The special military boots are designed to fit on the ground covered with radiant snow, and the fifth-generation artificial leather is used. Not only is it lightweight, but it also has the effect of keeping warm. The sole is thickened and covered with tiny steel pins to provide the boots with a more grip.

In this way, Zero walked in the snow with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and walked with a large group towards the Cossack military base. The wind grew stronger, and snowflakes like goose feathers fell from the sky. The heavens and the earth are vast, and when you look at it like this, everywhere is a piece of white, and there is no other color except white.

This was a romantic weather in the old days, but it is a deadly environment in the new era. If an average person is exposed to radiated snow for 10 minutes, the organs and skin will begin to die. After 15 minutes, immunity will drop to 0. After 20 minutes, the basic person was hopeless. The intense radiation triggers a full-blown genetic breakdown, and the whole person will turn into a puddle of blood and mud.

Like Zero, they were covered almost all over their bodies by the Ares tactical suit, and they had to wear full-coverage helmets to ensure that their bodies were not exposed to the threat of radiant snow.

Half an hour later, the team followed the broken road to the edge of the military base. Zero can already see the high-voltage power grid that surrounds the entire base, as well as the monitoring towers behind the grid. However, the abandonment of the base has left the power grid with only an ordinary barbed wire, on which there is no high-voltage current that can instantly scorch people. As for the guard towers, most of them were dilapidated, with large cracks stretching from the base of the tower to the monitoring window, and a large part of the top of the tower collapsed, leaving only one thing to lose.

In the distance, there are other buildings on the military base. These low-rise but very large buildings no longer have the splendor of their former glory. Thick snow buried them, and only a small part of the building walls were exposed in the wind and snow.

A warning sign reading "No entry to a military location" hung on the barbed wire fence at the entrance, and the wind was blowing loudly.

The team walked through the entrance and, following the instructions on the electronic map, walked towards the building of the military command center in the base. There, there is a huge underground base entrance. The entrance has a main lift, but the machine, which requires high-power power, is clearly no longer operational. But don't worry, the map shows that near the entrance, there is also a safe passage for base personnel.

The safety passage adopts a Z-shaped staircase with no electric drive and reinforced concrete structure, so that the personnel of the base can freely enter and outside the base even if there is no electricity to trust.

Going down from the safe passage is the first level of the underground base. This is the tactical armor layer, which is composed of layers of tactical armor plates up to 50 cm thick, and its defense is strong enough to resist the attack of ground-penetrating nuclear bombs. Unfortunately, before this layer of defense was put to the test, the sudden arrival of the day of the cataclysm turned Shijie upside down.

Nowadays, the tactical armor layer has lost its former meaning, and instead isolates the radiation and cold of the outside world, providing an environment for the alien creatures living in the underground base to survive and thrive.

The team entered through the entrance to the base and, following the main driveway and signs for it, found the military command post. A three-story building covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters with a hexagonal design. Entering from the main entrance of the building, there is an empty hall. The hall is as large as an airport lounge, with a large number of signs indicating the different functions of the hall.

Zero and they quietly walked into the hall, which was a mess. At the entrance, several bodies were seen lying on the ground. They crawl in and out of the country, but the picture is forever fixed at a moment in the decades. The flesh of the corpse had dried up, but instead of completely melting, it had become a dried corpse. It is conceivable that after the cataclysm, the global temperature will continue to decrease. Especially in this northwestern region, far away from the tundra plateau, the temperature is extremely cold.

At that time, not all the people in the base died on the day of the cataclysm, and the tactical armor layer of the underground base was able to withstand most natural disasters. After surviving the first few months, the staff members who hid in the underground base left the underground base, unaware that the temperature outside the base had become extremely low. And judging by the size of the base, there is naturally a considerable amount of food reserves.

But in the first few months, it must have been exhausted. Leaving the underground base at this point, they ended up starving or freezing to death without food.

Zero pieced together the closest conjecture to the truth almost instantly, and as they went deeper into the halls of the command post, they saw more and more corpses. Zuihou was in the center of the hall, and I was afraid that hundreds of corpses would be gathered here. Some of the corpses hugged each other, some hugged themselves, but without exception, they were full of fear before they died.

These poor people have already left this shijie one step ahead, and the living people are watching shijie become cruel and dangerous day by day. In contrast, the living and the dead, but we don't know who is luckier.

This is obviously an unanswerable question, at least not for the people in front of you. So they chose to silently pass by the bodies of the victims, and in front of them, there was a more cruel reality to face, and there was no time to stay and pray for these people.

But as most of the corpses passed, Kaede stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Noticing his stop, Zero walked back and asked.

Kaede pointed to a corpse and said, "Look here." ”

This is the corpse of a woman, presumably a civilian at the time of her death. The emaciated corpse still wore flat glasses on its face. Zero's gaze went from the corpse's face to his chest, and then settled. He crouched down and gently flicked the uniform on the corpse with his fingers. The uniform has only been fragile in the cold weather for many years, and the fabric fibers of the clothes have long been frozen and brittle, and the places where zero fingers touch the clothes immediately scatter into dust.

Under the uniform, is the woman's body. On the dry chest, after so many years, a flat wound still clearly appeared.

"He killed. Zero raised his head and looked at Kaede and said.

Kaede nodded, and then pressed her hand on the woman's trousers, which also turned to ash and appeared on the corpse. In the place of her little feet, a huge vacancy appeared. Judging from the silky wounds on the stump of the muscles, it looked like something had bitten it.

"Do people eat people?" said Zero, frowning.

Kaede sighed, "It's not impossible. Apparently the woman was killed and then devoured some of her muscles. In that kind of lack of food, the people who usually resent Sven also became a beast. But that's not the biggest problem. ”

As he said this, Su and Mapei also broke away from the group and walked back.

Feng looked at Zero and said, "The bigger problem is that the living corpses in the information of the underground base are probably not foreign objects." Rather, these base personnel are transformed. ”

"So what, what's the difference between the living corpses from outside and the living corpses in the base?" asked Su Bufu.

Zero finally grasped what Kaede meant, and he stood up, reached out and took off his helmet, and took off the blindfold of Gold's right eye. He said in a deep voice: "There is a difference, most of the living corpses retain their instincts before they were alive. Therefore, if the living corpses in the base are just ordinary office workers, it would be fine. If the soldier is transformed, then we will probably face a monster with a machine gun. ”

Su was speechless: "You say that living corpses can use weapons?

"It's hard to say, this damn shijie, I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse wolf could use a weapon. Kaede also stood up, pointed to his head and said, "It's not uncommon for living corpses to use weapons, and the mutant butchers among them will make their own weapons. Despite the rudimentary nature of the weapons made, it is a manifestation of instinct and intelligence. Anyway, we have to be careful. ”

Zero looked at the corpse at his feet, and suddenly felt that this mission might not be so easy.

By the time they found a safe passage to the underground base and descended through the spiral staircase to the basement level, the other two teams were nowhere to be found. Zero puts the helmet back on and turns on the helmet's night vision mode. Immediately, the dark corridor appeared in the eye. On both sides of the walkway are patches of mottled walls, and rusty pipes run along the walls and don't know where they go.

It was pitch black ahead, like a lightless hell. Zero nodded to the three team members behind him, and the four of them walked towards the entrance of the passage on the second basement floor with all their vigilance.

Shortly after Zero and the others left, Bridge retracted from the wall at the corner of the passageway. He turned around and walked forward, and came to a small room nearly a hundred meters away, where Bridge knocked on the door. The door opened, and inside the door was the underground level of the operating platform, but the operation room was no longer functional, and instead served as a temporary resting place for the Pioneer team.

"How's it going?" said Anthony, who was resting in the corner, opened his eyes when he heard the movement. Bridge's thin figure caught his eye, and the scheming captain asked.

"Head, they're all down. Bridges laughed.

Anthony nodded, "This underground base occupies an extremely large area, and it is occupied by many monsters. Neither Zero nor that stupid Rankine will have an easy task to get their hands on the quest items. It is conservatively estimated that it will take at least five days for them to be able to return. Then let's greet them at this entrance. ”

"It's still good to be in the head, if I can't think of a good way to save energy. The big man Oram pointed to his head and said.

Anthony smiled, and said that a guy like you with well-developed limbs and even a muscular head knows what stratagem is. He looked at Bridge again and said, "Although it will take at least five days for them to be able to come back, just in case, from this moment on, we will arrange personnel to monitor the station in the direction of the exit 24 hours a day." Bridge, let's start with you, every 12 hours. No problem, right?"

"Wrap it around me, head. Don't try to fly out if you keep a fly!" Patting his chest confidently, Bridges left the operator's room.

Closing the door, the shijie outside the door was pitch black and full of oppressive atmosphere. Bridge cursed under his breath, and went around the corner to find a hidden place to sit down. Thinking that 12 hours is not a short time, Bridge simply closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. But Bridge's unbeknownst to him was that the Vanguard was not the only living creature in the dark underground base.

Something else is quietly approaching.