章節 30: Collecting Seeds

Xiu Wu shook his head and said, "As far as I know, crystal nucleus are only used as currency, and the base will collect them for experiments."

Hearing what he said, Zhu Lin was a little surprised, and said, "If no one ever tried to absorb the spiritual energy contained in the crystal nucleus, why is the value of the crystal nucleus so high? Has no one ever questioned the high value of the crystal nucleus until now? Don't you think it is very suspicious that your government values useless crystals over supplies that are in high demand?"

Listening to her series of questions, Xiu Wu, Ji Yang and Tan Wei realized that what Zhu Lin said made sense. Why do some useless crystals have higher value than supplies that are in high demand? The government must be keeping some secrets from the public.

"Could it be that the reason is because of the spiritual energy contained inside the crystal nucleus? Is this also the reason why the government has been hoarding the crystal nucleus crazily since two months ago?" Ji Yang asked with a frown.

Xiu Wu was silent for a moment, before saying, "It seems that we have a lot to discuss. Let's find a place to rest first."

After he said that, he accelerated the speed of killing the zombies. With Zhu Lin helping dig out the crystal nucleus, their speed increased greatly. Twenty minutes later, they arrived at a traditional market street.

Seeing that there were not many zombies around, Xiu Wu walked to the nearest shop. He checked the door and found that it was in good condition, so he went inside to clean up the zombies in the shop.

Two minutes later, he dragged two dead zombies out and said, "Let's go in."

Zhu Lin pointed to the zombie on the right and said, "There is a crystal nucleus in the brain."

After finishing speaking, she and Ji Yang followed Xiu Wu into the shop, while Tan Wei took the initiative to dig out the crystal nucleus. Stepping inside the shop, Zhu Lin saw many bags on the ground and on the display counter.

Seeing her looking around curiously, Ji Yang said, "These are seeds. Unfortunately, all of them have been contaminated by the doomsday virus and can no longer be cultivated."

Hearing that these bags contained seeds, Zhu Lin walked to the display counter and scooped a handful of seeds out from one of the glass jars. She sniffed the seeds for a while, then put them back in the glass jar. With a wave of her hand, she put all the seeds into the ice flower pendant.

Seeing her put away the contaminated seeds, Ji Yang curiously asked, "Why do you collect those contaminated seeds? Do you want to try to grow them?"

Zhu Lin looked at him and said, "Mhm. Although the seeds are shrouded in devil energy, it's not impossible to plant them."

Hearing another unfamiliar term from her, Ji Yang scratched his head in confusion and said, "Since you want to keep these seeds, then we should look around the shop. There should be more seeds stored in this shop."

Thinking that it is a good thing to get more seeds, Zhu Lin nodded, and the two of them looked around the shop, searching for seeds.

"Xiao Lin, come here. There are a bunch of seeds here." Ji Yang's voice came from a room behind the cash register.

Coming down from the second floor, Zhu Lin walked into the room and saw Ji Yang checking the seeds on one of the bags. He raised his head and asked, "Have you found more seeds on the second floor?"

She walked up to him while saying, "Yeah, there are a lot of seeds upstairs."

Looking at the seeds in the bag that were only covered by a thin layer of devil energy, Zhu Lin said, "These seeds can still be grown after we purify the devil energy."

Hearing what she said, Ji Yang's eyes lit up. He tied up the bag securely, and said, "All right, take all of them away."

Seeing his excited expression, Zhu Lin was very curious about what he was thinking at this moment. She waved her hand and put away the bags of seeds in the room.

"What are you doing?" Xiu Wu asked when he saw the two of them talking in the empty room.

Ji Yang looked at the door, smiled and said to him: "Lao Xiu, have you seen any seeds in this shop? Xiao Lin says that these seeds can still be planted without problem."

Xiu Wu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked with interest: "Really? Are you sure these seeds are safe to grow?"

Zhu Lin was also not sure, so she said, "I have an idea, but I need to try it first to see if it works or not."

After the apocalypse began, the land and water sources were also contaminated by the doomsday virus. Xiu Wu and his two friends haven't eaten fresh vegetables and fruits for more than three months now.

Although there are many contribution points and crystal nucleus earned in these two months, vegetables and fruits are foods that cannot be bought without connection. Even some wilted vegetables or half-rotten fruits are very expensive and most people can't afford them. Therefore, when he heard Zhu Lin's words, he was also moved.

Thinking of those juicy, crispy, and fresh vegetables, he swallowed and said, "I found a warehouse behind this shop. Want to go and take a look?"

When Zhu Lin and Ji Yang heard that there was a warehouse, their eyes lit up. With the total amount of seeds stored in this shop, they can roughly guess how many seeds are in the warehouse. The number of seeds stored in warehouses should be at least two times more than in the shop.

"Let's go, let's go." Ji Yang said excitedly, and walked out of the room quickly.