After leaving the Market Base, the three of them hunted some zombies nearby, indirectly giving the Market Base a helping hand. The Market doesn’t lack farmland, but those farmlands aren’t very close to the Market Base. Now, the Market Base is overpopulated, and to ensure a good living for everyone, they have to find ways to establish more bases nearby to relocate a portion of the population.
However, with too many zombies around and especially after Qiu Yiming led over ten thousand superpower users away, the base lost a significant amount of manpower, almost pushing them to the brink of despair. Now that Fang Yuxin and the other two have cleared out some zombies nearby, as long the higher-ups of the Market Base use their brains, building some small bases nearby would surely solve the overpopulation and food shortage issues.
But, these problems are for General Song and the others to worry about. After Fang Yuxin and the other two did what they had to do, they continued to head south at a leisurely pace. They found that Qiu Yiming went to the Beishi Base with the assumption that something was wrong at the Market Base and rushed over. Now that the issue was resolved, the three no longer hurried their journey and instead hunted zombies, collecting quite a few Elemental Stones along the way.
By now, many bases are aware of the existence of Elemental Stones and the use of Elemental Crystals, but communication between bases is still cut off, so not all survivors nationwide are aware. So, as Fang Yuxin and the other two traveled, they occasionally found some overlooked resources.
They continued to hunt zombies, resting and meditating in the Qingmu Spiritual Mansion when tired, feasting heartily, or challenging the trial land. Without realizing it, a month passed, and their mindsets gradually changed through the continuous honing.
The time had reached December, but since they were in the south, the weather wasn’t cold at all, almost feeling like warm spring, starkly different from the Long Province. Along the way, they also received several paper crane messages from Fang Jintang and Qu Qianhe. Long Province was getting colder, and to ensure the base populace safely passed the winter, Bai Zhengyi had already dispatched the Hope Team to procure coal mines elsewhere.
Due to adequate preparations and with coal mines not yet being as scarce a resource as food, things proceeded smoothly. With these coal mines, base conditions improved; not only could they be used for heating, but also for cooking, so they didn’t have to resort to eating only compressed biscuits or other simple foods daily.
Moreover, the "Evil Demon" or high-level zombies that could disguise themselves as humans, which Fang Yuxin and the others were worried about, hadn’t appeared yet, bringing a sigh of relief to the three of them.
With the Hope Base being safe, the three of them have no worries at the back of their minds and decided to continue their training outside. The southern climate is warm, and zombies are more active than in other areas, frequently causing zombie group attacks on bases.
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