The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 14 Concealment
Huo Ying pretended to just wake up, and when he saw Zhang Yuqi, he quickly turned over and stood up.

"I actually overslept!"

Zhang Yuqi shook her head nonchalantly: "It was like this at the beginning. I was afraid of the zombies at night and didn't dare to sleep. I only dared to take a nap until dawn."

"But." Zhang Yuqi changed the subject and said seriously: "You have to try to adjust your biological clock. If you want to survive, you must overcome your body's inertia."

Huo Ying nodded: "Thank you for waking me up, otherwise I would have wasted the daybreak."

"Me?" Zhang Yuqi's lips curled up slightly, but she quickly suppressed them: "It's not a bother, but I can only call you a few more times."

"There are so many things to do in this world, and you also have to take care of Sister Bai, so you must be busier than me." Huo Ying was just being polite. Regardless of whether what the little stutterer said was true or not, Huo Ying would distance himself from Zhang Yuqi and Sister Bai. After all, he still had the secret of the sacred tree.

Zhang Yuqi seemed to want to say something, but when she heard the rejection in Huo Ying's words, she nodded silently, then took out a box of medicine and handed it to Huo Ying. Ginkgo biloba leaves were written on the box.

"This is the only medicine I can get that helps with amnesia."

Zhang Yuqi felt a little regretful.

Swap medications?

With what? With whom?

Huo Ying took the medicine, took a look at the medicine box, and found that the production date on it was new. He was extremely surprised for a moment.

The medicine is new, which means that factories still exist, which means that the world may be modernized. At the very least, there are places to grow medicine.

Being able to grow medicinal herbs means being able to grow vegetables, doesn’t it? Eating potatoes every day made Huo Ying feel like he was about to become anorexic.

"Where did you get this?"

"From the city."

Zhang Yuqi said: "Yesterday was the day for the courier to trade, so I didn't come to see you. I went to exchange with the courier early to prevent the good supplies from being replaced."

"Our town is called Ailing Town. The nearest city to us is XN City, which is 100 kilometers away. The Yang Stones in the city are controlled by the alliance organization Tongzhouhui. Every piece of Yang Stone belongs to Tongzhouhui in XN City. It is difficult for people outside of Tongzhouhui to exchange for Yang Stones. Even if you pay extra, you have to wait in line for delivery, and often the waiting time is a month or so."

"Like alliances in big cities, they have gathered a lot of infected people, especially those who have factories that can still produce food, medicine, and even weapons."

"Faced with the infected with weapons, the others have no way to resist and can only act according to the rules of the alliance."

"So, some people who can't get Yangshi and dare not leave the city for shelter and run to less crowded places to survive will try every means to find couriers to trade with them."

"Express delivery?" Huo Ying felt very familiar when he heard the word.

"Yes. Some powerful infected people will choose to become couriers, conveying the needs of city residents to various towns, and conveying the needs of towns to cities. They will then collect fees and escort trade items for people from various places."

Huo Ying frowned: "Since the courier is so powerful and has the ability to ignore zombies and cross regions, why doesn't he buy the Yang Stones himself and then sell them in the city, or take the rare items in the city to the town to sell, why does he have to charge a running fee?"

"It costs money to buy goods." Zhang Yuqi explained: "If you spend money to buy goods, then these goods belong to the courier. Once there is danger on the road, the courier may not only lose money but also lose his life if he loses the goods. But if you only charge a running fee, these goods belong to others. Once there is danger, the courier finds that the cost of transporting the goods is too high and will throw away the goods to save himself. At the same time, the loss will be shared by all traders, and everyone can afford it." "After all, this is the end of the world. Isn't it better to just lose a little supplies than to lose your life?"

"Besides, transporting materials is considered running errands, while purchasing goods by yourself is considered buying and selling. Reselling goods between cities to make a profit will affect Tongzhouhui's shipments."

"This is the end of the world. What's the point of making a lot of money? What's the use of trading with individual buyers? The infected people become couriers and risk their lives just to use the money to buy weapons and medicines from Tongzhouhui. If you offend Tongzhouhui, you won't be able to spend the money."

"The city is safer than the town, right?"

"It's not absolutely safe, but it's definitely more convenient." Zhang Yuqi said, "I haven't been to XN City either, but the courier told me that Tongzhou has developed a machine to filter water sources. In XN City, as long as you pay the protection fee and water fee on time, everyone can drink unpolluted water at any time."

"I understand." Huo Ying nodded. If it weren't for the regional restrictions on the seeds of the sacred tree, Huo Ying would have wanted to go to XN City.

Seeing Huo Ying's excitement, Zhang Yuqi shook her head and said, "It's not as safe as you think. The more people there are, the more danger there is. If zombies devour too many humans, they will evolve to become more terrifying. Even if everyone on the same boat is infected and has factories and weapons, there will often be heavy casualties."

"How do I contact the courier? I also want to trade some things." Huo Ying wanted to exchange poplar wood for some vegetables, and then use wood escape to create his own vegetable garden.

"Forehead."

Zhang Yuqi was obviously embarrassed. After hesitating for a while, she said, "The courier only comes once every two weeks. If you want to change anything, you can tell me and I will think of a way for you or exchange it with the courier for you."

Huo Ying hurriedly thanked him: "That's great, when I dig more Yang stones, please ask the courier if he can exchange them for some vegetables and meat."

Huo Ying seemed very happy on the surface, but he was alert again in his heart. There were other people in this town, and Zhang Yuqi had no intention of introducing them to him. She didn't even want him to meet the courier.

If the stutterer knows me, then is there anyone else in the town who knows me as well?
Why did Zhang Yuqi subconsciously conceal these things?

The priority is not to find the truth, but to become stronger.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuqi seemed to have a lot of things to do and did not stay long. After making sure that there were enough resources in Huo Ying's house, she left in a hurry.

After watching Zhang Yuqi disappear, Huo Ying put on a wooden weight and hurried towards the low hill.

Yesterday, Xiao Jieba and Hou Ping were collecting Yang stones. Because of my arrival, they left early. The 14th is the day when the zombies will riot, so Hou Ping and the others are likely to still be in the low mountain.

Huo Ying had to find a way to get in touch with the two of them. In addition to trying to find Hou Ping to inquire about the crossbow issue, he also wanted to get more information about the town through Hou Ping and Xiao Jieba.

Sure enough, when Huo Ying arrived at the low mountain, he found Hou Ping and Xiao Jieba squatting down to look for Yangshi. They were also holding the poplar wood that he had traded with them yesterday, and were screening them with torches.

The little stutterer saw Huo Ying first, and pulled Hou Ping beside him: "I, I won, big, big brother, I'm still alive."

Hou Ping raised his head and looked at Huo Ying.

Huo Ying felt that Hou Ping's eyes seemed very complicated.

(End of this chapter)