"Rebirth in the Apocalypse" - No Rebirth (Chapter 24)...
Ye Xiqing expressed her doubts, "Who said she doesn't do research?"
Winter passed, and as the season of renewal arrived, I took the opportunity to research the base's rations. I never expected it to cause such a stir; my good intentions were completely ignored.
Ye Xiqing called to Gan Man, "Make me a bowl of instant noodles."
After the concept of scientific superpowers was passed down, everyone's understanding of superpowers deepened to varying degrees, and Gan Man was no exception.
Her understanding of water-based superpowers is no longer limited to the superficial control of water or freezing. Water is commonly found in nature in both solid and liquid forms, and the solid state of water is often accompanied by low temperatures, giving people a fixed impression of water as cold. However, if one can control the high-speed vibration and friction of water molecules, it is also possible to generate heat.
By controlling a ball of water to vibrate rapidly, boiling water is obtained. This can be used not only to boil and wash Ye Xiqing's bandages, but also to make her instant noodles. It's really convenient.
Rosie insisted on taking on fieldwork because it offered opportunities to quietly swindle some extra money.
Of course, she is also a person of principle and will not be greedy for everything. She is just really interested in food. Whenever she sees instant noodles, ham, potato chips, chocolate, or snail rice noodles, she will secretly hoard some. Little by little, the stock in her space is astonishing.
After Ye Xiqing took over her spatial bracelet, he often used it to store other things, so he kindly helped her finish the food. This was the last bucket.
When you want to eat it later, just ask the base for it. I really don't know why the original owner would secretly hide things. Once you become the owner of the base, you can have whatever resources you want from the entire base.
It's perfectly reasonable that the others in the base have fish to eat, and the leftovers are given to her.
Thanks to the amazing additives before the apocalypse, many things are still fresh.
Even Gan Man wouldn't say anything about her eating alone.
Looking at Ye Xiqing's wounds that kept healing and getting worse, Gan Man felt that it was reasonable for her to eat people.
But seeing the red liquid rising in the bowl, Gan Man's worrying nature kicked in again: "Doctor, with your current health, you should eat less spicy food."
Ye Xiqing: "What's it to you?"
Gan Man:......
Regardless, the Huiyang base underwent a significant transformation because of the fish in that river.
The base's food resources have increased significantly, internal work has increased, while external activities have been reduced overall.
All ordinary field personnel were laid off and replaced with people with superpowers. Ordinary personnel were assigned to work near the base, responsible for cleaning the river and raising and planting fish and plants. If there was any trouble, they would rush back to the base.
The fieldwork shifted from searching for supplies to searching for various biological samples for Dr. Luo's research.
Although using zombies to feed carrion fish and decaying plants is somewhat shocking, it is definitely beneficial to the base.
In the apocalypse, having nothing to eat is definitely more terrifying than not eating well. Now, we have a source of life and a way to deal with zombies.
With its moat for defense and river fish for food, the Radiant Sun Base suddenly felt the crushing wheels of the apocalypse slow down.
The entire base began to regain its vitality, and people's minds gradually came back to life.
Such significant changes at the Huiyang base will not only affect the people within the base but also those at surrounding bases.
No secrets stay hidden forever. The major changes at the Huiyang base were gradually revealed to other bases as well.
People inside the Huiyang base are going out less, while more people are wandering around outside.
Luan Anchun noticed them the moment they took their first step and, with a slight thought, notified Ye Xiqing.
Another function of mental abilities is long-distance information transmission; within the range of mental power, it is as convenient as a wireless network.
Moreover, only those with sensitive minds can detect these subtle fluctuations. The two psychic ability users can sense each other, but others cannot, making it their unique way of communicating.
Luan Anchun prefers to use his mental energy to observe from afar, while Ye Xiqing prefers to use his mental energy to look inward. The two complement each other perfectly and share resources.
Ye Xiqing sat upright in the laboratory, already aware of the news from the outside world.
As long as they don't steal fish, it's fine.
Luan Anchun couldn't help but smile.
That probably wasn't an attempt to steal fish.
...
The days passed peacefully like this, with people coming and going outside the base, each only taking a short stroll before leaving.
But one day, several cars arrived, carrying a group of women, heading straight for the gate and begging Huiyang Base to open its doors.
The base's sentries, of course, had to stop them, but the women's pleas grew louder.
Just as the gatekeeper was at a loss, Luan Anchun happened to appear again, his gaze falling on the women: "Let them in first."
Luan Anchun led them to his medical department. These women, who had arrived unexpectedly, were dressed in rags, seemed dazed, and many of them had gunshot wounds.
Upon seeing the gunshot wounds, Luan Anchun's gaze froze for a moment, prioritizing the treatment of those most seriously injured.
After dealing with these seriously injured patients, Luan Anchun instructed his students to care for the patients and to write a prescription to send someone to the pharmaceutical department to pick up the medicine.
Put the gloves you take off into the recycling bin. Even medical equipment in the apocalypse can't afford to throw away a pair after use; they all need to be recycled, disinfected, and reused.
Having done everything, she looked gently at the remaining people: "Who are you people?"
Her kind attitude instantly broke down the women's defenses. A woman named Qi Ke slowly raised her head and said, "We escaped from the Giant Shark Base."
As mentioned before, the core worldview of this world is the end of the world, and women have become reproductive tools. The Radiant Sun Base has gentle ways of playing, while other bases are more brutal. The Giant Shark Base is a typical example of brutality.
As the second strongest base in Huiyang City, the women inside had resigned themselves to their fate, but they never expected to hear such news.
The Huiyang base has zombie vaccines and superpower drugs, and the superpower drugs can only be used by women?
Of course, the base's higher-ups wouldn't tell the woman such news, but news is like water and air, seeping into everything. Qi Ke is a very observant person and can often deduce complete information from the slightest clues.
Upon hearing this news, no woman could remain calm; each of them had the same thought in their mind—
They're trying to escape to the Radiant Sun Base!
Judging from the current results, they have succeeded, but judging from their mental state, they don't seem to have escaped alive.
After thinking for a moment, I roughly understood the key question: "How did you escape?"
Hearing her ask that, the rest of the people cried even harder.
The woman named Qi Ke clutched a red hair ribbon tightly in her hand.
Even in the apocalypse, when morality and social order have collapsed, people who act too extremely will be targeted by those who feel threatened, and those who are too extreme will not survive.
The reason why the Giant Shark Base can remain standing despite its inhumane treatment of people is because they have guns.
After the apocalypse, the leader of the Giant Shark Base was the first to awaken his superpowers and cleverly seized control of the armory in Huiyang City, realizing his dream of hoarding guns while his neighbors hoarded food in the apocalypse.
Firearms provide a huge boost to ordinary people. Combined with top-tier superpowers, firearms instantly made Giant Shark the tyrant of Huiyang City.
At the very beginning of the apocalypse, many people were not killed by the harsh environment, but by them.
The apocalypse is a disaster for others, but it is a liberation for them. They can kill whenever they want, and they don't care about resources but just want to have fun.
Given the Giant Shark leader's personality, he definitely wants to take advantage of this apocalyptic opportunity to unify Huiyang City and become king.
But as the survivors became more accustomed to the apocalypse, more people with superpowers took to the stage, and everyone banded together to survive. The leader of the giant sharks slowly discovered that the rules of the apocalypse were not as simple as he had thought.
Ammunition is not a panacea; most notably, post-apocalyptic resources simply cannot support an unlimited supply of ammunition, and they cannot afford to waste it any longer.
In contrast, superhumans became something without cost. As long as there were people, they would continue to awaken. In the end, they became weak in their actions, but the large population of the Huiyang Base eventually surpassed them.
The Giant Shark Base was very resentful that the Radiant Sun Base had surpassed them to become the leader, but they also saw the importance of population.
In order to expand their base and increase their population, they began hunting women everywhere.
Female superhumans team up to kill them, ordinary women are captured as rewards to recruit strong men, and weak men are used as laborers and food reserves.
The unfortunate women who were captured naturally hated them to the core, but faced with a heavily guarded base staffed with guns and possessing supernatural abilities, ordinary people who were unarmed were powerless to resist.
In such an environment, many women have become numb, but when they suddenly heard this news, the flame of hope in their hearts was rekindled.
The group quietly gathered together, trying to come up with a solution. A girl named Song Yiqing slowly raised her head and said, "I have a solution."
Song Yiqing is a very quiet person who doesn't communicate with anyone, and people don't have a deep impression of her.
Hearing her suddenly speak, everyone looked at her and asked what her plan was. They then received a startling answer: "I'll turn into a zombie and clear the way for you."
Everyone: ...
What?
Song Yiqing silently took out something.
Before the apocalypse, she was not a very sociable person, and this hasn't changed much after the apocalypse.
She is so sensitive to malice in other people's slightest actions that opening her heart becomes very difficult for her.
Such introversion is often seen as dullness, but she was actually thinking intensely inside.
So one day, for some reason, I suddenly had a thought: when humans can't beat humans, let's become zombies.
She formed the idea so easily, and carried it out smoothly as well. A piece of flesh had already been cut off from her palm by a zombie.
While Huiyang Base was busy digging its moat, the deal between Giant Shark Base and Huiyang Base for the zombie virus vaccine failed. Their people were captured by zombies, and the zombies used a simple cutting method, which gave Song Yiqing an opportunity.
It wasn't specifically prepared for escape, but it was just a coincidence that the plans overlapped.
Qi Ke initiated this escape, but there were some things she hadn't actually prepared for: "We're escaping to survive, what's the point of becoming zombies?"
significance?
Song Yiqing lowered her head and pondered the two words.
She did all this not for any particular purpose, but as part of a plan. She could have carried out her plan without any psychological burden.
But at the last moment, fate played a trick on her, overturning all her preconceived notions just when she had made her decision, so that she now has to rethink the meaning.
So there was another way out after all; there was still a chance to turn back.
Only now did she realize that perhaps her choice to destroy herself was not because she hated life, but because she hated despair.
But just before she chose destruction, someone told her that there was still hope, and even the motivation that had driven her to make that choice without regret dissolved in that hope.
Song Yiqing no longer knew what the point of her actions was, but she still suddenly bit open her arm with her teeth, putting the virus-laden flesh and the wound back together.
The reaction to the zombie virus was swift. Song Yiqing soon felt her limbs becoming uncontrollable. She used her remaining thoughts to contemplate meaning and her last bit of self-control to tear off the hairband from her hair.
Everything about her, like her personality, was dull and unremarkable, except for this red hairband, which stood out.
He handed the hairband to Qi Ke.
"Take...it...as long as I see...I...will never...harm...you...I swear!"
No one knows what happened at the time. The women pounded on the door and called for help. The doorman came in impatiently, but the moment he opened the door, he was tackled to the ground by the zombie-like Song Yiqing and had his throat bitten off.
Following behind the zombified Song Yiqing, the group tearfully stripped the guards of their weapons and then charged out of the base with a zombie.
It was really chaotic at the time. Nobody had time to think. They just grabbed any gun they saw and killed anyone they saw. Fear and pain were no longer in their minds.
Despite the chaotic rampage as they charged out of the base, some people were still hit by bullets.
No one is meant to die, but living is so difficult.
What is more despairing than falling before despair is falling before hope, unable to move forward, not knowing why one is so unfortunate.
However, they could not leave with their living companions, but at least they could stay with their dead companions.
They rubbed virus-infected bits of flesh into their wounds—this was their final decision. If they couldn't escape as living people, they would become zombies and wipe out everyone in the base!
...
Even when their teammates were shot and fell behind, the remaining people didn't dare to look back. They grabbed a car and sped away, led by a local familiar with the terrain of Huiyang City, towards the Huiyang base.
They didn't know when the chase had stopped, and when they arrived at the Huiyang base, they were even more mentally broken.
If the entire army is wiped out, they'll probably just laugh and curse, "This shitty apocalypse is utter shit! I should have known to die at the start; all that suffering was for nothing."
But after actually escaping, they discovered that so many people who wanted to live had died right at the gates of life.
Such a heavy price makes even success seem tragic.
Luan Anchun hadn't expected such a tragic story. He sighed slightly and comforted them, "Alright, alright, you're safe now. I'll report to my superiors, and they'll keep you here."
As for why she was so certain, the person above her was Ye Xiqing.
Given the magnitude of this "diplomatic incident," the base's top leadership naturally convened a plenary meeting.
This time, Ye Xiqing didn't even bother acting. She simply sat in the main seat, put her legs up on the table, and smiled at everyone: "Go ahead and accept it. Why don't you accept it?"
"Didn't everyone encourage women to have more children to increase the population of the base?"
"Now we don't have to give birth or raise children, and we have dozens more people. Everyone must be overjoyed."
Everyone: ...
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