Chapter 4 Star Crystal
The temperature was still around 40 degrees, and there was a thin layer of smoke in the air that had not completely dissipated.
There were potholes everywhere, and the buildings in the community were basically destroyed, with only the black roots of the green plants left.
Zhao Yin had a gas mask on his face, his backpack was filled with some food and water, and he held a bone-cutting knife in one hand.
A roll of magazine was tied to his left forearm with tape, and a butcher knife was inserted there.
The whole world was dead silent.
In this end times, he has long been accustomed to loneliness.
Zhao Yinxing was alone, as if he was the only one left in the world, and he walked alone into the misty smoke.
Go straight to the staff quarters of Gwangju No. 2 Middle School!
Along the way, Zhao Yin saw countless corpses, some of whom had half of their bodies burned by flames, and some of whom had their heads smashed by meteorites...
The apocalypse came in the early hours of the morning, when most people were indoors and eventually buried in buildings.
But the bodies did not decay due to the high temperature.
Zhao Yin knew that in the early hours of this night, all the dead people would get up again, and as they devoured the flesh and blood, their broken bodies would grow back into wholeness. They would then continue to devour the flesh and blood and star crystals, begin to evolve and eventually become the nightmare of the survivors.
When Zhao Yin passed by a shopping mall that had not completely collapsed, he vaguely felt that there were prying eyes on him.
He paused, turned away and looked indifferently.
The upper floors of the shopping mall collapsed, but due to the good construction quality, the bottom floor was barely preserved.
There was plenty of food and water in the mall, the area was large enough, and the fire prevention and heat insulation were perfect, so it was not surprising that some people survived.
Zhao Yin didn't intend to pay attention and continued walking forward.
At this time, in an office in the shopping mall, a dark face was lying behind a crack in the wall, with bright eyes staring at Zhao Yin's back.
His expression slowly relaxed until Zhao Yin disappeared into the ruins.
This is a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old. His school uniform is so dirty and torn that the color is almost unrecognizable.
"Well, now that he's gone, there won't be one more person to share our food with."
"Brother, is it not good for us to do this?"
In the corner behind the boy, there was a little girl about eleven or twelve years old.
One of her arms was obviously broken, and was clamped between two burnt wooden boards wrapped in tattered cloth, with dark brown blood stains on them.
"The food area of the supermarket collapsed, and we don't have much food left. How can we feed one more person?" the boy sighed.
"But didn't Brother Wang go to the collapsed area to look for food?" The little girl pouted in dissatisfaction.
"Brother Wang has been gone for three days. Are you sure he can come back?" the boy asked.
The little girl fell silent and slowly lowered her head.
The boy walked up to the little girl and gently stroked her head: "Xiaodao, when my parents left, I promised them that I would keep you alive no matter what. I swear in the name of Song Xiaojian!"
If Zhao Yin were here, he would definitely recognize that the little girl, who is only eleven or twelve years old, is Xiaodao.
……
Zhao Yin didn't know what he had missed, and his figure quickly shuttled through the ruins.
He sensed several places with survivors along the way, but he ignored them all. They were not far from the residential area for the staff of Gwangju No. 2 Middle School.
Suddenly, Zhao Yin paused and looked back at a meteorite crater not far away. Under the dim sunlight, a faint blood-red light was refracted.
He quickly jumped down into the crater and started digging with his bone-chopping knife.
After a moment, Zhao Yin grabbed a walnut-sized blood-red crystal in his hand.
Star crystal!
Zhao Yin didn't expect to find the first star crystal so quickly.
The information about star crystals in the previous life is reflected in the blood of almost every survivor.
The meteor shower that lasted for a whole month contained a kind of blood-colored crystals, which were later called star crystals. Most of them were buried in the ruins.
Zhao Yin had only heard that at the beginning of the apocalypse, there were star crystals on the surface. With the zombie outbreak in the early morning of tonight, all the star crystals on the surface were devoured by the zombies.
Only a handful fell into the hands of the survivors.
Later, if the survivors wanted to get the star crystal, they either had to kill the zombies and take it out of their bodies, or rely on luck.
Star crystals can produce all kinds of things, but no one can tell exactly how many there are, even seven years after the apocalypse.
All star crystals look the same. They might just give out food and water, or a pack of toilet paper... If you're lucky, you might give out extraordinary equipment or evolution potions...
The most difficult potion to obtain is the ability awakening potion.
In the apocalypse, everyone is scrambling for superpowers, which has exceeded the imagination of humans before the apocalypse. In front of a person with superpowers, any evolved person can only bow down in submission, and ordinary people are even worse than pigs and dogs.
However, items of the same type also have different strengths, and later they were planned from F level to SSS level.
For example, a piece of bread, F-level may only help a person to quickly recover physical strength, and it can only heal minor injuries at best.
But above F level, it is possible to directly increase physical fitness and regenerate broken limbs...
Zhao Yin squeezed it hard, and the star crystal in his palm was intact. Then he remembered that this body had not evolved at all.
He placed the star crystal on a piece of hard cement in front of him, raised the bone-chopping knife and smashed it hard.
Click!
Several cracks appeared on the star crystal, and then a ball of white light emanated and lasted for three seconds.
Waiting for the white light to dissipate, a green military uniform jacket appeared in its place.
It’s actually a piece of equipment!
The first star crystal after the apocalypse produced equipment.
Although based on experience, this uniform is only F-grade.
But even so, its toughness is by no means comparable to the clothes he is wearing.
Ordinary iron tools are simply difficult to scratch.
This is a good sign, and a hint of joy flashed in Zhao Yin's eyes.
He simply took off his clothes and put on his military uniform, and immediately felt safe.
There is a zombie outbreak tonight, and with this military uniform, the level of safety is raised to a higher level.
He put on his backpack, carried the boning knife and continued on his way.
The journey was smooth, but Zhao Yin did not encounter any star crystals that fell on the ground. Soon, he arrived outside the staff quarters of Guangzhou No. 2 Middle School.
This place has long become a ruin and dead silent. If Zhao Yin hadn't known in advance that Lin Tianfeng was here, he would never have thought that there were still living people here.
The zombies and strange beasts had not yet had time to mutate, and the survivors were still immersed in the sudden disaster.
Most people would instinctively choose to stay in a safe place and continue observing.
But there are some exceptions, such as Lin Tianfeng, a junior high school English teacher.
At this time, he was holding a kitchen knife and crawling out of a half-collapsed basement with a listless look on his face. There was fresh blood on his white T-shirt.
Lin Tianfeng looked at the devastated world in the dim sunlight and was stunned for a moment.
Little did he know that a pair of cold eyes were staring at him from behind the broken wall.
Zhao Yin understood that if he showed up too early, it would change Lin Tianfeng's timeline, and it would be very likely that he would miss the star crystal that carried the 'Soul of the Contract'.
In his previous life, it was three days later when Zhao Yin met Lin Tianfeng.
At that time, Lin Tianfeng had already obtained the Contract Soul.
However, Lin Tianfeng had not contracted any contracted beast, and his strength was just that of an ordinary person. When he was looking for supplies, his leg was broken by a broken wall, and it was Zhao Yin who saved his life.
Previously, Zhao Yin didn’t know exactly when Lin Tianfeng obtained the Contracted Soul.
But now it is confirmed, the time is today!
The zombie outbreak tonight will devour most of the star crystals on the surface. In Lin Tianfeng's current state, it is impossible for him to compete with the zombies for them, let alone have the strength to dig blindly in the rubble.
