Chapter 511 Sea Base
Sea Base, central conference room.
"Let's all talk and speak freely."
Looking at the people in front of him, Yao Hai's tone was a little tired.
There are currently 1,037 people in Dahai Base, and all of them obey Yao Hai's orders. He is the well-deserved local emperor here.
But at this time, he has long lost the high-spiritedness he had when he first established the base. He even wants to abdicate in favor of talents, and whoever succeeds will get the upper hand!
Su Jie next to her seemed to sense his thoughts and immediately held his hand.
Looking at Su Jie's encouraging eyes, Yao Hai sighed again in his heart.
If someone can lead the base forward, he really doesn't mind giving up his power, but it's a pity that no one can do it!
"General, can we discuss with Zou Jian and borrow some food from the Mammoth Base? After the winter is over, we will hunt and return it to them, even if we pay a little more interest..."
At this time, someone spoke.
Others also looked at Yao Hai.
“No.”
But Yao Hai shook his head directly.
Seeing everyone’s disappointed eyes, he explained:
"Let's not talk about whether the other party is willing to lend us food. Even if they do lend it, we can't just have food..."
Hearing Yao Hai's words, everyone's faces suddenly became nervous.
"General, can you say..."
"Yes, those passages can't be blocked for long. In about three days, we will have to face the impact of a wave of corpses. This time we We can't retreat. After all, the space inside the air raid shelter is limited. If we retreat further, there will be no place to stay. We have to deal with these zombies and then block the passage again..."
Yao Hai sighed.
"This..."
Everyone looked at each other, their expressions were ugly, and they even regretted why they set the base here. If the base was elsewhere, there shouldn't be such a "surprise"... But if you think about it carefully, Yao Hai asked for their opinions at that time, and they unanimously approved it.
Everyone fell into silence.
Seeing the regretful expressions on everyone's faces, Yao Hai felt somewhat regretful.
When they accidentally discovered this air raid shelter while moving, they were very excited and felt that this was a natural base.
This air-raid shelter is very large, and the passages inside are very developed, like an underground maze. This is naturally a good thing for them. They would like the bigger the base, the better.
But soon they didn’t think so, because they discovered that there were zombies in this “underground maze”!
Except for the entrance they found and some areas inside, there are zombies in other passages!
Fortunately, every passage in this air-raid shelter has a door, so the zombies are isolated outside. As long as you don't open the door, with this kind of reinforced concrete door, it will definitely be no problem to block the zombies.
But they underestimated those zombies. After discovering food, the destructive power of these zombies was simply terrifying. Moreover, these zombies are very strong, and the people at the base may not be opponents.
Seeing that the door was about to be breached, Yao Hai took action in time.
He had previously awakened the earth ability and could create rock and earth walls comparable to steel. He directly blocked the zombies with a rock and earth wall.
Yao Hai's rock and soil wall not only has high defense, but the most important thing is that as long as he is within a certain range of the rock and soil wall he made, he can sense the quality of the rock and soil wall and judge the zombies. Have you come?
It is equivalent to a humanoid radar!
Then the task of blocking the zombies belongs to him.
Of course, he also knew that this way of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause would mean either getting rid of these zombies or moving.
It is unlikely that the zombies will be eliminated. If he could be eliminated, he would have been eliminated long ago.
Moving was even more impossible, because not long after he moved here, heavy snow suddenly fell and the temperature outside dropped sharply. It might be okay for him to get out, but the other survivors would definitely freeze to death.
But fortunately, his rock and soil wall did block the zombies, and he was safe for the time being. Yao Hai decided to wait until winter passed before he could find a way to deal with the zombies or move again.
But this winter was much more difficult than he imagined, and the zombies blocked by the rock and soil wall did not give up. They were actually still tirelessly consuming the rock and soil wall!
Yao Hai wasn't sure how to deal with the zombies, so he could only continue to strengthen the rock and soil walls.
A few days ago, a group of zombies came to the entrance of their base, and they seemed to be preparing to build a nest here.
Of course Yao Hai does not allow zombies to build a nest in front of his house, otherwise they will not be able to get out.
After mentally assessing the strength of these zombies, he felt that he could solve them by taking some people there, so he went out to fight.
Unfortunately, while they were fighting outside, the rock and soil wall in a passage was broken through. A large number of zombies rushed directly into their base!
Yao Hai was in a panic at that time. He thought the base was about to be destroyed. Fortunately, he had his wife Su Jie.
Su Jie is not very good at fighting, but has a flexible mind. Yao Hai can lead so many people. Many rules and regulations were formulated by Su Jie. Su Jie organized her men and used the special terrain of the air raid shelter to withstand the attack of the corpses with difficulty.
When Yao Hai came back from the battle outside, he found that they had only killed more than a hundred people - for a situation like zombies appearing inside the base, more than a hundred people dying were indeed not many. He had seen too many There are so many bases that have been wiped out because of a zombie.
In the end, Yao Hai eliminated all the zombies and blocked the passage again. Fortunately, the zombies in that passage did not come in a swarm, but in waves. Give him a chance to breathe, otherwise he will most likely be unstoppable.
But it was precisely because of this battle that Yao Hai briefly entered the passage. In addition to seeing many zombies, he also saw some instruments for unknown purposes.
Their sea base was currently short of resources. With the idea that everything had come, he took the risk to get these instruments back, and then continued to block the passage with a rock and soil wall.
He didn't understand these electronic products, but there were survivors at the base who did, and the survivors discovered that this was military wire-free equipment. After some tinkering, they were finally able to contact other people!
But the radio signal was not very good. Intermittently, I could only hear that the other party seemed to be some kind of Changhe base. He asked the other party for help, whether it would be useful or not, give it a try first. But before he finished speaking, the signal was completely cut off...
The survivor who controlled the radio said that he could repair it, which reassured Yao Hai that it would only take one night, and he would definitely be able to contact the Changhe base again. . As a result, the instrument was completely scrapped the next day...
This made Yao Hai feel very uncomfortable.
In fact, Yao Hai did not have any expectations for this Changhe base. Having lived in the apocalypse for so long, what kind of situation has he not seen before? To put it bluntly, even if the Changhe base is really kind and willing to come to rescue them, in this icy and snowy environment, there are still frozen zombies, flying zombies, etc., whoever comes will die!
He just wanted to leave some hope to other survivors in the base.
Only when people have hope can they survive. He can lead so many people by making the survivors feel that there is hope for survival by following him.
But unfortunately, God doesn't seem to want to give them this hope...
Of course, this "slim hope" is not what he should consider now. What he has to consider now is how to get through the present situation. difficulties.
Their food can last for ten days at most, but looking at the current weather, it is obviously impossible to get warmer in ten days, so food is a big problem.
And the rock and soil wall in a passage in their base is almost exhausted. If he continues to reinforce it, it will be reinforced to the activity space in the base.
They can't go out now. There is only so much space in the base, so use less. Therefore, we can no longer reinforce it. We must deal with these zombies while we still have food and strength. Then go back to the end of the passage to build a rock and soil wall... In addition to these problems, there is currently a bigger problem - Mammoth Base has given an ultimatum, whether to wait for death or merge into Mammoth Base, only in Yao Hai In one thought!
Mammoth Base is considered a neighbor of Dahai Base, but their base is not a bomb shelter, but in a dark crevice.
Yao Hai only learned about Mammoth Base after moving to this air raid shelter. It was Zou Jian who came here at that time.
Although Zou Jian is only a third-level superpower, he has integrated many ice-attribute defensive crystal cores and can travel through this kind of ice and snow, so he is the spokesperson of Mammoth Base.
At that time, Zou Jian promised various benefits and wanted Yao Hai to join Mammoth Base with Dahai Base.
To be honest, Yao Hai was really tempted at the time.
Because he is really not good at leading a team. The fact that he can make the team so big is mainly due to his wife Su Jie. He does whatever Su Jie asks him to do. Unconsciously, he gathered a team of a thousand people, and everyone obeyed his words. It was like everyone else called him general, which was also the rule set by Su Jie...
One decision of his can affect the life and death of thousands of people. Some people may like this feeling, but he doesn't like it. He just feels too much pressure!
So he felt that it would be a good choice for them all to merge into Mammoth Base.
However, when discussing with Su Jie, Su Jie told him not to make a decision so quickly, but to go to the Mammoth Base for inspection first. No matter how good Zou Jian's words are, if you don't see it, it's all false. What if the other party is a trap? They have encountered such things before.
Yao Hai felt that his wife’s words made sense, so he expressed that he wanted to visit the Mammoth Base.
Zou Jian also agreed immediately.
So, Yao Hai took the other two awakened people and Su Jie to the Mammoth Base.
There are four awakened ones in the sea base, and these four are naturally the base's highest combat power. If one person is left to look after the house and the three awakened people go out together, safety is still guaranteed.
After arriving at Mammoth Base, Yao Hai discovered that Mammoth Base was actually in a dark crack!
He had seen these cracks before. He thought they were some kind of abyss inside, but he didn't expect that people could live in them.
I have to say, this location is really good!
The black fog above the head blocks the sight of the flying zombies. The temperature below is also higher than outside. The zombies don't seem to come to this place specially. Although it is a bit dark here, more torches can be used for both lighting and warmth. ...This is a great place to build a base!
Unfortunately, although this crack is large, there is some slope here at Mammoth Base, so you can go down. The rest of the place is like a cliff, with no way to get down.
The Mammoth Base also received Yao Hai grandly, allowing Yao Hai to see their strength. The total population of Mammoth Base is three thousand, and there are seven awakened ones! This strength is much stronger than the sea base.
However, as the people from the Mammoth Base took them on a tour, Yao Hai slowly discovered that something was wrong.
Although the population of Mammoth Base is large, many of their people live like walking zombies. If you don't pay attention, you might think they are zombies.
These people are alive, but only alive.
The Mammoth Base did not hide it. They told Yao Hai that when the survivors came to their base and accepted the food and living space they provided, the lives of the survivors no longer belonged to them; It belongs to them and is their private property!
Private property is a nice way of saying it, but to put it more bluntly, it is actually a slave.
They can ask these survivors to do anything, and the survivors have no right to refuse!
Seeing this, Yao Hai was unwilling to let his base be merged here.
Although the Mammoth Base stated that Yao Hai must also be the owner and would not harm the interests of Yao Hai and others.
But if Yao Hai had ever thought about his addiction to being a local emperor, he would have passed it long ago. He is really indifferent to these things, even disgusted with them.
But Yao Hai is a person with no independent opinions. After all, the people in their base are dying. What if the survivors are willing?
So Yao Hai did not leave in a hurry, but continued to visit.
Then he discovered something that was even more difficult for him to accept——
It is not necessarily safe inside this crack, and the area outside the base is very dangerous. Mammoth Base allows these survivors to mine, work, and even explore the depths!
Forget mining, it will be tiring at most, but exploration will kill people, and looking at the data given by Mammoth Base, the mortality rate is extremely high!
Yao Hai felt that joining the Mammoth Base for survivors was equivalent to being tortured and sent to death... It would be better to die early.
In addition, Su Jie next to him kept hinting that he refused, so Yao Hai refused.
The people at Mammoth Base didn’t say much, they just said to give Yao Hai time to think about it. Anyway, their base has always been here and has always been open to the sea base.
After that, Zou Jian ran to Dahai Base from time to time.
Although Yao Hai was not happy with the Mammoth Base, there was currently no conflict between the two. Therefore, in order to prevent Zou Jian from freezing to death outside, he ordered that if Zou Jian came alone, he would be let in.
So Zou Jian has become a frequent visitor here.
But now, Zou Jian has forced Yao Hai to make a choice on behalf of Mammoth Base.
Yao Hai is not willing, but after all, it is the lives of more than a thousand people...
"How about we merge into Mammoth Base?"
At this time, someone finally spoke.
“You know what this means.”
Yao Hai’s face didn’t look good.
Ordinary survivors may not know much about Mammoth Base. They only know that they may do hard work after going there, but they, the leaders, know that ordinary survivors will most likely die if they go there.
"But we have no choice... Moreover, after you go, General, your status will be extraordinary..."
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.
Zou Jian said that if they go with Yao Hai, it is impossible for them to be slaves. They can even live better than now! After all, Yao Hai has formulated too many rules and regulations, which places great restrictions on them. But over there, the master can do whatever he wants to the slaves...
If he really goes, it would be equivalent to exchanging the interests of ordinary survivors for their interests. Although it sounds a bit disgusting, there is a saying that they have done their best to these survivors, and it is their turn to repay them, right?
Dong dong dong!
At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door of the conference room.
“Come in.”
As soon as Yao Hai’s voice fell, a figure ran in impatiently.
"General, it's not good! There is a huge and terrifying eagle hovering over our heads! It feels like we are being targeted!"
"..."
It’s over!
Hearing this, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.
When they were escaping before, they had seen the terror of flying mutant beasts, especially the raptors, and they were very vengeful! If they are targeted by that thing, they can't even think about getting out. They will die if they show up!
If you can't get out, how can you merge into the Mammoth Base... The last hope seems to be gone... Liangliang!
(End of this chapter)