End of the World Cycle

The two of them walked around the first floor, which was full of street stalls. There were some clothes for sale, but they didn't look in good condition. Although they were all said to be brand new, they looked like they had been soaked in water, and did not look very good.

Not to mention Xie Qin, even Shui Limu himself didn't like it. It looked better after going up to the second floor. The second floor was like an old department store before the end of the world, except that there was a card machine at the door, and one needed to swipe his ID card to enter. Xie Qin didn't know why he had to swipe it until Shui Limu was stopped outside.

The card swiping machine here is equivalent to a capital verification machine. You cannot enter if the points on the card are less than 200. Thinking that he would not stay here for long, Xie Qin only exchanged points on his ID card, which blocked Shui Limu from entering.

"I'll wait for you." Shui Limu stopped at the door and stood beside the access control system looking obedient.

Xie Qin nodded and went in. There was nothing special inside, except that there were not many staff members. There were two cash registers at the exit, just like a supermarket. Xie Qin looked around and saw the clothing area. Fortunately, there were clothes there, brand new and not soaked in water.

He didn't choose any particular style, just T-shirts, casual pants, shoes, underwear, and socks that Shui Limu could use. Xie Qin bought everything he saw and thought he could use.

The shopping cart was full of clothes. After looking at the prices, Xie Qin felt that these things were cheap. Almost five sets of clothes only cost more than 140 points. Compared with food, clothes seemed too cheap.

The two went back to the RV, threw the clothes into the washing machine, fed the dog, and watched the sky gradually darken before setting off for Area D.

Although the temperature was not low at this time, it was much more comfortable compared to the high temperature of 60 degrees during the day. Xie Qin walked in front, passing through the shantytown. There were already many people there. They were all returning from the central cool-down area to rest.

She could feel the gazes of those around her, some were surprised, some were jealous, and some were greedy, but no one dared to come forward and do anything.

Xie Qin had read the terms of the base, which were very harsh. No one was allowed to cause trouble in the base. Once a fight, brawl, robbery or other incident was discovered, both parties would be unconditionally expelled from the base regardless of the reason.

So Xie Qin didn't pay much attention to the people around him and just walked forward. As the sky got darker, dim lights began to light up in the base, and people began to come out to work.

Another advantage of the gray sky was that others could hardly see Xie Qin and Shui Limu's appearance clearly, which made it much easier for them to walk.

After walking for nearly 3 minutes, the two finally arrived at the address Liu Bo had registered. In front of them was a row of D printed two-story prefabricated houses. On the top of the prefabricated houses were huge ventilation ducts that delivered cold air to each room. Although the environment was average, it was much better than the shantytowns they had just passed. At least there was air conditioning here, and they didn't have to walk a long way to the base to cool off during the day. The privacy of a separate house would be much better.

The air didn't smell good because it was filled with the stench of fermentation. And because it was a residential area, coughing sounds could be heard from different rooms from time to time.

Xie Qin took out a protective mask and put it on. Since the extremely hot weather started, many people have died from various viruses infected by high temperatures and heat stroke.

Sometimes in bases where air conditioning is not available in time, the bodies cannot be burned in time. Therefore, almost every base has a dedicated area for cooling off.

Walking to the residence registered by Liu Bo, Xie Qin looked at the small window on the door. It was dark inside and no light was on. Xie Qin knocked on the door, but there was no sound. However, Xie Qin could sense that there were two people inside. So he knocked harder.

"Who is it?" A hoarse and old voice sounded. Xie Qin still recognized it. It was the voice of Liu Bo's father.

"Excuse me, is this Liu Bo's house?"

The person inside heard it was a girl's voice and his vigilance seemed to be lowered a lot. After hesitating for a while, he heard the sound of the person getting out of bed and walking towards him.

The door was opened. It was Liu Chuanyou who opened it. He was leaning on a cane, looking much older, with sunken eye sockets that showed long-term malnutrition. Xie Qin looked down along the cane and saw that Liu Chuanyou's right calf was gone, and his right palm was gone. It was also obvious that a large piece of muscle had been bitten off from his exposed upper arm.

"You? Who are you?"

"Hello, I'm here to look for Liu Bo. He saved my life before when he was on a mission outside." Xie Qin lied without hesitation. Fortunately, she had found out that Liu Bo had been following the base's team of psychics to kill zombies these days. So making up a reason like this would not arouse suspicion.

Sure enough, when Liu Chuanyu saw a fair and well-behaved girl in front of him, he instantly believed what Xie Qin said.

"Liu Bo went to work and left an hour ago. He won't be back until tomorrow morning." After saying that, Liu Chuanyu opened the door a little more and limped into the house on crutches, meaning that he let Xie Qin and the others come in by themselves.

Xie Qin and Shui Limu followed him in. Although the room was small, it was tidy, with a bed, a table, and two stools. The rest of the room was for their personal belongings.

Liu Chuanyu took a relatively clean piece of cloth and wiped the two stools clean, then placed them in front of the table for Xie Qin and Shui Limu to sit on. He then sat on the bed covered with a mat. Only then did Xie Qin see the little boy curled up in the corner of the bed.

This boy himself had seen this before, but it was when he died of illness in his previous life. He didn't see the other little girl and Liu Bo's wife, and thinking about the injuries on Liu Chuanyou's body, Xie Qin probably guessed that he died in the zombie's mouth.

The three of them were able to survive because they all had awakened superpowers. They were all strength-related superpowers, but Liu Chuanyou was disabled and the little boy was only about six or seven years old, so Liu Bo was the only labor force in the family.

Liu Chuanyu was a talkative man, and he started talking about the end of the world. He said that they inexplicably received a lot of food and medicine, which allowed them to survive the rainstorm and live to the present.

After the zombie outbreak, most of their food was left at the original Rongcheng base. His wife and granddaughter were bitten to death by zombies because they had not awakened their special powers, and he himself survived by a narrow margin.

The last of the food was exchanged for points to treat his injuries. Now there is nothing left at home. As he spoke, Liu Chuanyou took out a small bottle of drinking water distributed by the base from under the bed and prepared to pour water for Xie Qin.

"No need, we have our own." Xie Qin refused Liu Chuanyu. It was not that he was not thirsty, but that he could not drink the yellowish water.

After saying that, Xie Qin took out a black backpack from the space and handed it to Liu Chuanyu.

"Are you a space-related mutant?" Liu Chuanyu said in surprise.

"Yes. This is a thank you gift." After saying this, he saw that Liu Chuan did not take the schoolbag, so he handed the schoolbag forward a little.

"This...this." Liu Chuan felt embarrassed and didn't dare to take it when he saw the heavy schoolbag.

"Take it. If it weren't for Uncle Liu Bo, I might have died." Xie Qin was right. Liu Bo had saved him many times in his previous life. Especially when he hadn't discovered his special powers yet, he almost always survived because of Liu Bo.

Unable to resist hunger, Liu Chuanyu still took the schoolbag, but he was too embarrassed to open it directly, so he just held it in his arms.

"It's getting late, and I want to find Uncle Liu Bo as soon as possible. Can you tell me where he went?"

"We went to the Rongcheng Hunting Base No. 13. The journey is quite far. You should wait for him to come back tomorrow."

"Well, OK, I won't bother you anymore." Xie Qin nodded and left. Liu Chuanyou thought that Xie Qin would be back tomorrow so he didn't keep her any longer.

After Xie Qin left, Liu Chuanyou held the schoolbag with his right arm and unzipped it with his left hand. His eyes widened when he unzipped it.

Inside was a box of unopened compressed biscuits, three bottles of mineral water, bagged bread, and dried meat, filling up the schoolbag. Xie Qin had also thought of this, there was no way to cook there, so he only left some instant food, at least to keep them from starving before taking them away.

After going out, Xie Qin went directly to the Psychic Mission Center. Since the two of them were registered as Psychics, they could voluntarily participate in the mission of hunting zombies.

One was to find Liu Bo, and the other was because he wanted to see what the Rongcheng base was like now. There was a military depot at the foot of Longwang Mountain behind the Rongcheng base. This military depot was a municipal-level military depot discovered by Miao Zhe. Unlike those that Guo Dongkang knew, the military supply depot of the Rongcheng base was relatively small and had a low level of protection, so it could be found by Miao Zhe through intranet information.

In addition, the food of the entire base in the original Rongcheng base could not be brought out, which was also a considerable amount of supplies. Therefore, Xie Qin still had to go to Rongcheng base.

Arriving at the Psychic Mission Base, Xie Qin and the other person went directly to receive the mission and were assigned to the second batch of handovers at 7 a.m. Xie Qin and the other person signed up together and were assigned to Area 13. Xie Qin took a look at the people in Area and locked onto two free Psychics who were also traveling with him. He spent two bottles of mineral water to change his position.

At 15 a.m., Xie Qin's team of people boarded a small bus, which drove out of the base and onto the quiet road, heading towards the original base. The journey was not fast, and it was already : a.m. when they arrived at the destination. The car stopped outside an iron fence, and through the window they could see the brightly lit hunting area.

The iron net formed a circle of about two hundred square meters, and next to it was a long fence, which surrounded the zombies inside. The densely packed zombies lay on the net and tried to get out, but were forced to retreat again and again by the high voltage electricity.

The zombie entrance in the circle was closed, and the inside was full of zombie corpses. A dozen people had finished hunting and sat on a relatively clean piece of ground in the corner to rest. A dozen people sat cross-legged on the ground cleaning up the corpse crystals, and only a tall figure could be seen busy.

Xie Qin looked at Liu Bo with a frown. She could feel that Liu Bo was very weak. He carried two zombie corpses each time and threw them into the incineration pit. His steps were already staggering, but he still did not stop.

The car door was not opened. When the people in the hunting area saw the car coming, they all stood up. One of them, a lightning-type mutant, shouted very loudly.

"Idiot! Hurry up! The car is coming!"

Liu Bo heard it and tried his best to speed up the transportation, but he was a little exhausted and obviously didn't speed up much. Suddenly, a lightning bolt shot from the fingertips of the thunder-type ability user directly hit Liu Bo's back. Liu Bo shuddered and almost fell to the ground while carrying the zombie. But because of fear, he had to stand up again and speed up desperately.

The others looked at Liu Bo's silly look and started laughing. At this moment, Xie Qin felt that their laughter was extremely dazzling. He turned his head to look at Shui Limu next to him. Yang Tian leaned over and whispered in Shui Limu's ear.

"It's so annoying, let's chop off those people's hands."

Shui Limu nodded, and then a strange scene appeared outside the car window. Except for the big man who was carrying the corpse and the thunder-type mutant, everyone else was lying neatly on the ground with their hands raised above their heads.

The lightning-type mutant directly picked up the axe on the ground and chopped off the arms of those people one by one, starting from the first one at the edge.

"Help! Brother Long, please don't do it! Please don't do it!"

"No! It's not me. I can't control myself. It's not me!"

In an instant, the screams inside were even more terrifying than the roars of the zombies outside the net. The people in the car who saw this scene widened their eyes and even felt fear at this weird scene.

The driver was the calmest. When he felt something was wrong, he pulled out his pistol. The bullet went through the lightning-type mutant's forehead, and the man fell to the ground instantly.

"Get out of the car and save people!" The driver opened the door of the minibus decisively with a deep voice. Only then did Xie Qin notice that the driver was a second-level earth-type mutant.

Dressed in military uniform and with a righteous look on his face, it was not difficult to tell that he was from the army. Soon everyone in the car came to their senses and followed the driver out of the car to rescue the man.

After emergency bandages, the lives of those whose arms were chopped off were saved, but the psychics were disabled without both hands. You know, except for psychic powers, all other powers need to be used with both hands, even if it's just one hand. But the current situation is that these people have no hands.

People were carried onto the bus one by one, but Liu Bo did not get on. The reason was simple: the scene was chaotic, and the driver only wanted to send the man back for rescue. After fixing the broken arm, he drove away in a hurry. Liu Bo was already stupid, and he was frightened even more.

The car drove away, and before the second group of hunters could recover from their shock, the entrance for the zombies was automatically opened. These people began to hunt passively.

Except for the person who was counting the corpse crystals, all the others in Xie Qin's group were free-lancers. Taking one corpse crystal counted as 2 points, so this group of people would stand in one place and kill zombies, so that the zombies they killed would fall at their feet.

If they release the zombies for ten minutes every half hour, they will have 20 minutes to take out the corpse crystals they have hunted and clean up the zombies at their feet. It is very convenient.

Xie Qin didn't take any action, but walked to Liu Bo, who was standing blankly in the corner of the net, and stretched out his hand to Liu Bo with a smile.

"Hello, my name is Xie Qin, and you?" Xie Qin looked at Liu Bo and smiled brightly.

Liu Bo also opened his eyes wide and looked at Xie Qin curiously. Although he didn't understand, he still reached out and held Xie Qin's hand.

"Liu Bo."

"Uncle Liu Bo, long time no see." Xie Qin was still smiling, but her eyes were a little hot, and she unconsciously held Liu Bo's hand tightly.