Chapter 24
They squatted down with great effort, picked up the flyer, and read it bit by bit. "Manor Hotel, with full water and electricity, including a large fresh food supermarket, gourmet restaurants, hot pot and barbecue, a cool weapon shop, a huge lawn, a corridor bridge, a beautiful lake, a treasure forest, a camping platform, a hot stage, and many new ways to play. Stay tuned!"
"Is it true... or fake?" Wen Xing flipped through the flyer again and again. The paper was thick, and he hadn't seen such material for a long time.
"Wow, where else can there be such a good place? Can it be better than ours?" In the center of the street, a slightly fat, bald man with a greasy face held a flyer in one hand, squinting his eyes and looking disdainful.
"That's right, we hope the base is the best, we have food and drink every day, it's so comfortable!" The people who were traveling with him stepped on the flyers and agreed with the bald man.
Everyone was whispering, talking, scorning, and cheering, the voices sometimes louder and sometimes lower. It was the first time that the streets had been so lively.
Wen Xing clutched the flyer tightly and ran quickly against the wall. This was the first time she had run so fast in the six months since she came to Hope Base.
She ran to a narrow alley and stepped into a room about three or four square meters. A frail old lady was lying on a bed made of wooden boards.
"Grandma, look! This is a hotel flyer." Wen Xing excitedly held up the flyer, brought it close to the old lady's face, and tried to let her see it clearly.
When the old lady heard her granddaughter coming back, she opened her eyes with great effort and looked at the flyer in front of her, her eyes becoming clearer.
"Is this... true?" the old lady asked her granddaughter doubtfully.
"It must be real! Look at the material! It definitely can't be produced nowadays! It must be real!" Wen Xing rubbed the flyer hard, but there were only some slight creases.
The old lady stretched out her trembling fingers and rubbed them.
"Yes! It really can't be made nowadays! Did someone from the government come here? No, a hotel... Leaders wouldn't open a hotel. Who exactly... is this person?"
"Grandma! No matter who it is, we should run away! I have the strength to carry you on my back now!" Wen Xing said, then took out a small piece of mutant meat and a small steamed bun from his trouser pocket and handed them to his grandmother.
"Grandma, eat! After we finish eating, let's go! I put the things at home into the space. Since the base is still a bit chaotic, it should be fine for us to leave the base empty-handed."
"Okay, you eat too! We'll each have half." The old lady did not refuse. She was in poor health because of hunger.
The lower-class people in the base toiled for 18 hours, from morning till night, and only had a little to eat.
She didn't want her granddaughter to work too hard, but since she came here, she has been working harder and harder every day, but she doesn't get much food in return.
She is a burden to her granddaughter. If it weren't for her, her granddaughter might not have to live such a hard life.
She used to be a researcher at the National Research Institute. Before the end of the world, she came here to travel with her granddaughter. Unexpectedly, they encountered a zombie outbreak. They failed to catch the country's final rescue and could not leave. They could only wander around S Province and came to the Hope Base half a year ago.
Hope Base? It's clearly a cannibalistic base! They enslave the lower classes while they themselves live like local tyrants!
She ate the steamed bun slowly and handed the meat to her granddaughter, but after taking only one bite, her granddaughter tore the remaining exotic beast meat into small pieces and fed it to her.
"You eat. I've eaten a lot today. I'm very strong now. Look!" Wen Xing gestured to her grandmother with the muscles on her arms. She really didn't lie. When food was distributed at noon, she used her spatial awareness to control the objects and stole some. She couldn't steal too much or she would be discovered.
Wen Xing's ability is apparently a level 3 earth ability, but in fact she also has a level 3 space ability. No one knows about her space except her grandmother.
Low-level psychics like her are only qualified to build houses for senior leaders. Haha, thanks to them, she, with a level 3 earth-related psychic ability, can also build a house independently!
Wen Xing saw that his grandmother was eating in a hurry, so he took out some filtered water from the small table next to her and gave it to her to drink. "Eat slowly, grandma. I have a few more steamed buns here. I'll give them to you. Let's eat a full meal today!"
"Then eat a little more. Don't keep feeding me. This is enough for me! Look, I can get down and walk now." The old lady took a breath after drinking the water, then sat up, got out of bed and walked slowly.
"Hey, take it easy and walk slowly. The food in your stomach hasn't been delivered to your brain yet, so where do you get the strength from?" Wen Xing supported his grandmother and teased her in a low voice as he did before.
"Come, put all your things away. I'll be leaving soon!" The old lady told her granddaughter to put away her things. Although there was not much at home, she couldn't let outsiders pick them up.
"Okay!" Wen Xing stopped persuading her to eat steamed buns. Wen Xing excitedly packed up the things here and there. In a few seconds, all the things were packed up. She took her grandmother and set off.
After closing the door, they walked onto the street. The street had returned to normal. People on both sides of the street were still walking silently, but they all held a piece of paper in their hands.
When he arrived at the door, Wen Xing saw several base teams preparing to set off. They were the base commander's lackeys, responsible for going out to hunt exotic beasts and finding beauties to present to the base commander.
It was thanks to Wen Xing's ordinary appearance that she escaped being offered to the base commander. But even though she looked ordinary, she was a girl and would be bullied and harassed. In order to protect herself, she scratched her face and shaved her head, and she also had special powers, so she was not harassed any further.
After the base team left, some lower-class people also wanted to go out, but they were sent back and were not allowed to go out. Seeing this, Wen Xing had to take his grandmother back to a corner of the street.
"We can't get out of the door, grandma, please follow me." Wen Xing took his grandmother through twists and turns to a corner.
Wen Xing stood still, concentrating and calming her mind. The ground beneath her feet slowly loosened, and a small space became clear under the city wall. As time passed, the small space turned into a tunnel that could accommodate them to escape.
Wen Xing asked her grandmother to crawl out first, and she followed behind to block the tunnel.
After Wen Xing entered the tunnel, he lay on the ground, staring at the tunnel entrance, and slowly used his supernatural powers to fill the tunnel entrance until no light could be seen.
It took them three minutes to climb out of the tunnel. Wen Xing helped his grandmother onto his back, used his supernatural powers to fill the tunnel entrance again, and then turned and ran.
Normally there are patrols on the city walls, but today was a special situation and the patrols were all guarding the gate of the base, so the escape was very smooth today.
Yun Ni, standing on the top of the mountain, saw the people being stopped by the guards. They were dressed in tattered clothes and were small in stature.
Yun Ni felt that something was wrong with the Hope Base.
She concentrated and spread her mental network, passing through the base, crossing several streets, and arriving at a large villa. Tsk, what a sight! Twenty or thirty naked girls were laughing and letting a few men catch them.
Yun Ni took only one look and then retreated, finally arriving at an area of bungalows full of shirtless men. They were pushing soil, sifting sand, pounding stones, and sticking clods of earth together. They were probably building houses. Several of them were waving their energy balls and loudly scolding those who were slow.
There were also several people with special abilities building houses nearby, and their construction speed was three times that of ordinary people.
His gaze slowly moved back and stopped at the center of the street, at the door of a bungalow where more than ten people were standing.
Yun Ni walked into the bungalow through the door. There were a few people sitting inside drinking water and chatting. She also heard that they were discussing the hotel.
The man sitting in the chair on the right said, "Let's go check out that hotel tomorrow. If it's real, we'll take it away!"
The man on the left chair also spoke up, "Anyway, we still have a top-level psychic. He alone can take on more than a hundred psychics!"
The man sitting at the top nodded in agreement. "There's no time to lose. Let him take his men out. And that woman selling food, my hunch is that she was behind the flyer incident! Bring her back too!"
The remaining men laughed obscenely at the same time, "Hehehe, I was the one who chased that woman away just now. To be honest, the food she put out smells pretty good, and it has the taste of the time before the apocalypse." One of them who looked familiar spoke up.
It turned out to be the person who drove her away at noon.
She was about to retreat when the person in the seat to her right suddenly asked, "How's the experiment going down there? Any progress?"
The others all turned their heads and stared at the man on their left. They only heard him say, "We've made some progress. The mutant zombies aren't growing fast enough, so we need to get more zombie rations."
Another person spoke up, "Those untouchables down there were a bit restless today, so I sent someone to beat them up and brought a few new ones down with me."
Go down? Rations? Zombies? Experiments?
Yun Ni's exclamation of "Fuck!" echoed throughout the RV. "Is this a human experiment? Or a zombie experiment? Are humans food?"
"Oh my god, no one is doing anything about this! This is outrageous!"
"No one cares anyway. This is the end of the world. Host, don't forget." Xiaojiu replied calmly.
The end of the world, the end of the world, the end of the world...
The people in the house were talking about the experiment unscrupulously, but Yun Ni's spiritual consciousness network was penetrating down along the walls and floor of the house.
After going down about five or six meters, Yun Ni discovered a staircase under the toilet on the left side of the bungalow, connecting to the passage in the middle of the bungalow.
Yun Ni's spiritual consciousness network went directly down along the passage, 10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters, and finally to the bottom. There were four people guarding the door. After passing the big iron gate, Yun Ni saw a passage that looked like an iron sheet.
At the end of the passage was another large iron gate. After entering, Yun Ni saw a scene that she had only seen in movies.
There were rows of iron cages, with people sitting or lying inside, and the ground was covered in blood.
Some were missing arms and legs, some were missing half their heads, some had their bellies open with blood all around, and they just lay there silently.
She used to only watch Uncle Ying's zombie movies! She wouldn't even touch foreign horror movies! Now, she saw this scene and couldn't control herself, retching a few times.
She calmed herself down and continued walking inside.
I entered a space that looked like a large factory. The rooms on both sides were sealed tightly, with only a small square hole on the door that was locked. I could hear some "ho ho ho ho ho" sounds, which should be zombies.
In the middle were rows of small beds with a lot of bloodstains on them, some of which were still wet.
I don’t see the people doing the experiment, where are they?
Yun Ni continued to search inside, turned two corners, and finally saw someone.
They were dressed in white and came out of the iron rooms, looking energetic.
"Hey, how many people and little zombies do you think I need to feed today to get a level one crystal core?"
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