Chapter 528: Chapter 528: Danger in the Sea
Yunhua Safety Base was witnessing a comical scene, a tough and aloof Base Commander on a bike chase with another person riding on the backseat.
Reckless riding, fierce riding (pedals are too heavy to push)!
The path was covered swiftly.
Leng Yebai was running, the Base Commander was chasing.
He ran, he chased.
It was destined to be a race hard to distinguish winners from losers.
Taking advantage of the chase intervals, Leng Yebai hurled a paper towards the Base Commander.
"What’s this?" The Base Commander was puzzled.
"Someone in your base is absorbing human Superpower User crystal cores, this is the list."
After saying that, Leng Yebai pedaled faster.
The Base Commander paused for a moment, kept the list properly, and continued the chase on his electric scooter.
Finally, Leng Yebai managed to outsmart a bug, losing the persistent Base Commander.
Leng Yebai abruptly ran into a maze of alleys, layers of green plants blocked their figures.
When the Base Commander lost sight of them, they entered a space, perfectly shaking off the Base Commander.
After losing the Base Commander, Leng Yebai rode the bicycle in the direction opposite to the Base Commander.
In a rendezvous, the third person is always redundant.
"Roar——"
Zombies roared from behind, Bai Xiqin sat on the bicycle’s backseat, fingers twitched slightly, and steel needles took to the air, piercing their temples.
Under the sunlight, crystal-clear crystal cores flew from the zombies’ temples into Bai Xiqin’s pale hands.
Even in the apocalypse, Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai seemed to be on a vacation.
"Where do you want to go?" Leng Yebai asked softly.
"The seaside."
Bai Xiqin’s expression slightly settled, a thought stirring, and a round pearl-like bead appeared at her fingertips.
Even in the sunlight, it emitted a faint fluorescence.
It was a pearl yet somewhat different from a pearl.
This was found by Bai Zhengxuan in the Zombie’s house while rescuing Wang Liu at Sheep Village, deemed precious, and directly stored in a space.
Bai Xiqin could sense a special power within the pearl, different from Superpower yet concretely a power, elusive and uncommandable.
From a distance, Bai Xiqin could smell a faint scent of seawater.
It should be something from the sea.
Bai Xiqin pointed to a direction, a sea area nearest to Shanghai, maybe going there could bring rewards.
In the previous life, Bai Xiqin never heard of any power other than Superpower.
The arrival of energy tides brought changes to life on Earth, humans transforming into zombies and Superpower Users, animals becoming zombie animals and mutant animals, even plants were affected.
This energy acted differently across species, yielding varied effects, yet originating from the same source, the same power.
And the power within this pearl was entirely different from Superpower.
Suppose energy tides periodically appear on Earth, does the energy remain identical in each appearance?
Or is it a remnant energy from a previous era, one that hasn’t completely vanished, akin to their current energy?
Bai Xiqin didn’t know and couldn’t guess; she knew that novel phenomena were emerging on Earth, bringing earth-shattering changes.
Life in the oceans was far broader, should they mutate, it would be far more thrilling than on land.
Post-apocalypse, the sea was virtually a human forbidden zone, thus the safest way to reach other countries was via land.
Land harbored various zombies and mutant animals, though risky, still safer than the sea.
Consequently, in the apocalypse, going to different countries was virtually impossible unless one was an extremely powerful Superpower User.
Leng Yebai didn’t know why he favored bicycles even with Bai Xiqin on the back seat, the bicycle’s wheels continuously maintained high-speed rotation.
The nearest sea to Shanghai wasn’t far, yet cycling there was still rather distant.
Midway, they found a car abandoned by the roadside, fetched some oil from the space, and drove towards the seaside.
Nearing the sea, gas dwindled, so they resorted back to Leng Yebai’s bicycle.
"Roar——"
The zombies’ roars behind hadn’t ceased, Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai remained calm, periodically harvesting two crystal cores as they proceeded.
A salty breeze swept by, following the wind’s direction, Bai Xiqin finally saw the azure sea.
The sea was azure, stretching into the distant sky, where the light blue of the sky collided with the azure seawater, spectacularly magnificent.
The mysterious sea held far more dangers than the land, with giant zombie whales and mutant sharks; every level of power existed in the ocean.
Fortunately, they weren’t on land, otherwise, the zombie whales would plunge human survivors into greater despair.
Zombies were sparse by the sea, not a single human in sight.
Zombies perhaps could sense the terror within the seawater, daring not venture near.
The sea lashed the beach, occasionally stranding small fish or shells ashore.
Bai Xiqin crouched down to closely observe these small lives.
They feebly flapped their bodies, yearning to return to the sea, but the distance was too great; their tiny forms lacked significant burst power, merely stranded on the shore.
These small fishes and shrimps seemed unchanged, tiny, unmutated, not becoming zombie animals.
The scorching sun basked on the beach, gradually absorbing the life force of these stranded little beings.
Skipping past these little fishes and shrimps, Bai Xiqin finally spotted some different little lives.
She noticed a fish with decayed flesh on its body, thumb-sized, yet extremely ferocious, leaping around continuously.
Its rotten flesh nearly cut through its entire belly, fine fishbone protruding, yet it relentlessly hopped towards Bai Xiqin’s position.
It craved flesh, desperate to devour.
Bai Xiqin used control power to suspend the little zombie fish, found its mouth had grown teeth, opening and closing savagely.
Unleashing the most vicious power a fish of its size could have.
Bai Xiqin placed it on the ground; it managed to hop onto a freshly deceased fish corpse.
The fish roughly palm-sized, about ten times the size of the zombie little fish.
The zombie little fish voraciously devoured the fish before it, even when its swallowed fish meat squeezed out from its rotten abdomen, it continued consuming.
Like zombies, greedily craving flesh.
Bai Xiqin felt a heaviness, it seemed the oceans occupying most of Earth’s surface now housed zombie animals too.
Using control power, Bai Xiqin crushed the zombie little fish, she and Leng Yebai continued strolling by the sea, eyes on the sea’s direction, trying to discern hidden secrets within.
Bang——
The waves surged again onto the beach; this wave was taller, about two stories high.
Leng Yebai and Bai Xiqin reacted swiftly, quickly retreating from the range of the wave’s impact.
Seawater beat on the beach, powerless retreat following.
"Roar——"
At this moment, a roar suddenly emanated from the seawater, like an ancient beast.
The sea erupted into a huge splash, fiercer than the previous waves.
Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai gazed at the source of the roar, pupils narrowing as they discerned the scene.
