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

Zhang Wenjing is a psychic with heightened senses than the average person.

Hearing their conversation, he casually added, "I bet three crystal cores he won't hold out until tonight."

As if agreeing with Zhang Wenjing, Xiaobai even barked twice.

Fan Jian grinned lewdly. "Sister Jing, you used the word 'suppress' very cleverly. And Xiao Bai's two calls were just right."

Xian Wenrui also clicked his tongue and shook his head, "Sister Jing is still the most insightful. I don't believe that Brother Lu would bring home without knowing what was in the box."

Hearing him say this, Fan Jian hissed, finding it quite reasonable, "Alright, alright, you two are all so good at analysis, aren't you?"

Yeah, Lu Yize is such a cunning old fox, he's incredibly suspicious. If he didn't know what was in the box, would he dare let Jiang Yue hold it?

Fan Jian staked his future romantic prospects for the next ten years on the fact that Lu Yize knew what was in the box from the very beginning.

Only Sheng Xue, who had just been sitting and had a clear view of the contents of the box, remained silent with a flushed face, silently categorizing Chen Mingzhang as a pervert in her mind.

Jiang Yue was more interested in the box itself, which was full of supernatural powers, than the contents of the box. She felt that if she ate the box, she could have a full meal.

"Come over and collect the crystal core."

Lu Yize's words immediately diverted the attention of the group of people and the dog who were gossiping.

"Holy crap, so many?!"

Fan Jian stared at the sack full of crystal cores, his eyes glazed over, as if he were reliving the joy of being a rich kid again.

"A total of 5431 Tier 0 zombie crystal cores and 632 Tier 1 zombie crystal cores were seized in this operation."

“Initially, Chen Mingzhang proposed that we, Donggu Base, and the Central Base divide the crystal cores in a 4:5:1 ratio.”

Zhang Wenjing looked up excitedly and asked, "We get 40% of the profits?"

Lu Yize didn't hide anything, "Well, it started with a 40% interest rate, but I reduced it by 10% to repay the favors I owed."

When others heard him say this, they thought of the second-tier crystal core and the superpower core that Chen Mingzhang had given them before.

Xian Wenrui agreed, saying, "Indeed, we should repay the favors as soon as possible. You can't owe favors, no matter what. Giving away even a 10% profit is not a loss."

Fan Jian was bad at math and didn't care about the difference between three and four. As long as he wouldn't starve, he just mindlessly agreed.

"Exactly, who knows what kind of bad things that squinty-eyed guy is up to? It's good to pay back the favor."

Zhang Wenjing had no objection to this. In any case, 30% of the crystal cores were not a small number, and Lu Yize would probably share some with them.

Sheng Xue didn't contribute much throughout the process and was too embarrassed to participate in their division.

Lu Yize deliberately brought up the matter of profit to the surface, also to test the attitude of everyone present.

He never intended to repay a favor by taking advantage of others' interests.

"Of the 5431 0th-order crystal nuclei, if we divide them at a 4% profit ratio, we will receive 2172."

"The participants—me, Jiang Yue, Fatty, Fan Jian, Zhang Wenjing, and Xiaobai—should theoretically be divided equally among six people, with each person receiving an average of 362 pieces."

"However, because I gave up 10% of the profit, the total number of crystal cores we received was only 1629."

"Excluding me and Jiang Yue, if we divide it equally among the other four people, each person will receive 406. Do you have any objections?"

Not to mention Fan Jian and Xian Wenrui, even Zhang Wenjing was taken aback by Lu Yize's extravagant spending. "So much?"

Xian Wenrui swallowed hard and hurriedly said, "Isn't this too much? Brother Lu, you'll have none left?"

"Ah, you're giving it all to us? But you were the one who killed most of those zombies, weren't you? You did the most work, right?" Fan Jian felt uneasy taking such a large sum of money.

Lu Yize glanced at him and said, "This is just the division of 0th-order crystal cores. There are 189 1st-order cores in total. I'll give each of you ten cores."

"We still have a share of first-tier crystal cores?!" Xian Wenrui exclaimed in shock.

They never dared to dream of a first-tier crystal core from the beginning, since the higher the level, the more energy the crystal core contains.

"Well, here are these crystal cores for you to improve your abilities as soon as possible. But save the first-tier crystal cores for when you advance, so you can digest the abilities inside."

After giving his instructions, Lu Yize handed over the crystal cores to them, and even gave one to Sheng Xue.

"Me too? No, I don't need them." Sheng Xue was a little surprised when she received ten first-tier crystal cores and quickly refused.

"You seem to be close to upgrading to the second tier, just in case."

Lu Yize scanned Sheng Xue with his mental power and found that her supernatural ability was unstable and that her supernatural ability was somewhat exposed.

So Jiang Yue kept moving closer to Sheng Xue. If Lu Yize hadn't pulled Jiang Yue back in time, she probably would have already bitten off a piece of Sheng Xue's flesh.

"What?! You're going to upgrade to Tier 2?!"

Fan Jian exclaimed in surprise, then, both happy and nervous, stuffed all the crystal cores he had been allocated into Sheng Xue's arms, saying, "Use them first, so you don't run out."

“No need, I… have a crystal core.” Sheng Xue declined.

"Where did you get so many crystal cores? Don't be shy, just take them if you're asked to." Fan Jian thought Sheng Xue was just being modest.

However, Sheng Xue then took out a bag, opened it, and found more than thirty crystal cores inside. But when she took out these crystal cores, her expression was not very good.

Fan Jian glanced at it and was almost blinded by the sheer number of first-tier crystal cores. "So many first-tier crystal cores, you, you really have them?"

"It was given to me by the Zombie King," Sheng Xue said without hiding anything.

“He kidnapped me, wanting me to resurrect the skeletons around him. I told him I couldn’t do it, and he must have understood. He originally planned to kill me, but then he changed his mind.”

"Then more than thirty level one zombies appeared in front of him. The brains of the more than thirty zombies exploded instantly. The only living zombie picked up all the crystal cores and handed them to him."

Sheng Xue didn't say the rest.

After the zombie handed the crystal core to the zombie king, the zombie king's claws instantly pierced through the zombie's brain, tearing it open and extracting the crystal core.

Then, along with her brains and bloodied hands, he shoved the crystal core directly into her mouth.

It wasn't until I saw her vomit and tremble violently that I realized that humans absorb nutrients differently than zombies.

Just thinking about what happened before makes Sheng Xue feel nauseous.

Seeing that her expression was off, the others stopped asking and Zhang Wenjing appropriately changed the subject.

"You're about to advance to the next level. I'll be with you these next two days. I've been through the process of a beginner advancing to the next level, so I have some experience."

"I'm sorry to have troubled you." Sheng Xue's face regained a little color.

Zhang Wenjing didn't mind at all. "I think anyone would be happy to help a healing ability user. Once you advance, just help my Xiaobai heal his wounds."

Her bluntly stating her purpose made it easier for Sheng Xue to accept her good intentions. "Okay."