The train hummed all the way north.
Eight carriages, first-class sleeper and catering carriage, are all available, while the remaining passenger carriages have all their seats removed. All the materials on the two heavy trucks have been transferred here. Of course, the heavy trucks haven’t been abandoned. If it hadn’t been for Dongfang Bai’s ability to successfully fuse metals after upgrading to level 3 mid-level, the heavy trucks being too large to fit into the high-speed railway might force them to abandon them, but now this problem has been solved. Li Xuanyuan and Jiang Tao took a moment to disassemble the heavy truck, and Hou Ying and Meng Hanghai evenly cut the car plates and stored them.
At this time, they had just finished an overwhelming zombie hunt, and the train left the city’s platform and set off again.
When Hou Ying was resting, Qiao Daye and the others were playing cards in the dining area. Gongsun Jing and Dongfang Bai had densely packed paper strips on their faces, while Wang Hehe and Qiao Daye had only a pitiful amount on their faces. The outcome was clear at a glance.
Hou Ying shook his head and said to Jiang Tao, “Just let them waste it like this? Just think about it, the paper for wiping butts that will be scarce in the future is now sticking on their faces.”
Qiao Daye said with a smile, “Brother Hou, can you stop being so stingy? The paper tissues we had collected are enough for several of us to wipe our butts for hundreds of years.”
He was right. The weather changes inevitably cause food to spoil, but things like paper tissues are well preserved. They have collected a lot along the way. And when Li Xuanyuan and Hou Ying used Meng Hanghai’s main attack ability, their speed of hunting zombies broke through a new high. Therefore, when three high-speed railway carriages were still empty, they divided a material collection team to empty an entire large supermarket in six hours.
The super high efficiency allowed them to successfully fill the three cars after passing through three cities.
Hou Ying drank a glass of warm water, while Jiang Tao watched the four of them playing cards. Li Xuanyuan was driving and taught Ji Yao who’s very interested in driving the train. Liu Zhan helped Su Fenghe water the vegetables. Meng Hanghai is very interested in raising live poultry and cultivating vegetables so he learned from Su Fenghe and heard that his own tomatoes were about to be harvested. He didn’t want to sleep if he didn’t look at them in these two days.
Seeing that they’re having fun, Hou Ying shrugged and went to prepare the food by himself, without letting Gongsun Jing and the others help.
After a full meal, Hou Ying asked Qiao Daye to drive the train and said to the people who were satiated, “I’m ready to use those three level 4 nuclei as quickly as possible. The wind-type blue nucleus and five-sense red nucleus are left to Yaoji and Lao Er. Needless to say, it’s the level 4 transparent crystal. I want to hear everyone’s thoughts before distribution.”
After getting the three level 4 crystal nuclei, they originally planned to put them into use immediately, but in order to deal with the twin banyan trees, Hou Ying’s energy consumption wasn’t as easy as he said. His body was enveloped by a sense of emptiness of lack of energy, and he even noticed that he was absorbing Qiao Daye’s energy when he borrowed Qiao Daye’s vision ability once. He didn’t dare to take risks. In order to cultivate the fourth-level crystal nucleus, the nuclei with the same properties are invested to the greatest extent, Hou Ying did not explain his own situation, only informing them that he found that the absorbed crystal nucleus energy of other attributes can supplement the energy use of another ability. In order to prove this, he has been focusing on absorbing crystal nuclei of other attributes these days.
It’s not until today that he escaped from the sense of emptiness and restored his previous energy-rich state.
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Therefore, he didn’t hesitate to propose a plan to use the level 4 nucleus.
The five-element ability users in the team, except for Li Xuanyuan who has successfully broken through level 4, there are also Jiang Tao, Liu Zhan, Gongsun Jing, and Dongfang Bai. This level-4 transparent crystal is to let others breakthrough level 4. The candidate is among them.
The four looked at each other, then Liu Zhan said, “Brother Hou, you already have an idea, right? Let’s talk about it first.”
The other three nodded in unison.
Hou Ying smiled wryly, “I still want it to be democratic. If you don’t cherish it, then I’ll say it. I want to assign this nucleus to Gongsun. What do you think?”
Gongsun Jing was surprised. She didn’t expect it to be herself. The candidate in her heart is Dongfang Bai, after all, the combat effectiveness of the metal ability is beyond doubt.
Others more or less had their own ideas, but after Hou Ying mentioned Gongsun Jing, they immediately understood his intention. Gongsun Jing’s water ability is a special healing ability. It’s different from Liu Zhan’s defensive water ability. There’s Li Xuanyuan in the team, the main force of combat power, so they don’t have a sense of urgent worry about their current strength. It’s certainly good to be able to add icing to the cake, but when Gongsun Jing’s ability can make a breakthrough when reaching level 4, it’s another guarantee for the team and is indispensable.
Liu Zhan: “I agree.”
Jiang Tao: “Brother Hou, Gongsun is indeed the most suitable.”
Dongfang: “Gongsun can now regenerate flesh and bones. Can she revive the dead when she upgrades? Fuck, wouldn’t that mean that we can have nine lives!”
Li Xuanyuan smiled. It wasn’t without reason that they were convinced of Hou Ying’s decision. At least the candidate he thought of before was Dongfang Bai or Jiang Tao. Hou Ying’s overall view was what they lacked. All his decisions are for long-term consideration.
Hou Ying wasn’t surprised that the voting results were approved by all. He smiled and said, “Ladies first. I’ll upgrade Gongsun first, next is Lao Er, then Yaoji. The next stop is Hangzhou, we’ll reach it in 12 minutes. Upon arrival, I plan to stop there for a period of time to facilitate their breakthrough.”
After saying this, Hou Ying continued, “The last time I said I would study whether the absorption of other crystal nuclei can really be converted in my body and can be used by other abilities. Now, there are definite results.”
Liu Zhan’s eyes were brighter than those of others. He hurriedly said, “What’s the result?”
Hou Ying nodded solemnly.
Liu Zhan excitedly said, “Sure enough!”
Hou Ying laughed, “I have another idea. Since I can convert the absorbed nucleus energy, is it possible that this successfully converted energy be transmitted to you?”
Everyone stared at Hou Ying, and even Qiao Daye in the cab couldn’t help sticking out his head.
Hou Ying said, “Now it’s just an idea. I need to experiment. Xuanyuan, your ability level is the highest. If I make a test on you, you can stop it even if something goes wrong, so—”
Wang Hehe immediately said, “Of course Xuanyuan is suitable! My uncle is now level 4. If the experiment on us fails, we will be miserable. Everyone says yes!”
Qiao Daye on the other side of the cab said loudly, “Support Xiaohe! Add one!”
Gongsun Jing: “Plus two.”
Ji Yao: “Plus—”
Hou Ying glared at Ji Yao who’s about to say next. He coughed, remained serious, and said, “Well, that’s the decision then.”
Wang Hehe jumped up and said, “Then I’ll move in with Ah Zhan now! You must experiment well and concentrate on it so that we can make the best use of the remaining large number of crystal nuclei. This matter is very important so we can’t relax!”
The first-class sleepers aren’t large, only two people live in one. When the allocation was made, Li Xuanyuan preemptively occupied the same room with Liu Zhan, while Hou Ying lived in one with his baby nephew without suspense. As a result, the arm still couldn't twist the thigh. After going around a circle, he still turned back. Faced with the joking gaze of everyone, he was as cheeky as Hou Ying, completely unmoved.
As a result, no one gave Li Xuanyuan the opportunity to refuse, they had decided so happily!
Hangzhou is also a populous city, so the flow of people in the railway station is very large. When Hou Ying transmitted the energy to Gongsun Jing and the others, except for Li Xuanyuan who’s responsible for their protection, everyone else hunted and killed the zombies inside and outside the train station in twos and threes.
They didn’t use crystal nuclei to attract zombies. This short-term combat training, which is expected to last for two days, is mainly for Dongfang Bai, Wang Hehe, and Meng Hanghai to accumulate actual combat experience and master their abilities.
Wang Hehe mainly trained in melee knives and guns under Jiang Tao’s guidance. Meng Hanghai and Liu Zhan were in a team. Since Hou Ying was able to use his ability, the mysterious veil of space attack ability was finally lifted. Hou Ying was able to master the attack method at level 4 and below of the space ability. By teaching Meng Hanghai by example, he soon mastered a set of less wasteful and accurate combat methods for hunting zombie nuclei.
By determining the zombie’s ability level, you can know the size of the nucleus, lock its location, and directly cut out the part of the zombie’s head. Although there are occasional misses, there are no more zombies’ flesh and blood exploding.
But it’s inevitable that there will always be filthy flesh and blood or brain membranes on the crystal nucleus, which is why Liu Zhan followed him. Washing it with water will avoid bringing back the zombie virus.
Two days later, Gongsun Jing, Qiao Daye, and Ji Yao succeeded in breaking through the fourth level!
Because their ability isn’t stable yet, Hou Ying decided to let them adjust for one day. They’ll do one more hunt in Hangzhou, then everyone will continue northward.
That night, Wang Hehe and Qiao Daye played another game of cards. After crushing these mortals with extremely high IQ and fast and accurate calculation speed, Wang Hehe fell asleep contentedly.
Until two o’clock in the middle of the night.
When Wang Hehe uttered the first scream, Hou Ying, Li Xuanyuan, Qiao Daye, and Liu Zhan were the first to wake up.
“Xiaohe!”
Seeing Wang Hehe profusely sweating, crying, and screaming in a nightmare, Hou Ying was very distressed. Because the difference between the ability level of the people in the team and Wang Hehe is getting wider and wider—after he absorbed the newly obtained psychic white crystal, his ability is still hovering at level 1 mid-level—after Qiao Daye’s warning, he hadn’t had such a nightmare for a long time. But even then, the early warning of Qiao Daye’s near-death experience did not make Wang Hehe so scared.
What did he dream of?
Thank you for the chapter.
Cliffhangeeeer. 😭😭😂
Uh oh. Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Thank you for the chapter!!
Wang Hehe is the one with prophetic ability…? Maybe they’re going to face a dangerous journey next. Those powerful people in two different camps, aren’t they coming? They’re on their way to investigate the zombies last time when the team were raising their zombie farm rise to the next level.
+1 I think so too. I just hope no one dies.
They’ve been traveling by train for quite some time. If they were tracked by a base for the zombie farm, it would be by satellite.
I just hope HY doesn’t show up as a level 4 zombie on their zombie tracker.
Oh my!🤔 What did he dream of?….Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️