The room was quickly tidied up, but only two sets of bedding were in the house, so the group just put the mat and quilt on the floor and settled in.
The slender fingers skillfully played with the black crystal core in his hand. If you look carefully, you will find flowing liquid energy inside. Su Mu raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the beauty with bright eyes and white teeth opposite him who explained the crystal core’s function to him. His expression seemed so focused, but his thoughts had already drifted away.
Although Luo Beiyao, on the side, was secretly determined to forget Su Mu, he couldn’t stop himself from paying attention to every move of the other party. He stared at Su Mu without blinking and looked at Wu Keke, clenching his fists. Su Mu wasn’t conscious of this at all.
When Lu Shuangshuang was packing her things, she accidentally saw the livid Luo Beiyao. She followed his gaze and saw Su Mu and Wu Keke. Her heart skipped a beat. She silently lit a candle for Su Mu and hugged the backpack tightly. Just go upstairs.
After Wu Keke finished speaking, she realized that Su Mu was distracted. She waved her hand in front of the person, “Su Mu?”
“Huh?” Su Mu suddenly returned to his senses, his eyes darkening slightly, “Have you finished speaking?”
Wu Keke was a little dumbfounded, “Did you hear what I just said?”
“I heard it.” Su Mu explained the absorption method and function of the crystal nucleus.
Wu Keke nodded repeatedly, “Yes, that’s it. In fact, it takes no effort to absorb crystal nuclei. If you absorb it a few times, the absorption speed will become faster as you become more proficient.”
Su Mu responded, thanked her and went to find Su Wanmei with the crystal core.
Su Wanmei was walking out holding her quilt when she met Su Mu at the door. She raised her eyes in surprise, “Mu Mu?”
Su Mu pursed his lips, and his eyes fell on the quilt Su Wanmei held, “What are you doing?”
Su Wanmei smiled and said with crooked eyebrows, “I just saw Ah-Yao give up the quilt to the girl named Keke. Because I feared he would hurt his back when he fell asleep at night…”
Hearing this, Su Mu responded softly, handed the crystal core to Su Wanmei, and explained to her the usage and purpose of the crystal core. Then, without stopping her, he returned to his room, picked up the quilt and threw it to her bed.
At this time, Su Wanmei had already gone to find Luo Beiyao. Su Mu put down the quilt, took a long knife from the space, and placed it under her bed. Then, he went to practice with peace of mind.
Su Mu absorbs crystal nuclei very quickly. In addition to eating, he practices even during his sleeping time. He can absorb about fourteen crystal nuclei every day. Now, he faintly feels he is about to break through. The feeling of being far away, as if he will be there in the next moment. He could be promoted to the second level, but it didn’t happen.
He was not in a hurry and continued to absorb the crystal core patiently until a warm current slowly overflowed from the sea of energy at his dantian, flowing through his limbs and bones before returning to the source.
The places where the current flowed through were still warm, as if the pores all over his body had opened, and Su Mu felt a little lost in that comfort.
This is the energy in the body-transforming stage. The cultivator’s physique will be strengthened as he upgrades. Moreso, the special-grade cultivators. Their changes are very significant.
Su Mu’s space expanded twice its size after being promoted to a second-level cultivator. He looked at the sky outside the window and saw it was already evening.
After the end of the world, the sky has always been grey. Although the sun cannot be seen, there is an alternation between day and night. It only took him an afternoon to absorb the crystal core this time because he was about to break through.
Tomorrow, everyone will go to collect supplies together. It will not be convenient to store supplies in the space then, so Su Mu can only go to the supermarket tonight to gather some supplies.
Although he has accumulated much practical experience in the apocalypse, the mall had too many visitors, which means too many zombies. And many ants could even kill an elephant. He doesn’t dare to be overly confident to break into the mall alone to collect supplies.
Everyone eats dry food in their rooms at night because all the power users have to practice. The time for each user to absorb the nuclei is different, so it isn’t convenient to eat together at night.
Su Mu gently opened the window and jumped down from the second floor without breaking a sweat, relying on his skills trained in the army for more than 20 years and his senses enhanced by the new powers.
The surrounding zombies that smelled the scent of fresh flesh and blood followed the lead and surrounded him. Su Mu raised his knife and plunged it. The sharp knife seemed to be alive in his hand. With a few swishes, the zombies fell, and bloody skulls rolled all over the ground.
Using the knife tip to pick out the crystal core from the zombie’s head, Su Mu carried the long knife and continued walking towards the supermarket.
However, what Su Mu didn’t know was that one of the windows of the Su family behind him was slowly opened. A man with picturesque eyebrows stood quietly by the window, with thin bangs lazily placed on his forehead, covering his face. Seeing the dark and unclear look in his eyes.
Su Mu is now the first batch of superpowers. His talent and room for improvement are entirely different from before. He is delighted with his current status. He doesn’t know why he travelled back three hundred years. Although he doesn’t know what happened to his original body, he still cherished this opportunity to be reborn.
Su Mu arrived in the early days of the apocalypse with his future memories. Such conditions were of great benefit to him. He could guard against many dangers that were unknown to humanity.
The scattered zombies on the road were all beheaded by Su Mu with a single knife, and his body was inevitably splashed with some dirty and rancid zombie blood. But he had long been accustomed to this smell, so Su Mu continued without changing his expression.
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The door of the supermarket was opened wide. There was some dried and black blood scattered at the door, as well as a few white bones with some pieces of meat hanging on them. There was a stench unique to rotting corpses in the air.
In front of the first floor is the jewellery area. This jewellery will not even compare to food at the end of the world. Of course, this is what people would think early on. Later, during the apocalypse, some discovered that jade also contained rich and pure energy. The better the quality of the jade, the more energy it has and the more refined it is.
Of course, Su Mu didn’t expect that such a large supermarket could have top-quality jade, but it was good to have it. At least it was purer than the zombie crystal nuclei. At first, his space was only ten square meters, and he couldn’t hold much. He only packed food and water. Now that the space is extended by double its size, he considered collecting some jade and daily necessities.
After collecting the jade, Su Mu went straight to the food area and packed a lot of dry food, such as instant noodles, biscuits, bread, water, and fruits and vegetables from the freezer. After this, he found the control room and cut off the entire supermarket’s monitoring before moving quickly to the warehouse.
The seasons’ polarisation will become more severe after the end. Although it is not apparent yet, the early stage of the apocalypse is the best time to store supplies. Su Mu’s goal is to enhance his strength and expand his space to store more supplies.
He collected some winter and summer clothes for men and women, old and young, as well as all kinds of daily necessities. Until the space was filled to the brim, Su Mu wiped his hands on the clothes on the shelves, then picked up a long knife and headed outside the supermarket.
When passing the control room, a figure suddenly flew out of it. Su Mu raised his knife, ready to slice, but his expression changed when he saw the person clearly. He turned the blade tip straight at the person’s face.
The man was so frightened by Su Mu’s actions that all the fat on his body turned into a wobbling ball. He trembled and banged his head; his face was covered with tears and a runny nose, “Su, Su Mu… No, no, no, Uncle Su, Dad Su, please… please save me, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…”
Su Mu looked at Jiang Sheng expressionlessly, automatically ignoring the weird smell of urine in the air. He glanced at the iron door of the monitoring room and then said to the other person, “Have you been in there the whole time?”
Jiang Sheng nodded repeatedly. He wiped his tears and nose with his sleeve without considering his image and continued to cry, “Master Su…”
Su Mu said softly, “If you keep talking nonsense, I will kill you now.”
Jiang Sheng was so frightened by his words that he opened his mouth for a long time before he reacted. He shivered and propped up his limp body, “I followed them out to collect supplies two days ago, but they left me behind. Then I hid in the surveillance room.”
Su Mu glanced at him, “What kind of superpower do you have? Why didn’t I sense your aura in the surveillance?”
Jiang Sheng wiped his tears and said, “I don’t know. It seems that my body has undergone some mutations. I can completely block my life breath for about an hour. This is how I survived when I was thrown into the pile of zombies.”
Su Mu’s expression changed when he heard this. He initially thought that his skills were already excellent, enough to protect himself in the early stages of the apocalypse. But now, when faced with Jiang Sheng’s superpower, he couldn’t feel it. If it had been anyone else, he wouldn’t even know how he died.
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