Although Ding Yun felt the other party was being a bit manipulative, their attitude was decent, so she didn't refuse immediately. Instead, she said,
"Don't try to pull that kind of thing with me.
People who are too kind don't live long these days. If you have something to say, just say it. If it's not troublesome and I can help, I'll definitely help. If I can't, you can talk until you're blue in the face and it won't make a difference, so just say it."
The base leader knew that the person who brought back forty thousand catties of food yesterday and another large cart of good things clearly from zombie piles today couldn't possibly be naive. However, he still maintained the proper attitude and wasn't angry at Ding Yun's words. He continued gently,
"Ms. Zhu, please don't worry.
If you can bring back all these things, I believe what I'm asking you to do should be a piece of cake.
We actually have several large granaries, large supermarkets, and logistics transfer points near us, but because we've been constantly sending people there,
trying our best to transport supplies back,
it has attracted many zombies to gather.
We also dare not use weapons with too much destructive power, fearing that while killing those zombies, they might also damage the granaries and other supplies.
Although the base won't starve for now, those things left in place will eventually rot. If they can be transported back, it would definitely make everyone's living conditions a little better.
I don't know if you have a team or how it works, and I won't pry too much. I just hope that if it's possible, you or your team could help us transport things from those places. If you need combat weapons,
we can also provide them.
Well, if you can help us transport those things back, I can promise you a third. I know this might be a bit unfair to you, but we do have a base to support.
I'm truly sincere..."
"No need to say more, I can help. Give me the specific addresses. Also, I don't need you to give me a third. I'll pick out some things I find useful and keep them, and the rest will be yours.
However, you mustn't pry into how our organization gets in or how we transport things back. Can you do it? If so, let's shake hands!"
Ding Yun's words completely stunned the base leader. It was like he had prepared tens of thousands of words of a plan, but the other party had agreed after only a few hundred. Although he was happy, he also felt a sense of loss, as if his elaborate preparations were useless.
If he had known, why would he have stayed up all night thinking of his speech?
Why would he have stayed up all night self-studying the art of language and communication?
However, despite his confusion, the base leader instinctively extended his hand, and Ding Yun shook it, saying "Pleasant cooperation." Then, still somewhat dazed, the base leader handed Ding Yun the map he had prepared and asked if she needed any help, stating they could cooperate as much as possible.
However, Ding Yun truly didn't need their help.
So, she eventually politely declined.
Then, with the map, she drove the truck home with the goods after taxes were deducted. After having lunch and unloading the goods, she drove the truck out again.
Following the same routine, she parked the truck in a deserted spot and, alone, headed to the places mentioned by the base leader according to the map, collecting all the items inside, regardless of whether they were useful or not. Some things she considered useless might be useful to the base. When one is extremely poor,
or when resources are extremely scarce,
there is nothing in this world that is truly useless.
After collecting the supplies, it was not yet dark, but Ding Yun didn't plan to return immediately because the collected items combined were far more than one truck could carry.
She didn't want to transport them back and forth slowly. She planned to wait until it was dark, or until the next morning, to move them all at once. After all, transporting them slowly back and forth would be difficult to explain, so why bother?
It was all difficult to explain.
What difference was there between one trip and tens or hundreds of trips?
Being more mysterious would actually help her cover up and make the base leader witness her immense power, inspiring awe.
However, there was still a long time before dark, or the early morning of the next day, and Ding Yun didn't want to stay in the foul-smelling piles of zombies.
So, she quickly decided to return to her ancestral home.
That is, the ancestral home where her zombie grandfather and grandmother were chained.
On the way back, she also collected dozens of tons of building materials, which she then transformed into fresh pork, beef, lamb, and so on. As soon as she entered the house, she began feeding the zombies.
That is, the original body's grandparents.
One jin, two jins, ten jins, a hundred jins, she had prepared a lot. As long as they could eat, she would keep feeding them.
As Ding Yun continued to feed them, her grandparents soon began to evolve. From initially just becoming more agile and their skin becoming tougher, they later developed special abilities. One evolved a water ability with corrosive properties, while the other developed an earth-related ability, not only able to spit earth from their mouths but also control the surrounding soil to a certain extent.
Fortunately, perhaps due to the emotional bond formed from feeding them,
even after developing their abilities, they didn't break free from their chains or go berserk. They only growled at Ding Yun after eating the meat. Later, when Ding Yun was tired of feeding them, she directly poured the meat out.
Thousands of catties, thousands of catties at a time.
After all, this meat was different from that of living people. No matter how much the zombies gnawed on it, it wouldn't mutate. So, there wasn't much difference between directly feeding them and letting them eat it themselves.
As they evolved, their speed of consuming flesh and blood also increased. They even used their abilities. For example, the original body's zombie grandmother directly released corrosive water. After the released water corroded the meat clean, she would reabsorb the corrosive water back into her body. At the same time, she seemed to have consumed a lot of meat, and her strength increased again.
The zombie grandfather on the other side also used his earth-elemental ability, using the surrounding soil to bury all the meat, and then stood on the meat pit like a plant, fully absorbing the nutrients below.
Ding Yun's spiritual power could clearly see the flesh and blood buried by the soil rapidly disappearing.
Being absorbed by her zombie grandfather.
Seeing this, Ding Yun became even more interested.
As soon as her zombie grandfather and grandmother finished absorbing the flesh and blood she released, she would immediately provide more, staying up all night to feed them.
She wanted to see how much further they could evolve,
and if there was any possibility of them recovering and becoming human.