He Zizhong selected a three-pronged blade1I’m sure there’s a similar English weapon, but not going to try. https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/46861673 from his harvest and gave it to Fang Hao. He chose a dogleg knife2Similar to kukri, but could be different for himself. Both these weapons were genuine and matched their respective martial arts. It was unknown how the shop owner obtained them; most weapons in his harvest were imitations, but even the imitations were very lethal. Much better than any they saw in the base.
Fang Hao looked at the three-pronged blade in his hand over and over with joy, and put it back into the space, placing it in the most convenient place for him to take out at any time with a thought. The western sword with a broken tip was tossed into the corner of the space with He Zizhong’s broken knife.
“Time is almost up, let’s go down first.” He Zizhong also put his dogleg knife into the most convenient place in the space, before they went down.
The two of them carried their ‘trophies’ all the way downstairs. Their car was stopped at the entrance of the building. When they went down, some people who moved faster were also taking the supplies they collected out.
He Zizhong and Fang Hao did not put the materials into the space this time. Their gains from the building were not too much, and they didn’t need to pretend to be lucky.
Next to them, the two people who emerged from the neighbouring building made people look a little when they came out. They only carried a few light bags in their hands, and the backpacks on their backs looked the same as then they first entered the building. But judging from their expressions when they came out, their luck wasn’t too bad.
Fang Hao sat in the passenger seat and frowned suspiciously at the pair. “Zizhong, have we met that person somewhere?”
He Zizhong also felt that the person seemed familiar but couldn’t remember for a while. It wasn’t until he drove to the entrance of the community to gather with the others, that Fang Hao suddenly brightened his eyes and whispered in his ear: “Isn’t he like the person we saw in the monitor in the shopping mall before? Someone who you said might have a space ability?”
He Zizhong raised his eyebrows, and nodded. “It seems that it was him.”
“No wonder they didn’t take anything, they probably put it all away.”
It wasn’t sure if his companion knew about his space abilities though. But looking at that person’s calm expression, he should know it.
The group of people returned to the assembly point, and the cars behind even brought a few trapped people who had just been rescued. Every time the military went out, they would bring the rescued survivors back to the base. If people who went out were able to rescue the survivors, the military would discount some of the supplies that should have been taken away based on the number of people, so everyone would be happy when encountering survivors.
The trapped people were stuck in their homes for nearly a month, living in panic every day, listening to the roar of the zombies outside, and watching the wandering zombies downstairs. The pressure almost completely destroyed their spirits. If it wasn’t for the military taking action and teams collecting supplies, these people would probably have collapsed before long.
After confirming that all the people were back, the convoy left the community and marched towards the military location. The speed of the military’s advancement was not very fast. At this time they also cleared a nearby street and set up fortifications to block the zombies who heard the sound so they could rest.
Several teams that rescued the survivors hurriedly sent people to the military for registration. One of the military trucks was specially used to load these temporarily rescued survivors.
The vehicles were parked, and the team members who had just collected the supplies got out of the vehicle to eat and opened a temporary market. That’s right, it was a temporary market to use the newly collected materials to exchange for things that are more useful to oneself.
It was the first time Fang Hao saw this kind of temporary exchange market. After He Zizhong locked the car and put some pots and pans they didn’t need into his backpack, he couldn’t help follow He Zizhong holding some chocolate to visit other people’s booths together.
All kinds of things were being sold, and most of it they didn’t need such as children’s shoes and skirts, or…ladies underwear.
The two men were embarrassed seeing a pile of lingerie placed in front of a burly man. The man even laughed, holding a bra in his hand and spun it wildly. “Good stuff! Sell one back to the base to lure the girls and please your wife!”
The man selling children’s shoes next to him laughed. “The cup is too big. These days, anyone with a D cup will have shrunk in hunger to an A. Who can buy something like that?”
The person who heard the conversation between them couldn’t help but burst into laughter, changing the previously tense atmosphere.
He Zizhong turned away from those abnormal stalls and used pots and pans to exchange for a large number of nails from the hardware store. He can use this kind of thing as a hidden weapon, and it was better than those made from bamboo. The lethality is higher, and it can be recycled and reused as long as they’re not afraid of rust.
After a round, the two returned to their car and ate some chocolate, dried meat, and some fruit salad cut out by Fang Hao to supplement energy and wait for the next move.
The operation lasted two full days before the military finally turned around. Except for a mutated second-level zombie rushing into the military’s line of fire one afternoon, which almost caused an accident, everything went well. What made He Zizhong feel a little regretful was that they did not pass by any jade or jewelry stores. However, the zombies killed by the military were secretly “screened” by them, and many crystal nuclei were obtained.
The group of people turned the front of the car mightily and headed toward the base. This time, the teams that came out returned with a full load on almost every car. For example, the car next to He Zizhong and Fang Hao accidentally found more than a dozen boxes of instant noodles that had not been opened yet. When these people came downstairs with their things, the rest of them almost all had red eyes.
It’s a pity that because the urban area has been out of power, the contents of the refrigerators in every household were basically rotten, otherwise everyone’s gains would be more plentiful.
The convoy headed towards the base in a mighty manner. Along the way, they encountered some scattered vehicles fleeing to the base. After finding out that military vehicles led the group, they hurriedly followed, seeking shelter and drove towards the base.
By the time the convoy arrived at the base, the cars following the troops had increased from the forty original vehicles to an exaggerated one hundred. Fortunately, these people were divided into several paths after arriving at the base. Thankfully, the gate for mission completion was a different gate than newcomers. As for the military vehicles, of course they entered from a dedicated passage.
After registering, He Zizhong and Fang Hao were surprised to find that the people who arrived at the base this time didn’t have to wait for 24 hours in the waiting area. After registering, there was a newly built small room. Everyone lined up to enter, so the base staff can draw a little blood for testing.
The test time was about an hour. During this period, people had to wait in their cars. If there are no problems in the test, they can enter the base directly after their vehicles are disinfected.
“The virus can already be tested? It’s a lot easier than before.” Fang Hao quietly released a little white light on his fingertips, instantly recovering the wound on He Zizhong’s fingers. When they were out this time, the accidental bumps and bruises when searching for supplies were all easily resolved by Fang Hao’s healing ability. It only seemed from the number of scars on their bodies that they were the most intact among the task force.
“The virus infection moves quickly, it shouldn’t be difficult to check.” It was easier than studying the virus and trying to find a way to treat the disease.
“It will be easier to return from missions in the future.” Fang Hao optimistically opened a bag of potato chips, stuffed two slices into He Zizhong’s mouth, and ate one by himself. There were a terrifyingly huge number of snacks in the space, and there was no market for crystal nuclei. If they don’t eat these things by themselves, do they have to keep them to occupy space?
While the two were waiting for the test results, several military personnel walked to the waiting convoy with a stack of flyers in their hands and handed out flyers next to the cars. Fang Hao opened the car window and took the two, and found that the leaflet showed instructions for water safety and the distribution location for water purification tablets.
“What’s wrong?”
Seeing Fang Hao ask, the soldiers who hadn’t gone far turned around to reply. “In the future, when you drink water, follow the instructions on the leaflet and there will be no trouble. Especially when you are out for tasks, don’t drink water randomly.” They resolutely refused to talk about the specific situation, and moved to the next car.
It didn’t take long for the test results to be delivered to them, and there was no problem with their blood.
After entering the gate, there was a small square with a lot of cars parked on it, all of which were teams of people handing in tasks and counting materials.
While the people in front were still queuing to hand in the task, they finally found out the news related to the flyer-someone in the base suddenly turned into a zombie the night before.
Since the official base researched how to distinguish whether there is a zombie virus in the blood, the re-entry inspection has become much simpler. After the mutation happened the night before, everyone thought it was a problem with the blood test, which led to someone carrying a zombie. The virus entered the base. But after on-site inspection, it was discovered that this zombie had never left the base before!
After several investigations, everyone turned their attention to drinking water. A child in this family accidentally drank raw water, and then the zombies bit their parents and their family became zombies.
If it wasn’t for the next door neighbor spotting the child drinking raw water, it would have taken a lot longer to find the exact cause.
It was not the first time this has happened, but because zombification has no rules, it always happens sporadically at the base. Some people become zombies only after they have gone on missions and returned to the base, making people mistakenly believe that the incubation period of the zombie virus varies depending on the physique.
Almost everyone felt a little pain in their hearts when 70% of the supplies were taken from the car. But there was no other way – it was a rule they acknowledged when receiving the task.
When the two of them finished handing in the supplies, they found that only a small part of the supplies moved out of two of the cars. Both of them had the impression that one of the cars was the one who found a lot of instant noodles, but now, there wasn’t even a packet of instant noodles among the materials they put on the ground.
And the other car seemed pitifully empty each time. The things they take out were almost all daily necessities, and there is almost no food.
In one car was the previously identified space ability user, so maybe there was another space ability user in the previous car?
Don’t be too greedy in the apocalypse else others will be jealous!
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