bestfiction Chapter 188: What's the difference between a person who's gone mad and a zombie?
Chapter 188: What's the difference between a person who's gone mad and a zombie?
After eating and drinking their fill, Ji Lang and Lin Yun roughly understood the whole story. Wen Zhou's team, as the fourth rescue team of the South China Base, was originally assigned a total of fifteen members: five soldiers he had always led, ten superhumans, six of whom were from Li Minze and Liu Jia's base, and the other four were survivors who were rescued later.
Jin Laosi has the highest level of superpower among the ten people, so he became the vice-captain of the team. However, Jin Laosi comes from a ship-running background and has an extremely explosive temper. Sometimes even Wang Sanhai can't out-argue him.
Therefore, Jin Laosi and Wen Zhou have the worst relationship among all the surviving superhumans and soldiers in the joint team. Generally, such teams face great risks when going out on missions, so this team usually patrols the waters near the base. It's even more puzzling that they were assigned to such a far place this time, and were even allowed to bring Zhong Qiang, who is not a member of the team.
"What exactly happened at the base?" In fact, Lin Yun and Ji Lang had not given up contacting the South China base for the past two days, but their communicators had been going out without a reply. They sent messages, but there was not a single response.
"Don't look at us, we don't know anything." As soon as Ji Lang uttered his words, Lin Yun unconsciously looked at Yang Xiao and Lu Yuan, but these two were no longer innocent little rabbits, and they still didn't reveal anything.
“It’s getting late. We’ll all sleep here tonight. Liu Jia and I will take the first half of the night shift, and Team Leader Lin and Lao Wang will take the second half.” Ji Lang didn’t want to provoke Yang Xiao and Lu Yuan too much, since the data they brought from the research institute was still in Lu Yuan’s spatial storage. Right now, they could only try to leave this so-called Beijing base and find a relatively safe place to study the data properly. That way, they might be able to figure out what happened at the South China base.
"Why do we all have to sleep here?" Yang Xiao couldn't understand. After all, he was waiting to look at the data produced by the research institute with Lu Yuan. If Ji Lang and Lin Yun were sleeping here, how could they sneak ahead?
"It's too dangerous here. You saw that welcome party earlier. It's not appropriate for us to separate now." Ji Lang patted Yang Xiao's head. Even if Yang Xiao got angry and beat him up, he was going to make sure everyone stayed together tonight.
"I'm so sleepy, really..." Before Yang Xiao could even get angry, Lu Yuan had already taken over one side of the bed. As soon as he closed his eyes, Lan Yichen's face appeared in his mind, his face in Y Town a few months ago, and his face just now nestled in Wen Zhou's arms.
The most terrifying thing about the end of the world is not life and death, but that in order to survive, many people have to lose their humanity and many have to sell themselves.
The small suites in the base were well-built, with doors and windows, but after all, it was the apocalypse, so the soundproofing was questionable. The people who had just attended the welcome party didn't think the same way Lu Yuan had imagined. Instead of taking anyone they fancied back to their dormitories, they acted recklessly and let loose in the square and streets.
Whether these people were doing it on purpose or not, Lu Yuan felt as if there were two people acting crazy behind the wall above his head. No, there might be more than two.
"Holy crap! I heard it all..." Besides Lu Yuan, there were also Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang on the double bed. Zhong Qiang opened his eyes helplessly, looked at Yang Xiao lying flat in the middle and Lu Yuan on the other side. He couldn't hold back any longer, so he jumped off the bed and rushed into the bathroom.
"Young people are so energetic." Watching Zhong Qiang rush into the bathroom, Liu Jia took a sip of the coffee Lu Yuan had specially left for him before bed and smiled.
"That's just how chaotic times are." Lin Yun was already quite sleepy, but the noise outside was truly indescribable. But what could he say now? Go out and stop these people's actions? What right did he have?
"They just want to live, to live like human beings." Yang Xiao's voice rang out in a muffled tone. In fact, he had seen many such situations in his previous life. To be honest, in the later stages, many soldiers couldn't help themselves. They went out to kill zombies every day, and if they didn't vent their anger when they came back, they might go crazy very quickly. What's the difference between a crazy person and a zombie?
"Now I finally feel the reality of the apocalypse." Wang Sanhai sighed. He always felt that although they had a hard time before, after arriving at the South China base, it felt like they had returned to their normal lives. The only difference was that they had to go out to rescue people. But every time they returned to the base, they would get together with Lu Yuan and the others for a good meal, and it seemed that the pressure would disappear and they could recover quickly.
"Lu Xiaoyuan, do you have earplugs?" Zhong Qiang, who had just come out of the toilet, was still feeling uncomfortable because the walls on the toilet side were thinner, and the sounds coming in from outside were louder. If he didn't have good self-control, he would have really wanted to open the door and go out to see which little vixen was moaning so seductively.
"You can try sleeping with a protective mask on. The air quality will be better." Yang Xiao had already put on his protective mask as soon as he finished speaking. He had just tested it and found that wearing it could block out all external sounds.
Upon hearing this, the others all put on masks without prior arrangement. Because these masks were a high-tech product of the interstellar era, they blocked out the outside world but connected all the masked individuals. They could choose not to block each other when speaking.
However, Yang Xiao and Lu Yuan were really tired, so they turned on full screen. Within minutes, their heavy breathing could be heard. Although they weren't snoring, it was clear that they were very tired these past two days.
"Alright, we're going to sleep too. You guys can take over later tonight." With that, Lin Yun leaned back on the sofa and fell asleep, while Wang Sanhai made a makeshift bed on the floor.
The room quickly quieted down. Zhong Qiang fiddled with the mask for a while, and after a while, he still wanted to hear the sounds outside. But after listening for a while, he got excited and wanted to go to the toilet. Finally, after he went back and forth several times, Ji Lang stood up and personally turned on the mask's shield for him, and he finally fell asleep peacefully.
"Do you also suspect that Wen Zhou killed Jin Laosi?" After everyone had gone to sleep, Ji Lang and Liu Jia started talking again.
"To be honest, I have my doubts. After all, Wen Zhou awakened a metal-type ability, and his level is exactly the same as Jin Lao Si's. How can I not have my doubts?" Although Liu Jia was not as impulsive as Wang Sanhai, he was actually convinced that Wen Zhou had killed Jin Lao Si.
Ji Lang remained silent for a long time, so long that Liu Jia thought he didn't want to talk about this anymore. But just when Liu Jia was about to find something else to talk about to pass the boring first half of the night, Ji Lang's voice rang out again:
"Actually, I have my doubts too."