The Rebirth of the Last Days and Return to [Fang] Hao

A full 200 crystal nuclei are packed in a heavy bag.

After He Zizhong and Fang Hao handed the crystal nuclei to the window, they heard a rustle. After another hour of waiting for the staff inside to count and inspect each one at a time, the two men walked out exhausted.

“Finally it’s over.” Fang Hao felt that his body was stiff. “They actually counted it one by one! God, if this is a second-level team handing 500 crystal cores, how can they count it? Wait for the rest of one’s life?!”

He Zizhong smiled helplessly. “If they receive fake, uncountable nuclei, it is estimated, it will deducted from themselves. These staff do not leave the base at all – where will they go to get crystal core to make up for it? The base? Naturally they will be more careful.”

“Where are we going now?” Fang Hao stopped complaining about this matter, and instead asked He Zizhong.

“Let’s go shopping? Look at what is on sale now.” Also look at the purchasing power of crystal nuclei in the base.

The couple walked down the street side by side, and found that the number of people on the street has not decreased but increased. People with all accents flooded the chaotic streets. Although the shantytown outside the base has a lot of people, the number of people in the base has not decreased? Perhaps people from other places rushed to the base while the two were leaving, supplementing the positions of the people who left and died before?

On both sides of the street, in the alleys, and in the buildings, there are shelters built everywhere. In addition to these shacks, some narrow streets were lined with various stalls on both sides.

Shopping is not something men are good at. Since the establishment of the base, He Zizhong and his wife have gone out shopping only a few times. Even if they walk around, they will not spend too much time on the street. Once they feel tired and have nothing to see, they will return home.

So today when shopping, the two didn’t plan to wander for long. Just go see if there is anything worth buying.

Unexpectedly, they really saw a lot of things worth buying – crystal nuclei.

First-level crystal nuclei. Even if there is no clear base rule that private selling is not allowed, if someone sets up a stall, no one will care. Now that team management fees are charged, they can’t stop teams if they don’t have enough and are willing to exchange materials, right?

Scattered crystal nuclei were sold at many stalls. Those with more had more than a dozen, and others only had one or two, mostly mixed with other things. But the price is still not low.

“Three five-packs of instant noodles, or two catties of rice and flour.” When someone asked, the person sitting on the ground and setting up the stall said without raising their heads. There are many people who inquire about crystal nuclei these days, but most of them are only asking and only few exchange.

The two looked at each other, turned, and walked out.

“It’s cheaper than before.”

“But it’s still too expensive.” He Zizhong shook his head. The price today is still not good. Now the base knows the usefulness of the crystal nuclei, and some teams also know how to use this thing. If it weren’t for the low number of ability users, crystal nuclei would be even more scarce.

“Shall we see if anyone sells jewelry and jade?” Fang Hao looked at the stalls on both sides, looking for jade and other things for sale.

He Zizhong smiled bitterly. “Even if there is, we can’t tell real from fake.” They can’t distinguish real items from fake ones, and can only throw it into the space to try. But after trying it, if it is true, it will be absorbed directly by the space, and if it is false, while it can be returned, it is not very convenient.

“It would be great if you can buy cheap ones.” When he found some jade in a stall, Fang Hao quickly pulled He Zizhong in. And after inquiring about it, he pulled him out again: “A piece of jade pendant needs to trade for ten kilos of rice or flour. Is this too dark? I don’t know if it’s real!”

Seeing him muttering angrily, He Zizhong smiled again and didn’t say a word. Now even a crystal core is worth only two catties of rice. Besides, no one can tell how much energy is contained in jade products? They won’t be foolish and buy these things at such a high price.

“Hey, wait a minute!”

The two were holding hands and walking forward when they heard someone call out, and looked back subconsciously. They didn’t think that the speaker was calling them, but when they turned their heads, a person hurriedly approached them. Exchanging glances, he looks… a bit familiar?

The man looked surprised, looking at He Zizhong, looking at Fang Hao, and then asked cautiously: “You two… Did you come here from F city?”

He Zizhong and Fang Hao were stunned momentarily. “You are?”

The two of them had a slight impression of this person. They seem to have seen him once in that small base with special weapons, but…F city? When they saw him before, the two felt that he was vaguely familiar. Could it be someone they knew?

The man heaved a sigh of relief: “We traveled together on the road for a while. You were going to A city back then, we were going to go to relatives in the countryside… My name is Wang Tianqiang, and you may not have any impressions.”

He Zizhong was surprised. Fang Hao also made an “ah” of surprise. “You’re the one on the highway…” who kept following behind our car, causing others to misunderstand that we were together. In the end, it made a bunch of cars follow them. As a result, the two of them who hadn’t collected enough supplies had to drive out of F city directly!

Wang Tianqiang smiled awkwardly: “Last time I saw you at another base, right? About a month ago…”

The two of them naturally remembered the incident. After looking at this person carefully, they felt that they had indeed met this person in F city. Only a few months had passed, but it seems like a long time ago now.

Since the two sides are acquaintances, they naturally want to chat together. Although they had only met for a short time, both sides asked carefully. He Zizhong had been away from the base for a long time. On the other hand, Wang Tianqiang wanted to flatter them, given the appearance of these two people and know how they were doing.

Wang Tianqiang was considered a smart man. When that group of dozens of people headed to the small village together, he was the only one who was still alive, and he knew that he definitely had a couple of tricks.

Several months have passed since the end of the world till now, and He Zizhong and Fang Hao’s appearance are not too different from before, which is surprising enough.

Like himself, he was a successful people before the end of the world, and his stomach also rose with the tide of wealth. As a result, after the end of the world, he became lean after only three months of work. When the two people met again, he had become black and thin, and even acquaintances might not recognize him. Let alone He Zizhong and others who have only met once?

Bur seeing the two of them again? They were wearing very clean clothes, and there was almost no wind and frost on their faces. If he hadn’t met them at the small base where he had stayed before, he would have thought that these two were brought up by someone and never left the base!

“The people from your base are here?” Fang Hao was a little puzzled. When they went there last time, these people hadn’t been transferred yet. Why are they all here now?

Seeing the two of them wondering, Wang Tianqiang confirmed that they really had nothing to do with the official base. It was just a coincidence that they went to the small base where he was during the last mission. He smiled bitterly: “The people from the A city base went back later. A few big trucks, and a bunch of men…” After speaking, he glanced around. Seeing no one nearby was watching them chat, he lowered his voice, “We were all brought here, and those who can smelt iron were invited away by the base.”

In fact, since they came to the base, they were placed in a place with strict supervision, and were only released not long ago. Among them, those with special abilities were expropriated by the base officials, and the rest were ordinary people. If it weren’t for the special weapons, it would be difficult to solve those zombies. Now that the base understand their strengths, naturally they won’t raise these ordinary people in vain.

In addition, now that special weapons have been produced, the military is ready to officially put the first batch of weapons into use and distribute them to the cooperative teams that signed the agreement. Naturally, there is no need to worry that these people will leak the news, so they were released and came out.

He Zizhong understood the situation and asked about the situation in the small village where Wang Tianqiang was located.

After Wang Tianqiang and the others arrived in that village, the people in the village were still mainly the original local residents. But after a short while, more people from nearby fled there and  they found that it was more suitable for defense. In addition, several zombies in nearby towns wandered nearby, which consumed a lot of the original residents in the village. In the end, the “village chief” whom He Zizhong met last time led a group of subordinates, and only after integrating was the village vitality restored.

After that, the villagers happened to discover that precious gold and silver can cause great damage to zombies. Then they sent people to quickly make special weapons, and sent people to nearby towns to collect gold and silver jewelry to refine into weapons, which saved that little base.

“We also just officially lived outside not long ago.” Wang Tianqiang murmured about what had happened before, and then asked, “You weren’t in the base before?”

He Zizhong shook his head. “We just returned from a mission. It’s been more than half a month since we left.”

“No wonder… By the way, the base was lively a while ago.” Wang Tianqiang thought for a topic. Although the two people said that they weren’t in a big team, judging from their appearance and expression, they seemed to have an ability to mix very well. Naturally, he was willing to sell them some good news. “I heard that the Song family’s daughter was going to marry the Overlord team’s boss. As a result, shortly after the news came out, the Overlord team’s boss was poisoned and killed…”