The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 124 Survival of the Fittest

“There’s nothing left to burn in the lobby, Third Brother, take a few men downstairs and bring some more things up…” Compared to Qin Yuan and his group of six, the trench coat man and his group were in a much worse predicament.

Although two or three hundred of them still survive, what's even more unfortunate is that their team's strategist, Li Minze, is an ordinary person who has miraculously survived. Although he is not dead, he is now pale from the cold, and even when Liu Jia holds him by the fire, he can clearly feel that Li Minze's breathing is getting slower and slower.

"Achoo! If... if Xiao Lu were here... it would be so good..." Qin Yuan was much better off than Li Minze, but his nose was still red from the cold, and every time he opened his mouth to speak, he felt the cold wind stabbing his throat like a knife.

"I'm more worried about Captain Lin and Senior Brother Pei than Lu Xiaoyuan." Zhong Qiang's sudden words finally brought Gu Nanfeng out of his daze. He immediately grabbed his backpack and found his walkie-talkie, but unfortunately, even the most powerful walkie-talkie stopped working due to the sudden drop in temperature.

"The cipher machine isn't working either." Ji Lang also took out the cipher machine from his pocket and tapped it a few times. Qin Yuan, who was by the fire, also said that he didn't feel any vibration. Now all their communication equipment was completely useless.

"Old Lin, he's definitely... definitely frozen to death..." Qin Yuan knew that among the nine of them, Lu Yuan, although an ordinary person, should be able to keep him alive thanks to his spatial ability. Only he and Lin Yun, although also ability users, were probably flawed because they were early-stage evolved beings. Perhaps one day they would completely mutate into zombies like Old Du, or they might be eliminated by this world because their physical condition was inferior to that of later-stage evolved beings.

Soon, Wang Sanhai led a small team to bring up a lot of wooden armchairs from downstairs. While directing the team to dismantle the armchairs and throw them into several bonfires, he also called on some other ability users to prepare to go downstairs to dismantle the beds in the guest rooms.

However, even as Wang Sanhai and his group brought more and more flammable materials, the ordinary people by the fire upstairs were still taking in more air than exhaling. It wasn't until someone noticed that the people lying by the fire hadn't moved for a long time that they realized that even though the entire hall was gradually warming up in the firelight, they still couldn't pull more survivors back from the freezing cold.

"I...I might..." Li Minze, leaning against Liu Jia's chest, was right by the fire, but compared to Qin Yuan's rosy and radiant face, his face was deathly pale, and his lips were frozen purple.

"Kid, don't talk, it's okay, it'll warm up soon... it'll warm up soon. We've survived so many months, you're not even afraid of zombies, it's okay..." Liu Jia could clearly feel the person in his arms getting stiffer and stiffer, but he still kept encouraging Li Minze, hoping that he would not give up his will to live. He felt that as long as he had a breath left, he would not be taken away by the cold.

"You forgot, when I saved you from the jaws of zombies..." People around kept throwing flammable materials into the fire in front of Liu Jia, while Liu Jia held Li Minze and kept talking, telling Li Minze's story...

Everyone at this survivor base knows that Li Minze is an ordinary person, but he always rushes to the front whenever they fight off zombies. Liu Jia has said more than once that if it weren't for Li Minze, he wouldn't be interested in running this survivor base. In this apocalypse, even their own lives are uncertain. Now that they have some special abilities, how many people would be willing to drag a group of ordinary people along to survive?

But Li Minze was different. Before the virus outbreak, he was just an ordinary college student studying mechanical engineering, dreaming of developing the mecha fighters from movies and novels. When the virus first broke out, he fought his way through zombies with an exoskeleton device he designed. Although he wasn't a chosen one and hadn't evolved any superpowers, he relied on his cleverness and the passion that only young people have. It turns out that this kid was the original founder of this base...

"Aze, Aze, don't sleep..." Wang Sanhai was a "bandit" who had returned from the sea. At that time, he and his brothers on his ship, relying on the fact that there were four or five people with superpowers in their group, wanted to forcibly occupy this relatively well-supplied base, but he encountered Li Minze...

He still remembered that day. Snow was falling outside the hotel lobby. The kid was wearing a strange set of things. He said it was his exoskeleton armor. Wang Sanhai had no idea what an exoskeleton was. After being goaded by the kid, he actually agreed to a one-on-one duel to settle the score.

Although they were all barbarians who came from the sea and robbed many people of their supplies along the way in order to survive, and even had blood on their hands, Wang Sanhai was a tough guy who could give up anything but his reputation. He lost to Li Minze and, along with his brothers, became one of the guardians of the base.

Actually, Liu Jia was the last to arrive at the base. He was a lightning-type ability user. Wang Sanhai remembered how excited Li Minze was when he brought Liu Jia back that day. He kept telling him that Liu Jia's ability was amazing. He had killed a super powerful zombie king and saved him. The small team he had led out to find supplies thought he wouldn't come back. Everyone was still immersed in grief. But this chuunibyou (delusional) teenager came back alive and kicking, and he even brought back a powerful ability user.

"Wait..." Ji Lang suddenly interrupted Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai's recollection. He glanced at Gu Nanfeng, then at Liu Jia, who was holding Li Minze, and asked, "Did the zombies you killed leave behind anything that looked like crystal stones?"

Upon hearing Ji Lang's words, Liu Jia's eyes lit up. He then gently transferred Li Minze into Wang Sanhai's arms. Wang Sanhai, who was usually clumsy, was particularly afraid that he might accidentally crush Li Minze's bones. He let Liu Jia manipulate his limbs to hold Li Minze in his arms.

"Is this it?" After settling Li Minze down, Liu Jia took out a slightly translucent brown crystal from his shirt pocket. He had just picked it up casually and hadn't had time to study it since. He had forgotten about it after a few days. If he had taken it out earlier, Li Minze would probably have figured out what it was by now.

"Yes, if you trust me, let him eat it, there might be a glimmer of hope." Ji Lang gained his superpower by eating a crystal. The brown crystal in front of him is a little smaller than the one he ate, and it should be a level three crystal. However, no one knows whether eating a crystal will definitely grant superpowers. At least, he is the only test subject in their South China base.

“I also think we can give it a try.” Gu Nanfeng, who had been out of sorts, nodded. “That’s how he gained his powers. Anyway, there’s no other way now, so we might as well give it a shot.”

Liu Jia glanced at the six people sitting opposite him. Because Qin Yuan was cold, the others sat in a semi-circle behind him. Liu Jia could tell that they were brothers who had gone through thick and thin together, so they probably wouldn't lie to him. However, they only said that there was a sliver of hope, meaning that other things could happen. The worst that could happen was death or turning into a zombie. In this apocalyptic world, they all knew something about this.

"Boss, give it a try!" Every muscle in Wang Sanhai's body was tense. He could feel Li Minze's breathing growing weaker and weaker in his arms, his chest rising and falling almost imperceptibly. The other ability users who had been cared for by Li Minze gathered around him, looking at the crystal in Liu Jia's hand, hoping it could bring Li Minze a chance at life...