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Chapter 71: Clear Feelings

"We originally planned to go to Bowei. I heard that there is a tall protective wall there, and it is less affected by mutant plants and animals." Wang Yuanwei said, "But the roads are all covered by plants. Only the Changxian Expressway has been opened by Bowei's superpowers. We have to go there." Bowei is a white stone city with a history of thousands of years in Zhongzhou Province. It is 50 kilometers east of Xianze City. Because of its rugged terrain, the ancient plank road passes through it, tightly strangling the throat of the north-south traffic in China. It was once a military strategic location in ancient times, and in modern times it has become a tourist attraction as an ancient site. Using it as a base has a geographical advantage in defending against zombies that other places do not have.

"How did you know?" Qiao Yong was refreshed. They had been cut off from external news for too long.

"After we escaped into the county, we saved a dying outsider survivor. He told us, but he died anyway. He came from Runyu County, but was separated from the others because he was attacked by mutant animals on the way to Bowei." Wang Yuanwei said, "As for why they knew about Bowei, he didn't have time to tell me." Qiao Yong

felt a little regretful, but it was good to get such news. At least he knew that there were still many people alive in other places, not just the few of them struggling here.

"Are you still planning to go to Bowei?"

Wang Yuanwei glanced at him with a hint of caution, "We can't go, we can't even leave this county. Qiao, look..." After eating for nothing and getting help, he still had to rely on others. It was really hard to say this.

"If you want, stay." Qiao Yong waved his hand and didn't let the other party finish his words. Why did he have to watch a man break his iron bones?

Wang Yuanwei and his people all showed joy on their faces, and then heard Qiao Yong continue to say: "But before that, I hope to have a preliminary understanding of the people you brought."

"Of course, of course." Wang Yuanwei answered repeatedly.

Just as Qiao Yong leaned on the back of the sofa, supporting his head with one hand and listening to Wang Yuanwei introduce the situation of his team, a roar suddenly came from the kitchen: "Get out!" accompanied by the sound of bowls and basins falling to the ground.

Wang Yuanwei suddenly stopped talking and turned to look at the kitchen with the others, with a sense of foreboding in his heart. He was not completely ignorant of the temperaments of the three women in the team, but he took them with him because he saw them so pitiful. Could it be that one of them had set her sights on Nan Shao or Zhang Yi?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he saw Chen Wei running out of the kitchen in a panic with flour on her face. When she found that everyone was looking at her, her face suddenly turned red, but she still forced a smile and then found a place far away to sit down. It can be seen that she has dressed up well. Although her hair is greasy because it has not been washed for a long time, and her face is a little malnourished, after a good sleep, coupled with her good condition, she looks really bright in the face of rough men all around.

Qiao Yong just frowned and did not ask what happened in the kitchen. He just asked Wang Yuanwei to continue. Wang Yuanwei was a little nervous at first, but he was relieved when he heard this.

When the people who had trained earlier came back, Nan Shao and others came out with the cooked noodles. His face was still gloomy, but he didn't say much. It turned out that when Chen Wei and others were in Wangyang Town, they relied on their bodies to make a living and did not dare to go out to fight zombies. Later, they were forced to attack the county town and were trapped in the community. They also found a way to get together with a few superpowers in the hope of being protected. However, when the community was occupied by mutant plants, those superpowers abandoned them, but they were lucky to escape and met Wang Yuanwei and his group. They obviously felt that they were useless except for their bodies, so when they were on the run, they continued their previous ways of doing things, trying to get close to the more capable men in the team, for fear of being left behind again. Although Wang Yuanwei had strictly prohibited it, it was impossible to guard against it all the time. The reason why they were blocked by zombies this time was largely because Tang Youqian was fooling around with the two night watchmen there, which led to their failure to notice the zombies in time, and the two men had become the first to be sacrificed to the zombies.

Now that they have arrived in a relatively safe place, it has almost become an instinct for them to start looking for shelter in the future. Tang Youqian was still frightened and did not dare to move, but like the other two, she had set her own goals. Chen Wei unexpectedly chose Zhang Yi. As for the reason, no one knew except herself.

In fact, she did not do anything too explicit, but her actions and eyes showed a little closer. In her opinion, if Zhang Yi was a wise man, he would naturally understand. Who knew that before Zhang Yi had any reaction, when she handed the basin to Zhang Yi and touched his hand, Nan Shao exploded first. Seeing this scene, not only was she frightened, but even Tang Youqian and Cui Rui, who had been thinking carefully, did not dare to move easily, even though their target was not Nan Shao, but Qiao Yong and Shi Pengsan.

"You have two choices." While eating, Qiao Yong glanced at the people brought by Wang Yuanwei, including the three women who were worried, "Either leave or stay. But those who stay must train with us, kill zombies, and may even have to deal with mutant plants and animals in the future. Don't think about being lazy and slacking off, let alone those messy side doors. Your efforts determine your own destiny. None of us has the obligation to protect you, and we don't want our combat effectiveness to be reduced due to any external factors. If you are afraid, leave by yourself after dinner." His words can be regarded as a warning.

The men thought it was natural. After all, they didn't even have a relationship with each other. It was good enough to take them in. How could they expect to live and eat for free here, or even ask for protection from others? But Chen Wei and the other two felt very depressed. They were almost drowned by panic and helplessness. But they still held a glimmer of hope, hoping that others didn't think so.

"I just learned about the mutant plants and animals from Brother Wang, and found out that not all of them are as abnormal as the ones we encountered. So when we have time, we can actually change our target to practice." This was said to his team members. Over a bowl of noodles, they decided the direction of their next training.

Everyone was silent. It was obvious that they didn't take it seriously, or they had been mentally prepared.

"Eat more and grow up quickly!" Qiao Yong felt bored when no one paid attention to him, so he picked a piece of bacon and two cabbage leaves from the bowl and put them in the bowl of Zhang Ruiyang, who was sitting on a small stool and eating with chopsticks.

Zhang Ruiyang looked up at him, smiled widely, and responded politely, "Thank you, Uncle Hu."

Qiao Yong touched his head and motioned him to continue eating. Zhang Yi glanced over here with a gentle look, but when he turned back, he found that Nan Shao still had a dark face, and he couldn't help but feel helpless. It seems that some things must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise, with this guy's temper, if something goes wrong when killing zombies, he will regret it too late.

But it is obvious that Nan Shao is more impatient than he thought. He finished the food in the bowl in a few bites, and then kept staring at him, forcing him to speed up his eating.

"Zhang Yi and I have something to do, and I will come down later." Zhang Yi had just finished the last mouthful of soup when Nan Shao snatched the bowl and chopsticks and threw them on the table, and then caught him and walked upstairs, throwing a sentence at the same time.

Qiao Yong looked at the backs of the two, raised his hand and touched his chin, with a meaningful look in his eyes. Routa Chen raised his head in confusion, not understanding what happened again. Li Muran remained indifferent, as if the sky falling could not affect her, until Zhang Ruiyang pushed away the small stool and wanted to follow her, she stretched out her hand to stop him. "Auntie, check if you are full."

"Full, very full." Zhang Ruiyang was diverted and stuck out his belly for Li Muran to touch.

Nan Shao dragged Zhang Yi for a distance, and after noticing that the other's legs were limping again because he walked too fast, he immediately slowed down. Zhang Yi was still thinking about how to tell him so as not to hurt their relationship, but he was distracted by this subtle detail. In his thirty-five years of life, except for his mother, no one else has cared for him so meticulously... Is he really going to refuse?

Bang! The sound of the door being slammed interrupted his thoughts, and the next moment he was pushed against the door by Nan Shao, who said nothing and lowered his head to kiss him violently.

Zhang Yi raised his hand and pressed it on Nan Shao's shoulder, as if he wanted to push him away, but when he felt the determination in his kiss, he put his hand down. After a long time, Nan Shao finally left his lips, his chest heaving sharply, but there was a dejection in his eyes as if waiting for judgment.

The room was very quiet. Zhang Yi felt that the root of his tongue was still numb, his lips were slightly stinging, and his head was dizzy because of the lack of itch. It took a while for him to recover. He calmed down for a moment and then looked at Nan Shao who was close at hand.

"Don't you want to say something?" The other party's uneasy expression made his heart clear all of a sudden. This man cares about him so much! Not to mention now, even before the end of the world, it is not easy to meet someone who cares about him so much and cares about him. What is there for him to hesitate?

Nan Shao couldn't see through his reaction, and suddenly regretted his impulse. If he had talked nicely before, there might be a way out, but now there is no way out at all.

"Brother Yi... Zhang Yi, I..." He felt his throat was a little dry. The excitement and madness brought by the kiss just now slowly disappeared under the other party's calm eyes, turning into endless worry and fear. He even began to think about what he should do if he was rejected or insulted.

"Okay, as long as you don't think we are a burden, I don't mind having one more person to help me raise Yangyang." The corners of Zhang Yi's lips curled up in a subtle arc, but his eyes became gentle. Perhaps only when you have lost too many people, you will know how to cherish more.

Nan Shao was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't believe his ears, but soon his eyes lit up, and he hugged Zhang Yi tightly, saying incoherently: "I don't mind, of course I don't mind... I am very happy..." Perhaps he felt that words alone could not express the joy in his heart, he actually lowered his head and kissed Zhang Yi's lips again, but not as fiercely as before, but full of tenderness.

Zhang Yi was helpless, but still indulged him.

Chapter 72 Cruel Training

The two of them didn't waste much time, so when they went down side by side, Qiao Yong

and the others had just packed up and were ready to go out for the routine zombie killing activity. Seeing that one of them was grinning like a fool, and the other looked calm but had red and swollen lips and broken skin, almost everyone could guess what happened, except for the people on Wang Yuanwei's side and a few people with simple minds. Routa Chen was checking whether his knife was damaged or not. Seeing them, he opened his mouth in surprise and didn't close it for a long time. Li Muran's eyes flashed a smile, thinking that the two of them finally stopped entangled, which was good.

In order to take care of the new members and find out their strength, they still killed zombies in the usual way. Before that, Shi Pengsan sharpened and strengthened their weapons for them.

"Have you killed zombies?" Qiao Yong asked the three women when the iron gate was pulled up.

They shook their heads.

"Then let's break zero today." Qiao Yong said. He motioned the others to let a zombie come over, and then suddenly attacked and cut off its limbs. The zombie fell to the ground, still howling and trying to pounce, but unfortunately it had no limbs and could only flutter in place.

"Kill it."

Chen Wei and the other two turned pale instantly, and subconsciously took a step back. They didn't expect the other party to be so swift and resolute, not even giving them time to buffer. You know, before the end of the world, they were the pampered girls at home, and they didn't even dare to kill a chicken. If they dared to kill zombies, who would be willing to do the flesh trade without any guarantee.

After killing for two months, there were not many zombies gathered outside the wall. Shi Pengsan and others were too lazy to wait for them to come in slowly, so they rushed out directly with their men, but they didn't stay too far away from the iron gate to avoid a large wave of zombies attacking and returning in time.

Seeing that they were slow to act, Qiao Yong became impatient and his expression turned cold. A ball of fire appeared in his left hand, and he pointed a knife at Cui Rui with his right hand. "Go. Either I kill you or you kill it!" After a pause, he added with a cold tone, "I will never allow any factors that will affect the harmony of the team to exist."

Cui Rui stammered, as if she wanted to defend herself, but the next moment, Qiao Yong's fireball had already shot out and turned around and burned most of her hair. She screamed in fear and was about to raise her hand to beat it, but Qiao Yong took the flame back. After two months of painstaking research and training, Qiao Yong was able to control his supernatural power freely. He would no longer throw a fireball and wait for it to go out by itself like before.

"Don't make me repeat it again." He looked coldly at Cui Rui, who was so frightened that she couldn't even cry, and did not hide his murderous intentions.

Under the threat of death, Cui Rui trembled and raised the knife in her hand. She screamed and rushed over, closing her eyes and slashing at the zombie on the ground. Until the knife was stuck by something and she couldn't pull it out after two attempts, she opened her eyes and saw that the zombie on the ground had been chopped to pieces by her and was dead. Then she loosened the knife stuck in the skull and collapsed to the ground exhausted.

"You are so useless. You are not even as good as a child." Qiao Yong did not see a trace of sympathy in his eyes. Instead, he was extremely sarcastic. At the same time, he waved to Zhang Ruiyang who was following behind them, "Let me show you how a five-year-old child kills zombies."

Yangyang was squatting there, looking at Cui Rui in confusion. He thought this aunt looked so pitiful, but he was more puzzled. Obviously, he didn't understand why she was so scared. You know, Aunt Muran is also a girl, but Aunt Muran is not afraid, and she is also very powerful. Hearing Qiao Yong shouting, he stood up, supported Dudu who was clinging firmly on his shoulder, and then ran over with his short legs.

"Uncle Hu Zi?"

"Did you bring the knife that uncle gave you?" Qiao Yong pinched the little guy's face, which had finally grown some flesh, and asked.

"Yes." Zhang Ruiyang took out the dagger from the dagger sheath in front of him and raised it high to answer. It turned out that Li Muran saw that he was holding a dagger every day, which was very inconvenient, so he made him a cloth dagger sheath and hung it directly on his chest.

"Do you dare to kill zombies?"

"I dare." Zhang Ruiyang answered loudly. Ever since Nan Shao forced him to poke a zombie head, his remaining fear of this kind of monster disappeared completely. Every day, watching the adults kill zombies, he actually wanted to help, but the most he did was just to help dig for corpse crystals. He always wondered if he and his father could go back to the house where grandma used to be if all these monsters were killed. In that case, even if grandma recovered from her illness, she would not have to be afraid of monsters when she went back. Sometimes, it is difficult for children to change their minds about something. Even though Zhang Ruiyang already understood the meaning of death, he still insisted in his heart that grandma would go back, because grandma had not said goodbye to him yet.

It must be said that the little guy's crisp, immature but high-spirited answer swept away the previous depressed and miserable atmosphere, making Qiao Yong unconsciously soften his facial expression. He raised his hand and made a gesture to the people outside the iron gate. Soon Zhang Yi brought a zombie with its limbs chopped off and threw it in front of them.

"Go." Qiao Yong patted Zhang Ruiyang on the back and encouraged him.

When Zhang Ruiyang saw his father, the only uncertainty in his heart disappeared. The eagerness to get praise made him become like a little fighter. He stretched out his hand to pull out the dagger, then held it with both hands, carefully approached the zombie on the ground, and raised the dagger high, just like what Nan Shao taught him that day, and then stabbed it into the zombie's eyes.

The three women were stunned, and even Cui Rui, who was sitting on the ground, couldn't help but straighten up to see the result. Neither Zhang Yi nor Qiao Yong thought of really letting the child kill a zombie by himself, so they kept watching attentively beside him to prevent the child from being bitten by the zombie, and were ready to help when necessary. Unexpectedly, the dagger pierced through the zombie's eye socket and stabbed into the brain.

Looking at the zombie that stopped moving, everyone was dumbfounded, including Zhang Yi and Qiao Yong.

"Yangyang, when did you become stronger?" After a while, Qiao Yong asked dryly. It was not that he was ignorant, but this fact was too shocking. Zhang Ruiyang's dagger Shi Pengsan had never been sharpened, for fear that the little guy would hurt himself. You know, more than two months ago, it was with this dagger that the child needed Nan Shao's hand to pierce the zombie's eye socket.

"Because I eat a lot." Zhang Ruiyang made a big circle with his hand, then ignored him and lowered his head to pull out the dagger. The dagger was stuck between the bones, and because it was inserted too deep, it couldn't be pulled out, so he raised one foot and stepped on the zombie's body and pulled it out instantly, but because he used too much force, he sat on the ground.

Zhang Yi smiled, but did not move forward. Yang Yang looked up at the adults, chuckled awkwardly, scratched his face, and climbed up.

Qiao Yong gave him a thumbs up, and the child smiled and asked Zhang Yi, "Dad, am I awesome?"

Zhang Yi smiled and nodded, and also gave a thumbs up, with undisguised pride in his eyes, but in his heart he was thinking about taking his son to sleep with him at night to prevent him from having nightmares again. At the same time, he thought that the child's increased strength might be related to the Five Animals Exercise. If so, then other people might be able to practice it.

Zhang Ruiyang was finally satisfied, squatted down and wanted to dig out the corpse crystal, but found that because he only pierced the eye socket, it was not as easy to find as Zhang Yi's half-headed melon seed with a knife, and he was stumped.

Zhang Yi saw that he was squatting there, not knowing what he was thinking, and there was no danger around, so he said hello to Qiao Yong and went out to kill zombies with others. Qiao Yong turned to look at Chen Wei and Tang Youqian, revealing a mocking smile.

"Are you worse than five-year-olds?"

Including Cui Rui, who had already killed a zombie, the three women couldn't help but show shame on their faces. Chen Wei tightened the machete in her hand and suddenly stood up: "Qiao, I'll be the next one."

Qiao Yong stared at her expressionlessly for a moment, then gestured to the outside, and Zhang Yi and others began to throw zombies with broken limbs in non-stop. The real training began!

On this day, the three women were forced to kill zombies non-stop, from all four legs to only two arms. There was no time for them to be afraid. When Qiao Yong called for a stop, their hands were too tired to lift. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Ruiyang took advantage of the situation and killed several zombies, and mastered a new skill of smashing zombie skulls with stones to find corpse crystals. However, this was just the beginning. The following training made Cui Rui and the other two often cry and bite their teeth to complete the tasks given by Qiao Yong. In the first few days, they even vomited as soon as they ate, and were often awakened by nightmares at night. They thought about giving up countless times, but no one would give them the opportunity to give up unless they had the courage to walk out or were kicked out of the safe fortress.

Under Qiao Yong's fascist-like authoritarian training, after a week, they were finally able to deal with a healthy and lively zombie on their own, and learned to chop open the zombie's head expressionlessly and then look for corpse crystals from it. As for Zhang Ruiyang, who had been training with the adults, under Zhang Yi's deliberate connivance, he showed a stronger fighting power than the three women. The little guy was able to climb up the backs of the zombies, and then use a dagger to directly poke into the brain from the eyes, ears, and even the top of the head to kill the zombies. That kind of flexibility and strength is not what a five-year-old child can have. The role of the Five Animals Play has finally been taken seriously by others. Therefore, in addition to physical training, practicing the Five Animals Play has become a must-do homework for some people. Whether it is effective or not can only be proved by time. At the same time, the team began to clean up the old city and look for survivors and available vehicles. Of course, looking for survivors is only an additional task. The most important thing is to clean up the old city and open up a road to leave the county.

Although the hotel is still safe for the survivors for the time being, it is relatively closed. The people living in it don't know what's going on in this world, how powerful the superpowers outside are, and whether the country and the government have taken measures to deal with the disaster. Twenty or so people in this doomsday are like a lone boat in the ocean. Any wave of wind and waves may capsize the boat and kill everyone on board. Therefore, it is imperative to leave.

Chapter 73 Mutated Animals Crystal Core

The old street is connected in all directions. Some places are occupied by huge mutant plants, while other places are deserted, with only more or less zombies wandering around. There are very few mutant animals. Apart from the strange bird the first time, they only encountered it twice later. One time was a black cat-like creature that looked stronger than a mastiff, and the other time was a white and fat insect that looked delicate and vulnerable.

When they met the black cat, they had just finished cleaning an old residential area and got a pickup truck with a little oil left from it. The black cat suddenly jumped out of the narrow passage where the sundries were placed between the old residential buildings and pounced on Zhang Ruiyang silently. It can be said that if the black cat pounced on Cui Rui and the other women, or even those who joined later such as Wang Yuanwei, it might have succeeded. However, in its eyes, the weakest was Zhang Ruiyang, who was squatting on the empty road in the community playing, and the most tender and delicious was also that little guy. It wanted to hit him with one blow, and then escape to its own nest with the prey in its mouth to enjoy it slowly.

At that time, some people were cleaning each household and looking for supplies, while others were scattered around to be on guard. Zhang Yi and Nan Shao were all fiddling with the car. Because they couldn't find the key, Zhang Yi had to use his other skill besides unlocking the door, the car stealing skill.

"If I didn't know, I would have thought you were a habitual thief." Nan Shao joked, but his eyes were fixed on Zhang Yi's technique. These little skills may seem inferior, but they can play a big role in many cases.

Zhang Yi was skilled in his technique and could also split his attention. Hearing this, he said, "It will be helpful to solve the case if you know more." As soon as he finished this sentence, he saw a black shadow pounce on Zhang Ruiyang. He was immediately terrified. While shouting for Yangyang to get out of the way, he picked up the knife on the roof of the car and rushed over to push away the people who were blocking him.

The moment his face changed, Nan Shao realized that something was wrong. He didn't even bother to confirm what happened, and ran over. Others also noticed Zhang Ruiyang's danger and rushed to rescue him.

But the giant mutant black cat was very agile, and appeared silently, so the people scattered around had no time to catch up. Just when everyone thought Yang Yang was dead and wanted to close their eyes, they saw the little guy suddenly lie down and raise his head, and imitate the roar

of a tiger. In the blink of an eye, the black cat paused in the air with its fur standing on end, and raised his hand to slap it to the side. But in this critical moment, Qiao Yong's fireball, Liu Xia's whirlwind, and Nan Shao's sudden burst of superpowers attacked at the same time. Yang Yang's palm was only enough to slap the black cat to the side, and did not cause any damage to it, but the subsequent attacks all fell on it. Just when it screamed and wanted to escape, it was cut in half by Zhang Yi, who rushed to save his son.

Zhang Yi's knife was sharp and precise, full of unstoppable murderous spirit. He had only reached this level when he was attacked by the strange bird. He was never able to use it again in the two months of slashing training. Unexpectedly, today, because Zhang Ruiyang's life was threatened, he reproduced the majestic momentum of that time. In this accidental cooperation, Qiao Yong and Liu Xia also vaguely grasped the possibility that the perfect cooperation of their abilities could increase the attack strength several times or even dozens of times. As for Nan Shao, his ability that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't work in attack once again proved to him that it was not that his ability was not powerful, but that he himself could not control it, which was an exciting but helpless fact.

Of course, these were all their own conclusions afterwards. In fact, after killing the mutant cat, Zhang Yi was still shrouded in the fear of losing his son. It was not until he hugged Zhang Ruiyang tightly in his arms and heard the child say in his childish voice that he was not afraid that his heart slowly calmed down.

Afterwards, through patient and persuasive questioning, everyone finally knew that the child reflexively performed the tiger play in the Five Animals Play, and as for the slap, it was learned from the big stupid bear. As for why he did that, the child shook his head and couldn't explain it at all, as if it was an instinctive reaction to danger.

Logically, after such a thing, Zhang Yi would definitely want to protect the child tightly, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and continued to let it go.

Compared with the first thrill, the enlarged version of the white worm encountered the second time was purely used as a teaching demonstration of a battle between mutant animals and plants. It was in a vegetable field that was originally reclaimed. The mutant plants in it were similar to giant pumpkin vines, vines thicker than thighs, leaves several times larger than banana leaves, and the velvety hairs on the stems and leaves turned into sharp thorns, which looked like a posture that would bring bad luck to anyone who got entangled. When they saw it, there were already many pieces of thick vines on the ground, which were obviously bitten by the white worms, and the white worms were tightly wrapped by the vines. The two fought so hard that the sky was dark. When everything calmed down, the white worms had already collapsed, and the pumpkin vines were dying, which made Qiao Yong and his team pick up an advantage.

In total, they only encountered these two mutant animals, which restored their confidence after being hit to the bottom by the strange birds. At least they confirmed Wang Yuanwei's words that not all mutant animals are invulnerable and powerful enough to make people despair. In this way, they got three crystal cores. The black cat's crystal core was orange, the white worm's was bright yellow, and the giant pumpkin vine was green, slightly darker than the green vine last time.

Only Nan Shao could absorb the green crystal core, but Liu Xia and Jiang Ke could absorb the orange crystal core. In the end, Liu Xia gave it to Jiang Ke. After all, Jiang Ke awakened his superpowers eight or nine months later than him. This gap could only be made up by crystal cores. In addition, the young man looked hardworking and well-behaved, so he didn't feel bad about giving it to him. As for the yellow insect crystal core, the three earth-type superpowers could also absorb it, but the three of them had a good relationship, so they didn't care much. In the end, the strongest bear absorbed it first, mainly to see if the earth-type superpower was lethal when it was strong enough. Nan Shao, on the other hand, seemed to be able to eat anything, but this time he could only look at the other two crystal cores with envy.

Zhang Yi thought he looked particularly cute like this. He used to not care about hundreds of millions, but now he was drooling over two small crystal cores. He didn't think he was greedy, but he was thinking about how to get him some mutant animal crystal cores in the future.

Since they confirmed their relationship, they had never crossed the line because they lived in a room with four people and had to maintain their physical strength to deal with the dangers that might appear at any time. From time to time, Nan Shao caught the opportunity and kissed him once or twice, but that was all. However, Zhang Yi's mentality was a little different from before. Although he was not good at expressing his feelings, he really loved Nan Shao as his wife.

Nan Shao finally understood how beautiful it was to be in love with each other. Thinking back to the time when he was so devoted but could not get a look of heartache until his death, the comparison between the two made it even more precious. It made him want to protect it more firmly, not letting anyone, not letting this fucking apocalypse take away a single cent. This was also the reason why he was so jealous of other crystal cores. Of course, he was just jealous, but not jealous or having other crooked thoughts. What was there for him to be jealous of? He got one of the three crystal cores, and he got it by himself, not to mention that he had gotten one before.

"I wonder if this thing has also grown a crystal core." Unable to obtain the crystal core of the mutant animal, he could not help but cast his eyes on Dudu, who was lying on his stomach in Zhang Ruiyang's paper box as if dead. He touched the prickly beard on his chin, not knowing if it was an illusion, but he felt that this thing seemed to have gained weight again.

Zhang Ruiyang looked at him blankly, shook his head and said, "I don't know."

He did not understand Uncle Pumpkin's hint at all. Zhang Yi could not help laughing, "Don't think about it, or Yangyang will definitely be angry with you." Although this dog was hatched by Nan Shao, he had never taken care of it after it was hatched. Yangyang had always been with him, and no one knew how it survived, so in the eyes of everyone, Dudu had long been Yangyang's property.

Nan Shao pouted, stretched out one hand to hug Zhang Yi's shoulder, and poked the dog with its legs curled up motionlessly with the other hand, saying disdainfully, "Look at its dead appearance. Even if it has a crystal core, it is at most the size of a grain of rice. How useful can it be?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yi also felt strange and asked, "Yangyang, is Dudu dead? Why haven't you seen it move these two days?" Although I knew that this guy liked to play dead before, he would still move when others were not paying attention. He especially liked to cling to Zhang Ruiyang's body, from the trouser legs at the beginning to the shoulders now, and just short of making a nest on the top of his head. But in the past few days, he has been lying on his back like this, not even moving, it is really hard not to think that way.

"No." Zhang Ruiyang shook his head, not knowing that in Nan Shao's eyes, Dudu had become a ready-made mutant animal crystal core.

Nan Shao also shook his head and said that he was not dead, because he could feel that the life energy of this little thing had not weakened or even disappeared at all, but had a tendency to increase, "Maybe it is growing."

"I didn't see it eating." Zhang Yi wondered.

"Sometimes Dudu will run away by himself and come back after a long time. He should be looking for food." Zhang Ruiyang thought about it and answered. After all, adults would only occasionally notice the existence of Dudu, but he was always with Dudu, so of course he knew that it would not follow him obediently all the time. At first, he was anxious to find it everywhere, but later he gradually got used to it.

Hearing this, the others suddenly realized and became more curious about what the dog ate. However, there was really no way to find out. Who knows when the little thing will disappear? It is impossible to keep watching it, but no one is so idle.

The treatment of the crystal core is very simple, but there are different opinions on the corpses of mutant animals. Some people suggest trying to see if they can eat it, while others are worried about whether it will cause trouble after eating it. After a long discussion, there is no result. In the end, they tried to roast two pieces of meat. The cat meat gave off a sour smell and was immediately ruled out, but the white worm meat was extremely fragrant. Finally, someone couldn't help but take a bite, and it was fine. So everyone finally ate fresh meat, and at the same time, there was another way to get food. There was no need to worry about the remaining food before the end of the world being collected and unable to grow crops. Will humans starve to death? Unfortunately, the mutant pumpkin vines neither bloomed nor produced fruits, so it was not possible to determine whether the mutant plants were edible.

The preparations before leaving were proceeding in an orderly manner, looking for suitable vehicles, collecting gasoline and diesel, reinforcing the vehicle body, and collecting various supplies... However, something happened suddenly, forcing them to advance their trip, and in an extremely embarrassing way.

Chapter 74 Bird Disaster

On that day, everyone had cleaned up a one-way road. When they were about to finish their work and turn around, they saw Jie Chen suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the sky in the distance and said in surprise: "The dark clouds are floating so low and so

fast... There is no wind, or is it going to rain heavily again?" Everyone looked up. The unawakened people in the team looked for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on. They were also wondering why the clouds were floating so fast. Of course, the main reason was that the sky was originally gloomy and dim, and the appearance of a black cloud below made the scene look weird. The faces of the superpowers changed drastically. Qiao Yong had already shouted: "Run! Go back!"

The dark mass, if you have good eyesight, you will know that it is not a dark cloud at all, but is composed of countless black dots, which reminds people of the locust plague seen on TV before the end of the world. Of course, no one would think that there are still things as small as locusts that can damage crops and plants but will not directly harm people. Even if they are locusts, they are probably the size of a basin or larger, and their teeth are like pincers and claws. If it weren't locusts, it would be even more terrifying, so it's safer to go back to the hotel first.

As soon as Qiao Yong shouted, everyone immediately ran away, and those who hadn't awakened didn't even bother to ask the reason. Another rule for surviving in the end times is that when you hear a warning, don't doubt or hesitate. Even if you are deceived, it's better than standing there stupidly to get to the bottom of it and do nothing.

Zhang Yi originally wanted to pick up Zhang Ruiyang, but Nan Shao took the lead and carried him on his shoulders, not forgetting to pull him. At this time, Routa Chen's speed variation and Liu Xia and Jiang Ke's wind abilities showed their advantages. It felt like a whirlwind blew past, and the three disappeared, and the rest of the people also rushed back to the hotel before the black cloud floated close.

"Shi San and Nan Shao go upstairs and keep an eye on what it is. The others move things, leaving three days' worth and putting the rest of the supplies in the car. Zhang Yi, Guan Lun, and Wang Yuanwei go adjust the position of the car so they can leave as quickly as possible at any time." Qiao Yong gave the order quickly, and then he wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered, "Damn, my right eyelid keeps twitching. I always feel like something's not right. Maybe something bad is going to happen again." Then he shouted again, "Two people come and get the plastic tarpaulin in the warehouse. We have to pull it up to block these cars."

Amid the sound of cars starting up, everyone began to get busy as ordered. With so many people, they could move things quickly, and there wasn't much food and water left after more than half a year of use. There were three vehicles, one was a small van, one was a pickup truck, and one was an SUV. In order to facilitate the transportation of things and not affect the speed of the entire team, the van was at the end and the pickup truck was in the middle. However, each vehicle was loaded with some food and water, and the rest was put into the van.

Before everyone finished moving, they saw Shi Pengsan rushing down from the upstairs, shouting as he rushed: "Quick! Quick! Everyone stop, go back to the hotel! Go back to the hotel..." Mixed in his shouts was the sound of glass breaking. The huge sound was known to be caused by a piece of glass.

Everyone did not dare to delay and ran back with the things in their arms. Even if some of them were only two or three steps away from delivering the things to the car, they gave up. At this time, the plastic rain sheet had been pulled up, but it had not been reinforced in time. They only hoped that it could provide some shelter. As soon

as they entered the hotel, Zhang Yi first looked for the figures of Zhang Ruiyang and Nan Shao. Zhang Ruiyang was being held by Li Muran, but Nan Shao was not there. He wanted to ask Shi Pengsan where Nan Shao was, but he didn't see Shi Pengsan for a while. He was anxious, greeted Li Muran, and rushed upstairs. As

soon as he ran to the third floor, he saw Nan Shao fighting with several black-winged creatures while trying hard to close the door leading to the third floor corridor. An endless stream of black birds were still squeezing out of the staircase door that was not closed tightly. Nan Shao couldn't handle it alone. Seeing this, Zhang Yi ran up in two steps, swung his machete, chopped up two black birds that were clinging to Nan Shao, and blocked the attacks from the other three sides for him. Nan Shao took the opportunity to get rid of the black birds that squeezed out of the door, closed the door with a bang, and then worked with Zhang Yi to clean up the remaining ones in the corridor.

"Who told you to come up!" Nan Shao took a breath and roared unhappily. He was very dissatisfied with Zhang Yi's rashness. What if there were too many monsters that crashed in and the two of them couldn't deal with them?

Zhang Yi glanced at his bloodstained clothes, and his bloody neck and hands, and turned around to walk downstairs. Nan Shao saw that something was wrong, so he quickly chased after him and hugged him. He bit him twice before smiling and saying, "I'm just afraid that you'll get into danger."

The door of the corridor was hit and made a banging sound. The sound filled the upstairs and downstairs, as if it was everywhere, causing great psychological pressure. Zhang Yi was a little angry, but it was because he saw that Nan Shao was injured and was unwilling to come up to help him. Seeing him like this, how could he be angry? Just as he was about to teach him a lesson, he heard screams and shouts from downstairs. The two looked at each other, their faces changed drastically, and they rushed downstairs at the same time.

At this time, the lobby and restaurant on the first floor were filled with black birds flapping their wings and rushing around, and Qiao Yong and others were fighting hard. It turned out that in order to burn the fire, the main door of the hotel had been open, and there was a thick and tall wall blocking it, so there was no extra protection. When everyone came back and just closed it, it was smashed by the black birds. The powerful impact force was probably not enough for an ordinary wooden door.

Nan Shao and Zhang Yi attracted a large number of black birds as soon as they came down. They were busy with their own affairs and had no time to see the situation of others.

"Go over and meet them!" Zhang Yi shouted to Nan Shao, and then he took the lead to block most of the black birds. Nan Shao was a step late and was a little annoyed, but he could only follow behind him to clear the danger from behind.

Although the black bird had a sharp head, it did not have a hard beak, but it bit people with its teeth. In addition, it had several claws. Although it was not big in size, it was very lethal. If it touched, it would lose a piece of flesh. Soon, Zhang Yi was injured. As for Nan Shao, he was naturally injured. Even if Zhang Yi wanted to stop it, he couldn't. Zhang Yi's knife was powerful, but it was not powerful enough to block all directions. When the two finally found Qiao Yong and his men from the swarm of black birds, Qiao Yong and his men were already unable to hold on, and the black birds were still flying in continuously, as if they could not be killed. Everyone had been exhausted after a day's work, and it was amazing that they could hold on until now. In the end, Qiao Yong made a prompt decision and shouted, "Go! Go! Get in the car! Get in the car!"

Many people had long wanted to quit, but they did not dare to leave the army without permission, for fear that the black birds would gnaw them to the bone. When they heard this, they immediately fought and retreated to the car behind.

Zhang Yi and Nan Shao killed the black bird while retreating with the others, while looking for Zhang Ruiyang everywhere, "Yangyang! Where is Yangyang? Who saw Yangyang?"

"Brother Yi... Brother Yi... Yangyang is held by Muran, he is gone... gone... Damn! Damn bird, Fatty will kill you!" Meat Tower Chen heard it from the other side and hurriedly answered loudly, but the black bird found an opportunity and bit him hard when he was distracted.

What is missing? Zhang Yi's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't dare to ask again, for fear of hurting others.

"Zhang Yi, Muran used his supernatural power... Get in the car first, I'll tell you after you get in the car!" Qiao Yong shouted from the other side, fearing that he would not be able to change his mind and stubbornly stay here to find his son.

"Okay." Zhang Yi's mind was full of thoughts, and he finally answered. At the same time, he lowered his voice to Nan Shao beside him and said, "You are fast, take Routa Chen to grab the driver's seat and the seat next to the first car, so that I can squeeze in with you."

Nan Shao did not doubt it, so he told himself to be careful, and rushed to Routa Chen's side through the crowd. Routa Chen felt the pressure relieved, and his speed ability immediately took effect. He grabbed Nan Shao, and the two bypassed the crowd and rushed to the front. Zhang Yi saw them leaving, but his feet slowed down.

"Zhang Yi, what are you doing?" Shi Pengsan was one of the people responsible for the rear, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Shi San, I want to stay here. Please tell Nan Shao and Routa Chen to wait for me at the Bowei base." Zhang Yi said quickly, and before Shi Pengsan could answer, he had already rushed into the flock of birds and helped the retreating people to contain a lot of black birds.

"Asshole!" Shi Pengsan cursed angrily, but he could do nothing. Although everyone had a good relationship, it was impossible for everyone to stay because of Zhang Yi. He could only tell the others to speed up their retreat, at least not to waste Zhang Yi's kindness.

When Zhang Yi was waving his knife to protect his vital parts while moving slowly and laboriously to the second floor, Nan Shao and Routa Chen had already arrived next to the first SUV. Because there were people blocking the way behind and the space was not spacious, the number of black birds that slipped through was very limited, which did not hinder their movement. Seeing Routa Chen was about to go around and pull the door on the other side of the driver's seat, Nan Shao pulled him, then opened the door, stuffed him into the driver's seat, and asked, "Can you drive?"

Routa Chen was a little confused, but still nodded.

"Give me a bag of food and water." Nan Shao continued. Some people had already climbed up the two cars behind, and others were also arriving one after another, and of course there were also a large number of black birds.

Meat Tower Chen finally became alert, "Brother Shao, what are you doing?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Hurry up!" Nan Shao urged, with his back to the car, while talking he chopped away the black bird that swooped over: "Zhang Yi will definitely stay here and search the entire building before he is satisfied. I'll go with him, you and the others go to the Bowei base and wait for us."

Meat Tower Chen was just turning back to the back seat of the car to pick up a bag of food and put bottled water in it. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, "But I saw with my own eyes that sister Muran suddenly disappeared holding Yangyang, and those birds all swooped in vain. Don't you know that Muran's ability can span several provinces at once? What's the point of staying here?" After that, he picked up the bag that was already filled with things and was about to jump out of the car angrily: "I'm with you!"

"Don't add to our troubles. Go to the Bowei base. Maybe Muran will go there after he takes Yangyang out of danger." Nan Shao grabbed the bag from his hand, put it on his back, and looked back before leaving. In the dim light, Routa Chen looked like he was about to cry. He sighed, reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Fatty, you must stay alive, wait for me and Zhang Yi to find you." After saying that, he turned around and rushed back without hesitation.

Others were already getting on the car one after another. They were all surprised to find someone running back. Before they could react to what was going on, they heard Routa Chen crying loudly: "Nan Shao, you must bring Brother Yi to the Bowei base for me! Otherwise, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost!" Nan Shao, who

had already run far away, heard this and couldn't help but yelled. If he heard Fatty talking to him like this at other times, he would definitely beat him up. But at this time, he felt a little sad for some reason. The corners of his lips curved, and he didn't answer, and continued to rush into the building.

Qiao Yong and the others understood at this time, and could not help but curse angrily, but they could not stay for the two of them. After all, there were more than 20 lives, and even if they stayed, it would not be enough to fill the space. When Shi Pengsan got in the car and brought Zhang Yi's words, they had to sigh that the two of them were indeed a pair, and even their ideas were so similar. But time did not allow them to delay any longer. The car was still in motion, and the car windows had been smashed by black birds, and the metal roof was also scratched and creaked, and it was not known when it would break.

"Let's go." Qiao Yong said to Routa Chen who was wiping tears, "It's a good time to lead them away from some of the fierce birds."

Hearing the latter sentence, Routa Chen was refreshed, wiped his tears with two hands, stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped out. The vehicles behind also accelerated to catch up, and drove out of the county with a flock of black birds.

At this time, Zhang Yi had already reached the second floor and entered the room where the four of them lived. He propped his back against the door, cleaned up the black birds that followed into the room, and then inserted the door bolt with an iron rod. Just as he was about to lie down, he felt something hit the door hard, which was different from the sound of the blackbird hitting the door. Then he heard Nan Shao's voice: "Zhang Yi, open the door!"

He was startled and quickly took down the iron rod and opened the door. Nan Shao flashed in, bringing with him a few blackbirds that followed him and clung to him. When he closed the door again, Nan Shao had already dealt with the blackbirds he brought in. The two people, covered in blood, looked at each other, and then laughed at the same time, and fell to the ground with a bang. No one had the strength to get up again. Nan Shao struggled for a long time, and finally rubbed the bag off his back, threw it aside, and lay down comfortably.

After a long while, Zhang Yi said: "Nan Shao, you are so fucking stupid in this matter." It felt like committing suicide for love. Although he didn't want to die, and he understood Nan Shao's intentions, the chance of survival if he stayed was not as good as leaving with others.

Nan Shao laughed, but after two laughs, he started to cough, which hurt his wounds and made him gasp for air. It took him a while to catch his breath.

"Brother, do you know that I was scratched by a zombie just to get an apple for my brother?" He looked at the dark ceiling and spoke slowly and deeply. "I really liked him at that time, so much so that I could even give my life for him."

Zhang Yi was stunned. He remembered that Nan Shao had said that he liked his brother before, but he had never thought about it in a wrong way. Now he realized that it was another kind of love. For a moment, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he did not interrupt him.

"Brother Yi, I was stupid at that time, but not now." Nan Shao laughed again, probably because he didn't want to suffer the same pain as at the beginning, so he stopped laughing. "I think it's worth it to be with you. It's really worth it!"

The anger that had just risen in Zhang Yi's heart disappeared immediately after hearing this sentence. The corners of his lips couldn't help but rise, but he couldn't help asking, "Where's your brother?" It's really hard to not mind at all.

"Gone. After I got hurt, he left with the others." Nan Shao said calmly, no longer sad or resentful, they were just strangers from then on.

"You and him..." Zhang Yi hesitated for a moment, but didn't ask any other questions. Everyone has a past, Nan Shao has one, and so does he, so why bother to pursue it.

Nan Shao seemed to know what he wanted to ask, and said indifferently: "There is nothing between him and me. It's all my wishful thinking. He is disgusted. If he hadn't been financially independent, he would have run away to who knows where."

Zhang Yi couldn't help but think of himself when he heard this. If he had rejected him at that time, this guy would have been too pitiful. He couldn't help but feel a little weak in his heart, so he moved over with difficulty, and then lay side by side with him, changing the subject and asking: "Do you want to do it?" There was a bit of joking in his words. After all, both of them were exhausted, so it was impossible for them to do it, but he was not without seriousness. First, when Nan Shao kissed him, he could feel the changes in the other's body and his endurance. Unfortunately, because the conditions did not allow it, he never did it to the last step; and secondly, the current situation of the two was really not optimistic, and he didn't want to have any regrets.

Nan Shao's hand on the ground trembled, and in an instant, as if he had been injected with chicken blood, he sat up suddenly, "Zhang Yi, are you serious?" He thought Zhang Yi should be thinking about his son at this time, how could he have any thoughts.

"Of course, as long as you can do it, I'll let you do it. I'm out of strength, don't count on me." Zhang Yi smiled. It was already dark, and he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but he could still feel his excitement. As for Yangyang, he was of course anxious, but it was useless

to be anxious. Nan Shao, on the other hand, was right beside him. "Then do it." Nan Shao gritted his teeth. Even if he couldn't move, he would find a way to get it done. Then he hesitated again, "But your body..."

"It's okay. You have to take care of it for a few days anyway. It doesn't matter." Zhang Yi said in a deep voice. He still had some understanding of men being with men. This was also due to his profession. He had met all kinds of people, so he was not surprised and had a wide range of knowledge.

Nan Shao didn't say much. In the dark, he heard the rustling sound of stripping. He didn't have any energy to waste, so he kept everything simple. It was as if he was completing a ritual. The two of them were as close to each other as possible in the pain. There was almost no joy. Nan Shao fell down as soon as he entered. Zhang Yi could not help but his groan turned into a muffled laugh, and then his muffled laugh turned into a groan of pain. He was really covered with wounds, and it was a luxury for him to laugh heartily.

Chapter 75 Breakthrough

After a long time, Nan Shao turned his head and kissed Zhang Yi softly on the face, mumbling something before continuing. Zhang Yi didn't hear clearly, but he didn't have the energy to ask. When the work was done, the two couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep in each other's arms.

Nan Shao only slept for about an hour before forcing himself to wake up. He carefully left Zhang Yi, found paper to clean him up, put on his clothes again, moved him to the bed, and covered him with a quilt. It was freezing cold at this time. If they really slept on the ground for a night, they would be frozen to death even if they were not seriously injured.

During the process, Zhang Yi was briefly awake, and after making sure that nothing was wrong, he fell asleep again as soon as he touched the bed. Unlike Nan Shao, he couldn't rely on corpse crystals to restore his physical strength, so he could only make up for it with sleep. After Nan Shao settled Zhang Yi and tidied himself, he took out some water from his bag, fed Zhang Yi a few sips, drank it himself, and then found the corpse crystals they left in the room. Amid the tireless collision and scratching of the blackbirds, he began to absorb them.

It must be said that the metal wall built by Shi Pengsan was quite solid. The blackbirds had been messing around all night but couldn't get in. When Zhang Yi woke up, Nan Shao was dealing with the dead blackbirds. The candle flame was constantly jumping due to the wind blowing in from the window, causing the whole room to be filled with swaying shadows, which corresponded to the flapping, collision, and scratching sounds outside, giving people a strange sense of silence, as if they were in a tomb.

"How are you?" Hearing the noise, Nan Shao looked up, his eyes so gentle that they seemed to be able to ooze water.

Zhang Yi felt a little embarrassed to be looked at. He was just impulsive last night. He was touched by Nan Shao's return and was confused about Yang Yang's whereabouts. In addition, he was not optimistic about their situation. All these accumulated together made him think that he should repay Nan Shao's feelings. And only this matter was the most direct and could best express his feelings. Otherwise, for a grown man like him to be submissive, he would have some psychological barriers. If it were normal, even if he had been mentally prepared, he would probably kick the person off the bed reflexively halfway through. But yesterday, he didn't have the strength, so he let the other party toss.

"Not bad." He used the action of sitting up to cover up the embarrassment in his heart. He leaned his back against the headboard, and felt that every part of his body was painful. The pain caused by the two people's actions was not so obvious. "Do you have a crystal core?"

Nan Shao nodded and handed the crystal core he dug out to him. It was an orange crystal core the size of a peanut, very similar to the black cat, and then he brought a dead black bird over: "Look at this thing."

Because they were caught off guard by the attack before, and there were too many black birds, they were overwhelmed, so Zhang Yi and others could not see its form clearly. Only then did they realize that the black bird might not be called a bird. Although it had a pair of wings that were as strong as an eagle but slightly smaller, it had a rat head and a cat body, with six claws and a thin rat tail. This shape was really disgusting.

"If this thing can be eaten, our food source can be completely solved." Zhang Yi's arms hurt so much that he didn't raise his hand to take it. At this time, he had to envy the good physical strength and recovery ability of the superpowers.

"You must be hungry, eat something first." Hearing about food, Nan Shao took out a can of luncheon meat from his bag, opened it and handed it to Zhang Yi. The blood on his hands had solidified, and he couldn't wipe it clean, and he was even more reluctant to wash it with water. In a blink of an eye, they returned to their original sloppy life of lack of water. Fortunately, there was still water in the toilet, otherwise the two of them would be locked in this cage-like room, and the smell would be unbearable

. Zhang Yi's hands were not very clean either. The two of them looked around and found a toothbrush for the two of them. They rinsed the handle with water, and then used it as a knife and chopsticks to pick up the food and share it. Those who are capable should do more work, and of course it was Nan Shao who did it.

"When I came back, I asked Fatty for a bag of food and water. Together with what we already had in the room, it is enough for us to eat for a while." Nan Shao mentioned it casually. Before Wang Yuanwei and others arrived, in order to prevent accidents, each of them packed a backpack of food and water and put it in the room. This is also an important reason why Zhang Yi chose to return to the room. Of course, he had thought about whether the food could sustain him to find Yangyang and Li Muran, or whether the doors and windows of the room could withstand the impact of the black bird. However, sometimes he had to rush forward even though he knew it was a dead end. At least compared to the houses around the hotel, this room could last longer.

"This thing eats human flesh. I suspect it is the same as the cat that attacked Yangyang last time. I'm afraid its meat cannot be eaten." Nan Shao continued, but he still cut off a small piece of the meat of the strange rat bird and roasted it on the candle. Sure enough, it didn't take long before it gave off an unpleasant sour smell.

Zhang Yi didn't think about the issue of the bird eating human flesh at first. After Nan Shao mentioned it, he probably couldn't eat it even if the meat was delicious when roasted.

"How are you?" He changed the subject.

Nan Shao threw the meat into the trash can and looked at the window. It was blocked by countless rat birds, and the sunlight could hardly get in. Otherwise, he wouldn't have wasted the candle. "I'm fine. I absorbed a lot of corpse crystals last night and my strength has been restored. These external injuries are not a big deal." It is easier for a superpower to recover from injuries than ordinary people, especially when he has life superpowers.

Both of them avoided talking about Yang Yang's affairs, because they were not yet able to rush out to find someone. Talking would only increase their anxiety and worry, and would not help.

"I'll sleep for a while. Call me if you need anything." Nan Shao put away the crystal core, found a towel and wiped his hands vigorously. The dried blood stains could not be wiped clean no matter how hard he tried, so he had to give up in the end. Then he lay down next to Zhang Yi with his clothes on, reached out and gently hugged his waist, and almost immediately snored. After a night of sleeplessness, although the energy in the corpse crystals can replenish physical strength, it can't replace the rest of the brain.

Zhang Yi glanced at the window and the door, and saw that it would not be broken in a short time, so he blew out the candle, put his hand gently on Nan Shao's head, and closed his eyes, but his ears were always paying attention to the movement outside.

Although there were wounds all over this time, they were not as serious as the one he suffered when he encountered the strange bird and the red vine. On the second day, Zhang Yi was able to walk after resting enough. With Nan Shao helping him to warm up his life energy, he decided to start killing rat birds on the third day. The killing method was very simple. He released the rat birds outside the door into a group and then continued after killing them all. In this way, he could control the rhythm of the battle and did not have to worry about being too seriously injured.

The first time, they released about ten rat birds. The two of them worked together and did not spend too much time. Although these birds were flexible, they would pounce on them as if they were not afraid of death when they smelled the blood on them, and they did not dodge or evade at all. But even so, the two of them still suffered a lot of injuries.

"Come on, it's okay to go slower, try to get hurt as little as possible." Zhang Yi felt that his inner clothes were soaked with blood and sweat, and it was sticky and uncomfortable, but he did not even frown and said. There were too many rat birds, and it was not good for them to increase the speed of killing at the cost of injuries. Instead of killing them for one day and resting for two days, it was better to protect themselves at the beginning and then slowly increase the speed on this basis.

Nan Shao hummed, obviously understanding what he meant.

Then the two of them only put in five or six rat birds. Because there were no candles, and the corridor was already full of rat birds, they couldn't see clearly at all, and could only estimate by feeling. Zhang Yi relied on his hearing to judge the attack direction of the rat birds, either blocking or dodging, while Nan Shao directly focused his superpowers on his eyes, and could see the positions of all moving creatures in the room through the color of their respective vitality. Of course, this consumed a lot of superpowers, but since he had enough crystal cores, he certainly wouldn't miss such a good opportunity to improve his superpowers.

This round, Zhang Yi killed two rat birds and Nan Shao killed three, which took more time than the previous ten, but because they were not yet used to this new way of fighting, they still got a lot of injuries. The two were not discouraged and continued to put in rat birds.

The second round, the third round, the fourth round... I don't know which round it was, but the two finally killed all the rat birds without getting hurt, and the floor of the room was already covered with the corpses of rat birds. They stopped to eat and drink, and took out all the crystal cores of the killed rat birds. As for the corpses, they threw them out through the crack of the door, and they were eaten by their kind. The rat birds that tried to squeeze in through the narrow crack of the door were naturally killed decisively.

After resting, the number of rat birds put in doubled, and the two began to return to the state of panic when they killed five, but compared with the beginning, the injuries were still reduced. While killing, Zhang Yi was thinking about how to dance the knife net, which could both block the attack and kill the enemy, while Nan Shao was distracted and wanted to use his supernatural power to attack. However, the only gain they had on the first day was that they reduced the chance of getting hurt when facing about ten rat birds, but they could not completely avoid getting hurt. As for the calculations in their hearts, of course, they could not achieve it.

Rest for a night and continue the next day. For several days, the two killed nearly a thousand rats and birds, but the number of rats and birds outside seemed to have not decreased. The doors and windows were about to be unable to withstand the strong impact and scratching like iron claws.

"Change rooms." Nan Shao made a decision early to avoid being in a hurry after the doors and windows were broken.

The two studied the other three rooms that Shi Pengsan had paved with metal plates, and finally decided on the relocation route. After packing up the unfinished food, each of them put on a bag, opened the door and rushed out, leaving this room that was polluted by the smell of rats and birds and the smell of blood. There was still a bag of food left in the room, but the two did not take it. After all, carrying too many things would become a burden.

The distance between the two rooms was not far, but with the corridor filled with rats and birds, it gave people a feeling of being thousands of miles apart. The two of them relived the first day of the incident, when they fought bloody battles and were forced to breathe hard by the overwhelming number of rats and birds. The feeling of getting new injuries before the old ones healed was numb. The training they had received in the past few days was completely useless in such a situation. There was no other way to get around except to fight hard.

Nan Shao was used to using his superpowers to determine the existence of life forms in battle. At this time, he only felt that there was a rapidly moving light fog all around him, densely interweaving with each other, in the air, on the ground, on the ceiling, everywhere. He felt dizzy and restless, and his superpowers were also affected. He rushed around. He couldn't suppress it and screamed uncomfortably. Then he felt those running superpowers suddenly shot out of his body. Even in such a situation, he still tried his best to guide the superpowers to avoid Zhang Yi's direction. At the same time as the rats and birds made noisy squeaking sounds, he suddenly felt empty in his body, and his irritability disappeared, but his superpowers were also exhausted. His feet softened and he could hardly stand.

Zhang Yi, who was behind him, suddenly felt the pressure go away. The rat birds fell like rain. He was just wondering when he saw Nan Shao's body shaking. He hurried forward to help him, but found that he seemed to have lost his strength. If he didn't try hard to hold him up, he would fall to the ground. Considering the situation that just happened, he didn't understand what Nan Shao had done. He couldn't help but roared: "What are you doing!" If he wasn't here, would this guy still be alive after using up all his super powers? He roared, but he didn't dare to delay. He seized the space that the other rat birds hadn't filled up and dragged Nan Shao to the room that was only four or five steps away.

Nan Shao couldn't hold his knife and it fell to the ground. He didn't care. He just tried to accumulate strength to make Zhang Yi feel more relaxed. He smiled bitterly and replied: "I didn't expect this to happen." You shouldn't use super powers at such a short distance. But it's undeniable that it feels good to be worried about by your loved ones.

There were only two steps left before they hit the door. Other rat birds also caught up. Zhang Yi had no time to speak. He swung the machete in his hand, not only to protect himself, but also to protect Nan Shao. At this time, he couldn't think about whether the machete was long enough to block the rat birds that were biting Nan Shao, and he didn't have the energy to calculate how to make the route of the knife short and fast enough, or how to weave a knife net to protect the two of them. He could only empty his mind and kill the rat birds closest to him based on his intuition and hearing.

It took half an hour to walk the distance of two steps. Zhang Yi was fully focused on how to block the impact of the rat birds, while Nan Shao was taking the time to absorb the corpse crystals in the hope of recovering his strength as soon as possible. Neither of them noticed that the rat birds could not cause any harm to them. Zhang Yi's protection could be said to be airtight and flawless. When Nan Shao was finally able to move on his own, he also arrived at the door. The door was only half-closed, and it was obvious that the rat birds had no interest in the empty room. Zhang Yi blocked the attacking rats and birds, and waited for Nan Shao to go in before following him. At the moment the door closed, two more rats and birds crawled in from the ground, and Zhang Yi easily cut off their heads. After

inserting the iron rod, neither of them spoke. After making sure that there was no danger in the room, they put down their bags and sat down to comprehend what they had learned from the previous battle. The light in the room was soon blocked by the rats and birds following outside the window, and it returned to darkness again. These days, they have become accustomed to ignoring the injuries that appear from time to time on their bodies, because they have no conditions and cannot handle them.

This silence lasted until the next day. The two of them ate something casually, had a brief conversation, and then began their daily routine killing training. Nan Shao's knife had fallen outside, and he had no weapons in his hands, so this time the two did not kill each other, but Zhang Yi used the knife to cover, while Nan Shao used the way of using the supernatural power that he had been thinking about and trying to comprehend for a day and a night to attack the rats and birds from a distance.

Most of the twenty rat birds released this time were killed by Zhang Yi, and only five died under Nan Shao's supernatural power attack. The two were not injured, but Nan Shao felt as if his head was pierced by needles, which was a sign of overusing supernatural power.

"Too slow." Nan Shao shook his head. He had to kill one and then gather supernatural power to deal with the other. At this speed, if Zhang Yi hadn't blocked him, he would have died hundreds of times.

"It's okay to be slow, as long as it's not like yesterday." Zhang Yi replied, looking out the window. It was obviously dark, but he seemed to be looking at a distant place through the darkness.

Nan Shao couldn't see Zhang Yi's expression, but he could sensitively perceive his emotional changes, so he immediately put aside his own problems, put his hand on his shoulder, and said, "With Muren here, nothing will happen." Li Muran's supernatural power always works at the critical moment of life and death. As long as she always keeps Yangyang by her side, there is no need to worry.

"Yeah." Zhang Yi didn't talk much about this issue. After answering, he patted the hand on his shoulder, stood up and said, "I'll go get the knife for you."

"Lend me the knife, I'll go." Nan Shao was not willing to let him take risks.

Zhang Yi smiled and said, "I won't let myself get hurt." After that, he didn't give Nan Shao a chance to say more, picked up the knife and walked towards the door, "When I go out, you close the door, and wait for me to call you to open it."

Nan Shao couldn't get him to do it, so he had to do it as he was told. After he went out, he stood by the door and didn't dare to leave. At the same time, he listened to the noise outside, fearing that if he opened the door too late, something unexpected would happen. Fortunately, Zhang Yi came back quickly, it only took two or three minutes, and as he said, there was no new injury.

Nan Shao knew that he had to work hard, otherwise he would be left far behind. So after that day, he practiced supernatural attacks while continuing to master the knife skills, and he also had an idea in his mind, that is, to use the advantages of his supernatural power to directly absorb the life energy of other creatures, so that he would not have to worry about running out of supernatural power. But until the two of them began to step out of the room and clean the entire hotel, he was unable to realize this idea.

Zhang Yi was actually very anxious, but he understood that going out to look for people before he had enough ability would not only put himself in danger, but would also harm Nan Shao. If Li Muran and Yang Yang were still hiding in the hotel, the rat birds had not been cleaned up, and going there by himself would only add to their danger. So he could only endure, and endure until the two of them could go out and kill a circle and come back safely. Fortunately, Nan Shao didn't let him wait too long.

Zhang Yi and Nan Shao didn't know how many rat birds were in and around the hotel. Maybe there were tens of thousands, or even tens of millions, because their collisions were almost endless. Unless they didn't forage, they could only say that they were doing this in batches. No matter how many there were, they had to clean them up, otherwise they couldn't find Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang with peace of mind. They were even more afraid that Li Muran's ability would get out of control again and bring Yang Yang back here again.

The space in the corridor was wider than the room. It was still filled with rat birds, just like the last time they came out. The ceiling, the ground, the walls, and the air. The corpses on the ground had long been eaten up, leaving no hair or bones. The crystal cores that had not been dug out in time were also swallowed directly. The rat birds that had swallowed the crystal cores became more powerful. Fortunately, they had not reached the level of invulnerability of the strange birds they had encountered before, otherwise Zhang Yi and the others would have a headache again.

The scope of the cleaning had always been limited to the corridor in front of the door, because every time a rat bird was killed, another rat bird would take its place, which always gave people a sense of frustration that they could never kill them all. Fortunately, both of them were determined and determined, and they did not give up. Every day after breakfast, they would open the door and kill rat birds, and would not return to the house to rest until they were tired. After eating and resting, they would continue, repeating this activity in a monotonous way, without slacking off. The only pity was that they could not snatch the crystal cores of the rat birds, and could only watch them being swallowed by other rat birds. Nan Shao needed a crystal core, and he could only get it by bringing it into the room and killing it. It was also because of this that the mouse bird became more and more powerful as time went on, forcing them to change rooms twice. But at the same time, their fighting power became stronger and stronger in this boring but dangerous fight, which was a world of difference compared to the beginning. Maybe it was because he was thinking about Zhang Ruiyang, or maybe the environment was too dangerous and the time was too tight to allow people to think about anything else. In short, Zhang Yi's legs had not hurt during this period, saving him and Nan Shao a lot of trouble.

After killing for a month, Zhang Yi suddenly woke up in the middle of the night that day for the long-lost silence. There was no collision sound, nor the harsh sound of scratching the iron plate, which made him, who was used to the noise, quite uncomfortable.

"Retreat." Nan Shao, who was practicing, spoke when he noticed that he had woken up. His ability was now able to kill nine rat birds at once. Although it was not comparable to the first outbreak, it was quite good progress for him. At least he didn't have to worry about exhausting his ability and being slaughtered. The only regret was that his idea of ​​absorbing life energy never worked.

Zhang Yi listened quietly for a while and indeed did not hear the flapping sound. The stench of the rat birds also dissipated a lot. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. You know, they are now in the last metal room. If the rat birds don't retreat, they will soon have no place to stay. Even if they can save their lives, I'm afraid it won't be as easy as it is now. There are too many rat birds. He can't even estimate how many they have killed.

When the day dawned, the long-lost light leaked in from the window. The two walked out of the room and looked at the messy corridor destroyed by rats and birds, the falling walls and ceilings, scratches, bloodstains, bird feathers and bird droppings everywhere, and the uneven and shaky door panels that were knocked out. The skylight shone into the corridor from other open rooms, making people feel like they were finally back to the world. When they walked outside the hotel, they really didn't see any more rats and birds. I don't know why they suddenly left, but no matter what, it can be considered a good thing for them.

There were many gaps on the earth wall surrounding the hotel, and deep claw marks were left on it. In comparison, the appearance of the hotel was even more horrible, with broken glass, black windows, and the outer wall was almost peeled off a layer of skin, which looked mottled and ugly, like a ringworm, and was completely unsuitable for living.

The two did not delay and searched the entire hotel, even the underground warehouse. There was no trace left by Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang, nor did they see the pickaxe that Li Muran carried with him and the dagger that Zhang Ruiyang carried. This made them feel a little relieved, and then they began to collect the remaining food and water in the hotel, putting some in the kitchen where the damage was the least, and the other part in the underground warehouse. It would be convenient for other survivors who accidentally broke into this place, and at the same time, if Li Muran brought Yangyang back here again, they would have food and water. The two packed two bags of food and water in their backpacks, and left messages in the room, kitchen and warehouse, telling Li Muran that they had gone to the Bowei base and asked her to take Yangyang to meet there. However, after leaving the hotel, they did not go directly to the Bowei base, but began to search in the county town and the surrounding towns to avoid missing it. After all, it is not easy to come back after going to the Bowei base.

Chapter 76: Magical Superpowers

While Nan Shao and Zhang Yi were looking for Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang, in a small shack made of broken bricks, stones and broken wooden boards in the slum area outside the Dongzhou base thousands of miles away from Ziyun County, Li Muran, Zhang Ruiyang and three eleven or twelve-year-old children were sitting in front of the fire and sharing a pot of soup made from mutant plant leaves.

That day, Li Muran hugged Zhang Ruiyang and triggered his superpowers that he could never use at ordinary times at the critical moment. The two of them happened to fall into this shed. It was already evening, and the three children were all there. When they saw the sudden appearance of the big and small two people, they were all stunned. After a while, they screamed briefly, but did not run away. After all, they had been in the end of the world for a long time, and they had seen all kinds of strange things, and they were not surprised. The reason for the surprise was that Li Muran and his group appeared too suddenly, and it was nothing after they recovered.

Through talking with them, Li Muran learned that he had crossed farther than last time and actually reached Dongzhou Province. Fortunately, it was near the base, otherwise it would be a big trouble if it fell in the wild. Dongzhou Base is very large. It was built on the basis of a thousand-year-old ancient city with a moat and renovated old city walls.

Two of the three children are boys, named Fu Dan, thirteen years old, Li Yuanzhuo, eleven years old, and the other girl is Wu Ziran, also eleven years old. At the beginning of the base, their fathers or mothers participated in the operation of clearing zombies, and they also lived in the city, but when their parents went out to kill mutant animals and never came back, they could no longer live in the house that required a lot of contribution points a month, and were driven out. At the beginning, the base would also give ordinary people two grain steamed buns and a bowl of porridge for free every day. As more and more people came, it became a little difficult to support. First, one steamed bun was saved, and then the porridge was cut off. Finally, this free supply was stopped and food was collected based on contribution points. Because it is the end of the world, there are not many jobs available for ordinary people in the base. The easy ones are naturally occupied by people with connections, and the remaining heavy and tiring ones are also snatched away. As a result, a large number of unemployed vagrants appeared. Because of the construction of the base, the neighboring cities and towns were cleared out. If you want to kill zombies and earn corpse crystals, you have to go to a place nearly 100 miles away. You can't get there in a day without a car. Most ordinary people are afraid of mutated animals and plants and are unwilling to leave the city. Therefore, fighting for food and cold-proof items often occurs in the city. There are even many cases of murder and cannibalism, which caused a headache for the leadership of the base. In the end, they simply ordered all those who could not afford to pay the contribution points to be expelled from the city. Those

who were expelled from the city were ordinary people. Under the intimidation of the superpowers and guns, they did not dare to resist. Of course, they did not have the ability to find another place to build a new settlement, so they all lived outside the base. In this regard, the people in the base turned a blind eye. As long as they did not affect the normal operation of the base, no one would waste energy to care about them.

These things happened after the dark rainstorm and the mutation of animals and plants. Because the drainage system of the ancient city was well built, the base was not affected by the disaster of floods. Only some people died from the cold, and some people died again when they encountered animal and plant mutations. But compared with Wangyang Town, it is much luckier.

In order not to starve to death, the people living outside the base had to take the risk of fighting with mutant animals and plants, and began to try everything they could get, such as the meat of mutant animals and insects, the leaves, stems and roots of plants, and fruits. In this process, of course, many people died, but they also accumulated a lot of experience. For example, the meat of most mutant animals can be eaten, but some are delicious and some are hard to swallow. There are also some plants that taste bad but can be digested and provide the nutrients needed by the human body. All these are accumulated by one life after another. But even so, the number of people living outside the base has not decreased much, because some come from other places, and some can't live in the base.

It has to be said that compared with the cautiousness of Qiao Yong and others in contacting mutant animals and plants, large bases have taken big steps ahead in this regard. Perhaps this is the main reason why the top leaders of the base allow the expelled survivors to remain near the base.

Materials are needed to build a shelter, and coal or firewood is needed for heating and cooking, so for the survivors outside the base, stones, bricks and wood are in short supply. It is not easy for three children to own such a small house and keep it. It is also thanks to the care of the neighbors around that they were not driven out of the small nest they had made with great difficulty.

Li Muran brought Yangyang here. Except for the pickaxe she brought, Yangyang's dagger, and the dog Dudu who always clung to his shoulder, she didn't bring anything else. Thinking of the corpse crystals and food placed in the hotel room, Li Muzhu felt distressed. Not to mention too much, she only grabbed a handful, which was enough for her to take Yangyang into the base. But now, she can only discuss with the three little kids whether they can take them in, even if this small shack looks like it is in danger of collapse at any time, it is better than sleeping outside.

Children who can survive in the end of the world are naturally very vigilant, but because of Zhang Ruiyang's existence, and Li Muran is a supernatural person, of course, they don't know that her supernatural power is quite unreliable. After private discussions, they agreed to let the two live temporarily, but they must pay for accommodation. Five crystal cores per month, either corpse crystals or animal and plant crystal cores, can also be replaced with other things, such as food, firewood, and coal. As for food, Li Muran can go to the mountains with them to find food, of course, he can also find a way on his own.

After hearing the conditions, Li Muran agreed without hesitation. Although he felt that it was quite reasonable and the requirements were not high, he still had to sigh that the end of the world made these children know how to calculate.

So from that day on, she took Yangyang and followed the three children to the mountains every day to find edible mutant plants, and learned from them which mutant plants need to be avoided and which are not dangerous to humans. Therefore, I know that not all mutant plants can move, and some just look larger and more terrifying. Perhaps this is the so-called way of heaven.

What surprised the children was that when they went with Li Muran to get mutant plants, their luck seemed to improve all of a sudden. They could always pick up freshly dead mutant plants, all kinds of them, some edible, and some collected by the base flower crystal cores, and they hardly encountered any danger.

"Tomorrow I will go with the team to kill zombies, so I won't go up the mountain with you." Li Muran swallowed the mutant plants in the bowl with difficulty, and looked at Zhang Ruiyang who was holding the chipped bowl and biting the roots of the plants in small bites without crying or making a fuss, and a trace of heartache flashed in his eyes. It has only been more than a month since he came here, and the little meat that had just grown on the little guy is gone again. What made her most uncomfortable was that Yangyang only asked where his father was and how to find him on the first day. After getting the answer, he never mentioned this matter again, but he became less talkative and never disliked the mutant plants for being too unpalatable. He always ate whatever he was given. Even if she wanted to comfort him, she didn't know how to comfort him. She could only think about entering the base as soon as possible and then looking for an opportunity to go to the Bowei base. Although it is easy to get mutant plants, the strange thing is that the mutant plants they got have no crystal cores. Although some can be exchanged for several crystal cores, they are not always encountered. The crystal cores obtained are limited, and they have to be divided equally among several people. There is no way to use the corpse crystals to buy food, let alone for other purposes. So now for her, the first priority is to kill zombies and collect a large number of corpse crystals, and then talk about other things.

"Then leave the little brother at home, we will help you take care of it." Wu Ziran said. After more than a month of getting along, she still likes Zhang Ruiyang very much.

Hearing this, Zhang Ruiyang subconsciously grasped Li Muran's hand, fearing that he would be abandoned, but still sensibly did not say no.

"No." Li Muran clenched the little hand in her palm and shook her head. She would not hand Zhang Ruiyang over to anyone. Not to mention that Zhang Ruiyang can already kill zombies, even if he can't kill them, she would rather tie people to her back than leave children in such a chaotic place. She hoped to move to a better place to live, and then find a way to get to the Bowie base, or at least send a message over.

The three children looked at each other, and then the oldest Fu Dan suddenly said, "We want to go with you. We also have crystal cores." If you want to go a hundred miles away, you can pay a certain number of crystal cores to some teams with cars in the base. If they have vacant space in their cars, they will give you a ride. When you come back, you can hand in 30% of the corpse crystals you have killed, and there are many teams willing to take you. Of course, if you can't hand in the corpse crystals if you don't kill zombies, you can only walk back by yourself. Compared with mutant plants and animals, killing zombies is easier, but it is also more dangerous, because no matter how seriously you are injured by mutant plants and animals, you will not mutate, while zombies can almost die even if they are scratched by them.

Li Muran glanced at the tattered machetes they placed next to them, was silent, and said, "You can go, but I can't take care of you." She has to take care of Zhang Ruiyang and kill zombies, so other people can't take care of it. They have been together for more than a month, and the temperaments of these three children seem to be okay, but that was when they were not in danger, so she couldn't trust them wholeheartedly.

"We don't want you to care." Fu Dan's face turned pale, but he still said stubbornly. In fact, they had never killed zombies. In the past, their parents were there, so they didn't need to do it. Later, because the zombies around the base were cleared, they couldn't get the crystal core, and it was even more impossible to take a ride to kill zombies far away. The crystal cores that are now saved are the plants that Li Muran and the others exchanged after they arrived. But in the past few months of becoming orphans, they have clearly realized that only by becoming stronger can they live in the base and not be bullied, so no matter how scared they are, they still want to seize this opportunity.

Li Muran naturally would not pierce the courage of a child who was holding on, but just nodded and stopped talking.

The shack was too small, just enough for three children to sleep, but now with Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang, it seemed a bit crowded. In the end, they had to move the fire away, and several people could barely lie down. There were also two broken quilts, which could not keep out the cold at all. There was not enough firewood, and it was impossible to burn all night. I don't know how the three children survived until now. The only thing that made Li Muran feel at ease was that Zhang Ruiyang was not afraid of the cold. He hugged him like a small heater, and everyone wanted to sleep next to him, so that everyone was crowded together at dawn.

In the morning, they had a clear soup made from the skin of mutant plants. Eating this all the time not only made my teeth and tongue uncomfortable, but my stomach was also uncomfortable, but there was really no other way, at least there was food. People living outside the base ate almost all of this, and there were also some sour and hard-to-swallow mutant animal and insect meat. Once, Dudu, who was clinging to Yangyang's shoulder, was almost intercepted by someone. It was also that time that Li Muran witnessed Dudu's incredible speed and ferocity. If Yangyang hadn't called him, the man would probably have died.

Speaking of Dudu, I have to say that Li Muran found that after coming here, Dudu was growing up like an inflatable. When he was just hatched, he was only the size of a palm, but now he looks like a big eagle, standing on Yangyang's small shoulder, which looks strange no matter how you look at it. Thinking of what Zhang Yi said about the dog liking to chew the roots of plants, she suspected more than once that the mutant plants they picked up were killed by this guy, otherwise there was no way to explain how it could grow so big without eating. Yang Yang responded with a blank look on his face to this speculation, and then threw it out of his mind. After all, for a child, it was good that Dudu was not hungry. As for what abilities it had, he didn't care, because he simply regarded Dudu as a partner.

After breakfast, several people packed up what they needed to bring and walked to the gate of the base, waiting for the team going out of the city. It was called packing, but in fact there was nothing to bring. In addition to their own weapons, there were a few roasted bamboo roots. This thing didn't taste good, but it contained a lot of starch, which was considered good food. There were also a few bottles of water. The water was led outside by the base with a pipe, and it was purified by the superpowers and provided free of charge to the poor outside. No matter what purpose the top management of the base had, this matter still benefited many people.

Li Muran didn't even have a backpack. In the end, her food and water were put together with those of the three children and carried in a big schoolbag.

Several people stopped at a distance from the gate of the base. There were already many people waiting there, almost no women and children. Their appearance immediately attracted a lot of attention and head shaking. The three children became a little cramped, and their feet in tattered sneakers rubbed against each other, revealing the uneasiness of their owners. Li Muran, however, was standing in the front with Zhang Ruiyang, and the big and small were not affected at all.

"Dudu is too eye-catching." Li Muran whispered to Zhang Ruiyang, feeling helpless, because now Dudu can no longer be taken away in a bag. It is really hard for a child with a mutant insect not to attract attention.

"What should I do?" Zhang Ruiyang touched Dudu's fat belly, raised his little head and looked at Li Muran with some worry.

Li Muran was silent. Of course, she would not persuade Zhang Ruiyang to throw Dudu away. They have been together for so long. Even if she doesn't like insects, she has feelings for him after seeing him, not to mention the child who accompanies him day and night. But for a while, she really didn't have a better way to hide the little fat boy.

"Let's just leave it at that." She answered, and felt that she was just talking nonsense, so she changed her question to "Yangyang, don't you think Dudu is heavy?" With the current size of Tugouzi, even if he was placed on her shoulders, her shoulders would probably be pressed down, but the child seemed unaffected, which made her very curious.

Zhang Ruiyang shook his head, "Not heavy." Obviously he was used to it.

Li Muran was not good at speaking, so he said a few words to make conversation, but every time he said something, the child blocked his answer without noticing. He sighed in his heart, gave up the idea of ​​teasing the child to say a few more words, turned around and told the three children standing behind him about the issues that needed to be paid attention to when facing zombies, and cars drove out of the base one after another.

Chapter 77 Meeting an old friend

"There are still two seats, there are still two seats!"

"Three, three."

"Five, five... You can't, get out of the way, don't block others."

Several convoys passed by in a row, all of which were mainly superpowers. They drove slowly forward and shouted at the people waiting on both sides of the road, asking them to stop if they wanted to get on. The scene made Li Muran seem to have returned to the bus station before the end of the world. But the difference is that these buses pick passengers, and Li Muran and his friends have never had a chance to get on. Even if there are five seats, they will not be allowed to get on even if they hand over the crystal core. Until a bus stopped in front of them, a greasy head poked out of it and asked listlessly: "Five crystal cores per person, get on if you have them."

Li Muran and his friends did not dare to hesitate and climbed on. Counting them, the bus was not full, no wonder they were willing to take them. But unfortunately, children are not charged half price.

"Fifteen. Can't you count?" When Li Muran took out ten crystal cores and handed them to the man, the man just glanced at them casually and didn't take them, but said coldly.

Li Muran was puzzled and asked: "Isn't it five per person? We only have two..." She was interrupted before she finished speaking.

"Such a big thing, doesn't it count?" The man pointed at the dog on Zhang Ruiyang's shoulder and said. Probably because he was afraid of being bitten suddenly, he quickly took his hand back after pointing.

Li Muran was speechless for a moment, but he couldn't argue with the other party. He could only take out the remaining three crystal cores in his pocket, and borrowed two from Fu Dan and others and handed them in, and then he was let go.

After a few people sat down, the car started. There were still many people below, but they didn't seem to want to take this car. Li Muran felt a little weird and was secretly on guard in her heart, but she didn't say much. Because she knew that people with special abilities have sensitive ears and eyes, and no matter how small the sound is, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be heard. Just when she was about to secretly check the situation in the car, a voice so familiar that she felt physically disgusted rang in her ears.

"Hey, isn't this the girl from the Li family?" It was the voice of an ordinary middle-aged woman, with a hint of fatigue and a frowning sharpness. "You're okay, that's great, don't you know that after you disappeared, Mr. Song sent someone to look for you. Oh, is this little guy your son? He's so big. You are a mother, the world is so chaotic, why did you bring a child out... You must have run out of food. By the way, Mr. Song is in the car behind, you go to him later and beg him, he will definitely help you..." The two of them didn't even make eye contact, and the woman said a lot of things. Fu Dan and the other two were shocked by the content of her words. Obviously, they didn't expect that the tenant they accepted was actually related to the big forces in the base.

Li Muran didn't even raise his eyelids, as if the other party was talking to someone else. Her hair was cut unevenly, but her bangs were long, covering her eyebrows and hiding her eyes. She looked unkempt and very different from the past. If they had not had a good relationship before, it would be difficult to recognize her after careful identification. This woman used to be close to her. At first, she thought that she was naturally warm-hearted. Later, she found out that she just wanted to take advantage of her acquaintance with Director Song and said bad things about her behind her back. If she was still on the run, she might have maintained a little face with her, but now she was too lazy to bother.

The woman talked for a long time without getting a response. She felt bored, made a sound of "Puh", cursed him for not knowing how to appreciate a good heart, turned around and went back to her seat. Of course, she was in no mood to pay attention to Zhang Ruiyang's retort that "Auntie is not my mother."

Li Muran raised his hand and touched Zhang Ruiyang's head to comfort him, but his eyes were raised at this time, following the back of the middle-aged woman until she sat down, and then fell coldly on the girl next to her. The girl was about the same age as Li Muran, with beautiful features. She almost immediately noticed Li Muran's unfriendly gaze. She shrank back, with a tearful expression on her face. She said timidly, "Sister Muran, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that that day. I was too scared. My leg was twisted. I just wanted you to help me. I didn't expect that I would make you fall... God bless you, fortunately you are okay, otherwise I will feel guilty for the rest of my life." Just these words and this gesture immediately cleared herself from the matter, making others think that this girl was very kind. But no one knew how hard she pushed Li Muran's hand back.

Li Muran retracted her gaze and did not respond. She knew very well that she was not good at speaking, and it was impossible to get justice with just her mouth, so she simply said nothing. Even if she hated it in her heart, she could bear it.

"Sister Muran, you are blaming me, right? I'm sorry, Sister Muran..." Seeing that she ignored her, the girl was about to cry, and asked repeatedly with a panic and anxiety.

Li Muran leaned back on the seat, paying attention to the situation outside the car, completely unaffected. She didn't expect that the team led by Director Qiao would come here from Yunzhou. Although she had been cheated, she didn't want to see these people again if possible, even if she didn't take revenge.

"Forget it, Aru, what to say to such a heartless person." Someone began to persuade.

"Yeah, it's not your fault, why are you apologizing?"

"No, don't say that to Sister Muran. If it wasn't for Sister Muran taking me with me, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to escape from the school. It's all my fault, it's all my fault..." The sobbing sound came from the back, which made everyone around couldn't bear it.

"Hey, do you have a conscience, woman? It's not Aru's fault, why do you blame her?" Finally, someone spoke up for justice.

Not all the people in the car knew Li Muran. Some of them joined later, so they didn't know the grudges between the two, but they had a good impression of Zhao Ru, who looked weak and kind at ordinary times. What's more, they were in the same team, so they naturally spoke for their own people.

Li Muran still showed a cold reaction to the increasing number of criticisms around her, but she had made up her mind that she would never take this bus again. She didn't care, but Fu Dan and the other children were a little scared and all crowded around Li Muran. Zhang Ruiyang climbed onto the chair, leaned on the backrest and looked at those people with bad looks, and said angrily: "You are not allowed to bully Aunt Muran, Aunt Muran is the best!"

This voice was full of energy, shocking everyone in the car, even Li Muran was a little surprised, her chest was warm, her eyes were sore, she reached out and hugged Zhang Ruiyang down and hugged him in her arms, whispering: "Yangyang, it doesn't matter, we don't know them, let them say it." As for the revenge that should be taken, if there is a chance, she will naturally take it without hesitation. It is completely meaningless to argue with these people. As she spoke, she slightly moved aside to let the three children squeeze into the seat where Zhang Ruiyang sat. She had a little more recognition for them in her heart. After all, in such a situation, they did not choose to hide away, but approached her. Just based on this, she would protect their safety in the car.

"But they are scolding you." Zhang Ruiyang frowned tightly. He promised his grandmother that he would protect her when he grew up, and also protect the girls around him. Aunt Muran was a girl.

Li Muran was touched. You know, Yang Yang almost didn't speak up during this period. She didn't expect that this time he would take the initiative for her. But she couldn't let a child stand up for her anyway, so she looked up at the person who took her crystal core and said, "We gave you the crystal core when we took your car. If you don't want to take it, return the crystal core to us now and we will find another car. Otherwise, please take care of your people and don't let them bark like mad dogs."

"Who the hell did you say is a mad dog, bitch, you have the guts to say it again!" The person who was originally shocked by Zhang Ruiyang became excited again after hearing this. A thin and short man with slumped shoulders and a slumped nose stood up from his seat and pointed at Li Muran's nose and threatened harshly.

Li Muran frowned, and turned the pickaxe that had been improved by Shi Pengsan in his hand. The handle hit the man's stomach at an extremely fast speed until the man took two steps back in pain, bent over and covered his stomach and sat down, then he said coldly, "Are you a man? What else can you do besides bullying women?"

The man took a long time to react. He touched his stomach carefully. After making sure that his internal organs were not injured, he was relieved. He stood up with the help of the chair next to him. He wanted to rush over to make trouble for Li Muran, but was stopped by the person who collected the crystal core.

"Qianlai, go back to your seat. Whoever keeps talking nonsense will be assigned to the first group when we get there." The person who collected the crystal core had been watching the fun and didn't want to intervene, but since Li Muran brought it up, he couldn't pretend not to see it anymore. If the two sides really fight and annoy the leader, he can't hold it back.

Obviously, he still has a certain prestige. After saying this, although the others were dissatisfied, they didn't dare to say anything more. Zhao Ru lowered her head. The people around her thought she was sad, so they disliked Li Muran even more.

Li Muran finally got some peace and quiet. She didn't care what others thought. She lowered her head and kissed Zhang Ruiyang's forehead, who was looking up at her in admiration. The corners of her lips rose, revealing a faint smile. Although the end of the world is hard, she is not alone. What a lucky thing. Perhaps affected by this incident, her eyes looking at Fu Dan and others are much softer than before. She thought that if possible, she would be willing to take these children out, at least so that Yangyang will not be alone in the future.

More than an hour later, the convoy stopped outside a county town. Li Muran got off the car and noticed that there were many military trucks following behind. Obviously, the convoy came here for other things, not just to kill zombies. But this has nothing to do with them, and they are not qualified to get involved, so Li Muran immediately left with a few children. Just now, it can be regarded as offending the people in this car, so they still have to guard against their dirty hands. As for Mr. Song mentioned by the middle-aged woman, Li Muran did not intend to see him. She was not so self-inflated that she thought that the other party still remembered her. She was taken on the road because she saw that the situation was not right during the operation and pushed him to avoid being bitten by zombies. At that time, no one knew the existence of zombies, and she was scolded for this action. But later, when the apocalypse broke out, she was saved by him when she was escaping, probably to repay the favor. Now they didn't owe each other anything, and she wasn't familiar with him, so she couldn't ask for help.

Chapter 78 Killing Zombies

Li Muran, with four children, avoided the direction where the convoy might go and only wandered around the county town, looking for stray zombies. He didn't dare to go too deep, for fear of getting lost.

Li County is much larger and more prosperous than Ziyun County. It is well planned. Even around the county town, there are few factories and messy self-built houses. The streets are orderly and the buildings are in order, which is no less than that of ordinary administrative cities. Not far from the intersection of the overpass leading into the county town, there is a super large wholesale market, but it has been emptied long ago. Even if it wasn't emptied, Li Muran would not dare to take a few children there no matter how greedy she was. Not to mention the zombies, the people alone would be enough to scare her away.

Several people walked around a tall building whose purpose was unknown, and in front of them there appeared a dark market hidden between the tall buildings. There were vegetable stalls, fruit stalls, clothing and small accessories stalls, and various snack stalls, etc., which made people sigh at the strong ability of ordinary people to find loopholes to survive. In such a place, if the surrounding owners find it convenient, the vendors are happy to sell, and no one reports the order, even the urban management can't find it.

Looking at the stalls that were in a mess because of the escape of humans and the collision of zombies, and the zombies wandering around, Li Muran unconsciously thought of the back street of the hotel and the scene of fighting side by side with Nan Shao and others, but he didn't have time to sigh that the world changes so fast, and signaled the children to retreat to a safe place.

"Did you see the zombies?" She asked in a low voice.

Fu Dan and the other two nodded. Fu Dan was better, but his face was a little pale, while the two thin legs of the younger Wu Ziran and Li Yuanzhuo were trembling. Li Muran saw it, but he neither mocked nor comforted him. He just said calmly: "Just watch me do it, don't do it yet. And pay attention to your surroundings, I can't take care of you when I kill zombies."

There were only six zombies on the street. It seems that when the end of the world came, some vendors escaped without any immediate accidents, and some turned into dry bones on the ground. It is not a big problem for Li Muran now to deal with six zombies at a time, not to mention that there is Yangyang to help.

"Yangyang, start." Li Muran said after tidying up Zhang Ruiyang's thick cotton coat and making sure that there is no part of his body exposed except his face and hands.

As soon as she finished speaking, she took up the pickaxe, which was sharp as an axe on one side and pointed like a cone on the other, and rushed out first. Zhang Ruiyang was faster than her, rushing towards one of the zombies like a tiger that had escaped from the gate. When he got close, he turned from being swift and agile, climbing up the shoulders of the zombies who had not yet reacted from behind like a monkey. At some point, the dagger in his hand was raised and pierced directly through the zombie's brain from the top. It was only a few seconds before and after, and the pickaxe in Li Muran's hand touched the neck of a zombie, and then there was a bang, and a zombie fell to the ground. She didn't have time to sigh, and quickly dealt with the one in front of her, and then faced the other three that pounced on her. At the moment when the zombie Zhang Ruiyang was climbing fell, the child flew out like a bird and pounced on another zombie not far away. Unexpectedly, he just slipped a little and fell to the ground with a thud. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and rolled on the spot, otherwise he would probably be in pain and unable to move for a long time even if he didn't get hurt. He quickly got up, standing there embarrassedly, scratching his head and grinning. He secretly glanced at Li Muran and found that she was being entangled by three zombies and did not notice his embarrassment. He then quietly breathed a sigh of relief and ran towards the target he had set before. As for Dudu, who had jumped to the side without caring about his loyalty when he fell, he took this opportunity to shamelessly crawl back to his original position.

Facing three zombies, the difference between adults and children was revealed. If it was Zhang Ruiyang, he could only take care of one and would easily be scratched by the other two. However, it was not difficult for Li Muran to deal with it. After all, she had practiced hard in the hotel for several months, and with her own physique as a superpower, she solved it in a few moves. When the big and small opened the corpse brain and took out the crystal core, they turned back to find the three children, only to find that Fu Dan and the others all looked like wooden chickens.

"Do you want to die?" Li Muran scolded unhappily. Being in a daze in such a place, what else is it but seeking death?

"He... he... my brother..." Li Yuanzhuo pointed at Zhang Ruiyang and couldn't even speak clearly. They never thought that this little brother who seemed to need someone to take care of him could actually kill zombies, and he was so powerful.

"So powerful!" Wu Ziran added in amazement, looking at Zhang Ruiyang's eyes shining like they were filled with stars.

Zhang Ruiyang was confused at first, but then he realized that they were praising him, and he was immediately happy, a little embarrassed, and hid behind Li Muran unconsciously.

Li Muran couldn't say anything about this question, because Zhang Ruiyang's condition was not a supernatural power, which was confirmed by everyone in the hotel after many times. But if it was attributed to the child's practice of the Five Animals Exercises, others had also practiced for several months, and except for getting better health, there was no other effect. And if it wasn't, the child's posture was really set, and according to what he said, he was just learning from the animals in the pictures. When asked how he practiced, he just copied the pictures and couldn't explain clearly what was the same as what others practiced. So this became a unique skill that only the child could master, and the others also gave up on it.

"Let's go, don't stay in one place for too long, otherwise we will be blocked by zombies." She thought about it and decided not to talk about Zhang Ruiyang for the time being, so as not to let the three children have inappropriate thoughts. If it works after practice, then there is nothing to say. If not, I am afraid it will have an impact on the children's psychology. After all, they are still young, not like the adults in the hotel who are capable and strong-willed.

What she didn't know was that Fu Dan had been seriously stimulated by Zhang Ruiyang, and secretly decided in his heart that he must learn to kill zombies quickly and must not lose to a little kid who is more than five years old. Therefore, when he encountered zombies again, he ignored Li Muran's instructions, only asked the two little ones to watch the surroundings, and then rushed out.

Fu Dan was just over thirteen years old. Children before the apocalypse were well-nourished and willing to grow taller. He was already about sixty-five feet tall, taller than Li Muran. Although he was as thin as a bamboo pole at this time, at least he was tall enough to chop zombies, and he didn't have to climb up and down like Zhang Ruiyang. Unfortunately, he had never killed a zombie before, and he only knew how to chop them roughly. In addition, the machete in his hand was not fast, and the knife immediately got stuck in the zombie's cervical vertebrae. He couldn't pull it out, and he couldn't cut it down even if he tried hard. The zombie's claws began to grab at him, and he was so anxious that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Let go, back off!" Li Muran was being entangled by four zombies, and he had no time to help, but he was always paying attention to the situation here. Seeing this, he immediately shouted. Knowing that the child was holding his breath before he attacked, he must be very scared. Otherwise, how could someone who often looked for food and firewood outside the mutant plants not know such common sense that he should immediately avoid it if he couldn't kill it.

Fu Dan shuddered at the shouting, and came to his senses. He immediately let go and dodged to the side, barely avoiding the zombie's claws. The zombies' reactions were more sensitive than before, and they immediately chased after him. The child had no weapons in his hands, so he could only flee in embarrassment. When the rest of the zombies were killed, Zhang Ruiyang wanted to go up to help, but was stopped by Li Muran with foresight.

"Auntie, brother is going to be bitten by the monster." Zhang Ruiyang was a little anxious.

Li Muran touched the little guy's head, without much explanation, but shouted to Fu Dan, who was already running out of breath: "If you can't kill it, let Yangyang help you. However, Yangyang and I will leave in the future, so you should not come out to fight zombies then. Anyway, you will only know to run when you see zombies, and no one will help you at that time..."

"No need!" Although he was being chased, Fu Dan still listened to most of Li Muran's words. Thinking of his father's life after his death, he lived like a rat in the sewer. He couldn't help but yell and rushed forward for a distance. The panic was gradually replaced by the idea of ​​changing the current situation. They have been in the apocalypse for so long, not to mention that they often deal with mutant plants. If they don't think smartly, they won't survive. Before, they were dominated by fear and unconsciously brought out the habits before the apocalypse. Now that he calmed down, he no longer ran around like a headless fly, but chose places with shelters, such as abandoned vehicles and overturned trash cans. No matter how flexible the zombie body is, it is not smart. When it encounters something blocking the way between the two of them, it will not think of going around, but will directly climb over it. If it can't climb over it, it will also try to lean its body to the other side to try to catch its prey, which makes it easy to trip and fall. Even if it doesn't fall, the young boy with a flexible mind will find a way to make it fall.

"Come on, Ah Dan! Come on, Ah Dan!" The two little ones were watching from the side, nervous and excited, wishing they could go up and replace Fu Dan.

"Shut up." Li Muran said in a low voice. She had to raise her voice before, but shouting for encouragement like this was a bit like asking for death. "You know how to shout for encouragement, why don't you go up and help?" If they don't even know how to help each other, how can they live long?

Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran were frightened by her rare stern look, and rushed out without thinking. At this time, Fu Dan also knocked the zombie to the ground, raised the trash can and hit it twice to prevent it from getting up. He wanted to pull out the machete, but he was a little timid. Li Yuanzhuo and the other man ran over.

"Ah Dan, here's the knife." Wu Ziran was even more timid. He didn't dare to kill the zombie himself anyway, so he took the opportunity to hand over the knife in his hand.

Fu Dan heaved a sigh of relief, took the knife and carefully stepped onto the zombie's back, then slashed the other side of the neck a few times. He was afraid that the knife would get stuck again, so this time he stabbed and pulled out the knife fiercely and quickly. With a clang, the knife stuck in the zombie's neck fell to the ground, and the zombie that was struggling to get up finally stopped moving.

"A Dan, is it dead? Is it dead?" Li Yuanzhuo asked nervously, thought for a moment, and then went up and pretended to stab it twice, which made Fu Dan roll his eyes.

"Take out the corpse crystal, that's what you deserve." Li Muran walked over with Yang Yang, "Hurry up, we have to leave here as soon as possible." The noise made by the few people just now was enough to attract everything that should be attracted.

It was also the first time for Fu Dan to take corpse crystals. He was a little unfamiliar and trembling, but when he held the crystal core that was wiped clean and shone like pearls in his hand, he felt an unprecedented sense of accomplishment in his heart, because he got it entirely by his own strength.

In the following time, the big and small children wandered around the streets and alleys around, picking places with fewer zombies. For fear of being blocked, they did not dare to stay in one area for too long, and soon returned to the place outside the county where many vehicles were parked. Later, Fu Dan killed two more zombies, but the two small ones had not broken zero.

Several people chose a relatively safe place to rest and eat something. Li Muran took out the corpse crystals and counted them. There were a total of 25. She took out two from them and returned them to Fu Dan and

the others, and put the rest away again. "Although it is 30% of the crystal cores handed in, it is definitely impossible to be less than the number we handed in when we came." Li Muran said to the children with a serious look and the tone of talking to adults. Then she glanced at Dudu, and an indescribable feeling of powerlessness rose in her heart. "So each of you must kill ten zombies, otherwise this trip will not only be in vain, but also lose the crystal cores that you have saved up with great difficulty from selling mutant plants before." Putting aside her resentment towards Dudu, she made this account clear to the three children.

Yangyang seemed to understand what he heard, so he counted on his fingers how many zombies they had to kill. After a long time, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Aunt Muran, can we kill ten thousand zombies to find Dad, Uncle Pumpkin, and Uncle Fat?" He actually didn't know how many ten thousand there were, but in his little head, it was already a lot. He thought that if Liang Jingjing could take a ride, then ten thousand Liang Jingjing should be able to let the car take them to the hotel where Dad was staying.

Li Muran was speechless, and after a long time, he hummed in a muffled voice. It would have been fine if Yangyang hadn't mentioned it. As soon as she mentioned it, she found that she actually missed Zhang Yi and the others. Although it was hard to kill zombies and train together, she found that she was most relaxed when she was with them. She didn't need to worry about many things because they could arrange everything well. She just needed to not slow down their pace. But now, facing the four children, she felt a heavy burden on her shoulders. Seeing Nan Shao forcing Yangyang to kill zombies and Qiao Yong forcing Chen Wei and the other two to pick up weapons to protect themselves, she didn't know at that time that it was difficult to do such a thing.

"Then let's go quickly. I can kill many, many." Zhang Ruiyang immediately couldn't sit still. He had good physical strength and didn't look tired at all after running all morning.

"Wait a little longer." Li Muran calmed the anxious little girl, her eyes fell on Fu Dan who looked up at her with stubbornness and unwillingness to admit defeat, and Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran who lowered their heads. She suppressed her anxiety and whispered, "You two, now you can't even kill zombies. Do you want Fu Dan to support you? Or do you think it's enough to just eat mutant plants? Don't you know that many mutant plants and animals are many times more powerful than zombies?"

If it was just because of her conscience, Li Muran could kill more zombies and then give some of the corpse crystals to the three children to make their lives easier. But she couldn't do such a thing, she knew that it would hurt them. Either don't help, or if you want to help, it's best to force them to learn the real skills to survive in the end times. Maybe taking shortcuts and relying on the sympathy of others can get a temporary living space, but only with sufficient strength can you live for a long time. This is the most irrefutable truth in the end times.

"I... I'm a little scared." Wu Ziran's tears welled up in her eyes. Seeing Fu Dan killing zombies, she also wanted to muster up the courage to kill some, even if it was just to chop the zombies twice. But her legs went weak before she even got close, so how could she have the strength to do anything else.

Li Yuanzhuo pursed his lips and said nothing.

"You three should cooperate." Li Muran pressed his forehead and found that he was not very good at communicating with the grown-up children. "When your strength is not enough, you have to learn to cooperate with others."

"Cooperation?" Fu Dan's eyes lit up. He had killed three zombies in total, and his hands were still shaking from overexertion. So when he heard Yangyang say that he wanted to kill more, he didn't dare to respond.

"Yes, cooperate." Li Muran nodded.

Chapter 79

How to cooperate with the women and children, Li Muran did not say. Although she and Zhang Yi can cooperate well, it is also a result of long-term training. If it is to be turned into a theory, she really does not know how to express it, so she can only let the children use their brains, and she can give some pointers when watching from the side. Moreover, the first thing at present is to let the two children overcome the fear of killing zombies.

Li Muran has no experience in teaching children, but fortunately she has seen how Qiao Yong trains others. So in the afternoon, when she killed the zombies, she left one behind, cut off its hands and feet, and threw it to Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran. It must be said that it is much more difficult to cut off the hands and feet of a zombie than to kill it directly, and only Zhang Yi can do it so easily.

What surprised Li Muran was that the one who killed the zombie was not Li Yuanzhuo, who looked brave, but Wu Ziran, who kept shouting "It's so scary, so scary". When they started, the little girl screamed while hacking, and when she was done, she squatted beside and vomited, then cried and laughed, her whole body was still shaking, but she did not forget to raise her little face to laugh at Li Yuanzhuo's cowardice. The scene looked really funny and inexplicably sad.

The little girl's screams soon attracted another group of zombies. At a glance, there was a black mass of at least fifty people. When fleeing with a few children, Li Muran couldn't help but feel a little regretful that he didn't have earth-related abilities, otherwise they wouldn't have escaped, and they could have earned enough corpse crystals before leaving.

Because they were not familiar with the terrain, they didn't dare to keep wandering in the streets and alleys, fearing that they would get lost and be blocked, so they went into an office building nearby. In the lobby on the first floor of the office building, there was a corpse wearing a security uniform, but it had been rotten to the point that only bones were left, and the head rolled to one side. It was probably turned into a zombie before death, and then killed by the people who escaped from the building.

There was no electricity, so the elevator couldn't be used, but the door to the stairwell was open, so several people rushed in directly and closed the door from the inside. Unfortunately, they couldn't lock it and couldn't stop the zombies. The office building had a total of 16 floors, and the corridor doors on most floors were locked. The zombies' sluggish footsteps could be heard inside, and when several people passed by, they were attracted to the door and started banging on it.

Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang were used to this situation, but Fu Dan and the other two were terrified, fearing that so many zombies would break through the door and trap them. They all unconsciously lightened their breathing and footsteps, as if this would make the zombies inside ignore them. When passing the fifth floor and going up to the sixth floor, Li Muran walked a few steps and grabbed a few children who were rushing forward. He stood there and waited for a moment, and then heard a bang, accompanied by a few bone thumps. A zombie rolled down from the upper stairs and fell at the corner of the stairs. It couldn't get up for a long time. The clumsy movement made Li Muran feel like he was back to the time before the rainstorm. Only with comparison did he realize that the zombies at the beginning of the apocalypse were so cute.

It was just a few seconds of sighing, and a few more zombies fell down with a few bangs, pressing on the previous zombie like a pyramid. Li Muran couldn't help but smile, and said to Fu Dan, "Go kill them." At the end, he still warned, "Watch out for your claws."

When Fu Dan saw the zombies falling into a pile, he felt itchy, but he didn't dare to move without Li Muran's order. When he got the order, he immediately took a few steps up the stairs, took a look, and found that there were no zombies on the stairs, and then he chopped the four zombies with a few strokes.

"Sister Muran." After he finished, he looked up at Li Muran, his eyes shining, and he was obviously excited about getting rid of four zombies at once. Perhaps he didn't even realize that after most of the day, he became more and more convinced of Li Muran.

Li Muran did not say anything to praise, but reminded: "These zombies are slow and clumsy, with brittle bones, which are different from those encountered downstairs. Don't think that it's easy to kill this time, and be careless when you encounter other zombies in the future."

If the teacher before the end of the world preached like her, Fu Dan would have been impatient long ago, but at this time he just nodded, not feeling nagging at all, because he had experienced the ups and downs of the world and knew that people who were willing to tell him these things at this time would never hurt him. Moreover, he had killed several zombies with his own hands before, so he could naturally feel the obvious gap between the two.

"Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran, go and help Fu Dan get the corpse crystal." Li Muran was worried that such a big child would have a rebellious mentality and would not listen to her words. Seeing this, his eyes softened a little, and then he turned to give orders to the other two children who were following him. Some things, as long as you are exposed to them more, you will slowly get used to them. No matter how difficult life is, as long as you get used to it, you can work hard to survive.

Wu Ziran's face was all red from crying. Even though she was still afraid, she didn't dare to say much, because she knew that she was the one who attracted the zombies. Although no one said anything, she still felt guilty. As for Li Yuanzhuo, he was the only one who didn't kill the zombies, so he silently followed Li Muran's words.

It was not easy to cut open the skull with a blunt machete. The three children took a lot of effort to take out the crystal core. Then Wu Ziran and Li Yuanzhuo vomited again, and all the food they had eaten at noon was vomited out. On the one hand, they felt uncomfortable with an empty stomach, and on the other hand, they couldn't control the urge to vomit, but they could only bear it. They used to be the treasures held in the palms of their parents' hands, but now they have to do such a thing, but they don't feel wronged, because the people who will feel sorry for their grievances and tears and let them be willful are gone.

"It takes ten corpse crystals to exchange for one of the ones at the beginning." Fu Dan handed the four milky white crystal cores to Li Muran and said, a little disappointed.

"A little bit adds up to a lot." Li Muran had nothing to say about this, so he could only say so.

"Yeah, it's better than nothing." Fu Dan was easily satisfied, and nodded seriously after listening to it. You know, they had never even got such a crystal core before.

"Let's go, let's go inside." Li Muran didn't intend to wait for Li Yuanzhuo and the others to catch their breath, so he shouted, and then took Yangyang to the sixth floor first. In the end times, the faster you adapt, the easier it is to survive. They must understand this.

"Auntie, I'm so awesome." Zhang Ruiyang, who had been silent all the time, suddenly raised his head and said to Li Muran who was holding his hand, with a little pride in his big black eyes.

Li Muran was stunned for a moment. I don't know if it was because they had been together for a long time, but she suddenly understood what the child meant. It turned out that Zhang Ruiyang was referring to the fact that he didn't vomit when he killed a zombie for the first time, and later he took the initiative to help with the crystal core. She hummed and nodded and replied: "Yes, Yangyang is awesome. Auntie vomited when she killed a zombie for the first time."

Zhang Ruiyang smiled and regained a little of his liveliness when Zhang Yi was there.

"I didn't vomit either." Fu Dan, who was following behind, couldn't help but interject, then closed his mouth and lowered his head, but his ears were perked up, wanting to hear Li Muran's praise.

"Brother is also amazing!" Before Li Muran could say anything, Zhang Ruiyang spoke first. His tone and the expression when he turned back to look at Fu Dan were very serious, which made people know that he said this from the bottom of his heart.

Fu Dan felt relieved all of a sudden. Everyone likes to hear good words, especially when the person who said this is someone who is much more powerful than him, but his eyes couldn't help but sneak a glance at Li Muran, until Li Muran hummed, he smiled. It was

n't until his eyes curved and the corners of his lips curled up that he remembered that he seemed to have never smiled like this since his parents died. The two little guys who fell behind listened to the conversation of the people in front of them, and couldn't help but droop their shoulders, and began to feel a little embarrassed.

The door to the sixth floor corridor was open. There were several companies inside. Some doors were locked, while others were open, letting in some light into the dim corridor. Several people walked in carefully, kicking one or two skulls from time to time, or stepping on a pile of bones, making a sound like dry branches breaking. Accompanied by the sound of impact from the closed door, it seemed a bit eerie.

Obviously, someone had tried to escape, and a fierce battle took place at that time. As for whether those people escaped or turned into zombies in the end, no one except themselves would know.

The door of a company was open. The total area inside was about 100 square meters. It was divided into a manager's office, a financial office, a small exhibition hall and a small coffee room. The rest was the employee area. After they went in, they found a zombie in the manager's office. Li Muran let the three children deal with it, and walked over to open the window to check the situation downstairs.

Maybe it was because they were not exposed to rain, the zombies in the building were as clumsy as the first wave of mutations, and the manager was short and fat. If the three children were not afraid, it would not be difficult to deal with them. But in the end, it was Fu Dan who took action. Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran were still a little afraid to approach the zombies that could move.

Many zombies followed downstairs, and it seemed that some had already entered the building. Li Muran knew that he could not be trapped here, but there was no other way at this time. He could only find a way to kill them all. Fortunately, this was inside the building. Even if the battle was more intense, it would not attract more zombies.

"There is candy here!" At this time, Wu Ziran shouted in surprise. "There are also biscuits and chicken feet."

Everyone's eyes were attracted to her, and they saw her holding two hands, one holding a few candies, the other holding a pack of opened biscuits and a pack of sealed braised chicken feet. Several children couldn't help but swallow their saliva, but Li Muran's heart moved, and she ordered: "Everyone search quickly, try to pick up food and water, and don't take other useless things."

As soon as she said this, the children couldn't help but run to search through the boxes and cabinets, even Zhang Ruiyang was no exception. Li Muran didn't care about training Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran at this time. After confirming that there was no danger in the room, she quickly went to another open office. There were no zombies in it, so she didn't delay, turned around and asked several children to search there as well, and she walked to the entrance of the corridor, just in time to see a zombie slowly climbing up. The zombie saw her and immediately became excited, and rushed up with a howling step. Its cry immediately attracted the zombies still below, and the sound of footsteps as rapid as a torrential rain could be heard in the corridor.

Li Muran walked out of the corridor door on the sixth floor, then closed it tightly with her hand. When the first zombie rushed up, she hit it on the temple with a pickaxe, killing it cleanly. The zombies behind rushed up one after another. Because several of them were very close, she estimated that she would be surrounded by the ones behind before she finished dealing with them. Therefore, she squatted down and avoided the claws of the one walking in front. At the same time, she kicked its stomach, kicking it backwards and falling down, and also rolling down with several zombies behind. Only one or two survived. Li Muran walked a few steps upstairs, waiting for the two zombies who were lucky enough not to be affected to come up and quickly deal with them. Then she followed the same pattern. When the distance between the zombies was pulled apart, she stopped and killed the one that caught up. If the distance was not pulled apart, she would find a way to pull it apart. When she retreated to the tenth floor, she had dealt with more than ten zombies.

She didn't tell Zhang Ruiyang and the others when she came out, fearing that they would open the door and come out rashly, so she tried her best to attract the attention of the zombies to her side, and at the same time she sped up the stairs, hoping to lead all the zombies away from the sixth floor before the children finished searching the two offices.

The door to the thirteenth floor was also open. There were two zombies circling in the corridor. When they saw Li Muran, they came up and were killed by her in two or three moves. But she didn't enter the thirteenth floor, but continued to retreat up to the rooftop. The door to the rooftop was locked. Fortunately, her pickaxe was strengthened by Shi Pengsan, and it didn't become dull after chopping so many zombies, so it was no problem to break the lock.

She stood guard at the door of the rooftop, and her arms were a little sore. From the tenth to the sixteenth floor, she killed more than thirty zombies, and there should be fifty zombies in total, but there were still many behind. Obviously, there were no less than a hundred zombies entering the building. She was not sure if she had the ability to kill all the zombies, but she knew that she had to kill them even if she couldn't, and she had to go back alive because she couldn't leave Zhang Ruiyang here.

Unfortunately, she couldn't always block the entrance to the corridor. The method of kicking the zombies to roll down the stairs didn't work every time, and she was eventually forced to retreat to the rooftop. Without the cushion of the stairs, the zombies were much more agile. Li Muran began to rely on running to distance herself from the zombies, and also to distance the zombies with different running speeds, and then seized the opportunity to hack and kill. This greatly increased her physical consumption, but she also found that after there were about forty zombies, the number of zombies stopped increasing. Regardless of whether some of them were attracted by Zhang Ruiyang and others on the sixth floor, or there were only so many zombies, at least she knew that as long as she killed these, she would be able to get away, and she felt more confident.

This battle was the most difficult one she had ever fought. In the past, no matter how many zombies she encountered, there were others to help share the burden. Even when she was alone at the beginning, she would not overestimate her ability to cause trouble beyond her ability, so when she was tired and wanted to give up, she couldn't help but feel a little regretful, regretting that she was meddling in other people's business. After all, if it were only her and Zhang Ruiyang, it would be impossible to fall into such a situation. However, even though she thought so, she still gritted her teeth and tried her best to kill all the zombies.

"Auntie!" Just when Li Muran's arms had lost feeling, her legs were about to move, and her eyes were a little blurry, she suddenly heard Zhang Ruiyang's shout.

"Sister Muran, we are here to help you." There were also the voices of Fu Dan and the other three.

Li Muran did not dare to be distracted. Even if she blamed them for coming up, she was still in high spirits. However, the speed of running and picking up the pickaxe could not be improved anyway under the overdrawn physical strength. Compared with her fatigue, the zombies were always alive and kicking, not tired at all. This is also another problem that zombies are most troublesome to humans besides their strong infectiousness.

On the other side, Zhang Ruiyang had already started to kill the zombies around him. Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran dragged a roll of rope that they got from nowhere, started to pull it up, and then found two water pipes to tie it up. The rope was only as high as an adult's knee. Before the two of them tied it tightly, zombies were already attracted by them. Wu Ziran screamed in fear and rushed towards the zombies. She was halfway through her run when she was called back by the nervous Li Yuanzhuo and Fu Dan. The zombies were chasing her. When she ran close to the rope, the little girl suddenly showed her usual escape skills. She lay on the ground and rolled quickly under the rope. The two zombies were running and chasing, so they tripped over the rope and fell flat on their faces. Li Yuanzhuo tied the rope on his side and was trying to reinforce Wu Ziran's rope on the other side when he felt the rope slip from his hand. He hurriedly grabbed it and felt the palm of his hand was rubbed and it hurt.

Fu Dan, who had been on guard nearby, saw the zombies fall and immediately rushed over. Before they got up, he chopped them several times, making them unable to move. Wu Ziran's shouting attracted several zombies again. Li Muran's pressure was relieved, but the three children panicked. They had no time to cheer for killing two zombies. They all started to run around the rope. Then they heard a few thumps. Two zombies were tripped by the rope and fell down. The other three zombies were tripped by their fallen companions. The rope, which was not tied tightly, was dragged to the ground by three strong impacts.

"Hurry up, hurry up, Ziran, Azhuo, come to help quickly, don't let them get up." Fu Dan, who had already rushed to the other side, saw it and hurriedly ran back with a machete with a curled blade, shouting at the other two while running. At this time, Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran also forgot to be afraid. They rushed over with knives raised, and chopped at the zombies who were turning over and trying to get up.

"Cut off their heads, chop off their heads! Be careful with your hands! Be careful, they will bite people..." Fu Dan shouted as he dodged. The two children didn't have any other ideas at this time, they just followed what they heard. In this way, the three of them confusedly dealt with the five zombies lying on the ground.

Li Muran had killed quite a few before, and with the help of the children, the number of zombies dropped sharply, and in a blink of an eye there were only a dozen left. It was not easy for her and Zhang Ruiyang to deal with them, but it was not as hard as before when they were alone, not to mention that Fu Dan and the other two were also eager to kill and occasionally helped out. It took more than half an hour to finally clear all the zombies on the roof. After making sure there was no danger, she fell on her back and dropped her pickaxe to the side. She didn't care at all even though there were two zombie corpses next to her.

The sky was still leaden, with a few white flocs slowly floating down, landing on her open eyelashes and forehead, and quickly turning into water. The cold feeling made her heart suddenly empty. There was nothing, no past, no future, even herself and everything around her no longer existed. A strange warmth was spinning between her eyebrows, spinning faster and faster, as if it wanted to take her somewhere.

"Aunt! Aunt!"

"Sister Muran."

"Sister!"

The shouts of many people rang in her ears, pulling Li Muran out of that strange feeling. Only then did she realize that the sky above her head had been blocked by several little heads, and each of the little cat-like faces was filled with worry and concern. She couldn't help but smile, leaving her previous regrets far behind.

"I'm fine, I'm just too tired, let me rest for a while." She said, her body still not moving, even though she felt a little cold.

"But you just..." Zhang Ruiyang did not feel relieved by her answer, and still had a tangled face, "Auntie, you seemed to be gone just now, I was scared to death." At this point, he seemed to feel that it was inappropriate, so he simply lay down next to Li Muran, stretched out his hand to hug one of her arms, "Auntie, if you want to leave, you must take me with you." In

such cold weather, Li Muran did not dare to let this little ancestor sleep on the ground, so he climbed up with difficulty, gently touched the little guy's head with his head, and said, "That's a must."

Zhang Ruiyang was relieved, and his big eyes smiled into a crescent moon. Fu Dan and the other two saw the intimate actions and conversations between the two, and they couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Li Muran couldn't even lift his arms, so he lent his pickaxe to Fu Dan and asked them to take turns to take the corpse crystal. The three children began to realize their first cooperation unconsciously in the panic and chaos. Although the process was a bit horrible, the ending was still very gratifying. So at this moment, even Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran, who had been very scared at the beginning, showed great interest and scrambled to dig up corpse crystals. Zhang Ruiyang, who was always very active, refused to leave Li Muran again, fearing that she would suddenly disappear.

Li Muran felt distressed and amused, but she didn't know that her figure was indeed half-hidden and half-visible just now. If Zhang Ruiyang and the others hadn't discovered and called out, she would probably have disappeared again.

This day, they gained a lot, a total of more than 100 corpse crystals, as well as some candies and snacks, coffee, milk powder, tea, red wine, cigarettes, and the ones they found on the 13th floor. The bag of miscellaneous things was not even packed. What excited the children the most was that they also found a Tang sword that had not been sharpened for decoration, a compound bow, and a leather quiver with nine carbon arrows on the 13th floor. The blades of the children's machetes were all curled, and they were of course happy to find a replacement weapon, but it was a pity that the Tang sword had not been sharpened, so they could only look at it with envy.

Li Muran had thought that she might not be able to keep these things when she took them back, but there was nothing she could do. After all, who knew if the convoy they were taking would come here next time, so she could only try her luck.

When they returned to the place where the convoy stayed, many cars had already left, but the bus they came in was still there. Li Muran didn't want to take that bus again. Just when she was about to take a few children to ask other convoys that had not left, she was stopped by a man in field uniforms.

"Miss Li, Mr. Song, please come over." The man had a cold and hard expression, a murderous look on his face, and a murderous aura that came from fighting in a sea of ​​blood and corpses. It was obvious that he was not easy to mess with.

Li Muran had some impression of him, as if he was one of Director Song's bodyguards. She was actually very confused about this. She didn't know why a director of surgery would have bodyguards and could also pull together such a powerful team. However, she was not familiar with the other party, so this idea only flashed through her mind and she gave up. Speaking of Director Song, to be exact, they had no intersection, because she had not yet rotated to the neurosurgery department where he worked during her internship. At the beginning, she had only heard that there was a fierce and strict director named Song in the neurosurgery department. All the interns and trainees who performed operations or ward rounds with him had been scolded. However, on the day of the end of the world, she happened to be on duty in the general surgery department, and this director actually replaced her deputy director in an emergency operation, and then took her who was writing medical records in the department to be an assistant. However, she did not perform the operation in the end, because when Director Song was rescuing the patient, she was very tactless and pushed him away. As a result, of course, she was driven out of the operating room by the furious director. Of course, the patient had actually turned into a zombie, but no one knew the existence of zombies at that time. She did that action purely as a subconscious reaction when she felt something was wrong. Later, she might have been thanked, but at that time, it was simply an abnormal and suicidal behavior. The nurses and anesthesiologists in the operating room looked at her like an idiot, and they also had sympathy for her tragic experience after she was transferred to the brain. However, no one could have imagined that she would never have the opportunity to transfer again.

Thinking of meeting the director, she subconsciously felt a little afraid. Just like the awe of students for teachers, it will never decrease because of the end of the world. But she really didn't dare not go, so she could only hold Zhang Ruiyang's hand, take Fu Dan's three children, and follow the bodyguard nervously to the front of a military off-road vehicle.

Before they stood still, the back door opened, and a long leg wearing military boots stretched out from inside, and then Director Song's 1.9-meter-tall, burly and oppressive body came out from inside.

"Director... Director!" Li Muran reflexively took a step back and stuttered rarely. In fact, until now, she didn't know the full name of Director Song.

Song Yan's cold eyes swept over her, then fell on Zhang Ruiyang, who was holding her hand, and the three children behind him. His eyes softened slightly, and he said lightly: "She's still alive, not bad."

Li Muran couldn't respond to him like she did to other people. If she didn't want to respond, she would just keep silent. She laughed dryly twice, thought about it, and felt that it would be better to say one sentence: "I made you worry."

"I'm not worried." Song Yan didn't give her any face at all and answered coldly.

Li Muran felt that she had no room to speak in front of this director, so she had to lower her head and wait for the other party to explain his intention to let her come over.

"Do you want to join my team? But if you don't have superpowers, you can only join the Corpse Lure Team." Song Yan didn't let her wait too long, asked, and then explained: "It's the car you took when you came, and the people sitting in it are the Corpse Lure Team. Although the treatment of the Corpse Lure Team is a little worse, it is safer than other teams."

Li Muran thought about it and asked: "Then is there a chance to go to Bowei?"

Song Yan shook his head, "The road to Bowei has been occupied by mutant plants and turned into a dense forest. It will be impossible to pass in the short term."

"Thank you, Director Song, we won't join." Li Muran was a little disappointed, thought about it, and rejected Song Yan's invitation. Although joining the other team will make life better, it will wear down people's courage, not to mention that the children are in need of training. If they go now, they may have to stay there until they die in the zombie group.

Song Yan didn't force it. He glanced at the weapons in their hands and said, "Bring your knives over here."

Li Muran didn't know what he wanted to do, but he still handed over his pickaxe as he was told. But Song Yan didn't take it: "You don't need yours. Bring others'."

Seeing that Li Muran was as honest as a quail in front of him, the children knew that he couldn't offend him, so Fu Dan was the first to step forward and respectfully handed over the machete in his hand, which couldn't even chop firewood. Song Yan took it, and a circle of metal light floated on his hand. In a blink of an eye, he restored the machete to its new sharpness and made appropriate changes to its material.

Fu Dan's eyes lit up. Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran, who were originally huddled in the back, suddenly surrounded them, eagerly waiting for Song Yan to strengthen their weapons. The most surprised person was Li Muran. She knew that when they escaped from the city, Song Yan had lightning ability. When did he awaken the metal ability? However, it was not convenient to ask such questions, so in the end she just thanked him on behalf of the children. As for the Tang sword, she did not ask him to sharpen it, because once it was sharpened, they might not be able to keep it.

On the way back, they were naturally given a ride. Of course, they did not take Song Yan's car, but also did not take the big bus that Li Muran disliked. Instead, they were stuffed into a military off-road vehicle that was also modified. They squeezed with several superpowers, and even the crystal cores they handed in when they took the car before were sent back. Later, Li Muran learned that other teams took people with one or two crystal cores, and at most no more than three. The key point was the harvest when they returned. The big car of the corpse-luring team was too expensive, so those who knew it were unwilling to get on it, and they could only deceive those who didn't know the tricks. Song Yan turned a blind eye to this. For him, as long as it didn't affect the interests of the team, it was not a big deal for the people below to use their brains to make a little money.

At the gate of the base, several people were let go, and Song Yan's car in front had already entered the base, so they didn't have a chance to say thank you. Because of Song Yan's help, not only did they not lose a crystal core that day, but they also kept all the supplies they found, which made the children very happy. However, this happiness did not last long. When they returned to the shack where they lived, several people were dumbfounded.

The wooden roof of the shack was gone, leaving only the four crooked and pitiful walls made of broken stones and bricks, shivering in the cold wind, which looked even more desolate in the already desolate scene around.

Chapter 80 Shiqian Convoy

Zhang Yi and Nan Shao, who were thousands of miles away, did not know that Li Muran and his team had no place to sleep that night. At this time, the two were hiding in a supermarket warehouse in the center of the county with a convoy from Shiqian.

Shiqian is a city under the jurisdiction of Jersey Province, which is adjacent to Zhongzhou Province. Because it is close to Hongze, which spans three provinces, when the rainstorm hit Hongze and the dam broke, the convoy fled in a hurry, trekking all the way, and experienced countless hardships before arriving in Ziyun County, losing most of the people on the way. I wanted to take a break in Ziyun County, but who would have thought that I would be attacked by rat birds again. This is why the rat birds outside the hotel suddenly evacuated.

When Zhang Yi and the others met, they had been trapped by rat birds for several days. Out of the desire to eradicate the rat birds, reduce the danger for Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang, and the desire to help, the two reached out to help. These people were also very conscientious. They did not take the opportunity to use them to attract the attention of the rat birds, but opened the door of the warehouse and let them in.

"It's no longer possible to live in the countryside. It's full of mutant plants and animals." The team leader was called Chen Changchun, a power mutant. He described the situation outside to the two. "On the contrary, because the city is almost full of zombies, those mutant animals don't like to come, so many people ran back to the urban areas that they used to avoid, but this also attracted mutant animals. Judging from the current situation, we can only find a large base and be with more people. Maybe there is still some hope of survival, otherwise... this world is really too difficult!"

They now have more than 60 people. Fortunately, they found a supermarket warehouse. It is sealed on all sides, with only two small windows opened at a high place. There is also water and food. If they change to another place, they may not be able to survive for a few days. However, it is precisely because of this that the air in the warehouse is quite stuffy and stinks of feces and urine. There are mutants with special powers in the team, as well as ordinary people, and even old people, children and women. From this, it can be seen that these people are not bad by nature.

"I heard that there is a base in Bowei, and our companions have already gone there." Zhang Yi said.

"Why didn't you go?" Chen Changchun asked.

"We are looking for someone." Zhang Yi answered, and then he roughly told the story again, and described the appearance of Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang, and looked at Chen Changchun with a hint of expectation.

Chen Changchun showed a look of surprise on his face: "I didn't expect there would be such a magical ability." Then he realized what Zhang Yi meant, shook his head and said: "I haven't seen anyone like you along the way."

Knowing that this would be the result, Zhang Yi still couldn't hide his disappointment. Nan Shao reached out and held his hand, whispering to comfort: "Yangyang is agile and clever, and Muran's ability can help him escape, so he will be fine."

Zhang Yi just shook his hand back, but didn't say anything.

Chen Changchun saw that the two of them were close and didn't seem like ordinary friends. He was muttering in his heart when he saw Nan Shao looking up at him and said frankly, "We are partners."

He was stunned for a moment, feeling a little awkward, thinking that it was better for him to know about this kind of thing, why did you say it out loud, but he still had to put on a nonchalant smile on his face: "It is also a blessing to have a partner to accompany you in the end times." At first, he might have been perfunctory, but after he finished speaking, he felt emotional. At this point, who cares whether you are with the same sex or the opposite sex? With the high mortality rate of women now, it is possible that men can only find men as partners in the future.

Zhang Yi glanced at Nan Shao. He obviously didn't expect that he would admit their relationship in front of other people, and he could get such a blessing-like answer. His face couldn't help but heat up slightly, but he was indescribably moved in his heart. He smiled and said, "Yes, it is indeed a blessing." Without Nan Shao, he would have difficulty even feeding Yang Yang and drinking enough water, not to mention escaping the disaster of heavy rain, severe cold and plant mutation. Without Nan Shao, he would be alone looking for Yang Yang now. Not to mention how far he could go, just the worry and torture would drive him crazy. Therefore, it is indeed a great blessing for him to meet Nan Shao and have his company.

Hearing his words, Nan Shao was stunned at first, and then ecstatic. Although Zhang Yi personally agreed to be with him, and the two had done the most intimate things later, he actually had no confidence in his heart. He always felt that Zhang Yi was sentimental and couldn't bear to hurt him. In addition, he was forced by the previous situation. Now he heard that he not only did not refute his words, but also indirectly expressed his feelings. How could he not be excited.

It was just one sentence, but it caused such a great agitation in his emotions. Zhang Yi felt the hand holding him tightened and trembled slightly, and his heart could not help but feel hot. He was not in love with the same sex, but who would have thought that he would find the most sincere and unyielding emotions in the same sex. This can not but be said to be an irony of reality, but how can it not be a kind of luck?

The warmth between the two of them flowed, and Chen Changchun could not sit still, always feeling that he was a little redundant. Fortunately, at this time, a team member of the convoy came to report that a mouse bird had dug a hole at the base of the wall and drilled in, breaking this strange atmosphere.

"More people should keep an eye on the base of the wall, and kill one as it comes in." He immediately ordered, and then said: "Let Lu Jun and the others prepare, we will go out and kill a round." When the man left, he spat on the ground and cursed: "Fuck, this thing is like a leech, once it is touched, it can't be thrown away, and there are so many of them." As he spoke, he raised the hammer. He was a strength mutant. Once he hit someone with his hammer, his bones would become brittle and his flesh would rot. However, he was much worse at dodging speed, so he was at a disadvantage when the enemies were crowded.

Zhang Yi and Nan Shao each picked up their weapons and stood up. Chen Changchun was stunned and said, "You just arrived, why don't you take a rest first?"

Zhang Yi smiled and said, "It's okay, we are not tired yet." They have been killing rats and birds all day for more than a month, so how could they get tired so easily? Moreover, although he wanted to help, he didn't want to be trapped here for too long, so it was more important to kill all the rats and birds as soon as possible and leave as soon as possible.

Seeing that they didn't seem to be holding on, Chen Changchun didn't say anything else, but just reminded them to be careful. At this time, a bald man came over with a dozen people. Chen Changchun briefly introduced them to each other. There were a few people with superpowers, and the rest were ordinary people, but looking at the evil spirits on them, they knew they were not simple characters. In fact, in Chen Changchun's convoy, whether men or women, or old people or children, they can all take up weapons in critical moments. Otherwise, it would be impossible to walk here from Shiqian, two or three hundred kilometers away, relying only on the protection of others.

As soon as the door of the warehouse was opened, the rats and birds swooped in. The group rushed out while killing them. The people who stayed in the warehouse closed the door tightly after they all went out, and at the same time, they kept an eye on the situation outside and prepared to respond. At such a time, the people in the convoy became unprecedentedly united, because they all knew that if one more person died, their chances of survival would be reduced by one point, so they had to reduce casualties as much as possible, and no one dared to make trouble in such a matter. As for those who could not see the situation clearly and were still thinking about their own interests and fighting for power, they had been eliminated along the way.

The people in the convoy had developed a unique set of tactics in countless battles. Ordinary people were outside, and the superpowers were inside. Ordinary people fought in close combat and defended, while the superpowers cast superpowers at a distance and attacked from a distance. Under such circumstances, the superpowers can use their superpowers without any worries, and ordinary people can also take care of them at any time, which is a good cooperation. Compared with them, Nan Shao and Zhang Yi's cooperation is more flexible. The two of them have a tacit understanding. At this time, they did not fight alone, but adopted a similar tactic to the team, except that the two of them can kill in and out of the mouse-bird group freely, and can also take care of each other. In addition, the lethality is great, and the others are shocked at the first move.

Half an hour later, everyone left the mouse-bird corpses all over the ground and returned to the warehouse. Although Nan Shao and Zhang Yi still had spare energy, they did not show off at this time. After entering, everyone else was more or less injured, but the two of them did not even leave a trace of blood, which naturally attracted a lot of attention. They were immediately surrounded by people who had seen their skills.

"Why are you so good? You... your name is Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi, do you really have no superpowers? And you are not injured at all, how did you do it?" Someone asked in surprise.

"We have been killing rat birds for more than a month." Zhang Yi only said this. As for injuries, how could he not be injured? If he took off his clothes, you could see that his body was covered with scars. Nan Shao, on the other hand, may be due to his supernatural power. Although he was injured a lot, there were no marks on his body.

Hearing this, of course, the others could not help asking. So Zhang Yi roughly told them about the two people's resistance to the rat birds in the hotel. After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but show admiration in their eyes, because they would never think that they would do better than them in such a situation.

"If possible, it is recommended to recycle the bodies of the rat birds." At the end, Zhang Yi looked at Chen Changchun and expressed his concerns. "After the rat birds swallow the crystal cores of their own kind, they will become more agile and fierce." Previously in the hotel, he and Nan Shao were unable to get away, and they wanted to increase the intensity of training, so they let the rat birds swallow the crystal cores of their own kind. But the people in the team must not be willing to let them become stronger, so they must pay special attention to this.

Upon hearing this, Chen Changchun immediately asked for details, and then a serious look appeared on his face. He said thoughtfully: "No wonder I always feel something is wrong. I have been entangled with these things and was so worried about whether the wall is thick enough and strong enough that I forgot about the problem of the bird corpses. I said that before, there were earth and gold powers to add walls, and those bird rats didn't dig through the wall. How did they get in today? So this is what happened."

With vigilance, when they went out to kill rats and birds, they spent more time to search for the bird corpses, take out the crystal cores, and then throw the corpses out for destruction. It must be said that these rats and birds are too persistent. Although there are so many casualties, they still rush up one after another. The temptation of fresh blood and flesh to them is no less than that of zombies. Fortunately, these birds are not as contagious as zombies, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no living people in this world.

It took another four days to finally wipe out the last rat bird, at the cost of everyone's wounded bodies, and five team members who were too badly injured by the rat bird before Nan Shao and his team arrived and could not survive. It was only after Nan Shao's arrival that the deaths were stopped, otherwise the team's losses would definitely not be limited to this.