They finally found out how to use the nuclei. Even the people without abilities in the Samsara team patted Ding Minggang's shoulder with excitement. "You go, man!"

"How could you have guessed? High IQ experts and researchers have not managed to figured how it works, but you got it by mistake?"

Ding Minggang's ability is a fire type, and his shoulder was almost destroyed by people patting him. But because he himself was very excited after discovering the use of the crystal core, he could only shift his painful shoulder with a bitter expression, trying to avoid this group of unscrupulous teammates deliberately taking the opportunity to retaliate.

After discovering the usage of crystal nuclei, Guo Bing was also very excited. He considered for a while and announced: "The crystal cores in the team are the harvest of everyone's hard work. There should not be anyone in the base who has discovered the use of this thing yet, so don't leak the news out of our team for now.”

Seeing everyone nodding their heads, Guo Bing continued: “Today there are not many superpowers in our team, only Chen Ning, Le Tian, Mengzi, Ding Minggang, and Liu Jiangfeng. According to our previous distribution method, these nuclei are distributed according to who contributes most in combat, and the rest is split evenly. Now we will still distribute according to the previous method, but one thing is that increasing strength of our team's abilities will have greater impact for our team. Therefore, if anyone wants to sell crystal nuclei, try to give priority to the members of the team." Then he looked at Chen Ning and the other four. "You too. If you want crystal nuclei, you need to exchange it with what you want. Even if we are one team, we have to settle accounts with our own brothers."

"Captain, this is useless for us anyway. It's better to give it to them first."

"Yes, Captain, we don't have any objections. Wait until later when someone stimulates an ability - wouldn't it be okay then?”

…

The other team members expressed their support, and Guo Bing looked around: “You can’t say that. Even if it’s a team, you can’t just work for them. Even if people have not discovered its value yet, once more people know about it in the future, the price will definitely go up..."

"Their improved abilities are also good for our team, won't they be able to get more things and fight more zombies..."

He Zizhong and Fang Hao retreated into the corner in advance, and did not participate in the Samsara team's internal meeting. The team atmosphere is very good, after all. Most of the people in this team have been together before the end of the world, and the number of people is relatively easy to manage, so the atmosphere in the team is very good. The discussion quickly reached a conclusion.

The crystal nucleus in the team is allocated to these five ability users first. But after each mission, some more materials will be allocated to other team members as compensation.

Fang Hao lowered his head, playing with a crystal nucleus. It's a first-level crystal nucleus, which was given to him by the Samsara team last time. They didn't bring it into the space after returning to the base, and naturally had it with them now.

A bit of bright white lit his fingertips, and after the crystal nucleus flashed, the energy entered Fang Hao's body. Looking at the clump of white dust, Fang Hao saw that no one was looking to his side, and quickly sent his mind into the space. The reaction of the space made him stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong?" He Zizhong regained his gaze and asked when he found that Fang Hao was pulling his sleeve.

"You try to absorb and collect the remaining dust." Fang Hao whispered into He Zizhong's ear.

Raising his eyebrows, He Zizhong took out a piece of crystal nucleus to absorb it, and then discovered that the debris collected in the space did not appear in the basement. Instead, it floated in midair like the previously collected nuclei, and in a flash, melted away!

How was this possible? Can the space also absorb the "garbage" left after being used?

Both of them have doubts in their hearts, but it was not the time for discussion.

The crystal nuclei was quickly allotted within the Samsara team. The number harvested along the way this time was not many. After returning Le Tian's crystal nuclei, each person only had twenty or thirty each.

"Make a note of how many crystal nuclei are used. This way we can see how many pieces are needed upgrade an ability." Guo Bing did not forget to remind everyone after distributing the crystal nuclei.

All five of them accepted the crystal nuclei beamingly, and began to absorb it patiently.

Chen Ning and Le Tian's space abilities absorb crystal nuclei in a slightly different way. They have space abilities, and the effect of using the ability is to collect things into the space. When collecting, their hands will definitely touch the objects themselves. But when they put the nuclei in the space before, nothing happened. After experimenting, they found they needed to condense a little black light and absorb the crystal nucleus through that black light.

What is that black light? No one could say it clearly, but must be a manifestation of space abilities, and may only be answered after upgrading.

Now that they found the correct use of crystal nuclei, Guo Bing made some adjustments to their actions. Previously, everyone’s goal was to rush into the M city to find the seed shop as soon as possible. Once they succeeded, they would evacuate as soon as possible and avoid fighting with zombies. Now, they planned to search out zombies and collect more nuclei for use.

"10% of collected crystal nuclei. Plus if we can't encounter high-level zombies we're unable to deal with, those crystal nuclei belong to you." Chen Ning knew of the Fengche pair's fighting ability and his own team's shortcomings. This condition was decided after discussing it.

He Zizhong nodded: "Okay. But if we encounter something that is too difficult, we can't guarantee it."

"Don't worry. We won't just think about killing zombies. Looking for seeds is our main focus, and we can consider collecting more nuclei along the way."

In a place near A city outside H province, a few figures cautiously roamed a small village. There were two to three hundred zombies stacked beside a mound beside the road at the entrance of the village. The fine rain fell on the corpses of the zombies, but no one in the village wanted to take care of these things.

After rummaging through the yards, the people gathered together again.

"Those people are really outrageous! Even some pieces of plastic sheeting in my cabin were taken away by them!"

"Yes! Only leaving so few things for us to eat. How long can it last?"

"Third uncle, how about...Which base shall we go to?"

An old man sitting on the side of the bed suddenly coughed twice. "You dislike our group of old folks, don't you? You guys can go, but how will us old arms and legs walk to the base?"

"Forth grandfather, aren't there still cars in the village?"

"How many people can sit in that car? Now there are only us old and young people. Go, where do you go? Do you still want your roots?"

A young man snorted and turned his head in the other direction. The person called third uncle suddenly said: "I don't think there is any need to go to that base to see that group of people from before. Everyone is like a bandit with a gun. If we go there, won't other people be like them, and eat us alive? Anyway, there are no zombies in the village now. I say, let's just still be here!"

"What about food?"

Seeing someone ask, third uncle he rolled a cigarette calmly, and slowly lit it in his mouth: "What's the hurry? I went to Xiao Shunzi’s house yesterday. There is still a cellar in his house, and the grain in it is well placed. It was not turned over by the bandits."

"I say! Shunzi's family loved to store food so much in the past. The family was not willing to rent out the land and relies on their own family to grow it. How can they not have any food?"

Another person suddenly asked: "Even if we have enough for this year, what about after that? It’s not peaceful outside now."

The third uncle smiled suddenly, pointing to the south and smiling: "You forgot? Didn't the people who rented our land build a few houses on the edge of the field? When I was helping out, I saw those rooms used for raising seedlings. I didn’t say it when the group was there before, but now it happens that we can take the seeds out and plant the land by ourselves!"

Everyone cheered. Even though they were from the village, in recent years, almost no one has ever worked land. The people in the village who can plant the land have all perished this time, and most of the people who survive today are usually idlers in the village. But fortunately, even if they haven't eaten pork, haven't they seen a pig run?¹As in, even if they haven't done so themselves, haven't they seen how it's done? The older ones at least know how to plant the land.

A group of relatively mature men got up, carried the burden, holding shovels and other things to defend themselves, walked to the place where the seeds were kept. There are only a few old people, a few lucky women, plus a few young children left in the village by their parents.

The village woman who was shot in the leg by Guo Bing was teaching her little grandson in the yard. She slapped the child and cried directly, cursing: "A thing that doesn't know how to save! Eat, eat, eat, is that all you do? Don't know where your good parents are when they died. Our family was even robbed clean. Where can there still be sugar?!”

The little grandson has never been so painfully beaten since he was born. In addition, he was scolded by his grandmother. Turning around in anger, he ran out.

Because there are no more zombies in the village and she was shot in the leg, although the wound was no longer bleeding, it's inconvenient to move, so she just sat on the bed and continued to curse Guo Bing. It is better for that group of people to be eaten by zombies.

The child ran to the entrance of the village, and gradually stopped crying. While sobbing and looking at the 'corpse mountain' in doubt, his little hand reached into his pocket to take out the candy that he had just taken out of his pillow. There was a small pop, and he didn't hold it steady, so the hard candy fell on the ground. The child squatted down and picked it up, wiped the dirt on it, bit the outer packaging bag with his teeth and stuffed it into his mouth, eyes lingering on the 'corpse mountain'.

This is second grandfather and that is eldest cousin. Why are they sleeping outside? Why are their faces blue?

Suspiciously, the child did not realize that his head was getting dizzy, that he could no longer see anything in front of his eyes. His limbs gradually stiffened, and a desire to eat came out of his body...