End of the World Cycle

For the next month, Xie Qin recorded his own changes every day, experimenting with the mental power he received from his brother and the strength he received from Uncle Liu Bo.

He trained non-stop every day, with a small dagger placed close to his waist. The speed of drawing the dagger was getting faster every day.

Mental power increased his accuracy, and strength increased his attack power. In the end, the small dagger could easily pierce a tree trunk as thick as a thigh.

Now ordinary first-level zombies should pose no threat to her. In a month, the superpowers she got from her brother and Uncle Liu Bo did not weaken at all, but instead became more compatible with her body and integrated with her body. This made her more determined that as long as she made good use of her superpowers, one day in the future, she would be powerful enough to scare people.

My brother has explored himself countless times and found that there is no crystal core in his brain at all. Even in front of people with strong mental power, they only see him as an ordinary person without any special powers.

She knew that there was a testing device developed in the future base. As long as a person was scanned in the device, they could know what kind of superpower they had and what level it was. She didn't know whether such a machine could detect her.

It has been two months since the beginning of the dry season. It has no effect on them. If they stay at home, they can get through the dry season comfortably with water and electricity, but she can't. Wasting a month is a change for Xie Qin's plan. Her brother and Uncle Liu Bo need corpse crystals, a lot of corpse crystals. And she also needs to contact others, contact a lot of superpowers.

Taking out the tools, Xie Qin spent three full days to transform the tricycle. The canopy of the tricycle was not very strong, so he found some iron pipes left over from the original carport to reinforce it. He barely managed to lay eight solar panels on the top of the tricycle, and sealed the inside of the canopy with some insulation boards, which instantly made the originally small space even smaller.

But Xie Qin didn't care. She just wanted to be safe this time. There was a small window facing the driver's seat. There was also a small awning above the driver's seat.

Four barrels of 20-jin diesel were filled. They just filled the box under the driver's seat. An air-conditioning fan was installed in the canopy at the back. A small ice maker was installed. As long as the ice in the ice tank of the air-conditioning fan was replaced on time, they could operate even during the day.

Three fully charged batteries, plus almost a week's worth of food and water, a small induction cooker and a small pot, already took up two-thirds of the tricycle.

Xie Qin had no intention of bringing back any supplies this time. The food at home was enough for them to eat for two or three years, more than enough to last until the cold wave was over. She was now thinking only of the corpse crystals and other superpowers.

Six boxes of mineral water were neatly laid out, with a cushion on top, just enough for my brother to lie on under the awning. Uncle Liu Bo sat on the remaining one-third of the space, which was not too crowded.

The eight-year-old brother was sensible and smart. He could operate the ice maker and air conditioner after only one teaching. The ice cubes were changed every three hours, and the water that flowed out continued to make ice. The space in the canopy was small, and the temperature soon dropped to 28 degrees. Although Xie Qin had calculated that eight solar panels were enough to power the air conditioner and ice maker, he still brought batteries just in case.

Xie Qin had endless energy and didn't feel tired at all when doing things. He sighed that power-type psychics were really amazing. He couldn't help but look at Liu Bo who had just sat behind the awning and thought, fortunately he decided to live with Uncle Liu Bo.

After closing the thick curtain behind the tricycle's awning, Xie Qin sat in the driver's seat. After giving his mother a few words and telling her to close the doors and windows and not go out, he drove away with his brother and Uncle Liu Bo.

This time they planned to go to the farther Furong City, which is a populous city with a dense population and convenient transportation. The fact that there are zombies in such a remote county town can only prove that Furong City must have fallen as well.

Before leaving, she would still go to the county town. Although there were few zombies there, they were basically all first-level zombies. She needed experience and courage to kill zombies. Therefore, the only place where zombies were weak, few, and not densely packed was the county town.

Everything went smoothly on the way down the mountain. Although it was daytime and the temperature reached 45 degrees, Xie Qin, who was sitting in the driving seat, could still bear it. There was always cold wind blowing out of the small window on the back, and the awning blocked the sun so it didn't feel hot.

When they came to the small town at the foot of the mountain again, the whole town was eerily quiet. The river had dried up long ago. Xie Qin used his weak mental power to detect it and found no living people.

Xie Ran in the carport felt that his sister had stopped, so he also did some detection. As a second-level psychic, he searched the entire town in just ten seconds.

"There are only people in the two residential buildings near the town entrance, seventeen of them. The survivors should be living together." A childish voice came from the carport.

"Are there any superpowers in there?"

"No."

There were no psychics or zombies, so Xie Qin did not plan to drive past there. He drove onto the highway from another road, and when he got on the highway, he actually found a few scattered zombies wandering on the highway.

Obviously, the number of zombies has increased significantly in the past month. Xie Qin thought that it was because the inland water resources evaporated too quickly, and most people migrated to the south where the terrain was lower. The south was exactly where the zombie virus broke out, and more and more people were infected.

Although the noise of the tricycle was small, it still alarmed several zombies nearby. Xie Qin was still scared when she saw the disgusting zombies. Although she had killed her own skin, she had never killed even a chicken. Not to mention such a scary zombie.

Although her hands were still shaking as she drove, Xie Qin knew in her heart that she had to take this step. She took a few deep breaths, adjusted her mentality, and after her heartbeat gradually calmed down, Xie Qin parked the car on the side of the road.

"Brother, uncle. There are only four of them. Let me try it myself. If it doesn't work, I'll ask you to do it again."

Both of them nodded obediently and stayed quietly in the carport. Xie Qin looked at the zombies running from all directions. She knew she couldn't hesitate. She took the dagger and rushed towards the one closest to her while the four zombies were not gathered together. The dagger pierced the zombie's eyeball diagonally and just pierced into the zombie's brain. The blade rotated and the zombie instantly lost its ability to move.

Xie Qin kicked the zombie away. The zombie fell to the side of the road and was still struggling, but it couldn't get up at all. In the same way, Xie Qin quickly dealt with the next one. The remaining two rushed over together. Xie Qin directly kicked one of them away, and pierced the other one with his dagger from the temple. As the dagger stirred the zombie, it fell to the ground instantly.

When the last zombie pounced on him, Xie Qin tried to use his mental power. Sure enough, although the zombie did not stop, its movements became very slow. Xie Qin took advantage of this opportunity and pierced the zombie's head with the dagger directly through the temple.

With Liu Bo's power, Xie Qin easily opened the zombies' brains. Two of the four zombies had corpse crystals condensed in their brains. It was a good harvest. Xie Qin took out the plastic bag in her pocket and put the two corpse crystals in it. Her goal this time was to fill the plastic bag.

The car drove quickly along the highway towards the county town. Along the way, Xie Qin became more and more skilled, killing more than a dozen zombies by himself and obtaining seven corpse crystals. The white sunscreen clothes that originally covered him tightly were stained with the gray-brown blood of the zombies.

Before entering the city, Xie Qin asked her brother to find a safe place, parked the car on the side of the road, took off her dirty sun protection clothes and put them in the sun to sterilize them. She also went into the back shed, took out the bacon fried rice and kimchi prepared by her mother, and the three of them ate their fill.

Although the carport was crowded, it was cool, and Xie Qin was already exhausted from killing zombies along the way. She told her brother to call her in two hours, and then she fell asleep next to her brother.

A little after two o'clock is the hottest time of the day, with the temperature soaring to 48 degrees. At this temperature, not to mention people, even birds and insects are too lazy to move.

Xie Qin slept very comfortably. When she woke up, she clearly felt that her mental strength and power had recovered. It was almost five o'clock when she entered the city. Xie Qin was still wearing the dirty sun protection clothes. She didn't want the sound of the tricycle to attract too many zombies, so she turned off the engine and prepared to push it away.

Xie Qin pushed the cart in front and observed the surroundings vigilantly. Liu Bo walked behind and pushed the cart forward with his big hands, which was not difficult at all.

It has been eight months since the apocalypse began. The once prosperous county town has now become extremely desolate. The surroundings are very quiet, like a dead city. After walking for a long time without seeing any zombies, Xie Qin began to doubt his own judgment. Logically, with so many zombies on the road, the city should have fallen long ago. But in the current environment, there are not only zombies, but even no living creatures.

Sitting in the car, Xie Ran closed his eyes and carefully explored the city. After a while, his mental power finally stopped at a vocational and technical school in the western suburbs of the county.

"Sister, there are a lot of people in the west. Zombies are also wandering over there."

"Are there any superpowers?"

"There should be, but I'm not sure. It's too far away. I need to get closer."

Xie Qin knew which school it was, and it was about three kilometers away from here. Even if it was a straight-line distance, it should be two kilometers. It was already very difficult for my brother to sense someone at such a long distance.

So many people are still alive, and there are so many zombies around, so the probability that there are people with superpowers among this group of people is very high. So she must go and take a look.

Knowing that there were no zombies nearby, Xie Qin and the other two started the tricycle and headed towards the school. Along the way, they encountered many zombies that had been hacked to death. Xie Qin stopped the car and searched around, and found quite a lot, finding eleven corpse crystals.

"Sister, please stop here. There will be zombies about 200 meters ahead."

Xie Qin turned off the engine. The distance from here to the school was only about 200 meters. The car was hidden here, and he could sense any movement without his brother. He found a storefront and pried open the shutter door. Inside was a clothing store that had been soaked in water. The car could just fit in. He closed the shutter door. The three of them prepared to walk over.

After the school came into sight, Xie Qin finally understood why the zombies gathered here. This was a closed school with very high walls and iron fences, three meters high. Xie Qin saw many people moving around through the fences, and even those people ignored the zombies' roars and were planting vegetables peacefully.

This is not surprising. What is strange is that the entire county is almost without water, but these people still have extra water to grow vegetables.

The zombies looked at the food in front of them but couldn't eat or catch it, and they howled in anxiety. The zombies seemed to be in a herd mentality, so almost all the zombies in the city gathered outside the school.

Xie Qin looked at his brother who was counting carefully, and the number stopped at 168.

"Sister, there are a total of 168 people. There are four people with special abilities. Two of them have water special abilities, one has wood special abilities, and one has earth special abilities. They are all first-level."

Xie Qin nodded, which meant that these people were not a big threat to them, and this was a place they could go in. There were old and young people among these people, and Xie Qin thought about it and took her brother and uncle back to the storefront where the car was hidden.

Xie Qin took off the sun protection clothes stained with zombie blood and randomly found a piece of clothing and a pair of pants that were a little too big in the clothing store. He rubbed them on the ground before putting them on. He opened a bottle of water and wet his hands and face, then covered them with dust. Xie Qin was already thin, and he looked like a child in distress.

Then he used the same method to make his brother and uncle dirty, and then the three of them set out again.

Liu Bo carried Xie Ran on his back, held Xie Qin's hand, and swung a huge iron stick vigorously, cutting his way through the zombie horde.

Xie Qin was stunned. This was the first time he had seen the strength of a Level 2 power user. All zombies that were hit by the iron rod were basically split apart. Coupled with Xie Ran's mental control, the zombies were basically waiting to be blown up. In a few seconds, the three of them arrived at the school gate.

Xie Qin let go of Uncle Liu Bo's hand and slammed the school's big iron gate hard. Liu Bo waved an iron rod to prevent the zombies from approaching.

The person behind the iron gate seemed to have gone in to call for help. After a while, Xie Qin saw four or five people coming through the gap. With a little mental power, Xie Qin could tell at a glance that the leader was a superpower.

"Please, can you open the door? My brother is dying of illness. Please, help!"

The leading man looked at Xie Qin seriously, and then his eyes fell on Liu Bo. With such great strength, he could fight so many zombies alone without losing. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was a superpower. He then looked at the little boy with his eyes closed on Liu Bo's back, and nodded to the person beside him.

Then, a two-meter-high earth wall rose from the ground, separating the zombies from Xie Qin and the others. When the iron gate opened, Xie Qin and the others were pulled in by the people inside before they could react.

Xie Qin turned around and looked at the zombie corpses all over the ground. He felt reluctant and kept thinking that he must find a chance to get the crystal core.