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Chapter 70 Change of Forces
On the return journey, there is no need to rush on the road. When encountering zombies, mutated animals, and plants blocking the way, Jiang Lingzhi just got out of the car to practice.Within two days of walking on the road, she broke through the seventh level and officially became an eighth level supernatural being.

It took thirteen days before they returned to Chenxi base.

Jiang Lingzhi and Shen Mo rested for a few days in a row, and planned to take Thunder's team members to Qinnan Beiling for training, and strive to gather two groups of seventh-order superpowers from all departments within their Thunder to improve the strength of the Thunder team.

Just before Jiang Lingzhi and the others heard what the Sino-North Korean base said, they finally had nothing to do to harm the mutated animals and plants in the western part of Qinnan Beiling.

A dozen or so of them entered the mountain from the eastern section of Qinnan Beiling, and began to sweep along the mountain range.

For two consecutive months, three people in the team have been upgraded to the seventh level, and ten people have reached the peak of the sixth level.It is estimated that in one or two months, they will be able to gather a group of seventh-level supernatural powers from the whole series.

At this time, Shen Mo also upgraded to the eighth level.

While they were practicing methodically, they harvested many different kinds of mutated plants.

At this time, Jiang Lingzhi suddenly found something unusual on a small hillside.

"Shen Mo, did you feel it just now?" Jiang Lingzhi pointed to a small hill not far away, "There seemed to be a lot of coercion coming from there just now, but as soon as we walked in, they all dispersed."

"Is there any problem?" They must have been scared away by them.Shen Mo didn't understand what was wrong with this, and looked at her suspiciously.

"That is, I can feel that they are all coercion from high-level mutated plants, and they actually coexist in one place, isn't it strange?"

Except for the mutated animals that live in groups, it is impossible for high-level mutated animals and plants to coexist with other high-level mutated animals and plants.

Shen Mo thought for a while, and directly suggested: "Then let's go and have a look?"

Jiang Lingzhi nodded, and Shen Mo said to the team members: "Everyone follow up, don't fall behind."

"Yes."

Although each team member is wearing the toughest armor and holding the sharpest nuclear weapons, Qinnanbeiling is full of dangers, and they are not sure that they will be able to escape back to Chenxi base after falling behind.

Seeing the team walking towards the hill, Hao Wenjing walked forward quickly, walked up to Jiang Lingzhi and asked, "Lingzhi, do you think this place is a bit strange too?"

"What do you think is strange?" Jiang Lingzhi asked.

Hao Wenjing stood still, she didn't answer, but closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and carefully grasped the strange feeling.

She opened her eyes with firm eyes and said: "I feel that there is a force under that hillside, which is a bit like a crystal nucleus."

"Crystal nucleus?" Jiang Lingzhi and Shen Mo were a little surprised. Don't they need to drill the crystal nucleus in the future, just dig it?
"Then let's go dig and see?" Jiang Lingzhi asked, but she had already taken out the military shovel and was ready to shovel the soil.

Hao Wenjing hurriedly stopped her, "You forgot, I'm an earth type, and you need to do the shoveling?"

"Forgot." Jiang Lingzhi had no choice but to smile, and put away the military shovel.

Hao Wenjing stepped forward, followed that force, and suddenly activated the supernatural power, digging a small bottomless hole directly on the high hillside.

Thunder's teammates all rushed forward, standing on the edge of the small hole and looking in.

"Look, is that faint, glowing thing a crystal nucleus?" Manman asked her old brother Yuan.

"It's kind of like it." Brother Yuan touched the egg in the chest armor, not sure.

"Captain Shen, there really are crystal nuclei!" A young man with thick eyebrows and square face shouted.

"It's really a crystal nucleus, Team Shen and Team Jiang, come quickly!"

"Sister Jing, you are amazing! It's like mining." Such a large crystal nucleus must have enough energy, and I don't know how much material it can earn if it is sold to the base.

Soon, Manman of the wood department brought up two fist-sized crystal nuclei from the bottom of the pit and handed them to Hao Wenjing, "Sister Jing, your crystal nuclei."

"Thank you, Manman." Hao Wenjing took the crystal nucleus, held it in his hand, looked at it carefully, and played with it.

"You're welcome, this is the first time I've seen such a large crystal nucleus, the energy inside is so abundant!" Manman sighed.

"It's just too abundant, and one crystal nucleus can't be absorbed in batches. I'm afraid it won't be able to stop once the crystal nucleus is absorbed. In the end, the supernatural person may explode and die." Hao Wenjing shook her head, it's a pity that there are so many She can't use the energy, and she doesn't know what it will be useful for.

"Jiang team, you are the highest level, can you absorb such a large crystal nucleus?" asked the team members on the side.

Jiang Lingzhi calculated the energy and shook her head directly, "No."

Hearing the heated discussions among his teammates, Shen Mo pondered for a while before saying, "Maybe this is the energy for the future."

"Energy, what energy?"

"Team Shen, did the base invent something else that needs crystal cores to provide energy?"

Seeing the indescribable expression on Shen Mo's face, the team members said directly, "Ah, it must be."

The team members chattered together.

The electricity used by Chenxi Base is all converted from solar energy and wind energy.But the weather in the end of the world is unpredictable. Sometimes there is no sunshine for a whole month, and the windmill may freeze due to heavy snow.

And Lu Shuxing also asked someone to investigate the former coal mines. It turned out that even the stones had changed. After mining a pile and refining them, it took a lot of effort, and all the coal ores turned into black sand.

The same goes for the oil fields, where the crude oil turns stinky and slimy.

At this point, they understood that as soon as they touch the land, everything below will change, and they can no longer treat it according to their previous experience.

Time passed and another two months passed, and the Thunder team finally got together a group of all supernatural beings.

Recently, the team members are a little tired, the speed of upgrading has begun to drop rapidly, and only instinct is left in the battle, and the fighting spirit has decreased a lot.

Jiang Lingzhi and Shen Mo thought that it had been four months since they left the Chenxi base, and it was time for the team members to go back and take a rest, so they led the team back to the base.

As early as one and a half months ago, Shen Mo received a message from Lu Shuxing.

The Sino-North Korean base successively bought a lot of manpower from the inside of the Hope Base, allowing a small number of troops from the Sino-North Korean base to enter.The Chinese and North Korean troops first teamed up with the Sun family army to drive [-]% of the Zheng family army back to Liberty Base, and then took the remaining [-]% of the Zheng family army for their own use.

During this period, Lu Shuxun, the cousin of Lu Shuxing, who was stationed at the Hope Base with [-]% of his troops, did not venture into the muddy water, and decisively led the Lu Family Army back to the Chenxi Base.

Soon after, General Sun was assassinated, and the descendants of the Sun family quickly launched a battle, which allowed the Chinese and North Korean troops to benefit from it.The descendants of the Sun family died and were injured, hoping that the base will officially become a vassal of the Sino-North Korean base.

Just when the Lu family and the Zheng family felt headaches watching the Sino-North Korean base grow bigger, the Chinese and North Korean troops in the Hope Base suddenly raised a new banner, declaring themselves to be the "new school", which was inconsistent with the "old school" philosophy of the Sino-North Korean base.It is hoped that the base is an independent and independent base, not a vassal of the Chinese and North Korean bases.

In just over a month, the power of the four bases began to reshuffle again.

After the new faction occupied Hope Base, the old faction wanted to take the opportunity to intervene in Liberty Base, but the Zheng family was not a vegetarian, and they didn't give them a chance at all.The Zheng family recalled all the soldiers who could be recalled from the Hope and Chenxi bases.

While hoping that the base would become more and more stable, the Liberty Base fell into dire straits again. The Zheng family, the Sun family, the old school, and the second uncle of the Lu family began to scramble and fight.

Soon, Second Uncle Lu, who disobeyed the Chenxi base's order of "don't wade into the muddy water, retreat immediately" and had the least number of troops, was no match for the other three.When he wanted to retreat, it was too late. When Uncle Lu was dying, he had to order a small team to escort his precious daughter Lu Shuyan to Chenxi base.

The new faction is gone, but there are still many hidden threads left behind. There is turmoil in the Sino-North Korean base, and the old faction has to return to defense.The Sun family had no choice but to negotiate with the Zheng family. For the temporary stability of the free base, the Zheng family and the Sun family peacefully coexisted in the free base.

Before Jiang Lingzhi and his party returned to Chenxi base, the forces of the four bases had already tended to balance again.

Only [-]% of the original Lu family army remained in the Chenxi base, and [-]% was the Lu family army brought back by Lu Shuxun.

Only the old faction remained in the Sino-DPRK base, and less than half of the talents and materials were brought to the Hope Base by the new faction.

I hope that there are [-]% of the new faction forces left in the base, and [-]% of the Sun Jiajun who are lingering.

Eighty percent of the Zheng family's army and [-] percent of the Sun's family remained in the free base.

There was a great battle, and the three bases each suffered losses. In the end, the Chenxi base took advantage of it.The Chenxi base has become the most powerful base without a single soldier.

Just when Jiang Lingzhi and his group were about to arrive at Chenxi Base, they accidentally watched the scene where Lu Shuxun came out to intercept and kill Lu Shuyan.

Jiang Lingzhi, who had experienced Lu Shuyan's temperament a few times and had a bad impression of her, did not sympathize with her, but felt a faint sense of comfort in her heart.

She didn't know what enmity between her original partner's son Lu Shuxun and Xiaosan's daughter Lu Shuyan, since Lu Shuxun didn't kill Lu Shuyan's guards, she knew that he was not afraid of others knowing, after all, he was the blood of a wealthy family.

Back at Chenxi Base, Shen Mo first went to deal with the chores accumulated over the past few months.

Jiang Ganoderma gave the red-patterned egg a daily infusion of powers, chatted with it, and then went to supervise the craftsman, the medicine craftsman, or refining a few meteorite spaces, and basically spent a day.

Of course, every day after grandma got off work, her red-patterned eggs would be snatched away by grandma, so she had no choice but to relax happily.

A week later, Shen Mo resumed his sticky days with Jiang Lingzhi after finishing his work.

The couple inspected the refining and pharmaceutical products together, inspected the shop of the Thunder team together, and went to see the Thunder team's planting fields together.They still have to wait for the test results of the mutated plants they collected in order to update and correct the "Encyclopedia of Mutant Plants".

One day two months later, in the field of the Thunder.

When Yiyi, a low-level wood-type supernatural being, was planting fruits and vegetables, she was suddenly confused by the illusion woven by the mutated fruits and vegetables. Fortunately, there was a high-level supernatural being at the side who discovered it and took action, otherwise Yiyi might become the first A supernatural being killed by the fruits and vegetables grown by himself.

As soon as this incident happened, the captains of several large mercenary teams were dragged to the large conference room at the base for a meeting.

"The mutated fruits and vegetables in the Thunder team can actually be upgraded to the second level. It confuses a first-level wood-type supernatural user. It proves that the planting field will bring some security risks to the base. The idea of ​​​​the base is to consider taking back the planting field." Lu Shuxing He didn't come forward, but asked Lu Shuxun to negotiate with the captains of these hiring teams.

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.

Without the farmland, the mercenary team will have less income. How can these captains rely on it.

"Second Officer Lu, how can this work? There are so many ordinary people in our mercenary team, but they all rely on the farmland for food. You are trying to cut off their livelihood!" Captain War God, who was on the wrong team in the power struggle, threatened faintly.

The God of War team's ranking in the mercenary team has been declining one after another. The captain of God of War knows that they can't climb up to the Lu family, so he gives up on himself and doesn't try to please the Lu family.

He directly threatened the employment of the people in the Chenxi base. As long as the Lu family took back the planting fields, he would kick out the ordinary people in the team who were in charge of planting, and let the base find jobs for them and take care of their livelihood.

Several other captains who were on the wrong team also echoed, "Yes, yes, the plantation field has been taken back, how are those people going to live..."

There was a fire in Lu Shuxun's heart, but he couldn't let it out on the spot.

The main purpose of their base for everyone to talk is not to directly take back the planting fields.

One is to strengthen the management of the mercenary team, so as not to let the mutated plants escape and harm the people of the base.The second is to establish rules and establish a punishment system. Once the mutated plants in the planting fields escape, how much compensation will be required.The third is to levy taxes on the planted land to increase the income of the base.

Unexpectedly, the captains of the mercenary team started threatening him without haggling with him, which really made his head hurt.

Moreover, Zhitian was originally assigned to the mercenary team for free for the mercenary team to absorb more ordinary people. The mercenary team has taken advantage of them for so long, and this group of people is not satisfied.

Lu Shuxun tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart, and said loudly: "It's all for consideration. The base will not take back your farm without consulting the mercenary team."

"Ah, that's good, that's good." Several booing captains began to pretend to be stupid, but no one asked him what he really thought about Ji Di.

Lu Shuxun glanced around at the captains of the mercenary team present, and seeing that no one continued the conversation for him, he cursed inwardly, they were all old foxes.

He had no choice but to tell the conditions of the base directly, "Everyone knows that this kind of farmland was lent to everyone for free before. Now everyone's life is becoming more and more stable, the population of the base has also increased, and the burden has also increased. In order to better The construction base, the base needs to tax the planting land."

"What...taxation?" A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the captains.

"How much is the levy?" Their faces were full of refusal, but they knew that they might not be able to end the meeting today without paying.

The captain of the mercenary team below started making noise again.

"Everyone be quiet, be quiet, and listen to me." Lu Shuxun comforted the captains, and continued, "This fresh mutated fruit and vegetable is originally a luxury food, and the base plan is to tax it at [-]% .”

"Twenty percent, that's so high!" Why didn't the captains of the mercenary team yell out heartbroken when they wanted to charge half of their profits.

"This base collects [-]% of the income, so our mercenary team won't make any money..."

"No, no, [-]% is too high."

"If we charge [-]%, we will lose money." A team leader exaggerated.

The captains of the mercenary team all complained.

These old foxes, who don't know that their hiring team earns [-]% of the income, Lu Shuxun thought to himself.However, the base didn't plan to ask for [-]% in the first place, and left more benefits for the mercenary team, so that someone could help the base.

Lu Shuxun looked at them in embarrassment, he let out a long sigh, as if he had compromised, and asked them seriously: "Then how much are you willing to levy?"

"One percent." The most exaggerated captain said.

"Two percent." Another captain quickly added a little.

"Three percent."

Seeing that everyone's bids were so low, the captains were heartbroken, as if the base had taken advantage of it, and shouted, "No more than 5.00% at most."

Then, the captains saw that Lu Shuxun's face became darker, and the wrinkles between his brows deepened.

Shen Mo knew roughly how much the base wanted to charge, but he didn't say a word from the beginning to the end of the meeting.As the captain of the mercenary team, it is not good for him to directly speak for the base, but he will not harm his own interests.Anyway, when they negotiated, no matter how much it was, he would pay directly. Anyway, the Thunder had money, so it was not short of taxes.

Lu Shuxun laughed angrily at this group of stingy old foxes, and he turned around in a good-tempered manner: "Then how about it, the base doesn't collect taxes, just collect rent."

When the captains of the mercenary team heard it, it was broken.The output of this field is also uncertain. If the rent is collected according to the land, there will be a time when the rent will be raised. When the harvest is not good, they will lose money.

They quickly said with a smile: "How can we do that, let's collect taxes."

"That's right. It's not good to collect too much rent. We should pay the tax. Let's talk about it."

Lu Shuxun smiled pretentiously without anger, and then asked: "Then how much we charge, I will give you two more chances, and if you ask that kind of price indiscriminately, let's not talk about it, and just collect the rent."

Seeing Lu Shuxun's tough attitude, the captains tried to offer a sincere price, "[-]%."

Seeing that Lu Shuxun's expression remained unchanged and he didn't say a word, they could only frown and raise the price again with heartache, "12.00%, really can't be more."

"Okay, deal." Lu Shuxun showed a satisfied smile.

At this moment, the captains of the mercenary team suddenly felt that the price was high, and everyone had the expression of being scratched.

After talking about the money, Lu Shuxun continued: "There are two requirements from the base: first, you must strengthen the management of the planting fields, and you must not let the mutated fruits and vegetables come out to harm the people of the base. In case of casualties, the base will impose fines on you."

Well, these two items are indeed reasonable, and the captains had no choice but to nod in agreement.

The meeting ended, and Lu Shuxun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This group of tricksters originally had to pay taxes to the base area for the things bought and sold on the trade street, and of course this group of mutated fruits and vegetables was no exception.But they actually pre-sell the fruits and vegetables directly in the shop, and when the fruits and vegetables are ripe, they will be sent from the fields to the buyers, directly bypassing the tax of the base area, and stealing a lot of money.

This time I finally managed to get it back.

(End of this chapter)