Chapter 58 - To reach a consensus
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临渊慕鱼 update:2022-07-22 17:49
Knowing the inside story, Gu Panpan and everyone else’s eyes lit up. This was because the reward for this mission was extremely good. A villa, provisions, and even zombie crystals. Even more, they were able to increase their rank immediately for their superhuman squad.
It would be dumb it they didn’t take this mission!
Shao Qing flipped through the rest of the mission lists. Accepting three other missions requiring them to go to that city, but obviously the biggest reason was for the investigation of information.
The girl who was in charge of recording down the missions was very sweet looking. Concerned, she asked: “Are the few of you actually wanting to take on this assignment? Although it’s recommended that the squad be rank two or higher, even rank three superhuman squads aren’t willing to take on this mission.”
Shao Qing nodded her head: “We’re taking it.”
“Okay then.” With nothing else she can do to dissuade them, she helplessly recorded it down. After all she can’t stop people from throwing away their lives if they wanted to.
“Adorable……eh Adorable Treasure superhuman squad is it?” Reading out the name, the girl suddenly felt a bit of embarrassment, she felt that her awkward disorder was about to erupt.
With an earnest face Shao Qing replied: “Yes.”
The girl quickly recorded everything down and then told Shao Qing: “This will be a combined mission. Another superhuman squad had taken this task, so please meet them tomorrow afternoon at the plaza to assemble.”
“Okay.” Shao Qing frowned. Unexpectedly, they will have to move out with others. To them this would be rather unfavourable. After all within their group there were three abormals……
Especially Er Dai, he was especially easy to be discovered. In the off case that he is exposed there would be only two endings. Either they would have to exterminate the other superhuman squad, killing them to prevent them from divulging their secret or flee from this base.
Moreover in case they ended up in a situation where they had to flee, it was highly likely that they will never be able to enter any medium sized or large sized base. After all, a zombie being able to sneak into the base would definitely alert the base. Afterwards they would surely issue an order for arrest to warn all the other bases.
In that way, from then on besides those disorderly tiny bases that couldn’t be any smaller, there would truly be no place to go.
That’s why Shao Qing made a decision. She definitely would not allow Er Dai to participate in this mission. But she wasn’t at ease to leave Er Dai at home alone.
After all the base was too big, you could find all types of people. It’s quite possible that there might be one who would take a fancy to Er Dai’s ‘charm’ and while she’s unaware, secretly make a move. If by any chance something happened, Er Dai’s identity would be revealed. In this massive base, even the opportunity to escape would be slim.
Shao Qing couldn’t help worrying about it. But after thinking about it a bit more, let’s worry about it when it happens. Right now they couldn’t not bring Er Dai, once they’re on the road as long as he doesn’t do anything, it should be enough.
Once everyone returned, they started packing things to prepare for tomorrow’s departure for the mission.
According to the mission hall’s little girl, the other team who had accepted this assignment was one of the base’s three rank three superhuman squads.
Superhuman squads who wants to increase rank had to meet two requirements. The first was to accumulate enough points to request for an increase in rank. The second was that the squad had at least one superhuman meeting that rank to request it.
For example, if a squad wants to rank up to rank three, the squad would have to have at least one or more rank three superhumans.
Within the base there were a lot of rank two superhuman squads who had accumulated enough points, the only thing they were missing was a rank three superhuman.
Rank three superhumans are just too rare. Even in this massive base, the estimated number of rank three superhumans probably didn’t exceed a handful.
Taking Shao Qing as an example, she had discovered zombie crystals and source crystals earlier on. But even with this being the case, she was only able to become a rank three superhuman.
However, Shao Qing had the confidence, an average rank three superhuman, even three of them wouldn’t be more competent than her. Moreover, Yan Hanqing was close to reaching rank two. A rank two lightning elemental user wouldn’t be weaker than a regular rank three superhuman by much. On top of that, Gu Panpan and Gu Chuan were at the peaks of rank two and Shao Tong who had reached rank two by absorbing the spiritual zombie crystal. Even if they didn’t add on Er Dai, their fighting strength was absolutely at the peak.
Besides, Er Dai compared to Shao Qing wasn’t weaker by much, he was just a rather foolish zombie.
Actually, adding things up, Xiao Baozi also had a bit of fighting strength, just a bit……
In brief, their squad were incapable of using the superhuman squad ranking guide to measure their fighting strengths. That rank three superhuman squad, if there really was a fight, probably wouldn’t be able to handle Shao Qing and the rest.
In this world that uses strength to speak, this group was extraordinarily confident. The next day, once it was time, they immediately packed up their items and went to the meeting spot.
By the time they arrived, the superhuman squad called Gale was already there waiting for them. They had a total of six superhumans. The captain appeared to be a rather young man. With a smile on his face, he appeared to be easy to get along with; however, if one looked carefully they would discover that inside his eye was a tinge of indifference.
In addition there was another person who received Shao Qing’s attention and that was the young woman standing beside the man. She appeared to be about thirty, wearing an especially provocative outfit. Thick curls, bright red lipstick, with her body sticking out in the front and the back, she appeared very sensual.
The others, Shao Qing didn’t even take another glance at.
As Shao Qing led Yan Hanqing and the rest over, the man came over with a smile on his face and extended his hand out towards Gu Chuan: “It’s an honour to work with you guys. My name is Lin Xiaofeng. This is the vice captain of our squad, Cheng Jiao.”
That beautiful woman immediately came over with her hips swinging giving Gu Chuan a coquettish glance. As if he didn’t see anything, Gu Chuan was silent then afterwards he succinctly spoke: “Gu Chuan. Our captain, Shao Qing.”
Lin Xiaofeng immediately felt a bit embarrassed. Speaking honestly: “I’m sorry. Female captains are quite rare so I did not realize. Shao Xiao Jie, your bravery and abilities do not concede to men.”
Shao Qing smiled: “What captain? They were all just giving me some face. Captain Lin can indeed crack a joke.”
Both sides were complimenting each other, but occasionally a delicate glance would stick itself onto Gu Chuan and Yan Hanqing’s body especially Yan Hanqing’s which seemed extra provocative and sexy.
After negotiating a bit, Shao Qing and Lin Xiaofeng finally reached a consensus. Shao Qing didn’t feel that they would have much rapport with the Gale squad as long as they didn’t hold them back it should be enough.
Lin Xiaofeng was probably thinking the exact same, after all from their appearances their team looked rather weak. In particular, Er Dai and Shao Tong looked like two teenagers and Xiao Tong was even carrying Xiao Baozi like a nanny.
After reaching a consensus, the two teams headed out. Lin Xiaofeng seeing Shao Tong carrying Xiao Baozi was also preparing to get on the car and couldn’t help but ask: “Captain Shao, did you forget to send the child back first?”
Shao Qing took a glance over at Xiao Baozi and calmly stated: “Everytime I go on missions, I always bring my son, otherwise I can’t relax. My son is really well behaved, he won’t drag us down.”
Immediately some people snickered, some even started whispering. They were probably discussing what kind of person would form a superhuman squad and even bring their child out to complete missions? They must be mental.
However, Lin Xiaofeng didn’t feel that way. If someone was willing to bring a child along on a mission, they would either have to be retarded or have enough confidence and strength to protect their own child from receiving harm.
No matter how you look at Shao Qing, she didn’t look like a retard, the only thing that was on the retarded side was just their team name.
Volume 3 59 Zombie Group
Mulin hadn’t been this happy in a long time. Her whole life during the apocalypse was oppressive and painful. Apart from struggling for survival and facing those conspiracies, she missed Shao Qing.
It was only now that she could truly relax.
“If you look at the map, there is a base in front. Let’s rest there tonight.” Shao Qing said after looking at the map. Although resting in the wild is just as safe for them, the comfort of living in a tent is always much worse than a normal room.
Thus, wasting some time and rushing more later wasn’t a big deal.
They rushed to the base before the sky became completely dark. At this time, the sky was a little dark. The guards at the base were sitting in a corner playing poker, leaving two guards looking at the gate. It was empty outside.
Not having to line up was a very pleasant thing. There were no ordinary people in Shao Qing’s team, so the speed of entering the base was relatively fast.
After a simple check, they entered the base.
It was getting late at this time. Even the people who worked in the base had already returned to their residence. Shao Qing led a few of her friends to walk inside the base and felt something was wrong.
This base was too quiet. Even if it was night, there should be many people outside, at least some people walking around.
For this base, they would occasionally encounter a few people, but they seemed very numb and stiff.
It’s……like they were rank one zombies.
If it weren’t for their lively faces carrying some anger, it would really make people think that they were already zombies.
Shao Qing and her friends went to the base hall, rented a room temporarily, and rested for a night.
When they were leaving with the key, Shao Qing felt that the cheeks of the base staff were a little dark.
Deep doubts were engraved in her heart, but Shao Qing didn’t think about it any more. They had been walking for a day so Mulin and Yan Qiyue must be very tired. It would be better to rest earlier.
Before going to bed, Shao Qing made a pot of porridge and everyone divided it then went back to sleep.
About midnight when she was sleeping, Shao Qing suddenly heard some noise outside. Being in another’s base Shao Qing was more alert and slept very shallowly, so when she heard the strange noise, she immediately woke up.
After Shao Qing woke up, she listened carefully to the noise coming from outside. Outside was chaotic, and the voices were getting louder and louder. Not only her, but everyone woke up.
“What’s the matter?” Mulin rubbed her eyes in a daze: “Why is it so noisy outside?”
“It’s possible that something has happened, put on your clothes first. I’ll go out and see.” Shao Qing and Mulin were in the same room. Er Dai and Yan Qiyue slept next door and also walked out after hearing the sound.
Shao Qing poked her head out from the window, and she was shocked. Outside were a bunch of zombies. They were all slow-moving rank one zombies.
It was densely packed, all of them. Looking around, you couldn’t see an ordinary person at all. It’s like everyone in the entire base had become zombies, but they clearly saw many normal people when they entered the base last night.
It was just one night, how did it suddenly become like this?
Shao Qing was not the only one who was stunned, but also Yan Qiyue, who had put on his clothes. Everyone was shocked too.
“How could it be like this all of a sudden……” Mulin was stunned. Shao Qing calmed down in an instant: “You stay in the room, don’t go out. I’ll go out and see.”
“Be careful.” Mulin knew that she was not afraid of zombies, but still reminded her.
Shao Qing didn’t open the door, she went straight out of the window. After she got out, she found that there were more zombies than she saw in the room.
These zombies looked like rank one zombies that had just mutated at the beginning of the apocalypse. They were particularly fragile, with rigid limbs and severe body decay.
But how could so many rank one zombies suddenly appear?
Rank one zombies were rare in current times. This was because most zombies, after a year of evolution, were at least rank two or rank three. This means that these zombies should have just mutated tonight.
It is very possible that all the ordinary people in the entire base had become zombies, but where is the source?
Shao Qing walked past the group of zombies. Even if all the ordinary people in the entire base had become zombies, there should still be people with superhuman powers.
Ability users don’t get infected. Where are the superhumans in the base?
Soon Shao Qing found a living person. The man was hiding in the guard room at the entrance of the base. He looked out, shivering against the window. When Shao Qing suddenly appeared in front of him he almost screamed. Fortunately, he knew he shouldn’t attract the zombies, so he covered his mouth tightly, his eyes opened wide like a cow’s eyes because of his panic.
“Open the door.” Shao Qing knocked on the window. The man shook his head in fright. He didn’t dare to open the door. What if zombies swarmed in?
His abilities were very useless and his level was extremely low. It was only because of his relationship that he got a job as a doorman. How could he think that this evening when it was his turn to be on guard that this would happen.
He saw with his own eyes that his companion who went out to the bathroom was surrounded by zombies, gnawed into bones, alive.
Now his courage has been completely shattered. It would be strange to dare open the door.
Shao Qing said lightly: “Either you open the door, or I break open the door. You choose.”
The man cried and finally opened the door. After all, an open door can be closed. If the door was broken, the zombies would be really unhindered.
He quickly opened the door, and then said: “Quickly come in!”
Shao Qing walked in, and he immediately closed the door. Leaning against the door, he slowly slid down, sweat on his forehead.
“What’s the matter?” Shao Qing kicked him: “Get up first and speak clearly. Why are there suddenly so many zombies in the entire base?”
“No……I don’t know…… ” The man’s tears were about to come out as he stammered: “I discovered that all the zombies were acquaintances. They were ordinary people from the base. I don’t know how they suddenly became like this.”
“Was there no sign before?” Shao Qing frowned: “It is impossible that without any reason, all the people would become zombies overnight……what about the superhumans in the base?”
“Earlier, the superhumans in the base found a large greenhouse with vegetables and fruits in it. It was very messy. It should be seeds from ripe fruits and vegetables before the end of the world. There were many inside. It was something that our base didn’t have. The greenhouse was in a town with a lot of zombies, so the high rank superhumans in the base dispatched a group of mercenaries, and they haven’t come back yet.” At this point, his face became especially miserable: “Who would think that this happened just after they left.”
“It can be ruled out that zombies entered the base and infected everyone. After all, zombies can’t infect everyone silently……” Shao Qing touched her chin, and an idea flashed in her mind.
Zombie poison was not necessarily transmitted by zombies. There was a possibility that it was from food and water. Although it would be much slower to infect a person through food and water, it is also very simple.
Then the problem arose again. There were generally two types of water sources in the base, one was created by a water based superhuman, and the other was purified by the purifier in the base.
Bottled water was rare.
Most of the drinking water in the base was made by superhumans. The ground was irrigated, and the water used in daily life was purified.
How could all these ordinary people suddenly be infected?
Unless someone was frantically poisoning them.
“Where is the base chief of your base?” Shao Qing felt that this matter must be discussed with their base chief before they can find out the reason.
The man looked dull: “Sister, there are zombies outside. You are not going to find our base chief!”
“I am going to find your base chief.” Shao Qing said coldly: “Moreover, you will lead the way.”
The man was scared at this time, with a runny nose and tears falling down he said: “I still have a young son and a wife in my family. I have an old lady to support. Big sister, warrior, please forgive me, I really don’t want to die! With so many zombies outside, we will die……”
Shao Qing ignored him, grabbed him by the collar, and lifted him out. She kicked the door open. The sound of kicking the door immediately caused many zombies to turn their heads.
The man was almost so scared he peed himself. A large man of more than 1.8 meters, with his nose and tears running, looked very embarrassing.
Shao Qing was expressionless. She walked out silently, carrying the man. The man was tall, so when Shao Qing carried him outside, his legs dragged on the ground, which looked a little ridiculous.
When a zombie walked by smelling the flesh and blood on the man, he immediately screamed. Halfway through the scream, his face changed and he didn’t dare to shout any more because shouting again would only attract more zombies.
Shao Qing raised her hand and slapped all the surrounding zombies to death. He didn’t even raise his eyes. At that time, the man was confused.
An egg could be inserted into his wide open mouth. He just felt that the sky had fallen down, and he was about to die with Shao Qing, but in the next second he discovered that Shao Qing did not take him to death. She had forced him to fly.
Shao Qing walked all the way, and the zombies passing by were swatted into a meatloaf by her. In the second half of the journey, she was too lazy to even use her hands. She directly released Da Hua to allow it to eat them with the vines responsible for pulling it closer.
“Where is the head of your base?” Shao Qing asked lazily. The man felt like he had a mountain to back him up. He quickly said: “Go forward, then turn left. Then go straight ahead, the largest one. The house is very obvious!”
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