105.Chapter 105
After another day, there was one less plant-based ability in the team, and another plant-based ability told Luo Xun and them privately that he had gone to Captain Guo on the night he found out that he had the ability, saying that he was unwilling to leave the team, and asked Captain Guo if he could help keep him. After all, although he has an ability, most of the abilities in the army today have been promoted to level two or above, he is still a level one ability and the newly formed team still needs to be run-in, and the superiors may not pay attention to him as an ordinary person - yes, ordinary, his ability is of course very powerful among ordinary people, but if you put him together with a large group of other abilities, it is very ordinary.
Moreover, he also heard that the number of botanical people among the supernatural people who were investigated this time was not quite a lot, not more than him, and no less than him.
After he proposed this idea, I heard that Captain Guo had also found another plant-based ability, and the process of the conversation was not clear, but the result - just look at the people left in the team now.
The metal wall building team is now missing two members, and there are thirteen people left, it is said that because the superiors feel that this number is already equal to the number of normal teams - after removing Luo Xun and the two foreign aids. And now, because of the need to build a new team of Abilities and the need for some special Abilities to help the real people, there is not enough manpower for a while.
Fortunately, their work is not too tense now, and there are not many places that need help from people, except for some small pieces of metal materials and purified metals that need to be handled manually, and the rest of the transportation work is assisted by vehicles, and it is not a big problem to have two people less.
Li Tie and Zhang Su were their turn on the fourth day after Luo Xun and the others had checked their abilities. In fact, Li Tie and the others are not strictly speaking, they are not considered to be a formal troop establishment, but more like temporary recruitment, so they will wait until all the personnel in the army have been inspected before it is their turn.
The five of them went in a hurry, not too disappointing—all five of them were still ordinary people, just as they had expected. Zhang Su also checked out the second-level wind ability quite normally, but it is said that the colleagues who worked with him at the time, and the soldiers who knew about him before, were surprised when they saw this result - how did his wind ability look like a normal second-level wind ability?
Keep in mind that until now, there have been a large number of abilities in the base that have been upgraded to level 2 (especially in the military) with wind-based abilities...... This ability is a waste of wood at level 1, and the wind that blows out is just the wind, and at most it makes the wind like an air cannon to hit the target. But when you are at the first level, you can cut the crippled alive! Not to mention the second level?!
This made many people secretly suspicious, wondering if Zhang Su was a second-level or even third-level wind powerhouse from the beginning? So after seeing the current test results, they thought that this instrument could not detect a higher level than the second level?
Of course, they also thought about this suspicion in their hearts, after all, there is no third-level ability now, and it is possible that the instrument cannot detect a person with a third-level or higher ability! But once these words are spoken, they will offend the group of experts and scholars who have developed instruments and equipment in the base today, and no one has a pit in their minds to dare to raise such a question.
It was only a week after the instrument had been thoroughly practiced in the military that the news that the research club had developed a test level was officially announced.
The news was spread on the radio and in the streets and alleys.
From now on, the instrument will be tested for free on everyone in the base, and this time the military took out six pieces of equipment in one go, but because the people after learning the news were too enthusiastic, there was a long queue at the inspection point, and there were people waiting in front of the instrument almost every moment from morning to night.
All the Abilities want to wear the special identity card that can prove their identity, status, and distinguish them from ordinary people as soon as possible. All ordinary people hope that as soon as they stand on that thing, they can immediately change their original identity and become an invincible powerhouse, rampant in the base, arrogant in front of relatives and friends, and trampling to death everyone who bullied and looked down on them in the past.
In this craze of testing one's abilities and changing identity cards, only those like Xu Mei and Song Lingling who don't want to cause trouble and know their ability level can calm down, right?
At the same time as the equipment of these detection instruments appeared in the sky, there was also a news quietly circulating in the base - there may be a zombie siege crisis in the near future. It seems that because humans have launched a large-scale, hot-weapon cleanup operation against the zombies entrenched in the city before, the zombies want to launch a retaliatory attack on the humans, and the targets are the southwest base and the eastern base on the edge of City A.
The news spread through the base like wildfire, and many people talked about it privately, and it was also reported that it came from a psychic with the ability to foresee. The news spread more and more outrageously from the beginning, and later some people said that the zombies preparing to besiege the city were the legendary zombie kings, who responded to all the calls and ruled all the zombies to carry out "heavenly punishment" on humans!
Listening to the more and more outrageous rumors in the base, although Luo Xun and Yan Fei felt very speechless, this was also a way they could not help.
Luo Xun has no way to prove that his "foreknowledge" will definitely happen, let alone prove that he is sure of the future direction, let alone guarantee that this will not happen.
After all, while the small aspects have indeed changed since his rebirth, especially in himself and some of the things that have to do with him, the great conveniences have not changed. For example, there are only two bases left in City A, and several large and small bases such as City M have been broken one after another.
Even the completion time of several heavy research and development achievements in the base is about the same, and the only thing that is more different in Luo Xun's memory is that the base is now starting to build metal bridges that lead from the center to all directions because of the improvement of the abilities of the metal ability, and the addition of Yan Fei's strength. This is something that has not happened in the previous life, and it is also the most intuitive and biggest change in Luo Xun's rebirth to the present.
It was precisely because Luo Xun himself was not sure whether the eastern base would collapse under this crisis, and he naturally did not dare to assert that these things would definitely happen - because Luo Xun and Yan Fei had been very concerned about the situation outside the base recently, but they had not heard of the sudden increase in the number of zombies near the base.
As for the news that is now spreading in the base, it was Yan Fei who decided to quietly spread it after judgment - now he has no way to directly contact those bigwigs in the base, especially even if he can contact those people, he can't explain why he knows this news and how to prove their correctness?
Although each of them now has a mobile phone in their hands and the network in the base has been set up, anyone who has a device at home and in hand can connect to the network in the base and send emails to the official. But if Yan Fei doesn't want to be found out, it's best not to leave a tail at all.
After much thought, he decided to adopt this method, so that the team that went out on a mission would also pay special attention to relevant news - such as the sudden increase in the number of zombies, such as the zombies acting strangely, and so on. As soon as there was news, the base had to react to it internally.
Of course, this will also have drawbacks, such as if someone wants to overthrow the current regime in the future, they may use this method to stir up rumors within the base. But now the two of them really have no other way to accomplish their expected ideas more effectively.
The matter of detecting abilities and rumors about the base continued until the end of the month, and the number of people in the base who had tested their abilities had exceeded four-fifths, and according to the current proportion, some people who knew the inside intelligence discovered an astonishing phenomenon - the same proportion of people who were found and confirmed as supernatural people in the army among those who thought they were ordinary people before, far exceeded ordinary people!
What is the reason for this? Is there any way to increase the proportion of Adepts in the army? Or did the people with the supernatural Su zhì join the army before the end of the world?
Ordinary people don't understand, but there is a speculation in the research society -- the body is zhì. The better the body of a person before the end of the world, the lower the possibility of turning into a zombie directly after the end of the world, and the higher the possibility of appearing abilities.
In fact, if you look at the population situation in the base today, you can analyze some situations, the vast majority of people in the base are young and middle-aged, and most of the elderly, children and women with weak physiques have directly turned into zombies in the first wave of mutants. Most of the people who have special abilities on their bodies are young adults who are usually very prominent in their bodies, or have some strengths.
Of course, this has something to do with the fact that many frail and sick people are unable to escape from the city and come to the base, so this is just a simple conjecture. Moreover, this statement is only temporarily circulated in the research community and the base superiors, except for some well-informed people, the rest of the people do not even know this percentage.
However, no matter how high the percentage of adepts in the army is, it will never add up to the number of adepts in the base as a whole. After all, most of those who have strong survivability and strong abilities can escape to the base alive, and those with poor physique, poor health, and old age and decrepit health have no chance even if they want to come here.
Xu Mei and Song Lingling took Xiao Xinran to the instrument to test their abilities and levels before the end of the month, and as soon as the results of the three of them came out, the surrounding people who were watching the excitement gasped for a while-three women! There's also a kid among them! It's all supernatural!!
If it weren't for the bright colors that indicate that the three of them are all second-level abilities, and if it weren't for the murderous aura they displayed on their bodies to let people know that they are not some silk flowers hiding in the base and being raised by men, I am afraid that someone would have come over at the first time to woo them, and even coerce and lure people away.
Despite this, after the two of them changed their identity cards, many people came over to try to woo these three ladies. It's a pity that Xu Mei and the two are so easy to talk to? After a man had scorched his hair and been drenched in a water balloon, the crowd hurriedly retreated, not daring to provoke the two thorny roses.
At the end of the month, Luo Xun and Yan Fei discussed and decided to go out of the base again.
Although Luo Xun remembered that the eastern base of City A was broken a few days after the beginning of August, and the southwest base where he was located was also besieged by zombies about half a month later, but now there is no news at all, and there is not even any news of any abnormal movement of the zombies outside. There was no news of the gradual increase in zombies or the sudden increase in zombies in those squads that went out to do tasks.
Although the news spread by the two of them before is still circulating within the base, most of them regard it as a story and an urban weird story, even if some people think that this is more likely, they still have to do something when they can't see the relevant signs at all.
"Let's go out this time depending on the situation, if there are more zombies, they won't leave the base too far, and the time will not be too long." Luo Xun and his teammates sat around Li Tie's room, which had become a regular meeting room for the team to hold meetings. "After all, everyone has heard the rumors in the base, although it may be just rumors, but after all, it is safe to be careful, and it is good to be cautious when going out to act this time."
Hearing Luo Xun's words, everyone had no opinion, after all, they went out of the base to just give the aliens in the team crystal nucleus, earn extra money, and go out to cultivate combat consciousness - Li Tie and the others were all in the army, so they naturally heard about the possibility of that physique and ability. Several of them are now more enthusiastic about going out to fight zombies - although they are not yet supernatural, but what if there are too many zombies and their bodies become awesome in the future?! Even if you don't become an adept in the future, wouldn't it be a good thing to save more crystal nuclei and points now?
Compared to Yan Fei, Zhang Su, and Xu Mei, who used the crystal nucleus to absorb every time they beat the zombies, the crystal nucleus obtained by Li Tie and the ordinary people who didn't need the crystal nucleus at all became their pure income!
Usually, if they need anything, they will use the crystal nucleus and the abilities in the team to exchange some points, and then use the points to spend money and buy what they need. But how much can they spend? In today's five-person group, except for Wang Duo, who has tracheitis, all his wages are handed over free of charge, and everyone can be regarded as petty bourgeoisie and white-collar workers, and their current family property is enough for them to marry a daughter-in-law in the base!
It's a pity that these four bachelors either set their eyes on the team and the two beauties, ready to secretly attack each other. Either they didn't have this nerve at all, and they didn't realize that they could find a girlfriend now - such as Wu Xin, who is often absent, or He Qiankun, who has always been regarded by girls as girlfriends because of his plump body......
"No problem! We listen to the captain! Li Tie shouted loudly, in fact, the five of them were not very bold. It's good to say that the base fights the zombies nearby, but if you encounter a zombie siege...... Hehe, it's better for them to come back quickly, they don't have the ability to sacrifice under the torrent of zombies.
As for Zhang Su and Xu Mei, they didn't have any opinions, so the meeting ended, and everyone went back to their homes to prepare for the next day's outing.
This time, for the sake of safety, Luo Xun didn't drive his two-in-one car anymore, and after everyone sorted it out, they finally decided to drive out three cars, and strive for the reasonable distribution of personnel on each car, both those with special abilities and ordinary people, so as to deal with various emergencies.
After receiving the mission and leaving the base, the car drove all the way to the location where they had fought before, following the route they had taken last time. Along the way, there were only a few zombies wandering around the ruins and streets, and the situation looked similar to the last time everyone came out.
By the time they had passed the ruined bank and arrived at the place where they had last stayed, the zombies scattered around the neighborhood looked similar to the last time they had arrived—just as they had inadvertently swayed to the neighborhood after each time they left.
"Doesn't that seem like anything?" Han Li in the car was holding a telescope and observing the situation around.
Luo Xun also carefully checked the neighborhood before deciding, "After the inspection, prepare to enter the place where everyone hid last time." ”
Of course, Yan Fei, who was in charge of the inspection, thoroughly inspected it once and made sure that all the trench traps and bowl-shaped metal chassis hidden in the ground were in good condition. The others also double-checked the neighborhood before driving into the place where they had stayed once.
Yan Fei took out all the metal materials hidden in the trench and made a circle of metal walls again, adding the metal they collected along the way to reinforce it.
Clean up the zombies that are closer to each other - this time there are more second-level zombies. After letting Yan Fei recover his abilities, Luo Xun took out the blood bag again to lure the zombies.
Maybe it's because there are few people passing by in the south now, so the number of zombies is also decreasing, and it's not dark after everyone burns this wave of zombies.
Walking out of the steel wall, everyone began to clean up the zombies and pick up crystal nuclei, and roughly estimated that the harvest this time was only about 5,000 pieces at most.
Xu Mei frowned and asked Luo Xun, "Captain, do we still want to go deeper?" "Although about eighty percent of these 5,000 crystal nuclei are second-order crystal nuclei, the harvest this time is a bit worse than in previous months.
Luo Xun was also a little hesitant, continuing to go deep into the city can certainly get some more crystal nuclei, but the safety problem is ......
After thinking about it carefully, and looking at the sky that had completely darkened, Luo Xun just spoke: "...... in place first"
"Captain! There's something! Something is coming! Better!! Han Li, who was standing on the metal observation platform erected by Yan Fei and looking around, suddenly shouted loudly, his face pale and pointing in the northeast direction.
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly went to the small window in the northeast direction to look out, and saw that in the dim ruins, there was a small red eye in the distance.
Hearing the "squeak" sound from afar, Yan Fei's face also changed: "Zombie rat!" ”
"Capped! Make all the windows half smaller! Luo Xun's face instantly became solemn, and he immediately gave instructions to everyone.
After hearing this, he immediately mobilized the nearby metal, and a metal dome quickly spread from all directions to the entire sky, covering the entire metal "bowl".
Luo Xun was not idle at this time, and immediately together with Li Tie, they carried buckets of unused gasoline and mushroom juice from the car to the wall to prepare.
The sound of "squeaking" outside is getting closer and closer, and gradually connecting into a single piece. Luo Xun took advantage of the fact that those zombie rats had not yet run to him and admonished: "Listen to my order for a while, pour mushroom juice and gasoline into the trench outside from the pipe that Yan Fei made, and when the time comes, Xu Mei will light the fire, and Zhang Su, you must pay attention to replenishing the air here at any time, don't get soot in!" If one of the holes for pouring oil is lit, you are responsible for extinguishing it! Seeing Zhang Su and Xu Mei nodding, they instructed Song Lingling again, "You are responsible for replenishing water in those large barrels at any time and cooling everyone down." ”
In this situation, no matter how good the tactics are, they can only try their best to splash mushroom juice! Pour gasoline! Burn them!!
The zombie rats moved at an astonishing speed, and before Luo Xun and the others finished talking inside, the "squeak" sound outside had already reached the trench.
Plop down a group of zombie rats and fall directly into the trench, but God knows how many zombie rats came outside!? Once the ditch is filled, they will run to the edge of the metal wall!!
Before the thought in Luo Xun's heart was finished, he heard the sound of "poof, poof" hitting the metal plate next to him!!
"How did they rush over?!" He Qiankun's face changed greatly, and there was a hint of trembling in his voice.
Zhang Su's peach blossom eyes narrowed: "There is wind, it's a wind-based ability......"
Before he finished speaking, the position of one of the small windows was actually hit by a small fireball!!
"Damn! Is there any heavenly reason?! Even the zombie rats have evolved abilities! Wang Duo spat viciously, forcibly suppressing the uneasiness in his heart.
Luo Xun calmed down at this time: "Don't go near the window for the time being, Song Lingling, you can check the situation outside through the water curtain for a while, if the rats in the trench are almost full, everyone is ready to pour mushroom juice!" ”
Either they die or they die! Luo Xun will never accept his fate until he fights to the last strength, and everyone must definitely try to live!!
Everyone's faces were tense, and Song Lingling didn't look directly at the window facing the direction of the rat army—there were many rats rushing directly to the round, slippery wall, and a few of them were hanging on top of the metal window, frantically waving their little paws at the window, and the screeching sound and "poof" sounded together.
She came to the window in the opposite direction to check the situation, the water curtain blocked a "water escape" in front of her for protection, and after seeing the situation outside, she shouted to Luo Xun: "Captain! The trench on the back is already half full! ”