Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!-Chapter 147: Seeds

In over a hundred rooms, there was no child that Leng Yebai was looking for.

Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai continued searching the rooms along the corridor.

Bang bang bang!

The sound of zombies crashing against iron windows faintly echoed.

These zombies were originally High Rank Superpower Users, supposed to be elite among Superpower Users, but they didn’t die to the claws of zombies and mutant animals, they died to human greed.

In the "hui" shaped corridor, there was a small side door. Past the door were more densely packed small rooms.

Every two meters there was a door, the eerie silence of the deep corridor was terrifying.

Faintly, they saw two shadows ahead, the two patrolling men just before, their backs turned to Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai, unaware of the anomaly initially.

A bolt of purple lightning flew past from afar; the two men only caught a glimpse of the purple flash from the corner of their eye, and before they could turn around, they knew nothing more.

Bai Xiqin used a steel needle to open a small room beside them.

Inside, there was only a small bed where a middle-aged man was curled up.

The middle-aged man lazily glanced at Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai who had come in, turned over, and continued to lie down and sleep.

Next to the small bed, there was a sumptuous spread of food, and even a crystal clear crystal core.

As the middle-aged man turned over, Bai Xiqin noticed the iron chain on the man’s foot.

The chain passed through the man’s ankle, piercing through his foot bone.

Both feet were pierced with chains.

The chain was firmly nailed in the middle, to remove the chain, one would have to forcibly break their own foot bone.

Even the strongest Superpower User couldn’t escape with both feet fractured.

Zombies, Superpower Users.

Bai Xiqin suddenly realized what these corridor rooms meant.

They are "seeds."

Zombies are not easy to control to enhance superpowers, raise ranks.

So let Superpower Users enhance their powers, and when there’s no space left for the Superpower User to enhance, turn them into zombies.

To maximize profit thereafter.

Leng Yebai took out a dagger, which clashed with the chain, instantly cutting it.

The sound of the chain breaking caused a slight reaction in the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man glanced at Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai, supported himself on the bed to sit up, and stared blankly at his feet.

A pair of dirty hands pulled at the chain, causing severe pain in his feet.

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and forcibly pulled the chain out from his foot bone.

Bai Xiqin’s fingertips emitted a large amount of green light, a dense vitality covered the middle-aged man’s feet.

The severe pain in his feet instantly eased a lot, a glimmer of hope seeped into the dry eyes of the man.

The middle-aged man didn’t speak, just stared blankly at his feet, covered by a large amount of green light.

Vigorous life force injected into his feet, the wound began to scab at a visible rate to the naked eye.

Five minutes later, the man was left with deep scars on his feet, visible to the bone.

The pain in his feet still lingered, but compared to before, it was nothing.

"What do you want to know?"

The middle-aged man’s voice was hoarse; he hadn’t spoken for a long time, making it difficult to articulate his words.

"What’s the situation here? How did you end up here?" Bai Xiqin asked.

The middle-aged man stood up, the sensation of feet on the ground, a nostalgic feeling.

A hint of smile appeared on his weathered face, though tainted with bitterness.

"I was captured here a month ago, they chained up my feet, supplied me daily with food and crystal cores, they wanted me to enhance my superpower."

"They don’t care if my body is intact; they just relentlessly push me to enhance my power. I’ve seen what happens when the power can’t be enhanced anymore, they turn into zombies."

The middle-aged man pointed lightly in the direction of the door.

"Over there, I saw with my own eyes the person next door hitting a bottleneck, unable to enhance anymore. They injected him with black blood and he turned into a zombie."

"After becoming a zombie, he was no longer housed here, in a few days, a new tenant moved in next door."

The middle-aged man explained everything he knew, word for word.

This was almost exactly as Bai Xiqin suspected.

Everything here is designed to produce High Rank Crystal Cores.

"Do you know where they hide the most important... zombies?" Leng Yebai asked.

The middle-aged man pointed to the right and said, "It’s in the innermost room, heavily guarded."

After speaking, the middle-aged man sat back on the bed.

"Aren’t you going to leave?"

Bai Xiqin looked at the middle-aged man who was ready to lie down again.

The man rubbed his messy hair, "I can’t get out, there’s a Third Rank Superpower User stationed here, a highly aggressive Fire Ability User."

Even between Third Rank Superpower Users, there are levels.

Superpower Users like the middle-aged man, who are "cultivated" just to enhance their powers, in terms of combat might not even compare to Second Rank Superpower Users.

Bai Xiqin was slightly surprised that they already had Third Rank Superpower Users here?

For Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai to become Third Rank Superpower Users wasn’t unusual; they had mastered the skills to upgrade their powers earlier than most, ahead of the majority of Superpower Users.

Under normal circumstances, the emergence of Third Rank Superpower Users would take at least a year into the apocalypse.

"They aren’t human." 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

The middle-aged man’s voice was hoarse, painfully closing his eyes.

In just a month, he had given up the idea of resistance.

Despite no longer being bound, he still didn’t dare step out of the room.

That Third Rank Superpower User would stroll through every room each morning.

His terrifying pressure suffocates anyone under it.

The syringe of black blood, humans transforming into zombies occasionally, coupled with the confined space, erodes even the most steadfast resistance.

Bai Xiqin’s dark eyes dimmed for a moment, directly gazing at the crystal core placed next to the bed.

This crystal core is just a regular core, not even at First Rank.

It glowed with a faint white light, the entire crystal clear and the energy pure.

Crystal Core Energy in ordinary zombie brains is mixed with impurities; when absorbing energy, impurities must be removed so the energy can be used.

The crystal cores provided for "quality seeds" are from humans.

Such crystals are more easily absorbed by Superpower Users, speeding up power enhancements.

That Third Rank Superpower User has likely absorbed human crystal cores to enhance his powers so quickly.

They use crystal cores from regular Superpower User brains to nurture those with greater breakthrough potential, to maximize profit.

It may seem like a loss, but it isn’t.

For those people, it only requires gathering a few Superpower Users.

Those capable of elevating ranks are considered "seeds."

Those unable to enhance are "fertilizer."

Even ordinary humans are not spared, becoming food for zombies.

A Third Rank Crystal Core fetches a sky-high price on the black market, sacrificing a few Superpower Users for a Second or Third Rank Crystal Core is deemed worthwhile by them.

Bai Xiqin took a deep breath, the anger within her reaching its peak.

In the previous life, that research institute captured Superpower Users for study; now they’re captured to produce crystal cores.

Clearly, humanity’s greatest enemies should be zombies and mutant animals, but instead, it’s themselves.