Chapter 363 Second Cycle (Part 8)
Fu Mo jumped off the roof of the car.
Yun Zhao had already gone inside to calm the rabbit down. Fu Heng saw Xie Tu standing guard at the door and nodded rather coldly as a greeting.
"team leader!"
The door of the car in front opened, and Lin Yu and Qi Ling got out.
Qi Ling was still bound by iron chains. He quickly ran over and said, "Thank goodness, you're all alright."
Lin Yu had no choice but to follow behind him.
Xie Tu nodded, but his gaze fell on the car behind him.
Duan Xi didn't close the door after getting out of the car.
The car not only contained sentries, but also three familiar faces.
Jing Yao, Chen Xi, and that little girl, Ren Xin.
The three of them looked somewhat different from before.
Jing Yao had a stubble beard, and Chen Xi looked haggard.
The little girl, who was originally a bit naive, seemed to have grown up overnight, sitting quietly between the two of them without crying or making a fuss.
The three of them did not get out of the car, but remained inside, watching Xie Tu.
The emotions expressed in his eyes were very complex.
Xie Tu glanced at them only once before looking away.
Fu Qi walked over and exchanged information with the others.
According to Fuqi's team.
They had been inside for two days and learned some startling news from the three survivors.
The apocalypse has been going on for a year, and Team Zero has been missing for eleven months!
"Hold!"
Song Liang was questioning his existence, "I'm sure I only disappeared for about ten minutes."
In his perception, he was only trapped in that dark place by fragmented images for ten minutes.
Not long after regaining consciousness, I saw a fire phoenix circling in the sky.
Then I just grabbed a random car and drove to the meeting point.
Duan Xi shrugged. "We're the same. I showed up at the beach and found a rabbit lying on the sand. The peregrine falcon had only been released for less than ten minutes when we ran into Captain Fu and the others."
The rabbit appeared even earlier than him.
The moment the fragments formed, she knew her mental barrier was weak, so she immediately used an inhibitor to force herself to wake up.
“The gatekeeper probably doesn’t want to kill us,” Song Liang said.
Duan Xi agreed, but he just couldn't understand, "Why did the gatekeeper do this? Pushing the timeline forward by a year, is it because we sent out 100,000 tons of supplies and it's unhappy about it?"
Xie Tu knew very well that it was because of the bet with Yun Zhao.
But there are too many people here now, so it's not a good time to talk about this.
Xie Tu asked, "Have you seen any armored vehicles?"
"Oh right!" Duan Xi suddenly realized, slapping his forehead. "Where's our car?"
When they went out, they parked the armored vehicles at the port.
Fu Heng lowered her head to check the bullets, and said upon hearing this, "There aren't any at the port. We disembarked from the port."
“It makes sense that the person is missing, but how could the car parked at the port be missing?” Song Liang frowned.
Zhuo Yu couldn't help but interject, "What if the survivors stole it?"
The security base was deserted, and the whereabouts of the others were unknown.
It's obvious someone has been to the port; otherwise, who would have knocked over the warehouse supplies and the scattered containers?
"That's possible."
Xie Tu's gaze deepened as he turned his attention back to the car in the distance. "And what about those three?"
Upon hearing this, Qi Ling quickly recounted to her teammates what had happened after they disappeared.
On the day Zero Team escorted Qi Ling out, shortly after they left, someone discovered that Dong Hui, who had been locked in the warehouse, was dead.
This matter did not cause much of a stir.
How many people died in the end times!
Dong Hui was not well-liked and was imprisoned by the superhumans for committing a crime.
His death didn't even affect his five companions.
Those in charge of logistics thought they would just report the matter when the superhumans returned.
As a result, Team Zero did not return to the safe base that night as usual.
At first, the survivors thought they had been delayed by some incident. After all, the abilities of the superhumans were obvious to all, and no one thought they would be wiped out.
But after waiting and waiting for several days without anyone showing up, everyone finally realized that something was wrong.
"Then they organized a team and risked going to the port to check, only to find that the transport ship full of supplies was gone, and assumed that we had run away."
It's easy to imagine how furious the survivors were.
Chen Xi and her classmates spent the most time with Team Zero and firmly believed that Team Zero was not that kind of person.
But their voices carried little weight, and no one believed them anymore.
Later, internal disagreements arose, and a vote was held to strip six university students of their logistics management qualifications.
The zombies are getting stronger, so everyone continues to build fortifications to defend against the attacks...
During this period, the lack of managers led to constant internal conflicts.
Seeing that the mutated zombies were too powerful and that even the high walls couldn't hold them off, the people on Peach Blossom Island started clamoring to take the remaining supplies back to Peach Blossom Island.
The hotel where Team Zero was staying also had several warehouses of food left for future supplies.
Many people were persuaded by them.
Some people remained silent, but took advantage of the fact that people weren't paying attention and secretly boarded a boat to leave the safe base.
At that time, it was relatively safe outside.
Team Zero has cleared the nearby roads countless times.
Among those who left, all were survivors with a lot of personal belongings.
That was the food that Zero Team rewarded them for going out to move goods.
If they didn't leave soon, they were afraid that others would try to take advantage of them.
The number of people in the safe base dwindled, panic spread across the island, and the entire base fell apart.
"Later on, the mutated zombies were indeed attracted by the presence of living people in the safe base, and the survivors either died or escaped..."
When Qi Ling said this, her mood was inexplicably low. "Ren Xin's parents died, Chen Xi's classmate died, Jing Yao got separated from his comrades, and the three of them escaped into the Ocean Park, where they held on desperately."
For Team Zero, only a few hours had passed.
But for these so-called 'survivors,' it was like experiencing a long nightmare.
Chen Xi has a habit of writing a diary and can even clearly remember what happened every day.
That's why Jingyao's eyes were filled with hatred when he saw Qi Ling appear.
Qi Ling had spent some time with everyone, and he was also saddened to hear of the deaths of Liao Yuxuan and others.
But he didn't know how to explain it.
We'll have to wait until we find Duan Xi and the rabbit, and then Duan Xi will explain that they never left, but were simply trapped by an accident.
Jingyao ultimately chose to believe them.
From his perspective, if someone is truly gone, there is absolutely no need for them to come back.
Furthermore, the rabbit's mental state is very poor, and the whereabouts of the other superhumans are still unknown.
Fu Meng listened indifferently, knowing that developing feelings for a mutant was a major taboo.
She said, "Let's go inside and talk."
Highway service areas are not safe. They are open on all sides with no cover, and standing at the entrance can easily attract the attention of mutated zombies.
Xie Tu shook his head at her and said calmly, "We'll leave once Yun Zhao and the rabbit come out."
Clearly, Dong Hui's death was not accidental.
It was the gatekeeper who did it on purpose.
The zombie apocalypse, built around six people, collapsed with the death of Dong Hui, and the world changed as a result.
The bet between Yun Zhao and the gatekeeper, the so-called "within three days," should refer to the period starting from when she appeared.
They only have seventy-two hours.
The first day is already more than halfway over, and we can't waste any more time. We must figure out a way to find the gatekeeper.
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