Chapter 106

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Chapter 106- Apocalypse (7)

Looking at the lists on the mission board, the missions could be roughly divided into two categories; either killing zombies or foraging for supplies. Killing zombies was based on the zombie’s crystals. The simplest mission was to fight ten ordinary zombies and return with the crystals of the ten zombies, only then would the mission count as completed successfully.

And as for the supplies, it was just transporting the supplies to designated locations. Almost all of the supplies nearby had already been collected, so one must travel farther to get the supplies and this journey would take at least two or three days. Compared to the zombie mission, this kind of supply foraging and finding mission had a lot less people picking it up. But this mission couldn’t be randomly tackled; If you did not complete your mission within a month, your name would be erased. In other words, you would no longer be a member of the base. So one could not take missions lightly.

“Are we going to take on a mission? Gu Anran inquired as Mu Qingli pondered over the mission board.

“The main material we need is cement. Before all the gasoline is used up, we should drive to a distant place to gather as many materials as possible.”

Along the entire journey, Gu Anran had collected almost thirty barrels worth of gasoline. So driving for another month was not a problem. In addition, there were a lot of firearms and food in the car. The only thing that they really needed was cement. Since there are only a few areas in the region that had cement and it was impossible for there to be an unlimited supply of cement in the cities.

And because it was a rather long distance from here to the cement plants, almost no one was willing to grapple with such a task. Because of this, the points earned for collecting cement were extremely high. It was at 500 points per kilogram compared to the meager 100 points for killing ten zombies. It was possible to go out and earn about 5000 points for collecting the cement. But, it required a car and gasoline plus it would take one far away from the base’s safety. One’s safety was rather important so although the points earned would be high, it was also an extremely prohibitive and daunting task.

“Then take a supply collecting mission! Cement or food?” Hong Qingyi declared this with a pompous swagger.

“Qingli, we should focus on collecting cement for now and the outer walls are crucial for our prolonged survival.” Chi Mengyan suggested this to Mu Qingli.

“I know.” Mu Qingli lowered her head in thought and sucked in a breath as she seeked a mission for collecting cement. The above instructions indicated that the points were counted according to the number of kilograms collected. It was 500 points per kilogram. This kind of task was more suitable for them. There was also another task that instructed them to look for food and the points earned were to be calculated according to what type of food they found, which was considered to be a mission that had comparatively more freedom.

“Qingli, we have finished registering the team.” Duan Hongwu walked over with six badges, handing them over to each of them.”

Gu Anran observed the design on the surface, en, it was a pair of dragons, one black and one azure, it was handsome indeed.

Duan Wu continued to explain: “Our current team only has six people. If we want to increase the number, you can come back later and post a recruitment notice.”

“I see.” Mu Qingli responded while holding the badge in hand, and then waved at Chi Mengyan and Song Wenyan, “You guys find the previous group and find some ability users that we are lacking.”

“Understood.”

“Alright.”

The two nodded and left quickly. Gu Anran watched their retreating backs while lost in thought. For the upcoming long journey, they will need to gather at least 20 people if they wish to collect everything.

Soon after, Chi Mengyan and Song Wenyan brought back in tow more than a dozen people, including three Tier-3 ability users, one Tier-4 strength-type user, one Tier-3 and one Tier 2 speed-type ability users, two Tier-3 fire ability users, one Tier-3 water ability user, a Tier 3 telekinesis ability user, two Tier-3 earth ability users, one Tier-2 X-Ray vision ability user, one Tier-4 darkness ability user and two Tier 3 invisibility users.

With two Tier 2 users, fourteen Tier 3 users, and eight Tier 4 users, this team could be said to be the strongest there is. Furthermore, most of them were subordinates under Mu Qingli and Duan Hongwu, so there was no need to be wary of their loyalty, and there would be no such situation as different internal factions vying for power.

“Eldest Young Miss!”

“Young Master!”

The people of the Black Dragon and Azure Dragon Triads who had just been selected to join Mu Qingli and Duan Hongwu’s team could not restrain the excitement on their faces.

Mu Qingli had already roughly explained to them about the contents of the mission they accepted. Seeing that there were no problems, she had told them to pack up and set off in ten minutes.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, probably didn’t expect that after just joining, they would have to set out on a mission!

Gu Anran sighed as she sat in the car. Since there were other people, there was no need for them to drive. In addition to four cars, there were also three trucks. It could be said that this is quite a big commotion. If it wasn’t for the fact that they were leaving through the side door, everyone would have known they were going out.

Suddenly, a hand was placed on her forehead.

“You should take a break if you’re tired. Save your energy for the right time.” Mu Qingli softly advised.

“….Okay….” Gu Anran nodded. Since there was nothing good to look at outside, she merely closed her eyes and leaned against Mu Qingli’s shoulder to take a quick nap.

Mu Qingli looked at Gu Anran’s sleeping face with an unfathomable gaze that people could not see through and then she looked out the window. It was not known what she was thinking about.

When Gu Anran awoke later, she found that the team was cooking and the smell of food saturated the surrounding air. It stood to reason that people nowadays were happy if they could simply eat some compressed biscuits or some bread. It was only Gu Anran and her team that were more particular about food, and the quality of their food was many times better than the others. The biggest indicator was the pot with the steaming, bubbling braised pork. As the stew turned over while it boiled, one could see meat chunks, chicken drumsticks, and other meats floating in it. Just how many people would envy them to death if they could see this?

“Anran, eat.” Mu Qingli held out a large bowl, which contained many plant roots, such as potatoes, radishes, etc. It was covered in a lot of meat in addition to a large chicken drumstick. Just looking at it would make someone’s stomach rumble.

“Thank you!” Gu Anran ate the delicious food. In today’s apocalyptic world, only eating was the most healing activity.

Hiss….suddenly a subtle sound reverberated out. Gu Anran’s ears twitched before she vigilantly stood up.

“Anran, what’s the matter”? Hong Qingyi asked while eating.

“There was a sound just now, the sound of something scraping against the ground.” Gu Anran frowned and looked around. In addition to cars, there were also some buildings surrounding them. There was a forest about a hundred meters away, but their camp was located far away from the forest due to the frightening mutated plants in the forest.

“Hmm? Feng Di.” Mu Qingli’s brows furrowed and called the telekinetic ability user over.

“Eldest Young Miss.” Feng Di immediately ran over and stood at attention next to Mu Qingli.

“Explore the area in the vicinity.” Mu Qingli commanded.

“Understood.” Feng Di did not ask any further and just closed her eyes. Her ability was a type of psychic power that allowed her to detect any abnormalities in the surrounding using psychic energy and then transmit all such info into the mind. It could not be said to be an offensive power, but it was a very useful scouting ability. After a few seconds, Feng Di’s expression changed drastically.

“Eldest Young Miss, we have beens surrounded by a group of snakes.”

Snakes! Gu Anran immediately shot out of her seat after hearing this. When it comes to the apocalypse, the most troublesome threats to deal with were the mutated animals. Rats were the most troublesome, followed by snakes. They moved extremely fast and were not easy to kill. One must hit them exactly at their vital points, about 7 inches below its head, in order to kill it.

“Everyone get up! Enter battle formation A!” Duan Hongqu shouted.

Gu Anran waved her hand and the cars were immediately stowed away into her bracelet. The current space in her bracelet had reached 300 square meters. Keeping these cars here would be problematic because they were afraid that snakes would try to hide in them later and it also got in the way of fighting as it blocked one’s line of sight.

They quickly formed a circle with those without any offensive abilities standing on the inside holding guns while those with offensive powers stood outside and a tight protective circle. Everyone moved quickly and got into their places.

Hiss, hissssss…..the sound was so loud that now everyone was able to hear it. Nearly a hundred snakes slowly slithered out from around them, each about as thick as an adult male’s arm, two feet long, and had gleaming red eyes in addition to vile smelling green saliva dripping from their fangs.

“Peng Dechang.” Duan Hongwu lowly shouted.

A young man beside him immediately stretched out his hand and a black fog immediately roiled into appearance about two meters away from the group. This was the attack skill of the darkness ability user. They could deploy a type of fog that was extremely corrosive and regarded as a very formidable and malicious form of attack.

Jiiiii!!!

Piercing cries sounded out and some of the snakes that came into contact with the black fog rolled in pain and their heads began to fester as wounds appeared on their scales. However, because the fog had not touched their deadly vital spots, the wounds were not fatal, so they did not die. But the mutant animals were not immune to pain like the zombies.. They were still animals, and had simply evolved into bloodthirsty monsters with high attack power.

Mutant animals did not react to the deaths of their comrades and even used the bodies of their brethren to cross over, but their numbers had thinned by now and the remaining snakes were soon taken care of by everyone else.

Gu Anran waved her hand and a wall of water appeared between the fog and the group as Mu Qingli followed up with a lightning ball. Since water could conduct electricity, it immediately began to intensely sparkle and many scorched snake corpses hit the ground.

Soon, these snakes had been taken care of, but this was just the beginning. The crisis had not been resolved just yet, because Feng Di notified that another group of snakes was on its way over.

This time, these snakes were incomparable to the previous snakes. There were more than two hundred snakes and the smallest of them was the width of a thigh and three meters long, while the largest had the width of a water bucket and was five meters long. Although only five of the snakes were five meters long.

Gu Anran immediately expanded and heightened the water wall, but for these snakes the lightning only scorched their scales at most but their internal organs had not been harmed, and it could not be considered life threatening.

“For those with the speed ability, remember to hit the snake seven inches below its head!” Mu Qingli shouted out a command and the people with the speed ability rushed out from the crowd, including Hong Qingyi, leaving only afterimages after their wake.

“Everyone else, focus on delaying the snakes, don’t let them get too close. If you can kill them, kill!” Duan Hongwu also shouted out.

Everyone moved as one and Gu Anran used a water whip to entangle nearly twenty snakes as the other ability users immediately released their killing abilities to kill the snakes.

“Anran! Lend Obsidian to me!” Gu Anran heard Hong Qingyi yelling and looked over. It turned out that Hong Qing’s dagger had pierced the place seven inches under the head of the snake, but because the blade had not been long enough, her hands were soaked in vile-smelling snake blood. But since the snake still hadn’t been killed, it screamed frantically under the threat of death.

Whoosh….Gu Anran pulled out Obsidian and threw it in Hong Qingyi’s direction, making sure that Hong Qingyi caught it properly before concentrating on suppressing the group of snakes.

Twenty minutes later, the battle finally ended and everyone let out a sigh of relief. Some people had already squatted and started digging for crystals. The crystals of mutant plants and animals were much more precious than zombies, because they contained a lot of mana. Mana that could be used to regenerate their abilities faster. Of course, there were expectations of mutant zombies with abilities. If one ingested the core of a zombie that had a corresponding ability, it would take half the time for their ability to improve and show twice the effect. Same thing for mutant animals. For example, the snakes had speed abilities so they would benefit the three speed ability users in the group. Hong Qingyi should be able to break through to Tier-5 after absorbing their crystals.

But things were not quite over yet. Gu Anran gazed at the surrounding area that had suddenly been targeted by a dense swarm of green dots. All of the green dots looked in their direction and they were eyes….eyes of a terrifying number of….rats!

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