Bai Ling took another swig of wine, straddled Gu Lingchuan with her left leg, and sat directly on Gu Lingchuan's lap.
Gu Lingchuan's heart suddenly raced as the firm, bouncy buttocks pressed against his legs.
Bai Ling wrapped her arms around Gu Lingchuan's head and kissed him directly.
Her soft lips, carrying a hint of alcohol, made Gu Lingchuan freeze on the spot, his mind going blank.
Two naive young people had their lips pressed together for two minutes.
Gu Lingchuan finally regained his senses and met those bright eyes, realizing that he had been deceived; Bai Ling was not drunk at all.
Her lips parted slightly. "Um, I have something to do."
Gu Lingchuan's eyes darted away as he gently picked up Bai Ling and placed her beside him.
Watching Gu Lingchuan's departing figure, Bai Ling smiled, showing no regret. Things had settled down now, and there was still plenty of time ahead.
The next morning, Gu Lingxiao found Lin Yu.
Have all the surrounding danger zones been identified?
"We've had the reconnaissance records from before, do you want them?" Lin Yu guessed what Gu Lingxiao was going to do, paused, and then continued.
"I'm drawing out some locations for you that are not too dangerous but still offer opportunities to obtain high-level crystals."
Gu Lingxiao nodded. Lin Yu was really smart; he could guess and do many things without being told.
Hunting ordinary zombies is too troublesome; killing a hundred of them is not as effective as killing one first-stage evolved creature.
At noon, Lin Yu handed the map to Gu Lingxiao. "Five of these locations are occupied by aliens, so they're not worth hunting. I've circled them with blue circles. The other three locations are overcrowded with zombies, so I've circled them with yellow circles."
"There are two extremely dangerous locations left; try to avoid passing by them. They're circled in red. My animals died there without any warning."
However, the straight-line distance between these two locations is more than 20 kilometers.
"Okay," Gu Lingxiao accepted the map, nodded, and left without any hesitation.
Lin Yu's words of advice to him to be careful got stuck in his throat, and he finally gave a bitter laugh.
When Gu Lingchuan looked for Gu Lingxiao, Lin Yu told him about Gu Lingxiao's whereabouts.
"He's never idle for a moment," Gu Lingchuan sighed.
"Little Lingchuan, want to have some more drinks this afternoon? Just the two of us, okay?" A teasing voice came from Bai Ling, who had just pushed the door open and entered.
Gu Lingxiao smiled. He had thought about it all night and figured it out. It was far from stable at the moment. Just like the agreement he made with Gu Lingxiao before, they were gambling on the future. As of now, they hadn't even stepped into the extraordinary sequence.
He couldn't foresee what the future held, and the giant alien that Gu Lingxiao had discovered in the experimental building gave him a bad feeling.
Secondly, given the military professor's personality, he'll likely investigate the alien. Whether that investigation will be good or bad is hard to say.
"Right now, we haven't settled down yet. If possible, let's wait a bit longer," Gu Lingchuan said frankly.
Bai Ling's eyes dimmed. Was this a disguised rejection?
"All right"
Seeing Bai Ling's disappointed expression, Gu Lingchuan felt a little uncomfortable for some reason.
"What I mean is, we don't need to rush things. There are many things that couples go through that we haven't even experienced yet."
"Hehe, so Xiao Lingchuan likes slow-burners, huh?" Bai Ling's mood immediately improved.
Seeing Bai Ling's smile, Gu Lingxiao's mood also improved. He didn't know what it meant for one person's emotions to change with another's.
Gu Lingxiao has reached the nearest danger point, where a group of mutated zombies, comparable to second-stage evolved creatures, possess speed and power in the direction of evolution.
It was originally an underground boxing ring, but when the apocalypse broke out, there were hardly any people left. However, the boxers who were still there were probably physically stronger than ordinary people to begin with, and they were basically all turned into mutated zombies.
For Gu Lingxiao, slaughtering was a simple matter. He tested his dark elemental ability, and the third-stage corrosive and freezing effects were very strong. The second-stage zombies couldn't withstand a single blow from him.
In addition, Gu Lingxiao also discovered that the dark element has the effect of obscuring the senses. Once it is deployed, the opponent cannot perceive anything. After the opponent attacks randomly for a period of time, Gu Lingxiao can easily reap the rewards.
Over two days, Gu Lingxiao had roughly cleared the dangerous area, leaving two areas marked with red circles. Gu Lingchuan went to one of them.
The barren landscape, with its withered trees and scattered, clean or old, white bones, resembles the Gobi Desert, creating a stark and incongruous environment, as if a piece of land had been transplanted from elsewhere.
However, Gu Lingxiao couldn't confirm it without having seen the original terrain.
After a while, Gu Lingxiao grabbed a zombie and threw it in. Streams of energy were drawn out and merged into the ground. The zombie's body quickly withered, eventually leaving only a pile of bones.
He couldn't understand what had happened at all, and Gu Lingxiao, who had originally planned to give it a try, instantly gave up all thoughts.
Gu Lingxiao then observed the area for a day and discovered that it seemed to be expanding.
Gu Lingxiao was unsure if he had stayed another day. The growth was subtle but definitely expanding, and when animals entered and died, a withered tree inside actually sprouted a little new bud.
"This is getting more and more interesting!" Gu Lingxiao's eyes shone brightly. That's just his personality; the more unexpected the changes, the more excited he gets. Nothing is interesting if things stay the same.
For the next few days, he didn't hunt zombies. Instead, he kept driving them inside, but the changes weren't significant, so he lost interest.
He went back to the survivor base and told Lin Yu the news.
"I will keep a close eye on things over there and let you know as soon as anything changes," Lin Yu said.
"Are there any other areas where it's easier to obtain crystals?" Gu Lingxiao asked Lin Yu again.
Lin Yu shook his head. "Before I broke through to the third stage, the number of animals I could communicate with was limited. But I just broke through to the third stage yesterday and can now send out more animals. I should get news back in a couple of days."
Gu Lingxiao nodded, not surprised that Lin Yu had broken through to the third stage.
"However, I have good news. In stage three, we can already link with tamed animals and share vision, which will make it much easier to get information in the future."
After Gu Lingxiao left, Gu Lingchuan found Lin Yu and asked, "I'm planning to go to the experimental building at Lijiang University. Where is Lingxiao?"
"He just left, and he's only been back once in the past few days. Should I let him know?"
"No need, I still need to prepare. Let's talk about it when he gets back. There's no rush," Gu Lingxiao said and went back to work on building the survivor base.
His other abilities are hard to say, but when it comes to manpower, one person can do the work of hundreds of people, and in places where machines are needed, Gu Lingchuan's abilities can also easily replace them.
Gu Lingxiao went directly to the next red circle, but this time he discovered that the danger zone was just an evolved creature.
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