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

T/N: Thank you, Jessie, for your support! All stocked up chapters vanished again to support another full week of releases…

-komorebi

 

Chen Ning laughed when he heard He Zizhong’s words: “Heard it was a little white face with the last name Dai. I heard that he slept in Allen’s room when the accident happened, and was directly arrested on the second day. Anyone knowing the inside story doesn’t believe it—that person didn’t even have abilities, and he was just a plaything that Allen kept at the base. Saying that he could kill people? Who would believe it!”

“Last name Dai?” He Zizhong was really frightened this time. It turned out that it was really him? “Then…Are there any other suspects?”

Chen Ning said, “Who else should they consider? Suspecting that little white face isn’t unreasonable. We heard some news when we came back that during our mission to the northwest together, that little white face kept sneaking out to meet people. The person he met seemed to be holding some white powder. Maybe someone threatened him to use poison.”

He Zizhong froze for a long time, before reluctantly shaking his head with a smile. “It’s the end of the world, and someone still uses those things? And…there are still people who sell that thing?” Dai Jun taking drugs… He Zizhong only knew about it before he died in his life. There were no pinholes on his arm, and his time using was relatively short. It was only until the end of the world where various symptoms showed up, so it was normal that He Zizhong didn’t notice it at the time.

Before the end of the world, there are ways to buy these things. But after the end of the world… it’s really impressive he can find someone who sells such things.

Chen Ning shook his head. “It must be leftover from before the end of the world. It’s not easy to grow food in the farmland, let alone such things? There is no where to buy drugs, and these addicts will run out of stock sooner or later. But because of this, everyone thinks he must have something to do with the person who wants to kill Allen, but he disappeared before they could find out.” He asked the team member who spoke before, “Is there any news in the base about this person?”

“No, if anyone can catch that kid, they’ll be rich. Five thousand crystal nuclei! Maybe it can let someone’s ability jump to level 3 directly!!”

Guo Bing returned just before dinner. Everyone had already sat at the table at this time, waiting for to start. Just after saying that they’d eat first and leave some for him, he entered the door.

“How?”

“They have been produced, and we’ll be able to pick them up tomorrow.” Guo Bing sat down on his seat and let out a sigh. “But everyone is asked to pick them up in person, to prevent fakes– If I hadn’t asked around today, they wouldn’t take the initiative to inform us either; anxious to have us forget these things.”

Chen Ning nodded and took his own bowl. “Then custom weapons?”

“Have to wait for a few more days. It definitely won’t happen in a short period of time. They have to focus on production for the troops first.” Guo Bing also took his own bowl, and said to He Zizhong vaguely, “Tomorrow we will gather at nine o’clock, and everyone can go together.”

Early the next morning, He Zizhong and his wife gathered at the gate of the Samsara villa. This time, all the people who participated in the past northwest arsenal mission and signed the joint agreement will go over together.

The base is worried that some people will falsify their identities. If someone accidentally died during this period… weapons will not be issued to other people. This weapon is a one-time, special condition, otherwise it would be kept as the military urgently needs it.

When the group arrived, there were also several other teams that came back with them. Like Guo Bing, they were inquiring about the weapons these past two days and didn’t miss it. Together, there are more than 30 people, and the number is not small.

After fetching things, going through the formalities, and inquiring whether additional orders can be customized, everyone left. When he came out, a person stopped Guo Bing and said a few words to him in a low voice. After speaking, the team turned and left.

“That person is Old Li, Guo Bing’s old comrade-in-arms.” Chen Ning explained to He Zizhong in a low voice. Seeing Guo Bing came back and was about to ask him something, Guo Bing waved his hand. “Go back to the villa.”

He was about to rush back to the villa after receiving the things. When everyone saw that Guo Bing didn’t want to say anything very wise, they didn’t ask anything.

Not long after leaving the villa, everyone came back again holding the special weapons newly produced by the base.

The one-foot-long military dagger is slightly longer than ordinary daggers and has some differences in color.

The weapon is heavy, and it feels hefty in the hand. In addition, an unknown proportion of gold and silver is added, so the color is slightly different from ordinary steel weapons. It was similar to what they had seen in that small base.

“It is said that this weapon is not as hard as ordinary weapons, so everyone should be careful when using it.” Guo Bing added a few words of caution, winking at He Zizhong, then grabbed Chen Ning and walked towards the stairs.

He Zizhong stood up, nodding to Fang Hao to let him wait in peace, and followed the pair.

“What’s wrong? What’s the matter?” Chen Ning asked after entering the house.

“Lao Li said something today. I think something is off.” Guo Bing made sure the door of the room was locked. “He said, it seems that someone above is asking about us these days.”

“What about us?” Chen Ning also frowned, with a trace of worry in his heart. “What news are they asking?”

Guo Bing shook his head: “He doesn’t know, but he only knows that they were specially ordered today to let check when we went to get our weapons today.  The number of members must be checked carefully.”

A few people looked at each other, what is this? It can’t be that someone is worried about Samsara failing to collect weapons?

“He asked recently… Are there any other investigations other than today? In addition, are they mainly investigating the Samsara team or do they even count me and Fang Hao? “He Zizhong asked suddenly.

Guo Bing stunned: “Lao Li said above is only asking about Samsara, and didn’t mention you… but he also heard… it looks like someone looked into our records going in and out of the base.”

“So our small team provoked some trouble?” Chen Ning frowned.

“But we haven’t had any conflicts with people lately?”

“Could it be other players?”

Members of the Samsara team are not arrogant. This has a lot to do with the fact that their team has been mostly ordinary people from the beginning. Moreover, most of the people in their team had good skills since before the apocalypse, so they will have not have the heart of upstarts who suddenly discovered that they have an ability. Even if an ability is stimulated, although they are very happy in their hearts, as team members who have been training together for a long time, they won’t make trouble everywhere…

“Maybe it’s not a team member’s problem.” He Zizhong suddenly thought of a possibility, and looked at the two with scorching eyes.

“What?”

“What’s the problem?”

“…Has anyone in the team died since it was formed?”

“Ah?” Guo Bing was taken aback and looked at Chen Ning.

Chen Ning nodded: “In the early days of the last days, two died, and the people who came later were… you mean?!”

Seeing Chen Ning react, He Zizhong nodded and said: “During the last northwest mission, almost all teams lost members, but only…”

Only the Samsara team, none of them died.

No, there is also the mom-and-pop shop team of He Zizhong and Fang Hao. But their so-called “team” is too small. Except for those from Samsara, He Zizhong, and Fang Hao, who knew the truth, the other teams regarded them as members of Samsara.

Guo Bing also understood the meaning of the two of them. Taking a deep breath, his expression was very ugly. “Healing ability.”

Not to mention that they will not betray He Zizhong and Fang Hao — cooperating with the two of them is really beneficial for Samsara. It is profitable and harmless. If the base really finds that Fang Hao has a healing ability, who will treat them when they go out in the future?

What’s more, now they have a healer in their team!!

It’s very dangerous outside the base. As such, whenever teams go out for a task, it always takes a long time and at least a week. The efficiency of completing task naturally isn’t very high. But how many times have they gone out since forming a team? Except for two people who died at the beginning, wasn’t everyone else fully accounted for?

Especially last time. In such a dangerous situation, almost everyone in their squad won the lottery. But the result? Everyone was rescued by Fang Hao! Don’t say that no one died, all of them developed abilities!

If fine if no one noticed it on the base. But if someone with a heart finds out, then they can also guess the matter!

If there has never been a healer in the base, maybe they can still use luck to cover it up. But now, the healer is staying in the depth of the villa area, treating those bigwigs!

The expressions of the three of them grew heavy. Although the Samsara team were united and mighty, moving together as one group… if someone was really determined to figure out their situation, they would interrogate one by one… They can’t ensure that everyone is tight-lipped and would rather die than surrender.

If someone else discovers their secret in this way…not to mention He Zizhong and Fang Hao, Guo Bing and the others are even more unlikely to agree.

“Wang Tong’s wife has just been promoted to level 2 a few days ago, and treatment is quite fast now.” Chen Ning lowered his eyes and pondered a solution to this matter. “But hiding out of the base is not a solution now…”

“It’s not impossible.” Guo Bing walked around the room twice. “Aren’t we going to the city to find things from the bank?”

“Are we going to take everyone out?” Chen Ning raised his eyebrows.

“It’s possible to bring out… but we have to come back sooner or later.” Guo Bing took a deep breath and raised his hand to press his forehead. The external situation is very bad now. There are more and more high-level zombies nearby. They usually encounter a second-level zombie every ten first-level zombies, which is more frequent than before.

And even if they all have abilities, they can’t live without this base.

He Zizhong sighed in his heart. Is it possible that after being born again, he still has to embark on the same path of his life? Still wanted by the base and forced to leave?

In the end, the three heads couldn’t beat Zhuge Liang, because this incident was just everyone’s guess. No one dared to pat their chests to ensure that the base must have discovered the Samsara team’s abnormality… It’s just that the possibility is very high. It’s really, very high.

 

Dun, dun, dun….

 

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