Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 403 - Why Hasnt He Returned Yet
Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Why Hasn’t He Returned Yet?
Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Why Hasn’t He Returned Yet?
“Thank you, Su Jin,”
Wang Zhu spoke sincerely. Since the apocalypse, she was the first to reach out and help them, and nor did those behind Su Jin show any signs of superiority.
He glanced at Zhang Chuyang and noticed the man was already eating heartily, so he chuckled and shook his head before starting to eat as well.
Su Jin merely smiled, unbothered by such trivial matters.
The key thing was, it was better to leave this place sooner rather than later.
Lian Jiyue seemed dissatisfied; he had no interest in plain bread and only stuffed two eggs into his mouth before refusing to eat anything else.
What comforted Su Jin and the others was that he didn’t express any desire to eat more or show annoyance openly, which let everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
There was meat available. Although they had distributed some to Dr. Pei and his group before, continuously giving out generous portions could inevitably arouse suspicion.
“Su Jin, you’re really something, managing to get this white bread,”
Zhang Chuyang said with his mouth full.
“You’ve been to so many places, didn’t you manage to gather some supplies?”
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Su Jin intentionally stated it matter-of-factly. Moreover, if space element ability users who were competent roamers were involved, they generally wouldn’t lack food or clothing.
“Don’t even mention it, we once had two space element ability users in our team, and she kept all the food in her possession. Then an internal conflict started, and she ran off with another team!”
Zhang Chuyang said bitterly. The key issue was that the woman always appeared kind and was the chief charmer of the team. Everyone was willing to store the supplies with her, but little did they know, another team just had to lure her a bit, and she left without a word.
It was infuriating.
“That’s the way it is, so as they say, don’t put all your eggs in one basket,”
Lin Xiuyuan leaned back in his chair and spoke. Unlike their team, where both Guo Yang and Su Jin kept a certain amount of supplies in their own space, which was much convenient.
“However, all the crystal cores are held by me,”
Wang Zhu said, taking a sip of water. That was also the reason he had compromised initially; between supplies and crystal cores, he always had to secure one or the other.
“That’s good, when you reach the S City Base, as long as you have crystal cores, you can buy anything,”
Su Jin said with a smile, albeit she didn’t mention that, in the end, all the goods were bought from her.
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Inside the S City Base, those anticipating Su Jin and her team’s return weren’t only the survivors eager to see Han Jiajia proven wrong. Guo Yang also began to eagerly await their return. If Su Jin didn’t come back soon, his goods would almost be sold out!
Even with restricted sales, there was still not enough stock as the population of the S City Base was rapidly increasing, and every day saw a large number of new survivors entering the base.
Due to the swift increase in the base’s survivors, the entrance of the base had started implementing a charging policy.
Each new person entering the base had to pay twenty crystal cores, making those who had entered before feel extremely fortunate.
Actually, charging was not originally Liang Jiuhui’s idea; it was firstly to control the influx, and secondly because of Wei Junhao’s suggestion.
“Every base charges a fee for entry. If only the S City Base doesn’t charge, it may eventually lead to dissatisfaction from other bases. Moreover, your base is already gaining a reputation, so charging a fee shouldn’t be a problem,”
Wei Junhao spoke thus to Liang Jiuhui; in fact, he didn’t think the S City Base was less developed than the B City Base. Even from a long-term perspective, it might surpass the B City Base.
Liang Jiuhui discussed the matter with the base’s management and quickly implemented the policy.
Soon, he discovered charging fees was indeed profitable.
Every day, just the entry fees to the base brought in a substantial amount of Crystal Cores. Thinking about the now abundant Crystal Core reserves in the base, Liang Jiuhui felt the itch again.
Why haven’t Su Jin and the others returned yet?
He had already been dragging out the time for the mercenary corps assessments for days, but Han Jin kept urging them since they needed to move on to the next base. Wei Junhao had also remarked privately to Liang Jiuhui that this was indeed the case, so Liang Jiuhui had no choice but to schedule the mercenary corps assessments.
A notice was posted, and the entire base was buzzing.
The teams would be ranked by level?!!
Moreover, the base leader set up a series of reward systems to encourage everyone to actively participate in the mercenary assessments.
A super rank A mercenary corps would receive a reward of 5000 Crystal Cores;
Middle rank B and C mercenary corps would receive 2000 Crystal Cores;
Even the low-rank D, E, and F mercenary corps would receive 500 Crystal Cores,
and a super rank S mercenary corps would receive a whopping 10,000 Crystal Cores!!
That was truly a generous offer!
The date for the mercenary corps assessments was set for three days after the notice was posted, marking the latest Liang Jiuhui could delay.
Luckily, it was just the initial selection process, which involved filtering out teams capable of participating in the assessments from the many teams in the base.
If a team had two or more Level Four ability users, they could be directly classified as a middle rank mercenary corps, meaning they wouldn’t need to compete in the low-rank assessments.
“Bro, do you think there will be an S rank in this S city base?”
Han Jiajia asked while holding a copy of the notice.
“So far, no, my people have scouted the base, and at present, the highest level ability user in the base is Liang Jiuhui. However, there’s this Heart Talk Team; they’re said to be quite formidable, but they haven’t taken any missions for a long time,”
Han Jin said as he exhaled a ring of smoke towards the window.
“Heart Talk Team? What’s their relationship with that Heart Talk Convenience Store?”
Upon hearing this, Han Jiajia immediately questioned, as she had recently come to detest that Heart Talk Convenience Store, seeing people in the base able to buy all sorts of supplies from there. Her envy was irritating, and thinking about how she had initially been paralyzed in the face by the store owner’s iron needle, she felt an intense urge to go there and turn that store upside down.
“From the name, it’s part of a team, and I heard that the leader of the Heart Talk Team is a formidable Wood element user,”
Han Jin raised his eyebrows at his sister. Although Han Jiajia’s Wood element ability had reached Level Four by absorbing Crystal Cores, to date, they had not come across a higher-level Wood element user.
“Can they be more formidable than me? In city B, almost all the Wood element Crystal Cores have been absorbed by me. Moreover, that Wood element user hasn’t been seen for many days now. Maybe they died outside,”
Han Jiajia said nonchalantly.
“Who knows? I heard his family is still in this base, and it’s possible that he could be poached by another base. However, I heard you recently had a clash with a Power element female instructor, and she seems to be from the Heart Talk Team too,”
Han Jin said with a smile, recalling the information Wang Liang had gathered for him.
