"Let's be clear, I don't need a fire crystal core, but I need money."
"Is there anyone around you who needs a fire crystal core?"
"You can change it if you need to."
She was not worried about what the other party would use to exchange with her. With the system, she could quickly exchange it for what she needed. At worst, as long as the person was still alive, she would have a way to make the other party pay back the money in Dawn City.
"Each of us gets half of what we got in exchange."
Ji Heng caught sight of Xu Bai speaking seriously, and he couldn't refuse anymore, but he didn't agree either. Instead, he asked, "Do you have a place to stay? If possible, you can arrange for me, Qing He, and his parents to have three rooms. If it's difficult, you can reduce it."
"No one around me needs a fire crystal core."
Xu Bai looked at Ji Heng for a while, until Ji Heng thought he had said something wrong and that his request was too high. Just as he was about to change his words, he heard Xu Bai say, "Okay."
As luck would have it, her house would be completed in a day or two. If it had been any earlier, she would not have easily agreed to it.
Ji Heng suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and drove silently.
Neither of them is a chatterbox, the type who can find something to talk about when there is nothing to say.
It was a quiet journey.
The silence was not broken until Ji Heng drove further and further away and arrived at a small rural house.
"I'll go call them, you wait here."
After Ji Heng got off the car, Xu Bai also got off. After taking a few steps, he heard a woman's scream coming from the small house.
Along with the screams, there was the sound of things being smashed.
Ji Heng and Xu Bai ran over quickly. As soon as they pushed open the door and ran into the yard, they saw a girl wearing a mask running down from upstairs, closely following her was the i-zombie who had just transformed into a zombie.
A newly transformed zombie has an obvious characteristic: its limbs are inflexible, very slow, and crooked, as if someone had just reattached their limbs after they were broken.
But at the same time, they are full of thirst for fresh blood, and every sound can stimulate them...
If the zombie had not just transformed, the girl would have become its food long ago.
When Qiao Yiyi saw Ji Heng and Xu Bai, her eyes lit up and she quickly ran towards them, shouting, "Help, help me!"
Two or three zombies came down from the stairs one after another.
These three or four newly transformed zombies were no match for Ji Heng at all. He took care of them in just a few moves without Xu Bai having to take any action at all.
Ji Heng was worried about the situation of Shi Qinghe and the other two, so he hurried upstairs.
Finally, Shi Qinghe and Shi's father and mother were found in a locked room.
As soon as he kicked the door open, he saw Father Shi holding a medium-sized hammer against him. When he saw it was Ji Heng, Father Shi put the hammer down, sat down on the bed weakly, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Ah Heng, you're finally back."
Shi Qinghe was lying on the ground, unconscious, and on the bed was Shi's mother, who had been in a coma since before he went to the hospital.
Mother Shi had been living a life of luxury before the end of the world. She was always worried before Ji Heng and Shi Qinghe went back to find them. Only after she saw them and was with them did she feel a little relieved.
But after rushing all the way to Zhe City, Shi's mother did not get enough rest and began to feel unwell and had a high fever.
Although Ji Heng and Shi Qinghe were also suffering from high fever before awakening their special powers.
But they couldn't guarantee whether it was an awakening or just a simple cold or fever.
After discussion, Ji Heng went out to find medicine, while Shi Qinghe and Shi's father stayed to look after him.
But considering that Shi Qinghe has superpowers, this situation should not happen. Shi's father, who does not have superpowers, is still fine, but he is in a coma.
"What's going on?"
Hearing Ji Heng's question, Shi's father glanced at Shi Qinghe lying on the ground with a look of dismay, and said helplessly, "This foolish child heard a knock on the door, went to open it, and was sprayed with medicine by the woman named Qiao Yiyi. If I hadn't happened to go over to see what was going on and pulled this kid in in time, he would have been bitten by the zombies."
Father Shi was also a little scared.
As soon as he walked over, he saw three or four men outside. One of them suddenly turned into a zombie and bit the person next to him.
Fortunately, he was fast and had exercised regularly before the end of the world, so he was still physically fit. He was able to pull the 1.8-meter-tall Shi Qinghe into the room and lock the door in time.
But it was not easy for those who were locked outside. This room was the closest to them, but they couldn't open the door. They could only escape and find another room, or run downstairs.
Father Shi has been doing business for many years and has never done anything immoral, but this time, he watched others being bitten into zombies and he didn't think he did anything wrong.
Either this group of people will die, or he and his family will die.
"Qiao Yiyi?"
Ji Heng thought of the person who had just escaped downstairs, went downstairs to catch the person, and found a rope to tie the person's hands and feet.
Xu Bai leaned against the door of the room, his arms folded, and looked into the room with raised eyebrows.
After being kidnapped, Qiao Yiyi immediately understood her situation.
She immediately knelt down crying: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, they forced me to do this, I didn't want to do it."
"If I don't listen to them, they will..."
Qiao Yiyi thought of her sixteen-year-old sister who was imprisoned by that group of people, and she couldn't help crying.
"I'm serious, please let me go?"
Mr. Shi never hits women, but when he heard what the girl said, his anger kept rising, and he reached out and slapped her hard.
"If I had been a step later, our whole family would have become zombies. Can a simple 'I'm sorry' erase everything you just did?"
"It's a joke. If you want to kneel, just kneel until he wakes up."
Father Shi waited for Shi Qinghe to wake up, waiting for him to see for himself what the consequences would be if he was not vigilant and had no common sense after the end of the world, and let him decide for himself how to deal with this person.
"No, no, I really didn't expect that person to turn into a zombie. They originally just asked me to make you unconscious. It really was an accident."
"Tell me honestly what they asked you to do." Ji Heng was in no mood to listen to a woman crying.
Qiao Yiyi raised her head and looked at Ji Heng, her eyes red and tears welling up.
If it weren't for her swollen face that affected her performance, she would have looked like a delicate little woman.
"They saw that he had water-related abilities, so they wanted to imprison him and make him a water supply person in the future."
They found this small farmhouse because Shi's mother was unwell. They also noticed that the zombies always gathered in one place from time to time, so they decided to find a remote place.
They didn't see anyone else when they came over.
Shi Qinghe gave Qiao Yiyi a bottle of water as temporary accommodation expenses, but she never expected that someone would remember her.
Seeing Ji Heng frowning, he didn't believe her words.
Qiao Yiyi was anxious: "It's true, I only drank half of the bottle of water you gave me. I gave the other half to my sister, but they found out and threatened me."
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