"Sure." Ye Xuan replied and with one hand on the wheel, he used his right hand to get a shiny blue crystal from his pocket.
The crystal was small, the size of a cherry fruit. Even though it was clear and shiny like a diamond, if one looked closely, they could see something dark at the center of the crystal.
Chu Miao scrutinized it and turned it over and over again before noticing the dark patch. It was not very obvious.
She focused her spiritual power in her eyes and observed the crystal, especially the dark blotch.
She could see that it was shaped irregularly, like a floating cloud. She could feel that the crystal core was similar to the demonic beast cores from the ancient cultivation world, but there was a difference.
In the cultivation world, demonic beast cores were filled with spiritual energy and could be used for cultivation.
Chu Miao extended her spiritual sense deep into the crystal core and felt around the dark cloud. She was shocked to find that the dark mass inside was similar to the fog that had brought the changes in humans and mutation of animals.
The rest of the crystal was also energy that can be used to cultivate and enhance superpowers. However, unlike zombies crystal cores, the cores from the mutated rat had an extra type of energy.
One crystal core could be used to cultivate both superpowers and spiritual energy, just like what they did with the fog.
This was good news for her family. When they are unable to go into the space to cultivate in the future, having crystal cores from mutated animals would supplement their spiritual energy.
Moreover, with such mutated animals appearing, no one will suspect anything if they see them using demonic beast cores from the space ring that she brought from the ancient era.
"This can be used for cultivation. It has a similar effect as the fog that appeared in the first days of the apocalypse." She finally told Ye Xuan what she had discovered.
She didn’t need to tell him about the spiritual energy part, but knowing that it has the same energy as the fog was also good news for the superpowers users.
The fog had helped their superpower increase faster and if they could get such a source of energy, then it could guarantee steady growth.
"That’s good news. The fog has disappeared for over two weeks now and our progress has slowed down. Using zombie crystal cores is useful, but mostly in restoring spiritual power, but they have less effect in advancing it." Ye Xuan said as he had used quite a few zombie crystal cores to cultivate and the progress was disappointing compared to when he used the fog to cultivate.
"That’s true. The apocalypse seems to follow natural selection and only the strong survive, but it is mostly trying to wipe out humanity, so zombies are advancing faster than humans.
Without a way to improve our power, humanity would probably disappear in a few years. But now with the help of crystal cores from mutant animals, we can grow stronger and keep up with the zombies." Chu Miao expressed her thoughts on the issue of the apocalypse.
"Mmm...but I don’t think it will be so easy either. I always keep feeling like there is a powerful force directing everything that is happening from behind the scenes.
If their goal is to cleanse humanity, then it will definitely not stop at having people turn into zombies.
I still can’t get a clear picture of what it is but I have a vague feeling that things are not as simple as they seem." Ye Xuan said.
His opinion was not just shaped by the things that have been happening, but also the dreams he had before the apocalypse.
All the dreams involved Chu Miao and for some reason, he had a feeling that she was somehow connected to the dawn of the apocalypse.
For her, it was probably a burden and he wished he could help her carry it.
He looked at the girl seated next to him from the corner of his eye and sighed.
"We can only take things as they come. Face one challenge at a time. We can kill as many zombies as possible and save as many humans as we can. Of course, it’s still better to save those who deserve saving and would most likely help to protect the remaining part of humanity instead of dragging us down." Chu Miao replied to Ye Xuan’s opinion.
She understood what he meant. Since the apocalypse was prophesied so long ago, and it is serious enough to warrant a warrior from ancient times to be sent into the future to help, it could only mean that they would face more challenges than just man-eating monsters.
She had a duty and a goal, but of course she couldn’t tell him that.
Ye Xuan was disappointed a little as he had hoped that she would give him at least a hint of what she was going to do, but he was not down for long. They had just started getting along not long ago and he couldn’t expect her to open up and spill her secrets.
He would wait until he could make her a permanent part of his life. If she was willing to tell him then, he would be willing to listen and help.
"The nature of the natural selection order is to eliminate the weak and defenseless first, but I suppose we should at least try to protect the children more.
The elderly who are ailing and weak might not have survived the first wave of cleansing, as well as young children with weak immune systems, but if there is a way to protect the children, it will be better.
After all, children will fight for humanity in the future when we are unable to." Ye Xuan was actually sad when he said that.
His grandfather had died three months before the apocalypse started. Sometimes when he was alone he wondered if his grandfather had survived until then, would he have been able to be saved by awakening a superpower?