The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 49: Cunning Rabbit
There was only a bed in the room, and Liang Yao sat on the chair without moving.

Huo Ying stood up, opened the wooden lock of the basement, and walked into the basement in front of Liang Yao.

The wooden lock has the characteristics of Wood Release and can only be opened with chakra. Any other way of opening the lock will destroy the wooden lock.

Huo Ying went into the basement, created a few wooden boards, and pretended to take them out of the basement.

The table and chairs formed the dividing line, and Huo Ying was busy nailing down the bed on the other side of the room.

Liang Yao also offered her help: "These are poplar trees. It's a waste to use them to make beds. Don't you want to exchange them with the courier? Burn them into charcoal. The courier will take them."

"Does the courier prefer to switch to Yangshi or Poplar charcoal?"

"Prioritize Yangshi. But even if Yangshi is valuable, no one is willing to keep mining it. Ordinary people will be infected by radiation if they come into contact with Yangshi for a long time, and the infected will get infected more quickly if they come into contact with it for a long time. So couriers like poplar charcoal, which is lighter and smaller than poplar wood, but has the same effect as poplar wood."

Huo Ying nodded, then climbed onto the bed and signaled Liang Yao with his eyes to hurry back to sleep.

Liang Yao said with a smile: "You need to wash up before going to bed. I'll help you wash up and then we'll go to bed." After that, Liang Yao took Huo Ying's hand and rested her face on the edge of Huo Ying's bed.

Huo Ying closed his eyes. He could actually help Liang Yao repair the house and send Liang Yao back to live there.

But in this way, he lost the opportunity to test Zhang Yuqi and Bai Jie.

In addition, Liang Yao has another function.

“This is the end of the world.”

Huo Ying sighed in his heart. As he gradually became stronger, his abilities would sooner or later be discovered by someone with ulterior motives. If he was alone, the enemy would try to find his weaknesses.

What if you have developed your weaknesses in advance?
The enemy will subconsciously attack known weaknesses.

It was late at night and the house was very quiet with only the sound of the burning bonfire. It was also very quiet outside the house. The black fog was dispersed by the firelight and no zombies approached the house.

The next day, at dawn, Huo Ying was awakened by the smell of steam from rice porridge.

Liang Yao got up even earlier and cooked a pot of rice porridge before the bonfire went out.

Huo Ying stared at the ceiling for a few seconds, then got up. After having breakfast together, Huo Ying left the house.

After walking a street away, Huo Ying activated the wooden armor and broke into an empty house.

There were no infected objects or zombies. Huo Ying locked the door again, put his hands on the ground, and used earth escape to create a basement in the house.

This was just the first step. Huo Ying kept digging the basement and renovating a passage from underground to connect it with the basement of his own house.

The huge project was completed in just two hours with the help of earth escape, and it was completed so silently that Liang Yao on the floor didn't even notice it.

After reinforcing the basement, Huo Ying thought about it and used earth escape to camouflage the basement. If someone broke the wooden lock of Huo Ying's house and entered the basement, they could only find the first one and it would be difficult to find the new passage opened by Huo Ying.

"This way, it's much safer."

There was a lack of oxygen in the basement, so Huo Ying crawled back to the ground and used the remaining chakra to create poplar wood. He then used lightning to turn the created poplar wood into charcoal one by one.

After making it, Huo Ying moved the charcoal from the underground passage back to the basement under his house. Although it was hard to go back and forth, Huo Ying regarded this kind of hard work as exercise. Even during the process of carrying, Huo Ying secretly used lightning to stimulate his body cells to see if he could make his physique stronger. For three consecutive days, Huo Ying's life was very fulfilling. He made charcoal during the day, purified it with water at noon, and checked whether the courier had come. At night, Liang Yao helped to purify his body, and then he had a good sleep.

Occasionally, Huo Ying would discover infected creatures and zombies.

The infected creatures were killed directly, and the corpse ghosts were put into a wooden cage and thrown into the house where Huo Ying stored the corpse ghosts.

Ever since the factory monster was sealed in the mirror ghost by Huo Ying, the birthmark on Huo Ying's palm disappeared. Even so, Huo Ying did not dare to kill the corpse ghost casually. In case the birthmark was activated, it would be troublesome if the monster used other methods to come out of the mirror ghost.

Huo Ying planned to wait until the number of accumulated corpses was enough for the sacred tree to advance, and then burn them all to death. Even if monsters came, Huo Ying could rely on the protection of the upgraded sacred tree to fight the monsters.

[Progress: 5.3%]

The progress of the sacred tree slowed down, mainly relying on the tree's own absorption. Huo Ying was not in a hurry and walked towards the road as usual. This time, the sound of an engine was heard on the road.

The courier is here.

However, the courier looked a little different from what Huo Ying had imagined. What drove to Ailing Town was not a courier truck, but a yellow bus.

The bus stopped and the driver, wearing a yellow shirt, got off first. The word "courier" was embroidered on his shirt.

Soon after, some more men and women got off the car, seven people in total, all in family units. Everyone had a sad look on their face. The seven people formed three groups of families. One group was a father and son, one was a couple, and the other was a family of three, consisting of two well-mannered men and women in their thirties, leading a little girl of seven or eight years old.

"Wait a moment, someone will be here soon." The courier took out a loud speaker and pressed the auto-play button. What came out of the speaker was not a human voice, but a piercing alarm.

Huo Ying thought about it, turned back to the house, called Liang Yao up, and in front of Liang Yao, opened the basement and picked out four boxes of charcoal with a carrying pole.

"Pick these two small boxes, and we'll go exchange things together."

Liang Yao was surprised to see so much charcoal, but she didn't ask anything. She was just happy because her family had so many resources.

When Huo Ying came to the courier again, there were more people on the road.

The more familiar people are Hou Ping, Elsa and Luna, and the less familiar ones are two sloppy middle-aged men, and the two men are not in the same group.

"Are you the only ones in this town?" The courier was surprised. He looked at everyone and his eyes fell on Huo Ying.

"Nice helmet. What's your name? Have you registered? Why haven't I seen you before?"

Huo Ying was wearing a helmet, so the courier couldn't see his face and just asked him questions out of habit.

Huo Ying did not respond. The courier spread his hands helplessly and said, "I am not from the investigation team. I don't care about this. Just treat it as my fart."

"Okay, maybe some people don't need to trade, so they didn't come. Let me briefly explain to everyone." The courier pointed to the three groups of families behind him: "These are families with clean identities. They are survivors rescued by the investigation team from other destroyed towns."

"After hearing that Ailing Town has its own Yangshi Mine, these families decided not to enter XN City and join Ailing Town instead." The courier introduced: "Those who can survive in the destroyed town are not ordinary people. I hope everyone can work together to overcome the difficulties."

"Okay, the above words are what the investigation team told me to say." The courier clapped his hands, his eyes began to shine: "The zombies are about to riot, and I got a lot of good things, but, ahem, everyone knows that every time this time comes, the prices of things will go up..."

(End of this chapter)