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Chapter 311 Baixia Base (1)

Teng Jin looked at Li Muran once, and then again, and felt a little unbelievable. His brother's aesthetic taste has changed too much, hasn't it?

Li Muran no longer needs to make herself dirty and make people frown at the sight of her, but for the convenience of washing, she still keeps her hair short. After all, she cuts it herself, so the neatness and hairstyle are not worth mentioning. It is cold now, so there is no need to wear loose men's clothes to cover up the female figure like at the beginning of the end of the world. But even women's winter clothes are gray and heavy, and they don't show curves at all. Wearing them and standing in the crowd is definitely the least noticeable. This outfit reduces her points a lot. Except for those with ulterior motives, few people will pay attention to her facial features.

Of course, her facial features are not amazing, just delicate. Such appearance is the easiest to cover up. As long as the hairstyle and clothes are not paid attention to, even if there is no need to smear dust on the face, it will look very ordinary.

Teng Jin did not dare to look at her carefully, but just looked at her twice more, and then looked away when he felt that she was pleasing to the eye. In fact, even if Song Yan did not remind him, with his personality in front of outsiders, he would not be too rude in front of a woman.

"My original wish was to return to the crowd and not be treated as an alien." When he found out that Li Muran was an ordinary awakened human, and her relationship with Song Yan was not as forced as the humans in the beast nest succumbing to the orcs, he remembered the unfinished conversation with Song Yan before.

After returning to the cave, he carefully inquired about the situation of the base he built. When he learned that it was mainly composed of ordinary humans, and only Nan Shao and Song Yan were orcs in the entire temporary base, and one was the leader of the temporary base, and the other had no position, but was also valued and respected by the members of the base because of his own strength, Teng Jin was not unmoved. If it was a few months ago, before the idea of ​​establishing an orc tribe had arisen and taken action, he would definitely leave with Song Yan without saying a word. However, now, he has to consider more.

"I plan to gather all the orcs scattered outside and use the evolutionary fluid in the Baixia Base to help them regain some of their sanity. We were sent to the institute voluntarily or involuntarily for the research project on human evolution. There is no reason to be discriminated against and cruelly killed after we finally got out of there after a narrow escape. Except for very few special cases, no one wants to become what they are now. Since I am lucky enough to be the first orc to regain sanity, I have the responsibility to seek a place for them in this land." After careful consideration, he gave Song Yan a firm negative answer.

"Most of the orcs are scattered in the deserted continent and its adjacent areas. If I want to gather them, I can only stay here. Besides, the evolutionary fluid that can make orcs regain their sanity is only available in the Baixia Base." He sighed, looked at Song Yan deeply, and hesitated. He wanted Song Yan to stay here and complete this task with him, but thinking about the responsibilities Song Yan shouldered, he gave up.

Of course, he had more concerns. The ordinary humans in the temporary base built by Song Yan could accept Song Yan and Nan Shao, but they might not necessarily accept them. Moreover, he was not sure whether his orcs would get out of control if they lived with more ordinary humans on an equal footing. Although there were some ordinary humans in the beast nest, because of the small number and the dominant position of orcs, the humans behaved more submissively, so they could barely get along peacefully. But once you really enter the base composed mainly of ordinary people, it is hard to guarantee that you will not encounter all kinds of strange eyes. The orcs have violent and impatient tempers, and they may hurt people if they are not satisfied. Therefore, before he is completely sure that his orcs can control their tempers well, he really dare not bring them into human society.

In addition, Guo Mingcheng's life and death in Baixia Base is unknown, and he has to find a way to save him.

"Tell us about Guo Mingcheng's appearance. In addition, how much do you know about the situation in Baixia Base? How to exchange for evolutionary fluid?" After listening to his words, Song Yan thought for a moment and asked.

Teng Jin knew the meaning of the music. He was never ashamed to seek help from outsiders to achieve his goals. He told everything he knew without reservation.

The Baixia Base was originally established by a girl named Han Ling, not long after the rainstorm. Before that, there were actually a few scattered human settlements in Baixia, but they disappeared for various reasons. The survivors gradually gathered in the newly built Baixia Base. It took less than two months for the population to grow from a few thousand to more than 100,000.

Han Ling was able to establish the base and make it grow rapidly because of the large amount of supplies she brought with her and a group of followers. However, she was young and inexperienced, and did not have enough ability to manage a base of more than 100,000 people. It is said that the base was in chaos for a while, until later, she was replaced by a man named Shi Hao, and the base management was thoroughly cleaned up, and everything became in order, and even had a thriving atmosphere. The evolutionary fluid also appeared after Shi Hao came to power. Compared with its value, the exchange price is too insignificant.

One hundred ordinary zombie crystal cores can be exchanged for a bottle of 10 ml evolutionary fluid. The amount is not large, but it is enough to awaken people's superpowers. For the survivors who can survive the second disaster, it can be regarded as a free gift. If the crystal cores of mutant zombies and mutant plants and animals are used in exchange, it will be less, and this is different due to the size and type of the crystal cores and the energy contained in them. The most important thing is that the evolutionary fluid is not limited to the survivors of the Baixia base. Everyone can see that this measure is obviously to take care of all the survivors who have not awakened, and want to greatly enhance the strength of the surviving humans, rather than just focusing on the hundreds of thousands of survivors in one base.

Shi Hao also established a secret planting base that can provide a large amount of food and fresh fruits and vegetables that have not mutated. The price is cheap and can be exchanged with ordinary zombie crystal cores, so the survivors of Baixia do not need to risk all kinds of dangers to try mutant plants and animals like people in other places. Similarly, this is also the main reason why there are fewer zombies in Baixia than in other provinces. After all, killing ordinary zombies can earn food, so who would want to mess with mutant creatures?

It can be said that the survivors of the Baixia base live better than survivors anywhere else, and their strength is not weaker at all. If it weren't for the order to wipe out the orcs, Teng Jin would have admired Shi Hao very much.

"I heard that Shi Hao was Han Ling's lover. After Shi Hao came to power, Han Ling disappeared. Some people say she is dead, and some people say she was imprisoned by Shi Hao. But these are all rumors. It is unknown what the real situation is." Teng Jin ended with this sentence, with a sigh in his tone. It's just that I don't know whether he sighed for Han Ling or sighed for becoming an enemy with Shi Hao. But judging from his personality, the latter possibility should be greater.

Hearing Han Ling's name, Li Muran's expression couldn't help but move, and he subconsciously looked at Nan Shao.

Nan Shao hadn't thought of anything before. He was stunned when he received Li Muran's gaze. Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly realized that Han Ling was the girl they first met in Wangyang Town and then met again in the hotel in Ziyun County.

To be honest, he didn't remember the details of the time very clearly, but the girl had accidentally pointed out that his ability was a life ability, which was an indirect reminder to him. If it weren't for this, he would probably have always thought that he was a wood ability. When Zhang Yi was seriously injured and dying, he could only be helpless and watch his life disappear bit by bit.

He couldn't imagine such a result. Therefore, he didn't care much about the other special features of the girl, but this one point impressed him deeply. If there is a chance, he will not hesitate to give something back.

Song Yan took the eye contact between the two into his eyes, raised his hand calmly and gently brushed the non-existent dust on Li Muran's shoulders, attracting her attention, and then asked: "What's the matter?"

Li Muran didn't feel the jealousy that was about to overflow in his heart. When he heard the question, he didn't hide it. "Han Ling might be a girl we met before." He then told her about his encounter with Han Ling in Ziyun County. At the beginning, she didn't choose to go with Han Ling. She said it was jealousy, but in fact it was not. The real reason was that she was familiar with Zhang Yi and others, and they had established a considerable degree of trust with each other. There was no reason to abandon a friend who could let her rely on her and cooperate tacitly in the future and turn to a stranger who knew nothing about his character and mind. Don't use the same sex to get along better. At that time, she had just been harmed by a person of the same sex not long ago. As for the ability to obtain superpowers, she had awakened superpowers, but it was not very easy to use.

"It should be her." After listening, Song Yan said, but immediately turned his head and turned to Teng Jin: "We will go to Baixia Base to take a look and help you get things done." He actually minded what happened during that period. He minded that he neglected her and almost missed her. He also minded that he was not among the people who went through hardships with her at that time. So, to be honest, he was a little jealous of Zhang Yi and the others, but he couldn't blame anyone else, he could only feel jealous silently, so naturally he didn't want to hear her talk about that past with a nostalgic look on her face.

Seeing him agree, Teng Jin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and felt that the burden on his shoulders was much lighter. Without delay, he selected a few orcs and led them himself, ready to go with Song Yan and the others.

Because the journey was too far, Li Muran had almost used up the number of superpowers he could use in a day when he came here. If he wanted to take so many people back, he couldn't travel far when he set off. Even if the superpowers were full, it would take two days. If they drove, they would have to clear the snow and remove the mutant plants that began to grow densely and blocked the road, which would take a long time. So in the end they decided to walk.

For orcs, using their feet is not much slower than driving, but more flexible.

However, Nan Shao was worried about Zhang Yi, so he naturally didn't want to run slowly on the ground with them, so he turned into an animal and went ahead. To be honest, he didn't feel envious at all that Teng Jin was someone Song Yan knew. What was there to envy? Being seen by acquaintances in such a miserable state, or even being thrown aside to fend for oneself, is it very envious?

As for Li Muran, she naturally wanted to return with Song Yan at this moment. After her supernatural power was restored, she could also help everyone to run less distance. Of course, the most important thing was that Song Yan would not let Nan Shao take her away.

When Nan Shao returned to the camp, it was already dark. Zhang Yi was still sleeping, but his complexion was much better.

When Shen Chi heard Teng Jin's name, there was a hint of surprise on his face, and then a little bit of realization, "It's that kid." Then he said nothing else. It can be seen that he was completely relieved.

Song Yan and his group arrived the next morning. In fact, if it wasn't for the dark, Song Yan insisted on resting, and they could arrive at two or three in the morning.

After a day and a night of getting along, the unfamiliarity and restraint between Li Muran and Song Yan had long been erased by Song Yan's slightly tough attitude and actions. If the time and place had not allowed it, the relationship between the two would have probably taken a step further.

As for Teng Jin, he was completely stunned by Li Muran's ability, and finally understood why Song Yan was so confident in agreeing to let him solve the problem. With such a wife with supernatural powers around, saving people must be too easy.

"Second brother, you have a good eye!" Before meeting Shen Chi, he threw down such a sentence.

This sentence was incoherent, leaving Li Muran, who was standing next to him, confused. He didn't know what he was talking about, but Song Yan reacted almost immediately, and a very faint smile appeared at the corner of his lips. Maybe Teng Jin was just referring to Li Muran's ability being useful, but he automatically understood it as an evaluation of Li Muran as a whole person, and he had no intention of accepting any rebuttal.

Naturally, only you can criticize your own wife. Others can only praise her. Dare to say something unpleasant?

Teng Jin was obviously very aware of his temper, so he didn't comment until then, but he really didn't want to see his smug look, and didn't want to be forced to praise him more, so he ran over to reminisce with Shen Chi and settled the beastmen he brought with him to prevent them from causing trouble.

Fortunately, the people in the convoy were a little surprised to see so many beastmen appear at once, but because they came back with Song Yan, they didn't show a wary look, let alone discrimination and fear. When they later learned that most of them were military, the relationship between them became closer.

One side didn't provoke provocation, and the other side knew how to control their temper, and the atmosphere of getting along was surprisingly harmonious.

When discussing going to Baixia Base, Nan Shao didn't join, but played with Zhang Ruiyang on the side. For him, he didn't plan to go anywhere else before Zhang Yi woke up. But when he really needed to contribute, he wouldn't refuse.

The matter was actually not difficult to decide. To return to Yunzhou, they had to find a car. They couldn't always rely on Li Muran's ability.

They needed a car and gasoline. Because of the existence of the metal-loving flying beast, it might be difficult to find a car or even a piece of metal plate in the nearby cities. Instead of trying their luck in a farther place, it would be better to go to Baixia Base. Moreover, they came from a far distance, and how could they not enter the human base to learn about the situation of the survivors in the northwest.

But before that, they will move their place of residence to Longkou City. The main force will stay behind to collect supplies and wait for the sick ghost to come out of isolation, and only a few people will go to explore the situation first. At least from the information provided by Teng Jin, it is not enough for Song Yan to regard Shi Hao as an enemy. And Teng Jin's fundamental purpose is not to get rid of Shi Hao, but to rescue Guo Mingcheng and how to get more evolutionary fluid from Baixia Base.

Fortunately, Zhang Yi finally woke up the next day, and Nan Shao no longer had to postpone the time to go to Longkou for fear of disturbing his recuperation and recovery, and took Zhang Ruiyang to stay where he was.

Chapter 312 Baixia Base (2)

Baixia Base is not based on a city or town, but is built in a vast plain. The nearest human city is thirty kilometers away.

The base is surrounded by a gray defensive wall more than twenty meters high, which has become a feature of almost all survivor settlements. Humans living in a peaceful era probably never thought that the wall they abandoned for only more than a hundred years would be reused and take on the responsibility of protecting human settlements. The human body is evolving, but human civilization is regressing. Regardless of whether this is beneficial to the overall development of mankind, at least for most survivors who have lost their relatives and friends, and for the first generation of apocalyptic people, this is a tragedy. The base is rectangular

, five miles wide and ten miles long, like a gray giant beast crawling on the empty snowfield. About 200 meters outside the base, a circle of mutant thorny vines with poisonous thorns about 10 meters wide and one person tall was planted artificially. It was only vacant near the main road in and out, forming the first line of defense of the base, preventing mutant beasts and zombies from directly attacking the base. Standing on the tall defense wall, you can cross the thorny vines and see the situation in the distance.

At this time, it was snowing heavily, but the road leading to the base was still busy. However, through the teams of escort convoys patrolling within 20 kilometers around the base, it can be felt that the base is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and it is guarding against something.

"Those damn alien species have been raiding a team on an outing for five days every day. In the first few days, they chose a small team of more than a dozen people, but the last attack was a medium-sized team of more than 200 people. No one was left alive. The most hateful thing is that they even sent the car carrying corpses to the gate of the base to show it to the public." A middle-aged man with big buck teeth explained to Zhang Yi and others why the base was so strictly guarded.

They met on the way to Baixia, and the other party kindly gave them a ride.

After Zhang Yi woke up, it took a day for the team to move the temporary base to Longkou City, 50 kilometers away, and set up camp next to the house where the sick ghost was in seclusion. They cleaned up, cleared the nearby zombies, and rebuilt defense facilities, including the house of the sick ghost.

They went down to the cellar to see that the entrance to the stone cave where the sick ghost was located had disappeared, and what they saw was the earth and stone wall that was integrated with the surroundings and full of traces of time. If it weren't for the broken wooden door that was still standing there, Zhang Yi and others would almost doubt whether they had found the wrong place. Moreover, the corpse of Long Taigu across two streets and the corpses of zombies killed on the ground proved that they had not found the wrong place, so they could only attribute this to the magical power of the sick ghost.

They didn't doubt that the sick ghost would play missing. With his inherent pride and his temper of doing things his own way, if he really wanted to abandon them, he would not say that he would look for them again.

Leng Fengchen, who left without saying goodbye, was not seen here, which made everyone quite confused. In the end, they could only guess that he either did not find the place or left for some reason. But they did not have a good impression of him, so they naturally did not spend more time thinking about it.

After settling down and collecting a lot of crystal cores, Song Yan and others immediately went to Baixia Base. Zhang Yi wanted Zhang Ruiyang to interact with more people, so the family of three accompanied him, but he did not bring Dudu with him for fear of attracting attention. In addition to Song Yan, Li Muran, and a group of orcs, Shen Chi also went with them. Lou Nan stayed behind to respond.

Considering the difference between the mental and physical state of a long journey in the heavy snow and an easy arrival, in order to avoid arousing suspicion, they finally did not choose to let Li Muran take them directly to the vicinity of the base, but walked through the snow and forest from Longkou City on foot.

When they were still 40 or 50 kilometers away from the base, Teng Jin left with the orcs. They could not follow the base, so they had to find a place to hide and wait for news. They could not be too close to the base or too far away to facilitate the response. Fifty kilometers is just the right distance for Li Muran to teleport.

Not long after they separated from the orcs, Zhang Yi and his companions met the convoy in front of them. Seeing that there were not many people in their group, and there were women and children, and they were walking hard in the snow and wind, the people in the convoy felt sorry for them. After asking about their destination, they offered to give them a ride since it was on the way. Although it

was called a convoy, there were only three vehicles, which had been simply modified, but still looked shabby. There was a minibus that could carry more than a dozen people, a small truck with a closed rear compartment, and a car, with a total of only about twenty people. Whether from the clothes or the complexion, these survivors should be the middle and lower level of the base.

However, even so, no one showed dissatisfaction with taking Zhang Yi and others with them. Several people were asked to get on the middle minibus, and immediately some people squeezed each other to make room for them. There were not enough places, but they had to make do. Li Muran held Zhang Ruiyang and sat in one seat. Song Yan was too tall to stand without sitting, and Nan Shao was next. In the end, Zhang Yi and Shen Chi stood.

However, Nan Shao was not sitting comfortably. Less than a hundred meters after the car started again, he pulled Zhang Yi onto his lap.

"His legs are inconvenient." Facing the gazes of other people in the car, Nan Shao made up a good-tempered nonsense with a gentle and polite smile. He is good-looking and has such a smile, which is very pleasing.

Zhang Yi's ears were a little hot. His legs had long been healed, and standing this distance was not a big deal for him, but he did not have to stand up in front of everyone to embarrass Nan Shao.

So Shen Chi was the only one standing in the whole car, which was quite abrupt. Shen Chi did not think it was a big deal, because he was not taller. But Song Yan glanced at him, and suddenly picked up Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang who were sitting next to him, and sat in. When he put them down, the two of them, one big and one small, fell on him, making room for another.

Li Muran was caught off guard and cried out softly. He was holding Zhang Ruiyang in his arms, and he could not get up even if he struggled, and immediately became red-faced. Compared to Zhang Yi, her face was very thin.

There was a kind laugh from everyone in the carriage, maybe for the two of them, maybe for Zhang Yi and Nan Shao, anyone with eyes that were not so blind could tell that these were two couples. The end of the world seemed to make people more tolerant, as long as they were sincere, even same-sex love would be blessed by most people, and no longer resisted by the whole society as before.

Shen Chi didn't want to sit down very much, he felt that he could still stand, and stand very steadily, but under the pressure of Song Yan's eyes, he could only sit down with grievance, and didn't forget to hug Zhang Ruiyang, whose face was flushed by the squeeze, from Li Muran's hands.

Li Muran was so embarrassed that he couldn't even raise his head. Fortunately, everyone's attention was quickly diverted, and they began to chat with each other. One side wanted to find out more about the situation of the base, and the other side was very interested in their origins, and the atmosphere was very lively along the way. Because of the attitude of this group of people, Zhang Yi and others felt a little bit of favor towards the entire Baixia base.

Although the bucktoothed man didn't look good, he was very enthusiastic and he was the most talkative person in the whole car.

"Alien?" After hearing his explanation, Zhang Yi and the others were all surprised. It was not because of the name of alien, but because they didn't expect Teng Jin's group of orcs to do such a thing. Even Song Yan, Teng Jin didn't tell him, not because he was guilty or something, but because he didn't take it to heart and forgot about it.

Bucktooth and others certainly didn't know the inside story. They thought they came from afar and didn't know what aliens were, so they patiently explained: "Aliens are monsters that are a hybrid of humans and mutants. They look half like humans and half like mutants. They are cruel and murderous, and their strength is particularly strong. Ordinary awakeners need at least ten or more to barely fight against an alien. It can be said that they are a big disaster here..."

This is simply scolding a monk in front of a bald donkey. Nan Shao and Song Yan's expressions are slightly distorted. Fortunately, they have now successfully merged. If it were a few days ago, they would not kill people, but they would have to go through a lot. Li Muran subconsciously grabbed Song Yan's arm around her waist, but Shen Chi was holding back his laughter and hurt himself. He also did not forget to gently tap Zhang Ruiyang's mouth with his finger vertically, signaling the child not to speak.

Zhang Yi quickly interrupted the bucktoothed man and asked a random question: "Where did this creature come from?"

"They are transformed from humans. We didn't have any here before, but when the Wasteland Base was destroyed, they all moved here." Bucktooth said, and then pretended to be mysterious and whispered, "I heard that the Wasteland Base was destroyed by them."

"Are there a lot of them?" Zhang Yi asked.

"Of course..." Bucktooth said as a matter of course, but was interrupted immediately.

"Listen to his nonsense. There shouldn't be many of them, and we don't encounter them often. Otherwise, who would dare to run out of a base like ours?" A woman in her thirties said unhappily, then turned to explain to Zhang Yi and the others: "The alien species came out of the laboratory in the desert. They are the kind that inject the genes of mutant creatures or other things into the human body, and then mutate to generate new species. This kind of thing is not in line with natural evolution. How successful can it be? And who wants to become like that as a living person? They are actually quite pitiful. Anyone who has such an experience will definitely be full of resentment and hatred in their heart, so if you meet them in the future, try to run as much as possible. Although they look deformed, their strength is really terrifying."

This is a very pertinent comment and suggestion. Of course, if she didn't call the orcs "this kind of thing", Zhang Yi and the others would have a better impression of her.

"Okay, Arong, don't always have sympathy for those monsters. They will not show mercy when they kill people. They also eat people. They can no longer be considered as our kind. Have you forgotten how Xia Hai's girlfriend died? Don't let him hear you say these words, otherwise I can't stop you. Anyway, if I have the ability, I will definitely kill those things one by one, so as not to let them harm more people." A big man with stubble on his face leaned back on the chair with his hands folded across his chest and said lightly.

It can be heard that these people have different attitudes towards orcs, but it is certain that they are all very afraid of orcs.

"I know." Arong raised her hand weakly and pressed her forehead, "I just think that maybe we and them... maybe we can avoid the current situation, like the one we caught last time..."

"Arong!" The man shouted to stop her, and his expression suddenly became stern. "That's not something you should worry about." After saying that, he ignored the woman and looked at Zhang Yi and the others. His expression became gentle again: "We're about to enter the base. What are your plans?"

Although Zhang Yi and the others wanted to know what the woman hadn't finished, they didn't immediately ask further. And looking at the man's appearance, they probably wouldn't be able to find out anything even if they asked. When he heard the question, he was about to answer, but suddenly saw that the car didn't stop when it drove to the gate of the base, but drove straight in. Not only them, but other vehicles were the same.

"Don't you check it?" The one who asked the question was Shen Chi. You know, even the Imperial Capital Base didn't dare to let people in so casually.

The people in this team had obviously stayed in other bases before. When they heard what he said, they immediately understood what he meant and couldn't help laughing.

"We don't need it here. Actually, it's not that we don't need it. We used to need it. It was only after Boss Hao had people develop the evolution liquid that we cancelled it." The man answered. "Let's send you to the newcomer registration office to register first. Newcomers who come to the base for the first time will be given some things. I see that you don't have anything you want, but you can last for two days with these things."

Zhang Yi and his team also made a mistake, because they only planned to go to the base to take a look, and did not consider staying overnight, so they thought of everything, but forgot to bring some things for show. Fortunately, they improvised and said that they encountered a mutated gold-eating flying beast, the car was written off, and the supplies they brought were lost, and they only escaped with their lives. Perhaps because they knew the existence of the gold-eating flying beast, the team members did not doubt it.

Hearing the man's proposal, of course they had to agree.

"Can the evolutionary fluid also treat corpse poison?" After determining the direction of the car, Zhang Yi asked. He was very concerned about the fact that he had an attack of corpse poison but inexplicably recovered. If he didn't figure it out, he always felt like there was a landmine in his heart.

"It's hard to say." The man touched the stubble on his chin, obviously he was not very sure about this. "But the evolutionary fluid can awaken people's superpowers. Being bitten by zombies also requires evolution. Maybe the evolutionary fluid has insured this process. Since they can all awaken, they will naturally not become zombies. I don't know if I am right to think so. Anyway, since the base has not been inspected, nothing has happened in the past few months."

He said it vaguely, but the content he wanted to express was still very clear. Zhang Yi and others understood it. What he meant was that the evolutionary fluid can allow people who have been infected with corpse poison to awaken their superpowers first. Since they have become superpowers, they will naturally not become zombies again. But in fact, if superpowers are infected with zombie corpse poison for the second time, especially the corpse poison of mutant zombies, they may not be able to resist it, so the causal relationship here is not necessarily established. However, unless the person who studied this evolutionary fluid explains it, they may not be able to figure out the real reason.

"You can first ask for a piece of land and build a house yourself, or you can just buy a built one." The big man changed the subject at this time and kindly suggested.

"You don't charge for entering and exiting the base?" When the car stopped in front of a two-story building, Shen Chi found a new problem again.

"What fees?" The big man smiled, with a hint of pride on his face, "You don't need to live in the base for a long time. You only need to spend the crystal cores you get on your own food, clothing, housing and transportation. It's no different from before the end of the world. Okay, get off the car, I'll accompany you."

Zhang Yi and the others were a little stunned. The living conditions here were too good, which made them a little tempted. If the large army was not still in Yunzhou, they might want to settle down and not leave.

Chapter 313 Baixia Base (3)

The buildings in Baixia Base are very special. Almost all of them are low-rise bungalows of the same earth-grey color as the defense walls. There are also two-story buildings, but they are very few in number. They are scattered but very regularly distributed throughout the base, like a crane standing out among chickens. According to the explanation of Bucktooth and others, these two-story buildings are the base's office. The building in front of us is specially used to receive newcomers, and there are also places to issue tasks, exchange food and evolution liquid, etc. Because the base is relatively large, it is divided into several areas, and each area has relevant institutions.

These houses are arranged neatly, with wide roads running through them, forming a regular tic-tac-toe shape. Some bungalows have courtyards, while others do not, but their defenses are average. It is said that because the base has a law enforcement team, there is almost no tolerance for open fighting and infighting among survivors, as well as murder, robbery, rape and other evil deeds. Once found, they will be dealt with. The offender will be executed on the spot, and there is no need to even drive him out of the base. It is precisely because of this that the atmosphere in the base is not bad. Of course, the private intrigues and some petty thefts are impossible to eliminate. There is no manpower or material resources to deal with them, and there is no need.

The most special thing is that every few meters there will be a huge earth and stone pillar rising from the ground. The closest one is two meters, and the widest one is no more than ten meters. It is like a telephone pole before the end of the world. The height is the same as the base defense wall. There is a wire mesh on it, covering the entire base. I don't know what material the wire of the net is made of. It is slightly white

and transparent, and it does not affect the lighting in the base. The man said... The man's name is Liu Jie. Liu Jie said that this is to prevent flying beasts. The most annoying thing about Baixia is not the ordinary mutant beasts and zombies, but the flying beasts, especially the gold-loving flying beasts. Every time they come, they will cause a lot of losses. There are not many casualties, but they always break metal objects. Other things are fine, but without a car, how can they go out to get crystal cores? They can't walk. You know, the nearest city is thirty kilometers away, and all the time is spent on the road, and it is not safe. So in the end, the base came up with this solution. It can't be said that it can completely block the mutant flying beasts, but it can at least block them for a while and let people prepare. Moreover, the existence of the stone pillars reduces the turning space of the mutant flying beasts. Even if they break through the silk screen and rush down, they will lose their flexibility when flying in the base, making it easier to deal with them. The reason why the houses in the base are built so low is also for this reason.

"The houses here can be rented or bought, and you can also ask for a piece of vacant land to build yourself. The vacant land is provided free of charge. If you hire someone to build it, it will definitely cost money, but you can do it according to your own wishes. If you want to live here for a long time in the future, it will definitely be more cost-effective to buy or build it directly. If you decide to build it yourself, you can live with us first." Before entering the small building, Liu Jie first explained the specific situation.

The reason why he was so attentive was not without selfishness. Nan Shao's group, except for Li Muran, a woman, and Zhang Ruiyang, a child, the remaining four are all strong men, and they can escape from the mutant gold-loving flying beasts. Their strength must be strong. But after all, there are few people, and in the end, they must choose a force to join. He hoped to be close to the water and get the moon first, and recruit people into the team. Even if it doesn't work, it can still make a good relationship.

Nan Shao and his friends looked at each other, asked about the price of renting and buying a house, and finally decided to rent a courtyard. They had other purposes, and staying with Liu Jie's team would be inconvenient, so they didn't consider it. The reason for renting instead of buying is not because it is just a temporary residence and there is no need to buy, but because there are not enough crystal cores.

The worst house is a single room, just a place to live, not comfortable. If you buy it, you need 500 crystal cores, but rent it for only 10 per month; the higher level is a two-bedroom or three-bedroom suite, the price ranges from one thousand to two thousand, and the rent is fifty; the toilets of these two types of houses are outside, and they are shared by more than 20 households in a district. The higher level is with a yard, and there are also large, medium and small yards, with built-in toilets, the price is 5,000 to 10,000, and the rent is about 500 to 1,000. The crystal cores mentioned here refer to ordinary zombie crystal cores. If they are replaced with mutant plants and animals and mutant zombies, they will be converted according to the size and preciousness of the species.

From this, it can be seen that the base is encouraging survivors to kill ordinary zombies. You must know that at this point in the end of the world, the role of ordinary corpse crystals has become useless and is dispensable for most awakened people. The base still uses it as the basic currency, of course not because it is needed, but because it is easy to obtain and in large quantities, which can not only take care of the lowest group of people, but also clean up the huge number of zombies.

The three major harms of the end of the world are zombies, mutants, and bad climate. The climate cannot be changed. Mutants have regeneration and cannot be completely eliminated. Only zombies, one less is one, and they can always be killed over time. In that case, it can also remove a threat for humans and focus on fighting mutants.

"There are only a few of you, you can just rent a suite, why bother living in that damn expensive yard, it's gone for five hundred, you can buy a small single room." Although Liu Jie was a little disappointed that he couldn't take the person back, he still reminded him kindly.

Nan Shao and his team wanted a small courtyard with 500 crystal cores. Apart from the kitchen and living room, there were five rooms, which was more than enough for them. But to be honest, ordinary corpse crystals were no longer of much use to them. Many times, they didn't bother to dig for them when they killed zombies. It was only when Teng Jin said that ordinary corpse crystals could be exchanged for evolution liquid that they temporarily got some to bring with them. If they hadn't brought enough, they would have planned to buy the small courtyard. If this base was really good, they would definitely come and go often after everything was settled. It would be good to have a place to stay.

"There are women and children in the team, and it's safer to have a courtyard wall." Everyone appreciated Liu Jie's kindness, so they said.

Seeing their explanation, Liu Jie stopped persuading them. After all, the crystal cores belonged to others, and it was their own business to spend them. He had done his best to remind them. Of course, it can also be inferred from this that Nan Shao and his team should be quite strong, otherwise they would never be so extravagant.

The reception area for newcomers is a large hall, separated by a waist-high earth wall into an inner and outer area. Inside is the reception area, equipped with a stove, desk, chairs, and some rice and flour piled in the corner. Outside is empty, except for a staircase leading to the second floor.

There is no one in the outer hall, and two receptionists are sitting inside, chatting while warming themselves by the fire. Surprisingly, both of them are middle-aged men, not women or the elderly who need lighter work.

Seeing Zhang Yi and his party come in, the two stopped talking and stood up.

"Oh, it's not easy to have newcomers at this time." One of them laughed.

The two people's reactions were neither enthusiastic nor cold, neither high-handed nor overly attentive, but just received according to the procedure. They asked everyone's name, age, whether they had supernatural powers, where they came from, etc., and recorded them one by one. Even Li Muran, the only girl in the team, didn't even look at them. But when they saw Xiao Yangyang, their expressions softened a lot.

"The child is good, raise him well." The person who spoke at the beginning solemnly exhorted.

Zhang Yi and the others were a little puzzled. It was not until they came out and heard Liu Jie talk about it that they learned that although there were more than 100,000 survivors in the Baixia base, there were very few children under the age of fifteen, less than a thousand in total, and less than a hundred under the age of ten. In addition, although the majority of the survivors were men, there were also quite a few women, and many of them formed couples, but there has not been a single pregnancy so far. Whether the reason is that they do not want to have children and use contraception, or that the psychological pressure is too great and their physical condition has changed, or that the environment of the end of the world has affected them, it is not yet certain. But if humans want to continue, they will eventually need new blood to be injected, so children have become particularly precious.

Thanks to Zhang Ruiyang, in addition to two days' worth of rice, flour, vegetables and coal, they also got two quilts, two apples, a can of milk powder, and half a bag of candy. The person who gave them the things didn't say anything, but according to Liu Jie, the portion Zhang Ruiyang got was originally for two people. It may be because there have been few new survivors during this period, especially children, so the other party gave them more. Fresh fruits, milk powder and candies were rare even in the Baixia Base. Not everyone could get them. Even if you exchanged them with crystal cores, it was hard to get them. As for the blankets, they were not included in the distribution. Perhaps it was because the weather suddenly turned cold, so they were specially given to Zhang Ruiyang to prevent the child from freezing. This shows how much the Baixia Base valued children.

After hearing this, everyone's impression of this base became better, but because of the orcs, they still maintained a cautious attitude in their hearts.

"Will someone pretend to be a newcomer to defraud the gifts?" When heading to the rented courtyard, Shen Chi looked at the card in his hand that looked like an ID card, and couldn't help asking out of curiosity. After all, there are more than 100,000 people in this base, who can remember so many faces. When issuing the card, the other party only recorded the identity information, but did not leave an image, so the effect is very limited, and it is completely impossible to prevent people from taking advantage of the situation.

"Yes." Liu Jie answered. He took the initiative to take Zhang Yi and the others to the rental house, and the receptionist did not send anyone to lead the way. "But not much. The things you get are only enough for two days, and they are not enough to be lost if you are caught. The base often turns a blind eye to this. If you are really forced to do this, you will generally be let off lightly. But if it is found that you are capable and just want to take advantage of small gains, you will be forced to do hard labor. As for the duration, it depends on the number of people pretending to be you. The more people there are, the longer you will have to do hard labor." At this point, he laughed, probably thinking of the fate of those people.

"Isn't it a waste to let two strong men guard the reception area for newcomers?" Shen Chi asked again.

"Of course not." Liu Jie explained, "Because our base does not have a checkpoint at the exit, the newcomers who can fight all the way here must be strong and not too docile. They have not been bound by rules for a long time, so it is easy for them to cause trouble. This reception is said to be for newcomers, but in fact its real function is to suppress the unruly and to smooth out the tempers of newcomers. And people like you who don't cause trouble, of course, don't see that side of them."

After hearing this, Zhang Yi and others suddenly realized that the position of receptionist in Baixia Base is not for everyone.

As they were talking, the car turned two corners, drove into an alley, and stopped in front of a yard. On the left and right of the yard are small yards of the same model. If it weren't for the house numbers on them, it would be easy to go to the wrong door.

"You settle down first, and I'll have someone take you to buy some things you need and get familiar with the environment. Otherwise, you won't be able to find the door to do anything." Liu Jie did not go in. After they got off the car, he left this sentence and his address, and asked someone to drive away. They had been out for two days and were very tired. They needed to go back and rest.

Zhang Yi and others thanked them repeatedly and watched the car leave until they could no longer see it. Then they turned around and took out the key to open the door.

The yard was more than 20 square meters in size, the ground was very flat, and it was surrounded by a wall that was half a person high, so there was no need for people outside to spy on it. The house was empty. There was nothing except a big kang. If they wanted to live here for a long time, they would have to buy a lot of things. There was an earthen stove in the kitchen, probably considering that they could burn firewood when coal was hard to get. The toilet was a squat toilet, which could be flushed with water. This was better than a bungalow without a small courtyard. At least they didn't have to run outside to squeeze into a public toilet.

Although they didn't plan to live here for a long time, everyone still felt a little emotional, just like a person who bought a house saw the house he was going to buy, and had an indescribable sense of belonging. This might be what people who have been wandering around for a long time desire.

Fortunately, everyone did not forget the purpose of coming here. They put their things on the kang and asked Li Muran to start looking for someone.

Li Muran's mental power can easily cover the entire base, but it is not easy to find a person among the many houses. However, after using mental power for a long time, she has also gained experience. She will first look for the place that is heavily guarded and very important. If she can't find it, she will look for other places.

However, after a moment, she exclaimed, with a look of surprise, and her mental power dissipated unconsciously.

"What's the matter?" asked Song Yan, who had been guarding her.

Li Muran shook her head and did not answer immediately. Instead, she released mental power again, extending it to the place she had explored before, and then her expression changed from surprise to shock, and finally to disbelief.

Just when everyone's doubts were getting stronger and stronger, she retracted her mental power, first glanced at Song Yan who was staring at her, and then turned to everyone.

"In the center of the base, there is a white stone archway with only a door frame, and it is engraved with a flying dragon and cloud pattern." She said.

Everyone was even more confused and didn't understand why she said this, but they knew it must be very important, so they all listened quietly, and even Zhang Ruiyang stared with big eyes and pricked up his little ears to listen attentively.

"The gate is located in a square, and there are many people guarding it. If my spiritual power bypasses the gate, I can see the flat land of the square and the surrounding houses. But if I pass through the middle of the gate, I can see a large mountainous area with orchards, fields, cattle and sheep. Some people are farming and some are grazing. It's like a paradise. It's snowing outside, but it's not affected at all inside. Some trees are blooming, some are bearing fruit, and the fields are the same. Some places have just planted rice, while others are harvesting. It doesn't look cold at all, but you can't tell what season it is."

Everyone was speechless, as if they were listening to a fairy tale. After a while, Song Yan reached out and touched her forehead, and asked in a deep voice: "Are you tired?" Did she fall asleep in that short time?

Chapter 314 Baixia Base (4)

Of course it was not a dream.

It was a door, but it was more than just a door. Behind the door was a world that could not be seen by the naked eye.

To call it a world was actually a bit of an exaggeration, because it was only about 500 to 600 square kilometers in size, equivalent to a relatively small county. There were mountains and forests, grasslands and fields, rivers and lakes, and a large courtyard covering an area of ​​more than a thousand square meters. The courtyard was the most heavily guarded place in the entire small world. In the center of it was a pond of more than a hundred square meters. The pond was filled with mist, and the plants around the pond were lush, like a fairyland.

This was truly a paradise.

The place was very large, and with Li Muran's ability, it was impossible to explore it completely. It was only said that it was connected to another completely different world, which was also abnormal but enough to make all those living in the end times yearn for it. After listening to her narration, everyone was a little speechless for a while. They were shocked. But fortunately, the sick ghost brainwashed them all the way, and they also saw a lot of magical things, so it was not so difficult to accept it. After a while, they all calmed down.

"It's obviously a world of its own, unaffected by the apocalyptic environment, no wonder there's no shortage of food." Shen Chi sighed, not knowing whether he was envious or jealous.

Everyone felt the same, but right now they had more important things to do, so they didn't discuss it in depth.

"Let's find someone first," Zhang Yi said.

This time, Li Muran took much longer, and it took about half an hour for him to recover his mental strength. Just as he was about to speak, there was a knock on the door outside, so he had to stop talking temporarily.

Zhang Yi was the closest, so he turned around and went out to open the door. Nan Shao was worried and followed closely behind. Zhang Ruiyang leaned against the door frame and poked his little head out to look into the yard.

"Have you found someone?" Taking advantage of this time, Song Yan asked Li Muran in a low voice.

Li Muran nodded.

"Is there any danger to life?" Song Yan asked again. If there is, there is no need to take care of other things, and the only thing to do is to save people first.

Li Muran replied softly: "It shouldn't be in the short term."

Song Yan and Shen Chi both breathed a sigh of relief, and the short conversation stopped here, because the door was open and the voices of Zhang Yi and others came in.

Standing outside the door was a young man in his twenties, not tall but very energetic, with his hair combed meticulously, and a pair of thick broom eyebrows that were particularly impressive. When he saw the door open, before he could see the person clearly, he had already smiled widely, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, which made his skin look even darker and rougher.

"My name is Tao Xiaoshan, and Brother Jie asked me to lead the way for you." He introduced himself first.

Zhang Yi quickly let him in.

Tao Xiaoshan was quite familiar with people. When he entered the yard, he saw Zhang Ruiyang poking his head out of the door of the main house. His eyes lit up, and he searched around his body and took out a handful of fried soybeans. He ran over and grabbed the little guy's hand and put it in. He couldn't put it down, so he put it in the child's pocket.

"Here, here, here, here, eat it for fun, these beans are so fragrant." As he spoke, he reached into his pocket, obviously holding the fried beans as a snack.

Zhang Ruiyang was a little confused by the enthusiasm. He grabbed a few beans in his hand and subconsciously looked towards his father.

Zhang Yi was a little amused and said quickly: "Enough, enough! Children are naughty. It's a pity to spill them if they are too much." As

soon as he said this, Zhang Ruiyang quickly covered his pocket to prevent Tao Xiaoshan from putting more in it, and said: "Thank you, uncle, there are already a lot, we can't finish it."

Tao Xiaoshan didn't force it, put the fried beans in his hand back into the bag, raised his hand to touch his face, and said: "I'm only twenty, you call me uncle? Am I that old? Call me brother, call me brother!"

Zhang Ruiyang exclaimed, a little at a loss. However, Tao Xiaoshan did not wait for him to change his words, and continued to talk: "It's all because of this damn end of the world. My face has become dark and rough. Even applying facial masks every morning and evening can't save it." As he said that, he looked at Zhang Ruiyang again, stretched out his hand and gently pinched his cheek, and asked: "What's your name? Your face is so tender, you must protect it from childhood, otherwise when you reach your brother's age, it will be too late to regret."

"Zhang Ruiyang." Zhang Ruiyang didn't understand most of what he said, but there was one sentence that he understood, so he consciously chose the answer that he could answer.

"Hey! Mr. Tao, you said you were here to lead the way for us?" Zhang Yi took over the topic. Otherwise, if he let Tao Xiaoshan speak freely, who knows what strange words he would say.

"Yes, yes, I'm here to lead the way. Oh! Why call me Mr. Tao? Just call me Xiaoshan." Tao Xiaoshan immediately returned to the topic, and did not forget to correct the address. Then he looked into the rooms with open doors, and shook his head: "You have too many things to buy. You have to hurry up, otherwise you may not be able to finish them before dark." At this point, he suddenly remembered something and said, "Brother Jie said that you rented this yard, and you may not have many corpse crystals left. When I came, I asked you to bring some, so you can buy them first and return them later."

It must be said that Liu Jie really took great pains and considered everything he could think of and do. It would be a lie for Zhang Yi and others to say that they were not moved. It was a pity that they would not stay here for a long time, otherwise it would not matter if they joined Liu Jie's team, but this kind of thought had to be remembered.

With Tao Xiaoshan here, the rescue can only be postponed to avoid being exposed. Whether they could escape or not was another matter. They couldn't let people who were kind to them get involved. Besides, they wanted to stay in the base for a while. The evolutionary fluid and the strange world should be clarified. Before that, it was better not to be exposed.

So everyone went out. Since they couldn't do business, they went to visit the base together. You know, since the battle of Yunzhou, they haven't been in a place with such a large flow of people for a long time. Hulu Valley doesn't count, and Sanjia Village doesn't count. Especially a base like this that is well-ordered and gives people a great sense of security.

Seeing that Zhang Ruiyang was going to go, Tao Xiaoshan moved faster than Nan Shao and hugged the little guy to sit on his neck. He was not tall, but Zhang Ruiyang never grew taller, so it didn't feel out of place to ride on his shoulder.

Zhang Ruiyang was agile and nimble, and he was not afraid, but he was not familiar with Tao Xiaoshan yet, so he was a little embarrassed, so he turned around and looked at his father pitifully.

Zhang Yi saw that Tao Xiaoshan really liked children, so he nodded to Zhang Ruiyang to comfort him and left him alone.

Zhang Ruiyang was not shy to begin with, and seeing that his father had no objection, he immediately relaxed and happily played with Tao Xiaoshan.

"What do you want to buy first?" Tao Xiaoshan turned around and asked, but before Zhang Yi and the others could speak, he said, "The weather is very cold. I see that you have nothing in your house. Why don't you buy a few bundles of firewood and light the kang. You can use the big stove to cook, and when you have time in the future, you can buy an iron stove if you want to burn coal. There are people in the market who specialize in selling firewood, and it's not expensive. You can get a bunch for two crystal cores, and it can burn for a long time. The firewood here is all dried mutant plants, which can withstand burning and is better than firewood. Not only is firewood hard to find, it will be gone after a few burns, and it's expensive, so it's not cost-effective to buy it."

"How can firewood be harder to find than mutant plants?" Zhang Yi was puzzled. After all, firewood only required dismantling doors, windows, furniture and the like and then chopping them into pieces, while mutant plants were obviously much more dangerous.

Tao Xiaoshan laughed: "You don't know this, right? Now you have to get firewood from places with houses. The ones nearby have been sold out long ago, and the ones far away don't even have enough oil to burn. As for the mutated plants, who says you have to cut them down yourself? Just follow the strong team and wait for them to deal with the mutated plants and take the crystal cores, then you can get a bargain. Those strong teams don't think much of these scraps, and they think they take up space, so they usually only take the crystal cores and materials with higher value, and throw away the rest. So now there are people who specialize in picking firewood, but they don't make much, it's a menial job."

He was really a big talker, but he did make things clear, so that people no longer had any questions.

The commercial organizations set up by the base generally only provide things that are difficult for ordinary people to get, such as rice, flour, vegetables, fruits, fresh poultry, salt, sugar, coal, etc. There are also many necessities that are taken care of by the team composed of survivors. If there is insufficient supply or it cannot be supplied, the base will find ways to make up for the gaps and solve them. As long as hundreds of thousands of

people work together, as long as they don't encounter a devastating disaster, life will always get better slowly. Tao Xiaoshan led everyone around and soon arrived at a crowded street. There were shops, stalls, and people pushing carts back and forth on the street. At dusk, it was the peak time for the survivors to return. People came and went, and the sounds of hawking and bargaining were endless, which was quite like the scene of a prosperous market before the end of the world.

Zhang Yi and others suddenly felt like returning to the human world from the wilderness. Even those who didn't like shopping before couldn't help but feel a little happy when they saw such a familiar scene.

But after walking a few steps, Nan Shao held Zhang Yi's hand, and Song Yan also half-embraced Li Muran in front of him. There were really too many people, and they would be squeezed apart if they were not careful. Zhang Yi didn't have the habit of holding hands with others all the time, and Li Muran didn't seem to have the consciousness of a little woman in love. If Song Yan didn't take the initiative, she almost forgot to hold his hand or hold his arm. Maybe it was because he was used to being alone, so he was not so keen on physical contact with others, even if it was with someone he already loved.

Shen Chi walked at the end, and when he saw the four people in pairs in front of him, he suddenly felt a little redundant, and wondered if he should find someone too. Of course, this was just a momentary feeling. When he returned to the yard with two bundles of firewood and lit a fire to heat the kang, he completely forgot about this idea. For people like them who have a strong character and clear goals, without the pressure from their parents, unless they really meet the destined person, how could they really do something that seems completely redundant and useless in their eyes just because of a little stimulation. You know, the end of the world is not a paradise for lovers.

There is no rice and flour in the market, because these things are sold cheaply at the base and taste good. Although they are not prohibited from buying and selling, they are not profitable, so generally if you get them, you keep them for yourself. But there are other foods, such as snacks, canned food, dried vegetables, etc., as well as clothes, bedding, pots, bowls, chopsticks and other daily necessities, but things that resist cold and keep warm are more expensive, and things like pots and bowls are cheaper. Another relatively expensive thing is toilet paper and sanitary napkins, because they are all consumable items, there is no output, and they will only become less and less as they are used. In addition, the market also sells toys, cosmetics, jewelry, mutant creatures, fur, tendons, bones, vines, stems, fruits and other things. Unlike before the end of the world, treasures and jewelry are now completely worthless, not even as good as a bundle of firewood.

Tao Xiaoshan was very good. He carried Zhang Ruiyang and walked around for a while. He led everyone to buy some daily necessities, and also bought salt, meat, sauce, vinegar and other condiments needed for cooking. In total, he spent more than 300 ordinary corpse crystals. Zhang Yi and his friends paid for it themselves and did not really use the corpse crystals brought by Liu Jie.

Tao Xiaoshan was a very thoughtful person. Except for the fact that he had to carry Zhang Ruiyang and could not help to carry things, he thought of everything he could think of for them, whether it was helping to bargain or introducing them to acquaintances, which accelerated the process of integrating into and understanding this base.

"You are very popular here." Zhang Yi couldn't help but say. Tao Xiaoshan talked a lot and could chat with everyone for a long time. The interesting thing was that everyone could chat with him. It was also because of this advantage that they cut the price of the things they bought by at least 10%.

"Oh! They are all lowly people like me who can't stand up to the stage. They live on the little things that slip through other people's fingers. We can't reach higher levels. There is nothing to show off." Tao Xiaoshan shrugged and said.

Zhang Ruiyang, who was sitting on his shoulder, laughed out loud because of this action, and Tao Xiaoshan also laughed. He slapped the little guy's butt twice with his backhand, and then said to everyone: "We have to go back quickly. The base will be closed at night, and there will be no lights on the road."

Zhang Yi and others looked up and found that the market that was noisy and lively just now was indeed disappearing quickly. Some closed their doors, some closed their stalls, and soon there was no sound. What's interesting is that those who bought things didn't entangle. If there were still things they didn't buy, they could only give up in disappointment, or make an appointment with the seller to pick them up the next day.

"Is it forbidden for people to walk outside the base at night?" Seeing this, Zhang Yi couldn't help asking.

"That's not the case." Tao Xiaoshan smiled, "But did you forget, didn't we give you a list of daily things to know when you came in? It said on it that there must be no bright lights on the streets and in the yards of the base at night. Without light, who knows where you will end up with so many twists and turns."

"Really? I haven't had time to see it yet." Zhang Yi also smiled, and asked, "What's the point of not lighting up at night? Then again, there's no electricity in the entire base?" "

Night is the peak period for mutant beasts to be active, and lights and human voices can easily attract them." Tao Xiaoshan explained, looked up at the sky, and urged, "Everyone walk faster. After dark, everything here is the same, and I can easily get lost."

"There's no electricity. It is said that they originally wanted to build a power station, but later cancelled it for some reason. It doesn't matter if it's not connected. Anyway, you can't watch TV or play computer, and there's not much use for electricity..."

As he was speaking, a man with his head and face wrapped tightly came out hurriedly from a small alley next to him. Because he buried his head and walked fast, he bumped into Li Muran. Because it was too sudden, Li Muran had no time to avoid it.

Song Yan frowned and pulled Li Muran into his arms. Just as he was about to attack, the other party had already stepped back two steps as if he had been electrocuted, raised his head and glanced at them quickly, and apologized repeatedly. Those were a pair of very tired eyes, and it was a woman's voice, which made the strength in Song Yan's hands dissipate unconsciously.

"Go quickly! Go quickly! It's all gone." Before Li Muran could answer, Tao Xiaoshan waved his hands and said.

The man bowed to a few people again before leaving in a hurry.

Chapter 315 Baixia Base (5)

"She is also a poor person. You should not take her seriously." After everyone left, Tao Xiaoshan explained to everyone, "She was originally a superpower. She was injured in the head during a battle and nearly died. She was finally rescued, but she lost her superpower. Fortunately, there is a man in the family. The man is also a superpower. He is quite powerful and smart. It is not a problem for him to support the two of them. But who would have known that more than a month ago, the team the man was in actually accepted a mission to kill alien species, but the whole team was wiped out. Isn't that stupid? Are those alien species easy to deal with? People with our strength can't even avoid them, and yet you still go after them. Isn't that courting death?"

As they were talking, everyone turned into the alley. Five hundred meters ahead was the rented small courtyard.

"After her husband died, she lost her source of income. A few teams felt sorry for her and wanted to take her with them on missions, but she seemed to have been injured and had a chronic illness. She was slow and clumsy when killing zombies, and she almost died several times. Later, no one dared to take her with them, for fear that she would harm others instead of helping them, so they only gave her some help from time to time. But this woman is also very stubborn. In the first few days, she accepted the things everyone gave her, but later she refused to take them."

"Then how does she live?" Li Muran couldn't help asking. He was worried at first, but he felt something was wrong as soon as he said it. In the end times, how can a woman who has lost both her strength and her support survive? The answer is almost self-evident. There are too many such cases. So I felt a little regretful. It's not that I look down on her, but I feel that I shouldn't ask, as it is exposing other people's scars.

Tao Xiaoshan turned his head to look at Li Muran, then looked at Song Yan who was holding her hand tightly beside her, and smiled, as if he understood what she meant, and also as if he was sighing about the different fates of the same people. Turning back, the voice coming over seemed a little distant in the gradually dimming light.

"It's not what you think. She is indeed very good-looking, but she always thinks of the dead man in her heart. There were several men who were interested in her, and their conditions were not bad, but they were all rejected. Fortunately, she and her husband bought the current house when they were still able to work, otherwise they would probably have no place to live. But what's the use of just living? People have to eat. Now the weather is cold again, and heating is a big expense. Her life is getting harder and harder. However, even so, she didn't ask for help from everyone, let alone find another man. I don't know what she thinks. If the person is dead, why should I keep guarding him? Of course, the living are more important. If my wife is so stubborn, even if I die, I will definitely crawl back and slap her twice." He obviously really thought that the woman was stupid, and he was quite annoyed by her stubbornness when he said this.

"Are you married?" Zhang Yi asked.

"No. Hehe!" Tao Xiaoshan scratched his head embarrassedly and continued.

"Perhaps she was forced into a desperate situation. She actually thought of using the fur of mutant beasts to make vests, armor, gloves and shoes, and then sold them. She didn't have much capital, so she could only collect the fragments of fur that couldn't be sold or were thrown away at the market. Everyone knew that they would help her collect the unwanted furs. But there are kind people, and there are also many people with bad consciences. There are always some worthless things that harass her..." At this point, Tao Xiaoshan shook his head and didn't continue: "We're here. I have to go back quickly. Remember not to light a fire in the yard at night. There's nothing to worry about if the house is lit."

Everyone hurried to keep him to eat, but he refused.

"I can't go back after dinner. I have to go back to report to Brother Jie." As he said, he put Zhang Ruiyang down, pinched the child's face, and handed a bag of food to Zhang Yi. He took Zhang Ruiyang to the streets and told everyone that his son had gotten the gifts. Every family gave him a little, and he actually packed a big bag. Of course, no one believed him, but seeing that the child liked the gifts, they did not hesitate to give him a little.

Zhang Ruiyang liked him very much, and he looked reluctant when he said goodbye.

"I'll come to see you when I'm free." Tao Xiaoshan touched the child's head and said, then turned and left. Although this man is a chatterbox, he acts cleanly and neatly, without any procrastination.

"What's her husband's name?" At this moment, Song Yan suddenly stopped him and asked.

"What?" Tao Xiaoshan turned around, not understanding for a moment. The dusk was dim, and his facial features were almost invisible.

"I say, what was the name of the man who died just now?" In the puzzled eyes of everyone, Song Yan asked again.

Tao Xiaoshan was even more confused. If he wanted to ask, he should ask the woman's name. Why ask a dead person? But he still answered: "Shan Bing, Shan Bing. His last name is a polyphonetic character, which is a simple single word and easy to remember." After that, he waited for a moment. Seeing that Song Yan seemed to have nothing to ask, he waved his hand and strode away. His figure quickly disappeared in the depths of the alley where only a faint light remained.

At this time, everyone remembered that they didn't seem to know where they lived. But the base is so small, it shouldn't be difficult to find a few people who know their names, not to mention Li Muran.

Several people closed the courtyard door and went into the house. Shen Chi came back first, and the kang had been heated. The room was warm and much more comfortable than before.

"How did you find out her man's name? Do you know him?" Li Muran couldn't help but ask Song Yan curiously. Song Yan has acquaintances everywhere, so this answer is not impossible.

Song Yan opened his mouth, but found that he didn't know where to start. Talking about a single soldier, one has to talk about his own state at that time. Talking about his own state at that time, one cannot guarantee that he will not be asked how he met Teng Jin in that state. This question is not easy to answer! Thinking of this, he could not help but glance at Nan Shao.

Nan Shao also happened to look over, and the two looked at each other silently, and then turned their heads away tacitly. Nan Shao actually didn't know about Song Yan's encounter with a single soldier, but his intuition told him that it was related to the beast's nest. Seeing Song Yan looking over, he was even more certain, and couldn't help but worry that he would let it slip. It wasn't until Song Yan shook his head and didn't answer that he felt relieved.

Fortunately, Li Muran was not a person who liked to get to the bottom of things, and didn't pester him for an answer, otherwise Song Yan might not be able to hold on and confess everything.

Zhang Yi lit the candles, and everyone was not busy cleaning the pots and washing the dishes and cooking, but took the bought scones and gave each of them two, gathered in the living room in the middle, and waited for Li Muran's answer.

"When I first found him, he was locked up in a room on the first floor of the basement alone, with chains on his body. I don't know if he is still there. Let me take a look." Li Muran said while releasing her mental power. Because she knew the exact location, she was very fast this time, but after seeing the situation clearly, her eyebrows frowned.

"The man was taken to a large room, the chains on his body were removed, and he was fighting with someone. There were more than a dozen people around them." Because she couldn't hear them talking, she had no way to judge the identities of these people.

This situation obviously exceeded Zhang Yi and others' guesses. In their opinion, even if the captured orcs were not killed immediately, they would be half-crippled. Even worse, they would be used for experiments like the East Continent of the Wasteland Continent. They never thought it would be like this.

"Do you want to save him?" Li Muran waited for a while before asking.

Zhang Yi and others discussed for a moment, and finally decided to wait and see. Saving people in public at this time, regardless of whether it would affect the success rate, would definitely cause a sensation, which was contrary to their original intention. Since Guo Mingcheng's current situation is not too difficult, there is no need to rush and take risks.

"You keep an eye on the situation over there. If things change and endanger his life, don't worry about anything else and save him first." Song Yan added, and then asked Li Muran to stay in the house with Zhang Ruiyang, while he and others went to clean the room, clean the pots and cook.

When everyone sat together to eat again, Li Muran told them that there was a new development.

"The dozen or so people took turns to fight Guo Mingcheng, but none of them was a match." Not only were they no match, they were defeated in just one or two moves. "Later, a few people came together, and both sides were injured. Those people together couldn't beat Guo Mingcheng, but they could force him to show his beast form. As for those people, no one cared if they were injured, but every time they looked like they were going to die, someone would come to their rescue, so no one died."

Just then, Song Yan put a chopstick of pot-fried pork into her bowl. She reflexively thanked him, and then saw Song Yan's unfriendly eyes, and immediately reacted, and quickly compensated by picking up two chopsticks of vegetables for him, "You eat too."

Song Yan pulled the corner of his mouth, and then he didn't care about her inappropriate courtesy just now.

On the other side, Zhang Ruiyang's bowl was already full of vegetables. It was really difficult to eat fresh vegetables and meat before the end of the world. Even if according to the sick ghost, these things had far less effect on them than mutant creatures except for filling their stomachs, but everyone still hoped that the children could eat more. After they leave this base, I'm afraid they won't have many opportunities to eat them.

After all, it was a taste they had eaten for decades. When they tasted it again, everyone felt like crying for some reason, as if they had returned to the end of the world, when the family sat together and ate a very ordinary meal, and the sun was shining outside.

"The man who rescued the people was a man in his thirties, who looked... ordinary handsome." Li Muran scooped a mouthful of rice and continued.

"What is ordinary handsome, Muran?" Nan Shao laughed, picked up a piece of braised pork for Zhang Yi, and then looked at Song Yan mockingly: "You are afraid that some jealous person will emit sour gas. I think that man is probably very handsome."

Zhang Yi glanced at him imperceptibly, thinking that it was hard to say who was the jealous person.

But Li Muran was thin-skinned. Before Song Yan was not around, she could still joke with Nan Shao and the others, but now she is not so open. Hearing this, she hurriedly explained: "It's really ordinary... ordinary good-looking..." She stuttered a little. It's really hard to describe the man's appearance. If you say he is good-looking, he is actually quite ordinary, but if you say he is not good-looking, it seems a bit unkind.

"Good-looking?" This time it was Song Yan who spoke. He could ignore Nan Shao's provocation, but he was very upset about Li Muran's increasingly derogatory descriptions. In fact, no matter whether it was good-looking or handsome, as long as it came out of her mouth to describe other men, he was indeed a little jealous. He was jealous, so to speak.

Li Muran pressed his forehead weakly, thinking that no matter what he said, it was wrong, so it would be better not to speak.

Shen Chi quickly picked up a few chopsticks of food, then silently picked up the bowl and walked out the door, squatting in the dark outside, eating and laughing, choking and coughing.

Zhang Ruiyang looked outside, then looked at the adults present, didn't understand what he meant, so he buried his head and continued to eat his own food. Nan

Shao remained calm, as if the whole thing had nothing to do with him. On the contrary, Zhang Yi couldn't help laughing, but he was not as bad as the other two, and knew to speak up to help Li Muran out.

"Compared to that man and Guo Mingcheng, who is more powerful?"

"They didn't fight, so it's hard to tell." Li Muran shook his head, then secretly glanced at Song Yan, and saw that he looked calm, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "The strange thing is that after the fight, although they locked Guo Mingcheng up again, they had someone treat his wounds and gave him enough food and drink."

After hearing this, there was a moment of silence in the room, and Shen Chi, who walked in with a bowl while coughing, continued: "I think they... cough cough... are using orcs... cough cough... to train soldiers... cough cough cough cough..."

Song Yan glanced at him unhappily, and said two words lightly: "You deserve it!" Shen Chi

rolled his eyes, and if he hadn't coughed up the rice stuck in his throat, he would probably have laughed a few more times.

The adults were all thinking about things, and Zhang Ruiyang saw that Shen Chi was coughing too painfully, so he got up and ran to pour him a cup of water, and then stood on tiptoe to pat his back. Shen Chi was so moved that he stopped coughing, immediately picked up the little guy, and kissed his tender face twice, expressing the love that was about to surge in his heart.

"I must give birth to such a good son in the future." He said with emotion.

"Before that, find a wife first." Song Yan looked at him with disdain.

Shen Chi grinned and didn't answer. Now is not the time to think about this.

Zhang Ruiyang raised his little hand to wipe the oil stains and saliva on his face, ran back to his seat, climbed up and sat down, picked up the bowl and continued to eat, his reaction was very calm.

"According to Muran's description, the other party is indeed using Guo Mingcheng to train his men. Of course, there is another possibility that they are looking for a way to deal with the orcs." Zhang Yi touched his son's head in praise, and told him to eat slowly before turning around and telling others his guess.

"If that's the case, we don't have to worry." Song Yan turned the chopsticks over and tapped the edge of the table twice, then asked Li Muran: "Are there other orcs in the base?"

"Not yet, but there are still many places I haven't searched..." At this point, Li Muran suddenly stopped. She felt that it was not a good idea to search the entire base, after all, there were many ordinary people living in the base. Her search had violated the privacy of those people, which was too much. She felt a little uncomfortable.

Song Yan glanced at her, as if he saw through her thoughts, with a smile in his eyes, and said: "You only need to search the most important buildings in the base, don't worry about other places." To be honest, he was quite afraid that she would abuse her mental power to explore and then see some scenes that could not be seen.

Hearing this, Li Muran couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In fact, after the initial novelty stage, she didn't like to use mental power to explore everything around her. But she had to improve her ability, help the team find out the surrounding situation, and save people because of the reality. This forced her to use it all the time. It was like a student who didn't like to do homework, but had to do it. That feeling was not as good as she imagined.

"The main purpose of our coming here is to save people and the evolutionary fluid. It's better not to cause any trouble." Song Yan explained to the others. Although he was a beastman, he didn't have much sympathy for other beastmen who couldn't control their emotions and killed humans wantonly, so he didn't want to save the beastmen regardless of whether they were innocent or not.

Zhang Yi and others probably meant the same thing. The mess between the orcs and the Baixia base was not something they could solve. It was not wise to get involved rashly. After all, if you don't take a stand on this matter, it's hard to say who is right or wrong from a moral point of view.

Therefore, after the meal, everyone made a decision. Stay in this base for a few more days, while trying to get enough evolutionary fluid, waiting for an opportunity to save people. As for other things, it's better to avoid trouble if possible.

Chapter 316 Baixia Base (6)

The next morning, Liu Jie's team went out of the base to hunt for corpse crystals. They drove past Zhang Yi's courtyard and asked if they wanted to go with them.

Zhang Yi and his team did not lack crystal cores. They only needed Li Muran to return to Longkou City and get them from Lou Lan and his team. But if they did not leave the base and had endless crystal cores, it would be strange if they did not attract attention. Moreover, although the atmosphere of this base seemed good on the surface, in order to maintain such peace and tranquility, people would probably be more alert to any unusual situations around them. Otherwise, how could Guo Mingcheng, who was so careful, be discovered?

Therefore, they accepted Liu Jie's invitation and borrowed the car again. First, there was no car and they did not know where to find one temporarily. Second, there were people who witnessed their whereabouts, which could dispel many suspicious eyes.

Only three people went, Zhang Yi, Nan Shao and Song Yan. Shen Chi did not go, using the excuse that he had just settled down and had many trivial matters to deal with. In fact, he stayed to find out all kinds of information about the base. He was from the intelligence department and was better than others in this regard. He was the most suitable candidate. Otherwise, Song Yan would have wanted to exchange with him.

As soon as Zhang Yi and others left, Shen Chi also went out with the remaining hundred crystal cores of the team and locked the door from the outside. Li Muran and Zhang Ruiyang were locked in.

Li Muran followed Song Yan's instructions before leaving and took Zhang Ruiyang to Teng Jin first, telling him about Guo Mingcheng's situation and the decision of several people to reassure him. Then he returned to Longkou City and brought the same news to the stationed Cong San and others so that they would not worry.

The sick ghost has not come out yet. Since Da Qing moved here with the team that day, he found the cellar by himself, and then stayed in front of the wooden door without moving. It was also because of this that everyone could be sure that the sick ghost was indeed still in there.

As for Dudu, Li Muran brought Zhang Ruiyang back, originally wanting the little guy to play with Dudu for a while, but who knew that he was told that Dudu went out to hang out. As for this mutant bug that seemed to understand human nature but liked to act crazy and stupid, Nan Shao and Zhang Ruiyang were not around, so no one could control it and could only let it go.

Li Muran was not worried. Dudu was very timid and could run for his life. It would not be his turn to get into trouble if anyone got into trouble. Zhang Ruiyang was not worried either, but was a little disappointed.

After the message was passed, Dudu was not there again, so Li Muran and Yangyang did not stay for long and went back to the base directly.

On the other side, Zhang Yi and the other two followed Liu Jie's convoy to the city of Pula, which was more than 80 kilometers away. Although Baixia was the poorest in the whole of China, Pula was one of its most important cities. It was still very prosperous with concentrated resources and a population of more than 20 million. In fact, most of the population of the entire Baixia was concentrated in several major cities and their surrounding areas. The population of slightly smaller cities was very small. In addition, there were even fewer people in the wider wasteland, with large areas of uninhabited areas.

The road to Pula was not difficult to travel because of the heavy traffic and the snow could not be retained, except for some mud. It only took more than an hour to get there. This was because Liu Jie and his team's car was rather old, so they didn't dare to drive too fast.

The mutant plants that had sprouted on the road at night had been cleared away by the early walkers, so it wasn't their turn to take action.

Pula had enough zombies and a large amount of supplies, and the members of the base usually ran here unless they were on a special mission. As for other small cities, no one would want to touch them before Pula was completely cleared. Of course, there was a city closer to the base, but that city was small and had a small population, so it had been plowed back and forth several times, and nothing valuable could be found, not even a piece of iron or a piece of wood.

When the convoy arrived outside the city, they found that many cars had already parked there, and some had driven into the depths of the city. Liu Jie and his team also found a place to park.

"With the performance of our broken car, we would be dead if we were surrounded by zombies, and it's not as good as two legs." Liu Jie said to Zhang Yi and his team as he got out of the car. "Our main goal now is to kill zombies, don't think about getting more supplies. There are plenty of supplies in the supply base. As long as there are corpse crystals, you can buy anything."

Zhang Yi nodded in response. Nan Shao and Song Yan didn't pay much attention to these gossips, but looked up to observe the situation around them.

In fact, with Baixia's efforts to clean up zombies, the periphery of Pula should have been cleaned up long ago, but because zombies are active and need to find food, they will spread from the city to the surrounding areas under the attraction of popularity. So the parking place of their convoy now is still in the suburbs of Pula, to be precise. There are houses, fields, and some factories in sight. But now these fields are all occupied by mutant plants, and even some dismantled factories and houses have colorful plants. It makes sense to park the car outside instead of driving in.

Liu Jie's team has only 25 people in total. In addition to the woman named Arong who talked to them yesterday, there are six women. The youngest is in his early twenties and the oldest is less than 40. The rest are all men, and none of them are over 50 years old. The cruelty of the elimination in the end of the world can be seen in the composition of the personnel of this small team.

"These mutant plants are so annoying!" Liu Jie led the way and was overwhelmed by the mutant plants that popped out from the dilapidated houses on the roadside from time to time. He had experienced the terrifying combat power of mutant plants at the beginning of the second disaster. Later, when he arrived at Baixia, due to the special climate here, he mainly faced zombies. He had not dealt with mutant plants for a long time and was inevitably unfamiliar with them. Fortunately, mutant plants are not as contagious as zombies, so it's okay to get hurt.

"Let's open the way. You just need to tell us how to go from behind." Nan Shao said. He really couldn't bear it anymore. At the speed of the other party, he might not get a few crystal cores in a day. How could they waste so much time!

"How can that be? You just came..." Although Liu Jie wanted to see their skills, he was still a little embarrassed. He had never heard of people ordering people around as soon as they arrived. He had to let others get familiar with them first.

"Don't worry, we came all the way from the central part, and we have encountered all kinds of situations. We are used to it." Zhang Yi smiled and comforted him.

Hearing this, Liu Jie also followed the way and signaled others to step back. Only he followed Nan Shao and the others and pointed out the direction. They were familiar with this road. They knew where there were alleys, where people could hide, and what they were used for in the past. In fact, the buildings on both sides had been demolished and their original uses could no longer be seen. Now that mutant plants have grown, it is even more difficult to distinguish. If an unfamiliar person comes in and does not have the supernatural power like Li Muran, it is easy to get lost.

"We are short of manpower and dare not go deep into the depths, lest we be surrounded and unable to get out, and lose our lives in vain. So we are picking up leaks outside. The number of zombies wandering out is small, but it is enough for us to eat. People can't be greedy, right?" Liu Jie explained as he walked, and couldn't help but make a few excuses for their slightly timid behavior.

"Yes, it's not too much to be cautious." Zhang Yi nodded, listening to Liu Jie's gossip while keeping an eye on all directions. Since the night he encountered the spider man Long Taigu, he seemed to have been reborn. His eyes, five senses and skills seemed to have reached a higher level. Facing such a scene was effortless.

"Brother Zhang, you are a wise man. With so many people, they trust me, I can't lead them into a ditch. I must take as many people back as came out!" After being understood, Liu Jie was so happy that he hooked Zhang Yi's shoulders and looked much closer. If it wasn't for the wrong occasion, he might even pull him to become sworn brothers.

The moment he was touched, the muscles on Zhang Yi's back tightened for a moment, and then relaxed again after he didn't feel any danger. Although he liked Nan Shao, it didn't mean that he would have strange feelings for the entire same-sex group. Before the end of the world, because of work, he had to contact all kinds of people. Whether they knew each other or not, they would be close to each other, threatening, luring and scheming, which had become commonplace. Therefore, out of politeness, he did not obviously reject Liu Jie's gesture of goodwill so as not to embarrass anyone.

Or maybe he exudes a strong sense of straight manliness. Liu Jie clearly knows that he and Nan Shao are a couple, but he forgot about it when he was talking. However, the team members walking behind him coughed frequently, trying to remind him. After all, they were obviously recruiting people, so they should not offend them because of such things, otherwise it would be counterproductive.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is it because the weather is getting cold too fast, and you have a cold? It seems that we have to go to the pharmacy today..." Liu Jie didn't react and turned back to ask with concern.

Zhang Yi was about to get rid of his hand on his shoulder.

At this moment, a snake vine as thick as an arm suddenly shot out from the ruins of the house next to him and rushed straight towards the two of them. Zhang Yi reacted quickly and pushed Liu Jie out of the attack range of the snake vine, and at the same time, he took up his knife. However, Nan Shao was faster than him. Before he could draw his knife, he had already grabbed the tip of the snake vine with his bare hands.

The snake vine flipped and fluttered, wrapped and twisted, shaking the snow all over the sky, and Nan Shao was as steady as a mountain, without even shaking his body. After a while, the snake vine's struggle gradually weakened, and the gray color gradually dimmed and turned into a dry object.

Nan Shao's arm shook, and the withered snake vine wrapped around his body loosened and fell off like dust lightly attached to his body. He looked back at the stunned Liu Jie and said, "Send someone to dig out the crystal core. I'll leave it with you and distribute it together when we go back."

Liu Jie groaned twice before he came to his senses and hurriedly called Bucktooth to dig out the crystal core. Then he seemed to think of something, and looked at his arm that had been around Zhang Yi's shoulders. Suddenly, he felt as if it seemed to be aching. If... if... it wasn't for him to see the opportunity quickly, would it not belong to him? At this moment, he had forgotten that it was not him who saw the opportunity quickly, but Zhang Yi who pushed him away. Fortunately,

Nan Shao didn't seem to care about this matter. He just smiled and said, "It's a pity that this snake vine has only been grown for a short time, and the crystal core is not worth using." As he spoke, he held Zhang Yi's hand that didn't hold the knife.

Hearing this and seeing his possessive gesture, Liu Jie shuddered and wanted to slap himself, but his reaction did not make him and his teammates lose face. He just laughed twice and said, "It's useful, useful, more valuable than ordinary corpse crystals." As for other things, what? Nothing! As he spoke,

Bucktooth had jumped out from the dilapidated corner of the wall, holding a green crystal core the size of a little finger in his hand.

"This crystal core is worth ten corpse crystals, brother Nan, you should keep it yourself." Liu Jie took it and looked at it, and said to Nan Shao. In his opinion, Nan Shao and his friends have not joined the team yet, so it is not appropriate to take their crystal cores at this time.

Who knows that Nan Shao waved his hand casually, "It's okay, Boss Liu, you take it. Since we all came out together, it's fair to go back and divide it equally." Although Liu Jie did something that exceeded his bottom line, to be honest, he really didn't hate this person. Of course, this was also related to the fact that he had completely integrated his animal nature. If it had been before, Liu Jie's hand would have been broken. The reason why he insisted on sharing the crystal core with Liu Jie's team was just to take the opportunity to repay the favor. After all, they would not stay in Baixia for too long. If they did not repay the help and kindness given by the other party in time, it would be difficult to say when they could repay it in the future.

Seeing that he insisted, Liu Jie stopped refusing, and was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that their action meant that they wanted to join his team. After seeing Nan Shao's extraordinary strength, he also judged the character of several people. In his opinion, as long as they were willing to join the team, he would be willing to let him step down. In fact, as the captain of a team with not so strong overall strength and a small number of people, he could not enjoy any privileges at all. Instead, he was overwhelmed by the huge sense of responsibility.

If Nan Shao and the others knew what he was thinking, they would probably feel a little sorry. However, the reality could not be changed. Their roots were not here, and leaving was inevitable.

The dried vines of the snake vine were also collected. Even if they were dried, they were still very tough and had many uses. They could be exchanged for a lot of crystal cores and other things.

The team continued to move forward. This time, Nan Shao pulled Zhang Yi. Liu Jie finally realized that he did not move forward. He lagged behind the three of them slightly and only reminded them which way to go when there was a fork in the road. Scattered zombies began to appear on the road, as well as mutated plants that gradually became denser.

Knowing that crystal cores were very useful in the Baixia base, the three of them did not dislike them and would take action on anything they saw. Song Yan and Nan Shao were not to be mentioned. Before Zhang Yi's strength was improved, he was stronger than Liu Jie and others. Now his attack was even more amazing. Even Nan Shao and Song Yan were a little surprised when they saw it.

With three people leading the way, the people in Liu Jie's team behind had almost no chance to take action. If they had not given all the crystal cores to Liu Jie, the team members would have been dissatisfied even if they were in awe of them. After all, no one wanted to make a wasted trip, and gasoline was also very expensive.

"You haven't awakened your superpowers." Nan Shao scanned a small group of a dozen zombies, and used his superpowers to check Zhang Yi's situation, and said in confusion. Just now, he felt that he was less efficient than Zhang Yi in killing zombies. But Zhang Yi really didn't awaken his superpowers. He had used his superpowers to check more than once, and Zhang Yi didn't need to absorb the crystal core at all, and he couldn't absorb it.

Zhang Yi shook his head, and was also very confused about his situation, but no one could give him an answer at the moment.

"Wait for the sick ghost to come out, I'll ask him." He said.

Nan Shao nodded. That was the only way. In terms of knowledge, I'm afraid no one can compare to the sick ghost. If the sick ghost doesn't know, probably no one can answer.

Chapter 317 Baixia Base (7)

The group searched for zombies in the ruins, just like searching for junk in a mountain of garbage, relying entirely on luck. From time to time, they would meet other survivors on the road. Some of them were familiar with each other, so they would say hello and pass by each other; some of them were unfamiliar with each other, so they would ignore each other, but they were also wary of each other. There was nothing to gain from the surrounding areas of the city, and it was not a blessed place, but it was obvious that there were still many people vying for it, and the harvest was imaginable.

After more than an hour, Nan Shao lost interest. At this rate, it would be like a dream for them to collect a large number of crystal cores to buy a large batch of evolutionary fluid. Looking at Song Yan, who had a calm face but also had impatience in his eyes, the depression in his heart dissipated slightly. What is the saying? When you see someone as unlucky as you, especially when that person is someone you don't like, you will feel less unlucky, and even hope to be more unlucky. This kind of thinking is harmful to others and not beneficial to yourself, but it is strange that many people still have this idea.

Compared to the two of them, Zhang Yi was obviously more patient. This was related to his personality, birth and the profession he had been engaged in. Moreover, he was careful. He could sense the slight fluctuations in Nan Shao's emotions and understood where the problem was, so he began to think about solutions.

With the current strength of the three people, it would be no problem to cross the city of Pula, enter the depths of the city, kill enough zombies, and then exit safely. But if they brought the people from Liu Jie's team, it would be difficult to take care of everything. The main purpose of their trip was not to hunt for corpse crystals, but to cover up their tracks and prepare to save people and exchange for evolutionary fluid.

As for Nan Shao's idea of ​​using crystal cores to repay the other party, Zhang Yi saw it, but did not agree. In the end times, crystal cores are equivalent to money, and they are certainly useful, but the most useful thing is not it, but strength. Letting the other party get a large number of crystal cores without any effort is not necessarily a good thing. On the contrary, it is more likely to make them slack off. That would not only not repay favors, but harm people.

Therefore, after careful consideration, he made a decision in his heart.

"Brother Jie, let your people go." After signaling to Nan Shao and Song Yan, he turned to Liu Jie and said, without waiting for Liu Jie to think, "We often deal with mutant plants, and we have some experience in dealing with them. I hope it will be useful to you."

Liu Jie was also a smart man, and he immediately heard the implication of his words, which was to pass on his experience. Moreover, with three people here, if their own people really encountered danger, they would not stand by and watch them die, so the other party deliberately created a rare opportunity for them to practice fighting mutant plants. If he had not seen the strength of the three people, he would definitely have hesitated, but now he felt that he had picked up a treasure, and his eyebrows could not hide his joy.

Fearing that Zhang Yi and the others would regret it, he quickly turned around to arrange the staff and solemnly warned them, lest someone did not understand the benefits of this, complain in their hearts, and show a little bit of meaning on their faces and mouths, which would ruin their luck. Although

Nan Shao and Song Yan felt that it was a bit troublesome for Zhang Yi to teach people how to fish instead of giving them fish, they did not object. Anyway, it was a good idea to finish one thing in this way.

Zhang Yi had not yet planned to take out the mutant creatures atlas that Lin Lao and the others had added a lot of content to. Instead, during the battle, he let Liu Jie's people experience it with their own abilities. After experiencing various attacks and dangers, he told them where the weaknesses of the mutant plants they were facing were, how to attack them efficiently, and the habits and uses of the mutant plants, etc. After

a whole morning, although they did not get many crystal cores, Liu Jie and others felt that they had gained more than one or two days. With the strength of their team, killing zombies was fine, but mutant creatures were like nightmares to them, and they had a deep fear of them. However, this fear gradually faded after Zhang Yi and the other two carefully dissected the characteristics of the mutant plants and relied on their own strength to cooperate with each other to easily defeat them. It cannot be said that they are not afraid at all, but at least they will not be like a frightened bird when they encounter them, and they will be psychologically soft before the battle.

The Baixia base also began to grow mutant plants in large numbers like other places. This psychological change, as well as what they learned in the battle, was enough to make their lives in the complex environment less difficult. You know, the crystal core of mutant plants is more valuable than ordinary corpse crystals. This alone was enough to repay the favor given by the other party.

For several days in a row, Zhang Yi and others followed Liu Jie and his team to hunt corpses, but in fact, most of the time they were helping Liu Jie's team get familiar with dealing with mutant plants. Shen Chi also joined on the third day. It was impossible not to join. With his unfamiliar face, it would be strange if he didn't get noticed if he wandered around the base all day long without doing anything. But with his ability, he spent a day to find out what he should find out. As for more things, they were not what they cared about.

Just when they were calmly arranging everything step by step, they didn't know that when they entered Baixia Province, a drastic change was taking place in the Dongzhou base more than 2,000 kilometers away.

Countless mutant beasts were rampaging in the base, and the screams, roars, and cries of humans were heard one after another. The ground had been soaked in blood and turned dark red. The falling snow and human blood merged into one piece. There were broken arms and limbs, intestines and internal organs everywhere, just like hell on earth. What was even more surprising was that among the survivors who fought desperately, there were very few superpowers, and they were the weaker ones. The rest were all ordinary people.

Because most of the awakened people had died quietly before the beast tide officially invaded, the stronger they died, the cleaner they died, including the management of the base. Without the backbone support, the huge base was like a castle built of sand under the invasion of the mutant beast tide, and it was vulnerable.

Two days later, the Dongzhou base was destroyed. The survivors of the entire Dongzhou were seriously injured. It was not until half a year later that they rebuilt a settlement in another place called Longnan, still called the Dongzhou base, but the number of people and the scale were far less than the original base. The founder of the base was named Xiao Zhe.

The culprit who caused the destruction of the original Dongzhou base had already forgotten all of this and was heading northwest, following his spiritual perception that had been enhanced hundreds of times. All the settlements of survivors along the way were destroyed, and the brains of all the survivors were sucked out, and almost no one escaped. However, these survivors could not satisfy it in terms of quantity or quality.

Therefore, when passing through Yunzhou, it hesitated for a moment.

It traveled from Dongzhou to the northwest, and the route it took was not the one that Song Yan and his team took when they returned, so it just passed Yunzhou by the border, and did not encounter the corpses that were still clogging the road, nor did it pass through Longren.

Standing on the border of Yunzhou leading to Baixia, it could feel the majestic popularity of the Yunzhou base, but at the same time, its spiritual perception became clearer about something in the northwest. After thinking for a few minutes, it finally found that thing more attractive to it than anything else, so it decided to temporarily let Yunzhou go and go to the northwest first.

Meanwhile, Chen Peiyuan and his companions, who were enjoying a rare peaceful life in Hulu Valley, did not know that they and the adjacent Yunzhou base had luckily escaped the disaster temporarily. They were still wondering whether Nan Shao and his companions had helped the sick ghost find what he was looking for, and when he would be able to come back.

On the fourth day after Nan Shao and his companions entered the Baixia base, it also came here.

Looking at the huge base lying prone in the jungle of mutant plants emerging in the snow-white wasteland in the distance, and feeling the majestic popularity inside that was no less than that of Yunzhou, its eyes revealed undisguised greed. But what made its heart beat faster was that it felt that what it wanted was inside this base.

Half an hour later, a young man who was dusty and wearing a tattered cotton jacket, but looked gentle and refined, walked into the reception area of ​​the Baixia base for newcomers. The young man had a layer of gauze on his eyes, saying that he had been walking in the snow for a long time and had snow blindness, but it was almost healed.

When asked his name, he seemed to pause for half a second, and then said, "Lin An." When he said these two words, his tongue subconsciously licked his lower lip.

One of the receptionists was taking notes while the other was getting something, and they didn't notice at all that the tip of his tongue was as thin and sharp as a knife, and transparent.

"Where did you come from?" the receptionist asked as a matter of routine.

Lin An leaned forward and approached the man. The man thought he was reading what he was writing and didn't care. He just urged him to answer quickly so that he could record and make arrangements.

Hiss - Lin An took a deep breath in fascination, as if a hungry person smelled delicious food.

"Dongzhou." He stood up slowly and gracefully and answered.

"Yo, man, you walked quite far." The man raised his head and said in surprise. Even the man who was holding the things turned around and looked over here.

"That's right." Lin An raised his lips with a gentle smile.

"Is there no base in Dongzhou?" The man asked, as he was in a good mood to talk.

"Yes. But not long ago, a very powerful mutant came to the base, specializing in sucking the brains of people with special abilities. The strongest people in the base were eaten by it. Then it attracted a wave of beasts. The remaining humans had no way to deal with it. They could only scream and wail under the pursuit of the mutant beasts, and the base was destroyed." Lin An spoke very carefully and calmly, as if he was narrating a scene from a movie, and his words were bland and tasteless. However, no one saw that the eyeballs covered by the thin cloth were trembling rapidly with excitement because of such memories.

The two receptionists were so scared by his answer that they were living in a place like Baixia. Even with the threats of gold-eating flying beasts and alien species, life was still relatively stable for them. Except that the living conditions and entertainment facilities could not be compared with those before the end of the world, and they had to kill zombies to earn living expenses, there were not many things they needed to worry about. Especially since the base was well managed, they could completely relax when they returned home, and they did not have to worry about security issues at all. So they could not imagine the tragic scene that Lin An described.

"Where are your companions?" The person recording opened his mouth and wanted to continue asking, but when he spoke, he turned his words into this. There was a long time to come, and he felt it was necessary to report this matter. The reason why he stopped asking was entirely out of pity. He couldn't bear to see the other party running thousands of miles and finally coming here, and recalling the terrible scene before his mental state recovered. He planned to wait until the other party really settled down before asking about the relevant situation in detail. The alien creature he mentioned was too terrible, and it was impossible not to ask clearly.

For this question, Lin An was obviously not interested in answering, and just shook his head. The two of them automatically imagined that his companions had fallen on the road, and he was too sad about it, so he didn't want to talk. It was just because it was too far from Dongzhou to here, and no one would believe that a person could walk safely from there alone.

The person recording comforted Lin An for a few words, and recorded some other situations, asking him if he had a crystal core, whether he rented or bought a house. Out of kindness, he also reminded that if he didn't have a crystal core, he could live in a public housing first. The conditions were not good, and newcomers could live for free for ten days. But after ten days, the crystal cores have to be handed over.

Lin An reached into his pocket and fumbled for a while, then took out a small bag, gently placed it on the table, and asked, "Is it enough to buy a house?"

The person recording opened it and couldn't help but gasp. There were no ordinary corpse crystals inside, but all were crystal cores of mutant creatures, and they were quite large. But thinking that the other party had come all the way from Dongzhou, his strength must be strong, so he was relieved.

He didn't want to cheat the other party, but just introduced the prices of various houses and let him make his own decision.

"I want a small yard." Lin An said.

The person recording took the money for the yard and returned the rest to him, and the matter was almost done here. Considering that he was blind and unfamiliar with the base, someone was sent to take him there and help him arrange some trivial matters.

The two receptionists didn't notice that in front of this new survivor, their defenses were reduced to the lowest, and many obviously unreasonable places were not paid attention to, as if this person had no doubts at all.

At the moment when Lin An entered the Baixia Base, Li Muran, who was staying in the house with Zhang Ruiyang, roasting food while monitoring the mysterious little world and Guo Mingcheng's situation, shuddered involuntarily. It seemed that something was suddenly pressing on her heart, making her feel particularly uncomfortable.

She thought something had happened to Song Yan, and she quickly scanned the area with her mental power, but found that there was nothing special. But for some reason, the uneasiness in her heart did not dissipate, but became stronger and stronger, making her heart pounding and a little restless.

Even though the surroundings were calm, she did not dare to ignore her intuition. Without hesitation, she sealed the fire, put on a thick coat, hat, and gloves for Zhang Ruiyang, and hurriedly put on a coat herself, and then left the Baixia Base with the little guy and returned to Longkou. It was not

until she squatted outside the wooden door of the cellar, next to Daqing, that her heart, which had been beating fast, finally calmed down slowly, and then she had the mind to think about the reason.

Chapter 318 Baixia Base (8)

After carefully reviewing all the movements in the base that she had observed over the past two days, and once again investigating the situation of Song Yan and the other three, Li Muran could not find the source of her fear. But she did not think it was her own illusion, so she once again released her mental power and explored the Baixia Base.

As her mental power got closer and closer to the Baixia Base, that feeling reappeared, as if there was an evil ghost in the Baixia Base, waiting for her to fall into its trap with its huge black mouth.

After hesitating for a moment, she continued to push her mental power forward. However, the moment she crossed the base's defense wall and arrived at the reception area for new members, great terror descended again. In a trance, she saw a sea of ​​blood and corpses, strange beasts running rampant, and countless desperate and twisted faces with their mouths wide open as if they were crying and screaming, and seemed to be questioning the heavens. Obviously, everything was a silent and still picture, but at a certain moment it burst out like a flood that broke through the dam. All kinds of sound waves stabbed her like a sharp knife, and a sharp pain from her soul made her feel as if she had fallen into a dark and lightless hell.

Although all this only lasted for a moment, perhaps less than one hundredth of a second, and then disappeared without a trace, and everything returned to normal again, Li Muran felt as if she had been trapped in a nightmare for a century, unable to escape, and could only endure the torment of terror until it ended.

Retracting her mental power, she gasped for breath, and in the cold weather, her forehead was actually sweating. She felt weak and could not recover for a long time.

Since she could use her awakened domain power, her mental power detection function has only encountered two setbacks, one when she was looking for Lin An, and the other in Zhafeng City. Zhafeng was okay that time, but she just couldn't use her power. Lin An was a mental power user, who used mental power to attack her, causing her to lose her power for a time. Although she recovered later, it also left a very deep impression on her.

But the previous two times were not as thrilling as this time, which made her feel terrified and even had the urge to run away and never go to Baixia Base again.

At this moment, a small soft hand gently covered her fist that was tightly clenched on her knees, and Zhang Ruiyang's concerned voice came into her mind which was filled with various emotions.

"Auntie, what's wrong with you? Are you sick?"

It turned out that Li Muran brought Zhang Ruiyang directly to the cellar. In a panic, she didn't think of letting him go up by himself, so the little guy had been squatting here with her silently. There was not much light in the cellar, and it was not visible in theory, but the little guy was sensitive and actually noticed her panic.

Li Muran held Zhang Ruiyang's little hand with her backhand. Although the fear and retreat emotions that rose in her heart were still there, there was an additional sense of responsibility that was suppressed by various negative emotions that had suddenly arisen.

Reason told her that this matter must not be avoided, otherwise everyone might encounter great danger, so she tried to calm her fear while gently comforting Zhang Ruiyang, but she did not intend to let Zhang Ruiyang leave her to play upstairs. Before the uneasiness in her heart completely dissipated, she would not let the little guy leave her side.

After a long while, even though she still felt a strong urge to run away, she gritted her teeth and sent out her mental power again. She didn't have much time to waste. If she was a little later, Song Yan and the others would have to finish their work and return to the base. She had to determine the source of the danger before that.

However, when she mustered up her courage and explored the base again and came to the reception desk for newcomers, she did not have the strange hallucinations she had just had. The two receptionists she had met a few days ago were chatting as usual, as if they were discussing something. There was no sense of fear in the two of them.

She breathed a sigh of relief, but she knew that the matter was not over yet, and she couldn't calm down without knowing the reason. Moreover, the mental depression still existed, which meant that the source of her uneasiness was still there. After going through so many things, she would no longer easily attribute all the abnormal phenomena in her perception to illusions.

And it turned out that her intuition was not wrong. When she roughly scanned the entire base with her mental power, she soon noticed that there was a place that made her most frightened.

It should be a small courtyard, not in the same area as them, but the size and layout of the surrounding courtyards were similar. Even though they were still a few hundred meters away, she felt very nervous. She was absolutely sure that the target she was looking for was in front of her.

Look? Or not? At that moment, she hesitated.

But this hesitation was actually meaningless. It was just to accumulate courage for herself. If she was alone, she would definitely turn around and run as far as she could without hesitation. However, this matter was not only related to her, but also to Song Yan, Nan Shao and others, and Guo Mingcheng who was waiting to be rescued. It might even have an impact on the entire Baixia base.

This person might have arrived today, because he stayed at the reception desk for a long time, so he left a mark there. When she felt uneasy in the base, in addition to looking at the situation on Song Yan's side, she only scanned the courtyard. When she didn't find anything, she hurried back to Longkou. Now thinking back, if she was calmer at that time and her mental power detection range was wider, she might have bumped into that person directly. After a while

, Li Muran took a deep breath, suppressed the tension in her heart, and carefully extended her mental power to the courtyard. She thought that she only needed to see what that person looked like, or figure out what caused her to panic, and then she would immediately retract her mental power.

However, the moment her mental power spread over the courtyard wall, something strange happened again. She didn't even have time to see the situation in the courtyard clearly, and her mental power was bitten by a black and red thing that looked like a black blood ball.

While her head was splitting, she felt the greed and excitement revealed by the black blood. At the same time, she vaguely saw countless people struggling in the blood ball, despair, pain, resentment, confusion... All kinds of emotions were transmitted to her mind, making her almost crazy.

While she was distracted, the black blood spread along her mental power, forming a blood mist, swallowing it inch by inch.

"Ah!" The intense pain in her head, as if her soul was being gnawed, made Li Muran scream uncontrollably, and she reflexively wanted to retract her mental power. But she found that her mental power seemed to be bitten by the blood mist, and not only could she not retract it, but it also accelerated its diffusion. If it continues, it will find her and the others here in less than two minutes.

The pain in her brain seemed to be cut, and the invasion of various negative emotions in the blood mist made Li Muran have no time to think about how to deal with it even though she knew the consequences of being found by the other party. In fact, even if there was no interference, with the speed of the blood mist spreading, there was not enough time for her to come up with a solution.

However, the clarity that she barely retained in the chaos still made her realize that she must not let the other party find this place. There was only one way, that is, she left.

Just as she was struggling to let go of Zhang Ruiyang's little hand and wanted to teleport directly with the mental power that was still being dragged outside, her face was suddenly wiped. Because her brain was almost mixed into a paste, she couldn't tell what it was for a while, but she clearly felt that there was suddenly an extra mental power between her mental power and the blood mist, like a sharp blade, cutting at the junction of the two.

At that moment, the indescribable sharp pain of being thrown into a frying pan, being torn apart by five horses, being held by a fire pillar, and being skinned by a lingering slicing almost made Li Muran faint. Fortunately, it was only a very short moment, otherwise she would have died of pain. After this pain, she felt relieved all of a sudden, and the mental power that had been swallowed and bitten was also withdrawn, and she was just weak from time to time.

But compared with the previous fear and the pain of being swallowed, this weakness was nothing, even if the mental power was greatly damaged, as long as she got rid of the blood clot filled with all kinds of evil thoughts. Li Muran gasped in the dark, escaping from death, and not only escaping from death, but also avoiding the crisis of being discovered at her place of residence. She felt that she had never been so grateful in her life. Grateful for the third mental power that intervened, grateful for this luck.

She was afraid of death, but she was more afraid of implicating others because of herself, especially the teammates who had been through thick and thin with her for so long.

"Aunt? Aunt?" Zhang Ruiyang's worried voice came to her ears.

She took a while to relax before opening her eyes. It was dark in front of her, but she felt safer than ever. She reached out to touch Zhang Ruiyang, and then she found that her palms were sweaty. Then she remembered that something seemed to have wiped her face at the critical moment just now, so she raised her hand to touch her face.

She didn't know whether her hands were wet or her face was sweaty, but she wiped it until it was wet.

"Yangyang, did you touch my face just now?" she asked. Maybe because of the damage to her mental power, her head was still aching, and she was weak even when speaking.

"No." Zhang Ruiyang shook his head.

Li Muran now recalled that she actually knew that it didn't feel like a child's hand, but she couldn't think of what it was, so she asked casually.

"Has the sick brother come out?" She thought of another direction, thinking that if it was a sick ghost, it would be reasonable for him to easily help her cut off her mental power.

"No, the sick uncle hasn't come out yet." Zhang Ruiyang answered with certainty.

Li Muran was a little dazed, and said to herself: "Who touched my face just now? Who helped me?" The most important thing is, who else has such a strong mental power, is it someone he knows or not?

"You were shaking just now, and you couldn't hear me calling you, so Daqing licked you." Zhang Ruiyang suddenly said.

Li Muran was stunned for a long time as if struck by lightning, and then he hesitated to reach out his hand, touched Daqing's back, and said: "Thank you!" As expected, it was Daqing who did it just now. You know, this donkey is so arrogant that he doesn't even bother to look at them, let alone suddenly do something as intimate as licking her with his tongue.

As expected, Daqing didn't react to her thanks at all.

Li Muran didn't care, and seeing that he was a little better, he took Zhang Ruiyang upstairs. The situation in the base is unclear, so it's better to leave Yangyang here for the time being.

The people on the third floor were a little surprised when they saw her, but it was not because they came back suddenly, but because of her expression. Just when they were about to ask what happened, Li Muran had already taken the lead and said it in a few words. However, she herself had not checked the matter clearly, so she did not explain it very clearly. But the man on the third floor could still feel the danger and had an idea in his mind.

Li Muran did not dare to delay any longer. It was already late. If Song Yan and the others went back early, it would be troublesome. However, when she endured the pain and fear and used her mental power again, not only did she feel dizzy, but she also found that her mental power seemed to be much weaker. Obviously, the previous incident still left a lot of sequelae.

It's good that people are alive. It's good that I didn't cause trouble for everyone. She said to herself silently, then gritted her teeth and held on, and found Song Yan. She couldn't go directly, otherwise she would be seen by Liu Jie and the others, and the preparations she had made in the past few days would be in vain. This is also the reason why she felt dangerous at the beginning and didn't go directly to Song Yan and the others.

Song Yan could sense her mental power exploration. If it was only once and it was a flash, he might not care too much, but if he felt her mental power sweeping over again and again, and the last time was relatively long, he should be able to sense something was wrong. This was her confidence in him. Sure enough

, when Song Yan discovered her mental power again, he frowned, said something to Zhang Yi and the others, and then found an excuse to leave the team and came to a deserted place.

Li Muran immediately teleported over.

Although Song Yan felt that something might have happened, he was still very happy to see her and waited with a smile in his eyes. However, the moment he saw her, the smile in his eyes froze. He suddenly stepped forward and hugged her, who was a little unstable, pale, and the sweat on her hair condensed into ice crystals.

"What happened?" He asked in a deep voice, with worry and anxiety in his eyes, but his tone was still unhurried. "I'll take you to find Nan Shao." He thought she was seriously injured, so he didn't care whether Liu Jie and others would suspect him, and directly wanted to pick her up and let Nan Shao help with treatment.

"I'm fine." Li Muran grabbed his sleeve and stopped him, saying, "It's just that something happened. I think I should inform you first."

Then, he told the previous events again. Because there was no need to rush at this moment, he told it in more detail, but only mentioned the thrilling part briefly. After all, she never saw the person, and everything was her own subjective feeling. Even if the person gave her a particularly bad feeling, she was not sure that the other party would definitely harm others. Therefore, she simply described it and did not give any suggestions, but chose Song Yan and others to decide what to do.

After listening, Song Yan asked some more details, but did not think much about it. He just said, "I will tell them about this, but I still have to go back." Not to mention their current strength, even in the past, it was impossible for them to avoid it just because they heard that such a person appeared. After all, they have to meet each other before they can determine what to do next. Besides, the other party hurt his wife, so it is impossible to just let it go.

"You go to Longkou and wait, and go back at night." Finally, he reminded again.

Li Muran agreed and was about to leave, but suddenly he felt an impulse and opened his arms to hug Song Yan's waist tightly, rubbing his forehead against his chest with a bit of attachment.

Song Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, his heart was suddenly filled with indescribable joy. He actually knew that Li Muran respected him more than loved him, and because of his personality, he rarely took the initiative to get close to him. Like now, he dared not even think about it. Therefore, for a moment he was flattered and at a loss. When he came to his senses and was about to do something, Li Muran had already let go of his hand and teleported away.

"..." Looking at the empty embrace that still retained the other party's warmth and scent, he sighed.

Inexperienced, this is!

Chapter 319 Baixia Base (9)

Lin An stood in the yard, the cloth covering his eyes had been torn off, revealing a pair of eyes that were so dark that they were scary.

The man who led him thought he was blind and felt pity for him, so he helped him arrange all the trivial things, buying what he needed to buy and packing what he needed to pack, which took a lot of time.

However, he didn't know that Lin An didn't need all this. If Lin An hadn't wanted to figure out what the thing that attracted him was, he probably wouldn't even be able to get out of the yard.

Countless transparent tentacles stretched out from his sleeves, collar, under his clothes, and trouser legs. Lin An's body squirmed, like he was kneading plasticine. His neck shrank, his facial features flattened, and in the blink of an eye he turned into a flesh-colored maggot-like thing, but one end had eyes and a mouth, and you could vaguely see the shape of a human face. The cylindrical body was covered with transparent tentacles, waving in the yard like seaweed.

It propped up the part of its body where its head was and looked in the direction where Li Muran's spiritual power was coming from. A fierce light flashed in its dark eyes. Its spiritual power can only attack and influence others, and it does not have the ability to detect in a large area like Li Muran. Of course, if the distance is close, its perception is still far beyond that of ordinary people.

Therefore, although Li Muran's spiritual power has a certain degree of attraction to it, it still gave up the idea of ​​getting the person immediately. One reason is that even if the powerful spiritual power enhances its spiritual perception, it does not mean that this spiritual perception can easily track a person whose name and appearance are unknown; another point is that it has concerns about the person who intervened in the middle. If it were not for that person, it might have directly devoured the person who dared to provoke it along with the spiritual power.

Of course, these are not the most important. The most important thing is that the thing it wants is in this base, which can make it perceive more than 2,000 kilometers, and its value is naturally far greater than the brain of a person with the same spiritual power. It is impossible for it to throw away the watermelon to pick up a sesame seed, unless the other party is nearby and can be easily solved. But the actual situation was obviously not like this, so it could only put this aside first, and wait until it got the things in the base, and then go to see if it can find anyone.

Retracting its gaze, it suddenly arched its body, and its head went down like a drill bit into the compacted soil flat ground. After a moment, it disappeared without a trace, leaving only a hole as thick as a bucket on the ground in the yard.

——Song

Yan, who returned to the team, found an opportunity to inform the other three of the news brought by Li Muran. As expected, several people had the same idea and felt that they should return to the base. Even if they were to escape, they had to figure out who the enemy was first, not to mention that with their strength, things might not go to that point. Besides, it would be too paranoid to flee without knowing whether the other party really had malicious intentions.

So several people remained calm and did what they had to do as usual. When the time came, they followed Liu Jie's convoy back to the base.

When passing by the reception office for newcomers, thinking of the feeling that Li Muran had mentioned, Song Yan asked Liu Jie to stop the car, saying that he wanted to ask if there were any new people.

"There may be other people who came to Baixia with us and escaped." He explained to Liu Jie.

Liu Jie understood that if it were him, he would probably have the same fluke mentality until he was hit by reality again and again and despair.

Because some survivors came from far away and might not arrive until dusk, the reception desk for newcomers is the last one to close among all the public units in the base. Often, the base gate is closed, but the lights are still on here.

The receptionist rotates every two days. Today happened to be the day when Zhang Yi and others were received. He had an impression of Song Yan, so he didn't make it difficult for him to ask about the newcomers. After all, in the end times, relatives and friends are separated, and flesh and blood are separated. Everyone hopes to find one or two people they know.

"There are fewer and fewer new survivors now. In the past few days, besides you, there is only one person who came today." The person in charge of recording took the form on the side and said while flipping through it. "It's Lin An." Lin An's name was at the top, so it was easy to find.

Song Yan's scalp exploded, and the hairs all over his body stood up, just like a beast encountering its natural enemy. "Lin An?" With some inexplicable intuition, he was almost certain that it was that beast, not someone else with the same name.

"Why, do you know him?" Hearing the abnormality in his tone, the receptionist smiled. He was also happy to see others find acquaintances or relatives.

Song Yan suppressed the anger and murderous intent that surged in his heart, and forced a smile, "I have a friend with the same name, but when we separated, my friend was still in Dongzhou. Dongzhou has a base, so it's unlikely that he would come here."

"Oh, what a coincidence, this Lin An also came from Dongzhou." The receptionist was really surprised this time, but his voice soon dropped again, "Dongzhou base is gone."

"What?" Song Yan didn't need to pretend this time, but was truly shocked. Although the Dongzhou base was in turmoil when they left, and there were many mutant beasts harassing it, it was still a large base after all, how could it be gone just like that!

The receptionist repeated Lin An's words, and Song Yan felt a chill all over his body. He did not think that Lin An was the culprit for the destruction of the base. After all, it was hard for anyone to imagine that one person destroyed a base.

"If you want to know if it is your friend, go and see him. He is blind, and it is not easy for him." The receptionist suggested kindly.

Song Yan then asked Lin An's address, thanked him, and left. When he returned to the car, he said nothing. Seeing that he had a gloomy face, Liu Jie thought that he had gained nothing, so he did not ask much. It was not

until he returned to the yard that Song Yan told others about Lin An and the Dongzhou base. Zhang Yi and Nan Shao did not know Lin An. They only heard Li Muran mention it briefly when he talked about what happened after they separated, so they were not too deeply touched. Instead, they were more emotional and sad about the destruction of the Dongzhou base. But Shen Chi knew the relationship between Lin An and Song Yan, and he cursed when he heard it.

"Why hasn't this grandson died yet? He's really haunting me! I wanted to find a chance to kill him in Dongzhou after I got back, but I didn't expect him to come here on his own..."

"It's not that simple." Song Yan raised his hand to interrupt him, "If he is the one that Mu Ran found, then his strength will probably increase dramatically, and he won't be so easy to deal with." Knowing that the person coming was Lin An, Song Yan would not let him go no matter whether he came to Baixia to find a place to stay or for other purposes.

Therefore, before Li Muran came back, Song Yan and Nan Shao took advantage of the light before it got dark and went to the door according to the address given by the receptionist.

Standing outside the courtyard gate, they knocked on the door a few times and waited for a while. There was no response from inside, so they saw that no one was coming from both sides of the alley and quickly turned over and entered the courtyard. With their current jumping ability, they didn't need to transform, and the half-person-high wall couldn't stop them.

There was no one in the house. There was a big hole in the yard, and a pile of clothes fell beside the hole. The two stood at the entrance of the hole for a while and turned to leave. When they returned to the courtyard they rented, Li Muran had already returned, but Zhang Ruiyang was left in Longkou.

After taking a look at Li Muran's face and seeing that he was fine, Song Yan was relieved.

"If Lin An lives in that courtyard, then it can be confirmed that Lin An has been transformed into a beast, and he has a purpose in coming to Baixia." Nan Shao said. Beastmen are most sensitive to the smell of beastmen, which means that he and Song Yan have been completely transformed into beasts, otherwise when they stood at the entrance of the cave, they might not be able to control themselves and go directly into the cave to fight with that person.

"I just don't know if the courtyard we found is the same place as what Muran said." Nan Shao added.

"Let me see." Li Muran's head was still hurting at this time, and she still had a strong fear of the yard. She was extremely reluctant to explore again, but she didn't wait for others to ask, and she took the initiative to speak. As a member of a team, everyone needs to contribute their own strength. Her combat power is relatively weak, and her two abilities of mental power exploration and teleportation are the foundation of her foothold. At this time, she is needed, even if she is afraid, she has no reason to refuse.

She also knows that if she says no, no one present will embarrass her. But the matter still needs to be resolved. If she does not provide accurate information, then they may spend double or even multiple times the energy to confirm from other channels, which will not only waste time, but also may miss the opportunity. She

doesn't know how others handle team relationships. For her, doing her duty well and not making others embarrassed is the right way to get along. In this way, she will not be regarded as a burden, and will not let those who care about her bear more pressure.

"Don't force it." Song Yan was a little worried, stretched out his hand and rubbed her head, and said.

"It's okay." Li Muran tried to smile more naturally, and then closed her eyes.

Zhang Yi and the other two did not see her previous state, and she had just mentioned the matter of her spiritual power being devoured to Song Yan, and Song Yan simply forgot to mention it when he conveyed it again, so they were not too worried.

Li Muran took a deep breath and slowly probed her spiritual power in the direction of her memory. She was ready. If she was still frightened when approaching the yard, then she would give up. After all, none of the people around her had spiritual power. If something really happened, she would not be as lucky as before. Fortunately, when she

found the yard, she did not feel as deep as before. It was similar to the reception area for newcomers. She had a vague idea in her mind, but she still did not dare to be careless and approached carefully. After mustering up the courage to pass through the wall, the scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood came again, but there was no dark red blood cloud. Because she was mentally prepared, she was not scared.

After a moment of hallucination, the image detected by her mental power returned to normal again, and she saw the deep hole in the yard. She did not boldly continue to detect along the deep hole, but directly withdrew her mental power and ended the detection.

"It's that place, there is a hole in the yard. The person is not there." She spoke, and then she found that her voice was hoarse and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. It was obvious that she had been in a state of extreme tension unconsciously just now.

Everyone looked at her with strange eyes.

"Why...what's wrong?" Li Muran was a little puzzled.

"Your face is blue." Zhang Yi spoke, he had never seen her like this before.

Li Muran suddenly realized and was a little embarrassed, but still honestly admitted: "It's nothing, just a little scared..."

Before she finished speaking, Song Yan had pressed her head into his arms. She moved slightly, without struggling, and quietly leaned against his chest to calm the panic in her heart. At that moment, she suddenly felt that it was actually good to have such a person to rely on when she was weak.

Nan Shao looked at the two of them, then at Zhang Yi who was thinking with his eyes downcast, and sighed secretly. He decided not to think about it. He had always known that although he always stood behind Zhang Yi in times of danger, it was all Zhang Yi's indulgence. In fact, Zhang Yi didn't need him to do this, even when his legs were still lame. So he could only think about pulling Zhang Yi into his arms to comfort him.

"If that person is a beastman, we might have attracted his attention if we went there." He said.

Song Yan was silent. After a moment, Zhang Yi was about to speak, but Shen Chi spoke first: "We are not afraid that he will follow the traces to find us, but we are afraid that he will hide somewhere else." If he ran away, it would be difficult for them to find him. As for Li Muran, seeing how scared she was, no one had the heart to let her use her mental power to explore again. "It would be great if we could determine his purpose." "After dinner

, I'll take another look. If he hasn't come back yet, I'll look for him along that cave." Song Yan looked up at the other people in the room and made a decisive decision.

No one objected. Zhang Yi and Nan Shao only knew a little about the grudge between Lin An and Song Yan, so they had no say in the matter. However, given their current relationship, if Song Yan wanted to take revenge, they would not stop him or just stand by and watch, but would help him with all their strength. Although Nan Shao and Song Yan disliked each other, this was limited to the two of them and did not affect their friendship.

Li Muran had recovered by then, and he raised his head stubbornly, regardless of the strength in Song Yan's hand, "Let me do it." Compared to Song Yan and the others taking the risk to investigate in person, her ability was obviously much more convenient and not easy to be exposed, but she just needed to be more careful.

"Don't worry about it..." Song Yan was unhappy and wanted to press her head into his arms again.

But this time Li Muran didn't let him do it, but turned his head away and insisted: "I won't get close, but I can feel it from a distance. I just see where it digs the hole."

Song Yan's face darkened, and Zhang Yi interrupted him, saying: "Aren't you afraid? Don't force yourself, pumpkin..."

Nan Shao looked at him depressed. Zhang Yi reacted immediately and realized that he was just calling Zhang Ruiyang by the same name. He smiled embarrassedly and changed his words: "Nan Shao and Song Yan can see it in the dark, and it doesn't affect their actions, so let them go."

Li Muran shook his head, "I have to overcome this fear. Who knows if I will encounter similar situations in the future. You are all here, what do I have to worry about? If one day I am alone, who can I rely on to face such an enemy again?"

This is to prepare for a rainy day. Zhang Yi thought it made sense, so he didn't object anymore. He just glanced at Song Yan's gloomy face and laughed.

Although Song Yan was not very happy that Li Muran had no intention of relying on him, he also knew that what she said was true. Not to mention the end of the world, even in the peaceful times, two people in love could not be tied together all the time, and there would always be a time to separate. It was okay to separate at that time, as they could contact each other by phone and there was not much danger. But if they were separated accidentally in the end of the world, what would be the use of his strong ability and his heart to protect her? Everything would depend on her. Therefore, if she wanted to overcome her mental barriers, he really couldn't stop her, but had to support her.

"Do what you can." In the end, he could only spit out these words sullenly.

Li Muran responded, mustered up his courage, and extended his mental power again.

Zhang Yi pulled Nan Shao, said hello to Shen Chi, and the two got up to make dinner. Seeing that they left, Shen Chi stayed and watched Li Muran with Song Yan to prevent any accidents.

Chapter 320 Baixia Base (10)

As long as you calm down and do it more times, you will always gain some experience in dealing with even the most terrible situations. This is what Li Muran is doing now. She only needs to follow the tunnel, not too close, and stop immediately when she feels danger. In fact, there is not much danger.

Half an hour later, she opened her eyes. Her face was not as bad as before, but still not good-looking, and there was sweat on her forehead. It should not take so long, but because she was like a frightened bird and was too cautious, it took several times longer.

"He entered that strange space."

Because the square where the stone door is located is surrounded by a circle of closely connected houses, there is only one exit to the outside. After dark, the square cannot be illuminated, so the exit door will be closed and someone will be on duty to guard it. But perhaps there has never been a mutant beast or zombie attacking the base from underground before, so the protection below the ground has become a blind spot for the base. No one expected that something would directly bypass the strict security outside and drill up silently from underground.

However, perhaps it was precisely because of this that no casualties occurred until Lin An entered the door.

After exploring here, Li Muran did not rashly follow in, but chose to withdraw his mental power. It was already obvious that Lin An went straight to the alien space on the first day of his arrival, and there was no need to guess his goal.

The alien space has no distinction between day and night and seasons, and has always maintained a very clear daytime state, but the people in the base still work according to the day and night changes of the outside world. Enter at nine o'clock in the morning and come out at five o'clock in the evening, and only a few people stay inside.

The space is very large, and only large tracts of land have been developed near the exit. The mountains, forests, rivers and lakes farther away are mostly still in their original state. Livestock are raised in a free-range manner, and fishing and slaughtering are very restrained. Obviously, the Baixia Base is also slowly exploring how to use this space to avoid over-consumption and destroying this rare blessed land in the end times.

Lin An's intrusion did not seem to cause any notice, and the entire base was still quiet.

"Eat first." Zhang Yi took the bowls and chopsticks, and Nan Shao walked in with a bowl of noodles. Because there was something to do, he ate casually.

Although it was casual, it was considered a good meal in the end times, because the noodles were put with fresh pork stew, vegetables and fried eggs, which were not available outside the Baixia base.

Each person picked a large bowl of noodles and added two eggs. Song Yan finished eating in a few bites, took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and said, "I'm going out to exercise."

"Let's go together! Let's go together!" Shen Chi tilted his neck to drink the soup in the bowl, put the bowl down with a thump, and waved his hands, as if he was afraid of being left behind.

Nan Shao and Zhang Yi looked at each other and stood up one after another. They knew what Song Yan wanted to do, but the other party's strength was unknown, and it was the most important place in the entire Baixia base. They were really worried about him going alone.

Li Muran looked at the half bowl of noodles left and put it down silently, "I'll take you there." Before the situation was clear, it was better not to alarm the people in the base as much as possible.

Song Yan glared at her with a stern look and sat back in his original position, "Eat." Obviously, he did not refuse everyone to go with him.

Li Muran was not full to begin with, and the matter was not that urgent, so he did not hesitate and picked up the bowl.

It was eight o'clock in the evening, and the sky was already dark as ink. The square was still quiet, but there were twinkling lights in the windows of the houses around, and occasionally one or two faint voices could be heard. Most of the people living in this circle are elites of the base. If someone wants to trespass into the alien space, they will react very quickly.

There is a strong smell of beastmen where the stone gate is located. Lin An should have wandered here for a long time.

"I'll go in first." Song Yan whispered, and before others objected, he flashed into the stone gate.

Zhang Yi and others were about to follow him in, but he retreated again. They all thought something was wrong, but they saw him bending down to look at the bottom of the stone gate.

Everyone was puzzled.

"It's not dangerous, go in first." Song Yan only took a glance, and seemed to confirm what he thought in his heart, but he didn't say anything and went in again.

When he stepped into the door, Zhang Yi felt dizzy for a moment, as if he had penetrated an invisible barrier of water waves, or as if he had gone from stillness to supersonic speed in just one second and then quickly returned to stillness. He felt so uncomfortable that he almost wanted to vomit. In comparison, Nan Shao and Song Yan were obviously much more adaptable, and Shen Chi and Li Muran were about the same.

From darkness to light, even if they were mentally prepared, they couldn't help but feel excited when they saw the golden ears of rice, the hanging branches of fruits and vegetables, and the peaceful and peaceful scene in front of them.

Zhang Yi took a deep breath of the air filled with the fragrance of harvest, and felt that all the cells in his body suddenly became active, as if he had taken some panacea, and he felt indescribably comfortable.

"The air in here is really good." Shen Chi's sigh rang in his ears.

He smiled. More than good, he had a hunch that if he stayed in here for a long time, he would be able to practice swordsmanship with half the effort.

"This stone door is not in contact with the ground." It was not until then that Song Yan told him his discovery.

Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and when they looked back, it was indeed the case.

The stone door was actually suspended in the air, with a gap of about ten centimeters between the stone door frames on both sides and the ground. If you don't pay attention, it's easy to overlook it. Li Muran was careful enough. He used his mental power to explore and monitor this place for several days, but he didn't notice this.

Shen Chi exclaimed, walked over and put his hand on the door frame to push it, and then used all his strength to push it. The stone door was as stable as a mountain, and it didn't float because it had no roots.

Seeing this, Song Yan couldn't help itching to try it. He was the strongest among everyone, but he still couldn't push the stone door at all, let alone carry it away.

"What's the principle behind this?" Shen Chi touched his chin and walked around the stone door twice, completely unable to figure it out.

Zhang Yi subconsciously thought of the sick ghost, thinking that he might have the answer.

However, their main purpose now is not to study the strangeness of this door, but Lin An, who had been in for a while before them, and didn't know what attracted him here. If you say that it's these crops and fruits that grow and mature regardless of the season, no one will believe it.

"He went to the courtyard." Li Muran didn't even need to use her mental power to explore, she could directly feel the direction of the breath that made her feel extremely depressed.

The stone gate stood in the middle of a platform paved with white jade. The platform was about 200 square meters, octagonal, and about one meter high. There was a staircase on each side, connecting a white stone road leading to the distance. Outside the stone platform

were fields, and farther away were mountain fruit forests, with red or white flowers blooming brilliantly, like clouds and rosy clouds. The courtyard was about two or three kilometers away from the stone platform. Because it was flat, you could vaguely see it standing on the stone platform. There

was no one along the way, and the group of five people just walked over there in a swagger. It was just that in broad daylight, they came without being invited, so they couldn't help feeling a little guilty. But not long after walking, Nan Shao's face suddenly changed, and he rushed forward. After rushing a few steps, he reacted and quickly turned back.

"I know what he's looking for, we must stop him." He hurriedly explained, and then said to Zhang Yi: "Ayi, Song Yan and I will go first, and the three of you will follow. If you see that the situation is not good, don't go in. It's best to leave immediately and find the sick ghost."

Song Yan seemed to have discovered something as well, and his expression was not very good. He put his hand on Li Muran's head, wanted to rub it but stopped, and just said: "Listen to Nan Shao." Then he nodded to Shen Chi, and ran towards the yard, tearing off his clothes while running to transform into an orc.

Nan Shao did the same, directly spread his wings and flew over there.

Li Muran wanted to say that if it was too urgent, she could send them over, but the two left so quickly that they didn't have time to say it. Or maybe, they didn't actually want the three of them to go together.

"Do you have any special feelings?" Shen Chi asked, looking at the two people who were going away in an instant.

Li Muran shook her head. Lin An brought her such a strong sense of threat that it was difficult for her to sense anything else. Of course, it is also possible that even without Lin An, she would not feel it, because Zhang Yi also denied it. Perhaps, that thing can only be sensed by the beastman.

"Go and see and you will know." Zhang Yi said, speeding up his pace and rejecting Li Muran's proposal to teleport over on the way.

"The situation is unclear. You can save as many times as you can with your supernatural power. You may use it at any time. Besides, with the strength of the two of them, if they can't solve it, the three of us will not be of much help." His knife power was still a little weak against the beastman. After all, it's not every time that you can encounter a beastman with poor defense like Long Taigu. Li Muran can save people, but his fighting ability is not good. As for Shen Chi, he is not better than him.

Having said that, his pace became more and more urgent. The speed of the three people was just not as fast as Nan Shao and Song Yan after they transformed into beasts, but after all, they had all experienced the end of the world, so they were not slow. They had already rushed to the outside of the yard in less than ten minutes.

The yard was obviously newly built not long ago, without much attention to detail. It was just ordinary brick walls and tile roofs, very rough, but it was much taller and thicker than ordinary houses. Peach, plum and apricot trees were planted around, and the flowers were blooming, adding a bit of bright color to the ordinary yard.

Li Muran obviously overestimated herself. When she was more than a hundred meters away from the yard, she felt chest tightness and weak legs, and her heart was pounding. She couldn't move forward. This was when she had been tightening her mental power and not exploring outside

. If she teleported with others as she said, I'm afraid her mental power would not work once it was released. There was no other way, Zhang Yi could only let her wait in the orchard on the left far away from the yard, and he and Shen Chi went to the yard. They were not too worried about her safety. When it comes to the ability to escape from danger, I'm afraid no one can compare to her.

The gate of the courtyard was open, and there were sounds of weapons clashing and shouting from inside, obviously there were quite a few people inside. The two looked at each other in doubt, and did not break in directly, but chose to climb onto the roof first to take a peek from above.

The two were agile, and there were trees planted next to the house, so it was not difficult to climb onto the roof with the help of the trees. Zhang Yi was in front, and Shen Chi was behind. Seeing Zhang Yi's extremely flexible and light movements, Shen Chi was quite surprised, as if this man's strength had surpassed his own without him realizing it.

A sense of urgency arose in his heart, making him determined to intensify his training after returning. Not to mention being able to match Nan Shao, who was no longer a normal person, at least he could not be left behind

by Zhang Yi, who was not even a superpower. As he planned, his feet were not slow. He climbed up in a few steps with the help of the branches, and then jumped up and landed lightly on the roof. He saw Zhang Yi squatting in front of him, motionless, and he didn't know what he was looking at.

Chapter 321 Baixia Base (11)

The compound is surrounded by a circle of tall tile-roofed houses. In the middle is a misty pond. There is a small bamboo building beside the pond. Next to the building is black fertile land. There should have been some things planted on the land, but now there is nothing left. Even the soil has been turned over, and there is not a single root or leaf left.

Nan Shao flew into the yard. The first thing he saw was a huge cylindrical human-faced monster lying in the pond. It was covered with tentacles. Its body, which should have looked very soft, was now covered with a thin layer of scales. Moreover, the scales seemed to be growing, thickening and hardening.

Without Song Yan's confirmation, he could guess that this monster was probably Lin An, who was in the process of crazy evolution. And the pond it occupied was exactly what he and Song Yan had sensed and envied.

All alienated creatures have an instinct deep in their bones to keep getting stronger. Even if they are very rational, like the two of them, when they encounter something that can make them quickly become stronger in a short period of time, they will be somewhat unable to control themselves. The only difference between them and Lin An is that Lin An's spiritual perception is very strong. He can feel that there is something he needs here thousands of miles away, while they must pass through the space barrier and get close to it before they can sense it, otherwise they will never wait for Lin An to arrive.

Can't let it continue! Nan Shao knew in his heart that it was not for the pond, but because if it continued to evolve, he and Song Yan would probably not be the opponent together.

Just as he was about to rush up, he suddenly found that there were other people in the yard, and there were quite a few people, about fifty or sixty.

These people were obviously from the base, but their state was a little strange. Some were fighting each other, some were standing there in a daze, and some were self-harming, like crazy. What was even more surprising was that Leng Fengchen was also there, fighting a young man. The expressions on everyone's faces were either angry, or sad, or regretful... It's hard to describe.

Originally, the first thing he should have seen upon entering the yard was this bizarre scene, but because he was attracted by the pond, he ignored it. The two people's intrusion did not attract anyone's attention, as if they were each trapped in their own world and knew nothing about the outside world.

Nan Shao was alert, but he had to do what he had to do. He flapped his wings, bypassed the people on the road, and headed straight for the pond.

Things went unexpectedly smoothly, and there was no interception along the way. Lin An was in a critical period of evolution, and did not expect other beastmen to break in, so he rushed to fight. Because the body's defensive scales had not yet been fully formed, there were still weaknesses. Although the mental power caused considerable trouble to him and Song Yan, and he even had a mental disorder at one point, in the end the two relied on their firm will to maintain a trace of clarity, and joined forces to attack and successfully killed him.

The water in the pond can help the beastmen evolve, so he and Song Yan shared it equally, and did not take it away, but absorbed it on the spot. He could feel his body changing little by little, cells were reorganizing, structures were being refined, strength was being filled, and superpowers were increasing in a straight line...

When the last drop of pool water was absorbed, a sense of power that he had never felt before and never dared to imagine filled his entire body, making him feel that he looked down on all living things and that this world was difficult to accommodate. At that time, he knew that he no longer had to worry about not being able to protect Zhang Yi and Yang Yang. If Zhang Yi asked, he could even wipe out all the zombies and ferocious mutants on the earth.

Before he could experience this powerful and wonderful feeling, as the pool liquid disappeared, the entire space began to change dramatically. Plants withered, the earth cracked, and the sky shook. It was like the end of the world. He and Song Yan hurriedly took the others to escape.

But at the moment he stepped out of the space, a giant hand suddenly fell from the sky, and the majestic pressure it exuded crushed the strong self-confidence that had just risen in his heart to look down on all living things.

The target of the giant hand was him and Song Yan. They were locked in place and could not move at all. They could only watch Zhang Yi, Li Muran, and Shen Chi rushing up like a mantis trying to stop the car, but in the end they could not even get close. They were decomposed into blood foam and dust by the strong wind brought by the giant hand when it fell, leaving no trace.

After a moment of blankness in his brain, he was shocked, sad, and angry. The huge feeling of powerlessness rolled in like a tide, filling his chest and overflowing into every cell in his body.

It hurt! The pain made his eyes tear up, and the blood turned into tears and flowed all over his face, but he still could not move or make a sound.

The giant hand did not stop at all, and fell down and pressed on his head...

——When

Zhang Yi jumped onto the roof, he felt like his brain was pricked by a needle. It hurt, but it was only for a moment. He thought it was an illusion, or a normal neuralgia, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

He squatted quietly on the roof and looked into the yard.

To his surprise, the layout of the yard was very familiar, a bit like the outside of the residential building where he grew up. There was a flower bed, planted with gerberas, stinking chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, a rose, a cherry tree, and a red maple. It was a small place, planted with these, it was a bit crowded, but crowded and lively.

Clusters of flowers, blue-purple, yellow, rose-red, and fiery red, piled together, with red brick walls as the background, and dark green and light green leaves as embellishments, like a rich and colorful oil painting.

He stared at the entrance of a corridor opposite. On the aluminum alloy windowsill on the left side of the corridor was a pot of cactus, and through the dark blue window glass, you could see the floral curtains inside. A pipe extended from the kitchen next to it, without smoke, probably because there was no fire.

His heart was pounding, and a sense of regret that seemed to have been suppressed for a long time was slowly awakening.

He vaguely knew that something was wrong, but there was another voice in his heart telling him to go down and take a look. And as soon as possible, if it was too late, he would regret it for the rest of his life. The voice urged him, and the memory buried deep in his heart urged him to stand up and jump down.

"Xiao Yi, are you back?" When entering the corridor, an elderly woman with white curly hair just walked out. She squinted her eyes and recognized him for a moment before shouting out in surprise.

"Aunt Zhang..." This familiar scene made Zhang Yi's heart tremble. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't pull the corners of his lips no matter what. Even shouting these three words was difficult.

However, Aunt Zhang didn't seem to notice anything unusual. She just happily pulled his hand and pulled him into the building, "Hurry! Come to my house first. Your mother hasn't been seen for several days. I don't know if she went to visit relatives. You don't have the key, so come to my house first to rest and then find a way. Auntie will make you something to eat."

"Auntie, no, I'll go home first." Zhang Yi pushed Aunt Zhang's hand away absent-mindedly, came to the door of his house, and raised the knife in his hand.

The house has an old-fashioned iron railing security door. Because of the good security, it has never been replaced. The wooden door inside can be seen through the iron railing. Zhang Yi did not borrow tools to pick the lock, nor did he think of calling someone to open the door. He just waved the knife in his hand, cut the hinges of the security door in a few strokes, pulled it open, and then kicked the wooden door inside.

Aunt Zhang stood by and looked at him in horror, as if she had seen a madman, but she didn't know whether she was scared to death or for some other reason, so she didn't leave.

There was no sound in the house. Zhang Yi was very anxious, but when he stepped in, he unconsciously reached out and pressed on the door frame to steady his body, as if he was accumulating strength.

There was a small table in the living room, and there were dishes on the table that had been eaten. They were eaten very cleanly, leaving nothing behind. A bench fell in front of the refrigerator, and there were a few pieces of egg shells that had not been cleaned up on the ground. They must have fallen accidentally.

Zhang Yi pressed his palm on his chest, as if to suppress the fear and pain that was about to burst out there. He wanted to walk faster, but his feet felt like they were filled with lead, and every step was laborious.

The door of the large bedroom was open, and the closer he got, the stronger the stench of decay became. When he reached the bed and saw the body covered with a quilt, swollen and rotten beyond recognition, he could no longer stand and knelt on the ground.

"Mom..." He called out, but he couldn't make a sound. A similar scene in a certain memory, he once cried like a lone wolf abandoned by wolves, but now he found his eyes dry, and he couldn't squeeze out even a single tear. He was just filled with sadness, and he didn't know who to blame.

"Yangyang." After a long time, he finally recovered some strength. Thinking that his son should be hiding under the quilt and secretly watching him, he raised his hand to open the quilt.

"Yangyang--" He called again, but his voice was shrill and panicked, and there was more confusion.

Next to the big corpse, a small corpse was lying there, not rotten, still retaining the appearance before death. But his eyes were wide open, and he was skinny. One of his small hands stretched out, as if he wanted to crawl out, but because he was too hungry and had no strength, he finally fell on his grandmother.

"Yangyang..." Zhang Yi let go of the quilt and collapsed on the ground in disbelief.

Was it Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, or was it the butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou? Was it a life of Nan Ke, or was it an illusion? At that moment, he suddenly became uncertain.

"The dead cannot be resurrected, Xiaoyi, don't be too sad, take care of the funeral first..." Aunt Zhang followed behind and saw this scene, raised her sleeves to wipe her tears, and comforted her.

Zhang Yi didn't listen to all her words. He was drowsy and dazed. He finished the funeral of his mother and son and sent them to the crematorium for cremation. Looking through the window, he saw the flames engulfing the bodies of one large and one small, and he found that he seemed to have no feelings.

"Dad, why do you want to send grandma in there?" A childish voice seemed to sound in his ears, asking reluctantly.

"Because grandma is sick, she has to be sent to heaven to be cured." He opened his mouth and answered softly, without even thinking, as if he had answered before.

In the strange eyes of the crematorium staff, he took the two urns, one large and one small, hugged them tightly, and walked out.

The sun shone in his eyes, and he suddenly didn't know where to go. He walked aimlessly until the sound of a sudden brake came into his ears. He looked up blankly and saw a particularly good-looking face.

"A Shao?" Leng Mu's heart moved a little at that moment.

The other party's eyes swept over him, looking at the stranger's eyes, indifferent, ignoring, without any hesitation, just said to the driver lightly: "Let's go." Then, he turned his head to look at the other side, as if changing his face, his expression suddenly became gentle and doting. "Xiao Wei, are you scared?"

Next to him sat a boy with delicate features like an angel. The boy pouted and did not answer.

The car drove away, Zhang Yi looked at the two heads leaning against each other through the rear window woodenly, and something in his heart seemed to collapse all of a sudden.

The sun disappeared, the pedestrians on the road disappeared, the surroundings fell into darkness, and only two beams of light from the car head approached rapidly from the front. He wanted to lift his foot to move away, but he couldn't. He sighed in his heart and closed his eyes.

Chapter 322 Baixia Base (12)

Song Yan entered the courtyard after Nan Shao, through the open gate.

Like Nan Shao, the first person he saw was Lin An, but Lin An was not in the pond, nor was he a long cylindrical worm-like monster with tentacles all over his body. Instead, he looked familiar to him.

Lin An stood under the eaves of the courtyard, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, as handsome and elegant as ever. With a smile in his eyes, he looked at Song Yan as if he were an old friend reuniting, his expression neither forced nor complacent.

"Da Song, long time no see." He took the initiative to greet him.

Song Yan took two steps forward, then stopped and stared at him coldly from a distance.

"What, don't you recognize me?" Lin An was still good-tempered, and his tone was as familiar as if they had never had a conflict before, but he still stood there and did not come forward.

"Lin An." Song Yan squeezed out these two words almost from his teeth. To be honest, he didn't hate Wei Jingchi that much, but he hated Lin An so much that he wanted to skin him alive and eat his flesh.

"Yes, it was me. Are you surprised?" Lin An's smile grew bigger, and he looked quite sunny. "I was also surprised to meet you here. I thought that even if you didn't die, you would be crazy, or become a fool. What a pity."

Song Yan had no interest in responding to such words. There was no need to be angry and lose the upper hand, and he was too lazy to talk nonsense like the other party. He even calmed down and just asked: "I heard that the Dongzhou base is gone. How did it disappear?" His tone was casual, as if he was really chatting with an old friend who had met after a long time.

"You know it too? Tsk, those two talkative people..." Although Lin An said this, his face did not look surprised, and it seemed that he did not really blame him. "Even if you don't ask me, I will tell you that Wei Jingchi, that idiot, can't even watch anything he sees, and all my efforts have gone to waste. How can he still have the face to live?"

Song Yan's expression was a little wooden. He was silent for a moment before he continued, "So, you killed him?" "

It's really easy to chat with old friends. You, Dasong, are the one who knows me best. You know, I was very angry at the time, and I was a little hungry. Although he was stupid, he was quite capable and had a delicious brain. Thinking about it now still makes people savor it. But Dasong, your strength seems to be improving very quickly, and the taste should be even better." Lin An narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing an expression of enjoyment. When he said the last sentence, he couldn't help licking his lips, and a greedy light flashed in his eyes.

Although he was still standing there, smiling brightly, Song Yan inexplicably felt a heavy and gloomy breath rushing towards him, and all the muscles in his body unconsciously tensed up.

"Did you eat him?"

"No, no, I only ate his brain. What's so delicious about a grown man's meat? It's so rough and tough." Lin An shook his head repeatedly, as if he was afraid that people would think he was unrefined and had eaten something dirty.

"Will his men let you go?" Song Yan asked, suppressing the nausea in his heart. He was looking for an opportunity to launch an attack, but before that, he still wanted to find out more. Not only did he not intend to let Lin An go, Lin An probably also regarded him as a dead man, so he said so much. In this case, it is very likely that he told the truth. After all, no matter who it is, if you pretend for a long time, you will always need a channel to vent.

"Those people..." Lin An laughed softly, it was hard to tell whether it was sarcasm or carelessness, "You forgot that I can control a few people, I just need to control his most trusted people, and the others can be dealt with slowly. What you should ask is not whether they will let him go, but whether I am willing to let go of so many high-quality foods." With his status in Wei Jingchi's core circle, it is impossible for anyone to doubt him. In addition, with his special abilities: mental power, earth system... it is easy to kill a team of survivors without knowing it. Moreover, as his abilities improve, his appetite grows.

After he escaped back to the Dongzhou base, he lay dormant for a while, just sneaking around to get one or two food when the survivors went out hunting, and did not dare to do it in the base to avoid alerting them. When his strength increased to a certain level, one or two people at a time could no longer satisfy his appetite, so he finally reached out to Wei Jingchi.

Poor Wei Jingchi was quite strong, and he was not completely unprepared for Lin An, but no matter how prepared he was, he could not have imagined that the other party would attack him directly in the base. His goal was just to eat his brain and brain core, and he did not do anything else, which made him not alert at all. He was caught off guard by Lin An's mental power, and there was no room for resistance afterwards. Not to mention resistance, he could not even make a sound.

Lin An knew too much about Wei Jingchi and even the entire Dongzhou base. After killing Wei Jingchi, he used his identity to secretly control several key figures with mental power, and then selectively dealt with those who had no ability but might cause trouble. In this way, the core figures of the base were hollowed out step by step, and the surface of the base could still be basically maintained. When someone finally noticed it, it was too late. Lin An's strength had been improved to the point where no one could suppress him. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the strength of the base had been greatly weakened.

It turned out that he was discovered, but he was also wiped out in one fell swoop, without even a splash. After digesting all the energy he had obtained and raising his strength to a certain level, Lin An sensed that there was a person in the northwest who could help him make a leap forward, so he gave up the idea of ​​keeping the remaining survivors in captivity and absorbing more of them after their strength increased, and left the Dongzhou base. When he left, he did not forget to set a fire, attracting the mutant beasts and zombies that were originally wandering around and gathering more and more.

For him, if he didn't want them, he had to destroy them.

Listening to him telling those things, how to arrange, how to do it, and the reactions of those people when he did it, he even explained his mood at the time, the taste of the brains of different superpowers, and the difference in energy they contained. Song Yan's originally somewhat wooden face gradually changed, his stomach churned, and the feeling in his heart was even more indescribable.

"You really deserve to die!" He couldn't find a more appropriate word to throw at the other party. Even cursing him as a beast was an insult to the beast. He felt that he had never wanted to kill someone so much in his life, and he killed someone in a particularly cruel way. Retribution in this life, retribution in this life, there are some people you would definitely like to see get retribution in this life, so that you can vent your anger. And Lin An is this kind of

person. Lin An laughed twice, not angry at all, "I knew you would be angry, you always look righteous, but in fact, hehe... with your family background, if it is really as clean as water, can it still stand? You know what I hate most about you, that is, you are so hypocritical. You obviously like my wife, but you still pretend to be generous. Do you think I will push and I will give in with you? Impossible, I am not as hypocritical as you, I will take it if you want it."

Song Yan wiped his face, tried to suppress his temper, and asked the last question: "Where are Su Hui and your son? Didn't they come with you?" For that woman, let alone no old feelings, even if there were, they should have been worn out long ago. He just wanted to know how Lin An arranged for his wife and children now.

Lin An paused, his smiling face suddenly darkened, and he looked at Song Yan with cold eyes: "Why, are you still thinking about my wife? But you will never have another chance."

"Huh?" Song Yan heard that his tone was different, but he looked back without giving in.

Lin An grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. It didn't look like a smile, but more like a ferocious beast ready to bite people, but his tone was still so unhurried and gentle as the wind: "They are the people I love the most, they belong to me, of course they have to be with me forever, no one can leave, and no one can take them away."

Hearing this, Song Yan shuddered, thinking he had heard it wrong: "What did you say?"

"I said, Susu and Yaoyao have merged with me, and we are no longer separate. What? Are you jealous?" Lin An stared at Song Yan's eyes, as if he wanted to see every change of emotion in them. Seeing his pupils shrink and his eyes full of shock, he finally nodded with satisfaction and stopped talking about this topic.

When he returned to the base, he was very happy to reunite with his family. Who knew that after a few days, his body showed abnormalities and was discovered by Su Hui. Su Hui was afraid and wanted to leave secretly with his son, which angered him. At that time, he had just transformed into a beast. When he got angry, he couldn't control himself at all and swallowed his wife and children directly. Since then, it was like Pandora's box was opened, and his diet changed.

"Do you know why I came to see you in person and talk to you about this, instead of letting them fall into the most terrifying scene in their lives like I did to others, and then let them die in a confused manner?" "

You are stalling for time." Song Yan answered without hesitation. As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly jumped up.

"Because I want to tell you that everything I did was right. I want you to know that I don't have a strong backer, but I am a thousand times or ten thousand times smarter than you, a thousand times or ten thousand times stronger than you, and my future achievements will far exceed yours." Lin An retreated quickly, but it did not prevent him from finishing what he wanted to say.

Song Yan was silent and just started to fight. He knew everything he should know, and the other party would not say anything he shouldn't know, so why continue to talk nonsense. As for cursing a few words and listing the other party's crimes, that's just for fun. However,

he wanted to fight, but Lin An didn't give him a chance. Just when his sharp claws were about to touch the other party, Li Muran suddenly appeared out of thin air and blocked Lin An.

Song Yan's heart jumped, but he was determined to hit the target when he attacked, and he used all his strength. It was too late to change his moves or withdraw his hands. Even if he tried his best to retreat, even at the cost of hurting himself, he still watched his claws cut Li Muran in half.

"No——" He widened his eyes in horror, blood splashing everywhere.

——Li

Muran squatted in the orchard. The fruit tree above her head was not high, and the branches were decorated with big red and juicy apples. She could smell the fragrance from a long distance. She couldn't help it, looked around to see if there was anyone around, and quickly reached out to pick one. After taking a bite, the sweet juice instantly soaked the tip of her tongue, making her squint her eyes subconsciously, and suddenly remembered that Han Ling had given Zhang Ruiyang an apple in Ziyun County.

She didn't know how she could connect these two things together, but inexplicably, she felt that this alien space might be related to Han Ling.

Of course, whether it was true or not, she didn't really care that much. She was just thinking about whether it would be a bit bad to take a bag of fruit out with her clothes when she left later. But she really wanted others to taste it. It's not that she was afraid of the flower crystal core, but because even in the Baixia base, the fruit was sold in limited quantities, and it was not always available.

Thinking about it, she didn't pick it after all. After eating the apple and carefully burying the core under the tree, she stared at the courtyard in the distance with a worry on her brow.

More than half an hour had passed, and there was still no movement over there. Even Zhang Yi and Shen Chi, who entered later, had not sent any news. She wanted to check, but she was a little afraid. She didn't dare to move forward even after her mental power reached about fifty meters outside the courtyard several times. But she couldn't just wait like this. What if her hesitation caused irreversible consequences... Just

as she gritted her teeth and prepared to go all out and jump over the safety line, an unexpected figure suddenly appeared in her sight. No, to be exact, there should be two.

Sick Ghost, and Dudu. Sick Ghost sat cross-legged on Dudu's back and landed on the square outside the courtyard like lightning. Although they were far away, Li Muran still recognized them at a glance. There was no way, because the appearance of these two was quite special. She was stunned at first, and then she was overjoyed and was about to rush out.

The sick ghost got off Dudu's back, stood up straight, and tilted his head slightly towards the orchard as if he knew she was there. Then he raised his hand and waved, indicating that she should stay where she was. He ignored her and walked straight to the gate of the yard.

Dudu spread his wings and flew towards Li Muran.

Since the sick ghost came in person, Li Muran was no longer worried. Instead, he was very affectionate to Dudu, whom he had not seen for a while, and gave him a big hug.

"Why are you with sick brother?"

"There is a net covering the top of the base. How did you get in?"

"Is Yangyang okay?"

"How is sick brother? Is he feeling better? Has his strength increased?"

He poured out all his questions at once, and the only response he got was the big bug shaking its tentacles twice. But Li Muran had long been accustomed to it and didn't care. After all, he had a companion, and he felt much more at ease.

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The sick ghost walked calmly through the gate of the courtyard and saw that the entire courtyard had been occupied by countless waving transparent tentacles. Most of the people who stayed in the courtyard had been entangled by the tentacles, and some of them had the tentacles waving in front of their foreheads, as if looking for an opportunity to break in.

Those who were not entangled were mostly relatively strong, such as Leng Fengchen and the young man who was fighting with him, Nan Shao Song Yan, and Zhang Yi... Hmm, Zhang Yi?

The sick ghost's eyes could not help but stay on Zhang Yi, who was facing the tentacles, his eyes closed, and his face was sometimes painful and sometimes struggling. Then he understood and stopped paying attention to him, and walked straight towards the pond. Along the way, many tentacles wanted to get close to him, but they seemed to be afraid of something, so they could only wander in the distance, and unconsciously avoided him when he passed by, revealing the road ahead.

As Nan Shao had seen before, in the pond in the center of the yard was a fleshy worm-like thing with a human face. However, the water in the pond had already drained away by more than half, and the size of the fleshy worm had more than doubled. Its body was completely covered with scales. The scales had a silvery-white metallic texture, and it obviously had a strong defense.

The arrival of the sick ghost seemed to make it feel extremely threatened. The part of its body with a human face was seen wriggling and twisting. After a moment, a more three-dimensional head appeared there. It was Lin An with black eyes.

"You are not from this world! Who are you?" He spoke, and his tongue in his mouth moved like a snake's whisker from time to time. Surprisingly, he was the first person to sense the origin of the sick ghost.

"You are too anxious." The sick ghost only said this sentence, and then he decisively attacked and punched. He was not moved by the other party's words, and did not explain anything. No matter how powerful Lin An was, in his eyes, he was just a bug that had just broken out of its shell and wanted to stick its head out. They were not on the same level, so there was no question of respect. He had not been with Li Muran, Zhang Yi and others for a long time, so there was no need to talk nonsense.

Moreover, he knew that the other party wanted to delay time so that he could compete with him after complete transformation. But how could he wait until then? Once this pool of spiritual spring disappeared, this space would lose the source of life, and everyone would be squeezed out. As long as the other party appeared in the outside world, it would immediately attract Qin Xuan's attention, and it would be too late. This was why he came here suddenly. Fortunately, the critical period for his fusion of the Burning Sky Flame had passed. Even if it was not completely successful now, it would not be a big hindrance. It was just that his strength was weakened by one or two percent. As long as he could not leave this wasteland, or in front of Qin Xuan, this one or two percent of strength would not have any effect at all. So after he had a warning sign in his heart and figured out the reason, he decisively ended his retreat ahead of time without any reluctance.

Seeing this, Lin An showed a look of shock and anger on his face, with a hint of fear, knowing that this man was determined to put him to death. But even if he was unsure, he could not sit still and wait for death. At that moment, a sinister look appeared on his face. The tentacles near him intertwined with each other, forming a thick net to block in front of him, and the tentacles in the distance contracted with all their strength, carrying the people who were wrapped up, even those who were still in a trance and did not dare to move before, and directly entangled them, pulling them all in front of him, trying to form one barrier after another to buy himself more time.

However, even if he could sense the origin of the sick ghost, he could not make an accurate estimate of the opponent's strength. He thought he could resist for at least ten minutes or even more than half an hour. Who knew that the sick ghost's punch with the power of wind and thunder, when it touched the net barrier woven by his tentacles, was like a hurricane blowing through a spider web, the spider web was broken and scattered, but it could not stop the hurricane at all.

Boom! Before the second barrier was established, the punch actually hit his body. Like a thunderbolt attacking his body, flashes of lightning flashed and moved on the scales that he had just evolved, which he thought would be impossible for anyone to break from now on, and then invaded his body and ran wildly among his internal organs.

"Ah——" The pain of being shocked by the thunderbolt all over his body made him unable to control himself and rolled in the pond, stirring up the water mist and rolling, like a demon bullying the sky.

The sick ghost just watched coldly and did not make any more moves. After a few minutes, the movement in the pond gradually became smaller, and finally disappeared. The water mist gradually dissipated, revealing the demon corpse inside, which looked like it had not survived the thunderbolt and was struck like charcoal.

The Heaven Punishment Fist was cultivated by absorbing the power of the heavenly thunderbolt that survived the thunderbolt. The punch was like a heavenly punishment, which was specifically designed to restrain demon cultivators. In other words, his current strength was less than one ten-millionth of his peak strength. Otherwise, if he used this move, the opponent would not be able to keep his body, and I am afraid that not even a speck of dust would be left. Of course, if he was in his peak strength, he would not even need to make a move.

With Lin An's death, the tentacles that had wrapped around everyone also loosened and fell to the ground, and the people inside were finally released.

Except for a few who were already unconscious, most people were fine, but still a little confused, as if they were still wandering between reality and illusion, and it was difficult to come back to their senses. There were also a few people with blood on their heads and holes in their foreheads, and they were no longer breathing.

The strongest few woke up when they were suddenly wrapped by the tentacles, but the tentacles swung up and down and left and right with Lin An's rolling, and they were also thrown dizzy and had no chance to escape. At this time, they woke up the fastest. Because of the tossing just now, everyone was more or less injured and looked very embarrassed.

Seeing the sick ghost, Nan Shao and others were a little surprised, but they didn't pay too much attention to him. Nan Shao looked around and caught Zhang Yi, who was holding the stone pillar and gasping for breath. He didn't care about anything else, spread his wings and flew over, and hugged the man tightly in his arms.

In such a public place, Zhang Yi rarely broke free from him.

Although everything he had experienced before was an illusion, it felt too real. Not to mention Nan Shao, even Zhang Yi wanted to see his beloved and his son, and then hold them tightly and never let go.

Compared with the two, Shen Chi was more pitiful. Now the only people he cared about were his large group of brothers, who all died in front of him in the illusion mirror. Not to mention that he couldn't see them now, even if he saw them, if he really hugged them one by one, wouldn't he be regarded as a perverted psychopath?

Song Yan looked at the situation around him and left the yard in silence. It was not until he saw Li Muran jumping around in the orchard that he felt relieved. He immediately lifted him to his chest and kissed him hard, and then took Li Muran and Dudu back to the compound.

Li Muran was dizzy from the kiss, and he didn't understand what happened yet, which made this usually calm and restrained man act out of character.

Back in the yard, everyone calmed down and started to clean up the mess. Those who could be rescued were rescued, and those who could not be rescued were collected first, waiting for relatives to claim them. If there were no relatives, they would be buried.

Seeing so many strangers appearing, including two orcs, the young man who was fighting with Leng Fengchen's eyes twitched obviously, but after weighing the difference in power between them, he decided to be patient.

"I am Shi Hao, everyone please sit inside." He was also very cultured. After deciding to temporarily put aside the grudges with the orcs, he did not treat Nan Shao and Song Yan with strange eyes and attitudes.

"Do you have clothes?" Song Yan felt that he and Nan Shao were not in a good state to talk about things in their beastly state, and it also affected their emotional communication with their loved ones, so he asked.

Shi Hao glanced at the two, thought of Guo Mingcheng, nodded, asked the size of the clothes they wanted, and asked someone to get them. Song Yan and Nan Shao were not convenient to change their form and dress in public, so they followed.

After they left, Shi Hao did not ask about the origins of Zhang Yi and the others, but instead fixed his eyes on Leng Fengchen: "Did the sect send you here?"

The two of them actually knew each other, and it seemed that they had a pretty good relationship.

Leng Fengchen did not seem guilty at all, he leaned back on his chair with his hands on the sword, and said with a smile: "You changed your name? If I had known that you were the leader here, I would not have gone to such great lengths to get in. But where did you get such a magical thing? If your master knew, he might be willing to accept you as his disciple again."

It was a coincidence that the two had never met. Leng Fengchen came to Baixia Base after he saw that it was useless to stay with the sick ghost, and then he found the strangeness of this base, and finally tried his best to sneak into this place. He was not greedy, but just curious, so he kept walking around in the space to check, trying to figure out what was going on here. No, he had not gained anything in the wild a few days ago, and today he was about to explore this heavily guarded compound, but he got into trouble.

Not only was he unlucky, but he also got into a fight with Shi Hao for no reason, and he didn't even know that the other party was someone he knew. It was only when he woke up just now that the two met for the first time.

When he heard him mention the master, Shi Hao's face changed, and finally returned to indifference: "I won't go back. It's useless to want this space unless she comes here by herself. This thing is fixed here and no one can take it away. If the sect is willing to move here, it doesn't matter if I give it up."

At this point, he was sure that Leng Fengchen was not driven here by someone, so he put the matter aside and turned his attention to the sick ghost.

"I am very grateful for your help, but I still want to know, are you with them? If so, then why are you here?" His tone was a little cold, but not the kind that would keep people away. Just as Li Muran described, if you look closely at this person's facial features, they are not that outstanding, and even a little ordinary. The strange thing is that he seems to have an aura that makes people want to look at him. The more you look, the more you want to look, and the more you look, the more handsome you think he is. This person has an indescribable affinity all over his body. Even if his eyebrows and eyes are cold, people can't help but want to get close.

As he was asking, Song Yan, who had turned back into human form, turned back.

"Lin An, that's the monster. He used to be my friend, but later he became my enemy. We found him here and chased him." Song Yan continued.

Such an answer was impossible to satisfy anyone, but Shi Hao did not continue to ask. He just pressed his temple very tiredly, and then said: "You helped me, how do you want me to repay you?" When asking this, he did not even state the limit. It was obvious that no matter what request the other party made, he would consider it and even find a way to do it.

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Unexpectedly, he was so direct. Song Yan and the others were stunned for a moment and subconsciously looked at the sick ghost.

To be honest, they did not come here with any intention of helping others. Their main purpose was to deal with Lin An. If it were not for Lin An, they might sneak in a few days to study this strange space. Although they had no ill intentions, it was not fair after all. Moreover, they encountered the incident this time, but not only did they not help, they almost got themselves involved. There was only one real hero, that is, the sick ghost. So when it comes to this reward, only the sick ghost is qualified to ask for it. The

sick ghost is a difficult person to guess. Zhang Yi and the others really don't know if he is interested in this reward. Even with his usual cold attitude towards everything, it is very likely that he will not even bother to answer. But

this time they really guessed wrong. As soon as Shi Hao finished speaking, the sick ghost spoke, as if he had already thought it through.

"Seal the spiritual spring." The tone was firm and decisive, and no room for negotiation. It makes people feel that he is not asking for rewards, but something that must be done, whether the other party agrees or not, it must be completed.

Such a tone and attitude would make anyone uncomfortable. The faces of the people who came in with Shi Hao showed anger, but Shi Hao's expression did not change much. He just pondered for a moment and replied: "The evolutionary fluid that our base provides to ordinary people to awaken their superpowers is actually Lingquan water. If it is sealed, those ordinary survivors may never have a chance again..."

It can be heard that he himself does not care whether the Lingquan is sealed or not, but is troubled by the fact that it will cut off the evolutionary path of ordinary survivors.

The sick ghost couldn't help but take a closer look at him, with a rare hint of surprise in his eyes, but before he could finish, he interrupted and said, "I will exchange it with my skills. This skills can not only improve the strength of those who have not awakened, but also be useful for those who have awakened."

Hearing this, Shi Hao did not hesitate any longer and said, "Then seal it."

When he agreed, except for a few people around him, the others were a little dumbfounded. There was no need to ask about the preciousness of the spiritual spring. Just look at Lin An who came all the way for it, and you will know. But this person didn't even confirm whether the exchanged object was really useful, and he agreed. Isn't this too hasty?

Is he trusting the sick ghost too much? Or is he just perfunctory, and once the people leave, he will unseal the spiritual spring again?

Things that are too easy to get always make people doubt unconsciously, even Zhang Yi and others are not immune to this. However, such doubts were soon dispelled by Shi Hao's next words.

"But I only know a simple sealing method, and people with slightly stronger strength can break it with a little more effort." He sighed and said.

It turned out that considering the preciousness of the spiritual spring, it was inevitable that there would be people with bad intentions who wanted to steal it, so he had already set up restrictions on it. However, he had only learned the restrictions for a short time, and the power of the restrictions he set was small and weak, so he mixed warning restrictions with the defensive restrictions. Defense is secondary, and warning is primary. Once someone breaks into the forbidden area, he will feel it.

The space is fixed on the square and cannot be moved or hidden. In addition to setting up strict warnings and protection around it, they can't do more. But fortunately, the space cannot be moved, and its internal area is large, so generally no one can make plans for it, so inside the space, it is enough to just keep an eye on the spiritual spring in the courtyard.

In Shi Hao's consideration, if someone can pass through the outer protective layer, enter the interior of the space, and trigger the restrictions outside the spiritual spring, his strength must be unfathomable. In this case, only he can do it himself.

It was also because of this that he knew when Lin An had just launched an attack on the ban, and immediately took a few of his strongest men to rush over. With the addition of the manpower in the compound, he thought that they would be able to deal with the attackers. If such a force could not do anything to the other party, then it would be useless to call more people, and it would just be a pile of corpses. So before he went in, he did not alarm the others guarding the square except for instructing a few people to know what to do so that they could respond flexibly.

In his opinion, the spiritual spring is important, but it is not as important as human life. As long as the other party is not a bloodthirsty person, after achieving the goal, they should not embarrass the outsiders who are not aware of it. After all, if the entire base is really alarmed, it is not so easy to leave.

Who would have thought that he would encounter a monster like Lin An.

Thinking of this, he sighed silently. I don't know if it was affected by the previous illusion. At this time, he was still a little depressed. He just said to the sick ghost: "If you have a way to seal the ban, do it yourself."

When he said this, although his men showed reluctance in their eyes, they did not object out loud, which shows his high prestige.

The sick ghost nodded slightly, which was considered as an agreement. He didn't want to say more, but he had some doubts. He couldn't help but said: "Once I set up the restriction, no one in this world can break it except me. You have entered the door of cultivation. The spiritual spring will be of great benefit to you. Are you really willing to give it up?" It turned out that he saw that Shi Hao was on the road of cultivation.

When the audience heard the word "cultivation", they vaguely understood it, but they were not so sure. Leng Fengchen moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something.

Shi Hao showed a very complicated smile and whispered: "Since... I haven't relied on it to practice for a long time."

Since what, he didn't say, and the sick ghost didn't ask, but the others couldn't help but imagine and subconsciously guess what it was. Leng Fengchen finally sighed: "I said that your martial arts were abolished when you left, how come you are still so powerful? It turns out that you have re-cultivated other martial arts. No wonder you can live to this day and build a base."

He vaguely felt that Shi Hao's path at this time should be the same as the sick ghost, and he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, so he decided to ask again in private. Shi Hao

glanced at him, his eyes were light, and stated the facts: "When the end of the world happened, I hadn't started practicing yet." He was able to survive, not relying on this. Although his martial arts were abolished at the beginning, he still remembered the moves he learned and awakened his supernatural powers. These were enough for him, and he didn't need to practice. If possible, he would rather not practice.

Being able to resist temptation, everyone had to look at this person differently. However, after the sick ghost heard that he was telling the truth, he stopped asking questions and just explained a few more words: "The spiritual spring has been consumed for most of the time. If the rest dries up, this space will be useless. In addition, the strength of people who rely on the spiritual spring to awaken their superpowers will be permanently restricted, which is not as good as my skills." That is, he dared to say such a thing.

Of course, there is another most important point that he did not say. That is, the dark beast king that Qin Xuan wanted needs to grow completely in the dark and filthy air. If it is contaminated with spiritual power, it can only be regarded as a hybrid species, no matter how strong it is. Moreover, if it grows in such a place, how strong can it be stronger than those demon beasts in the God Realm?

Once Qin Xuan finds that a large number of creatures containing spiritual energy have appeared here, I am afraid that the only thing he will do is to immediately destroy this living planet completely, and then find another place to start cultivating again. This is also the real reason why he rushed over to get rid of this person first when he realized that Lin An's strength would increase to a level that would attract Qin Xuan's attention after absorbing the spiritual liquid.

Although there are many people who rely on spiritual liquid to awaken their superpowers in Baixia Base, they are all weak and have little spiritual power in their bodies. As time goes by, it will become less and less, and eventually it will disappear completely. As long as the use of spiritual liquid is controlled in time, the danger can be nipped in the bud. And he is mainly on guard against the beastman who also uses spiritual liquid.

It is rare for the sick ghost to be able to explain a few words, and then he no longer cares whether Shi Hao and others have any ideas. He stood up, walked in front of Shi Hao, stretched out his finger to touch his forehead, and transmitted the two exercises he created into his brain. Then he turned and went out, and went directly to set up a ban on the spiritual spring.

Although Nan Shao and others came for the spiritual liquid, they knew that the sick ghost was not a person who shot without a target, so they could only give up this idea.

Shi Hao failed to dodge the finger, and felt a lot of information pouring in in an instant. He was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this was the thing to exchange for the forbidden spiritual spring. Only then did he realize how insignificant and short-sighted he and the woman who thought she was invincible were on the road of cultivation.

But such a thought only flashed through his mind. He himself was not very serious about cultivation, so he would not be motivated by the other party's strong strength and would not think of working harder to reach that level. He turned his head and looked at Nan Shao and others.

"What do you want?" He didn't seem to mind the original intention of Nan Shao and others' coming, and he didn't care whether they helped in the whole process. He looked like he wanted to get rid of this matter in the fastest way.

This is really a strange person. Not only Nan Shao and others, but also Leng Fengchen couldn't help but have this feeling in his heart. But after all, he still had something to ask for, so he could only speak shamelessly. They felt good about Shi Hao, so it was always better to take Guo Mingcheng out through open negotiations than to rob him secretly. For this, they were willing to pay a certain price.

"I want to take away the orc you caught." The speaker was Song Yan.

When Shi Hao heard this, his hands on the armrest of the chair suddenly tightened, and he looked at him steadily, with a trace of resentment and anger that he tried his best to restrain on his face. This was the first time he had such a big emotional reaction since they met. But after about a minute or two, after a suffocating silence, just when Zhang Yi was about to speak to ease the atmosphere, he spoke, and his tone returned to calm again.

"Okay." He agreed, but with one condition: "Take him away, take all the alien species away from Baixia. Baixia cannot tolerate their existence." The tone was as cold as before, but people could hear the deep hatred hidden underneath.

Thinking of what Teng Jin and his men had done, it was understandable that the people in Baixia Base hated the orcs, but inexplicably, everyone felt that he hated the orcs not for this reason, but for some other reason.

This kind of thing was not easy to inquire about given the current relationship between the two sides, and judging from the other party's attitude, they might not be willing to answer.

"I will take them away." Song Yan gave a guarantee. Although Teng Jin had his own plans, without the evolutionary fluid, those plans would lose the conditions to support them, so why would he stay here.

At this point, the atmosphere on both sides became a little stiff. However, Nan Shao seemed to think it was not stiff enough, and actually asked a question.

"I heard that the first person to establish this base was a woman named Han Ling? I wonder where she is now?"

When these words came out, everyone was stunned.

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Everyone had some guesses about Han Ling, and they all thought that her disappearance was related to Shi Hao. So Nan Shao's direct questioning of the person involved was unexpected, including Zhang Yi.

Of course, compared to Nan Shao, Song Yan and Shen Chi didn't know Han Ling at all, so they naturally didn't care about her. Li Muran and Han Ling only met once, and they were no different from strangers, so they wouldn't bother with such trivial matters. As for Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi knew that it was because Han Ling let it slip that Nan Shao discovered that the wood power he thought was a life power, but she didn't mean to remind him at the beginning, and when he asked, she was also evasive, trying to use this to threaten Nan Shao to follow her. So if he wanted to say how grateful he was, Zhang Yi really didn't. Although he himself was a beneficiary of the life power, it was something Nan Shao had figured out with great effort. He couldn't attribute the credit to Han Ling, and he couldn't offend people and cause trouble for her. But if he could help out, he wouldn't mind.

Only Nan Shao, the fear of almost losing Zhang Yi still scares him to this day, so no matter whether Han Ling did it intentionally or not, he always let him discover his special ability and pulled Zhang Yi back from the brink of death. Especially after just experiencing the illusion and watching Zhang Yi die in front of him, the remaining feeling of pain made him feel that he had to do something to repay the other party's words that were accidentally said but were extremely important to him. To him, how important Zhang Yi is, that sentence is as important.

Nan Shao actually had no choice. The sick ghost has now been released, Guo Mingcheng has been rescued, and there is no hope for the evolutionary fluid. They have no reason to stay here for long. As for the news about Han Ling, they found that no one was willing to talk about it after staying in the base for a few days. Even if they occasionally talked about it, no one knew why this person disappeared, and no one cared. Therefore, if they wanted to find out his whereabouts, in addition to spending a lot of time to slowly investigate in the base and possibly not finding anything, they could only ask Shi Hao, the second leader of the base, directly. As Han Ling's successor, others might not know about Han Ling, but Shi Hao could not have been unaware.

One sentence for another, this was what he could do for Han Ling. As for the possibility of causing Shi Hao's displeasure or even fear, it could only be regarded as the consequence of repaying this favor.

Upon hearing the question, Shi Hao was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Nan Shao deeply.

"Are you her friend?"

His expression did not change much, but the faces of the people sitting next to him showed hostility. They originally had no good impression of the orcs, but they endured it because of what happened before and the existence of the sick ghost. They didn't expect that the other party was actually related to that woman. It was really hard to make people calm.

"Not really, I was just asked to keep an eye on this person." On this issue, Nan Shao chose to conceal it. If he told the truth, the other party might be cautious and make false excuses.

Sure enough, after hearing his answer, the expressions of Shi Hao's men eased a little. But he underestimated Shi Hao's mind.

"Yes, Han Ling is the founder of Baixia Base." Shi Hao did not delve into the relationship between Nan Shao and Han Ling, or he did not care about it, just as if he did not care about anything. "But I have sealed her spirit vein and expelled her from the base."

At this point, he looked at Nan Shao, his eyes did not dodge, "If you are her friend or relative, and want to seek justice for her, I will take over."

Expel? Even Li Muran, who did not care much about Han Ling, frowned, not to mention Nan Shao and Zhang Yi. They did not quite understand what sealing the spirit vein meant, but expelling a woman from the base she had spent so much effort to build made people feel very uncomfortable.

"What justice are you looking for? Based on what that woman did, you only drove her out instead of killing her. Brother Hao, you are soft-hearted. And you didn't touch any of her parents and several loyal dogs. What else can you do to her? Looking for justice? Hehe, looking for justice! Then let's talk about it..." Without waiting for Nan Shao to say anything, the few people who had always obeyed Shi Hao's orders no longer remained silent after hearing his simple explanation. A young man with a scar on his face slapped the armrest and stood up, staring at Nan Shao and others with anger in his eyes.

"Mo Ye, why are you so excited? These friends came from afar, how can they know those things? Sit down and talk slowly." Another middle-aged man wearing glasses, who looked like a university professor, said in a deep voice.

"Damn, idiot!" Next to the middle-aged man sat a young man with a melon-seed face and small eyes. Following the middle-aged man's words, he drooped his eyelids and slowly uttered these words.

As soon as these words came out, there was a moment of silence. No one could guess who he was scolding. Even the scarred young man Mo Ye couldn't help but glared at him hatefully, and the middle-aged man's expression became even more awkward. Nan Shao's face was stiff, and he couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yi, his eyes seemed to ask, you are not scolding me, Zhang Yi inexplicably wanted to laugh. The originally tense atmosphere was suddenly relaxed because of this.

Only Shi Hao knew that this young man was attacking indiscriminately, even including the person everyone was talking about, so... it was not actually directed at anyone?

"Huo Tong, from now on, before you leave the space, you are not allowed to say a word." He said with a headache. For a guy who offends people as soon as he speaks, and offends a large group of people, there is no other way except to shut him up.

The young man called Huo Tong showed an unwilling expression on his face, but he seemed to listen to Shi Hao's words very much. Hearing this, he could only nod his head sullenly, with a drooping face and eyelids, and his whole body revealed the irritable atmosphere of "I am not happy, don't mess with me".

"To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, let me tell you. My name is Feng Daoji, and I have been following Shi Hao since the beginning. At that time, Han Ling had not yet appeared. There are some things that even Shi Hao does not know." The middle-aged man said, and then he cast a questioning look at Shi Hao.

Shi Hao did not want to explain at first, but when someone wanted to explain, he did not stop him. Feng Daoji obviously grasped his temper and did this. As long as it does not affect the operation of the base and cause catastrophic consequences to the members of the base, it will not make any waves in Shi Hao's case.

Facing such a leader, those who truly support him actually feel helpless, for fear that he will find a successor at any time, throw everything away, and disappear from sight.

"I am from Qinzhou, and I am a teacher at Qinzhou University of Architecture. I was teaching when the end of the world happened..." Feng Daoji taught science after all, and he knew how to grasp the key points. His language was concise and capable. In a few words, he talked about what happened before he met Shi Hao, and then went straight to the point.

He and Shi Hao met on the way to escape from Qinzhou to find the survivors' base. At that time, Shi Hao was accompanied by a woman. She was not particularly beautiful, but she spoke and acted in a gentle and soft manner, and was well-measured, just like a lady from a noble family in the past. Some people might not like her, but it cannot be denied that it was comfortable to get along with her. The woman's name was Qin Changchuan, and she was Shi Hao's wife.

At this point, we have to mention the past of Shi Hao and Qin Changchuan. Of course, this was unknown to Feng Daoji.

Shi Hao was born in the Wuzong. Wuzong is just a general name, which actually refers to all hidden sects and families. Shi Hao was an orphan. When he was ten years old, he was accepted as a disciple by the current leader of Tianyin Sect and raised to adulthood. The leader of Tianyin Sect only accepted him as a disciple, so he should be the designated successor to the next leader. However, the leader was only ten years older than him, so it was really not important whether he took the position of the young leader or not, and it was not certain who would die first.

Shi Hao did not care about this. He was gifted and had a good physique. Although he started practicing martial arts later than others, his progress was rapid and he was one of the best among the younger generation of martial artists. Leng Fengchen was a few years younger than him, and with his aptitude, he always looked at his back and wanted to catch up with him.

Needless to say, such a person must have a promising future in Wuzong. But Wuzong has a rule that when you are eighteen years old, you must enter the world to experience. Before the age of eighteen, you will receive cultural and knowledge education in all aspects in the school within Wuzong, and practice in each sect. After the age of eighteen, you can either go to a university outside to study or go out to work. In short, you can't be out of touch with the whole world and hone your mind. This is also why Leng Fengchen had to bite the bullet when he was admitted as a civil servant and was assigned to the family planning office in the township, instead of using the power behind him to exchange for a position that was both easy and had good development prospects.

Shi Hao was admitted to Jingcheng University at the age of eighteen. He met Qin Changchuan while in school and the two fell in love. Qin Changchuan was born in a scholarly family, and his parents were both well-educated intellectuals. After graduation, the two met their parents. Qin Changchuan's parents liked Shi Hao very much, and even didn't mind his orphan status, treating him like their own son.

In theory, as long as Shi Hao reported back to his master, their marriage would be a piece of cake. After all, Wuzong did not have any restrictions on intermarriage with outsiders. Sometimes, in order to protect their own status and obtain resources from the secular world, special marriages occurred.

It was precisely because of this that Shi Hao did not restrain himself after he had a good impression of Qin Changchuan, and he talked about marriage. However, he never thought that when he went back to tell his master with joy and was ready to take his lover to his master for review, he got a slap in the face and thunderous anger.

At that time, he was completely confused and had no idea why things turned out like this. When he calmed down, he thought that as long as he spent more time to please and beg, and persisted, one day he would make his master soften and agree. He never thought of marrying Qin Changchuan regardless of anything. After all, his master was the most important person to him. Without his master's blessing, he would not only wrong his lover, but also make his life uneasy.

Later, he realized how naive his thoughts were. His master, the leader of the Tianyin Sect, who he had always regarded as a sister and a mother, actually regarded him as a forbidden delicacy. It was not because Qin Changchuan himself or his family had any problems, but because his master would not tolerate him being with any woman except herself.

The moment he learned the truth, he collapsed. He could not accept such a thing at all. He even designed other excuses to alarm the highest level of the Elders Council of Wuzong and would rather be expelled from the sect by abolishing his martial arts.

With the pressure of the Elders Council, as long as he did not leave with his skills, and the control of the Gu ban prevented him from imparting what he had learned to others, his future life would have nothing to do with Wuzong, and even his master could not interfere. After leaving

Wuzong, he was still afraid that his master would come and hurt those close to him, so he took his wife and his father-in-law and mother-in-law away from the capital and lived in Qinzhou incognito. Who knew that after a few years, the end of the world would happen. He awakened the dual-system superpowers, but his wife failed to awaken, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law turned into zombies. He has supernatural powers, his physique has changed, and he has a previous foundation in martial arts, so there is no problem for him to protect his wife. During his escape, he met Feng Daoji. He never told Feng Daoji about these past events, so Feng Daoji didn't know about them, but Feng Daoji knew everything about what happened after he met Han Ling.

When the end of the world just happened, the whole world was in chaos, and people's hearts were in chaos. People went from trusting and supporting each other to betraying and being vigilant. I don't know how many lives and hatreds were lost in this process of transformation. As a middle-aged man who has not awakened, Feng Daoji was able to live to meet Shi Hao because he learned to speak less and keep his eyes open to hide himself.

From Qinzhou to Baixia, he watched coldly, how Shi Hao gathered a convoy, how he met Han Ling on the road, and how he finally established the Baixia base, and even the civil strife that happened later. There is really no one who can see the entire base as clearly as he can.

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Shi Hao was a very capable person. When he realized that he could not fight against the world alone, and it was even more impossible for him to have the ideal stable life, he gave up his own way and began to gather survivors.

He walked alone in the ruins of the city, bringing out one trapped survivor after another. These survivors formed the core of his team and laid a solid foundation for integrating and absorbing other survivors in the future.

Feng Daoji was rescued by Shi Hao at that time. Before that, he was with a group of surviving students and teachers. He saw with his own eyes how the originally naive and ignorant students, after losing the constraints of morality and order, split into two levels in order to survive and suppress certain complexes deep in their hearts. One side became too cruel and had no bottom line, while the other side abandoned dignity and became too cowardly and humble. He also saw with his own eyes how the teachers who had a certain prestige and restraint at the beginning gradually lost the trust of the students, were cast aside, or became corrupted, or fell to the bottom of the society.

Shi Hao secretly observed them for a few days, and in the end, only he and another student, Huo Tong, were taken away.

Shi Hao would not recruit everyone into the team. So when the team was finally formed, the cohesion of the whole team was very strong, and the most precious thing in human nature was not lost.

When he met Han Ling, Shi Hao's team was not large, only two or three hundred people. And until arriving at Baixia, the number of people in the team did not increase significantly. Of course, part of the reason was because he was traveling with Han Ling's team.

Han Ling's team had two or three thousand people, and they accepted everyone along the way, like a snowball. When they arrived at Baixia and started to build a base, they had a scale of nearly 10,000 people. It was just a mixture of good and bad people. Because of Han Ling's suppression, it seemed okay on the surface, but there were many messy things happening in private.

Han Ling was very powerful and had thunder-related supernatural powers, but after seeing her take action, Shi Hao was very sure that her path was different from others, neither focusing on supernatural powers nor martial arts. But after all, they were just traveling together, and she was not a bad person, and there was no threat to them, so he did not investigate further.

This Han Ling is very interesting. The people closest to her are all extremely good-looking, both men and women. Moreover, they are well-dressed and dazzling at all times, without any embarrassment of refugees from the end of the world. After setting up camp every evening, she will personally patrol the entire camp alone or with a few people, first to find people worth cultivating, and then to deal with some troublemakers and rectify the team's atmosphere.

But she doesn't kill people. Because she doesn't kill people, those people from all walks of life quickly learn to obey her in public and behave in private when she is coming, and when she leaves, they will do what they should do. Some people can't stand the bullying and want to complain, so they will disappear quietly. There are so many people that Han Ling can't remember them all. Even if they disappear, they won't notice it. Therefore, the survivors at the bottom of the team live in fear, hardship and bitterness, and they don't really appreciate her. In particular, the more glamorous and wanton she and her cronies act, the less those people identify with her. It's not hatred, but there's definitely no respect or trust. Because she won't attack ordinary people, they don't even have fear.

As for the people in the middle level, they just fear her strength and want to rely on her strength, so they temporarily swallow their anger. On the surface, they look respectful, but secretly they have all kinds of dirty thoughts, and sometimes they even reveal them unconsciously. Such people, as long as they are given a chance, they can trample on the people who made them kowtow before and humiliate them at will.

The people in Shi Hao's team saw all this, but the relationship between the two parties was shallow, so it was difficult to remind them. Especially in the first period of time when they were traveling together, Han Ling didn't meet them at all, and only sent his confidants to contact them and invite them to join the team. After being rejected, they didn't come here much. They couldn't just run over and tell the girl that there was a big problem with your team... blah blah. It's estimated that they would be driven out before they finished speaking, which would not have any effect and would offend people.

Until one day, a small leader in Han Ling's team, who also brought a convoy of several hundred people to join Han Ling's team, was probably used to being rampant in his own team, and actually set his sights on them, hoping to use Han Ling's power to get some benefits from them, or even to take people.

So the two sides clashed, and the man and several of his men were beaten to death and thrown back, and then inevitably alarmed Han Ling.

Han Ling was very unhappy at first. Although those people did something wrong, they were her subordinates after all. Dealing with her subordinates was tantamount to slapping her in the face. However, she could distinguish right from wrong after all, and did not do anything to Shi Hao and the others because of this. She just looked at the situation and did not plan to take them with her anymore. After

this happened, Shi Hao and the others did not want to follow her team anymore. After a few polite words, the two sides were about to go their separate ways, and someone called out Shi Hao's name.

At that moment, things took a dramatic turn.

Until now, Feng Daoji still dared to say with certainty that Han Ling's facial expression changed abnormally when she heard the word Shi Hao. Sometimes he couldn't help but wonder if everything would be different if no one called Shi Hao at that time. Qin Changchuan might still be alive, and Han Ling would not lose the base she had worked so hard to build, as well as the space that she relied on.

However, if can only be if, it can never become a reality. Perhaps this is fate. You clearly feel that there are many possibilities for development at that moment, but you are still forced to embark on the worst path.

When Shi Hao's name was called out, it seemed that everything was destined. Han Ling, contrary to everyone's expectations, admitted her mistake on the spot, while trying her best to retain Shi Hao, and at the same time, she immediately dealt with the troublemaker.

She did this, and Shi Hao couldn't refuse her face again, especially since they were going to Baixia anyway, and there was no loss in continuing to travel together, so the two parties continued on the same road.

However, after this incident, Han Ling showed extraordinary enthusiasm for them. But when she knew that Shi Hao had awakened dual-system abilities, she couldn't hide a trace of regret on her face. No one knew why she had such a reaction, even Feng Daoji, who took in every bit of her abnormal expression, couldn't guess.

After that, Han Ling tried to recruit Shi Hao several times, but was rejected every time. Shi Hao didn't have any resistance to being inferior to a woman, he just didn't have confidence in Han Ling. Unless she gave him full trust and let him reorganize the team first, he would join without hesitation. But this was obviously impossible. Just look at her patrolling the camp every day to know that she likes to have everything in her hands. After

being rejected several times, Han Ling, who had always enjoyed the treatment of being the center of attention, began to get impatient. One day, she even proposed to help Qin Changchuan awaken his abilities. Of course, there is no free lunch in the world. The prerequisite is that Shi Hao swallows a heart fruit.

I don't know what she was thinking, but Han Ling proposed this exchange condition in front of Qin Changchuan and those who followed Shi Hao. She even promised that if Shi Hao ate the heart fruit, she could help his other subordinates awaken their abilities.

This was really a very generous condition. Some of Shi Hao's subordinates even showed an excited look, wishing that he could agree immediately.

Shi Hao didn't know what the heart fruit was, and no one else knew it. Han Ling refused to say what it was used for. But it was easy to imagine that it shouldn't be a good thing. However, the whole thing had nothing to do with whether the heart fruit was a good thing, at least for Shi Hao.

After thinking very seriously for a few minutes to save face, he still firmly rejected this very tempting deal.

"I saved them and took them to find a place to live. Only they owed me, not me. I have no obligation or responsibility to devote myself to them. If they want to become stronger, they have to rely on themselves, not me." This is what he said at the time. As for his wife, he didn't explain at all, and Qin Changchuan didn't need his explanation.

As soon as these words came out, those who had some thoughts at first couldn't help but show a look of shame on their faces. Feng Daoji saw it and nodded secretly in his heart. From then on, he recognized Shi Hao and was determined to follow him. Even though he himself was an unawakened person, he didn't want his awakening to be based on the sacrifice of others, and he didn't want the people around him to have such an idea.

Being rejected in front of so many people, and even seeing the sarcastic expressions on the faces of Shi Hao's men, Han Ling finally got angry and left angrily, and didn't come again for several days.

Just when everyone thought she had calmed down, the two most beautiful girls around her began to contact Qin Changchuan and frequently appeared in front of Shi Hao.

Men are unreliable, and you must have your own strength to avoid worrying about betrayal. The two girls instilled such ideas into Qin Changchuan from time to time.

Qin Changchuan has a good temper and knows etiquette. He always listens, doesn't refute, and won't embarrass people in person. It's really hard to tell whether she is affected or not. Anyway, she never put pressure on Shi Hao in private because of this, and shouted that she wanted to awaken her superpowers.

It seemed that in order to confirm their words, or Han Ling lost her patience, the two girls began to use various means to seduce Shi Hao, and Shi Hao was really annoyed. No one knew whether he was moved, but in short, he never did anything to make Qin Changchuan sad.

When Feng Daoji recalled the scenes on the road at that time, he felt angry and funny. It was like acting, one after another, it was really dazzling and overwhelming. It was Shi Hao. If it were anyone else, he would either really fall into it or be angry and chase people away. I really don't know what's wrong with Han Ling's brain. She has to make all these troubles to torment people. Of course,

he didn't know the reason, and Shi Hao, who was constantly harassed, didn't know either. Even the people closest to Han Ling didn't know. Only Han Ling herself could answer this question.

Han Ling was reborn. She was well protected in her previous life. She didn't have much personal experience of the cruelty of the end of the world, nor did she have a deep understanding of the overall environment of the end of the world. However, she had a deep memory of several famous people. Nan Shao was one, and Shi Hao was another.

The Baixia Base in the previous life was established by Shi Hao, and its scale and number of people were even comparable to the Imperial Capital Base. Now that she had met this person, she had the advantage of being a prophet, so how could she not want to recruit him into her team, even if it meant using any means.

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Han Ling herself did not realize that her behavior had changed. Perhaps it was because of the repeated rejections that she felt resentful and wanted to teach him a lesson; perhaps it was because she was jealous of Qin Changchuan and did not want to believe that there were men in the world who did not cheat, so she gradually began to forget her original intention.

Once a person gets stuck in a dead end, it is difficult to pull him back. In short, Han Ling and Shi Hao were at odds.

She was not a stubborn person. After seeing that it was useless to seduce them, she did not let the two girls come to continue to mess around. She came more often, but she did not mention any recruitment, just getting along like ordinary friends.

However, with the lessons learned from his master, Shi Hao was not close to women other than his wife. Although he was friendly and would not embarrass others, he often avoided them. Han Ling spent the most time with Qin Changchuan when she came. When she wanted to say a few words to Shi Hao, there were always one or two people around him. This was also the main reason why the two girls who were sent before failed to cause any trouble despite their efforts.

Sometimes people are like this, the more they can't get something, the more they want it, and gradually it becomes an obsession.

In terms of scheming, Han Ling can't be said to be very deep, but it's not completely absent. At least some of the things she experienced in her previous life left a deep impression on her, and she could never forget them, so she learned them intentionally or unintentionally.

At that time, Xiao Zhe was also deeply in love with her, and no one else could interfere, but later he had another woman. She always felt that Qin Changchuan was very similar to her in her previous life, also a weak woman who had not awakened, and also had a man who could protect her very well. She said to herself that she did this just to let Qin Changchuan see the true face of men, and tell Qin Changchuan that women must be self-reliant and don't think of relying on men for everything, otherwise they will be miserable in the future...

Han Ling thought she was doing it naturally, but she was just copying, and she didn't learn the charm of the original owner at all, but there were flaws everywhere. Qin Changchuan just didn't awaken his superpowers and was not good at martial arts, but it didn't mean that he was blind and deaf, and didn't know what to do. Although she didn't dare to swear that no one could interfere with her relationship with Shi Hao, at least Han Ling

's level couldn't do that. After all, she was a little girl who hadn't learned how to hide her thoughts yet, and she wasn't really ruthless. Shi Hao and others saw what Han Ling did, and apart from feeling a little annoyed and helpless, they didn't really take it to heart. Thinking that if she waited for a long time, she wouldn't be able to achieve her goal, so she should give up. After all, she had a lot of things to do.

Things seemed to calm down gradually, and even Shi Hao later forgot that the person who had tried to provoke conflicts between them was still appearing around them frequently. He spent most of his time observing the end of the world, human nature, species, environmental changes, etc., thinking about the possible development direction of mankind in the future, and listening to the ideas of team members, so as to make the right choice as soon as possible to seize the opportunity. Since he decided to form a team, the responsibility on his shoulders was no longer just Qin Changchuan. Before

arriving at Baixia, he also encountered several relatively small communities of survivors one after another, but because they were too small, they did not suit Shi Hao and others' wishes. They hoped to find a rescue organization established by the government or the army, but they did not find one until they arrived at Baixia.

It is said that there are rescue organizations in Huangzhou. But there are few mutant plants in Baixia, and most of the zombies gather in the main cities. There are more open wilderness. Not to mention zombies, there are almost no houses. It is safer than anywhere else, and the climate is not as extreme as other places. Everyone thinks that they can stop here and wait for an opportunity to visit the base in Huangzhou in the future, and then decide whether to move there. It happened that Han Ling wanted to establish a base here and sincerely invited them to join. Out of the need to live in a group, they agreed.

In fact, if they had not met Han Ling, Shi Hao would have taken in more survivors from Qinzhou, and after arriving at Baixia, he would also stay here and establish a base. The only thing that has changed now is the location of the base, and the founder of the Baixia base has been changed from Shi Hao to Han Ling.

Baixia has fewer mutant plants due to the climate. In order to obtain supplies and hunt zombies, Shi Hao thought that the base should be built in a big city, preferably with natural barriers to avoid being trapped when zombies appear, and not far from the main roads to accommodate survivors.

But Han Ling brought a lot of supplies, so he didn't think so much and directly chose this wasteland far away from the city as the foundation of the base.

With a lot of people, the base can be built quickly. At that time, everyone regarded this place as a place to live for a long time. It was rare to work together, and even Han Ling had little time to disturb them. Shi Hao and others were invited to participate in the house planning and defense facilities. After brainstorming, the initial base was established, and the relationship between everyone was unprecedentedly harmonious.

However, when the base was completely built, the problems of base management and material distribution that had always existed but were covered up for various reasons gradually emerged. But at that time, there were not many people, and the contradictions did not intensify, so they could just get by like this. Later, as more and more survivors gradually gathered, the Huangzhou base was destroyed again. The population of the entire base suddenly increased sharply, and all the problems could no longer be suppressed, erupting like a volcano.

Chaos. Especially chaos! Swallowing public supplies, the law of the jungle, rape, robbery and murder...all kinds of crimes were performed unscrupulously in the base. As the leader of the base, Han Ling once again devoted herself to how to snatch Shi Hao from Qin Changchuan, and handed most of the things to her confidants.

She could see that the population of the base was growing, and she was proud of it, but she could not see the hidden dangers and dark side behind the population growth; she gave all her trust to those men who had taken the Lingxin Fruit, but she didn't know that those people were greedy and selfish while being loyal to her. They would not betray her, but that didn't mean they couldn't abuse their power for personal gain; she thought she was just pretending to be interested in Shi Hao, just to prove to Qin Changchuan that men's promises were not credible, but she didn't know that if the fake play was done too much, it would become true.

Han Ling was moved. The consequence of her being tempted was that she got closer to Shi Hao. When she saw the two of them being so affectionate, she felt like a poisonous snake was biting her heart. Jealousy can make people ugly, and she was not good at hiding her emotions. When she was with Qin Changchuan, she unconsciously revealed some clues.

Qin Changchuan, who never talked much, knew that he could not remain silent at this time, so he told Shi Hao privately. Shi Hao suddenly realized that some people could not be made to leave by his efforts. If it was an ordinary girl, it would be fine, but the other party was far superior to him in terms of power and strength. If he continued, he might get into trouble.

He thought about taking his wife away from the base. At that time, the base in Huangzhou had been destroyed, and the large influx of survivors made them realize that the current situation in Huangzhou was not suitable for settlement, so his target was Qinzhou. There was a small community of survivors there, which might be suitable for them to join.

Who knew that when he revealed his thoughts in this regard to the team members, the team members expressed their desire to go with him. Originally, he thought they would prefer to stay in Baixia Base. After all, the base had gathered more than 100,000 or 200,000 people at that time, which was more promising than those small bases with only a few hundred or a few thousand people.

However, since they were willing to follow him, he would not refuse for any reason. After all, it was still too weak for him to start again. If he encountered mutant animals, he had to try to avoid them, but if the whole team went together, there would be no such concerns.

It was also because of this that he changed his original idea and did not plan to return to Qinzhou to join other small survivor settlements. There were too many of them, and it was a matter of whether others would accept them after they went there. After accepting them, they would probably be on guard. So he decided to stay in Baixia, but he would choose a place far away from Baixia Base and a remote place, relying on a certain city to build a base.

He could actually predict that with Han Ling's current management method, sooner or later some survivors would not be able to bear to leave, and then it would be the time for them to take in people.

Since they had made the decision, there was no need to delay any further. Besides, there was nothing extra to deal with here. They packed up their things that night and left the base early the next morning.

However, at that time, the gate of Baixia Base was not unattended like it is now. There would be strict inspections when entering. Although there were not many requirements for leaving, they could not escape the guards' eyes.

Usually, they divided more than 300 people into three small teams, and took turns to go out of the base to hunt corpses and collect supplies. This time, all of them went out, which immediately attracted attention. In addition, Qin Changchuan, who never left the base, was also there, which inevitably made people suspicious of their purpose.

Everyone in the base knew that Han Ling had taken a fancy to Shi Hao. Seeing such a situation, how could they not report it immediately? Therefore, before they walked away, Han Ling chased after them alone.

No one expected that she would catch up, or underestimated her determination to get Shi Hao, otherwise she would not have left rashly without making any arrangements to cover up. Unfortunately, it was too late to regret.

The dagger was revealed, and she cut off the road ahead of the convoy with a sword. Only then did everyone know how terrifying her strength was. If Shi Hao's martial arts had not been abolished, he might have been able to fight her to a draw, but at the moment, no one could pose a threat to her.

"Others can go, but Shi Hao must stay." She said at the time, and that was all she said. It was neither a plea nor a threat, but a purely declarative tone that made people know that there was no room for maneuver.

She took Shi Hao away without touching anyone in the convoy, including Qin Changchuan.

Qin Changchuan, who had always been dignified and elegant, and seemed not to know how to get angry, and even didn't say anything unpleasant, finally lost her composure the moment her husband was taken away. She jumped out of the car and chased after him like crazy, and no one else could stop her.

However, she was not even a superpower, so how could she catch up with Han Ling? Shi Hao, who could not resist, could only watch her fall, get up, and fall again... without crying. From the first time they met until she left this world, Shi Hao had never seen Qin Changchuan shed a tear or cry.

The convoy could no longer continue its journey, so it had to turn around, planning to pick up Qin Changchuan, and then return to the base to find a way to slowly ask Han Ling for her life. However, no one expected that an accident would happen at this time. A half-human, half-beast monster suddenly broke into everyone's sight. Before this, because of Han Ling's pursuit of the kidnapped people, no one noticed when it appeared.

That was the first time they saw an orc, which is what they now call a different species. Even though they had heard about it from the survivors from the deserted continent, they still had no clear understanding of the strength of this new monster. But Shi Hao and the people in the team were still terrified, because the orc was running straight towards Qin Changchuan, who was staggering alone in the wilderness chasing Han Ling.

With Qin Changchuan's fragile body, any zombie could kill her, not to mention the orc who was said to be very powerful.

At that moment, the people in the team stepped on the accelerator frantically, trying to knock the orc away before it arrived, or pull Qin Changchuan into the car. Shi Hao also threw away all his pride and dignity, and anxiously begged Han Ling to save Qin Changchuan.

However, Han Ling hesitated. Because of this hesitation, Qin Changchuan was torn into pieces by the orcs, and not even a complete body was left.

At this point, there is actually no need to continue talking about it. No one would let Han Ling go easily. Even if she did not kill Qin Changchuan herself, Qin Changchuan's tragedy was almost caused by her. People like Zhang Yi and Li Muran who have a higher bottom line may not kill her like Shi Hao, at most let her pay some price. If it were Nan Shao, Song Yan, and Shen Chi, she would definitely not have a chance to live. The only difference is whether she died in torture or was killed easily.

"I always want her to taste the taste of losing the most precious thing in life." Shi Hao leaned back on the chair, raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at the roof, and said softly. A few months have passed, but everything seems to have happened yesterday. The scene of Qin Changchuan running and falling all the way, and finally turning into bloody pieces under the claws of the orcs is still vivid, reminding him of his mistakes all the time. The meaning of his life had ended at that moment. He did not die, just because for him there was no difference between life and death.

He did not care about others telling him what happened that day over and over again, just as he did not care about this space which was very precious to everyone.

That day, Han Ling finally took action, when the orc killed Qin Changchuan and rushed towards the convoy. But no one was grateful to her.

Of course, she had the right to save or not save, and others naturally had the freedom to hate or not hate.

Shi Hao collected his wife's bones, put them together by hand, and then buried them.

Perhaps out of apology in his heart, or perhaps because Qin Changchuan was gone, the convoy returned to the base, and Han Ling still let Shi Hao go. Accompanying him to collect Qin Changchuan's body and bury his wife, she was as well-behaved as a good girl of her age who did not know the world.

Shi Hao no longer rejected Han Ling, except that he never smiled again. He even behaved very gently and considerate occasionally.

Han Ling sometimes had doubts, thinking how could he not have any resentment towards her, but she had secretly observed him more than once, and indeed did not see the slightest such emotion appear, even when he was alone. Sometimes she would think, is he too cold-blooded and ruthless, accepting another woman not long after his wife died, is such a man worthy of her love. However

, no matter how suspicious and hesitant she was, Shi Hao did not care, he was cold when he wanted to be cold, and gentle when he wanted to be gentle. Or when a man is determined to capture a woman's heart, it is often difficult to resist, especially when this person is not stupid and has considerable charm, especially when the woman has already been attracted to him.

In short, it didn't take long for Han Ling to be completely immersed in her love. Maybe she had never loved a man so much in her previous life. Shi Hao didn't even need to say anything, he just needed to act depressed and feel that his strength was too poor and he was completely unworthy of her, and she would automatically offer the secret of the space.

Or maybe this was actually out of self-confidence. After all, she had been practicing for nearly a year, and she was not worried that he would surpass her. She also did not think that since she had such a large base and was extremely powerful, even if someone knew about the existence of the space, there would be no one who could pose a threat to her.

Shi Hao got the opportunity to enter the space and was allowed to practice. But he did not spend most of his time practicing, but studying the space, in front of Han Ling.

He read the various files and records collected in the space and wandered around in the space. The more he did this, the more Han Ling trusted him, and sometimes he would even leave him alone in there.

Chapter 328 Baixia Base (18)

Shi Hao knew that even if he started practicing day and night, it would not be easy to surpass Han Ling, not to mention that Han Ling was not completely defenseless against him.

Han Ling told him the cultivation method section by section, and only told him the next section after practicing one level. As for the jade slips that recorded the cultivation method, he had no chance to see them. Moreover, the more important things in the bamboo building were all put away, and no one knew where they were hidden, so she allowed him to browse them at will.

However, the collection in the bamboo building was voluminous, and most of them were difficult and difficult to understand texts from the Pre-Qin period. In order to understand the cultivation method, Han Ling had already spent a lot of effort, so she had no time or interest to waste time on these slips of paper whose use was unknown. Therefore, except for a few things that the previous space owner emphasized, she did not touch the rest. Even if she occasionally felt like flipping through them, she would soon be repelled by the difficult texts.

Shi Hao was different. In terms of the inheritance of traditional culture, no other place in the whole of China can compare with Wuzong, even the universities or related institutions that specialize in this field. He received traditional education since he was a child, so it was not difficult for him to read things in this area, and even if it was difficult, he would persist.

From those files, he saw a grand world that he had never touched before, and he also understood the source of space. In his opinion, the most important things for Han Ling should be this space and her cultivation. These are the capital for her to settle down and do whatever she wants. As long as these two things are taken away, it will be the greatest revenge on her.

He is not unaware that Han Ling still has parents, but even when he hated them the most, he never thought of involving innocent people.

However, to accomplish these two things, the difficulty is high and the chance is slim. It is no longer entirely based on hard work, but also requires luck. But Shi Hao no longer has any worries. Since he has made up his mind, he no longer considers whether it can be done, and starts to find a way without distraction.

A person with a strong willpower, once he is determined to do something, will burst out with a terrifying force. Even if there is no way, he will probably make a way, not to mention searching in a vast book.

At first, Shi Hao found another method of cultivation that was more suitable for him, and his progress was rapid. Later, combining various written records, he figured out a way to seal the spirit vein. The only thing he had no idea about was depriving the space, and as long as this thing could not be completed, all the efforts made before would be in vain.

But he never thought of giving up. Or in other words, boredom, disappointment, confusion, decadence and other emotions have gone far away from him, and he is just doing one thing. Whether this thing can be completed or when it can be completed is actually not important to him. It's like if a wall of heaven is put in his way at this time, he will dig a passage on it bit by bit with his bare hands, and then continue to move forward, without considering whether he can do it.

Then, he found it.

Han Ling thought that the space was her family's ancestral inheritance, but it was not. The object that carries the space is a simple-looking ring. It was picked from the finger bones of a corpse when her great-grandfather dug a grave. Because it didn't look good and the age and texture could not be seen, it could not be sold, so it was thrown into a corner of a cabinet at home. Later, it was picked up by her father, who asked someone to clean it. He liked it very much and kept wearing it on his hand. In fact, even her great-grandfather had forgotten the origin of this thing, and her grandfather and father were even less clear. Anyway, it was picked up from the old rosewood cabinet in their own home, so it must be something from the ancestors.

In the previous life, this ring was always worn on Han Ling's father's hand until he died, and the space was not discovered. After Han Ling was reborn, in order to raise supplies, she not only invested all the family savings, but also sold the house, jewelry, etc., everything that could be sold. Although her parents strongly opposed it, they finally couldn't persuade her and helped to turn the rented warehouse into something like a fortress. Later, she directly set her sights on the ancient ring on her father's hand, thinking that since it was something passed down by the ancestors, it should be able to sell for a good price. After much trouble, she coaxed him out of her father, but on the way to the appraisal, she fell down the stairs because she was too anxious, cut her hand, and blood stained the ring. After the fusion, she discovered the existence of the space. It

was also for this reason that she cancelled her plan to stay in the warehouse and look for an opportunity to go to the survivor base, and had the idea of ​​building a base by herself.

However, it was also because she set her goal on improving her strength and building a base, so her understanding of this space was really not as good as Shi Hao, who came in nearly a year later.

But the strange thing is that the original owner left behind some personal belongings, such as clothes, weapons, etc., and did not have any records of his own affairs. The rest of the collection was elixirs, spiritual medicine seeds, books, etc.

Shi Hao saw the method of stripping the space in a miscellaneous note. He didn't know whether it was reliable, but he always had to try it.

The miscellaneous note recorded three methods, which came from the experiences of three different monks. One method was to directly seize the ancient ring, erase the blood mark or the prohibition set by the original owner, and then put his own mark, so that the space could be occupied intact. This is a non-destructive robbery, while the other two are destructive. They adhere to the principle that if I can't get it, you can't continue to own it. The main purpose is to prevent the owner of the space from hiding and escaping through the space. These two methods are divided into breaking from the outside and breaking from the inside. Breaking from

the outside is to erase the storage runes on the ancient ring and directly release the space, so that the space that can be carried around becomes a fixed and concrete space. In this way, the confidentiality and closedness of the space are completely lost, and anyone can go in and take a look. Breaking from the inside is a method that a cultivator speculated based on the method of breaking from the outside. No one knows whether it is useful or not. After all, the owner of the space has no need to do this, and is reluctant to use a space for experimentation. It is not so easy to enter someone else's space, so this method is limited to speculation.

Shi Hao used the method of breaking from the inside, because with his strength, it is impossible to snatch the ancient ring from Han Ling, and he doesn't know how to grind off the original owner's mark. He can only try this method that should be feasible in principle.

The key to making a portable space is runes. The space runes and arrays are combined to intercept part of the space, and then the storage runes are engraved on the accessories made of space stones to store the space, and the space ring is made. According to the monk's speculation, in order for the space stone to store the cut space, in addition to the need to engrave the storage runes on itself, there should also be a point inside the space that echoes the storage runes, so that the space and the space stone can be connected. This person believes that as long as this attachment point is destroyed, or the runes engraved on it are destroyed, the stored space will be released from the space stone. According to the basic principle that runes also need spiritual power to operate, their location should be in the place with the most concentrated spiritual energy inside the space. According to

this speculation, Shi Hao actually found a stone slab engraved with runes at the bottom of the spiritual spring. The stone slab fits tightly with the surrounding stone slabs, as if it were a whole piece. If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

He didn't know what the rune meant, but he wasn't afraid that if he moved the wrong space, it would cause other problems, because at that time, Han Ling didn't use space planting to provide food for the base in an endless supply, except for taking out the collected materials, so even if the space was completely destroyed, it wouldn't have much impact on the survivors. If it were now, he might give up.

However, when he was about to start, he found that the rune was not something he could erase with his current ability, and it might not be possible even if he practiced for another ten or twenty years. But that didn't mean he had no other way. Since the operation of the rune required a lot of spiritual energy, he only had to chisel the stone slab off and put it away from the spiritual spring. When there was no spiritual energy supply or insufficient spiritual energy supply, it would naturally stop operating.

The process of chiseling the stone slab was not easy, because Han Ling didn't always leave him alone in the space. Sometimes, even if she was outside, she would glance at the space from time to time to see what he was doing. So he had to be vigilant at all times. Once the slightest clue was revealed, all his previous efforts would fail.

Of course, he succeeded in the end. He put the rune slab he had chiseled at the bottom of a cardboard box under the pretext of taking some snacks out to eat, piled some food on top to cover it, and then took it out of the space. As soon as the slab left the space, the space immediately changed.

When he saw the huge stone door appear out of thin air, Shi Hao knew that he had succeeded. But he didn't have the time or the mind to feel the joy of success. Instead, he seized the moment when Han Ling was shocked by this sudden scene, and took decisive action to capture her by sneak attack.

According to his heart, he really wanted to tear her into pieces, but she had never attacked Qin Changchuan from beginning to end, or killed innocent people indiscriminately, so he couldn't find a reason to kill her. Finally, he thought about it and could only seal her spirit vein according to the original plan, so that she would never have the opportunity to do whatever she wanted with her cultivation. As for her awakened superpowers, he didn't move, which was considered to leave her a way out, or a way out for her family of three.

Then, he took over the base with a thunderous force, dealt with some people, controlled the internal strife in time, and opened up space for people to enter and cultivate, making reasonable use of it.

To be honest, he was not interested in these things, but he could not let Han Ling have a chance to come back and take power again, and he had to make sure that those ordinary survivors would not fall into a more desperate situation because of his revenge, so he did it until now, and he was a little reluctant to let go.

"Her parents and a few of her most loyal subordinates took her to the east after leaving the base. We don't know where she is now." Feng Daoji said at last.

Nan Shao and others noticed that he said someone else took her in the last sentence, and couldn't help asking: "She was injured? Seriously injured?" Otherwise, how could someone else take her. If so, they had to find Han Ling immediately and save her. As for everything she did, they were very disgusted, but this could not be a reason for them to give up repaying her. Of course, if she had killed innocent people indiscriminately, they might have to consider whether to save her.

Hearing this, Feng Daoji smiled, and the others also showed a sneer.

"Shi Hao's attack was not serious. He only controlled her ability to move, sealed her spirit veins, and asked her to leave the base before returning her freedom. She was just used to going with the flow, and she couldn't bear such a blow all of a sudden." Nan Shao

coughed lightly, his expression was a little awkward, and he didn't ask any more questions. Although he felt that he couldn't believe one-sided words, and he and Han Ling were just a cause and effect of a sentence, and there was no other relationship, but he still felt inexplicably embarrassed. At the same time, he was also alert in his heart. In the future, no matter if he met someone who liked him or Zhang Yi, he must absolutely break off relations without any room for negotiation.

So far, although the relationship between the two sides cannot be said to be too harmonious, it is not too stiff. It's just that because Nan Shao and Song Yan are orcs, Shi Hao and others obviously don't welcome them to stay in the base for a long time. Zhang Yi and his friends also knew what to do, and only said they would stay for one night and leave early the next morning.

The sick ghost had already sealed the spiritual spring, and once everyone came out, they could leave. Before leaving, Zhang Yi suddenly remembered what Lin Lao had entrusted, so he mentioned the matter of eating mutant creatures to Shi Hao again.

Shi Hao and others really took this very seriously. After careful questioning, they finally decided to send someone to their place to get the notes and send Guo Mingcheng over. With this incident, their expressions eased a lot, saying that if Zhang Yi and others were willing, they could stay in the base for a while longer.

However, Zhang Yi and others still heard their taboos about orcs, otherwise they would not stay for a while longer, but invite them to settle down in the base. However, several people did not care too much about this, just smiled and passed it by.

When leaving the space, the sick ghost took out a fist-sized stone from his pocket, jumped up, and placed it on the top of the stone gate.

"Don't move the stone, otherwise it will easily cause disasters." He warned Shi Hao. That is the sky-covering stone, not to block ordinary people, but to cover Qin Xuan's eyes.

With his strength, if he really wanted to do something to the space or the base, no one could stop him. There was no need to do anything shady, so Shi Hao and others naturally kept his words in mind.

Strangely enough, after the stone was placed on the door, everyone left the stone door and unconsciously ignored it. If they hadn't looked up and saw that the stone door was still there, they would have almost thought it had disappeared, especially for people with stronger inspiration. The

people on Shi Hao's side couldn't help but look up at the door several times in a row. They always felt strange in their hearts, but they were relieved. They knew that if they had the stone earlier, Lin An might not have been attracted here, so they admired the sick ghost even more.

It was still late at night outside, and it was pitch dark everywhere. The light in the space did not leak out at all. The original ban on lighting lights and fires outside the house at night was because they were afraid of attracting flying beasts, but the situation was special this night. Even if there was no light, the people present would not get lost. Shi Hao temporarily lifted the ban and sent people to light torches to send Zhang Yi and others back to their residence.

It was not until they sat down in the warm rented house that they could completely relax and feel a strong sense of fatigue. If they had not waited for the people who sent Guo Mingcheng to come over and wanted to chat with Binggui for a few words, they would have been unable to bear it and returned to their rooms.

"Bingge, how are you? Are you all right?" Li Muran was the first to speak, asking with concern. Among the few people, she was the closest to Binggui, and of course she cared more about Binggui's health than others, and then others.

In fact, it can be seen without asking that since they met until now, Binggui has never coughed again, and he no longer looks like he is about to die at any time. Even if he is still so thin that he can be blown away by a gust of wind, no one will ever treat him as a consumptive ghost.

"Yeah." Binggui responded lightly and said nothing more.

"Then can you leave here and go back to where you came from?" Li Muran heard this and couldn't help but be happy for Binggui, and at the same time a little excited, thinking that he could see a mythical scene of breaking through the air.

Even Zhang Yi and others couldn't help but prick up their ears, obviously very concerned about this. After all, in their eyes, the strength of the sick ghost now is beyond their imagination. If he can really break through the air, kill the initiator of the end of the world, and return them to a normal world, it may not be impossible.

"No." Who knew that the sick ghost actually gave such two words, concise and easy to understand.

"Ah, what?" Li Muran was stunned for a moment before reacting and asked in confusion: "Aren't you better?" "

The damaged spiritual veins have been repaired and spiritual energy can be used. But there is no spiritual energy in this wasteland, and the strength cannot be improved to the level that can break through the barrier set by Qin Xuan." The sick ghost reluctantly explained.

Li Muran was a little dumbfounded. In fact, not only her, but also Zhang Yi and others were a little confused, because they thought from the beginning that the things that the sick ghost said to find in the northwest would help him leave the wasteland he mentioned. But now that he has found the things and his body is healed, he gave this answer, so... is he teasing them?

"That...isn't there spiritual energy in the space we were just in?" Li Muran asked hesitantly, and he couldn't help but start to wonder if the sick ghost had a purpose in sealing the spiritual spring.

"It's useless." The sick ghost only said these two words.

It turned out that in the eyes of the sick ghost, that space was nothing special. In essence, it was a kind of low-cost portable cave that was mass-produced. It looked large, but its use to cultivators was very limited. The only valuable part of it was the spiritual spring and the soil with a radius of 50 meters around the spiritual spring. The spiritual spring can emit spiritual energy to nourish the runes that support the space, and it can also barely practice. The soil around the spiritual spring can grow some spiritual plants, and the spiritual plants will emit spiritual energy to feed back the spiritual spring. As for the large areas of mountains and rivers around it, they are just to coax those who have never seen the world. Apart from being able to relax in it and catch some game to change their taste, they can't even be used to escape.

The little spiritual energy in the space is not enough to fill the gaps between the sick ghost's teeth, let alone let him recover to the peak of his strength. So, he actually looked down on it, so he kept it for the Baixia Base.

"That is to say, even if you are well now, you are still powerless to the world in front of you?" Shen Chi couldn't help but say, his tone was a little aggressive. In fact, Bing Gui originally just asked Li Muran to take him to the northwest, which was an exchange of interests. He didn't ask others to accompany him, and didn't promise anything. But everyone had unknowingly expected him along the way, so it was hard to accept that their hopes were dashed at this time.

Song Yan couldn't help but glance at Shen Chi, with a warning in his eyes. You know, Bing Gui didn't owe them, but they owed Bing Gui, more than one life.

Shen Chi reacted and couldn't help but raise his hand awkwardly to wipe the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead. He was about to apologize, but Bing Gui spoke, his tone was as cold as ever without any emotional fluctuations, and he obviously didn't take his attitude to heart.

"I have a way." Bing Gui said, and then his eyes stopped on Zhang Yi.

Before Zhang Yi felt anything, Nan Shao had already tensed up his nerves and subconsciously wanted to block Zhang Yi. But the strength of the sick ghost is really... He was a little dry-mouthed. Along the way, he had never felt the strength and invincibility of the sick ghost as much as he did now.

Fortunately, the sick ghost did not stare at Zhang Yi for too long, and soon retracted his gaze, saying: "I now have the strength to set up a teleportation array to send one person away from this wasteland. As long as that person cultivates to a level comparable to Qin Xuan, we can take this living planet from him. Then, when it is unsealed, the creatures on this wasteland will naturally be free."

Zhang Yi's heart tightened. For some reason, he suddenly remembered that the sick ghost had looked at him with a meaningful look more than once. A sense of foreboding gradually rose, making his throat dry.

"Since you can send one person away, can't you just take this opportunity to get away?" He seemed to be eager to get rid of something, and said a little anxiously.

Everyone else nodded in agreement. If we talk about leaving, it is naturally the sick ghost who leaves, and then we can count on him to improve his strength as soon as possible elsewhere and beat Qin Xuan down. At that time, he might still be able to save them because of their current friendship.

The sick ghost sighed for the first time and replied, "I can't leave. Qin Xuan will notice me as soon as I leave. Moreover, the more you practice Taoism and the stronger you are, the more spiritual energy you need when you teleport. The spiritual power I have to activate the teleportation array comes from the few Yuan stones that Da Qing brought. That amount of Yuan stones is only enough to send an ordinary person who has not practiced Taoism away. Not to mention me, even if Shi Hao goes up, the teleportation array will collapse."

Everyone suddenly realized, but didn't know what to say. Only Nan Shao suddenly said, "Zhang Yi won't go." Obviously, he also realized the meaning of the sick ghost's previous look.

Zhang Yi couldn't help but pursed his lips and stretched out his hand to hold Nan Shao's. His heart and even his whole body were shaking slightly uncontrollably. He was not afraid for himself, but because he felt that the person chosen by the sick ghost might not be him, but he refused to guess who that person was.

"How can I let Zhang Yi go..." Shen Chi laughed, thinking that Nan Shao was too worried about gains and losses, but soon he found that the atmosphere seemed a little wrong, so he said embarrassedly: "If you really want to let someone go, I'll go, anyway I have nothing to worry about." Of course, this was just a casual remark, after all, who knows what the hell that teleportation array is, and whether it works or not.

"Zhang Ruiyang is the best choice." At this time, the sick ghost gave his answer. "The child is young, has excellent qualifications, and is kind-hearted. There is a great hope that he can complete the entrustment..."

"Impossible!" Zhang Yi interrupted him with a somewhat sharp voice, his chest heaving sharply, his eyes red, and he seemed to want to fight him to death if the sick ghost continued to talk.

The sick ghost actually expressed what he wanted to say, and he stopped talking tactfully after hearing this. He knew that it would be difficult to get the other party to agree, so he didn't mind spending more time.

At this time, a knock on the door came, breaking the frozen atmosphere in the room. Li Muran stood up absentmindedly and tried to open the door, but Song Yan held her down with his hand. Shen Chi jumped up and hurried out.

The person who came was the one from the base, the one named Mo Ye who followed Shi Hao. He dragged Guo Mingcheng with a chain and pushed him into the yard.

"He can break free from the chain, so Brother Hao put a ban on the chain. If anyone of you can break it, we won't care." He explained. Then he looked at Shen Chi eagerly.

Shen Chi thanked him and took the chain, which made him look a little puzzled.

"The notebook is with me, I'll get it." Zhang Yi and Nan Shao also came out. Seeing this, Zhang Yi rubbed his temple and said softly. Then he turned and walked towards the room where he lived. His back looked like he was carrying a mountain, and his spine was bent. Looking at him, people could only feel indescribable fatigue and sadness.

Nan Shao hurriedly followed, and she was so distressed that she wanted to hug him tightly and tell him that no one could take Yangyang away.

Chapter 329 Baixia Base (19)

After agreeing to return the notebook the day after tomorrow and seeing off Mo Ye, Shen Chi led Guo Mingcheng into the living room. Zhang Yi stood outside, not wanting to go in and face the sick ghost.

"Let's go boil some water and get some food. We've been busy all night and I'm a little hungry." Nan Shao knew what he was thinking, so he said.

Zhang Yi nodded, and turned to leave with Nan Shao, but his mood was still heavy and he didn't relax at all.

At this moment, Dudu came out from nowhere. It was rare that he didn't avoid Nan Shao. Instead, he came to Zhang Yi's side, lowered his head and touched his chest.

Zhang Yi was stunned for a moment, unconsciously reached out to touch its head, and said softly: "You don't want Yangyang to go either, right?" At this moment, he inexplicably felt a sense of sympathy for this insect that he rarely dealt with.

Dudu didn't respond, turned around and walked a few steps, suddenly spread his wings and disappeared into the darkness, not knowing whether it was back to Longkou. It has never been very close to anyone except Zhang Ruiyang. It was unprecedented for it to come over and rub against him. It would be too presumptuous to expect it to respond. It was estimated that it also heard the words of the sick ghost and felt uneasy. It came to seek comfort, not to comfort him.

Looking at its lonely and distant back, Zhang Yi unconsciously smiled self-deprecatingly, and felt better in his heart.

"Let's go to Longkou tomorrow and get some of the sky-covering stone with us." After entering the kitchen and lighting the fire, Nan Shao looked outside and listened for a moment. The voices coming from the living room were a little far away. There was no one near the kitchen, so he suddenly whispered.

Zhang Yi almost immediately understood what he meant. His hands clenched unconsciously, and his palms were soaked with cold sweat, but he nodded heavily.

To be honest, if the sick ghost insisted on letting Yangyang go, they would not have the strength to stop him. Even if he took Yangyang away from the convoy and hid himself, it would be easy for the sick ghost to find them with his ability to calculate. But if he took the Heaven Covering Stone, there might be a chance of escape.

He would never agree to let Yangyang go.

Would there be any danger during the teleportation process, where would he be teleported to, how long would it take for an ordinary person to cultivate to the point where he could easily destroy the earth? He didn't have the energy to figure out all these questions in detail. He didn't dare to imagine how his son, who was not even six years old, would survive on his own in a strange and alien world, and shoulder the burden of saving the entire wasteland.

If Yangyang was an adult, he might consider it, but not now, absolutely not. Even if it meant risking his life, he would not let anyone take the child away from him.

The two of them thought they were discussing privately how to save Yangyang from the fate of being the "savior" imposed on him, but they didn't know that the sick ghost sitting in the living room was bored and watching Song Yan and Guo Mingcheng talking, with a hint of sarcasm on his lips, but he heard all their plans.

They only thought that he had to choose Zhang Ruiyang, but it was not true. This matter was related to whether his plan could succeed, so he could not use coercion to achieve his goal, so as not to make the person being coerced feel resentful, and in the end he would still be trapped in his own cocoon.

The reason for choosing Zhang Ruiyang was that they had been together for a long time and had some feelings for each other, and his qualifications were one reason, but another reason was that the child had a very good character. Even if he went to another world, he probably wouldn't forget about seeking to save them in the wasteland because he was dazzled by the strange world or afraid of hardships and dangers, not to mention that the child's father was here. However, as long as he was willing to spend time, he could find another such candidate.

He would give Zhang Yi some time, and during this time he would also start looking for other backup candidates. He knew very well that sooner or later, Zhang Yi would come back and beg him to let Zhang Ruiyang go. After all, this wasteland is a cage, and all the creatures imprisoned in the cage may be played with and executed at any time because of the owner's mood, and their fate is not autonomous. Of

course, if Zhang Yi really couldn't let go, then he could only say that it was a pity that such a good seedling was wasted.

"Four years. In four years, if you figure it out, come and tell me again." When Nan Shao and Zhang Yi came in with a pot of rice and a few dishes, the sick ghost said to him.

Four years is his limit, because after four years, Zhang Ruiyang will be ten years old. If he doesn't start practicing at that time, it will be too late. Not only will the practice be twice as effective, but the height that can be reached in the end will also be limited. It is simply a dream to want to contact the world where Qin Xuan is.

To be honest, he is not afraid of waiting for these four more years, even if it takes longer. In the path of cultivation, four years is just a blink of an eye, and there will not be much growth, so even if Zhang Yi agrees, he still has to be prepared to wait for a long time.

The cultivation of the Dark Beast King cannot be completed in one or two years, or even decades or hundreds of years. It may take ten thousand years or even longer, so he has time. Of course, no one knows whether Qin Xuan will have a seizure in the middle of the process. He may give up cultivating the Dark Beast King for some reason, or he may bring down some disaster to force the creatures on the wasteland to accelerate their evolution and growth.

However, even ants may be hit by leaves falling from trees in their short lives. If these things really happen, even if Qin Xuan suddenly gets tired of playing with him like a caged mouse and kills him directly, he will not be surprised. Since God has left him a glimmer of hope, he only needs to do everything he can to do well, and then wait for the result with peace of mind. As for whether the little guy he sent out can solve this problem by relying on strength, connections or wisdom, it is not his concern. As for whether he can survive when he first arrives in another world at such a young age, he will not consider it at all. If he can't even survive on his own, what's the point of practicing, and how dare he talk about the idea of ​​attacking Qin Xuan. Survival is the first test that the child will face.

According to his conservative estimate, if everything goes smoothly, with the skills he gave and the things he left behind, it is not impossible to grow to Qin Xuan's level within a thousand years. But to shorten this time, it is unlikely with the current conditions, and it can only rely on the little guy's own chance.

Zhang Yi is here, if Zhang Ruiyang goes, the child will only work harder to come back and see his father. Although he does not think that the father and son can see each other again before Zhang Yi dies of old age, this does not prevent him from using this as a bargaining chip to press on the child. Maybe in order to make the child more motivated, he will find a way to make Zhang Yi live longer as much as possible.

Hearing his words, Zhang Yi and Nan Shao looked at each other, and their shoulders, which had always been tense, relaxed a little. After accompanying for so long, they knew that the sick ghost would rather not speak than lie, so this meant that they could not consider escaping for the time being. Therefore, when they greeted everyone to eat, they all had some smiles on their faces.

The restrictions on Guo Mingcheng's chains had been lifted by the sick ghost, and the chains had been taken off. He was sitting on a stool and talking to Song Yan.

It was at this time that Li Muran realized that if they wanted to sneak Guo Mingcheng out according to the previous plan, they would probably fail. Although Shi Hao only knew a few simple restrictions, he was worried that Guo Mingcheng would break free from the chains and cause casualties in the base. Every time he locked someone up, he would not be bothered to put one restriction after another on him. He couldn't even remember how many layers he had put down, and even Lin Anlai might not be able to break it. The sick ghost was so angry when he lifted the restrictions before that he laughed, and in the end he solved all the troubles with a slap. If it were Li Muran, even if Song Yan, Nan Shao, Zhang Yi, and Shen Chi followed, it would probably be difficult. If they wanted to take him away, there would be no way but a big battle.

So, now they were all glad that they didn't act rashly in the past two days.

Guo Mingcheng was in his forties. His dirty and greasy hair was tied into a bun on top of his head, fixed with a black wooden hairpin. He was wearing a down jacket, jeans, and cloth shoes that were so greasy that you could hardly see the original color. He looked a bit out of place. He said that he was a Taoist priest in Nanwu Peak, Yunzhou before the end of the world. He usually practiced Tai Chi and did homework, and he didn't know martial arts. Who knew that he was sent to do an experiment to fuse the genes of mutant creatures? Many people who were stronger and younger than him didn't survive, but he survived, so he felt that he was really lucky. Perhaps it was because of his good mentality that he didn't feel it was too difficult to fuse completely, which was much easier than Nan Shao and Song Yan.

Of course, with such a good mentality, he lived a good life in captivity. Shi Hao didn't have the habit of abusing people, and he cooperated honestly, so no one made things difficult for him.

"If it weren't for the fact that Baixia Base was particularly hostile to orcs, I would have wanted to stay here." Guo Mingcheng was quite touched when he learned that it was Teng Jin who asked Song Yan and others to rescue him, but he was not so interested in leaving Baixia, and even felt a little regretful. He had already gotten used to living here. Apart from the fact that Baixia Base was not very friendly to orcs, the atmosphere between people was still good, at least many times better than the Wasteland Base where he had stayed before. He liked peace, so he would be more nostalgic for this place.

Hearing his words, everyone was a little speechless. It turned out that they had tried so hard to find a way to rescue them, but in the end they didn't want to leave at all. It was really a bit... disappointing.

"What's the matter? Our base is not bad, and we don't discriminate against orcs. Are you still greedy for those two bites of vegetable leaves and sour fruits?" Shen Chi rolled his eyes, sarcastically, without any guilt at all. The base he boasted about was only a temporary one, and he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.

"The main reason is that this base is not very violent, and they also give me meat to eat... Of course, I still prefer to eat vegetarian food." Guo Mingcheng thought for a while and explained in a serious manner.

"Oh, are you serious? Orcs like to eat vegetarian food? And they give them meat. It won't be human meat, right?" Shen Chi thought this man was a little funny and couldn't help but joke.

Guo Mingcheng was stunned for a moment, and then he shuddered. He didn't know if he thought of a certain scene. His face showed a tangled expression of nausea, and his eyebrows were all wrinkled. "Ah, bah! Bah! Bah! Children say nothing, children say nothing..."

"Fuck! You idiot, you are cursing people in a roundabout way, right?" Shen Chi leaned over and grabbed Guo Mingcheng's collar, pretending to beat him.

Guo Mingcheng quickly dodged, and while dodging he did not forget to explain: "No, no... I didn't scold you." He was not angry at all, and his temper was really good.

Song Yan couldn't stand it anymore and stopped Shen Chi.

Everyone was too tired to hold on at this time. They ate and washed up in a hurry, and then went back to their rooms.

Guo Mingcheng was pulled over by Shen Chi to sleep with him, and he didn't even mind his dirtiness. It was obvious that even though he was making a fuss, he liked this guy, otherwise he probably

wouldn't bother to pay any attention. "I'm telling you, those guys are in pairs, don't bother them. As for the sick old man, he's the one you can't mess with..."

Amid Shen Chi's nagging, Li Muran was sent to the door by Song Yan, and was about to turn around to say good night, but Song Yan stretched out his hand to push her into the house, squeezed in himself, and then closed the door. Li

Muran's breathing stagnated, and then her heartbeat accelerated, blood rushed up, her face suddenly turned red, and her ears were buzzing. Although it was pitch black in front of her, the more it was like this, the more sensitive she felt. She felt that even at such a distance, her whole body was still wrapped in Song Yan's body temperature and breath, and her body couldn't help but feel a little hot.

In the past few days, the two of them actually lived separately. They said that each of them had their own room, but there were people around them who were very sensitive. If they really wanted to do something, they would probably hear it. Song Yan was also a bachelor. Since he couldn't eat, he simply stayed away to avoid testing his self-control. This was because his beast nature had been integrated. In the past, he would definitely have to squeeze into the same room with Li Muran even if he had to squat on the ground all night. However, compared to Song Yan, who was half beast and half human, Li Muran still felt that he gave her more pressure now.

In fact, it was not just the two of them. Even Nan Shao and Zhang Yi lived in the same room, but they didn't do anything. Of course, not wanting others to hear the sound of her and her lover being intimate was one reason, and there was also a reason for Zhang Ruiyang, who was small but had a very bright wattage light bulb.

"Master... Master..." Li Muran was so nervous that she couldn't finish her words. She wanted to say that there were people in both rooms, and they were either beastmen with far superior hearing and eyesight, or sick ghosts with extraordinary strength. She was very stressed to do something in such an environment.

"Master? If you don't know, you might think you're calling me a pig! I have a name, a name! Can't I call it?" Song Yan scolded her angrily, picked her up and threw her on the kang.

In the darkness, there was a rustling sound of stripping. Li Muran was so nervous that she even forgot to take off her shoes. She just sat there stiffly, not to mention responding to his words, until the tall and burly body pressed down, took off her shoes, cotton-padded jacket and trousers in a few seconds, and pulled the quilt over them.

"What are you afraid of? Do you think I will eat you?" He took her into his arms, bit her ear gently as if to vent his anger and love, and then lay down obediently, without planning to do anything.

This level of intimacy had happened before, and Li Muran didn't resist except that she felt a little numb when she was bitten. Of course, she didn't resist getting closer to Song Yan, but it would be embarrassing if there were people around. She would always be worried about being heard, so how could she be interested? So after lying stiffly for a while and feeling that Song Yan had no intention of doing anything wrong, she gradually relaxed and began to feel tired.

"I just don't want to wake up in the middle of the night and look for you everywhere in fear..." In a daze, she seemed to hear a sigh and a faint murmur, which made her heart sour and soft. But in the end, she couldn't resist the invasion of sleepiness, and sank into a dream with these words that she might never hear when she was awake.

It was not only Song Yan who was still frightened by the hallucination caused by Lin An before, Shen Chi was one of them, so he kept pulling Guo Mingcheng to talk non-stop, but in fact he just wanted to use this to distract himself from the heavy feeling of depression in his heart. Of course, Zhang Yi and Nan Shao were the same. As

soon as the two returned to the room, they rolled together skin to skin. Because they had the same concerns as Li Muran and Song Yan, they also stopped at the right time, and only used the delicate and lingering caresses and kisses to share the pain and fear in their hearts.

"Your body seems to have become younger..." After more than ten minutes, Nan Shao's hands were still wandering on Zhang Yi's body, sometimes lightly and sometimes heavily, feeling the vitality and strength filled by his fingers, as if he was touching the body of a young man in his teens or twenties, and he couldn't help but wonder.

Although the two of them didn't have many times of real intimacy, he dared to say that he was more familiar with Zhang Yi's body than Zhang Yi himself. The various hidden injuries left before the end of the world, the heavy injuries caused after the end of the world, and the great sadness and pressure that Nan Shao experienced from losing his son first and then losing his son on the way from Ziyun County to Yunzhou, almost hollowed out this body that was already not young. Nan Shao knew it in his heart, even if he had tried his best to warm it up, it was only a slight improvement. However, now, he could clearly feel the changes in this body. Although he had seen it several days ago, the feeling of touching it at this time was still different, especially reassuring. At least for the time being, he didn't need to worry that his lover would die prematurely due to physical reasons.

"The skin is smoother and more elastic than before, the muscles are tighter and more explosive, and here..." He muttered as he touched, and unconsciously came to Zhang Yi's chest.

"Bigger?" Zhang Yi was already a little confused, and he answered vaguely, wanting to pull away the hand that had been harassing him all the time so that he could sleep peacefully.

Nan Shao almost choked on his own saliva. He touched the protruding bean on the flat chest and pinched it hard as if to punish him. The slight sting made Zhang Yi wake up with a hum. He turned around to ask him to stop making trouble, but he came over and kissed him. In a blink of an eye, the room was filled with rapid panting again.

"I don't want to endure it anymore, who cares who it is, I'll hear it!" During the interval, Nan Shao said fiercely against Zhang Yi's lips.

Zhang Yi couldn't help but laugh hoarsely. He rubbed the back of his lover's head with one hand and pressed down slightly. He responded enthusiastically, panting and whispering, "It's okay. I'll try not to make any noise..." Anyway, he also needed a fierce sex to vent all the anxiety in his heart. Those people knew it anyway. At most, he would lose his face.

Well, this suggestive murmur was like the fuse when lighting firecrackers. Even though he said it fiercely, Nan Shao was still trying to restrain himself in his heart.

When dry wood met fire, the room suddenly burned fiercely. The two strong and hard men's bodies were entangled like twisted candies. There was nothing else in the deep darkness except each other.

While everyone was relieving stress in their own way, the sick ghost who occupied the room alone was as calm as before, as if nothing had happened. But it was the same for him. Before he could truly break free from this cage, everything he did might fail. Therefore, even though his body had recovered and he could sweep across the wasteland, he had no reason to be happy. As for

the strange noises around him, he subconsciously blocked them out. He had no habit of eavesdropping.

Chapter 330 Baixia Base (20)

The next morning, it was almost dawn and it was snowing heavily. Zhang Yi got up early as usual to practice with his sword. In fact, without Nan Shao telling him, he could feel that his body was much better than before. For example, he had been tossing and turning for most of the night, and was physically and mentally exhausted. Then there was another crazy lovemaking, but after a good night's sleep, he recovered completely without even a little discomfort. This strong recovery ability was only available when he was around 20 years old. He didn't expect to have the opportunity to feel it again now.

Although he couldn't explain the exact reason, he could guess that it was related to the changes that occurred when he was forced by Long Taigu to fight the zombies in Longkou City.

What was rare was that Nan Shao actually stayed in bed. Standing in the yard, swinging the machete as if he had done it a thousand times, Zhang Yi's lips curled up slightly because he thought of the man who had tucked his head into the quilt like a child and refused to get up.

"You have already entered the door of the Dao of the Sword. If you continue to practice like this, you can only maintain your current state at best. It is impossible to make further progress." At this moment, he suddenly heard the voice of the sick ghost. He paused and looked back.

The sick ghost stood under the eaves with his hands in his pockets. He didn't know how long he had been watching.

To be honest, Zhang Yi still had some grudges against him. He was the kind of person who wanted to take a detour when he saw him from a distance, but now he couldn't get around him, and he didn't want to offend him. He wanted to find out what he meant by the Dao of the Sword. He could only stop practicing the sword, turn around, and pretend to be respectful. Ask: "Excuse me, what is the Dao of the Sword? What should I do to continue to improve?" He had just improved for a short time, and he didn't feel whether he had made any progress in practicing the sword every day, but since the other party had brought it up, it was a good opportunity to ask, so as to save himself from rushing around like a headless fly.

Probably with the intention of hitting Xiao Yangyang, the sick ghost didn't hesitate to say, explaining: "To put it simply, the method of using the sword can be called the Dao of the Sword. To put it more deeply, using the sword to ask about the Dao is also the Dao of the Sword. The two statements are actually just the same thing."

The method of using the sword? Zhang Yi was stunned for a moment. Although he had practiced swordplay for less than a year and had not learned any systematic swordplay, he dared to say that if he swung a sword at this moment, even Nan Shao and Song Yan would take it seriously. But the sick ghost said that he had just started. He could not help but be surprised.

"The way of the sword is like the way of the sword and the way of the fist. They belong to the way of the martial arts. When you practice to the extreme, you can not only prolong your life, but also break through the air..." At this point, the sick ghost paused, "But there is no hope here."

Hearing the word "break through the air", Zhang Yi's heart just jumped, but it was poured with a basin of cold water. He didn't even need to ask the reason, because the earth was not normal now.

"The way of the sword is divided into six levels. Those who have practiced to the first level are called swordsmen and have entered the realm of swordsmanship. Before entering the realm of swordsmanship, no matter how beautifully you wield the sword or how many enemies you kill, it is just a skill and is not in the eyes of true sword practitioners. The second level is called a swordsman, who controls the power of the sword. The third level is called a sword general, who receives the sword spirit; the fourth level is to be a sword commander, who needs to forget the sword; the fifth level is the sword emperor, who is said to have obtained the sword; the sixth level, who breaks through the air to become a saint, can be called a sword saint."

Listening to these levels and realms that he had never touched before and could not even imagine, Zhang Yi was fascinated.

The sick ghost continued, "Every time you advance to a higher level, your body will break through a layer of restraints, your five senses will be enhanced, your muscles and bones will be reconstructed, and your physique will undergo a great change. You must have been pushed to the limit on the night you were captured by the spider man, and you broke through this level with the accumulation of strength and the catalysis of the corpse poison."

Zhang Yi suddenly realized and couldn't help saying, "After I broke through, I clearly felt that the corpse

poison had already taken effect, but later I recovered on my own. Is it because of this?" "Yes. After entering the sword realm, your physique is also advanced at the same time, and it can accommodate the catalytic power of the corpse poison. When this power is consumed, it will naturally return to normal. If you had enough energy to supplement at that time, such as mutant beast meat, your strength would have been even greater." The sick ghost explained.

Until then, Zhang Yi's doubts for several days were finally solved. Thinking that he had just come into contact with the first level of the sword, he had so many benefits. He couldn't help but yearn for the realm after that, and he didn't have much regret for the last question he pointed out. He was lucky to be able to survive at that time, not to mention that his strength had also improved. People should not be too greedy. It was just that the later realms were not easy to reach, not to mention that the other party had said before that it would be useless for him to continue practicing like this.

He knew that since the sick ghost said so, he naturally knew how to practice later, but thinking of Yangyang, he resisted the urge to ask. You always have to pay back what you owe to others, the more you owe, the more you have to pay back. And what the sick ghost wanted, he couldn't afford it, and couldn't give it.

Unfortunately, the sick ghost didn't care what he thought, and as soon as he finished speaking, he took a step forward and pointed a finger between his eyebrows. The movement was not fast, and he could even see every movement of the other party from raising his hand to stretching his arm, and then raising his finger to point forward, but he had no way to avoid it.

Not only him, but also Nan Shao, who had gotten up at some point and was standing by the door listening to them, only reacted after the sick ghost withdrew his hand.

Without waiting for Zhang Yi to sort out the information that flooded into his mind at that moment, the sick ghost spoke again: "This is the sword cultivation method. You can choose to learn it or not. But I think I need to remind you that to become a true sword cultivator, your life span will be extended to a certain extent with each level you upgrade. Otherwise, you will die like other ordinary people in less than a hundred years. And the alien beastmen..." He suddenly turned back and glanced at Nan Shao, who had already stepped out of the door with a bad look in his eyes, "They can live for a long, long time." After saying that, he turned and left.

So, are you just here to tell him how to practice swordsmanship? Zhang Yi and Nan Shao looked at each other, not knowing what kind of mentality to use to face this person. To say thank you, there must have been some before, but now this feeling has faded a lot, and to say that there is no disgust, in fact. Perhaps it is more of helplessness, helplessness about their low strength, helplessness about encountering the end of the world in a short life, and helplessness about their inability to resist in the face of powerful forces.

Before Zhang Yi decided whether to look at the things stored in his mind, and before he had digested some of the information provided by the sick ghost, there was a knock on the door. It was Liu Jie's convoy calling them to go hunting. We stayed up late last night, and now several people haven't woken up yet, so they forgot about this.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yi let Liu Jie in. They were leaving soon, so they had to say hello.

In the past few days, the car arrived at the door, and Zhang Yi and his team would directly open the door and get in the car to leave without delay, so when he was called into the yard, Liu Jie was still a little confused.

"What's the matter?" Liu Jie's beard was not trimmed, and it looked a little dirty, especially with a small half-section of strips stuck on it. I don't know what his teammates thought, they didn't even remind him.

Zhang Yi took a look and felt a little bit unable to look directly. Before he opened his mouth, Nan Shao had already handed him a piece of paper, "Wipe your beard."

Liu Jie didn't feel embarrassed. In fact, it was the same. Everyone was busy surviving and filling their stomachs. Who would care about that little image... Tao Xiaoshan was an exception. That guy was sissy and paid almost abnormal attention to appearance. It was a pity that he was not born with a good appearance.

"You didn't call me in just for this?" Liu Jie asked curiously when he saw the noodles stuck on the paper towel, then he looked into the room, "Just the two of you? Where are they?"

"We're leaving." Zhang Yi put away his knife and said as he walked towards the living room.

"Leaving?" Liu Jie followed behind, not reacting for a moment, "Where are we going?" He didn't think that Zhang Yi and the others were leaving the base. After all, they finally got here, and life wasn't that hard, so who would think of leaving.

Zhang Yi thought for a moment, then turned around and said, "Our main force is still in Yunzhou, and there is a base over there. We came here to look for someone. Now that we've found someone, we should go back."

"Ah? Ah...really?" The news came so suddenly that Liu Jie's mind went blank. He uttered "ah" several times before replying with a meaningless sentence.

"Yes." Zhang Yi sighed silently. They all knew that the other party had always wanted to recruit them into the team, but it was impossible. Therefore, when facing the other party's sincerity, several people actually felt a little sorry. "Maybe in these two days." After a pause, he asked: "Do you want to change places?" This was actually a casual question. After all, Baixia Base is really not bad. As long as you don't like wandering and adventure by nature, and don't have relatives and friends to find, probably no one wants to leave.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Liu Jie, who was still a little confused, suddenly woke up and shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, we are used to staying here. If we change places, we have to adapt again." And who can guarantee that we won't encounter perverted and ferocious things on the road, and guarantee that another base will be better than this one.

After saying that, the look on his face finally returned to normal, and he said with some regret: "I thought we could still fight side by side, but now it seems impossible. When are you leaving? We will send you off."

"Tomorrow. We still need to prepare some things." At this time, they had entered the hall and Zhang Yi invited the other party to sit down.

"No, they are still waiting for me outside. Then we will come back tomorrow." Liu Jie raised his hand to rub his messy hair. He seemed to want to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Finally, he said, "I'm leaving." Then he turned and walked away, sighing as he walked, probably still a little regretful and disappointed.

Zhang Yi and Nan Shao sent people to the door, and only closed the door after watching the car drive away, and then did what they had to do. There is nothing to talk about this matter. Everyone has their own way to go. Occasionally meeting, accompanying, and then parting is the norm. Being able to accompany each other all the time is luck and blessing.

Since it has been decided to leave in the next two days, gasoline, cars, and supplies, all these preparations must be prepared in a short time. So when Shen Chi and the others got up and finished breakfast, except for Bing Gui and Guo Mingcheng, everyone else went out. However, they didn't have many crystal cores, and it was not easy to get a car and gasoline. For this reason, Li Muran also went back to Longkou specifically to get the crystal core from there and bring Zhang Ruiyang back to the base.

However, they had not prepared anything yet. At noon, Mo Ye returned the notes, one day earlier than the agreed time. Along with them came five modified cars, a large truck full of various supplies, an off-road vehicle, and three medium-sized buses, which were said to be given to them. This shows that Shi Hao and others were eager for them to take Teng Jin and the other orcs away quickly. Of course, there may also be some intention to repay them for providing notes and information.

Since this is the case, there is no need to prepare anything else, so Zhang Yi and others really don't need to delay. In addition, it is still early and they can rush back to Longkou before dark.

As for Liu Jie and others, since they have already said hello, there is no need to wait until the next day to say goodbye.

Therefore, they didn't say anything and set off immediately. There were only six people in total, each driving a car, and they could just drive the car away. They picked up Teng Jin's orcs halfway and drove directly to Longkou City.