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Chapter 662: Chapter 662: Ten Days Later
"Xiao Hao, Xiao Hao, are we going to City Z?"
After bidding farewell to Guan Shouzhong and the others, Lu Guanhai asked excitedly.
"Hmm, it depends on everyone’s opinion. After we leave, we will come back in a few days, and we can go there to check the situation,"
Lu Hao said. He had been to City Z before the apocalypse, but at that time, he was a road idiot, which was a pity. Moreover, it was too seamless a transition since Dragon Ruler had just left and Heart Talk Team arrived right after, so they also planned to re-enter the base a few days later.
Except for Guan Shouzhong and a few others, no one knew about Dragon Ruler’s departure. They had entered the base discreetly, and the survivors in the base were completely unaware of this.
However, the next day, the people at the base discovered that the base canteen had reopened and now provided three meals a day, which could be purchased with ordinary crystal cores!
The base began to strictly log the entry and exit of the city, with new entrants needing to pay an entry fee.
The housing at the base began charging fees and registering lodgers again, making the previously unimportant crystal cores crucial once more, even more so than before, which directly motivated more teams of special ability users to actively go out and kill zombies to exchange for crystal cores.
Originally, it was thought that the resumption of fees for various services at the base would lead to widespread complaints from the survivors, but the management gradually realized that not only were there no complaints from the people inside, they were instead delighted with the change. As some survivors put it, they saw hope again and had a new goal to strive for.
Just as the H Province base was steadily getting back on track, that day, a newly arrived team caught the attention of the city’s guard staff. n𝚘𝚟𝚙u𝚋.co𝚖
Su Jin: Level Seven Wood Element;
Lu Hao: Level Seven Fire Element;
Lin Xiuyuan: Level Six Ice Element;
Su Xiangzhe: Level Five Thunder Element;
Lin Cheng: Level Five Earth Element;
...
Xiao Zhang and others felt their eyes dazzled by this glamorous registration form. What a luxurious lineup! Were there now Level Six and Level Seven special ability users?
"Ahem, excuse me, may I ask if you are here to rest at our base or?"
Xiao Zhang forced himself to calm down, addressing the group whose appearance and demeanor were exceptionally stunning.
"We’re looking for someone,"
Lu Hao replied.
They had stayed in City Z for about ten days, and just like Guan Shouzhong had mentioned, it was a dead city just like H City.
There, not only did they find seven supermarkets that had not yet been looted, but they also secured supplies from a grain and oil market. Although some of the food had become moldy or spoiled, most were still usable.
Besides these gains, everyone’s strength had also increased. Nie Qing and Su Xiangzhe had shown signs of advancing to Level Six, and Lu Guanhai had also advanced to Level Five.
However, City Z was too expansive; they had stayed for ten days and covered less than half of it. To completely explore the whole of City Z would take at least a month, so they returned to the H Province base first.
Guan Shouzhong, busy and overwhelmed, stared at the registration form in his hands, unable to believe his own eyes for a long time.
Lu Hao? Captain Lu?
He’s here?!
"Where are they now!"
Guan Shouzhong excitedly asked Xiao Zhang, who had come to report.
"Right, right outside the base,"
Xiao Zhang knew the base leader would be excited, but he had not expected him to be this thrilled; he had never seen the base leader like this before.
"Take me to them. No, never mind, I’ll go myself. You go notify Captain Xiang and Captain Tian,"
Guan Shouzhong’s face could not hide his smile anymore, and the pace of his legs turned from a brisk walk to a jog.
Tian Yongyi and Xiang Sanjin only found out when they got to the gate that those people had already been picked up by the base leader, so they hurried towards the inside of the base.
"What’s going on? It seems like several captains are particularly excited today?"
Someone asked.
"It seems like someone has arrived at the base. I heard it’s a very high-level team."
"How high?"
"Level Seven? But it might just be a rumor, how could there be a level seven special ability user now?"
"True, the highest we have here in the base is only level five, level seven... that’s not very likely."
"..."
The Heart Talk Team was taken directly to their accommodation by Guan Shouzhong. The family couldn’t help but smile at the familiar place, the same big mansion, though this time Guan Shouzhong suggested they all stay in the main courtyard.
"No need, we can just stay in the unoccupied yard,"
Su Jin pointed to the side yard with locked doors, feeling that it was quite good, quiet, and private.
"Haha, right, it’s indeed inconvenient for us few big men to live together. That yard was occupied by a powerful team not long ago. If you had arrived a few days earlier, you might have met each other."
Guan Shouzhong’s attitude towards the group was very different from when he faced Dragon Ruler; he seemed to be talking a lot now. But thinking about it, after all, standing in front of him was the very familiar, Lu Hao.
"Captain Lu! Captain Lu! Is that really you?"
"We thought we were dreaming just now, this boy almost pinched all my flesh off,"
Tian Yongyi and Xiang Sanjin also ran in from outside. For some reason, seeing Lu Hao now felt like seeing a family member; both of them couldn’t help but have teary eyes.
In one year, Captain Lu had become even more dashing than before, and the Captain’s Wife looked no different from before, maybe even more radiant.
So the Captain’s Wife, she really reached level seven wood element?
"Since we’re all here today, let’s have a drink. I’ll have someone prepare food in the canteen right away,"
Guan Shouzhong said happily, deciding he too would take a break today and have a good gathering with everyone.
"We can prepare the food, we made a lot of things before we came out, and they’ll go bad if we don’t eat them soon,"
Su Jin said with a smile.
"Oh, how could we? You’ve come all this way, haven’t even rested yet, and we’d let you prepare food? Let us do it,"
Guan Shouzhong didn’t expect the Captain’s Wife to think like this.
"Do you have a kitchen here?"
Lu Hao asked.
"Yes, we do, and we have all the utensils,"
Tian Yongyi answered.
"Then that’s settled. We’ll prepare the food, it’s decided,"
Lu Hao decided on the spot that if they wanted to eat well, it was best they prepare it themselves, especially since they had good wine stored in ’space’.
In the past, due to work reasons, they rarely gathered together to drink, being able to drink with them now made this trip worthwhile.
Lu Hao’s word was never contested, and this time was no different. Seeing Lu Hao say so, the others no longer insisted. Tian Yongyi and Xiang Sanjin, who wanted to help in the kitchen, were also chased out by Huang Yunxiang and Lin Tianhui.
"You guys go chat, leave the kitchen to us,"
Huang Yunxiang said, jokingly. They were just making a show of it in the kitchen. Lu Guanhai even sat down with Nie Qing to crack open sunflower seeds, definitely not something to be seen by others.
