What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

Chapter 336 Stealing the Black Crystal

Whenever Lu Yize recalls his situation back then, his legs, which are not paralyzed now, still ache.

Just like a phantom limb still feels pain as if its leg is still there, Lu Yize was paralyzed from the waist down for more than ten years in his previous life, and it was hard for him to completely forget the feeling of being a cripple.

Back when Jiang Yue was still a level one zombie, her desire to devour and gnaw on him was clearly at its peak. But not only did she not eat him, she even presented him with the crystal core while covered in wounds.

Lu Yize suppressed the few emotions he could muster. After saying those words, he met Jiang Yue's astonished expression. For a moment, Jiang Yue couldn't figure out what he was regretting.

Regret about this action? Or regret about something else? Jiang Yue had no answer, and Lu Yize had no intention of explaining.

Lu Yize then contacted Morse and Xie Hongyang to inform them about Su Xuan and to prepare in advance.

Xie Hongyang replied faster than Morse this time, which surprised Lu Yize. Morse was usually the fastest to reply, after all, he was a man who could be called a playboy, and his reply speed was usually ridiculously fast.

Surprisingly, Xie Hongyang replied faster than Morse today?

Before Lu Yize could get a result from his confusion, Morse's call notification lit up on his ability ring. The moment Lu Yize answered, he heard the man excitedly shout, "Found it! We found it!"

Chen Ping is reliable, much more reliable than Morse's nonsense. He took the power ring and said, "We found their laboratory where they refine black crystals."

"Where is the specific location?"

Chen Ping gave a specific location, which was actually not far away, only a few meters away from where Chen Mingzhang and Hilde had been earlier.

"There are seven more rooms like these, and the area surrounded by these rooms is the true core of the entire Sky City's power system."

"We have no way to investigate further for the time being, but we have noticed that the fuel they use to power this sky city seems to be blood!"

As for whose blood it is, it can't be from a different race, so the most likely source is the blood of people who have been continuously killed.

Be careful.

Destroying the core area is one thing, but preventing people from dying inside is the most important thing.

"Understood. You guys be careful too. I just bumped into Noah and Cecil. They were talking in hushed tones."

Chen Ping told Lu Yize the information he had inadvertently gathered. Lu Yize thought about what he had seen in Noah's mind and reasonably suspected that Noah and his group also wanted to stir up trouble.

Lu Yize relayed the information to the others and gave the order, "We can begin."

As soon as Lu Yize gave the order, the people who had been disguised instantly killed the alien race around them.

Their swift actions left them no time to react before they were killed by people who were likely weaker than themselves.

An alarm suddenly sounded in Sky City. Hilde and Riva rushed over immediately, only to find the mangled remains of the dead, while the perpetrator had vanished without a trace.

Hilde's face was grim as her mental energy surged, enveloping everyone present. She scanned each person's face, searching for anything unusual.

Riva glared fiercely at the Parasitic Flower Mothers, demanding, "Did you attack our insectoid race?!"

Aside from their grudge against the Zerg, Riva couldn't think of anyone else who would be so bold as to attack the Zerg; the probability of them committing such an act was far greater than that of others.

"Liva! What do you mean! How could we possibly harm you? Are we crazy?" The leader of the Parasitic Flower Mother clan clenched his fists in anger.

Riva sneered, "I don't know if you're crazy or not, but Hilde is dead, and you'll be held responsible when you go back. So, you'll be trying to find ways to pin the blame on us, won't you?"

Friction between the two races has been constant, and they have always been competitors within the Federation. Although this operation is described as a collaboration, both sides are also seeking their own interests. With only so much available, some unpleasantness is inevitable.

As Riva provoked the others, Hilder used his mental power to scan the facial expressions of everyone present. He didn't think the Parasitic Flower Mother Clan would do something so foolish.

Before he could rule out the anomaly, Cecil suddenly pushed open the door, looking distressed and anxious, and announced, "The Black Crystal is missing."

"what?!"

Riva, who had been arguing, now had a gloomy face. She had long regarded those black crystals as her own possessions, and now they had been stolen?! This was intolerable!

However, Riva wasn't completely led by Cecil's nose. When this happened, her first suspect was Cecil.

"Cecil, how did you manage to arrive at such a convenient time? Someone just happened to be intruding, and you just happened to see it but failed to catch them. What's even more coincidental is that the thief stole the Black Crystal at the crucial moment when you were about to break through to the eighth rank?"

Cecil's face turned ashen. "What do you mean by that? Are you accusing me of embezzlement? And then trying to frame me?"

Riva's ability to climb from a garbage planet to the main planet shows that she is by no means weak, yet she shrugs at this moment.

“I didn’t say that, but I’d still like to remind you not to put all the blame on other people.”

"Stop arguing and get to the lab immediately." Hilde didn't give them a chance to waste any more time talking; it was better to get to work than listen to their nonsense.

When they arrived, they saw Noah in the lab. The moment Riva saw him, she immediately questioned sharply, "Noah, you're here, how did the Black Crystal go missing?"

She suddenly thought of what Noah and Cecil had done before leaving the Federation, and a very bad feeling suddenly arose in her heart, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

Faced with Riva's questioning, Noah glanced at her and said, "Riva, I just discovered that the Black Crystal is missing. You were the one who was in charge of guarding the Black Crystal before me, weren't you?"

"You're talking nonsense! The black crystals were definitely not missing before I left!" Riva said, almost ready to attack.

Hilde didn't look at Riva, but instead asked Noah, "How many obsidian stones are missing?"

Fifty grams.

"What?!" Riva's heart bled when she heard the number. Fifty grams, a full fifty grams, enough for all her advancements over the next period of time.

Converted into Star Coins, it was impossible to say how much that was. Riva, who was desperately poor, felt like she couldn't breathe.

Hilde frowned. "Fifty grams? I took it, Riva, didn't you know that?"

Why are you making such a fuss?

Riva said "Oh, right," but before she could relax, Noah shook his head. "In addition to the fifty grams you took, another fifty grams are missing."

Even Hilde, who usually didn't take things seriously, changed her expression. They had only extracted 150 grams of black crystal in total.