Chu Nian was certain that Zhang Lan had begun to suspect the source of the attacks she and Zhang Gang had suffered yesterday.
However, others certainly haven't suspected anything yet. After all, in this day and age, it's not uncommon to be attacked on the street today and not be attacked on the same street tomorrow.
The next day, the team set off. They had heard that a powerful individual had already established a relatively well-equipped human base in Shanghai, and that Shanghai was the team's current destination. This campsite was only for their temporary rest.
However, Chu Nian noticed that Zhang Lan was leading her team in a different direction than the route the original owner had taken in her previous life, and immediately became more vigilant.
After trying to recall, she remembered that the route Zhang Lan was taking this time would pass through a small village called "Huaijia Village". There was an old locust tree there that had lived for hundreds of years before the apocalypse began, but after the apocalypse began, it directly mutated into a powerful demon tree.
It was a powerful assistant to the zombie king who killed the original owner of this body. Needless to say, it was incredibly strong and coveted the original owner's unique physical body. The zombie king only gave it two bones from the original owner's body, and it, which was only level ten at the time, grew rapidly, directly reaching the peak of level eleven, just one step away from breaking through to the Zombie Saint Emperor.
Given Zhang Lan's penchant for underhanded tactics, even if she wanted Chu Nian dead, she would never kill Chu Nian herself, not even when no one was around. She would most likely do what the original owner did: use zombies or other mutated creatures.
Chu Nian kept a close eye on things and tried from time to time to "hear" Zhang Lan's telepathic communication with others.
Because she had experience in the underworld: she was certain that the words she had heard but not truly understood in the underworld were definitely not what the little devils of the underworld wanted her to hear. It was just that those little devils were unaware of her ability.
Therefore, she wanted to try whether she could overhear Zhang Lan and the others' voice transmission with the help of her supernatural abilities.
Over two days, after countless experiments, Chu Nian finally discovered that as long as she concentrated her superpower in her ears and kept it in a very subtle operating state, she could actually hear the secret communication of other superpowered individuals.
Chu Nian's guess was correct; Zhang Lan and Zhang Gang were indeed discussing using that demonic tree to kill her.
However, judging from Zhang Gang's expression, he seemed to still have some hesitation. He still coveted Chu Nian's superpower of being a "power bank" and felt that it would be more beneficial for Chu Nian to "charge" him only than for her to die.
He's a pure egoist, so it's not surprising that he thinks this way. But Zhang Lan has already made up her mind to get rid of Chu Nian.
Zhang Lan understood that Zhang Gang was different from her. Zhang Gang had no memories of his first life and had no idea how extraordinary Chu Nian's physique was. If given the opportunity, Chu Nian could grow to be much stronger than her and her brother in just a few days. At that time, it would be difficult to deal with her, and her and her brother would be left to live at Chu Nian's mercy.
Just mentioning that demonic tree made Chu Nian feel the fear emanating from the very bones of the original owner's body, which showed how terrifying the demonic tree was. However, Chu Nian felt that perhaps she could turn the tables on it.
Two days of observation passed, and Qin Hao showed no abnormalities—except for displaying even greater combat power in battle. Although he tried his best to suppress it, some people could still tell that his strength seemed to have surpassed Zhang Lan's.
So, on the evening of the second day, when they were resting, a superhuman eager to break through approached Chu Nian. Chu Nian readily accepted the superhuman's superhuman crystal core. Perhaps the superhuman she was trying to break through to was a whole level lower than Qin Hao. After absorbing and refining this peak level 5 zombie crystal core, she only spent two hours before starting to output power to that superhuman.
This superhuman broke through in less than half an hour, and he felt the same way Qin Hao did at the time—completely comfortable.
In the following days, the superhumans began to seek Chu Nian's help to improve or break through their limits. Zhang Gang also approached Chu Nian, but Chu Nian refused. Seeing his companions improving or breaking through their limits, Zhang Gang was extremely anxious, but no matter how many times he approached Chu Nian, Chu Nian refused to help him break through.
Some people with superpowers suggested that he apologize for speaking ill of Chu Nian that day. Zhang Gang originally wanted to suppress Li Nian and make her his personal "power bank," but he didn't expect that she would be a "power bank" for others but not for him. Being targeted by this woman like this, he hated her to the core. Why would he want to apologize?
He didn't want to back down, but seeing that many superhumans had made great progress with Chu Nian's help, while he remained stagnant, he felt all sorts of envy, jealousy, and hatred, which made him hate Chu Nian even more.
He finally agreed to Zhang Lan's proposal to conspire to kill Chu Nian.
Unaware of the path they were on, with an ancient locust tree ahead capable of swallowing them all whole, they were still excitedly discussing the future. Chu Nian felt sorry for them; they trusted their captain, Zhang Lan, so much, yet they were unaware that this woman was leading them down a deadly path.
As for Zhang Lan, she knew all too well the dangers lurking in Huaijia Village ahead. She wasn't even sure if she, her elder brother Zhang Gang, and Qin Hao could really take down the demonic tree together. But in order to get rid of Chu Nian, she successfully persuaded her elder brother Zhang Gang to conspire to lead the entire team into a deadly predicament.
Chu Nian felt that she should do something. Although her plan was not a big mistake, letting the siblings continue to lead the situation could result in the annihilation of the entire team.
Those innocent people should not be made to die along with them.
Moreover, because of her special "power bank" ability, everyone is protecting and taking care of her much more thoroughly than before, making her life much more comfortable recently than when the original owner was alive.
In the past few days, she has been absorbing zombie crystal cores non-stop. Although she is also constantly outputting them, it does not hinder her own growth. On the contrary, the full output of her superpowers will make her body have the capacity to accommodate superpowers again, which makes her superpowers grow extremely rapidly.
She has successfully broken through to level seven.
However, no one noticed the changes in her body from beginning to end.
Just because no one noticed doesn't mean no one suspected anything. Zhang Lan, who was already aware of her extraordinary physique, had long suspected that her abilities were on par with her and Qin Hao's. Otherwise, she wouldn't have thought of using the power of the demon tree to eliminate Chu Nian.
Many of the zombies have now reached level seven. If Chu Nian's strength weren't too great, the zombies could easily eliminate him. But now, to be on the safe side and to ensure Chu Nian's complete elimination, Zhang Lan has no choice but to rely on the demonic tree.
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