Chapter 72 Everyone Upgrades
"Xiao Yue, I want to ask you about the situation of the Sky Blue City Naval Base. Most importantly, the situation of the person in power."
Gu Xiaoyue's originally relaxed face instinctively tensed up after hearing Hua Yang's question. As a soldier, she would instinctively be on guard against people who tried to find out about the camp.
But Hua Yang didn't make her feel like a bad person, so why did she want to find out about the camp?
Hua Yang found the way she looked at Xiao Yue a little funny, but she had to explain it to her. So she said, "We went to Tianlan City this time originally for the naval base. I want to borrow a ship to go to Haicheng to find my brother Hua Shinian."
After hearing Hua Yang's explanation, Gu Xiaoyue finally breathed a sigh of relief. But then she immediately became nervous and asked, "Don't even think about borrowing a boat to go out to sea. I don't think General Lin will agree to lend you a boat. The military has its own rules. Besides, the sea is not peaceful right now. The military supplies dispatched by Kyoto City have disappeared at sea. I don't know if the rescue team has found the supplies."
"Oh? General Lin, are you talking about Lin Shuyuan?"
Hua Yang had heard of this old general in her previous life. He had led his men to fight against zombies and won many victories. He was experienced in combat and a good person. If it was him, Hua Yang could find a way to persuade him.
"Ah, how can you call our old general by his name!"
Seeing how respectful Gu Xiaoyue was to Lin Shuyuan, Hua Yang guessed that this girl might have some connection with General Lin, so she asked, "Is there any way for me to meet General Lin?"
Gu Xiaoyue paused, thought about it for a long time, and then nodded suddenly: "I can find a way to let you meet General Lin, but you can't play tricks! The old general is a good man, and he is also good to us subordinates."
Hua Yang looked at Gu Xiaoyue with amusement and said, "I know, I know. Am I that kind of person? How could you not trust me so much?"
Gu Xiaoyue's face suddenly became serious, her eyes seemed to be recalling some past events, and her lively personality also restrained.
"You don't know, the old general has spent his entire life serving the country and the people. The Sky Blue City military base is very complex. I'm just very worried about him."
Hua Yang seemed to have heard the story from Gu Xiaoyue's expression, but she didn't ask any more questions. At this time, Gu Xiaoyue looked at Hua Yang as if she suddenly remembered something important and said.
"Hua Yang, if I help you meet General Lin, can you do me a favor?"
Hua Yang paused and replied, "What help?"
"General Lin was seriously injured while saving people in his early years, and even now he often suffers from the injury. I wonder if you can use your water, the same water that he gave to Brother Meng to drink and healed his injury, to treat General Lin's injury?"
Hua Yang was stunned, and suddenly looked at Gu Xiaoyue with a sly look on her face and said, "Why should I agree to you?"
"Ah? You?"
Gu Xiaoyue didn't expect that Hua Yang, who was usually so gentle and kind, would reject her like this, leaving her at a loss as to how to react.
"In other words, if I help you treat Lin Shuyuan, what benefit will I get?"
"Isn't that the condition for me to take you to see General Lin?"
"But now it's you who asked me to take him to treat him, right? So how can the previous conditions be considered valid? Right, Xiao Yueyue?"
Gu Xiaoyue glared at Hua Yang angrily and asked angrily: "Well, what do you want? I can satisfy you within my ability and bottom line."
Hua Yang smiled mysteriously, "I've been waiting for you to say this. If I cure your General Lin, you must come with me."
"Ah? I'll go with you?"
Hua Yang nodded, then looked at Gu Xiaoyue who was standing there in a daze with a meaningful look, and said softly: "You have a lot of time to think about it before I meet Lin Shuyuan."
Everyone ate breakfast, then went downstairs to look for zombies to get crystal cores to upgrade. Level 1 abilities were not a big problem when facing three or four zombies. However, as more than ten days had passed since the end of the world, the number of zombies had only increased. Once encountered, it was rare for a zombie to be alone.
The street that had been cleared last night was only sparsely populated by three zombies that had come from nowhere in the morning. After dealing with them and digging out a crystal core, the group headed for the nearest village.
Sure enough, on the way near the village, when they passed a small market, the entrance to the market was blocked by a dozen zombies.
The entrance to the market was only big enough for two people to pass through at the same time. The zombies at the entrance were crowded inside and outside, making it impossible to get in or out.
When Hua Yang saw this scene, she curled the corners of her mouth, waved her little hand, and led everyone to rush forward with axes raised.
With a market entrance like this, as long as they don't kill all the zombies outside, the zombies inside will be blocked by the zombies at the entrance and will never be able to pour out at once.
This is both safe and efficient for them.
So, everyone stood in a row and slaughtered the zombies that were blocked at the entrance of the market. Xiao Ming continued to dig crystal cores. Soon, the entrance was filled with zombie corpses.
One, two, three, four, until after thirty zombie corpses, the entrance to the market was already filled with zombie corpses. Although the zombies inside tried their best to rush out, they were blocked and could not get out. They could only wave their claws desperately at the few people in protest.
"Hoo, Angkor, let's set it on fire. I see there are a lot of zombies in this market. Let's burn some of them to death first."
So, Wu Tianqi waved his hand, and five bright and dazzling fireballs rushed straight into the pile of zombies inside. Once the fire-type ability was contaminated by the target object, it was like a thorn in the flesh, and it would ignite as soon as it touched. After igniting five of the zombies, the zombies closest to them would also be infected by the fire as soon as they were touched. It was like a chain reaction. Soon, the market was full of flames and filled with the unpleasant smell of burnt and rotten.
Hua Yang covered her nose and walked away, taking a few breaths of fresh air. Meng Yi stood at the entrance, on guard, in case of any sudden danger, so that he could defend and protect everyone.
After a while, when the flames had ignited all the zombies inside the entrance, Wu Tianqi slowly retracted his supernatural powers.
It wasn't long before the group of zombies in the market were burned black by the fire, turned into mummies, and fell to the ground completely motionless.
Hua Yang and the others could see the situation inside clearly. Previously, the zombies in the front row blocked their view of the back row, but now that all the zombies at the door had fallen, they could count them and estimated that there were more than a hundred zombies lying on the ground.
Hua Yang had smelled the rotten meat burnt by the fire, and her spleen and stomach had been upset for a long time. In addition, she was pregnant with Hua Diandian, and if she hadn't suppressed it, she would have vomited violently at this moment.
So she directed everyone to do the work of digging out the crystal cores, while she waited outside for everyone to bring the crystal cores over. She was responsible for cleaning the crystal cores and everyone's hands that were digging for the crystal cores.
A hundred or so zombies actually dug out more than ninety crystal cores, and each crystal core was full of energy and shining, which was very satisfying to look at.
Hua Yang distributed the crystal cores to Wu Tianqi, his father Hua Jianming, Gu Xiaoyue and Meng Yi, asking them to absorb them on the spot and strive to upgrade their superpowers to level two.
Hua Yang, Li Xiaoyu and Xiao Ming were standing by, seemingly guarding the Dharma, but they were actually just taking a break and eating something. It wasn't that she was careless, but Xiao Lu and Jin Chan had already told her in the air that there was no danger nearby. And Hou Er, Hou San and Xiao Jia, who she had let out to find food last night, were also wandering around like they were patrolling.
Hua Yang couldn't stand the smell of rotten meat, so she used her special power to wash the ground within ten meters around her. She also drank some spiritual water to relieve the pressure on her stomach, and then she felt much better.
An hour passed.
Monkey Two and Monkey Three ran back from not far away, as if they had just experienced a great battle. Their bodies were splattered with rancid juice and rotten flesh. They still had a dozen zombie crystal cores in their hands, which they presented to Hua Yang like treasures.
After Hua Yang rinsed the two creatures with water, she did not want their crystal cores. You know, these evolved creatures in her space also need energy to evolve and upgrade, and she cannot deprive them of the fruits of their battle.
Two hours passed.
After Hua Yang washed Xiao Jia who had returned from foraging and sent him back to the space, the few people who were sitting on the ground absorbing crystal cores to upgrade finally moved.
Originally Hua Yang thought that Wu Tianqi would be the first to reach level two, but it was Gu Xiaoyue who opened his eyes first.
Seeing the extra crystal cores in her hand, Gu Xiaoyue handed them to Hua Yang and said, "Hua Yang, thank you, I finally reached level two. I feel that my abilities are much more abundant than when I was at level one. Also, before, I could only summon three vines to control the enemy, but now I can summon five!"
Hua Yang smiled and nodded, saying, "Congratulations, Xiaoyue. However, in the future, don't easily tell anyone about your ability level and capabilities. In the end times, you must not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others. Even if it's someone you're close to, don't tell them easily, understand?"
Looking at Hua Yang, who was about the same age as her, lecturing to her so calmly with such a serious look on his face, she was moved, but she quickly concealed it.
"I know, I know. You keep talking so much, just like an old lady."
Hua Yang shook her head helplessly and looked at Wu Tianqi who was the second person to come over.
"Angkor, how do you feel?"
Wu Tianqi smiled faintly, and the confidence in his eyes made Hua Yang certain that the attack power of the second-level fire ability was definitely much stronger than the first-level one.
"I'm much stronger. Protecting you won't be a problem."
After a while, Meng Yi and Hua Jianming also gradually woke up. They woke up late, and even though they absorbed a lot of crystal cores, they still didn't reach level 2. However, according to their own descriptions, their abilities were almost up to level 2, but they still lacked some energy accumulation.
In a team, except for Li Xiaoyu and Xiao Ming, five people all have superpowers, one water, one fire, one plant, one earth and one gold. Three of them are level 2 superpower users, and the other two are not far from level 2. Even Xiao Ming is a superpower user who may awaken at any time.
This lineup already has the ability to attack and defend well against small groups of zombies in the early days of the apocalypse.
In order to reach the naval base as soon as possible, Hua Yang decided to set off immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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