The apocalyptic livestream attracted a lot of haters, alarming the government.

The person who came got straight to the point in their first sentence, and it was clear they were in a real hurry.

Ye Xiao glanced at the other party's mangled car and said apologetically to the row of cars parked at the entrance:

"Sorry, there's a long queue. If you're not in a rush, it should be ready by tomorrow at the latest."

"Tomorrow?"

Zhou Hu frowned, clearly not satisfied with the timing, and a barely suppressed sense of impatience emanated from him.

Zhou Hu's anxiety seemed a bit unusual, Ye Xiao thought to himself, and asked:

"You look like you're in some kind of trouble, are you in a hurry?"

Zhou Hu pursed his lips. "My teammate needs an inhibitor, but we've run out of seed cores. We need to get out and collect seed cores as soon as possible."

The base is far from the city. If you walk there, you'll have to stay overnight. Judging from Zhou Hu's anxious appearance, it seems that his teammate is quite impatient.

Liu Hewei, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up: "Then you probably won't make it in time. The rainy season has just ended, and the repair shops at the base will definitely be packed."

"Moreover, since everyone stayed home during the rainy season, they probably don't have many seed cores left. The base doesn't allow credit either, so you can only try to go out with other teams now."

Zhou Hu took a deep breath; clearly, he had considered all of this. He shook his head.

"I've thought of this method too, but after asking several teams, they all take several days to come back."

Ye Xiao remained silent for a moment, then suddenly said:

“I have some extra seed kernels here. If you need them, I can lend them to you first. However, I have something I want to talk to you about. If you agree, I can give them to you for free.”

Zhou Hu frowned as he looked at Ye Xiao, clearly wary of his overly generous tone, and asked:

"what's up?"

Ye Xiao smiled and pointed into the shop, "My team is short-handed. We'll have to leave the base later. We currently only have four mutants. I plan to find some more people."

"However, I need to see your teammates first. I have high requirements for my team members. If they meet my expectations and you are willing to join, consider that inhibitor a gift from me. If you don't plan to join, I can lend it to you first."

Zhou Hu doesn't really like working under others, but he's taken a liking to Ye Xiao.

He peeked into the shop, and as fellow mutants, they could vaguely sense each other's basic condition.

His gaze quickly alerted Chen Ge and the others. Zhou Hu didn't hide it and looked them up and down one by one.

His gaze lingered on Chen Ge, A Zhao, and Da Hei for quite some time, especially on Da Hei and A Zhao, as he could clearly see that the two were quite strong.

Strangely, although the two were wearing short sleeves, there were no prominent purplish-red veins spreading across their arms.

Zhou Hu turned his gaze to Ye Xiao, looking him up and down, clearly curious as to how someone who looked so young and asymptomatic could be the leader of this group.

Moreover, Zhou Hu only glanced at the shop and found that the warehouse was fully stocked with tools. Being able to obtain these things in the apocalypse, it seemed that the owner was no ordinary person.

Zhou Hu was silent for a moment, then asked, "I don't know how to address you?"

Ye Xiao smiled at Zhou Hu, still with his hands in his pockets, looking quite lazy.

"My name is Ye Xiao."

Ye Xiao?

Zhou Hu was taken aback, a flash of shock crossing his eyes. "You're Ye Xiao, the one who killed the mutated Boss Tang?"

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow, not expecting Zhou Hu to know the truth from somewhere. He nodded, not denying it.

Looks like I'm famous now!

Zhou Hu looked at Ye Xiao in silence without saying a word. In fact, many mutants did not believe that Boss Tang could mutate so easily.

Although no one said it aloud, everyone had already guessed.

I heard it was Tang Lian who planned it, but even if that woman had the help of that escaped freak, she definitely couldn't have accomplished it on her own.

He was the only survivor of the entire incident, and all the other people involved died. Zhou Hu didn't believe he wasn't involved.

This was his intuition from his time as a criminal investigator: an asymptomatic individual had changed the upper echelons of the base and granted a small degree of "freedom" to those asymptomatic individuals as well.

Moreover, the things Boss Tang did to those asymptomatic female individuals at the base have been exposed. Knowing this, Zhou Hu is quite interested in this Ye Xiao.

Zhou Hu was already somewhat tempted, and he asked with some curiosity:

"What are you planning to do with your adventure team?"

Ye Xiao shrugged. "The environment here is not bad. Now that there are no more ruthless guys like Boss Tang, it is a better gathering place for asymptomatic people. I plan to lead a team to go out and take a look, and bring back more scattered asymptomatic people who have nowhere else to go."

Zhou Hu remained silent, seemingly pondering the truth of Ye Xiao's words. Ye Xiao seized the opportunity and suddenly spoke seriously:

“Before my brother and I came here, we encountered Freefire’s people. We barely escaped. They were catching asymptomatic people everywhere.”

Freefire?

Upon hearing those three words, not only Zhou Hu, but even Liu Hewei standing next to him gasped in shock.

These adventurers, who had their own bases, were unwilling to get involved with this organization.

Liu Hewei's gaze towards Ye Xiao was now completely different, and he was filled with astonishment:

Ye Xiao actually managed to escape from Freefire's clutches; it seems they are even more powerful than he imagined.

That makes sense; a guy who can get his hands on so many tools must be quite capable.

Zhou Hu was also shocked. He had heard of Freefire, an organization that even lone adventurers like them avoided.

To be able to escape from those people, it seems that Ye Xiao really has considerable ability.

Zhou Hu looked Ye Xiao up and down. His physique seemed good, but he didn't seem particularly powerful.

Seeing that Zhou Hu was already very swayed, Ye Xiao decided to call for help and turned around to call out Chen Ge from the shop.

Chen Ge walked out, wiping his greasy hands with a rag.

Ye Xiao nodded to Zhou Hu, "This is Zhou Hu."

With just this one sentence, Chen Ge immediately understood Ye Xiao's meaning. He chuckled and put his arm around Zhou Hu's shoulder, then walked aside to whisper to him.

A moment later, after what Chen Ge said to the other party, Zhou Hu silently followed Chen Ge back.

He looked at Ye Xiao and said:

"Alright, come with me to my place first and see my brother. He's not doing well!"