Hesheng didn’t understand. After such an accident, she had completely forgotten that she was going to trick Duan Zhanfeng.
“Duan Zhanfeng wants you to lead me to the slaughterhouse in the east of town. We’re almost at the town entrance, and we haven’t split up yet. Don’t you think he’s anxious?” Li Yanting took the clothes covering Hesheng’s face down, saw Hesheng’s lips slightly parted in surprise, moved his chin, and then looked away.
Hesheng didn’t notice Li Yanting’s unnaturalness. She was preoccupied with one thought. Anxious to confirm, she quickly propped herself up and grabbed Li Yanting’s shoulder, her voice filled with barely concealed excitement: “You… you believe me?”
Li Yanting clicked his tongue and put his arm around Hesheng’s waist to protect her from falling, saying with some dissatisfaction, “Sit still.”
After Da Kun got out of the car, the atmosphere in the car became even more suffocating. Especially at this moment, Lan Duo felt like she was about to explode. She didn’t even care about jealousy and anger, and only wanted to escape, to get as far away from these two people as possible.
“…I, uh, I’ll go see if Da Kun is arguing with someone!”
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a loud door slam. Lan Duo jogged all the way from the side of the car, the blush on her ears clearly visible.
“You really believe me!” Hesheng kept chasing Li Yanting’s face to look at him. After seeing him nod slightly, she happily threw herself into Li Yanting’s arms, hugged his waist, and giggled foolishly.
Li Yanting stroked the girl’s back and rubbed the hair on the back of her head.
…Don’t let me down, he said in his heart.
“Brother! The car of that Duan guy broke down and needs time to repair.”
Da Kun opened the car door with a bang. The rough man couldn’t see any pink bubbles, and only felt that his skull was about to fly off his head with anger.
“Damn it, I told him to throw it away and get on the bus, but he wouldn’t listen. He insisted on resting in place and repairing the car.”
“Brother, what should we do? Leave first?”
Li Yanting glanced at him, pushed the car door open, and got out of the car with the person in his arms: “No need, it’s almost noon. We’ll rest in place too.”
Hesheng exclaimed softly and quickly hugged Li Yanting’s neck. Glancing at the corner of Li Yanting’s mouth that was curving up, Hesheng bit her lip and thought he was doing it on purpose.
Li Yanting got out of the car and placed Hesheng on the hood. He looked around: “Da Kun and I will take a look around. When Duan Zhanfeng comes to find you later, agree to everything he says.”
“Huh?” Hesheng tilted her head, knowing that he was going to trick Duan Zhanfeng with her. Although she was happy in her heart, she still deliberately pouted and misinterpreted him, “You want to create opportunities for me and Duan Zhanfeng? Aren’t you afraid that I’ll run away with him again?”
Hesheng just wanted to make a joke, but she didn’t expect that in the next moment, her chin would be pinched by a rough hand. Li Yanting’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He grabbed her chin and brought her closer, looking fierce, as if he wanted to eat her: “You dare!”
“…I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare!” Not expecting the man to have such a big reaction, Hesheng quickly admitted defeat, shaking her hands for a long time, and finally hugged Li Yanting’s waist, obediently admitting her mistake, “I was just joking. You’re so good, and you finally believe me, how could I possibly run away?”
“It better be.”
Li Yanting seemed to be really angry, his tone was gnashing his teeth with a sinister edge. He stared at Hesheng’s clean eyes for a long time, and after confirming that she was just joking, he withdrew his gaze and took out a moon-white crystal core from his pocket and handed it to her.
“This is the crystal core of the zombie that injured you yesterday. It’s space-type, and it should be yours. You decide how to use it.”
“I decide? But you killed the zombie.” Hesheng’s lips curved, cunning and innocent. “Are you telling me that we don’t distinguish between you and me?”
“Take it and go.”
Li Yanting didn’t answer the question directly. He stuffed the crystal core into Hesheng’s hand, and without caring that Hesheng was still sitting on the hood, he turned around, called Da Kun, and went to patrol the surrounding area.
This was the first time Hesheng had come into contact with a crystal core since her rebirth. She held the crystal core in her palm, closed her eyes, and mobilized her ability, gradually delving into the interior of the crystal core to check the attributes, level, and purity of the crystal core.
Internally checking the attributes of crystal cores has always been a major problem faced by ability users in the apocalypse.
As a currency in the apocalypse, crystal cores can not only be exchanged for supplies, but more importantly, they can be used by ability users to absorb energy, thereby advancing their abilities. This is the most direct way for ability users to improve their strength.
However, this simple and crude method also has drawbacks. There are many types of abilities in this world, and crystal cores carry different types and levels of energy.
But the problem is that crystal cores will exhibit different colors and sizes depending on the attributes and levels of energy they carry. And these external attributes that are manifested have no regularity.
Crystal cores of the same attribute may exhibit different types of colors, and crystal cores of different energy levels may be the same size. This brings many troubles to the identification of crystal core attributes.
And after ability users kill a large number of zombies, they inevitably get confused when extracting crystal cores. Because they can’t distinguish the specific attributes, blindly absorbing them will disrupt their sea of consciousness, which carries the origin of their abilities, and mix it with many useless energy impurities.
One or two crystals naturally don’t matter, but over the years, it will inevitably make the foundation unstable, and eventually the building will collapse, the sea of consciousness will explode, and eventually they will explode and die.
Relievers are born with ability users, and their ability is to relieve the impurities in the ability user’s body, so as to ensure the purity of the sea of consciousness. Therefore, the speed of advancement is also unmatched by others.
Because ability users do not have the ability to internally check attributes, they can only rely on crystal core identification instruments to determine the attributes of crystal cores. And this expensive and rare instrument only exists in large, relatively prosperous large refuge cities, and the price charged for use is quite high.
Hesheng’s ability was discovered and extended after repeated use and research of the reliever ability in her previous life. It is a further deepening and self-understanding of the ability in her body. It belongs to the migration ability of the reliever ability, and not all relievers can comprehend it.
The situation is similar to Li Yanting’s second ability. Li Yanting’s first ability is lightning-type. He migrated the wind-type ability with attributes from the lightning ability as his second ability. In the near future, he will also migrate the fire-type as his third ability.
And now with her help, the process of Li Yanting’s ability evolution will only be faster, not slower.
The crystal core in her hand, as Li Yanting said, is space-type, and the level is three. As far as the current situation is concerned, it is already a rare high-level crystal core.
Hesheng mobilized her ability to purify the impurities in the crystal core, then jumped off the hood and walked to Lan Duo, who was preparing lunch.
This crystal core is of no benefit to Hesheng as a reliever, but Lan Duo has a space-type ability. Giving it to her as a favor will maximize the help it brings to herself.
And Hesheng could guess that Li Yanting also planned this way, but he gave the opportunity to do this favor to herself. He was helping her.