End of the World Cycle

When Xie Qin and the others returned to the base, the sun had not yet risen. Before the apocalypse, this time in the early morning was when everyone was sleeping soundly. But now it was the busiest time.

Almost everyone was out working, most of them were building the base and reinforcing the walls. The supply teams were also coming back at this time, and more than a dozen large trucks were driving into the base, raising dust. Xie Qin covered his mouth and nose and quickened his pace.

Neither of them was focused on killing zombies. They only completed the basic goal of the base. Each of them killed 20 zombies and was only focused on leaving the Rongcheng base with Liu Bo.

But as soon as the three of them arrived at Liu Bo's residence, they saw people waiting outside. Two men in military uniforms, who were not short in stature, were standing at the door of Liu Bo's house waiting. When they saw Xie Qin and the other two coming, they focused their eyes and took a few steps towards them.

"Who is Liu Bo?" one of the men asked. Liu Bo looked around at first, then he moved his head and slowly raised his hands. His eyes were vague but his voice was loud as he called out his name.

"Liu Bo!"

"Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?" Xie Qin stood in front of Liu Bo. She was small in stature, but fortunately the aisle was small, so the two men in military uniforms did not bypass her and go directly to Liu Bo.

"He's the only one who's okay with what happened in District 13. He needs to be taken in for questioning."

"Are you sure you can find out something by taking him there?"

The two men then looked at Liu Bo carefully and noticed that he was a person with intellectual problems. The superiors only told them to take him back for questioning, but did not say that the person they were taking was a fool. After hesitating for a while, they decided to take Liu Bo back to report.

Xie Qin took another step forward and blocked the way.

"I'll go with you too. I'm from the second batch of superpowers in District 13. I saw everything that happened at the time. Liu Bo is my uncle, so it would be easier for us to communicate if I'm there."

The two men looked down at Xie Qin. The girl's clean and pretty face did not arouse any sense of guard against her, and they nodded.

"Then you can come with us too."

After hearing this, Xie Qin turned around and told Shui Limu to take good care of Liu Chuanyu and his grandson, then took Liu Bo and followed the two men in military uniforms away.

Liu Bo was dazed all the way, and his steps were a little unsteady, and his stomach would growl from time to time. Xie Qin pinched Liu Bo's wrist to guide him, and reached into the pocket of his overalls with his other hand to take out a chocolate bar.

After peeling it, he handed it to Liu Bo. Liu Bo never refused anything to eat, and he ate the chocolate bar in big mouthfuls, finishing it in two bites. Xie Qin took out another one and continued to feed it to Liu Bo.

Although this thing was not extremely rare, when Xie Qin took out the fifth one, the two men in military uniforms who were walking in front also noticed it. They watched Liu Bo eating it out of the corner of their eyes, and saliva began to secrete in their mouths. They swallowed their saliva.

After walking out of the shantytown, the two got on a sightseeing bus, which drove slowly into the base. Xie Qin was still puzzled as the security checks became more and more thorough as they went deeper, and gradually defenses appeared overhead.

The houses were all newly built, not ordinary 3D printed, but cement poured semi-circular one-story buildings. Each had two entrances and exits, all made of black gold titanium steel doors that looked very solid. There were people living in each one, and when Xie Qin passed by, he would also see people coming out.

Dressed decently, people's spirits would be better, and they were on two different levels from the people seen in Area D. Xie Qin did not hide her curious eyes, she could feel that someone was always looking at her.

Sure enough, the man in military uniform sitting next to him spoke. "You just got here?"

"Yeah!" Xie Qin nodded.

"This is the residential area of ​​Area C. All of the people living here are members of the base's internal superpower guard team, and some people who have sufficient supplies and can afford to rent."

"So there's still a B area and an A area?"

"Yes. Area B and Area A are both very small, but very safe. They are inhabited by senior officials and scientific researchers of the base." This is no secret. There are clear regulations in the base. Anyone who is useful will receive better treatment.

After Xie Qin got a general understanding, he stopped talking. The car passed through Area C and arrived at a bungalow that looked very sturdy. The bungalow was composed of single rooms, each about ten square meters, and two neatly arranged rows of five rooms in the front and back. The five rooms in the front row had doors, windows and separate air conditioners, while the five rooms in the back were all enclosed. Except for one door, all other places were sealed tightly.

"That's where the prisoners are held. Anyone who commits a crime in the base will be locked up there. Every day at four in the morning, the base guards will transport them to the danger zone fifty kilometers away." The same soldier looked at Xie Qin and explained to her.

"What danger zone?"

"Now, except for the inside of the base, everything outside is called a danger zone. However, the area within ten kilometers has been cleared by us. The situation is different beyond fifty kilometers."

"No matter what the crime is, it is thrown out?"

"Correct."

Xie Qin smiled in his heart. A place without the death penalty would be counterattacked sooner or later.

As soon as the four people got off the bus, another small train came from behind. Xie Qin only took a glance and followed the two men in military uniforms to the third room, which was only a few steps away. After the door was opened, a refreshing cool air rushed out. Xie Qin couldn't help but quicken his pace to get in quickly and get rid of the heat outside.

As soon as he stepped half a foot into the door frame, Xie Qin caught a trace of imperceptible mental power. Xie Qin stopped and looked in the direction of the mental power.

It was the direction of the truck. The driver had already gotten out of the truck. There was only one person left, a man. Even though they were some distance apart, Xie Qin still recognized that man, the man whose face she remembered even though they had only met once.

Xie Jin’s biological father!

Xie Qin stared at the man for two seconds, and the person inside urged him. After hesitating for a while, he followed him into the house. Although Xie Qin went in, his mental power was still tracking the man. He felt that the man was in the room next to him and did not leave. Only then did Xie Qin come back to his senses.

Xie Qin arrived at a place similar to an interrogation room. Although it was small, it was divided into three small rooms. Xie Qin and Liu Bo were taken to one of the rooms and the door was closed.

After about three to five minutes, a woman came in. She was wearing a white coat and thick black-framed glasses, and she sat opposite Xie Qin and Liu Bo, dressed like a doctor.

He looked at Xie Qin and Liu Bo and smiled kindly, and took the initiative to introduce himself.

"Hello, I'm the psychologist at the base, my last name is Xu. This gentleman is special, so the base asked me to come and talk to you about what happened this morning. Do you mind if I hypnotize you?"

Neither of them spoke. Xie Qin blinked her lively eyes and nodded.

It is impossible to be hypnotized, but Xie Qin was curious whether hypnosis would work on Uncle Liu Bo, so she sat next to him and watched Doctor Xu's movements.

Ten minutes later, Xie Qin could clearly see beads of sweat on Dr. Xu's forehead, not for any other reason, but because the props had been dangling in front of Liu Bo for ten minutes, and Liu Bo's eyes had been turning around the ball under the chain for ten minutes, but he was still very energetic. Xie Qin also lost interest. It seems that hypnosis is useless for people with intellectual disabilities.

Doctor Xu seemed to have given up and turned his attention to Xie Qin.

"I'm just an eyewitness. I saw the same thing as the other people in the second group from District 13. If you want to know, I can tell you everything."

Doctor Xu was also tired, and she fell into deep thought as she looked at the blank paper on the table. In fact, she knew that hypnosis was useless for fools, and she just came here with the mentality of giving it a try.

After all, the profession of psychologist is really useless in the end times. Only those who have nothing to do and feel that they have psychological problems will come to her. If she can't get anything out of her today, I'm afraid her future life will be much more difficult.

Just when Xie Qin wanted to solve the problem in the interrogation room, his mental power suddenly lost the sense of Xie Jin's biological father and left. He controlled Dr. Xu and Liu Bo to sit opposite each other at the interrogation table, and then he opened the door and went out.

The two men in military uniforms who brought them here were still guarding the door. They watched Xie Qin come out and glanced into the room.

"what happened?"

"I want to go to the bathroom." Xie Qin said softly to the person who always loved to talk to her.

The man looked at the other man, nodded, and then took Xie Qin out. When he went out, he happened to see Xie Jin's biological father getting on the truck. Xie Qin pretended to be curious and asked.

"What is that? Are you transporting something?"

"That's the prisoner transport vehicle."

"Is he sending it alone? Is it safe?"

"It's safe. Don't underestimate him. He is a strong man in our base, a second-level psychic. He can control the prisoners and send them far away. So far, no prisoner he has sent out has ever returned. So since the establishment of the temporary base, he has been responsible for sending prisoners."

"That's really amazing. Does he come here to send prisoners every day?"

"Then someone has to send you there." The man in military uniform smiled. He thought Xie Qin's words were so innocent and cute that he almost couldn't help but want to rub Xie Qin's hair.

As they talked, they came to the public toilet not far away. They could smell a foul odor from outside, but Xie Qin had no choice but to go in with a frown. Although there was soil next to the temporary dry toilet, and it was covered with soil after going to the toilet, the stench still persisted due to the hot and humid weather.

As soon as he entered, Xie Qin flashed into the space and took a few deep breaths before he recovered. Thinking about the scenes he saw after his death in his previous life, it was undoubtedly because of Xie Jin's existence that the remaining people survived.

Xie Jin's strength is terrifying. Different from the zombie king like Shui Limu, Xie Jin is a ruling-level existence over the zombies. In addition, Xie Jin is a child that Xie Qin has raised in her arms until he was two or three years old, so she wants Xie Jin very much.

In this life, even if Xie Jin was safe and did not turn into a corpse, he would at least be a psychic. So no matter what state Xie Jin is in now, Xie Qin wants to take him away.

Looks like I have to stay here for two more days.

After Xie Qin came out, he returned to the interrogation room and controlled Dr. Xu to write some words on a piece of white paper.

(Psycho-mutated zombies appeared in Area 13.)

When Dr. Xu regained consciousness, he looked at the two people opposite him, one big and one small, staring at him innocently with wide eyes. He rubbed his cheeks and looked at the words on the paper. They were indeed his own handwriting. How did he write it? Why didn't he have any impression of it at all? . . . .

But in order to prove his own worth, after seeing this sentence, Dr. Xu had already made up a story with cause and effect in his head.

Xie Qin and Liu Bo were sent back to Area D. After Dr. Xu returned, the news he brought shocked the core of the base, and as a result, there was no team in Area 13 to hunt zombies from then on. Those who had their hands chopped off could only consider themselves unlucky, but fortunately they were all superpowered people who sold themselves to the base.

The base commander still had some conscience and subsidized each person with 1,000 points, and the matter was over.

After daybreak, people went home one after another, or went to the collective cool-off area at the base.

After returning to Liu Bo's house, he opened the door to see Shui Limu and Liu Chuanyu sitting opposite each other in silence. Liu Bo's son Liu Jiabao was sleeping soundly. When Liu Chuanyu saw Xie Qin coming back, his eyes were full of gratitude. It must be said that because of Xie Qin, he and his grandson had their first full meal since they came here.

"I have my own base, do you want to come with me?"

"Yes!" Liu Chuanyu answered straightforwardly. He was extremely willing to go with Xie Qin.

If you ask Liu Chuanyu why he was so determined to follow Xie Qin, it was only because he had compressed biscuits in his backpack that were exactly the same as the ones a stranger had sent him before. He thought this thing was common, but when he took out the only two remaining biscuits from his luggage bag and compared them, Liu Chuanyu felt something was wrong.

The same brand, the same production date, and even the production batch number are exactly the same. Liu Chuanyu really felt that Xie Qin was the stranger who had always helped him.

This was Xie Qin's negligence, and Liu Chuan was also careful. He could not sense Xie Qin's ill will, and even only got benefits from Xie Qin. His family was old, weak and sick, and there was nothing Xie Qin could plot against. Rather than staying here and not knowing when to die, it would be better to follow the decent Xie Qin, perhaps he would have a greater chance of survival.

Xie Qin certainly didn't know what Liu Chuanyou was thinking. Taking advantage of the fact that there weren't many people around, she took Liu Chuanyou and his family to where she parked her RV. There were quite a few cars in the parking lot, but most of them were trucks from the base, which just happened to surround the RV tightly.

Xie Qin did not hide it either. He had acquired space-related abilities, so he was naturally not afraid of being seen by anyone other than them. He directly took out a section of the trailer behind the RV from the space in front of Liu Chuanyu's family.

The noise was quite loud, and the dogs in the house seemed to smell a familiar scent, and barked twice in the RV. After hearing it, Liu Chuanyu did not realize that it was the dog he used to raise. Instead, Xie Qin opened the door of the RV, and three dogs ran out of the RV like arrows, wagging their tails around Liu Chuanyu frantically.

Liu Chuan's eyes widened as he looked at the three dogs and then at Xie Qin. He no longer believed in any coincidences. He didn't know what the relationship was between his family and Xie Qin, but after living for decades, he was sure that this little girl must be a powerful character.

Liu Chuanyu didn't ask anything, he just waited obediently for Xie Qin to make arrangements. After everything was done, Xie Qin let his family move in.

Liu Chuanyu looked at the RV, which could be described as luxurious, with surprise in his eyes. It had a toilet, a kitchen, a big bed, a wardrobe, a dining table, and a sofa. The more he looked at Xie Qin, the more reliable she seemed to him. Although he didn't know what kind of relationship his son had with Xie Qin, seeing Xie Qin caring so much about his son, he felt that he had gotten a huge bargain.

Seeing that Xie Qin was clean, and knowing that she was a clean person, and hearing that there was everything inside for a bath, Liu Chuanyu got in the car and urged his son and grandson to wash themselves clean and change into the most decent clothes.