Two days had passed since the base came out to clarify the matter.
The panic inside the base increased instead of decreased, but the source of the panic shifted from ordinary people in the base to the people with special abilities.
Because in the base, there are only a few ordinary people who can eat mutant animals, and most of them are people with special abilities.
The psychics are the backbone of a base in the end times. The strength of a base depends largely on the number and level of the psychics in the base.
The comprehensive strength of the Yancheng base ranks among the top ten among the hundreds of bases of all sizes in China. Although there are few high-level psychics and only a few have entered the third level so far, the total number of psychics is large, so it can still gain a firm foothold in the doomsday.
But now, many people with special abilities are worried about their own safety because of the mutant animals, and they are protesting. The base is under greater pressure than before. In order to give these people an explanation, they hurriedly investigated the background of those infected with the zombie virus, including where they went before they died, what they ate, and basically asked everything they could.
After two days of tossing and turning, we finally came to a conclusion.
——This time, it was indeed just a problem with a certain mutant animal.
They didn't know whether this news was good or bad for others, but for Lin Yang, it was good news. This meant that this time it was just a false alarm and he didn't have to worry about anything.
Everyone in the Dawn Team breathed a sigh of relief. They had been together for so long that they had developed feelings for each other. Even though separation and death were common in the apocalypse, they still didn't want to see anything happen to anyone in the team.
The mutant animal in question this time is a fish, a local shallow-water fish that mutated after the apocalypse, growing fangs and being able to discharge electricity, which instantly turned this fish from being docile and harmless into something like a piranha before the apocalypse. Sometimes it can even jump out of the river and bite you, and its fangs are toxic, so once a person is bitten, they will find that the bitten area is numb.
Everyone knows that the meat of mutant animals is difficult to chew and digest. The only advantage is that it is easy to fill you up, so you can last longer with one meal in the apocalypse.
But this mutant is different. Its meat is really melt-in-the-mouth. It "melts" as soon as it enters your mouth. I don't know how much better it tastes than other mutants. Because of this characteristic, it has recently become very popular on the tables of the mutants in the Yancheng base.
Those people infected with the zombie virus had all eaten this before the incident.
The research institute found that the number of viruses carried by this mutant fish is ten times that of other mutant animals. People who ate this fish without any problems may have good physical constitutions. Just like when infected with the zombie virus, some people can become mutants, while others become zombies. This situation is the same. Although not everyone who eats this mutant fish will be infected with the zombie virus, it is still possible. The incubation period is also longer than the time of infection from being scratched by a zombie, which is five to fifteen days. Even if a person is infected, it is difficult for people to detect the problem for a while.
In the Yancheng base, the main restaurant that sells this mutant fish is a Chinese restaurant called "Shike".
This hotel was also the one Lin Yang had dined at before.
Fortunately, on the afternoon when Lin Yang went to eat, the mutant fish, as a specialty of the restaurant, was sold out long ago due to the limited daily supply. So he didn't have the chance to eat it. But fortunately, he didn't eat it, otherwise he would have to worry about whether he would be infected.
Because of the recent incident involving mutant animals, no one in the base dared to eat any mutant animals during the two days of investigation.
But among those who had eaten it before, some of them were still in the latent period of the virus, so in the past two days, three or four people with the same symptoms as the man at the market have appeared one after another. They all ate it before the incident was exposed. Those people suddenly started to go crazy on the street without any signs. One of them was a second-level fire-type mutant. After the mutant went crazy and turned into a zombie on the street, he couldn't control his own superpowers. Not only did he bite anyone he caught, but he also released fireballs everywhere, almost burning down all the houses in the base.
This time, they were not as lucky as the last time at the market. They met Lin Yang and Ruan Ning, and knocked the man down before he turned into a zombie. This time, the second-level mutant's zombie transformation directly caused casualties to the base, as many as dozens of people. In the end, it was the other mutants present who worked together to subdue him and prevent the situation from getting worse again.
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Now that the base has found the cause, it has of course immediately banned the sale and consumption of this mutant fish.
But the damage that had already been done could not be undone.
The families of those who were infected with the virus and turned into zombies because of this, either were grieving and wanted someone to give them an explanation, or simply wanted to ask for some compensation. After much deliberation, they finally got together and went to the "Foodie" restaurant that sold the mutant fish.
However, they all forgot that those who could open a hotel in the apocalypse were not simple people. Some of them even hired teams of superpowers to hunt certain types of mutant animals for profit. Such people knew many superpowers, so how could they be allowed to succeed?
What's more, this hotel is the largest, most popular and earliest opened one in the Yancheng base.
When the Yancheng base had just stabilized a month ago, it began to prepare for opening. At the beginning, almost no one thought that this store could be opened. Now people have not spent "money" on the food they get. Many people speculate that this hotel may have just opened, and many things in it have been sold out, and they were robbed by people with ulterior motives. After all, after entering the end of the world, many people can't even eat enough, and there is a shortage of food. They want to break a fist-sized piece of bread into two meals a day to keep themselves alive for a while. Who can spend crystal cores on such useless food?
But after the hotel opened, people found out that the owner of that restaurant had already thought of this and hired several teams of superpowers to guard the door. Anyone who wanted to rob with evil intentions, or wanted to eat and free meals without paying, would be beaten and then thrown out of the door.
After this shock, this hotel not only continued to operate smoothly in the end times, but more people ate there every day than expected.
Even Ruan Ning had heard from Lin Yang that the food in this restaurant tasted good and was not particularly expensive. Moreover, they had found someone who knew where to get a lot of seasonings, and the chef's cooking skills were good, so the defects of the ingredients were largely covered up. If the mutant animal incident had not happened the day after he went there, he would have recommended other people in the team to try it.
But now that this has happened, no matter how delicious the other food in that hotel is, I'm afraid not many people would be willing to eat there.
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After knowing that Lin Yang's alarm was just a false alarm and that the other members of the team were completely fine, the members of the Dawn Team no longer had any worries. They had been in the base for almost a week and it was time to leave the Yancheng base, so they packed up and prepared to leave the next day after the conclusion of the base.
The sooner they arrive at the Imperial Capital Base, the sooner they can feel at ease.
However, before leaving the base, Ruan Ning and his group happened to pass by the hotel and saw a group of people gathered at the door of the hotel, arguing and demanding that the hotel owner compensate them for mental damages.
The owner of this hotel is a middle-aged man in his forties with a big belly. He stands at the door of the hotel with a big belly. There are dozens of people around him, each holding a weapon in their hands, looking nervously at the troublemaker opposite. It seems that these people are hired by this man to protect himself.
However, compared to the dozens of people beside him, he was more dependent on a team of six people standing on the steps with a relaxed look, so much so that he subconsciously looked over there every time he spoke.
Ruan Ning and his team had only been at Yancheng Base for a few days, so they had not learned much about the specific situation of the base's superpower team. However, the survivors who had been at Yancheng Base for a while recognized who the six people standing on the steps were.
They are the most ferocious team in the base. They came to the Yancheng base a month ago and are called the Thunder Squad. There are not many people in the team, only six in total, but each of them is very strong, and the lowest is a second-level esper. The captain of this team, Su Yang, is a rare third-level esper in the base. It is said that he will soon advance to the fourth-level fire element, and may even become the first fourth-level esper in the base.
However, in contrast to the strength of the Thunder Squad, they have a particularly bad reputation in the base. As long as someone can afford a high enough reward, they will take any job, whether it is murder, robbery or anything else. Everyone is afraid of them and hates them.
Just like this time.
After seeing that the hotel owner had spent a huge amount of money to invite six of them over, those who came to seek advice gasped.
Some people even began to back down.
They don't think that the demons of the Thunder Squad will show mercy to humans. It is said that as long as the employer can pay more money for killing, they can kill without blinking an eye.
The members of the Dawn Team had no intention of getting involved in what was happening at the hotel, and they just stood across the street and watched from a distance. Although Ruan Ning didn't know the background of the team standing on the steps, he couldn't help but sigh when he saw so many people surrounding the hotel owner in a strict formation. It seems that the saying "money makes the world go round" is also applicable in the end times. Otherwise, the hotel owner wouldn't be able to find so many people to do things for him.
"Everyone, listen to me! I know that each of you is feeling bad right now. I was also very sad after I found out about this incident. For this reason, I burn incense and pray to Buddha at home every day to pray for those who died. But you can't just put all the blame on me. I'm just an ordinary businessman. I hope you can understand me. I didn't want to see the fish turn into an alien fish. Even the experts said that not everyone who eats it will get into trouble. In other words, I didn't force you to eat the meat." Having spent a huge amount of money to invite the Thunder Squad, the hotel owner felt more confident and didn't speak as weakly as before.
"You were the one who sold those vegetables. If something goes wrong, who will be responsible?"
"You said the problem with the ingredients is none of your restaurant's business. If the ingredients were problematic, why did you sell it in the first place?"
"You mean my sister ate your food, so she deserves what happened?"
Anyway, no matter what those people who came to make trouble said, the hotel owner never mentioned compensation and played a blind eye to them.
Those who are more impulsive in temper became furious when they saw his nonchalant attitude, and they didn't care whether they could win or not, and just rushed up to fight with this unscrupulous businessman.
The first person to attack was a tall and thin man holding a machete, but before he could get close, the weapon in his hand was swept away by a black whip and thrown to the ground. The one who stopped him was a blonde woman with blue eyes.
After seeing that the two sides had already started fighting, everyone in the Dawn Team felt that there was no need to continue watching. Even if the two sides only fought for one round, the winner of each side could be seen at a glance. Those troublemakers would not gain any benefit from the other side, and might even get themselves hurt.
However, they did not meddle in other people's business and turned to walk towards the gate of the base.
The number of teams going out on missions decreased a lot in the past two days because of that incident, but today when they found that there was nothing to do, more teams started to go out again. It was almost noon now and there were still several teams waiting to go out at the gate of the base.
Ruan Ning and his group had just arrived here, and before they could line up to leave, they saw a man suddenly rushing over from the crowd next to them.
Ruan Ning was standing in the middle of the team talking to Jiang's mother, and the man was coming towards her. Because she had encountered this situation at the market that day, she had formed a conditioned reflex and subconsciously dodged. Then when she was about to draw her gun, she saw a skinny woman fall down where she had just stood.