Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The sirens rang throughout the base, causing panic among everyone. In the neighborhood closest to the base, people who were still conducting the last round of cleanup suddenly heard bursts of whistles coming from the front, and then they heard the base's air defense sirens sounding overhead.

Residents who have previously settled in the base will each be given a safety manual. In addition to a map of the base's main blocks, the manual also contains some precautions for living in the base, one of which is the level classification of air raid alarms.

The severity of the disaster will be divided into three levels: S-level disaster that can destroy a city, A-level disaster that can destroy some buildings and personnel, and B-level disaster that poses a major threat to the base and may cause some casualties.

Depending on the severity of the disaster, the sound of the air raid alarm will also be different. An S-level disaster will have a continuous long warning sound, an A-level disaster will have three long and two short alarm sounds, and a B-level disaster will have one long and one short alarm sound.

According to official statistics from the base, an S-level disaster requires humans to take emergency shelter and all people with special abilities to resist it together.

A-level disasters only require the dispatch of five or more S-level psychics to resolve the crisis.

As for B-level psychics, people just need to stay in the house and not go out at will, and two S-level psychics can suppress them.

The first to notice the abnormality were the members of the Self-Defense Force near the outer circle sentry box. They saw a group of black gaseous smoke spreading from the north from afar.

The alert Self-Defense Force members immediately took out binoculars to observe and found that the black fog two kilometers away was gradually approaching, so they immediately dispatched a drone. As a result, the drone immediately lost response as soon as it approached the black fog.

"It's the black fog of death!" One of the Self-Defense Force members broke out in a cold sweat, then turned his head and shouted loudly.

When the others heard the "black fog of death", their faces changed drastically. These four words were like a sharp blade stabbing the hearts of the Self-Defense Force members.

The fear that the black fog, which had been seen in countless exercise videos, brought to the Self-Defense Forces has been deeply imprinted in everyone's heart.

Not only that, after the natural disaster that year, the first group of Self-Defense Force members who entered the northern forest encountered the black fog of death. Thirty-one people entered, but only two survived in the end. Among these two people, one had a broken left arm and the other was half blind in an eye.

Regarding what they experienced in the forest that year, the two men kept repeating one word - the black fog of death.

The only precious video material that the two of them brought back recorded the entire process of the deathly black fog forming and engulfing people. Those who were engulfed instantly turned into piles of white bones.

This black mist can corrode all living things, but the mutated plants seem to have some kind of adaptability to it and will not be affected by it.

Previously, scientists from the highest research institute of the base wanted to obtain the black fog, and sent S-level psychics deep into the northern forest. Unfortunately, the black fog dissipated immediately once it lost oxygen, and even if the supply was restored later, it could not gather for too long. After the black fog dissipated, there would be finger-sized corpses of black nematodes.

The members of the Self-Defense Forces immediately sounded the alarm in the base. The three long and two short alarms made the residents in the base, who were originally staying at home due to the hot weather, suddenly feel uneasy.

Those residents who had originally opened windows for ventilation immediately found non-stick adhesive to seal all the window gaps. If there was no other way, they tried their best to close the doors and windows.

The base once screened some videos about the black fog of death in the big square. Everyone had heard about the black fog of death to some extent, but this was the first time that the black fog invaded the base. Everyone could only stay at home as much as possible to avoid it.

However, it is said that this type of black fog is afraid of water and will not easily approach water sources. In fact, a seven or eight meter wide canal has been dug outside the base. Some of the black fog cannot come over, but some of it will drift through the canal with the wind and reach the gate of the base.

For the black fog of death, if water is the lake that is their deadly weapon, then wind is their power point.

As long as the wind blows, the black fog will spread to the base, causing huge damage to the base's property and casualties.

The people in the outer circle hurriedly checked all the gaps in the house. According to the methods previously practiced at the base, they placed containers such as basins or buckets in front of the gaps, or poured water on the gaps. However, the water evaporated too quickly on the ground, so the best way was to block the gaps with wet towels.

At the guesthouse, Xiaoli and Lanqin were busy helping out on the first floor. Even several tenants started fetching water and placed various buckets in their rooms.

Xiaoli blocked the wet towels under the doors with slightly larger gaps, and blocked some more around the windows.

When there were not enough rags, the boss's wife simply asked Xiaoli to take down the quilts and bed sheets that were not being used temporarily, and then tore the rags into strips and used them to block the gaps with wet water.

Liao Yunyun and Gu Tongwan didn't even bother to clean up and ran straight to the inner circle.

Gu Tongwan was not worried about the situation in her yard. Aoao was in the yard. With Aoao's intelligence, he should hide in the house. And she also released two blood vine branches when she went out. The blood vine branches are a natural nemesis to the nematodes in the black fog. She had encountered this kind of deathly black fog when she was in the empty city. It was the blood vine in her body that allowed her to avoid the attacks of these nematodes time and time again. And for the blood vine, nematodes are a better supplement.

However, this time the black fog came with great force and could cover the entire base in an instant. There must be tens of millions of nematodes in the black fog, which she could not control alone. These nematodes required at least S-level or above psychics to control from all directions.

Especially those with ice and water abilities can control the speed of spread to a certain extent.

Gu Tongwan accompanied Liao Yunyun back to her small apartment. As soon as they got back, Liao Yunyun started to fetch water, but she didn't know whether everyone in the entire building was using water. The water flow was very small. She waited for several minutes before fetching half a basin of water, which made Liao Yunyun very anxious.

"Damn it, I shouldn't have chosen a high floor. The water pressure is too low. It's hard to even get water!"

Gu Tongwan did not seem flustered. As soon as she entered the room, she released four blood vine branches in succession. These branches were hidden in the window sills and door cracks. Liao Yunyun did not have special abilities, so it was impossible for her to find these branches.

"I think the higher floors are better. If it is really black fog, it may not affect the higher floors. The most likely to be attacked are the first and second floors."

According to the black fog she observed in Hai City, the spreading speed of the black fog was not fast. The main thing was that the black fog was highly destructive and in the shape of clusters. However, the height of the black fog would not exceed two floors at most. She was once forced to hide on the fourth floor of an unfinished building when she was looting supplies. She saw with her own eyes that the black fog only climbed to the second floor and then stopped spreading.

So she was not too worried that the black fog would spread to Liao Yunyun's floor, but just in case, she still took preventive measures in advance.

"Hasn't this kind of black fog appeared in the base before?" Gu Sheng fetched water and wet the towel and handed it to Liao Yunyun.

Liao Yunyun was busy plugging the door crack with a towel. She was sweating all over after all the work. She answered casually, "No, but I have seen it in a video. The black fog swallowed up a B-level mutant rhino in one go. When the black fog dispersed, only the bones of the mutant rhino were left. Not even blood was left. Later, the base sent people to use special instruments to take some samples of the black fog and found that the so-called black fog was actually formed by countless black nematodes. These nematodes can survive on a special kind of fine particles in the black fog, and can also emit a gas to keep the black fog in a clumping shape."

"I was thinking that since the black fog has appeared, the base can't just sit there and do nothing, and the air defense alarm has been sounded. The top brass at the base should be prepared. What we have to do is to follow the notification and stay at home as much as possible." Gu Tongwan stood up and squinted at some black fog masses that were vaguely appearing a few kilometers away from the window.

It was nearly 11:30 in the morning. The sky, which had been sunny, suddenly became gloomy, and the only few royal palm trees outside were swaying slightly in the wind.

As the wind accelerated, the movement speed of the black fog increased. It took less than half an hour from the time the alarm was sounded to the time the black fog spread into the base.

Liao Yunyun also stood up, looking a little worried.

"Don't worry too much. Maybe the situation is not as serious as you think." Gu Tongwan comforted.

In fact, her confidence in the base came from her previous life. She struggled for many years in the apocalypse in her previous life. She only heard that the base was attacked by two large-scale beast tides, but had never heard of the invasion of black fog. Either the butterfly effect appeared in this life and changed some things, or the black fog did not cause a devastating blow to the base.

At this time, in the highest command center of the base, base commander Yu Hui stood with his hands behind his back, squinting at the images sent by the drone in front of him. He could vaguely see the thread-like creatures hidden in the black fog.

Standing next to Yu Hui was Chen Zhijun, the chief executive officer of the Self-Defense Forces. He was holding a cigarette in his hand, and turned to look at the adjutant beside him, and asked calmly, "Haven't Chen Yanxi and Shen Lian returned to the team yet?"

"According to the news this morning, the finishing operations are underway over there," the adjutant replied.

"Can't the finishing work be handed over to other A-level psychics? At least three of the five S-level ones have to come back and continue to communicate via satellite phone. Let Shen Lian and Chen Yanxi lead the team back first, and the rest of the people will continue to finish up." Chen Zhijun pointed at his adjutant, walked to the map with a frown, and issued the latest orders.

The two A-level psychics around Yu Hui felt that the microorganisms in the black fog were more active than before, apparently because they had swallowed some energy bodies.

The two of them also used their mental power to construct an invisible mental wall around the building.

These mental walls, unless they are broken by high-level psychics, can also ensure that the black fog cannot enter the building. Moreover, there are currently three S-level psychics and more than ten A-level psychics in this building.

After thinking for a moment, Yu Hui said in a deep voice: "Give my order. Send 30 people with abilities above level B, with water and ice abilities given priority, to the black fog area to blockade and suppress it."

"Base commander, why don't you wait for Chen Yanxi and Shen Lian?" Chen Zhijun frowned, seeming to disagree with Yu Hui's decision.

Yu Hui smiled bitterly and said, "Can we wait? If the black fog continues to spread, the powerful people in the inner circle will be in chaos, and the current situation has already affected the residents of the base. We can't wait." He paused, sighed, and continued, "I also know that Chen Yanxi and Shen Lian are very powerful, but it will take some time to rush over from the big forest in the north. But according to the speed of the black fog, if we don't control it now, I'm afraid that in less than two hours, the base will be shrouded by the black fog. What we can do now is to delay time and try to control the black fog within a range before the Hunter and Light Chasers arrive at the base."

Although Chen Zhijun and Yu Hui are in two different factions in terms of stance, and there are both cooperation and opposition between the two, they can still distinguish the priorities in the face of natural disasters. Therefore, although there has been competition in recent years, there has been a certain harmony on the surface.

"Okay, let's follow the base commander's decision." After Chen Zhijun spoke, the adjutant next to him immediately winked at a group of people, and they immediately left the command room.

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On Liao Yunyun's side, Gu Sheng planned to make lunch. After all, he couldn't go out now and it was almost noon, so filling his stomach was the most important thing right now.

Fortunately, there was power outage during the day and the black fog did not affect the base's water and electricity usage.

There was only a second-hand, old-fashioned electric fan in Liao Yunyun's apartment, which was swinging its head to blow air, making a "squeaking" sound.

Because the doors and windows are sealed, it is not suitable to cook things with strong odors, nor is it suitable to turn on the gas stove for a long time.

When she first moved into the new house, Chen Yanxi was very thoughtful. In addition to giving her large appliances such as a washing machine and a refrigerator, he also bought her small appliances such as induction cookers. It can be said that he had considered everything.

In Liao Yunyun's refrigerator, there were some mutant meat that she had given her last time, as well as some heat-resistant potatoes and several melons that looked a bit like pumpkins. She also found some canned meat, which was said to be a welfare distributed by the company during the Mid-Autumn Festival, canned mutant pork. Liao Yunyun also smiled and said that it was a rare occasion that the company was generous, and it was finally not canned rat meat.

I also found some noodles in the cupboard on one side, so I planned to have a simple lunch, some noodles with some canned meat.

After the can of meat was opened, it did not have a distinct fishy smell like the can of rat meat. Gu Tongwan picked some and tasted it, and found that it had a slight fishy smell, but not too strong, so he fried it a little with oil and added two slices of ginger to suppress the fishy smell as much as possible. Then he started to cook the noodles. Because the weather was hot, he rinsed the cooked noodles with cold water and served them out. He simply added oil, salt, a little soy sauce and aged vinegar, and made a simple mixed noodle dish to eat with it.

Liao Yunyun's cooking skills are average. She usually cooks in the company cafeteria. Even when she cooks at home, she cooks casually and hastily. Originally, she had no appetite because of the heat, but after taking a few bites, she started to eat with big mouthfuls, giving a thumbs up and saying, "Wanwan, your cooking skills are really amazing."