Chapter 76: Humanoid Weapons of the End of the World 13
Xue Anyi pondered for a moment and decided to accept Yao Rong's request.
Not to mention Yao Rong, in Xue Anyi's opinion, Lu Fei alone is worth their base's efforts.
Due to the lack of resources, the high-end strength of the Southwest Base lags far behind other bases. Every time they send troops to attack places with dense zombie groups, they suffer serious losses. If there is Lu Fei, the "humanoid zombie king", many sacrifices can be avoided.
The Southwest Base is full of sincerity, and Yao Rong will not be stingy.
"The corpse of the zombie king is in my hands. If the base needs it, it can be taken for dissection and research."
Xue Anyi's eyes flashed with a trace of surprise.
He really wanted to ask the other party for the corpse of the zombie king, and he had decided to promise a lot of benefits.
This is the second Zombie King known to mankind. No one knows how the Zombie King evolved and how he commands other zombies. Because of this, the corpse in Yao Rong's hands has a high research value.
But what was unexpected was that Yao Rong not only guessed his purpose, but was also willing to send the corpse to the base for free.
"Thank you, I will send my adjutant to pick up the corpse later."
Xue Anyi had just arrived in Rong County and had a lot of things to deal with. Yao Rong and Lu Fei did not stay long and said goodbye and left.
Fang Shaoyuan stayed.
Xue Anyi was reviewing the documents in his hand and asked casually, "Shao Yuan, do you think their identities are credible?"
Fang Shaoyuan stood straight and said, "I think they are credible. They don't have to lie about these things."
The identity of the director of the Ping'an Life Gene Research Institute can be found out with just a search.
"I still think that the child named Lu Fei is a little weird."
"Uncle, everyone has secrets. As long as it doesn't harm our base, we don't need to find out the truth. Excessive exploration will only push talents away."
Xue Anyi laughed, "You are right, I was thinking wrong."
He is a major general in name, but he is mainly a civilian. He
is fighting with some old foxes in the base every day, but he is not as clear-sighted as his nephew.
The army stayed in Rong County for three days, and after all the food was moved away, they finally decided to set off back to the Southwest Base.
Yao Rong's motorcycle finally met its fate of being scrapped, and she and Lu Fei got on the car of Fang Shaoyuan's team.
As soon as the army left the county, a lot of cars came one after another from behind. The people sitting in these cars were all stranded in Rong County for various reasons.
When Xue Anyi learned about this, he nodded and said, "Let them follow."
"If anyone is short of food and water, they can take on the army's mission and lead the way with the army in exchange for food and water."
As for those who didn't want to take on the mission and just wanted to follow the army to the survivor base, Xue Anyi followed them.
On the way back, because the car was full of food, the speed was much slower than the way here.
Lu Fei was able to stay in the car obediently for the first two days, but after that he couldn't sit still.
"Really can't stay?" Yao Rong asked.
"Yes, yes." Lu Fei laughed bitterly, as if he was sitting on a needle pad instead of a car mat.
"Don't worry, I have a way." Yao Rong agreed readily.
I don’t know why, but when Dr. Yao told him “don’t worry” before, Lu Fei was really relieved, but this time, his keen sense of crisis made him sound the alarm: “Actually, there’s no need to trouble you to help me think of a solution…”
Yao Rong curled his lips: “Don’t bother, I’ve already thought about it.”
An hour later, the army was resting on the spot, and Lu Fei was directly brought to Fang Shaoyuan by Yao Rong: “He’s troublesome to you.”
Fang Shaoyuan: “Don’t worry, Aunt Yao, I will try my best to teach Xiao Lu well.”
Yao Rong looked at Lu Fei: “You can’t use any strength, just use moves to fight Shao Yuan.”
Fang Shaoyuan is a standard soldier trained in a military academy. His fighting skills and combat awareness are not comparable to those of the current Lu Fei.
Since the journey is boring, let's practice more to vent the useless energy.
Lu Fei: "..."
Bah, it's all his fault for talking too much.
Zheng Shuiqing's injuries have almost recovered. She, Song Xiuping, Lu Shu and others sat around and watched with a smile as Lu Fei was blocked by Fang Shaoyuange's attacks again and again, and then thrown to the ground.
Lu Shu patted his chest and said saccharinely: "Seeing Xiaolu like this, my heart, which was used to being beaten, finally felt better."
Zheng Shuqing also said maliciously: "Xiaolu's move is too unstable now. I suggest that he practice horse stance for two more hours every day."
Song Xiuping couldn't help laughing and said: "Young people will learn it if they fight more."
But gradually, no one cared about laughing -
Lu Fei's attacks were still blocked by Fang Shaoyuan again and again, but the time he could hold out under Fang Shaoyuan's hands was getting longer and longer.
Every time he broke free from Fang Shaoyuan's restraints, he could immediately recover to a lively state, while Fang Shaoyuan's physical strength was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the end, it was Fang Shaoyuan who raised his hand and called for a pause.
"Let's stop here today."
Lu Fei nodded obediently, but he felt a little unsatisfied.
He thought so in his heart, and his face couldn't help showing some of it.
Fang Shaoyuan shook his almost exhausted hands, smiled bitterly, and sighed "pervert".
In the next few days, in addition to Fang Shaoyuan, Lu Shu, Zheng Shuiqing and others also joined the team for sparring.
Lu Fei rarely got any advantage from them, but Fang Shaoyuan and others who fought against Lu Fei could feel that his fighting awareness was getting better and better.
Finally, when the army entered the influence range of the Southwest Base and was one day away from returning to the base camp, Lu Fei took advantage of Fang Shaoyuan's unpreparedness and successfully counterattacked Fang Shaoyuan and pinned Fang Shaoyuan to the ground.
Including Yao Rong, the crowd applauded Lu Fei.
Lu Fei was beaming with joy: "Brother Fang, are you convinced?"
Fang Shaoyuan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "I am convinced, very much."
Lu Fei then let go of Fang Shaoyuan, patted the dust off his clothes, and blew kisses to everyone present: "Thank you, thank you for the applause, I will definitely continue to be strong and create more glory."
Fang Shaoyuan, who had just climbed up: "..."
So Xiao Lu wanted to beat him a few more times, right?
***
The next day.
Before noon, the army successfully arrived at the base.
Yao Rong leaned against the car window and quietly looked at the base in front of him.
The city wall was more than ten meters high, the dense power grid, the soldiers patrolling and guarding at all times, and the constant flow of people entering the city...
This is the strongest and last line of defense for mankind.
Song Xiuping said positively: "Aunt Yao, this is your first time to the Southwest Base with Xiaolu. You need to go through some formalities and do some comprehensive inspections. I will take you there."
Yao Rong and Lu Fei followed Song Xiuping to get off the car and line up.
There are many people like Yao Rong and Lu Fei who are coming to the Southwest Base for the first time.
Looking at the endless queue of people entering the city, Song Xiuping originally planned to take them to the special channel, but Yao Rong refused.
"Let's go to line up."
Yao Rong is not a person who despises privileges.
In fact, privileges exist in many places.
If privileges can solve many troubles, Yao Rong will not be pretentious.
But she wants to accompany Lu Fei to experience the other side of the end of the world.
This other side, he may have seen it at the beginning of the apocalypse, but the apocalypse had just begun, and the order of human society had not completely collapsed. Many people still respected the law and had a moral bottom line, and everything was not too bad.
It's different now.
Those who can survive to this day have more or less made some degree of compromise.
This is a law of survival under helplessness.
Lu Fei's strength will allow him to not compromise or be helpless in the future.
He accidentally possessed such a terrible power. What does he plan to do with this power in the future?
Of course, she would not force him to be a savior, nor did she expect him to end the apocalypse alone, but she still hoped that he could maintain his compassion and sympathy for his compatriots and not be accustomed to suffering.
***
Yao Rong, Lu Fei and Song Xiuping came to the end of the team.
In front of them, there were at least hundreds of people waiting in line.
These hundreds of people were almost all young and strong .
Not only were there few old people, few children, and even women were pitifully few. The few women basically stayed by the men's side. Even though they were covered in dust and blood, their beauty and graceful figures could not be concealed.
Yao Rong did not explain anything. She just asked Lu Fei to open his eyes and take a good look.
Lu Fei did not quite understand Yao Rong's intention at first. Slowly, the smile on his face faded a little.
At this moment, there was a sudden excited pushing sound from the team behind them, occasionally mixed with the sharp cry of a little girl.
"Let my mother go!"
"Bad guys, stay away from my mother!"
Lu Fei looked in the direction of the voice and saw a group of people standing at the end of the team. One or two of them looked familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
Lu Fei recalled and finally remembered.
These were the survivors who followed the army and rushed to the base calmly.
At this time, several men were forcibly dragging a woman, as if they wanted to drag the woman away from the queue. A little girl who looked about five or six years old hugged the woman's thighs tightly and cried loudly.
Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore and whispered, "Are you kidding me? You even bully a child."
One of the men with a crew cut was very stubborn and cursed back.
"What do you know? This woman's arm was bitten by a zombie, but she kept it a secret all the way! If she prevents me and my brothers from entering the city, I will eat her right away."
The man who was originally speaking for the woman changed his expression immediately after hearing this. He looked at the woman with an unfriendly look, and even said "Pah" at her, as if he saw something dirty.
The other people around her also took a few steps back and kept their distance from the woman, fearing that she would go crazy and bite them.
The tears on the woman's face never stopped: "I didn't mean to keep silent... I just... I just want to see Nannan enter the base safely..."
"I'm afraid you will abandon me and Nannan on the way..."
The man with the crew cut was so angry that he wanted to throw the woman to the ground, but before he could do anything, the little girl who was just hugging her mother's thigh rushed to the man with the crew cut like a cannonball, threw herself on him, and bit his arm fiercely, as ferocious as a little tiger with bared fangs and claws.
The man with the crew cut felt pain and tried to throw the little girl away.
Many people couldn't help but look away.
But just before the little girl was about to be thrown out, she gently fell into someone's arms.
"Bullying a child, this is too much!" Lu Fei held the little girl who seemed to be weightless and stared at the man with the crew cut with a serious face.
The shaved man subconsciously scanned Lu Fei's wrist, but didn't see the game bracelet. He immediately sneered and clenched his fist and said, "Where did you come from, you immature brat? You want to be brave and righteous, but you don't even consider your level?"
Lu Fei ignored the shaved man, put the little girl on the ground, and quickly stepped forward to help the woman up.
"Boy, didn't you hear what I said?" The shaved man became more and more angry, and rushed towards Lu Fei with a roar, but was blocked by Song Xiuping who rushed over.
Song Xiuping attacked the man left and right, and was glad that he had learned a lot of martial arts in his previous life.
How could such an ordinary person without superpowers bother Xiao Lu to take action?
He could solve it properly.
The man with the buzz cut was furious and yelled for his brothers to come up and help.
However, his brothers looked at the gray game bracelet on Song Xiuping's wrist and took two steps back.
Just like the man with the buzz cut was worried that the woman would cause him to be unable to enter the city, these people were also worried that the man with the buzz cut would offend someone he shouldn't have offended, which would cause them to be unable to enter the city.
...
After the woman was helped up, she thanked Lu Fei repeatedly and hugged her child while crying.
The little girl had tears in her eyes, but she bulged her eyes and tried hard not to let them fall.
As if she had already foreseen her mother's fate, she clutched the corner of the woman's clothes tightly: "Mom, don't cry, Nannan will listen to you in the future, never ask for a dad again, and never make you angry again."
"Nannan is already very obedient." The woman cried and squeezed out a smile, with an unconcealable worry on her face.
For more than half a year, she, an ordinary person, had to survive in the end times with her little daughter and had to commit herself to those men. If the little daughter had not been obedient and sensible enough, never cried or made a fuss, and could help with housework within her ability, those men would never have kept her child to share food.
But now, she is going to die.
Fortunately, the little daughter also arrived safely at the Southwest Base.
She had asked around.
She specifically asked those soldiers about it.
The Southwest Base has established a special orphanage to take in children who have lost their families. As long as they have a bite to eat and can grow up safely, that's enough. Apart from these, what else can she ask for.
The woman let go of her little daughter's hand and knelt down directly in front of Lu Fei.
Lu Fei was so scared that he almost jumped up.
He had never experienced this before.
"No, no, absolutely not."
"My dear benefactor, bear with it. I want to ask you for a favor."
Lu Fei helped the woman up: "Go ahead."
He thought that the woman would ask a difficult request, but he didn't expect that the woman said: "I was bitten by a zombie, so I definitely can't enter the base. I hope you can take my child to the city and hand her over to the soldiers in the base." Lu Fei
was surprised: "That's it?"
"Yes." The woman's eyes were full of hope.
Lu Fei was at a loss when she looked at him.
He thought that if the woman asked for more, he wouldn't be so at a loss.
But the woman didn't.
She didn't dare to ask for too much sympathy, but just wanted to strive for a little bit of goodwill from him.
This goodwill was for her child.
Fearing that Lu Fei would refuse, the woman once again knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Fei.
This time she was stopped by Yao Rong.
Their movements here had long attracted the attention of the gatekeepers. After learning that people queuing to enter the city were bitten by zombies, a group of soldiers hurried over with guns in hand.
It was Yao Rong who stepped forward and stopped the group of soldiers with the token given by Xue Anyi, asking them not to rush to kill the woman.
After communicating with the group of soldiers, Yao Rong walked back to Lu Fei and happened to notice the woman's actions: "Your child will definitely be properly placed and taken care of. You don't need to worry, and you don't need to kowtow. While you are still conscious, say a few more words to your child and say goodbye."
The places where the woman was bitten by the zombies were already faintly blue and purple.
At this rate, she will completely transform into a zombie in half an hour.
The woman nodded with tears in her eyes and rushed to her child.
This time, she did not cry again, but wiped her tears and whispered the last instructions to the little girl.
When the little girl cried, she hardened her heart, held the little girl's shoulders, and let the little girl look into her eyes: "Nannan, you can only cry for the last time. In the future, when your mother is gone, you must be stronger. When you go to the orphanage, don't cause trouble to the uncles and aunts in the orphanage. No one likes naughty children. Do you understand?"
The little girl was shocked by her words, and tears condensed in her eyes.
"Nannan?"
"I... I know!" The little girl hiccuped, but stopped crying obediently.
The woman then showed a relieved smile.
She actually had a lot of things to tell Nannan.
But she couldn't say any more.
She still retained her human consciousness, but when she smelled the scent on Nannan's body, she actually had the idea of eating Nannan, and her mouth would subconsciously secrete saliva.
If she didn't leave quickly, it would be too cruel for Nannan to see her become a zombie with her own eyes.
...
Lu Fei walked to Yao Rong with a complicated expression.
Yao Rong touched his head and said nothing.
After Song Xiuping dealt with those men, he walked over and saw this scene very calmly.
This kind of separation of life and death was commonplace in his life.
Not long after, the woman came back with the little girl: "Nannan, go, go to that little brother."
The little girl walked towards Lu Fei without hesitation, but turned back as she walked.
Lu Fei held the little girl's hand and tried to show a kind smile: "What's your name?"
The little girl looked up at Lu Fei, her eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was mixed with tears, but she spoke clearly: "My name is Mi Mengmeng."
Lu Fei looked up at the woman again: "Auntie, what about you? What's your name?"
The woman who was about to leave with the soldiers was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly shouted: "Lin Xiaojun! My name is Lin Xiaojun!"
Lu Fei remembered this name very well, squatted down, raised his hand to cover Mi Mengmeng's eyes, so that she would not see the scene of her mother being taken away for execution.
This should not be the last time she saw her mother in her memory.
Mi Mengmeng opened her eyes wide, but did not cry, allowing Lu Fei to block her sight.
***
Lu Fei put down his hand only after Lin Xiaojun's figure was completely out of sight.
The atmosphere was a little silent.
After a long while, it was Mi Mengmeng who spoke first to break the silence: "Brother, aren't we going into the city?"
"Yes, I'll take you to the city." Lu Fei reached out and wanted to pick up Mi Mengmeng.
This little girl is too thin. She has a round face, but her eye sockets are sunken. It is obvious that she has suffered a lot.
Mi Mengmeng subconsciously took a step back, her dirty little hands tugging at the hem of her dirty clothes, and timidly looked at Lu Fei's clean clothes. If she dirtyed such clean clothes, she would definitely be beaten.
Lu Fei has always been careless, but this time he was careful for once. He patted the mud on the ground and wiped it on his clothes: "Okay, now I'm dirty too, let's not dislike each other." He reached out and picked up Mi Mengmeng.
When entering the city gate, several people underwent a detailed inspection.
There is an instrument in the base that can detect whether a person is carrying the zombie virus.
After making sure that they did not have the virus, the staff at the base entered the information of Yao Rong and the other three people who had just arrived at the base and registered them. They also gave each of them a smart watch.
Their identity certificates are inside, which is equivalent to identity cards.
"Leave this little girl to us, we will send her directly to the orphanage later." The soldier standing by said softly, looking at Mi Mengmeng in Lu Fei's arms.
Facing the stranger, Mi Mengmeng's body trembled subconsciously, but she could not say any words of refusal, nor did she look at Lu Fei, Yao Rong, and Song Xiuping for help.
Lu Fei hesitated.
Aunt Lin Xiaojun asked him to hand Mi Mengmeng over to the soldiers at the base, but Mi Mengmeng had just lost her only relative. Wouldn't it be a bad idea to send her to an orphanage now?
"Let her follow us first. When she's in better condition, we'll send her to an orphanage." At the critical moment, it was Yao Rong who made the decision.
The soldiers knew that they were friends of Major General Xue. To be honest, it would be much better for the little girl to follow them than to be sent directly to an orphanage, so they stopped insisting.
After entering the city, Song Xiuping was thinking about how to get back to the team's base. On the street not far away, Lu Shu was sitting in the car and waving at them: "Why did you take so long to enter the city?"
"Hey, Brother Lu, why are you here?" Lu Fei asked.
"The captain asked me to pick you up. I can't let you walk to the base." Lu Shu smiled and let them get in the car. He looked at Mi Mengmeng in Lu Fei's arms, with a little curiosity on his face, but he didn't ask the reason directly.
Lu Fei put Mi Mengmeng on the seat.
Yao Rong was about to help Mi Mengmeng fasten her seat belt, but Mi Mengmeng pulled out the seat belt and fastened it herself, somewhat awkwardly.
"Mengmeng is really smart." Yao Rong praised her.
The car drove all the way into the base and finally stopped in front of a two-story single-family villa.
Fang Shaoyuan and Zheng Shuiqing had been waiting at the door of the villa.
"Where is this?" Lu Fei asked curiously.
Yao Rong answered for Fang Shaoyuan: "Your home in the Southwest Base."
"Wow, have I become a homeowner so quickly?" Lu Fei was surprised, and took the still timid Mi Mengmeng out of the car.
"What a cute little girl." Zheng Shuiqing touched Mi Mengmeng's head, took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket and handed it to her.
Mi Mengmeng did not take it immediately. She looked at Lu Fei and then at Yao Rong. Only when Yao Rong nodded did she take the chocolate and thank Zheng Shuiqing.
She was obviously very hungry, but she did not eat the chocolate immediately. Instead, she carefully put the chocolate into the inside pocket of her clothes.
Fang Shaoyuan explained to Lu Fei: "Do you still remember the contribution value you got from the exploration of Warehouse No. 1? Aunt Yao asked me to exchange this contribution value for a house. It is this house in front of you."
He and Zheng Shuiqing returned to the base in advance just to run the process.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly and they successfully completed the procedures before Yao Rong and Lu Fei arrived.
"The people living in the two buildings next to yours are not strangers. One is occupied by my uncle and aunt, and the other is occupied by Shuiqing's parents. It will be convenient for them to take care of them if anything happens in the future."
Upon hearing this, Yao Rong knew that it would be impossible to exchange this villa for the contribution points that Lu Fei had earned before.
It seemed that Fang Shaoyuan and Zheng Shuiqing had put some contribution points in it.
She remembered their kindness and said with a smile, "Then let's go in and take a look."
The furniture in the house was complete, and the windows and door locks were all intact. They could move in after a simple tidying up.
As they were preparing to clean the house, there was a sudden sound of brakes outside the door.
Lu Fei looked out from the half-open window.
The other members of the team were carrying several bags of food, standing outside the door and waving at him vigorously.