Chapter 10: Base No. 27 (Part 2)
If it weren't for the zombies that kept passing by, Song Yuqing would have had the illusion that they were on an outing.
That’s right, spring is in its prime!
Soon, Song Yuqing's happy mood was broken. The dogtail grass along the road mutated, became bad, and started bullying people.
The mutated foxtail grass was like a big broom, constantly hitting Song Yuqing. Song Yuqing's clothes could protect him from zombies, but not from the foxtail grass.
Song Yuqing held a kitchen knife in her hand and chopped off the dogtail grass that hit her. However, the chopped dogtail grass turned into countless sharp thorns, sweeping across Song Yuqing's cheeks.
Soon, Song Yuqing's exposed skin was scratched. Song Yuqing became obedient, holding his head and walking, carefully avoiding the grass.
Although she didn't know the exact location of the base, she could always follow the tire tracks on the ground.
She didn't walk fast, and it was dark before she reached Base 27.
Song Yuqing took out a milky white outdoor camping tent from the space, placed an inflatable mattress and a soft quilt in the tent, let go of his arms and legs, and lay down comfortably to sleep.
At night, it was very quiet, except for the rustling of the mutant plants, which tried to attack her tent but always failed.
"Yeah, white noise."
Song Yuqing fell into a peaceful sleep under the manual hypnosis of the mutant plant.
The next day, before daybreak, Song Yuqing was awakened by a loud noise.
"Why?"
"This is the rule! All crystal cores must be handed over to the supermarket! If you absorb crystal cores privately, you will be punished!"
Song Yuqing woke up because she heard the word "supermarket" and her brain automatically judged that it was related to her.
Song Yuqing walked out of the tent and looked around. He saw a group of people pushing and shoving in the woods not far away.
After packing the tent into the space, Song Yuqing walked towards the woods. Eight people with bad faces walked past her, looking at her with ill intentions.
"What are you looking at!" Song Yuqing glared at them.
When she was very young, her parents taught her that when faced with a malicious look, she should respond with a fierce look.
"Song and Qing!!"
Song Yuqing looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was Liu Xiaona!
Liu Xiaona was half-kneeling on the ground, covered in blood, holding an unconscious person in her arms.
"What's going on?" Song Yuqing hurried over.
"Those people are going too far!" Liu Xiaona looked at the backs of the group of people, feeling so angry that her teeth were itching. If she hadn't cared about the unconscious person, she would have beaten them long ago!
The person Liu Xiaona was holding in her arms was a pale and thin old man with a shocking wound running from his shoulder to his chest.
"What happened to him? Where are Sister Qin and the others?"
Liu Xiaona hung her head like a deflated balloon.
Nothing good has happened since the five of them arrived at the base.
That day, Liu Xiaona and Sister Qin went to the villa area to see the Base Supermarket. While it looked bright and sleek, it lacked any supplies, far inferior to the God's Supermarket. Several ragged men knelt at the supermarket's entrance, begging desperately, hoping someone would give them some food out of pity.
Liu Xiaona, a nosy sort, saw this and went over to inquire. It turned out these people had no special abilities, but toiled as laborers, only to have their food deducted for a day because they hadn't met their work quota. Unwilling to accept this, they cursed, but the owner of the base's supermarket overheard them. He teased them and made them kneel down at the supermarket entrance to beg for food. If they didn't get any food within a day, he'd kick them out.
But everyone acted according to the boss's mood, and no one was willing to lend a helping hand to those who had offended the boss.
Liu Xiaona grew increasingly angry as she spoke, and Song Yuqing grew increasingly disheartened. The world was changing so rapidly that such despicable behavior could actually occur openly.
Liu Xiaona was kindhearted, so she dragged Sister Qin to fight zombies and dig crystal cores. They exchanged the crystal cores for food, and shared half of the food with the beggars. However, their strength far exceeded that of other zombie hunters in the team, which aroused the jealousy of many people.
Someone started to take the lead in ostracizing Liu Xiaona and Sister Qin, deliberately assigning them to different zombie hunting teams. Even Sister Zhang and the others were affected and no longer dared to interact with Liu Xiaona and Sister Qin, pretending not to know each other.
Liu Xiaona and Sister Qin's situation in the base is even more difficult than outside.
During this mission, the old man, despite possessing superpowers, was far less physically fit than the other superpowered individuals, and everyone disliked him as a burden to the team. Liu Xiaona secretly hid a crystal core for the old man to absorb and enhance his abilities. Unexpectedly, the others discovered him and, without further explanation, beat him half to death, shouting, "We're helping the supermarket owner at the base eliminate those who dissident."
Liu Xiaona felt guilty. She had just gone to the bathroom, and when she came back she saw the seriously injured old man.
Song Yuqing didn't know how to comfort Liu Xiaona. In this kind of situation, any comfort would be useless.
Song Yuqing took out food and water from the space and placed them in Liu Xiaona's palm. Song Yuqing did not bring any medicine with him this time, so apart from giving her food and water, he could not help her in any other way.
Song Yuqing realized that her stockpile was missing something crucial: medicine. She made a mental note of this, and when she went to the parallel world to buy supplies next month, she would buy a full stock of medicines.
Liu Xiaona stared at the water and food in her hands, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Song Yuqing with her bright eyes.
"I have an idea, would you like to hear it?"
Song Yuqing raised an eyebrow: "I'm all ears."
"I'll help you sell the supplies to the people in the base. They only want zombies, not crystal cores, right?"
Liu Xiaona did not ask for anything in return from Song Yuqing. She just felt that instead of being trampled under the feet of the Base Supermarket, it would be better to take a risk. This would not only save people but also disgust those who regarded the Base Supermarket as their heaven.
Of course Song Yuqing agreed readily. Why not kill two birds with one stone?
Liu Xiaona and Song Yuqing agreed to meet outside the base in the evening, and he would bring Sister Qin with him.
Song Yuqing and Liu Xiaona accompanied the injured old man back to the base. Liu Xiaona went inside the base, while Song Yuqing stood outside, took out an inflatable mattress from the space, and lay down leisurely, looking at the sky and swinging his feet.
Something was amiss.
Song Yuqing felt someone staring at her. Upon closer inspection, she saw it was the goalkeeper with a broken arm.
"Hey, can you give me your bed? In exchange, I'll help you get into the base."
"Thank you, no thanks."
The goalkeeper saw someone who was unwilling to enter the base for the first time, and he became curious and put away his arrogant look.
"Who are you?"
"Manager of God's Supermarket, I'm here to exchange zombies for supplies. As for the crystal cores, you can keep them for yourself."
The goalkeeper's eyes widened immediately. He could believe that this woman had a lot of supplies in her hands, but he couldn't believe that the zombies whose crystal cores had been dug out could be exchanged for supplies.
"Really, no crystal cores are needed?"
Song Yuqing nodded firmly, yes, so bring the zombies here quickly and do business with me!
The goalkeeper lowered his head like a wilted flower. He didn't have a crystal core and had never collected rotten zombie bodies. Who would keep that thing?
Song Yuqing noticed the goalkeeper's broken arm, at least half of his shoulder was gone.
"What happened to your arm?"
"I was bitten by a zombie and I cut it off myself."
Such a ruthless person, Song Yuqing couldn't even imagine that scene.
Chen Town, outside God’s Supermarket.
Lin Han brought five people and banged on the door, but it was useless, the door didn't open at all.
Lin Han ordered his men to shoot at the closed door, but it was useless. All the bullets fell to the ground.
So that’s how it is. It’s not that Song and Qing are powerful, but that the God’s Supermarket is very special.
"Boss, this is very mysterious!"
"Nonsense! You're not even worth saying!" Lin Han cursed viciously, "Go back to base!"
Since he couldn't do anything to God's Supermarket, he had to think of a way to make Song Yuqing work for him. There were plenty of ways to use coercion and inducement to make Song Yuqing hand over God's Supermarket to him.
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