Chapter 279: Blood Crystal Road p3
Lin Jiayao raised her hand, and a piece of mycelium spread out and hung on Lin Jiayao’s face.
The mycelium hooked onto Lin Jiayao’s ears and mimicked a mask, covering half of her face. At the same time, to avoid the blood-red mask being too scary, she changed the color of the mask to black.
After slightly covering her slightly flushed cheeks, Lin Jiayao controlled the insect chair and quickly moved towards the ash area.
“Click, click, click…”
The sound of the bone spurs stepping on the soft soil and vines was crisp and pleasant. In less than five minutes, Lin Jiayao saw a boundary formed by a vine wall.
Because the grass seeds and building-trees in the ash area had also begun to sprout again, the boundary between the ash area and the Oasis Area had become a little unclear.
To prevent people from accidentally entering the Oasis Area again, angering the Black Stem Fungus or the Building-Tree Guardian and encountering danger, Lin Jiayao erected a wall of vines connected to building-trees around the Oasis Area.
Although this wall was full of holes and couldn’t really block anything, its main function was to remind people that the area ahead was the Oasis Area.
After all, with the high-end combat power displayed by the Oasis Area now, no one doubted that the organization inside the Oasis Area was real.
After Lin Jiayao approached the vine wall, the building-trees and vines slightly moved aside, making way for Lin Jiayao to pass directly.
Such a big commotion naturally attracted the attention of the people in the ash area.
At first, they were still a little scared by the terrifying insect chair Lin Jiayao was sitting on, but after thinking that it came from the Oasis Area, they were relieved.
The people who had just arrived in the ash area were still afraid, while the old residents of the ash area were already wondering if there was another new B-rank in the Oasis Area.
Strange things often happened in the Oasis Area, and they believed that they would soon get used to it.
After passing the people who were standing still and seemed to be saluting her, Lin Jiayao controlled the insect chair and went straight towards the outer area of the ash area.
Soon, Lin Jiayao saw Lin Xiwan at the edge of the crowd, and the teams that had been divided into several groups.
These seemed to be the teams that her sister said had just been organized in the ash area.
As if hearing the familiar “clicking” sound, Lin Xiwan subconsciously looked back and saw her sister coming towards her.
“Yao? Why are you here?” Lin Xiwan quickly walked towards Lin Jiayao, subconsciously wanting to hug her, but quickly realized that there were many people here, and awkwardly withdrew her hand.
Various stories about the “Lin sisters” had already spread from the people from the original Qingzhou University camp in the ash area. Lin Xiwan didn’t want to ruin her sister’s reputation because of her intimate actions.
If her sister’s reputation was ruined, then she wouldn’t be able to get married in the future, she definitely couldn’t…
Lin Xiwan, whose thoughts were wandering, suddenly widened her eyes, her pupils constricting.
Lin Xiwan directly picked up her sister, kissed her forehead in front of everyone, and then put her back on the insect chair.
“Yao, why are you here?” Lin Xiwan’s cheeks were slightly red, and she looked at her sister and asked.
“Are they assembling?” Lin Jiayao glanced at the prepared vehicles and supplies, and the grouped people, and asked.
“Yes,” Lin Xiwan nodded. She knew that her sister wouldn’t come to the ash area for no reason, there must be some other purpose, so she raised her hand and waved in Wan Zi’s direction. “Sister Wanzi, come here for a moment.”
Wan Zi, who was talking to the crowd, had been keeping an eye on the Lin sisters. As soon as she saw Lin Xiwan wave, she immediately stopped talking and walked towards Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao.
“What’s the matter?” After nodding to Lin Jiayao in the insect chair with a smile, Wan Zi looked at Lin Xiwan and asked.
“Tell Yaoyao about the teams.” Lin Xiwan said, her address for her sister becoming somewhat mushy, as if she was determined to ruin her sister’s and her own reputation.
Lin Jiayao naturally also noticed these unusual changes in her sister, but she didn’t understand what her sister wanted to do, and thinking that it wasn’t a big deal, she didn’t think much about it.
After patiently listening to Wan Zi’s brief report, Lin Jiayao asked, “This time, it’s divided into four teams, going to the four cities in the east, west, south, and north?”
Her sister and Lin Jiayao had discussed this plan before, and the goal of returning to Wangxi City in the south was added by Lin Jiayao, for the purpose of obtaining storage batteries.
“Yes, it’s divided into four teams, heading in four directions for a three-day simultaneous advance. The main purpose is still to gather information.” Wan Zi said truthfully.
“Okay.” Lin Jiayao nodded slightly, then said, “The team in Wangxi City will stay put, and the teams in the north and east will merge with the west team, and bring them to see me.”
“Uh…” Wan Zi was stunned for a moment, glanced at Lin Xiwan, and found that Lin Xiwan didn’t have any objections, seemingly completely obeying the girl in front of her, so she nodded and said, “Okay, right away.”
After saying that, Wan Zi turned around and quickly selected three teams, bringing them all to Lin Jiayao.
Looking at the curious crowd and teams in front of her, Lin Jiayao slowly said, “The original plan is canceled, you have a new mission.”
As soon as Lin Jiayao said this, there was a slight commotion in the crowd, as if they didn’t understand why the plan that had been discussed for several days was canceled.
But because of their respect for the terrifying insect chair, no one spoke.
“Your mission is very simple, find a heavy truck, and then drive along the Hangrui Expressway, passing through Baoshan City all the way to Ruili, and go to Myanmar.” Lin Jiayao looked at the crowd in front of her and said calmly,
“Huh?”
“Myanmar?”
“No, what did we do wrong?”
“Is this mission a joke! Will we even come back alive?”
After hearing the specific mission content, the crowd finally couldn’t hold back and exploded, and countless questions arose.
“Boom—”
Suddenly, a fist struck out, and the strong wind made the crowd in front of her shut up and look at Lin Xiwan, who had a cold expression on her face.
“Shut up and listen to her.” Lin Xiwan glanced at the crowd, slowly retracted her fist, and said calmly.
Fists were the ultimate truth here, and Lin Xiwan, who held the truth, naturally wouldn’t allow anyone to talk back to her beloved sister.
The quieted crowd looked at each other, but no one dared to speak.
All of them combined were no match for Lin Xiwan alone, and they would be crazy to talk back at this time.
“Don’t worry, I will send at least two B-ranks from the Oasis Area to escort you, and there are also B-ranks from the Oasis Area waiting for you at the Myanmar border in Ruili.” Lin Jiayao explained, “All you have to do is transport the things there back.”
“Don’t worry, the things are very important, we won’t let you die easily, and we won’t let you work for nothing.”
B-ranks? The escorts were B-ranks, and the ones waiting there were also B-ranks. Were B-ranks so worthless? How could they be like wholesale goods in the mouth of the girl in front of them?
But with the safety guarantee of B-ranks, at least the crowd was no longer so panicked.
When they first heard that it was Myanmar, they thought they were going to be exiled to the border, so naturally, they complained.
Transporting things?
Lin Xiwan looked down at her sister and roughly guessed something.
It was probably the spoils of war or something that her sister obtained in her dream.
“You can arrange and decide the specific matters yourselves. I only have one request, at least one transport vehicle, quickly reach the destination, transport the things back, that’s all.”
After stating her request, there was no need for Lin Jiayao to interfere with the specific planning.
“Also,” Lin Jiayao looked at Wan Zi and said to her, “The expansion of the ash area needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.”
“Jiayao, is the expansion of the camp really that urgent?” Wan Zi bent down slightly and asked, “According to the current rate of people coming, it’s more appropriate to expand slowly, the ash area can completely accommodate them.”
“The main thing is that expansion will inevitably increase the workload. If we really have to work in two shifts for the expansion, I’m afraid…”
Finally, Wan Zi still expressed her concerns. Whether it was before or after the apocalypse, doubling the workload would arouse dissatisfaction.
Unless there were enough rewards, or… enough “enthusiasm”.
Enthusiasm with pride.
If the things they were doing were exciting enough to make them even voluntarily work overtime, then all of Wan Zi’s previous assumptions would be solved.
“I will add a repeating broadcast in the name of Kun City,” Lin Jiayao said calmly, “about sharing part of the A-rank evolution process and the stages required for evolution.”
“Huh… what?”
“What?”
“What???”
Not only Wan Zi, but also everyone else who heard this, except for Lin Xiwan, was stunned.
At this moment, they seemed to have all become APEX players who saw the killing machine, and only “Huh?” was left in their language system.
“A… is there someone in our city who has been promoted to A-rank? Sorry, I asked too much…” The shocked Wan Zi subconsciously asked, but quickly realized her overstepping.
Whether there was an A-rank or not, it wasn’t something she should ask.
“Yes, there has been for a long time, but there have been more recently. After summarizing the experience a little, we can talk about it briefly.” Lin Jiayao nodded slightly, her tone still calm.
It was as if not only B-ranks could be wholesaled, but A-ranks could also be wholesaled.
Wan Zi took a deep breath, her eyes and tone gradually becoming excited, and she quickly said: “I understand, there’s no problem with the expansion.”
No problem? There was absolutely no problem!
Wan Zi knew very well what the consequences would be after this broadcast content was spread.
A-rank! What kind of concept was this? It was almost a legendary concept. Most ordinary people might not have even seen a B-rank, let alone an A-rank.
And now, Kun City announced that they already had A-rank Awakened…
This was a huge shock.
Because the previous Survivor’s Light had put forward a view that if there really was an A-rank human Awakened, then the end of the apocalypse was not far away, and an A-rank Awakened was enough to lead humanity to rebuild their homes.
Then countless survivors would flock here, and it might even attract many lone Awakened to join, and those who had been stuck at B-rank for a long time would be even more eager to come to Kun City.
No wonder they wanted to expand on a large scale… it turned out that all of this was within the plan.
Wan Zi slowly exhaled.
“Can this be announced in the ash area?” Wan Zi asked.
If this was something that could be announced in advance, it would undoubtedly greatly boost the morale of the ash area. Wan Zi could even draw a few more cakes, saying that there would be more and more people in the future, and they were the heroes and meritorious officials of the savior city.
Then, every old resident of the ash area could tell the newly arrived survivors and even Awakened that they were the builders here, and they would proudly puff out their chests when mentioning the A-rank and say that they were their own people.
Then, forget about overtime, it would be difficult to get them to leave work!
This was what Wan Zi originally thought, the greatest empty promise, with pride and hope.
A sense of purpose is important