"haven't seen you for a long time"
Su Jin smiled with her eyes curved. Wang Zhu also looked very different. His previous appearance as a social elite was no longer there. Now he looked more like a sloppy uncle.
"haven't seen you for a long time"
Wang Zhu felt a little sad. Why did he feel like meeting an old friend in a foreign land?
Moreover, Su Jin still looks the same as before, as if she has not suffered any damage from the end of the world. Compared with when she was in Province G, she has a more heroic temperament.
"Everyone, please come and sit down. This used to be the second floor of a restaurant. There's nothing here, but there are quite a few tables, chairs, and benches."
As Zhang Chuyang spoke, he pulled out all the benches in the corner.
"Young man, what level are you in the speed department?" Nie Qing asked with a smile.
"Uncle, I'm level five, hehe"
Zhang Chuyang answered proudly that he had escaped for his life.
"No wonder, if a speed-type ability is so fast, it can be so powerful that the entity cannot be seen? It's really amazing."
Nie Qing exclaimed in admiration. They seldom came into contact with people with speed abilities, and had never seen a level five speed ability user, so he was particularly curious about speed abilities.
"It's nothing, uncle. Speed types are just about running fast and reacting quickly, but they are not very good in actual combat."
Zhang Chuyang said that the weakness of speed-type mutants is their own strength. Although his speed has increased and his attack speed can be very fast, when fighting with zombies, although his knife cuts fast, the force is not enough. When he encounters mutated zombies, it is easy for them to avoid fatal injuries.
Nie Qing nodded. Indeed, every superpower has its own weaknesses, which requires teamwork.
"Team... We had a team before, but unfortunately everyone else was killed by zombies in a nearby base."
Zhang Chuyang's expression suddenly fell.
Although the previous team was also temporarily formed by them and several survivors on the way, they were all people who had killed zombies and collected supplies together. They didn't expect that they thought they had finally escaped to a base and could rest for a few days, but they were betrayed by that base.
"Are you talking about the Free Dawn Base?"
Lu Hao remembered the guess he and Su Jin had made before and asked.
"Yes, do you know where it is?"
Zhang Chuyang still looked sad when he mentioned the base. Their team originally had eight people, but now there are only him and Wang Zhu left.
"We've been there before, even stayed there for a night. What exactly happened at that base?"
Lin Xiuyuan also asked curiously.
"That base has now become a dead city, and all the people inside the base have turned into zombies," Wang Zhu replied.
"all?"
Su Jin and the others asked in unison.
What on earth happened? There seemed to be quite a few people in the base, so how come they all turned into zombies?
"Zombie Cockroach"
Wang Zhu said.
Several people immediately understood, and felt terrified when they thought about it carefully. Fortunately, they left there a few days earlier. They were not afraid of zombies, but they were afraid of swarms of cockroaches or rats.
Su Jin recalled the sanitary conditions inside the Freedom Dawn Base.
There were even some dried zombie corpses near the main gate, as well as the corpses of people who had turned into zombies every time they sneaked in. They were simply cleaned up next to the base, so it was not surprising that cockroaches, rats, etc. were attracted.
Once a cockroach or rat eats the corpse of a zombie, it will turn into a zombie cockroach or zombie rat.
"You have no idea how terrifying those zombie cockroaches are. They're densely packed, from the sewers to the cracks in the beds, everywhere. In just one night, the entire base was destroyed."
Zhang Chuyang still had a horrified expression when he mentioned those scenes. Those zombie cockroaches were too resilient. Even if fire attack was the most effective, they would immediately burrow into the soil or into cracks that the fire could not reach. They were simply impossible to defend against.
Although Pei Yuan and his companions had never seen zombie cockroaches, they still felt their scalps tingling when they heard the descriptions of the two people.
Lu Hao was also frowning. Even the fire attack couldn't be completely eliminated?
"Cockroaches are incredibly resilient, didn't you know? They're one of the earliest creatures on Earth, active as early as 250 million years ago. They've been able to survive fires, famines, and various geological disasters. They're not easy to eliminate. If we encounter one, I think we should just run!"
Qin Yiran sighed and said that he also studied biology and was no stranger to creatures like cockroaches. They not only had strong vitality, but also had super strong reproductive capacity. If they turned into zombie cockroaches, it would be a huge hazard.
"I suggest that we all leave here as soon as possible."
Su Jin frowned and said that she didn't want to encounter those zombie cockroaches, and this place was not far from the Free Dawn Base, so it was very likely that cockroaches would spread here.
Wang Zhu also learned that Su Jin and others were going to the S City base. He was surprised but also a little hesitant.
"Su Jin, our car is scrapped. Can these crystal cores be used as a ride fee?"
After Wang Zhu finished speaking, he took out a bag of crystal cores from his own space, which looked like quite a few.
He knew that if it was before the apocalypse, it would be fine, but after the apocalypse, one couldn't just join someone else's team, and they weren't exactly familiar with Su Jin.
Su Jin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and took the bag of crystal cores, saying, "Okay, I'll take the crystal cores."
Wang Zhu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was really worried that Su Jin would not accept it, otherwise he would be embarrassed to even get in the car.
Everyone rested in the abandoned building for half an hour. During this time, Su Jin took out some food and water and gave them to Dr. Pei and others. She even gave some to Wang Zhu and Zhang Chuyang.
"Su Jin, I still have some cookies and other things that Zhang Chuyang and I collected together in my space. You can keep them."
Wang Zhu's words were actually a bit unconvincing. He did have a lot of crystal cores in his space, but the food...
Zhang Chuyang couldn't help but mutter in his heart, he didn't know what biscuits were, but there should be some biscuit crumbs...
However, he had the same idea as Wang Zhu. Food was so hard to come by in the apocalypse. Although he couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw the eggs and pancakes in Su Jin's hands.
"Eat, you've already paid. I'll cover the cost on the way, and Zhang Chuyang just helped us a lot."
Su Jin knew that Wang Zhu was a person who cared about face, so he took his crystal cores just now. It was not because he really wanted those crystal cores, but because this would make some people with self-esteem feel more balanced.
"Yes, yes, you two should be polite. When you arrive at the S City base, you can buy anything as long as you have a crystal core."
Lin Xiuyuan took a sip of water and said that he was not hungry because he had just eaten a lot in the space.
Seeing that Su Jin's hand holding the food remained in mid-air with no intention of taking it back, Wang Zhu sighed and took it anyway.
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