Chapter 117 (1/2)

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

Walking along the broad streets, Bai Jing was in the mood to look at their surroundings. A sudden feeling overcame him, and it was like he had returned to life before the apocalypse. The crowd, the noisy streets, and the cheerful shouts all seemed to reflect a time full of vitality.

“They're really leisurely.” Xu Feng tsked twice and looked around admiringly.

Yang Lin rolled his eyes at him, ”So what? Are you regretting it? Do you want to stay in the Capital and develop here?”

“Get lost, what the h.e.l.l are you talking about? The Capital is good, but isn't taking a look at it good enough?” Xu Feng's dissatisfied reb.u.t.tal was one thing, but he was still full of enthusiasm. He had never been to the Capital before, and at this time he really looked like a country b.u.mpkin.

The few of them leisurely ambled along the street towards the trading area. The Western District with all its villas belonged to a high level area, and those who could walk around here were naturally different. Although they were fresh faces, n.o.body belittled or looked down on them. While asking for directions, Yang Lin made good use of his glib tongue to obtain a map of the Capital Base with a crystal core.

“Good job.” Xu Feng raised his thumb.

Yang Lin raised his chin and spoke without any modesty, ”As long as you know it.”

“You still have to show off despite getting praised.” Xu Feng scorned him.

“Enough, stop squabbling. Bring over the map and let me see it.” Once Xiao Sa spoke up, the two men immediately clicked their mouths shut, leaving only Bai Jing covering his mouth and snickering.

Yang Lin opened his mouth wide and watched the map as it flew away from his hand. What the h.e.l.l was this?!

Xu Feng grinned. He was suddenly in a good mood.

Regardless of whether Yang Lin dared to speak up or not, Xiao Sa opened the map and looked at it carefully. The map was very simple, and the paper wasn't colourful like it would've been before the apocalypse. The lines were drawn out in black and white and depicted several areas, buildings, roads, and other important places in the Capital Base.

Xu Feng stretched his neck over from the side, scanned the map, and couldn't break his gaze away. He couldn't help but curse, showing obvious jealousy and envy, ”Motherf*cker, Lao Tzu doesn't even get enough to eat, but others have hotels. d.a.m.n, they even have restaurants and bars.”

“You've been starved?” Bai Jing raised his eyebrows and asked the question coldly. The team now had good things to eat, enough to wear, and occasionally they even splurged a bit. Despite this, Xu Feng was complaining about not having enough to eat, so what on earth was Xu Feng trying to say?

“No--what is Young Maser Jing talking about?” Xu Feng quickly apologized and wiped off his cold sweat. Based on his experience, he preferred offending Brother Sa over provoking Young Master Jing. Young Master Jing's petty revenge wasn't easy to deal with.

“Hmph!” Bai Jing sneered coldly, then let him off as he turned his attention to the map. He discovered it wasn't as exaggerated as Xu Feng had made it seem; next to the trading area, the so-called hotels and restaurants in the entertainment district did not occupy a large area at all. It was only a tiny s.p.a.ce on the map, but Xu Feng's eyes were sharp and had even noticed such small words.

“Would you like to go and take a look?” Xiao Sa looked at Bai Jing and asked.

Before Bai Jing could speak, Xu Feng and Yang Lin nodded hurriedly out of fear that Bai Jing would disagree. Yang Lin rushed to answer, ”Go, go! It's not far from where we are. Let's walk over together and see how the Capital is doing along the way.”

Bai Jing snickered. He looked at Yang Lin's amusing appearance and didn't plan to tell him that tonight's welcome feast was arranged to be held at the hotel. It was still early, and it was better if they first familiarized themselves with the environment.

The surface of the roads in the Capital were clean and orderly, and the four of them strolled along slowly. Xu Feng and Yang Lin were normally pretty well behaved, but they were a little overexcited today. They seldom had opportunities to relax, and the two of them bickered the whole way. Yang Lin was a very talkative person and constantly angered Xu Feng to the point where smoke was steaming out of his head. They originally thought that he would be able to take a break and stop for a bit, but not long after, he started talking again. Xiao Sa and Bai Jing walked in front, too lazy to deal with their bickering. Bai Jing admired Xu Feng quite a bit, because clearly Yang Lin was purposefully endlessly provoking him, yet Xu Feng still let himself get fooled. It left them really quite speechless.

The several of them arrived at the market area. The streets were lined with shops, and there were many small stalls set up on the roadside. People were coming and going, and it was even more bustling than it had been before the apocalypse.

“In the future, our base must be even better.” Xiao Sa gave a heartfelt sigh and internally resolved to make it happen.

“Yes! We'll definitely make it better.” Bai Jing nodded vigorously, then looked at Xiao Sa and the two of them exchanged smiles. They did not need to discuss it; now that they had made it to the Capital, they must make sure to return with a full load.

“Oh, what is this?” Yang Lin looked curiously at a booth that was selling a blue gla.s.s bottle.

“You guys must be from the outside.” The stall-holder was a white-haired old man. Though he was thin and bony, he looked to be in good spirits.

“Yes, we just arrived in the Capital today. What's this? Why haven't we seen it before?” Yang Lin became interested and picked up the blue bottle to play with.

Fearing that he wouldn't be careful with it, the old man quickly got up and said, “Be careful, don't drop it. This is the gene solution for level one abilities that we've discovered at our base. I can sell it to you cheap, ten level one nuclei for the bottle.”

Yang Lin was shocked, “What kind of highway robbery is this?” He hadn't used a single crystal nucleus to advance to level one - it had all been done under his own power.

“You probably don't know, but don't underestimate this bottle. You'll definitely advance if you drink it. This is something our research inst.i.tute has developed, and they've worked really hard to produce it. Nowhere else has such good things.”

Bai Jing was also attracted by their voices, “Old man, you're so old, aren't you afraid of encountering any danger standing here by yourself?”