Chapter 611: Chapter Six Hundred and Eleven: A Group of Survivors’ Request

In the eyes of that group, the initially fierce battle was alleviated the moment the two tall men got out of their vehicle.

To prevent his Special Ability Fire from harming those in the middle, Lu Hao drew his Tang Sword as soon as he exited the car.

The Tang Sword, ablaze with flames, made precise slashes through the horde of filthy zombies, and the man swooped in like a hero saving people from a dire crisis, leaving the onlookers dumbfounded.

Lian Jiyue’s Metal Element had advanced to Level Six. When a Metal Element Mutated Zombie pounced towards him, Lian Jiyue simply executed a light set of blocking and throwing techniques, and the Mutated Zombie’s head rolled to the ground.

Those two were too incredible!

In a mere five minutes, more than three hundred zombies were dealt with by the combined efforts of the two men.

“Let’s go,”

Lu Hao said to Lian Jiyue.

Lian Jiyue nodded, and the two made their way back to the car.

“Wait a minute!”

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted, followed by a man with tied-back hair running over.

“Please wait, a moment, esteemed masters. May I ask where you are planning to go?” the man asked.

“We’re looking for a base,”

Lu Hao did not intend to disclose their destination to these people.

“That’s fantastic, we are all headed to the E-city base. Could you possibly give us a lift? I mean, we have our own vehicle; we just need to follow behind you,” the man pleaded.

Lu Hao was about to refuse when the crowd behind him began to swarm towards them.

“Please, we beg you. We’ve lost so many people along the way; could you help us?” a woman implored, and as she spoke, she began to cry.

“…”

Lian Jiyue looked at Lu Hao. Had they gotten themselves into trouble?

“We’re not headed to the E-city base, and we seldom take breaks along the way,”

Lu Hao gently explained, as they intended to reach the S-city base as soon as possible.

“Big brothers, if you can get us to the E-city base safely, we can pay you with Crystal Cores,”

a relatively clean-looking woman stepped forward and said.

“I’m Fu Li, a Space Element Ability User, and I have Crystal Cores in my space. If you could…”

“Oh? How many Crystal Cores are you planning to offer?” Lu Hao asked, cutting Fu Li off mid-sentence.

“…”

Lian Jiyue was speechless on the side. What happened to getting back to the S-city base quickly?

“Ten thousand Crystal Cores?”

Fu Li hadn’t expected the man to agree so swiftly; though she had many Crystal Cores in her space, she was reluctant to offer too many, especially since there were only two of them.

“At least fifty thousand,”

Lu Hao stated a figure without hesitation.

“Fifty thousand?!”

Fu Li glanced at the man with tied-back hair beside her. Fifty thousand Crystal Cores seemed far too many, didn’t it?

However, seeing that the two men showed no signs of relenting, Fu Li and the long-haired man discussed briefly before coming back with a clenched jaw, saying, “Deal, but we can only pay upon our safe arrival at the E-city base.”

“Agreed,”

Lu Hao nodded. The E-city base was conveniently on the way to the S-city base. Once they had escorted these people to the gates of the base, they were planning to leave.

Fifty thousand crystal cores, if we can earn them, let’s earn them.

Just as the two were preparing to leave, Fu Li proposed to ride in the armored car with the two sisters. However, Lu Hao rejected her request on the grounds that it would be inconvenient for the two big men.

The three women didn’t expect to be so straightforwardly refused. They wanted to argue further, but the two men had already got into the car and closed the doors.

“Tch, what’s so inconvenient about men!”

Zhong Xiaomin said but still followed Fu Li towards the red truck that had a canopy set up over it.

Fu Li also really wanted to ride in the armored car. The truck was dirty and messy, whereas the armored car looked both clean and safe. Plus, the two men were the most skilled fighters she had ever seen. If she could establish some relationship with them…

At that moment, the stench from inside the truck wafted over, and Fu Li frowned, snapping out of her daydream.

“Fu Li, are we really going to give them that many crystal cores?”

The woman who had just been pleading with Lu Hao asked.

“Yeah, fifty thousand is too much, isn’t that half of everyone’s crystal cores?”

Someone expressed their dissatisfaction.

“Our combat strength is too weak right now. You all saw those two men. If we rely on them, we can definitely make it there alive,”

the long-haired man said while looking outside. As for what to do after they arrived, they could further strategize.

Remembering how the two men had just refused them, Fu Li scoffed scornfully and said, “The stuff is in my space. What can they do if I decide not to pay when the time comes? Enter my space and rob me?”

“That’s the right way to think, Xiaoli. I’ve heard that those big bases, they really burn through crystal cores. We need to save up,”

the woman said, finally feeling at ease.

…

Inside the armored vehicle, Lian Jiyue finally couldn’t resist asking Lu Hao, “Are you guys really interested in crystal cores?”

Although he didn’t oppose Lu Hao’s decision, recalling Lu Hao’s drastic attitude shift over those fifty thousand crystal cores, he couldn’t help but voice his own doubts. Did that whole family really like to hoard crystal cores?

“Let me put it this way, you know Su Jin’s… ‘Special Ability Fire’ can provide a lot of food, right? But the cost for keeping the food fresh is a substantial consumption of crystal cores,”

Lu Hao simply explained to Lian Jiyue. He almost forgot he couldn’t mention the word ‘space’, but luckily, Lian Jiyue was completely focused on the matter at hand and didn’t notice.

No wonder Su Jin always had so much food to offer. So the price for preventing the food from spoiling was the consumption of crystal cores!

Once he heard this, everything made sense to him.

“Does it consume a lot of crystal cores?” Lian Jiyue confirmed again.

“A lot, needed every day,”

Lu Hao nodded and said.

Lian Jiyue looked out the window, pondered for a moment, and then said, “If that’s the case, I have about 700,000 crystal cores stored in a place in E city base. We might as well pick them up along the way.”

Squeak~

Lu Hao pressed on the brakes in surprise.

700,000?!

“Are you sure those crystal cores will still be there?”

Lu Hao asked. He had been away from the base for so long–could the cores have been taken by someone else?

“Nobody should have discovered them. I’m the only one who knows about that place. I originally wasn’t planning to take them. But seeing as you guys are in such need of crystal cores, it might be better to give them to someone who needs them,”

Lian Jiyue said, even Xu Ping had not known about that place before.

The sudden braking by Lu Hao startled the truck driver behind, wondering if there was any danger.

“Mr. Lu, what’s wrong?”

People in the truck called out, opening the window and asking loudly.

“Nothing,”

Lu Hao signaled with a wave of his hand outside. He was really shocked by the 700,000 crystal cores. Was being a base leader that profitable? Besides, he remembered that the previous Lian Jiyue didn’t seem to be a base leader with much power, did he?