The granary was located in a town not far from the commercial district, about a twenty-minute drive away.

That night, after sending the rescue message to headquarters, the logistics team arrived with buses to pick up the survivors, but they didn't come until noon the next day.

"We're so sorry, our team was quite far from here. We rushed over as soon as we received the message. We hope we didn't cause you any inconvenience."

The young woman leading the logistics team kept apologizing. Wang Weihu went to talk to her, saying it was alright. "We've already sent you the list of survivors. Many of them have some psychological trauma."

The young woman nodded in understanding. "Don't worry, we have a healing ability user in our team. Her mutation allows her to create dreams, and she used to be a psychologist!"

Wang Weihu felt relieved upon hearing this, but he couldn't help marveling at such an unusual ability. "Things are getting more and more incredible."

While he was handling the handover, Qin Luo was studying the route with Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei. Xu Duoduo joined them, curious. The three men and the little zombie gathered around the map.

"I told you we shouldn't take new missions. How are we supposed to follow this route now?"

"Let's withdraw and take a different one."

"No way! That would look bad. Has the 3A team ever backed out of a mission?"

"Xiaofei is right, it would look bad. Why don't we take on another one and finish them quickly?"

Xu Duoduo listened to them discuss, making mission-taking sound as casual as deciding where to eat. No wonder everyone on the forum called the 3A team battle maniacs, always rushing to the front lines. How could they not be formidable?

Qin Luo finally made a decision. "Let's go! We'll figure it out as we go. Stop overthinking!"

He hated wasting time.

Bai Shu pushed up his glasses and stood up. "Alright, Old Wang should be done with the handover. Let's move."

Chen Xiaofei also stood up, brushing off his pants. They had spread the map on the ground and squatted to look at it. They had no choice; the little zombie was too short to see the map if they held it standing up...

The little zombie didn't know this, so she stood up too, imitating Chen Xiaofei by patting her pants.

Seeing this, Qin Luo grinned and patted Xu Duoduo's head. "Your pants aren't dirty, why are you patting them? You have to copy everything, don't you?"

She really was like a child.

Xu Duoduo glanced at him and took out her chew toy, gnawing on it with a "crunch crunch" sound.

Chen Xiaofei immediately rubbed his arms. "Ugh, that sound!" It gave him goosebumps every time he heard it.

Bai Shu cleverly moved away silently, turning towards their off-road vehicle.

Chen Xiaofei quickly followed.

Qin Luo saw her chewing hard and was about to tell her not to bite so forcefully when Wang Weihu called them to get in the car. He didn't have time to say anything.

He scooped up the little zombie and walked to the car, tucking her into the back seat.

They had important business to attend to.

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As their team left, the logistics team saluted them.

The survivors looked numb, scared, and relieved. They were too preoccupied to pay attention to their "heroes." Only the manager and the dozen or so orphans waved energetically, shouting, "Be safe!"

Wang Weihu responded by honking the horn as a gesture of acknowledgment.

With so many survivors, the logistics team would be busy for a while arranging everything.

As a combat team, they couldn't delay too long. They needed to take on as many missions as possible.

"Let's go! Off to the granary! With all these supplies, we'll have enough to eat for a long time!"

Chen Xiaofei cheered from the passenger seat, his baby face full of excitement!

...

Ping'an County, C City.

The previous silence was broken by the roar of the vehicle, zombies flying as they were hit.

The modified off-road vehicle was comfortable; in the past, they wouldn't have dared to drive like this.

Another wave of zombies cleared.

Theoretically, these low-level zombies shouldn't have any mutation cores. Usually, they'd need to evolve to at least one-star monsters to have cores. Mutation cores were rare in the early stages of the apocalypse. But strangely, they had collected over a dozen cores on this trip, all pale yellow and transparent.

The atmosphere in the car became tense.

Qin Luo looked at the core in his hand. "Zombie cores are pale yellow?"

Chen Xiaofei also said seriously, "Exactly! Isn't this ratio a bit off? And the zombies here seem more agile than in other places."

Bai Shu checked the forum but found no information about this area. C City was large, and there was still a severe shortage of combat teams.

Currently, most combat teams were officially organized. Even if ordinary people gained abilities, it took time and effort to adapt to the apocalypse.

This resulted in a significant manpower shortage, with many areas still awaiting rescue. Areas untouched by humans naturally lacked any data.

Ping'an County was such a place. Headquarters knew about the granary here but wasn't sure if there was still food inside or if it had been taken by other ability users. They were concerned about sending combat teams on a potentially fruitless mission.

In reality, they simply couldn't spare the resources for this area, prioritizing the rescue of survivors.

This worked out well for the 3A team.

Bai Shu recorded everything, planning to write a report to upload to the forum later. "This means the zombies are also starting to level up faster."

Chen Xiaofei kept grumbling, "Why does it take us so much effort to level up, while these zombies just wander around and reach one star?"

His complaints lightened the mood in the car, making everyone chuckle.

"But at least our little Squad Leader has food now! These dozen or so cores should last her a long time!"

Chen Xiaofei said, turning to look back with a grin.

Qin Luo held the mutation core. Despite being inside a zombie's head, once removed, it was a miraculous object that repelled water and dust.

It was clean.

Crystal clear.

He casually offered it to Xu Duoduo. "Want to eat? You can have all of these."

Unexpectedly, Xu Duoduo declined, her little face scrunching up. She didn't want to eat zombie cores, feeling like she was eating something from a human body.

Little zombie refused.

Qin Luo smiled at Chen Xiaofei, saying, "See? She doesn't like these. She won't even eat the mutated snake-person cores."

Chen Xiaofei scratched his head. "Well, if she doesn't want them, we'll find something else later."

Bai Shu added, "It's not a big deal. We can trade the zombie cores with others."

They didn't criticize her for being picky or difficult to feed. Instead, they all felt that if she didn't like something, that was fine. They'd find alternatives. No one thought she was being fussy.

The little zombie felt warm inside.

Speaking of mutated snake-person cores, those were probably the highest-level cores they could get.

Bai Shu said, "Since the little Squad Leader won't eat them, let's sell them all to the base for points when we get back."

Everyone agreed.

Soon, they saw a vast area of granaries.

They looked like Mongolian yurts.

White buildings stood on the flat ground, each storing grain.

Everyone was amazed.

Xu Duoduo's eyes sparkled. Wow! Her zombie inventory was about to be filled up again!