A middle-aged man with a square face walked to the armored vehicle, glanced at the semi-trailer behind it, and then looked at the driver in the cab with a horrified expression. He nodded to Yang Wen on the roof, “Only two of you left? Encountered… a new infected?”
Yang Wen gave a wry smile.
“Yeah… it was too strong.”
The square-faced man comforted him, “The dead cannot be brought back to life. Anyway, you took revenge. Oh right, did you kill it?”
“No, the people in that car behind me killed it.”
The square-faced man was stunned for a moment, turning his head to look.
That semi-trailer looked like it would fall apart at any moment. Coupled with the combination of two men and three women, it didn’t seem like they would be strong in combat.
Wait… why was that girl carrying a gun? And it seemed to be a sniper rifle!
Yang Wen noticed the expression on the square-faced man’s face, a hideous arc rising at the corner of his mouth: “You might not believe it, but I was saved by that little girl with the sniper rifle.”
“She first shot that monster’s tongue in half, and then shot its head to pieces.”
“That marksmanship was simply divine.”
The middle-aged man was still a little dazed. Was this 1.5-meter-tall little girl really that strong? He quickly reacted, smiling at Yang Wen, “I’ll go take a look.”
News of the discovery of a new infected had spread like wildfire, and the research team in the base was sending people over. The middle-aged man slowly came to the foot of the semi-trailer.
“Let me introduce myself, I am Zhao Chang, the Minister of the Order Maintenance Department. Is this your first time at the S City base?”
Ping Chengcheng’s blood-red eyes made Zhao Chang feel a little cold. Was this guy really not infected with any viruses?
The girl sat on the edge of the container roof, tilting her head. Her cute voice made Zhao Chang’s heart melt: “Yes, uncle, we came from A City.”
A City!
Zhao Chang’s eyes flickered slightly. That was a distance of two to three hundred kilometers! And he heard that the base in A City was not optimistic, the zombie hordes there were much crazier than here!
Zhao Chang’s eyes toward the girl and the others had a hint of admiration: “This is a new infected, did you kill it?”
The girl nodded, “Yes.”
Zhao Chang smiled, “You have the right to name it. If you successfully enter the base later, you can claim the reward.”
Ping Chengcheng’s thoughts raced. She knew the base’s rules. There were two types of rewards: food and housing, but information about an infected could only be exchanged for one of them.
They didn’t lack food. If they had both, they would use them all to exchange for housing, and they could exchange for a rather luxurious villa in the base.
This reward was considered decent. In fact, even a well-trained special operations team that encountered a new Special Infected would have a low probability of survival due to the lack of information.
“Uncle, we also know about another infected, I don’t know if you’ve discovered it.”
“Oh?” Zhao Chang’s eyes lit up.
“But… if there’s nothing to prove it, you might not be able to exchange it for a reward…” He looked at the girl.
The girl smiled playfully. Song Ning knew what she meant, taking out the thigh bone of the Egg-Laying One from the container.
This overall black, streamlined, exquisitely unbelievable appearance made Zhao Chang’s eyes widen.
“This, this is the bone of that Special Infected? Can I touch it?”
Song Ning handed it to Zhao Chang, “Of course.”
He took it, gently stroking it, the smooth texture and cold touch bringing him a hint of palpitations.
“Hey, move on, in front!”
A new convoy came after the semi-trailer, starting to urge them. The armored vehicle had already registered and entered the city walls.
There was no way around it, Zhao Chang had to hand the bone back to Song Ning.
“Let’s go, let’s register first.”
After simply registering their names, genders, and other things, they received five passes and successfully entered the city walls. Inside was a quarantine area, still surrounded by city walls.
There was a long row of chairs and two small rooms. Fifty or sixty people were sitting on the chairs in the rest area, chatting with each other. Seeing the semi-trailer and the group of two men and three women driving in, they all looked at them with a hint of scrutiny.
Yang Wen leaned against the wall to rest, looking tired. Seeing Ping Chengcheng and the others come in, he smiled at the girl.
“Hey, Yang Wen, did you kill that Special Infected?”
Someone in the crowd loudly asked everyone’s question.
Yang Wen turned his head tiredly, smiling teasingly: “Don’t mention it, this Special Infected wasn’t killed by me, it was killed by them.”
The crowd suddenly became quiet. Them? They didn’t look like it at all.
Soon, the security department checked the semi-trailer for any contraband, such as zombie blood. They saw a carload of supplies and firearms in the container, and their eyes widened.
But they were guys who had seen many capable survivors, so they didn’t make too much noise. They just sighed that another powerful force had been added to the base.
After routine inspection and quarantine, the semi-trailer drove out of the quarantine area.
Although they were a little surprised by the girl’s red pupils, they didn’t care too much since the girl didn’t show any zombification features.
The semi-trailer rumbled into the real inner city. A small city-like scene entered their eyes, people were orderly, and there were taverns and other restaurants on the streets, giving them a feeling of returning to before the end of the world.
Lao Ba clenched his hands excitedly, making an “Oh yeah” sound. It seemed that following Ping Chengcheng was the right choice!
If he was still in that farmhouse, he would probably be dead by now!
Vehicles were not allowed in the base. After following the order department to drive the vehicles to the parking lot, two or three ragged, beggar-like guys immediately came over, looking at Song Ning and the others with smiles.
“Need help moving supplies? It only costs half a pound of rice to move everything.”
Song Ning frowned, was it that cheap?
“Okay, but wait a while.”
Zhao Chang didn’t know when he had followed. He also arranged for two order department personnel with guns to guard Song Ning next to the semi-trailer. People came and went in the parking lot, all looking in astonishment at the dilapidated semi-trailer. When they saw the Special Infected’s corpse on the roof of the car, they all took a deep breath, and looked enviously at Ping Chengcheng and the others.
Many people who had arrived at the base long ago hadn’t been able to exchange for a house to live in and could only set up tents in the refugee area. If they discovered a Special Infected and proved it, they could directly obtain the right to live in a house!
The right to live in a house, even if it was just a public toilet, could make everyone fight to the death!
Just as Ping Chengcheng was about to look for the research department to exchange for rewards, a noisy sound came from the entrance of the parking lot, and a man shouted: “Where is the body of the new Special Infected! Wasn’t it said to be here?”
“Hey!? Where are the people!?”
Zhao Chang covered his face, smiling embarrassedly at Ping Chengcheng, this cute girl: “These people from the research department are like lunatics, but they are actually pretty good people.”
“It’s here! Lao Gao, don’t be so crazy!”
A man in a white coat, wearing glasses, with a gentle and refined face, ran over quickly. A group of researchers with ugly faces followed behind him, seemingly embarrassed to be with him.
His eyes had a contrasting excited look, looking at the Special Infected’s corpse on the roof of the car, as if he had seen his wife!
“Oh right, we also have information about another Special Infected, with evidence, its bone.”
Lao Gao was shocked, looking at the girl who was only up to his chest, in the girl’s hand was a shiny black leg bone.
Lao Gao felt its extraordinary nature at a glance, shouting out.
“Ah! This is, good stuff!”
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