90: Give them some spice

"You... where did you learn all these skills?" Bai Minghe stared at her and asked.

He hadn't reacted when the zombie jumped down, but Bai Wanning had delivered a fatal blow, neatly dispatching the monster.

"I don't know," Bai Wanning replied calmly, pulling out her dagger. She turned to Bai Minghe and said, "Never use a gun without a suppressor. These monsters have acute hearing and will swarm you from all directions as soon as they hear a gunshot. Too much noise is very dangerous. Next time you use a gun, remember to attach a suppressor."

After speaking, she squatted down and forcefully pried out the crystal core embedded in the zombie's head.

Bai Minghe looked at the egg-sized crystal core in Bai Wanning's hand, temporarily setting aside his unease.

Although Bai Wanning no longer respected him as she used to, she was at least willing to remind him and tell him these things, which showed she still cared about him.

"Wanning, why are you collecting these things?" he said, while pulling out a stun baton and striking it hard on the head of a zombie stumbling out of the alley.

Although the stun baton failed to smash the zombie's head, Bai Minghe didn't care.

He took advantage of the monster's stumble, ripped off the watch from his wrist, wrapped it around his knuckles, and fiercely smashed it into the zombie's head.

Thick, putrid blood covered his fingers, making him retch violently, but he still suppressed the nausea, pushed aside brain matter, bone fragments, and flesh, and extracted a pomegranate-sized crystal core from the zombie's skull.

He looked at the ruby-like crystal, waiting for Bai Wanning's answer.

He was sure this item was useful, otherwise she wouldn't be collecting them one by one.

Bai Wanning was impressed by Bai Minghe's actions; he not only noticed she was collecting crystal cores but also sensed their unusual nature.

No wonder he reached the peak so quickly in her previous life. If he hadn't foolishly supported Bai Xue, he wouldn't have died so early and so tragically.

Thinking of this, Bai Wanning couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache. Such great potential, wasted by a selfish white lotus.

However, she had no intention of telling Bai Minghe the truth, merely shrugging, "I don't know either."

"Then why are you collecting these crystal cores?" Bai Minghe asked.

Under the moonlight cast in the darkness, his expression was stern.

His gaze was fixed on Bai Wanning, and even when a gust of wind swept through, raising a huge wave that crashed against his knees, he showed no sign of flinching.

Although he didn't say it aloud, he indirectly exposed Bai Wanning's nonsense.

Bai Wanning didn't even blush. She knew Bai Minghe knew she was lying, but so what?

She turned to him and said coldly, "Brother Minghe, you've forgotten, I'm no different from you."

"Like you, this is my first time encountering such things. How would I know what use they have?"

"I collected these things because I want to go back and study them. Isn't it strange? Their bodies are rotten, yet a crystal grows in their heads."

"It just seems odd no matter how you look at it."

As for the fact that these crystal cores could awaken abilities, Bai Wanning did not tell Bai Minghe. If it were someone else, she might have reminded them, but Bai Minghe was different.

He was a muddle-headed man and from the Bai family's side; she couldn't help him.

If she told Bai Minghe the truth about the crystal cores, it wouldn't be long before he relayed the information to Bai Xue and Su Hu.

Although those two didn't awaken abilities in the previous life, they never gave up.

Bai Xue once heard that a Level 6 zombie's crystal core could help ordinary people awaken, so she ordered Bai Wanning to hunt a zombie and seize its crystal core.

Even though the probability of awakening was less than one in ten thousand, Bai Xue, jealous of Bai Wanning's abilities, still wanted to try.

She half-coaxed, half-threatened Bai Wanning, saying that if she helped her awaken, she could participate in hunting and lighten Bai Wanning's burden.

Even as foolish as Bai Wanning was then, she still believed it.

She thought about spending more time with her son, believing that as long as she obtained these Level 6 crystal cores, she would have more time to be with Bai Cai.

Who would have thought that Bai Xue, that idiot, would give up absorbing the crystal core midway because she couldn't endure the intense pain?

Not only did she fail to absorb the crystal core, but when her body was strong enough to awaken abilities, she turned around and blamed Bai Wanning, saying she had deceived and harmed her.

Consequently, her hatred for Bai Wanning deepened. Unable to harm Bai Wanning herself, she unleashed her anger on Bai Cai, bullying him with increasing severity.

Bai Wanning painfully pulled herself out of her memories and turned to Bai Minghe.

She knew that the secret about crystal cores aiding awakening wouldn't remain hidden for long; Bai Xue and the others would discover it sooner or later.

Since that was the case, she had to completely cut off even the slightest hope for these people to become Extraordinary Persons.

Even Bai Qingshi and Chu Xia were no exception.

Although they would never pose a real threat to her, Bai Wanning simply wanted them to experience the pain she had once endured, being scorned and looked down upon because of her pregnancy.

This time, she wouldn't even leave their bodies.

Thinking of this, she immediately opened the material exchange system and searched for the account she had previously seen. Fortunately, the woman was online, busy looking for trading partners.

The owner of this account was a witch who liked to collect all kinds of perfumes, clothes, and jewelry; anything shiny and fragrant, she would buy.

Bai Wanning quickly exchanged a bottle of expensive perfume for a bag of poison powder.

This poison powder could not only devastate the body but also poison true qi.

And an Extraordinary Person's spiritual core was extremely similar to true qi; as long as they took this poison, she dared to assert that the Bai family's chances of fully awakening would drop to zero.

So, while Bai Minghe was fully engrossed in dealing with the zombies, Bai Wanning silently approached his backpack containing supplies, tore open the necessary seals, and unscrewed the necessary bottle caps.

She poured the poison powder into the supplies and then carefully wiped her fingers dry.

Only after completing all this did she stand up straight and look at Bai Minghe, who was still killing zombies.

His movements were slow at first, clearly still figuring out how to kill these monsters, but soon, he mastered the knack and became swift and precise.

Bai Wanning couldn't help but sigh softly. Indeed, there was still a gap between them; Bai Minghe was truly exceptionally talented.

"Wanning," Bai Minghe said, after clearing the zombies from the street, walking over to her and looking at her face, "Do you want to share supplies together?"

He only asked this because he had noticed her stealthily approaching his supply bag just now.

Bai Wanning: "..."

She gasped, then shook her head, casually making an excuse: "You don't have what I need."

With that, she turned and walked towards her inflatable boat.

Fortunately, she hadn't taken out the boat, otherwise, it would have been difficult to explain its origin to Bai Minghe.