After the three-day dangerous period, when Hou Ying and his team were preparing to leave Hangzhou for another trip, the Yellow River Base was holding an emergency meeting.
The dense appearance of high-level zombies in Sencheng has attracted the attention of the top management of the Yellow River Base. 50 high-level ability zombies are an unpredictable danger, but it also means that 50 high-level ability users have the opportunity to upgrade. However, before the base sent their ability users to hunt these zombies, they suddenly disappeared without a trace overnight.
No one can figure out why.
The research on the expansion of the advanced zombie search equipment’s search range is in the testing phase. The developers have tested the equipment hundreds of times, and the error rate is only 1%, which means that there’s a 99% possibility that this group of advanced zombies really existed. However, they disappeared for unknown reasons.
At that time, the researchers judged that either this group of zombies were killed overnight, or their ability was upgraded to a level outside the searcher’s limit overnight. They had never met a level 4 ability zombie!
The latter possibility caused a lot of panic among the senior officials of the Yellow River Base for a while, but they knew that this wasn’t the worst situation.
From Sencheng to Zhucheng, all the way north. Just yesterday, even the advanced zombies in Hangzhou were disappearing!
Something must have happened to these zombies. There must be a large number of level 4 zombies appearing and approaching the Yellow River Base!
They can no longer wait!
This time, the management of the Yellow River Base was united as never before. They unanimously decided to immediately stop ability users from infighting and inspect the zombie mutations along the road. Once a level 4 zombie is found, it must be killed at all costs, before it invades the base. Even if they have to bombard a whole city with artillery shells! Hou Ying and the others didn’t know that their team had been positioned by the Yellow River Base as terrifying level 4 zombies.
The people at the Yellow River Base have never associated the disappearance of high-level zombies with human ability users.
Firstly, after the three-month survivor search and rescue period, in order to save power, the survivor searcher, which used to locate survivors, has stopped working. More importantly, even if the Yellow River base, which has a team of 1,000 level 1 ability users, 1,000 level 2, and 50 level 3 ability users, faces a whole city of zombies—especially when dozens of advanced ability zombies exist, they still have to discuss again and again before they dare to send people to hunt them. Not to mention destroying those hordes at such a fast speed.
But even if they knew it, Hou Ying and the others would just laugh it off.
The team stopped in place when they came near Jicheng, two stops away from the imperial capital where the Yellow River Base is located. The train was divided into sections and the stored materials were properly stowed away in Jicheng Railway Station. They chose a large truck on the spot, selectively brought some materials, and sorted out the equipment they would bring in the Yellow River Base—the most important thing is the firearms. This is an important prop they used to cover up the team’s ability level and explanation for their successful escape all the way to the base.
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At the last dinner, everyone ate hot pot. On this trip to the Yellow River Base, they didn’t know the specific situation, and their return date is uncertain. Therefore, the vegetables and live poultry carefully cultivated by Su Fenghe, except for the part left for planting, have stepped up eating in the past two days. Hot pot is of course the good choice. More importantly, since the chef succeeded in getting his man and is off the list of being single, the menu is full of a certain someone’s preference. Li Xuanyuan has a light taste, which is really killing them.
Fortunately this time, the Mandarin Duck Pot is specially used for the hot pot, otherwise, they really can’t live on this day.
After a big meal, Hou Ying made the final mobilization for them, “That said, our main purpose this time is to find relatives. First, don’t reveal your ability level, second, don’t cause trouble, and third, don’t leave the team without authorization. Everything can be solved with a gun, not just your ability. Can you do it?”
“Yes!”
“Don’t worry, Brother Hou!”
Everyone responded positively.
Hou Ying arranged a night watchman to let everyone have a good sleep and raise their spirits. He and Li Xuanyuan stayed in the middle of the night, reconfirming and discussing the route. In the second half of the night, Qiao Daye and Liu Zhan, who came to change shifts, saw the two kissing together under the lamp, and had an unstoppable impulse to poke their eyes out. Faced with their joking gaze, Li Xuanyuan wiped his mouth and dragged the giggling Hou Ying away without changing his face.
It was a four-hour journey from Jicheng to the Yellow River Base. Without speed limit and potential traffic accidents, it took them only three and a half hours to reach the periphery of the base.
They didn’t enter rashly and were very cautious. Although they heard a lot of news about the Yellow River Base from Li Xuanyuan’s micro-satellite receiving station, they were all hopeful remarks on the surface to guide the survivors, so it couldn’t be fully believed.
At this time, it was 10 a.m. The surface temperature had broken 40 degrees with the highest approaching 45 degrees, but there were still teams hunting and killing zombies outside.
The human base is a delicious meal for the zombies, and millions of walking meat couldn’t be hidden. Therefore, there’s always an endless stream of zombies coming here, most of which are first-level. The job of these teams is to clear these zombies within the safety range of the Yellow River Base and eliminate the possibility of them going deep into the base.
Hou Ying and Qiao Daye watched for a while and found a very strange situation. The teams of these ability users have varying abilities, ranging from three to twenty or thirty people. They are very poorly organized, all working independently, and have no unified management.
After some discussions, they finally selected a five-person team as the target of their first contact.
The actions of these five people are relatively more planned, and although their team is small and they look young, they act on the outermost periphery, and their ability levels range from level 1 mid-level to level 2 low-level.
The temperature is getting higher and higher. Finally, someone in the five-person team can’t stand it anymore after wiping his sweat, “Brother Wu, let’s call it a day first. If we continue to be dehydrated like this, in case of heatstroke, the crystal nuclei we hunted today aren’t enough for medical expenses.”
The one who’s called Brother Wu is the only level 2 low-level ability user among them. Seeing that everyone had chapped lips and there wasn’t much left of the limited drinking water, he asked everyone to go back to the city to rest and come back in the evening after the summer heat passed. The five of them started packing up quickly, but the accident happened at this moment! The person who just called to stop fell down as if losing support. The crystal nuclei iron box he was holding fell to the ground, and the exposed zombie crystal nuclei caused a riot to nearby zombies and rushed towards them!
“Forget the crystal core! Go!”
Brother Wu picked up his fainted teammate and shouted at them to go quickly, but it was too late!
His teammate who was one step behind was about to be caught by the zombies. There was a burst of despair in Brother Wu’s heart. He gritted his teeth and rushed back to try to save him. Then the gunshot came. ‘Bang bang bang’, zombies fell down one after another. A truck rushed over with rolling dust and knocked away the zombies in the way. Then a strange voice shouted at them, “Get in the car!”
The back of the truck is open!
“Help me catch him!!”
Brother Wu threw his unconscious teammate into the truck, grabbed his teammate who fell to the ground while running and shouted at the others.
The sound of gunfire was endless. When all five of them jumped into the carriage, the back door was closed, and they collapsed on the ground just like surviving a disaster. Before Brother Wu had time to thank them, he ran to his passed-out teammate. He poured the remaining water from the kettle hanging around his neck into his mouth, patted the other party’s face, and tried to wake him up by pinching him.
Gongsun Jing stopped him and said, “That won’t do. He’s too dehydrated.”
Brother Wu was stunned. He saw a slender and beautiful woman unscrew the water bottle, and poured some white particles into the cup, and asked him to help his teammate up to feed him water.
If he understood it correctly, it’s even more precious than drinking water!
The truck stopped. After a while, someone knocked on the door of the rear compartment, and two tall men jumped up.
“Are they okay?” Seeing Gongsun Jing taking care of a comatose patient, Hou Ying expressed concern.
“Don’t worry.” Gongsun Jing judged professionally, “It’s just serious dehydration and a little heat stroke. Just drink saltwater and lie in a cool place for a while.”
“That’s good.”
Hou Ying just looked at the other people. Brother Wu and his companions later realized that there was not only light on in the carriage—after the end of the world, they hadn’t dared to turn on the light at will unless necessary—more importantly, the cabin is so cool. It has air conditioning!
Air conditioner!!
Brother Wu’s eyes straightened.
Hou Ying smiled. He handed an iron box to Brother Wu, “Is this yours?”
Brother Wu found out that there were still a few crystal nuclei in it, so he quickly closed the iron box and returned the crystal cores to Hou Ying, “We can’t ask for this. You saved us, but we have nothing to repay you. We’re already very guilty. You risked your lives getting these crystal nuclei back from the zombies, they’re yours.”
Hou Ying was a little surprised. He didn’t take the crystal core, but asked Brother Wu and the others to sit down, and said, “It’s fate that we can meet. Besides, we have guns in our hands, so it’s just a small effort. If you really feel apologetic, just give us a crystal core as a bullet loss fee. There’s no need for anything else.”
The four people looked at each other. Finally, Brother Wu made the decision and handed three crystal cores to Hou Ying. They looked serious. If he didn’t accept them, they would get off and leave.
Hou Ying’s liking for them increased a little.
All four men heaved a sigh of relief. One of them who had a baby face couldn’t hold back his voice, “Did you come back from a mission outside? It turns out that the top teams were equipped with air-conditioning. Can I ask what team you are in?”
Brother Wu glanced at him but didn’t stop him. The five of them have been considering joining a team recently. Not to mention their life-saving benefactors’ team configuration, just looking at their character, it’s also worthy of their key consideration.
Hou Ying took advantage of the situation and opened the topic.
Prospect new members? I wish~
Thank you for the update~
Hope this base is stronger than this group of 5… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
I like the way they travel now. I don’t want them to caught in politics in the base 😔