Coupled with the loss of so much manpower in each base, I don't know how much benefits I will ask for from the research base. In short, following the team back will face all kinds of trivial troubles. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian don't want to be locked up again. In the cave, you have to sneak out every day to collect life energy.
The three simply took the opportunity to leave the convoy and seized the remaining mission time to focus on collecting life energy.
They are strong enough to protect themselves, and they have enough food to not worry about starvation. Before, if it wasn't to complete the possible hidden extension tasks, they didn't need to force themselves to stay in the convoy. Now they can explore freely.
Of course, it is still beneficial to have contact with the human team, not only to quickly familiarize yourself with the mission world, but also to provide them with powerful props, life bottles.
The life bottles of the other two groups of people who were damaged at the Horsko Base were all recovered by ghost bats and became the collection of Xia Ruize and the three of them. They ran around and worked hard to fill all the life bottles.
Two days later, the three people who were filled with all the remaining bottles of life but couldn't absorb them all suddenly found that they had nothing to do.
Without the temptation of life energy, no one is willing to take the initiative to find those disgusting living corpses to fight, the apocalypse world is desolate and dilapidated, and the scenery is not to be seen. The three have to approach a human survivor base and prepare to enter the survivor base to try to collect more lives. bottle.
There is a tall city wall on the periphery of the survivor base, and a large number of laborers in the corner are working hard to continue to increase and thicken the city wall.
As outsiders who entered the city for the first time, the three Xia Ruize were interrogated for a long time. After the interrogation, they were sent to a special area for observation for half an hour to rule out the risk of being infected by a living corpse. Enter this base called "Light".
They are not completely ignorant of the Guangming Base. Previously, the Guangming Base also sent a team to the research base to participate in the search mission. Along the way, the three had contact with the team members from the Guangming Base.
But what they heard was different from what they saw with their own eyes. The three of them looked at this settlement established by humans after the end of the world with curiosity.
The streets are not wide, they are very simple, there are not many people on the road, and the temperament is distinct, some are lean but strong, and the momentum is sturdy, and the other is thin and weak.
There was a smile on the face that was almost invisible, and some were just numb and vigilant.
In the apocalypse, transportation was inconvenient, and few people would rush back and forth between the various bases. There were familiar faces in and out of the bases. Now three new faces suddenly appeared, and the lean and sturdy passersby cast vigilant glances.
The three Xia Ruize who suddenly appeared here are too out of place. Let's not talk about their outstanding looks, just look at their clean clothes and white faces. They are completely different from the gray-faced people around them. Added a few splashes of vibrant color.
Bathed in all kinds of eyes, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian continued their shopping as if they were no one else and found a grocery store with the largest area and the most comprehensive products on a street with more people.
The shop owner sat in the corner reading the newspaper, raised his eyelids and looked at the three Xia Ruize who walked in. He was clean and fresh, um, although his face was raw, he knew at a glance that he was rich.
The store sells food and weapons, but after searching around, they can't find the life bottle they need.
"Boss, is there a bottle of life?"
Xia Ruize asked the shop owner with a try.
The shopkeeper raised his eyelids and replied casually:
"The goods are there; it depends on whether you can afford them."
"What payment do you accept here?"
Xia Ruize came to be interested, as long as you have the goods, more life bottles can take away more life energy, and you can slowly absorb it after returning to the endless world.
"Food, rare goods, and life energy will do."
The shopkeeper looked lazily at the newspaper at hand, and seemed to have little interest in whether this business could be done.
Xia Ruize pulled out a 10kg bag of flour from the backpack behind him and asked, "Can this bag of flour be replaced?"
"Hahaha, Xiao housheng, you have to exchange twenty bags of this kind of flour."
After seeing the goods in Xia Ruize's hand, the shop owner laughed out loud for Xia Ruize's innocence, and finally got up and explained in detail:
"Life bottles are low in quantity and high in price, and ordinary people can't afford them. If you exchange food for 200 kilograms of noodles or rice. Rare goods are mainly cigarettes, wine, and candy. If you use life energy..."
Saying that, the shopkeeper took out a sealed glass jar from the cabinet next to it and placed it in front of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, pointing to the glass jar, "A jar of life energy can be exchanged for a life bottle."
Cheng Huaiqian took out his own bottle of life from his chest pocket and placed it next to the glass jar, making a request:
"We have life energy; we want to see the goods."
There is also different quality of life bottles. The life bottles in the hands of the three people are mainly from the research base, and they are of the best quality.
Facing a bag of flour without fluctuations, the shopkeeper saw the bottle of life in Cheng Huaiqian's hands with eager greed. It is very simple to distinguish the quality of the bottle of life, just look at the size of the bottle and the transparency of the bottle.
The experienced store owner could see at a glance that Cheng Huaiqian took out a super high-quality bottle of life. The owner had to admit that he had only seen such a large and crystal-clear bottle of life once or twice.
Staring greedily at the bottle of life in Cheng Huaiqian's hands, the owner turned around and walked into the warehouse at the back of the store. Only translucent palm-sized bottle of life.
"It's a little small." Xia Ruize commented in Xinwang, with a pity, "It can't hold much life energy."
"One is not enough; how many do you have?"
Cheng Huaiqian put his hand on Xia Ruize's shoulder, patted it soothingly, and continued to ask the store owner. Their idea is to collect as much life energy as possible before leaving the mission world. Of course, a small life bottle is not enough.
The store owner looked at Cheng Huaiqian with brighter eyes and a more attentive attitude:
"The production of life bottles is really very small. The base is strictly controlled by the officials. I only have five here. How many do you want?"
Xia Ruize frowned slightly. The store owner seemed to be more friendly on the surface, but the maliciousness that suddenly erupted in him was probably his real thoughts, which made people uncomfortable.
Cheng Huaiqian was even happier when he was reminded by his lover, and eagerly said, "Want to plot against us? Okay, then let's have a black hole."
Xia Ruize tried his best to hold down the corners of his mouth that he wanted to raise. He had probably guessed what his lover wanted to do.
Soon, the expectant Cheng Huaiqian and the excited shopkeeper negotiated a big deal of exchanging fifteen bottles of life energy for five life bottles. The two sides ended the transaction harmoniously and amicably. The shopkeeper personally sent the three out of the shop.
Looking at the back of the three of them leaving, the smile on the owner's face couldn't help but become more sincere and pleasant. He smiled so much that he could barely see his eyes. From the small gap, it was full of malice.
"Five bottles of life are still too few. Of course, the more opportunities there are, the better."
Cheng Huaiqian's voice was full of joy, and he was keenly aware that someone was already following them in the dark.
This task world is an apocalyptic world without the shackles of law and morality. If they follow the local customs, they can also change their way of doing things.
Xia Ruize met his lover's expectant eyes, and finally couldn't help laughing along.
As for Gao Hexuan, he was just following the two bosses with his body, and his attention was always on the internal network of Guangming Base.
The Guangming Base has an intranet, which is only used by the bigwigs of various forces for communication and use.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were unfamiliar with the terrain, went further and further, and inadvertently walked into an unoccupied alley. Suddenly, four people in black clothes and hoods covering their entire faces appeared at the fork in the road ahead, blocking their way. At the same time, the way from behind was also blocked by five men in black who suddenly appeared.
The man in black who had been in ambush for a long time didn't talk nonsense at all and started to attack as soon as he appeared. There were actually two power users inside, firing fireballs and metal blades, and the others raised their guns to shoot.
Their movements were fast, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian moved faster, they pressed their feet hard, and one of them jumped forward and the other suddenly jumped out. The people in black only felt a flash in front of their eyes, and the next second, the ambush target had appeared in front of them.
How could they be so fast?!
The intuition of the man in black issued a bad warning, but the reaction was still slow. In the blink of an eye, he felt a heavy blow to his head, and he fainted in front of his eyes.
Some of those who fainted were because they were mentally attacked by Xia Ruize, and some were really knocked unconscious by the mace in Cheng Huaiqian's hand.
The gold-type power user among the men in black stood at the back. Fortunately, he did not fall down in the first wave of attacks, but he looked at the ambush target who was agile, fast, and could not even catch up with the power attack. Looking at the companion who fell softly to the ground, in horror, he turned and ran away without any hesitation.
The gold-type power user, who looked back while escaping frantically, noticed that the two demon-like targets did not catch up, and relaxed a little.
so horrible! How could they target such a terrifying target?! The intelligence is seriously wrong. Could it be that someone deliberately wanted to send him to death?
The gold-type ability user who escaped from the dead was emotional, and all kinds of speculations and conspiracies were rolling in his head. Of course, these did not affect his continued strength under his feet and quickly ran towards a safe place.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian stunned the other eight men in black except the gold-type power user, carefully took their life bottles from the fallen people, and found that the quality was better than the ones they bought from the black shop, so they were in a happy mood. I went to chase the gold-type power user who escaped first.
The speed is as fast as the mutants can't escape their pursuit, not to mention the ordinary human beings, the two chased easily and casually.
Frightened and eager to find organizational reports and comforts, the gold-type ability user rushed towards the base camp of the force without stopping. The strength of his ghost fox hunting team can be ranked in the top three in the Guangming base, and the team leader has a deep official. The background is a big force that cannot be provoked in the Guangming Base.
On the most prosperous central street of Guangming Base, their team has a shop, which is not only the financial source of the team, but also an intelligence point. Core members like him will occasionally receive orders from the leader to attack some targeted people. Those who are capable are used to it, how can I expect that this time I will encounter a hard stubble, not only did not succeed, but instead hit a **** head.