“For the base to survive, we can only relax restrictions and give more benefits for ability users to cooperate.” A man sitting in the middle concluded. Scanning around, although the men in the room were still dissatisfied, in the face of such massive losses, they could only bite the bullet and concede. However, in their hearts, they quietly planned other things, such as, how to gather ability users under their forces to gain more benefits as soon as possible.
The impromptu meeting was held early the morning following the zombie rat attack. After everyone confirmed how to deal with the zombie rat problem, they began to re-divide various matters within the base. After the meeting was over, a soldier suddenly hurried to the door: “Report!”
“Come in, what’s the matter?”
The man hurriedly walked in, holding a box in his hand: “Reporting, chief! This was found by the soldiers cleaning the corpses outside, and found in the head of the zombie.”
A palm-sized box with something that looks like a crystal the size of a mung bean, which was particularly bright under the light.
“This was… in the rat’s head?”
“Yes!” Crystal nuclei has already long appeared in the apocalypse, but because it was in a zombie’s brain, it was generally difficult to find. Who would look in a zombie’s head? And the ashes of the incinerated zombies were originally white, and it was more difficult to be spot after a layer of “ash” was stained on the crystal nucleus. Except for some people who looked carefully when dealing with ashes, no one really noticed.
Maybe it was because the flamethrower was too hot and scorched the rats entirely, such that when soldiers went to clean the battlefield in the middle of the night, the crystal nuclei were exposed because it reflected the light.
“This…didn’t the laboratory also find it in the head of a zombie not long ago? Was it the same thing?” Someone recognized the crystal nucleus as something the lab found in the newly transported corpse a few days ago. The function of this thing has not been studied yet, but it was also in the head of a zombie rat?
“Call their person in charge to come over.” Someone immediately ordered and asked relevant personnel to come over and confirm.
Not long after the laboratory staff arrived, they checked the crystal nucleus in the box and confirmed. “It should be the same as the crystal nucleus in the zombie’s head!”
“Why didn’t you know there was such a thing before?”
“In the beginning, the laboratory studied some of the zombies that were sent first. After we developed a method to identify the zombie virus, in order to ensure that the zombie virus did not undergo a second mutation, people sent some of the latest zombie corpses. This thing was found in the head of the zombie.”
“Oh? What about the result?”
“This is today… that report, we only summed up yesterday. I haven’t had time to report it.” The man said and went through his report. “There are basically such things in the latest zombie corpses, but not the older zombies. We suspect that this thing will take some time to appear in the zombie. It is very likely the root cause of the zombie evolution!”
One stone stirred up many waves as the meeting room filled with buzzing. Many people were whispering and not knowing what to say.
“Let them study this thing with all their strength. They must learn how they work!” Although they don’t know what the use of this thing is, everyone knew that it was important for the future rise and fall of mankind!
When the meeting was over, the sky was already bright, and everyone walked back to their villas. When there were no other people around, some people began to communicate in a low voice.
“Let them speed up the research of the crystal nucleus. This matter can no longer be hidden.”
“Don’t worry, our people discovered this thing on the third day. If we haven’t worked out its usage, they can’t be ahead of us.”
“Don’t take it lightly, now it’s not others who compare speed with us privately, but the top already knows…they have more equipment and talents than ours, so we must stay ahead of them!”
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“Did they discuss and come to a conclusion? Can this kind of crystal core make the ability advance?”
“I haven’t found a way yet, but there is energy in this thing. There is no doubt about it… It’s just that, according to what people have said, those that have tried eating this thing… became zombies directly.”
“Who’s so messy! Who would try such a thing?”
“Ahem, you can’t say that. If it wasn’t for the young and old who love to read books, we wouldn’t have guessed that there might be this thing in the zombie’s mind so early… Don’t worry, we’ll soon come to a conclusion…”
The speculation that there might be something special in the zombie’s brain was raised early on, but only very few people could actually verify it. In the beginning, everyone was busy running away. Even if they had an idea, they didn’t dare to try it themselves.
Even after people got stronger and were able to kill zombies alone, few had the courage to open the zombie’s skull, dig through the brain and search for crystal nuclei. Therefore, there are very few people who can verify whether there is a crystal nucleus in the zombie’s head.
Now, the defensive battle exposed the crystal nucleus to everyone. What follows will be a long wait for someone to discover how to use it, and then another wait for someone to announce this method to the public.
But in any case, the fact that there was a crystal nucleus in the zombie’s head quietly spread to the base after this meeting. Especially a few teams with some background, most of them got the news.
He Zizhong and Fang Hao didn’t get the news that the base was attacked by zombie rats last night until the next morning. Who let them enter the space as soon as they got home last night? It’s normal not to hear the alarm sound in the base.
The water, electricity and other things in the base have long been changed to the base’s internal supply, and the water and electricity costs are also several times higher than before. The two had previously bought some symbolically, but mainly used the water and electricity produced in their own space.
Water is easy to obtain – the water in space wells and waterfalls is free for them to use. Electricity is provided by backup power filled with solar panels in the space. The outside world can hardly see the sun and fog all day, but in the space almost every day is just right, so collecting solar energy is really very simple.
Those solar panels were rearranged by He Zizhong on the open space in the courtyard. The remaining open space was organized by Fang Hao for places to dry things, such as the dried fruits and vegetables that he prepared in the previous two days, or for example, the things that needed to be dried like rice or corn.
“Did zombie rats enter the base last night?” Fang Hao turned on the radio and began to adjust the radio. It was not easy to receive wireless signals outside the base, but the problem inside the base was not big.
“It’s not likely, otherwise it’s impossible to be so peaceful outside now.” Although the streets outside the villa are still crowded, there is no tension, so the problem shouldn’t be big. Combined with the memories of the previous life, this zombie rat attack should not have caused much damage.
While the two listened to the radio and ate their breakfast, Tuanzi, who was forbidden to eat human food, squatted at the table with its back facing its two unscrupulous “parents”, silently exuding small grievances–not giving me food!
After the two came out of the space early in the morning, they discovered from the video on the monitor that an alarm had actually sounded last night, and they realized that there was danger last night.
“Or else, let’s not sleep in the space at night?” The air outside is not good and the environment is not comfortable in space. To be honest, both of them prefer to live in space. It’s just the sudden situation made them feel uneasy living in the space.
He Zizhong thought for a while and shook his head: “There is no need to care too much, after all, what happened last night was an emergency. However, we can always shower and come out to sleep later.” What do you want to do while taking a bath? The two knew well. He Zizhong’s words didn’t seem to be a problem, and actually contained some careful thoughts, which made Fang Hao flush slightly and couldn’t help but send him a glance.
As they were eating, there was the sound of a bicycle outside. Looking out the window, they saw a deliveryman put some things into their mailbox, and rode to the next house.
“I’ll get it.” Fang Hao quickly got up. The dumpling on the side wanted to follow, but was grabbed by a big hand.
“Why are you going to join in the fun?” People was just making a quick trip, but if it went outside…
There was only one thick letter in the mailbox. Fang Hao saw the words “Base Management Association” printed on it. He guessed it might have something to do with the zombie thing last night, so he quickly turned and walked inside the house.
“Boss?” A person asked the person in front of him in doubt, followed his gaze to the villa by the road. “What’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing.” Allen shook his head, and looked at the villa again with interest. The kid just now… really shines. Especially in the current world, even he can’t guarantee that every day is as perfect as before the apocalypse. But that child…that villa… whose family young master is it?
“Go back and find out who lives in that villa.” Such a beautiful boy will definitely be sought after even before the end of the world. Let alone now? He just doesn’t know if there is any background behind him – if not, it’s easy for him to start.
Things are no longer the same after the apocalypse. The concept of having a background is not the same either. Perhaps most people still thought of the three main types of background: military, political, and money. But in the foreseeable future, as long as there are zombies outside, only bases can dominate. And within them, there are two groups. First, those who hold military power or a group of ability users. Second, a powerful person with a powerful ability.
He is now a powerful person with powerful abilities, fulfilling the second criteria and working on developing the first. He has few scruples today and can get more things than before!
What’s with people and their big egos…
Allen better not touch FH! 😠
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