RLDRFH Chapter 62

Hearing Fang Hao say the space was foggy, He Zizhong was a little excited as he mentally peered inside. Seeing the situation in the space, he nodded. “It is fog. Although it is still very light, it should be the same as last time. It seems the amount of crystal nuclei required after evolving once has increased a lot.” He did not know how much the energy provided by level 1 and level 2 crystal nuclei differed, only that they had absorbed all the crystal nuclei buried in the base!

The number of crystal nuclei absorbed those couple of nights should be several times more than the first space upgrade. But even so, it didn’t cause much change to the space. It wasn’t until now, after the dumpling swallowed another level 2 crystal nucleus last night, that the white mist appeared again.

“Before I thought that the crystal nucleus that was swallowed by Tuanzi would not have any effect on the space. Now it seems that even if it swallows it, the space will still absorb some energy. Maybe it’s the light released after consuming crystal nuclei, or maybe there’s some link between it and the space. In any case, it’s not a waste to let it eat those things.” With that, He Zizhong finally felt better and raised his hand to rub Tuanzi’s head.

Tuanzi squinted its eyes. Although it didn’t know why papa was touching it, but it would not resist such a comfortable massage. En en¹yes, yes, it must be that he was just repenting flicking its forehead earlier, so he came to pacify it~

Fang Hao also relaxed, smiled and patted the meaty head as well, as he handed juice to He Zizhong. “Drink some, the crystal core is not wasted.”

He Zizhong laughed and took the water bottle with one hand. How can this be counted as wasted? Think of it as raising a son who consumes crystal nuclei. Although this son only knows to eat, and has not called ‘dad’ yet.

After wrapping up Tuanzi’s ‘trial’, white light condensed on Fang Hao’s palm as he treated the place where He Zizhong was bumped last night through his clothes. Their luck was pretty good last night, since there was a meat shield in front of them that prevented any major injuries. Only He Zizhong was a little bruised because his body was hit when he was repelled by the monster.

 

Today’s road is noticeably more difficult to drive than yesterday. Buildings and residential complexes gradually appeared on both sides of the road.

The closer they were to the waterfront, the more the number of buildings there were.

When they turned into district H of city F, the zombies on the road changed from one or two scattered zombies to small groups of three to five dangling on the street.

“All cars be careful, be ready to speed through this section of the road. All cars be careful, be ready to speed through this section of the road.” There was a voice from the walkie-talkie. Fang Hao, who was driving, quickly raised his head to be careful and prepared at any time to accelerate and keep up with the car in front.

The leading car in the convoy accelerated suddenly and rushed forward wildly. The zombies on the road were hit by the accelerating car. Some unlucky ones were smashed directly.

The first few cars are all refitted with first-class sturdy and crash-resistant armor. At this moment, the three strongest cars took turns maintaining the lead position, alternately smashing through the zombies and obstacles blocking the road, to try to even out the loss of each car equally.

Fang Hao faintly noticed the cars alternating in front of him with some admiration and envy in his eyes: “Zizhong, have they learned drag racing? They all have very good driving skills.”

Learn drag racing? The coach of the driving school will cry.

He Zizhong smiled and touched Fang Hao’s hair: “You probably don’t have much car racing experience.”

The Samsara team ran into everything that they could hit and crushed everything that blocked the road without pause. Driving in the direction of the dock warehouse, the sound of the engine attracted countless zombies.

When everyone arrived near the dock warehouse, there were already some zombies on the street rushing over as a group. There were even more scattered zombies swaying in the direction of the warehouse. A member of the team in charge of using his wind ability to scout who climbed up a building with a binoculars passed an unfavorable message from the walkie-talkie: “Captain, there are many zombies surrounding the no. 31 warehouse. I suspect there are people inside.”

“Can we go around?”

“I’m afraid not. The other road is blocked by a few collapsed containers.”

“The road is blocked.” Guo Bing said to his side. Several people explained in a low voice, “We are going to Warehouse no. 17, and we must pass by no. 31.”

“How many zombies are there?” He Zizhong asked after thinking about it.

A voice came from the walkie-talkie for a while: “At least one or two hundred.”

Even when He Zizhong and Fang Hao went out to find zombies to practice, they didn’t dare approach a group of one or two hundred zombies. Think about it – even one or two hundred living people before the end of the world will be enough to crush one or two people alive.

“One or two hundred…” Guo Bing touched his chin, “It’s not cost-effective to fight hard. That many will inevitably cause accidental injuries. Once infected, it will be over.”

He Zizhong turned his gaze to the nearby road: “Then we can only find a way to distract them, or stop them somewhere.”

A team member suddenly asked: “Can’t you use fire? There are a lot of scattered cars around here, there should be a lot of gasoline in them?”

“This… it’s not impossible…”

“I don’t know if there are any combustibles in the nearby warehouse, if it ignites accidentally…” He Zizhong reminded that there are warehouses and containers everywhere nearby. If something went wrong… There are few good things, it would be a pity if they were burned by mistake.

Chen Ning, the vice captain, who was silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up: “Don’t forget, there is a garage nearby. If we accidentally burn too much, we won’t be able to get the cars we want to get this time.”

The team member shrank his neck and stopped speaking.

“Boss! The zombies that followed are coming soon! Some of them are moving much quicker!”

“Copy. Guys, let’s clean them up first, pay attention to noise, and don’t attract more over.” Guo Bing immediately got up and commanded everyone to prepare for the fight.

He Zizhong and Fang Hao stayed in the same position. Although the running zombies heading were fast, they were still first-level zombies, not the zombies with speed abilities.

Fortunately, when the convoy first arrived the dock, the speed of the motorcade was very fast, so even if there were zombies chasing behind, they gained a long distance from the scattered zombies. Some lost their goals on the way, and wandered off randomly. Those who managed to follow either ran faster or were closer to the dock.

The group of people copied the guys in front of them, so except for the wounded in the car, the rest of the people were dispatched collectively, and the scattered zombies were cleaned up. He Zizhong and Fang Hao didn’t attend their mobile phone meeting, and happily took the time to rest.

Several team members went ahead to dig out crystal nuclei from the zombie heads after the battle was over. Shen Haiping was one of them. Cutting off a zombie’s head with an explosion-proof axe in his hand, his features distorted as he pulled a small crystal nucleus from the white and black viscous liquid. Using two fingers covered with rubber gloves to pinch the crystal core out, he threw it into the plastic bottle he carried. Every few steps, he took a deep breath. “Digging like this every day, dozens of times a day, one will go crazy after a long time.”

A fellow Samsara player patted his shoulder with a grin. “Come on, there are still one or two hundred zombies waiting for you to do a craniotomy.”

Shen Haiping almost vomited, his face pale and stared at the bottle in his hand: “This thing should really be as useful as those people spread, otherwise, wait for the base scientists to come and say, ‘This thing has been researched and found – nothing at all.’ At that time, I’ll have to put this thing in the mouth of the mission administrators!”

Fang Hao smiled and watched him go crazy, while He Zizhong asked Chen Ning, the vice captain of the Samsara team: “Has the base said what this thing is for?”

Chen Ning shook his head. “It seems that they are still studying the crystal nuclei, but said it was…”

Zhao Long on the side suddenly interrupted with an explanation: “According to people who have read many apocalyptic novels.”

Chen Ning ignored it as he continued to explain: “—Since this was discovered in the head of a zombie, it may have some effect in the future. Some people suspect it can improve the ability of an ability user, but no one has discovered what it actually doest or how to use it.” His eyes swept over the bottle in Shen Haiping’s hand with a bit of disgust. Those things were dug out from zombies’ heads… if later research showed it needed to be consumed to work, he would rather never upgrade his power!

“There are no zombies heading our way for the time being. Let’s study how to get there before.” After Guo Bing confirmed the safety of the rearguard, he waved to everyone again. To reach their target warehouse, they had to pass through warehouse no. 31. Although they can also go around the roofs and walls of other warehouses, they have to take a lot of things and it was impossible to drove through. In addition, the other warehouse they targeted required going on the section of road.

“We have three main targets this time – no. 17, no. 5, and no. 22. Warehouse no. 22 has imported cars, so we can go to no. 5 at the end. There are medicines, weapons at no. 17. We should retrieve the weapons first, then go to warehouse no.5, so that subsequent operations will be much safer. The question now is how to attract the zombies safely…”

Chen Ning raised his eyebrow, pointing at the map. “Can we lure them to another warehouse?

There are no other things nearby, only many warehouses and courtyards. There is a big yard next to warehouse no. 33 and 35.

“How can we attract them so they stay?” Guo Bing asked, “Most zombies move in a straight light. If they rely on sound alone, I guess they will slap the wall stupidly, instead of using the door. Who is going to lure them safely? Can they lead them to another warehouse compound?”

It’s better to have someone attract the attention of the zombies, but how to survive safely was another matter…

“Well, we can rely on the fence.” He Zizhong suddenly pointed to the tall fence around some warehouses not far away. Everyone’s eyes lit up when they heard the sound. Yes! They can stand on the fence as long as they confirm there are no mutant zombies that are able to jump on the wall!” The question now is what’s in warehouse no. 31 that attracted so many zombies to surround it…?

Everyone wore pensive expressions as their eyes focused in the direction of warehouse no. 31.