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Chapter 552: Chapter 552: A Task on the Way
It turns out that once the blizzard ended and it became possible to move around, Wei Junhao and Han Yue planned to return to B city. At that time, the S city base would surely have to send a team to escort the two of them.
And the task of dealing with the zombie cockroaches that Su Jin and Lu Hao had taken on was conveniently on the way to B city.
"If you agree, I won’t select any additional personnel besides the driver,"
Liang Jiuhui said.
If the Heart Talk Team went, he wouldn’t need to send anyone else at all; otherwise, he’d have to prepare a team of at least 30 special ability users before he could feel at ease.
"How much is the mission reward?"
Lu Hao asked.
"150,000,"
Liang Jiuhui made a sweeping gesture, setting the figure.
The base wasn’t short of crystal cores. After the zombie tide of the past few days, the income from crystal cores had increased even more, so Liang Jiuhui wasn’t planning to be stingy.
However, this mission’s reward was even higher than the 100,000 crystal cores offered for the zombie cockroach task.
"We’ll take it,"
Su Jin said after exchanging looks with Lu Hao.
Liang Jiuhui also breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn’t that he wanted to push the task onto the Heart Talk Team; he just trusted the two of them completely. As long as they were willing to take on the task, it was as good as half completed. 𝘯𝘰𝑣𝘱𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
"You can rest assured about Wei Junhao’s character, but be careful with Han Yue on the way. He’s a Mental Element Ability User,"
Liang Jiuhui warned. They could take the opportunity to deal with Han Yue, but if only Wei Junhao returned to B city, it could inevitably cause a falling out between the two families. Besides, now that they knew about Han Yue’s special ability, there was nothing about the man to be wary of anymore.
"As long as he cooperates, it’s fine,"
Lu Hao hadn’t yet taken Han Yue seriously; if Han Yue wanted to trip them up, he’d have to have the capability to do so.
At this moment, there was a knock on the office door. It was Sheng Jing bringing Song Sibo over.
However, Song Sibo only took out all the crystal cores from his space and then left, as he had many other tasks to attend to.
"Regarding the reward for the Heart Talk Team’s resistance against the zombie tide, plus the reward for zombie animals, here is a total of 1.2 million crystal cores. Are you satisfied with this?"
Liang Jiuhui said.
But he knew from Su Jin’s expression that she was indeed satisfied.
Su Jin was indeed very satisfied; 1.2 million crystal cores were not a small number. Liang Jiuhui was truly sincere.
"Very satisfied, happy to cooperate,"
Su Jin replied, and the very next second, all the crystal cores on the ground were collected into her space. She believed in Liang Jiuhui; there was no need to count the crystal cores one by one, they would certainly not be short.
The group chatted idly in the office for a while longer before Su Jin and Lu Hao prepared to take their leave.
"Then for the upcoming task, we’ll count on you,"
Liang Jiuhui said to the two of them.
"Don’t worry, we guarantee to complete the mission,"
Su Jin was in an excellent mood. She was looking forward to going back to her space to check on her crystal core warehouse. By now, she should be able to line up the crystal cores!
Now, the space needed to absorb over 80 crystal cores every day. If considering long-term usage and upgrading of the space, it felt like no amount of crystal cores would be enough.
But fortunately, earning crystal cores was not difficult with the whole family working together.
Seeing Su Jin happy, Lu Hao was happy too. He didn’t want the blizzard to end. In his view, facing the zombie tide in such a safe base was as convenient as killing zombies right outside one’s doorstep. Although it carried risks, the overall gains were quite good.
"Xiao Jin, have you considered how we should travel on our upcoming journey to make it the most convenient?"
Lu Hao asked as they walked.
"How to travel? Do you mean who to take with us?"
"Exactly, our other target, Zhang Xiaohong."
Lu Hao reminded her.
Their most important objective this trip was to sell supplies.
"Looks like we can only sell them on the way back,"
Su Jin had also thought about this issue before, but since they had taken on another task en route, it seemed they could only proceed with the sale when they returned.
Lu Hao shook his head with a smile and said, "That would be a waste of time. We can use the Teleportation Array as well as the method you have of taking people out with you."
Su Jin wasn’t dense. After hearing Lu Hao’s hint, she immediately thought of a possibility.
The method Lu Hao was talking about, where she could bring out a family into the place she was at after arriving somewhere, meant that the family didn’t even need to leave the S city base and could enter the space to use the Teleportation Array to return to the S city base.
In other words, they could carry out their mission and sell supplies at the same time!
"We can actually do that! You’re so smart!"
Once Su Jin realized that, she felt so excited that she wanted to give Lu Hao a big kiss, but they were still on the road, and she couldn’t bring herself to do such a thing in public.
"Xiao Jin is smart too,"
Lu Hao said with a smile, catching on immediately.
"Then, over the next few days, we can discuss and plan our strategy. It’s just that I’m not sure how many Crystal Cores the Teleportation Array will consume,"
Su Jin thought of the space that devours Crystal Cores everywhere and suddenly felt that Crystal Cores were simply too precious for them!
That evening, the family gathered in the space and was very interested in the strategy that Lu Hao and Su Jin had discussed.
"So, we don’t actually need to leave the base at all. We just wait here for Su Jin and the others to get to a certain place, and then they pull us out, right?"
Is that the idea? Lin Xiuyuan thought it over and over before asking.
"That would be incredibly convenient, almost like teleporting,"
Lin Cheng couldn’t help but say.
"It’s almost exactly like that, but this also means we can’t ensure the lasting effect of the Face-changing pill,"
Lu Hao felt that although the method was convenient and time-saving, it still had its drawbacks. The space’s Face-changing pill lasted for three days, and they had to manage their time well.
"Well, that’s easy. We just stay inside here and don’t come out until we’ve sold all the supplies,"
Lu Guanhai said, as there was no difference between going out for a day or several days.
They just needed to come up with an excuse for the family not being at the base, otherwise, Guo Yang and the rest would probably worry themselves to death.
"Do you think if we consumed only a third or a half of the Face-changing pill, it wouldn’t last three days?"
Su Jin suddenly thought of this problem and looked at Nie Qing.
Nie Qing was also stunned by the question. Taking only part of a pill?
Logically, the effect might not be as strong, but whether it would be like what Su Jin suggested was really uncertain.
"It’s worth a try,"
Lu Hao also agreed, as if the possibility Su Jin mentioned actually worked out, then their future operations would be much easier.
Lin Cheng volunteered to test it for everyone, since with Huang Yunxiang and his son Lin Xiuyuan outside, even if he disappeared for a day, no one would notice anything.
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After the Heart Talk Store had several booming days of business which then gradually began to slow down, people noticed that the blizzard was starting to show signs of stopping.
"May the heavens help us; may the snow stop soon!"
Even Ren Yingjie, who usually didn’t believe in gods, started to pray. His cabbages had only grown to half their size. He had managed to cultivate two heads last time and had to give them straight to the base’s cafeteria. He really wanted to continue!
"Looking at the situation, it should stop in the next two or three days,"
Fang Zhengyang walked up behind Ren Yingie and said. He had studied meteorology and the environment before the Apocalypse, and even though the weather and environment were completely different now, they could only infer based on the knowledge from before the Apocalypse.
