Afterward, Xun Che turned to Gu Shaoze and said, "Comrade Gu, I want to exchange all of the purified crystal cores with you at the rate of two purified crystal cores for three unpurified crystal cores."
Gu Shaoze didn’t plan to take advantage of the situation and replied, "No need. Just give me the same amount."
While it was rare for him to be so generous, Xun Che didn’t refuse and said, "Please keep it on tab first. When the zombie horde is done, I will send the crystals as soon as possible."
"Okay."
After reaching an agreement, everyone returned to their own tasks.
At the same time, the zombie horde attacking the Lin’an City Base finally showed signs of decreasing. Standing on top of the wall, Wang He realized that the speed of the unknown person killing zombies from behind the horde was not any slower than theirs at all.
While everyone learned about the news coming from the infirmary and saw the number of zombies decrease steadily, they finally gained hope, and their morale increased several fold.
As the sun rose higher in the sky, a military chopper flew toward the base.
"Captain, there are lots of mutant birds blocking our way," Qin Luzi said after checking his map.
Hearing this, Jin Xuyan said, "Everyone, get ready for a fight. Old Zhang, you go to the base directly."
"Understood!" the members replied in unison.
A few minutes later, they carried their backpacks and unsheathed their blades.
The military chopper flew until they reached the center of the zombie horde before Zhang Yuan opened the doors. The next moment, Jin Xuyan jumped out of the chopper without hesitation, followed by Jiao Lizhi and the members.
Watching how the members of the Phantom Team jumped without even wearing a parachute, the members of the Eagle Team were shocked.
When the door was closed, Wei Yin said, "Old Zhang, will they be okay?"
"Don’t worry. We have tried this method before and we can handle it," Zhang Yuan replied calmly as he drove the chopper.
As for the Phantom Team’s members, the moment they leaped out of the chopper, Qin Luzi already used his wind to slow down their falling speed while Feng Yun created a platform made from a space blade below them.
The moment they stepped on the transparent platform, they swung their blades at the birds flying toward them.
Crash! Crash! Crash!
In less than five minutes, the birds fell to the ground one after another with a loud thud.
Crash!
When a bird fell to the ground not far from the young woman, she raised her head and said, "Krayan, are they humans?"
"Host, besides the mutant birds, there are a total of eighteen people fighting in the sky," Krayan replied.
"Can you give me their information?" she asked again.
"Scanning in process. Energy insufficient, scanning failed," Krayan said.
Hearing this, the young woman let out a sigh and asked, "Krayan, how much energy do we have now?"
"Checking the system. Energy level: five percent."
"Only five percent? We have been fighting for days now and the energy core should be at least hundreds if not thousands. How can it only add one percent to our energy level?" she asked in disbelief.
Hearing this, Krayan went silent for a moment before it said, "Host, the amount of energy contained in the energy core is only equal to zero point five percent of an F-rank monster."
"The energy needed to refill the system’s energy to a hundred percent from four percent was at least two hundred and fifty thousand SSS-rank monsters. You should know the difference without a detailed explanation," it added.
The moment the young woman heard this, her shoulders dropped slightly. Even though she was discouraged, she still didn’t slow down her speed in killing the zombies.
Crash!
With another swing of her two-handed sword, she beheaded a group of zombies surrounding her. The black blood splashed to the ground as one of the rotten heads rolled to her feet.
Crack!
Lowering her head, she stepped on the rotten head and saw that no crystal was found inside. "Tch, these monsters should be below F-rank. They didn’t even have an energy core," she said coldly.
While she was complaining below, Jiao Lizhi felt a strange familiar energy and glanced at the ground. When she saw someone surrounded by zombies, she turned to her fiancé and said, "Brother Yan, I will go help that person."
Before Jin Xuyan could reply, she already leaped from the transparent platform and dived into the air.
"Ah Zhi!"
She waved her hand, and an ice shield appeared in front of her when she was two hundred meters above the ground. Using the force of the wind pushing the shield, she slowed down her speed.
When she was twenty meters above the ground, she flipped in the air and created several ice shields as footholds. Stepping on the ice shields, she slowly descended from the air and landed lightly on the ground.
"Roar!"
The moment her feet touched the ground, a group of zombies rushed over and lunged at her. Pulling out her dagger, she infused her energy into the weapon. In less than two seconds, a giant ice scythe appeared in her hand.
Crack! Crash!
With a spin of her body, her scythe beheaded the surrounding zombies in one smooth motion.
Standing not far from her, the young woman’s eyes flashed with surprise the moment she saw the ice scythe in her hand and the way she fought the zombies.
Wush~ Crack!
After she killed another group of zombies, the young woman muttered, "Krayan, can you locate Gaia’s location now?"
Even as a cold, unfeeling system, Krayan was still able to detect a hint of excitement in its host’s voice. It activated the system and checked the area of ten kilometers from their current location.
Ten minutes later, it replied, "Host, there is no trace of Gaia within a ten-kilometer radius from our location."