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Respect The Strong (29)
There were a lot of people coming from the Dawn Base. There were ten ability users alone as a truckload of fully-armed soldiers tagged along. Without saying much, they opened fire on the people of the Hope Base and the fight was intense— a true battle to the death, it seemed.
Xiao Jin and the others found Chu Xiang and asked in a low voice, “What’s the situation?”
Looking at the group of people fighting fiercely, Chu Xiang said, “The Dawn Base seems to want to take over the base, so of course they want to resist. Listening to their conversation, it’s probably not the first time the two sides have fought, but there was no final result all along and it led to this
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Chu Xiang was speaking halfway when she suddenly stopped because she saw two familiar people.
She squinted at the man and woman in the distance, finding out their information from the original owner’s memory. The girl’s name was Yao Li, a good friend of the original owner, and the boy was their classmate Xu Zhou. Back then, when the seven or eight of them fled together, Yao Li was always with the original owner. She was very assertive and she always made the right decision.
But later on, Yao Li suddenly ignored the original owner. The original owner approached Yao Li twice, but she made excuses to avoid them. Before the original owner could figure out what was going on, she was bullied by a male classmate. At that time, the original owner desperately resisted and asked Yao Li for help, but the girl and her other classmates turned their heads as they pretended they didn’t see a thing, refusing to help.
After that, they left the original owner and left. After placing a few zombies into the house without leaving any food, they left to have the original owner die. Chu Xiang took two steps to the side so that Yao Li and Xu Zhou could not see her and whispered, “The people here are very cooperative and they know that Zhou Zhen isa good guy. They help each other out, protect one another and have a good relationship altogether to strive and live. I think we should give them a hand. If they were to be annihilated by the Dawn Base, there wouldn’t be a good outcome for sure.”
“Then let’s do it,” Xiao Jin twisted his wrist and joined the battle first.
Xiao Cheng followed closely, putting the gun in Xiao Ai’s hand before leaving. He warned,  “Follow the captain and don’t run around by yourself.”
Xiao Ai leaned beside Chu Xiang and wondered, “Sister Xiang, what are we going to do now?”
Chu Xiang leaned against the wall with her arms around her chest and said with a smile, “We can just take a look. The two of them would be enough help as the Hope Base itself is already quite strong.”
Both Xiao Jin and Xiao Cheng have already cultivated themselves  to a powerful level as they were both blessed with potential. Besides, they have already absorbed so many high-level crystal cores as well, so their strength was definitely the strongest among this group of people. As soon as the two of them joined the battle, the victory was one-sided. Within ten minutes, the outcome was already obvious.
The Dawn Base did not suffer from this loss. After hearing about new outsiders joining the Hope Base, they sent their men over to test the Xiao brothers and retreated once they confirmed it. The Hope Base had fought with them several times, resulting in ties or slight victories by the Dawn Base. This time, they didn’t continue pointlessly either as they fell back once achieving their objective.
Zhou Zhen thanked the Xiao brothers gratefully as Xiao Jin smiled and said, “Our captain asked us to, so if you want to express your gratitude, you can thank her.”
They walked back to the place where Chu Xiang stood, but they did not see her. Xiao Jin glanced around and asked Xiao Ai, “Where is Chu Xiang?”
Xiao Ai shook her head, “I don’t know. Just now, Sister Xiang said that she had something to do and told us not to wait for her. She will come back when she is done.”
Zhou Zhen immediately said, “Do you need to send someone to look for her? Chu Xiang is not familiar with this area, right? It might be troublesome if she strays into the area of the Dawn Base. After all, Chu Xiang has a very good appearance.”
Xiao Ai waved her hand, “Don’t worry about that; Sister Xiang is the strongest in our team. I haven’t seen anyone who can make her suffer a loss.”
Since the three of them said that there was no need to look for her, Zhou Zhen naturally didn’t have much to do. He called everyone to thank the brothers for their help and then sent them a basket of vegetables to express his gratitude. He also sincerely invited them to stay at the base, hoping that they would consider it carefully.
Although Xiao Jin wanted to know where Chu Xiang went, he wasn’t able to find her. So, he could only return to their residence and wait for her to return.
Chu Xiang quietly followed Yao Li back to the Dawn Base and entered it without anyone realizing. On the way, she discovered that Yao Li was actually a space power user. She took out food and water for everyone out of thin air as the extra weapons disappeared.
This was the first time Chu Xiang had seen a space power user and she couldn’t really figure things out. The other abilities were derived from spiritual roots, so what did space abilities rely on? With the amount of items Yao Li could store, the space she had must be rather large, which was a very unreasonable fact. Those who saw Yao Li in the Dawn Base were polite to her and with Xu Zhou being a superpower user, she was safe as  he plastered himself to her side to ensure her safety.
After entering the base, Chu Xiang couldn’t go anywhere blatantly. She waved her hand to show the Qiankun Mirror and had it follow Yao Li. Then, she hid in an empty room to observe the situation on Yao Li’s side through the Qiankun Mirror.
After Yao Li returned to her room, she complained to Xu Zhou, “What was with those two? Where did they come from? It’s a waste of time for us to go there this time.”
Xu Zhou frowned and said, “I think I heard Zhou Zhen call them Xiao Jin and Xiao Cheng, but I’ve never heard of them. They must be newcomers, right?”
“Xiao Cheng?” Yao Li’s eyes lit up and her eyes widened, “Wait, you said one of them is called Xiao Jin? Isn’t he disabled?”
Xu Zhou looked puzzled, “What’s wrong? Do you know him?”
“No, I just heard it from the others. I think Xiao Jin was said to have encountered some trouble and became disabled to ensure his life. Why is he so powerful now?” Yao Li replied casually, lowering her head and looking conflicted.
The Qiankun mirror moved over and Chu Xiang had a panoramic view of her reaction. Recalling the scene when she and Xiao Jin first met, she wondered if Yao Li knew something. But Xiao Jin hadnever encountered anything that might have enabled him to become disabled.
Looking at Yao Li, Chu Xiang thought of a possibility and thought of another very important matter.