Chapter 586 The Envelope Left Behind
Zhao Yaru was a little anxious, fearing that Wang Tao would leave regardless of them.
Now the entire Zizhu base is leaderless and needs a backbone. Other senior personnel, including herself, can theoretically be leaders. But their prestige in the base is similar, and no one has an absolutely overwhelming advantage. If they run for the position of leader, it will definitely not be solved in a short while. It might even cause some unrest.
Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the situation in the base is not very good now. They are self-aware and know that they are not qualified to manage the base.
There are more than 10,000 people in this Zizhu base, and the supplies have been almost exhausted. If someone wants to be the leader, the first thing that must be solved is the problem of eating, drinking and urinating for more than 10,000 people.
Zhao Yaru asked herself that she couldn't do it, and she felt that others couldn't do it either.
Although they have discovered news about an underground granary, which may contain a large amount of food, the problem is that there is a mutant beast nearby that can defeat the fifth-level giant zombie. Who knows that mutant beast? Where? If they encountered that mutated beast, they would definitely die.
But Wang Tao is different. Not to mention how powerful Wang Tao's combat power is, let's just say that Wang Tao has a mount that can fly. This is already a huge advantage!
With a flying mount, at least you can go far away to find food. Even if you encounter a mutant beast, you can escape in time! Not to mention that Wang Tao's own strength is extremely terrifying and can kill giant zombies instantly! Even if he does encounter the mutant beast, it may be the mutant beast that needs to escape.
So Zhao Yaru hopes that Wang Tao can become their leader. On the way back, when he was still on the back of the golden eagle, Zhao Yaru also secretly exchanged opinions with others. No one objected, and they were all willing to let Wang Tao Be their leader.
This seems to be giving the entire Zizhu Base to Wang Tao, but in fact, their Zizhu Base is embracing Wang Tao's lap!
What he is most worried about is that Wang Tao is unwilling. After all, for Wang Tao, the entire Zizhu base may be a drag...
Although she now has great trust in the Twilight Church, Wang Tao is normal after all. Humans, humans don’t want to carry a tow bottle, right?
So after she asked Wang Tao to become the leader of Zizhu Base, she felt very uneasy. Especially when Zhao Yaru saw Wang Tao frowning, she secretly thought something bad. It feels like Wang Tao is going to refuse!
"Priest, don't refuse in a hurry! We will not drag you down and will bring you rewards!"
Zhao Yaru spoke quickly again.
Wang Tao was originally thinking that if he incorporated these people, he would keep them here in the future or move to a better place to live. But as soon as he saw Zhao Yaru like this, Wang Tao understood that the situation in this base was far from being as good as what he saw.
“The situation at the base is very bad?”
Wang Tao asked directly.
"...Well, the current situation is very bad. Even if there are no giant zombies, we should go out to look for food. When the apocalypse came before, we were lucky, stored a lot of food, and even transplanted But now, the stored food is basically exhausted, and the crops can’t bear fruit... We don’t think we have the ability to solve this problem, so..."
Zhao Yaru lowered his head and explained with some embarrassment.
“Didn’t you find an underground granary?”
“Let’s not talk about whether there is food in that granary. Even if there is, there is a mutant beast outside that is similar in strength to the giant zombie... ..."
"...Okay, then it's really troublesome for you."
Wang Tao shook his head.
No wonder Zhao Yaru asked herself to be the leader of Zizhu Base. It turned out to be because this place was a mess.
But this is not a problem for Wang Tao. But he didn't agree immediately. After all, things that are easily obtained are often not cherished.
"You are also seriously injured, go and rest first. Is it okay for me to stroll around here?"
Wang Tao said with a smile.
Zhao Yaru was a little disappointed when she saw that Wang Tao did not directly agree. However, Wang Tao did not refuse, and they still had a chance.
"Of course, no problem! This is the key to our base. The priest can go wherever he wants - oh, by the way, there is also the key of our previous leader. The previous lord's home, if you want to rest, you can come here . The previous lord has always been alone, without a wife and no descendants... If you need anything, you can contact me at any time."
Zhao Yaru quickly handed a few keys and a walkie-talkie to Wang Tao. , and then retreated silently. She definitely couldn't rest. She had to find other people and work together to find a way to make Wang Tao the leader of their base.
"Oops, I forgot to ask the priest his name..."
...
There is actually nothing interesting to see about this base. Wang Tao mainly wanted to see the survivors here. To put it simply, he wanted to see if these survivors had the potential to awaken. After all, there were more than 10,000 people.
After Wang Tao left the conference room, the other survivors must have gotten the news. After seeing Wang Tao, they all respectfully called the priest.
Wang Tao smiled and nodded without any airs.
After some observation, Wang Tao unexpectedly discovered that there are not many people with hidden attributes here, there are actually more than twenty.
In other words, there is a chance that more than twenty awakened people will appear in Zizhu Base.
“It’s okay...”
Wang Tao nodded.
Looking back, we can give these people some resources to promote them to awakeners, which will greatly increase the overall strength of Zizhu Base.
Wang Tao has already taken over the Zizhu base by default, but Wang Tao himself will definitely not be able to stay and help them solve the food crisis and improve their strength. Wang Tao doesn't expect anything in return. Anyway, he has the ability now and it's just a little effort. It's always good to save more survivors in the apocalypse.
The only thing that needs to be determined now is the character of these people.
Except for pre-apocalyptic standards, that would be unrealistic. As long as they can pass according to today's common standards.
At present, these people have a pretty good impression of Wang Tao. Poor is a bit poor, but Wang Tao can see that most people have a very positive attitude towards life, there is nothing dirty, and they are very similar to the people in Changhe Base.
"This is... the room of the previous lord?"
Wang Tao walked and came to a room with a sign that said "The leader's residence, please do not disturb anyone else".
He had the key in his hand and opened the door directly.
The decoration inside is very simple, similar to the outside, but it is normal. After all, this is an underground air raid shelter, and the decoration cannot be much better. As for the space, it is quite large, about a hundred square meters, after all, he is the leader. It’s normal for the space at home to be larger.
"Huh? This is..."
Wang Tao suddenly discovered that there was a storage room with many wooden boxes piled inside. These wooden boxes were about the same size as suitcases, and there was a faint smell inside that was very familiar to Wang Tao...
He immediately took out one of the boxes and pried it open. I saw something wrapped in a ball of scrap newspaper inside. Suddenly, the familiar smell became stronger.
Wang Tao tore open the newspaper, revealing the black powder inside.
“Sure enough!”
Seeing this thing, Wang Tao looked a little serious.
The taste of these powders is clearly the same as the "holy medicine" of the Dusk Church!
If these powders are mixed with water and boiled, a large pot of holy medicine will definitely be brewed.
Wang Tao also said before that this person from the Twilight Church did not drink this poisonous holy medicine. Now it seems that he was still careless - no!
Wang Tao suddenly thought that the body of people who drank these holy medicines would show a state of poisoning. But Wang Tao just observed those people specifically, and none of them were in a poisoned state! "Did they not drink it? Or is this holy medicine upgraded and not poisonous? But this doesn't seem right. These potions will have a strong smell when brewed, but I didn't smell the potion, nor did I see it. Someone cooked it..."
Wang Tao was a little puzzled, but he still took out all these wooden boxes. There were more than sixty boxes in total, which could probably produce a lot of "holy medicine".
After thinking about it, Wang Tao took out the walkie-talkie that Zhao Yaru handed him.
“Zhao Yaru, can you hear me?”
“Zizi—I’m here, Master Priest, what are your orders?”
Zhao Yaru had obviously been holding the walkie-talkie and answered immediately.
"Come here, I'm at the 'leader's residence'."
"Yes!"
A moment later, Zhao Yaru came. But she didn't come alone, the awakened people who had been rescued by Wang Tao also came.
The condition of these people is obviously much better than before. Although they are still far from being cured, they are no longer in fatal danger. This is obviously at the hands of people with healing powers.
Zhao Yaru took a shower, changed her clothes, and showed her true face. Apart from the many scars on her exposed skin, she was also a beautiful woman.
“Master Priest!”
Zhao Yaru immediately led a group of people to salute Wang Tao.
“They’re all here, that’s just in time, take a look at this.”
Wang Tao didn’t waste any time, and directly let a few people into the room and looked at the black powder in the box.
"Huh? What is this?"
What surprised Wang Tao was that these people all looked surprised, as if they were seeing them for the first time.
Wang Tao's mental power was fully activated. He could feel that these people did not speak, which was really surprising.
That’s strange. These high-level officials have never seen these black powders?
So Wang Tao described the situation of brewing the holy medicine. He did not say that these medicines were poisonous, but said that these medicines were taken daily by members of the Dusk Church in other places. They can strengthen the body, and only Dusk Only members of the church are eligible to take it.
After hearing Wang Tao's words, the others were stunned.
"Huh? Our Dusk Church often drinks medicine made from this stuff? But I haven't drank it before?"
"Neither have I..."
" I'm one of the first people to come to the Zizhu base, and I haven't seen it before..."
"Could it be that...our previous leader hid this good stuff and drank it himself, and was unwilling to share it with us? ”
"...Although I don't want to believe it, it seems to be the most likely..."
"But our leader is still quite a good person...could it be that he was pretending all this? Then this is too much It’s scary...”
Everyone started to talk among themselves.
Obviously they all couldn't believe that their original leader would hide such a good thing. But the facts were in front of them, and they had to believe it. So there was a feeling of collapse of the character in an instant.
Wang Tao frowned.
Could it be that their leader really hid the poison and drank it alone?
But it’s not right. If a person drinks so much holy medicine, he must have been poisoned to death long ago...
“We really don’t know. We rarely came to this room before. If If anything happens, the leader will go to the conference room to discuss it with us..."
Zhao Yaru was afraid that Wang Tao would not believe it, so he explained quickly.
But Wang Tao waved his hand, and then used his mental power to explore the room carefully.
After a while, Wang Tao came to a desk and opened the drawer. There was an iron box inside. Open the iron box and inside there are some photos from before the end of the world.
The main content of the photo is a beautiful woman in her thirties, a boy in his teens, and occasionally a strong man in his thirties.
After Zhao Yaru saw it, he immediately pointed at the strong man and said:
"This is the leader... That woman and child should be the leader's family, right? But the leader never mentioned it …”
Obviously, the leader’s wife and children should be gone.
Wang Tao handed the photo to Zhao Ruyi, and then saw a letter at the bottom of the iron box. The letter was written with the words "personally addressed by the current leader".
A letter in advance for those who come after you?
Wang Tao was not polite and tore open the envelope directly. There were several folded pieces of letter paper inside. Wang Tao looked at the first one first. After a while, his expression became a little complicated.
"So that's it..."
The letter said that these medicine powders were given to the leader by the bishop, who asked the leader to mix them with water and give them to other believers to drink. Drinking them can strengthen their physical fitness. , increasing the probability of survival in the apocalypse.
The leader ostensibly agreed, but in fact he did not comply and hid all the potions.
Because the leader had come into contact with the Twilight Church before - his wife and children.
Their family got separated before. Later, he finally found his wife and children, but they were already members of the Twilight Church and drank the so-called holy medicine. However, they both died soon after due to overdose.
The Dusk Church explained that it had nothing to do with the holy medicines, but the leader used to be a doctor, and he felt that it was the problem with these holy medicines.
But the people from the Dusk Church were very strong and he couldn’t defeat them, so he withdrew first.
Later, he met the bishop of the Church of Twilight. This bishop was stronger than him and he knew he couldn't beat him, so he pretended to want to join the Church of Twilight, and then planned to avenge his wife and children when he became stronger.
The bishop left quickly, and he kept these potions secretly, not intending to give them to others.
The leader wrote all this down, and he told the next leader to try not to trust other members of the Twilight Church, let alone the bishop. They want to develop a completely different Church of Twilight, and it would be best to replace that bishop!
"This is somewhat consistent with my thoughts..."
Wang Tao said to himself.
(End of this chapter)