Hearing her fiancé’s soft voice, Jiao Lizhi said nothing and shook her head. After a while, she finally let him go and said, "You scared me. I thought something bad would happen to you."
"I’m sorry for making you worry. I was caught off guard," Jin Xuyan said softly.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"I had a breakthrough."
Hearing this, she went silent for a moment before she asked again, "What level are you now?"
"I’m at level six now."
When she heard this, Jiao Lizhi was calm. After witnessing his power, she had already guessed that his level must be above level four.
Seeing her so calm, Jin Xuyan scratched her nose and asked, "Aren’t you going to ask me anything?"
Jiao Lizhi shook her head and said, "It’s not important. As long as you are safe, it’s all good."
Raising his eyebrows, Jin Xuyan felt that his fiancée’s personality had changed somehow. But compared to her previous calm personality, he liked her warm and clingy side more.
After the brief conversation, both of them had a simple meal before they left the space. The moment they walked out of the government building, they noticed that the sky had darkened and saw the Phantom team members cleaning up the battlefield.
Seeing them coming, Qin Luzi walked over and asked, "Captain, you leveled up?"
Jin Xuyan nodded and replied with a smile, "Thanks to Ah Zhi, I managed to break through safely."
When the members heard this, they were surprised. Xiao Qi rushed over and asked, "Captain, are you okay?"
"I have never felt better than now," Jin Xuyan chuckled.
He looked at the situation for a while before he asked, "Old Qin, is the attack done?"
Qin Luzi nodded and said, "There are no more zombies in the area."
"After we clean up the battlefield, we will rest for a day before we return to the base," Jin Xuyan said.
"Understood," the members replied in unison.
This time, they didn’t burn the zombies’ corpses but packed them up in metal cubes and stored them in Feng Yun’s space.
After they cleared up the area, it was already late in the night. With the high metal wall surrounding the entire office area, the members didn’t have to keep a tight watch.
With the bathrooms available, they took turns to have a bath before they went to sleep. This time, the one keeping a night watch was Jin Xuyan.
After he broke through to level six, his five senses improved by leaps and bounds. Right now, he could hear sounds coming from several kilometers away. With him keeping the night watch, they could sleep with ease.
Sitting at the edge of the rooftop, he raised his head and stared at the red moon.
While he lost consciousness during the breakthrough process, he was still able to feel his fiancée’s energy inside his body. Without her help, he wouldn’t have been able to make it through.
Thinking about the energies inside his body, he lowered his head and opened his palms. The next moment, a wisp of black flame floated on top of his right hand. At the same time, his left palm was now blended with the night.
Feeling the warm energy inside his body, he manipulated it slightly. In less than a second, his shadow flickered for a moment before it turned into a clone.
Staring at the clone in front of him, Jin Xuyan could feel the warm energy connecting them. Using his energy, he tried to control the shadow clone.
As expected, the shadow opened its palm, and a wisp of black flame floated above it.
Jin Xuyan experimented with his newly discovered ability and realized that besides creating a clone, he could use the shadow ability as a weapon.
With a wave of his hand, the shadow clone turned into a long sword covered with black flame.
To test out the shadow sword, he went to the area nearby the government office. Standing in the middle of the damaged road, he raised the shadow sword and swung it diagonally.
Crack!
The black flame turned into a fire blade and flew forward at high speed. Combined with the energy wave created by the shadow sword, the attack power of the swing was tripled.
A long, deep crack appeared on the road as the black flame burned.
Jin Xuyan looked at the crack thoughtfully before he flicked his hand. The next second, the shadow sword disappeared, and the black flame returned to his body.
After testing out his new ability, he returned to the government office and circulated his energy. He needed to solidify his foundation after breaking through.
When dawn arrived, the members woke up one after another. After they washed up, they gathered for morning exercise. Even though they fought the zombies for a whole day, after a good meal and enough rest, they had recovered their energy.
Since they were not in base, the Phantom team only did basic exercise. Besides running for ten kilometers, they did push-ups, sit-ups, and similar exercises to improve their core power and strength.
As the sun rose, they finally finished their morning exercise. After taking a bath and having breakfast, Wen Kai turned the metal wall into countless metal bullets, which were stored in Pei Yixie’s space.
Before leaving, the members burned the pieces of rotten flesh on the road. At the same time, Zhang Yuan and the Wen brothers fixed the road.
At eight o’clock in the morning, the Phantom team finally left Pingjiang City and returned to Lin’an City using a military chopper.
Meanwhile, at Lin’an City, Gu Shaoze and his team were on their way to do a mission.
After the news about the Lin’an City base’s first harvest spread, the base received lots of messages through the radio transmission from survivor camps and survivor bases near Lin’an City.
Most of them were requesting the Lin’an City base to help them, while the minority wanted to buy the supplies.
Gu Shaoze and his team were tasked to escort Lin Gao to one of Zhuji City’s bases.