Early the next morning, the three of Hou Ying set off on their return journey.
On the way back to the city, he deliberately selected a few colony crystal nuclei biological areas that he had avoided before, and happened to meet a group of fourth-level zombie penguins led by fifth-level zombie penguins here. There are three fifth-level zombie penguins, hundreds of fourth-level zombie penguins, and not even a third-level penguin. Hou Ying originally wanted to avoid the number of crystal nuclei when she sensed the number of crystal nuclei, because when they hunted the fifth-level tropical fish near the penguin area, Dongfang Bai flew up in the air, and accidentally saw that it was where the penguins were. Of course, the three people who are the magic weapon for victory will not let this piece of fat fly away.
With this batch of penguin nuclei, the trip was rewarding.
Qiao Daye had already received the signal from Hou Ying and the others to return, and this day he also finished work early and went back to the temporary station to wait.
Ye Huizhong made dinner. Dongfang Bai almost burst into tears when he drank the hot fish soup and cut the giant crab claws with metal to eat the pink and white crab meat. Hou Ying's culinary skills are at the top level, but it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Without the help of Jiang Tao or Zhou Tianyi's fire ability, they have been eating dry food and drinking water that cannot be kept warm for the past few days.
Afraid that he would choke, Ji Yao held the warm fish soup and handed him a sip from time to time.
Dongfang Bai was touched and said: "Yaoji, you are the best. Unlike Houge and Xuanyuan, I am so tired and unloved." Thinking of yesterday's car shock, he was overwhelmed. After taking a sip of soup, he turned to the other side and was waiting The person who cut the crab legs thoughtfully said, "Gongsun, do you want me to cut them open for you?"
Ye Huizhong: "..."
Gongsun Jing who was discussing things with Hou Ying: "..."
Ji Yao let out a muffled laugh, gave Dongfang Bai a step down when he was suffering from embarrassment, returned to the topic and continued to ask him about his experiences these days.
Although the team still proceeded according to plan, they also consciously searched for some shellfish for pearls. The supernatural impurities in Wu Nan's body have also been cleared - originally the supernatural impurities in their bodies were not serious, so they were cleared very quickly.
Hou Ying said: "Tomorrow I will take a day off and concentrate on absorbing crystal nuclei. You all go to search for pearls as much as possible. The second day after tomorrow, you and Dongfang go back and send back a box of third-level crystal nuclei and the pearls you hunted tomorrow." You can tell Duan Yin about the particularity of the pearls, leave some for Miss Xiaozhen, and let her send the rest back to the Yellow River Base. The zombies around here have almost been cleaned up. The fourth-level area of the fifth-level area is deep."
No one objected to Hou Ying's arrangement.
Xuanyuanzhen was very pleasantly surprised when she learned the effectiveness of the energy contained in the pearls. She left three fourth-grade pearls in front of Duan Yin, and called Qi Qifan to deliver the rest to her parents in person.
Duan Yin was also very surprised by the effect of the pearl, but he was not envious.
On the one hand, he is not so greedy, because his ability is too special, he has not absorbed the zombie crystal nucleus before, and he completely relies on the energy transfer from Hou Ying to upgrade, so he has no worries about energy impurities. Before leaving, Hou Ying also deliberately helped him upgrade to level four, and complained helplessly to him about the lack of energy in his own body recently, and there was also a phenomenon of absorbing energy from teammates to feed back.
Hou Ying said it lightly at the time, but she told Duan Yin clearly with a hint of warning in a smile that was not a smile: If he dares to be sorry for Xuanyuan Zhen or violates the agreement between the two alliances, he can give him energy and he can also take it back at any time. .
Such estrangement did not make Duan Yin dissatisfied, or in other words, it was Hou Ying's attitude that made Duan Yin feel at ease.
Duan Yin is a person who is used to weighing pros and cons. There are many reasons for marrying the Xuanyuan family, one of which is the true feelings for Xuanyuan, but both he and Xuanyuan really understand that the Duan family is at a disadvantage in the current cooperation between the two. For the Xuanyuan family, Duan Yin will also seize that opportunity. And when the Duan family became a drag, the Xuanyuan family might have saved him because of Xuanyuanzhen, but they could give little help to the Duan family.
Duan Yin is confident that he can stick to his principles and will not do anything harmful to the Xuanyuan family, but with Hou Ying's threats or constraints, he can do many things freely.
Because this is also Duan Yin's sincerity to Xuanyuan's family, so that the cooperation between the two families will become closer in a real sense without any worries.
On the other hand, the Pearl River base will be in his pocket sooner or later. If the origin of pearls is controlled here, no matter what happens in the early stage, the Duan family will ultimately benefit.
There was absolutely no need for him to offend Xuanyuan's family and Hou Ying because of this petty gain in front of him.
One day was enough for Hou Ying to absorb the energy of the crystal cores that the team had recently hunted, but the half-carriage of zombie crystal cores did not allow Hou Ying to touch the seventh-level barrier.
This did not come as a surprise to everyone, so no disappointment. Hou Ying transmitted the mutated fire energy obtained from the zombie penguin crystal nucleus to Zhou Tianyi, allowing him to have the same fire attack ability as Jiang Tao, and then transmitted the extremely defensive water energy to Gongsun Jing. After replenishing the team with the energy consumed in the past few days, he properly stored the remaining energy in his body to prepare for the sprint to level seven.
Liu Zhandao: "Brother Hou broke through to level six at the beginning, based on the Xuanyuan family's crystal nucleus reserves, he absorbed more than ten million first-level and second-level crystal nuclei to break through to level six. It is also reasonable that the number of these crystal nuclei is not enough now Among them, we still have to make persistent efforts. Zombies and zombie creatures all over the ground can’t be killed. Don't worry too much."
This was for Li Xuanyuan, who was the one in the team who was most worried about Hou Ying's reappearance of zombie signs.
Hou Ying agreed: "Upgrading is second, everyone's safety is the most important."
Dongfang Bai and Qiao Daye went to the base to deliver crystal nuclei and pearls. After the others worked hard in the morning, Hou Ying arranged for a rest in the afternoon. People with supernatural powers are not made of iron, even after so many days, they still need to take a short vacation to rest.
At this time, Meng Hanghai hugged Li Hou, and the two of them sat together watching cartoons. He held Li Hou's little hand to tease him, and looked back at Hou Ying from time to time to distract himself from what the adults were saying.
"Tomorrow Xuanyuan, Dongfang and I will go to the junction of No. 1 and No. 2 Level 5 areas. After the cleaning is almost done, we will slowly move to No. 2 Level 5 areas. There is no special situation, and we still use six days as a cycle." Meet with everyone again. I expect that we will enter the fifth-level area as a team when there are at least three fifth-level abilities in the team."
The fifth-level area is closer to the coastline, and the creatures are more dense. The level of zombie biological abilities is generally above the third level, and even the second-level crystal nuclei are relatively rare.
Such a place is the current target of their team.
They all hope that day will come as soon as possible, because acting separately from Hou Ying, they are always a little uneasy, and because they do not have Hou Ying's perception of zombie crystal nuclei, they can only rely on the low-level experience of the Pearl River Base to deal with zombies and zombie creatures. Using a zombie creature searcher to vaguely define it can be said to be twice the result with half the effort, otherwise, with the level of their team's fourth-level ability users, it would not take six days to hunt half a car of crystal nuclei.
Step by step, Li Hou's team moved from the fifth-level area No. 1 to the fifth-level area No. 2, and moved to the fifth-level area No. 3 one month later.
The three sides of the fourth-level area have been almost cleaned up. Every six days on the return journey, Hou Ying will use that day to sense whether there is a fish that slipped through the net nearby, and will go deep into the next temporary station after cleaning up.
Once, when they returned to the temporary station after cleaning up, they encountered a lobster fight. Mutated lobsters and zombie lobsters fought in full swing under the searchlights, and the huge claws turned into metal claws and made a loud bang on the impact. Obviously, these nocturnal lobsters are metal supernatural creatures.
Hou Ying and the others didn't approach, and the two listened for a long time with their auditory abilities, until the winner was decided, and then they drove forward.
The zombie lobster has won a big victory. It is clamping the brain of the mutant lobster with its big claws, which is dying and unable to resist. The next scene is shocking.
Qiao Daye saw sharply that the zombie lobster did not eat the brains of the same kind of mutated creatures like those zombie creatures seen in the past, but used the big claws to pinch off the brain of the mutated lobster and stuff it under the abdomen. And the belly of the lobster has a saw-toothed feeding mouth. I don't know how to do it, but it is able to stuff the mutated lobster head, which is twice the size of the zombie lobster's belly, into the weird saw-tooth mouth.
Hou Ying also saw it, he stopped the team from advancing, and said, "Wait until they finish eating."
Praying mantises catch cicadas, and snipe and clams compete with each other. Naturally, they prefer to be weasels and fishermen. When the zombie lobster absorbs the essence of the mutated lobster's ability, and the energy of the ability is more abundant, it will not be too late for them to do it.
Qiao Daye swallowed his saliva, and said in a low voice: "There are so many wonders in the world, even the lobster has two mouths... Hey, brother monkey, I forgot to take a picture."
In addition to hunting and killing crystal nuclei, they also have a major mission, which is to collect information on all kinds of zombies or mutant creatures they encounter, for reference by the supernatural beings at the base, and provide them with targeted, comprehensive information for their future operations. Guided auxiliary instructions, indicating the weaknesses and escape skills of these zombie creatures.
Compared with marine creatures and zombies, the number of human supernatural beings is too small. If you want to win more with less, you must not fight unprepared.
And before Hou Ying's supernatural energy accumulated enough to break through the seven-level supernatural barrier, Xuanyuanzhen finally sent good news—the Pearl River base was completed!