The trucks were moving in the dark night. The cigarette factory base and the corpse mountains outside the base illuminated by the searchlights soon disappeared into the deep darkness.

After more than half an hour, the five trucks stopped by the road with the moat on the left side of the road. Firstly, this distance was safe enough without zombies chasing; secondly, the five trucks had very little fuel left, and it was not a rational decision to drive blindly before determining what to do next; the most important thing was that they needed to check everyone’s condition as soon as possible to prevent people who were injured by the zombies from turning into zombies.

A total of 498 people escaped from the base, in addition to 262 soldiers and four people from Shen Shian’s group, there were 232 survivors. It was a miracle that no one was bitten or scratched by the zombies. The wounds on the people were all from the sneak attack of the evolvers on the earth wall. Fortunately, the wounds were not fatal, but after experiencing a thrilling battle and managing to survive, they were all physically and mentally exhausted. Most of them slumped in the trucks without even lifting a finger.

Luo Wei ordered all the soldiers to stand in five rows on an open space not far from the trucks to give the four people in Shen Shian’s group a military salute. “Mr. Shen, we will remember this favor for the rest of our lives!”

Chen Nan and Liu Fangzhou consciously stepped aside. Shen Shian was a little bit embarrassed, but Shen Xun was very comfortable. He was held by Shen Shian in his arms and was well respected by everyone: if An An was not there, all of you would have become little bits and pieces or zombies.

After the salute, someone asked, “Mr. Shen, do you know why the zombies did not chase us?” Tens of thousands of zombies watched them leave without moving, the image was so ridiculous.

Shen Shian nodded, “One of the zombies from the zombie group had evolved.”

TN: I think I’ll use evolved for a power zombie and mutated for mutant/mutated zombie. If you know how to differentiate them, you can tell me 🙂

Everyone was horrified, “A power zombie? Is it the kind of zombie king you said before that has self-awareness and can control other zombies?”

“Yes.” The power zombie had intelligence similar to beasts, and can weigh the pros and cons. Compared with their group of “small snacks” who fled using trucks and with less than 500 people, the 3,000 people trapped in the base were obviously more attractive. The sudden evolution of the power zombie undoubtedly once again proved Shen Shian’s speculation that “the more concentrated the zombie density, the faster the speed of evolution”: the garrison searched the city for more than two months and did not encounter a single power zombie, yet a zombie evolved in less than half an hour after the corpse tide formed. Obviously, during the tens of thousands of zombie tides, some kind of “catalytic reaction” was happening, which greatly speeds up the evolution of zombies, but this was still uncertain.

The power zombie had wisdom and would not be easily attracted by sound, blood, or corpses, which meant that Zhou Jianghai’s plan may be to lift a stone and hit his own foot, completely trapping those three thousand people. The soldiers who heard the news all clapped and cheered, wishing to fire a gun to celebrate. “They deserve it! I want to see what they are going to do without us! F*ck them, I hope they will all be killed by the zombies!”

“This means that many lines of unrighteousness will be killed, and good and evil will eventually be rewarded. Heaven law cycle!”

“Hahahaha we really should have left earlier! By the way, don’t they have evolvers who can use earth abilities, and won’t that wall stop all the zombies?”

“They should not be able to stop several tens of thousands of zombies. Even if they are stopped, they will not be able to get out of the zombies, and they will die sooner or later.”

“Unfortunately, all the materials were left in the administrative building, and we couldn’t bring them out. We searched hard, and then they f*cking get all of them.”

“There are none for them.” Shen Shian inserted a sentence at the appropriate time, and explained when they all came together. “I have the space ability, and I took it all in when I took the trucks.” The trucks were taken out from the space in front of so many people, the capacity of his “space storage” could not be concealed anyway, it was better to admit it.

The soldiers were silent for a second, and then rushed over with cheers. “Mr. Shen, you are so handsome!” “Mr. Shen is awesome!” “Mr. Shen, I love you!!!”

Shen Xun growled and let out a fierce roar from his throat. He gritted his teeth and hugged Shen Shian firmly, forbidding anyone to come near: An An is mine! Leave!!

Everyone didn’t mind, if they couldn’t hug Shen Shian, they would just hug each other and cheer, they currently felt that there was no more depressing moment after this: didn’t they like to complain all day that they were too tired to work and still have not enough to eat? Didn’t they feel that the garrison was bullying and squeezing them dry? Now that the garrison has left, no one will ask them to work. Will they be able to make it alive easily? Are they very happy?

More than three thousand greedy, selfish, stupid, and vicious survivors all gathered together. There were zombies, and they lacked supplies. The end was really predictably miserable.

The feeling of revenge really gave people physical and mental joy, but after their joy, they were dazed: the base was built by more than 200 soldiers who risked their lives, and they had a mission to “protect the survivors” after the apocalypse. Their only mission was gone, and the goal no longer had any meaning. The communication with their superior has been completely interrupted long ago, so what should they do afterwards?

Niu Quan couldn’t help looking around and found Luo Wei standing in the dark. “Captain, where are we going next?”

Luo Wei had been extremely silent since leaving the base. At this time, he faced more than two hundred pairs of eyes looking at himself. It was difficult to say, “I’m afraid I can’t decide for everyone on this issue…”

Tao Yuan had a hint of uneasiness in his heart, “Captain, what do you mean? You are the captain, of course we will go wherever you go!”

Luo Wei looked at him and the emotions in Tao Yuan’s eyes were upset. He finally sighed softly, “Dumpling, I am infected with the zombie virus.”

As if a bucket of ice water was poured on them, the cheerful atmosphere in the crowd just moments ago was wiped out completely. If the soldiers were shocked, Tao Yuan’s doll face was as white as paper, “Impossible, impossible, I don’t believe it!”

Luo Wei sighed again, he walked a few steps forward to roll up his camouflage coat, and turned around to reveal his broad back: under the truck’s headlights, they could clearly see a very shallow scratch on the right side. It was just a small scratch, and some blood stains oozed out slightly. If it was before the apocalypse, he wouldn’t even need a band-aid and the wound would heal the next day. At this time, the wound was obviously infected. The blood oozing out was black, and the skin around the size of a Chinese textbook was chapped with blue and purple.,the blood vessels under the skin bulged up like creeping earthworms——all of which were reactions after being infected with a zombie virus.

Tao Yuan’s face was pale, and his feet were unstable for two steps. He stretched out his hand to touch it but was blocked by Luo Wei. “Don’t touch it, you will be infected.” He let go of his clothes.

It seemed that a bottle of chili oil was poured into his eyes, and they were sore and hot. Tao Yuan shuddered and asked, “…When?”

“When I fell off the wall, I hit a zombie, and I was scratched by its bones or nails.” Luo Wei raised his hand and wiped his face, “Don’t cry, everyone is watching, be careful, Niu Quan and others will laugh at you.”

However, Niu Quan and others also had red eyes, “…Captain!”

Luo Wei turned to look at them, and his firm and soft eyes slowly swept from each soldier. His shoulders straightened like Hong Zhong{n1}, “Every one of you is the best soldier I have ever seen. Before and after the end of the world, always adhere to the duties and beliefs of soldiers, worthy of being a soldier’s identity and glory, I am very happy to be your captain, and I feel sincerely proud of all of you. Before leaving, I want to give you my last command as the captain: From this moment on, no matter what you are going to do afterwards, you can go home and reunite with your loved ones, or find another place to build a base. I ask you to always put the lives and interests of your own and your family above other things, remember, no one is more important than yourself!”

Note1: Musical artist.

“Captain!” Someone couldn’t help choking.

Tao Yuan held Luo Wei’s clothes corner tightly, as if holding the last glimmer of hope. “The range of mutations is not large, maybe the captain is immune to the virus? Maybe it was not the zombies who scratched the wounds, but the ground or rocks or roots of a tree? Or, maybe we will go to find other bases now, and maybe a vaccine for the zombie virus has just been developed!”

Luo Wei looked at him quietly, and didn’t speak. Until his voice became smaller and more tears fell, he took a step forward and gently took him into his arms. He then raised his hands and rubbed his head like he did countless times. “Hush, don’t be afraid, it’s okay.”

The hug did not last long, because Luo Wei was not sure when he would lose his mind. After letting go of Tao Yuan, he took a bullet from his pocket in his chest and put it in the magazine of the pistol, and then he put the pistol back into the holster.

He looked around for a while and pointed to the moat dozens of meters away. “I’ll go to the river, don’t follow me. When you hear the gunshot, you can come. Don’t bother yourselves, just find a place on the edge of the river and bury me there. The scenery here is pretty good.”

He paused a little, his legs were straight, and he raised his hand to do a military salute. “Don’t be sad, live well.”

261 soldiers wiped away their tears and saluted, “Captain, good bye!”

When Luo Wei turned to leave, his arm was suddenly held, and Tao Yuan pulled him. “I’m going too.”

His eyebrows wrinkled slightly, “There is nothing beautiful, wait until the gun is fired…”

“I’m going too!” Tao Yuan yelled with all his strength, his eyes were red as blood, and his tears kept falling down. He turned and hid his head and wiped his face hard. He turned back to stare at Luo Wei fiercely, “I want to accompany you, you can’t stop me.”

Luo Wei opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but finally said nothing. He nodded, “Then go ahead.”