Chapter 36.036 Tonight we're leaving the base to investigate the mutated animals...
Tonight we're leaving the base to investigate the abnormalities of the mutated animals.
As Meng Qinghe wiped the dagger, the cool touch of the metal as her fingertips traced the blade calmed her wildly beating heart.
Chi Yingdong, standing to the side, was checking his equipment and adjusting his wrist guards; his black combat uniform accentuated his tall and imposing figure.
Suddenly, the piercing air raid siren ripped through the silent space.
The two looked up and simultaneously gazed northward.
Chi Yingdong: "Let's go."
Her voice was low and tense.
On the road leading north to the base.
Ordinary people fled in panic toward the inner city.
The sounds of children crying, hurried footsteps, and objects falling mingled together.
As Meng Qinghe walked forward, he occasionally heard curses.
The weather is hot and dry, and everyone is in a bad mood.
If the situation weren't so dire, a fight might have broken out.
The superhumans, on the other hand, went against the tide, silently and swiftly gathering at the outer perimeter.
At the corner, a woman holding a baby nearly bumped into Chi Yingdong, who nimbly dodged to the side and reached out to support the swaying mother.
"Thank you." Before the woman could finish speaking, she was pushed forward by the surging crowd behind her.
"Qingqing, stay close to me."
Chi Yingdong lowered his voice and led Meng Qinghe outside.
The closer you get to the outer perimeter, the stronger the smell of blood becomes in the air.
Meng Qinghe felt her throat tighten. She saw Chi Yingdong's nostrils flare slightly and his lips pressed tightly together.
When they finally arrived at the base gate, the sight before them made Meng Qinghe gasp.
As they expected, it was indeed a surprise attack by mutated animals.
And after numerous battles, the mutated animals have become even more cunning.
Meng Qinghe saw the koala population, which had swelled to more than twice its size since the apocalypse. Their claws were pulling hard on the metal net, which made a teeth-grinding scraping sound as it was pulled.
Besides koalas, there are many other mutated animals.
For example: cheetah, monkey, panda...
Seeing something in person and seeing it in a picture are two completely different experiences.
These mutated animals are much larger than imagined.
Furthermore, the eyes of these mutated animals, just as described in the documents, have an eerie scarlet hue.
Meng Qinghe gripped the dagger tightly, her heart pounding but her eyes resolute.
She noticed that the koalas' claws had become unusually sharp, and they were climbing up at incredible speed, trying to jump over the fence.
The koala drew the attention of most of the superhumans, while the elephant took the opportunity to ram the wall with its massive body. The wall collapsed, and the cheetah and monkey immediately rushed in through the gap.
Immediately, someone screamed.
"Come over here quickly, a mutated animal has run in."
Upon hearing the sound, some of the superhumans shifted their focus to defense.
Meng Qinghe frowned as he looked at the scene before him and asked in confusion, "Are they coordinating their attacks?"
Chi Yingdong frowned. "Yes."
Before the words were finished, a sharp cry came from overhead.
Meng Qinghe looked up and saw a huge bird-like creature swooping down at an astonishing speed—a mutated eagle.
The mutated eagle's outstretched wings seemed capable of blotting out the sky, and its sharp claws gleamed coldly in the rising sun.
But even faster than the eagle was Chi Yingdong's ice spike, which pierced straight through the eagle's right eye.
However, the injured eagle seemed to feel no pain at all and continued to attack them.
While dodging, Meng Qinghe said, "It doesn't feel pain? Has it turned into a zombie?"
Chi Yingdong was also unaware that she had gathered supernatural power in her palm and unleashed another ice spike.
She threw it with perfect aim; the ice pick pierced the eagle's hind leg, and blood dripped from the sky.
The eagle flew much slower, but it did not give up.
The eagle is getting closer and closer.
Chi Yingdong didn't delay any longer. With a change of heart, the icy coldness spread from the eagle's wound to his entire body.
Soon, the eagle turned into an ice sculpture in the air and plummeted downwards.
The superhumans below had already noticed the commotion in the sky and retreated, leaving only the mutated animals charging forward, only to be smashed flat by the eagle.
The impact crushed most of the mutated animals, immediately relieving the pressure on the superhumans.
A multitude of colorful superpowers were unleashed, attacking the mutated animals.
Half an hour later, a pile of mutated animal corpses lay on the ground.
After a while, ordinary people emerged from the corners and began picking up the corpses of the mutated animals.
Superhumans dislike the meat of mutated animals, but they don't; with this meat, they can live for a long time.
Chi Yingdong noticed a small, jet-black snake among the carcasses of mutated animals. Taking advantage of the chaos in the crowd, the snake swam quickly into the distance.
All the mutated animals they have seen so far are much larger than those before the apocalypse.
This black snake is less than the thickness of a thumb...
This seems somewhat illogical.
Chi Yingdong called out to Meng Qinghe, "There might be a clue. Let's follow it."
Before Meng Qinghe could react, Chi Yingdong pulled him forward.
The black creature fled in the direction of the Shanghai Zoo.
Standing at the entrance of the zoo, Meng Qinghe couldn't help but sigh at how much time had passed.
Even though she had never been to Shanghai, she knew about the Shanghai Zoo.
This used to be the largest zoo in Shanghai, receiving countless visitors every day.
However, now the zoo's signboard is hanging down, and the ground is a mess.
As Meng Qinghe entered the zoo, his doubts deepened. There wasn't a single animal in the zoo; every enclosure was completely empty.
Did these animals all go to attack the base?
"Qingqing, look here."
Hearing Chi Yingdong calling him, Meng Qinghe immediately went over.
Chi Yingdong showed her a series of muddy shoe prints.
The mud on the shoe prints was still damp, not dried by the sun, indicating it had appeared recently.
There was a third person in the zoo besides the two of them.
Chi Yingdong determined the direction the person had gone based on the footprints and followed them with Meng Qinghe.
If you keep walking forward, there are no animals in the enclosures on either side, and further ahead are the zoo's staff dormitories.
Upon entering, they found clothes drying on the windowsill of one of the staff dormitories.
They didn't know whether the other party was someone who controlled mutated animals, or what their strength was, so Meng Qinghe and Chi Yingdong didn't make any rash moves.
The two men made simple disguises and hid 100 meters away from the staff dormitory.
Chi Yingdong saw the little black snake again. The black snake swam out of the dormitory building, and when it was some distance away from the building, she immediately went forward to catch it.
She wanted to see if the people in the dormitory would come out on their own if the snake didn't go back.
She instinctively disliked snakes, so she simply erected an ice dome in the blackness.
Meng Qinghe looked at the black snake that kept banging its head against the ice cover and felt a pang of regret. He thought to himself, "If only little Yao Yao were here, she could communicate with the black snake."
Just as Meng Qinghe was thinking this, he suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice.
"Damn humans, humans are indeed all treacherous and cunning."
Meng Qinghe looked at the black snake inside the ice cover with a puzzled expression. The black snake met her gaze without any fear.
The ice shield formed by the superpower prevented other superpowered beings from getting close to the little snake, and the little snake, which had briefly regained its clarity, immediately began its cursing.
She heard a voice shouting, "Go ahead and kill me if you dare!"
Meng Qinghe asked, "Do you want to die?"
The black snake remained silent.
It just shouted that; if it really dared to die, it wouldn't have listened to that woman.
"Grandmother is right, there isn't a single good woman down the mountain."
The black snake felt increasingly aggrieved. The first time she came down from the mountain, she was captured and locked up in a zoo under the pretense of doing it for her own good.
Finally, the world changed, and no one was watching him. He tried to sneak back into the mountains, but was caught by a woman who appeared out of nowhere.
It didn't even try to run away today, yet it was caught again.
The black snake began to sob softly.
Hearing a snake cry for the first time, Meng Qinghe really didn't know what to do and looked to Chi Yingdong for help.
Seeing Meng Qinghe's conflicted expression, Chi Yingdong asked, "What's wrong?"
Meng Qinghe pointed to the black snake inside the ice cover, "She's crying."
After saying this, Meng Qinghe said to the black snake, "Stop crying, it sounds awful. Tell me what you know, and maybe I can get you out of here."
Black Snake cried horribly after being scolded, feeling increasingly aggrieved. Then he heard that he could go home.
It pressed itself against the ice cover, staring expectantly at Meng Qinghe, "Are you really going to let me go back?"
Meng Qinghe nodded. "Just tell me what happened."
The black snake nodded vigorously.
“I’ll tell you everything, except you told me to go home and find my grandmother.”
Meng Qinghe asked, "Why did you attack the base?"
The little snake grumbled, "It's not like we wanted to go there."
It replied, "We need a woman to send us."
Meng Qinghe continued, "What woman? Does her ability level matter?"
Black Snake had no idea about superpower levels, so he told her everything he knew: "It's the woman who lives in the back house. I don't know what superpowers are, but when I'm with her, I can't help but listen to her."
Meng Qinghe rephrased the question, "Do many small animals listen to her when they're with her?"
Black Snake thought for a moment and immediately denied it, "No, they attacked the base because there was something inside that attracted us."
Meng Qinghe asked, "What is it?"
Black Snake glanced quickly at Meng Qinghe, "I don't know, we've never been inside the base."
The conversation has ended.
Meng Qinghe relayed the speed information that the black snake had mentioned to Chi Yingdong.
Chi Yingdong was initially surprised that Meng Qinghe could talk to snakes, but then he realized that in some ways, they were similar.
The thing is, the cat and the snake don't have a language barrier.
After thinking for a moment, Chi Yingdong said to Meng Qinghe, "Ask it if it knows when the people in the dormitory building will come out?"
Meng Qinghe relayed the question.
Black Snake thought for a moment, "Let's wait a while. She should go out to the Sichuan Pavilion to dig for winter bamboo shoots."
The Sichuan Pavilion houses several pandas. To facilitate their care, the zoo planted a bamboo grove, and it's currently bamboo shoot harvesting season.
Chi Yingdong picked up the ice pack and walked towards the Sichuan Pavilion.
The pandas in the Sichuan Pavilion have disappeared.
Just when Meng Qinghe thought that the people in the dormitory building didn't want to eat bamboo shoots today, and that they might finally get someone, a woman appeared.
Even in the apocalypse, she was still wearing a white dress and white sneakers.
If she had to describe a woman, Meng Qinghe could only think of three words: innocent and pure.
They look innocent, naive, and without any ill intentions.
Why would someone like that allow base animals to attack the base?
The woman walked in.
Meng Qinghe felt that the face looked familiar.
But the memory was too distant, and she couldn't recall it for the time being.
When she came to her senses, Meng Qinghe noticed that Chi Yingdong was staring at Xiaobaihua with a bad expression.
Meng Qinghe: "You know her?"
Chi Yingdong nodded and then shook his head, "I know him, but we're not close."
How could I not recognize you?
That's Ye Rourou, the female lead of this world!
Chi Yingdong was equally puzzled as to why she was here.
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