Doomsday Run (10): Hazy

After arriving at the scientific research base, the happiest person was actually Gao Hexuan, because he felt the network and couldn’t help but try to invade it on the spot.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian took the lead in getting into the tent to rest in order to provide cover for Gao Hexuan, so that Gao Hexuan could concentrate on invading the network. In one afternoon, he gained a lot.

Gao Hexuan found a lot of interesting information from the research base’s intranet.

Before the disaster, the person in charge of this scientific research base was not Dr. Mu. After the disaster, the base was in chaos for a while. The old doctor who was originally in charge turned into a living corpse, and Dr. Mu took over.

Under the leadership of Dr. Mu, the scientific research strength of the entire base had deepened in the direction of biological and chemical weapons.

According to the research data in the base, the reason why he gave up other projects to focus on biochemical weapons was because Dr. Mu suspected that the disaster two years ago was not a natural disaster but man-made, and was a human catastrophe caused by the leakage of biochemical weapons.

In order to solve the crisis, they must first thoroughly study the virus. To this end, the scientific research base focused on research and stayed away from the human world for two years.

Before they sent out a distress signal, the surrounding survivor bases didn’t even know that such a scientific research base existed.

The reason why they sent out a distress signal was not that they really couldn’t hold on anymore, but that they encountered a problem. Leading such a complex rescue operation was actually a screening to select reliable candidates to help them solve the problem.

Xia Ruize and the others rushed towards the small city outside the mountain while analyzing the information and even chat records that Gao Hexuan had scraped from the scientific research base’s intranet.

The chat records clearly show that everyone who entered the cave was under the surveillance of the scientific research base, and a group of scientific researchers observed their actions and pointed fingers at them.

After understanding the actual situation and having a good idea, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian turned their attention back to the battle, and Xia Ruize’s calculations started to click. 

They could stay in this mission world for thirty days. As the mission world with the longest stay so far, there was also life energy that could be picked up everywhere to improve their physical fitness. Xia Ruize must make full use of every day.

Now he could withstand drinking nine cups of life energy, which meant that each attribute could be improved by 0.9 in one day. If the thirty days were fully utilized, individual physical fitness could be improved by 27!

This was really a value that made people feel excited just thinking about it!

Xia Ruize really laughed when he thought about it.

The three of them were very proficient in finding a good location to attract monsters, kill them, and accumulate life energy. The only difficulty was how to return to the scientific research base in the cave.

Gao Hexuan had invaded the internal network, but the gate of the scientific research base was opened and closed manually and could not be controlled by buttons. The three of them had to set up a tent outside the gate to rest for the night.

Fortunately, another convoy arrived the next morning. Taking advantage of the door opening, the three of them sneaked back into the cave using an illusion, got into their tent, and pretended as if nothing happened.

The new convoy was not from another base, it was the convoy that took another route in the future base. Before departure, for the sake of safety, the future base assigned three convoys, each with more than 60 people, choosing three different paths to come to the scientific research base.

The total number of people in the three convoys was nearly 200. Now both rescue convoys had arrived, but there were still less than 100 people.

The situation of the convoy that had just arrived was not very good. Like the rescue team that arrived last night, they also encountered super aliens, and the battle was difficult and tragic.

What was even worse was that after the battle, disagreements occurred within the convoy. Some team members claimed that they were unwilling to continue risking their lives to participate in the rescue, and actually left with some manpower and weapons and supplies halfway.

“Why are there so many super aliens…”

A murmur arose from the crowd upon hearing what had happened to the newly arrived team.

When others heard this, it seemed that this was indeed the case. Four of the five rescue teams that had arrived had encountered super aliens. The probability was indeed high.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, knowing clearly that this situation was probably not entirely accidental.

It was not unreasonable for a scientific research base to select strong warriors and use means to lure super aliens closer to the rescue team to judge the strength of the rescue team.

The captain of Xia Ruize’s team went to comfort them out of comradeship. The others sat in the dark, eating whatever they wanted to fill their stomachs, and could only continue to rest and sleep the rest of the time.

At noon, the last base team that sent a message saying that it would send a rescue team finally arrived. The cave door opened again, and the sunlight shone in from the outside, making everyone inside who was accustomed to darkness dizzy.

“Everyone is here! What are you going to do? What kind of regulations is it? It’s time to tell us, right?”

Rubbing his eyes that were wet by the sunlight, the captain of Guangming Base was the first to be unable to hold back and roared at the top of the cave.

“Don’t be impatient. There are two rescue teams on the way. When everyone is completely here, we will announce it together.”

There was actually a reply from above.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and vaguely saw a figure on the platform high in the cave.

“Damn! Wait!” The captain of Guangming Base cursed, stood up and kicked the tire of his truck, then raised his head and shouted: “Open the door and let me have some fresh air, okay?”

This time there was no immediate answer from above. After the people who heard the noise patiently paid attention for a few minutes, the tall and thick metal door slowly opened.

“The gate will be open for an hour, and will be open again in three hours. Remember to clean your tail when you come back!”

The guard shouted at the top of his lungs, which at least drowned out the noise below and allowed everyone to hear clearly.

“Damn! Did I come here to go to jail?”

The captain of the rescue team of Guangming Base led his men out of the cave cursing, and teams from other bases quickly took action.

Qin Feng conveyed the instructions of the captain to his team members. If anyone in their team wanted to go out for some fresh air, they could go out together and remember to come back on time.

“Team leader Qin, are we still going to save them? Don’t you think something is wrong?”

After listening to Qin Feng’s words, Xia Ruize didn’t say whether he wanted to go out. Instead, he asked Qin Feng in a low voice.

Qin Feng’s expression was a little bitter. He suppressed it for a while and answered in a lower voice:

“I find it strange too, but the captain said he knew what was going on and asked us to wait patiently for new orders.”

“It seems that the captain already knew the situation here…”

Cheng Huaiqian said thoughtfully.

Qin Feng hesitated and didn’t speak. He didn’t confirm, but he didn’t deny either. He turned around and went to inform other team members.

“Oh, it seems to be true. Regardless of whether it is a Guangming Base or a Future Base, the base’s senior management should know the real situation here. Even so, a large number of rescue teams have been dispatched. They also issued an order to rescue people, but I don’t know what benefits the scientific research base promised.”

Cheng Huaiqian reached out and took Xia Ruize’s hand, leading him out of the cave. It was rare to be able to show off openly, so of course they couldn’t miss it.

Qin Feng’s silence showed some facts. The grassroots team members didn’t know, and Qin Feng didn’t know, but the captain probably knew something, so he seemed particularly cooperative.

The Guangming Base rescue team, which was the first to arrive, had been locked up in this dark cave for more than two days, and they only asked for a release, which was too obedient.

Taking advantage of the chance to have fun, the three of them went out of the mountain from another road to actively look for prey, and accumulated enough life energy for the day.

But it had to be said that the experience of being surrounded by a large group of living zombies at close range during the day was really uncomfortable. It was far inferior to just paying attention to the general body shape when fighting at night a few days ago.

The moonlight blocked the line of sight, but it also cast a veil over the terrifying living corpse. In comparison, it was better to not be able to see clearly.

In a hurry to return to the cave, they found that the cave was really busy, and the cave door was always open, with vehicles from various teams driving in and out.

When they got close to the cave, Xia Ruize and the other two found out the news. The last two rescue teams finally arrived. At this point, all eight rescue teams sent by the five bases that had agreed to come to the rescue had arrived. No matter how many difficulties and obstacles they encountered on the road, at least most of them had arrived at the scientific research base smoothly.

Therefore, the scientific research base, which had been silent and pretending to be dead, finally stepped forward to take charge of the situation. The first step was to arrange positions for various rescue teams.

Under the command of the guards, the rescue teams that arrived first put away the tents and debris scattered on the ground, drove the cars that had been parked randomly out of the cave, and then drove into the cave one by one, arranging them in order.

After all, the eight rescue teams totaled forty large trucks, and they really needed to be carefully planned and arranged to park them all in the cave.

After all the vehicles were arranged, it was finally the turn to arrange the people:

“Please lead your base captains to put down their weapons and enter through the small door on the right. Again, please put down all your weapons.”

The sound coming from the loudspeaker in the cave made everyone uproar, they actually wanted to remove their weapons?

“What does this damn place mean? You want us to disarm, so why don’t you just tell us to die?”

“I won’t do it! No one can separate me from my weapons!”

“This is a terrible place. What kind of nonsense is this? Didn’t you ask us to come to the rescue?”

…

For warriors in the apocalypse, weapons were a very sensitive key. Some people had to put their weapons next to their pillows when sleeping in order to feel safe enough to sleep.

Now someone wanted them to get rid of their weapons with just one sentence. It sounded ill-intentioned, and the crowd immediately exploded. The captains of the rescue teams couldn’t comfort them. Of course, they didn’t really want to comfort them either, they had to show their attitude to the scientific research base.

The scientific research base was unexpectedly tough. Facing the chaotic crowd, they only answered: “Those who don’t want to enter don’t have to, and those who want to enter just keep their weapons where they are. ” Then it kept repeating the previous notification, but no matter how they listened, it just sounded like the speaker was automatically playing repeatedly.

The final result was that the captains of each rescue team left those team members who were unwilling to remove their weapons to look at the truck, and led other team members who were willing to obey the order to put the weapons into the truck into the open side door in the corner of the parking lot.

The passages in the cave were all wrapped in metal and cement, and the slightest sound would echo. When hundreds of people walked in the cave, the footsteps merged into a huge echo.

The passage was still very dark at the beginning, but the further they walked, the brighter it became because more small lights were lit.

Following the passage with the open door, the group of people walked all the way to the… restaurant of the scientific research base?