Published: February 5, 2025
After placing the Soul Pearl inside, Ye Zhongming put a grade 3 magic crystal underneath it, then patiently closed the heart and body, binding it again with a cloth strip.
After thinking for a moment, he cut open his own arm and dripped some blood into the mouth of the red-haired girl, letting her hold it.
In fact, Ye Zhongming didn’t know if this would be effective. He was just trying it based on some rumors from his previous life and his understanding of human puppet techniques, and since he happened to have a Soul Pearl, he decided to give it a shot.
As for the results, he could only leave it to fate.
After waiting for a while and seeing that the Iron Corpse showed no signs of change, Ye Zhongming shook his head slightly, covered her with her outer garment, and turned to leave.
Ye Zhongming had been studying equipment for a long time, and by the time he came out, it was almost evening. Everyone was waiting for him to eat.
Dinner was quite lavish. In addition to the indispensable jerky, there was porridge, pickles, canned vegetables, and even a bit of dried vegetables found from a farmhouse. A few women made a dish of dried vegetables braised with meat, which was a heavenly delicacy for everyone who had hardly eaten well since the apocalypse began.
Even Ye Zhongming ate a bit more.
After finishing his meal, Ye Zhongming stood up and retrieved the bag he had brought back from outside, pulling out a few pieces of clothing from inside.
“Hey, bulletproof vests?”
Little Tiger, who was sitting next to Ye Zhongming, looked a bit curious at the sight of the clothing.
“On the national road not far from here, Engineer Li found an overturned transport vehicle that was carrying quite a bit of clothing.”
Engineer Li was an assistant to Le Da Yuan. These assistants had spent a lot of time with the team lately and had gained their initial trust, so Ye Zhongming didn’t hesitate to give them a few bottles of Evolution Potion, turning them into evolvers. Now they were already following the veteran team members on missions.
Seeing Ye Zhongming’s gaze fall on him, Engineer Li nodded and said, “There are no weapons inside, only these bulletproof vests are usable.”
“I’ve modified three of them. One for Shengyuan, one for Teacher Park, and the last one—who wants it?”
This time they obtained quite a few bulletproof vests, probably several dozen. However, these items could barely be called equipment, and Ye Zhongming had to reinforce them multiple times to get three usable ones. In Ye Zhongming’s eyes, they were only barely acceptable; they had decent resistance against ordinary firearms, but their defensive power against higher-grade weapons was quite poor.
The main reason he spent a lot of mental energy to reinforce these three bulletproof vests was that he was considering the possibility of encountering situations where they might be shot at in the future, so it was better to be safe.
There was certainly no objection to Shengyuan and Park Soo-young receiving one. One was primarily defensive, while the other was the core of team support; the safety of the two was vital for the entire team.
“I don’t want it; it’s too ugly!” Liang Chuyin said after finishing her meal, stretching comfortably and displaying her curvaceous figure, glancing at the plain black bulletproof vest before rejecting it.
In fact, even if the vest had looked good, the internet celebrity girl had no intention of taking it; she didn’t want to put Ye Zhongming in a difficult position over such matters.
Mo Ye chuckled, saying it was too ugly. Xia Lei followed with a laugh, agreeing it was too ugly.
But Little Tiger snatched it away, saying, “I don’t think it’s ugly at all!”
“With this, you’ll have to take the front lines.”
Ye Zhongming smiled and pointed at the bulletproof vest.
“No problem, it’s my strong suit.”
After distributing the bulletproof vests, everyone finished their meal. Ye Zhongming went to check on the diligently on-watch earth yellow pill and fed it some meat from a grade 3 mutated lifeform before heading to Shengyuan’s room.