RLDRFH Chapter 57

He Zizhong and Fang Hao were watching the task information scroll by on the big screen when they heard a relatively familiar voice. Turning their heads, they found that the person in front of them was indeed someone they didn’t want to deal with – Xu Lili.

He Zizhong hasn’t forgotten the various difficulties she created in his previous life. Although he did not dislike her more than Dai Jun, it was far more than that of Allen. As for Fang Hao, he still remembered how she had almost sprayed his face¹as in with saliva when the two met last time.

The discomfort they felt did not affect Xu Lili at all. She looked surprised, and reached out to pull He Zizhong’s sleeve. Subconsciously retracting his arm before she could grab a hold, Xu Lili’s face stiffened, before she looked down and wiped her eyes sadly.

“It’s good to see you are doing well, My parents… all passed away on the first day…” Xu Lili did feel uncomfortable in her heart, but after experiencing the turbulent times in the past month, she also knew that even if her parents were still alive and had abilities, they might not be able to survive till now.

Not considering anything else, when everyone was blocked on the top floor of the community and were forced to jump to another building to escape, they might not have been able to pass that hurdle. Although she has abilities, they are limited. Even though she pretended to faint that time after jumping over, she really did feel dizzy. There’s a limit to those abilities, and using it too much will cause headaches and dizziness. Such a thing is well-known now.

When she saw He Zizhong in the mission hall, Xu Lili did not want to recognize them at first. Although she was a little surprised that they escaped to the city A base, she is a member of a major team. Why would she want to know those two who have nothing to rely on but themselves?

Her thinking continued until the two of them turned around to read the missions, revealing the identity card they were wearing on their chests – ability users!

In order to distinguish between ordinary people and ability users, the colors of the identity cards are different. The identity card of ordinary people is white, ability users is blue, and base management is graded from light red to dark red. In addition, there is a gray card for those people who failed to pay the “tax” when entering the city when they first entered the base.

Those with gray cards have to collect materials to get a white card. If someone with a base management card also had abilities, they will have a blue ring outside the red card.

There is a magnetic strip in the card containing all the information one has registered in the base. Both He Zizhong and Fang Hao’s brands are blue, and Xu Lili naturally knows what it represents.

Two ability users. No matter if their ability is strong or not, they are the targets all teams want to recruit. The deputy leader in her team said that anyone who can recruit an ability user to join, they will be rewarded with two boxes of instant noodles – any flavour! Those who don’t want instant noodles can also choose to replace it with other equivalent items.

Xu Lili’s decision was not entirely for instant noodles. He Zizhong is also her cousin. Having her own cronies in the team will be good for her future development.

He Zizhong endured with impatience until Xu Lili’s sobbing was over, and then nodded indifferently. “You are fine now. You can live for aunt and uncle and they will be at ease under Jiuquan²the nine springs / the underworld of Chinese mythology / Hades.” Even knowing that his aunt and uncle really died – in other words, became zombies – He Zizhong only felt a bit melancholic. As for Xu Lili, he still had the same idea at the beginning: if she doesn’t trouble him, he won’t do anything to her. She is different from Dai Jun and Allen; after all, she is related to him by blood.

But if she wants to calculate him restlessly, he would not take it into consideration.

Hearing the indifference in He Zizhong’s words, Xu Lili didn’t care as she wiped away the tears she squeezed out. “When did you arrive at the base? Where do you live? By the way, I have entered the Overlord team. Do you have a team now? Do you want to think about it? Our team…”

He Zizhong interrupted her: “We already have a team.” He saw the team logo on Xu Lili’s arm just now. He didn’t expect that she would have entered that team so early?

As soon as He Zizhong’s voice fell, another person suddenly smiled and said, “I don’t know what mission your team is going to take?”

When they heard the sound, they turned their heads, and saw a face that was familiar both before and after the apocalypse. With his signature smile on Allen’s face, he looked at He Zizhong and Fang Hao with a gentle attitude: “Introducing myself – I am the captain of the Overlord Team, Allen. We are preparing to take up a task, but we have too few people in our team now. And the number of ability users is not too large. I am looking for other teams to cooperate with. I don’t know if you are interested in working together?” Then, looking at Xu Lili – Xu Lili was excited with an idiotic expression – he smiled handsomely and she almost lost her mind: “Are you Lili’s friends? It’s better to work with acquaintances than to run with a strange team.”

He Zizhong sneered in his heart, and didn’t even glance at Xu Lili, who looked like an idiot: “I don’t know which task your team is going to take? There are only two of us in our team. I’m afraid we can’t help.”

“Two people?!” Allen raised his eyebrows, but it was Xu Lili who had just recovered who made the sound. She looked at He Zizhong and Fang Hao, who wasn silent. “Just the two of you? It’s too dangerous to do missions. Why not just join our team.” With Allen by her side, she felt more confident than before. No matter when He Zizhong and Fang Hao arrived at the base, Allen’s Overlord team is famous, and they must have heard about it. “Our Overlord team is one of the strongest teams in the base today, and the number of ability users in the team ranks in the top three…”

“Sorry, the two of us are a husband and wife team. It feels better to act like this.” He Zizhong interrupted Xu Lili again with a faint smile.

Husband and wife team… Doesn’t he blush when he says this?!

Xu Lili swallowed her words unwillingly as if swallowing a fly. Her gaze drifted towards Fang Hao, who was standing at the side bowing and blushing from the phase “husband and wife”.

Only now did she recognize him as the one she met at He Zizhong’s house before. The reason she did not dare look at him was that she entered the Overlord team and is secretly planning her goal of climbing onto the captain’s bed and dumping her temporary boyfriend. If Allen sees this beautiful boy and loses interest, then her plan will be ruined!

Allen raised his eyebrows slightly, no wonder that boy wears a ring on his hand. Even if he wears sunglasses on his face and a hat on his head, he recognizes that him as the one he has seen in the villa area before.

Isn’t it just someone else’s partner? Won’t it be more flavorful to grab it?

Allen smiled more cordially: “We are going to take over the 17th mission, and also plan to collect some things that Lili needs. It may be dangerous because we’re going deeper into the city, but if we succeed, we will gain much more. It will be more than a normal task. You guys can consider it.” Then to Xu Lili, “I’ll go over and negotiate with the Starry Sky team first, you accompany your cousin first.”

Xu Lili was full of excitement, causing Fang Hao, who had never liked her, to quietly take a half step back. Why does this woman imitate an idiot! She’s more scary than when he saw her last time!

Xu Lili watched the inhumanly handsome Allen leave, and when she was about to persuade her cousin, she found… where did they go?

He Zizhong took Fang Hao to talk to two others, not paying any attention to Xu Lili. Seeing the two strange men talking to He Zizhong excitedly, Xu Lili gritted her teeth, knowing that it was not the right time and waited aside.

Allen not snubbing her cousin meant he values their abilities. As for the rumor she heard about him taking in men and women from before end of the world? Defamation! Pure slander! There’s obviously news about him and certain female stars. Why does the media have to pour dirty gay water on him?!

“…Thank you for last time. Your mission has been successfully completed?”

He Zizhong and Fang Hao were talking to the two people they had met in the canned food warehouse before. One was named Shen Haiping and the other was Liu Jiangfeng. Liu Jiangfeng was the strength ability user, and seemed to have completely healed from his injuries.³Was physique before… ugh, so confusing since there are physique zombies different from strength ones…

He Zizhong nodded. He was more willing to talk to these two people than Xu Lili and Allen. He glanced at their upper arms. “You joined the Samsara team?”

Shen Haiping smiled and nodded. “Their team didn’t require one to be an ability user to join. I’m just an ordinary person. Because I have experience with a gun and can shoot fairly accurately, they took me in. We were on the way back to the base when we bumped into them in the middle of the road, and joined back then.”

Nowadays, many teams are recruiting people, but most people prefer to recruit those with abilities, or people who are able to fight. Shen Haiping looks like an ordinary person on the outside, and doesn’t have much muscle. But since he had used a gun and is able to shoot the designated target, he can be regarded as having good skill.

Guns are not as simple as ordinary people think. It isn’t as easy as aiming and firing. Not to mention the recoil from this kind of weapon can injure the shoulders of people who have not touched a firearm. And even those used to the relatively strong recoil can hurt their wrists if they are not careful, not to mention the difficult movement of shooting the target.

Shen Haiping is relatively spiritual.⁴as in lucky The gun he picked up, and a dozen rounds of bullets, allowed him to reach the door… he could be considered a talent.

He Zizhong nodded: “You are here to a the mission?” At the beginning, the Samsara team’s reputation was not very strong, because they did not recruit abilities with great fanfare. Most of the original team were veterans, and they also used hot weapons in combat. This team was built by the people in the convoy that He Zizhong had encountered before and stopped by the telephone poles.

“Yes, we came with the captain. He’s studying which mission to take.”

Fang Hao suddenly asked curiously, “Where is the other person in the warehouse last time? Didn’t he go back to the base with you?”

Liu Jiangfeng curled his lips and sneered: “At first, his car followed us. After we met the Samsara team, he woke up in the middle of the night to steal things from them… and was caught and ran away.” The team injured his leg and left him in the wilderness, but there was no need to reveal such things to others.