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Chapter 41 Small talk
When it was time to actually eat, Yu Yao finally realized how wise it had been to team up with them.
Not to mention anything else.
With so many culinary geniuses in one team, I just love how terrible she is at cooking.
"good to eat!"
Jiang Yi couldn't help but show off.
"Is it delicious? You might not believe it, but we once set up a small restaurant under cover of darkness. It later became a popular online restaurant, which scared us so much that we quickly sold it and ran away."
Yu Yao chuckled softly: "Do movies reflect reality?"
"Yeah, they've even attracted investment, it's unbelievable!"
Yu Yao couldn't help but laugh again.
Luo Mei also became interested in gossip and glanced at Dongfang Jin.
He teased, "I remember back then, the young owner of the cake shop next door took a liking to my second brother and insisted on dating him. This scared my second brother so much that he left the country overnight and didn't come back until we transferred the shop."
Yu Yao glanced at Dongfang Jin in surprise.
But he ate his meal without changing his expression, as if he weren't the one Luo Mei described who had been so frightened that he had fled the country overnight.
Yu Yao raised an eyebrow, quietly moved closer to Luo Mei, and asked, "Is that boss pretty?"
"It looks so pretty, all chubby and plump, and the cakes you make must be delicious! Ah~ just talking about it makes my mouth water. When we have the chance, we must ask Xiao Wu to make us some small cakes."
Upon hearing Luo Mei's words, Yu Yao, with her sweet tooth, instantly and smoothly shifted her attention from gossip to the cake.
"What you said makes me want to eat cake too."
Eat what you want to eat; this is Yu Yao's life motto.
So she immediately took action and found several small cakes that she had scavenged from a cake shop before the apocalypse in the warehouse.
Luo Mei's eyes lit up: "Wow~ Sister, it has to be you!"
"necessary."
......
Jiang Yi and Qi Xian were also very talkative. During the meal, they told Yu Yao many interesting and embarrassing stories they had encountered during their missions.
Yu Yao listened with great interest.
My interactions with them have become much more harmonious and natural without me even realizing it.
After all, we've been through thick and thin together, so there's no need to keep up appearances.
Furthermore, she could tell that these people were mercenaries.
However, they are not as shameless as people stereotype them to be.
They may lack empathy and kindness towards others, but they are very good to their own people.
He was also very kind to Yu Yao, whom he had just met.
During the chat, Yu Yao also mentioned some of her past.
Of course, compared to their exciting lives, theirs is much more boring and stable.
She also mentioned her experience learning martial arts, Sanda (Chinese kickboxing), and training with her brother.
This dampened their curiosity considerably.
After all, such skills are indeed unusual for a 20-year-old girl.
......
During dessert time after dinner, Chi Heng assigned the order of those on night watch.
Yu Yao volunteered to join the night watch team, citing that she had slept for half the day.
After all, she really couldn't sleep.
Chi Heng thought for a moment and agreed, letting her stay with him for the first three hours.
Before everyone went to sleep, Yu Yao realized that they had a lot of crystal cores in their hands.
It's likely that they had already killed a large number of zombies before arriving at the hospital.
They were all at the late stage of level 0, and it would take them about 10 to 20 level 1 crystal cores to advance to level 1.
Luo Pingjing also has a level 2 gold crystal core, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will be able to advance to the late stage of level 1.
When Yu Yao gave Luo Mei the crystal core she had obtained, she also took out Shi Ying's crystal core.
"I love you, sister~ I'll repay you someday!"
Luo Mei felt that this phrase was almost becoming her catchphrase!
But she really will pay it back; she's not just making things up.
"Ah."
Yu Yao responded softly, then looked at Chi Heng, who had given away all of his transparent crystal cores to the others.
Chi Heng looked up and met her gaze.
He asked, "What's wrong?"
Yu Yao turned her head to look at him, thought for a moment, and said seriously, "If I'm not mistaken, your ability should be non-elemental. You can absorb any crystal core... except for mental ones."
Since Chi Heng first appeared, he has mostly displayed wind-based abilities.
However, when attacking the level two metal-type zombie, Yu Yao clearly saw the flames and golden blades mixed in with his wind-type ability.
He used lightning when attacking the zombie baby, which clearly shows he is not a single-elemental ability user.
Meanwhile, Yu Yao had already been using the friend function to check the favorability ratings of Chi Heng and the others, while also keeping track of their special abilities.
Chi Heng is a rare example of a child without a lineage.
Dongfang Jin is a water element, Qi Xian is a fire element, Luo Pingjing is a metal and space element, and Jiang Yi is a dual earth and wood element.
Chi Heng was slightly taken aback; he had indeed noticed something amiss.
However, just to be on the safe side, he refrained from absorbing the transparent crystal core.
Jiang Yi tilted her head curiously.
"What is 'no element'? Isn't the boss a multi-elemental ability user?"
They didn't hide it from them.
Yu Yao thought for a moment and then explained in a relatively easy-to-understand way.
"It's roughly similar to the Chaos element in cultivation novels, without shape or boundaries, full of infinite possibilities and unknowns. In other words, as long as you want, you can be any kind of natural-type ability user."
The so-called natural system consists of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, ice, light, and darkness.
Any energy that can spontaneously appear in nature can be called a natural system.
In other words, Chi Heng can absorb crystal cores of all attributes except for the mental type to upgrade.
This includes transparent crystal nuclei whose energy is not defined.
Luo Mei exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap, that's amazing?"
Luo Pingjing glanced at her and said, "Luo Mei, I've put up with you several times already!"
Luo Mei quickly shut her mouth and made a gesture of begging for mercy by covering her mouth.
But his eyes remained fixed on Yu Yao, clearly more interested in the non-elemental ability, and he was completely perfunctory towards Luo Pingjing.
Luo Pingjing was too lazy to keep harping on her, so he glared at her and then looked at Yu Yao.
Chi Heng raised an eyebrow: "You seem to know a lot about this so-called non-elemental ability?"
Yu Yao took out the explanation she had prepared long ago.
“My perception of air is different from that of ordinary people. For example, my fourth and fifth brothers are dual-elemental ability users, but they feel different to me than you. If we were to use colors to represent how your abilities appear to me, then you would be transparent.”
Upon hearing her explanation, both Luo Mei and Jiang Yi gaped in astonishment.
"Wow~"
Qi Xian and Luo Pingjing also showed surprised expressions.
Dongfang Jin became more curious and asked, "So, you also have abilities similar to Xiao Liu's mental abilities?"
"It only has a similar function. I can only sense whether there are people, zombies, mutated plants and animals around me by changing the air. I don't have any real mental abilities."
Yu Yao told this lie to cover up the fact that she had game maps.
She felt she had told a lot of lies over the past two days, but she had to.
Because as you spend more time together, many things will become apparent.
Hiding things makes everyone uncomfortable.
The Confession Game System? She didn't dare take the risk, and she didn't know how to explain it clearly.
......
Luo Mei shook her head and clicked her tongue in amazement: "Sister, how come you have so many surprises for me?"
Yu Yao chuckled: "I have many more surprises in store for you to discover."
Luo Mei flashed a wicked smile, lowered her voice, and said to Yu Yao in a greasy tone, "Woman, you've successfully piqued my interest. You can't escape now!"
Jiang Yi stroked his chin: "What is this? Is it some kind of domineering CEO forced love?"
Qi Xian was completely confused: "What is that?"
"You're so ignorant, aren't you? These are classic quotes from domineering CEO novels."
As he spoke, he put on a serious and greasy air, imitating classic quotes from novels with a bubbly tone.
"Woman, you're playing with fire! Woman, you can't escape! Woman, I may not marry you, but you're the only one I love! Woman..."
Qi Xian's brows furrowed more and more as Jiang Yi uttered those domineering CEO-like remarks, his disdain and incomprehension becoming increasingly evident.
Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she kicked him aside.
"Get lost! What nonsense is this!"
"Damn it, don't think I won't fight back just because you're the third brother!"
Luo Mei watched the lively scene unfold from the sidelines, adding fuel to the fire.
"That's not right. You should say: I am the chosen one of destiny, how dare you play tricks on me like this? I, Long Aotian, will fight you to the death!"
"..."
Laughter echoed through the empty corridor, lingering for a long time.