat him? Can we make a hole ourselves? I don't dare to get caught by zombies."
"Hahaha, you definitely need to get treatment first. Your body doesn't have anything to resist the zombie virus. If you get caught by a zombie, you'll be dead."
"How is it so magical? I've never heard of a healing system being immune to the zombie virus before."
"Isn't the healing type in the North District gone? Who knows, maybe this is a unique attribute of the fourth-level superpower."
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"Don't go. Treating a minor injury requires 100 first-level zombie cores, or 10 second-level zombie cores. Do you have that many?"
"Level 2 zombie crystal core?"
"They're even more powerful zombies than before. Their crystal cores are larger and have more energy."
"Why don't you sign up to join the zombie cleanup team? There's a protective circle outside, so the zombies can't get in. Just stay in a good position and focus on output. A lot of people have signed up. You can earn crystal cores for healing, and then you can follow Captain Ji and the others out to clean up."
"Don't you want to go back to your base? It's so crowded and uncomfortable here. It turns out you still have so many supplies back home."
"I'm definitely going back."
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"Convenience stores are selling energy packs again. Shit, I just got back from that."
"Boss Xie, can't you just release the spots at a fixed time? Why is it so random and limited? I haven't been able to get one in the past two days!"
"Energy food? What is this?"
When ordinary people hear an unfamiliar word, they will quickly ask questions.
The psychic who was questioned remained silent and immediately ran away.
Energy food is a good thing that can restore and increase superpowers, even better than crystal cores. It is also delicious and is very popular among people with superpowers.
I didn’t expect that life in the Central District is so good. With Mr. Xie and a convenience store here, it really makes life easier for many people.
These psychics were thinking, if they returned to their original base, separated from the central area by a large area of alien plants, it would be inconvenient to travel back and forth, and they would not be able to eat these energy foods. Wouldn't they always lag behind the psychics in the central area?
We are all people with superpowers, who doesn’t want to become stronger?
What's more, Hua Sheng in the central area began to let most ordinary people go out to clean up the zombies. Ordinary people got rid of their fear of zombies. In time, they would be able to deal with the zombies by themselves, and they would no longer need them, the psychics. How could they maintain their pride as psychics?
Only by becoming stronger can we regain our previous status.
So the psychics who had vowed to return to their base at the beginning kept delaying, and no one wanted to leave the central area.
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Ge Dong bought three steamed buns and two bottles of purified water from the convenience store and gave half to his daughter: "Eat quickly."
My daughter devoured the food.
They only have this one meal a day, so they really can't afford to be polite.
Ge Dong didn't expect that their family would suffer so many disasters.
Just when they were about to live a good life, a group of people came and killed the only person with superpowers in their family, leaving him and his daughter, an ordinary person, to depend on each other, and their supplies were also stolen.
The damn bunch of people behind were punished. Ge Dong was a step slow and failed to get back all his supplies, but it was no big deal as he could barely survive the winter.
Later, rumors spread in the base that there would be a zombie wave. Ge Dong didn't quite believe it, but he still had a plan. He prepared a car early and put food in it, intending to take his daughter to the central area if anything happened.
He had known that there was a passage to the central area that was not occupied by alien plants, but he was reluctant to leave this small house that he had spent countless efforts to buy.
After the zombie tide came, Ge Dong had to give up no matter how reluctant he was. It was his destiny that he could not die, as he managed to join the first group heading to the central area with his daughter.
Unfortunately, when they were approaching the protective circle, their car was rear-ended and stalled. In the end, he had no choice but to abandon the car and escape, and in a hurry he only took a backpack of supplies.
After settling down in the central area, Ge Dong soon used up the supplies he had. He had to go out and "find a job", which was to join the zombie cleaning team. Even though it was a job he didn't want to do at all, there were many people fighting for it.
The protective circle is so small that people usually work in shifts. When the first group gets tired, the next group takes over. When there are too many people rushing to get it, no one cares whether the people in front are really tired or not. When the time comes, the people behind will come up.
Often, before Ge Dong could kill a few people, he would be forced to take over the team with the next group of people.
With the little bit of crystal cores he earned, Ge Dong could only buy the most filling steamed buns and the necessary purified water, and the day passed like this.
But the weather was getting colder, and his daughter was shivering in his arms. They needed something warmer, such as buying two pieces of charcoal to add to the charcoal stoves of other people in the house for warmth, or even a cup of hot water.
"Hey! Ge Dong!" Someone in the same room called his name. Ge Dong looked over and saw that it was the first person who bought a charcoal stove.
"Huasheng and the others are hiring people to build a protective wall. They are short of manpower. You can take your daughter with you."
"My daughter is only ten years old..."
"It's already late, and even children as young as seven or eight have to pick up a few bricks. Don't worry, as long as your daughter works hard, she can get a day's salary."
Ge Dong's eyes lit up: "How much is the salary?"
"I heard that adult work is more strenuous, requiring heavy lifting. You can earn 10 level one zombie cores per hour, and it's up to you how much you can earn. Children's work is lighter, earning 5 level one zombie cores per hour. Even if you two only work for three hours a day, you can still earn more than you can earn in a whole day of hard work clearing zombies."
That makes sense. That makes sense.
Ge Dong reacted instantly. He was slow in clearing the zombies, mainly because he was afraid that the zombies would hurt him. He was timid and could only clear five or six zombies at a time.
Because there are too many people taking turns to clean up the zombies, he only has two chances a day, and the rest of the time he is waiting.
"Where do I sign up?"
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"Hua Sheng is really going too far! We are people with special abilities! Why are we building a protective wall instead of cleaning up the zombies?"
Wei Cheng slammed the table in anger, and He Lai, who was standing next to him, frowned when he heard that.
They originally followed Liang Hongyu and had always been pampered, but now they have to squeeze into a room with more than a dozen people.
Liang Hongyu was stuck on the third level for a long time and was unconscious for a long time that day. Even though He Lai and others tried every means to wake him up, they couldn't. They hurriedly moved him into the car, but there was a car accident at the back and both doors were stuck. They looked at the zombie tide that was approaching and finally had no choice but to leave Liang Hongyu in the car.
They originally thought that even without Liang Hongyu, they would be able to quickly gather the people from the West District based on their previous prestige.
It was Hua Sheng who repeatedly disrupted their plans.
They wanted to gather their former brothers, but the entire central area was so large that the brothers were scattered all over the place, and it would take some effort just to find people.
He wanted to rely on his own abilities to gather the people around him, but everyone came from different bases, and their situations were good and bad. Some people were like them, carrying space gourds, and were capable, so why would they willingly listen to them? Some people lacked food and clothing, and only wanted to earn crystal cores to buy food, so they refused to pay attention to them.
The rest of those who are willing to pay attention to them and follow them are only interested in the supplies in their hands.
But a space gourd is only one cubic meter, and they are all filled with necessary survival supplies, and not much can be divided. Over time, these people will be replaced by others.
Nothing goes as planned.
If they want to return to their base, they have to clear out the zombies first.
To clean up the zombies, I had to go for treatment first. During the treatment, I found a convenience store selling energy food, and then I was bound here by the energy food...
Now Hua Sheng is openly issuing recruitment orders to every person with special abilities, hoping that they will contribute to building the protective wall in the central area.
He Lai is an ordinary person. He also received a recruitment order, but because he has no special abilities, his salary and Wei Cheng's treatment are very different.
He was already very dissatisfied, but Wei Cheng was still pushing him.
He Lai said unhappily, "If you don't go, can they still force you to use your supernatural powers?"
Wei Cheng was shocked: "He Lai, what do you mean? Why are you speaking up for Hua Sheng?"
"It doesn't matter whether I help or not. If you want to go back to the West District base, you can clean up the zombies by yourself. I plan to stay in the Central District from now on." He Lai simply packed up his things and went out.
Originally working under Liang Hongyu, both of them were in charge of different things. Following the boss meant there was meat to be eaten, so some friction between them was ok.
Now that Liang Hongyu is gone, why do you, Wei Cheng, order me around? Do you really think you're the boss?
Even if we choose the boss, it won’t be your turn, Wei Cheng.
He Kai could see that Hua Sheng had been well prepared and was very ambitious. With the support of Boss Xie, success was only a matter of time.
If you had followed her earlier, you might have been able to get a position as a veteran.
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Xie Yunsui has seen the store's business getting better and better over the past period of time.
Hua Sheng took various measures to boost the circulation of crystal cores in the central area. Everyone had money and wanted to spend it.
At one point, the energy points earned from daily customer traffic were equal to the energy deducted by Xiao Wan.
Lu Xizhou's working hours are also fixed every day, from 9 am to 5 pm, with a two-hour lunch break at noon.
“What a novel experience…”
Lu Xizhou held a piece of watermelon and said to Xie Yunsui, "I've never worked before. I don't know what life is like at work."
"Enjoy it while it's fresh. I'm afraid you'll feel tired, empty and bored after a month or two." Xie Yunsui has a lot of experience.
The unique aroma of watermelon, accompanied by the crisp sound of biting into the watermelon, makes you feel as if you have suddenly returned to the days of sunshine, cicadas, and evening breeze, that leisurely summer time without zombies and doomsday.
The people who just entered the store were suddenly struck by the smell and ran over eagerly to ask, "Boss Xie, are you selling watermelon?"
Xie Yunsui looked at Xiaoxi helplessly, feeling that he would be very professional if he changed his career to become a food broadcaster.
"Selling! Today's watermelon special. One level one crystal core for one tooth, one level two crystal core for one whole."
Xie Yunsui wrote down today's specials on the small blackboard next to the cash register.
The levels of zombies out there are mixed now, and the level two ones are harder to beat, so the current exchange rate for level one and level two zombie crystal cores is 1:10.
The man who entered the store hesitated for a moment, then thought about the real work of building the protective wall. A whole watermelon would only take an extra hour, so he immediately said, "I want one!"
Xie Yunsui went directly to the local area to collect watermelons. He collected a lot of the ripest, sweetest and cheapest watermelons. He had harvested them several times in the last century and had sufficient inventory.
A person is going home after buying watermelons, and it is inevitable to meet people on the way.
"The convenience store is having a special on watermelons today, go buy some!"
"Watermelon? Are you still selling watermelon?"
"Can I buy it for just one crystal core? I haven't eaten fruit in a long time. If it's this cheap, I have to go check it out."
"Boss Xie, how many good things did you collect? Wait for me, I must eat this watermelon today!"
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In the evening, Boss Xie, feeling tired, empty and bored, closed the door and fiercely erased the blackboard with today's special offers.
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