Zhou Yang had not anticipated such brutality. "Didn’t you ever consider using missiles to wipe out the zombies in the city?"
"We thought about it, really did, but do you know? The living survivors, what they hope for is to see the army come and save them, not to witness the army’s missiles bombing them, annihilating their last chance of survival."
Zhou Yang looked at the resolute face of the soldier and did not press him further.
Agreeing with what he said.
Indeed, some people harbor hope for humanity, while others have hearts so dark, not a glimmer of light can be seen.
As night fell and the time for patrol shifts came, he returned to his accommodation, in front of him lay the crystals, the quantity of which left him speechless.
He had always thought about enhancing his awakening abilities and knew that crystals were needed for that, but crystals could only be obtained from evolutionary zombies, and the difficulty of hunting evolutionary zombies was very high.
One careless move could lead to an accident.
But now... Lin Fan’s words still echoed in his mind.
"You use these crystals first to enhance yourself, once your awakening abilities advance, I’ll give you the black crystal."
He had never thought that such rare crystals, in the eyes of others, were like cabbages by the roadside, seemingly worthless.
"Alas, I’m still too naive. Why, in times of chaos, do people always think that if they have a little ability, they can start something great? I was so useless in peaceful times; could I really rise up during chaotic times?"
Zhou Yang muttered to himself, critically assessing his own thoughts.
He admitted that he was crazy.
Mountains of gold and silver lay before him, but he didn’t know to take advantage, only knowing to stay in his own burrow. What could this be if not madness?
Zhou Yang held a crystal in his hand, under the light, its internal colors looked so beautiful, as dazzling as a nebula in the universe.
The crystal fell into his mouth.
The path to an enhanced awakening ability started now.
The same was true for Xiaohong in the adjacent room.
Faced with so many crystals, she went from being initially uncomfortable to finally accepting them calmly. Life was so wonderful – the process of wanting but not getting, and getting without wanting, was indeed magical.
An upgraded vehicle pulled up to the entrance of the base.
A figure stepped out.
Qiuyue got out of the car, holding the data records she had collected during this period, intending to leave them at the gate and then depart, but she found the base’s gates wide open, even the guards absent.
This furrowed her brow with concern, feeling that something might have happened.
She walked toward the inside of the base.
Inside the base, the fluorescent lights flickered, as if suffering from a poor connection, and there were scratch marks on the steel walls of the entrance that looked like they had been clawed by sharp talons. She remembered that the Desert Base was not in this condition.
She had a foreboding feeling, wondering if the base had suffered a surprise zombie attack while she was away?
Continuing deeper into the base.
She noticed viscous liquid on the walls, looking like blood, but not human blood – more like zombie blood, which, according to her research, was very coagulated.
"All the equipment from the base has been moved?"
Seeing this scene, she knew zombies couldn’t have done this.
Zombies only think of tearing apart humans, not moving equipment from a base.
"Could it be that a zombie really attacked, but they repelled it?"
She thought of many possibilities.
When she reached the interior, all she saw was that apart from her own laboratory, everywhere else had been cleaned out, and the bloodstains on the floor trailed from her lab.
When she left, she had locked the lab door, which no one could open without the code.
Entering the lab, she saw syringes on the floor that she hadn’t used, her expression subtly changing. In a hurry, she turned on the computer; she had to see what had happened during her absence.
Just as she accessed the network.
Dragon Palace Base requested a video link.
The link was successful.
On the screen appeared Professor Xia, his face riddled with anxiety. Just as he was about to speak, seeing Qiuyue in the video, his excitement was palpable.
"Qiuyue, how are you?"
"Grandpa Xia, let’s not worry about me for now. Where are the people from the Desert Base?"
"I had the people from Huangshi Sunshine Shelter take everyone from the base. Only Xu remained behind. Have you seen him?"
Qiuyue shook her head: "No, not a single person, why did Xu stay behind? I found that my lab has been tampered with, and the Lucky Cell syringes have been used. Could it be..."
Her thoughts turned to Xu.
Professor Xia said, "It seems it did happen. Just after the base personnel left, your database was accessed. It must have been Xu checking your experiment records and then injecting himself with Lucky Cells. But seeing that you are still alive reassures me. You’ve successfully adapted to the Lucky Cells."
Shaking her head, Qiuyue responded, "Grandpa Xia, it’s not what you think. Indeed, I am still alive, but I can no longer consider myself human. My current state is more similar to that of a mutated zombie. I can be rational now, but I can’t guarantee how long this rationality will last. Lucky Cells can change the human body structure, making people bloodthirsty, brutal, and ferocious."