Chapter 91 Crystal Core Research
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Lu Shenghong quickly tried to smooth things over.
"To be honest, I invited you all here today, firstly to apologize, and secondly to give you some compensation."
After he finished speaking, the butler beside him clapped his hands.
Soon, a man covered in blood was dragged in.
Gu Wanyin felt that he looked familiar, and after taking a closer look, she found that it was the foreman of the fuel room.
The man's head was hanging down, blood was flowing from his head, and his breathing was weak.
"It's my people who are ignorant and have caused harm to your loved ones. The culprit is here. You can finally feel relieved."
Gu Wanyin suppressed her anger. "Shouldn't you, the base commander, be the one who allowed Xiao Yaoyao's parents to suffer and treat human life as worthless as grass?" The foreman was only following your orders.
He took a deep breath and said, "It's over now. Please, base commander, spare his life."
Lu Shenghong laughed heartily, "Little girl, you are still too young. If such a person stays with you, he will be a disaster. You must learn to root him out. Don't expect him to be grateful to you. He might stab you in the back one day."
Then he continued, "Leave this matter to uncle." With a wave of his hand, the dying foreman was taken away.
The bloodstains dripping onto the smooth floor were quickly cleaned up, then sprayed with disinfectant and scrubbed repeatedly, leaving it spotless.
Lu Shenghong gestured to everyone to eat and chat at the same time.
"I've already sent someone to clean up the villa not far away. You can move in with your families tonight. This will be considered as compensation for you. In addition, you won't need to hand in crystal cores when you take missions outside the base in the future. You will receive a certain amount of free vegetables, fruits, fresh meat, etc. every day."
Faced with the invitation to enter the inner city, Lu Shenghong was convinced that no one would refuse.
As long as you live in the inner city, there is no place like the inner city where you don’t spend your crystal cores. Giving them benefits is just a sprinkling of water.
Gu Wanyin looked at his companions beside him, and they all shook their heads firmly.
"Thank you for your kindness, Commander. We can just find a place to live on the base."
Xu Xiaoyue covered her mouth and laughed, "Uncle, actually, Sister Wanyin has her eyes on the large flat outside."
“Hahahahaha~”
Lu Shenghong raised his head and laughed, "I see. That's fine too. Butler, go and make arrangements now. Pick a large flat in a high-end residential area that's closest to the inner city. Have it cleaned up so you can move in tonight."
The butler took the order and left.
Xu Xiaoyue clapped her hands happily, "Uncle is so generous."
He said innocently, "This way it's closer to the inner city, I can come in and play from time to time, and it can also prevent my brother from causing trouble in the inner city."
Lu Shenghong knew that Xu Dali lived up to his name, and he also had a good observation of Xu Xiaoyue, who possessed healing abilities. He seemed to be a simple-minded person, and such people were the easiest to control.
The child doesn't look very old and is easily tempted. He is also a rare healing type and can be trained to become a confidant of the base.
Lu Shenghong said to Xu Xiaoyue with a loving look on his face, "Xiaoyue, right? When you come to the inner city to play in the future, you can come directly to your uncle. Your uncle will send someone to accompany you to have fun."
Xu Xiaoyue clapped her hands happily, smiling brightly. She immediately pulled Gu Wanyin and asked her to go back and pack her luggage to prepare for moving. The few of them cooperated tacitly and stood up to say goodbye.
After they left, Lu Shenghong waved to the housekeeper, "Pay attention, send someone to monitor from time to time, and be careful not to alert the enemy."
The butler responded with a smile, "Master, the people we sent today were not discovered. These young people are still very young."
After hearing this, Lu Shenghong became even more proud. As long as you enter his base, you will be his member in life and his ghost in death.
After returning to the car and confirming that she was not being followed, Xu Xiaoyue raised the corners of her mouth slightly, hummed a song, and was in a good mood.
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Time flies, and it is mid-September in a blink of an eye, more than two months after the end of the world. After one night, the scorching sun is gone, and the sky becomes gloomy and depressing, without a trace of sunlight.
The temperature dropped to 30 degrees overnight, regardless of north, south, east or west, across the entire planet.
Shen Qianxun, along with Wen Yuan and Cotton Candy, stayed in H Province and cleared nearly 150,000 zombies. The number of level two zombies gradually increased, with a ratio of about 500:1. The zombie crystal cores in the space had filled more than a dozen large fish tanks.
40,000 cubic meters of supplies were collected along the way, including large quantities of rice, flour, grain, oil, mineral water, gasoline, diesel, cat food, dog food, canned food, etc.
All items with a short shelf life are put into the space, and half of other easy-to-store items are taken away, including many jewelry, bags and other luxury goods. They don’t take up much space and can be taken out and admired when you have nothing to do.
From 150,000 zombies, they harvested nearly 300 second-level crystal cores, in addition to 4 third-level crystal cores.
Shen Qianxun absorbed two of them, one was an early earth element, and the other was a third-level mid-stage thunder element crystal core. The energy contained in the same zombie crystal core is 10 times that of an ordinary zombie crystal core, and it is also a third-level mid-stage. Now, Shen Qianxun's thunder element ability has reached the third-level mid-stage.
Another attributeless crystal core was absorbed by Marshmallow, and its healing ability rose to the middle stage of level three, and its amplification ability rose to the late stage of level three.
After Wen Yuan absorbed the last fire crystal core, her fire ability was approaching the middle stage of level three, while her transformation ability was still at level three. The transformation ability would upgrade from level two to level three much faster, so it could only be temporarily put aside for upgrading.
The book describes that in addition to being used as currency, upgrading and replenishing superpowers, crystal cores can also be used to research doomsday high-tech products.
The book also mentions that scientists or people with special intellectual abilities are researching a protective shield that can act directly on the base and effectively prevent flying zombies from besieging the base. The crystal core can provide the protective shield with a steady supply of energy, but it was not presented and the novel ended.
Shen Qianxun also discovered that after her spatial ability reached level four, in addition to the spatial blade, she could also swing out white mist, but it quickly dissipated and could not condense.
Even so, Shen Qianxun is still very happy. Maybe there will be new changes after upgrading again.
After more than two months of training, coupled with Wen Yuan's guidance, Shen Qianxun finally had four abdominal muscles.
Now, the two people and the cat are heading towards City C in the northwest of H Province, the famous hot pot town.
Soon, night fell and the surroundings were pitch black. Wen Yuan, who had the night vision ability of a bat, flew with Shen Qianxun and Cotton Candy to a tall building and stopped.
Put out the RV, set up the lights, and barbecue all night long.
Chen Qianxun was in charge of stringing the skewers, Wen Yuan was in charge of grilling, and they also stored some of the food in the space.
The grilled skewers made from the mutant animal meat were tender and juicy, and the two decided to find time to go hunting in the mountains later.
It was mid-September and dawn didn't arrive until 7 a.m. The sky was gray, dark, and lifeless, exaggerating the apocalyptic atmosphere to the extreme.
The two of them went out at dawn and are now on the highway from H Province to C City.
There aren't many zombies gathered on the highway right now, and less than 1,000 are killed in a day.
The further we went, the more zombies piled up on both sides of the road. The corpses looked very fresh, obviously they had just been cleared not long ago.
There were several different brake marks on the road, indicating that there were quite a few people on the other side.
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