Chapter 132: Chapter 132: Accepting the Mission

Morning.

Bai Zhengxuan, carrying a lunchbox, hopped onto Uncle Wang’s green garbage truck and sped towards the outside of the safety base.

Riding a bicycle, Leng Yebai took Bai Xiqin in the direction of the task hall.

Mr. and Mrs. Bai were inside the bus, absorbing crystal nuclei while keeping an eye on their own bus.

Bai Yifan and Liu Jing teamed up and were leisurely walking together towards the task hall.

Bai Yifan felt extremely secure; besides his older sister, the person who gave him the most sense of safety was his grandmother.

Don’t ask why following his father and grandfather didn’t make him feel secure.

He didn’t want to answer that question.

There were quite a few people accepting tasks in the task hall in the morning. As soon as Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai arrived, they attracted a lot of attention.

The handsome man and beautiful woman combination was eye-catching wherever they went.

Bai Xiqin wore a white casual sports outfit, full of youthful energy, and her delicate face was as perfect as a palm-sized sculpture.

With the increased training and enhancement of her superpowers, Bai Xiqin had been eating more and more recently.

Her height and weight differed somewhat from before the apocalypse.

The places where she needed to gain weight had gained weight.

Enchantingly pure, making it hard for people to look away.

Leng Yebai had a cold face, with a domineering CEO aura of restraint, within three meters, strangers should not approach.

Even so, the women in the room would frequently sneak a glance.

Bai Xiqin ignored the looks from others; such glances were common in her past life.

After the arrival of the apocalypse, it was rare to see women dressed neatly.

Neatly dressed women were usually those with strength and background.

Such women, smart people generally would not provoke.

Bai Xiqin had always loved cleanliness, and even though she didn’t care about her appearance in her previous life, her attire was much cleaner and tidier than most.

In the apocalypse, a clean and tidy woman was a beautiful sight.

It’s normal to take a look or two, just get used to it.

Bai Xiqin didn’t think much of it, but the chill around Leng Yebai grew stronger.

He wished he could go and gouge out those eyes that were lighting up with green glints.

Though they wouldn’t dare be improper with his Xiao Niu, their gazes made Leng Yebai very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Bai Xiqin chose a task quickly and left the task hall in less than a minute.

After leaving the task hall, the number of men watching Bai Xiqin significantly decreased.

The coldness around Leng Yebai dissipated instantly, and he stood beside Bai Xiqin with a gentle demeanor.

The morning sunlight was warm and bright.

A beam of sunlight fell on Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai, warming them gently.

“Are there so many Thunder Ability Users in the base now?” Bai Xiqin glanced back at the task hall and muttered, “The air conditioning inside is really strong!”

Isn’t it a waste of electricity!

Leng Yebai’s lips slightly curled up, “It’s quite cold inside, outside is warmer.”

Bai Xiqin nodded in agreement.

Leng Yebai’s long legs supported the bicycle, while Bai Xiqin sat behind him.

Looking back, Leng Yebai glanced at Bai Xiqin seated on the rear seat, his gaze fleetingly resting on her curled legs.

A pair of long legs, both thin and straight.

The legs are so slender!

After confirming Bai Xiqin was seated properly, Leng Yebai cycled towards the outside of the safety base.

The task they accepted today was to clear a small furniture factory, with a meager reward of only one hundred crystal nuclei.

Such a task is essentially an opportunity; you accept it, eliminate the Third Rank zombie, and the Third Rank crystal core is yours.

Whether Fire Phoenix Safety Base provides crystal cores or not, you profit either way.

The small furniture factory was two to three kilometers away from Fire Phoenix Safety Base, neither too far nor too close.

A hundred crystal nuclei are merely a consolation prize; whether or not the zombies are eliminated doesn’t affect the base much.

In the small furniture factory, there was a Third Rank zombie.

A Third Rank zombie could command up to ten thousand low-level zombies!

It’s not something a single Third Rank Superpower User can handle.

Fortunately, the small furniture factory was limited in size, making it impossible for that many low-level zombies to be commanded.

The task of clearing the small furniture factory had been posted for several days, and no one had accepted it.

No one would risk their lives for a Third Rank crystal core.

Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai accepted this task in the task hall, and Bai Xiqin specifically paused at the door of a room with a pinhole camera.

If her guess was correct, Zhao Mimi had already made contact with that research institute.

There were also people from that research institute inside Fire Phoenix Safety Base.

According to Bai Xiqin’s analysis, Zhao Mimi must have a superior, who was highly likely one of the high-ranking officials in Fire Phoenix Safety Base.

With Zhao Mimi’s nature, if it were an ordinary person, she certainly wouldn’t lower herself to cooperate with them.

Among the high-level officials on good terms with Zhao Mimi, only Captain Zhou was known before.

Recently, Captain Zhou has been infatuated with Li Xue.

Afraid of making Li Xue unhappy, Captain Zhou even abandoned his gentlemanly behavior, and seeing girls suffer, he no longer helped them as wholeheartedly as before.

In short, all for Xiao Xuexue.

He couldn’t upset his girl for the sake of other girls!

Captain Zhou’s infatuation with Nuwa True God was true, but once he fell for a girl, he would guard her with absolute devotion.

In his heart, that girl was his belief.

He could protect all the girls under the sky, but the one he chose would receive unparalleled devotion.

This devotion would not be shared, not even a little bit.

Such a person like Captain Zhou couldn’t possibly be the creator of the research institute.

Truth be told, with his love-strained brain, his IQ wasn’t sufficient.

Bai Xiqin specifically investigated, besides Captain Zhou, the high-ranking officials who interacted with Zhao Mimi included Captain Zhu and Captain Zhu.

Captain Zhu evacuated from S City with Bai Xiqin and others; they could exchange greetings when they met.

Captain Zhu, one of the top ten captains of Fire Phoenix Safety Base, was responsible for task management, a Wood Ability User.

The previous owner of the Purple Mandala in a past life.

The installer of the pinhole camera in the small room of the task hall.

Whichever way you look at it, Captain Zhu is the most suspicious.

Even though Bai Xiqin knew Captain Zhu well, she hasn’t excluded him from suspicion either.

Without sufficient evidence, Bai Xiqin wouldn’t label him as bad, yet, she wouldn’t eliminate suspicion either.

Creak, Creak

Riding with Bai Xiqin on his bicycle, Leng Yebai didn’t encounter any suicidal zombies along the way.

In less than an hour, they reached the small furniture factory.

The furniture factory was a small factory occupying two acres, its sign blown away somewhere.

From afar, it looked empty inside, not a single zombie in sight, eerily quiet.

The quieter a place, the eerier it is.

Leng Yebai parked the bicycle outside the furniture factory, and after Bai Xiqin got off, he pulled out a big lock and secured the bicycle.

Keeping the key safe.

Leng Yebai and Bai Xiqin walked side by side towards the small furniture factory.

Buzz, buzz, buzz—

A faint sound of wood being planed came from inside.

Bai Xiqin had heard that sound before, it was the sound of carpenters planing wood.

She recalled visiting her grandparents’ house in the countryside, they had furniture made by someone.

Carpenters, gloved, holding tools, planed the wood, little wood shavings curling and falling to the ground, the best kindling.

In the mechanical age, manual carpenters were rare, though not entirely absent.

Bai Xiqin exchanged a glance with Leng Yebai and continued to walk inside.

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