Chapter 262: Even such a young child

needs to "be confiscated supplies when entering the city?"

Yun Tao looked at Zhao Ru and asked the most crucial question. If there were no more career options in Tiesi Village, the soldiers would be pulled to guard the village, and the medical staff would be responsible for issuing monitoring cards, checking body temperature, and disinfection. The rest of the people would temporarily kill zombies, so who would produce? Where did the food for the guards and medical staff come from?

This inevitably made Yun Tao think that Tiesi Village might be collecting supplies from the survivors to supply the normal operation of the guard system and the medical system. After all, there are so many people in these two systems, and Tiesi Village is so large, the amount of food needed every day is innumerable.

"No need." Zhao Ru shook her head and said to Yun Tao, "If you want to enter the city to seek protection, each of you needs to hand over 10 crystal cores. This is not a protection fee for entering the city. It's just a symbolic payment. This is a new rule that was made in the past two days. It didn't exist before."

"Everyone needs it?" An Ran stood up straight and pointed at the doll she was holding. The doll's head was shaking and she yawned. It looked like she was a little tired. An Ran put the doll flat in her arms and looked at Zhao Ru to confirm again, "Does such a young child also need it?"

"Everyone must hand it over, including those in pregnant women's bellies!" Zhao Ru looked at the baby and smiled again. She looked like she really wanted to hold the baby in An Ran's arms.

But An Ran was good at playing dumb. She nodded and said to Zhao Ru, "The baby is going to sleep. You guys chat."

After that, she got into the car and planned to coax the baby to sleep.

Zhao Ru outside was still explaining like a tour guide. An Ran, who was sitting in the car holding the baby, also heard some of it vaguely. It was about why they had to collect crystal cores from people entering the city. It was because the crystal cores in the zombies' brains seemed to contain some kind of power, which was needed by Tiesi Village, so people entering the city had to hand them over.

Zhao Ru couldn't explain it in more detail. Maybe Tang Jianjun from Tiesi Village couldn't explain many things clearly, so Zhao Ru didn't know what it was exactly like.

So, is there anyone in Tiesi Village who needs to absorb crystal cores like An Ran? And can they be full just by absorbing crystal cores? Yun Tao listened to Zhao Ru's explanation in silence, with a skeptical attitude. He had only seen this one case of An Ran, but there were so many survivors, so it was hard to say that An Ran was not the "only one".

After all, for those with power, this ability is not special. Not to mention the entire apocalypse, just take the Beijing-Hong Kong Expressway as an example. Almost half of the people there are those with power. As those with power, they do not need to absorb any crystal cores.

Their strength is innate, and they are not like An Ran who can clearly capture the flow of energy in their bodies. For those with special powers, as long as their stomachs are full and their blood sugar is not low, their strength will always be great. They will not be beaten back to their original form after using up all their strength.

Yun Tao could also clearly feel that their strength could be improved. As long as they kept training and challenging themselves, at a certain point in time, the accumulated strength would increase and achieve a qualitative sublimation.

So what does Tiesi Village do by collecting crystal cores?

(End of this chapter)