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Chapter 185 Welcome Party (2)

Lu Yuan originally wanted to ask Du Yun what he wanted to say to him alone, but just as he turned around to speak, he saw Du Yun looking in the direction behind him and then gesturing with his eyes for him to turn around and look as well.

The central square was just a moment ago in complete chaos, but soon a small area cleared up under the notice board in the middle. Whether Du Yun had given prior instructions or not, their table was deliberately left unmarked so that Lu Yuan could see directly into the center.

Meanwhile, the handsome boys and girls who had been in the crowd earlier quickly gathered over there amidst the cheers of the surrounding people. By now, most of them were dressed in disheveled clothes, and people occasionally tried to grope them as they walked, but they only responded with even brighter smiles, looking like commodities waiting to be sold.

"Dear old friends at the base, we are gathered here today because we have new friends who came to the base yesterday and today. We always extend our sincerest welcome to new friends, which is why we have today's event." Lu Yuan recognized the person who suddenly appeared in the center; it was Lan Yichen, whom he thought was dead.

“He’s not…” Lu Yuan was somewhat surprised. He could clearly see that Lan Yichen was wearing heavy makeup, and the cheerful and spirited demeanor he had displayed a few months ago had disappeared. Instead, he now appeared somewhat alluringly beautiful.

"First, let's introduce our newest friend who has joined our family." Before Lu Yuan could even ask, he heard Lan Yichen's voice again, this time even more cloying than before.

"This is our soldier brother Wen Zhou." As Lan Yichen spoke, he pulled a man in camouflage uniform who was standing ramrod straight to his side, and then leaned against the man as if he had no bones.

"Hello everyone, I'm very happy to be part of this big family." Wen Zhou greeted the people around him while putting his arm around Lan Yichen. This series of actions made Lu Yuan, who was standing in front of Du Yun, straighten his back.

"Lan Yichen!" Lu Yuan stood up and called out towards the central square. Actually, he had a better impression of Lan Yichen than Du Yun, because he knew that Lan Yichen was a simple boy, much like himself. He thought that Lan Yichen followed Du Yun because he trusted Du Yun wholeheartedly, but Du Yun didn't react at all when he saw Lan Yichen like this.

"Hey! Cutie!" Following Lu Yuan's voice, Lan Yichen quickly spotted him in the back of the crowd, along with Du Yun behind him. "Brother Du, you're here too?"

To Lu Yuan's disbelief, he couldn't detect any dissatisfaction or resentment on Lan Yichen's face as he looked at Du Yun. They were two people who had gone through life and death together, living in the same base. One was a high-level ability user living on the third floor, while the other was probably an ordinary person living on the first floor. Du Yun could have helped him, but he didn't. Yet Lan Yichen didn't feel any resentment at all.

"Little cutie, wait for me a minute..." Lan Yichen smiled brightly at Lu Yuan, but Wen Zhou beside him was not so happy. The hand around his waist gradually slid down and then gave him a hard squeeze.

"Oh, why are you jealous? My little cutie is my savior." Lu Yuan felt that everyone around him could see Wen Zhou's obvious actions, but Lan Yichen didn't show any embarrassment on his face.

"Stop fooling around, let me continue introducing everyone to our new friends." With that, Lan Yichen pulled Wen Zhou's hand, which was resting on his waist, upwards and continued with a smile, "The little cutie from earlier is also one of our new friends, and so is this one over here..."

Lan Yichen continued his introduction, while Lu Yuan silently sat back down in front of Du Yun. He looked at Du Yun with a puzzled expression, but he didn't know where to begin asking.

"Are you trying to ask me why I didn't help him? Why I watched him get into this state and did nothing?" Du Yun took another sip of beer and asked Lu Yuan, "What could you do if this person completely ignored your help?"

“Before we left Y Town, I had already awakened my superpower.” Before Lu Yuan could speak, Du Yun continued, “The day you left, Yi Chen told me that he wished he could have a superpower too. So I told him that I had awakened my superpower, and Yi Chen was really happy at that time. We headed east, wanting to return to S City. I was really worried about Jin Nan at that time. Fortunately, we didn’t encounter any powerful zombies along the way.”

"When we reached the border of J Province, we were ambushed by zombies. Fortunately, my ability level had improved along the way, so although we suffered some casualties, we still managed to defeat the zombies. It was also during this time that we discovered the crystals inside the zombies." Du Yun's voice was occasionally punctuated by Lan Yichen's cloying accent as he introduced his new friend, and Lu Yuan unconsciously turned around to look at him again.

"It was also during this time that we made a dangerous attempt. A friend in our team, whom we later rescued on the road, ate a crystal. We originally thought he would mutate into a zombie, but the result was beyond everyone's expectations. Instead, he gained the zombie's superpowers. This was a huge encouragement to our entire team, and everyone in the team decided to consume crystals to awaken their superpowers. But not everyone was so lucky. Some of them mutated directly, while others, like Yichen, did not react at all."

"You mean, Lan Yichen ate the crystal, but didn't mutate or awaken any superpowers?" Actually, after the crystal experiment failed at the South China Base, Gu Nanfeng had told them that many non-governmental survivor bases might use this method to awaken superpowers, but they never thought that after consuming the crystal, there might be no reaction at all.

“He’s tried it more than once.” Du Yun’s grip on the wine bottle tightened. “He’s tried almost every type of crystal I was given.”

"I'm asking you the hell, where's Jin Laosi!" Just as Lu Yuan and Du Yun were talking, the central square became noisy again. Lu Yuan turned around and saw Wang Sanhai grabbing Wen Zhou by the collar and questioning him.

"Brother Sanhai! Brother Liu Jia!" Lu Yuan looked around but couldn't see Ji Lang, Lin Yun, and the others. Because there were too many people, he couldn't see the cafeteria where Zhong Qiang had been before, so he could only shout and rush into the small square.

"Lu Yuan? What are you doing here?" Liu Jia saw Lu Yuan running out from the narrow path that was deliberately left open for one person. He really didn't expect Lu Yuan to be here.

"Team Leader Ji and Team Leader Lin are here, but there are too many people, and I don't know where they are right now." Lu Yuan said, looking around. Soon, he could see people squeezing in from one direction.