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In the end, before Li could make a move, the Corpse Beast Lord seemed to have predicted what she was going to do and suddenly walked away from her.

Under the gaze of her and a group of nervous guards, it raised its head and looked at the shopping mall in front of it that had been transformed into a fortress, as if it wanted to go in and take a look.

In addition to the shopping mall, several nearby apartment buildings have also been converted into places for people to live.

Outside the living area, due to the special environment, it is simply surrounded by barbed wire to indicate that this is the owner's area.

The main defense is directly reinforced on the surface of the building, using a large amount of heat-insulating and thermal-preserving materials, followed by materials for defending against attacks.

Not long after the apocalypse, the first generation of ice plague ravaged the world, but was then defeated by the church and lingered here.

Its existence makes it almost impossible for anyone to enter this territory to plunder, so everything from clothing and food to daily necessities and energy is abundant here.

Relying on sufficient energy supply and high-calorie food, the people in this camp are able to withstand the low temperature environment.

Since the last time the church's knights were annihilated, no new church members have arrived, so this group of "blasphemers" are currently in a situation where they have enough food and clothing and are not in danger of losing their lives.

Beats 99% of the average people in the world.

And all this was given to them by You Huan.

So when he reached the gate of the base, the guards silently removed the roadblocks.

Amid the creaking sound of the barbed wire moving, he walked proudly into the human camp - which was also his own territory.

"Dang!"

The moment he walked in, there was a loud sound of something heavy falling to the ground, followed by people's suppressed exclamations.

Turning around, he saw two children, who were about ten years old, standing there staring at him blankly.

Children of the end of the world...these are the most precious things in this world.

At this time, a message came saying that the mission was completed:

[Ordinary mission: Expand the territory's management to five times its original size. Completed.]

[Get evolution points*20]

[Obtained function card: Space upgrade (Level III). ]

[Function Card·Space Upgrade (Level III): A one-time consumable card. Use this card on the Function Card·Item Carry to expand and upgrade the item space.]

The evolution points were immediately added to his level, and the level became [Lv. 6 (63/320)].

And he immediately used the long-lost space upgrade card.

[The function card · Item Carrying (10m*10m*10m) has been upgraded to the function card · Item Carrying (20m*20m*20m). ]

[Function Card·Item Carrying (20m*20m*20m): Permanent existence card. This card has a 20m*20m*20m space, which can be used to store items with vitality below the specified threshold or inanimate objects. It can store normal creatures for a short period of time (≤24h), and items can be taken and placed in all worlds.]

[Note: The time flow rate of 24 hours is based on the current world.]

After upgrading three times, the space card can finally hold normal living things. Although there is a 24-hour limit, you never know when it can be used in strange places.

In addition to this additional function, what You Huan values ​​most is the 8,000 cubic meters of space on the upgraded space card.

Such a wide space can store more huge prey!

Xiao Pu's compression is not omnipotent. It can't compress something that is already extremely huge into a very small size.

Turning his attention away from the panel, he wandered freely throughout the camp under the cautious gaze of the humans around him.

Li hesitated, then followed.

The corpse beast lord just glanced at her and didn't mind her following him.

So she began to briefly introduce the base to the lord.

"This is the current unified food distribution area."

"This is where the contributions of every base member are recorded."

"…"

"This is where our central heating is."

When they walked to the equipment floor in the basement of the mall, Li raised his hand and pointed to an extremely vast and stuffy metal space in front of him and said.

A huge multi-energy heating furnace is located in the center, emitting a faint red light. Countless pipes spread out from it like spider legs, penetrating all parts of the base.

You Huan was very sure that this place did not have a heating system of this scale.

This kind of transformation capability... can be regarded as the unique black technology of this world.

Immediately he raised his paw and stepped on the floor of the central heating room.

The warm feeling spreads to the soles of the feet and is instantly absorbed by the [cooling geology].

A little frost appeared, and as he walked forward, two lines of footprints made of frost were left behind him.

Li was a little scared watching from behind, fearing that the lord would destroy the entire heating room in one go.

But she also had to lead the Lord to come and take a look.

Once the clear path is crossed, this critical heating core can be recognized and protected by the lord.

What she worried about did not happen. She watched the young lord walk closer to the heating stove, raise his paw and scratch the stove a few times as if curious, and sweep his long tail across the ground.

Then it retreated from the heating room, leaving behind two more sets of footprints.

The frost was evaporated by the temperature in the heating room, and she heard the lord speak a very standard human language: "You said you would give me everything you have."

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"…"

Li looked into those coral red eyes and said carefully, "Yes, in order to thank you for your protection, we are willing to give you everything we can."

"I don't need your material contribution, but I'm curious – tell me, why did you defect from the church?"

The first question was so sensitive, but Li seemed to have been prepared. After a moment of silence, he said,

"The people you saw outside all belonged to a town under the jurisdiction of the church. It was a town close to the Ikaros Church, which is the church's headquarters."

"One day, they were all attacked by a black dust storm of unknown origin. The black dust infection rate increased sharply, and many people were on the verge of becoming zombies."

"At that time, Whitley and I—the man in the silver-white metal armor you saw—were in the town, studying the ecology of the weak corpse beasts in the local wild. I...actually suspected that the black dust storm came from within the church..."

"Finally, facing the pleas of the townspeople who entertained us and listening to their painful groans, I chose to lend a hand. Using the method I secretly developed in the church, most of them escaped the fate of becoming corpses that day."

"But the next day, the knights of the church still came. They wanted to completely wipe out the town, so I defected with them."

"Those on the verge of becoming corpses who are unwilling to be beheaded and church members who have defected are all serious crimes of blasphemy, so we have all become blasphemers."

After hearing the whole story, You Huan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Li actually concealed some things, such as how she saved the townspeople? Why didn't she use it when some people were on the verge of becoming zombies during the zombie attack a dozen days ago? Was there a condition?

Was the only reason for her defection to escape the fate of death with the people of the town?

She also said that she suspected that the black dust storm that swept the town came from within the church. What was the reason for her suspicion? Was there anything special about the black dust?

Special black dust... He also has a portion of it.

——Two days ago, Xiao Pu and the biologists of the Dragon Group used the internal organs of the White Knight to reverse-engineer the substances that created these organs.

…It was a substance that was very similar to black dust, but it glowed faintly like light, and its properties were quite different.

But You Huan did not ask any further questions. Even if he pressed him, Li might not really tell the truth.

This group of people clearly has a secret.

He then asked another question: "You originally had a high position in the church? Do you know the information of the zombies and corpse beasts ranked No. 1 to No. 5?"

Li didn't expect the lord to let go of the previous question so easily. After a moment of hesitation, he immediately replied, "I was originally in the church's corpse beast research group, and I can be considered a mid-level member."

"As for the top five zombies and corpse beasts, I know about them. The Explorers Association has not disseminated this information to the outside world, but the church has the information."

"They are——"

"No. 5, founder of the Holy Seekers Association, zombie, 'Hermit'."

"No. 4, the first sister of the order, zombie, 'Forest Priest'."

"No. 3, the largest corpse beast in the world, the 'Abyss Dragon'."

"No. 2, the monster with the strangest behavior, a 'black giant' whose species cannot be determined."

"No.1, an almost completely unknown existence. I saw its code name in the church as... 'Black Monument'." (End of this chapter)