Ying's father also smelled the odor outside, his face turned ugly and he almost vomited.
The father and daughter slowed down.
"The smell outside is terrible, a strong stench of decay."
Ying Xixi drank two sips of water to suppress the feeling of nausea.
Ying's father looked solemn, "The air is also polluted. In this case, we have to wear masks, gloves, protective clothing and rain boots when we go out through this door.
We are still unsure whether breathing in the outside air, stepping on the blood-red puddles on the ground, or touching the puddles on the door will cause harm to the body, so it is better to be careful."
Ying Xixi thought so too, "Dad is right, I have prepared all these things, I will go get them."
The father and daughter put on white protective suits, masks, gloves and rain boots, and took up machetes.
Ying Xixi looked at the yard outside the door and felt a little regretful that she had not built another small house in the yard.
If there is a small transitional house, they can come back from fighting zombies outside and change their protective clothing in the small house before going home, so they will not bring the dirt outside into the house.
She didn't think so much about it at the beginning, and she didn't expect that even the air would smell so bad after the apocalypse broke out.
The father and daughter looked at each other ready, and Ying Xixi held the machete tightly in one hand and opened the door with the other.
This time, the father and daughter were fully armed, and they finally could no longer smell the foul odor in the air.
Ying Xixi immediately closed the door to prevent the smell outside from entering the house.
She opened two doors in the wall, and three zombies in security uniforms standing at the door came into view of her and Ying's father.
"Ho ho!"
"roar!"
Three zombies roared and pounced on the security door.
As the distance got closer, Ying Xixi could clearly see their grayish-blue and rotten skin, and their cloudy, protruding eyes that looked like they might fall out of their sockets at any time.
Ying Xixi closed her eyes, raised the machete and stabbed it into the head of one of the zombies.
Seeing this, Ying's father followed suit and killed the other two zombies with quick movements.
The roar stopped abruptly.
The father and daughter looked at each other.
"Dad, after I open the door, I'll take care of the two zombies on the left, and you take care of the one on the right. We'll give them one more blow to make sure they're dead, and then we'll dig for the crystal core. I'll close the door immediately after we're done."
"good."
After discussing it, the father and daughter worked in perfect harmony and completed the task in one go.
The crystal core in the zombie's brain was dug out quite successfully.
Ying Xixi slammed the door shut.
The father and daughter took off their protective clothing and gloves in the yard and placed them at the door. They put on masks and rain boots and entered the house, and changed their rain boots again at the entrance.
Ying's mother took a bottle of disinfectant and sprayed it around the father and daughter before she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Are you okay?"
Ying Xixi took off her mask and threw it into the trash can, breathing a sigh of relief. "It's okay, it went smoothly. There really are crystal cores in the zombies' heads. The two I dug out are red. Dad, where's yours?"
Ying's father opened his palm and saw a red one as well.
"I wonder if these crystal cores are also graded like in the novels, with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, with red being the lowest and purple being the highest."
"Dad, you know what, it's very likely that, at least so far, some things in the apocalypse match what's described in the novel.
Doesn’t the novel say that the higher the level of zombies, the higher the energy of their crystal cores? If you want to become a high-level zombie, you have to eat a lot of people.
The three zombies at the door have probably never eaten humans. Their crystal cores are red, which can also be called red.
Maybe in the future we can actually discover other colors like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet."
Father Ying nodded. "So, if we want to have superpowers, we still have to go out and kill zombies and dig out crystal cores."
"Yes, although our home is quite safe, we can't stay here forever.
When a safe base is built in the future and they have to choose between ordinary people and people with special abilities, they will definitely choose the latter.
We still have to stimulate our superpowers."
"Xixi is right. Then Mom will go with you to kill zombies in the future."
Ying's mother became more determined. "A scalpel is still a knife. I'm a knife user after all, and I know how to kill a zombie with one blow."
Ying Xixi smiled and said, "Okay, come on, there are exactly three crystal cores. Let's each eat one and feel it."
As she spoke, Ying Xixi took the water and rinsed the crystal core clean.
Ying's mother picked up the crystal core and looked at it carefully.
"It looks crystal clear, like agate, and should taste like hard candy."
"The novel says it melts in your mouth."
Ying's father now almost regards the apocalyptic novels he has read before as treasures.
"Dad, the novel I read said that the crystal core tastes crunchy."
After Ying Xixi finished speaking, she threw the crystal core directly into her mouth, chewing it with a crunching sound.
She smacked her lips. "It's really crunchy, but it has no taste at all."
Ying's father ate it without believing it. It was tasteless but crunchy.
He wondered, "Why is it different from the novels I read?"
Ying Xixi smiled and said, "Dad, novels are not templates. Some of the settings in apocalyptic novels are the author's personal settings, not the general public's settings. Of course, they are different from the settings of other novels of the same type.
I've also seen the setting you mentioned about melt-in-the-mouth.
By the way, I downloaded tens of thousands of novels, including some about the end of the world. Dad, do you want to read them?"
Ying's father became interested. "I want to see it! But what if the battery runs out? Can the generator you bought charge your phone?"
"Yes, I bought not only a generator, but also a hundred power banks. I fully charged them all the day before the apocalypse."
Ying Xixi felt that her preparations were very sufficient.
Now, no matter what is needed, she takes it out.
Father Ying nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, then I'll read some apocalyptic novels when I have nothing to do. Maybe I can learn something from them."
Ying Xixi took a sip of water and smacked her lips. "Mom and Dad, have you felt any changes in your body?"
"No, I don't feel anything."
Father Ying touched his belly and said, "I don't feel anything either. It's just a crystal core, so it's hard to have any reaction.
Xixi, should we go out and kill zombies again today?"
Ying's father was eager to try.
Ying Xixi looked at the blood-red sky outside the window and said, "I probably won't be able to go out today. Let's wait and see tomorrow."
Dad, don't think zombies are fun. We killed three zombies so easily just now because there was a door blocking the way, and those three zombies were of the lowest level and their attack power was not very strong.
If we decide to go out and kill zombies, we must be extremely alert and cautious."
Ying Xixi's expression was quite serious. Being bitten by a zombie was not fun.
Ying's mother also slapped her husband in agreement.
"Xixi is right. Killing zombies isn't a game. What are you so eager to try?"
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