Chapter 442: Apocalypse Trading System (14)

Although Yu Baozhi was worried about her children going out alone, she thought about the current state of the world; keeping the children confined at home and not letting them go out to gain experience was not necessarily protection, but rather harming them.

No matter how reluctant she felt in her heart, she did not object, only urging them to pay attention to safety, and additionally—

"Daughter, see if you can trade for a few more abilities to use for yourself and your brother. You can never have too many skills, especially that Metal Ability of your father's; I heard him say it can turn into that 'Golden Bell Cover' from martial arts dramas, which can cover you both at critical moments. It might be a bit ugly, but being able to save your lives is better than anything else."

The siblings agreed one by one.

To put their minds at ease, Xie Yang immediately used the remaining few types of magic-like abilities on herself and her brother, and also left two Energy Guns for her parents.

To deal with the current stage of Zombies, their abilities were enough for self-preservation.

But to deal with those ill-intentioned Ability Users, they still needed thermal weapons.

Once prepared, the siblings huddled together with the Observation Panel to do some homework.

"Yang Yang, how about we go to this Complex tomorrow?"

Xie Yan adjusted the Observation Panel to a certain coordinate and pointed it out to his sister:

"I've been observing for a long time; there are few residences nearby, and any real estate projects are still under construction. The subway hasn't opened yet, and the most mature part of the surroundings is actually the business buildings. But the day the apocalypse arrived was a Saturday morning, right? Most office workers were resting, so there were few people, and the Zombies aren't as concentrated as in other commercial districts. We can take them out in batches."

Additionally, he had observed through the Little Bee that this Complex had introduced several reputable gold shops, all concentrated on the first floor.

As long as they cleared out the Zombies wandering on the perimeter and the first floor, they could get some gold jewelry back to recharge his sister's ability.

He spontaneously interpreted the Trading System's act of recycling gold bars as "recharging."

Just like how his ability would make him hungry and require a lot of food when consumed, his sister's ability was the same, except what she needed wasn't food, but valuable goods like gold bars. No wonder his sister didn't get hungry as easily as he did.

At first, he felt this ability was a bit high-maintenance, but upon second thought, he could understand it.

An ability that could conjure all kinds of food, items, and abilities was simply a powerful existence like the Father of Ultraman; so what if it was a bit high-maintenance? It was worth it!

It's just gold jewelry, so he would just feed it to her!

Xie Yang had no objections to her brother's arrangements.

That evening, under their parents' urging, the siblings returned to their rooms early to rest.

After sleeping until dawn and eating a hearty breakfast, the siblings set off in the Recreational Vehicle.

This Courtyard Residential Quarter was perhaps in a relatively remote location; Xie Yang's family had been living there for three days, and they hadn't seen a second group of people.

The residential gate still looked the same as when their family first entered.

Xie Yang thought for a moment, and before leaving, she posted a handwritten notice on the gate:

【Zombies inside the residential area have been cleared. If you enter to take shelter, remember to close the door behind you!】

Just as she finished posting it, she heard Xie Yan urging her to get in the car quickly: "Hurry, hurry, hurry! There are Zombies coming!"

Xie Yang looked back and saw that, at some point, a few more Zombies had gathered outside the residential area; from their blood-stained, dirty clothes, one could vaguely identify them as construction workers from the site.

The area around the Courtyard Residential Quarter was almost all vacant land, except for a construction site at the back, which was also a building project under construction, though it hadn't opened for sale yet.

Therefore, the Zombies appearing in this area were either employees of the developer or workers from the construction site.

They probably smelled the scent of living people, as these few Zombies were swaying and walking in this direction.

Xie Yang jumped into the driver's seat of the Recreational Vehicle and started the car to drive toward the planned Complex.

Xie Yan sat in the passenger seat practicing his ability.

"Whoosh—"

"Zzzzt!"

"Whoosh—"

"Zzzzt!"

One Zombie after another had their necks severed by his Lightning Spear, their heads and bodies instantly parting ways.

They couldn't exhaust all their abilities now, so they would just leave them lying there; on the return trip, he would electrocute them into ashes to take back for their mom to use as fertilizer.

The siblings, one responsible for clearing the path and the other for clearing the field, cooperated quite tacitly.

However, after driving a few streets, as the residential buildings became more concentrated, the Zombies wandering on the road also increased.

Occasionally, they could even see humans fleeing in all directions.

"This should be the street with the most mature supporting facilities in the New City District; past this is the District Government."

Xie Yan took a moment to look at the view from the "Little Bee" and said.

However, the Complex they were going to today was not on this street, but further away by the river.

There was hearsay that a stadium, the largest in the entire city, was to be built here in a few years, with plans to bid for the Olympic Games and Asian Games later. The truth of this news was uncertain, but that Metro Line 20 would pass through here was already a certainty.

Therefore, in recent years, the land nearby had been competitively bid on by well-known developers, who built one residential project after another and even introduced a Complex.

This Complex mall only opened on New Year's Day last year. The basement level had a reputable large supermarket; the first floor had gold shops, car exhibitions, and luxury counters; the second and third floors were mainly clothing, shoe, bag, and electronic product stores; the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors were all dining, and the seventh floor was a cinema and KTV.

Malls usually didn't open for business until ten o'clock, but the fresh food section of the supermarket in the basement opened at seven-thirty. Coupled with the fact that many people had come here to find supplies during this period, it was inevitable that some had been scratched and infected by Zombies, so there were actually quite a few Zombies in the Complex.

Seeing that the glass doors of the Complex had already been shattered, the siblings parked the Recreational Vehicle at an intersection not far from the entrance, cleared the Zombies wandering along the street, entered the Complex, and headed straight for the North District where the gold shops were located.

The glass doors of the gold shops had also been destroyed, and the gold jewelry displayed in the counters had long since been looted.

Only the adult-height double-door safe in the back storeroom had not been touched.

It was likely that they didn't have the tools to open it, and they couldn't move it away.

The siblings could move it, but such a large safe would be too conspicuous to carry around.

"Yang Yang, try using the Lightning Spear to see if you can cut open the safe door; I'll go outside to keep watch."

Xie Yan was worried that Zombies might come, so the siblings couldn't both be inside.

"Okay. Don't worry, I have a way."

After her brother left, Xie Yang directly had the Trading System scan this safe.

【Ding! Scanned 2.5t of C-Class Explosion-proof Alloy, recycling price 5000 Trading Coins, proceed with trade?】

【Ding! Scanned 7.5kg of B-Class Metal-Gold, recycling price 【REDACTED】 Trading Coins, proceed with trade?】

【Ding! Scanned 1.5kg of B-Class Metal-Platinum, recycling price 【REDACTED】 Trading Coins, proceed with trade?】

【Ding! C-Class Ore 800g scanned, recycling price in Trading Coin, proceed with Trading?】

【Ding! B-Class Ore 1kg scanned, recycling price in Trading Coin, proceed with Trading?】

The explosion-proof alloy must be this double-door large safe.

She guessed the ores were crystal, agate, or jadeite.

No matter what they were, as long as they could be exchanged for Trading Coin, it was fine.

Xie Yang confirmed the Trading without a second word.

The Trading Coin balance broke through ten million.

And this was just one of the jewelry stores.

There were still two or three more next door!