Ch60 - Bad News

“It seems that I have to pay attention to where I can get seeds when I go out…” It was Wei Xuan’s mistake to forget to collect the seeds. But this can’t be completely blamed on him, because even in his last life, the base only issued a mission about finding seeds in the early days, and he had completely forgotten. 

In addition, most seeds have probably been ruined by the earthquake and heavy rain, as they would have been soaked for such a long time.

Although Wei Xuan needs to find seeds while he is out, this matter is not as urgent as other things, as long as he can get something before the snow falls this year, and even if he can’t find suitable ones at all, he won’t worry about it. 

It’s still as he planned before – at worst, when he can’t eat or drink, he will simply be infected with the zombie virus and turn into a zombie. Anyway, with Du Hang by his side, he doesn’t care whether he lives or dies.

While Wei Xuan was arranging farm tools at home, the sound of the rain outside became louder and denser, and even lightning flashed and thunder roared from time to time amidst the dark clouds.

Three helicopters flew past the side of T City, circled the edge of the city, went straight north, and parked on the apron next to a large base.

Soldiers armed to the teeth and some people hurried down and walked quickly towards the people waiting to greet them with loaded guns. 

“How about the mission?”

“I got the things.” 

“Okay! The chief and the others are waiting in the conference room, be careful not to get caught in the rain!”

A group of people hurriedly got into the car and quickly entered the military living and working area of ​​the base. Stopping next to a small building, a group of people braved the rain and entered the building without stopping, and came to a large meeting room. 

There are already many people in the conference room, and it seems that they are in a meeting. Seeing these people come in, one of the people in the first seat immediately asked, “Did you bring the things?”

“Reporting chief, I’ve got it!” 

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“Base No. 44 communicated with other bases two days ago, saying that the scientists at their base have split some energy from the zombie crystal nucleus. Although the extraction method is a bit dangerous, the energy output is unstable, resulting in a certain degree of energy exposure, damaging some surrounding equipment, but! This incident can be confirmed without a doubt—the zombie’s crystal nucleus can extract energy! This means that once the energy can be successfully converted, we can use these energies to replace the conventional energy sources from the past!” 

Everyone at the meeting started to discuss in low voices, and everyone’s eyes burst out with excitement. This is much better than hearing that all human beings have been infected with the zombie virus and that they all have to turn into ghostly things after death!!

After the discussion has subsided a bit: “Of course, the experiment is still in progress, because most of the bases are not equipped with complete equipment and personnel, so although we can obtain the experimental materials and procedures, we can’t carry out this experiment in the base for the time being. The main experimental site in North China is temporarily set at Base 44. As for our other bases, the current task is to vigorously promote the task of clearing up zombies! All bases must take action to clean up as many zombies as possible, and collect the crystal cores…” 

As the man said this, everyone below nodded excitedly, and many people even began to figure out how to motivate the teams in the base to go out to do missions and the exchange rate of crystal cores in the base.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps hurriedly sounded from outside the corridor all the way to the gate. 

Although people were talking in the room, most of them heard the string of voices clearly, so they stopped talking and looked toward the door. At this time, the footsteps stopped at the door, and a man shouted the report loudly at the door.

“Come in.” The chief frowned slightly. At such an inspiring moment, someone suddenly rushed in to disrupt the meeting, but it would affect the mood very much. And if the news was bad, it would be even more unappetizing. 

“Report to the chief! I just received the notification that the nearby No. 28 and No. 36 bases that we have lost contact with have just been confirmed that they were destroyed!” 

The room was quiet for a long time before someone asked, “What? Destroyed?  

“Yes!” The man stood at attention and saluted. “This morning, an adventure team returned to the base and reported that they had passed through Base No. 36. That base is now almost in ruins, and zombies are wandering around inside and outside!” 

“The mission’s military convoy just dispatched a message and found that Base 28 was almost razed to the ground!” 

Everyone in the room gasped, and the person sitting at the head looked distinguished with anger: “Base 28 was destroyed?”

The man nodded. 

With a wave of his hand, he let the little soldier step down first, and when he stepped down: “The meeting is temporarily adjourned.” 

The others looked at each other, guessing and doubting in their hearts—could the chief have any relatives who are in base 28? 

After the first few people got up and left, the more acquainted people quietly got together and asked in a low voice.

Although they don’t know if the boss of the base has any relatives in the No. 28 base, some people know another thing- “A few days ago, the chief sent a team to the No. 28 base, as if to pick up someone or something important…” 

“So, this is the team that sent back the news to carry out the mission?!”

The person who spread the gossip nodded deeply: “It is very likely.” 

“Hiss… no wonder!”

“Oh, I don’t know who it is.” 

“I heard that the chief’s wife just arrived in the last days…”

“What about his children?” 

Another person shook his head: “The chief only has one daughter, isn’t she in our base?”

Everyone exchanged a knowing look after hearing the words—it wasn’t a wife or a child, so… maybe he was raising someone outside. His mistress, or an illegitimate child? 

The chief who left the meeting room didn’t know the dirty thoughts in those people’s minds, but his face became very gloomy after he walked out of the meeting room, and he hit the table hard when he returned to his exclusive office, lowered his voice in front of his cronies, but, he couldn’t help roaring again: “No one can get the missile base back this time!!”

His confidant’s expression was also ugly. He knew exactly what his leader was angry about, so he could only help to persuade him: “This… no one expected it, otherwise the helicopter would have been sent to pick up those people.” 

After venting, the chief sat back in his seat a little decadently: “To replace those experts, how many supplies have been transported from the Xiaopo base? But now… we lost people and our money!! If I knew this would happen, I would have sent people over to snatch them over!” 

The confidant suddenly reminded him cautiously: “Sir, is it possible? …Someone really went to snatch them? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?”  

The chief was stunned for a moment, his expression changed from anger to gloom in an instant, he waved his hand, and when his cronies came over, he immediately ordered him in a low voice: “Immediately contact that team, get in touch and ask them to check the base as carefully as possible to find out what caused the base to be destroyed? Is it zombies or—people?”

“Yes!” There is no way, the information is itself top secret. Countless people turned into zombies directly in the early days, and the bosses above were almost wiped out. The location of the missile base, the code to open it, etc. were highly classified before.  

What made the survivors vomit blood was that according to some people who escaped from those military bases, most of the military factories and military bases fell after the collective coma after the strange snow!

Among the surviving bases that can still pull up the team, today’s armed forces basically come from within the army and a small number of known military factories before the end of the world, but what they, the grassroots troops, can get is only the most basic equipment, no production equipment, and raw materials at all! 

If they want to survive, they must pay attention to those military factories that have fallen but are highly secret! Their base also made more inquiries and learned that there were a few lucky experts who escaped from a certain missile base in base 28. Then they contacted that relatively small base in many ways, talked about various interest exchanges, and it was only after the final decision to merge that the move of sending troops to pick up people came about.

However, he didn’t expect that the base had completely fallen… Who would believe that there is no problem here?! 

After all, as long as you can get such a lethal thermal weapon, it’s okay to destroy a small base of tens of thousands of people.

Now if this line is completely cut off, it will be too difficult for them to find such a good opportunity from other places. Without heavy firepower in hand, who can guarantee that those monsters can be eliminated and humans can return to a peaceful world… 

It has been pouring rain for two full days. During these two days, the rain has been heavy and sometimes small, but it has never stopped.

This type of rain was rare before. Generally speaking, no matter how heavy the rain is, it would stop half a day before. It’s a pity that this time it seemed as if God was helping Wei Xuan to celebrate getting the solar panels. It rained heavily for two days in a row, leaving him nowhere to find sunshine when he wanted to collect electricity.