Chapter 116: The Origin of the End of the World (Part 1)...
Su Qing slept intermittently. When he opened his eyes, it was already afternoon.
The sound of rain outside the window is still heavy, but the temperature outside has not dropped much. The humid and stuffy air seems to put people in a huge steamer.
She opened the base planting page and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the crops were not affected by the high temperature and rainfall.
"It turns out that the money was not wasted." Su Qing muttered to himself as he looked at the image on the planting page.
The planting area of the new base is equipped with a series of high-tech equipment, including a movable greenhouse with constant temperature and humidity. The dome can automatically adjust the light and air humidity. The water and fertilizer drip irrigation system can accurately irrigate the crops according to their own conditions and purify water and fertilizer. All equipment can perfectly cope with extreme climates.
The planting tasks had been set up early on, and she saw that many people had already accepted the planting tasks and claimed the contracted land.
There are also recruitment jobs in other areas, and most of them have been taken up. Today is the first day in the new base, but no one is slacking off. Everyone is working hard to survive.
Everything seems to be moving in the right direction again.
Su Qing adjusted the cafeteria's meals to half price, and then sent a notice to all staff that the base cafeteria would offer a half-price benefit to all members for a week.
If there are people who have difficulties in life, they can apply for base subsidies to overcome difficulties.
Once this news was released, it sparked another heated discussion on the forum.
After a quick tidy up, Su Qing opened the door and prepared to go out to find food. Just after taking a few steps, he saw Fang Qing coming out of the elevator carrying a few bags of things.
Seeing Su Qing, she asked, "Where are you going? I brought you some food."
Su Qing smiled and walked forward to take Fang Qing's arm, "Good sister, you still care about me. I was just about to go out to find something to eat, and you came." With that, the two of them returned to her office.
"Seeing you send this notification, I guess you haven't eaten since you woke up." Fang Qing walked to the desk and took out the food from the bag and laid it out. "Hurry and eat."
The dishes are simple: scrambled eggs with tomatoes, steamed sea bass, and rice.
Everything in the planting and breeding areas of the old base was taken away during the migration and was eaten up along the way.
Now the food in the new base is all raised by Su Qing. There are not many varieties yet. She gives priority to cultivating things that grow faster to ensure the daily operation of the base.
The most commonly supplied items at present are various quick-growing vegetables, eggs, fish and shrimp. Meat such as chicken, duck and rabbit can barely be supplied, while pigs, cattle and sheep still need some time to grow.
Su Qing ate while listening to Fang Qing talk about the arrangements in the base. She then realized that after she left in the early morning, these people continued to discuss until dawn.
They have already made all the arrangements for the people sent from the capital.
"See where there's something wrong and make adjustments," Fang Qing said.
Su Qing said she had no objection, and she made some settings on the base page, focusing on these outsiders to prevent them from causing trouble in the Dawn Base.
This time the base has been greatly upgraded, and the security system has become more stringent. Ultra-high-definition cameras with no blind spots are installed around key areas, and smart patrol robots patrol every day. If people who do not have permission go to some places, an alarm will be issued immediately.
After all the operations, Su Qing was still very relieved.
"Oh, right, I heard from the military this morning that they received news that an official base had been besieged and captured by zombies..." Fang Qing said worriedly, "The living conditions outside are getting more and more severe. They say the zombie swarms are more ferocious than before, and they are systematically and rhythmically besieging the human stronghold. That base ranks fifth among the existing official bases, and its defense is not weak, but still..."
Su Qing was silent for a moment, then said, "There are now many mutant zombies in the zombie horde. Their overall strength has greatly increased, and they are no longer as easy to deal with as they were before. The horde needs a lot of fresh blood and flesh, so the large base is naturally their primary target."
"The capital's government and military departments have a disagreement on this matter. The government department wants the military to immediately bomb the captured base, but the military has always disagreed..."
"After all, communication is not convenient now, and no one knows the specific situation there. The military probably feels that if there are survivors, bombarding them like this would be a massacre, and they don't want to bear the stigma."
Su sighed softly. She understood the military's concerns. If someone survived, not dying under the zombies' sharp fangs, but was bombarded to death by their own country, this would probably be the cruelest black humor in the apocalypse...
"Buzz buzz buzz" Su Qing's bracelet suddenly vibrated.
She raised her hand and saw that it was Qin Yu calling, so she clicked to answer.
"Is there a little girl named Luo Xinxin in the Dawn Base?"
Su Qing turned on the speaker, and Qin Yu's voice coming from the bracelet made the two people in the room look puzzled.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"I'm in the capital now. Daniel has woken up and confessed some things about... the end of the world."
"Daniel? The end of the world? What does this have to do with Luo Xinxin?" Su Qing became more and more confused as she listened. She glanced at Fang Qing beside her, and she shook her head to indicate that she didn't understand either.
"Daniel said the mutant zombie that appeared in City G was his test subject zero, and Luo Xinxin is his sister." Qin Yu paused and continued, "Is she in the base now? According to Daniel, Luo Xinxin is an extremely dangerous person. We need to find her as soon as possible."
Su Qing and Fang Qing looked at each other and saw incredible shock in each other's eyes.
Is this cute and adorable nine-year-old girl actually a dangerous person? Is her brother the zombie leader?
Fang Qing's expression was serious: "I...seem like I haven't noticed her for a while..."
Luo Xinxin was assigned to Fang Qing by Su Qing after she arrived at the Dawn Base. After the base fell, all personnel had to relocate. She had a lot of things to do on the way, so the children were left to Wang Tianqi and several female managers, and she didn't have much time to pay attention to them.
Su Qing flipped through the base member list, searched for Luo Xinxin, and discovered that she was not in the base at the moment...
"She's... not at the base." Did she disappear during the migration? Or did she leave again after entering the new base? Wang Tianqi and the others were supposed to report the missing child...
Fang Qing immediately contacted Wang Tianqi.
"Hello, Sister Fang Qing."
"Tianqi, has Luo Xinxin been with us all the way from the old base?"
"Xiao Xin? She's always been with us..." Wang Tianqi was a little confused as to why Fang Qing asked that. Suddenly, he remembered something. "It was only during the evacuation from the base that she was separated from us in such a panic. Not long after, someone brought her here. They said they saw her along the way and asked for information before finding us."
This kind of thing was very common to other people. After all, there were quite a few people who were separated from their family groups at that time. In the end, everyone met in the temporary camp. But after hearing what Qin Yu said, they had to think more about it.
"Zombies appeared in the base, and then a swarm of zombies attacked the city. So..." Fang Qing connected the previous events together, "Could it be that Luo Xinxin was colluding with her brother inside the base?"
Qin Yu hadn't hung up the phone yet, listening intently to their conversation. He then spoke up, "Daniel was severely injured by Luo Xinxin on the day of the zombie siege. She also injected him with an unknown liquid. Preliminary examinations at the hospital show that it's corroding his nervous system and muscle tissue, and existing medical methods are completely unable to control it."
"Could it be that Daniel discovered Luo Xinxin and was silenced? But he was lucky enough to survive?" Fang Qing asked in confusion.
Su Qing asked, "Tianqi, Luo Xinxin is not at the base now. Do you know when she left?"
Wang Tianqi was confused by what he had heard. When he heard Su Qing ask this, he was surprised and said, "What! Xiao Xin is not at the base? She...she had lunch with us this morning...I'll go ask the other children."
After a while, Wang Tianqi heard the chirping of the children. "Sister Xiaoxin finished her breakfast and said she was going to look for Sister Su Qing, and then she left."
Looking for her? Su Qing had been sleeping in the office and no one had come to look for her. It seemed that this was just an excuse for her to leave.
"So, I will set it up in the base. Once Luo Xinxin returns to the base, I will be notified. Sister Fang Qing will also inform others about this matter. If she comes back, be careful but don't alert the enemy. I want to see what she is going to do after sneaking into the base." Su Qing said.
"Qin Yu, I'm going to the capital now."
"Okay, come directly to the military district to find me."
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"So... Luo Xinxin is not a zombie?" Su Qing asked the system while flying the helicopter to the capital.
"Those who want to join the base must be tested and found to have no abnormalities before being allowed in."
Su Qing said sarcastically, "Maybe there's a bug in your system? After all, you didn't notice the zombies appearing in the base when the zombies attacked the city."
The system seemed to be shocked and was silent for a while.
"I'm not sure either...it shouldn't happen, unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless there's no zombie virus in their bodies..."
No zombie virus? Luo Xinxin looked completely normal, but Qin Yu learned from Daniel that she was extremely dangerous. Was she originally human but cruel, or was she... like her brother, having undergone a mutation and evolution and then reverted to human form?
Professor Gu also said that the zombies that died beside Daniel were inconsistent with the known virus...
"So it's viral evolution?"
"I'm not sure about that. You can go and ask Professor Gu."
Su Qing quickly arrived at the Xinjing base in a helicopter. After being checked in the air, she was allowed to enter. The plane then flew to the helipad in the military area and slowly landed.
When she got off the plane, Qin Yu was already waiting for her.
"Where is Daniel?" Su Qing asked.
"After the interrogation, he collapsed and passed out again. He's being kept under strict guard in the military hospital." Qin Yu took Su Qing into a military jeep. "He revealed a lot of important information, especially about the origin of the apocalypse."
Su Qing got on the passenger seat, his face filled with surprise. "The origin of the apocalypse? Could it be him..."
Qin Yu got into the driver's seat and glanced at Su Qing sideways. "The entire interrogation was recorded. I'll take you to watch it."
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