Chapter 184 There is electricity
"Spots?"
Yun Zhao nodded calmly, "I got it. I don't have to live like a rat anymore."
The following paragraph was spoken by the three people who were just now.
The man carrying the cleaver was unaware of this; his smile deepened, appearing very sincere. "Yes, only when our bodies are freed can we escape this cannibalistic world and attain eternal life."
eternal life?
Upon hearing this, the entire Zero Team fell into deep thought.
Yun Zhao feigned agreement and asked him casually, as if chatting about everyday matters, "Do you still have family members?"
The man shook his head, a look of madness on his face. "My wife and daughter are already inside. I'm about to reunite with them..."
Go in?
Where did it go?
It was another word they couldn't understand.
The man carrying the cleaver seemed genuinely eager to reunite with his family. He hurriedly said goodbye to them and turned to rush towards the middle of the road.
Without any hesitation, he slashed his own neck with the knife, blood splattering out, a shocking red spreading through the air.
The man's body slowly fell, slamming limply onto the cold ground.
Blood continued to gush from his wound, pooling into a small puddle, and the expression on his face gradually froze.
A gentle breeze blew by, carrying a hint of blood, sending chills down one's spine.
Yun Zhao's face turned even paler.
Xie Tu reached out and blocked her view.
Yun Zhao glanced at him, then took two steps back with the force of his arm, turning her head away from the corpse on the ground.
The entire street was filled with images of violent suicide.
After Team Zero entered, more than a dozen people rushed into the street.
Even if she manages to control everyone, they will still run out again as soon as her mental energy leaves.
This only addresses the symptoms, not the root cause.
Unless we find out why the 'people' here committed suicide.
"Let's go in and take a look." Xie Tu gestured for everyone to follow.
No one wanted to stay on such a terrifying street any longer, so they quickly followed the three people who had been restrained into the residential area on the right side of the street.
However, separated by just a door, the inside and outside of the door seem like two different worlds.
The dim light from the sky was enough to make out the surrounding scenery.
It was very clean inside, but this cleanliness conveyed a sense of silence and desolation unique to the Dark Ages.
Due to prolonged lack of sunlight, all the green vegetation in the community has long since died.
Looking up, the surrounding high-rise buildings stand like silent giants under the gray sky.
"Is there some rule that says you can't die at home and can only die on the street?" the rabbit asked softly.
Song Liang: "Possibly."
The three people in front, who were controlled by the mental threads, walked stiffly with dazed expressions, preparing to return to their respective homes.
Although they lived in the same neighborhood, the three of them clearly lived in different apartment buildings and soon separated at the second fork in the road.
Two men and one woman.
They were all around thirty years old.
Yun Zhao pointed at one of the men, "Follow him."
Without asking why, Xie Tu gestured for everyone to follow the man and enter one of the buildings.
As soon as they entered the building, the group was so shocked by what they saw that they were speechless.
The elevator was actually able to open.
"There's electricity here?!" Tao Haohao exclaimed in disbelief.
How could there be electricity in the Dark Ages!
Those dark substances can corrupt the power system!
Xie Tu's gaze turned serious. "This base is no ordinary place."
The entire city was cleared, high walls were erected to block the way, and power was restored...
These three points alone would have been impossible for more than 90% of cities during the Dark Ages.
The people living here are far more fortunate than those in other regions.
However, they did not know how to cherish it.
The man had already stepped into the elevator.
Team Zero didn't continue the discussion, but followed him into the cramped space.
Yun Zhao was protected behind Xie Tu.
Six people, plus a creature that was neither human nor inhuman, were crammed into the elevator.
No one wanted to touch 'it', so they all stood close to the corner.
The elevator quickly stopped on the ninth floor. The man walked stiffly to the door of room 903, raised his hand, and used his fingerprint to open the door.
It went inside, without turning on the lights, and vaguely entered one of the rooms.
Yun Zhao told it deep in its consciousness that it needed to sleep.
Tao Haohao, who was at the very back, quietly closed the door.
The man appears to live alone.
The curtains inside were tightly closed, blocking out all light. Through a flashlight, you could see that the living room was a mess, with dirty clothes strewn everywhere.
Leftover food cans and packaging bags were scattered haphazardly on the coffee table, some of them moldy and emitting a sour smell.
Yun Zhao felt it was much better than before.
In contrast, she would rather smell the stench of spoiled food than stand on the street surrounded by the stench of corpses and decaying bodies.
She seemed a little out of sorts. After glancing around, she sat down on a relatively clean wooden stool at the dining table.
The peregrine falcon has not returned yet.
Duan Xi communicated through mental connection, saying, "Captain, this base is very large, square in shape, and surrounded by high walls on all four sides. We are currently located in the 15th district in the west."
The base is divided into different areas.
"It is divided into 20 districts, from district 12 to district 15, and the streets are almost the same."
Duan Xi continued, "But not in District 11. The streets are clean, and no one is committing suicide."
“The more distant District 10 cannot be explored. I will have the Peregrine Falcon search for people in these districts first.”
Their purpose in coming in was to rescue people, so finding people was their primary objective.
Xie Tu found a cell phone with power inside the house. It needed to be unlocked to use, but that didn't prevent him from seeing the time on it.
October 19, 2315, 11:29 AM.
His gaze was heavy. "The sixty-eighth year since the Dark Apocalypse began..."
Team Zero is no stranger to this year.
In that same year, the shelter that was the predecessor of Dawn Base developed a contaminated zone and was attacked by mutated creatures.
It was a group of predecessors who fought bloody battles to protect the base.
Yun Zhao then thought of the girl statue in the inner city square.
The little bluebird's figure gradually solidified and finally emerged from the spiritual realm.
Like its original form, it looked listless and lacked energy, but arrogantly refused to show it, resting on its own head.
Xie Tu continued to ask Duan Xi, "Did you see any lights on inside the house?"
Duan Xi asked the peregrine falcon, who shook his head and said, "No."
"There should be a rule against turning on the lights."
When Song Liang came in, he was holding a computer; it hadn't disappeared with the armored vehicle. He turned on the computer and said, "In the dark apocalypse, there's no difference between day and night, and light sources will attract mutants or mutated animals."
That's why they didn't discover the presence of electricity in the contaminated area immediately.
Dark matter is everywhere.
Generating electricity is not a simple task; it requires a great deal of manpower and resources to ensure the safety of the power supply system.
Only guides have the ability to clear away the dark matter.
To maintain the power supply system, several guides must be sent out every day to guard and clean it 24 hours a day, or even most of the guides in the entire base must be mobilized.
The guides arrived too late, and their numbers were already small.
During this period, polluted areas, mutant species, dark matter, and other mutated organisms were unusually active.
At the same time, the few guides from the four bases were going to the front lines to fight alongside the sentries.
At that time, scientific research and technology had already experienced a gap, and laying circuits was an extremely resource-intensive task, not to mention that guides had to be on duty 24 hours a day to clean them up.
Other bases simply don't have enough manpower to waste on this.
Song Liang was a little puzzled. "Why would they go to such great lengths to maintain the power supply?"
What's the point of providing electricity to every household but not allowing them to turn on their lights?
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