In particular, the squad leader of that convoy said with certainty, "This is the first time I've ever seen someone who can control zombies. I swear to God, those zombies definitely didn't just come in by chance. They were organized and planned, and they only stayed in Zone 1. They didn't leave at all! This is almost impossible, so they must have been controlled by someone. Only a person with mental power could do that!"
Interestingly, in the past five years, apart from the appearance of a first-tier psychic ability user, who is now the father of the Chen brothers at P Base, no other psychic ability users have appeared.
Can control zombies?
This is far more tempting than the "healing water" from Base K.
However, the cooperation with Base K must continue. Bai Jingkong announced that the healing water was ready to be packed. All seven bases wanted to get the "healing water" before the roads were closed in winter, so they loaded their goods and headed towards D Province.
Instead of following the main group, the Chen brothers planned to first scout out the Dawn Base.
Of course, the reason they were able to "lock in" on T City was because they had seen Hong Feng and her group restore the water power facilities and found clues to track them down.
The Chen brothers had actually met Xia Yixin before, as mentioned in the original novel.
Three years ago, Xia Yixin led three teams to search for supplies in a far-off place. They happened to encounter the Chen brothers, who were being attacked by a zombie horde. At that time, the two were not yet city lords. Both teams were hardcore in strength. After defeating the zombies, they exchanged names.
Chen Qian and Hong Feng attended the same university before the apocalypse, while Chen Zhe actually met Xia Yixin for the first time at that time. Because of their different statuses and circles, they would have never met in their entire lives if the apocalypse had not occurred.
Three years ago, Chen Zhe invited Team Three to the P base, but Xia Yixin refused.
What she didn't know was that Chen Zhe had ulterior motives three years ago, in addition to wanting to recruit people.
She had saved him once before, and at that time she truly illuminated his dark world. However, he still had the P-Base and millions of its citizens on his shoulders. So after she refused, he didn't persist.
Three years have passed since then, and it's impossible to say there are no regrets. Otherwise, why would it be Chen Zhe, whom the public generally considers "calm and collected," rather than the radical Chen Qian, who took the initiative to propose cooperation with P Base?
Of course, Xia Yixin is unaware of all of this for the time being.
The P Base convoy stopped at a highway service area more than 200 kilometers away from the Dawn Base. Thanks to Xia Yixin's command, the zombies in the vicinity had long since dispersed. Apart from a few foolish ones inside the building that were killed, everyone at the P Base felt that this stretch of road was vastly different from what they experienced outside the province.
Before entering D province, they would encounter zombie hordes from time to time and had to be on guard every night.
Upon arriving here, they rarely even had the chance to see zombies, but that didn't mean there weren't any. For example, they could see zombies wandering around in the building next door, but they were drooling over the flesh and blood and didn't get any closer.
The Chen brothers exchanged a glance, both becoming even more certain that Xia Yixin possessed spiritual power.
Moreover, they all had a premonition that the person they were waiting for was about to arrive.
Sure enough, a dozen beams of light suddenly shot out from the darkness; they were the modified long-range spotlights.
Three Hummers drove up and immediately spotted the woman sitting in the passenger seat; their eyes lit up.
She had short, clean-cut hair and looked quite stylish. Her black tracksuit made her appear even younger, and her small, delicate face was framed by a pair of phoenix eyes that were fixed on them with a cool, detached gaze.
It's her! Chen Zhe unconsciously straightened up, loudly ordering his men to put down their guns, while his once calm heart was suddenly stirred.
After glancing past Xia Yixin, Chen Qian's gaze settled on the person next to her.
A nonchalant smile curled at the corners of his lips. "Captain Xia, it's true what they say, life is full of unexpected encounters."
As the other party looked at them, Xia Yixin also saw the two male supporting characters. Both of them had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, but their temperaments were very different.
Chen Zhe is thirty years old, with a buzz cut and taut muscles all over his body, looking every bit the tough guy. He is a rare fourth-level lightning-type ability user. Judging from the original work, Chen Zhe has a straight male personality, but he has a "saintly" mentality. He was the one who advocated for the large-scale release of healing water in the later part of the original work, and he was wholeheartedly devoted to the base. Rather than saying that he likes Guo Miaomiao, it would be more accurate to say that he likes her healing water ability.
Chen Qian is twenty-five years old, a fourth-order wind elementalist, with white hair and a cynical smile on his face. In the original work, he is described as having a deep and mysterious mind, like a black sesame dumpling, and he was also the first to propose the concept of "sharing".
However, at this moment, the black sesame dumpling's smiling gaze blatantly fell on Hongfeng, while Hongfeng remained sullen.
Three years ago, the original owner seemed to remember that Hong Feng had fought with Chen Qian. At the time, the original owner thought it was just a friendly spar, and later the two were evenly matched.
But Hongfeng and Chen Qian were already at odds the moment they met.
Unfortunately, they only spent less than one night together before parting ways the next day and never seeing each other again.
Xia Yixin was pondering whether Hongfeng and Chen Qian had a connection not written in the original work when suddenly a system notification sound, which she hadn't heard in a long time, rang in her mind.
"Ding, male supporting character Chen Zhe's happiness level has increased by 5 points, total score 5%."
Xia Yixin was a little confused. She looked at the stern-faced Chen Zhe and unexpectedly met a pair of deep black eyes.
Her heart started pounding. Oh my god, could it be that Chen Zhe...?
"That's right, host. This male supporting character, Chen Zhe, does indeed like your original self." The system was clearly trying to flatter her after what had just happened. "Host, don't worry. This Chen Zhe still has a 'saintly father' heart. P Base holds a very high place in his heart. As long as there is a virus vaccine, his happiness level shouldn't be hard to raise."
Xia Yixin was a little annoyed. "Why didn't you give such detailed advice to the previous targets?"
The system, feeling both guilty and self-righteous, replied, "Host, you didn't ask..."
grass!
So, she always had the answers, looked at the results, and then created her own exam paper!?
However, she still didn't completely trust the system's words; dealing with the immediate situation was the priority.
The night was already deep.
Besides the two groups of people, the only sounds in the service area were the low growls of zombies. The snow on the ground had mostly melted, but this did not mean the end of winter. The current temperature of minus fifty degrees Celsius meant that a significant drop in temperature was likely to follow soon, followed by continuous blizzards.
The dozen or so superhumans that Hongfeng brought this time were clearly separated from the people from P Base, and they were facing off outside the small supermarket in the service area.
The small supermarket was a mess, but a small clean area was cleared out and candles were lit, serving as a makeshift meeting place.
Chen Zhe frankly stated the purpose of their trip—to form an alliance.
Xia Yixin had a feeling of "I knew it". Quickly, although the alliance was more beneficial than harmful, compared to the hundreds of superhuman teams in P base, Dawn was still too small for hundreds of thousands of people, and the distance between the two sides was too far.
This "pie" from P base came rather unexpectedly.
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