121: Chapter 121 "Find a fertile place and plant it."

Xu Qiangwei was stunned for a moment.

"Who?"

Chu Feng stood at the edge of the plaza, the black blood on his clothes still dripping down.

He glanced toward the Library and spat out only two words.

"Lin Yuan."

The plaza instantly went quiet.

Xu Qiangwei's expression changed.

Lin Yuan.

That Lin Yuan from Tiangong No. 1.

The man who made the authorities suffer setbacks and whom no faction in Jiang City could avoid.

Xu Qiangwei's hand, which had just been holding a dagger, suddenly felt a bit cold.

Just a moment ago, she had urged Bai Jingchen to protect Ma Chao.

And had even ambushed Lin Yuan from behind.

Now that she thought about it, her back felt a bit cold.

She reacted quickly.

So quickly that there was almost no pause.

Xu Qiangwei turned to look at the crowd, her voice steadying.

"A person like Ma Chao is worth more alive than dead."

The crowd was taken aback.

Xu Qiangwei continued.

"Mr. Lin crippling his limbs wasn't to vent his anger."

"It was to remove the danger while retaining his Superpower value."

She looked toward the infirmary.

"Plant-types don't need to run, and they don't need to hold knives."

"Stuck in the soil, they can sprout even with just water."

"You few, go and drag Ma Chao back."

The fat man's mouth twitched upon hearing this.

"How come when she says it, it sounds even more wicked than when I say it?"

The thin man nodded.

"But it makes sense."

Soon, Ma Chao was dragged back.

He lay on a stretcher, his limbs fixed in splints, his lips pale, and the veins on his neck bulging.

"Senior Chu Feng!"

"I am a B-rank Plant-type!"

"Jiang University cannot treat me like this!"

He suddenly looked at Fang Xiaoxiao.

"Fang Xiaoxiao!"

"I've liked you for so many years!"

"Are you just going to watch an outsider cripple me?"

"Did you have something going on with him a long time ago?"

Fang Xiaoxiao's face turned pale.

Looking at Ma Chao, her hand gripping the knife slowly loosened.

She sheathed her knife.

It wasn't forgiveness.

It was that she didn't even have the interest to kill him with her own hands anymore.

"When you poisoned your teammates with zombie venom, did you think about liking me?"

Ma Chao choked.

Fang Xiaoxiao continued: "When you dragged the fat man in front of the zombies, did you think about how we've known each other since we were kids?"

The fat man, hearing himself mentioned, immediately stepped forward to deliver the final blow: "That's not liking Xiaoxiao; you just wanted to find yourself a mother who would always forgive you."

Ma Chao opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.

The crowd began to divide.

"Ma Chao deserves to die."

"But he is a Plant-type."

"How about we lock him up first? What if he really can grow food later?"

"If he dies, we'll have nothing."

Ma Chao on the stretcher seemed to have grasped a lifeline.

Regardless of the pain coming from his hands and feet, he struggled to get up.

At this moment, the Library door opened.

Lin Yuan walked out.

Bai Jingchen followed behind him, his expression very poor.

The voices in the plaza disappeared bit by bit.

Lin Yuan looked at those who were pleading for Ma Chao.

"You want to live by the rules."

"Then don't let beasts exploit loopholes in the rules."

One sentence.

No one spoke again.

Lin Yuan walked up to Ma Chao and looked down at him.

"Aren't you useful?"

"Then prove it."

Ma Chao's throat trembled.

"I... I am willing to grow food, willing to guard the wall, as long as you treat me..."

Lin Yuan looked at Chu Feng.

"Is Jiang University short on food?"

Chu Feng nodded.

"Yes."

Lin Yuan said calmly: "Then don't waste him."

"Find a place with fertile soil and plant him there."

"Every day, he is to force-grow plants and produce traps."

"Just don't let him starve to death."

He paused for a moment.

"If he doesn't listen, plants grow more vigorously when fed shit."

The color on Ma Chao's face completely vanished.

He looked desperately at Chu Feng.

He knew Chu Feng didn't like wanton killing.

He knew Chu Feng would always give people a second chance.

But this time, Chu Feng just looked away.

Ma Chao's screams were locked outside the Library.

The real problem at Jiang University was never just one Ma Chao.

Library basement.

Xu Mengmeng placed a stack of forms on the table.

"Jiang University currently has 1,127 survivors."

"If food is rationed at the minimum level, we can last for twelve more days."

When Xu Mengmeng turned to the last page, her fingertips paused on the words "twelve days".

She had rubbed that page repeatedly, and the edges of the paper were already frayed.

"If we don't lower the rations, it's only nine days."

"346 white crystal cores, over 2,000 gray crystal cores."

"Only two C-rank red crystal cores."

Bai Jingchen repeated Lin Yuan's conditions.

Xu Qiangwei stood by the table and couldn't help but speak up.

"Half is too much."

She looked at Lin Yuan.

"People die at Jiang University every day."

"Awakened Ones also need crystal cores to recover."

"There are too many students, and food is scarce..."

Chu Feng interrupted her directly.

"I agree."

Xu Qiangwei looked at Chu Feng.

"Chu Feng!"

Chu Feng looked at Lin Yuan.

"But Jiang University students are not slaves."

Lin Yuan smiled.

"I only need you to be useful."

Chu Feng stared at him.

"They kill zombies, you get half the crystal cores."

"You provide serum, medicine, and food."

"This is a transaction."

Lin Yuan nodded.

"Fine."

Xu Qiangwei didn't say anything more.

She knew that Chu Feng had already made his choice.

Lin Yuan suddenly took a small bottle out of his pocket and tossed it to her.

Xu Qiangwei caught it instinctively.

The bottle was clean.

The glass was clear.

Inside was a pale pink liquid.

She unscrewed the cap, smelled it for just a moment, and immediately closed it again.

Perfume.

Rose scent.

Since the apocalypse, it had been a long time since she had smelled anything that "didn't belong to blood or the stench of corpses."

Xu Qiangwei's fingers tightened.

Lin Yuan said: "People who can change direction are more valuable than those who only know how to hit a wall."

Xu Qiangwei's lips moved.

"Is Mr. Lin trying to bribe me?"

"You can refuse."

She immediately gripped the perfume tightly.

"I caught it with my own ability, why wouldn't I take it?"

[Ding! Target Xu Qiangwei (Beauty 90), Favorability +1%, Current Favorability 0%.]

Lin Yuan didn't look at her again.

He turned to Bai Jingchen.

"I'm heading back."

"Can your note give me a hint?"

Bai Jingchen was halfway through nodding when his expression suddenly changed.

A note appeared in his palm.

A line of text appeared on the note.

[Hint cost: One C-rank crystal core.]

Bai Jingchen's throat moved.

"Too expensive."

"And [Hint] isn't a universal answer."

"Sometimes it's a sentence, sometimes it's just a name."

"The greater the cost, the higher the danger behind it."

Clap.

A red crystal core landed on the table.

Bai Jingchen stopped talking.

Xu Qiangwei's eyelid twitched.

Just how rich is Tiangong No. 1 exactly?

Should I follow this man and see?

Lin Yuan pulled out a chair and sat down.

"Less nonsense."

"I'm in a hurry to get back for dinner."

Bai Jingchen placed the red crystal core onto the note.

The next second.

The crystal core disappeared.

Bai Jingchen's face rapidly turned pale.

A nosebleed flowed down his philtrum.

Xu Qiangwei was just about to step forward when Chu Feng raised his hand to stop her.

"Don't touch him."

"System backlash isn't an external injury."

Xu Qiangwei looked sharply at Chu Feng.

System?

She had always thought that Bai Jingchen had just awakened a special Superpower.

It turned out that in the inner circle, there were even more things being hidden from her.

Bai Jingchen gritted his teeth.

Finally, a note appeared out of thin air in his hand.

There were only three words on it.

[Grandmaster Ling Suzhen]

The basement was quiet.

Xu Mengmeng frowned.

"Who is this?"

Chu Feng hadn't heard of her either.

Bai Jingchen wiped away the nosebleed.

"A name?"

Lin Yuan looked at those three words, his eyes turning cold.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen.

Shen Qingyue's mother.

Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster.

Previously, Fat Dragon had found out that after she helped Shen Qingyue reclaim Xinghui Group, she had flown to the capital for some reason.

In her past life, she only returned to Jiang City half a year after the apocalypse.

By then, she was already an A-rank Esper, and with the combination of ancient martial arts and her Superpower, she swept through three medium-sized shelters.

Now, the second Red Moon hasn't even arrived yet.

Is she planning to return early?

Lin Yuan connected the lines.

The electronic probe intercepted by Liu Qing.

The other party wanted him to kill Chu Feng.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen, who was hinted at by Bai Jingchen.

From the direction of the capital, someone had reached out.

Lin Yuan stood up.

He took out a walkie-talkie and tossed it to Chu Feng.

"Report once a day."

"Settle the crystal cores every three days."

"If you discover new Espers, register their abilities and ranks."

Chu Feng caught the walkie-talkie.

"What if the authorities come again?"

"If you can fight, fight."

Lin Yuan walked out.

"If you can't win, call me."

Bai Jingchen suddenly asked: "Is Grandmaster Ling Suzhen very dangerous?"

Lin Yuan stopped at the door.

"In the Jiang City of six months from now, no one will be able to stop her."