When Tom left the camp for Longyao Home, he had already led a team to clean up the area near the old street. During the three months since Tom left, Bozi regularly led people to patrol the area around the old street to ensure that most of the threatening insects and other creatures were cleared.
They were attacked and escaped from Renhua Street this time. There were no large numbers of insects on the old street yet. After Tom's team came out, they only encountered some scattered flies or cockroaches. They quickly found the building where the target warehouse was located according to Shen Jiayi's guidance.
The rusty iron door was not as sturdy as a glass door in front of Tom. The metal molding easily opened an entrance, and Tom, wearing worker ant armor, entered first. He looked around with a flashlight, but did not signal anyone else to come in.
Sure enough, in no time, the mice in the warehouse were attracted by his scent and ran out together, four or five of them.
Today, Tom is already experienced in dealing with ordinary mice and doesn't even need the help of others. The shapeshifting sword sometimes slashed and sometimes turned into a long spear piercing, killing the mice three times and injuring one. When he turned around and ran away, he was struck by his shield sword and trembled, and his long spear plunged directly into the floor without any rest.
Tom wandered around for a while before letting the others follow in.
Wearing the armor of No. 5 Old Street, Liu Zhen looked at the densely packed warehouse and whistled proudly. Then he laughed heartily and said, "I smelled the smell of a big meal and made a fortune. I didn't expect there to be such a huge treasure hidden near our campsite. I'll be obedient. If we eat all these things, they'll be enough for us to eat for a lifetime!"
They are familiar with the battle, and they are more proficient in searching for supplies. They don't need Tom's help, but one of the leaders cleverly arranges division of labor, allowing them to search for supplies nearby. This is amazing. In addition to various daily necessities, there are many snacks, such as biscuits, instant noodles, ham sausage, spicy sticks, various vacuum packed chicken and duck legs, Soy egg, etc. In addition to food, there are also various beverages, from purified water to cola, soda, and various fruit juice coffee, everything is there. This is indeed the scale that a wholesale store should have.
"Wahaha, canned spicy fish, Brother An, come and satisfy everyone's craving now." Someone quickly suggested.
Tom vetoed it.
If only other things are okay, such as canned fish, which has a very strong odor, opening it may attract other lifestyles, such as dogs with sharp noses, which can increase the danger.
Although they were somewhat disappointed, they were still trained by Bozi to obey orders very well. This small episode was quickly skipped, with four people responsible for standing guard, while others were moving things to the large box on the wooden back within the warning range.
This busy task took over an hour, and the large box on the wooden back was filled with food. Not to mention, it also had a rope at the end and dragged a long trailer, which was also filled with food. In addition, there were five hand carts filled with supplies, and then the big guy left the warehouse with a full load. Tom sealed the iron door.
The following return journey was very smooth. They climbed up the stairs to the east and even after reaching the third floor, they still did not encounter any further attacks. For the big guy, this means that the surroundings are relatively safe, so there is no need to worry about mutated creatures coming to their doorstep for now. More manpower can be dispatched tomorrow for material transportation.
As they were about to reach the door, suddenly the beetle wood, who had been walking in front, opened its wings and threw off the box filled with supplies tied to its back. Before Tom could run forward, it flapped its wings and took off, circling twice and flying out of the hallway with a whoosh, disappearing from sight. Tom worked hard to climb up the railing and saw the beetle disappearing in the distance to the west, which made him very anxious... Shen Jiayi was still on its back.
"Brother An, what's going on here?" Liu Zhen and others were at a loss, looking bewildered.
Tom gritted his teeth and said, "Liu Zhen, lead the team to drag these supplies back to the camp first. I'll go take a look. Tell Po not to send anyone out to find me, everything will be discussed tomorrow morning."
"But... Brother An... it's almost evening now." Liu Zhen was a bit scared and finally hoped for Tom to come back. If Tom never returned because of this woman, what would happen to the more than 400 people in the camp?
"Execute the command!" Tom threw down a sentence and ran along the railing towards the west. Liu Zhen couldn't hold on and could only answer loudly, "Yes!"
So, under the command of Liu Zhen, the big guy picked out unimportant supplies and put them on the ground first. Then, he took out a part of the wooden box and put it into other trucks. Finally, there was a box of half a box of goods left. After Liu Zhen activated the speed increase, he dragged forward and quickly arrived at the gate of the camp. After emptying all the supplies, everyone pushed the handcart back and removed the previously discarded supplies on the ground.
Until everyone safely returned to the door, Liu Zhen looked at the high railing and sighed, feeling relieved. The task assigned by Tom has been successfully completed. He crawled in and closed the iron gate. The next thing to do is to quickly report the situation to Bogo, who is still recovering.
As for Tom, after leaving the team, he followed the railing all the way to the west side of the floor. The last place he saw the beetle disappear was in the grass on the first floor downstairs. Then he fell down the railing, hurried down the stairs, and finally descended to the first floor.
The courtyard on the first floor is very large, and now that the miniature disaster has passed for more than half a year, the wild grass is growing freely, with a height of over half a meter. For Tom, who is wearing worker ant armor and only about 10 centimeters in height, it is simply a huge forest. It is not easy to find wood and Shen Jiayi.
He raised his wrist and looked at the smart watch. It was already 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was about to get dark in just over an hour. He had to search for more while there was still light. Once it got dark, it would be even harder to find Shen Jiayi.
There is no doubt that beetles can fly. However, the mutated longhorn beetle, as far as Tom knew and the people at the campsite had been with him, had never seen the wooden winged beetle fly.
Why did Tom suddenly open his wings today? Tom felt that things were not simple. He carefully recalled and felt a faint green light floating on the back of the beetle before it took off.
The crystal that Shen Jiayi resonates with is yellow energy storage crystal, but she not only carries yellow crystal, but also three other types of first level crystals. This made Tom realize that perhaps Shen Jiayi had awakened the second ability, which led to this result.
If this beetle is flying under the control of Shen Jiayi, where will she go?
Tom looked around and saw towering room gates on both sides, except for the grassy forest directly ahead. He looked around, and his gaze finally fell on the door of a room on the northwest side. It was the room where he had been ambushing Zeng Shisan's mastermind with Bozi before. Perhaps Shen Jiayi had gone there.
So he went straight to the room, pushed open the open door, and what caught his eye was a huge skeleton.
This is the Jingba dog carried by the black clothed man from the Darwin Order. When Tom ambushed the black clothed man, he didn't expect him to be carrying a mutated dog. If it weren't for another robust man in black appearing and killing the Jingba dog with just one punch, Tom and others would probably have been buried in the dog's belly long ago.
At that time, the man in black shouted the words "choose the day" directly at the robust man in black. Later, Tom heard the examiner Wen Sitian mention the name "choose the day meeting" in Longyao's home. At that time, she said, "Friendly reminder, don't refuse next time. Otherwise... there will be another dog leg of the choose day meeting who will kill you unreasonably like now."
Afterwards, according to the analysis of Shen Jiayi's think tank, this Tianxuan Society may have a competitive relationship with the Darwin Order, and the armed forces of the Tianxuan Society may be higher. As for the woman named Purple Rose, according to Wen Sitian's words, it is likely that she is the person who will choose the day.
At that time, in this room, the robust black clad man killed the Jingba dog and warned them not to eat the meat of mutated creatures before taking the fourth level red crystal away. That's why Tom asked everyone to seal the door and stay away from this room. Now half a year has passed, and the body of the white haired Jingba dog is left with only a skeleton and a room full of fur.
"You did come, you really reacted quickly." In the darkness, Shen Jiayi's voice rang out, making Tom's heart relax.
He sighed and said, "When did you awaken the ability of spiritual communication?" Upon hearing Shen Jiayi's words, he confirmed his guess that it was Shen Jiayi who communicated with the wood through spiritual communication, allowing it to carry her downstairs and climb here.
Stepping out of the shadows, the faint light outside the window hit Shen Jiayi's delicate face, and a proud smile appeared, accompanied by a sweet and magnetic voice: "Why don't you ask when wood found out it could fly again?"
Tom sighed again and walked up to the wood, activating the green energy control crystal to communicate with it. Then he immediately felt the joy that came from this simple and honest big guy: "I can fly, I can fly again."
"I'm sorry, Wood, I didn't thank you properly. Thank you for all the work you've done for us for so long." Tom conveyed a full apology to it.
At first, he rescued the wood from the ant nest, and then at the cost of the crystal, let the wood stay in the camp to help everyone transport supplies. Since then, it has been doing the job of pulling things without any complaints. After Tom left, no one could communicate with him anymore. However, even so, it still faithfully executes the methods he has trained, allowing the people of the camp to drive it to work.
When I returned, I had a brief conversation with it and then turned my head to immerse myself in Lin Meiqi's armor improvement work, so that I had no chance to share with it the joy of flying again.
"I was too busy, so I overlooked that good friend," Tom sighed again as he explained his guilt towards Shen Jiayi.
Shen Jiayi smiled and said, "Because in the miniature apocalypse, you have taken on too much responsibility and cannot take care of everyone in all aspects. This is just a camp of over 400 people, and there are nearly 100000 people in the shelter. Every day when I open my eyes, I tell myself that I cannot consider everyone's feelings. What I can do is to provide them with a more stable environment in the general direction. As for how they are living in this environment, I can only gradually correct them later. If I am you, then you are this wood.""
Tom understood that Shen Jiayi was talking about being framed by Yuan Feixing and others in the beginning. He understood this truth from the beginning, and he never held any grudges against her. "Mr. Shen, I understand this matter, so could you..."
Shen Jiayi's slender fingers pressed on his lips and said, "Don't mention the past anymore. We are all using each other, or in friendly terms, we are all working together to make each other and more people live better."
"Yes, Mr. Shen." Tom nodded heavily, and Shen Jiayi's words reached his heart. Then he changed the topic: "What are you doing here? It's getting dark, let's go back quickly."
Shen Jiayi shook her head and said, "Spend the night with me here, I promise you will get better convenience."
"After... all night?" Tom was taken aback for a moment. Since the last white streak he saw, he had stopped thinking in the wrong direction. "Why?"
"I need to confirm one thing, if you insist on going back, we can leave now."
Tom knew that Shen Jiayi would not do meaningless things. Today she came out, or rather she revealed intelligence about the wholesale warehouse, probably to create the current situation. Since she wants to stay on her own, there must be some reason. So he only thought for two seconds before making a decision.
"Okay, Mr. Shen."
"Then go prepare." Shen Jiayi turned around and walked towards the huge skeleton. "By the way, I'll say it again, don't call me Mr. Shen."