"Chen Zhe, I know you want to help me, but I'm really sorry, I can't be so selfish." Xia Yixin paused, looking at the man lying on the ground, his neck and face covered in veins from struggling against the effects of the drug, and she advised him.
"Chen Zhe, have you ever considered what you actually like about me? Strictly speaking, we haven't spent much time together, and we don't really know each other. Do you like me, or just a feeling? Besides, if it was love at first sight, the Xia Yixin from over four years ago is different from me now. Now that you've left P Base, you can choose to be brave and live for yourself. Perhaps you'll discover more people and things worth your effort. Don't follow me anymore; there's no future in it."
She finished speaking in a long string of words. The man lying on the ground gradually showed a hint of confusion in his eyes, but then looked at her with even greater determination.
I owe you my life!
She had saved him three times in total, and when Chen Zhe left the P base, he was already prepared to sacrifice his life to repay her.
He thought he could persuade her, but to his surprise, Xia Yixin smiled. It was a faint, wistful, and sighing smile.
"Chen Zhe, dying is simple, really simple. What's difficult is living, and living well. If you really want to repay my life-saving grace, then treat the Dawn Base better. If Dawn is in crisis in the future, I will need your help to protect it. Remember, this is my request."
She covered his eyes with her hand and whispered, "Don't worry, I'll be back. I'm super strong."
As darkness descended, Chen Zhe finally succumbed to the effects of the drug and fell into a deep sleep.
Xia Yixin had actually put a regular sleeping potion in the soup. Since Chen Zhe's effects were so slow, it would probably only keep him unconscious for three hours.
They took Chen Zhe to the relatively safe third floor, where there happened to be a lounge.
The heavy rain outside finally stopped completely, but the black night sky was still covered by a blanket of dark clouds. It was pitch black all around, with only the piercing croaking of the mutated frogs. Flooding had already begun to accumulate in the low-lying areas outside.
After getting him onto the clean bed, Xia Yixin sighed softly. Chen Zhe was actually an excellent man. He possessed all the qualities of the people in the team: calmness, composure, a spirit of sacrifice, obedience to orders, a resolute character, decisiveness, and strong execution ability. He was also tall and aloof in appearance, but he had one flaw: he was too stubborn.
Furthermore, even if he fell in love with the original owner at first sight, the original owner had already disappeared, and she didn't want this man to continue to be blindly persistent.
She hoped that her previous words would put Chen Zhe at ease, and that time would make him forget.
Xia Yixin didn't linger. She blocked the entrance to his room to ensure his safety until he woke up three hours later.
After doing all that, she went downstairs and left quietly without driving.
The distance to Base F is no more than 100 kilometers. If she travels through the city in a straight line, the distance will be reduced by more than half.
The city streets were deserted, damp, cold, and dilapidated.
She didn't use her mental power; the aura of a seventh-tier zombie king was enough. But every now and then, crows would fall from the sky and land on the nearby ruins, their crimson eyes fixed on her.
The closer they got to the edge of the city, the more rapidly the red dot on the machine's core flashed.
Just then, she suddenly noticed something was wrong. The number of zombies on the city's outskirts was abnormal; instead, tens of millions of zombies seemed to have been attracted to the central area by something.
Are there still survivors in this city?
Or there may be another reason.
With a light leap, she used the emergency escape ladder outside the high-rise building to climb to the tenth-floor rooftop. What she saw there made her realize that the problem was not so simple.
A large number of zombies surrounded a villa surrounded by barbed wire, making it look like an isolated island.
There might be survivors inside.
She had a vague sense of foreboding, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided not to wait for Lu Yan, but to go in and take a look first.
What she didn't know was that her decision led to a series of changes in many things.
Two weeks ago, the Ark successfully encountered a convoy awaiting rescue on the high seas.
The first and second generation vaccines, along with a large amount of supplies, gave the other three ships, with nearly four hundred people, a sense of hope for the first time in the post-apocalyptic environment.
After discussing with the commanders of the other three ships, Lu Yan decided that, apart from the Ark continuing its journey to Country A to complete the mission of rescuing others, the other ships would head towards China. Now that the Dawn Base had the virus vaccine, it was as if they had grasped the key to survival in the apocalypse.
Although I've left my hometown, six years into the apocalypse, nothing is more important than "survival."
On the Ark, only Lu Yan came down, because everyone knew that he would not easily leave the mission unless it was something important, and the others expressed their understanding.
Haina officially took over the command of the Ark. Before leaving, Haina glanced at Lu Yan on the opposite deck, but ultimately said nothing and waved to him.
Haina thought there might be another time to meet again, after all, the virus vaccine on the Ark was limited, and they would have to return to China to replenish resources sooner or later. But she did not expect that this parting would be the last.
When Haina returned to mainland China six months later, everything had already exceeded her expectations.
Of course, that's a story for another time.
The other three ships traveled day and night and finally caught a glimpse of the outline of the Chinese mainland two days ago. The people on board were extremely excited. However, Lu Yan noticed something was wrong after they went ashore.
Their landing site was originally near T City, which is near the Dawn Base, but they were not welcomed by the Dawn Base.
The strangest thing is that he couldn't contact the Dawn Base with his communicator, or even Xia Yixin.
After settling the crew of the three ships in temporarily, Lu Yan found a car and drove towards the Dawn Base.
But what's terrifying is that, apart from the zombies who submitted to him because of his aura as an eighth-tier zombie king, the Dawn Base vanished as if it had evaporated into thin air.
Not only that.
He also spotted a search team on the outskirts of T City, and their mention of "K Base" made his heart sink.
Although he had no memory of the past, he still knew that K Base had been destroyed, so how could there still be a search team?
The leader looked to be in his forties and was at the peak of the fourth tier of the ice element.
Lu Yan quietly followed the group until they approached a massive base, when a surprised voice suddenly rang out from the city wall.
"Lord Bai is back!"
Lord Baicheng?
Lu Yan's heart sank deeper and deeper until he confirmed the fact that the man in his forties was actually named "Bai Jingkong".
He infiltrated K base and found out everything in less than half a day.
This is indeed K Base. Bai Jingkong is the city lord, and the city lord's wife is Guo Miaomiao. They have developed "healing water" and, through this medicine that can eliminate the zombie virus within two hours, have become the second largest base in China.
As for Xia Yixin, she died twenty years ago.
Shocked, Lu Yan decisively chose to first capture Bai Jingkong and Guo Miaomiao to confirm the truth of the matter.
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