Lu Yan didn't answer her on the other end, but instead asked, "If I always remain in the form of a black panther, will Madam find it offensive?"
She was stunned for a moment, then realized that since he had already killed three level-seven zombies, he must have obtained the crystal core.
Does that mean the crystal core of a seventh-tier zombie is ineffective against him?
She didn't want this to create a rift between them.
"Lu Yan, actually I wanted to tell you this before. No matter what others say, I like you as a person, not your... cough, your body. The key is that you are you, do you understand? Although it's true that we can't be too intimate sometimes, it doesn't affect my love for you. At worst, we can finish the mission quickly, and we'll be the same in the next world." She said seriously, word by word.
"Madam, what did you just say?"
She hesitated for a moment, then realized what he meant, and awkwardly replied, "I love you, okay?"
Sure enough, a pleasant laugh came from the other end of the communicator.
"My lady, I love you too."
Even through the communicator, she felt a sweet warmth, but business was still the priority.
She coughed lightly, changing the cloying topic, "So when are you coming back?"
"The fastest will take one day, and the slowest three days."
"You still have wounded over there, no need to rush. Take it easy for three days. Honey, please remember to be careful. I'll wait for you."
Even through the communicator, she could clearly hear the man's rapid breathing on the other end, "Say it again."
Unfortunately, the woman had used up all her courage. She snorted, "No way, you can talk to me when you get back."
Lu Yan couldn't help but chuckle. He found that his little girl was sometimes so bold that it was astonishing, and sometimes so shy that he wanted to kiss her.
But he could feel her love for him, just as he could feel hers.
He had a vague, unforgettable urge to return to the base and see her expression when she saw him.
What Xia Yixin didn't know was that the person in front of the communicator wasn't a black panther, but a human figure.
The man was very tall. After merging with the virus, he was even taller than the original body, at least 1.9 meters tall. His muscles were bulging, but his features were deep-set, and his golden eyes held a sharp edge, making him a typical American hero protagonist.
He was handsome and righteous, but because he incorporated Lu Yan's own temperament, his coldness was tempered with a touch of wildness.
In fact, after eating the crystal core, the zombie virus in his body was somewhat suppressed, and he successfully survived a day and a night of high fever and returned to human form.
He hadn't told Xia Yixin yet, partly because he wanted to surprise her, but there was another reason.
Perhaps because of his fluctuating emotions, Lu Yan looked down at his hands, which had gradually transformed from a human's long, strong hands into a leopard's claws.
Three seventh-tier zombie cores are still not enough.
After hanging up the communicator, Lu Yan turned to look out the window at the quiet gas station and his smile disappeared. Half a day ago, they had killed three level-seven zombies and came to this gas station to rest.
The outside seemed peaceful, but the peace was eerily quiet.
Lu Yan also felt that something was wrong.
Just then, a distinct sense of surveillance suddenly appeared near the gas station. Lu Yan frowned; it was that feeling again.
Suddenly, he saw a crow perched on a nearby building.
Because of the abundance of corpses, many mutated animals have also emerged. Crows, due to their strong vitality, are the most numerous. They are relatively few around T City, but they are almost everywhere around other cities.
At dawn, as the first light appeared, a dozen or so crows were perched nearby. They were much larger than before the apocalypse; one of them had wingspans as long as a human arm. Sharp beaks, claws, and white eyes were standard features.
Suddenly, a red light flashed in the reddish-white pupils of one of the crows, like a red dot on a surveillance camera.
There was definitely a problem!
The mechanical crow was unaware that it had been exposed, and Lu Yan did not make any rash moves. As the rest of the convoy gradually got up, he reverted to his leopard form and continued leading the group on the road. Along the way, he secretly observed, and sure enough, the flock of crows was always following them not far behind.
In this plane of existence, human technological civilization is almost completely paralyzed, so how could such a highly advanced human civilization possibly exist?
It seems the main system is interfering again.
There were still wounded in their group, so Lu Yan didn't act rashly. Instead, he sent the others back after a day and a half's journey, while he left the group. Sure enough, the crows followed him. He wanted to see what the main system was up to.
Just as he sped into a deserted town, crows flying in the sky began to land in twos and threes.
As dusk fell, a figure easily leaped from the rooftop of a low-rise house to stand in front of him. Even the composed Lu Yan's pupils contracted.
On the other side.
Everything is normal at the Dawn Base.
Xia Yixin was relieved to know that Lu Yan would be back in three days.
Subsequently, the two monsters left at the K base also brought news that Su Feng had taken action.
Instead of taking Guo Miaomiao with him, Su Feng added a highly toxic chemical to all the raw material barrels of the "healing water" in the factory. The newly made "healing water" would not only fail to restore the health of the infected people, but would also drive them insane and make them attack humans even more frantically.
If Bai Jingkong's idea was to delay, then Su Feng's intentions were truly malicious.
Su Feng's plan was to wait for the seven bases to arrive, then introduce zombies so that he could not only kill Bai Jingkong, but also kill the people from the seven bases who came to pick up the goods in the city. He could then use the guise of a "rescuer" to save everyone, and at the same time, rescue Guo Miaomiao, who was being "abused and locked up," in front of the people from the seven bases, and throw all the blame on Bai Jingkong and Guo Ruier.
After all, once everyone sees Guo Miaomiao alive and knows that her superpowers have been destroyed, one is a weak woman and the other is a powerful man like Bai Jingkong, everyone will believe the former, especially with the irrefutable evidence.
Su Feng believed that Bai Jingkong would not believe that everything on her body was fake.
Of course, Su Feng wasn't entirely without benefits. Guo Miaomiao was one of them, and secondly, he would take advantage of the zombie attack to have the base's people take away all the goods brought by the seven major bases and hide them in a nearby basement, then turn around and accuse Bai Jingkong of hiding them.
However, there is a problem: not all bases will arrive at the same time. Some that are closer will get the goods and leave in advance. Therefore, Su Feng will only choose the largest and strongest base to cause trouble when it arrives, which is the P base.
However, by then, several days had likely passed since the first base picked up the goods. The base, unaware that it was carrying a "highly toxic substance," might have been wiped out after the injection, potentially even jeopardizing the entire pickup team or the base itself.
Su Feng didn't care about any of this.
After learning about Su Feng's plan, Xia Yixin knew that this was not something she could decide alone, because if she were to interfere, the entire Dawn Base would have to act together.
After a brief conversation with Xia's father, she convened the second high-level meeting since the establishment of the Dawn Base the following day.
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