Chapter 8: Building a Safe Base

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The door opened, and the person inside began to attack Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly.

He easily dodged her attack.

Then, he used his left hand to control the woman’s right arm, which was holding the knife.

With his right hand, he pressed her head against the door, making a loud bang.

The woman struggled violently, but she couldn’t break free.

She lifted her knee and was about to land a hit on Zhou Yuan’s crotch.

Zhou Yuan’s eyes flashed as he pressed forward.

He had stopped the woman’s movement.

The two of them were like a couple in love, leaning against the door and making out.

Looking at the exquisite but cold face in front of him, Zhou Yuan said helplessly,

“I really just want to exchange for some food.”

Zhou Yuan’s stomach growled in time as if to prove that his master was not lying.

Rumble!

Hearing this sound, the woman’s expression remained cold as she tried to resist.

Who wasn’t hungry these days?

Not many people could fill their stomachs.

At this time, a tender cry suddenly sounded.

“Let go of my sister!!!”

“You’re a big bad guy!!!”

The woman’s face changed and she immediately shouted,

“Guoguo! Don’t come out!”

Zhou Yuan looked over and saw a little girl at the bedroom door, looking over with tears streaming down her face.

The little girl looked to be about five years old and was very thin.

She wanted to come over, but she didn’t dare to. Seeing her sister being bullied, she was very anxious.

In the end, she could only stand there and cry.

Zhou Yuan was speechless when he saw this.

He just wanted to get some food, but now he made it seem like he was bullying a woman and a child.

“I’ll let you go, so don’t attack me again. ”

“Otherwise, I won’t be polite anymore. Do you understand?”

The woman pursed her lips and hummed in agreement.

Zhou Yuan slowly released his grip and took two steps back.

The woman, who had regained her freedom, immediately ran towards the little girl named ‘Guoguo’.

She held the little girl in her arms.

Then, the two of them stared at Zhou Yuan warily.

At the same time, a trace of regret appeared in the woman’s heart.

At first, she thought she was cooking on the 15th floor with her sister.

Even if the fragrance spread out, no one could accurately find them.

She didn’t expect that they would still be discovered.

At this moment, she was filled with regret and felt that she had been too careless.

Gulp…

Zhou Yuan’s stomach started growling again.

Zhou Yuan took out a bottle of water from his bag and said seriously,

“This bottle of water in exchange for the food in your pot, is that okay?”

The woman looked at the clean water in Zhou Yuan’s hand and licked her lips.

Even though she did not lack water, it had been a long time since she had drunk such clean water.

Even the water she used to cook food was once polluted before she purified it.

There were no viruses or bacteria in it, but it contained radiation.

It’s not good for your health if you drink it often.

Today, she had no other choice. It wasn’t easy for her to get a piece of meat and some vegetables.

She wanted her sister to eat something warm, so she had no choice but to cook with this kind of water.

After some thought, the woman said coldly,

“I can only exchange half a pot!”

Zhou Yuan did not say anything and simply threw the water bottle over.

He was about to starve to death and didn’t want to waste his breath.

The woman caught the bottle and immediately opened it to take a small sip.

The sweet taste made her eyes light up instantly.

She then brought the bottle of water to her sister’s mouth.

The little girl wiped her tears and tasted the water pitifully, but there was no big reaction.

Her eyes were fixed on the pot of food that was in Zhou Yuan’s hands.

The diameter of the pot was about one meter, and it was semi-circular in shape, like a stir-fry pot.

It was filled to the brim with food, emitting a strong fragrance.

Compared to this, even the sweetest drinking water was not attractive at all.

Zhou Yuan did not care much. He picked up the chopsticks beside him and started eating.

The woman’s face turned cold, but then she blushed slightly.

The chopsticks were the ones she had used just now.

Soon, when Zhou Yuan was 80% full, he returned the pot to the woman.

When the woman saw that the pot was almost half full, she relaxed a lot.

So far, she didn’t think that Zhou Yuan was a bad person.

The woman brought the pot to the little girl’s side.

She said in a gentle and soft voice,

“Hurry up and eat.”

The little girl replied with an ‘Okay’ and asked innocently,

“What about you, sister?”

The woman smiled and said in a low voice,

“I have just finished eating, the rest is all yours.”

The little girl was very easy to coax. She naively believed the woman’s words and obediently ate.

This time, Zhou Yuan was ready to leave after eating and drinking his fill.

At this moment, the woman stopped him and said,

“Do you still have water?”

“Do you accept any other items in exchange?”

Zhou Yuan nodded and said indifferently,

“I accept. What do you have? Take it out and let me see.”

The woman then took out a package from the bedroom.

Then, in front of Zhou Yuan, she began to take things out.

Zhou Yuan shook his head at the sight.

This woman was not cautious enough.

She didn’t even understand the principle of not revealing her wealth.

If she accidentally took out something that was very precious in the eyes of others…

She might bring trouble to herself.

After taking out a mess of things, the woman looked at Zhou Yuan quietly.

Zhou Yuan walked forward and asked the system one by one.

[No value.]

[No value.]

[Three gold coins!]

[Worthless]

[Seven gold coins!]

[No value.]

[No value.]

[Two hundred gold coins!]

Zhou Yuan was speechless!

Most of them were worthless, but some could be exchanged for several gold coins.

This situation was within Zhou Yuan’s expectations.

However, he did not expect something of such high value to suddenly appear.

It could be exchanged for two hundred gold coins!

Zhou Yuan suppressed his excitement and feigned nonchalance as he examined the little trinket in his hand.

It was a semi-transparent crystal the size of his thumb.

However, it felt heavy in his hand.

At first, Zhou Yuan did not pay any attention to this and only casually asked the system.

He did not expect to be so surprised.

At the same time, the woman’s expression changed.

She looked at the crystal in Zhou Yuan’s hand with a trace of fear in the depths of her eyes.

She immediately covered it up.

Zhou Yuan asked the system in his mind.

“System, system, what is this thing? Why does it worth so many gold coins?”

[This is the crystalline core condensed from the body of the lowest level zombie. It contains a little energy.]

Zhou Yuan was speechless.

A bunch of question marks appeared on Zhou Yuan’s face.

Zombie?

Finally, there were zombies!

The crystalline core of the lowest level zombie could be exchanged for 200 gold coins?

This, this was it!

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuan’s eyes glowed with excitement.

If he could get more crystalline core, he would be able to obtain more evolution chances.

At that time, wouldn’t he be able to use the chances as he pleased?

Then, he could put his base construction plan on the agenda!

However, Zhou Yuan’s face turned serious as he thought of this.

The appearance of zombies meant that these things were likely to sweep across the entire wasteland in a short time.

Those who already had a hard time surviving would eventually become zombies.

In that case, he had to develop his base as fast as possible.

With his current strength, he was not afraid of zombies at all.

However, he didn’t want to spend his days fighting zombies.

Wouldn’t it be good to build a safe base and farm there?

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuan raised the crystalline core and asked,

“Where did you get this?”