The number of applicants for Team Po Bamboo Captain’s Challenge was far lower than Zhang Fan expected!
Many people who meet the registration qualifications have no idea of becoming captains at all.
After several rounds, the only candidates left to run for captain are Zhao Qiang, who persisted until the end, and Luo Kai, who ranks first in overall strength!
The former team captains were defeated at the hands of Zhao Qiang. This was something no one had ever imagined!
Thanks to the rules of the competition, Team Pozhu’s crystal core revenue in the past two days has not been lower than before!
In Team Wuyue's villa, Liu Yining stood beside Zhang Fan and asked.
"Lord Barbarian King, tomorrow is the final match of Team Po Bamboo Captain's Challenge. You didn't go to the previous matches. Do you want to go to this match?"
The matter of Team Po Zhu was left to Xiao Lingwei to handle on her behalf.
So for the first few games of the Captain's Challenge, Xiao Lingwei was there to watch, and Zhang Fan didn't go at all.
Since Daiyu was sent to Team Hua'er, Zhang Fan kept Liu Yining by his side to handle some trivial daily matters for him.
Different from Daiyu's lively personality, Liu Yining is more gentle and attentive, and she can be considered as taking good care of Zhang Fan in every aspect.
Of course, there is no overstep.
Zhang Fan had given himself a vacation these days. He lay in the villa and let the news from the outside world disturb him. He didn't go anywhere or did anything.
Liu Yining is also sensible. Generally, if it is not an important matter, she can handle it by herself, and she will shirk everything she can.
But today Liu Yining still came to ask for instructions, which means that people from Team Pozhu must have come to Liu Yining and strongly expressed their wish for Zhang Fan to be present.
Zhang Fan thought it was boring, so he yawned and stretched. He didn't answer Liu Yining's question immediately, and then said in a low voice.
"Why do I feel so tired even though I haven't done anything?"
Liu Yining opened her mouth, ready to say something. She saw that Zhang Fan looked tired, and then thought of the scene last night when she saw Shen Mengyun walking out of Zhang Fan's room with a blushing face.
In the end, I still didn’t know what to say, so I had to shut up and stand aside in silence.
Sure enough, Zhang Fan shook his head and sighed as usual.
"It's boring! It's really boring!"
Liu Yining frowned slightly.
"Lord Barbarian King, what do you mean?"
Zhang Fan glanced at Liu Yining.
Suddenly he asked.
"Tell me, what is the purpose of human life?"
Liu Yining was stunned for a moment.
The purpose of living?
The purpose of living is just to live...
Liu Yining thought to herself, but said nothing because she knew that Zhang Fan didn't want to hear an answer from her...
Zhang Fan then looked out the window, where the sun was shining brightly and the years were peaceful.
Zhang Fan looked a little dazed, and even felt that the end of the world, zombie viruses, and species mutations were all very far away from him!
"What is the purpose of my trip? To seek kingship and hegemony? But what is the purpose of claiming kingship and hegemony?"
Zhang Fan looked at the sky in the distance and murmured.
Zhang Fan indeed has been having such doubts lately.
It was also the end of the world. In his last life, he was struggling on the edge of survival. The only thing he thought about every day was how to survive today!
At that time, he never pursued the meaning of life!
Just to survive, he already needs to try his best!
The next life will still be the end of the world.
At first, Zhang Fan had only one thought in his mind, and that was to survive!
After having the experience of the previous life, he seemed to have gone smoothly all the way!
First, I got a fairly useful ability!
Now we have a small team!
Then I signed my first contract follower, and then formed my own team!
Until later, he became a barbarian king with tens of thousands of followers!
A camp that is considered safe for the time being has been established, and various departments have been established. There is a tacit cooperation between the departments, and everything is running normally.
Countless ordinary people can live well!
According to the previous plan, he came to a new place and annexed all the forces here into his own big force!
According to this trend, it is only a matter of time before the west of the city and even the entire Long'an City are merged!
Everything seems to be developing in a good direction...
Now Zhang Fan no longer needs to struggle just for survival!
On the contrary, he can eat delicacies that ordinary survivors may never eat again!
The relatively scarce clean water resources and even electricity are not a luxury for him!
When everyone sees him, they must lower their heads and shout in awe, Lord Barbarian King!
This is something I never thought about before!
But now, he has indeed done it!
But why, even though he was already on the road to success, Zhang Fan always felt that there was a vacancy deep in his heart!
Delicious food that others dare not think of cannot bring him happiness!
Being surrounded by beautiful women brings him no pleasure!
Even more people half-kneeling on the ground and becoming his loyal followers couldn't make his heart waver!
On the contrary, Zhang Fan felt more and more like he was being pushed forward by something in order to achieve some kind of ending!
And in this process, the important thing is not him!
Change the protagonist, it’s still the same story!
Before he could truly dominate one side, everything became boring!
Even if he really stands on the top of a mountain one day, so what!
His initial thought was obviously just to survive...
"Lord Barbarian King! Lord Barbarian King!"
Zhang Fan was lost in thought, and it wasn't until Liu Yining called him several times that he came back to his senses.
"Lord Barbarian King, let me take you somewhere!"
Liu Yining looked into Zhang Fan's eyes and said seriously.
Zhang Fan looked at Liu Yining doubtfully and asked, "Where are you going?"
Liu Yining smiled at Zhang Fan.
"You'll know if you follow me!"
After saying that, he couldn't help but take Zhang Fan's hand and walk outside.
After leaving the foggy area of the villa, Liu Yining led Zhang Fan into an increasingly desolate place.
"Where exactly are you taking me?"
Zhang Fan frowned and couldn't help but ask again.
Liu Yining had a faint smile on her face, lowered her head and walked forward without looking back.
"Just follow me."
Zhang Fan had no choice but to stop asking and follow Liu Yining through the small road full of roadblocks.
Zhang Fan didn't even remember how long he had been gone.
The surrounding scenery ranges from park groves of suburban villas to roads full of battle scars to low and dilapidated private houses.
Zhang Fan seemed to have stepped into a slum.
In those dilapidated houses, from time to time there are a few pairs of eyes lying on the cracks of doors and glass windows, looking out with vigilance and novelty.
After noticing that Liu Yining's steps had slowed down significantly, Zhang Fan guessed that this was where Liu Yining was going to take him.
As expected, Liu Yining started to tell Zhang Fan.
It turns out that this place used to be an urban village in the west of the city.
There is a large chemical factory nearby, and the people who live here either work in the factory or come from other places to make a living here.
We all live at the bottom of society, and we think we are a group of people without hope!
When life here is already desperate enough, the end has come!
People who used to live together day and night and share the same joys and sorrows have turned into terrifying zombies!
How many people failed to react for a moment and lost their lives in vain!
After a day of chaos, the few remaining survivors in the village finally gathered in the only church in the village.
The back door of the simple church is right next to the side door of the supermarket, and the supermarket was fortunately closed on the day of doomsday because the boss had something to do.
Therefore, everyone is sure that supermarkets must be safe.
Relying on the things in the supermarket, everyone had a hard time.
However, how big can a supermarket in an urban village be?
After everyone counted the supplies, they found that if everyone stayed here all the time, they might not survive a week!
And among the remaining people, there are so many children who should be innocent!
Looking at the children, their eyes were filled with gray! In order to protect their remaining family members, everyone formed the first team to clean up zombies in the urban village.
Except for the elderly and children, almost everyone participated!
They say they are cleaning up zombies, but in fact they don’t have this ability!
Because there are no powerful powers, there are too many zombies! Children and the elderly cannot escape with them!
So, they came up with the only and stupidest way, which was to sacrifice themselves to attract zombies and lead the zombies to a nearby chemical plant.
The idea was thought up by a group of people working in a chemical factory.
After these days of observation, they found that these zombies did not move quickly.
If they make noise and attract their attention, run as hard as you can!
They should be able to successfully lead them to the chemical plant. Once they are led to the chemical plant and the materials there are ignited, the zombies will disappear together with the chemical plant in the big explosion!
Of course, they will also die there!
No one knows how they really decided to do it!
No one knows how they actually lured all the zombies there!
The old people who stayed behind only remembered the day they left, hugging each other with the children...
After hugging everyone, they left resolutely!
The children waited at the door of the church for a long time, but they could not wait for a familiar face...
None of them came back...
That day, they heard the chemical plant to the west of the village exploded three times!
The fire even turned the western sky red!
That night, it rained heavily in the village for the first time in a long time!
Amidst the lightning and thunder, the children were not as cautious as usual and did not dare to make a sound!
That night, the whole village was filled with the cries of children.
The old people did not stop the children from crying. On the contrary, their ravaged faces were full of tears!
After the rain stopped, the children here never cried again.
However, they never left here again.
The pairs of eyes Zhang Fan saw just now were the eyes of those children.
They live here, in the safe zone that adults bought for them with their lives.
Liu Yining shed tears while telling Zhang Fan about this incident.
Zhang Fan didn't know what his expression should be, he felt a little heavy and didn't say a word.
He doesn't understand what those people who are willing to sacrifice themselves think, but he respects those people.
Ask yourself, if he had been one of those people at that time, could he have sacrificed himself to protect the children?
He thought, it won't happen...
After Liu Yining finished speaking, she wiped the tears on her face and turned back to look at Zhang Fan.
"Lord Barbarian King, you asked me today what the meaning of life is. To be honest, I don't know either, but I think maybe someone here knows."
As the two of them talked, they arrived at the door of a church.
Liu Yining knocked on the door, and soon, a boy who looked like he was only a teenager opened the door.
When he met Liu Yining, he smiled, but there was no emotional change in his eyes.
"Sister Aning, why are you here?"
The boy asked, looking at Zhang Fan beside him.
Liu Yining touched the boy's head tenderly, and then asked, "Are uncle, grandma and the others here?"
The boy nodded solemnly, then turned aside and opened the door.
"Yes, they are praying. You go in first!"
Liu Yining turned to gesture to Zhang Fan, and the two walked into the church.
The church looks old and small from the outside, but once you walk in, you feel a bit empty.
In front of the church is a platform with rows of benches on the left and right sides.
Zhang Fan saw about a dozen old people sitting on chairs with their eyes closed, muttering something to each other.
Liu Yining pulled Zhang Fan to sit on the chair in the last row and whispered in Zhang Fan's ear.
"Lord Barbarian King, let's wait for them here!"
Zhang Fan frowned slightly, feeling uncomfortable for some reason.
But seeing Liu Yining's calm face, she still endured it.
After a while, the old people raised their heads.
The little boy who had just greeted them also walked towards the old people, walked up to one of them with a long beard, pointed at Liu Yining and Zhang Fan and said something to the old man.
Liu Yining took the opportunity to introduce Zhang Fan.
"This uncle is currently the village chief here. They have to ask this uncle's opinion first on anything."
Zhang Fan remained silent.
After listening to what the boy said, the old man walked over to Liu Yining and Zhang Fan.
He glanced at Zhang Fan, then looked at Liu Yining, and greeted Liu Yining with a smile.
"Why is Miss Aning free to come here today?"
Liu Yining also smiled and faced the old man, and then introduced Zhang Fan to the old man.
"Uncle, this is the Barbarian King I told you about, Zhang Fan. This time I am mainly here to bring him to meet everyone."
The old man smiled and looked at Zhang Fan and nodded.
"It turns out that the Barbarian King is such a young man! He is really a formidable person."
The old man's face showed neither surprise nor joy, and his tone of voice was neither salty nor bland.
It seems to be talking about a very ordinary person and a very ordinary thing.
Seeing that there was no unnecessary expression on the old man's face, Zhang Fan, who was used to kneeling down when he heard his name, was a little surprised.
The old man asked directly, as if he had guessed what he was thinking.
"Young man, you don't have to be offended. Our hero is not you."