After more than an hour, the team had cleared the zombies from the village.

Only Tie Tou (Iron Head) was a slightly stronger zombie.

Apart from the two members killed by Tie Tou, no one died, and only eight members suffered minor injuries, which were easily healed.

They acquired a lot of supplies, but they weren't very valuable, just some corn, sweet potatoes, and sprouted potatoes, barely enough to use as seeds.

Chen Luo's purpose in coming today was to check the situation and clear out the zombies.

It was time to go back and organize people to build a new base.

Chen Luo planned to enclose the entire village with thick, high walls.

The village originally had only a little over a thousand villagers, but housing tens of thousands of people wouldn't be a problem at all.

Chen Luo also had to set aside a planting area; he couldn't plant outside the base, could he?

Leaving Xia Haoran with a hundred people to guard the area, Chen Luo returned to the base with Tie Tou.

Chen Luo immediately began searching for various nearby bases, openly recruiting personnel.

Not to have them join him, but on a hiring basis.

"Recruiting earth-type ability users, those with strong abilities preferred, food provided, with rewards in materials or crystals based on daily workload."

"Those with house-building experience, even if they are not earth-type, can apply."

"Light-type, support abilities, and natural-type abilities are welcome to join unconditionally."

What was Chen Luo's strength? Why bother hiding his intentions when poaching people?

Don't blame me if you can't keep your people; feel free to come and cause me trouble if you're not happy.

In just two days, Chen Luo gathered a team of five hundred earth-type ability users.

Of course, it was so easy because the work was not dangerous, and the pay was high.

They could earn crystals without killing zombies.

Chen Luo didn't spend much time building the villa district base in the first place, and there were fewer people, and his level was lower at that time.

Some of these earth-type ability users had reached level three, so the construction speed was naturally different.

Chen Luo didn't ask for a fast pace; completion within a month would be fine.

Chen Luo didn't let his earth-type members do the construction; they had to fight zombies every day to continue growing.

They shouldn't waste their time on boring construction.

As for the new base's location being exposed, Chen Luo's base wasn't in some remote mountain forest; anyone who wasn't blind could find it.

There was no need to hide it at all.

More and more people were advancing to level three, and Chen Luo's members were increasing at a rate of thirty to fifty every day.

As long as they met the requirements, Chen Luo accepted them all.

You might say this was unfair to the old members.

Of course, there was a difference between those who came first and those who came later; many had already accumulated three hundred points and obtained elite member status.

Their status was different.

Moreover, there's strength in numbers; Chen Luo strictly screened those he brought in.

Without absorbing fresh members, they would all die sooner or later.

Once he reached a certain number, Chen Luo would impose even stricter conditions for recruiting people.

One day, Meng Yin came to Chen Luo with a sprouted potato.

Chen Luo asked Meng Yin to focus on experimenting with potatoes.

Why potatoes?

Because many people love to eat them; some people don't like meat but like potatoes, and they have high yields and quick production.

Meng Yin said, "I think that after my natural ability modifies these potato seeds, the yield will definitely be very large."

The land was polluted, and at least a level four natural-type ability user's power was needed to neutralize it.

Whether Meng Yin's seeds would work or not could only be known after testing.

Meng Yin was just an ordinary member, and her food wasn't very good. She had to rely on Xiao Yu to occasionally improve her meals, and she was working hard to eat well.

Meng Yin looked at Chen Luo expectantly.

Chen Luo smiled and said, "Try planting them after you reach level four; you're currently at negative 1000 points."

Her debt was even higher than Fa Wang's.

Xiao Yu found another level five crystal and Chen Luo allocated it to Meng Yin, so she could reach level four as soon as possible; Meng Yin had a good talent, she just absorbed the crystal too late.

Meng Yin left with a bitter face, still wanting to get some fried chicken.

...

Coastal city.

The sea is the origin of life, and the creatures in the sea were the first to begin mutating, and the mutations were the most terrifying.

Mutation is not scary; what's scary is that after mutation, the desire to destroy and attack grows extremely.

After many marine creatures mutated, they climbed onto land and attacked nearby humans.

Almost all the survivors lived on the outskirts of the city, where there were few zombies.

After the marine creatures came ashore, they were caught between zombies in front and mutated marine creatures behind, in a dilemma, and had to run to places a little further inland.

A crab with a body length of forty centimeters, its body somewhat black, waved two sharp, huge pincers comparable to its body length, and was the first to land on the beach, constantly moving forward.

After that, dense crowds of crabs swarmed out, walking sideways.

This speed was comparable to the full speed of ordinary people before the apocalypse.

The first batch of tens of thousands of crabs frantically searched for living people to attack.

Even zombies were killed without hesitation.

They knew even less fear than zombies.

The crab's pincers could easily tear off a large piece of flesh from a survivor, and even level three meat-type ability users would feel a lot of pain.

Individual crabs with outstanding mutations were comparable to level four ability users.

Occasionally, there were also octopus monsters with huge bodies more than three meters tall mixed in.

If there was no Chen Luo, even Chen Luo's base would be destroyed by the huge crab army.

Fa Wang would have to obediently admit defeat when encountering such a crab army and couldn't confront it head-on.

The unlucky ones who first encountered the crab army were trapped in the base and could only cry and scream.

Some crabs broke away from the main force and were killed by survivors who wanted to have a feast, but they found that their meat was extremely unpalatable, smelly, and disgusting to eat, and their bodies felt uncomfortable.

The tide rose, and it seemed that an unusually large creature could actually control the waves, flooding a large area.

Coincidentally, a base with very good strength was made embarrassed by this tide, most of its supplies were swallowed by the sea, and water got in.

The face of Feng Zhengqing, the level five leader of the base, was extremely ugly; most of the supplies were gone, and some people were washed away.

Did marine life mutate?

A subordinate asked with concern, "Brother, what should we do? Should we go to the city? We definitely can't stay here anymore."

Go to the city?

Feng Zhengqing thought for a while, what if the tide rises again? What if the entire city is flooded?

What if terrifying creatures come ashore?

They couldn't stay in the coastal city anymore.

Shen Du (Divine Capital) was not far from here, so they might as well go to Shen Du.

Feng Zhengqing quickly made a decision.

This Yun City (Cloud City), the stage was ultimately too small.

After packing for a day and finding some vehicles, Feng Zhengqing led the thousands of people he had gathered and set off towards Shen Du.

This was also the first group of survivors to enter Shen Du.

There were very few supplies, only enough to eat for a few days, but Feng Zhengqing was not worried at all; only those without strength worried about supplies, wouldn't it be fine to just rob them?

Shen Du was right in front of him, and Feng Zhengqing suddenly felt very proud.

"He who does not reach the Great Wall is no hero, and a fierce dragon does not cross the river."

(Speeding up the pace)