“Miss Ping, how has your body been recovering these past two days?”
A deep, steady male voice came from the Bluetooth earpiece.
Since the base had a network base station, mobile communication could be used throughout the entire base.
As the General Commander of the Armed Operations Department, the base gifted Ping Chengcheng a mobile phone and a computer.
The communication program used was developed by the Information Research Group of the Base Research Department. It was very similar to the one before the apocalypse and had a cluster server transported from a certain Internet company. The function was very complete.
Ping Chengcheng was sitting on the swing chair in the yard, taking a nap with her eyes closed. She lazily stretched, and the Bluetooth earpiece played Lu Linyuan’s inquiry.
“Yeah, it’s been okay lately.”
She replied dryly, feeling sleepy again. She wondered if the side effects of the X-Virus inhibitor would always exist, and when they would disappear.
Lu Linyuan made a light sound: “How do you feel now? Is there a risk of losing control?”
Hearing Lu Linyuan’s words, Ping Chengcheng remembered this.
“Oh, you’re talking about this, I’ve completely controlled it.”
“As long as I don’t want to, I won’t lose control.”
“What?!”
Lu Linyuan was a little surprised.
“Really? How did you control it?”
Not everyone in the base knew about his Variant status. Miao Huan, the leader of the Biological Research Group of the Research Department, was one of the insiders. He was able to maintain his sanity entirely thanks to the inhibitors developed by Miao Huan.
But even Miao Huan’s inhibitor was about to lose its effect, so how did Ping Chengcheng do it?
Ping Chengcheng lay on the swing chair and turned over: “During this A City operation, I discovered a very interesting laboratory.”
Ping Chengcheng thought for a while, there were too many doubts about that laboratory… It was better to tell them, of course… not to tell the whole truth.
“I obtained an inhibitor from inside, and after using it, I successfully suppressed those bloodthirsty desires in my body.”
“There was also a person inside. He seemed to be called Mo Bie. He was wearing a jetpack exoskeleton armor, and his arms could extend alloy blades. At that time, he attacked me, and I killed him along the way.”
The girl continued to say some things about how the Chimera Composite zombie escaped from that laboratory.
“I think the A City base must be hiding some secrets from us.”
Ping Chengcheng’s face was gloomy. She still remembered that Mo Bie had also been injected with the X-Virus, and there were some distinct tentacles on his body, but why was there no such person in the A City base?
Why was the A City base in the previous life so exclusive? It never allied with other bases until the third year of the apocalypse.
Could it be that they…
The girl felt more and more terrible.
She narrowed her eyes.
She told Lu Linyuan all this, half-truth and half-false. Lu Linyuan pondered for a moment, as if digesting the information.
“So…”
He frowned.
“The A City base is also a potential threat? By the way, they gave us a set of exoskeleton armor, which is indeed a jetpack type… Why is that?”
“Why did they give this?”
The girl chuckled: “Oh? Maybe… it’s just self-deception, who knows.”
“Maybe he just wanted to use this to build a good relationship and continue to hide his true face. In short…”
“We must be careful about this A City base.”
With this, the entire matter was very clear. The A City base was definitely not an ordinary base, and now it was even possible…
The people in the A City base were no longer human.
At this moment, it was as if a thousand-pound boulder was pressing on Lu Linyuan’s heart.
He couldn’t help but feel a little irritable.
Just as he had solved the food crisis, now there was the threat of the A City base with an unknown situation.
But his sanity was already uncontrollably deteriorating. Would there be such an inhibitor in the A City base? But if he asked the A City base directly, it would be too abrupt and would definitely arouse suspicion.
The S City base, which now seemed to be thriving and developing in a good direction, was still full of crises if he looked at it from a longer perspective.
Harsh climate, Variants, more and more special infected… and terrible Variant Bodies.
Lu Linyuan sighed heavily, his temples throbbing, and he couldn’t help but close his eyes.
“Oh, right, Chief Lu, because I used the inhibitor, my strength has now been suppressed back to the level of an ordinary little girl.”
“In the future, I may not be able to personally do some tasks.”
This news was tantamount to the last straw that broke the camel’s back on Lu Linyuan.
Hearing what the girl said, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
“Miss Ping, what do you think…”
“What will the S City base look like in the future?”
What would it look like?
Ping Chengcheng thought for a while.
“It will be very strong.”
Very strong?
“Why?” Lu Linyuan didn’t understand, why did the girl have so much confidence?
Ping Chengcheng hooked the corners of her mouth.
“Because the S City base has me.”
“I want to protect Sister. Since I want to protect Sister, then the S City base must also become stronger.”
“If the S City base can’t become stronger, how can we stand firm in the apocalypse, how can we protect the people we want to protect?”
“The S City base must be prosperous and must become stronger and stronger!”
“If the Chief Commander has decided on the road, he must firmly go down it, if he doesn’t even have confidence, then it’s really over.”
Hearing the girl’s words, Lu Linyuan was stunned for a moment, and then an inexplicable sense of excitement appeared in his heart.
He suddenly felt that his mentality was not as good as that of a little girl.
“Hahahaha, Miss Ping, well said.”
Lu Linyuan couldn’t help but laugh out loud, his laughter inexplicably hearty.
“Miss Ping, but… I have a question. What do you think, how should the S City base go on, and become stronger and stronger?”
He couldn’t help but feel curious, what insights did the girl have on the development of the base?
Hearing Lu Linyuan’s question, Ping Chengcheng curled her lips in disdain.
“You’re a base general commander, can’t you figure it out?”
“For a base to become stronger, there are only a few options…
Expand logistics, improve equipment technology, and at the same time, send reconnaissance teams to understand the outside world, and most importantly.”
“We also need to form alliances.”
The power of a base was ultimately limited, and the population of a base also limited the growth of the base. But what if many bases were united? Humans, this species, was a very magical species.
It was possible that one person, a dozen people, or a hundred people couldn’t do anything big.
But once they gathered more and more, they could do earth-shattering things that were unimaginable!
This was a race that never lacked potential.
Ping Chengcheng suddenly thought of a very famous figure in the previous life.
In the previous life, the largest base alliance of mankind had a very strong ultimate weapon.
Prototype No. 1: Oracle – this was a terrifying giant mecha comparable to the top ten Variant Bodies in strength.
And it was unveiled in the third year of the apocalypse, and its chief designer was rescued from a base deep in a heavily infected area in the second year of the apocalypse.
That person was called Mo Wuque, in his thirties, but he was a natural talent.
“I know someone.”
“His name is Mo Wuque, and he is currently… should be in the Dawn base’s small base. Chief Lu, believe me, he is definitely useful.”
Dawn Base?
Although there was no evidence for what the girl said, Lu Linyuan did not doubt it.
“What is the location of this base?”
The girl shook her head: “I don’t know the exact location, but it’s probably around the Jiangnan area.”
Both were silent for a moment.
Finally, Lu Linyuan chose to change the subject.
“Miss Ping, if I can’t hold on.”
“Are you interested in becoming the leader of the S City base?”
“Of course, what’s wrong?”
If the S City base was ruled by her, her protection of Sister would inevitably be even better.
Lu Linyuan smiled.
“It’s nothing. I wish Miss Ping good health. I’ll hang up first.”
Beep, beep, beep…
The phone hung up.
The girl was a little speechless. What did Lu Linyuan mean? After asking her, he hung up directly without saying anything.
Shaking her head, she climbed up from the swing chair and rubbed her sleepy eyes.
“Sister, Sister?”
The girl’s answering voice came from the villa, and Song Ning quickly came over.
“What’s wrong, Chengcheng?”
The girl smiled happily and stretched out two white and tender arms: “Sister hug~”
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