RLDRFH Chapter 35

The base was located in the the center of the “几”-shaped river. By now the inside and outside of the base were largely completed. More and more people were sent to build fortifications outside the river, and the base was starting to arrange people to clear the nearby buildings.

He Zizhong remembered that when he came here in his last life, he could not see any tall buildings near the base. The perimeter around the base was deliberately flattened, so any incoming zombies could be seen from far away.

Fang Hao looked at the sky with some worry, and asked in a low voice: “Zizhong… these days, has it ever been sunny?”

He Zizhong nodded: “En, when I checked the surveillance video before, I never saw a sunny day.”

“It’s not sunny…it’s been foggy…” Fang Hao seemed to think of something, turning his head to look at him with a little horror. “This weather… does it have anything to do with zombies?!”

Experts and scholars in his previous life studied this issue, but were not yet able to draw any specific conclusions. However, everyone believed that it maybe it was the mist and hazy sky that led to the apocalypse.

“If other cities and other countries are the same as here…maybe it really matters.”

Fang Hao bit his lower lip subconsciously and looked at the gray sky blankly. “The sun’s ultraviolet rays have anti-virus and sterilization effects… The thick fog can cause germs to remain in the air and will not be blown away…” Maybe… No, he’s afraid the weather was really related to the apocalypse.

“Maybe it will clear up one day, and the world will return to its original state.” He Zizhong can only comfort him, because he himself doesn’t know the reason behind it. During the apocalypse, there was no heavy rain or winds; the whole earth was lifeless, as if everything was still.

After leaving the range of the base, He Zizhong tuned the car’s GPS. The fog interrupted all signals and modern satellite navigation, wireless network, and mobile phone signals were all unavailable. However, there was no problem checking offline maps he had already downloaded using GPS.

“Shall we go here first?” Fang Hao asked when looking up their scheduled route on the map.

“Well, this should be a warehouse for munitions. I don’t know what the situation is now. Let’s go and take a look.” He Zizhong explained, “I’ve heard of this place when I was working, but now I don’t know if there is anything in it.” The factory, which was to the north of city F, was a place they temporarily lived his last life after leaving his home.

At that time, the warehouse had become dilapidated. There were a holes in the door and ceiling, and the wall on one side had collapsed in half, but even so, they still found some undamaged cans of military supplies in the warehouse.

If they could find things back then, they should be be able to find something if they went earlier. Of course, the premise was that no one else is inside. If it is not occupied by anyone, He Zizhong would happily collect things to replenish his warehouse inventory when passing by.

“What’s next? Are we going to this instant noodle factory?”

The main factory of a well-known domestic brand of instant noodles was built in the suburbs to the east of city F. These places were one of the places He Zizhong planned to visit. However, he was forced to leave the city ahead of time because someone made trouble along the way, which meant they went to city A first. Fortunately, the distance was not large, and there was not much delay to go back.

“Not only the instant noodle factory, there is also a pharmaceutical factory nearby. In addition, the toilet paper factory in the south of city A is not far. When we come back, we can take this route and take a look.” He Zizhong wanted to say the toilet paper factory was actually the main destination of his trip.

Food can be self-produced in his space; medicines, books about herbal identification, prescriptions for making pills, decoctions, and various Chinese medicine-related books were added after the space upgraded can make up for the lack of Western medicine. Not to mention, he still has a wife with healing powers by his side.

But toilet paper… Although he will collect as much toilet paper as possible whenever he went to a supermarket, the quantities at the supermarket was not too much!

The size is large, the frequency of use is high, and the amount used is not small. Especially after the end of the world, many people who have materials in the base had no place to exchange for these things.

After the apocalypse, plants began dying in large swaths, and toilet paper made from field crop stalks was rough and difficult to use. As for those mutant plants? Who knows whether toilet paper made from mutant plants will turn people into zombies?

If it weren’t for it occupying too much space, for space ability users, toilet paper was a good item to hoard—guaranteed to appreciate!

Unfortunately, it was ignored by most space ability users and people when collecting materials, because it couldn’t be eaten. It wasn’t until later when people suffered from the dilemma of not having toilet paper and discovered its value. However, it was too late by then. The value of high-quality toilet paper soared, and it caught up with cigarettes, wine, and tea, ranking first among luxury goods.

Fang Hao couldn’t understand someone’s deep love for toilet paper. He only thought that his senior, part-husband, and part-dear had once again perfectly planned a route to efficiently maximize profits. Anyway, there was plenty of space in the underground space, and it didn’t cost anything to collect more things.

“Be careful, hold on tight, we might hit some things.” As few swaying figures appeared in his field of vision, He Zizhong raised his attention and carefully avoided some obstacles on the road—Abandoned vehicles, collapsed trash cans, rocks and the like, were scattered ahead, along with several figures in front.

After a few days in the base, Fang Hao almost threw his previous experience aside as a nightmare. But now, facing these disgusting things again, he once again held the handle of the car roof beside him cautiously.

He Zizhong drove forward, avoiding the zombies that could be avoided, and smashing into them when he couldn’t.

As for getting off the car and killing zombies to collect crystal nuclei? They have just entered the periphery of the city, if they kill all the way from here, who knows how long they would have to do it? It’s better to wait and find a more suitable place.

The car drove all the way to the southeast, which was similar to the route to city F, but was different from the road they used to go from city F to city A earlier. it was the road they traveled when they went to city A in He Zizhong’s past life.

After switching drivers and turning to a new road, He Zizhong spotted a telephone pole on the road in front of them through a pair of binoculars, blocking the whole road.

“Stop.” Seeing the telephone pole, He Zizhong felt wrong, and immediately examined both sides of the road with his binoculars. There were no traces of zombies in the place where they parked, only a few zombies lying in the ditches beside the road.

Fang Hao also noticed the telephone pole, and asked in doubt, “Senior, are we going to move it away?”

He Zizhong was still searching for the target, and it didn’t take long before he found traces of several cars behind a small house on the roadside. There were also two figures hiding behind a big rock not far from the telephone pole. Those people seemed to be targeting passerby’s driving from the north to south, so they did not notice the car He Zizhong and Fang Hao were in.

“It’s a robbery.” Nowadays, most cities with a relatively quick response and defense forces have established temporary security zones. Among them, the military strength of the base in city A was the strongest in the northern half of the country, and the safety factor was also the highest.

Based on the basic principle of seeking help from the military when encountering danger, most escapees who are close to city A and able to get on a highway would rather take a longer distance to flee to city A for help. Therefore, the roads leading to city A had the greatest flow of people and were also the best places for robberies.

“Robbery?!” Fang Hao was startled, and he picked up the binoculars in front of him and looked carefully. At this moment, a car was coming over at the other end of the highway.

The road happened to be one of the main roads into city A. There was no road from the south, and most nearby towns would also turn onto this road, to enter the city from the north.

There were six or seven vehicles in the approaching convoy. When they found the road ahead was cut off, they had already reached the telephone pole. Several well-built men opened the doors angrily and walked out.

He Zizhong saw the people in the house beside the road also started to move, as if they wanted to support the people behind the big stone.

“Let’s go.”

“Go?”

He Zizhong nodded and pointed to the front: “Prepare to head over.”

Although Fang Hao was puzzled, he still started the car according to his instructions and drove towards the blocked road.

Sure enough, the men who got off the car encountered the robbers, so they rolled up their sleeves and fought back. The gang of the looters also rushed out of the hut. They couldn’t imagine the people this time were so unreasonable. They did not wait for them to arrive, and hurriedly went to support their comrades.

A man was punched and flew out by the driving group. Fang Hao, who was driving the car, opened his eyes wide.”He, he knocked people out?”

“Maybe it’s an ability user with a strength enhancement.” He Zizhong saw a few familiar faces from the people who got off the car, people he had met in his previous life. Within city A, to say there were a lot of small squads, there were a lot, but to say there were many, was also untrue. Because he was in the overlord team for a time, when He Zizhong was handing over tasks, he actually met many ability user teams and team members. Several of the people in the car convoy were those he had seen in his previous life.

Since they are ability users, they naturally would not be stopped by the telephone pole. And judging from their aggressive appearance when getting out of the car, they must be ones who refuse to suffer.

When their vehicle arrived, the two groups of people were in the midst of it. The people in the convoy had abilities, but some of the robbers had guns. One person was unprepared, and with a ‘bang’, was shot in the leg by his opponent.

The two sides temporarily stopped because of the gunfire, entering a momentary stalemate until a power ability user suddenly picked up a large stone slab on the side of the road and threw it at the person who fired his gun.