"After you're done, figure out your own way back, but don't die."
Sun Shiqing directly tossed Tao Yu onto the corpse cultivation site.
"Don't forget to pass the message to Panda for me, Young Master Sun."
"Got it. If you're planning to stay long, better check back in first to avoid accumulating madness."
"Okay."
"I might take a trip back alone to bring the mission terminal over. If anything comes up, you can come to me. I'll also let the Myriad Streams dojo know."
"Much appreciated!"
Tao Yu stood on the ground and cheerfully waved to the two people in the sky.
"Don't forget the Meditation Technique."
Sun Shiyu also casually reminded him.
"I'll need Miss Sun's guidance if there's anything I don't understand when I get back."
Thereafter, the brother and sister duo quickly soared away on their motorboat.
Tao Yu then began collecting the scattered zombie body parts. They were excellent nutrients that could save him time.
While gathering the body parts, Tao Yu also clicked his tongue in wonder.
Besides the 'extremely toxic' warning that he could sense, even the black fur was as hard as steel needles, probably impenetrable by bullets.
This was enough to demonstrate the siblings' strength.
"Now that I have the 'Meditation Technique,' and the 'Corpse Refining Art' has been made clear, I can actually bring a couple more zombies to the surface."
After Tao Yu finished collecting the body parts, he looked at the black soil and felt that cultivating only Cao Shaolin seemed wasteful, especially since the second phase would take forty-nine days.
Refine just one corpse over such a long period?
In a place like this, even ordinary corpses could probably be turned into decent zombies.
"Indeed, I need to go back first. I can also take the opportunity to learn the Breathing Technique of Myriad Streams Five Forms. However, I wonder if Little Black will be okay over such a long time?"
Tao Yu thought of the Alien.
He wasn't worried about Little Black, just an Alien—if it got killed, it got killed. He was afraid of it causing harm to Tommy and Judy if it got out of control.
Afterward, Tao Yu also thought about the location he had seen from the sky and glanced over at his walkie-talkie.
They should be nearing the city by now. He needed to find a place with a signal to let them know and release Little Black to come to him.
Since he was going back anyway, it wasn't urgent...
...
In a shopping mall, Tao Yu stuffed some items he planned to take back into his backpack while pressing the walkie-talkie.
Summoned creatures, pets, and mounts have a normal quota, but they require 'complete control.'
Currently, because Little Black didn't meet this requirement, and Cao Shaolin had merged into the shadows not occupying a quota, Tao Yu had chosen a motorcycle in keeping with his mindset of not wasting available options.
However, since he had set off from his bed at home, the flimsy bed couldn't withstand the weight upon his return and had simply fallen apart.
They were originally just cobbled together with bricks and planks, and looking down at it now, it felt somewhat speechless and choked up.
"When you think about it, the barracks at the apocalypse had far better conditions than my home."
Tao Yu scratched his head, smelling the faint moldy scent at the tip of his nose.
After a thorough bath with soap, returning to such surroundings felt like putting on dirty underwear after a shower.
"Who's there? Is that you, A'Yu, coming back?"
The voice of the third brother came from the next room, and Tao Yu even heard the sound of a bullet being chambered.
Outside of the Inner City wasn't exactly peaceful, and it was necessary to be vigilant—after all, the third brother had been a member of the security force.
"Brother, it's me."
Tao Yu answered, presuming his parents were still working in the Abyss. If there were no changes to their shifts, they would normally come back once a month for a five-day break, and that was the norm.
If there were any issues that needed to be communicated on normal days, it would involve seeking out the colleagues who returned with his parents to pass a message.
As for the type of communication tools that could directly connect the Abyss and the ordinary world, probably only the Suns sisters had access to such devices.
In any case, Tao Yu hadn't found anything like that on any of the Inner City Pioneers that he himself had taken care of.
"You're back earlier than expected; did something happen?"
Tao Yu heard the sound of the third brother's wheelchair rolling, and then he actively opened the door, first throwing the motorcycle inside the room and then carrying out the supplies on his back.
Upon seeing the third brother emerging from his room, rolling his wooden wheels, with a pistol slotted at the side of his wheelchair within easy reach, Tao Tong's somewhat wooden face broke out into a faint smile.
"Haha, you could say it was a happy occurrence. I found a potential site for our gathering place and earned a great merit. They rewarded me with lots of Yuan Force, so I came back to share the good news."
The six-person household's monthly expenditure of Yuan Force barely exceeded one hundred; even the parents needed some Yuan Force to maintain their own conditions while most of their food and such was brought back from the Abyss and left over from working on the farm.
They rarely spent Yuan Force to buy anything.
Although Tao Yu was not exactly overflowing with wealth, he felt it was his due to take out some to improve their living situation.
Therefore, he needed a reason to offer the Yuan Force.
Just a thousand or two would make a significant improvement to the family's current situation.
If it weren't for the fact that his parents had squeezed out a thousand units of Yuan Force through gritted teeth at the beginning, facing that dreadful starting environment, he probably would have had it tough despite his talents.
As Tao Yu spoke, he set down the backpack and folding wheelchair he was carrying.
Then he quickly assembled the folding wheelchair and said to his brother,
"Bro, look what I brought for you? There's some good stuff in the shards of that world, and I brought some back."
First pushing the wheelchair up to his brother's somewhat worn wooden one, Tao Yu also opened the backpack and took out clothes for his brother, along with some various daily necessities...