Chapter 439: Chapter 439: The Current Situation of Each Base Chapter 439: Chapter 439: The Current Situation of Each Base The animals in the Wood Spirit Space led particularly comfortable lives every day because Nie Qing had set up a Confinent Formation there. They could only move around in the designated poultry and livestock area without wandering everywhere. Even so, the Confinent Formation for that area had been expanded many tis by Nie Qing and Lu Hao.
Now, the poultry and livestock area had a wide expanse of grass and a pond that Huang Yunxiang and Lin Tianzhen regularly filled with water. Lu Guanhai had even planted so plants and flowers inside.
From the outside, it looked like a prosperous ranch, except the poultry and livestock inside bred too quickly, adding more and more young animals each day—to the point that their numbers were uncountable.
Before Guo Yang returned, he had learned that their team had qualified for super rank and was excited to celebrate with everyone.
Everyone at the base knew he was a mber of the Heart Talk Team, and from the afternoon onward, custors continuously congratulated him as they ca to shop.
“I heard that so people wanted to bet on the outco of the match, but because of our team, they couldn’t even place their bets,” Guo Yang said as he gnawed on the lemon chicken claws Su Jin had brought out.
“Why couldn’t they place bets?”
Shi Jin asked, puzzled.
“Because everyone was betting on the Heart Talk Team to win, haha!”
Guo Yang found this quite amusing; he sowhat regretted not closing the shop to go and cheer for the match.
“Brother Guo, look at this,” Yin Chengtian suddenly rembered. Today, Lin Xiuyuan gave him a mobile phone to record the match of the Heart Talk Team.
“Xiao Tian, aren’t you being a bit too thoughtful?”
Guo Yang quickly pulled out a tissue to wipe his hands and started watching intently.
Yin Chengtian wanted to say it wasn’t his idea, but seeing Guo Yang engrossed and constantly gasping in awe, he held back his words…
“When can we get our Crystal Core?”
Lin Xiuyuan asked.
“It should be after the assessnt ends, since there are still three teams left to compete,” Su Jin replied.
“What do you think about the other three teams? Can they help our base secure an S rank?”
Lin Cheng also leaned in to ask.
“It’s going to be difficult. Han Jin’s team has five Level Five Ability Users, and the officials pick the opponents, which inherently puts them at a disadvantage,” Lu Hao analyzed.
Su Jin nodded. Teams like Jian Zongzheng’s were inherently smaller in number, and challenging five Level Five Ability Users would indeed be challenging.
“Don’t worry, this assessnt isn’t the only one,”
Su Jin rembered that in her past life, later on, each base established a rcenary Corps assessnt office where any team that applied for assessnt could be brought together at a fixed ti for evaluation.
Since everyone was present right now, she didn’t elaborate further.
Local Tyrant Gold was no longer scared of Lian Jiyue, who seed to have lost interest in it after their first aggressive encounter. This allowed it to bravely jump around on the recliner behind everyone.
It had been a long ti since the family had relaxed and enjoyed themselves like this. Being a monkey accustod to lively crowds, Local Tyrant Gold liked to make its presence felt when everyone was around, especially enjoying landing on soone’s shoulder and making them invisible montarily, which always elicited hearty laughter from all.
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One night at the base, the family had spent four days in the Space, harvesting and processing all of the crops. Su Jin then sowed a new batch of grains in the Spirit Field.
But because the supply of grains exceeded demand, everyone discovered that they had no bags to store the newly threshed grains.
“Grain bags aren’t considered supplies, so maybe there are still so leftover outside. We’ll have to pay more attention when we go out on missions from now on,” Su Jin suggested. As for the newly threshed grains, even if stored elsewhere temporarily, they wouldn’t spoil, and right now, they still had plenty of grains to sell.
Compared to the base in S city where people could line up to buy small amounts of grain, most other places had started to experience famine.
Furthermore, the weather seed to be getting colder, although it wasn’t winter yet. People’s breath ford a white mist as they spoke, and quilts gradually beca a necessity.
Especially in the northern regions, the weather had wholly entered deep winter.
Xing Taining wrapped himself tighter in his army coat, which hadn’t been washed in who knows how many days, and couldn’t help but curse.
His superiors had ordered him to go out looking for supplies again, despite him having already searched every corner of D city. Deputy Zhang had even directly given a deadly order on behalf of Colonel Yuan.
If he failed to find supplies this ti, they wouldn’t need to co back.
Xing Taining looked at so n and won walking along the road, most of them with dull eyes and wearing ragged, dusty clothes—hair unwashed as if for ages.
Among them were many Special Ability Users, yet now, even the Ability Users in the base no longer had the desire to go out and kill Zombies.
Because no matter how many Crystal Cores they had, they could only buy a scant amount of supplies. If they didn’t have the right “connections,” they couldn’t even buy supplies with Crystal Cores.
The garbage cans in D city’s base had beco the “treasure chests” for these Survivors, with Ability Users guarding each one.
Xing Taining knew they were just searching for little more than scraps discarded by “connected families.”
The base was severely polarized because the limited supplies were monopolized almost entirely by the powerful managent layer. Initially, unsupported Survivors could still go out to kill Zombies to earn Crystal Cores to exchange for so supplies. But later, as the prices of supplies kept skyrocketing—doubling, ten tis, a hundred tis—many Ability Users could no longer afford them even with sufficient Crystal Cores.
“Captain Xing, this is too unfair. We’ve collected most of the supplies for the base, and now those guys have hoarded them,” Wang Zhi said angrily, although they were provided with food and shelter in the base, the als were becoming abysmally poor, sotis just two bowls of watery noodle soup a day.
“Yes, no wonder those people from B city looked down on us. In the end, only a few middle-rank teams were selected. I really hope soone cos to manage this place!” Zhou Chengren also complained as they walked. They were humans, not dogs. They had once risked their lives searching for supplies for the base, only to receive such a fatal order now.
“What does ‘don’t bother coming back if you can’t find supplies’ an?”
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