What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

"We will not join any faction." He said it directly, and Lu Yize also refused without hesitation.

Squinty-eyed is a smart man. Although Lu Yize refused to join the base, he clearly left room for discussion on the second half of the proposal: to work together to eliminate the zombie king.

He quickly made a judgment, "Okay, let's put joining the base on hold for now, but I think we have another common goal."

After saying this, he paused for a moment, scanning the reactions of everyone present, and then turned to look at Lu Yize as if nothing had happened.

“You want to rescue your comrades, but we cannot allow such a huge threat as a Tier 3 zombie to exist.”

The third-tier zombie was much stronger than Chen Mingzhang had initially estimated. It was precisely because he had fought against it that he was able to determine that Chen Mingzhang could not deal with it alone.

If he were alone, it would be extremely difficult.

Fortunately, they were lucky enough to discover a superhuman who had just advanced to the third level!

"So, what are you planning to do?" Lu Yize put down his water glass.

He squinted, leaned back, and said with a smile, "Cooperation."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yize revealed a deep smile, subtly capturing the glint in the other person's eyes.

It seems that the person in front of me has been planning to cooperate from the very beginning.

"If it's a cooperative relationship, our base can not only provide you with resources, but also be responsible for locating the zombie king's exact location and helping you bring back that healing ability user."

"Of course, that's assuming she's still alive."

Although his words were unpleasant to hear, most people knew they were true, except for Fan Jian, who had the deepest relationship with Sheng Xue.

"What premises? She's definitely alive!"

Fan Jian slammed his fist on the table a little louder. His voice, which was already hoarse, cracked a bit from excitement.

Upon hearing Fan Jian's attitude towards Mingzhang, whom he respected most, Zheng Lin, who had just entered the room, felt his anger rise to the top of his head.

"Where did Brother Mingzhang go wrong? It was zombies that took her away! Who can guarantee her safety!"

In fact, everyone present knew this was the truth. Fan Jian just didn't dare to think about it too deeply before, not to mention that they had no idea where the Zombie King was.

Even if he knew, he couldn't possibly send a group of people to their deaths unprepared, giving away their superpower cores to the zombies for nothing.

Lu Yize and Chen Mingzhang were naturally aware of this, which is why they temporarily set aside their friction and sat down to discuss it.

Ultimately, their cooperation was all for the purpose of achieving a goal.

Lu Yize and his group were trying to rescue Sheng Xue, while Chen Mingzhang's group was trying to eliminate the threat of the zombie king.

"Xiao Lin".

When Chen Mingzhang spoke, Zheng Lin had no choice but to back down.

Lu Yize stood up at this moment, glanced at Fan Jian who was secretly angry, and controlled the situation that was about to break out.

He walked up to Chen Mingzhang, who was smiling with his eyes narrowed, and asked succinctly, "When is the earliest you can launch an attack?"

"tomorrow."

"Okay." Lu Yize agreed after receiving a definite answer.

Fan Jian stared blankly, his mind completely blank. "What do you mean?"

Xian Wenrui, seeing that Fan Jian was still in a daze, patted him on the shoulder excitedly, "What, what do you mean? Brother Lu and this squinty-eyed guy have reached an agreement to go and eliminate the zombie king together tomorrow and rescue Sheng Xue!"

"real?!"

"You heard it yourself just now, would I lie to you?! If you don't believe me, ask Zhang Wenjing."

Zhang Wenjing nodded, "Yes, it's true."

Fan Jian immediately wiped his face and regained his composure.

No, I should say I was extremely excited. "Then I'll go back immediately and cram like crazy, even if it's slow, it'll still be good!"

Seeing that Jiang Yue had eaten and drunk her fill, Lu Yize didn't intend to stay long with that squinty-eyed man who was smiling in a sarcastic way.

However, they hadn't gone more than a few meters when they were stopped again by a smiling man with squinty eyes.

"Wait, Xiao Lin damaged some of your items earlier, so we prepared some of them according to the list."

"Why only a part of it?" Zhang Wenjing turned around at the sound of her voice, a glint of light flashing across her glasses.

She immediately said, "We are all honest and upright people, and there is absolutely no mistake on the list."

Zheng Lin's young mind was greatly shocked. Pointing at Zhang Wenjing, a seemingly "reasonable" and refined person, his finger trembled.

Even Chen Mingzhang's lips twitched slightly upon hearing such shameless words.

However, he quickly composed himself, "We wanted to list the items according to the checklist, but..."

Fan Jian and Xian Wenrui immediately became alert. Fan Jian asked with distrust, "But what? You're not trying to renege on your debt, are you?"

Squinting, he noticed that Lu Yize had been watching the whole thing with his arms crossed.

Clearly, he knew what was written on the list, but he didn't try to stop it in the slightest.

He squinted and subtly withdrew his gaze, offering an explanation that was flawless.

"Of course we will compensate according to the list. Everything else is negotiable, but the base is short of ten generators and twenty refrigeration units for the time being."

Upon hearing this, Fan Jian and Xian Wenrui, who were originally indignant, were suddenly dumbfounded. They clearly couldn't understand how the topic of generators and refrigeration machines had suddenly come up.

Zhang Wenjing also expressed her understanding, saying she had anticipated this situation.

"Okay, we're not hard-going people. These can be replaced with something else at a discount."

He squinted his eyes and didn't refuse, smiling as he waited for her to speak.

Zhang Wenjing looked up, and one eye peeked out from behind her glasses.

Her slightly gloomy eyes stared straight at the squinty-eyed man. "These things are quite valuable. Exchanging them for a single ability core isn't unreasonable, is it?"

She said that because Lu Yize had given her permission before she came.

They wanted to take this opportunity to find out where the supernatural cores of the Donggu base came from.

Zheng Lin was about to speak with a gloomy face when Chen Mingzhang stopped him.

His smile faded. "A special ability core? That's not easy to get."

“But you have your own ways, don’t you?” Lu Yize said, holding Jiang Yue’s hand as they leaned against the door.

Chen Mingzhang glanced at Jiang Yue beside him.

Although Jiang Yue passed their test, people still have a natural aversion to zombies, especially someone like him who has seen and killed many zombies.

Lu Yize and the others were testing them, but weren't they also testing Lu Yize and the others step by step?

"As you all know, people can increase their strength by absorbing the energy from zombie crystal cores, but... in fact, people can also absorb the energy from superhuman cores, although the utilization rate is lower."

As Chen Mingzhang spoke, he looked at the expressions of everyone present.

Xian Wenrui felt disgusted, and Fan Jian showed it most obviously, his eyes revealing his loathing.

"Aren't superhuman cores something only humans possess? Absorbing a superhuman core... wouldn't that mean..."

Before he could finish speaking, his gaze toward Chen Mingzhang and the others turned extremely disdainful.