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Song Jinchuan would occasionally glance over to ensure Jiang Ci remained within his sight.
“Are those… vegetables being grown?” After a while, Zheng Wan’s voice sounded a bit hoarse.
Jiang Ci nodded, “Yes, they’re all vegetables. When there’s extra, we sell them in limited quantities to other survivors.”
At this moment, Zheng Wan gained a deeper understanding of Jiang Ci’s capabilities. Growing food in the post-apocalyptic world was something even expert teams had struggled to achieve for a decade.
“Take a couple of potatoes with you later to try,” Jiang Ci said with a smile.
Although the potato cultivation had been paused for a while, potatoes were delicious and filling, making them a highly sought-after vegetable whenever they were sold here.
So Jiang Ci started growing them again. This time, she used her water attribute ability to irrigate them, resulting in an even better yield than before. The harvest from the potatoes this time was truly astonishing.
Now, more than half of the newly unlocked warehouse was filled with potatoes.
Thus, Jiang Ci began promoting her potatoes to everyone she met, even giving a few to close friends.
But for Zheng Wan and his wife, this was actual food—an extremely precious item, so they hurriedly declined.
After sitting for a while, Chen Rong took out a beautiful wooden box from her bag. Her voice was gentle, “I heard Boss Jiang likes these kinds of things. This was left by my family. Please accept it as our token of gratitude.”
Jiang Ci took the box and opened the lid. Inside was a set of emerald green jade jewellery—bracelets, earrings, and a necklace.
The jade’s hue of green was as if it had been extracted from the clearest drop of dew from a leaf.
Both the design and the quality of the jade were exquisite. If this were in Jiang Ci’s world, it would undoubtedly fetch a high price.
Although it was very valuable to Jiang Ci, for the survivors here, these items weren’t even as precious as a first-level crystal core. So, in the end, Jiang Ci accepted it.
As a gesture of gratitude, she insisted on giving the couple a large bag of potatoes. In the end, Zheng Wan left carrying the potatoes on his back.
Just as Jiang Ci had completed half of her previous task, she suddenly received an urgent task. Having two tasks overlapping like this was something Jiang Ci had never encountered before.
After listening to the system’s description, Jiang Ci realized that this truly was an extremely urgent situation.
A group of survivors infected with the virus was about to be secretly burned to death by the leaders of the base.
When the system told Jiang Ci the number of people to be killed, she fell into an uncharacteristically long silence. It wasn’t just a few people—it was over two hundred. How could these so-called leaders dare to treat human lives as if they were worthless?
The thought alone filled Jiang Ci with intense anger.
Even the task reward of gaining a farm couldn’t lift Jiang Ci’s spirits.
She packed up her things as quickly as possible, picked up Hui Hui, and hopped onto her electric scooter.
She didn’t bring Song Jinchuan along this time, but took Lu Dongmei, a doctor, to the mission location instead.
Upon hearing what Jiang Ci was about to do, Lu Dongmei didn’t hesitate at all. She grabbed her medical kit and hopped onto the back of the electric scooter.
Jiang Ci stored Lu Dongmei’s medical kit in her space. Then, urged by the system, she cranked the throttle to the max as the electric scooter sped off at an unprecedented speed. If anyone had been watching them, they would have only caught a blur passing by them.
Before they even got close to Sunrise Base, Jiang Ci spotted a man covered in blood blocking their path halfway.
The man was literally drenched in blood from head to toe. He looked extremely weak, barely able to stand, yet he stubbornly remained in their way.
Jiang Ci and Lu Dongmei exchanged a glance before getting off the scooter. They stopped a safe distance away from the bloodied man. “Why are you blocking us?” Jiang Ci asked.
“Please… save… the survivors of Sunrise Base,” the man stammered, his voice pleading. “They… they’re going to burn those infected with the virus.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he collapsed to the ground, his blood instantly staining the earth beneath him.
Jiang Ci and Lu Dongmei rushed forward. Lu Dongmei donned virus-resistant gloves and a mask, then immediately began examining him to determine the extent of his injuries.
When they peeled back his clothes, they saw that his body was covered in wounds. He was severely injured, and the blood spilling from his mouth seemed to contain fragments of his internal organs.
“His external injuries are severe, not to mention the internal injuries…” Lu Dongmei concluded as she examined him.
Jiang Ci couldn’t understand how he had managed to stand for so long and even block their scooter to speak. It seemed like only sheer willpower had kept him going.
Fortunately, ever since Lu Dongmei started making medicine, Jiang Ci had stocked some internal injury pills in her spatial storage.
Lu Dongmei opened the medical kit Jiang Ci had retrieved from the spatial storage. She cleaned the man’s wounds with alcohol, applied medicinal powder, and bandaged them, saying, “This might hurt a bit. Try to bear with it.”
Meanwhile, Jiang Ci fed the bloodied man two pills to help repair his damaged internal organs.
After finishing their work, Jiang Ci left Hui Hui behind to guard the man. With Hui Hui there, no zombies or mutated beasts below level nine would dare to approach them.
The man had already fallen unconscious, unresponsive to anything Jiang Ci and Lu Dongmei did.
“Don’t worry, I’ll definitely save them,” Jiang Ci told him, regardless of whether he could hear her. After speaking, she turned and left, unaware that the man’s furrowed brows had gradually relaxed upon hearing her words.
Jiang Ci was unaware that the man lying on the ground was Tan Ziyi from the Sunrise Base. After planning to rescue his parents, he had been accidentally discovered, beaten half to death, and then thrown out of the base.
The base leader, who usually wore a particularly gentle smile when facing the survivors, looked at Tan Ziyi with a sinister expression he had never seen on him before, “What do you think you are? A hero? Do you think everyone will be grateful to you? If you want to die so much, I’ll grant your wish then.”
After saying this, Tan Ziyi was silently thrown out of the base. The survivor who threw him out had been a past acquaintance of his, so instead of dumping him into a horde of zombies as the base leader had instructed, he found a sheltered spot to leave him at.
Feeling the slight tremor from the man beneath him, the survivor’s face held a faint trace of pity, “Don’t blame me. My family is still living in the base, so I can’t defy the base leader’s orders. There shouldn’t be any mutated beasts or zombies around here. It’ll all depend on your luck now.”
After saying this, the other survivors who had come out with him were already urging him to leave, so he had no choice but to leave Tan Ziyi there and hurry away.
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The electric scooter had now reached the main gate of the Sunrise Base. Upon looking inside, the base was still operating as usual, showing no signs of change despite a person being severely injured and nearly murdered.
From the man’s earlier words, Jiang Ci had deduced the general sequence of events and instantly felt that the base’s leader was utterly inhumane.
As the sky gradually darkened, Jiang Ci and Lu Dongmei decided to wait until nightfall to infiltrate the base.
The weather was gradually turning cooler, and the nights were becoming darker earlier than before.
After nightfall, the electricity in the base was turned on, and those who had left for missions gradually returned, slowly making the place livelier.
Jiang Ci examined the map, noting the location of the survivors infected with the virus in the rear section on the right of the base. She circled around to that area and used her water attribute ability to create a ladder.
Jiang Ci had been experimenting with more possibilities and variations of her abilities these days, and now, creating a ladder for her was simply a breeze.
The two of them climbed up the ladder Jiang Ci had formed and successfully reached the top of the wall.
Standing by the edge of the wall, Jiang Ci looked inside. There was a large enclosed open space with several large buildings with flat ceilings, likely the survivors’ living quarters.
There was also a smaller building with a flat roof and a sign that read “Treatment Room,” but it was now dark and empty, exuding a sense of desolation. It was unclear just how long it had been left unused.
With so many people infected with the virus, had they all been sentenced to death without even receiving treatment?
As the night breeze rushed past, Jiang Ci suddenly caught a whiff of decay. She focused her gaze and saw several corpses piled up in a corner. Due to the heat from the day, they had already begun to rot.
Jiang Ci closed her eyes, realizing she had underestimated the depths of human depravity.
In the open area, a few survivors lay half-collapsed on the ground, their faces flushed red, barely breathing, with more exhales than inhales.
From the buildings, faint groans of pain could be heard, as if someone was enduring immense suffering.
Jiang Ci raised her hand to her forehead and looked around. This place was still quite a far distance from the base’s residential area, with even the survivors guarding this quarantine zone not situated closeby. So, no matter what happened here, no one would know what the situation was like here unless they were deliberately paying attention.
“Young lady, you should leave this place quickly. This is a virus quarantine zone. Be careful of infection!” A soft voice suddenly sounded near Jiang Ci’s ear.
Jiang Ci looked down and saw a woman wearing a mask standing in the corner.
“Don’t come any closer. It really is contagious,” the woman urged, noticing Jiang Ci’s gaze. After speaking, she lowered her head and coughed a few times.
“I’m here to bring you medicine,” Jiang Ci also lowered her voice. “How many people are still alive here?”
The woman was taken aback by Jiang Ci’s response and paused before answering, “There are probably about two hundred and ten left now. Some have already died in the past few days since there was no medicine to treat them.”
As she spoke, the woman’s voice carried a hint of sorrow.
Jiang Ci and Lu Dongmei put on the protective suits they had bought from the system. The suits from the system were different from the ones in this world and weren’t as bulky. From the outside, their heads appeared exposed, but only those wearing the suits knew that they were fully protected from head to toe.
Jiang Ci grabbed the ladder from the wall and climbed down.
The ladder behind her dissolved into a puddle of water after Jiang Ci waved her hand.
No one noticed that the ground soaked by the puddle had taken on a new radiance, as if it had been given a new lease on life, its color distinct from the surrounding soil.
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