Absolute Zone Zero: I survive in Liufen Street

"Found it. Mr. Captain—"

Is this the supplies you hid—" A member of the advance team who followed Bai Zhi was surprised to drag out a military backpack covered with dust and gravel from the collapsed pile of rocks and shouted happily in Bai Zhi's direction.

Bai Zhi kicked down half of the obstructing wall and was searching through the rubble of a building. When he heard someone calling him, he threw away the half-person-high cement board in his hand and walked over.

The several advance team members who witnessed Bai Zhi's series of operations around him had gone from shock at first, to admiration, and then to eagerness to try. They looked at each other, unable to suppress their curiosity, and decided to try it secretly.

So a few people quietly gathered around the cement board and knocked on it, and even took out measuring tools to test the quality of the cement board.

A burly male team member stepped forward, stood with his legs apart, concentrated his energy on his dantian, and gripped the edge of the stone slab with both hands. He exerted all his strength, but the thick cement slab mixed with steel bars was only lifted up to the height of a finger.

The unwilling team members tried to move it together, but none of them could lift the cement board in Bai Zhi's hand, which was as light as a paper shell, a few centimeters away.

"Huh? What are you doing?" Bai Zhi, after checking the supplies in his backpack and especially the intact [Anti-Corrosion Agent] in the box, breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up and saw his teammates arguing over the stone slab. Confused, he asked, "Excuse me, did you detect anything under that cement slab I just threw? I'll move it aside."

"No, no, no! It's okay, there's nothing!"

"Really, we're just looking... oh, at the quality of the old building materials. It's really solid! This wall." The man said, and knocked on the cement wall panel with the small probing hammer in his hand with a wry smile.

"Yes, yes! This wall is really strong!"

The team members who were discovered blushed and refused Bai Zhi's offer of help incoherently.

“Puff! Cough cough.

"Captain," sir, please leave them alone and let them continue their inspection.

Let's go to the open space next to us and see if it's suitable for setting up information posts." The team member standing behind Bai Zhi who found the backpack suppressed a smile and pushed the confused Bai Zhi to the side.

When he encountered an obstacle, Bai Zhi drew his sword, and with a flash of light, he sheathed it back in. The ether crystal blocking the road slid down along the diagonal cut in the middle and fell onto the ruins beside him.

"It seems the modification effect is quite good." The team member following Bai Zhi took out his personal equipment and silently recorded the data, saying with emotion: "I thought that due to insufficient materials and crude modification equipment, the effect of this temporary repair and modification of weapons would be very mediocre.

Maybe it’s because of the good weapon foundation, or maybe it’s that strange ether crystal?

Keep this in mind, it can be used as a reference for subsequent modifications.

I just didn't expect that you, Captain, could cause effective damage to that high-risk large skeleton with just a long sword without any help from Yin Qing.

With your strength, you must be the elite in the army!

I'm really curious about what kind of important person is lost in the void, so you are sent to lead a team to look for them?

In order to enter the [Arpeggio Valley], the advance team conducted closed training for a long period of time. It felt like they had missed a lot of information and were about to become out of touch with society.

Ah~~ I really want to drink tea milk."

"...You flatter me. The technique that Wistar has mastered truly commands my respect.

"You've enhanced my sword to this level of power simply by using materials and ether crystals found in the ruins. It's truly admirable." Bai Zhi ran his hand over the hilt, which had undergone a major transformation and now looked incredibly technological. He praised it sincerely.

His "blank weapon" had finally been enhanced and upgraded with this "world technology," and no longer needed to rely solely on its own strength for a single attack. The villain in Bai Zhi was so moved that he almost cried.

And, he finally! Finally had a sound engine to use!

Unable to stop Bai Zhi, the "professional" who insisted on participating in the data collection and material collection operation, the leader of the advance team took out the general-purpose audio engine that the armed members of the team had in reserve and gave it to the warrior who had accidentally damaged and lost his audio engine equipment during the operation.

After all, being able to act in the hollow with a "companion" with extremely high combat power will provide great security both physically and mentally.

In real life, audio engines are differentiated by performance, not class. It's not like in games where an "offensive" audio engine won't be able to utilize the "defense" attribute.

As long as the fighters are used to using them and are accustomed to shield-type weapons, it is not impossible to use damage-increasing sound engines.

So, in reality, the so-called "universal model" sound engine is just a literal meaning. It is not a special customized model, it is not picky about weapon type, and it is a model that provides resonance in all aspects.

Therefore, the team leader had no worries about Bai Zhi not being able to use the music engine he gave him, at most it might not be very convenient.

However, most of the models used by the advance team are comparable to those used by the military's elite forces, and are guaranteed to be the latest versions.

Besides the custom-made sound engines, these were also considered highly refined and high-end weapons. Using them to provide buffs to temporary, high-ranking teammates was both cost-effective and appropriate. The team leader pondered this inwardly, proudly boasting about his own cleverness.

Both parties felt that they had gained a great advantage, so the atmosphere of cooperation was quite pleasant.

Now Bai Zhi feels that he is super strong!

Even if I were to encounter a high-risk enemy like before, I wouldn't have to run away. At least I could chop it down a few more times and then run.

No one knows that the cool and aloof boss who appears calm and reliable on the surface is actually a villain in his heart who is so happy that he keeps throwing flowers.

If Bai Zhi hadn't found an opportunity to be alone, he would have wanted to hug his knife and kiss it hard a few times!

Although Bai Zhi rescued people without considering any reward, who could refuse to receive tangible thanks after doing a good deed?!

Bai Zhi definitely made a fortune from this deal!

Unfortunately, the advance team’s subsequent promise: to ask the professionals in the society to help Bai Zhi carry out targeted and comprehensive upgrades and modifications to his weapons after they leave, could not be realized.

After all, once he got out, Bai Zhi's careless and clumsy lie would soon be exposed, but for now, this level was enough to make him happy for a while.

The weapon upgrade meant Bai Zhi had the confidence to explore even more dangerous caves. Having already seen such a large cave with such a magnificent terrain, it was hard for Bai Zhi not to be curious and yearn for other special caves.

Especially [Hollow Zero] [Old Capital], the starting point of the fate of this [world], the most important "stage" in the [drama of fate].

It is also the only way for him to go home.

Bai Zhi stood on the edge of the fault, looking into the distance through the floating gravel fault.

"Captain, are you looking at the Old Capital?" After setting up the information posts and waiting for the data collection progress, the advance team member followed Bai Zhi's gaze and couldn't help but sigh, "Although this place is very close to the edge of the Old Capital, if you want to truly see the remains of the former city, you still need to go deeper and pass through more dangerous areas.

Furthermore, the void is full of cracks, and various high-risk corpses are rampant...

It used to take only a few hours, but now it's taken us nearly ten years."

“…….

Yes, before everything happened, who could have imagined that the journey "home" would be so far and so long.

But no matter how far the distance is, it cannot stop children who have left home from wanting to return.

We will all return to our "home" one day. Only in this way can people truly bid farewell to the past and start anew, heading towards a more distant future. Bai Zhi gripped the hilt of the knife, his eyes unwavering.

He was attached to everything he had now, but how could he easily give up what he had gained in the past twenty years of struggling to live, his hometown, his relatives, and even the flowers on the balcony of his small apartment, all of which proved that Bai Yu had lived in this world?

Every time he took a step forward, Bai Zhi felt more grateful for the past. He was grateful for the "love" that supported him and allowed him to persevere through the pain. He was grateful for himself, who had always worked hard but finally made it to where he is now.

If a person deletes any part of his past, he will no longer be the person he is now.

So, don't run away, don't give up. If you are going on a long journey, please say goodbye to the past seriously.

Only by remembering where you came from can you avoid losing your direction.

The starry sea, briefly dimmed within his sea of ​​consciousness, regained its former brilliance, even becoming even brighter. It calmly surrounded the slightly damaged "consciousness" at the deepest point. The spreading black at the end of Bai Zhi's hair quietly faded, only the tail end became even darker.

The blue data wrapped around the body, always ready for calibration, flickered, as if in surprise, but eventually fell silent again.

Only the golden data ball floating above the sea of ​​stars seemed to have noticed something, but after investigation, it found nothing as before.

Small Theater

Team Leader: One Yin Qing for a super awesome bodyguard, what a steal! As expected of me! (Pushes glasses, laughs triumphantly)

Bai Zhi: If you save people and help find the way, you can get weapon upgrades! And there's also a sound engine that can't be bought on the market. What a great deal! (Excited)