Wang Luo couldn't help but want to laugh.
Was this recruitment drive directed at him?
"Is there meat to eat?" Wang Luo asked.
"Meat? You can eat meat about once every half a month. That's already considered luxurious, something almost impossible in other bases!" the leading captain declared earnestly.
"Then I don't need it!" Wang Luo shook his head.
It seemed Zhou Yiming's faction wasn't doing well either.
Awakened individuals could only eat meat once every half a month?
Their lives were worse than those of ordinary people with skills in his own settlement!
"Little brother, please consider it carefully. We are very welcoming to Awakened individuals!" the captain said again.
The main reason was that he saw Wang Luo's strength was truly formidable, and what's more, he had witnessed several types of abilities in a short period.
There were wind, lightning, and metal abilities!
In their base of thousands, he had never seen anyone master two abilities.
This was truly incredible, which was why he had invited the other party multiple times.
"Thank you for your kindness, but I really don't need it!" Wang Luo beheaded several approaching zombies with a single strike.
"Actually, I already have a faction. I'm from 'Dawn.' Our leaders are Zhao Qingxuan and Yang Shu, nicknamed 'Empress of the Dark Night' and 'Goddess of Light'!"
'Dawn' was the name of the faction Zhao Qingxuan established in the previous life.
"Empress of the Dark Night? Goddess of Light?"
"Captain, the bosses of the other side have a bigger aura than our boss!" someone behind the captain remarked.
Others nodded in agreement.
"What's the use of a big aura? But... Zhao Qingxuan, Yang Shu... I think I've heard these names somewhere!" the captain mused in a low voice.
"Captain, isn't that the base in the villa district?" someone exclaimed.
"It's that base? No wonder it sounded familiar!" The captain suddenly realized.
That was the only faction in Anluo City larger than their own.
"Brother, has that base not been destroyed by zombies yet?" the captain asked, puzzled.
Wang Luo couldn't help but roll his eyes. "There are tens of thousands of Awakened individuals alone, how could it be destroyed by zombies?"
"That shouldn't be the case. Their defense lines are so long, how can they still hold on?"
"Wait! You said their base has tens of thousands of Awakened individuals?" the captain's eyes widened.
"Yes, is there a problem?"
"No, how have they not collapsed with so many people?"
"I don't know about that, but Awakened individuals get to eat meat almost every day!" Wang Luo stated calmly.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"With such large appetites, how can Awakened individuals eat meat every day?"
"Let alone eating meat every day, it's a problem to even eat their fill every day!" the captain shook his head in disbelief.
In their faction, the Awakened individuals could barely eat their fill once at noon, with breakfast and dinner just being something to stave off hunger.
"That's your situation. We've already started cultivating mutated crops on a large scale!" Wang Luo said deliberately.
He wanted to spread this news to see if he could attract more factions to join, preferably to gather all the survivors in Anluo City.
Their base was indeed the largest, but there were many scattered survivor factions, and some had even gone to the mountains and forests to seek refuge. If all those people could be gathered, their base would truly be impregnable!
"Captain, what are mutated crops?" someone asked curiously.
"They are those crops that glow!"
"It's that stuff?" Some of them had seen it before. Once, someone found a potato that was said to contain immense energy within!
"But can that thing be cultivated?" They had never tried it.
"This matter needs to be reported to the boss as soon as possible!" The captain cupped his fists towards Wang Luo and quickly led his men away.
Wang Luo smiled. It didn't matter if they told them, because they didn't have the seeds. Even if they did, they were very few!
Even if they planted them, it would be a drop in the bucket.
"I remember Zhou Yiming's faction relied on finding plants in the mountains and collecting supplies to survive for several years in the apocalypse!"
But even so, by the time Wang Luo entered the mist, Zhou Yiming's faction had not many people left!
Especially after the volcanic eruption,
a large number of zombies poured out of the crater, including some powerful zombie bosses that were higher level than ordinary zombies.
From then on,
Awakened individuals suffered a devastating blow.
If the zombie virus infection in the apocalypse caused 80% of ordinary people to turn into zombies, then after the volcanic eruption, 80% of Awakened individuals would die under high-level zombies.
"But that's still some time away. It won't happen until this winter!" Wang Luo pondered in his mind.
This summer, zombies would evolve again, reaching the Silver tier for all of them. After the volcanic eruption, they would evolve again, reaching the Gold tier!
Gold-tier zombies already possessed considerable intelligence. Coupled with the high-level zombies emerging from the crater, they would launch a large-scale hunt for survivors within the cities!
At that time, many cities would become dead cities.
Almost all life on Earth would be annihilated!
Only those Awakened individuals at S-class and above could establish a foothold in the cities with their formidable strength!
...
On the other side,
Zhou Yiming listened to the news brought back by the captain and sighed after a moment: "I didn't expect them to have reached the point of cultivating mutated crops!"
This news truly surprised him.
Cultivating mutated crops meant that they would have sustainable resources in the future. Moreover, he had tasted mutated potatoes; that stuff contained immense energy and was a rare food for Awakened individuals!
"Boss, they can cultivate, so we can too!" someone said excitedly.
"How can we cultivate? Didn't you see that all the previous crops died in the black rain?"
"This means the current soil has been polluted and is unable to grow crops. Furthermore... most importantly, we don't have seeds!"
They had indeed stockpiled a lot of supplies,
but they had not stockpiled seeds. Who would have expected the appearance of something like black rain?
"This..." The high-ranking officials fell silent.
Without seeds, there was indeed no solution!
"Can we buy or exchange them from them?" someone suggested.
"That's probably difficult!"
"Seeds have almost become the hope for continuation. How could they possibly exchange them with us!"
Zhou Yiming sighed, "I finally understand why they expanded their base so much. They must have protected their cultivation area within the earthen walls!"
He had previously thought they were just making space for survivors to live, but now it seemed it was more than that!
"If all else fails, why don't we just rob them?" a high-ranking official suggested.
"Use your brain, please! Their base has tens of thousands of Awakened individuals alone, while we only have a few thousand. It's good enough that they don't come to rob us, and we want to rob them?"
"Besides, I heard that Zhao Qingxuan's faction is very strong. She also gained abilities on the first day after the apocalypse, and her strength is on par with our boss!" someone shook their head.