Chapter 239: Cooling Like This

Now, Zhang Mu was even more eager for the thousands of beast cores that were about to be his, but he didn’t want to ask directly. Once the counting was done, they would bring them to him.

The Obsidian Beetle transformed into a form that saved energy, waiting inside the tent with Zhang Mu.

After a while, there was a commotion outside the tent. It seemed like the soldiers had returned after completing their mission. Everyone seemed more relaxed now. Zhang Mu picked up a few key points from the conversations of the passing soldiers.

Just as Long Er and Zhang Mu had expected, the zombie horde attacked the mutated beasts. Without a king’s control, the zombie horde couldn’t match up to the mutated beasts. But the most crucial point was that the mutated beasts were not united inside. The soldiers found that the Beastman of the Red Fox clan, with severe injuries, had suffered the most deaths. Their bodies were in a terrible state.

The zombies, however, were different. They only saw their kind as obstacles and wouldn’t harm each other unless necessary. In this situation, most of the mutated beasts were wounded, leaving behind countless bodies before fleeing from Jin Zhong City.

The six-digit zombie horde was greatly weakened by the counterattack of the mutated beasts. These first-rank zombies still lacked awareness. According to the on-site trackers, when the mutated beasts fled the nearby woods, a large group of zombies followed, seeking fresh flesh and revenge on those who had attacked them before.

When the nearly ten thousand-person army reached Jin Zhong City, the battle had just ended. There were no mutated beasts left in the city, only around ten thousand first-rank zombies.

These zombies were still gorging themselves crazily, with no evolved humans in sight.

One is simple-minded and only cares about eating, the other is organized and disciplined.

One is weak and almost gone, while the other is fully armed and high-spirited.

One attacks alone in scattered groups, the other advances together with clear roles.

With both sides having ten thousand in number, the zombies, lacking their biggest advantage, were effortlessly crushed by the evolvers’ team during the battle.

Humans also need meat, so they had to snatch food from the zombies’ mouths. The commander ordered an attack while the zombies were eating the mutated beast corpses, taking the food away from them.

Everyone discussed the meat harvest, finding nearly a thousand intact, while over a thousand were halfway eaten.

Long Er’s timing was perfect, as another day’s delay could have left only skeletons. While the beast cores weren’t very useful for zombies, not being picky eaters, losing them would have been a big loss.

What does it mean to have one thousand intact mutated beast corpses and over a thousand half-eaten?

It’s about 1,500 tons of meat!

If each evolver consumes about ten pounds of meat a day, then this amount of meat is enough for them to feast for nearly a year, the key is to eat the meat of mutated beasts, which helps to increase their strength and stamina.

Of course, compared to the food for ten thousand people in a year, the number of beast cores is far more significant, but Zhang Mu doesn’t know how many beast cores he can get. Hearing the amount of meat mentioned by the young warrior outside the tent, he roughly understands that he might be able to get between one thousand to two thousand beast cores, most likely two thousand.

Because zombies are picky eaters, the belly of mutated beasts is the softest part and their favorite, if there is plenty of food, they usually won’t go for the head where the beast core is stored first because they don’t have a huge demand for beast core energy themselves.

Zhang Mu feels that the remaining half of the bodies should mostly have the head part, which is actually not preferred by humans to eat, but in special times, people who have gone hungry won’t mind eating something less tasty.

No one dares to waste food anymore, they clearly know that food means survival.

As for the issue of freezing and storing meat, let Long Qi and the others worry about it, as they are not Era Sub-merchants with an Era Merchant Ring, and they would need a special storage ring for a city to have enough space. Perhaps only the top Era Sub-merchants of major cities have them.

If they are lucky and there is an icehouse in Shan Xi City, it will be easily solved, if not, it will just go to waste. Zhang Mu is powerless, his storage ring can only be used for goods from corresponding cities. The No. 29 of Shan Xi City is not likely to be generous to him, after all, Zhang Mu didn’t bring him much profit this time, and he didn’t have any elemental crystals for Era Universal Merchandise transactions, so why would he help him?

Just as Zhang Mu was thinking about how Long Qi should handle this batch of meat, he heard the sound of military boots running outside the tent, followed by a voice saying, “Mr. Zhang, the leader is requesting your presence.”

The voice sounded familiar, Zhang Mu saw Yuan Rui still resting with her eyes closed, so he opened the curtain and walked out, finding the security guard who worked for Long Qi last time standing at the door.

“Mr Zhang, the leader said that the beast cores are almost ready to be counted. Please go there to inspect.” The security guard respectfully told Zhang Mu. Now they could get so much meat, it was all thanks to Zhang Mu. If he hadn’t helped Long Qi deal with those two kings, things wouldn’t have turned into such a beneficial situation for humans.

“Let’s go!” Zhang Mu said, taking big steps forward.

The security guard quickly stopped Zhang Mu and said, “Sir, we’re not going to the main tent, the leader is in the icehouse now.”

“Icehouse?”

“Yes, follow me, I’ll take you there.” The security guard turned and walked quickly in a direction.

Zhang Mu couldn’t believe there was actually an icehouse in Shan Xi City. Now, Long Qi shouldn’t worry about the meat going bad. This was a great thing for the people gathered here.

However, Zhang Mu still had some doubts. Normal large appliances couldn’t be used after the evolution waves of the apocalypse, but this icehouse was still running. Was it because it hadn’t reached that standard yet, or for some other reason?

Even with questions in his mind, Zhang Mu kept up with the security guard. The meat issue wasn’t his concern, he just needed to get the agreed beast cores.

It was an underground building, and as soon as Zhang Mu went down, he felt the chill slowly rising. It really was an icehouse.

Long Qi was waiting for Zhang Mu in front of a big door. He patted Zhang Mu’s shoulder and said, “The beast cores we agreed on are almost finished counting. Come in with me and see, but I’m curious how you’re going to take them away.”

As he spoke, Long Qi opened the door for Zhang Mu and led the way into the icehouse. His security guard hurried out as directed by Long Qi, looking frozen.

Just a moment ago the door blocked the cold, but now that Zhang Mu stepped inside, he felt a chill spreading over his body.

This freezing effect is so powerful?

Zhang Mu voiced the doubts hidden in his heart, “After the apocalypse, many large electrical appliances can’t be used, right? What kind of cooling system does this icehouse have that is so strong and efficient?”

Hearing this, Long Qi laughed heartily and said, “You are so naive, even before the apocalypse, there weren’t cooling systems as good as this. You feel the chill too, don’t you? What else could make us second-rank evolvers feel cold?”

“Are you saying?” Long Qi emphasized the second-rank issue, and Zhang Mu began to understand.

“Exactly as you guessed.”

Long Qi pointed to a closed but transparent small box and proudly said, “It’s these ice evolvers that provide the cooling effect. Otherwise, the food in the gathering place itself wouldn’t be abundant. If it rotted, how could it feed so many people?”

There were many small boxes like this one, Long Qi pointed randomly, but Zhang Mu followed his finger and saw a familiar figure.

After recognizing the face of that figure, Zhang Mu felt like a thousand wild horses running in his heart, and he began to curse.

“You actually used her to cool the icehouse! That’s the Ice Queen!”

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