Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

After a few rounds of banter, Shen Zechuan finally brought up the fact that superhumans also have crystal cores in their heads.

Upon hearing this news, the others immediately stopped laughing and joking, and the atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

"We should keep this to ourselves and absolutely keep it a secret from the outside world. Even if someone else finds out about it later, they should feel that it shouldn't be us who told them."

Before we came back, we already spoke with Uncle Gu about this privately. The reason we're telling you is so you can be more careful when you go out in the future, lest you find yourself being targeted without even realizing it.

“You’re right.” Yan Fei nodded, agreeing with Shen Zechuan that this matter should not be spread.

The others also realized the seriousness of the matter and all nodded in agreement, indicating that they would keep quiet.

After all, nobody wants to have their brains targeted when they go out in the future.

The underground gang affair has come to an end.

The base returned to its usual bustling activity, and the deaths of the few people seemed to have caused no change.

The most tiring jobs, especially the low-level ones, have recently seen a new wave of people move in.

They were all involved in prostitution, gambling, and human trafficking within that underground gang's territory. Those involved in murder were dragged out and executed by the base, and their ashes were scattered after they were burned.

Several of these superhumans had their cremated crystal cores secretly sent back to the military for research by a newly established team by Gu Tianqi specifically responsible for funeral arrangements within the base.

They thought the matter was over, but just two days later, when Zhou Yang and his friends returned, they heard another shocking piece of news—

The dogs left behind by the gangsters are actually eating sweet meat!

Originally, the base intended to tame them, since there weren't many mutated animals at the base.

But to my surprise, after I brought it home, it wouldn't eat anything I offered it.

Starving myself for several days didn't help.

One day, seeing how pitifully hungry they were, the soldier in charge of training them decided to take them hunting. But to his surprise, as soon as the cage was opened, they pounced on their trainer.

If it weren't for the presence of several other superhuman comrades who intervened in time to save him, that instructor would have been killed on the spot.

After this incident, they realized that something was wrong.

So the trainer tried various kinds of meat on them and found that they weren't interested in any of them.

Finally, on a whim, he cut a small piece of flesh from a person who had just been executed to try it out.

Oh ho, the two of them started fighting over that tiny piece of meat.

Upon seeing this, the instructor understood immediately and was filled with rage.

Damn it, those damn gangsters actually fed dogs fragrant meat!

There was no need to continue training them. We called over the metal-powered brothers, and they each killed the two dogs with a single slash.

As for dog meat... they couldn't eat it, and it didn't seem right to send it to the refugees, but throwing it away would be a waste.

In the end, they simply used them all to feed the omnivorous mutant chickens.

Hearing this, Zhou Yang and the others couldn't help but sigh.

"It seems that more than just those women died. Letting them die like this is too good for them!"

"Yes, and I later heard from my uncle that there were three women locked up in the storage room on the first floor of that villa. Because they had been abused for a long time, two of them had completely lost their minds. Now we can't find their families, so we can only temporarily put them in a large tent outside, and have patrol people keep an eye on them."

"Sigh, there's nothing we can do in this apocalypse..."

The group walked back while talking.

As Zhou Yang passed by the large tent in the square, he saw the back of a thin woman who seemed somewhat similar to the crazy woman he had seen at the trading market last time, but this one did not look crazy at all.

Noticing Zhou Yang's unusual behavior, Shen Zechuan immediately looked over: "What's wrong? Did you see someone you know?"

Zhou Yang shook her head, not paying attention to the figure: "No, it just looked familiar. I must be mistaken. I don't have any relatives or friends here."

"Let's hurry up and go home for dinner, I'm starving!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Zechuan didn't ask any more questions and quickly led Zhou Yang home.

After they walked away, the woman who was squatting down to boil water over the large tent turned her face to the side.

Watching the departing figures of the group, her eyes were filled with venom, and she even tore off a corner of the palm-leaf fan she was holding.

Seeing the elderly woman, who was over sixty years old, lost in thought, I couldn't help but ask with concern, "Xiao Wan, what's wrong? Are you still feeling unwell? Is your wound hurting again?"

The old woman's granddaughter died not long after the apocalypse. A couple of days ago, the little girl was brought here by the military. She was covered in wounds and looked quite pitiful.

She later noticed that she resembled her granddaughter, so she couldn't help but want to take better care of her.

Seeing the old woman looking over, the woman immediately adopted a gentle and obedient demeanor: "No, I'm much better these past two days. Thank you for your concern, Grandma Zhang."

After saying that, the woman turned back to watch the fire.

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Recently, a number of mutated animals have been appearing around the base, and mutated plants have also appeared in several places. Several teams have been attacked.

The Baiji Mountains behind the base have become a forbidden zone, with mutated plants frequently appearing, and ordinary people dare not go in to look for any mountain products.

Therefore, the base has also revised the regulations for mission teams.

Any team going on a mission must have at least 5 members if they are all superpowered, at least 10 members if they have some superpowered members, and at least 15 members if they are ordinary people.

This regulation has prompted many teams to start recruiting new talent.

Zhou Yang and his team didn't consider recruiting anyone. Anyway, their entire team consisted of people with superpowers, so they could easily gather five people to go on missions.

Quite a few people volunteered, but they were all rejected. You can't judge a book by its cover; if a bad apple gets in, it's better to leave it out.

With the emergence of various mutated plants, a large number of mutated plant components were also sent to the research institute.

The two professors and a group of researchers worked overtime and finally achieved some results.

They discovered that the mutated plants and the zombies' energy bodies were similar yet different.

Plants have more refined energy, while zombies have more impurities in their energy.

To distinguish them, the former is named the metanucleus, and the latter is named the crystal nucleus.

However, both serve the same purpose: to upgrade other technologies.

However, the elemental core only affects the upgrading of plant-based superpowers, while the crystal core can be used by most superpower users according to different attributes. Ordinary crystal cores can be used by all superpower users, but they contain the least amount of energy.

The energy ratio between a primary ordinary crystal nucleus and a low-level attribute crystal nucleus is approximately 1:50.

The ratio of lower-level attribute crystal cores to higher-level crystal cores of the same attribute is approximately 1:10.

To upgrade a basic ability to level one, you only need one low-level attribute crystal core or 50 basic ordinary crystal cores. To upgrade to level two, you need one attribute crystal core of the same level or 10 low-level attribute crystal cores, or 500 basic ordinary crystal cores. The requirements for subsequent upgrades follow the same pattern.

However, starting from level 4, lower-level crystal cores will have little effect, and at least one higher-level crystal core is needed to accelerate the upgrade. For example, to upgrade to level 4, a level 4 crystal core is required for the breakthrough.

However, if plant-based abilities are upgraded using meta-cores, this obstacle does not exist; it's just that meta-cores for mutated plants are extremely rare.

The base released the report shortly after it was published by the research institute.