Chapter 36

The green car started up and drove through the checkpoint gate under the officer's command.

Behind the gate was a stretch of sand, where several cars were parked.

There were also some wreckage of cars. These things naturally could not be activated again, but the spare parts on their bodies could continue to be used. Therefore, they were not disposed of.

On the sand of what might be called a parking lot, the car was parked to one side.

One by one, the men got out of the car and trotted along with the officer, in the heat of the noon sun.

The sand was joined by flat concrete floors, and directly in front of the checkpoint gate was a six-story building.

It was clear that the walls of the building, three floors above, were somewhat different in color from the one below.

They went up and repaired it, and in fact most of the surface buildings in the Remutt area were.

Now they were on the fringes of the colony, and they were in the zone of armed fire.

The building in front of him acted as a sentinel tower, with anti-aircraft guns mounted on at least four of the firepower points in the building.

With just a glance, he was able to tell that these machine guns were meticulously designed. The crossfire from them was enough to tear apart any intruders who dared to enter through the main entrance.

There were about a dozen more like this in the vicinity of Remutt.

Although he didn't need an expensive defense system such as the surface-to-air missile system, Remutt was many times better than the Z7 base he'd been in before zero in a colony.

Beyond the outer defenses was a water purification plant.

With Remutt's resources, it was impossible to build a water purification plant out of thin air. The biggest reason why the founders of the colony chose this area was because it was a water purification plant from an old era.

The water plant was no longer operational, but after ten years of effort it was able to produce ten tons of clean water a day for the residents of Remutt.

Although not much water, and part of it radiates, it is much happier to buy clean water than other places, or to live on groundwater sources.

In addition to the water purification plant, there are two food processing plants that produce various flavors of nutrients and small amounts of bread for the residents of Remutt.

It was not stale bread, of course, but warm bread that had been baked in the oven.

In this turbulent era, eating a mouthful of this kind of bread was considered extravagant.

Naturally, this kind of bread was not cheap either, at least not for the average household.

After the industrial area was Remutt's residential area.

It was all houses that had rebuilt and redecorated the houses of the old inhabitants, which were only open after the sun had set.

Normally, people living in an underground base could rent a house from Remutt on a monthly basis so that they could relive the old days after sunset.

Residents live in underground bases, work and earn the wages needed for living.

Then, by buying food, water, loans, and entertainment, the currency would return to Remutt's vault to maintain the income balance between the colony and the population.

In addition to the residents' income, Remutt was also able to increase his income by selling extra clean water, charging various fees for joining the population outside the colony, and even setting up his own army to capture mutated creatures and sell samples.

Part of the extra income will be used to expand Remutt's size and other projects to attract more outsiders and co-operate with other companies or chaebol.

There is no doubt that Mr Remutt's founders have a very long-term vision.

Therefore, this colony was growing steadily in the fringes of the continent.

At the entrance to the underground base, after a series of transfer procedures.

They rode in a private elevator, led by a woman dressed as an office girl, to an underground base two hundred meters underground.

Unlike the z7, Remutt's underground base clearly did not function as an operating area.

It is divided into four areas according to function: living area, administrative area, commercial area and temporary stopover site.

Among them, the area of the temporary stopover was the smallest.

Although it was called stopping the base, in reality, it was just an empty space.

There was nothing but the concrete floor, not even a rest tent.

Fortunately, Teddy and the others had brought two items with them.

One gave the children and the women rest, and the other gave them a thank-you gift for paying their temporary stay at zero.

Shortly after they had moved in, several men in protective gear arrived at the station with a team of soldiers escorting them.

This was a quarantine procedure specifically prepared for outsiders. If a virus infection or genetic mutation was detected among the people, they would be kicked out of the base along with the others.

If you don't want to go, a dozen or so microphones will drive you away.

Teddy and the others were nervous. The base was short of medical facilities.

To be honest, if any of them were infected with the virus, as long as the disease didn't break out, no one else would know.

So the men at Dar Base were nervous about the progress the inspectors were making by sweeping the instruments over their bodies.

But the most nervous ones were Zero and Leah.

On the map before zero there had been only the words Lymte marked as a colony, which, as he understood it, was where the people of the wilderness lived together.

No matter how much imagination there was, it never occurred to him that Remutt's size was no less than that of some companies or bases, much less that they had a virus detection program.

In this way, the fact that Leah was carrying the virus would be exposed.

"Take off your hat."

Leah instinctively drew back behind the zero.

The staff member shook his head helplessly. He didn't try to force Lia, but he continued to scan her with the detector.

All sorts of data jumped up and down on the screen of the detector. Zero was ready for the worst case scenario.

If Leah was found to be infected, he would have to leave with the girl.

And if Remutt was going to force an isolation or even murder Lia over the matter, then Zero was ready to kill his way out.

However, this would likely affect Teddy and the others.

But at this time, he couldn't care less.

The detector swept Leigh from head to toe without alerting them, which made them both feel lucky but puzzled.

The detector was not alerted, for two reasons only.

One was that the detector was broken, the second was that Leah hadn't gotten the virus at all.

At Remutt's level, the first possibility was remote; there was only one possibility left.

Leah had never been infected with a virus!