One of these three is the second-in-command of a certain gang. He is an earth-type mutant with strong strength, but he has a despicable hobby of torturing and killing young girls. It is said that young girls often go missing in the area where he is. Due to his strength and status, no one can touch him, but there are many people who hate him to the core.
One is the captain of a mercenary team. He is tough and loyal, but few people know that he was once surrounded by a group of zombies. Due to lack of food, he secretly killed one of his teammates to eat the meat. After that, he became addicted to eating human flesh and often killed people and ate their meat in private.
The other is the son of a high-ranking official. Before the apocalypse, he had killed or maimed several people in fights, but because his father protected him, he only had to pay compensation. After the apocalypse, he became even more violent and cruel, killing anyone he disliked at will.
In the eyes of those in the know, these three people are all evil people, but either they are very powerful or they have many guards around them. Ordinary people can't deal with them at all, and extraordinary people don't care about such trivial matters, so they have been at large until today.
However, these three people died on the same night, and were tortured to varying degrees and using different methods before their deaths. From the scene, it seemed that they had not put up any effective resistance, and people nearby did not hear any movement. This shows that the murderer was much stronger than them, which is truly frightening.
Some sharp-eyed people connected the three cases, but they could not find out anything. In addition, the people who died deserved to die, and no one was willing to investigate further except their relatives and friends. Some even applauded and celebrated.
As for the fact that four people disappeared overnight from Chen Xing's place, it was certainly very suspicious, but there was no way to verify it.
It was not until a long time later that someone discovered the four mercenaries at the Zhengyang base and realized that the four had been Ye Xiao's men for a long time. They also learned that three of them had deep hatreds with the three victims. Only then did they finally connect Ye Xiao with the three tragedies and know that on that night, this man had acted recklessly in the capital base and took three lives at will.
Some people even wondered if Min Yande's defeat was due to the other party's manipulation behind the scenes.
But that is all in the future. Now, the departure of the four mercenaries has had a significant impact on the structure of the capital base.
Cai Chengliang, relying on the support of these four experts, had become somewhat arrogant since returning to the capital base. In their desperate efforts to deal with Cai Chengliang, Chen Xing and his faction naturally offended many people, including many who were not closely connected to Min Yande but had vested interests. If they couldn't touch Chen Xing, could they not also touch Cai Chengliang, the seemingly culprit?
So not long after the four masters around him disappeared, Cai Chengliang was assassinated in an alley.
Chen Xing had personally destroyed Chen Xianyi, and now he had no grandson either. He was truly without a successor, a devastating blow to him. Furthermore, their faction had lost Min Yande, and Min Yande's power had been divided among the other factions, instantly weakening theirs. After Min Yande was taken away, even those who had been close to Chen Xing changed their ways and turned against him.
Chen Xing struggled to keep up the fight, and his influence quickly dwindled. He went from being a big boss in the capital to the head of a third-rate organization. He also lost his legendary aircraft, which had been researched to the point of disintegration, and was eventually taken away by someone else. From then on, the capital base took on a new look.
When the capital base began to become turbulent, a group of seven people went south smoothly, flying and stopping many times before finally arriving in Su City.
However, this place has long been devastated and deserted. Apart from the strange animals and zombies jumping around in the ruins, the entire city is filled with an atmosphere of decay and desolation, without a trace of life.
At this time, Bai Cheng had also sent a list of possible bases, gathering areas, and safe zones that the survivors of Su City might go to after evacuating Su City.
There are seven or eight of them. They are not sure where the Lin family went, but they are arranged in order of possibility from highest to lowest.
They spent two days going to a small base that was closest to the Lin family and was most likely to go to, but they happened to catch up with the migration of this small base.
Or collapse.
This small base is located near Su City. After Su City completely declined, this small base became increasingly unsustainable. Finally, the people in the base left here and went to other places. Now is the time for the last group of people to leave.
What they saw was a chaotic scene, with people dragging suitcases, carrying bags and holding children. Those with better conditions could drive, but most people could only walk.
This reminded Lin Tantan of the survivors who had fled to the Ning City base. They had also traveled a long and dusty road in a miserable state and experienced countless dangers before arriving in Ning City.
However, even if they arrived at a new location successfully, they could not relax immediately. There were still many problems to face. Just to enter the base gate, they had to hand over certain supplies. After entering the base, they had to exchange everything from food, clothing, housing and transportation with their own resources.
But even so, being able to find a safe and reliable base is already a great fortune. How many people have died on the way to find a new home.
They asked around and inquired whether there had ever been any members of the Lin family in the base. Bai Cheng had investigated Lin Tantan before and learned that her parents were still alive and she had an older brother, whose names were all noted down.
However, the people who were asked had no recollection of several of the names. This base had 200,000 to 300,000 people in its heyday, and there was no electronic entry system, and even names were not registered in detail. In this situation, it was really difficult to find a few people.
Then they went to several other places, but found nothing. Finally, Lin Tantan gave up the search and suggested going back. Then the group returned to the Ning City base.
I left at the end of September and came back in mid-October. There haven't been many changes in the Ning City base, except that there are more and more new people coming to the base recently. The apocalypse has entered its tenth month. Many bases and safe zones have been established, but they have also disbanded for various reasons. The survivors have chosen to join other bases. The Ning City base is now famous, so naturally more and more people are coming here.
The area managed by Zhengyang Brigade has expanded from three to five. The infrastructure construction has been very active and has hardly stopped. The grain in the planting area has been harvested completely, and the new grain has just been stored in the warehouse and planted again in the fields.
At the end of October, the new machine was finally completed after four months of rush work.
That day, Lin Tantan also went to the factory to take a look.
The new magic machine is similar to the old one in appearance, but its functions and performance are much stronger. Of the two magic machines, one was given to Lu Jianping as promised, and the other one was taken away by the Zhengyang Brigade as soon as it was obtained. The long-awaited inspection team left on it. They were going to inspect the site selection of five bases, which must be decided as soon as possible, as they will move after the New Year.
This time, Ye Xiao, Bai Cheng, Cheng Qinan, and several other professionals left together. In the past, even though Ye Xiao was often on "business trips", Bai Cheng was always there. But this time, when the two giants left together, the Zhengyang base seemed to be much emptier, which made people a little uncomfortable. However, the two deputy captains, Lin Tantan and Xu Qin, were still there and immediately took on the responsibility of management.
The best part was that Lin Tantan had just established a reputation for being a tough guy, so commanding the Zhengyang Brigade was a piece of cake for him.
Initially, someone, either ill-informed or simply blind, came over and said they wanted to order a magic machine. That would have been fine, but their attitude was also rude, so Lin Tantan retorted with a mocking remark: "Is it now the turn of a woman to be in charge of the Zhengyang Brigade?"
Then, he was knocked down by Lin Tantan and hung in front of the compound gate for three days and three nights, almost becoming a dried corpse. Some people who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak into the factory to steal secrets or secretly sabotage were also caught by Lin Tantan and hung up.
After that, no one dared to act rashly.
On this day, a strange man came to the Ning City base.
He was said to be strange because although he was wearing ordinary clothes, he had his hair tied in a bun on his head, his face was clear and his posture was straight, and he looked like he was not an ordinary person. Although he looked weathered from traveling, he could not conceal the temperament of an otherworldly master, and it was easy for people to notice him standing in the crowd.
The man looked up at the Ning City base's increasingly tall and majestic walls and sighed softly, "As expected, fortune is at its peak and unstoppable."
To others, the Ning City base was bustling with activity, densely populated, prosperous, and orderly, thriving and rapidly developing. However, this person could see a tangible vitality shrouding the base, especially one particular area. It looked pleasing, yet also quite unusual.
The girl beside him didn't understand any of this, but looking at the sturdy and tall city walls, the queues of people waiting to enter, and recalling the chaotic state of Tsu City, a dark light flashed in her eyes. She asked, "What should we do? Will this become the most prosperous place in the future?"
The man shook his head: "The fortune of this place lies in the people, not the place. Let's go and meet Doctor Lin."
Lin Tantan thought he had misheard: "A Taoist priest wants to see me? A Taoist priest?"
For a long time, there have been many people who wanted to see her, of all kinds, but there has never been a Taoist priest.
What was this all about? The profession of Taoist priests completely disappeared in later generations, but it still existed three hundred years ago. The National Library of later generations still preserves many self-proclaimed monks and Taoist priests from this era, explaining the apocalyptic catastrophe: the collapse of heaven and earth, the severing of dragon veins, the impending doom of all living things, and the spread of demonic energy and evil spirits.
Those who believe it believe it very much, those who don’t believe it don’t believe a single word of it, and Lin Tantan is the kind of person who can’t understand it at all.
However, she did have a low level of education, and spent the little time she had trying to survive, improving her professional skills, and chasing stars. She had no time to study any monk's papers.
Now, when she heard that a Taoist priest wanted to see her, she felt curious and a little nervous. This kind of person seemed to be a little mysterious. She had been completely insulated from such things before, but time travel and resurrection had happened. She herself was an embodiment of the mysterious. Wouldn't the Taoist priest be able to see her origin?
After hesitating for a while, she still didn't plan to meet the other party. Ye Xiao was not there, and she would be unsure if something really happened.
I just asked someone to go and see what was going on with the Taoist priest. The person who came said that this person had set up a fortune-telling stall in the base, and quite a few people patronized him because he was really accurate in the past. However, his income was almost zero, because not only was he accurate in his predictions, he also told people how miserable their future would be, how pitiful their second half of life would be, and even that they would be covered in blood and would not live long.
The truth is probably the truth. After all, it is not easy to live a good life in this world. But what people want to hear is that they will be rich and have no worries about food and clothing in the future. But you tell the truth so bluntly. Who would be willing to listen to it? If the customers are unhappy, how can they give them money, oh no, supplies?
Lin Tantan felt a little complicated after hearing what he said. It seemed that he was indeed a man with real abilities.
Then this man with real ability came again the next day, still saying that he wanted to see her, and asked someone to bring her a message: Things that are stolen are not yours after all.
Lin Tantan's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. What did this mean? This mysterious person was truly extraordinary. Could he have seen through her without even meeting her?
She hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to meet the person.
Then she saw a guy with a bun on his head, who looked young and handsome, but had an unfathomable temperament.
But because he was wearing an ordinary T-shirt and black pants, which were a bit dirty, it looked very out of place, and his aura as a master was immediately reduced.
Lin Tan Tan looked at him obscurely, and twice more at his seemingly deep and mysterious eyes, and said calmly, "Who are you, and what do you want to say? We don't know each other at all."
The other person was also looking at her, with a look of surprise on his face. After looking at her for a long time, he showed an expression of "as expected" and sighed: "As expected."
Lin Tantan's heart skipped a beat again, and he pursed his lips and said coldly, "If you have something to say, just say it. My time is very precious."
The other party said: "You are also a fellow traveler, right?"
Lin Tan Tan: “?”
"I can't understand your face at all. Your past and future are completely blurred. This has never happened before. You must have used some method to change your fate, or to cover up something." The man with the bun had a frank expression, a determined gaze, and a calm tone with a sigh. "To be able to achieve this, your cultivation is obviously not shallow. It's no surprise that you can steal the luck of others, or even an entire place."
Lin Tan Tan: "..."
Lin Tan Tan: “???”
The author has something to say: Lin Tan Tan: What is he talking about?
Man with a bun: I didn't expect to encounter such an unfathomable evil heretic. The people of the world are in danger (heavy sighing face)
Ye Xiao: ...roll roll roll!
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