If Qi Lin's speculation is true, then is it because of the invasion of this consortium's private army, which led to a nuclear leak, and then all the people in the 404 base were spared?

Thinking of this, Qi Lin's heart couldn't help but move, if this is the case, then this 404 base can be regarded as a perfect stronghold tailored for him - with a large number of materials, weapons, and a terrain that is lethal enough for ordinary people, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

And if you want to control this base, the permission of this visitor on your body is definitely not enough, as for how to increase the authority in your 404 base......

Qi Lin looked into the depths of the base, where there was a tower-like building, rising from the ground and connecting with the underground space dome hundreds of meters high, and a discerning person could see at a glance that it was the core hub of the entire 404 base.

It's impossible to count on the unreliable AI that almost played itself to death, and now it's impossible to pretend to be dead, and if you want to gain control of the base, the first step must be to enter the core building of this base.

This 404 base, or this city, except for the high level of science and technology, has a layout that is completely different from those small towns in the old era, with passages, alleys, shops, supermarkets, factories, ...... Qi Lin even saw the signboard of "mass merchandising KTV" on a large building.

“…… It's just a town......."

On the side of the road, Qi Lin found a vehicle similar to the old era electric patrol car, looked at the structure of the electric car, Qi Lin found that there was still a slot for the nuclear battery, and immediately found a standard nuclear battery on his body and plugged it in.

This kind of nuclear battery technology, although it has been very mature in the old era, but most of them are used in military use, and in civilian use is relatively rare, I didn't expect that here, a casually found car looks ordinary means of transportation, you can actually use nuclear batteries.

Of course, Qi Lin started the car, not to use it to travel, but to find some valuable information - with the restart of the car's power system, a touch screen under the steering wheel also lit up.

The operating system of this electric car is very simple and straightforward, and after the boot animation, three options appear directly after the start-up animation, which are "navigation (automatic driving)", "radio" and "driving record".

Qi Lin first clicked on the driving record, but it was blank, obviously either the data was lost, or someone had emptied it.

Given that there was no one to clean up the battlefield outside, Qi Lin preferred the former, after all, nuclear radiation will also have a certain impact on electronic products.

Then, Qi Lin turned on the radio again, and a meaningless electric noise immediately came out of the built-in loudspeaker of the electric car - the radio function is not bad, but in this underground space, the band that can be received is very limited, and even if this radio can receive signals on the ground, it is meaningless, and the miniature brain that each player comes with is far better than the radio.

Then only navigation remained, and Qi Lin turned on the automatic navigation system with the last bit of hope...... Fortunately, this time it did not disappoint him, and a large list of dense place names popped up on the display screen at once.

"Supermarkets, food factories, water supply stations, medical examination centers, research institutes, core columns...... Wait, the core tower? That's supposed to be that, right? Qi Lin raised his head, and his gaze fell on the extremely eye-catching tower in the center of the city.

The depth of this underground city was nearly ten kilometers, and this tall tower was about five kilometers away from where Qi Lin was now.

"Are you sure of the destination: the Core Tower?"

"Confirm."

"Do you want to open navigation?"

"Confirm."

"Please select the driving mode: Manual Driving/Autopilot."

"Autonomous driving."

The electric car started slowly, but Qi Lin jumped out of the car, picked up the gun, and hung it far behind the car about forty or fifty meters.

The electric car is very quiet when driving, but Qi Lin doesn't want to sit in it and become an eye-catching live target.

Judging from the AI at the entrance and the mechanism that killed people, Qi Lin was not sure that the city must be safe now.

Especially that core pillar tower, to say that such a mysterious base core, without any defensive measures, then Qi Lin would never believe it.

However, the car hadn't driven a hundred meters before it stopped for some reason, and Qi Lin observed it behind for several minutes, but he didn't find anything abnormal.

"Out of power? Impossible...... It's a brand new battery, and based on the power consumption of this car, it can definitely drive for months without stopping......"

Qi Lin walked to the side of the electric car full of doubts, and at this time, the display screen on the car suddenly flashed violently a few times, and then, two words appeared on it-

"Hello."

“？！” Qi Lin was startled, although he immediately calmed down, and after looking around, he returned his gaze to the display screen.

Is this the AI again?

Without waiting for Qi Lin to think more, a second line of text appeared on the display: "I am a survivor of Base 404, you can communicate with me through voice, there is a sound receiving device in this car." ”

"Survivors? Didn't the AI at the entrance say that there were no survivors left at the base? Qi Linhu said suspiciously.

"It just tells you that there are no living people at the base."

"You are the living dead...... Corpse? Seeing the word "living person", Qi Lin suddenly suddenly.

"Yes."

The living dead, also known as zombies and zombies, are a completely new species created by the radiation of humans remaining on the ground, but in fact, whether it is zombies or zombies, the word "corpse" is due to people's misleading understanding of them in the first place.

The living dead are not corpses resurrected through viruses like in "Resident Evil", and more precisely, they are not dead things, but a kind of "anomalously evolved" human.

Both zombies and zombies are new species born in order to adapt to the high-radiation environment after nuclear war, although even scientists like to use "before life" and "after death" to describe the living dead, but there is one thing that everyone agrees on: zombies, zombies and those mutated creatures are a kind of "creatures".

It's just that mutated creatures are mutated by radiation from animals or plants, and the living dead were originally humans.

In addition to the living dead, there is actually a mutant on the wasteland, which is also mutated by human beings from radiation, but the number is very small.

The bodies of the living dead also have a metabolic system, but due to their mutation, they can draw energy from radiation, so they eat little or no food at all.

In addition to this, great strength, long lifespan, inability to have children, etc., are also well-known characteristics of the living dead.

As for the difference between zombies and zombies, it is simply that the brain of the former has been alienated and reduced to a beast dominated by instinct, while the brain of the latter is relatively intact and can think like a human.

Like the zombie that Qi Lin encountered by the Radiation Lake at the beginning, although his brain was somewhat damaged, his autonomous consciousness and thinking ability still existed, so he belonged to the category of zombies - and in Thunder City, there were also a small number of zombie NPCs that could communicate with human players.

It seems that this person who communicates with himself through the display screen of the electric car is not only a zombie, but also a high-level zombie with a very high IQ.

"Then can you tell me what this 404 base is for?" Qi Lin asked.

The other party seemed to be silent for a while before a long line of text popped up on the screen.

"This base is a secret research organization of the old republic, I am one of the heads of this base, you can call me Dr. Wang, the specific information, wait until you come to the core pillar tower, I will tell you slowly."