System 099: "Uh... Host, you should read it yourself."
Huo Li directly used his mental power to scan the forum homepage:
"Has the boss surnamed H run out of ideas?"
"0 points! Digging into the unknown hidden disease of the boss surnamed H"
"A few things about the boss surnamed H and his new boyfriend named zz"
"The boss surnamed Huo strongly supports his new boyfriend! Is it illegal to give points?"
Huo Li's face suddenly became colorful and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
System 099: "My dear host..."
Huo Li reached out and untied the collar of his shirt, which was always tied neatly. He took a deep breath and pressed his temples with his slender fingers: "Who posted the original message?"
System 099: "It was the alien's system 2d14."
"What!" Huo Li put his hand down abruptly with an expression of disbelief. Hundreds of doubts flashed through his mind, but none of them could explain why an "alien that is the ultimate threat to humanity" would let its system personally come out to hype up a CP with him!
The little thought in Huo Li's heart that had been suppressed by reason for a long time began to stir again: Could it be that he also...
"099, apply for his current mission world as a part-time mission, I'll go and take a look. Well, I'm following the instructions of the main system to monitor this alien at all times." Huo Li added without any purpose, and then closed his mouth in regret.
System 099: "Host, your last part-time mission with a score of 0 has been judged as a failure. You can apply again after a 15-day cool-down period... There are still 12 days left."
"Can't go now?" Huo Li felt a little disappointed for no apparent reason. "After 12 days, immediately set off for the alien mission planet!"
Planet C, the zombie world
The next day, after running on the road for a whole morning, the members of Changfeng Base got off the car to rest and each found a place to solve their physiological problems. The black-haired boy avoided the crowd and walked behind a tree, then asked:
"2d14, are you hiding something from me today?"
"No, no, host!"
"Really? After you posted the message last night, you were excited in the first half of the night, chattering non-stop. But in the second half of the night, you suddenly fell silent, and today you didn't even suspect that it was a thief who stole the generator, and you looked very guilty."
"Uh, really?"
"Tell me! What's the matter?"
System 2d14 didn't dare to show its host the forum homepage full of titles like 'The Great God Huo Supports His New Boyfriend', so it avoided the main point and directly clicked on the warm-up post it posted last night, and projected it to the black-haired boy in its mind.
An alien quickly browsed through the posts that were already tens of thousands of levels high: "H, an SSS-level master! 2d14! Is this what you call anonymous? How many SSS-level saviors are there in the Savior Alliance?"
System 2d14: "9..."
An alien picked a few levels and read them out loud:
"10005: This newbie who started with zz has shown us the highest realm of freeloading on a big boss!"
"10006: A big boss is willing to support him, why are you guys here being so jealous?"
"10010: I'm a newbie, please tell me: what is 'freeloading on a big boss'?"
"10011F: Going back upstairs, 'freeloading on the big guys' refers to those super awesome masters who can apply to the main system to 'bring in newcomers' when completing a mission, and bring their new boyfriends or girlfriends to their mission worlds. Then, under the pretext of 'cultivating newcomers', they leave the key steps of saving the world to their boyfriends/girlfriends, and take the opportunity to help them score and upgrade! If all goes well, those newbies can get 5% or even 10% of the contribution from the masters!"
"10012F: Is there such a thing?"
"10013F: There is actually such a thing!"
"10100F: Is 10011F referring to the 'Cloud Raising Cats Combination'?"
“10101F: Pah! The little cat back then has now been hailed as an SS-level god. We can’t afford to provoke him. Don’t even mention it, don’t even mention it…”
“11000F: ‘Rubbing against the big guy’ doesn’t reduce the big guy to 0%! This is ‘sucking the big guy’!”
“11001F: Got a new word, ‘sucking the big guy’!”
“11002F: ‘Sucking the big guy’ is awesome!”
“11003F: The new post starting with zz is amazing! It actually sucked the big guy to 0%”
"11004F: Poof! I sucked the boss dry!"
An alien couldn't bear it any longer and punched the tree: "2d14! You did this!"
System 2d14 cried: "Host, I was wrong! I, I just wanted to show off that 930,000 points..."
An alien took a deep breath and pulled his right hand out of the tree trunk:
"Okay, I don't blame you." But he was still indignant: "What kind of words are they using! What do you mean I sucked him dry! It was obviously him who sucked me dry! I originally had 930,000 points, and he deducted them all by swindling me!"
The alien returned to the car angrily and continued to travel south with everyone. Five days later, the group had traveled thousands of kilometers, and the surrounding towns and zombies gradually increased. They had to bypass some densely populated towns from time to time and travel along those remote rural roads. Until a river hundreds of meters wide blocked their way, Xu Yuncheng got out of the car and looked at the situation on the other side of the river.
"There should be a medium-sized base with a population of tens of thousands to the east of the river, called the Riverside Base." Xu Yuncheng said, "Built along the river, there is sufficient water, and there is a medium-sized hydroelectric power station. Moreover, the natural barrier of the river is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It should be our home in the future."
The members of Changfeng also wanted to settle down as soon as possible, so they simply drove east along the river. Half an hour later, a narrow bridge across the river appeared in front of them. At the bridgehead, there were more than a dozen psychics working in pairs to check the vehicles crossing the bridge.
Changfeng's three cars were also lined up at the end of the line. The inspection was very relaxed. After the two psychics took a quick look from the car window to make sure there were no infected people, they waved and let them go. A few hundred meters after crossing the bridge, there was a large earthen wall more than ten meters high built by the earthen psychics of the riverside base. Outside the earthen wall were also small buildings lined up in rows, or temporary board houses and tents.
All vehicles that drove to the gate of the earthen wall were required to stop, and the people in the cars got off one by one and lined up to pass through a device similar to a security gate. The members of Changfeng also lined up at the end of the queue. A certain alien moved back inconspicuously and stood behind Wu Han and Wu Yi who was holding the child.
Xu Yuncheng was the first to pass the detector. "Level 3 Earth Element Psychic, Riverside Base welcomes you." The speaker of the detector issued a polite electronic voice. Then the Chen family, the young couple, and Sun Yanan passed through one by one. When Wu Han stepped into the inspection door, the indicator light suddenly turned red and issued a harsh alarm: "Alert! Non-psychic trying to enter! Alert! Non-psychic trying to enter!"
The guards standing by immediately gathered here.
Wu Han quickly stepped back and raised his hands to indicate that he had no ill intentions.
The superpowers from the riverside base who had rushed over also softened their tone after seeing Wu Han's unintentional barging: "Non-superpowers are prohibited from entering! But you can settle down outside the base." He pointed to the circle of "refugee camps" around.
"Wu Han is a member of our Changfeng base, we can guarantee that he is not infected." Aunt Huang wanted to make a final attempt.
"No non-superpowers are allowed to enter!" The guard said sternly and became alert. It seemed that he was ready to use force to maintain order at any time.
"Then you go in, I can live outside the base." Wu Han said to everyone, and reached out to push Wu Yi, who was holding the child, into the security gate. Unexpectedly, the indicator light suddenly turned red and continued to sound the alarm!
Wu Yi was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly looked at his baby daughter in his arms: "I am a superpower, but my daughter is just a baby, she..."
The guard interrupted him and said in a loud voice: "Anyone without superpowers is not allowed to enter!"
"Then we won't go in." Xu Yuncheng said, and took the lead to retreat. The other members also turned around and walked out with the two brothers.
The guards stared at this small group that gave up their lives in the city for two people and walked towards the messy tent house together.
Changfeng Base used 9kg of aged rice to exchange for the right to use three small houses in a board house for a week, intending to take a short rest in this relatively safe place.
"There is a large base 3,000 kilometers further south that accommodates ordinary people. It is divided into two urban areas, West City and East City. Non-superpowers can live in East City." Xu Yuncheng comforted Er Wu, who felt somewhat guilty.
Other members also said that there was nothing good about this riverside base.
System 2d14 said in a certain alien's mind with emotion: "The people in Changfeng Base are so united!"
The black-haired boy: "Yeah." So I have to protect them.
That night, the black-haired boy and Li Ze, Wu Yi, and Chu Nan squeezed into a small room and slept on the upper and lower bunks.
But the black-haired boy always felt uneasy, but the entire riverside base was running as usual, without any abnormality. At 5 a.m., a certain alien still hadn't closed his eyes, but lay quietly on the upper bunk, observing every move in the riverside base through black silk.
At this time, some psychics who were sleeping at home inside the earth wall suddenly turned red, and their body temperature rose to over 40 degrees in a few minutes! Then they began to toss and turn in their sleep.
After another three minutes, nearly one-third of the psychics stopped breathing unconsciously due to high fever, and blue-black corpse spots spread rapidly on their skin, but all of this was covered in the dark night. The people in the entire base were still asleep, and even the patrolling guards only roughly observed the situation around the streets and earth walls, and were unaware of this devastating change!
The black-haired boy's face became more and more solemn. He sat up directly, deliberately made a loud noise, and climbed out of bed with a bang.
Several people in the same room asked in a daze: "What's wrong, Xiaoyi?"
"I'm going to the bathroom." A certain alien answered, then quickly walked out of the room, pretended to walk around the door, glanced at the empty street outside the window, and then ran into the house with a bang, shouting hysterically:
"Ah! Ah! There are so many zombies outside! It seems that they are running from the riverside base! Everyone, get up quickly!"