In short, after mutant plants and animals were listed as members with personal rights, the overall atmosphere of the base changed. Mutated animals needed special training, such as learning to read and doing enlightenment work. Mutated plants needed to be regularly and carefully cared for, with music played and conversations provided. In short, they were treated like children.
Although this has spawned many occupations and provided jobs for the general public, it has also left many people unemployed.
For example, Xu Qin's weapons research and development department has been almost out of stock of materials for mutant weapons since then, and the mutant weapons that had made some progress have simply stopped developing. Fortunately, this department's business is not limited to this one, otherwise the entire department would have been in trouble.
As a result, there are so few supernatural weapons in the base now that they are more for show than for practical use.
So when Ye Xiao said that the shells of these crabs could be used to make mutant weapons, everyone who followed him out was very happy, and then began to actively catch crabs.
These crabs are really big, each one is hard, with many sharp spikes on the shell, two big pincers and eight small claws waving vigorously, making it quite difficult to catch them. But people have their own ways. These people are elites, cooperating with each other, catching crabs one by one from high places and besieging them. After figuring out their attack methods and weaknesses, they began to speed up.
Two, three, four, or five crabs were caught and processed together. When there were not so many crabs on the beach and there was a place to stand, the brave people jumped in and fought with the crabs on the beach.
Ye Xiao didn't join the fight. His opponent was the giant shadow in the shallow waters. It was a very, very flat, very large fish. No one knew what species it was, but it looked strange. It could create huge waves several meters high, and it could manipulate these waves into ropes or high-pressure water guns to attack people. It could strangle a tree that three people could hug, and it could shatter a huge rock with its impact. It was very powerful.
It is not surprising that creatures in the water have powerful water-related abilities, but Ye Xiao handled them with ease. His wind system sometimes acted as a barrier, sometimes turned into a rope, sometimes acted as a sharp thorn or blade, and sometimes became a hurricane on the sea, stirring up waves no smaller than those of the big fish, making the fish extremely annoyed and in a mess.
At the very end of the battle, the giant fish soared into the air, feinting as it prepared to plunge into the embrace of the deep sea. The next moment, Ye Xiao pulled it out of the sea and trapped it with an air barrier. Then, Lin Tantan watched as the fish rapidly shrank, its body, which had once appeared flat (only flat relative to its size, though still a meter or two thick), became only about half a meter thick, as if drained dry.
It's like a fish being dried alive in the scorching sun.
Before Lin Tantan understood what was happening, the fish suddenly exploded.
She was stunned.
Ye Xiao was also stunned for a moment, and threw a piece of fish meat from the air back into the sea, causing some waves to wash away and dilute the blood.
After quickly and efficiently destroying the body, he looked at Lin Tan Tan, bent down and touched her head: "Are you not scared?"
Lin Tan Tan looked up at him with wide eyes. What was that trick just now?
Ye Xiao also had a tacit understanding with her. He could tell what she meant from her eyes. He coughed and said, "I evacuated that area to a near vacuum."
Unexpectedly, I accidentally hit the fish and it exploded.
Lin Tantan understood. At first, the air in the fish's body was sucked out, so it was compressed. Later, the vacuum pressure was too low, so it exploded.
Lin Tantan thought, vacuum compression, this is the same as the wind net stranglehold, the special move of Ye Xiao that makes people shudder has also appeared.
Her Ye Shen is so powerful!
Because of the tragic death of the big fish, the army of crabs on the beach also panicked. They stopped fighting and wanted to dive into the sea. But it was too late for them to leave now. The brave and warlike human superpowers built earth walls, ice walls, or simply burned them with fire and entangled them with vines, and not a single one of them could escape.
It took an entire afternoon to kill all the crabs on the beach, but then the question arose: how could they carry so many crabs back home? They had only brought two space-based psychics with them, and they were only carrying some daily necessities, vehicles, and weapons. The space was not very large, and one person couldn't carry many crabs.
So we can only disassemble the crab, remove the meat and leave the shell, and the complete and good quality shell, to save space.
So the group of soldiers turned into butchers in minutes and started slaughtering crabs.
It took many days to slaughter the crabs, which made everyone miserable. They were all covered in the smell of crabs. They found some trucks to escort the crabs, and with the cooperation of two space-based psychics, including Lin Tantan's hamster, they finally sent all the crab shells back.
The supernatural weapons branch that had been closed for a long time was finally busy again. It didn't take long before they could make a good living selling weapons in addition to grain wholesale and export.
As a result, more people wanted to join the Zhengyang Base.
In the summer of the fourth year of the apocalypse, the Ning City base finally couldn't hold on any longer. More and more mutated marine creatures were flowing into inland cities along the rivers. The Ning City base was also deeply troubled. It suffered heavy losses every day, and people left one after another. Coupled with improper management, the entire base was already in an unhealthy state, so the base leadership decided to relocate the entire base.
Where to relocate? The best choice is naturally the Zhengyang base.
Under Lv Jianping's gaze, Luther contacted the Zhengyang base and explained his purpose. After a moment, he hung up the phone and said to Lv Jianping, "They agreed and said we can go there anytime. However, many people have gone to the Zhengyang base this year, and the base is quite crowded. They will try their best to arrange a place for us. And all the treatment will be the same for all the people who come."
Lu Jianping was silent for a long time, then sighed: "That's good."
He was pale and very weak. When he went out, he was attacked by an amphibian mutant of some unknown species that crawled out of the river. He was protected by someone and was not hurt, but that thing could spray venom. The venom touched his face and he immediately fell down. The wood-type mutants in the base were completely helpless.
He said to Luther, "From now on, it's all up to you. After we get through this, just do whatever they ask you to do... And on the way, it won't be easy. You discuss with everyone how to deal with it..."
His voice became weaker and he gradually fell asleep. Ruther tucked the quilt for him. Thinking that the person who seemed to be able to cure any injury was no longer with him, he felt worried and confused about Lu Jianping's health, but he quickly pulled himself together and prepared for the migration.
They are now in the compound of the Zhengyang Brigade. However, the compound has become dilapidated. There are even traces of several bloody battles on the walls and buildings. These are not left by zombies from outside, but by the internal fighting among their own people in the base.
No one had expected that the fight over a few areas with relatively complete infrastructure would cause such great dissatisfaction and provoke such fierce resistance. Although they knew that those people were just taking advantage of the issue to fight for power, if the few areas left by the Zhengyang Brigade had not been divided among their own people, perhaps the situation would not have become so difficult to resolve.
It is also possible that the base, which originally had a population of more than 5 million, would not decline so quickly. In just one or two years, its population has dropped to less than 1 million, and many of them are elderly, weak, sick and disabled.
When the Ning City base was migrating, Ye Xiao was at a port. This abandoned port had long been broken into, and countless mutated marine creatures were pouring into the river channel in the port. They looked messy, but were actually in good order, and the one commanding them was a giant octopus.
It was an octopus that was more than ten meters tall, with a big round head and each tentacle dozens of meters long. It was originally a creature of the deep sea, but probably knew that there was more delicious food on land, so it inexplicably evolved the ability to leave the water and walk on land for a long time, leading its shrimp soldiers and crab generals to attack inland.
After discovering the abnormality here, Ye Xiao ran to the port and found the leading octopus. After a fierce battle, he cut off all its tentacles and minced it into meat paste with a wind net. Only a bald head was left tenaciously alive.
The huge head was right on the port's sluice building. The mutant creatures inside and outside the port below lost their backbone and scattered into a ball. Several human teams rushed out from all directions, carrying out a bloody and brutal strangulation.
These teams were much larger than the ones that had followed Ye Xiao before. The Zhengyang Brigade had taken in many new members, some in the tens of thousands, some in the hundreds of thousands, and some in the millions. Naturally, they couldn't just let them join the base and become official members. The Zhengyang base required them to kill a certain number of zombies or mutant creatures before they could be officially recognized.
Among the mutants, of course, are the increasing number of marine life that have come ashore. People have come to realize that these are the future threats to human survival. As for the zombies, after three and a half years of the apocalypse, they have become exhausted. To put it bluntly, most of the mortals have died. Without sufficient fresh blood, the zombies will either devour themselves or gradually decay and age.
But zombies are still dangerous, and marine creatures are large and ferocious enough. All actions against them are led, planned, and directed by people from the Zhengyang base.
Ye Xiao didn't care much about these matters. He continued to travel across the country with a few people, assisting his own people in the encirclement and suppression operations whenever they encountered them. After killing the powerful and prominent zombie leaders, he set his sights on the ocean. This time, he happened to discover that a large number of marine creatures were sneaking ashore in this forgotten port, and he also discovered a heavyweight like a giant octopus. After making some arrangements, he took action.
At this moment, he was standing on the top of the sluice building, next to the octopus head that he had strung on the lightning rod, which was dripping with mucus and only had its last breath left. But he himself was not at ease either. His clothes were wet and torn, and he had many wounds. On his exposed skin, there were even marks left by the huge suction cups of the octopus's legs. His skin was bruised and swollen, as if he had been given countless poorly made cupping jars. It was a horrible sight.
He was a little out of breath and his face was a little pale. He calmed his breathing and recalled the feeling of the sudden burst of superpowers just now. He felt that he was about to break through again.
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