bookrebus Chapter 187 Level 9 Ability User
Chapter 187 Level 9 Ability User
Seeing the three students eating contentedly, Wang Sanhai was the first to gravitate over and share, while Liu Jia licked his lips and stared at Lu Yuan and the others. Finally, with Ji Lang's tacit approval, all seven of them got into bed, formed a circle, and continued their previous conversation while eating.
"We were all planning to go back into the building to look for you guys after the helicopter disappeared, and then we saw Captain Wen's helicopter coming. They got off very quickly and headed straight into the building. Old Wang spotted Jin Lao Si right away. They're good friends, and Jin Lao Si is their deputy captain. He said he was also going to the next building to look for something, so we decided to go with them." Liu Jia said as he quickly finished a cup of instant noodles. After being away for so many days, he really missed Lu Yuan's space.
"I really regret it, that son of a bitch Wen Zhou, he's a real piece of trash!" Mentioning Wen Zhou, Wang Sanhai wanted to grab his weapon and beat him up again.
"I don't know why they were in such a hurry to go downstairs. I thought your mission had a time limit. But I don't know if it was just bad luck on my part or if that building was really cursed, we walked around inside for a long time without encountering anyone or any zombies. We walked for hours and still couldn't find our way to the underground parking lot." Liu Jia, opening another bag of biscuits, smiled apologetically at Lu Yuan and continued, "But just when everyone was about to collapse from exhaustion and they decided to find an office to rest temporarily, Zhao Qi and his team appeared. They said they were from the North China base and had come to check after receiving a distress signal, only to find us."
“Then we followed them here.” Wang Sanhai said while grilling sausages, “After all, we weren’t on their team, so when we got here, that dog… Wen Zhou, he didn’t dare to make decisions for us.”
“This morning, Zhao Qi and his team went out, saying that to thank the base for saving us yesterday, they accepted the zombie hunting missions posted on the bulletin board. When Lao Wang and I came here, we also saw the missions on the bulletin board. Most of them were about hunting zombies. Zhao Qi said that zombie crystals are very important to superhumans, which we all know, so we didn’t stop them and even planned to go together.”
“But that guy surnamed Zhao said their boss wants to see us to get more information about our team before coming to our aid,” Wang Sanhai Hulun said, swallowing a small cake. “Their boss upstairs looks quite refined, but I can’t help but think he’s cunning.”
"Troubled times breed heroes. If Jin Nan didn't have some tricks up his sleeve, how could he have built such a large base?" After quickly filling his stomach, Lin Yun spent the rest of his time helping them pack up the food packaging. After all, they couldn't leave these in the dormitory. Once they were packed up, Lu Yuan could put them into his spatial storage without anyone noticing.
“His accent doesn’t sound like it’s from Beijing; he’s probably from out of town.” Ji Lang nodded in agreement.
“I remember Du Yun saying that they were from S City. At that time, Du Yun went to Y Town with the variety show crew. This Jin Nan may have come to Beijing on some official business.” Lu Yuan had almost finished eating and was sipping his milk tea.
“It was actually a very simple matter of confirming your numbers and identities, but they kept us waiting for over an hour. By the time we came down from the third floor, Wen Zhou had already led his team away. We originally wanted to go with Zhao Qi to find you, but they told us to stay at the base to rest and experience the atmosphere,” Liu Jia said.
“They want to keep us here, that’s obvious, but I also noticed that there are at least ten people here with higher levels of superpowers than us,” Wang Sanhai said.
"No fewer than ten level seven ability users?" Ji Lang asked.
“No, it should be higher than level seven.” Liu Jia looked at Ji Lang seriously.
"So that's level eight or nine?" Lin Yun was somewhat surprised. Before their last mission, he had talked with Gu Nanfeng. The ability levels of the ability users in the other three major bases were all higher than those in their South China base. Zhang Hao from the West China base had already reached level nine, making him the highest-level ability user in the government base. However, he had heard that no matter how many crystals he absorbed afterward, he was unable to break through.
Zhang Hao is currently the highest-ranking superhuman on record in China. Below him, there are many level eight superhumans in the various bases, but the number of crystals required to advance from level eight to level nine is enormous. If Zhang Hao weren't an experimental subject, he couldn't have advanced so quickly. The four major bases currently mainly have level seven superhumans, which is the current level of Ji Lang and Lin Yun.
In this privately established base in Beijing, a base with fewer than 20,000 people, more than half of them are superhumans, and there are quite a few level seven superhumans among them, and even more than ten level eight superhumans.
"But when we met Jin Nan and Du Yun today, I didn't feel anything strange." Lin Yun recalled his previous feelings about Zhao Qi. He could clearly feel that Zhao Qi's ability level was higher than his own, but he didn't feel anything at all with Jin Nan and Du Yun. In this case, it was either that the other party's level was lower than his or the same, or that the other party had already advanced to level nine ability users for some time.
"Where in Beijing could you find so many zombie crystals that would allow them to advance their ability levels so quickly?" Yang Xiao asked Ji Lang, stroking his lips. "Was it true that Beijing relocated to the four major bases?"
"How could that be?" Ji Lang retorted without even thinking.
“Even if not everyone is relocated, the majority of people in Beijing are government officials, military personnel, and their families, so even if some are not included in the relocation, not many will be left behind.” Lin Yun thought of Zhang Hao’s purpose in going to G City, which was to move the G City base to the Huaxi base, but Wang Qiang didn’t go either.
“Summer isn’t the tourist season in Northeast China, so the population shouldn’t be too high. How come they’re leveling up so fast? Is it because the zombies are high-level? After all, most of the people here are highly skilled professionals,” Lu Yuan asked.
"It's not impossible." No one had a satisfactory answer to this question, so they could only gesture for Liu Jia to continue.
“Wen Zhou and his group returned before you arrived. They didn’t bring back many crystals, but they were of low quality.” Liu Jia thought for a moment before continuing, “Your guess might be correct. The zombies in Beijing are probably generally of higher quality? So when he returned, there were more than half of his men left. All of our men were killed. His only remaining warriors are the few we just saw.”
"This casualty rate is too high." Lin Yun had just started to speak when he recalled his and Ji Lang's experience at the research institute. All the soldiers in their team had perished. "No, that doesn't make sense; ordinary soldiers should be more likely to be killed..."
"What infuriates me the most is that all of them who came back have awakened superpowers, saying they accidentally absorbed crystals. Do they think I'm stupid? It's such a coincidence that they all absorbed them at the same time!" Wang Sanhai punched the bed hard, making Lu Yuan and the others bounce up.