Chapter 414: Underground World
"It will happen, and it's even more dangerous. Our base is supported by high-level psychics, so you don't stand a chance of facing high-level zombies. But if you go out and encounter S-level or even SS-level zombies, can you just hide and be let off?"
No one said anything.
Ning Yuan continued, "High-level zombies are also fought against higher-level zombies. We have encountered SS-level zombies twice, and each time was very tragic. The last time it directly caused problems with his crystal core. This time..."
"You saw it too."
"In today's world, there is no tragedy, only more tragedy. No one knows when SSS-level zombies will appear. We can only seize the time to make ourselves stronger and increase our chances of survival."
Ning Yuan finished his emotional speech and without waiting for everyone to calm down, he immediately said solemnly, "So you will have a very hard time these days. Antonio will make a training plan for you tonight, so hurry up and eat."
The four of them were instantly devastated.
“I feel like I’m back in my military training.”
“I wasn’t like this when I joined the Special Forces.”
"What are you talking about? There are a lot of people in the base who have served in special forces, and the review and admission process requires a month of non-stop training."
"Haha, isn't this just an analogy?"
A few people laughed and encouraged each other while eating.
At night they chose to rest in a nearby town. Compared to the tiny mutant animals at night, zombies were safer.
Lu Weiyi used his mental power to roughly screen the zombies in the town and confirmed that there were no high-level ones. He handed the task over to Antonio with confidence, asked Ning Yuan to keep watch, and took the remaining three people to rest.
The town was not very safe at night, with constant rustling sounds. Only the heartless Dean slept soundly and even snored.
Lu Weiyi tossed and turned, wanting to slap him in the face. Li Zhuang, who was standing next to him, chuckled at his movements.
"Can't sleep?" Li Zhuang asked.
"Why haven't you slept yet?" Lu Weiyi turned his head. In the moonlight, he could see him lying on his back with his arms as a pillow and his legs crossed. There was a grass stem in his mouth, and he looked completely unkempt.
"Some time ago, I heard someone in the base mention that they wanted to build a signal tower and a local area network, is that right?"
"It seems to be the case. I don't quite understand how complicated it is, so I'll let Zhuang Mingxu worry about it," Lu Weiyi said. He then turned to look at Li Zhuang after thinking of something and said, "Should we try to find a batch of electronic equipment? These things are consumables and there's no way to re-manufacture them in a short period of time."
“It won’t take a short time. According to the current development trend of zombies, everyone’s goal is to stay alive in the next eight or ten years,” said Li Zhuang.
"Then let's change our route tomorrow and go to the agreed military base first. My uncle said that there used to be a lot of military equipment there, including the Z-8, Z-9 and Z-10, as well as the Little Bird helicopters that are more suitable for combat," Lu Weiyi sat up and said seriously.
"Starting tomorrow, I will let Ning Yuan and Antonio fly a helicopter to scan the surrounding maps. We will redraw the maps. With the support of crude oil, we can spend less time to visit all the major bases and purchase more electronic equipment and some equipment that cannot be regenerated in a short time."
Li Zhuang raised his eyebrows and made an OK gesture to him, "Go to sleep. Get up early tomorrow."
The next day, Li Zhuang took over the four people's training again, while Lu Weiyi drove towards the military base they had agreed on before.
The situation in the surrounding area is more serious than what Lu Xiao said. Compared with the collapse and squeezing in other places, a ground sinkhole occurred here, and the area within a radius of several thousand meters became a cliff-like existence.
Lu Weiyi's mental power probed downwards and only stopped after traveling nearly a thousand meters. The dense vegetation made it impossible to see what was going on inside.
Li Zhuang looked at the map and nodded to Lu Weiyi, "It's here. This deep pit is probably nearly ten kilometers deep. I don't know what's underneath."
He approached the edge of the cliff, but before he could step on it, mud started falling down. "The soil is loose, stay away from it."
"We don't know what's going on down there. What should we say?" Everyone looked at Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi thought about the weapons that might appear there and said, "I'll go take a look, you guys train according to the plan up there."
"Let's go together. No one can guarantee what will happen next. Who knows which superpower will be more useful." Li Zhuang looked at the four people with lower superpower levels for their opinions.
Li Qing was the first to make an OK gesture, and the other three had no objections.
Li Zhuang was still needed for this kind of thing that required going down into the pit. He walked around the area a few times, stomped his feet back and forth, turned around and nodded to Lu Weiyi, then stepped up first.
"Li Zhuang and I will lead the way, Zheng Jun Ningyuan will cover the rear, and by the way, we will eliminate the passage created by Li Zhuang." Thinking of the difference in their abilities, he added, "More than a hundred meters."
"Yes," Zheng Jun responded.
"Antonio, please take good care of Dean. Everyone else should keep an eye on the surroundings to prevent attacks by small animals."
After making the arrangements, Lu Weiyi followed Li Zhuang's steps and walked down the cliff.
All the way down, the steps were steep and each of them walked extremely carefully, especially after entering the steep wall, the mountain wind suddenly increased, making their clothes rustle.
At the beginning, they could see birds living on the cliff attacking them a few hundred meters away. But as they went down, they saw no living creatures around. If Lu Weiyi had not discovered in advance that there were trees and jungles below, they would probably have thought that the team had entered an uninhabited area.
"Are you okay?" Antonio's voice was heard in a low voice, and then he asked, "Lu, can you take a rest for a while? Dean can't walk anymore."
Lu Weiyi turned his head and saw Dean panting, his little face red from the sun, his forehead wet with sweat, and he looked a little disheveled compared to the others.
"Take a fifteen-minute break?" Lu Weiyi asked Li Zhuang for his opinion.
"Okay." Li Zhuang reinforced the steps under the feet of several people, asked Lu Weiyi for a telescope, and looked around.
"Dean hasn't been on any missions this year, right?" Lu Weiyi used his mental power to probe below and asked casually.
"The...first time." Dean handed the water that Ning Yuan had just condensed to the people in front.
Lu Weiyi suddenly remembered that Xu Yi had gone out several times this year. Because Dean was protected by Antonio, he had been on duty at the base hospital. Now it seemed that the difference in treatment between the two psychics was quite large.
Could it be that this is why Xu Yi remained silent?
"In the future, the healing department will receive additional subsidies when they go out with the team," Lu Weiyi said, and then he saw Li Zhuang raising his eyebrows and smiling at him.
"Also, you run with the troops every day at the base. Your stamina is not as good as mine. It will be difficult for you to escape if something happens in the future."
Dean pursed his lips, angry but not daring to say anything, and pulled Antonio's clothes for help.
Antonio was about to plead when Lu Weiyi added, "If your speed can't be improved, then practice close combat. You can beat zombies if you encounter them. What do you think?"
He looked up at Antonio across the people in the middle. The unquestionable look in Antonio's eyes made Antonio unable to say what he wanted to say. They both turned to look at Dean at the same time.
"I think running is great," Dean said loudly with a serious face, "I love running."
The others held back their laughter and kept silent. Lu Weiyi nodded in satisfaction and maliciously handed the supervision task over to Antonio.
After walking for another half an hour, trees finally appeared in sight, and...
village.
"Am I dazzled?" Ning Yuan asked finally.
"There are people here, everyone be alert," Lu Weiyi said, and Li Zhuang sped up and landed first.
The surrounding trees were no different from before the end of the world. From time to time, wild rabbits flashed past them and ran away at a high speed.
Sparrows as big as children's fists were chirping on the branches, and wild doves were flying by with loud calls, but there was no sign of them attacking anyone. Bees as big as fingernails were buzzing through the woods, and crickets as long as fingers occasionally jumped over the soles of the feet before quickly hopping away.
The richness of species is astonishing.
"Do you find it strange?" Li Qing asked in a low voice.
"The size of the creatures here is no different from before the apocalypse, and..." Ning Yuan frowned.
"There are no mutated animals or plants here," Lu Weiyi concluded.
"No wonder, I was wondering why it felt a little weird. I had forgotten that bees are supposed to be this big," said Li Yan.
"Let's go in and take a look." This time it was Lu Weiyi who led the way.
He continued to scan the surroundings with his mental power, and when he discovered neatly arranged farmland several thousand meters away, he immediately walked towards that direction.
The trees would not suddenly attack them when they passed by, and the birds and animals would flee quickly when they saw people. The normal scene before the end of the world has now become unbelievable, which makes people more vigilant.
One group of people was obviously more nervous. They didn't say a word along the way, just looking around vigilantly, until they saw neatly-kept farmlands planted with lush green wheat several thousand meters away.
"Hey, which village are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?" The sudden voice made several people with guns aim their guns instantly.
I saw a man in patched clothes holding a little girl in one hand and a hen in the other. When he saw the guns in their hands, he immediately raised his hands and said, "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, I am a villager from Liujiabao, Liu Laoliu."
Li Zhuang gave Ning Yuan a wink, and Ning Yuan immediately approached with a gun in hand, "Stop and don't move, we have something to ask you."
The man really stood there without moving, but his face showed obvious alertness, "Which team are you from? Why have I never seen you before?"
Ning Yuan ignored her and pointed the gun at the little girl, asking her about what had happened here since the end of the world.
This place is located in the hinterland of Shanxi Province and the center of the entire country. There is a virgin forest nearby and there happens to be a troop stationed nearby. There are not many residents around, just a few small villages.
After the apocalyptic earthquake, the first thing that happened here was that the strata overlapped, followed by a ground subsidence. The surrounding area within a radius of several kilometers sank into the ground. It was the surviving soldiers nearby who helped them rebuild the village.
"You...are not soldiers here, right?" Liu Laoliu grabbed the child's shoulder with one hand and asked tentatively.
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