In short, after mutated animals and plants were listed as members with personal rights, the style of the entire base changed. Mutated animals needed special training, such as learning to read and doing enlightenment work. Mutated plants needed to be regularly and carefully raised, with music played and chats given to them. In short, they were treated like children.
Although this has spawned many occupations and provided jobs for the general public, it has also left many people unemployed.
For example, Xu Qin's weapons research and development department, since then, the materials for mutant weapons have almost been cut off, and the mutant weapons that had made some progress have simply stopped developing. Fortunately, this department's business is not limited to this, otherwise the entire department would have been in trouble.
As a result, there are so few supernatural weapons in the base now that they are more for showing off than for practical use.
So when Ye Xiao said that the shells of these crabs could possibly be used to make mutant weapons, everyone who followed him out was very happy, and then began to actively catch crabs.
The crabs are really big, each one is hard, with many sharp spikes on the shell, two big pincers and eight small claws waving vigorously, making it quite difficult to catch them. But people have their own ways. These people are elites, and they cooperate with each other. They catch crabs one by one from high places and come up to besiege them. After figuring out their attack methods and weaknesses, they start to speed up.
Two, three, four, or five crabs were caught and processed together. When there were not so many crabs on the beach and there was a place to stand, the brave people jumped in and fought with the crabs on the beach.
Ye Xiao did not join the battle. His opponent was the huge shadow in the shallow sea. It was a very flat and very big fish. I didn't know what species it was, but it looked very strange. It could create huge waves several meters high and control these waves to turn into ropes or high-pressure water guns to attack people. It could strangle a tree that three people were hugging and smash a huge rock into pieces quickly. It was very powerful.
It is not surprising that creatures in the water have powerful water-related abilities, but Ye Xiao handled them with ease. His wind system sometimes acted as a barrier, sometimes turned into a rope, sometimes acted as a sharp thorn or blade, and sometimes became a hurricane on the sea, stirring up waves no smaller than those of the big fish, making the fish extremely annoyed and in a miserable state.
At the end of the battle, the big fish soared into the air, but it was a feint to plunge into the embrace of the deep sea. But the next moment, it was fished out of the sea by Ye Xiao and trapped with an air barrier. Then Lin Tantan saw that the fish shrank rapidly, from a fish that looked very flat, but was actually only flat relative to its huge size, and was still one or two meters thick, to only half a meter thick, as if it had been drained.
It's like a fish being dried alive in the scorching sun.
Before Lin Tantan understood what was happening, the fish suddenly exploded.
She was stunned.
Ye Xiao was also stunned for a moment, and threw a piece of fish meat back into the sea from the air, causing some waves to wash away and dilute the blood.
After destroying the body quickly and efficiently, he looked at Lin Tan Tan, bent down and touched her head: "You are not scared, right?"
Lin Tan Tan looked up at him with wide eyes. What was that trick just now
Ye Xiao also had a tacit understanding with her. He could tell what she meant by looking at her eyes. He coughed and said, "I evacuated that area to a near vacuum."
I didn't expect that I would accidentally hit the fish and it exploded.
Lin Tan Tan understood. At first, the air in the fish's body was sucked out, so it was compressed. Later, the vacuum pressure was too low, so it exploded.
Lin Tantan thought, vacuum compression, this is the same as the wind net strangulation, the special move of Ye Xiao that makes people shudder has also appeared.
Her Ye Shen is so powerful!
Because of the tragic death of the big fish, the army of crabs on the beach also became panicked. They no longer wanted to fight and wanted to dive into the sea. But it was too late for them to leave now. The brave and warlike human superpowers built earth walls, ice walls, or directly burned them with flames and entangled them with vines, and not a single one of them could escape.
It took the whole afternoon for people to kill all the crabs on the beach, but the next question was, how to bring so many crabs back? They only brought two space-based psychics with them, and they only brought some daily necessities or vehicles and weapons. The space was not very large, and one person could not carry many crabs.
So we can only disassemble the crab, remove the meat and leave the shell, which is the complete and good quality shell, to save space.
So the group of soldiers turned into butchers in a few minutes and started slaughtering crabs.
It took many days to slaughter the crabs, and everyone was miserable. They were all covered in the smell of crabs. They found some trucks to escort the crabs, and with the cooperation of two space-time psychics, including Lin Tan's hamster, they finally sent all the crab shells back.
The supernatural weapons branch that had been closed for a long time was finally busy again. It wouldn't be long before, in addition to grain wholesale and export, they could also live a good life selling weapons.
As a result, more people wanted to join the Zhengyang Base.
In the summer of the fourth year of the apocalypse, the Ning City base finally couldn't hold on any longer. More and more mutated marine creatures flowed into inland cities along the rivers. The Ning City base was also deeply troubled, suffering heavy losses every day. People left one after another, and due to improper management, the entire base was already in an unhealthy state. So the base leadership decided to relocate the entire base.
Where to relocate? The best choice is naturally Zhengyang Base.
Under Lv Jianping's gaze, Luther contacted the Zhengyang Base and told them his purpose. After a moment, he hung up the phone and said to Lv Jianping, "They agreed and said we can go there anytime. However, many people have gone to the Zhengyang Base this year, and the base is quite crowded. They will try their best to arrange a place for us. And all the people who come will be treated equally."
Lu Jianping was silent for a long time, then sighed: "That's good."
He was pale and very weak. When he went out, he was attacked by an amphibian mutant of some unknown species that crawled out of the river. He was protected by someone and was not hurt, but that thing could spray venom. The venom touched his face and he immediately fell down. The wood-type mutants in the base were completely helpless.
He said to Luther: "From now on, it's all up to you. After this, you just do whatever they ask you to do... And on the way, it won't be easy. You discuss with everyone how to deal with it..."
His voice became weaker and he gradually fell asleep. Luther tucked the quilt in for him. Thinking that the person who seemed to be able to cure any injury was no longer with him, he felt worried and confused about Lu Jianping's health, but he quickly pulled himself together and prepared for the migration.
They are now in the compound of the former Zhengyang Brigade, but the compound has become dilapidated. There are even traces of several bloody battles on the walls and buildings. These were not left by the zombies from outside, but by the infighting among their own people in the base.
No one had expected that the fight over a few areas with relatively complete infrastructure would cause such great dissatisfaction and provoke such fierce resistance. Although we knew that those people were just taking advantage of the issue to fight for power, if the few areas left by the Zhengyang Brigade had not been divided among their own people, perhaps the situation would not have become so difficult to resolve.
It is possible that the base, which originally had a population of more than 5 million, would not decline so quickly. In just one or two years, the population has dropped to less than 1 million, and many of them are elderly, weak, sick and disabled.
When the Ning City base was migrating, Ye Xiao was at a port. This abandoned port had long been breached, and countless mutated marine creatures were pouring into the river channel in the port. They looked messy, but were actually in order, and the one commanding them was a giant octopus.
It was an octopus that was more than ten meters tall, with a big round head and each of its tentacles several dozen meters long. It was originally a creature of the deep sea, but it probably knew that there was more delicious food on land, so it inexplicably evolved the ability to leave the water and walk on land for a long time, and led its shrimp soldiers and crab generals to attack inland.
After Ye Xiao discovered the abnormal situation here, he ran to the port and found the leading octopus. After a fierce battle, he cut off all its tentacles and minced it into meat paste with a wind net. Only a bald head was left, which was still tenaciously alive.
The huge head was right on the port's sluice building. The mutated creatures inside and outside the port below lost their backbone and scattered into a ball. Several human teams rushed out from all directions, carrying out a bloody and brutal strangulation.
These teams are much larger than the ones that followed Ye Xiao in the past. The Zhengyang Brigade has taken in many new members, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. These people naturally cannot be allowed to join the base and become official members for nothing. The Zhengyang Base requires them to kill a certain number of zombies or mutant creatures before they can be officially recognized.
The mutants are of course the marine life that has come ashore in increasing numbers. People have come to realize that these are the things that will threaten human survival in the future. As for the zombies, they have been exhausted for three and a half years. To put it bluntly, almost all the people who can die have died. Without enough fresh blood, the zombies will either eat themselves or gradually decay and age.
But zombies are still dangerous, and marine creatures are large and ferocious enough, so all operations against them are led, planned, and directed by people at the Zhengyang Base.
Ye Xiao didn't care much about these things, and still traveled around the country with a few people, assisting his own people in the encirclement and suppression operations when they encountered them. After killing all the powerful and prominent zombie leaders, he set his sights on the ocean. This time, he happened to discover that a large number of marine creatures were sneaking ashore in this forgotten port, and also discovered a heavyweight character like the giant octopus. After some arrangements, he took action.
At this moment, he was standing on the top of the sluice building, next to him was the octopus head that he had strung on a lightning rod, which was dripping with mucus and only had its last breath left. But he himself was not at ease either. His clothes were wet and torn, and he had many wounds. On his exposed skin, there were even marks from the huge suction cups of the octopus' legs. His skin was bruised and swollen, as if he had been given countless poorly made cupping jars. It was a horrible sight.
He was a little out of breath and his face was a little pale. He calmed his breathing and recalled the feeling of the sudden burst of superpowers just now. He felt that he was about to break through again.