In the apocalypse, you start with two knives, and all your equipment depends on drops.

Chapter 250 The Contaminated Crystal Core

The Heavenly Sea Qilin is extremely powerful; its over four-meter-tall body can easily crush dozens of zombies into a pulp when it rushes into a horde of zombies.

With a casual slap of its hoof, it could reap the heads of a large group of zombies.

With a roar, it can send a whole area flying, and the water jets it spews from its mouth are also incredibly powerful.

Throughout the entire battle, the enormous Tianhai Qilin had the strongest presence.

The nine dragon souls around it swirled and roared.

The battlefield is more dazzling than the runway!

With the massive influx of experience points and the boost from double experience cards, Yu Yao quickly broke through to level 54.

And it's getting closer and closer to level 55, with an almost visible rate of increase.

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Two hours later, the battle ended.

Nie Zhuoying, Lei Xuanqing, and others were in charge of directing people to clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded.

Yu Yao is responsible for treating patients, saving lives, and obtaining crystal cores.

With the serum developed by Jiang Yi, these superhumans can survive as long as they are not killed in one blow or do not survive until Yu Yao saves them.

Most of them will be fine.

It means losing money!

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Ye Qiao, the girl who returned to Kyoto with Cen Yuemian, also awakened her supernatural abilities.

The relatively powerful metal-based superpowers and enhancement superpowers.

Enhancement abilities are a type of auxiliary ability, which can increase the power of others or oneself.

Make offensive abilities more powerful, and defensive abilities more defensive.

She came to Yu Yao's side with her arm covered. After treating her, she smiled and handed Yu Yao two level-three elemental crystal cores and one level-three transparent crystal core.

Yu Yao immediately put it into her spatial storage without touching the crystal cores at all.

Ye Qiao paused for a moment, then exclaimed, "Oh no! One of them is for my upgrade. I took the wrong one. Can you give it back to me? I'll give you another one!"

Yu Yao's long eyelashes fluttered as she took out the crystal core that she had just given her and put it back in her hand.

Ye Qiao smiled sheepishly, quickly took out a level four wind-element crystal core from her pocket, placed it inside with a pained expression, and put away the transparent crystal core.

She then handed the three crystal cores back to Yu Yao.

"Here you go, I really don't have any other level three crystal cores."

Yu Yao glanced at her, then enveloped the three crystal cores with her spiritual power and put them back into her spatial storage.

Ye Qiao smiled slightly at her before getting up and leaving.

Yu Yao lowered her eyes, concealing the coldness within them.

"Ah Mei, help me secretly control that Ye Qiao, put her in the jade landscape pendant and bring her back, and while you're at it, catch a few mutated rats."

Jade landscape pendants cannot be bound to a specific owner; anyone who gets them can use them.

Yu Yao had always treated it as a temporary prison, but now it's placed in a public space, so Luo Mei can just take it.

Luo Mei: "Okay~"

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The cleanup operation lasted until late at night.

Yu Yao spent the entire afternoon collecting dew, and was so exhausted that Chi Heng carried her back to Thousand Soul Mountain.

As soon as Luo Mei got back, she asked, "What happened to Ye Qiao? Why were they arrested?"

Yu Yao took out the three crystal cores that Ye Qiao had given her, which were now enveloped by her chaotic spiritual power.

He said, "There's something wrong with these three crystal cores, especially the wind-type one she gave me later."

"What's the problem?"

"The two wood and fire elements released a strange and murky power as soon as they entered my space. If my space weren't so special that the energy couldn't spread, my space might have already been destroyed."

Jiang Yi exclaimed, "Huh?" "She wants to destroy your spatial ability? No, it can't just be your spatial ability! She also has your other abilities!" His tone became more and more urgent as he spoke, his face full of anger.

After all, according to the information they received, each superhuman only has one energy crystal.

No superpower can remain unaffected!

Although... Yu Yao doesn't have any special abilities.

But others don't know.

"Yes, if the spatial ability is destroyed, this power will continue to spread and entangle me."

Luo Mei suddenly stood up, her face full of anger.

"She's crazy!"

Yu Yao comforted her by pulling her down to sit, and then pointed to the wind-elemental crystal core.

"This is more serious; it's probably aimed at Aheng. Once he absorbs it, he'll be entangled by the foul energy within. Although I don't know exactly what the foul energy does, it's definitely not a good thing."

It looks no different from other crystal cores, but it contains so much dirty energy inside.

Yu Yao tried putting it into the backpack compartment to examine it.

The conclusion reached was that the crystal nuclei were contaminated, and absorption would result in the accumulation of impurities within them.

Luo Mei gritted her teeth and took out a jade landscape plaque.

"I'll search her soul!"

Having said that, he released the person, ignoring Ye Qiao's bewildered and terrified eyes, and immediately began the forceful soul-searching process.

Ye Qiao's eyes gradually became dull and unfocused during this process, losing all traces of the liveliness of a human being.

Ten minutes later, Luo Mei threw Ye Qiao, who had become an idiot, to the ground and said angrily, "She got her superpower by eating He'an's divine tree! These crystal cores were also given to her by someone else. They said that as long as she gave these crystal cores to you, she could get another divine tree and a ticket to Ideal City."

"Ideal City? Could it be something He'an came up with again?" Qi Xian couldn't help but ask.

Luo Mei said, "I don't know, she doesn't know where Ideal City is either! But judging from their actions... it must be related to He'an."

Qi Xian closed his eyes in disgust, clicked his tongue, and couldn't even get angry anymore. "This He An, really!"

Yu Yao thought about it and began to understand what they were planning to do.

"The fake soul-nourishing wood I gave Aunt Liang is slowly eroding Xu Zhiwu's soul and body. He must have noticed something was wrong. Plus, his soul was damaged when the wooden puppet was destroyed..."

Chi Heng looked at her face and said in a deep voice, "He wants you to treat him."

"Most likely."

"So, he wants to control both of us!"

"Ah."

Chi Heng silently took Yu Yao's hand, "Okay, let's go then."

Yu Yao smiled faintly and nodded.

"Ah."

Forcing your way in is too costly. Those turbid energies are impossible to defend against. Yu Yao studied it for a long time and concluded that no matter how you protect yourself, you can still be infected.

Why not turn the tables and hitch a ride with He'an?

Take this opportunity to show weakness and lower their guard.

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