Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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In the Yonghui base, solo action was impossible. Only teams of ten or more were eligible to register. Points were earned and distributed by the team leader.
Deng Yunfei and his group only had three people, so they had to join other teams.
They were about to depart, but the three of them hadn’t gone to their respective teams. Despite knowing that if they were late, they might be kicked out by the team leader. But they had more important things to do now.
Fewer people were joining the base now, given the sheer number of bases, big and small. Many people had already joined. So the person in charge of registration at the base entrance was particularly idle.
As Deng Yunfei walked over, Ma Yi, who was in charge of registration, was idly twirling a pen.
“Old Ma,” Deng Yunfei said with a smile, putting his arm around Ma Yi’s neck and taking out a cigarette from his pocket: “Here, light one.”
Ma Yi didn’t recognize Deng Yunfei, but seeing the cigarette, he smiled.
Cigarettes were incredibly precious in the apocalypse. Ma Yi was a heavy smoker, but the apocalypse was forcing him to quit.
There was no way around it; cigarettes were precious. Food was even more precious. With his stomach still growling, Ma Yi really couldn’t bear to use his points to buy cigarettes.
Xiang Jiuming picked up a lighter and lit one for Ma Yi.
Ma Yi took a deep drag, exhaling a cloud of white smoke, looking quite pleased with himself. “Hey, why haven’t you guys gone to pick up your missions yet?”
Deng Yunfei chuckled, hooking his arm around Ma Yi’s neck and pulling him aside. After checking that no one was around, he whispered, “I heard from my fourth brother that a beautiful woman came today. He was exaggerating like that. In this apocalypse, even the most beautiful woman is only six or seven tenths of her former beauty, right? Does it have to be that exaggerated? Like she’s never seen anything like it.”
As he spoke, Deng Yunfei’s tone carried a hint of exasperation.
Upon hearing this, Ma Yi patted Deng Yunfei on the shoulder: “It’s not that your fourth brother is ignorant, brother, you have no idea. The woman who came today was like a celestial being descended to earth in this apocalypse. Even before the apocalypse, she would have been a top beauty.”
He then clicked his tongue: “You wouldn’t believe it, her skin is as smooth as a newborn baby’s.”
Deng Yunfei exclaimed in surprise: “Really? I also heard from fourth brother that this woman was wearing a white dress. Is she out of her mind? It’s the apocalypse, who would wear all white?”
“Yeah, not only a white dress, but also perfectly clean.” Ma Yi thought for a moment: “I don’t think it’s a matter of being out of her mind. She has the ability.”
Deng Yunfei’s heart sank. In the apocalypse, who else but Fu Ke could wear a white dress and be perfectly clean?
Or rather, who would wear a white dress in the apocalypse? In the base, apart from the two women of General Mo and the women in the red-light district, no one else had ever worn a dress.
“Where is that woman now? I really want to see her, just how beautiful is she?” Deng Yunfei’s face remained impassive, but he deliberately showed a drooling expression.
“You little rascal, be careful, that woman came alone. Don’t run into a brick wall.” But he still nodded: “Look, she’s over there. Observe her for 24 hours, if there are no problems, she can go to the base.”
“Uh… then I’d better not go see her.” Deng Yunfei rubbed the tip of his nose dejectedly.
“That’s more like it, anyone with eyes can see that that seemingly delicate woman is not to be trifled with at all. Even the guard captain Liu Wei is very polite to her. Moreover, she is a dual-elemental ability user of water and fire.” Ma Yi said, shaking his head.
“Old Ma, thank you this time. If it weren’t for you, I might have actually gone over there.” Deng Yunfei said regretfully, then quickly took out a cigarette and gave it to Ma Yi.
Ma Yi grinned broadly, but he carefully put the cigarette in his pocket and patted it gently.
After exchanging a few polite words with Ma Yi, Deng Yunfei left with his men. They didn’t go to the team’s location but returned to their room.
The three men looked grave. Although they hadn’t seen anyone, there was a 90% chance it was Fu Ke.
“Second Brother, even if it is Fu Ke, do we really need to be so wary?” Xiang Jiuming suddenly said, “Didn’t Boss say that Fu Ke doesn’t seem to harm humans?”
“That was before, when Fu Ke and the D City base were on good terms. Don’t forget, it was our Boss who drove Fu Ke out before,” Deng Yunfei reminded him.
“Then what do we do?” Mao Xinhua asked anxiously.
Deng Yunfei looked at him: “Pack your things, we’re leaving immediately.”
“But, Second Brother, things are getting more and more chaotic outside. High-level zombies are appearing one after another. What if the three of us encounter a high-level zombie…” Xiang Jiuming was reluctant to leave because there were more and more high-level zombies, making human survival increasingly difficult.
Not to mention ordinary people, even many superhumans were no match for those high-level zombies.
Those zombies weren’t as easy to talk to as Fu Ke.
“I heard there are two major bases in City B, one is our current Yonghui base, and the other is the Blue Light base. We can go to the Blue Light base,” Deng Yunfei said, urging them to pack up and leave.
Without registering with the team, they couldn’t leave the base.
However, because Deng Yunfei and his group had delayed, the captain was furious and threatened to kick them out.
They apologized profusely. Deng Yunfei even offered the captain a whole pack of cigarettes, barely managing to keep them.
Although they said they were packing, Deng Yunfei and his group didn’t actually take much; otherwise, they would have been noticed as soon as they returned to the team.
Once they left the base, they would find a chance to slip away.
Watching the three fleeing people, Fu Ke couldn’t help but laugh.
Earlier, when Deng Yunfei was inquiring about Fu Ke from Ma Yi, because he was relatively close, Fu Ke had overheard their conversation. When she used her mental power to investigate, she didn’t recognize them, but sensed their fear of her, which piqued her curiosity.
Their fear of her likely meant they knew her identity, but strangely, these three hadn’t told anyone at the base.
So, Fu Ke kept observing them with her mental power.
Then, what they said after they returned finally made Fu Ke remember— it was them, the people around Xie Changyi.
If Deng Yunfei hadn’t mentioned their boss kicking Fu Ke out of the D City base, Fu Ke wouldn’t have remembered them at all.
Now that Xie Changyi was gone, and these people avoided her like the plague, without even trying to expose her, Fu Ke turned a blind eye and let them escape.
Besides, they didn’t exude the threatening aura she had sensed before.
And it wasn’t just them. Throughout the entire Yonghui base, Fu Ke hadn’t found anything unusual, but since she was there, she decided to take a look.
Especially to see General Mo, whom neither the skinny guy nor Brother Long had met in her previous life.
Just who was this person who treated Lan Zhi as an honored guest?
Blue Light Base.
Professor Gu ultimately didn’t survive, turning into a zombie a few days later. After Professor Gu turned into a zombie, Gu Ming didn’t hesitate to cut off his head and then asked a fire-type ability user to cremate him.
This whole series of events happened so fast that no one in the research base had time to react.
Gu Ming seemed to have been mentally prepared all along; he acted as soon as Professor Gu was fully transformed into a zombie.
For Gu Ming, even if a zombie could gradually revert to human form, it wouldn’t be Professor Gu anymore. After Professor Gu turned into a zombie, he was already dead. After Professor Gu was cremated, Gu Ming obtained a different urn from the base and placed Professor Gu’s ashes inside.
Zhang Zhongmin also arrived on the day of Professor Gu’s burial. However, when he saw the handsome man holding the urn, he felt as if he had become a completely different person.
He was like an ice sculpture, constantly radiating coldness.
Few people came to the base; besides Zhang Zhongmin and Chen Song, only people from the research institute were present. This was because Professor Gu hadn’t yet produced any results that would earn the gratitude of those at the base.
Therefore, regarding Professor Gu’s death… The people at the base remained unmoved.
Some, upon hearing that Professor Gu explained the situation as a result of no one being willing to conduct the experiments, and that they themselves had tested the nutrient solution, actually felt a sense of relief— thankfully, they hadn’t gone.
Deng Yunfei and his group, who had joined the Blue Light Base, never imagined that it would be managed like a military operation.
Moreover, because they had to take care of the entire base, the food was actually less than at the Yonghui base. But if they went back to the Yonghui base, Fu Ke would still be there.
Reluctantly, they stayed at the Blue Light base.
After Zhang Zhongmin took over, the base began collecting books, and the teachers resumed their old professions.
Fu Ke was released after being observed for twenty-four hours. Because she was an ability user, she was assigned a three-bedroom apartment, one room per person. The other two rooms were occupied.
The room had a two-meter-wide bed, a wardrobe, and a bathroom. This was clearly the master bedroom; the place they arranged for Fu Ke was good, but the monthly rent was expensive.
The other two rooms in the apartment were also occupied by girls, but none were as comfortable as Fu Ke’s— one room per person, while the others shared rooms.
Fu Ke went out of her room to cook something in the kitchen, but as soon as she stepped out, she found a group of people gathered in the previously empty living room.
They were dressed in strange clothes and looked at Fu Ke with envious eyes.
A woman in a black leather jacket and pants sat on the sofa, her hair tied high in a ponytail, one leg propped up on the coffee table.
She cracked sunflower seeds and scrutinized Fu Ke with a critical eye. Two women sat beside her, massaging her shoulders, and someone was even kneeling on the floor massaging her feet.
Fu Ke’s expression turned strange for a moment.
Behind the sofa stood several women with their arms crossed, but their gazes towards Fu Ke were also unfriendly.
Fu Ke smiled: “Hello, my name is Fu Ke. I’m staying here from today. Are you staying here too?”
Jin Ling smiled slightly, casually tossing the sunflower seed shells on the floor, standing up, clapping her hands, and kicking the kneeling woman: “Alright, I’ve met everyone. Delete them all.”
“Sister Jin!” The woman massaging Jin Ling’s shoulders looked at her in surprise, letting out a shrill scream with a hint of accusation.
Jin Ling’s smile vanished instantly, and she looked coldly at the woman: “I said, disperse. Didn’t you hear me? Or are you trying to control me?”
She pinched the woman’s chin, speaking in an unfriendly tone.
“No, I wouldn’t dare, I don’t have Sister Jin,” the woman said aggrievedly. “This woman took up Sister Jin’s room as soon as she arrived. I was just standing up for Sister Jin.”
Jin Ling sneered, “What are you thinking? Don’t think I don’t know. Don’t use me as an excuse.”
After saying that, she threw the woman aside and walked to Fu Ke’s side, passing by the room next to Fu Ke’s.
The woman who was pushed by Jin Ling looked at Fu Ke resentfully, which puzzled Fu Ke. It wasn’t her who threw her. What was with that resentful look in the woman’s eyes?
However, she still shrugged and turned to go to the kitchen.
The gas in the kitchen had long been turned off, but there were pots and pans everywhere. Fu Ke didn’t need to take anything out of her spatial storage. After all, her ability was dual-elemental, water and fire, and she didn’t have a spatial storage.
After cleaning the kitchen thoroughly, Fu Ke smiled with satisfaction.
In order not to arouse suspicion, Fu Ke didn’t take out anything strange, such as fresh vegetables. She directly took out a bag of instant noodles and cooked it.
Cooking instant noodles was simple; she just needed to get the fire essence out. The fire spirit has grown considerably, though still slender, it can change size at will and is not fragile at all.
Soon, the aroma of instant noodles filled the entire room; even Jin Ling, next door to Fu Ke, could smell the rich, spicy beef noodle flavor.
Jin Ling glanced at the biscuits in her hand, smelled the strong aroma, and her face darkened instantly.
She walked out with a sullen expression: “What are you doing?”
Fu Ke had just finished putting the cooked instant noodles into a bowl when she turned around and saw Jin Ling standing at the door, her face dark as if she owed her eight million dollars: “I’m hungry, cooking noodles.”
Jin Ling’s lips twitched; the aroma made her mouth water.
If she hadn’t sensed that this woman, who spoke so politely, was definitely not simple, Jin Ling would have already snatched the noodles; how could she be standing here calmly talking to Fu Ke?
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