Chapter 84
After they eliminate the threat, the psychics will slowly pull back the zombies from the northwest in batches after the weather cools down again. Although the battle line will be longer, it will eventually be dealt with.
So, after Fu Erdie, Sang Wenhao and Han Zhi had been away for a month and a half, they came back to rest for five days and then set out again.
This time they went out, they brought a lot of ordinary mutant crops with them. If they met refugees on the road or would meet them later, they would distribute the mutant crops to them.
At the same time, thanks to the increasingly skilled plant cultivation of the people in the Butterfly Garden, everyone in the D City base has obtained two mutant crops.
In other words, even if nothing is done now, the people in City D can still have enough to eat.
The work they have to do to make a living has been reduced significantly, and the remaining work is the conventional power generation, water filtration, and the production of various components and handicrafts for daily use.
However, because they have no worries about food now and everyone has worked hard for a long time, some people, although required by the base to do some routine work, have begun to cheat and are no longer willing to move more every day.
The base did not force them and gave those who had worked hard for a year a month to relax and rest.
By September, they officially set the workload.
If a person fails to complete his work for the month, his two mutant crops will be recycled, and the previous state of giving food based on work done will be restored.
When they heard that the plants that had been distributed would be taken back, everyone was shocked and regained their spirits to complete the work that had been arranged at the base, which had made it much easier.
The D City base thus entered a state that was completely different from other bases in Flower Country.
Other bases are trying every means to streamline their personnel and find places to hide from zombies to develop in a sneaky way. City D is generating electricity and doing handicrafts.
The other bases were trembling under the impact of the zombie tide, and they were eager to push ordinary people and people from the neighboring bases out to die and ward off disaster. The base in City D was generating electricity and doing manual labor.
The strong men from other bases are fighting in the zombie tide, killing as many zombies as they can, going through wind and fire, hoping to upgrade as soon as possible and do manual work on the power generation of the D city base.
Gradually, people in other bases who learned the information through the telegraph began to feel unbalanced. They sent telegrams to accuse City D of not being prepared for danger in times of peace and not even fighting zombies to upgrade.
"Do you want to stay at this level and wait for the growing zombie tide to come back and flatten your D city?"
The D City Base said: "Sorry, there are no zombies around us."
Other bases: ??? D City Base: "Not only that, our base has hundreds of intelligent mutant plants for protection. As long as you keep eating zombies, or simply live day after day without zombies, you can upgrade on the spot."
The other bases were shocked.
The other bases are completely unbalanced.
Other bases asked the source of all this - the Butterfly Garden - what their telegraph contact frequency was.
Butterfly Garden did not respond, and neither did the D City Base. So every night from 8:00 to 8:30, all the bases were arguing non-stop on the D City Base's channel.
Such noise also has other functions besides just relieving boredom.
Fu Erdie looked at the telegram coming from the Butterfly Garden channel and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Is that really the case?"
[Zombies are still mutating and upgrading. The proportion of superpowered zombies in the zombie population continues to increase.]
Fu Erdie feels that the reason for this situation is probably because the source of the mutation, whether it is radiation, virus, or other unknown interfering infection, is still continuing to affect everyone.
On the first day of the apocalypse, the first group of people were selected and affected many people.
Later, as time went by, the ordinary people or ordinary zombies who remained after being screened out continued to mutate imperceptibly.
When the mutation factor exceeds a certain critical value, ordinary zombies will become mutant zombies.
Ordinary people may also become people with special powers, or even become zombies.
This was the second message that came by telegram.
[At the D City base, 23 people have turned into zombies for no apparent reason, and 16 people have turned into superpowers for no apparent reason. Because the zombies were brought under control in a timely manner, there has been no major riot at the base.]
The information provided by City D was very direct, but it did not mention that the base was actually in chaos for a while when the zombies first appeared.
Because in the eyes of ordinary people, they were working normally one day, but a colleague was suddenly attacked by a dandelion, and then the whole person exploded into a ball of dandelion catkins.
At that time, people were terrified and fled in all directions, saying that the plants had finally gone crazy and were killing people indiscriminately.
Not to mention ordinary people, even many people with special abilities are scared.
At this time, Rong Le'an, the leader of the D City base, stood up, came to Dandelion personally, and asked Dandelion what happened.
The dandelion who took action was a wild type and had not received any pinyin training in the butterfly garden, so he didn't know how to use the pinyin table in Rong Lean's hand.
So, Rong Le'an, who already had some guesses, said, "Did you deal with that man just now because he was turning into a zombie? If so, nod your head. If not, shake your head."
Under the close gaze of the crowd, the dandelion nodded its flower.
There was an uproar.
Rong Le'an politely requested, "Next time if we find someone who is mutating into a zombie among our crowd, can we just control him instead of killing him?"
Dandelion: ...
Dandelion didn't bother to care and just turned away.
As they left, they took off with all the dandelions in the city and flew out of the city.
Do these people think they are the principals of the kindergarten? Why do they ask for so many things?
These people don't like them and they don't want them.
Rong Le'an's face changed slightly, and he ran after the dandelion for a few steps, trying to ask it to stay.
But Dandelion ignored Rong Le'an and left the city from all directions.
Dandelions have mysterious ways of communicating with each other, you inform me, I inform you. Plus, they have the attribute of wind, and they like to float around in the wind, so they ignore these people and float away with the wind.
The other plant cubs did not understand the dandelions' communication information, but they could understand what humans said and knew that something had just happened that showed that humans did not trust them.
Then……
Then the plant cubs left too.
Anyway, the director said to let them look after the D city base and prevent the zombies from disturbing it. Then they don't have to stay in the city, they can just go to a farther place and wander around.
When the director was away, they dealt with many large and small zombie waves. There are not many zombies around anymore, so it’s no big deal to go out and play. Maybe they can even find zombies earlier than in the city.
Then the plants left too.
There are thousands of intelligent mutant plants here, from level one to level three. The momentum of uprooting them and heading out of the city is very huge.
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The base panicked and tried to keep them, but a bamboo that could spell Chinese characters explained on the spelling table that they were just playing around and clearing out zombies while playing, and that nothing would happen anyway.
Seeing that these slow and clumsy plants were also about to leave, some dandelions gave them a hand by landing on the branches of the plants, tying the plants together with their roots and flying into the sky.
Because the dandelion seeds spread so quickly, the number of intelligent mutant dandelions has been increasing exponentially. Therefore, their number is greater than that of other intelligent mutant plants in the D City base. They grab the plants and fly in all directions.
The base urgently contacted the surrounding sentry towers and asked them to observe where the plants landed. They found that they were only one or two kilometers away, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally...it's not too bad.
The base's management knew about this situation but did not tell ordinary people.
Ordinary people don’t know that they were just afraid of plants, saying things like “They are inhumane things” and “They are not of our race”, but now when they see these “aliens” they don’t even stop and ignore them, and the emotions on their faces are as complicated as an overturned palette.
After experiencing the zombie siege with no food or water, they were unable to even utter angry words like "let's go if we want to". Emotions of embarrassment, panic, and regret continued to spread. A few days later, the people at the base said that the plants had not gone far, and the uneasy atmosphere was temporarily suppressed.
But no one dares to criticize plants anymore.
A few days later, a person who turned into a zombie for no reason suddenly appeared in the base at night.
It climbed out of an unprotected balcony and scratched several people nearby before it was controlled.
That night, including him and the people he infected, there were 6 people who turned into zombies.
This happened at night and in front of everyone during the day. Finally, after three or four such incidents, the people in the base finally realized that the people around them could indeed become zombies! And they really wronged the dandelion who dealt with the zombies at the beginning.
Needless to say, the base was in chaos. When Fu Erdie saw the news, she felt that when she went out in the future, she would either not bring the house with her, or she would have to go back once a month to have her parents, grandmother, and all ordinary people checked and treated in Building No. 7 to ensure that all the zombie mutation factors in their bodies were within controllable range.
Nothing should happen to family members, and nothing should happen to other people either.
So after discussing with everyone at the Butterfly Garden, she decided to go to every district and county in the northwest and every road to clear out the zombies on a 25-day cycle.
After Fu Erdie dealt with the zombie king and the super-powered zombies, she ignored some formed zombie waves and continued on her way, clearing the way as she went. She then had three or four days left to rush home. She would check on everyone in the Butterfly Garden and ask non-superpowered management members of the D City base like Rong Le'an to come and check and treat them, to eliminate the possibility of mutation into zombies. She would then set out again on the 1st of the next month, repeating the cycle over and over again.
By the end of November, after three months, Fu Erdie had finally cleared all the superpowered zombies in the vast land in the northwest! This time, out of about 100 million zombies, Fu Erdie got more crystal cores than expected - a full 30,000.
What does thirty thousand mean?
According to the data from the D City Base, a mutant can officially reach the first level after eating a crystal core in the initial state. After eating one or two crystal cores of the same attribute, or 10 to 20 or 20 to 30 first-level crystal cores of different attributes, he can upgrade to the second level.
A second-level psychic can reach the third level by eating one hundred crystal cores.
A third-level psychic can reach the fourth level by eating a thousand crystal cores.
Assuming that all the crystal cores you eat are of the same property, then this data can be divided by 10. However, most people do not have so many choices and eat a variety of them.
The 30,000 crystal cores that Fu Erdie obtained in the past three months are equivalent to allowing at least 30 psychics to upgrade to the fourth level!
If Fu Erdie had to consume all of these 30,000 crystal cores, there was no telling how high she would be able to level up to! After all, Fu Erdie was a non-attribute psychic, and each type of crystal core had the same absorption efficiency as a crystal core of the same attribute. That was why she was able to absorb the crystal cores while training her psychic powers with Sang Wenhao, and easily reached level five without any pressure.
In addition, not every one of the 30,000 crystal cores is a first-order crystal core. Generally speaking, the energy of a second-order crystal core is seven or eight times that of a first-order one, and a third-order crystal core is fifty or sixty times that of a first-order one, and some are one or two hundred times more. The specific situation varies greatly, and the specific effects on different people are also different, but one thing that can be confirmed is that they can definitely double everyone's strength.
Among the 30,000 crystal cores, fifty or sixty were spiritual cores, and two or three were metal cores. So Fu Erdie directly asked Han Zhi and Sang Wenhao to absorb these crystal cores while walking.
After returning to the community, she urged them to absorb crystal cores of other attributes first, and stop when Han Zhi broke through to the fourth level and Sang Wenhao broke through to the fifth level.
When there were enough crystal cores of the same attributes, including some of the second and third levels, Han Zhi absorbed another 452 crystal cores and Sang Wenhao absorbed another 216 crystal cores, and they each upgraded to the fourth and fifth levels.
Therefore, in addition to Fu Erdie and Sang Wenhao, the Butterfly Garden now has two fourth-level supernaturalists, Cen Xiyang and Han Zhi! They are enough to look down on most of the Flower Kingdom.
Fu Erdie rummaged through the crystal cores and saved out the wind and lightning crystal cores that the Butterfly Garden Psychic Team would need, as a reserve for their monthly salary and bonus. He also reserved some crystal cores for the salaries of Koi He Xuan, Pan Feizhou, a metal-type athlete who had the same attributes as Sang Wenhao, and others, and put some aside for storage. The remaining 28,000 crystal cores were used for the resource allocation for the plants on the first floor of Building No. 7 that he was going to bring south this time.
She wants to upgrade the house, succulents, green radish, and potatoes.
First of all, it was the house. It was unknown how many crystal cores a fourth-level house would need to absorb to reach the fifth level. So Fu Erdie took 100 crystal cores as units, and added them one hundred at a time, while asking Professor Zhao to take notes.
The house absorbed the energy slowly. On the fifth day, when it had absorbed 2,800 crystal cores, the house finally reached the fifth level!
(End of this chapter)