"The biggest loss this time was that the player with healing abilities was eliminated."

Mingmei, who had been delivering meals to Lu Xiaoyao for several days, saw too many injured people at the medical center. It was truly fortunate that Lu Xiaoyao and Zhu Li were safe and sound.

She also overheard some medical staff talking, expressing their regret over the healing ability user who sacrificed his life in the battle.

According to their description, the other party's superpowers were already at the level of being able to reattach severed limbs.

Moreover, even for people like Lu Xiaoyao and the others who looked injured but were still intact and didn't have any limbs that needed to be amputated, Mingmei felt that as long as they were wrapped up tightly and lay there quietly to recover, that would be fine.

However, the physique of superhumans is much stronger than that of ordinary people. The enhanced recovery ability makes the tingling and itching sensation when their wounds heal unusually pronounced.

As a result, every time Mingmei went to see Lu Xiaoyao these past two days, she was whimpering all day long, and her sobbing voice couldn't be stopped.

The doctor didn't dare prescribe any pain relievers or anti-itch medications for her, fearing it would affect the healing of her wounds all over her body. If she developed any unusual symptoms without realizing it, it could be very dangerous.

Julian, in the next bed, was also in great pain, suffering both mentally and physically.

"I haven't heard much about that player with healing abilities before."

Thinking about her own superpower, Mingmei could imagine the sensation that having a healing ability would cause, but in fact, the opposite was true; she had hardly heard anyone mention it.

"If it weren't for this giant wolf, I would never have heard of him at all."

"Because of his special abilities, he was protected by his superiors from the very beginning and was generally not allowed to take action."

"Huh? How is this any different from hoarding my lunchboxes and not distributing them to those with special abilities who need them?" Mingmei frowned as she listened.

Mu Chen also recalled what the people who cleaned up the battlefield had said a few days ago. It was said that the other party had his head and arms bitten off by a giant wolf.

However, he decided not to tell Mingmei about this situation.

"By the way, has the investigation into those giant wolves been completed?"

Although everyone has been busy with infrastructure construction at the base during this period, such as rebuilding the outer city wall and rebuilding the shed that was built not long before winter but was smashed to pieces by the giant wolf before it could be used.

The infrastructure construction at this base is comparable to that in the early stages of the base's development.

However, this does not mean that there are no people available to investigate this matter.

"There's some progress. It seems the higher-ups are inviting representatives from our teams to a meeting tomorrow to discuss this matter," Mu Chen said, then sighed. "There are still a few months until the game's one-year anniversary, plus the additional mission of protecting the base, I suspect..."

“This attack is just the beginning.” Mingmei immediately understood what Mu Chen hadn’t finished saying, and then added a sarcastic remark about her uncle, “He usually doesn’t do anything right when designing games.”

Just then, someone who was taking a break from work and was watching their niece's game livestream came in and heard this.

...

Just as they had guessed, the next day, after Mu Chen returned from his meeting, he called everyone together for a small meeting.

"The higher-ups mean we may need to move directly into the inner city as soon as possible."

"Huh? If it's in the inner city... will there be enough room?"

Having grown accustomed to the life in this courtyard house, Bai Xiao was reminded of the studio apartment she had initially stayed in by Mu Chen's words, and she looked at it with disdain, "In that place, you could go from the bed to the bathroom in the blink of an eye, and there wasn't even a place to use an open flame... How are we supposed to live here with so many of us?"

"Renovation + Reconstruction".

The answer to Bai Xiao's concerns was simple and straightforward: renovate the existing single apartments and then add more houses recently.

"Hmm, back then they kept saying there wasn't enough room in the inner city and were kicking people out, how come there's room now?"

Zhen Po gave the notification a slight sneer, while Zhen Hu glared at his stupid younger brother, asking, "Don't you think before you speak?"

Are the people who refused to let anyone into the inner city back then the same group who are now letting everyone into the inner city?

Is this what you call cynicism?

Sure enough, Wang Wenying, who had been relatively quiet lately, spoke up: "Since then, many people have died in the base, and the population can't withstand such attrition. Moreover, the upper echelons are more stable now, and their policies are more humane. Since the higher-ups have urgently ordered everyone to retreat to the inner city, is there something important happening behind the scenes?"

"Um."

Although Wang Wenying is an NPC, the other party is obviously a high-end NPC. Among their group, they can't tell the difference between her and a real person.

Mu Chen shared the findings of the meeting with everyone. The main issue was the handling of the giant wolf's corpse during the battlefield cleanup. They discovered wounds that were different from those caused by superhumans or firearms in the base.

"Four or five giant wolves had obvious wounds from being pounced and torn by wild beasts, but those wounds were not caused by ordinary or mutated wild animals. The base even conducted a special examination of those wounds."

"Zombies?" Mingmei finished speaking, then added, "Zombified animals?"

"Hmm, judging from the measurements of the wound, the body size is not small."

"Holy crap!"

This caused a stir among the crowd. A zombie-like beast? Or perhaps a ferocious one?

In an instant, everyone's mind conjured up the image of the most ferocious zombie they had encountered when they first entered the game, then enlarged it proportionally—

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