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Chapter 192 Crystals Formed by Humans

From Lan Yichen's account, Lu Yuan and the others learned that the uncle who had disappeared for several days had awakened his supernatural abilities when he reappeared. Moreover, he had completely changed. He used to be very popular and helpful, but after returning to the team, he refused to say a single word to anyone except for necessary conversations.

"Until we reached the border of Beijing, we encountered Jinnan." Lan Yichen finally stopped. He had been talking for almost half an hour, and he was a little thirsty, but he was too embarrassed to ask Lu Yuan for water. He could only lick his lips and continue:

“When we met Jin Nan, he already had many followers, but he didn’t have this base yet. At that time, the uncle didn’t want to continue following us because when we rescued him on the way, his destination was to return to Beijing to find his wife and children. So after Jiang Yun led us to meet up with Jin Nan, the uncle said he wanted to leave.”

“That night, Jin Nan and Jiang Yun killed that uncle and ate his crystal.” Lan Yichen still felt terrified when he recalled the scene. If he hadn’t been wearing this protective mask, he wouldn’t have dared to say anything about it, since Du Yun didn’t know that he was hiding nearby at the time.

"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Ji Lang asked upon hearing this.

"Yes, I wanted to see Uncle off that day." Lan Yichen lowered his head. He could only recall that he was very scared at the time, but the specific feeling was still vague.

"What level is that uncle's superpower?" Lin Yun asked.

"I don't know the specifics, but when he rejoined the team, his superpowers seemed to be about as strong as Jiang Yun's," Lan Yichen recalled.

"That's roughly level seven," Ji Lang guessed.

"What attribute?" Lin Xiao asked as well.

"Lightning and fire attribute. I later heard from someone that this attribute is very powerful, and Jin Nan also has this attribute." Lan Yichen recalled that someone had told him this before.

"You don't doubt that consuming crystals formed from human beings makes it easier to awaken corresponding superpowers and increase the level of those superpowers, do you?" Zhong Qiang, who had been listening silently from the side, asked with some suspicion. This is just too inhuman.

"Be bolder, drop the 'doubt'." Yang Xiao curled his lip. "In other words, if we don't cooperate, we might end up like Jin Laosi and his gang who disappeared?"

"I'll tell you, Jin Laosi was killed by them!" Wang Sanhai was so angry when he heard this that he jumped up and down. That bastard Wen Zhou still wouldn't admit it.

“Wen Zhou and his henchmen must have killed Jin Laosi and the others and eaten the crystals they formed,” Lu Yuan thought for a moment and continued, “This greatly reduces their risk of becoming zombified compared to directly absorbing or consuming the crystals formed by zombies.”

“Actually, before you, there were many high-level superhumans who came here. They either integrated into the base or left quickly,” Lan Yichen said.

"I'm afraid they didn't leave, but were directly hunted down and killed by your advanced ability users," Liu Jia speculated.

"What do we do next?" Zhong Qiang looked at the suddenly silent crowd. Only he could break the silence at this moment, since he really didn't have the skill of coming up with a solution.

"It's actually quite simple for us to leave here." Yang Xiao glanced at Lu Yuan, then turned to Lan Yichen, "but if we take this burden with us, then..."

"Please, take me with you! I've said so much, if we can't leave, they will..." Lan Yichen wasn't actually afraid of death; many nights he wished he could die immediately. But one of the people in the base was a healing-type ability user. This ability was actually quite useless; it couldn't heal zombie injuries or provide immunity to the zombie virus, but it could heal man-made external wounds. This was the reason why Lan Yichen wanted to die but couldn't.

"Don't worry, as long as you truly want to leave, I won't abandon you." Lu Yuan still remembered that on the Li River, it was Lan Yichen who extended a helping hand, allowing him, Gu Nanfeng, Du Wenqing, and Qin Yuan to survive. Now, Du Wenqing had become a zombie, and Qin Yuan was dead. And he, in the distant capital city, had encountered Lan Yichen again…

"I want to leave, I want to leave." Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, Lan Yichen quickly grasped Lu Yuan's hand, afraid that these people would disappear without him the next second. "What else do you want to know, or what do you want me to cooperate with? I'm willing to do it."

"Then tell me first, what did they ask you to do here?" Yang Xiao smiled, took a thermos from his backpack and handed it to Lan Yichen. He could tell that the man was very thirsty after talking for so long.

"This..." Lan Yichen took the water and suddenly relaxed. Sure enough, Lu Yuan and the others had figured out why he had come from the very beginning.

"Let's have some water and something to eat first," Lu Yuan said, then took out two biscuits from his backpack and handed them to Lan Yichen.

To be honest, Lan Yichen is barely surviving in the base, being tormented every day just to get a decent meal. Jiang Yun has come to see him, wanting to protect him like before. But he witnessed Jin Nan killing that old man, and later saw Jiang Yun kill other ability users, and that they had consumed those ability users' crystals. All of this is still vivid in his mind.

“Zhao Qi sent me here. He said if you went out with the mission team, I should bring Lu Yuan to my dormitory so you won’t be able to find him when you come back. If you haven’t left yet, then Lu Yuan has to stay. In short, you can’t go out together.” Lan Yichen knew the purpose of the mask, so he finished speaking before opening the protective shield in front of his mouth to drink some water and eat two biscuits.

The moment he tasted the cookie, he was completely shocked. The cookies he got at the base were all nearing their expiration date and had a soft, mushy texture. But the one in his hand was no different from the ones he used to eat at home.

“Then we’ll have to play along.” Ji Lang looked at Lin Yun, and Lin Yun nodded.

"What kind of riddles are you playing? Are we not worthy to know?" Yang Xiao hated Ji Lang's way of keeping things to himself. Just because they are soldiers, does that make them so great?

“No, Lin and I actually discussed it before. If they require us to pay that many crystals before letting us go, they probably want to keep Lu Yuan or a few of us high-level ability users.” Ji Lang was also most afraid of Yang Xiao’s sarcastic remarks, so he quickly explained, “So our initial plan was to follow their requirements and do missions with their team for a few days.”

"That's what I was thinking too. At first, I thought that since they saved us..." Lu Yuan also mentioned the plan he had been pondering for a long time, "My initial idea was that you guys would go on a mission and bring them back some crystals as a way of repaying their life-saving grace, and then you guys would go out together, while I could teleport to the starship and leave. Now, it's Lan Yichen..."