When Chen Yu came out of the dungeon with Qi Junwei's confession, he heard the superhumans below excitedly discussing the appearance of a Level 4 superhuman in the base.
Chen Yu paused. He and Qi Junwei had spent so much time in the dungeon, and he was also busy with other affairs at the base. He couldn't even remember how long it had been since he had properly cultivated.
His strength had already reached the point of leveling up; if he had cultivated properly, he should have broken through to level 4 long ago.
Suddenly, Chen Yu felt a pang of regret. He could accept losing to Lin Ruo, but losing to someone else had served as a wake-up call, and at that moment, the thought of resigning even crossed his mind.
But as he looked down at the confession in his hand, his eyes held an unusual firmness. As long as they held on, this apocalypse would end one day.
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"Be careful not to disturb the mutated plants here."
"We've applied medicinal powder to our bodies, so as long as we don't go deep into these mountains, we'll be fine."
"Hurry up and look for any small mutated beasts. It's too dangerous here. Let's finish mining the crystal cores and go back quickly."
"How can you be so cowardly?!"
"You're not a coward! This is the eastern peak. Do you think the mutated plants and animals here are the same as on the main peak?"
"Alright, stop arguing and hurry up and leave."
The group of more than twenty superhumans were dressed in black, covering themselves up completely, afraid that their scent would be leaked and attract the large mutated beasts in the vicinity.
They were currently on the outskirts of the mountain, where the mutated plants were of relatively low level. They had also been sprayed with medicinal powder, so the mutated plants did not attack them.
The branches of these mutated plants swayed gently, sending a message to the other mutated plants inside, telling them that someone had entered.
Every day, people with superpowers come up to this mountain peak. Ah Liu and Lao Bai outside the fortress are already used to it. But today they are unusually alert. They immediately sway their branches to send a signal to the mutated plants outside, so that they can quickly take care of these people.
The apples on the tree in the mutated forest will ripen today. The owner said that after they ripen, he will help Afu and Ashou level up. They are afraid that something might happen during the leveling up, so no foreign species can enter this mountain today.
The apple tree in the mutated forest was rapidly absorbing the mutated beast meat that Lin Ruo had given it. The four bright red apples on the tree were becoming more and more beautiful in color, and their fragrance was becoming more and more intense. Lin Ruo's spiritual energy was constantly surrounding these apples, intending to pick them as soon as they ripened and deliver them to Afu and Ashou.
Afu and Ashou lay on the platform, their eyes closed, digesting the energy from drinking the lake water. At this moment, the crystal cores in their brains were already 80% full.
Aru stood beside them, even more nervous than the two soon-to-be-grown dogs, circling around incessantly, its thick, long tail swishing in the air, revealing its anxiety.
Suddenly, a fragrant aroma wafted over, and Lin Ruo's eyes lit up. In the next instant, the four apples on the apple tree were picked, and two more level 3 mutated beast corpses immediately appeared around the apple tree. The apple tree was overjoyed, and its branches began to pierce the flesh and blood.
Lin Ruo's spatial energy immediately dragged the four apples in front of Afu and Ashou, saying, "Afu and Ashou, eat these apples quickly."
Afu and Ashou opened their eyes, glanced at the slightly excited Lin Ruo with a look of dependence, and with a flick of their tongues, they ate the two apples into their mouths. Then they closed their eyes again and fell asleep.
Lin Ruo scanned them with her mental energy and found that the energy in their crystal cores was rising rapidly. She estimated in her mind that the energy in these four apples should be enough for Afu and Ashou to upgrade to level 5.
With a thought, Lin Ruo stored Afu and Ashou's enormous bodies into his spatial storage, ensuring their safety and preventing the remaining three animals at home from becoming overly suspicious.
After taking care of these matters, Lin Ruo collected all the ripe fruits of the mutated plants in the forest. Many of these fruits could not help her improve her strength, but some were really useful.
Aside from the fruits that were previously traded with City C and had medicinal properties, there are many other fruits that are also very useful.
She had previously discovered a special fruit whose juice could dissolve quickly in water. After the solution was left to stand for a few minutes, it would solidify, which was somewhat similar to the crystal glue from before the apocalypse. Moreover, the juice had a faint woody scent that could clear the mind and calm the spirit.
Many fruits have no medicinal value, but they are also non-toxic and can significantly increase satiety, much like pre-apocalyptic compressed biscuits. Some fruits, when ripe, have juices with a strong alcoholic flavor, which can be extracted to make delicious fruit wine...
Lin Ruo conducted experiments on all these fruits using mutated animals. Some of them died from the poison. Currently, there is a mutated rabbit in Lin Ruo's laboratory. This nearly two-meter-long rabbit is plump and white, and it has already helped her test the effects of five kinds of fruits. It is very lucky to be alive.
In order to experiment with more fruits, Lin Ruo did not hesitate to manipulate his spatial ability and picked all the mutated fruits within a radius of 15 kilometers. There were still many fruits in the space that had not yet shown any effects.
But these things were novel to Lin Ruo and helped pass the time, keeping her from getting bored during the long, hot weather.
Just as Lin Ruo put the harvested fruit into her static space, and scattered the excess low-level mutated beast meat next to the mutated tree that had just contributed the fruit, she received a message from Jiang Yue.
The message was a document. When Lin Ruo saw it, she raised an eyebrow. It seemed that the B City base had finally gotten the information they wanted, but it had taken a long time, almost two months. She really didn't know what the point of Qi Junwei's insistence was.
She was still very curious about the Qi family's situation. She spread out her mental energy and instantly teleported to the laboratory on the second floor of the fortress. She sat on the sofa and couldn't wait to open the file.
The document contained very little text, only two pages long, and included a final image of Qi Junwei at the moment of his death.
Lin Ruo looked at the corpse, which was no longer human and whose head and body were separated. She raised her eyebrows slightly. Jiang Yue had sent her photos of the other Qi family ability users who had been captured and died. Qi Junwei was the last one. With this, the entire Qi family had been completely eliminated.
She turned off the terminal, took out a bottle of lake water from her spatial storage, used her supernatural ability to chill it before opening it and gulping down half of it. As she drank, she thought about the message she had just received. So that's how the Qi family's ancestral precepts came about.
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