Chapter 209 - in the base

Since entering the apocalypse, even those who have never been in the field before the end of the apocalypse, even those who have never experienced any farming work, and urban white-collar workers who have to stockpile winter vegetables and food in advance every winter, have gradually mastered the key points How to live in this hands-on world of everything.

Now it’s late autumn, and people in various bases are harvesting potatoes, carrots and other crops planted everywhere. The leaves of those crops that were originally planted on roofs, roadside corners, and room aisle window sills have also turned yellow. Get up, and in addition, there are restrictions on daily water use in each base. With strong winds, the soil floating on the surface is blown up, and the streets and alleys in the base are full of yellow dust.

The same is true for the people living in the base. The green vegetation in today’s world is a rarity among the rarest. Except for the potatoes and carrots they usually plant specially, there are almost no traces of crops near the base. When there is a strong wind, everyone will be killed. The blown face is ashamed, seeing that the city with relatively lush green plants in the past now has the demeanor of a city in the desert.

Shouts, sighs, and children’s shouts came from near the gate of the base. Idlers who heard the sound ran over to watch the excitement, and then saw several large trucks driving in from the gate. It was a huge mutant beast still dripping with blood and at least twice as tall as the vehicle.

“Hey, look, this is a good deal again!”

“It’s a military car, right? Now there’s more meat to eat!”

Hearing what his companion said, one of them sneered: “When have you ever seen meat in food from the military? Our base has also hunted prey several times this year. When did you eat minced meat? “

The companion gave him a squinting look: “Hmph, even if you can’t eat meat, the soup you usually get every day can still have some meat flavor in it anyway? It’s much better than eating tasteless potatoes every day.”

The base established by the government has regulations. People usually need to do some official work on a regular basis, or turn in some crops such as potatoes and carrots that they sow at home, or go out to find some supplies and hunt some prey back. In short, all living in the base Everyone in the world needs to contribute. At the same time, the base officials provide housing for the residents of the base, coordinate the construction of walls that can protect the comfort of everyone, and provide residents with meals once or twice a day according to different contribution values and levels, and provide two meals a year. Clothes, one for winter and one for summer.

Of course, capable people don’t have to eat these big pot meals, but if you don’t eat the base, you won’t be compensated for other things. The food provided by the base is basically a mixture of mashed potatoes and carrots, in which you can barely taste the taste of salt. In addition, there will be a soup, and the two are considered a meal.

The people who were the first to receive potato sprouts and carrot seeds from the base had to hand in a certain amount of potatoes, dried potatoes, carrots, and dried carrots when they harvested for the first time. If anyone has the ability to harvest more potatoes and carrots, so that they can produce and save seeds in the future, then there is no need to buy new potato sprouts and carrots on credit from the base in the future.

Therefore, in fact, if you want to survive in the base, as long as your brain is not stupid and you can watch your own things, you can barely survive even if you never leave the base without going out.

Because the food provided by the base is a large pot of rice, occasionally when the base has additional gains and needs to eliminate the food as soon as possible, the big pot of rice will also be improved. For example, last year, the base got a batch of canned meat from somewhere. At that time, some chopped canned meat was mixed in the mashed potatoes and carrots, which could be regarded as a meat meal for the survivors in the base.

Because of this, the official convoy actually pulled back a huge prey, and everyone immediately became excited again.

The thing that made everyone excited was still to come. After this car drove in, there were actually two cars behind it, and there were actually several prey dragged on it!

Although those prey look… so familiar that people before the end of the world would never want to touch them, but in these days when they see a fat man and want to take a few bites, let alone a mutant rat Even if it’s a big mutated bug, they can still eat it!

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In the military living area deep in the base, several base leaders are sitting in a smaller room and having a meeting. The number of bigwigs inside was far less than the number in the previous two years. Although the news of the hunted and transported prey had already reached their ears, the expressions on their faces remained unchanged.

After everyone heard it, they just nodded their heads and continued to discuss the previous topic-“That is to say, people whose body temperature drops below 30 degrees will have two changes, one is to directly become a zombie, and the other is to remain unchanged. The body temperature continues to drop gradually? Is this the case with Minister Lu and the others?”

The only man in the room wearing a gray coat nodded solemnly after hearing the words: “Yes, we also came to this conclusion by monitoring body temperature and heartbeat during this year. Before, we were able to treat those who had not changed. Sudden zombification is regarded as their sudden illness and sudden death, but now…”

One person raised his hand and rubbed his face vigorously: “…now, the body temperature of most people in the base has reached the critical point of 30 degrees…”

It would be easy to control if only people changed one after another and suddenly turned into zombies, but if most of the people in the base were on the verge of this critical point…

“Hehe, it suddenly occurred to me, didn’t we receive a call from Base 224 a few days ago? They said that a group of zombies were found acting strangely in a city near them, and they actually gathered and lived in the city and acted in unison. Intelligent zombies like the Zombie King are in command. They want to use heavy weapons and small nuclear weapons to conduct a beheading operation directly, and ask our bases for help. But look at our current situation? If the body temperature problem erupts collectively, who will Take care of these intelligent and unintelligent zombies…”

Everyone in the room fell silent again. In fact, similar situations have been found more than once in the urban areas near their base. After all, even if people cannot enter the urban area, they can still use drones and other things to roughly observe the urban area. situation of the district.

But before they could make a decision, a small-scale zombification incident broke out in the base due to temperature problems.

“I remember, didn’t some of the…zombies who suddenly lowered their body temperature didn’t attack the people around them after turning into zombies, but chose to escape? The situation of those zombies hasn’t been studied yet?” One person suddenly changed the subject and asked.

The man in the gray coat shook his head: “Because the incident happened suddenly, we failed to catch those zombies when this happened several times—their combat power after zombification is much higher than ordinary zombies. We suspect…these fears Those are the so-called intelligent zombies and semi-zombies. And…” He swallowed hard, looked around at those who were staring at him, and said to everyone in a very low voice, “This is what I want to say. It’s just a possibility, I personally suspect…those escaped zombies are very likely…still retain human memory or instinct…”

As he said that, he closed his eyes deeply: “My assistant turned into a zombie directly in front of me because of hypothermia, until now I still remember the way he looked at me after turning into a zombie… I know no one will believe it , but I can really see the struggle and pain in its eyes…”

“Hmph! It’s nonsense! I think you’ve done too many experiments and got dizzy! Zombies are zombies, they’re all a bunch of inhuman things! They’re not even living things, so what do you think about them?” Fantasies?! They should all be killed directly!” A person suddenly changed his face, threw down these words angrily, turned around and slammed the door to leave the room angrily.

Everyone in the room watched the man leave the room, and then a person suddenly sneered: “I heard from Secretary Zhu’s secretary that Mrs. Zhu seemed to act a little strangely after she turned into a zombie a few days ago, and she didn’t seem to want to rush to bite Secretary Zhu immediately. , but Secretary Zhu immediately drew a gun and beat his wife to death… Heh.”

Everyone in the room fell silent again, everyone seemed to be reminded of some difficult past, and no one had a good face. Each of them directly or indirectly killed an unknown number of zombies…

Earlier, this possibility had not appeared in the documents before them, however, no one wanted to believe this possibility. But until now, until there are more and more zombies who turned around and ran away without directly hurting people after zombification, they have to acquiesce in the bottom of their hearts-this may not be a “possibility” at all, but A real, objective fact.

“…It would be great if I could find a zombie who refuses to eat people.” Someone murmured in a low voice.

“Hehe, instead of finding zombies that don’t eat people, it’s okay if we can find people who can’t be attacked by zombies.” Another person laughed and answered as if joking.

However, no one took it seriously. If such a person existed, they would have heard of it a long time ago. Why would they wait until now?

In the current base, there are fewer and fewer people who are really willing to go out to the zombie-infested city. Even after the team goes out, all the people gather together, and the zombies will naturally come together, and then they will be heavily attacked by everyone on the vehicle. Fire clean up. Who would go to the zombies one by one to try to see if the zombies would bite themselves?