Hou Ying had a high vision and had chosen to live in a high-end residential area in the middle city that was close to the inner city.
This piece of real estate was also very expensive before, and most people cannot afford to live in it. On the first day they moved in, Wu Nan and the other four laughed and cried at the same time, and it took them a while to recover from their sudden outburst of emotions.
There were three suites with a total of nine master bedrooms and secondary bedrooms. Hou Ying simply assigned each person to live in a suite, leaving the room allocation to themselves.
Hou Ying, Li Xuanyuan, Wang Hehe, Meng Hanghai, and Li Hou lived together.
While Liu Zhan, Jiang Tao, Ji Yao, Su Fenghe, Dongfang Bai, and Qiao Daye were assigned together.
Lastly, Wu Nan, Li Dong, Zhou Tianyi, Gao Xiaoming, and Ye Huizhong occupied the third suite, with Ye Huizhong and Gongsun Jing sharing a room.
For convenience’s sake, Hou Ying originally wanted Qiao Daye to live with them so that he could continue guiding Meng Hanghai, but for some reason, Qiao Daye silently held Liu Zhan’s hand and looked at Hou Ying lovingly. Hou Ying understood in seconds, causing him to chuckle, “In any case, you can't escape from the two of us. Whatever floats your boat then.”
Everyone in the know laughed.
To rent this floor of the building, the team had spent all the crystal nuclei that they had hunted and that Wu Nan and the others had saved for a long time.
Fortunately, they had now successfully upgraded to a B-level combat team and can apply for many tasks. On that same day, Hou Ying held a small meeting and they decided to take the task of placing detection and monitoring equipment in a small town outside to include it in the base’s safe radiation zone. Everyone rested for a whole day in their own suites, ate well, and slept well. On the third day early in the morning, they received the mission and drove out of the base.
On their way out of the city, they also met Miao Feng and the Xuri team who happened to be returning to the city after completing a mission. Upon seeing them, Miao Feng spoke to one of the people in the lead and chased after them on his motorcycle.
Hou Ying asked Qiao Daye, who was driving, to stop and wait for him. Miao Feng pointed in the direction of the Xuri team and said, “That’s our captain. He asked me to greet you on his behalf. I heard that you have moved. From now on, we can also be considered neighbors, so let’s come out for a meal together when you come back.”
After speaking, he handed Hou Ying a team business card.
He was not that attentive when they first met each other. It seemed that although they were out on a mission, they were very clear about their situation, especially their upgrade to B-level.
Hou Ying smiled and replied, “Definitely.”
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He told the other man their current address—which was basically the residence of the S-level and the A-level teams and was also very close to the residence of Miao Feng and his team— and then bid farewell.
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“It’s real gold.” Ji Yao shook his head. The feeling of ‘local tyrant’ can be felt with just this piece of card alone. He said with some regret, “Creating a business card requires a crystal nucleus. We are poor now. We can’t even afford the most common ones, let alone such special arrangements.”
“If you envy them, work harder later.”
Gongsun Jing thought Ji Yao’s miserable look was laughable, but they had Brother Hou by their side. To come to the Yellow River base, except for the psychic crystal nucleus and some first-level crystal nuclei for cover, all the crystal cores hunted along the way were absorbed by Hou Ying. Not to mention the second-level and third-level nuclei, there were tens of thousands of first-level nuclei alone.
Hou Ying was thinking about other issues and did not pay attention to what they were talking about. When the car left the safe range of the Yellow River base and headed for their target destination, he asked Wu Nan, “Do you know how the base defines mission levels?”
Wu Nan did not know why he asked this question, but without hesitation, he explained, “It’s established based on the population of the target area, the determined situation of zombies there, as well as the estimated amount of supplies.”
“Determined situation of zombies? Does it refer to the number of zombies or the level of zombies?”
Hou Ying had not thought about this issue at first, but in the conversation with Miao Feng just now, he vaguely guessed that they had encountered a third-level zombie with ability during the recently completed S-level mission, and then suddenly thought of a possibility.
Wu Nan thought for a while and then said carefully, “It should be the level of the zombies. I have heard from other teams before that second-level zombies are likely to appear in target locations above level B. As for A-level tasks, second-level zombies are a certainty and there would be more than one. So I think the base judges the task level according to the level of the zombies. Also, the base must’ve already had a way to detect zombies with abilities, but it has not been announced yet.”
“…What is the approximate detection range?”
Hou Ying probed.
Wu Nan pondered on this, but Ye Huizhong, who never spoke, wrote on a paper: The Xiongshi team had a mission in Hashi.
This was the furthest mission location she knew of.
Ye Huizhong was a first-level voice ability user and she still could not control her ability well. Since making a sound was an attack, she usually did not speak. After getting along with them during this period, they learned that, unlike Ye Huizhong’s heroic and neutral appearance, she was a very attentive person.
With Ye Huizhong’s reminder, Wu Nan also remembered, “To the north is Hashi. As for the south, the base had sent special personnel to the Yangtze River Base, Chuanyuan Base, and Pearl River Base. Maybe the base knows the situation of the zombies in these areas.”
Listening to their conversation, Liu Zhan and the others eventually understood why Hou Ying asked such a question.
There was a subtle shift in all of their expression but Hou Ying’s pointed look calmed them down, “Let’s not worry about that. The most important thing right now is to complete this task perfectly. We only have three days to complete it so we need to keep our spirits up.”
“Yes, Brother Hou!”
Wu Nan and the other four responded the most enthusiastically. They were also the most nervous on the team.
This was a B-level mission and there could be second-level zombies in this. No one knew what they would encounter next. If in the unfortunate event that they encountered a second-level zombie, could they still return safely? The unknown ahead made these young new partners feel both longing and worry in their hearts.
However, the mere second-level zombies were not a concern for Hou Ying and his family.
The reason why their expressions became tangled just now was because they were worried about Hou Ying. If the Yellow River Base already has a secret weapon to find second-level zombies, then the zombies they hunted and raised in captivity all the way north might have been detected by the people of the base early on.
Even if they used the Yangtze River Base as a cover, it was easy to associate them with the zombies’ disappearance based on the trajectory.
This was bad news.
While they were worrying about this topic, the team sent by the Yellow River Base to search for the fourth-level zombies also returned to the base safely. Fang Zonghe personally inquired about this matter and learned that no fourth-level zombies were found and that the sudden disappearance of high-level zombies had also stopped a few days ago. While feeling relieved, he also said solemnly, “Regardless, this matter must be thoroughly investigated. If there really were fourth-level zombies, they must be wandering not far from the base. The current calm could just be an illusion.”
He decided to inform the four families of the base to jointly discuss countermeasures.
On the other side, Hou Ying and his party also successfully arrived at the target destination.
Hou Ying spread out the map the guild provided, “According to the task description, we’re going to place solar monitors in these places marked with red dots. I have calculated a total of three hundred and five placement points. Ah Zhan, you and Brother Tao are in charge, okay?”
Liu Zhan: “No problem.”
Jiang Tao: “Ok!”
Hou Ying nodded, “Don’t worry, take your time. There are three days anyway.”
With that, he turned to the rest of the team, “Based on the fact that there may be zombie detectors in the base, we need to be more careful in our next actions. Let’s deal with the first-level zombies in batches first, and leave the rest for later. Except for Ah Zhan and Brother Tao, the rest of us will act together. Xuanyuan and I will take Li Hou and Xiaohe. Gongsun, you take Xiaoye. Lao Su, you and Ji Yao will be with Li Dong and Xiaozhou. As for Wu Nan and Xiaoming, you two will follow Lao Er’s team. Xiaohai, Wu Nan and Xiaoming’s abilities are very special, the same as you. Can you teach them your experience in controlling your skills?”
Meng Hanghai did not expect to have his mission. He nodded happily at once.
After joining the team, Wu Nan informed everyone about their abilities.
Wu Nan, five-senses plundering ability user, second-level low-level.
Gao Xiaoming, gravity ability user, first-level low-level.
Zhou Tianyi, fire-type ability user, first-level intermediate.
Li Dong, earth-type ability user, first-level intermediate.
Ye Huizhong, voice ability user, first-level intermediate.
Among them, the abilities of Wu Nan and Gao Xiaoming were all unique. Just like Wu Nan’s five-sense plundering ability, he could also absorb the five-sense red crystal to advance. However, unlike the general five-sense ability, his ability was an attack-type, which could pillage the five senses of the target—such as a zombie’s sense of smell, hearing, and so on. He was just simply the natural enemy of zombies with five-sense abilities.
Gao Xiaoming’s gravity ability belonged to the same natural system ability but was rarer than phenomenal abilities like wind and thunder. Instead, it relies on the gravity of the Earth to change the gravity of the target object. At the moment, he could only use his ability to increase the gravity of the zombie to achieve the effect of immobilization.
Seeing Wu Nan and the other four’s confusion about their arrangement, Hou Ying did not explain much, just patted Wu Nan on the shoulder and said to them, “Look more, learn more, and ask less. How much you can gain is up to you.”
Since the five of them could live up to this day, their IQ definitely would not be low. Upon hearing this, they knew exactly what to do.
Although Hou Ying and the others were shrouded in mystery that made them unable to understand, they had a natural trust in them after experiencing the grace of saving their lives.
Hou Ying was delighted with this. Although they still could not trust them completely and had reservations about the team’s secrets, he had already intended to take them under his wings. Doing this now was a test as well as a probationary period.
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