In the afternoon, Elijah and his team headed back to the mall.
As soon as they got within five kilometers of the mall, Elijah noticed something unusual. The last four zombies he had contracted had all awakened!
The group hurried to the mall without delay. Elijah immediately called the four zombies over.
From a distance, he spotted an unusually large female zombie.
She was nearly two meters tall, with an extremely bulky, distorted body. As she approached, she looked like a mountain.
"What a huge zombie!"
Lily, the shortest among them, exclaimed.
"This one is just big. It doesn't have any other special abilities."
Elijah shook his head in disappointment.
This was a zombie with a mutated body.
Despite its size, in terms of attack power, it might not be as strong as another mutated clawed zombie.
Additionally, it moved very slowly and would likely consume a lot of corpse core daily.
Elijah decided to abandon it right away.
He then turned his attention to the other three zombies.
Their appearances hadn't changed noticeably. Through the Seed of Consciousness, Elijah quickly understood their abilities.
One zombie had awakened a defensive ability, similar to Abigail's.
However, Abigail had grown continuously over time and, with the feeding of corpse cores, her defensive abilities were much stronger than this newly awakened zombie's.
Elijah also put this zombie on the discard list.
He then looked at the abilities of the remaining two zombies.
"Hmm? This ability is interesting!"
Elijah gestured to the air, and countless water droplets condensed in his hand, slowly forming a bead, which eventually gathered into a ball.
"The power to control water flow, so we'll never have to worry about water supplies when we go out!"
Elijah nodded in satisfaction.
"And it matches well with Hannah's ability!"
Fiona remarked, also looking surprised.
"I can condense water vapor from the air myself!"
Hannah said defiantly. She could even turn it into ice and eat it to cool down!
The two exchanged a silent glance and nodded slightly.
Elijah greeted warmly, "I thought you wouldn't come today!"
"Haha, why would I miss it? But our expansion to the south today almost went awry!" Quentin laughed heartily and then added with some relief, "Oh? What happened?"
"We encountered a mutant zombie! Fortunately, thanks to Elijah's previous briefing, we didn't panic!" Quentin sighed helplessly. "And thus, we lost two brothers."
"Alas, such is life! May they rest in peace!"
Elijah, having witnessed countless living beings being surrounded and killed by zombies in his past life, and having met his own end this way, remained quite calm inside.
Nevertheless, he played along with Quentin's sentimentality. "Life and death are fated."
Quentin quickly adjusted his mood and then looked at a huge zombie beside him.
Just now, they had seen it from afar and were startled.
If it weren't for seeing Elijah, they probably wouldn't have dared to approach.
"Elijah, has the zombie you control awakened again?"
"Ah, it's just a physical mutation, looks big but not very useful," Elijah shrugged.
Behind Quentin, a newcomer, hearing Elijah's modest words, looked enviously at him, his eyes turning red with envy.
If only he could have such a zombie, he could dominate in the apocalypse...
"I envy Elijah!" Quentin also glanced at him enviously.
Then he continued, "By the way, Elijah, when we were cleaning up the zombie bodies in the neighborhood and collecting corpse cores as you instructed last time, we happened to come across one similar to what you wanted. Take a look, see if it's what you're looking for?"
"It looks similar, but I'm not sure. But why does this flower look so withered? It seems almost dead!" Elijah pretended to be uncertain.
"I'm not sure either. It was growing well in the neighborhood, but who knows, as soon as we transplanted it, it turned out like this!" Quentin scratched his head.
"Anyway, thank you, Quentin! Whether it survives or not, I'll take it first and see if my girl likes it!" Elijah pretended to be uncertain.
"Thank you, Elijah, for your expertise in flowers, I admire it!" Quentin chuckled.
"Oh, stop it..." Both of them chuckled.
Then Quentin handed over two young calves to Elijah.
Elijah didn't want to treat him unfairly, so he said, "These two calves, one male and one female, you've put in effort. If they can breed in the future, I'll have to thank you properly.So, for these two cows and that pot of flowers, I will give you 50 corpse cores worth of supplies!"
"Brother, you're generous!" Quentin grinned widely.
These three items, especially the two calves, were also reluctantly given by him. He hadn't expected to get much in return, just to solidify the relationship between them. Now that Elijah was so straightforward, he thought he hadn't misjudged him.
"I also have 20 corpse cores here, Elijah, take a look..." Quentin laughed and took out another transparent bag filled with corpse cores.
"No problem, I'll take as many as you have!" Elijah took them casually.
Both sides were very satisfied, agreeing on the delivery location. Elijah let Lily and the others start moving the perishable goods outside, while Quentin's men also happily started carrying their share.