Because they couldn't stock up in front of an audience, Li Yanqian took great pains. Preparing and purchasing materials was not a problem. The biggest challenge was making it more reasonable.
The car was filled with things that Li Yanqian considered the most lacking when she fled in her previous life, even small items like scattered tissues and wet wipes. Fu Ying found a small storage box for feminine products and silently placed them back.
"It seems that the owner of this car is a woman." Guo Rongrong covered her mouth and smiled.
South City University was located on the outskirts of Nancheng, close to the airport, so there weren't many people on weekdays. However, at this moment, there were many crawling or limping zombies moving towards their car on the road.
"This is a perfect time to kill them." Fu Ying remarked, looking at the disabled zombies that could be easily dispatched.
Li Yanqian shared the same intention since her next goal was to upgrade her backpack. She didn't know what functions the upgraded backpack would have, but she was certain that the capacity inside would be expanded.
The prerequisite for upgrading the backpack was the zombie crystal cores. Currently, she only had a few dozen crystal cores in her backpack. It would be a waste to kill the crystal cores that hadn't matured in front of the dormitory.
Li Yanqian sighed, "It would be great if the crystal cores could automatically pop out." She stopped the car at a side position.
Zhang Tao, who had just evolved his ability, also wanted to practice it. He followed the three girls out of the car. Guo Rongrong took the initiative to stay in the car and said, "I'll wait for you in the car. If it's dangerous, I can drive the car and immediately pick you up."
"Okay," Li Yanqian glanced at Guo Rongrong and agreed.
[Can Guo Rongrong even drive the car? There are so many supplies in it.]
[A few students are too trusting of others.]
[If it were me, I wouldn't run. Where can a pregnant woman go?]
Like the audience, Li Yanqian was actually a little worried, but she didn't show it. There were indeed many examples in her previous life where she left her partner and drove off during dangerous moments. However, Guo Rongrong was currently pregnant, and Li Yanqian believed that if she were smart enough, she wouldn't choose to do something that would do more harm than good.
Zhang Tao suppressed his nausea and dug out a crystal core from a pile of zombie brains. He wondered why Li Yanqi and the others valued these shiny things. "Do girls like this kind of shiny stuff?"
"Fortunately, this one also has gems in it." Gu Yao exclaimed, wearing a mask and using an iron frame to dig out a crystal core.
Killing these disabled zombies was quite easy, but digging out the crystal cores proved to be a challenge as they had to smash the zombies' skulls. Fortunately, Fu Ying found a mask in the car, or else she would have fainted long ago.
"For you guys." Zhang Tao threw two crystal cores. Although he didn't know what those glittering things were, he couldn't help but share what he had obtained as he watched the three girls squatting on the ground and searching for them.
Seeing that Li Yanqian accepted them unceremoniously, Zhang Tao dug even harder. The dirty crystal cores wouldn't be contaminated even if they were put into the backpack, so Li Yanqian simply stored them. In addition to these, there were 98 crystal cores that had been dug up by killing zombies in the school in recent days.
Zhang Tao took two more and handed them to Li Yanqian. In the panel of Li Yanqian's backpack, the two crystal cores appeared, one with 99 pieces and the other with one.
It was still the same as in her previous life. Li Yanqian missed this familiar setting in her heart.
The current backpack grid could hold up to 99 items of the same kind, and one more item would be squeezed into another grid.
"Let's go," Li Yanqian double-clicked and waved off the light curtain. She saw that the progress bar below had reached 1%.
Only 1%...
"What do you want that thing for?" Zhang Tao asked after getting into the car.
"Collection, they look good, and maybe I can sell them for more money in the future." Fu Ying replied on behalf of Li Yanqian.
Gu Yao couldn't help but laugh. Now, only the three of them knew that the crystal cores were used to upgrade Li Yanqian's backpack function.
Zhang Tao nodded and agreed with this answer. He remembered that Fu Ying and Li Yanqian seemed to be in the finance department before, and their work was also related to economics. People who understood the economy would not let go of any investment opportunities.
"Yanqi, you said the next place we're going to is a villa area? Have you contacted the people over there?" Guo Rongrong asked. Li Yanqian seemed to be planning to pick up her brother and mother first.
"I can't reach them. His phone is turned off, but I know the address," Li Yanqian replied. She had exchanged positions with Guo Rongrong and was now driving.
Two days ago, she couldn't contact Jicheng anymore, and he had shut down his phone when she called. However, she knew that Jicheng was the male lead of this show, and it was highly unlikely for him to die easily at this time. Therefore, she still planned to go to Jicheng's address given by the city and take a look.
Jicheng's location was not a villa area like Jinyuan Villa but rather an older residential compound. The people here were either wealthy or of high social status due to its age.
Zhang Tao had witnessed Li Yanqi's excellent driving skills once in school. Now, as she turned the steering wheel quickly, the car swayed like a snake and threw off one zombie after another. They were having a miserable time sitting inside.
Guo Rongrong, in particular, closed her eyes and tightly grasped the handle of the car, not daring to let go.
"Here, we're here." Li Yanqian said with a frown after stopping the car. "Is no one here anymore?"
"No one's here? That can't be..." Gu Yao hurriedly covered her mouth, realizing that Yanqi's mother and brother should still be inside.
"I don't know, but I don't think so. There are no signs of zombies breaching the gate, and it seems someone has already cleaned up the zombies here," Li Yanqian pointed to the pile of zombies in the community's automatic fence.
"Then let's hurry. It doesn't look like anyone has dug up the corpses for gems." Gu Yao shook Fu Ying excitedly. She had also noticed some shiny gems on the ground, probably because they were covered in dirt and no one had picked them up.
It was like picking up money!
The three of them exchanged glances and smiled, seeing the excitement in each other's eyes. There were only a few zombies in the community, and even if they went to pick up the crystal cores, there wasn't much danger.
"Let me help too." Zhang Tao said as he joined them. Guo Rongrong hesitated and stayed in the car. She couldn't bear the smell of the zombie corpses.