Chapter 161: Chapter 161: A Rare Extra Meal

When Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai returned to the safety base, it was already around four in the afternoon.

Inside the bus, the Bai Family members were holding crystal cores, absorbing superpowers.

Leng Yebai, visibly uncomfortable, was taken into a space by Bai Xiqin to visit the restroom.

Ten minutes later, he was released.

Subsequently, Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai also joined the team to absorb crystal cores.

When you don’t know what to do, desperately absorbing crystal cores is the right thing.

This is the only way to survive in the apocalypse.

The living area returned to normal after a night of panic.

The superpower user squad kept patrolling the safety base, and by the morning, the upper management of the base had finished their meeting.

The result was that every area in the safety base would have a superpower user to guard it.

Members of the superpower user squad took turns standing in higher places, watching over every corner of the safety base.

People in the living area became increasingly afraid to go elsewhere.

Zombies that looked exactly like humans were like time bombs, making everyone panic.

They feared that the people they lived with day and night could be zombies.

Apart from fear, there was a small group of people who were not panicked; instead, their faces were filled with happy smiles.

These were the survivors rescued by Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai from an abandoned building.

After being rescued, they hid in various corners of the living area.

Not a single person reported to the higher-ups, even though they lived in fear those days, they still bowed their heads to reality.

They all chose silence.

Captain Zhu was one of the ten founding captains of the safety base, and the higher-ups were all connected with him. They were just ordinary people in the base.

After escaping, they had no courage to report him.

They were afraid of retaliation.

In the apocalypse, the result of revenge is death.

Without the law’s sanction, human lives were like grass.

The collapse of the abandoned building was labeled as due to age and disrepair.

Captain Zhu’s underground black workshop was destroyed, even without the income from crystal cores.

But he was still one of the top ten captains of the base, possessing a considerable amount of previously acquired high-rank crystal cores.

The superpower users and ordinary people, who were once trapped, already had seeds of resentment buried in their hearts.

As long as Captain Zhu slightly fell from grace, those people would take the opportunity to kick him when he’s down.

However, as long as he remained a captain and still had superpowers, those people would never actively expose him.

This is the way to survive in the apocalypse.

Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai changed their appearances, and those survivors never saw the two superpower users who saved them again.

Of course, they just wanted the superpower users to bring down Captain Zhu when they saw them again.

That’s all.

Bai Xiqin was not going to cling tenaciously to Captain Zhu as he was not part of the Evil Research Institute.

The underground black workshop for crystal cores had already been destroyed, and for a long time, Captain Zhu wouldn’t act recklessly.

Thus, there was no hurry to bring down Captain Zhu.

The bus was very quiet, one crystal core after another turned into residue in the hands of the Bai Family members and was discarded into the trash can.

Bai Yifan threw a piece of residue into the trash can and stretched lazily.

So tired!

Today alone, he absorbed two crystal cores.

Bai Yifan glanced at his father, Mr. Bai, who held a crystal core in each hand, capable of turning two crystal cores into residue in about two hours.

His mom and grandma were even faster.

Bai Yifan’s mouth twitched slightly, deciding to get off and take a walk to calm down.

In terms of learning, Bai Yifan ranked at the bottom in the whole family.

In terms of superpowers, he was also at the bottom.

A poor student is always a poor student, no matter when.

Bai Yifan shook his head, silently opened the car door, and went out for a stroll.

Shamefully, until now, he was still just a First Rank Superpower User, about to touch the bottleneck of reaching the Second Rank.

Yet he hadn’t broken through.

How tragic!

If the survivors heard Bai Yifan’s thoughts, they would surely scold him for showing off.

Clearly, being able to have First Rank abilities just a few months into the apocalypse was already quite commendable!

The living area was quiet everywhere, Bai Yifan was slightly lost in thought.

The fact that Fan Tangtang was a zombie had a huge impact on his young mind.

He needed to take a walk to properly ease his scientific views.

The open space in the living area was quite large, and the adults were quietly huddled in a corner, their eyes occasionally darting around.

Afraid of a zombie attack.

In the quiet living area, the only ones causing a fuss were the children.

Youngsters don’t know the taste of sorrow.

Even though the children were aware of the apocalypse’s terrors, they still understood that the safety base was, indeed, safe.

A few children played noisily within the adults’ line of sight.

Even while walking, Bai Yifan was scrutinized with strange looks by several survivors.

Afraid he was a zombie.

Bai Yifan felt somewhat uneasy under these gazes and deliberately walked towards a remote area.

“Meow—”

The mournful whimper of a kitten echoed.

Bai Yifan lifted his eyes and looked over. In the distance, three children were hunched over playing with something.

Vaguely, he could see a white bundle being kicked back and forth on the ground.

From time to time, the sharp cry of a kitten echoed.

Bai Yifan frowned and walked over with large strides.

Bai Yifan was a cat lover.

Besides Sailor Moon, his favorite cartoon was Garfield.

The strongest high school student in history was about to handle this matter!

“Kids, what are you doing!”

Bai Yifan put on a stern face as he walked over.

The three kids were boys around seven or eight years old, the age where even dogs would dislike them.

“Why do you care what we are playing with!”

One boy glanced at the distance; his parents were watching from afar, and he wasn’t afraid of Bai Yifan.

“Meow—”

The kitten was kicked to his feet by one of the boys, who then ruthlessly kicked it towards the third boy.

The kitten whimpered, spitting out red blood, its white fur dyed crimson.

“Xiao Yang, you kicked it wrong!”

One boy complained, running over to lift his foot to kick the kitten again.

Bai Yifan frowned, quickly ran over, and grabbed the boy, causing him to stumble and miss the kitten.

“What are you doing!”

The boy glared angrily at Bai Yifan, and if Bai Yifan wasn’t tall and sturdy, he would have been kicked by the boys too!

“Kids must be respectful to small animals. Today you bully small animals; tomorrow they might bully you back!”

Bai Yifan looked at the kitten coughing up blood, his brow furrowing tightly.

The kitten seemed to know Bai Yifan had saved it, whimpered, and ran to his feet, resting its head on him, squinting its eyes.

A rare moment of peace.

“It’s the apocalypse; respect my ass! No one loves the young; why should I give face to a cat!”

The seven or eight-year-old child was domineering, his eyes full of disdain.

“Yeah, it’s just a cat. Hurry up and return the cat to us. My parents are right there.” A little boy smacked his lips, “Once it’s dead, we can eat the meat.”

Cat meat isn’t very tasty.

But for them, it was a rare opportunity to taste meat.

People not living in the villas or residential areas were ordinary people or low-level superpower users.

They didn’t often go out and kill zombies to gather resources; they just stayed in the base, barely scraping by.

Occasionally, they helped the base or individuals with some tasks, earning meager resources, barely sustaining them.

Cat meat was a rare treat for them.

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