Coupled with the loss of so many manpower in each base, I don't know how much benefit I will ask for from the research base. In short, going back with the convoy 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 rest of the task time to focus on collecting life energy.
They are strong enough to protect themselves, have enough food in the space, and don’t worry about starving. If it wasn’t for completing possible hidden extension tasks before, they didn’t need to force themselves to stay in the convoy. Now they can explore freely.
Of course, it is still beneficial to be in contact with the human team. Not only can you quickly familiarize yourself with the mission world, but it also provides them with powerful props and life bottles.
All the life bottles lost on the other two groups of people in the Hall base were recovered by ghost bats and became the collections of Xia Ruize and the others. They ran around trying to fill all the life bottles.
Two days later, the three of them who filled all the spare life bottles but could not 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 fight those disgusting living corpses. The world in the last days is desolate and dilapidated, and the scenery is not to be seen. The three of them had to approach a human survivor base, preparing 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 heighten and thicken the city wall. There are guards guarding the city gate, and strict inspections are carried out on people entering and leaving.
As foreigners entering the city for the first time, the three of 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 living corpses. It took more than an hour to finally Enter this base named "Brightness".
They are not completely ignorant of the Guangming base. Before that, the Guangming base also sent a team to the research base to participate in the search mission. Along the way, the three of them 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 looked curiously at this settlement built by humans after the end of the world.
The streets are not wide, but very simple. There are not many people passing by on the road, and their temperaments are distinct. Some of them are lean but strong and have a strong momentum, while the other parts are skinny and weak.
There was almost no smile on anyone's face, but only numbness and vigilance.
Transportation is inconvenient in the apocalyptic world. Few people would scurry back and forth between the various bases. They were familiar faces when they often entered and exited the bases. Now three new faces suddenly appeared, and the thin and tough passers-by cast their vigilant gazes one after another.
Xia Ruize and the three who suddenly appeared here are too out of place. Let's not talk about their outstanding looks, just look at their clean clothes and fair faces. They are completely different from the gray-headed people around them. Added a few pops of vibrant color.
Bathed in all kinds of gazes, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian continued to shop calmly, as if entering a deserted area, and found a grocery store with the largest area and the most complete range of products on a street with more people.
The shop owner sat in the corner and read the newspaper, raised his eyelids and looked at the three Xia Ruize who walked in. They were refreshed and clean. Well, although they looked raw, they could be seen as rich people.
The store sells food and weapons, but after searching around, they couldn't find the life bottle that the three of them needed.
"Boss, do you have the life bottle?"
Xia Ruize asked the shopkeeper with a try attitude.
The shopkeeper raised his eyelids and replied casually:
"The goods are available, it depends on whether you can afford the price."
"What payment do you accept here?"
Xia Ruize is interested, as long as there are goods, more life bottles can take away more life energy, and can be slowly absorbed after returning to the endless world.
"Food, rare goods, and life energy are all fine."
The owner looked lazily at the newspaper in hand, as if he had little interest in whether the business could be done.
Xia Ruize pulled out a bag of ten kilograms of flour from the backpack on his back and asked, "Can this bag of flour be exchanged?"
"Hahaha, young man, you have to exchange twenty bags of this kind of flour."
After seeing the goods in Xia Ruize's hands, the shop owner laughed out loud at Xia Ruize's innocence, and finally lifted his spirits and explained in detail:
"The bottle of life is small in quantity and high in price. Most people can't afford it. If you exchange food, two hundred kilograms of noodles or rice. Rare goods, mainly cigarettes, wine, and candy. If you use life energy..."
With that said, 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 life bottle from his breast pocket and placed it next to the glass jar, making a request:
"We have life energy, we need to see the goods."
The life bottles are also of high or low quality. The life bottles in the hands of the three are mainly from the research base, and they are of the best quality. If the quality of the life bottles in the store is too poor, they may not be interested in them.
The shopkeeper, who was looking at a bag of flour without fluctuation, saw eager greed flashing in the eyes of the bottle of life in Cheng Huaiqian's hand. It is very simple to distinguish the quality of the bottle of life, just look at the size and transparency of the bottle.
The experienced store owner could tell at a glance that what Cheng Huaiqian took out was a super high-quality life bottle. The store owner had to admit that he had only seen such a big, crystal-clear life bottle once or twice.
Greedily staring at the bottle of life in Cheng Huaiqian's hand, the owner turned around and walked into the warehouse at the back of the store, took out a brocade box, held it in his arms, opened the lid to the three of them, and saw a man lying inside. A translucent palm-sized bottle of life.
"It's a bit small." Xia Ruize commented on Xinwang, with a regretful tone, "It can't hold much life energy."
"One is not enough, how many do you have?"
Cheng Huaiqian put his arm around Xia Ruize's shoulder, patted him reassuringly, and continued to ask the shopkeeper. 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 shopkeeper looked at Cheng Huaiqian with brighter eyes and a more attentive attitude:
"The output of life bottles is really very small, and the base officials control them very strictly. I only have five here. How many do you want?"
Xia Ruize frowned slightly, the store's attitude was more friendly on the surface, but the sudden malice that erupted from him was probably the real thought in his heart, which made people uncomfortable.
Cheng Huaiqian was even happier when he was reminded by his lover, eager to try, "You want to plot against us? Okay, then let's have a fight."
Xia Ruize tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that were about to turn up. He probably already guessed what his lover wanted to do.
Soon, Cheng Huaiqian, who was full of expectations, and the excited store owner negotiated a big deal of exchanging fifteen bottles of life energy for five life bottles.
Seeing the back of the three leaving, the shopkeeper couldn't help but smile more sincerely and cheerfully. He smiled so much that he almost lost sight of his eyes. From the small gaps, there was full of malice.
"Five life bottles 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 in the dark had followed them.
This task world is the end of the world without legal and moral constraints. They can change their way of doing things when they go to the countryside to do as the Romans do.
Xia Ruize met his lover's expectant eyes, and finally couldn't help but laugh along with him.
As for Gao Hexuan, he was just following the two bosses with his body, and his attention was always focused on the internal network of the Guangming Base.
The Guangming base has an intranet, which is only used by the leaders of various forces to communicate and use. There are a lot of useless news on it. Occasionally, useful news will be shared with the two bosses immediately.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were not familiar with the terrain, walked more and more sideways, and accidentally came to a deserted alley. Suddenly, four people in black clothes and hoods appeared at the fork in front of them, 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 supernatural beings inside, firing fireballs and metal blades, and the others raised their guns to shoot.
Their movements were fast, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian's movements were even faster, with their feet exerting force, the two of them jumped forward and backward, one by one, the people in black only felt a blur in front of their eyes, and the next second, the ambush target had appeared in front of their eyes .
How could their speed 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 the head, and he fainted to the ground in front of his eyes.
Some of the people who fainted were caused by Xia Ruize's mental attack, while some were actually knocked unconscious by the mace in Cheng Huaiqian's hand.
Among the men in black, the gold-type ability user stood at the back, and was lucky not to fall down in the first wave of attacks, but he looked at the ambush target who was agile and fast, and couldn't even catch up with the ability attack. Then he looked at his companion who was lying limp on the ground. Under the panic, he turned and ran away without the slightest hesitation.
While fleeing frantically, the gold-type superhuman who looked back noticed that the two demonic targets hadn't caught up, and felt a little relieved.
horrible! How could they focus on such a terrifying target? ! The intelligence was seriously wrong. Could it be that someone deliberately wanted to send him to die
The gold-type supernatural being who escaped from the dead was emotional, and his head was full of various speculations and conspiracies. Of course, these did not affect his continued strength on his feet, and he quickly ran towards a safe place.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian stunned the other eight black-clothed men except the gold-type superhumans, 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 happy It's time to chase down the gold-type supernatural being who escaped first.
The speed is as fast as mutants, and they can't escape their pursuit, let alone humans with ordinary strength, the two chase easily and casually.
Frightened and eager to seek organizational reports and comfort, the gold-type superhumans rushed all the way to the base camp of their forces without stopping. The strength of the fox hunting team he belonged to ranked among the top three in the Guangming base, and the leader of the team also had 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 owns a shop, which is not only the team's financial source, 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, so how could they expect to encounter a hard stubble this time. Not only did they fail, but they got blood on the head.