Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Back at the Chaoyang Base, Fu Ke sensed the unease again. She quickly composed herself and focused on making guokui[1] (a type of flatbread).
Because they all loved pork cracklings with cabbage[2], Fu Ke’s storage space was overflowing with lard. Seeing the lard guokui finally gave her a solution.
The entire Chaoyang Base was mostly infested with zombies, with few humans. There were now over a thousand zombies in the base, and under Fu Ke’s strong pressure, they had gradually become accustomed to the humans who occasionally passed by. They had also grown used to the crystal cores they had previously resisted.
Xiao Hei was in charge of managing the zombies, while Lan Zhi led over a hundred fifth-tier zombies to guard the Chaoyang Base.
Lan Zhi’s advancement seemed slow; Xiao Hei was already a sixth-tier zombie, while Lan Zhi hadn’t even reached fifth tier, though there were faint signs of a breakthrough.
Knowing that the crucial step in vocal cord repair was crossing the fifth tier, Lan Zhi was particularly excited during this period.
When Fu Ke called them to eat, the skinny guy took a bowl of chicken soup and a flatbread: “Chicken soup, flatbread, perfect!”
However, Qiu Yi looked at Fu Ke with a bitter face: “Sister Fu, when can we stop eating stewed pig’s trotters and stewed chicken?”
Not to mention Qiu Yi, even Ya Ya hugged the flatbread and looked at the chicken soup with disgust.
Wang Zhen was a little embarrassed. He was very grateful to Fu Ke because he knew that Fu Ke had been cooking all this time for his wife.
But if everyone had to eat the same things, everyone would get tired of it. But he didn’t want to refuse Fu Ke’s kindness, after all, it was for his wife’s sake.
“After Wang Zhen’s wife finishes her postpartum confinement, we’ll eat something else.” Fu Ke saw Wang Zhen’s embarrassed look. Wang Zhen was different from the others. Since he was going to stay at the base, Fu Ke had to make sure he stayed at the base wholeheartedly.
In fact, Fu Ke had no problem making postpartum meals for Wang Zhen’s wife, and there was no need for everyone to eat with Wang Zhen’s wife, Liu Yue.
However, that way, the memory wouldn’t be as vivid.
Although Fu Ke occasionally made other things, like the guokui they were currently eating, most of the meals are postpartum confinement food, so they were already tired of them.
Seeing Wang Zhen’s awkwardness, Feng Han patted Qiu Yi’s head: “Soon, his wife will be out of confinement soon. She’s still in confinement now, so we all need to be considerate, understand?”
Qiu Yi nodded listlessly.
Even the best food gets boring after a while, thankfully they could still eat guokui. Qiu Yi suddenly felt how difficult childbirth must be for a woman.
He got tired of the confinement meals after only a short time, but Liu Yue had to eat them for forty days straight and couldn’t eat anything else.
Qin Long stood to the side with his guokui, seemingly completely isolated from the crowd. He looked at the guokui in his hand, his gaze lingering on Fu Ke.
At that moment, the skinny man suddenly looked over, noticing Qin Long’s gaze still lingering.
He frowned, but before he could say anything, Fu Ke tugged at the skinny man’s hand.
….
The D City base had fallen. Thanks to Xie Changyi’s foresight, Du Yunfei and the others successfully escaped the D City base, which was surrounded by layers of zombies. When they crawled out of the sewers, they were covered in a foul stench.
But even so, escaping alive gave them a sense of relief.
The three of them found a safe place and could finally relax and rest, but there was no food. They were so hungry that they were dizzy and didn’t want to move.
“I… I heard before that this time, so many zombies might be related to Fu Ke,” Xiang Jiuming said.
“If it’s Fu Ke, would she need to go to such lengths?” Mao Xinhua asked, puzzled.
“Stupid.” Deng Yunfei glared at Mao Xinhua: “Being related to Fu Ke doesn’t necessarily mean that Fu Ke sent those zombies.”
Mao Xinhua was stunned. Being related to Fu Ke, but not sending those zombies, then what was going on?
Deng Yunfei fell into recollection.
Previously, Xie Changyi had said that Fu Ke wouldn’t attack humans. At least not easily. And after Fu Ke left the D City base, Xie Changyi woke up from his coma.
At that time, only Deng Yunfei was with Xie Changyi; Xiang Jiuming and the others weren’t there.
Xie Changyi firmly told Deng Yunfei that they mustn’t offend Fu Ke again.
When Liu Guo’an said a large number of zombies were heading towards the D City base and they began preparing defenses, Xie Changyi ordered them to dig tunnels.
He also told Deng Yunfei that if zombies really came, it wouldn’t be Fu Ke coming to retaliate.
Xie Changyi said with certainty that if zombies came, it could only prove that they had driven away the guardian spirit that had been protecting the D City base.
The word “guardian spirit” sounded ridiculous coming from Xie Changyi’s mouth. But Deng Yunfei could never forget the serious look on Xie Changyi’s face at that moment.
Xie Changyi said that the reason the D City base had been so safe before was very likely because Fu Ke was there, which was why the zombies didn’t dare to come.
However, now that Fu Ke was gone, the zombies who were previously wary of her would swarm in.
But Fu Ke’s presence made the D City base safer than ever before, which also had serious consequences: neither ordinary people nor those with superpowers received the necessary training.
This was why they were in such a panic.
The person who initially gained the people’s faith in the base was Zhang Zhongmin, but Zhang Zhongmin had already left. Several factors contributed to the fall of the D City base:
First, their life after the apocalypse was too peaceful, unlike the dire situation elsewhere.
Second, Zhang Zhongmin, whom everyone trusted, had left the D City base.
Third, Liu Guo’an did not gain the trust of the people in the base, causing the base to fall apart.
Fourth, Fu Ke’s zombie identity was exposed. Although Xie Changyi was the one who had driven Fu Ke away, as long as Fu Ke’s identity was exposed, even if Xie Changyi hadn’t taken the lead, there would have been trouble.
However, Xie Changyi, in all his calculations, failed to foresee that it was indeed Fu Ke who kept a large group of zombies towards the D City base.
Previously, when surrounding the Radiant Base, Fu Ke summoned a large number of zombies, almost completely clearing out the zombies around the D City base, giving them a safe haven.
However, Xie Changyi was targeting Qin Long, and Fu Ke didn’t intend to destroy the base. So, although she brought zombies to the D City base, she didn’t control them to raze it.
She simply returned the zombies that originally belonged to the D City base.
Unexpectedly, the D City base, despite its well-prepared defenses, was wiped out by the zombie horde due to disobedience to Liu Guo’an’s orders, resulting in chaos, disorganization, and lack of discipline.
By the time Zhang Zhongmin arrived in D City with his men, the entire city was overrun by zombies, a complete wasteland.
He never imagined that after returning so soon, the place would fall. Even though Zhang Zhongmin knew Liu Guo’an was unsuitable to lead the base, he hadn’t expected to face this upon his return.
His eyes reddened slightly, his fists clenched, his teeth clenched, and his cheeks twitched slightly.
When Xie Bajin saw Zhang Zhongmin, he burst into tears, hugging Zhang Zhongmin and sobbing as he told him what had happened after he left, then embellishing the facts with added details.
He said Fu Ke was a zombie who wanted to use the people in the base as food supplies. He also said Liu Guo’an was an accomplice, openly driving Fu Ke away but secretly colluding with Fu Ke to destroy the entire base.
“Impossible!” Zhang Zhongmin had been comrades-in-arms for many years, and he knew Liu Guo’an better than anyone. Although Liu Guo’an lacked charisma and leadership qualities, he was very responsible. He might not have been capable, but he would never have done what Xie Bajin described.
Xie Bajin’s escape from the base was purely by luck. Too many people were rushing to the buildings, causing several stampedes.
So Xie Bajin spotted Deng Yunfei and the others heading towards the grove and, without hesitation, quietly followed them. Although Deng Yunfei had blocked the entrance, he was in such a hurry to escape that he didn’t have time to completely block it.
Xie Bajin used a shovel to dig the hole open again and escaped through the tunnel.
Deng Yunfei and the others were in such a rush to leave that they hadn’t noticed Xie Bajin secretly following them.
But since the entrance was blocked, Xie Bajin had used all his strength to dig it open, successfully creating a great distance between himself and Deng Yunfei’s group. By the time he came out, Deng Yunfei and the others were long gone.
However, he happened to run into Zhang Zhongmin.
“Squad Leader Zhang! Fu Ke really is a zombie! She was a zombie from the very beginning. The apocalypse, all the viruses, were caused by her!” Xie Bajin shouted urgently.
Zhang Zhongmin pushed Xie Bajin away, keeping a distance: “What’s that smell on you?”
Although bathing and cleanliness were luxuries in the apocalypse, and everyone carried a bit of an odor, Xie Bajin’s smell was clearly more unbearable.
“I… I escaped from the sewers…” Xie Bajin said, somewhat embarrassed.
The tunnel led to the sewers, Xie Bajin immediately thought. There were sewer covers in the school; even without the tunnel, people in the school could leave through the sewers.
But it seemed no one had considered leaving through the sewers…
However, by the time Xie Bajin reached the sewers through the tunnel, the base must have been almost completely overrun, so he didn’t go back to warn the others to leave through the sewers.
Zhang Zhongmin looked at him with a cold smile: “Everyone in the base is dead?”
Xie Bajin suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. Seeing Zhang Zhongmin’s cold expression, he became nervous. He nodded and said cautiously, “Yes, yes.”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhongmin’s eyes flashed with coldness: “Everyone in the base is dead. You’re the only one who escaped?”
Xie Bajin belatedly realized that Zhang Zhongmin’s gaze seemed to carry murderous intent. He couldn’t help but take two steps back and hurriedly denied it, saying, “No, no, Deng Yunfei and the others came out too. I saw them leave through the sewers, so I followed them!”
Hearing Xie Bajin say this, Zhang Zhongmin’s expression slowly softened.
“Besides you, how many people escaped?” Zhang Zhongmin asked.
Although Zhang Zhongmin’s expression softened, Xie Bajin still felt a sense of danger. He swallowed hard, no longer daring to lie: “Three, three.”
Seeing Zhang Zhongmin’s face instantly turn icy, Xie Bajin inwardly groaned, all the excitement he had felt upon seeing Zhang Zhongmin earlier vanishing.
Instead, he regretted it, feeling incredibly unlucky. Why else would he have run into Zhang Zhongmin so soon after leaving?
“Squad Leader, Squad Leader Zhang, it’s not that I don’t want to save people. The people at the base have all gone mad, they don’t listen to orders at all. I want to save them, but they won’t give me the chance.”
“Since you left, Squad Leader, the people at the base have become increasingly lazy and disloyal, the base is falling apart. Plus, Liu Guo’an and Fu Ke are in cahoots…”
“Whether Fu Ke is a zombie or not is another matter, but even if Fu Ke is a zombie, did Liu Guo’an really collude with her?” He knew his own people best, and Liu Guo’an had been by Zhang Zhongmin’s side since the apocalypse.
How long had it been since they separated? Zhang Zhongmin trusted his judgment; Liu Guo’an was definitely not that kind of person.
For a moment, Xie Bajin stammered.
“What, are you mute? I’m asking you a question!” Zhang Zhongmin narrowed his eyes dangerously.
“I… I don’t know, everyone said that…” Xie Bajin felt that if he continued to lie, Zhang Zhongmin would definitely kill him. For some reason, he felt that Zhang Zhongmin’s dark eyes seemed to see through all his lies.
A chill slowly enveloped Xie Bajin; he felt his feet were about to go numb.
It was daytime, but colder than night. He suddenly looked down and was horrified to see his feet frozen solid, with frost spreading upwards.
“Squad leader, I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll tell you everything!”
Driven by fear, Xie Bajin blurted out everything he knew, such as how, after Zhang Zhongmin left, the base began to fall apart.
Everyone wanted to become the leader, and Liu Guo’an couldn’t suppress them.
Then, Fu Ke returned. But to everyone’s shock, it was discovered that Fu Ke was actually a zombie, though outwardly indistinguishable from a human. She was indeed a zombie, a fact Fu Ke herself admitted.
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