bayedsolid Chapter 190 Ready to go back
Chapter 190 Ready to go back
While the fire was still burning downstairs, the group also cleaned up the tens of thousands of animals on the second basement level. However, they were too lazy to burn them this time, so apart from Zhou Yang, the remaining five people each took charge of a section to harvest them.
Zhou Yang wanted to help, but everyone was hungry, and after looking around, only Zhou Yang was suitable to cook. So, the others pushed her into the only clean warehouse to make a midnight snack for everyone.
After Zhou Yang finished cooking, the others outside had almost finished collecting the crystal cores, and each of them returned with a large sack full of crystal cores.
Chi Feng was the first to run back. As soon as he entered the warehouse, he threw the crystal core aside, plopped down on the stool closest to the meat dishes, and then swallowed hard as he looked at the large bowls on the table.
"Tsk, it smells delicious."
The portable table and stool were taken out of Zhou Yang's space early in the morning.
At this moment, there was a large bowl of boiled sliced pork, braised eggplant, stewed beef with potatoes, a bowl of freshly made three-delicacy tofu soup by Zhou Yang, and a small pot of rice on the table.
The other four returned one after another after Chi Feng.
Zhou Yang then distributed the bowls and chopsticks to the group, and also took out some of the food that Pea and Big Yellow had stored in their space, and shared it with them.
The husky was drooling with envy, but Pea and Big Yellow were very possessive of their food and wouldn't give up a single bite, so it ran to Chi Feng's feet and started whining.
Chi Feng was enjoying his meal when he suddenly heard a dog barking at his feet. He then saw his own husky, who was both greedy and cowardly, and was immediately at a loss for words.
"Zhou Yang, can you give my husky some food? It's practically crying from hunger."
"Tsk, it hasn't done much work, but it's always eating. What kind of dog is this? It can't do anything but grow bigger, and it's even afraid of mice." Zhou Yang couldn't help but complain, recalling how cowardly the husky had been all along.
Chi Feng clearly knew that his husky was rather useless: "Ahem, this is a dog I specially raised for Brother Fan. Its main task is to protect Brother Fan. As long as it can carry Brother Fan away and attack living people, that's enough. It's not usually the job of fighting zombies, so it's not very good at it."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang twitched the corner of his mouth: "Are you sure it didn't run away on its own after encountering danger? And what does it use to attack living people? Is it trying to scare them by getting bigger?"
"It's not that bad. If it dares to run away on its own, I'll definitely kill it." Chi Feng smiled, patted the husky's head, and successfully made the husky's ears twitch. "As for attacking, the husky also has superpowers, but they are more effective against living people and mutated animals. You know, the husky's howl is quite intoxicating."
Yan Fei, standing to the side, looked at the husky thoughtfully: "So it's a sound evolution, similar to ultrasonic attacks?"
Chi Feng nodded: "Yeah, pretty much. Infrasound or ultrasound will do, it all depends on the target."
Zhou Yang clicked his tongue: "I didn't know it had this skill. Why don't you share a bite with it?"
Chi Feng: ...
I wanted you to share a bite, not me, Chi Feng thought to himself.
However, seeing that Zhou Yang was already engrossed in his meal and didn't even glance at him, Chi Feng could only take a piece of beef with bone that he had just gnawed on and give it to Erha.
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It took almost half an hour for everyone to finish eating before they sat down and chatted.
Once they figured the fire downstairs should be mostly burned out, they got up, packed their things, and went down to the next floor.
As soon as he stepped into the stairwell, the temperature instantly rose several degrees, and the temperature got higher and higher as he went down. By the time he reached the fire door, Zhou Yang felt like he was sweating profusely.
The fire door looked normal, but it was so hot it burned your hands. In the end, Chi Feng had to use vines to wrap around the door latch to open it.
As soon as the door opened, a wave of scorching heat mixed with the stench of corpses and the smell of roasted meat hit them, almost making them vomit up their late-night snack. They quickly took several steps back.
Chi Feng rolled his eyes in disgust, wanting nothing more than to go upstairs for some fresh air: "Damn... how about we wait until the smell dissipates and the temperature drops before coming back? How are we supposed to get in here..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Yang handed him a gas mask: "Put this on before you go in, and you won't smell much. As for the high temperature, just bear with it. It's not like we've never experienced high temperatures before, so why be so fussy? It'll be dawn soon outside, time is of the essence, let's get to work."
After saying that, he took out several more gas masks, gave one to each person, and then quickly put one on himself.
Without saying a word, Shen Zechuan and Yan Fei put on their gas masks immediately. Yan Fei even started making metal mesh screens for everyone.
Seeing this, Chi Feng could only purse his lips, nod to Yu Hui and Jiang Yuanshan, and put on a gas mask as well.
After receiving the oversized sieve from Yan Fei, the group went inside.
The fire inside had been extinguished, but the temperature was still very high, Zhou Yang estimated it to be around 70 or 80 degrees Celsius, practically a sauna.
Without saying much, the group picked up the sieve and began working diligently.
Although it had been burned very thoroughly, basically only tiny crystal cores remained after being scooped up and shaken, the temperature was too high, and everyone started sweating profusely after only a few minutes.
The worst part was wearing a gas mask on my head; not only was my eyes almost fogged up with sweat, but I also felt so stuffy that I couldn't breathe.
Unable to bear it any longer, the group gave up on treatment, removed their gas masks, and felt much better, although the smell was truly disgusting.
In order to escape their misery as soon as possible, the group sped up their work and finished collecting the crystal cores in just over half an hour.
With the crystal cores in hand, the group quickly evacuated from this sea of suffering and immediately ran back to the warehouse upstairs.
After Zhou Yang put all the crystal cores into his spatial storage, the group changed out of their clothes, which were covered in the stench of corpses, and then prepared to go back directly.
They decided to return the way they had come.
Anyway, this building has more than twenty floors, so returning to the building they came from should be no problem. If possible, they could even choose an even more distant high-rise building.
The group then climbed all the way to the top floor, and among the tall buildings in their direction of return, they chose an office building that was diagonally opposite the previous building and further away.
The area was far from the city center and residential areas, and there were relatively fewer zombies there, so the group unanimously chose it.
We'll just follow the same method as before, copying the same pattern.
However, this time the straight-line distance was several hundred meters longer than before, and Yan Fei had to try three times before he successfully secured the metal cableway to a sturdy position.
Having learned from their first experience, the others were much bolder this time. They glided across the zipline, and apart from their hearts being slightly affected by the weightlessness, everything else was fine.
Only Pea and Husky, who rode in the iron basket, managed to vomit up all their bile again.
Zhou Yang looked at the pea crying in his arms, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and quickly took out some spring water to comfort it.
He secretly vowed to "level up" to level 5 as soon as possible, so that he could store the peas directly in his space if he encountered this situation again.
The husky, smelling the spring water, wanted to come over and lick it, but it didn't dare to move after being bared at by the food-protecting pea.