End of the World Cycle

Several speed-type psychics arrived first. They thought they had a chance to catch their breath and come up to notify the defense, but they didn't expect that the three people were already standing at the top.

The zombies suddenly stopped attacking, and with the two powerful zombies beside the woman, even a fool would know that these zombies were being controlled. Some even trembled and dared not approach.

Xie Qin put her hands in her coat pockets, raised her eyebrows and spoke to the person closest to her.

"Lead the way. I want to see your base."

Unexpectedly, the man fell to his knees with a thud.

"Have mercy! Please, I beg you, I had no choice but to follow the robbery, please spare me, I won't do it again."

"Ah? You don't understand what I'm saying? I said I want to go in and take a look."

There was another silence. Xie Qin was not a very patient person.

"Whoever leads the way, please recommend yourself and I will let you survive." When Xie Qin said this, he glanced at everyone behind him. His tone was like a normal conversation, which made everyone unable to react.

A woman raised her hand first.

"I...I'll take you there."

Everyone was stunned at first, then their eyes fell on the woman, all with surprise.

Xie Qin looked at the woman. She was very thin with yellow skin and messy short hair. She looked like she was suffering from long-term malnutrition. But she was not short. She was half a head taller than the man next to her. She was about 175 cm tall.

He raised his hand and waved at the woman. The woman ran over tactfully. When the woman was about three meters away from Xie Qin, the zombies instantly became agitated and surrounded those people again.

Then there were screams and sounds of supernatural powers hitting. The man who had been kneeling on the ground begging Xie Qin regretted it very much. He should have led the way. The moment he had this thought, a very fast zombie rushed over. He didn't have time to think about it and started fighting with the zombie again.

The woman looked at what was happening in front of her, her body trembling slightly. Because she was tall, she could see Xie Qin's face even with her head down. But at such a close distance, that innocent and harmless pretty face made her feel cold all over.

"Let's go."

The woman walked in front to lead the way, her steps getting faster and faster, for fear that the group of zombies behind would pounce on her.

Xie Qin and the other two followed the woman to the museum at the innermost part of the square. The glass door of the museum had long been broken. After entering, the display cabinets inside were also broken. The cultural relics had long disappeared. Xie Qin looked around and saw that the museum was very large and there must be a lot of cultural relics in so many display cabinets.

"What about the things in here?" Xie Qin's voice was not loud, but it was particularly obvious in the empty museum.

"It was...taken away by someone else." The woman was still afraid. She felt scared even when talking to Xie Qin. Her voice was trembling and she was stuttering.

"Who took it?"

"I don't know...it should have been taken away before."

Xie Qin didn't ask any more questions. The area below was an undeveloped imperial mausoleum, and the things above were nothing compared to what was below.

The entrance was in the basement of the east exhibition hall of the museum. The corridor was about two meters wide, with stairs going down one by one. It was very dark. Two searchlights were taken out from the space and handed to the two brothers. Xie Qin walked in the middle and could see clearly.

The woman who passed through the three moisture-proof doors stopped in front of the last door. This door was obviously much larger, and it was made of titanium alloy, comparable to the door of a bank vault. The woman picked up a brick on the ground and knocked on it rhythmically. After a while, there was movement behind the door.

After the door was opened, a musty smell accompanied by a pungent stench hit her. Xie Qin frowned and didn't want to go in. He took out three gas masks and asked the Shui brothers to wear them without caring whether they could smell it or not.

The person who opened the door was a man in his forties, a second-level power-type psychic.

"Li Man, why so fast?"

The woman turned around and looked at Xie Qin and the other two. The men's gazes also fell on her. They were strangers, and their faces could not be seen clearly because they were wearing masks. But the two men's eyes were as gray as zombies. What else could he not understand?

Just when I wanted to scream, I found that I couldn't make any sound. My body was controlled to move backwards step by step and pressed against the wall, and I couldn't move at all.

Inside the door was an empty compartment, with several large wooden boxes containing iron bars, baseball bats, and other wooden sticks. Li Man looked at the man being controlled and began to feel scared again.

He continued to walk forward, leading Xie Qin through a tunnel of about 30 meters. Suddenly, the view in front of him opened up. A white paper lamp was lit at the entrance, illuminating the scene in front of him.

Although it is empty, it is surrounded by exquisitely carved murals, and some colors can be vaguely seen. Six unicorns stand neatly in front of the huge stone gate.

Li Man skillfully turned Qilin's eyes, and then the stone door began to vibrate and slowly opened. Then, noisy voices came into her ears. But no one came out.

"This is it." Li Man ran to Xie Qin and said.

Without hesitation, Xie Qin walked in. The stone room of about 1,000 square meters was full of people, and there were only two yellow lights on the left and right, so it was a little dark inside.

But Xie Qin had good eyesight, so he could see everything clearly. It was similar to the previous air raid shelter tunnel. People were distributed on both sides. Many people were lying on blankets and quilts on the ground. There were also three or five people sitting together, talking and playing cards. A few half-grown children were running and playing in the open space in the middle.

Looking inside, there were two military tents set up, separating them from these people. It must have been a coincidence, because the next moment I saw a woman in disheveled clothes coming out of one of the tents, holding a bowl of instant noodles in her hand.

She was extremely thin and walked unsteadily, with a clean and pretty face. As soon as the woman came out, a boy about ten years old came up to her, snatched the instant noodles from her hand and ran to their sleeping place.

Xie Qin frowned, his eyes had already scanned the place, and his gaze fell on the innermost stone gate on the west side.

The arrival of the three people did not arouse the curiosity of these people. Some of the people nearby just glanced at them indifferently. The light inside was very dim, and they were wearing masks, so they could not see the appearance of Xie Qin and the other two. These people knew Li Man, so no one took them seriously.

"Where can I get in?" Xie Qin pointed at the stone door.

Li Man shook her head.

"We can't get in. We tried many times after hiding inside, but couldn't open it. Even a third-level strength-type psychic couldn't break it open. That door feels stronger than the titanium alloy door outside."

"How did you open this place?"

"It's run by Professor Long and his team." Li Man pointed in the direction to Xie Qin. On the left side of the tent, lying on the ground was a man in his fifties. He was very thin, and seemed to be breathing hard. It seemed that he would not live long.

Sitting next to him was a man in his thirties, wearing black-framed glasses with one lens cracked. He was holding a book and leaning towards the camping light outside the tent, probably reading by the light.

"When the zombie tide broke out before, we all followed Professor Long here." Seeing Xie Qin looking at Professor Long, Li Man bravely began to explain.

"Before? Which base were you from before?"

"Bushan Base. The capital base of Nanjiang Province."

"So you've lived here for almost three years?"

"Yes. Originally 320 people escaped, but many of them died of starvation or disease." Li Man nodded and replied.

"Starved to death?" Xie Qin was puzzled. Just like what Qin Zhang had said to him before, their country was not short of food. Every region had granaries, especially those in provincial capitals. They all had vacuum moisture-proof layers and would not be affected even if soaked in water.

"There are too many zombies in the city. Over the years, we have been able to survive by finding some supplies in the surrounding small towns."

"Don't you know where to go to the granary?"

"We don't know where the granary is." Li Man sighed.

That's right, except for the first-level emergency granary which is confidential, the locations of other prefecture-level granaries are public. But who among ordinary people would pay attention to where the granary is? It's understandable that these people can't find it.

"Haven't you ever picked up a radio dropped by the authorities?"

"We've picked it up before. We also know there are official bases and the locations of many private bases. We want to go too, but we're too weak. Most of us are ordinary people. There are densely packed zombies outside, and so many people going out would be seeking their deaths..." Before Li Man finished her words, another man came out of the tent.

Xie Qin focused his eyes and saw a familiar face, but he couldn't remember who it was for a moment.

[Xiao Bao, have I seen this person before? ] Xie Qin asked Xiao Bao, and Xiao Bao answered after searching for a while.

[Master, this is He Tianqi, who used to live in our building. Later, he took his family to the Lake City base. He also has a younger brother named He Tianle. Both of them are psychic users. Do you remember him? ]

【Um. 】

Xie Qin remembered that it was someone in the building.