Xing Fang looked left and right, then reached out, picked up the apple, and handed it to Guo Xiaobei. "Xiao Bei, your Brother Han Yang is also worried about you. You're the youngest here. Why don't you thank him?"

  Guo Xiaobei hesitated for a long time, then softly thanked Han Yang and started eating quietly. In his heart, though, he was complaining that Han Yang was actually the youngest here. Although he looked young, first of all, he had a baby face, and then after getting the system, his whole body had been transformed...

  However, it was useless to explain these things. On the contrary, it might arouse more suspicion, so it was better to just keep quiet.

  As for Han Yang, although he seemed to stop caring on the surface, in fact, he felt even more awkward in his heart. Why did you push it back directly when I gave it to you, but readily accepted it when that guy gave it to you? It's like I don't even exist!

  The meal was eaten in silence. However, Han Yang still used his knife to cut the meat into slices for Guo Xiaobei.

  Guo Xiaobei looked at the big piece of meat turning into even slices with tears in his eyes. He felt aggrieved but didn't dare to say anything. He just quietly glanced at Han Yang and then at the knife. Under Han Yang's puzzled look, he put the meat into his mouth, but in his mind, he kept replaying the close-up of that knife cutting the heads of zombies.

  After the meal, Han Yang pushed the table aside and went back to his room. Given Han Yang's temperament, the task of cleaning up the room was divided equally between Xing Fang and Guo Xiaobei. It was Xing Fang's turn today. Guo Xiaobei chatted with Xing Fang for a couple of sentences and then went back to his room.

  The small bedroom converted from the study was quite nice. Although it wasn't as spacious as the master bedroom and didn't have a balcony like the second bedroom, overall, this room was clean and tidy. There was also a writing desk. The most important thing was that except for the table and the bed that was brought in later, the whole room was empty space.

  Guo Xiaobei carefully locked the door, took out the things in his system package one by one, put the useful ones together, the temporarily useless ones together, and put the food and water together.

  He was busy from a little after six o'clock in the afternoon until it was completely dark. In the middle, either Xing Fang or Han Yang came to knock on the door, but he had things all over the room and didn't have time to tidy them up, so he just pretended to be asleep and didn't hear them.

  At half past ten in the evening, he finally finished tidying up the odds and ends. Fortunately, although he had been busy all night, nearly ten grids were vacated in the system package.

  Guo Xiaobei took out the towel he had sorted out and wiped the sweat off his face, smiling with relief. Although a hundred brain nuclei would take up one space, he had found a red plastic bucket to store them. It was estimated that it could hold tens of thousands of brain nuclei without any problem. In the future, he just needed to put the brain nuclei obtained that day into it every night. The same method could be applied to other things.

  After tidying up everything, Guo Xiaobei climbed onto the bed, closed his eyes, and started to open all the small gift packages given by the system and classify them one by one. For these things brought by the system, he didn't need to take them out and classify them manually, which was much easier.

  However, he noticed that his character attributes seemed to be much better than before. With a tired smile, he accepted all the tasks that could be accepted and then fell into a deep sleep.

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  Early the next morning, Xing Fang came to knock on the door very early. Guo Xiaobei got up in a daze and opened the door.

  Xing Fang looked energetic outside the door and said to him, "Xiao Bei, get up quickly. We're all ready. Let's set off right away!"

  "Oh. Okay..." Guo Xiaobei took the little bit of water he was given and quickly washed up. Fortunately, since it was close to the survival base, although drinking water was very expensive, the price of domestic water wasn't too exaggerated. There was a rumor that there was a water recycling system in the base. Tens of thousands of people lived there, and each person had their own job. It was no less than a small city. Guo Xiaobei had also wondered why the country could build such a base in advance. Since it could be built in advance, why didn't they go and save more people. However, first of all, he was rather lazy by nature, and secondly, he had become a zombie himself. Whether the base was good or bad, he didn't plan to enter it anyway, so he didn't think much about it.

  Although he got up, because he went to bed too late last night and got up too early this morning, he didn't recover very well and looked rather listless.

  "Xiao Bei, what's wrong with you?" Xing Fang looked back at him several times and finally couldn't help asking.

  Han Yang also turned to look over. Guo Xiaobei hurriedly waved his hand and said it was nothing, just that he hadn't slept well.

  "You went to bed so early yesterday, yet you still didn't sleep well." Xing Fang teased him while handing over the food in his hand. "Come on, eat it while it's hot. You'll feel energetic after eating."

  "Thank you, Brother Xing!" The hot food in his hand was still steaming with fragrance, and Guo Xiaobei indeed felt much more energetic.

  Xing Fang opened his mouth as if to say something, but when he saw Han Yang's eyes, he closed it again.

  Today, they deliberately set off a bit earlier. Although the time yesterday wasn't too late, they still set off later than other teams. If they wanted to go further, they had to set off earlier.

  Although they were already very tired yesterday, Guo Xiaobei didn't object. Most of the zombies they eliminated yesterday were ordinary ones, and there were only a dozen or so evolved ones. If they wanted to live a better life, they still had to kill higher-level ones.

  Today, Han Yang chose a completely different route from yesterday and stopped when they had walked farther than yesterday.

  The density of the zombies around them had reached a point where it was uncomfortable just to look at them. Although Guo Xiaobei was also a zombie, seeing those zombies with damaged bodies everywhere, he couldn't help but shiver. Faces that might have been intact a few days ago had now become tattered. The blackened flesh seemed as if it could fall off at any time, and yellowish-green pus was oozing from the wounds, making Guo Xiaobei's stomach churn.

  "Are you cold?" Han Yang took a moment to glance at Guo Xiaobei.

  "…A bit…" Guo Xiaobei looked at Han Yang's clothes that didn't seem very thick and wondered if the other person was wearing some down clothing to be able to stand in the cold wind without shrinking back. Admitting being afraid was too embarrassing. It was less embarrassing to admit being cold. Besides, he was indeed a bit cold.

  "You won't be cold if you kill more zombies."

  "…" Guo Xiaobei paused for a moment: As expected, he shouldn't have expected any considerate actions from his natural enemy.

  Until noon when they had lunch, all three of them were constantly busy. They took turns to eat a little something and then quickly went to take over the defense from the person on duty.

  "We won't fight today." Han Yang suddenly said. Since there were so many zombies today and the three of them hadn't gone too far away from each other, both of the other two could hear his words.

  Xing Fang and Guo Xiaobei looked at each other. Although they felt a bit regretful, they also couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. There were too many zombies here, and their strength was much higher than that of the zombies yesterday. They were having a much harder time dealing with them than yesterday, and they hadn't killed many zombies either.

  However, every cloud has a silver lining. The brain nuclei they obtained today were all white with a hint of yellow in them. It was estimated that they were about to turn into the brain nuclei of evolved zombies. There were also quite a number of completely evolved zombie brain nuclei, and there were even a few orange-red ones.

  In order to kill these second-level evolved zombies, the three of them had developed a fighting method.

  When encountering a second-level evolved zombie, Han Yang would take the main attack, and Xing Fang or Guo Xiaobei would act as a shield. And the remaining person would move around them, responsible for eliminating other zombies to prevent them from being surrounded by zombies before they killed the second-level evolved zombie.