End of the World Cycle

The three of them walked all the way into the tunnel. Along the way, there were identical mobile houses. When they reached the middle, the mobile houses began to grow larger. The house was sealed. Xie Qin's mental power sensed that there were many people inside, walking around, probably working or something.

When Xie Qin got here, he was a little curious, so he walked slower. By chance, a door on the left opened, and Xie Qin quickly took a look inside. There were indeed quite a few people. They were all in white coats. Looking at the test tubes and some soil culture on the table, Xie Qin roughly guessed that this should be a biological research laboratory.

There were eight long and large research rooms in a row, which existed independently. They should be the research institute of the South China Base. There were people moving around in each room, which proved that these researchers should not have suffered any losses in this zombie catastrophe.

The three of them quickened their pace and followed the house number on the room card to the end of the tunnel. The door of room 2167 opened, and after it opened, they saw a room as big as the lounge.

A simple toilet, a bed that is 1.5 meters wide and 2 meters long with a mattress, a small folding round table, two folding stools, and two bottles of mineral water on the table.

After the three of them entered the house, Miao Zhe sat down at the table and continued to work. When Xie Qin closed the door, he saw the instructions behind the door. 500 ml of drinking water is provided free of charge per person every day, but no food is provided. If you need food, you have to exchange it with electronic currency.

Electronic currency is the virtual currency promoted by the country after the establishment of major bases, just like the points of their bases. It can be obtained by exchanging useful materials and working for the base.

Accommodation is provided free of charge, but once the temporary base is full, no more people will be accepted. Therefore, all temporary bases are free to come and go, as long as the identity is registered and the quarantine is passed, you can go to other bases.

Many people, after arriving at a base and finding that they cannot live there, will choose to take shelter in other temporary bases nearby.

"I'm hungry." Amu leaned closer to Xie Qin a little embarrassedly.

Xie Qin then remembered that, except for the breakfast that Amu had at his house when he left in the morning, he had not eaten anything since he left. Seeing such a handsome guy looking at him pitifully and saying he was hungry, Xie Qin felt soft-hearted.

In terms of the age of two lifetimes, Xie Qin should be about eighteen or nineteen years old, which is the time when love buds easily sprout. The Shui Limu brothers are the same age as Xie Qin, so it is inevitable that he will be attracted to them.

But after all, Xie Qin had crawled out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses, so when it came to goodwill, he would only stop at the level that did not harm any of his own interests and did not pose a threat to himself.

For example, right now, this kind of communication without a sense of urgency is Xie Qin’s favorite mode.

Miao Zhe was driven to the bed and sat cross-legged to decipher the system, while Xie Qin stood in front of the small table and took out the freshly cut beef and fresh beef liver slices that had been prepared in advance. They were all the favorites of the Shui brothers.

It was raw meat with a fishy smell, but because he was good-looking, he looked elegant when he saw Amu eating it. This young man who had received a good upbringing since childhood was very measured in his gestures. After eating, he would rinse his mouth with the mineral water beside him.

Xie Qin took out two boxes of mints from the space and gave them to Amu.

Amu took it and smiled, then opened one and ate it, then moved closer to Xie Qin in a somewhat awkward manner.

"Does it taste good?"

"No, it only tastes like mint." Xie Qin also smiled.

After Amu finished eating and cleaned up the table, Xie Qin spoke to Miao Zhe.

"Eat porridge? My mother made mung bean porridge."

"Okay, sure, but I'll have to wait for more than ten minutes." Miao Zhe looked up and answered without stopping his hands.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to eat together." Xie Qin was not hungry either, so he sat on the stool, supported the table with one hand, tilted his head to one side and stared at Amu.

Amu's reaction was a little slow. Although he could think, he was still worse than a normal person. His behavior was a little dull. Xie Qin looked at him for a long time before Amu turned back and looked at Xie Qin.

The two looked at each other, and Xie Qin seemed to remember something. Humans can evolve their abilities with the crystal cores of zombies, so zombies may also be able to evolve with the crystal cores of humans.

I had never done this kind of experiment with Lu Chaoyun before, but compared to extracting essence from zombie crystal cores, extracting human crystal cores is more complicated. It's just that the purity will be higher. I just don't know to what extent human crystal cores can be used by zombies.

"Have you ever eaten a mutant's crystal core?"

Amu shook his head.

"I didn't. Actively. Hurt. Anyone."

"No wonder he has such powerful abilities but still lives in the basement with his family." Xie Qin shook his head and patted Amu's shoulder.

"I'm a human being, Mom won't allow it. We're the same kind."

Xie Qin burst out laughing. Fortunately, Amu couldn't hear the sarcasm in Xie Qin's laughter, otherwise he would be angry.

In Xie Qin's eyes, no matter how good-looking he and his brother are, they are zombies, not the same kind. Just like the idiot in his class before, whose IQ is less than 40, his mother still insists that her child is a normal person.

"Come closer to me." Xie Qin waved at Amu.

Amu obediently moved his face closer. Xie Qin touched Amu's face, which was cool, elastic, smooth and delicate. Except for the lower temperature, it was no different from a real person.

While they were talking, Miao Zhe also finished his work and stood up from the bed. Seeing this, Xie Qin took out the food for herself and Miao Zhe, which were all prepared by Zhang Mingfang before she left. They were packed in plastic boxes, with rice, coarse food and everything else. Most of them were Sichuan dishes.

The weather was too hot, so Xie Qin got a plate of chicken, lettuce with oyster sauce, a plate of stir-fried meat with tea tree mushrooms, and two bowls of cold mung bean porridge. The portions were not big, just enough for two people, so it wasn't a waste.

Seeing that the decoding progress on the screen was a bit slow, the three of them put the table in the corner. Xie Qin took out a double air mattress, and after inflating it, Miao Zhe and Amu slept on the floor, while Xie Qin took a pillow and fell directly on the bed and fell asleep.

It was already 11:30 at night when Miao Zhe woke me up. The password was cracked successfully. Miao Zhe successfully entered the national information system. Fortunately, it was the end of the world. If it were in the past, it would have been impossible to crack the password with the security level of the national system.

Xie Qin wrote down two names from her memory, Zhou Lili and her son Liu Ruiyang.

"The woman is about 28 years old and the child is about 4 years old."

"Okay, Boss. The words should be correct, right?"

"Yeah. That's right." Even if the child's name was wrong, she would not remember Zhou Lili's name wrong.

“Not in the new system.”

"What do you mean?"

"The new system only includes the survivors who have registered at the official base. If there are no survivors, there are only two possibilities: one is that they are dead, and the other is that they did not have time to escape to the base."

"Can we find some clues about them? Even if they are dead, I want to know where they died." After knowing that Zhou Lili might be gone, he felt a little sad.

Although the two had not met much in this life, in Xie Qin's eyes, Zhou Lili was a friend who had been with her for several years. Before the apocalypse began, after confirming Zhou Lili's address, she sent enough food for her family to eat for half a year.

If he died just like that, Xie Qin wouldn't believe it. After all, Zhou Lili was so smart, how could he die so soon after the apocalypse and with supplies?

Miao Zhe started typing on the computer again, and after more than ten minutes——

"Boss, we found them! Zhou Lili and his family of five were all in the South China base before, but they didn't escape with the main group during the zombie outbreak. They should...be gone now."

Suddenly, the scene when passing by the South China Base came into Xie Qin's mind. It was almost impossible to survive in such a place with dense swarms of zombies. Xie Qin remembered that Zhou Lili's husband was a psychic and would basically not be infected by the zombie virus.

"What's her husband's name?"

"Liu Jiajun."

"Check to see if this person has arrived at the temporary base."

"Well - no. Liu Jiajun is not here either."

Since Liu Jiajun didn't arrive, Xie Qin had hope again. If she was protected by a superpower and with Zhou Lili's brain, it was not impossible for her to survive.

"Can you find out their previous address at the South China Base?"

"Their family was previously registered in the Third Ring Residential Area. The South China Base is divided into four residential areas, with the First Ring being the outermost. Zhou Lili lives on the fourth floor of No. 109, Area B, Third Ring. When we came here, we passed by the First Ring residential area of ​​the South China Base. The Third Ring is closer to the inside."

"Go look for it."

"Are we leaving now?"

Xie Qin thought for a moment and looked back at Amu. With Amu around, Xie Qin was not worried at all and nodded.

"This matter should be dealt with sooner rather than later. If she is still alive, one minute earlier means one more hope." Xie Qin felt a little regretful. Why didn't she bring Zhou Lili to her side earlier?

Blindly believing in national bases and always thinking that official authorities are a symbol of safety, the result is that people are harmed again.

The three of them went out directly. It was much more convenient to go out than to come in. At the innermost part of the tunnel on the second floor below ground was a safety passage with a single door. For some unknown reason, the heavy door could only be pushed outwards, not inwards. The passage thus became a door that could only be used to go out.

Through the door is a staircase, which goes up one level at a time and leads directly to the side of the entrance passage on the first floor.

The tunnel was much quieter at this time, with only the occasional cry of a child. When the three of them went out of the gate, only a faint yellow light was on at the sentry post. No one asked or stopped them, and the three of them left the temporary base of the South China base quietly.

Taking out an off-road vehicle that was easier to drive, Xie Qin drove very fast. The roar of the car was particularly loud in the silent night. Fortunately, with Amu, the zombies along the way kept their distance from them.

The co-pilot, Miao Zhe, fiddled with his tablet computer and began to generate a map of the original South China base. Ten minutes later, a three-dimensional circular map appeared.

"The outermost ring of the base is a three-meter-high wall. The first ring is a dormitory built along the wall, the second ring is a single room, and the third ring is a small 3D-printed building. People with some skills live there. Your friend should be living well. The innermost fourth ring is the scientific research base and where government officials live. There are also buildings, but they are more solid and less dense than the third ring." Miaozhe Miaozhe said to Xie Qin while looking at the map.

After hearing what Miao Zhe said, Xie Qin felt that Zhou Lili had a higher chance of being alive. The car drove all the way to the gate of the former South China base. At this time, there were zombies wandering outside the gate. The gate was tightly closed. Miao Zhe and Amu went down to push the door open. The zombies around did not dare to approach because of their respect for Amu.

The three of them entered the base very smoothly. The inside was in ruins. The board houses on the first ring were almost collapsed. The car lights shone over the densely packed zombies. The road ahead was invisible. If it weren't for the accurate navigation and Amu's clearing the way, Xie Qin would never have been able to reach the third ring.

It was still pitch black when the car entered the Third Ring Road, but fortunately the buildings here were all intact and did not collapse. There were obviously fewer zombies at the Third Ring Road. It seemed like a huge circular community with driveways, street lights and even greenery. Although the street lights were not on and the greenery was dead, it was obvious that the environment here should have been good in the past.

After entering the Third Ring Road, the car speed gradually slowed down. I looked at the building number carefully and finally arrived at Building 109 in Zone B after about ten minutes.

It was difficult to see clearly at night, but when the light was turned on, I could see the broken windows on the first floor, the corridor door lying on the ground, and several zombies wandering in the house and the corridor.

Xie Qin sat in the car, his mental power extended up the stairs to the fourth floor, and instantly Xie Qin's eyes lit up. There are people on the fourth floor!!! One, two, three... Xie Qin counted them one by one, five people. The number matched the population of Zhou Lili's family.

Xie Qin was excited, and got out of the driver's seat, holding a long knife in his hand and went upstairs. He chopped down seven or eight zombies along the way and finally reached the fourth floor.

The staircase on the fourth floor was piled tightly with wooden boards, iron bars and other debris, leaving no gaps at all. The way ahead was blocked, so Xie Qin used brute force to tear apart all the debris.

Finally, a passage was found that could be used for people to pass through. When Xie Qin arrived at the door, he knocked on it anxiously, not realizing that it was already two o'clock in the morning.

It was true that there was someone inside the door, and they were also awakened by Xie Qin's anxious knocking on the door, but the person inside was too scared to open the door. In the middle of the night, anyone who could break through the obstacles they set up, whether it was a zombie or a human, was a terrifying existence.

After knocking for a long time, there was still no response from inside the door.

"Is anyone there? Open the door?" Xie Qin called out twice, but there was still no movement from the person inside. He wanted to call Zhou Lili, but was afraid that the person inside was not him. He thought that he could just kick the door open, and if it wasn't him, he could just take them away, and he wouldn't feel guilty for kicking their door open.

Just when he was about to kick the door, Amu and Miaozhe came up and Amu grabbed his shoulders.

"I'll do it." After Amu said this, his pupils shrank and there was movement behind the door immediately.

"Help... Help, I can't control my hands!!!" A strange man's voice sounded, and Xie Qin frowned.

Soon the door was opened from the inside. Amu controlled the man to open the door. The man's face twisted and he wanted to resist, but he found that his body and hands were completely out of control.

Xie Qin looked at the man, who was about 1.8 meters tall, with a very strong body, and his facial features were exactly like those of someone he had never seen before. Xie Qin was a little surprised to find that the man was a psychic, and a second-level psychic.

At this time, the only people who could be promoted to the second level were those who left their base and those who knew the method of purifying corpse crystals within the government. Obviously, the people in front of him were not one of them.

"Liu Jiajun?" Xie Qin asked tentatively.

"You? How do you know my name?"

Hearing the man's affirmative answer, Xie Qin's eyes lit up. Zhou Lili must still be alive.

Without caring about the man's surprise, Xie Qin pushed the man away and entered the house. Without having time to see what was going on inside, he shone the flashlight in his hand towards the occupied bedroom. He took a few steps around the corner, kicked open the bedroom door and entered. There were two old men standing at the door, knocked to the ground by his kick.

"Sorry, Uncle Liu!" Xie Qinren came out. They were Zhou Lili's parents-in-law.

After the door of another bedroom was kicked open, Xie Qin saw Zhou Lili huddled in the corner of the house holding her child.

With the help of the light, Zhou Lili also saw the person coming. Before Xie Qin could shout, she heard a choked voice.

"Qinqin?"