Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter Twenty-Five: Compensation

Pang Bo quickly voiced his guess.

From the moment Long Yangyang and her companion arrived at the Rose Hotel, to the moment they worked together to destroy the mutated roses and leave the Rose Garden.

After listening, the captain seemed to understand something: "In that case, Miss Long should be a wood-type ability user. They didn't kill the mutated rose, but instead took it for their own use."

Looking at the crowd suspended in mid-air by the mutated roses, the captain couldn't bear it any longer and asked, "Since you said that the mutated roses are afraid of fire, can you save these people?"

Pang Bo nodded, then shook his head. "I tried to stop them, but they insisted on robbing Miss Long and the others."

He could indeed save these people with his fire-based abilities, but they were in the wrong first. "Miss Long and the others helped us, and I cannot be ungrateful."

“Yes, they made a mistake, but it doesn’t warrant death,” the captain said.

"Not a crime deserving of death?" Pang Bo shook his head and calmly retorted, "Captain, you're wrong. You only see the power of the mutated rose, but you've overlooked the fact that if the person they robbed today hadn't been Miss Long, but an ordinary person without superpowers, wouldn't that person have been killed by them long ago?"

Just like those two people who were crushed under the crowd earlier.

The captain was speechless, unable to refute Pang Bo's words. Finally, the captain took a deep breath: "We can't just stand by and watch them be killed by Rose."

"Why don't we ask?" Pang Bo suggested.

“Yes,” Wang Kun nodded. He had a good impression of Long Yangyang and the others. Just from the fact that they were willing to exchange supplies for gasoline, he knew that they were not greedy people.

“Miss Long and her group are very nice people, unlike those people hanging on the rose vines.”

"In that case, why don't you ask them if they're willing to let these people go?" the captain suggested.

“Okay.” Wang Kun nodded and shouted towards the direction of Long Yangyang and the others’ Hummer, “Sister, these people know they were wrong, can you put them down?”

"Our numbers are dwindling, and our base is waiting for them to build the walls."

Building city walls? Long Yangyang's lips twitched. They really were making the most of everything.

Long Yangyang thought about it and realized that instead of killing them, building the city wall would be a contribution to society.

A group of ordinary people, they can't provide much energy even as fertilizer, let's go repair the city wall instead. Long Yangyang told the mutated rose to put the people down.

Seeing that Rose Vine had finally released the people, the captain finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Wang Kun, these people were planning to rob us. If we let them go and take some compensation from them, you won't be protecting them, will you?" Long Yangyang asked.

There was a strong indication that if they didn't agree, they would continue to hang them on the rose vines and suck their blood.

The captain glanced at the rose vines swaying behind the crowd and nodded: "Of course, Miss Long, what kind of compensation do you need from them?"

"As for food, I think the captain has already noticed, we don't lack any," Long Yangyang said.

"Let them pay with the crystal cores. Five zombie crystal cores for one life. Three days. If they don't pay with the crystal cores in three days, they can continue to use them as fertilizer for my little seedlings."

"Little Seedling" is the name that Long Yangyang gave to the mutated rose. When Long Yangyang and her team dug up the mutated rose, there were only a few tender shoots left on the rootstock, so Long Yangyang named the mutated rose "Little Seedling".

Hearing Long Yangyang's words, the captain's lips twitched. If these people were willing to kill zombies, he wouldn't have such a headache.

Long Yangyang knew what kind of people these were, of course. She simply made her request: "A total of fifty-two people. I need to receive two hundred and sixty crystal cores in three days."

I don't care how they got these crystal cores or who helped them get them.

As long as there's nothing else, I think my little Miaomiao will really like them. Now, the team leader can take these people away. Remember to tell them my requirements.

The army captain was named Gao Feng, a tall, thin middle-aged man. "Take everyone back first and let the army doctor take a look."

What a mess this is! A bunch of troublemakers.

He's now traumatized by saving lives. Gao Feng walked heavily into the military doctor's tent.

"Old Jin, are these people dead?"

Military doctor Jin Chuan put down his hand that was taking pulses. He had already heard the whole story from the young soldier who brought the people over: "These people are fine, just lost too much blood."

"Excessive blood loss?"

Gao Feng nodded. Losing too much blood is better than being sucked dry and used as fertilizer.

The thought of these people needing crystal cores to save their lives after they wake up left Gao Feng at a loss.

"Alright, Captain Gao, once they wake up, just tell them what that person is thinking."

Seeing Gao Feng's troubled expression, Lao Jin reminded him, "In this world, what you've done for them is more than enough."

They brought this trouble upon themselves; there's no reason for Gao Feng to worry about it.

If you don't want to die, it's easy: either leave, or it depends on whether the person making the request is willing to let them go.

Alternatively, you could do as that person asks and obediently hand over five zombie crystal cores.

As these people gradually woke up, upon hearing that each of them had to hand over five zombie crystal cores or they would have to be used as fertilizer for the mutated roses, everyone's already pale faces turned even paler.

"Captain, do you have any crystal cores? Lend them to me first, I'll definitely return them later."

Those with a sharp mind were the first to focus their attention on Gao Feng and his group.

“This…” Gao Feng looked troubled. “There are fifty-two of you, and you need a total of 260 crystal cores. We don’t have that many crystal cores.”

Gao Feng could easily see that what the other party wanted was for him to give up five crystal cores to save his life.

But Gao Feng wasn't stupid. Once he brought it up, everyone else would definitely focus their attention on the soldiers.

His soldiers weren't just machines for killing zombies, and besides, he didn't want his men to lose their lives trying to help these people.

Upon hearing Gao Feng's words, the person who asked the question instantly turned grim.

After Gao Feng left, the man suggested, "Why don't we leave? Do you really want to be fertilizer for the mutated roses?"

"Leave. There are zombies outside. Here we have soldiers protecting us and food. If we leave, we'll have nothing."

"Yeah, why should we leave? I don't believe that woman would dare to feed the mutated roses as fertilizer in front of the soldiers."

"But we were almost drained of blood by the mutated roses, right in front of those soldiers," a pale and thin woman said, still shaken.

"Besides, those roses are so powerful, can the soldiers defeat them?"

Upon hearing the woman's words, the crowd fell silent instantly.

"Damn it, I'm going to die either way, so what's the big deal? I'll just fight zombies."

Brothers, if you're planning to fight zombies with me, come on over. If you want to leave, hurry up and go.

"This will show those of us who stayed behind whether that woman will just let you go."