When the blood rain had completely fallen, Fang Yuxin waved her hand to dismiss the Barrier to avoid detection by others. At that time, the survivors began to disembark from the vehicle; having just experienced that ordeal, their faces were anything but pleasant. Especially the two injured ones, whose faces displayed a hopeless pallor.
Some people walked among the bodies, finding those that had been torn apart and eaten. They covered their mouths and sobbed quietly, while others stood by with faces full of sorrow and confusion.
They had been staying at the Base, day-to-day living wasn’t great and they were often mistreated and bullied by superpower users, but at least they were alive. However, soon after venturing out, they encountered the Zombie Group and discovered just how cruel the outside world had become; survival, it seemed, was an incredibly difficult task.
They didn’t know how much longer they could live, or what path lay ahead.
Could they really survive?
Some asked themselves this, their faces growing increasingly bewildered and desperate.
Fang Yuxin and Bai Ye didn’t approach them; instead, they efficiently removed the Crystal Cores, cleansed them of impurities with Spiritual Energy, and then stashed them in their waist pouches.
The others, observing their actions, snapped back to reality with a complicated look at the zombies in front of them. A flash of greed quickly crossed the face of one man before he stealthily glanced at Fang Yuxin and Bai Ye. On seeing their exceedingly sharp daggers, these individuals immediately suppressed their greed.
Thousands of zombies meant thousands of Crystal Cores. To those who had just survived, these cores were indeed a fortune. With these Crystal Cores, they could significantly improve their chances of obtaining survival supplies at the next Safe Zone.
But no one dared to dig out the cores, not only because Fang Yuxin and Bai Ye were their saviors and it would be shameless to do so, but also because after witnessing their power, they dared not offend!
Yet, there are always exceptions.
After a young man had wept beside two mutilated bodies for a while, he suddenly turned, glaring furiously at Fang Yuxin and Bai Ye. His eyes red with anger, he turned and accused, "Didn’t you see how many died here? Do the dead mean nothing to you? Are these Crystal Cores more important than human lives?"
He was in fact displacing his anger; the two bodies were his parents. Earlier, when the car door was ripped open by zombies, his parents had tried to protect him and were brutally torn apart and devoured!
So, after witnessing his parents’ mangled bodies and weeping over them, his heart was almost consumed with regret, making it nearly unbearable for him! Thus, when he saw Fang Yuxin and Bai Ye seemingly indifferent to the corpses and busy collecting Crystal Cores, his regret found a vent!
It was all their fault! If they were so powerful, why didn’t they save his parents? His parents wouldn’t have died if they had intervened!
Overwhelmed by regret, the young man let a demon enter his heart. Unwilling to bear the heavy guilt of causing his parents’ deaths, he subconsciously shifted the blame to Bai Ye and Fang Yuxin!
Fang Yuxin was busy extracting Crystal Cores as there were many zombies, and they needed to collect the cores swiftly and then burn the bodies. She had just felt these people had some decency, and now this outlier had appeared!
Fang Yuxin couldn’t help but laugh, about to speak, when she saw a middle-aged woman suddenly rush toward the young man and slap him across the face.
The surroundings were so quiet that the sound was particularly loud. Fang Yuxin raised an eyebrow and couldn’t help but look at the woman who had slapped him. She was curious about the reason behind her action.
The young man’s skin was quite fair, indicating he hadn’t suffered much hardship. The slap left five red finger marks on his delicate face, slightly swollen.
He looked incredulously at the middle-aged woman, "Aunt, you hit me?"
The middle-aged woman glared at him with a look of extreme disappointment, "Of course, I hit you! Are you insane? They are our saviors, how could you say such things! Your parents died to protect you, what does it have to do with them? What’s more, look at the situation now. Respect for the dead is fine, but aren’t the living important too? Why can’t you use your brain!"