The Rebirth of the Last Days and Return to [Fang] Hao

He Zizhong was in the driver’s seat again, while Fang Hao busied himself with the remaining jewels in the space, testing them one by one.

Jade jewelry might have another space, or there may be a space like He Zizhong’s wooden bracelet. But finding this kind of thing really depends on fate.

The couple swept the entire jewelry exhibition center, only to find one such space.

However, they’re already very content for being able to have such a thing. Fang Hao’s wish to find a space is only to facilitate carrying crystal nuclei. Now that they already have one, with their unique bracelet space, there is naturally nothing more they extravagantly desire.

Seeing that He Zizhong had driven a fair distance on the road, Fang Hao looked in the space to find two small boxes. Opening one and putting them on in the rearview mirror, he turned to He Zizhong: “I’ll drive for a while. You should put on contacts.”

Cosmetic contact lenses are not very comfortable to wear, especially since their eyes are fine. They will naturally find ways to be lazy when they can avoid wearing them. But now that the two of them are going back to the base, it is safer to wear them.

After the two entered the city this time, they cleaned out a lot of optical shops. In addition to sunglasses and the like, the most sought-after are these contact lenses. Although black and brown are their main targets, the other colors can also play a big role sometimes. Besides, this thing cannot be used after being left outside for a long time. While these things are still usable, they have to find some more.1T/N: recall, their space can keep things fresh – aka stop time. So if they collect more while it’s still non-expired, they can use for a long time

Various degrees of myopia, sunglasses, and other things in various optical shops have been taken away by people collecting supplies in the chaos. But things like cosmetic contacts are untouched, so the couple gained a lot from their trip in the urban area.

After switching positions, He Zizhong used the rearview mirror to put on contact lenses. Not far in front, the tall walls of the city can be faintly seen.

Tuanzi flashed into the space unwillingly. Its stealth skills are indeed much higher now. If it stays in a place, someone passing by will not see it at all. Even if it floats in mid-air, if one doesn’t look carefully, its almost impossible to trace it. But the couple still wanted to be safe and didn’t want any accidents, so they forced it to hide.

The two drove to the gate, waiting in line to check into the city.

The A city base is different from before. When the two returned before, there were not many buildings outside the base. There were only a few small open-air squares that were divided out for those with injuries waiting to enter. Later, some simple bungalows were built in the waiting area for people to hide from the rain. But now, looking at the various shacks outside the base and the small square, the two couldn’t help but glance at each other.

There are young and old among those people. Don’t know if it is someone who has injuries and is not allowed to enter the base? Or a person who can’t afford the entrance fee because they don’t have any supplies?

Nowadays, the entrance fee is not too expensive, it’s more an appearance of collecting a fee. But to live inside requires paying a lot of rent. Not to mention the cost of buying food, water, and so on.

Especially now that some buildings for production have been established in the base, and several large houses and buildings that were originally free have been cancelled. If people who live there want to live in peace, they have to rent their own houses, but if the days are too tight and they have no money to rent a house, they must live in roadside shacks. Although there is no official person to take care of them, there are many people in the base who will protection fees.

These dozens of people are all big men with thick waists. Most of the people in each group are in charge of one or two streets. If anyone doesn’t pay, even your shack will no longer be yours.

In addition, these shacks are inherently illegal structures. It is already good if the bases do not clean them up, and no one will take care of them if they are used. Over time, some people moved out one after another to find a way.

Although it hasn’t been long since the last wave of zombies, some time has passed. Most human beings are such creatures. If there is no danger for the time being, they will have a mentality of testing their luck. If one family moves out, there would be a second one. Only half a month after He Zizhong and Fang Hao left the base, the shack area outside the base had already developed quite a lot.

Seeing those buildings, He Zizhong was slightly stunned. At this moment in his last life… he seems he was wanted by the Overlord team for offending Allen, and was trying to escape from the base?

Without the resources and comfortable environment in the base, he and Fang Hao lived in fear everyday. In the end, he didn’t even dare to approach the periphery of the base, for fear of encountering people who would be greedy to kill him for a bounty. Thus, he naturally did not know what happened to the base later.

As the two of them were lining up, they saw a few military vehicles suddenly emerge out of a military-dedicated passage not far away. What is striking is that these vehicles are not very beautiful in appearance. One of them is The front of the car slumped into one piece, some of the remaining cars had fewer doors, and some had dented roofs. Obviously, it was after some battles that they finally drove back.

Those cars drove directly in after a while. The couple only had time to see that there were still some blood stains on the bodies, when the whispers of people in the queue nearby came in their ears—

“Something happened outside these days. I heard that several teams went out and never came back!”

“Isn’t it?! Our team also encountered several high-level zombies that day!”

“Those cars don’t seem to be common cars, right?”

“Of course not. Aren’t they all military vehicles? Can you recognize them?”

“Look at the license plate, it doesn’t seem to be a brand from A city.”

“Ah, now there are a lot of people coming to the base. I heard they are from other bases nearby. What plates aren’t there?”

“It looks like it’s from the south, I think I saw SH city?”

…

When their car drove into the gate, He Zizhong and Fang Hao were surprised. The process to enter the base is not as troublesome as before. It is still necessary to scan with an instrument to check for wounds, but in addition to this, the car only needs to drive into a long “passage.”

This channel is somewhat similar to those instruments they saw before when returning from the last military mission. Like a long conveyor belt, but this conveyor belt is larger and longer. The first half is to scan the contents of the car, with instruments used to inspect railway and subway security from before the end of the world. The second half is specifically used to check whether the passengers inside have space abilities and things carried by those people.

After entering the base, no matter if people are without injuries drive or walk, they must pass this conveyor belt inspection.

When returning to the base, some space abilities will be called over, and asked to take some things out to prevent them from carrying any prohibited items.

Because of this instrument, many teams accidentally discovered thieves hiding beside them. For their own benefit, some space ability users prefer to pretend to be ordinary people, and hide things in their space secretly when acting with their companions, or even steal things from the team. Once this kind of person was discovered, most of them were beaten to death by their former companions.

This is different from the memory of He Zizhong’s previous life. Anyway, before he escaped from the base in his previous life, although the base had already started to use this type of space-checking device, it was not connected to the security check. On the contrary, the large-scale equipment of the company is more like the conveyor belt they walked through last time, where each person went up for inspection individually.

After inspection, it was confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the two of them. The two of them were able to leave the inspection compound safely and drove to their villa. They have not gone back for more than half a month, and are ready to go back, take a shower, and have a good rest. Of course, have a good seafood meal in the space first, and then talk about other things.

 

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A line of dilapidated cars hurriedly drove into the base. Before their car was fully stopped, a man in military uniform wrapped in gauze on his head half hugged someone else out. “Doctor! Call the doctor!”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, check first…”

“What kind of check?! People are dying! Call the doctor! He is Lieutenant Zheng! He’s the person our military area dispatched in charge of A city!!!”

After the base got the news, they immediately sent them to the healing ability person. Now those diseases that several big men in the base suffered from before the end of the world gradually recovered under the treatment of healing abilities. Before the end of the world, it was impossible to treat those diseases, but they have been overcome by supernatural powers! This has to be a miracle.

With a large supply of crystal nuclei, the healer was quickly promoted to level 2. Now people are healed much faster than before, and the healing effect is more obvious.

However, because of frequent mental energy overdraft, and the need for regular blood draws and physical examinations for research, the woman who was became thinner after the end of the world, became even thinner still, despite being provided with delicious and nutritious food.

Her heart was stressed and exhausted. The woman who was still ruddy when she first entered the base was already pale and the same color as the painted walls.

But as long as her husband, son, and relatives and friends who came to the base with her are in their hands, she must work for them…

 

Those base people.

 

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1T/N: recall, their space can keep things fresh – aka stop time. So if they collect more while it’s still non-expired, they can use for a long time