Yue Dongting has already laid out dinner, with a steaming Dragon Palace lunch box placed on the log dining table.
"The food in their restaurant is quite cheap, but I went to the back kitchen and took a look and found that they eat everything except offal. The restaurant also serves eggs and milk, but the appearance is a bit shabby. I always feel uncomfortable eating their food. Don't worry, before the test results from Dragon Palace come out, let's just eat lunch." Yue Dongting took out a few maps and said, "The maps sold by Gaota, the town we passed through when we came here is called Eden, and their families are all there. Anyone who has no family there must apply for a pass every time they go there. There are only two entrances and exits to the cave, one leading to the outside world and the other leading here. Their farm is in the forest outside the town.
Noah Base feels similar to the base of Kunlun Ruins. It is said that it is easy to get lost in the surrounding area, and people often get lost and disappear. "Yue Dongting said with a smile: "The good news is that the entrance and exit of the highly intelligent main base of Noah Base is at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. Eden Town was originally the living area for their families. When the nuclear winter began, they only had more than 3,000 superpowers who cleared the area of mutated animals and zombies and escaped. Tens of thousands of the main force have been sealed in the main base for several years, and there is probably no one left alive. They now desperately need men who can fight. "
From the map, Eden Town is on the upper level of Noah's Base. There are thin lines connecting Noah's Base to several other caves, and both ends are marked with numbers. There are more than ten caves, which is close to a thousand square kilometers according to the proportion. Such a large area is more than enough to feed the entire human population of the base if there are no bugs.
Above our heads is the icy Siberia, and four meters underground is a layer of permafrost. It is difficult for mutated bugs to survive on the ground, and we can basically ignore the large bugs that migrate from warm places. The living conditions in this place are quite good.
But everyone's focus is not here, they are all on the main base marked in the corner of the map.
"So their resource warehouses are all at their main base in the Arctic Ocean?" Hai Fengqiu was surprised and happy. "We seem to have made a big mistake."
To maintain the operation of a base with tens of thousands of people, the amount of reserved resources is extremely huge. Even if the resources are gone, dismantling and packaging the various metal equipment in the Arctic Ocean base will be enough to save the Dragon Palace for several years.
This trip was really rewarding.
Zhang Tianzhao and Lin Yunlai smiled and high-fived each other. It would be very difficult for others to dive to the bottom of the ocean to a depth of several hundred meters in the cold water, but they were skilled workers. And now it only takes time for Dragon Palace to build a small submarine, it is not difficult.
Yue Dongting bought three maps in total, and Bai Zhi summoned Xiao Shan to come over and get them.
"Brother Qi said that the degree of evolution of species in this place is not as good as that on the ground, but the species is very rich and can give us mutant plants as female parents. We need to collect more animal and plant specimens here. It would be better if we could set up a branch here Now." Xiao Shan took the two hot lunch boxes given to him by Yue Dongting and left in a hurry.
Noah's base is indeed very good, rich in animal and plant resources, and safer than the ground. Siberia is also rich in mineral resources. There is also a base that can be used for repairs. If this place is occupied, it will indeed be of great benefit to the development of the East China Sea.
"Is it necessary to occupy this place?" Hai Fengqiu asked for everyone's opinions.
Yue Dongting took out a draft paper and wrote down the investment for the occupation, the resources needed to maintain the operation of the base, the benefits that Donghai and Dragon Palace would get after the war, and discussed with Bai Zhi what risks there were.
Bai Zhi said: "We need to add a variable and establish a sub-base here. Who will be the leader?"
Before Hao Xing's research on the teleportation array was successful, one of the four of them must be here to ensure smooth communication of personnel and resources on both sides. With the teleportation array in place, even if there are space bags to transport materials, the teleportation array must be considered the cost of. This place is too far away from the Dragon Palace, and it is not like the transportation between the Dragon Palace and the East China Sea can be relied on.
"Baizhi and I are definitely not good at it. We are always in the same place without making new recipes." Zhang Tianzhao excluded the two of them first.
"I also need new formulas and new materials." Haifengqiu's reasons were the same as above.
"You are all running outside, and we need someone to sit in the East China Sea." Yue Dongting said that he had no plans to stay in Noah for a long time.
"I am the leader of the base and will be responsible for the daily work? Are you kidding me?" Lin Yunlai looked at them and asked him to do this, which was completely unprofessional. He was a talented combat commander. Developing the economy is really not something he can do.
Yunlai is indeed not suitable to be the leader of economic development. In fact, none of the five of them are suitable to open up a new base in Siberia. Hai Fengqiu said helplessly: "There must be people of the same kind who are willing."
The same kind is definitely more reliable than outsiders, but the same kind also has selfish motives. This place is too far from the East China Sea, and the possibility of the same kind treating the base as private property after taking full control of the base is not small. , Bai Zhi and Yue Dongting discussed and calculated, and finally came to the conclusion that in the past twenty years, it was more cost-effective to exchange Siberian resources through trade than to directly establish a base to mine mineral deposits. As for the animal and plant resources currently provided by Noah's base, the five of them can go to the forest to collect and hunt openly, or they can bring a few teams of people into the forest to collect quietly, and the cost of obtaining the necessary resources is negligible.
"In the past ten years, we have not needed to increase investment in all walks of life. The biggest consumption is still in scientific research, and the demand for metal mineral deposits is not that great. As long as the crystal core energy technology is not leaked out. Twenty years from now we will send a few mining trucks You can take care of everything here." Yue Dongting said with a smile: "It is not cost-effective to cultivate an advanced base with a high probability of independence for the second generation through blood transfusion here."
"You are right." Hai Fengqiu took a deep breath, "Let's arrange a few teleportation points and secretly dismantle the Arctic Ocean base and take it away?"
"First get poultry and livestock that can lay eggs and produce milk. Even if there are problems with them, cultivating them for a few more generations can always select the breed that suits our physique," Bai Zhi smiled. "Poultry eggs and milk will bring a lot of fun to the table."
"Dongting can be invisible, so just steal it." Lin Yunlai said with a smile, "If there is a map of their Arctic Ocean base, it would be better to get a copy. We have ready-made diving equipment, go down and look for it, and use the resources in their warehouse at once Take away!"
"Isn't there a friend here in Dongting? Let's find out what his friend says first. If you can buy it, buy it. If they don't sell it, then consider stealing it." Zhang Tianzhao was slightly more principled than Lin Yunlai.
Everyone laughed out loud and separated the combat and production areas. The base has no plan to let the superpowers raise livestock and poultry, okay? Zhang Tianzhao actually just went through a procedure to make his conscience feel better.
"After dinner, I took these rabbits to exchange for animal skin mattresses. I also checked to see if Sergei had come back." Yue Dongting thought for a while and said to Zhang Tianzhao: "Will you go with me? I found that even there were The team of water superpowers all bought water from the tower, and I suspect they also added ingredients to the water."
They went out together after dinner. Yun Lai was so bored that he just went to the bar. Bai Zhi and Haifeng Qiu checked the animal and plant medicinal materials needed for the new formula and found that most of the materials were produced in Bai Zhi's space territory. A few of them only had names. They wrote the names on paper and guessed from the names that the plants had a strange appearance. Growth environment.
"Maybe we should go back to the Institute of Botany to clear out all the specimens." Haifengqiu yawned, "It's a ten-minute flight. This is the first enchanting formula you've worked out."
"Yes." Bai Zhi put away the sketch filled with medicinal herbs, "I feel it is necessary for me to travel around the earth."
"Indeed, after we go back, the three of us will go to the areas in the south that I have explored. We should be able to find out something." Haifengqiu stood up and stretched, "I want to tell you about Xinjiang City. thing."
Bai Zhi hummed softly. She knew that what Haifengqiu chose to tell her at this time must be related to Zhang Tianzhao, and it was not appropriate for Zhang Tianzhao to know.
"After Shen Tang died, the two laboratories she led were continued to be managed by one of her students. That person was very interested in transforming people and had been quietly conducting human experiments. Have I mentioned this to you?" Hai Feng Qiu asked.
Sure enough, Xinjiang City was dangerous to her and the children, as well as to all known reformers. Bai Zhi shook her head and asked, "Did the Zhang family help?"
"It's not very clear. After I destroyed their research materials, I released two mutated bugs in the laboratory. If nothing else happened, the researchers would be bitten to death." Haifeng Qiu smiled, Xinjiang City must think that it was the people from Xijing who caused the trouble, Xijing They will definitely think that the insect-men are the research results of Xinjiang City, "Xinjiang City and Xijing will be at odds with each other in the future."
Unification is great, but their small society of reformed people with only a few dozen people can only live freely by relying on the independent Donghai. If Donghai and other bases were merged into a whole, aliens like them would definitely be ostracized, suppressed, and controlled as before. From a strategic layout point of view, Haifengqiuqian is very beautiful.
Bai Zhi was still not at ease and asked: "Will Xinjiang City still have the ability to conduct similar experiments in the future?
"No more. I have destroyed the important data of their biochemical laboratory, all specimens and medicines. In the future... it is more likely that humans will degenerate into primitive society." Hai Fengqiu looked at the surrounding environment, Noah Base Before the end of the world, they had prepared a lot of survival supplies. However, the wooden house they lived in was said to be enough for five people. In fact, it only had two large rooms inside and outside. There were five wooden beds in the inside and one outside against the wall for storing sundries. wooden shelf. The only remaining furniture was a long, heavy dining table and a few stools. The treatment of the so-called "first-class team" is nothing more than this. There is no electricity, no running water, and the tableware is all made of wood. To put it mildly, life at Noah Base advocates nature and is wild and interesting. To be honest, it is not much different from primitive society. .
Primitive society was great. Neither Xinjiang City nor Xijing had the ability to take advantage of her family, Mian Ning and Mian An. Bai Zhi let out a sigh of relief.
Yue Dongting's friend Sergei disappeared. The several teams that went out together suffered heavy casualties, and less than one-third of the people came back alive. The atmosphere in the base was very depressing. Lin Yunlai, who had gone to the bar, was the first to come back, and soon Zhang Tianzhao and Yue Dongting came back with a bucket of water.
"There is indeed something added to their drinking water. It is a mixed juice of several plants. It has a sedative effect and a slight dependence. Remember this smell and be careful not to get it." Zhang Tianzhao poured the water into the cup. Here, let everyone take a look, "There is another very important thing. Commander Wang from Tonghui is here to discuss the Wang Tian family's defection to Noah. He also gave five space wallets from Noah's base as a meeting gift. .”
"Traitor." Hai Fengqiu scolded him disdainfully.
The straight-line distance between Yakutsk and China is about one thousand kilometers, and it is about two thousand kilometers away from Tonghui. It takes at least a month to walk three thousand kilometers. At the speed of the Wolf Cavalry, it can be reached in two days. If Noah Base has Wolf Cavalry, it can extend its claws into China. Commander Wang's doing this is no different than sending the three northeastern provinces and Inner and Outer Mongolia to the hands of Noah Base.
"Increase the retail price of space wallet in Tonghui by 500%." Bai Zhi responded very quickly. Commander Wang was helping Donghai develop the market, so raising the price was the right way to go.
"I'll go back and talk about it right away." Lin Yunlai teleported away immediately.
"Destroy their cooperation?" Hai Fengqiu suggested.
"I understand your intention, but Tonghui's hunting ground will not exist in another year. They really need a safe base to survive." Zhang Tianzhao said seriously: "There has been no country for a long time. People of different races, mixed together. The three generations are the same. Xiaoshan sent thousands of American women to Chaolong Palace, and most of our next generation are also mixed-race. If Noah Base is also a base where mixed-race people make up the majority, the relationship between us and them will be much harmonious. "
Now the country is gone, and not much of humanity is left. Humanity's primary goal is to survive in this new world. From a survival perspective, there is nothing wrong with Tonghui people choosing to cooperate with Noah Base. Just like there is nothing wrong with their insistence on independence.
Hai Fengqiu thought for a long time and sighed: "You are right."
"Pack your things. The base will soon send an exploration team to the cave where Sergei died. They asked us to go." Yue Dongting had already come out of the depression of losing his friend and said calmly, "Let's go and have a look. I'll break away from the main force when I find an opportunity, and I'll find out the exact location of the Arctic Ocean base."
The base sent six small groups to form an exploration team. The leader was a black man and the deputy leader was Yi. They were in tandem. Yue Dongting naturally fell behind and mingled with Yi's small team.
After the exploration team traversed several large caves and entered a cave maze without mutated moss lighting, Yi held up an animal oil torch and gave a loving reminder to the newcomers, "It will be difficult for those who are lost here to find their own way. You are too far away."
Yue Dongting took the time to respond to him in the busy schedule of making notes and chatting: "Okay."
"We're almost there, everyone, be careful!" the person in front shouted, "be careful of your head!"
The light of the torch can only illuminate one or two meters above the head, and the top of the cave in front is at least more than six meters high. The top of the head was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
In Bai Zhi's field of vision, all human bodies have a faint aperture composed of supernatural particles. Zhang Tianzhao is fiery red, Hai Fengqiu is golden, and Lin Yunlai is blue-purple. On the roof of the cave four or five meters away from her, there were two half-meter-long black shadows crawling quickly with blue halo. There were three more than twenty meters in front of them.
Several screams suddenly came from the crowd in front, and a black shadow on the top of the cave rushed towards Yi, who was holding a torch. The thunder ball popped up by Bai Zhi arrived first and hit the black shadow, bursting out into a ball of dazzling white light.
Another black shadow rushed towards Bai Zhi, and was struck out by Zhang Tianzhao with a huge sword in mid-air one meter away from Bai Zhi. A layer of frost quickly formed on the black shadow's body, and two black lumps of flesh fell to the ground and froze into two lumps of ice.
Lin Yunlai and Yue Dongting jumped up, pressed against the cave wall and passed over the heads of the crowd, going to the front to support them.
Zhang Tianzhao squatted down to observe the characteristics and analyzed: "It looks like a mutated large slug, hermaphrodite. It has teeth and is omnivorous. The temperature in front should be not low and relatively humid. We are likely to encounter a large number of similar mutated animals."
"There should be hot water rivers and heated ground nearby." Bai Zhi has sensed the extremely active water and fire energy.
The three big slugs that appeared in front were finally killed. But one of the three torch-bearers who was attacked first was seriously injured.
Haifengqiu asked Bai Zhi to pop up a few thunderballs and float them on the roof of the cave for lighting. Then they encountered three waves of mutated mollusk attacks. However, no one was injured in the bright-as-day environment. A hundred people entered without any danger. A big cave.
As soon as I entered the cave, a warm, moist and Liuhuan-like wind blew over me. A dozen large thunderballs were suspended in the air, illuminating an area of one or two kilometers in radius. The vegetation in the cave was very lush, and they were so numerous that small insects and animals fled everywhere they passed. In addition to lighting, these luminous thunderballs are also baits. From time to time, mutated animals are fooled and stupidly pounce on the thunderballs. They are blown away by the thunderballs and are either cut into pieces by Zhang Tianzhao or chopped into pieces by Haifengqiu.
After arduous marching in the jungle for three or four hours, they found a suitable camp - a stretch of sandy land with no vegetation by the Hotwater River.
"How did Gu do it?" Yi looked up and looked at the thunderballs swimming in the air, and was extremely interested in this "auxiliary" ability. To control more than a dozen thunderballs and fly them wherever you want them without exploding, the mental power and superpowers required are staggering. Gu is definitely not the weakest in this powerful five-person group, she is probably the strongest.
"Practice. She has been practicing controlling thunderballs from the moment she awakened her powers, and she has never stopped for a day." Zhang Tianzhao took the small wine bottle that was passed to him, poured two sips into the cup, and passed the bottle to Yi, "Have a drink. Why don't you use thunderballs or fireballs for lighting?"
"We? There were some at first, but those people always died before their companions. Over time, no one did this." Yi did not say the specific reason, but shook the cup and continued to explore the bottom of Bai Zhi, "Gu, you How long can it stay like this?"
In Donghai, keeping the fireballs of twenty street lamps burning for six hours is the threshold for taking up the job.
Bai Zhi smiled, "Six hours, maybe. If you only keep one or two thunder balls, it will last longer."
"Just keep one or two." Yi narrowed his eyes, "We have to stay in this cave for a long time to save your powers."
"I'll do it." Haifengqiu said softly. He took over the control of the thunderballs. After a series of slight "waves", the thunderballs suspended in the air were extinguished one by one, and the three new thunderballs were shot out quickly. The protruding rocks on the roof of the cave are used to cleverly form a halo belt around the sand, hiding the sand in darkness.
The camp fell into silence after a brief uproar. Many people have tried to use supernatural light balls after the power outage, but after living in a cave with glowing moss for a long time, no one can persist. The small abilities that were dispensable in the early days of the apocalypse have become so powerful in the hands of others that many people have regained their interest in using supernatural lighting. .
Someone silently popped up a thunderball in the darkness, and the black leader yelled: "Asshole, save your powers!"
"Ah!" someone in the crowd screamed.
The thunderball suspended in mid-air was also exploded by the wind blade at the same time. In the fleeting light, human-shaped black shadows could be seen swarming out of the sand cave and rushing into the crowd. The thick and sweet smell of human blood quickly spread in the air, and screams came one after another.
Zhang Tianzhao grabbed Bai Zhi and retreated for more than ten meters. The metal shield popped up by Hai Fengqiu and the rattan of Yue Dongting protected the five people in the middle.
Bai Zhi popped out several thunderballs. In the bright light, Yue Dongting's crossbow arrows and Hai Fengqiu's golden blade hit the heads of the two black figures respectively. Lin Yunlai threw his shield and hit another black shadow. The thunder ball attached to the shield exploded. The shield bounced back into his hand, and the black shadow was blown into more than a dozen pieces.
"Yi, come closer to me." Haifengqiu growled in Chinese.
Yi did not hesitate and led his team towards Haifengqiu. Bai Zhi's thunder ball hit the two monsters chasing Yi, smashing the monsters into black ash.
"What is it?" Haifengqiu asked.
"Mutated zombies." Yi calmed down and pushed the two female members of the team to the safest position. "It's more powerful than what I encountered last time. Everyone, please be careful."
The mutated zombies also have suction cups on their palms. In addition to walking upright, they can also move on the roof of the cave. Their jumping ability is also amazing. Without a defensive cover, these mutated zombies with low individual strength are not easy to deal with in this environment.
"Get closer to the team on the left." Haifengqiu said, "Yi shouted to inform them that we will clear out the zombies in the middle."
The team on the left also reacted quickly, shrinking into a small group and moving towards Haifengqiu. After the two sides come together, the melee puts the long-range protection in the middle and immediately moves towards the other team.
The black leader directed his team to move towards Haifengqiu. After several teams came together, the leader immediately exercised his command authority and continuously issued orders to direct the members of several regiments to defend or attack. Hai Fengqiu discussed with the team leader that he should take command, but the black man flatly rejected him.
Hai Fengqiu didn't insist anymore. The people in Noah's base were not his subordinates. It had nothing to do with him whether they died more or less. He just had to fulfill his obligations and have a clear conscience.
"The total number of people we have killed exceeds two hundred." Hai Fengqiu's brows furrowed more and more tightly, "Can we support so many zombies here?"
"If there are plankton in the hot water river, a food chain can be established. Theoretically, this group of zombies can be fed." Bai Zhi added a damage reduction to Lin Yunlai, who was fighting at the front, and Yunlai jumped into the zombie group. In the game, the spear is like a swimming dragon. Wherever the spear head swims, the zombies there will be turned into pieces.
There was another scream, and a supernatural being was dragged into the sand cave.
The black leader cursed loudly, and under his command, two long-range soldiers blocked the melee gap. In less than two minutes, another remote person was captured.
With such a piecemeal approach, these hundred or so people will be dragged away by zombies sooner or later to be used as lunch boxes.
If the move is enlarged, the hundreds of people in Noah's base will be mixed with the zombies, and the group attack will inevitably cause accidental damage. Sooner or later, the group attack ultimate move will be released, so it is better to act now. Haifeng Qiuchuan commented, "We retreat to the rock hanging in mid-air on the east cave wall. Yunlai will attract the monsters."
The rock is four to five hundred meters away from the sandy land beside the river. Yue Dongting took the lead in flying over with Great Qinggong, followed closely by Bai Zhi. When he landed, hundreds of small thunderballs popped up and spread around the rocks. These small thunderballs seemed to have eyes and bypassed Zhang Tianzhao and Haifengqiu. When they landed on the rocks, they moved their positions and established a three-dimensional defense circle. Several fast-moving zombies followed and hit the thunderball and were blown up. They all fell to death.
Yun Lai rushed into the zombie group, released two small groups to attack, and led half of the zombies to move in the direction of his friends.
"The Chinese have escaped!" someone shouted angrily.
"They're amplifying their moves!" The people who had been observing them shouted even louder.
The thunder net and the ice net were combined into one. When Lin Yun came and rose from the ground, they cleverly flipped over and carried dozens of zombies together. In a series of thunderous explosions, all the zombies and nearby plants were destroyed. All turned into black ashes.
Lin Yunlai quickly returned to the crowd and attracted a group of zombies back. A timid but fast guy used his speed to break out of the encirclement and ran towards the group of five.
