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Chapter 331: Building a Base (1)

It is worth mentioning that when they were leaving the base, they found that there were guards and inspection stations at the gate of the base, and a large notice was posted. The gist of it was that due to the lack of materials, the sale of evolutionary fluid was suspended. For this reason, in the future, anyone entering or leaving the base would have to go through inspection and quarantine, and could no longer enter the base with injuries. At the same time, the people going out to hunt were reminded not to be careless and not afraid of getting injured when facing zombies as in the past.

Not only was there a notice, but the gatekeepers would also specifically remind them when each convoy passed by, just in case some people were careless and rushed out without noticing. Because it was said that the sale of evolutionary fluid was temporarily suspended, although many people were surprised, they were not unacceptable. At most, they complained a few words, and that was it, and there was no big trouble.

Based on this, it can be speculated that the reason why Baixia Base dared to allow survivors to enter and leave without inspection was because of the evolutionary fluid, that is, the spiritual fluid in the space. Now that the spiritual fluid has been sealed, it naturally has no confidence. So it has to be done as it should be. Just tighten it up. Anyway, it hasn't been loose for a long time, and saving lives is the most important thing.

This shows the high efficiency of the management of Baixia Base. They sealed the spiritual spring in the middle of the night, and prepared countermeasures at dawn, taking into account the reactions of the survivors in the base. Of course, it is very likely that they did not sleep after returning.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Nan Shao and his group who have already left.

Teng Jin has been waiting with his orcs in the forest more than 40 kilometers away from the base. Originally, he received the news from Li Muran that day and thought he would have to wait for a long time, but who knew it would be done. Until he got in the car, he was still a little confused, because Nan Shao and his group drove out openly, and there were a lot of supplies in the car, and they did not look like they were kidnapping and fleeing.

When Shen Chi finished talking about his experience in the base, his expression suddenly changed from surprise to depression. His idea of ​​gathering all the orcs to establish a special human tribe had just taken shape because of the evolutionary fluid, but now the evolutionary fluid is gone, which is a bit helpless.

That's why when Song Yan asked him to take all the orcs with them back to Yunzhou to build a new base, he didn't show too firm a refusal.

Back in Longkou, there was no way to avoid another explanation. Finally, after discussion, everyone decided to wrap all the metal parts of the car with thick canvas and foam in order to avoid attracting the attention of the gold-loving flying beast as much as possible. It would take some effort to collect canvas and foam, so they had to stay in Longkou for a few more days.

I don't know when Dudu returned to the camp. When he saw Yangyang coming back, he quietly came up and directly carried the child on his back. He didn't go far, just went up and down in the two small buildings of the camp, wandering around and playing. When they had some

free time, Nan Shao and Zhang Yi went to the cellar below as planned the night before, and found that the sky-covering stone was still there, with only a very small part taken away, so they also knocked off a few small pieces and hid them on their bodies. Fortunately, this thing is magical, but it is not very hard, otherwise they would have to worry.

In fact, it was not just them. Others in the team also took some with them out of curiosity about the sky-covering stone, so their actions were not special.

Two days later, the vehicle was packed. Because the foam board was tied to the outermost layer, it looked snow-white, which became the best cover color in the current snowy weather.

When they were about to leave, Teng Jin finally gave an answer and agreed to take his orcs back to the south. As for whether to live together, we will talk about it later. In fact, even if they could not stay in Baixia Province for the sake of Song Yan's promise to Shi Hao, they could go to Huangzhou. There were all mutant creatures and zombies over there, which could almost be said to be the most suitable place for orcs to survive. Willing to accept Song Yan's invitation, probably because they didn't want to be away from the crowd.

"Let the man called Danbing go." After getting a definite answer, Song Yan asked. If Teng Jin still insisted on staying here, he would definitely not mention this matter, because letting people go back would mean the leakage of the beast nest and the internal intelligence of the orcs, which would be very disadvantageous to Teng Jin and his team. But now that they have decided to leave, there is no such concern. "Not only him, but also other survivors, if they are willing to leave, let them leave."

"Brother, you really know how to make things difficult for me." Teng Jin looked at Song Yan speechlessly for a long time, complaining, but still agreed. He knew very well that if they wanted to live in peace with ordinary humans in the future, they had to change their way of doing things. Taking those survivors who had different intentions and hated them with them would only hinder their integration into ordinary human society and even make things worse.

No matter how Teng Jin made his orcs agree to let them go, in short, when leaving Baixia, except for a few who volunteered to stay, the remaining survivors in the beast nest were sent to a place not far from the gate of Baixia base. Shanbing was one of them. Shanbing would never know that an act

of venting anger would become an opportunity for him to regain his freedom. He looked at the gray and heavy defense wall of the base, and his heart did not have the joy of escaping from the hands of the orcs, but was filled with endless sorrow. If it weren't for his wife still in the base, he might have gone with those orcs.

Not because of nostalgia, but because he wanted to kill the orc. But now, for the sake of his wife, as long as his wife is still alive, he must live, and must swallow that humiliation and bury it deep in his heart.

Thinking of this, he put away all the emotions in his eyes, looked at the survivors who were sent back with him, then wrapped his clothes tightly and walked towards the base. If nothing unexpected happens, once they enter this door, they will not know each other in the future.

Just when the single soldiers entered the base, Leng Fengchen just passed by them, left the Baixia base and returned to the imperial capital.

Leng Fengchen originally wanted to stay in Baixia for a few more days and take out some things related to cultivation from Shi Hao, but who knew that Shi Hao directly threw him a black iron piece and drove him out.

Now he already has three black iron pieces in his hand, so he should hand them back quickly. In addition, the news related to the end of the world learned from the sick ghost must be reported back to the sect as soon as possible, so he doesn't plan to hang out outside. Of course, before leaving, he still extorted two tubes of spiritual liquid from Shi Hao, and prepared to take them back for testing and analysis to see if they could mix something similar.

At the same time, after sending the survivors to the base, the convoy turned around and began to head towards Yunzhou.

They did not return by the original route, but chose another less roundabout route back to Yunzhou. They did not take this route before, firstly because the zombies blocked the road, and secondly because Nan Shao and the others wanted to return to Ronghe and pass on the news that they had found the people. Now that several months have passed, the zombies blocking the road should have dispersed, so there is no need to go around in a big circle. Moreover, they did not want to have a conflict with the Bowei base when they returned, even if they had the current strength to turn the entire Bowei over. But less trouble is better than more trouble, and it is better to kill more zombies than to fight with others.

As for Qiao Yong and Shi Pengsan, everyone planned to contact them after the new base was established, firstly to pass on the almost confirmed news about the end of the world, and secondly to see if they were willing to come.

There is another reason. This road happens to go east,

so they can see if they can find Han Ling. As for what to do after finding the person, they haven't thought about it yet. It depends on how the other person is doing. If he is doing well, they will treat it as a chance encounter and say nothing. If he is not doing well, they will deal with it according to the situation. Of course, all this is based on finding the person. If they can't find him, they can only give up. It is probably impossible for them to look for this person all over the world.

Going east and south, passing two cities, is Yunzhou. Baixia and Yunzhou are adjacent to each other, so they took a lot of detours when they went around Zhongzhou and Qinzhou, but who made the roads here blocked? In fact, they are not very sure that all the zombies have dispersed, but they always want to try. If it doesn't work, they can go around from another way.

Along the way, there were deserts, Gobi, gravel beaches, Yadan groups, and vast mutant plant forests. After many days of heavy snow, Baixia became no different from other places. Once the novelty wore off, there was endless boredom, boredom with this white, cold, and gloom.

But people could only do nothing about it. It was as if they had been approaching death step by step since they were born, but no one could stop. They

could not control life and death, deconstruct fate, or do whatever they wanted. They could only do what they could and cherish everything they could have. Perhaps only in this way would people not be trapped by despair, either committing suicide or living like the walking dead.

Because the team's strength had greatly improved, they did not encounter any trouble on the way back, especially they never encountered the metal-loving flying beasts again. I don't know if their preparations worked, or if the birds just didn't fly this way. Anyway, it's a good thing that they didn't encounter them.

"There's a survivor camp ahead." That day, Li Muran, who was responsible for exploring the road conditions, suddenly said. But before anyone else could ask, her face suddenly became very ugly.

"Is there a problem?" Noticing her change in expression, Song Yan asked with a trace of concern in his eyes.

Li Muran shook his head, and after a moment he exhaled, whispering: "Everyone is dead, all dead, not a single living person." It was too tragic. If she hadn't wanted to see if there were any living people who needed to be rescued, she wouldn't have been able to investigate further.

Hearing this, everyone in the car looked over.

"How did he die? Forget it... take me to see." Song Yan wanted to ask more details, but seeing Li Muran's pale face, he changed his mind. "

Is it far? Let's go with a few more people." Zhang Yi thought more about it. Although Song Yan is powerful and has Li Muran's supernatural power to assist him, his safety should be guaranteed, but there is always a chance of something happening. Besides, having more people will make it easier to investigate and save time.

In the end, five people went, including Li Muran. The other four were Song Yan, Nan Shao, Zhang Yi, and Teng Jin. If this combination were to get into trouble again, I'm afraid only the sick ghost could solve it himself.

The survivors' camp was in a small valley. Perhaps because there were boulders and gravel all around, there weren't many mutant plants. The houses in the camp were all built of stone, with a total of about a hundred buildings, simple and crude. But because of this, they blended in with the surrounding environment and were difficult to find. If Li Muran hadn't seen the bodies lying outside, he would probably have overlooked them.

The bodies were scattered throughout the camp, both inside and outside the houses. Some were covered in heavy snow and could hardly be seen. In some places, the snow didn't fall, completely exposing the struggles and fears of the deceased before their death to everyone's sight.

After an examination, it was found that some of these people died of the same cause, either from the eyes or ears, or from the nose and mouth, or even directly opening the top of the skull and hollowing out the brain, while others died from strangulation of the cervical vertebrae. Looking more closely, from the strength of their muscles, it can be determined that those whose brains were hollowed out should all be superpowers. Even if they are not, their own strength is probably very strong. As for the others, they all seem to be ordinary people who have not awakened.

"What is so cruel?" Zhang Yi raised his hand and tried to close the eyes of a person who died with his eyes open, but it was in vain because the body was frozen by the cold. He could hardly control his anger, and veins popped up on the back of his hand.

Teng Jin opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't utter a word, just touched his nose in dismay. Obviously, in his opinion, the person who would do such a thing is likely to be an orc, an orc who looks very much like a human. Why not say it is a mutant beast, because there is no sign of intrusion at the main gate of the camp, and these humans were obviously doing their own things when they died, not fighting.

From this, it can be inferred that the murderer was allowed to enter the camp, and then took action when the survivors in the camp were defenseless. As for not speculating that it was a human, there is no reasonable basis. I just think that ordinary people are not so murderous, especially sucking the brains of hundreds of people at the same time and killing the rest. Such a hand is not something that ordinary people can do. In comparison, it is more likely that it was an orc who was not completely transformed. Is it possible that many people did it? Judging from the traces left at the scene, it is impossible to make a judgment for a while.

If this was really done by an orc, he would not have the face to beg for mercy. Maybe he would have to actively help track down the murderer and deal with him to prevent him from becoming a bigger disaster.

Fortunately, he did not have the opportunity to embarrass himself.

"It was Lin An. Lin An came here, and I can feel his breath left here." Song Yan answered very affirmatively.

Nan Shao also nodded.

In this way, no matter how angry everyone is, they can only give up. People are dead, no matter how big the sin is, it can only disappear. It is impossible to curse him to go to the eighteenth level of hell. How boring!

In the end, everyone could only gather the bodies together, burn them with fire, and bury the ashes, which was considered a burial.

When they got back to the car, the others fell silent when they heard them talking about this. There were not many humans who survived, and such a tragedy happened. People were not only angry, but also sad.

Before leaving Baixia and entering Yunzhou, they met two more camps of survivors who had the same experience. They also helped burn and bury the bodies one by one. They hated Lin An's behavior to the point of wanting to eat his flesh, drink his blood, and break his bones, but it was useless.

It was also because of this that they began to worry about the people in Yunzhou Base and Hulugou. If Lin An came from there, would these two bases still exist? Or in other words, are there any survivors?

So, Li Muran spent two days to make a trip, and the news he brought back was not bad. Not only was Hulugou fine, but the zombies blocking it were all cleared. Yunzhou Base had also opened a road to the outside world, and took back the wounded and relatives of the base's senior officials who Li Muran had brought out. After experiencing a siege by zombies and mutant beasts, the Yunzhou base was seriously injured, and they attached great importance to the replenishment of personnel. Even if there were disabled people left in the battle, they did not give up and made proper resettlement measures. There

are so many people in Hulugou, and except for a few people, their strength is not bad. Of course, they are also envious, and they have been taking turns to persuade them to join the base. Yun Ze neither agreed nor showed a clear refusal, but temporarily suppressed the matter on the grounds that Mr. Song was not there.

In addition, the road from Yunzhou to Baixia has been opened. It cannot be said that it is completely unobstructed, because there is still thick snow on the road and mutant plants growing sparsely and densely, but the zombies have dispersed, and the scattered ones will not be a hindrance to them at all.

After receiving this news, everyone was relieved and began to focus on the site selection of the new base.

Chapter 332 Establishing a Base (2)

Song Yan originally wanted to build the base in Yuling, the border between Yunzhou and Chengzhou, the training base of the military region of this continent. At least half of his team came from there. The area has good security facilities and housing conditions, as well as abundant material storage. It can be said that it is a good choice for establishing a base.

But after walking around for so long, experiencing a lot of things, and seeing the Baixia base, his idea unconsciously changed.

The training base is too remote. Not to mention cities, even villages are hard to find around. They want to find a place to live, not to live in isolation. Being in the deep mountains and old forests is not conducive to accommodating passing survivors. If a base has no fresh blood injected, no matter how powerful it is, there is only one result waiting for it, that is, decline.

Of course, compared with other bases that have already reached a certain scale, it is a bit late to establish a base now. But now the bases and the survivors' settlements are scattered everywhere like cow hair. It is common for them to gather and disperse, and it will take some time for the situation to stabilize completely, so they still have a chance to gather some people.

It is precisely because of this that the base cannot be too far away from the main roads.

In addition, judging from the cause of the end of the world and the experience of the Yunzhou base, it is simply a dream to think that you can live peacefully by hiding. Only by constantly improving your strength can you increase the chance of survival. Therefore, it is not necessary to choose a hidden location for the base. A sense of crisis will be more conducive to the growth of base members.

In addition, the action of Baixia Base to eliminate zombies has also inspired everyone. Although the end of the world cannot be reversed, and it is impossible and unnecessary to eliminate mutant plants and animals, but zombies can be killed. Without the threat of zombies, the living space of humans will be much larger, and there is no need to be on guard against being infected by corpse poison all the time.

After discussing with others and summarizing and organizing, the following requirements were drawn.

First, there should be no large survivor bases around to avoid competing for resources and population, or even unnecessary conflicts; second, it is best to be near a major traffic route, so that it is conducive to setting up sentries and recruiting survivors passing by; third, it is best to have one or more cities occupied by zombies within 50 kilometers. As for the area and defense of the base, they must also be taken into consideration. After all, the safety of the members, artificial planting and training grounds are all issues that must be solved. But it cannot be too large, otherwise there will be too few people to defend it.

In this way, the goal becomes clear. They thought that such a place might not be lucky enough to run into it at first sight, but it should not be too difficult to find. Who knew that they didn't encounter a slightly suitable one all the way into Yunzhou. Seeing that they were about to reach Yunzhong, the provincial capital of Yunzhou, although they couldn't say how disappointed they were, it was still somewhat affected. You know, after passing Yunzhong, they will reach Longren after walking through another city. It is too close to the Yunzhou base, and it is not suitable to build another base. Otherwise, they can just stay in Hulugou and don't even need to move.

On this day, when the signpost on the highway said that it was still 50 kilometers away from Yunzhong City, Li Muran suddenly told everyone who was cleaning up the mutant plants on the road that he wanted to leave for a while.

"What are you going to do?" Song Yan asked directly with some confusion. He knew that Li Muran probably didn't want to go to the bathroom, otherwise he wouldn't have informed everyone so solemnly.

"I want to go find my mother and my brother and sister-in-law." Li Muran replied with a complicated look.

Hearing her words, Nan Shao and Zhang Yi, who knew the inside story, looked over.

Zhang Yi wanted to say that A Shao and I would go with you, but after looking at Song Yan, he took back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"Where is it? How far is it from here?" Song Yan was very surprised because he had never heard Li Muran mention his family. Well, Li Muran has always been a man of few words, and he himself is not a person who likes to listen to nonsense, so the two of them have been together for so long but have never communicated about each other's family situation. It can be regarded as a strange way of communication.

"In Ning'an County." Li Muran replied. To be exact, it should be Wuchaping in Laoya Township, Ning'an County, which is 60 to 70 kilometers away from Yunzhong City, of which more than 30 kilometers are highways, and the rest are county roads.

Song Yan has been working at the Provincial Hospital in Yunzhong, and he understood it as soon as he heard it. Ning'an County is adjacent to Yunzhong City and is a county directly under the provincial government. Now they are in Qingshan County, which is also closely dependent on Yunzhong City. However, the two counties are not in the same direction. Ning'an is in the southeast of Yunzhong, and Qingshan is in the northwest. The distance between the two counties is more than 100 kilometers, which is why Li Muran cannot directly explore it.

"I'll go with you." He said without thinking. This is a matter of course. If it is not necessary, he will not put her safety in the hands of others, not to mention that this time he is going to find her family.

"Okay." Li Muran did not refuse. In fact, she did not hold much hope.

At the most difficult time, when the end of the world just started, and the second disaster, she was exhausted by her supernatural powers and had no ability to find her mother and siblings. Of course, the phone call that almost announced that she was abandoned at the end of the world also made her discouraged and she didn't want to look for them so urgently. Later, after arriving in Longren and relieving the siege of Yunzhou Base, she could go to look for people first, but the most difficult time of the end of the world had passed by then. If those people could survive two waves of mutations, she would not be of much help. If they couldn't survive, it would be in vain to go again.

Or maybe she hadn't figured out how to face them who were still alive, or the news that they had died, so she subconsciously delayed the search for people. But now that they were close, there was no excuse to escape.

Everyone thought that the end of the world had been more than a year, and even if Li Muran's relatives were still alive, they probably wouldn't stay there and wait for rescue. So with Song Yan accompanying him, there was no need for others to join in the fun and waste time. After all, the more people Li Muran's ability brought, the shorter the distance of teleportation. At such a time, no matter how good the relationship between Zhang Yinan Shao and her was, he couldn't compete with Song Yan for the opportunity to accompany him, so he just reminded them to be safe.

Wuchaping is a village, 15 kilometers away from the Laoya Township Government. A county road passes through the township and directly leads to the village. Then it splits into two roads in Wuchaping, one leading to Baixiang Town in the same county, and the other leading to Quyuan Township, Qiuchang County, Liutong City, under the jurisdiction of Chengzhou in the neighboring province.

Wuchaping means a flat land with five forked roads. It also means that in addition to these three roads, there are two more leading to other places, but these two are not county roads, but a short section of gravel road connecting rugged and narrow mountain roads. The reason why these two roads are also included is that they connect towns in other cities and provinces.

Such a geographical location made Wuchaping a gathering center for all parties. It was the route that horse and mule teams must pass through, and it was also the place where the big market of surrounding counties and towns was located. Every time the market came, people from all directions flocked here, even people from the city and county, and all kinds of goods were available. It was not until the highway was built and supermarkets were built that the mule and horse teams had no room to survive, and this place gradually became deserted and became an ordinary village. There are only some old and simple buildings, as well as the remaining signs and words on the buildings, and the dirty and damaged wine flags are still dragging the tail of time, trying to tell the scenery of the past to the people who come later.

The houses in Wuchaping are all black tiles and old bricks. When it was the most beautiful, there was no small western-style building with concrete tiles. The first floor was a half-slope roof, and the second floor was a wooden building. Walking on it would make a hollow sound, and people were worried that they would step through it. Later, when every family in other rural areas built a new house, this place seemed to have exhausted all the wealth and fell below the poverty line. Of course, the rich are still rich, they just moved into the city, and those who stayed behind can't afford to leave, so naturally they can't get rich.

Li Muran came here once when she was in elementary school. That was the first time her mother went back to his hometown after marrying that man, and she was brought along. Naturally, no one looked at her well as a burden. That experience was extremely unpleasant. Even though she never came here again, she still has a deep memory of this village.

Therefore, when she saw the high and thick wall surrounding the entire village, she was a little surprised. Because there was a highway running through the entire village before, in addition to the courtyards of each family, it was impossible and unnecessary to build such a high wall like a fortress in the village. Obviously, it should have been built after the end of the world. From this, it can be speculated that after the end of the world, there were survivors living here for a period of time.

The reason why it is said to be once is that Li Muran only found zombies and many bones inside the wall at this time, but no living people. Judging from the posture of death preserved by the bones on the ground, this small survivor settlement should have been broken by zombies, not abandoned.

In this case, can the family escape? Or did they leave before the incident happened? Li Muran was a little stunned, and he couldn't tell whether he really wanted to find out the answer.

"What's the situation?" Seeing that she was confused and didn't say anything for a long time, Song Yan couldn't help asking. They were in a building in Ning'an County at this time. She could detect Wuchaping, but he couldn't see it.

Li Muran came back to her senses and described what she had seen in a low voice. Song Yan finally noticed that her reaction was a little abnormal. She was neither anxious and worried about the life and death of her relatives, nor indifferent like a stranger. It was quite subtle. Only then did he realize that he really didn't know her well.

"Go and have a look." He had other thoughts in his mind, but he said completely unrelated words. There is a long time to come, and he will always know what he should know.

Li Muran did not object. She even regretted not calling Zhang Yi or Shen Chi to come with her. These two people are very good at finding the truth from clues. Even if she resisted in her heart, she should still find out what happened here and the whereabouts of that family. After all, these are the only people she has blood relations with. As for her biological father, she had completely forgotten that such a person existed.

After observing the situation in the village and determining a location that would not be attacked, she teleported with Song Yan.

The landing point was on the roof of a two-story wooden building.

The location was not bad. With just one glance, Song Yan could see the surrounding situation clearly.

In addition to houses and roads, Wuchaping was a large area of ​​fields. However, because there was not enough water, rice was not planted, but potatoes, rapeseed, corn and millet were the main crops. Of course, all of them were occupied by dense mutant plants. There were also some mutant plants in the village surrounded by the wall where they were now, but they were sparse and not many.

On the road inside the wall, there were zombies wandering in the yards of each family, leaving a string of footprints on the snow, which were soon covered by falling snow. After

roughly sensing and confirming that there was no big threat, Song Yan put his arm around Li Muran's waist and jumped down. As soon as the two landed, they immediately attracted the attention of the zombies, and they ran over here excitedly. Because the snow was too deep, their feet sank into the snow from time to time, and their movements seemed a little clumsy.

Song Yan naturally would not be polite to the zombies and immediately killed them. Li Muran wanted to help, but Song Yan was too fast and always dealt with the zombies closest to her first. In the end, all the zombies were cleaned up, and the knife in her hand was useless.

In fact, there were not many zombies in the village, only about a hundred in total. For Song Yan now, it would take more than ten minutes to clean them up, and there was really no need for Li Muran to do anything. Then Song Yan began to clean up the aggressive mutant plants in the village, as if he was planning to stay there for a long time. Li

Muran could hardly help with the mutant plants, and her mind was not on this. Her eyes carefully scanned the faces of the zombies whose clothes were tattered and could hardly hide their bodies, and identified the extremely deformed facial features. At this

moment, Song Yan, who was killing a mutant plant, suddenly had a sharp look in his eyes, moved slightly, and rushed into a wooden building with dilapidated doors and windows. After a moment, he came out again, holding an eight or nine-year-old child in his hand.

Li Muran was a little surprised. You know, her mental power had searched the entire village, but she didn't find any living people. But after seeing the child's appearance, she was immediately relieved.

Because the child was not only in tatters, but also covered with black, smelly, dried blood on his face and body. He was so dirty that he couldn't see his original appearance. At first glance, it was easy to ignore him as a zombie. When he got closer, he smelled a foul odor. In addition to the rotten smell of zombies, there was also the stench of feces and urine, which made people subconsciously want to hold their breath.

And the child was very strange. He didn't struggle at all when he was held in Song Yan's hand, but just stared at her stupidly. If it weren't for his chest rising and falling and his eyes being black and white, he would really be mistaken for a corpse.

Li Muran was moved by what she saw. Just when she was about to wipe the dirt off the child's face, the child spoke first.

"Sister!" The voice was hoarse and small, as if he hadn't talked to anyone for a long time, but the tone of calling people was very sure.

"Sister!" He called out again, this time his voice was much louder, revealing some childishness.

Hearing the call, Li Muran was not too surprised, but her throat choked inexplicably, and the hand hanging by her side trembled for a moment, then suddenly raised her leg, walked quickly to meet him, took the child in Song Yan's hand, and hugged him tightly in her arms.

"Xiao Wu..." She thought she didn't care, she thought she wouldn't be sad even if they were really dead, but when the youngest brother appeared in front of her and called her sister, she realized how much she regretted it. If she could come earlier, maybe... maybe she should have gone to find them after she followed Song Yan's convoy out of the city at the beginning of the apocalypse.

Of course, this can only be wishful thinking. In fact, with her ability at the time, and she couldn't drive, it was simply a delusion to rely on her feet to walk from Yunzhong City to the county and the village. Maybe before she had gone far, she would have been eaten into pieces by the zombies blocking the road. After all, she didn't even have her superpowers awakened at that time.

"Sister." Ning Wu hugged her waist, and instead of crying like most children after finally seeing their relatives, he grinned.

Li Muran was stunned for a moment, and then her heart ached. You know, her brother was the only son in the family, and he was spoiled by his parents. Now he seems like a different person. It's only been more than a year, and I don't know how much suffering a child has experienced to make such a big change in his character.

"Let's talk in the house." Song Yan suddenly spoke, breaking the strange atmosphere of the reunion between the siblings.

Li Muran came back to her senses, smiled embarrassedly, took her brother's hand, and followed Song Yan to a house that looked pretty good.

Chapter 334: Building a Base (4)

The food in the old restaurant was enough for nine people to eat for a long time, and the old restaurant also had water. The entire Wuchaping had running water before the end of the world, and only the old restaurant still had a pressurized water well. Unexpectedly, after the end of the world, the running water was no longer drinkable. Not long after, even the undrinkable running water was gone. Only the old restaurant's pressurized water well could still pump water, and the pumped water was still sweet and refreshing, and it was safe to drink.

It was also because of this water that the survivors of Wuchaping did not have even one water-related superpower or purification superpower, and they still lived better than other places. Similarly, the nine people gathered in the old restaurant were not forced into a desperate situation due to lack of water. This can be regarded as a small blessing in a great misfortune.

And for Ning Wu, there was another thing that could be regarded as lucky, that is, none of the survivors knew how the zombies entered the village. Otherwise, those people would probably not tolerate him.

In this matter, Ning Wu, who was raised to be tyrannical and without any scheming, was smart for once. He gritted his teeth and did not reveal a single word from beginning to end. Even if his appearance was strange, it was normal for a child to wake up hungry in the middle of the night to find something to eat, and it was not worthy of doubt. No one would think that he had the courage or even the ability to let the zombies in. That was too ridiculous. Two

days later, Ning Wu recovered from the shock and found that he was the only one left. He began to be afraid and cried according to his nature. But there were no relatives among the survivors. After experiencing another disaster of overturning, there were still zombies outside who wanted to rush in and tear them apart and swallow them. The survivors were impatient and would not tolerate him. Naturally, they beat, scolded and threatened him severely.

Since then, the spoiled and self-centered child began to have a vague understanding of his situation, and then as time passed, this cognition became clearer and clearer, and he slowly learned to read people's faces.

Fortunately, the remaining few people's personalities did not become very abnormal because of the end of the world. As long as Ning Wu behaved well and didn't make trouble, no one would deliberately bully or abuse him. They would just kick him a few times when they were in a bad mood. Moreover, the uncle who helped him that night was kind-hearted. Seeing that he was young and had lost his parents and relatives, he took good care of him. Perhaps it was this experience that made him learn to be cautious and careful, observe words and expressions, and not become psychologically dark and twisted.

However, such days did not last long.

The old restaurant had food and water, and a backyard, but they could not always be trapped in a place of one or two hundred square meters. Water might be fine, but the food would run out sooner or later. What would they do then? Not to mention that they didn't want to think about eating human flesh to prolong their survival time. Even if they thought about it, how long could it prolong it? When everyone ate it up, wouldn't they still die in the end? As for waiting for rescue, in such a remote place, they really didn't dare to expect it.

It was also because of this that the adults began to think of ways to clean up the zombies surrounding outside while there was still food.

It was definitely not possible to go out. The old restaurant was almost surrounded by zombies. Not to mention that they dared not open the doors and windows, if these two places were not firm, it would be a disaster for the whole restaurant to be destroyed, so they could only think of the yard. They used soil and stones to raise the wall of the yard, and stood on it to use ropes and simple fishing nets to kill zombies.

However, even with such extreme caution, they still lost three people when killing zombies. One was pulled out when the zombie was caught, and the other two were when the door was broken. Later, they blocked the doors and windows with cement, and this kind of thing did not happen again. Without

three people, the food could last much longer. According to the adults' estimation, it could last until all the zombies in the village were solved.

But no one expected that it would suddenly rain and snow, and not only rain and snow, but also fierce mutant plants grew. There was an orange tree in the yard of the old restaurant. It dried up and died at the end of the world. If nothing unexpected happened, it would be chopped into pieces and burned as firewood sooner or later. But before that, it regained its vitality overnight and grew taller and more luxuriant.

At that time, the adults were very happy and thought that the world would return to normal. Who knew that the orange tree that came back to life was a man-eating tree, more terrifying than zombies. The orange tree bloomed, with white flowers as big as a bowl, fragrant and beautiful, and its leaves became bright red, more beautiful than maple leaves. However, its fragrance has a hallucinogenic effect. Anyone who smells it will unknowingly approach it, be entangled by its hanging silk vines, and finally digest it and become nutrients for the growth of the tree.

That time, three more people died. There were only two adults left, and Ning Wu.

There was a lot more food, but the two adults were not happy about it at all, and the expressions on their faces became more and more desperate. One morning, Ning Wu found that one person was missing and there was a human-shaped cocoon on the orange tree. Ning Wu didn't understand why the uncle was fooled even though he knew he couldn't get close to the tree. After so long, he still couldn't figure out the problem, just like he couldn't figure out why his mother would kill people and let the zombies in.

The only one left was the uncle who had guarded the restaurant and helped him. It was this uncle who took special care of him, which enabled him to survive until now despite the indifference of a group of adults. Ning Wu didn't really care whether the others died or not, as long as this uncle lived with him.

"His surname is Wang." Ning Wu said.

There were only two people left during that period, and Uncle Wang took better care of him than before, teaching him how to kill zombies, how to find food and clothes, how to make a fire, and how to behave and be kind. It sounds like a lot of things, but in fact, there aren't many. Uncle Wang usually teaches whatever he thinks of, and doesn't force him to remember, just to let him have an idea in his mind.

"My last name is Wang, and my name is Wang Ping'an, that... Never mind, it doesn't matter whether you remember it or not, there's not much left in my family anyway, so there's no point in remembering it." One day, Uncle Wang suddenly told him.

Ning Wu still remembered it, firstly because of Uncle Wang's kindness, because even his parents didn't teach him so carefully, and secondly, this name is really easy to remember.

Uncle Wang stayed with him for a while, and everything that could be demolished in the old restaurant was demolished, and everything that could be burned was burned, except for the orange tree in the yard that was becoming more and more beautiful. The weather was still so cold, and there was no heating. Their only fate was to freeze to death. Then that day, Uncle Wang told him his name, and took him to the earth and stone platform where he stood when killing zombies.

The wall was more than two meters high, and the zombies couldn't touch it even if they stretched their hands out, otherwise, with the flexibility of the zombies after the rain, I'm afraid they would have climbed over the wall. The wall was more than ten centimeters wide, and people could stand on it, but they had to have a good sense of balance, otherwise they would easily fall.

"Wait here for a while. After all the zombies run away, climb up the wall and jump down. Don't be afraid and don't hesitate. If you don't jump, you will be the only one left in the yard. You will freeze to death in there. Remember, don't be afraid and don't hesitate. After jumping down, even if you break your leg, you must run away quickly. Don't stay there stupidly."

Uncle Wang said a lot of things to Ning Wu. Ning Wu seemed to understand them. He didn't understand how all the zombies ran away, and he didn't understand why he had to climb over the wall and jump outside. Until Uncle Wang reminded him again not to be afraid and not to hesitate, then he climbed up the wall, walked a distance along the wall covered with a thick layer of snow, and then suddenly jumped down and ran away. Only then did he suddenly react.

Seeing the zombies chasing after Uncle Wang, seeing Uncle Wang being torn to pieces and covered in blood, and desperately pushing away the zombies and running away, Ning Wu, who had not shed a tear even when his mother died, was suddenly covered with tears in his eyes and could not see anything clearly, but he remembered Uncle Wang's words, and when he estimated that the zombies had all run past, he gritted his teeth and climbed up the wall, and then jumped down.

At that time, he was not afraid at all, nor did he think about anything else. He was just sad, and he had no time to cry, so he could only hold it in. Fortunately, although the snow on the ground was trampled into mud by the zombies and could not play a buffering role, he did not get hurt except for a little pain when he jumped down. If he really broke his leg or hand as Uncle Wang said, he would not be confident that he could continue to run despite the pain.

So, after getting up, he could still run, and he finally ran away. Of course, he ran in the opposite direction of Uncle Wang. Even though the zombies soon discovered him and some of them turned around to chase him, he still ran away. Only

after he ran to a safe place to hide did he cry silently. He didn't cry because of helplessness and fear like he did when he lost his parents and sisters, but because he was really sad.

Uncle Wang couldn't survive. After being bitten by zombies like that, maybe he wouldn't even have a complete body left.

His guess was right. After a long time, when he had learned how to deal with zombies, he followed the direction Uncle Wang ran away to look for him, but in the end he only found a skeleton that was trampled to pieces. He recognized it from the hat and shoes that fell not far away. It took him several times to pick up all of Uncle Wang's bones and bury them together in the yard.

Talking about these things, Ning Wu, who had always looked so strong that it made people feel a little weird, finally couldn't hold back his tears. He raised his sleeve to wipe them away, but they kept coming out, as if they could never be wiped away.

Looking at the little face that was smeared with tears and sleeves, Li Muran couldn't hold back his tears either, and reached out to hug his brother tightly in his arms.

Ning Wu was still crying silently at first, and only after being hugged by Li Muran did he start to sob, and finally burst into tears.

Song Yan stood at the door of the kitchen, looking at the two siblings hugging each other and crying, sighed silently, and silently went to find a large basin to wash them clean, poured the hot water into it, and then went to get snow to continue boiling water. In his opinion, one or two basins of water would definitely not be enough to wash the child clean, and Li Muran would probably have to wash it too.

The ten-year-old boy was already shy and refused to let Li Muran bathe him. Besides, Song Yan would never let Li Muran do it. So in the end, Ning Wu took off his clothes and squatted in the basin to wash himself. Song Yan boiled water on the side, which not only kept the room temperature but also kept the hot water. Li Muran was driven out.

Ning Wu did not elaborate on what happened later. It was probably because he never stayed in one place for a long time. He would change places when he got food and water. He never dared to sleep soundly when he slept, and he had to make his body smell like a zombie to avoid being surrounded by zombies. However, there was another reason why he could survive, that is, the mutant plants never attacked him. As for the reason, he himself did not know. Sometimes, he could even drive the mutant plants to help him kill zombies.

Ning Wu not only tried to survive every day, but also kept killing zombies, even if it took a day or even several days to kill one, but he never stopped.

Living alone for so long, zombies are not only his enemies, but also his friends. At least every day when he heard the footsteps and roars of zombies walking around on the street, he felt at ease and didn't feel like he was alone.

He never thought about what would happen if all the zombies in the village were killed one day. He thought it was possible that he would die before all the zombies were killed, or maybe he would survive to the end, then maybe he would leave one or two zombies to accompany him.

Leaning against the wall and listening to his brother's strange thoughts, Li Muran inexplicably understood something. Maybe if it was her, she would have such thoughts, or she wouldn't dare to guarantee that she could endure such loneliness and despair, suffering in the fear of survival for so long.

Her brother is really amazing.

Chapter 335: Building a Base (5)

After all, it was a village, so it was not difficult to find clothes for adults and children, and there was no shortage of clothes for hot and winter days. As for what had not been worn for a long time, it was not worth worrying about for now. It would be taken care of after we settled down.

Ning Wu, who had just taken a shower and changed into clean clothes, had a handsome face and looked quite similar to Li Muran, probably because they both looked like their mother. Before the end of the world, he still had a bit of arrogance in his eyebrows and eyes, which made it easy for people to ignore his appearance and get disgusted by him. Now, the arrogance and arrogance were gone, and the whole person exuded a sense of calmness, but he did not look like a child of this age, but he was much more pleasing to the eye.

At least, Song Yan looked at him with a softer look than before.

Before leaving Wuchaping, the three of them went to the burial place of Wang Ping'an.

A very desolate yard, a small mound of earth, covered with a thick layer of snow, if not pointed out specifically, no one would notice it.

Nowadays, most farmyards have cement floors, and it is very difficult to break them open. Ning Wu has no strength to do it. As for why he didn't bury it outside the village, it was because he didn't dare to leave the village, fearing that he would not be able to come back once he went out, and he didn't want to be too far away from Uncle Wang. If he was buried in the village, he could come and sit for a while from time to time, pretending that Uncle Wang was still alive, and still chattering in his ears as before, saying some words that he either understood or didn't understand. After a long time, some words that he didn't understand before actually understood a little because of repeated recollection.

The ground of this yard was not paved with cement, but compacted with mud. Ning Wu searched for several days before finding it. Of course, this was because he had to find ways to hide from zombies most of the time, and he could only spend a little time looking for it.

This yard was very dilapidated and the location was not good. The furniture in the house was very simple and old. It was probably owned by poor families in the village before the end of the world. Even when the survivors gathered in Wuchaping later, no one lived there. Because of this, there were no zombies. As for the owner of the house, when the end of the world happened, the owner might have gone to work in the fields, or gone out to visit friends, anyway, no one was at home.

It was freezing cold, and Ning Wu took a lot of effort to dig out a small pit to bury Uncle Wang's bones. He was young and didn't know anything, so he just covered the soil, and then picked up some stones to pile them higher as a mark, so that he wouldn't lose the place when it snowed.

Several people cleaned up the snow on and around the grave, and then Li Muran pulled Ning Wu to kneel in front of the grave.

"Uncle Wang, thank you... Today, time is tight. Ning Wu and I will bring incense and candles to worship you another day, and rebuild your grave and set up a monument." Li Muran kowtowed three times to the short grave. Without Uncle Wang, her brother might not be alive until now. Even if he could live, he might not be like this now. However, Uncle Wang was dead at this time, and according to Ning Wu, there was no one in his family, so there was no way to repay such a great favor.

People may always owe some people in their lives, and then be owed by some people.

Seeing his sister kowtow, Ning Wu also kowtowed several times, without saving any effort. Li Muran felt a little distressed when he heard it, but he did not stop him. With everything Uncle Wang had done, it was nothing to kowtow to him.

"Uncle, my sister is here to see me. I'm leaving." Looking up, Ning Wu's forehead was blue and red. He didn't cry, but his eyes were full of reluctance.

The three of them didn't stay here for long. When they left, they closed the gate of the courtyard. However, this can only prevent zombies, but not mutant plants, let alone people. Then, according to Ning Wu's memory, they went to the house where Ning Wu's mother was boarding when she was driven out of the house that night, and found two thin skeletons in the yard. According to the torn and bloody clothes, it can be judged that they are Ning Wu's two sisters. Obviously, the zombies were let in that night, and the two little girls could not escape the bad luck. What is particularly chilling is that the door of the courtyard does not seem to have been knocked open. Maybe the two girls woke up the next day and didn't notice the changes outside, so they opened the door rashly and got into trouble, but it is also possible that Ning Wu's mother didn't close the door when she came out. No

one knows the truth, and no one wants to guess. The brother and sister picked up the bones of the two sisters and buried them next to Uncle Wang's tomb.

Li Muran was not interested in collecting the bones of Ning Wu's father, but that man was Ning Wu's father after all, so Ning Wu was asked to look for it himself. As a result, he only found the woman's torn bones in the house, but not the man's. Ning Wu said that she might have become a zombie, so he went to look for it in the pile of zombies that had been killed, and he really found it. As for his mother... Although he no longer had any feelings for her, after all, he had given birth to her, and Li Muran really couldn't let her body be exposed in the wilderness.

But when Ning Wu took her to the village head, he refused to get closer no matter what, but just pointed to the location from a distance. Li Muran saw that his face was pale, so he didn't force it.

Since that night, whenever Ning Wu mentioned the word "mother", what came to his mind was not the image of his mother's indulgence and pampering in the past, but a bloodstained, madly twisted face and the axe in her hand, which often made him break out in a cold sweat. That experience was like a nightmare that he could not get rid of.

The couple's bones were not buried next to Uncle Wang's tomb, but a place was found outside the village to bury them, and then marked. If she brought Ning Wu to pay homage to Uncle Wang and his two sisters in the future, she would probably come to see them. When a person dies, the light goes out, and no matter how much resentment there is, it should dissipate.

After a busy time, they finally finished dealing with everything that needed to be dealt with. It was already late, and Li Muran was ready to go back, but who knew that Song Yan seemed to be very interested in this place. Not only did he climb to the top of the highest building in the village to check the surrounding environment when she was collecting the bones, but after she was done, he also pulled her to describe the terrain, roads, environment, and cities in the places that he could not see at once within a hundred kilometers.

Li Muran was a little confused at first, but after his supernatural power scanned the surroundings and answered a few questions, he suddenly understood.

This Wuchaping is about the size of a hundred Hulugou. It is flat in the middle and surrounded by mountains, but it is not isolated. It is connected to several large and small towns and counties. Even the distance from Yunzhou Provincial Capital is less than 100 kilometers, and it is connected to neighboring provinces. Isn't this the place they have been looking for these days?

"Go back and ask them to come and investigate again. If there is no big problem, this is it." After listening to Li Muran's general description, Song Yan said.

Li Muran glanced at Ning Wu, who was holding the corner of her clothes tightly, and then looked back at the village that seemed unusually quiet because there were no zombies. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but the disgust I once had for this place suddenly disappeared. It's hard to say whether I like it or not, but I just have a sense of security that I will have a stable home. After

wandering for more than a year, she was actually tired.

Zhang Yi and the others didn't expect that Li Muran actually found a relative. Seeing the little boy following her closely, as if afraid of being left behind, everyone couldn't help but smile gently and kindly, and were happy for Li Muran from the bottom of their hearts.

But Zhang Ruiyang was happier than them. Since he separated from Ge Ayi, Huo Rui and other friends, the little guy who seemed a little lonely and quiet all the way seemed to have all the energy back in his little body when he saw Ning Wu. Facing the new kid, Zhang Ruiyang showed great enthusiasm, and his long-lost chatterbox attribute broke out again.

"Brother, my name is Zhang Ruiyang. I'm dad... Dad Zhang... No, I'm the son of Zhang Yi, the one who's the most handsome dad. Everyone calls me Yangyang, so you can call me Yangyang too. Brother, what's your name? I'm almost six years old. How old are you? You are Aunt Muran's younger brother. I like Aunt Muran very much. You are her younger brother, so I like you too."

"Brother, this is my friend Dudu. Don't be afraid. It doesn't bite. It can fly very high and can carry children very high. Do you want to fly? I'll let it take you flying?"

"Brother, we will be good friends from now on. There are many good friends in Hulu. We will be able to meet them soon. They are very, very fun. There are also some in Sanjia Village. It's a pity that brother Ai and brother Huo Rui didn't come. Otherwise, we would be together. It would be fun with so many people."

"Hey, I have a piece of chocolate here. Brother, do you want it? I'll give it to you..."

Ning Wu was bombarded with a round of questions, and the tension in his heart was blown away all at once. However, the cautiousness he had developed over the past year was not thrown behind his mind just because the other party was a child shorter and younger than him. While answering Zhang Ruiyang's questions carefully, he secretly paid attention to Li Muran's and other adults' reactions, for fear that he would say something wrong and offend someone and then be kicked out.

Zhang Ruiyang was stupid and seemed to not feel Ning Wu's restraint. He talked excitedly to himself and took out his usual toys as if offering a treasure to share with him.

Zhang Yi and others listened to Li Muran and Song Yan talking about Wuchaping. Occasionally, they glanced at the two little guys and saw Ning Wu's cautiousness, but they didn't talk much about it. The child's anxiety can't be wiped away by a few words of comfort. It takes time and environment to slowly eliminate it.

Regarding the selection of Wuchaping as the base site, someone immediately took out the maps and local chronicles collected along the way. After searching for a while, they actually found something related to Wuchaping. In fact, with the geographical location, area and importance of Wuchaping before the end of the world, it was basically impossible to mark its name on the map, but who would have thought that its history was not simple, so the provincial chronicles actually left a detailed record for it. Of course, the emphasis is on the important role of more than a hundred years as a transportation hub 20 or 30 years ago, and then it is just a passing mention. After

a study, everyone finally decided that the convoy would turn around the next day and drive to Wuchaping to conduct an on-site survey. If it is feasible, then it will be decided. Of course, they probably already have an idea in their minds, otherwise they would not let the entire convoy go. As long as there is no particularly inappropriate place, this matter should not change.

Three days later, in the evening, the convoy arrived at Wuchaping. Because it was too late, they could only hastily clean up the zombie corpses and damaged bones everywhere in the village, and then clear out a few yards to deal with it for the night. At

dawn the next day, after breakfast, except for Binggui, Yuan Jinshu, Li Muran and two children, the rest of the people were divided into six teams. One team surveyed the specific situation of the entire Wuchaping, and the remaining five teams explored along the five main roads and small roads that extended outward in a radial shape, with the first city they encountered as the end point. The exploration content mainly focused on the terrain along the way, transportation, mutant plant species, the number of zombies, the number and types of mutant animals, whether there were survivor bases or small settlements, etc.

That night, the teams that went out to explore came back one after another, and only two teams returned at noon the next day. The results of the survey were very ideal. After integrating all the information together, everyone had a rough plan for base construction in their minds.

How to layout, how to defend, how to set up sentry stations, and so on, after a little discussion, a consensus was reached. It must be said that this place is more suitable than expected, so suitable that there is no need to make major changes.

Wuchaping is just a village under the jurisdiction of a township. The area is not large, but it is not a problem to squeeze the arable land and accommodate 100,000 or 200,000 people. Of course, judging from the current situation in various places, it is unlikely that this base will be able to gather a population of 100,000, unless the Yunzhou base or the Baixia base collapses and most of the survivors are scattered.

Therefore, the entire convoy, including the people who joined later, is only about 2,000 to 3,000. Taking into account the future population increase, cultivated land and training grounds, the living conditions here will still be very relaxed.

As for defense, as long as we rely on the mountain terrain, build checkpoints, and cut off the five roads in and out, we can easily form the first line of defense. With this defense, there is almost no need to worry about the invasion of zombies.

The second line of defense is the residential area in Wuchaping. Like other bases, a tall wall is built to prevent mutant beasts and mutant zombies that can cross mountains and ridges, so that the members of the base can sleep peacefully.

Finally, it is only necessary to go out from the five forks and set up checkpoints on the main roads near the first city encountered on each road to monitor the movements of survivors within a radius of two to three hundred kilometers, as well as the situation of zombie mutant beasts, so as not to be blocked from information and be caught off guard by the sudden tide of zombie beasts like the Yunzhou base.

Of course, these are just rough ideas, and the specific arrangements for various matters have to wait for the arrival of the large force before they can be implemented.

In this way, since it has been decided to build a base here, there is no need for the entire team to rush to Hulugou. It is unnecessary and time-consuming to go back and forth, so except for Li Muran and Song Yan, everyone else stayed in Wuchaping, trying to roughly clean up a place large enough for everyone to live before the large force arrives.

Li Muran and Song Yan left on the third morning after the team arrived at Wuchaping. When they left, everyone was burning corpses and cleaning and repairing houses in the village. If they were going to live here for a long time, they could no longer be as careless as they were when they were camping during the journey.

Li Muran originally planned to keep Ning Wu in the village and let him play with Zhang Ruiyang. In fact, she had already told Ning Wu and Ning Wu agreed. But before leaving, she suddenly remembered that Ning Wu had been trapped here since he fled to Wuchaping with his parents since the end of the world, so she changed her mind and decided to take him out for a walk to relax.

What surprised her was that when Ning Wu heard that he could go with her, his eyes suddenly bloomed with bright brilliance. Only then did she understand his true thoughts and was glad that she had made the right choice.

Chapter 336: Building a Base (6)

Because Li Muran had just returned once not long ago and reported that he was safe, when the three of them appeared in Hulugou, everyone was a little surprised, but there was no big reaction. However, after learning that the location of the new base had been determined, it caused some shock.

Hulugou is too small. Even if it is safe, there are more than ten or twenty people living in one house, and there is no private space at all. The living environment is really very bad. Even if you can adapt to it after a long time, you will always feel a little irritated. And everyone knows that they will go to other places in the future, so many things and research cannot be done freely, and they are worried that they will fail due to various reasons when they move again.

The new base means home, stability, a better living environment, and hope. Therefore, when the news spread, many people could not wait and started to pack up immediately. Only a small number of people who have ideas about the Yunzhou base seemed a little unhappy and complained, but they did not dare to speak out loudly for fear of offending the top management of the team.

These people were basically from the corpse-luring team. They were afraid of following the convoy and being too far away from the Yunzhou base, and losing the chance to choose if something happened. They were also afraid that after leaving the convoy and entering the Yunzhou base, they would have to face zombies and mutant creatures in person. They were in a dilemma. So after hearing the news of leaving, they gathered there in a small area and clamored about moving. It was good to live in Hulugou. They had lived here for so long, so why bother to take off their pants and fart.

With Song Yan's control over the convoy, how could he not know about this little bit of nonsense? But since those people didn't have the courage to really make a fuss, he naturally wouldn't pay much attention to it. He just ordered that those who wanted to leave could leave, whether to go to the Yunzhou base or to start a new business, and there was no need to stop them. As for those who stayed, it didn't matter if they complained, but they had to do what they had to do. If they wanted to slack off, then sorry, get out.

As soon as this word got out, it was quiet. No one left, and they were not fools. It cannot be said that life in the convoy can be guaranteed. At least before all the warriors and awakeners died, it would not be the turn of the corpse-luring team to kill zombies and mutants. This alone was a treatment that was not available in other places.

But after living in Hulugou for so long, the miscellaneous things piled up more and more. It was not that they could be cleaned up immediately. It would take at least several days to get it done. Song Yan also learned from Yun Ze and others that the senior management of Yunzhou Base wanted to keep their convoy. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble and save time, he directly asked Xiao Sheng to take a hundred elite soldiers and go ahead to open the way day and night. After the large force was packed up, they could drive directly over to avoid the whole convoy being delayed on the road.

Before that, except for Xiao Sheng and his party who had already left, Hulugou strictly prohibited entry and exit, and blocked the news from spreading. Even those who wanted to go to Yunzhou Base had to wait until they left before leaving.

It's not that he is too cautious. It's really because of the previous experience of the Bowei Base. He would rather judge others with the worst mind than cause unnecessary trouble due to negligence, or even let the team members lose their lives. Besides, although they have helped the Yunzhou Base before, they don't have any friendship with each other, so he can leave with people without saying hello.

He has absolute prestige in the team. As long as he makes a decision, his subordinates will implement it meticulously and unconditionally. Of course, after he makes a decision, he will no longer accept any opposition or excuses. It is precisely because of this that he will be cautious and cautious before making a decision every time, and he will not hesitate to discuss with others.

Song Yan is very busy, but Li Muran has nothing to do, so he can only go to find the less busy meat tower Chen Peiyuan and others, and take his brother to recognize people.

"Shi San and Qiao Lao Da just abandoned us and went away together?" When they met each other, they couldn't help but greet the others who didn't return to the team. When he heard that Qiao Yong and the others took the people from Ronghe to stay in Qinzhou, Routa Chen couldn't help but widen his eyes and felt indignant.

"That..." Li Muran was not sure if he was serious. After thinking about it, he felt that it was necessary to defend Brother Shi San and Xiao Huzi, who had taken good care of them in Ziyun County, "Brother Chen, they are just good friends, not that kind of relationship."

"That's right, I know they are friends, hum, what's wrong with friends, they just stick together as soon as they meet, and throw us comrades who have been with them through life and death aside, two conscienceless people. Muran, I'm telling you, don't learn from them, don't have that Song..." Routa Chen started to babble, Li Muran tried to explain several times, but failed to interrupt him until a foot flew over.

"Ignore this psychopath, he's just jealous and envious." Xu Jing grabbed Routa Chen's collar, said something to Li Muran, and then carried him away.

Routa Chen had been free from the pain of running around during this period, and he had enough food, so he gained back his weight. Xu Jing was tall and slender, but she didn't feel any pain at all dragging a fat man who was twice as wide as her.

"Don't pull, don't pull, I haven't asked my dear little Yangyang, and Brother Yi and Young Master Nan... Hey, hey, why are you so rude, woman? Don't drag, don't drag, if you drag any more, someone will die! Ouch, I'll call you sister, okay, sister, sister! Boss Xu, Sister Xu, Aunt Xu..." Routa Chen's pig-killing screams were getting farther and farther away. Li Muran looked at this funny pair of people leaving a huge drag mark on the snow, and they were like a slaughterhouse. He was stunned and felt that something seemed to have happened during the time they were away.

"Amitabha! Because of love, there is worry, because of love, there is fear. If you are free from love, there is no worry and no fear." Jie Chen didn't know why he had shaved his hair, which had already grown a long part. He looked as if he was used to it. He clasped his hands and lowered his head to chant. His bald head emitted a faint green light in the cold wind.

Li Muran's eyes widened again. Looking at the little monk in front of him who looked like a great monk, he felt that after only a few months of separation, a huge generation gap seemed to have formed between them.

"Sister Muran, what the monk means is that Sister Xu Jing and Brother Pang are in love." Pei Yuan explained unhappily.

Li Muran was shocked. She never thought that the two would get together. In fact, it was not only her, but also Pei Yuan, who had been in Hulugou, couldn't explain it clearly. He only knew that one morning when they woke up, the expressions of the two looked a little unnatural, and then they got closer and closer.

"There must be an inside story." Jie Chen suddenly interrupted.

Tsk, it's still a familiar taste. Li Muran was about to laugh when she suddenly realized that the children around her were all listening with wide eyes. After Jie Chen finished speaking, they all nodded in unison, as if they were in agreement. She couldn't help but cough and quickly changed the subject to ask about their cultivation. It was really not kind for a group of people to sit together and talk about other people's emotional problems. She didn't dare to think whether these little guys in front of her had also talked about her and the director behind their backs.

"Sister Muran, please take us to our new base. Is the new base good? Are there big mountains? Are there many zombies? We can go and help kill some zombies. By the way, is Yangyang okay? Has he grown taller? I miss Yangyang so much, as well as Dudu, Uncle Sick, and Brother Daqing. Has Dudu grown bigger, so big that I can't even see him when I look up? Is Uncle Sick all right? Is that bad ape still there..." After not seeing each other for a few months, Wu Ziran had obviously grown up a little bit, as cute and beautiful as a little daisy, but her chatterbox nature remained the same, and she was obviously not interested in topics like checking homework. On the contrary, a series of questions directly pushed Li Muran's questions out of the window.

Li Muran suddenly felt a little regretful, thinking that she seemed to have made a wrong decision, and she should have stayed with Song Yan. Why didn't I think that her group of big and small friends were so weird before?

Of course, don't pay attention to these small details, the reunion with the partners is generally very pleasant. With Wu Ziran, the chatterbox, actively and enthusiastically leading the group, Ning Wu was quickly accepted by the children. Even if he and the others didn't say a word, Wu Ziran could still talk from beginning to end without making the atmosphere dull.

So, the existence of a chatterbox is still very necessary. Of course, not all the time.

The next day, Li Muran, who had nothing to do, returned to Wuchaping with the six children at Wu Ziran's request after saying goodbye to Song Yan. She didn't bring Routa Chen and the others because she couldn't reach Wuchaping within one day if she brought more people than that. She was not very reassured to let the children spend the night outside. Anyway, it wasn't an emergency, so it didn't matter if the others waited to go with the convoy, and they could still help.

When they returned to Wuchaping, Zhang Ruiyang was being grabbed by the sick ghost, and no one knew what he was saying. The little guy was so happy to see Wu Ziran and his group appear that he couldn't listen to what the sick ghost was saying. He waved his short arms and legs randomly, and finally broke free from the sick ghost's hand, stepping on the thick snow and rushing over like a fat little bear. The sick ghost

looked at his back without changing his expression, until he found that Wu Ziran seemed to be running towards him to greet him, and suddenly turned around and left quickly.

Li Muran noticed this scene and almost laughed. It seems that she is not the only one who is afraid of talking to him.

With old friends and new friends, Zhang Ruiyang is no longer lonely. Except for occasionally mentioning Ge Ayi, Huo Rui, and Jian Jian, he is happy most of the time. Of course, there are not so happy times, that is, he is grabbed by the sick ghost every day to learn some things that are difficult for him to understand.

Zhang Yi knew it, but did not stop it. It's not that he changed his mind, but there are always contingencies. He was worried that if he really couldn't stop it, his son should at least have some capital to survive in another world. Besides, he found that the sick ghost did not stop other children from learning with him. It's just that no one can sit still. Even Fu Dan, the oldest and most stable, slipped away after listening for two days and never appeared again. Only his own son stupidly reported every day, listened honestly, and came back at night to sit there alone to review his memory repeatedly. He would go to bed only when he felt that he had memorized it firmly.

Is everything really destined? Sometimes, Zhang Yi couldn't help asking this question when he saw Zhang Ruiyang, who looked small because he hadn't grown tall, sitting by the fire and reciting so seriously.

But he would soon dismiss this thought, and his decision was not shaken at all. Reluctance, worry, doubt... too many reasons prevented him from letting go.

Apart from this hidden worry buried in his heart, Zhang Yi was still very busy during the day. He followed others to clean up the mutant plants in Wuchaping, leaving only some edible ones far away from the residential area, and all the rest had to be eradicated. Wuchaping is more than 10,000 acres in size, and this work is not easy at all. Fortunately, now their family of three occupies a yard. After a tiring day, they can still be intimate with Nan Shao at night, relieve fatigue and pressure, and keep a good mood. As for

Zhang Ruiyang, of course, Zhang Ruiyang lives in a room alone. The room is small, warm, and beautifully tidied, which is very popular with children, and they will not miss their fathers' kangs at all. Wu Ziran saw it once and almost refused to leave.

The room was decorated by Nan Shao, and he tried his best to have private space with Zhang Yi.

Chapter 337: Building a Base (7)

The Hulugou troop set out on the morning of the fourth day. Xiao Sheng and his team took turns to rest, working day and night, and had already opened the road outside Yunzhong City, connecting to the road that Nan Shao and his team had taken before. Although mutant plants still grew and snow continued to fall during this period, the cleared roads were always easier to walk on than other roads that had not been walked on for a long time, and only required a little effort to pass through.

The convoy left quietly, and it was not until noon the next day that the people at the Yunzhou base discovered it. They waited to report back, determine the direction the convoy left, and then sent people to chase it. This process wasted a lot of time, so they were unable to catch up until dark, so the pursuers had to return in disappointment. Of course, this was also related to the fact that they had no hostility and were afraid of the convoy, otherwise they would not give up so easily.

The journey was smooth, and two days later the convoy arrived at Wuchaping, and the vigorous construction of the base began.

Large truckloads of bricks, cement, sand, and steel bars were transported from nearby towns and turned into a series of solid and majestic passes that blocked Wuchaping, and then into tall defensive walls and courtyards of about 200 square meters. Each courtyard will be arranged for occupancy after two days of full heating. After all,

it is a common home for long-term residence. The enthusiasm of the team members is very high. Even if there are a few lazy ones, they all cheered up after Song Yan issued the points system. There is no way, who makes this linked to the future food, accommodation and consumption issues. It is a bit hard, but the arms cannot bear the thighs, so you can only accept your fate, at least there is no danger to your life.

The so-called points system means that all daily labor will be calculated according to its importance, danger and arduousness. Even cleaning the base, digging the ground, moving bricks and cleaning the toilet will earn points. Points can be exchanged for crystal cores, and can also be directly exchanged for supplies.

According to the temporary regulations of the base, each person can receive two free meals a day, a mixed grain steamed bun in the morning and a piece of extremely unpalatable mutant beast meat in the afternoon. Not full, but not starving. Living in a quadrangle courtyard, two people in a room, also provided free of charge, but no heating fuel is provided, you need to get it yourself or exchange it with points. Ordinary people don't force themselves to go out to hunt zombies.

Of course, the base will also provide a wide variety of food and open space for people to build houses according to their preferences, but the premise of all this is to have points or crystal cores.

So, the establishment of this point system is purely because Song Yan and others don't want the members of the base to get something for nothing, but they don't want to see ordinary people being forced into desperate situations in order to survive, so they thought of this measure.

There are so many things to be done, and as long as you are diligent enough, life will never be bad.

And when everyone was united to build the base, Song Yan took the time to gather people and hold a small meeting to come up with a new system for the base. Because the population of the base is small, most of them are Song Yan's subordinates or friends, so the highest person in charge is still him.

At the meeting, there were several backbones under him, such as Xiao Shengyun, Shen Chi and others, and representatives of various small forces who joined later, such as Teng Jin, Zhang Yinan Shao, Wang Ye, Chang Han and others.

Wang Ye and Chang Han must be mentioned here. At the beginning, Wang Ye brought a group of old, weak, women and children from the air-raid shelter to help kill zombies, and were later blocked in Hulugou. After killing all the zombies around Hulugou, they also lost the idea of ​​going back to Longren City to wait for death. Of course, this is related to the fact that the people in the team not only did not discriminate against them, but also gave them considerable respect. Originally, they could also go to the Yunzhou base, but when they heard that the team was going to build a new base in Wuchaping, they decisively followed. Obviously, compared with the Yunzhou base, they believed in Song Yan's team more.

As for Chang Han, Chang Han decided to join the team after the siege of Yunzhou was lifted, but Zhang Yi and others had no idea at that time.

In addition, even the corpse-luring team sent a representative.

It was a pity that there were no women among the participants, or rather, women were very rare in the team. Li Muran was not interested in such management-related matters at all. Moreover, she trusted Zhang Yinan Shao and Song Yan among the participants. She did not think that they would make decisions that would harm the interests of women, so they ran away early.

Finally, in order to avoid being completely in the male perspective and not being able to consider some things, Xu Jing, Long Xia and a middle-aged woman named Ye He from Wang Ye's team were temporarily drafted to participate. There were also women in the corpse-luring team, but it had been more than a year since the end of the world, and they seemed to have made no progress. They either wanted to use means to get the protection of men, or they had accepted their current situation and lived a day-to-day life. When they had nothing to do, they only knew how to gossip. For such people, no one would think of letting them participate in such an important matter as formulating the future system of the base.

The man from the corpse-luring team who came to attend the meeting was quite capable and had prestige in the corpse-luring team, otherwise he would not even be qualified to be selected.

The rhythm of the whole meeting was exactly the same as Song Yan's style of doing things, concise and clear. For a former brain surgeon, wasting time on the operating table is wasting other people's lives, so he developed the habit of racing against time to solve problems quickly and accurately. Besides, everyone is busy with the construction of the base now, and there is not much time for them to procrastinate.

At the meeting, everything from connecting with other bases to jointly fight against the end of the world, and at the same time dealing with the mutual infighting within the human race, to researching new food sources suitable for humans in the end of the world, collecting supplies, killing zombies, and gathering population talents; small things such as guarding each level, distributing supplies, and cleaning inside the base were discussed. The final result was quite satisfactory.

The emergence of the new system means that the team has successfully transformed from a refugee team that originally simply wanted to find a large base to live in to a small base, and it has also laid a solid foundation for the management of the base after it is built, avoiding the chaos when the base was first built.

Of course, in order to facilitate future propaganda and diplomacy, the naming of the base cannot be avoided. But it was just a name after all. With their strength, it didn't have to be too loud, but it had to be easy to remember. So they didn't waste too much time when choosing it. In the end, they unanimously passed the name Hope Base, which was very ordinary but hard to forget once heard.

While Hope Base was under construction, Leng Fengchen had already returned to the Imperial Capital Base Sect thousands of kilometers away with three pieces of black iron.

Wu Zong was actually a general name for countless secluded sects and hidden families. They united with each other, watched over each other and helped each other for thousands of years. They prospered and declined, but they never really broke off their inheritance. They were like old roots buried deep underground. Once they had the opportunity, new buds would emerge, break through the ground, and grow into towering trees.

They had or hadn't had the opportunity to prosper in the past, but there had never been a time like the appearance of the end of the world, which gave them sufficient sunlight, fertile soil, and space for unfettered development.

So something that called itself a martial sect appeared. It grew into a giant in a very short time. With its profound heritage and strong individual strength, it became a transcendent existence in the imperial capital base, implicitly surpassing the remaining government agencies. When the political situation was stable, this would never happen.

Leng Fengchen was the last disciple of the ancestor of the Sword Sect. The Sword Sect was the top sect in the martial sect, and his parents were from the direct bloodline of two hidden families. So, in terms of origin, he was really more than a galaxy ahead of Shi Hao. From this, we can also see how amazing Shi Hao's talent was that he could look up to him.

This is all off-topic. After Leng Fengchen returned to the imperial capital, he didn't see anyone. He went straight to his master, took out the black iron sheet, and then told him in detail what he had seen and heard. To be honest, he had believed the words of the sick ghost, and it was precisely because of this that he couldn't continue to train outside and hurried back.

Leng Fengchen's master is named Longhua Zhenren, who is over ninety years old. Although his beard and eyebrows are white, his skin is tender and as tender as a baby's. Even his eyes are as clear as a baby's. He is one of the only few Earth Realm powerhouses in Wuzong.

If the sick ghost heard that Long Hua dared to add the title of Zhenren after his name, the facial muscles that were usually too lazy to move would twitch slightly, showing the master's mood, just like the mood of humans when they see monkeys wearing clothes and calling themselves human beings.

Of course, different positions will have different perspectives. At least for all humans on the earth, Long Hua Zhenren is definitely a god-like figure. Putting aside the existence of the sick ghost, his strength can be said to have reached the highest peak in this world. No one can surpass him. Even Han Ling, whose spiritual veins have not been sealed, can't jump in front of him.

When Long Hua Zhenren finished listening to Leng Fengchen's narration, he was silent for a long time.

"Convene the elders meeting." He spoke again and only said these few words.

"Master, I think what the sick ghost said is worth serious consideration. His strength is terrifying and can't be easily provoked." Leng Fengchen knew the arrogance of the Wu Zong people. He was worried that his master would think that the other party was talking nonsense and would not take it to heart. Instead, he would covet the goods in the other party's stomach, or he might have some ideas about the Baixia base, so he quickly expressed his own opinions.

Long Hua Zhenren raised his hand to stop him from continuing to speak, and then called in the boy who was serving outside, asking him to pass on the order to convene the elders' meeting.

After the boy hurried away, he turned back and said to Leng Fengchen: "I believe what he said." Only when people stand at a certain height can they understand some views and ideas that others regard as absurd. For various reasons, Long Hua, who is at the peak of the earth realm, has no way to go further, but it is precisely because there is only one step away that he is more eager and curious about the realm behind than others. He will spend a lot of effort to study and ponder. Even if he can't understand it, he can touch some things that others will never know. Those taboos that make people infinitely yearn for but also make people despair.

Leng Fengchen, who originally wanted to persuade, was speechless after hearing this. You know, even if the sick ghost waved his hand casually and waved him out of the door like waving away a fly, he still held the mentality of looking at the nonsense of a lunatic until he experienced a lot later, and then he began to gradually believe the other party's words. So when he came back to report these things, he was mentally prepared to pester the elders to pay attention to him, but he didn't know... the master is worthy of being the master!

At that moment, the way he looked at Longhua Zhenren was different, full of admiration and respect.