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

“Zizhong, look.” Fang Hao didn’t realize that just by going out to retrieve a letter without covering his face would mean getting exposed to a wolf’s eyes. Moreover, even if someone told him that, he would not believe it. He had never encountered this kind of a tyrannical bastard wanting to kidnap civilian men before the apocalypse – let alone now?

He Zizhong took the letter and tore it open. The information inside made him shake his head.

“What happened?”

“It seems that the people suffered a lot yesterday.”

“Huh? Did a lot of people die?” Fang Hao hurried over to read it with him. The first page explained that each team’s application criteria needs to be adjusted, and the second page shared the new rules around team contribution point calculation, mission limit, and so on. The third and fourth pages had a the list of things that can be exchanged for points, and the last page was about the new rules for individual doing tasks without a team.

“…How could you see that the base suffered a great loss last night?” Fang Hao really didn’t understand it, so he humbly asked for advice. Could it be that he missed something?

He Zizhong pulled him to sit next to him. The white ball plunged into Fang Hao’s arm, twisting to find the most comfortable position. “Do you remember the price list of exchange items we saw in the mission hall before?”

Fang Hao frowned: “I don’t remember very clearly… Ah, I remember before, it seemed that before teams can only exchange for food and materials?”

“Yes, now they are all changed to points.”

Most of the previous points are just cosmetics, at most they can only be used to redeem some hard-to-swallow things such as coarse flour and water. But now, points can be exchanged for gasoline and knives, and also for hot weapons!

Firearms, explosives, and controlled knives are the most basic and common weapons, but at least there was a way to exchange them. Many tasks have also been adjusted. The proportion of intermediary fees charged has decreased a lot, and the proportion of materials to be paid when working with the military has also decreased.

In general, the base began to relax the restrictions on each team, and began to support the development of teams in disguise.

“The base has fewer restrictions on teams. You see, the mission commissions, the intermediate fees charged, etc. are all lower than before. These are the contents printed on the list. What are the specific benefits? We can only wait and go to the the mission hall to find out.”

This seems to be the golden period of team development He Zizhong had heard about in his past life. The policy during this period is the best for individual teams. Two months after this rule was implemented, the base tightened rules again, and many conditions will be cancelled. Although there was no explicit suppression, the percentage of points required for things like gasoline and firearms that a team can redeem increased. Many special tasks became exclusive tasks for major teams, and ordinary people could not join or even take on those high-yield tasks.

Fang Hao pondered for a while: “You mean, because of the zombie rat incident last night, the base lost a lot of manpower, so the restrictions on the team were relaxed?”

“Yes, look here. The base has the right to force a team to participate in the base defense mission for free during a special period. This should be related to what happened last night.”

Fang Hao nodded and didn’t say a word. He knew that the events of last night must have caused many people to die, just like at the beginning or the things that happened outside each day. But he didn’t find it very sad, let alone feel overwhelming sympathy.

He is a selfish person and just wants to be by He Zizhong. As long as He Zizhong can stay by his side, he doesn’t have to do anything. Although they are capable, they can’t save everyone. In today’s world, no matter who they are, they can only find ways to save themselves. After obtaining the secret manuals, his efforts to practice and increase his strength are just to guard He Zizhong’s side.

Thinking, Fang Hao leaned his head on He Zizhong’s shoulders: “Zizhong, since there are a lot of discounts for the team now, should we hurry up and do more tasks?”

He Zizhong nodded slightly, turned these documents to the last page, looked at the last few lines and smiled. “Look at this. I guess, in a short while, someone in the base will sell crystal cores.”

At the end of the material exchange, it was marked that the base will collect crystals from the head of zombies.

Crystal nuclei, this is something that will replace currency and points in the future. Although there is no clear method to use crystal nuclei, when crystal nuclei began circulating in the base, people will undoubtedly guess their value.

The two did not rush to the mission hall. He Zizhong estimated that the various standards of the mission hall should not have been adjusted yet. At least wait until the afternoon so they could be updated.

The two returned to the space after breakfast, and practiced their respective exercises. Because He Zizhong has the blessing of gold abilities, he doesn’t have to worry about attack power at all, so he focused on footwork. The speed increase from wind powers is not as convenient as Fang Hao’s, so some special skills are needed to assist.

For example, the footwork called “wind shake” he’s practicing now can reduce his wasted movements in battle, optimize his attacks efficiently, and pair with his knife skills.

What Fang Hao had to face was a different problem: his speed was very fast but his attack power was average. After changing weapons, his normal attacks can deal with ordinary zombies. But zombies will evolve. If he faces a zombie with an enhanced physique, his attack power will be greatly reduced and such a shortcoming can be fatal.

Luckily, he found a good way: increase attack power using speed. After accelerating, use the power of his whole body to attack with his current skill and escape in the middle. Such an attack is very suitable for Fang Hao whose speed is high. Coupled with He Zizhong’s help finding the footwork skill “Flash”, it can improve his speed to the extreme.

After planning his own style of attack, Fang Hao realized that the set he chose was a bit like the so-called assassin. On the contrary, He Zizhong’s attack mode is a bit like a light and agile swordsman, but because of his gold-type abilities, this “light and agile” swordsman is actually a very terrifying, violent attacker.

After studying for a whole morning, the two of them left the space. Walking out of the villa area, the two of them were surprised to find that there were many stalls at the intersection outside the villa area.

Ordinary people are not allowed to stay in the area outside the villa area, so those “stalls” are placed on the road leading to the gate of the villa area. The two of them could see the banners and slogans hung on each booth from a distance.

“The **** team recruiting members”

“Ability first, build the strongest ability in the base team!”

“The **** team has good treatment, food, points, and girls”

“Vice President Beauty, we welcome your abilities to conquer with us!”

…

“What is this…?” Fang Hao’s mouth twitched slightly and stood at the intersection, not wanting to pass such a street.

“They are… recruiting people.” He Zizhong was also embarrassed. When he first came to the base, it wasn’t like this!! The teams are as cold as icebergs and snow lotuses, and are even too lazy to deal with those with no abilities!

“How, how does it look like a guild in the game?”

“…It seems to be true.” While they stood there dumbfounded, three waves of flyers were already stuffed into their hands. Those people even pulled them to one side like a nagging old lady and started multi-level marketing… Ah no, it was to sell preferential policies for the team.

The unbearable He Zizhong hugged his wife’s shoulders, added his wind power to his feet, and rushed out of the recruitment scene with the dizzy Fang Hao. It was easy to make a mistake – if someone does not pay attention, they can get easily roped in. Such a thing is is more terrible than zombies blocking the door!

“Ah! They ran!”

“It’s so fast, is it a speed ability person?”

“Ah? Ability?! Oh, why didn’t you hold it…” The three groups sighed, then looked at each other bitterly, and began to look for the next hapless victim.

As they rushed out, He Zizhong also saw a few more famous teams from the future. They also set up stalls?! He really didn’t expect such teams to have such a dark history… It’s really hard to swallow.

The two escaped as if fleeing for their lives from the chaotic street market. Although the streets outside were equally messy, they were not as lively as the street where teams were madly soliciting people. The reason why each team will pull people there was actually because the bosses of several teams deliberately rented a house in the villa area. They can have their own properties in a high-end community, and it’s also a good a good sign for prospective recruits – living in a villa is better than squeezing a room outside, right?

“God, I think they are just trying to grab people. Why are these people so aggressively pulling people around?” Fang Hao patted his chest in fright.

“Maybe there are too many people who want to be the boss of their own team.” It makes it difficult to form a team with a real scale, especially with ability users.

After the end of the world, many people will have the idea that they can be the “protagonist” after stimulating their abilities. Although the outside world is extremely difficult, after finally escaping to the base, there are only a few people who can build a team on their own and can survive well.

Even if some people cooperated and acted together for a while, how could there be no friction between individuals? Before the apocalypse, conflicts between colleagues and superiors in the workplace, could lead to one quitting in anger. Now that the situation is unknown and with abilities in the mix… who would want to be a little brother wiping another person’s ass?

In the past few days, the upper levels of the base have been accepting team applications, so many people simply set up a new team to build a team in order to be a boss.

It was the same thing as a large number of guilds popping up when the game has just allowed the establishment of guilds and the threshold is very low. After a long time, these scattered small groups will naturally be screened out.

In the mission hall, the two of them found out the missions and requirements really changed a lot. There were various things that could be exchanged for points. The last time the two participated in the mission with the military, they also got some points after turning in those materials. Unfortunately, the amount was too small to exchange for even instant noodle or biscuits.

“Cousin? Is that you?!”

 

Not sure mob tactics work for recruiting people… feels like it would deter them instead.

 

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