Chapter 176 Biocrystals
"I don't know." Jiang Zhan shook his head, "But I can be sure that this stone does have vitality."
"And, look carefully." Jiang Zhan held up the crystal, shone the flashlight directly at it, and motioned Qiao Yu to look closely.
Qiao Yu approached the crystal and observed it for a few seconds. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "There's really something moving inside!"
Densely packed with tiny red dots, each one encased in a transparent circle, swayed slightly within, the amplitude barely noticeable. They looked like cells under a microscope. If Qiao Yu hadn't had her eyesight enhanced by the fruit juice, she wouldn't have been able to see them at all.
Someone previously said that they saw some kind of living creature sealed inside this crystal, and it seems that this is not groundless.
It must be a person with enhanced vision who discovered the small red dot in the crystal.
"Hmm. So I suspect that this is actually a kind of living creature." Jiang Zhan said as he put the crystal back into Professor Kang's backpack, then took out a handful of crystal cores from the space and began to absorb energy silently.
Upon seeing this, Qiao Yu patted his head and quickly turned to Cheng Sinian, Luo Zhenzhen, and Yu Qingchuan and said, "Let's go quickly. Zhan has been holding on for too long. If we delay any longer, he will be very tired. Besides, there are alien species everywhere outside. If other teams come, they will be in danger."
The three nodded, and immediately packed up everything around them, then helped Professor Kang and several researchers from his team out of the cave.
It was completely dark at this time.
Qiao Yu put all four researchers on Wang Zha's back. When he wanted to help Professor Kang, he found that Cheng Sinian had tied Professor Kang tightly to his back with a rope.
Cheng Sinian lifted Professor Kang up and whispered, "I can carry you on my back, it's not too heavy."
It's not just not heavy, it's almost without any meat.
Cheng Sinian felt as if his entire back was almost pierced by Professor Kang's bones, and the pain made his eyes red.
Qiao Yu nodded and did not insist. After thinking about it, he took out a rope from the space and tied the four researchers to Wang Zha's back.
After tying them up, Qiao Yu still seemed a little worried. He patted Wang Zha's head and whispered, "Run carefully, don't let them fall."
"Ouch—" Wang Zha let out a long cry, his eyes firm, as if he was assuring himself that he would be absolutely careful.
After making preparations, Qiao Yu set off a red firework at the entrance of the cave before running down the mountain.
This route is closest to Xiang Heng's group from Shengshi Dynasty and Vulture, but when they came out, Jiang Zhan had not sensed anyone coming, which means that the other teams must still be on the way.
Now that they have completed their mission, they just need to keep other teams away.
"What's going on?" A team member behind Xiang Heng looked at the huge red fireworks that suddenly appeared in the night sky with a puzzled look on his face. "Why is it blue and red? Captain, should we go over there now or not?"
They were almost there, why did red fireworks suddenly appear?!
Xiang Heng stopped and listened to the faint roar of the alien species coming from the front, his brows furrowed tightly.
That area was Guan Yang and Zhou Qingyuan's search route. Guan Yang was always careful and cautious, neither overconfident nor alarmist. Since he could send out a red flare, it meant... that place must be extremely dangerous.
It was so dangerous... Guan Yang knew they couldn't handle it.
Xiang Heng suddenly had a very bad premonition.
He clenched his fists tightly, then suddenly unclenched them. After repeating this several times, Xiang Heng gritted his teeth, turned around, and said in a trembling voice, "Let's... retreat."
"But……"
The team member wanted to say something but was suddenly interrupted loudly by Xiang Heng.
"I said, retreat! Didn't you hear me?!"
Xiang Heng turned his head and stared at him fiercely, but his red eyes revealed his emotions at the moment.
The team member seemed to suddenly understand. He pursed his lips and finally managed to squeeze out "yes" after a long while.
Seeing this, Xiang Heng gritted his teeth, turned around, and started running down the mountain in big strides.
"According to our previous agreement... let's go back to camp first!"
Before setting off, Qiao Yu said that once they saw red fireworks, they must return to the camp immediately no matter what.
"……yes!"
At the same time, other teams on the mountain also turned around and started running down the mountain.
When Qiao Yu and his companions arrived at the camp, the other teams had not returned yet.
"Captain Qiao, you're back..."
Hua Yue was now able to slowly support herself and sit up. When she saw Qiao Yu and the others coming back, she greeted them immediately.
"Yeah." Qiao Yu chuckled at her and nodded, then signaled Wang Zha to lie down, and asked Yu Qingchuan to untie the rope on Wang Zha's back and let all the researchers down.
Huayue had also seen the fireworks just now. She had thought Qiao Yu and the others had seen the red fireworks, so she returned early as agreed. But when she saw the people tied to Cheng Sinian and Wang Zha's backs, she was stunned.
"You...you have completed the mission?" Hua Yue said in a daze.
"Yes." Yu Qingchuan nodded. As he climbed onto Wang Zha's back to move the people, he said thankfully, "Luckily, we got there in time. If we were any later, Professor Kang and the others would probably have died."
Hua Yue's expression became complicated when she heard this.
When she saw Qiao Yu taking out a tent from the "car" and preparing to set up a temporary resting place for the researchers, she had no idea how to express her feelings at the moment.
However, after just two or three days of getting along, she could feel the strength of this team almost every moment.
Not only does it have strong combat capabilities, but it also has huge financial resources.
They seemed to have plenty of everything.
Not to mention anything else, the air conditioning in the RV alone was enough to shock her.
She had been on the roof of the car for the past two days, so she felt it most obviously.
——The roof is always hot, day or night.
There is an external canopy installed on the roof. Logically, even if the temperature is very high, it shouldn't be that hot, but she can clearly feel the heat radiating from the metal beneath her.
This only means that they turned on the air conditioner in the car.
The same applies at night.
Although the warmth was not obvious in the extremely cold night temperature, she could still feel it.
After the end of the world, when all kinds of supplies were in extreme shortage, they could actually keep the air conditioner in their car running almost non-stop all day long. If you tell others about this, it would sound like a fairy tale.
But the facts were right in front of her, and she couldn't help but believe it.
Perhaps some people would be proud to join such a team.
But Huayue only felt terrified.
In the end times, all material reserves are based on plunder.
Although these people look like good people, they were able to accumulate such a large amount of supplies in more than three months of the apocalypse with only five people and a wolf. They must have taken a lot of lives.
Hua Yue lowered her eyes and secretly reminded herself again that she must leave as soon as her injuries healed.
Keep your mouth shut and save your life.
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