RLDRFH Chapter 50

He Zizhong and Fang Hao continued to walk forward. They didn’t stay at the black-hearted booth for a long time. The man who set up the stall saw there was no one coming to buy anything, and simply cleaned up his stall and prepared to go home for lunch. He had good things and a lot of surplus food at home, so he was naturally unwilling to sell weapons at a low price. He only needs to set up a stall outside for a while, and after gaining a reputation, big fish will come to his door.

While humming a small song, he turned into a cluster of buildings. When he reached the second corner, there was a gust of wind. Before the man could turn his head, his eyes went dark and he fell to the ground and couldn’t get up anymore. Although the zombie threat was eliminated inside the base, the danger from fellow human beings is no less than the dangers outside. Especially because of the restricted power supply in the base, all roadside cameras are mere decorations and private murders often happen.

He Zizhong and Fang Hao spent a long time on the street market before trading ten catties of rice for a big knife and a Western sword. These two weapons are not real weapons, but props from filming. While the knife was not made from real steel, He Zizhong can attach his gold ability to it, which is much better than the steel pipe he used before.

As for the Western sword, although it isn’t as good as a real long sword, and cannot perform tricks such as slicing and cutting, it was better than the makeshift weapon made from a fire hook. Although Fang Hao did not have a gold ability to increase the power of his weapon, the manuals mentioned that after training to a certain point, ‘qi’ can be integrated into the weapon to increase its lethality.

After sharpening, the two weapons are barely usable.

After buying weapons, the mood increased by more than one level. While wandering to the administrative area of ​​the base, they saw the task release hall that had just opened.

This place was originally a bank. Now, it was transformed into a place dedicated to issuing tasks and establishing teams. The prototype mercenary group was a way for base management to deal with ability users.

No matter how much work there is in the base, it will not be available to everyone, and a lot of manpower will be leftover after all protective facilities are built. What will these people do? They can’t just feed a bunch of people for nothing.

There are still a large number of zombies and materials outside. No matter how small the population in the base is, what is consumed is consumed. No matter how many zombies are outside, there will always be a day when they will be killed. The base could only find a way to mobilize everyone’s enthusiasm to regain lost land, completely clean up the zombies outside, and retake mankind’s original homeland.

Previous attempts of opening missions and allowing powerful people to go out to collect supplies led to very good results. Although not everyone returned safely, there was no doubt a team with ability users reaps good gains.

Now that the experiment is successful, the upper level of the base no longer clings to certain rules, and simply opened up the mercenary mode, allowing individuals to form teams and go out. Of course, they still have follow national conventions and can’t call them mercenary groups, but teams instead.

“Shall we build a team?” Fang Hao asked after reading the notice at the bank.

“Yes, let’s register one.” Although he has no plans to add other people to the team, having a “team” lets them accumulate mission points, get in touch with important tasks, and even go out with the military. This way, their security will be greatly improved.

Many people start by forming a small team with friends and acquaintances to take on tasks and go out. At the beginning, the base did not have any specific requirements for establishing a team. As long as they pay a certain “security deposit”, anyone can register and accept various tasks.

After a month or two, the threshold for establishing a team increased. Right now, there are no requirements, and it’s just a name, so many people registered by themselves. However, lone rangers can’t really do tasks any themselves and will work jointly with other teams to finish a mission. But unless a person him or herself is very capable, they will often not live long.

After paying the “security deposit” with a five-pack of instant noodles, the Fengche¹Wind switch literally. It comes from an idiom, 风掣雷行, which has an approximate meaning of moving as fast as the wind and thunder team that only belonged to two people was created. It took them a long time to come up with the name, because there were no good terms for reference. Although they have a space, the word “void” in “void space” is obviously not suitable for a team name. And although the white ball can be used as a mascot, the mascot itself has no name yet, so they can’t just randomly pick the “dumpling team.” As for combining their names… no matter how the words are rearranged and combined, there’s no good name. It might work as a book title, but “very heavy”²Hao + Zhong = 好重 or very heavy isn’t a suitable team name.

The only thing in common between the two of them is “speed”. Fang Hao’s speed abilities and He Zizhong’s wind abilities are both related to speed, which is how they arrived at the team name.

Next to the mission hall is the ability appraisal center, where people with abilities can test and register. It was not very useful originally, especially when the base’s attitude towards ability users was unclear, and no one registered. But after the base shared that teams with ability users and a high degree of mission completion are more likely to participate in the missions with the military and obtain more information about materials, many people went to register.

He Zizhong knew that there were not many people with abilities, and even after registering there were no dangerous consequences, so he took Fang Hao directly to next door without any pressure.

It didn’t take long for a “speed” and a “wind” evaluation to be added after their names and registered in the base’s database. Two special identification cards with ability attributes were also released smoothly.

These two abilities are common in the base, and the more unusual abilities were hidden away. Anyway, the base does not have an instrument to detect abilities. The only way to detect them today is to have someone use their abilities at a designated place, so the staff can make manual judgments.

After wandering around for nearly a day, they were exhausted and ready to go back to the villa to rest. But before going back, they had to think of a way to see the defense situation at the south gate.

The two detoured to the road leading to the south gate, but they were stopped back about three hundred meters from the southern military passage. No idlers were allowed to enter.

The reason why the two of them were able to get out of the base before was entirely because of the ashes transport mission, otherwise ordinary people would not even be able to get close. But now they weren’t sure whether to pick up the task or not. Even if they picked up the task, they can’t do it for long. Maybe there’s a way to approach the place where the ashes are buried after leaving the base…

Before, when someone enters the space, they will return wherever the bracelet was. But now there’s no more bracelet and Fang Hao also gained the ability to freely enter and exit the space, so every time the two entered the space, wherever they went in was wherever they came back out.

Compared to the previous bracelet, it was somewhat lacking in flexibility. But because there is no physical object like the previous bracelet, the concealment and security of the space was enhanced.

Because there are two people who can enter the space, and both of them can bring other people in and out of the space, He Zizhong can use it with Fang Hao. For example, after he goes out alone, he  can secretly enter the space where the ashes are buried and secretly appear outside the city at night. After collecting the crystal nuclei outside, he can return to the space and let Fang Hao take himself back from the villa inside the base.

One thing to note is that although both of them have the ability to take people back to where they entered the space, once they are brought out of the space by another person, the place they left the space will also be refreshed.

But the difficulty now is – how to enter the area where the ashes are buried outside the south gate. Is it really necessary to take up the task of transporting the ashes again? But even if they take the task, they can’t go out with two people and only have person return right?

Back in the villa, as they were struggling with this issue, Tuanzi who was hiding in the backpack discovered there was no one outside, so it escaped and rammed into Fang Hao’s arms acting like a baby.

After touching Tuanzi who had been obediently in the backpack all day, Fang Hao suddenly thought of something: “Zizhong, can Tuanzi bring people into space?”

“Tuanzi? Bring people?” He Zizhong was taken aback, his eyes suddenly lit up. Yes! There are actually three people who can freely enter and exit the space!

Tuanzi crooked its head (actually the whole body was crooked in a certain direction), and looked at its two parents staring at it with bright eyes.

The two tried their best to communicate with Tuanzi. Although it seems to understand them sometimes, more often than not, it clearly doesn’t understand what they mean. The two of them even took to drawing instructions. It took nearly two hours for Tuanzi to understand their meaning. They returned to the space in the basement, and after the two “masters” entered the space from the bedroom appeared in the space, it took them to the basement, where they reappeared.

Nearly two hours of communication and a full hour and a half of experiments demonstrated that Tuanzi can exit wherever it entered the space last, and also appear directly next to them. But it can only choose to show up next to one of them. Once it chooses to appear next to one of them, then no matter where it entered the space previously, that place will be refreshed.

Although there were still many restrictions, some problems can finally be solved.

“The question now is, how can it leave the base without being discovered and enter the space from where the crystal nuclei are buried.”

The two sat around the bed eating a late dinner while staring at the white ball.

Tuanzi, who was being stared at inexplicably, shyly twisted and twisted on the soft big bed. Two red clouds appeared on the white face, and its watery eyes seemed to be dripping at any time.

“Can you leave this base without being seen by others?” Fang Hao touched its flexible head, poking and prodding with his fingers.

Tuanzi tilted his body again, in confusion, and blinked its eyes. Suddenly, its body fluctuated like water ripples, and then the color on its body gradually faded!