The following day, Xia Yixin took her parents to the cleaned-up medical university.
There wasn't a single zombie left on the thousands of acres of university campus. Of course, some corpses were buried by Xia Yixin's zombies after they dug a pit.
The backup generator in the research building has been running at low fuel consumption for five years, keeping many of the devices inside in good working order. Xia Yixin and her father brought back enough diesel from a nearby gas station, enough for a year's use.
After settling her parents in, Xia Yixin moved the pigs from the mountain over. There were also some surviving poultry in the laboratory, whose blood contained viral antibodies. After keeping a blood sample of her own, Xia Yixin asked to go out for at least a week.
Xia's parents had been watching their daughter control the zombies with ease lately, and given her identity as the Zombie Queen, they weren't too worried. They only reminded her not to easily reveal her identity as the Zombie Queen, since ordinary people see zombies as enemies.
After Xia's father sealed off the gates of the medical university, Xia Yixin had two level-five zombies protect her from the outside.
By the time we drove back to the vicinity of Base K, it was already completely dark.
At this point, two weeks had passed since they were affected by the K base.
Xia Yixin successfully followed the search team into the K base using the [Invisibility] function.
K Base was built on the site of a dam. Before that, it was a large area of half-built lakeside villas. Five years after the apocalypse, 50,000 people flocked here.
A large amount of reinforced concrete was used to build its outer wall, which is ten meters high. The design is U-shaped. The further in you go, the closer you are to the dam, the better the windy season, and the higher the terrain. Conversely, the further out you go, the worse the living facilities and the worse the environment become. Most people can only live in shacks, and many people freeze to death when winter comes.
That was the third-class citizen area. The base only guaranteed one "energy block" per day, which was a high-protein substance made from cockroaches, earthworms, and the like. Water was one bottle per person per day.
Those with special abilities or those involved in base construction and operation are second-class citizens. Most of the search teams are also second-class citizens, relying on searching for supplies or killing zombies to obtain crystal cores and exchange them for points. Third-class citizens can do the same, using points to exchange for food and water. However, third-class citizens are generally ordinary people without special abilities, and they would only die if they faced zombies alone. Therefore, some starving third-class citizens would join the search teams to act as "meat shields." Although being responsible for attracting zombies is a life-or-death situation, they can still earn enough food for their families.
As for first-class citizens, they are the high-ranking officials of K Base. They are few in number and are mostly merchants, special political figures, and their families who brought in a large amount of supplies and equipment after the apocalypse. In fact, they are the biggest parasites in the entire base.
The families of the three teams all lived close by. Since learning the devastating news of the team's annihilation, the families had been very quiet. Every night, they would gather at the home of Hong Meng, the only strength-type ability user among them, who was also the father of Hong Feng, the vice-captain of Xia Yixin.
The families comforted and clung to each other, their biggest belief being, "Our children are definitely not dead; they will surely come back." But they knew that such a possibility was slim.
Tonight they also learned a rumor: "Xia Ru is going to send them to District Three soon."
“You all know what the Third District is like. It’s no place for humans to live. Xia’s parents were attacked there even with Xia’s protection. If we, the old and weak, go there now, we won’t come out alive! Uncle Meng, let’s escape! Let’s get out of here.” One of them suggested, and the others immediately agreed.
Hong Meng was tall, but also over fifty years old. He thought of his daughter, whose fate was unknown. Her death was shrouded in mystery, and even a fool could see that there was a conspiracy involved.
It was Xia Ru and Guo Miaomiao, that venomous mother and daughter duo. Even Bai Jingkong suspected that he was in cahoots with them.
His eyes hardened with determination. "Okay, let's escape. I'll contact the search teams that are on good terms with us right away. We must find a way to escape before we get to District Three."
The group discussed things at his house for a while, completely unaware that their conversation had already been overheard by people listening nearby.
The person listening was about to report when suddenly a pain shot through the back of their neck, their mind went blank, and they mechanically sat up straight like a wooden puppet.
When Xia Yixin used her mental power to alter someone else's memories for the first time, she found it to be not difficult at all. All she had to do was penetrate into the neurons and sever the relevant memories.
She casually knocked out the person monitoring the situation, so that tomorrow morning, he would only remember that he had accidentally fallen asleep.
Xia Yixin jumped down from the rooftop where the eavesdropper was located, and in her invisible state, she moved as if she were in an empty place.
After the three families in Hongmeng's house had all left, she went inside before the door closed.
Hong Meng felt a gust of wind and turned around alertly. "Who!?"
When he saw Xia Yixin cancel her invisibility, his pupils contracted. "Captain Xia!?"
The next day.
Because there was no tip-off from the surveillance personnel, Xia Ru and Guo Miaomiao did not send the families of the third team to the third district in advance. More importantly, they received a message that Bai Jingkong had returned, and with a large amount of supplies.
The seven most powerful bases on the entire continent held a war conference a little over a month ago, presumably to define their spheres of influence.
K Base is the third largest base in the north, and as the only base with "healing water abilities," Bai Jingkong's small bottle of "healing water" provided by Guo Miaomiao made him the most eye-catching person at the entire meeting.
Even the two brothers who are the city lords of P Base, the largest and most powerful base in the north, specifically mentioned that they would visit K Base to "learn" in a while. They reached a cooperation agreement, and K Base will provide "healing water" to P Base in the future.
The large quantity of firearms and ammunition that Bai Jingkong brought back this time was a "gift of sincerity" from P Base. The Chen brothers from P Base will arrive in half a month.
On the way back, Bai Jingkong was in a better mood than ever before. Everything was going in the direction he hoped for, especially after he learned about Xia Yixin's situation a few days ago on his way back.
Bai Jingkong was not surprised by Xia Yixin's death. He had long been wary of Xia Yixin, who had a strong influence in the search team, so he deliberately hinted at it to Xia Ru before leaving.
But he hadn't expected that they would implicate the three strongest teams in the entire K base. However, what she had done was done, and Bai Jingkong's only option was to find external partners; the P base was their chance to rise again.
All of this was due to his keen eye for talent; he managed to win over Guo Miaomiao, this "healing water-type superpowered being," through a combination of coaxing and deception.
Bai Jingkong seemed to see the future K base becoming the number one base, with herself standing in the conference room receiving the admiration and worship of countless people.
However, at that moment, the truck suddenly came to a screeching halt.
Before Bai Jingkong could even erupt in anger, the driver next to her screamed in terror, "Zombie horde!"
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