The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Li Can and her sister walked together, both of them deep in thought.

Thoughtful.

I didn't participate in their conversation at this time, but just watched silently. When they said they wanted to enter the secret room, I pretended to be obedient and extremely cooperative and followed them.

Numerous doors opened in the hall.

Behind each door lies a separate escape room game scene.

As planned, Feng Tian opened the room that had been prepared and led everyone inside.

After navigating a winding, haphazard corridor, we finally stopped at a place resembling a conference room, with a huge round table set up in the center.

Li Can scanned the furnishings in the room one by one.

The house was decorated by staff to resemble a post-disaster scene, similar to a death site.

On the black table splattered with red paint, there were several notebooks and pens, and the black wooden chairs surrounding it had been pulled out in advance.

He found a seat near the very back and sat down.

From this angle, you can see the entire corridor outside the door, giving you a clear view and allowing you to keep track of external movements at any time. The only downside might be that it makes it difficult to escape at any moment.

However, since he had chosen to come here today, Li Can had no intention of leaving empty-handed or hastily departing. Cooperation was to be discussed, and he also intended to enter the city.

Shen Yuan and Feng Tian sat strangely to one side, while Yang Mo and his sister sat on either side of Li Can.

[Ah Yuan, is it really you?] Feng Tian was strangely excited and wanted to tear open Shen Yuan's clothes to find out the truth, after all, that place had been pierced by a spear last night.

"It's me, so are you Feng Tian?" Shen Yuan quickly stopped Feng Tian's restless hands.

【You're as smart as ever. You guessed right, but it wasn't safe in the lobby, so I didn't respond. Ever since I saw you get out of the car, I've been eager to see your injury.】

[But I was delayed, otherwise I would have come with you much earlier.]

[Tell me quickly what happened. Was it the owner of the Baijie Hotel who came with you and saved you?]

Feng Tian rattled off a string of words, and Shen Yuan looked up and read them one by one before nodding.

"That's right, it was Brother Xing who saved me, otherwise I wouldn't have survived and would have been eaten by the people of the lower city."

"I'm also very curious. So, it was Yang Mo who came to the hotel and found me. I felt it was you right then and there."

Shen Yuan looked at Yang Mo and asked strangely, "How did you find the suburban restaurant back then? Doesn't our organization usually avoid going there?"

Yang Mo, who was to Li Can's left, picked up the conversation.

When we thought you were dead, we wanted to bury your body properly so you could rest in peace and not have your body desecrated...

Li Can watched as the others completely ignored her and her sister, and began to talk animatedly, one after another. Her sister was even a little too tired and was about to fall asleep amidst their conversation.

Perhaps it's because having me by her side makes her feel more at ease.

If she were the only one involved in the strange situation between the city's inhabitants and the people of the upper city, she would definitely be on high alert at all times.

Li Can secretly transferred the energy of a blue zombie crystal core to his sister. After absorbing it, she recovered from her previous mental exhaustion in no time.

She gave Li Can a thumbs-up under the table with great surprise, but still kept that grumpy look on her face.

Li Can knew that although she was a member of the superhuman team at the base and had her own strength, crystal cores, a scarce resource, were still not easy to obtain.

Green crystal cores might be okay, but when it came to blue and red ones, even ten years later in a land overrun by zombies, I didn't manage to dig out more than a few.

It's too scarce.

The two were subtly interacting under the table. Li Can listened to Shen Yuan and the others' conversation while keeping an eye on Wang Defa and Zhou Ye outside the amusement park.

Xing Tiantian was with them, and although it was difficult for the two of them to communicate, they had a lot of fun playing with the child.

Unexpectedly, on Xing Tiantian's last birthday, it was the two of them who spent the most time with it.

However, I need to stay focused and keep my promise after this is over, since one of the opening tasks on the scroll explicitly points to playing a role and celebrating my son Xing Tiantian's birthday.

Once you complete this step, there are no further restrictions.

I'm completely free now.

"Brother Xing, do you still have that thing that saved my life last time...?" The conversation among the Upper City people was coming to an end, and they began to turn their attention to the only two outsiders present.

Upon hearing this, Li Can nodded. In his consciousness space, he had used empty capsules to transfer all the crystal cores from the warehouse storage room of the First Base.

He is now a major consumer of crystal cores.

No one in the city has ever seen this before.

He had already prepared to take out a few from the abundant green crystal cores and use them as bargaining chips.

"Yes, I do." Li Can smiled, raised one hand, and conjured a green crystal core stone out of thin air from his previously empty palm.

He then placed it on the table, pinched his middle finger and thumb together, and gently flicked it forward.

Instantly, the angular crystal cores rolled around on the table towards Shen Yuan with a clattering sound.

It stopped exactly an arm's length away from her.

"Yes! This is it." Shen Yuan carefully picked it up and showed it to Feng Tian and Yang Mo in her hands.

Two strange, unusually excited creatures floated to her side and observed her closely.

"So, this tiny stone actually contains such great energy, and can even bring someone back from the dead. It's simply a miracle." Feng Tian couldn't help but exclaim.

Yang Mo, on the contrary, grasped the key point.

"Xing Dazhuang, right? How much of this do you have left? We'll take it all. Name your price; as long as it's not too outrageous, we'll agree."

"Shen Yuan already told you, right? I came with you this time to cooperate. Now that I know the money I get in the lower city is useless for recharging the exit certificate, what do I need the money for?"

Yang Mo's expression in the city was not good.

"Oh? What do you want then? If you can hand over all of this to us, cooperation will definitely be no problem; it's a win-win situation."

"I need you to take me to the upper city." Li Can made no attempt to hide his ambition and said directly, "I can't give you all of these stones at once. After all, they are my awakened ability, and I can only catalyze the production of one per day."

"These are the stones I've accumulated since I gained my special ability. I used a lot of them to save Shen Yuan last time, and I don't have many left now. I'll have to wait until tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after that, and the day after that to accumulate some more."

Li Can's meaning was clear: he wanted the other party to know that he couldn't be touched and that if they wanted to get benefits from him, they had to ensure his personal safety.

This is the basis for cooperation.

"[So complicated?]" Feng Tian pondered for a moment, then turned to Li Lan and asked, "And you, what ability have you awakened?"