After Li Xuanyuan demonstrated his level 4 ability, the team was as excited as if being injected with chicken blood. When facing the zombies in captivity, it’s as if they’re their first loves, and couldn’t wait for them to ripen.
The distance between level 3 and level 4 is like a natural moat. After seeing the level 4 fire-type zombie and then looking at the level 4 wood-type ability user, they have a bold guess: level 4 ability is a watershed from the previous three levels. The reason they’re convinced of this isn’t only because of the blue high-temperature flames on the outer layer of the level 4 fire-type zombie and Li Xuanyuan’s wood-type ability that had a hundred times more lethality, but more importantly… Liu Zhan analyzed, “Level 4 zombies can command and control the lower level zombies with the same attributes. This has been confirmed by us. I believe this won’t be accidental.”
Hou Ying also agreed with him.
That night, Li Xuanyuan thought and found Hou Ying—he wanted to return to the hills of the tribal base.
It turned out that the last time Li Xuanyuan and Qiao Daye went out for a trip wasn’t without wood crystals. Li Xuanyuan had already felt its existence, but he intuitively felt that he wasn’t an opponent and would risk his life if he wanted to take it off. After several life crises at the end of the world, Li Xuanyuan, who used to regard himself as the first, second, and third child, was a little less proud and a little more cautious.
Now that he has successfully reached level 4, he wants to go back and have a try.
Hou Ying stared at him, “Xuanyuan, tell me honestly, how sure are you?”
Li Xuanyuan paused and said, “Fifty-fifty.”
Hou Ying frowned immediately and almost blurted out his refusal, but seeing Li Xuanyuan’s calm expression, he held back again. He understood that Li Xuanyuan had to go on this trip. Maybe he would listen if he stopped him, but the wood crystal on the mountain would become a heart disease for Li Xuanyuan. That may be the opportunity for Li Xuanyuan’s ability to go to a higher level. He knows too well that the current method of cultivating zombie nuclei is just opportunism, not the right way, and such a chance may be more important than zombie nuclei.
At the end of the world, those who aren’t fighting for their lives and don’t have the courage to take risks will only stand still.
“Okay.” Hou Ying lit a cigarette for himself, took a hard puff, and pinched it out. He said, “Xuanyuan, I agree, but you won’t go alone. This matter isn’t only your business, but also the business of the whole team—don’t talk first. I know you don’t want us to take risks, but have you ever thought that if you’re alone and had an accident outside, would we sit idly by? At that time, we will blindly look for you then we’ll die too. We might as well make a good plan now and have a better chance of winning.”
After Hou Ying finished speaking, he summoned everyone before Li Xuanyuan could comment.
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After explaining the reason, Hou Ying said, “Let’s vote first. Raise your hand if you don’t agree to go.”
When his voice just fell, Dongfang Bai raised his hand. But when he suddenly realized that he was the only one raising his hand, he immediately retracted it. He scratched his head and said with a dry laugh, “It’s an old problem, haha, the place where my wings are itchy.”
Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai snickered.
The others looked very serious. Hou Ying smiled at Dongfang Bai and said, “No need to ask why Dongfang doesn’t support it… Lao Su, tell me, why do you agree?”
Su Fenghe didn’t expect to be called so he’s stunned. After a while, he said, “When I escaped from Kangcheng, I knew that in this current world, no strength means a dead end. Later… If you hadn’t saved me from the Yecheng laboratory, my head would’ve been dug up like a zombie now. I’m not as strong as others and I can’t protect myself, that’s why in the eyes of those so-called managers, there’s no difference between me and a zombie. My life is worthless, but I don’t want to admit it! None of us can accept our fate! We must become stronger. Xuanyuan has always been the guarantee of the team’s combat strength. If he can rise to a higher level when we go out in the future… To be honest, Brother Hou, you should also know that we’re upgrading too fast and have been derailed from the human base. If we leave now, everybody says that they will welcome us, but won’t they do everything possible to take our abilities as their own?”
In these three months, Li Xuanyuan’s microsatellite receiving station was finally completed and began to receive external information in one direction. It’s for this reason that they can stay here at ease.
In the four major bases, every upgrade of an ability user will be announced, so they have a certain understanding of the strength of the abilities outside. At present, the strongest of the four bases is Duan Yin of the Yellow River Base. He’s a rare gravity ability user—he can change gravity to achieve the purpose of attacking—he’s at level 3. Even if the major bases conceal their hole cards from their strongest players, there can be no more than level 4.
Everyone didn’t expect that Su Fenghe would say something like this. This honest man has been quiet since he joined the team, and his strength ability isn’t an eye-catching ability. Most of their understanding of Su Fenghe’s image comes from cultivating vegetables and live poultry for the team to improve their quality of food. But Hou Ying and Li Xuanyuan always knew that he’s a smart person, otherwise, they wouldn’t have decisively concealed their abilities in Yecheng with subtle anomalies.
Hou Ying looked at Dongfang Bai and asked, “Dongfang, tell me your reason.”
The smile on Dongfang Bai’s face disappeared, revealing his serious and solemn expression. He said, “I didn’t think so much, nor did I experience the experiment on ability users… Maybe my thoughts are a bit naive, but I just want everyone to live well, no matter how good it will be this time, but without life, abilities are nothing.” He sincerely said, “Maybe we can wait for two more level 4 ability users in our team? That way, there will always be some confidence.”
Li Xuanyuan shook his head, “We upgrade, it can also be upgraded.”
This is why Li Xuanyuan wanted to do it immediately after he’s promoted to level 4.
Hearing that, Dongfang Bai swallowed his remaining words of persuasion, and sighed, “Anyway, I don’t care so much. You can’t leave me. I finally found a company. Even if I die, I have to be with you.”
He’s afraid of the feeling of loneliness.
Gongsun Jing slapped him on the back angrily, “What dying? Shut up if you can’t talk.”
Dongfang Bai laughed and said, “Brother Hou, we all listen to you. Anyway, I’ll follow the big army.”
Hou Ying said, “In fact, I’ve been thinking about our next plan recently. Sencheng is still too small. We can only cultivate another level 4 five-element zombie with our corresponding ability. After a while, we have to leave and go north to find the next target. But now I want to discuss the next plan when we get the wood crystal.”
He looked at Liu Zhan, “Before departing, we needed to collect more crystal nuclei for backup. We’ll separate into two teams, keeping three people here. Ah Zhan, you have a good mind and can keep your cool. You, Xiaohe, and Lao Su will stay here to prevent the zombies we worked so hard from flying away, and the rest will go hunting for crystal nuclei. I’ll stay here to absorb energy. Let’s set off for the mountain early the day after tomorrow.”
Su Fenghe opened his mouth. He wanted to follow the team up the mountain, but he closed his mouth in frustration at the thought of his limited power and lethality.
Hou Ying saw it with sharp eyes. He encouraged, “Old Su, don’t think too much about it. There will definitely be qualitative changes when your ability reaches level 4! No ability is useless, only the captain who can’t know people’s abilities.”
Su Fenghe laughed and said, “Brother Hou, I understand.”
Having set the goal of entering the mountain in this way, Hou Ying briefly made a preliminary plan with everyone according to the road map drawn by Li Xuanyuan and began to perform their respective duties and take action.
In the early morning of the third day, except for Liu Zhan, Su Fenghe, and Wang Hehe, they packed up and set out. Because the road on the mountain isn’t open to traffic and must be walked, they didn’t bother to disassemble the armored vehicle, but chose a crispy commercial vehicle from the driving school where their temporary residence is located and set off. When they stopped at the foot of the mountain, Qiao Daye went to release water. After returning, he mentioned the ‘special belt’, “Fortunately, you don’t need to take off your pants.” He glanced at Gongsun Jing, the only person who needed to take off her pants, and was beaten unceremoniously by the latter.
This special belt is an iron belt made by Dongfang Bai. There are ten positions in the interlayer filled with level 3 crystal nuclei with corresponding attributes for emergency replenishment during battle.
This time they have paid a lot, and their eyes on the mountain are unprecedentedly firm. They are bound to win.
Trekking through mountains and rivers, crossing mountains and ridges, and going deeper into the mountains. Even if they’re not a wood-type ability user, they can feel the difference in the aura of vegetation.
Jiang Tao said, “I often hear people say that the greatness of a man lends glory to a place. Now I can see what is called a glorious place.”
Dongfang Bai also sighed with emotion, “If Director He discovers this place, he’ll definitely be excited.” This director has worked with him to make fantasy films. The scenery here is like a fairyland. That is, not later, there’s no doubt that immortals or goblins should exist in such a place.
Li Xuanyuan, who led the way, stopped. He pointed to the location of the peak ahead and said, “That’s the one. Our combat strategy can only be hard work. Everyone must be careful.”
Several people looked at it from a distance and couldn’t help praising it, “That’s… a banyan tree? Shit, such a big tree must have been five hundred years old, it should’ve been refined!”
“It’s more than 500 years old. I think it’s a thousand-year-old monster.”
Listening to their nonsense, Hou Ying couldn’t help reminding them, “These mutant plants have many characteristics. You’re not allowed to take off your gas masks later, maybe they emit a special smell.” Hou Ying, who was once stunned in the flower and bird market, warned solemnly.
Everyone obediently responded.
The top of the mountain looked close like this, but it’s actually far away. It took them a full hour and a half to finally approach the destination.
It’s three o’clock in the afternoon, Li Xuanyuan solemnly reiterated the precautions for the last time, and the group headed for the “Millennium Old Monster”.
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