The Huling Biological Testing Center is located at the very edge of the eastern suburbs. If you continue driving further back, you will see stretches of barren farmland.
However, it was only ten o'clock in the morning, and the weather was already so hot that it seemed to melt the bumpy asphalt roads. At this moment, everyone just wanted to quickly find the equipment that Lian Ze mentioned and then return to the base.
"There shouldn't be many people coming here. There aren't even many zombies here."
Su Xiangzhe said as he drove slowly.
“Some people have been here before, and some have killed zombies before.”
Lu Hao looked at the scattered zombie corpses lying on the roadside. Those zombies seemed to have been killed by someone using a blunt object. They were not as quick and neat as the zombies killed by their psychics. Moreover, those corpses seemed to have been killed not long ago.
Could it be that some ordinary person has been here before?
"Someone"
Mao Qiqi pointed to a place in front of the car and said.
"Huh? There are people in this remote place?"
Lin Xiuyuan asked curiously.
"A person, an ordinary person, over there"
Everyone continued to walk forward along the route indicated on the map. Fortunately, although it was still the apocalypse, the signs of many places before the apocalypse were still clearly visible. They quickly found the "Huling Biological Testing Center", and the ordinary person Mao Qiqi mentioned was also there.
"Could it be that a team passed by here and had an accident, and this person hid here?"
Lin Cheng guessed.
"I don't know. He's just an ordinary person. What's there to be afraid of? Why don't we knock on the door too?"
Lin Xiuyuan asked, looking at the locked door.
He originally said this as a joke, but he didn't expect Lu Hao and his family to actually do it. Lu Hao actually knocked on the silver-gray metal door.
"That's good, so as not to scare others. We are all civilized people."
Lu Guanhai stood in the shadow nearby and waited.
Sizzle~
A signal sounded, and everyone looked to the side in surprise, only to see that a videophone at the gate flashed a few times and lit up.
The face of a neat-looking middle-aged man appeared on the palm-sized video phone.
"Hello."
Huang Yunxiang, who had her back to the screen, quickly turned around and greeted them.
“…”
The middle-aged man opened his eyes wide and looked at it, his mouth slightly opened for a moment, but he said nothing.
"Hello, can you hear me? We are the survivors of the S City base."
Lu Hao waved his hand and asked.
“…can hear”
The man's hoarse voice came out.
…
Lian Ze had been looking at the place with interest since he saw the videophone light up. After he followed everyone in, he found that the place was not as dilapidated as the building looked on the outside.
In the corridor sealed by glass windows, everyone looked at the biological testing agency in shock and curiosity, but Lu Hao was looking at Shi Ran who was leading the way in front of them.
"Not bad, big brother, you still have electricity here?"
Lin Cheng asked happily.
"Solar power generation, there's nothing strange about it"
Shi Ran's voice was no longer hoarse. He led everyone to the hall of the testing agency and motioned for them to sit down.
"What do you want to drink? Tea leaves or water? I don't have any coffee here, and I even dry the tea leaves myself."
Shi Ran explained to himself.
Shi Ran was one of the researchers of this institution before the apocalypse. At the beginning of the apocalypse, there were only a few people left in the institution who were working overtime. Because it was located in a remote area, most of Shi Ran's colleagues went home early after get off work. In addition, the security of this institution itself was very strict, so there were no large-scale zombie attacks.
"There were several colleagues who used to be here with me, but they all left because they missed their families too much, leaving me alone."
Shi Ran said self-deprecatingly.
"It's been a year since the apocalypse. How do you survive here alone?"
Lin Xiuyuan asked in disbelief, even if there is electricity here, there is no food. I really don’t know how this person has survived until now.
"Although our company offers free overtime, it provides a lot of free food during overtime. I relied on that to get by, but now there is not much left. I am afraid I can't hold on for much longer."
Shi Ran thought about it, looked around at everyone and said.
"We are not interested in the food you raise. We just want to find a genetic testing instrument we need and then leave."
Lian Ze said immediately.
"Food to feed?"
Lin Cheng swallowed and asked. He had recently watched some post-apocalyptic survival horror movies in the space. Could it be what he imagined?
"You figured it out."
Shi Ran lowered his head and asked with a somewhat alert expression.
"Well, those boxes under the windowsill outside the door are your homemade fermented fertilizer, right? And the evaporation water extraction equipment over there is also your own? And... this..."
Lian Ze raised a brown feather in his hand and continued, "At least you have plants and chickens here."
"So why did you find this place? Wouldn't it be better for me to continue living here alone? I worked so hard to create a miniature ecosystem, why do you always..."
Shi Ran suddenly burst into tears, holding his head and crying.
“…”
Lian Ze was a little stunned. He didn't seem to say anything. Why did his words make the person in front of him so sad?
"Mr. Shi, you really misunderstood. Our friend just said that we are only here to find a machine. If you want to continue here, we will not touch anything of yours."
Lu Hao then explained that Ran had really cried miserably at that time.
The middle-aged man who was howling suddenly stopped and asked with a look of disbelief, "You won't steal my chickens and vegetables?"
Who wants to steal your chicken? There are so many chickens in our space, okay? Lin Xiuyuan rolled his eyes and thought speechlessly.
"We are from the S City base, we have no shortage of food."
Su Xiangzhe also looked friendly. They didn't look like bad people, did they?
"What you said has no credibility..."
Shi Ran shook his head and said in disbelief.
"Mr. Shi, no matter what kind of person you met before, we really have no intention of offending you. We will leave here after taking the things."
Lu Hao looked at Shi Ran and said seriously.
For some reason, when Shi Ran saw Lu Hao like this, he suddenly remembered the actions of those people knocking on the door just now. Subconsciously, he nodded:
"The genetic testing equipment is here, upstairs, but I want to know what you're looking for it for?"
"My family member is in a coma and may need it."
Lian Ze said.
"So what's this S City base you're talking about like? Is there really no shortage of food there?"
After Shi Ran calmed down, he began to ask various questions.
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