43: Chapter 43 The Bet Pays Off

Two bodyguards immediately stepped forward, firmly holding down Lei Jun's shoulders.

At that moment, another change occurred.

On the surface of Lei Jun's struggling body, a faint but real earthy yellow light suddenly flared up.

Her skin instantly became as rough and hard as stone, and her strength suddenly increased, nearly throwing off the two bodyguards.

Almost at the same time, in another room, air currents surged around Meng Xichi, slowly forming a small whirlwind by his side, even blowing the bedsheets away.

Faint sparks of electricity danced at the tips of Zhou Le's fingers hanging by his side.

Mu Feng's figure also became flickering and gradually blurred at this time.

Qian Hao, the largest and bulkiest among them, let out a low growl, and then the muscles in his arms bulged abnormally.

The last team member was Qian Dong, Qian Hao's biological brother; he spat out a glob of blood-streaked black liquid, and then his eyes briefly regained clarity.

Although he still looked extremely weak, the frantic crimson in his eyes had faded.

The spiritual spring water they drank not only alleviated their mutation but also seemed to amplify the mere five percent chance of awakening a Supernatural Ability within the blood rain.

While purifying the virus, it guided the violent energy brought by the blood rain toward awakening a Supernatural Ability rather than mutating into a zombie.

Inside the room, the still very weak energy fluctuated slowly.

Xiao Sinian's tense jawline finally relaxed briefly.

Looking at the few people before him struggling on the edge of pain and rebirth, he slowly let out a sigh of relief.

He had gambled correctly.

Qi Yin was unaware of the developments on his side.

At this time, the atmosphere in her shelter was filled with a high pressure that was calm to the point of being cold.

Two hours ago, a massive torrential downpour began to wash away the previous blood-red color.

On the electronic map, she clearly marked the city's altitude; through the city street surveillance, it could be seen that although this heavy rain had only been falling for two hours, a low-lying area had already begun to flood.

Fortunately, Jingdu was inland and not near the sea; otherwise, the tsunami triggered by the heavy rain would have been even harder to deal with.

Jiang Yao's voice sounded behind her, carrying the precision unique to technical personnel.

"The model's prediction accuracy is over 95%. Future Administrative Hall, the rainfall will continue to increase."

Based on existing data, most areas of the city center will have water levels exceeding ten meters, or even reaching fifteen meters, in three days.

Therefore, all ground-level buildings will be completely submerged.

These statistics made everyone present look even more solemn.

It meant that in perhaps less than fifteen days, the entire Jingdu would turn into a vast ocean, and human living space would be infinitely squeezed.

Then they...

Everyone looked at Qi Yin in unison.

Qi Yin turned around, her gaze sweeping over them.

"Don't worry, the altitude of this mountain we are on and the neighboring mountains is high enough to last until the flood recedes."

"Furthermore, in this heavy rain, the activity range of land zombies will be greatly restricted, and the pressure we face when searching for supplies outside will be reduced in the short term."

Changing the subject, the electronic pen in Qi Yin's hand tapped heavily on several conspicuous marks in the city center on the map.

"In these places—warehouse supermarkets, large malls—if we don't take all their inventory, it will sink forever under the water with the heavy rain."

Therefore, to make the best use of everything, they had to obtain the supplies from this area.

Qi Yin paused, a sharp light flashing in her eyes.

"Rather than letting others benefit, it's better to take it for ourselves."

A zero-yuan shopping spree, and an underwater zero-yuan shopping spree of unprecedented scale.

Everyone instantly understood her meaning, and the prospect of immense wealth made them eager to try.

Chen Quan entered his professional state almost instantly and said in a deep voice.

"I've already prepared the boat; Jiang Yao has modified it, and it's definitely sturdy enough to handle any underwater collisions."

Lu Jinwen quickly raised her small hand: "I can try to sense large metal structures underwater to avoid danger and, when necessary, control metal to attack."

Qi Yin nodded as she listened to everyone's discussion.

"This is our most important operation currently. The goal isn't to pick up scraps in shallow water, but to empty those submerged warehouses in deep water before anyone else reacts."

Her tone was decisive and beyond doubt.

She was determined to get the underwater treasures.

"Brother Yan Xiu, your swimming isn't very good, and your Fire-type Ability will be significantly affected underwater. You stay and guard the home this time; the others will come with me."

Lu Yanxiu was self-aware and nodded in agreement: "Okay."

The mission was set for three days later; during the remaining time, everyone tacitly began to work on their own training.

Under Chen Quan's orderly arrangements, they increased the intensity of their physical training and used several zombie models that Qi Yin had produced from somewhere to improve their use of Supernatural Abilities.

The next day, after Qi Yin and Xiao Yu finished watering the various fruits and vegetables in the spiritual field, she felt very good looking at the seedlings that were already as high as her thighs and the vibrant space.

Previously, she had about five hundred first-level crystal cores; she spent 147 to purify 7 pure first-level crystal cores for Lu Jinwen and the others to upgrade.

Currently, except for Wang Tianyu's healing Supernatural Ability which was still lingering at the first level, the others' Supernatural Abilities had basically stabilized at the Second-level.

As for herself, she was still at the third level because a few hundred first-level crystal cores were useless to her.

To reach the fourth level, besides accumulating experience through constant combat, she needed to absorb two hundred pure first-level crystal cores or one hundred pure second-level crystal cores.

But this was only the beginning; the continuous heavy rain had caused the zombies to basically hide away. Forget second-level crystal cores, even first-level crystal cores were hard to find.

Even if they were great fighters, it would be impossible to obtain a large number of crystal cores in a short time.

So Qi Yin still planned to level up honestly by fighting monsters.

Checking the time, it had been a day and a night since Xiao Sinian fed those people the spiritual spring water.

Qi Yin stood up, intending to go over and see how effective the spiritual spring water was against the mutations caused by the blood rain.

Although the neighboring shelter was heavily guarded, Qi Yin, holding the map Xiao Sinian had given her, easily reached the villa's main entrance.

The person who opened the door was a bodyguard she hadn't seen before.

Xiao Sinian was sitting silently on the sofa, studying something on the computer; he closed it as soon as he saw her enter.

Mu Feng and the female team member Lei Jun were currently in the nearby dining room eating large bowls of white porridge.

Qi Yin only took one look at the two of them and understood everything.

That girl, Lei Jun, if she guessed correctly, had awakened an earth-type derivative Supernatural Ability; she just didn't know if her focus was on defense like Wen Yang's.

As for Mu Feng, he probably had an invisibility Supernatural Ability.

This kind of Supernatural Ability would be of great use in certain situations.

Seeing Qi Yin's arrival, Lei Jun stood up and nodded slightly toward her as a sign of gratitude.

Mu Feng didn't say anything this time, awkwardly turning his head to the side.