PDLP Chapter 133 Return to base
Chapter 133 Return to base
"Wow wow wow wow!"
"Youyou, Youyou!"
Lin Ling and the dog waited on the ground for more than 10 minutes. As the fighting below gradually subsided and returned to silence, she called out Zuo You's name with some worry.
"You two are trying to wake me up! The echo down there is so loud, my head is buzzing."
Zuo You climbed up the ice stairs. "How are your injuries?"
The thorns on the blood vine had just pierced all three people, causing them all some injuries.
"It's alright, Erdan has already treated her." Lin Ling looked Zuo You up and down, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was alright.
"Wang."
The dog spat out a healing ball and threw it at Zuo You. Thorns slowly seeped out of her body automatically, and after a while, there was no more external injury on Zuo You's body.
"Erdan's healing ability is so-so, but his purification ability is even better." Lin Ling sighed as she wiped the juice off Zuo You's face with a wet wipe.
Zuo You stood obediently and let Lin Ling wipe her, her eyes curving as if she were smiling.
"Yes, the evolutionary energy of light-type abilities is inherently unique, unlike the focus of wood-type abilities."
"Youyou, has the blood vine been dealt with?"
"Solved. A level 6 mutated plant, this is awesome." Zuo You smiled and took out the cyan crystal core, the size of a pigeon egg.
After a pause, Zuo You continued, "Let's find a place to replenish our energy and food before we go find that mutated snake again."
It would be a lie to say that Zuo You wasn't excited about fighting a sixth-tier mutated creature for the first time.
She's only at level four, and while she seems to be just lazing around at home eating and drinking every day, she actually has several buffs stacked up, making her incredibly powerful.
The sheer power of dual superpowers, the strange light of the apocalypse, the magical well water in the space, plus the Frost Sacrifice—it's incredibly awesome.
Ultimately, it all comes down to the legacy of the Zuo family's ancestors.
After dealing with the mutated snake without any surprises, the group rested briefly and then spent more than two hours finding the large white python.
The python mutated and became venomous, and the dog's purification ability happened to be effective against it.
Erdan charged headlong into close combat with the python, and in less than five minutes, she, a single dog, had dealt with the mutated snake.
Zuo You put away the beast core, cut off the snake's head to exchange for points, and then put the nearly thirty-meter-long snake into her spatial storage.
Lin Ling grinned from ear to ear, "Youyou, I heard that Professor Li is looking for snake gallbladders."
Professor Li is Li Derun. Because the weather has been extremely cold, he couldn't go to the eastern base, so he simply set up a research team at the N City base.
N City lacked sufficient scientific research equipment, so after Zuo You hinted at it, Li Derun tentatively decided to focus his research on human genetic engineering.
Perhaps the gene serum in this life will be produced earlier than in the previous life.
"Yes, after returning to the base, sell it to the research institute."
Zuo You was in a good mood. She could get 100 points by handing over the snake head, and then exchange the snake gall for points with the research institute. She also killed a blood vine and collected its crystal core. This trip was very fruitful.
"Let's go back, it's getting dark."
The two people and their dog rode their motorcycle back home, their joy at returning home making them so fast that they were just afterimages.
Back at the base, An Yingying was cooking, while Zuo You went back to her room and into her spatial dimension to have her usual chat with Shuang Ji.
While Frost Festival is generally indifferent, there are exceptions.
"Frost Sacrifice, do you want this crystal core? It's sixth-tier!" Zuo You entered the space, holding a cyan crystal in her hand, and tempted her.
"Buzz!" Frost Sacrifice flew out from a corner, conveying a disdainful emotion.
Zuo You was a little puzzled. This girl was really picky. Since Shuang Ji didn't want it, she would keep it for herself.
Zuo You didn't leave the space, but instead sat cross-legged on the snow inside to absorb the daily crystal cores.
Lin Ling and Erdan dragged the enormous snake head to the mission hall to turn in the mission.
The unique sight of the man and his dog along the way sparked discussions among the crowd.
"Is this the woman who clashed with the guards before? I heard many people died, and their deaths were gruesome."
"You talk as if you've seen it all, but I've heard it's something that disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead?"
Another person chimed in, "I don't know how gruesome her death will be, but this girl is really beautiful." His lecherous eyes were filled with disgusting, greedy lust.
The person who started it glanced at this person and quickly stepped aside. This was someone they couldn't afford to offend; they had to avoid him.
The man's squinty eyes gleamed with a yellowish light, and there was a bluish-purple bruise under his eyes, clearly indicating that he had indulged in excessive sexual activity. There was also that signature black mole at the corner of his eye.
This is the son of the base's second-in-command, known as Young Master Hua. He relies on his father and brother's positions in the base and usually acts arrogantly and domineeringly.
When he sees a pretty woman, he either verbally harasses her or physically assaults her. The people in the base usually tolerate it because of the powerful figure behind him, but this only emboldens him further.
At this moment, Hua Ershao's eyes were filled with calculation and cunning; it seemed he was up to something again.
After Lin Ling and Er Gou happily completed their mission, they went to the research institute to give the snake gall to Li Derun in exchange for 200 points before heading home for dinner.
An Yingying had already prepared dinner at the villa: a standard four-dish-and-one-soup meal, including braised chicken, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, fried pork ribs, stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, and a loofah soup.
"It smells so good." Lin Ling sniffed. Her stomach was already growling from the bread she had casually eaten outside at noon.
"Woof!" Erdan nodded in agreement, his tongue lolling out as he slurped.
Nowadays, very few families can afford to eat vegetables, let alone such a luxurious dinner with three kinds of vegetables.
Lin Ling knew that Zuo You's space contained most of the supplies for N City.
Since the beginning of the extreme cold, Zuo You has been collecting supplies in the city. She has explored all the densely populated areas where there were too many zombies and no one dared to go before.
She dug out all the supplies from under the ice, including those from wholesale markets for non-staple foods and grain and oil.
In Zuo You's words, the supplies in her space could feed 100 people for a lifetime and still have some left over.
As she pondered what fruit to have for dessert, she called upstairs, "Youyou, dinner's ready! Come downstairs quickly!"
"Okay, right away."
Upstairs, Zuo You put away the Frost Offering, washed her hands, and strolled downstairs. She glanced at the dishes and praised, "Yingying's cooking skills are getting better and better."
An Yingying smiled and said, "It's all thanks to the good ingredients; otherwise, even a skilled cook can't make a meal without rice."
The food they ate every day was not much different from what they ate before the apocalypse, except that they had been out for a long time today and were starving.
Throughout the meal, no one exchanged a single word; everyone focused intently on eating.
After the meal, the table was spotless, with every dish cleaned.
Lin Ling stood up to clear the dishes, but An Yingying quickly stopped her, "You've all been out all day and are tired. I'll do this little thing. You should take a shower and get some rest."
Lin Ling refused, saying, "We divide the work; no one person can do it all by themselves."