Shortly after Yao Wei and others left, the news spread that Ye Xiao had announced the dissolution of the Yang City team and would no longer serve as the leader of 150,000 people.
Zhou Li was the first person to hear the news. He was having dinner, or to be more precise, he had prepared several tables to reward some of his most capable people and to get them to know each other and improve their relationship with his brother Zhou Yan's people. He showed a surprised expression: "Are you sure you heard it right? You want to dismiss everyone? That's 150,000 people."
Zhou Yan, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said, "Fifteen thousand people are nothing in this huge Ning City base. They are just a bunch of burdens who only care about eating." He did not look much like Zhou Li. He seemed younger and more energetic, without any scheming. However, the gleam in his eyes from time to time made people know that he was not that simple.
Zhou Li shook his head: "People are capital, and they have managed them very well, and there are still several thousand of them to be used."
Zhou Yan's eyes flashed: "Brother, what kind of person is this Ye Xiao?"
"He's a very reliable person." Zhou Li gave him high praise, "both as a companion and as a leader." He really wanted to be friends with Ye Xiao, but unfortunately they had a subordinate relationship from the beginning, and when they entered the base yesterday, he and his men did not make any moves. How could Ye Xiao not have any opinions about him
We can't be friends.
When Zhou Li thought of this, he felt that it would be a good idea to disband the group, as Ye Xiao probably did not intend to stay in the Ning City base to develop.
Zhou Yan said, "He doesn't want those people, but we do. Brother, you've been in that team before, so you know who has the ability. Let's get all of them here."
Zhou Li paused while picking up the food: "That's fine, but it's a pity that the strongest one can't pull it over."
Zhou Yan was very interested: "Which one is it? I heard that there were originally seven or eight people in Ye Xiao's team, and each of them had their own specialties."
"It's not those eight people, it's a girl named Lin Tan Tan."
"Bang!" Xu Tianjin, who was sitting at the same table, missed the bowl and dropped it on the table.
Seeing everyone looking at the papers, Xu Tianjin quickly picked up the bowl, scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, my hand slipped." Then he pretended to be very curious and asked Zhou Li, "Brother Zhou, the person you said was very powerful turned out to be a woman. How is she so powerful?"
Zhou Yan stared at him twice, but Xu Tianjin didn't notice at all. In fact, Xu Tianjin's question was not that abrupt, because people who had not heard of Lin Tantan also had the same curiosity and were waiting for Zhou Li to answer their questions. However, Zhou Yan had already become suspicious of Xu Tianjin's various abnormalities. Once you become suspicious and pay attention to someone, you can always see something, not to mention that Xu Tianjin was full of flaws.
Because of him, Zhou Yan was particularly concerned about the name Ye Xiao, and at this time he also kept the name Lin Tan Tan in mind.
Especially when Zhou Li told some things about Lin Tantan, and finally said that even if all those people were recruited, they would not be as good as one Lin Tantan.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Isn't it just a dual-powered person? There are two in the base, are they that powerful?"
"What if this dual-powered person is very strong in both of his powers, one of which is healing, and he can lead other people with special powers, and he is also very loyal to his leader?" Zhou Li said, "Did you see it yesterday? He was the only one who fought from beginning to end without the help of weapons, and he was completely independent."
There was a hint of regret in Zhou Li's tone, as if he felt regretful that his several attempts to show goodwill to Lin Tan Tan had had no effect.
Zhou Yan was silent. He didn't see clearly yesterday when he was inside the base, but he also heard from people on the city wall that one woman's performance was particularly amazing and she was very good at playing the gold element.
At this moment, Xu Tianjin's heart was in turmoil. The names matched, and his wood-type ability was particularly outstanding, and it was a dual ability.
Could it be that he was thinking of that
That's right, if I can travel through time, why can't Dr. Lin? He suddenly became excited and wanted to find someone right away.
At the same time, many people were discussing this matter, discussing Ye Xiao and Lin Tan. At the meeting of the leadership of the temporary government of the base, the director of the medical department slammed the table and said, "This person must enter our medical department."
The people at the base's science academy said, "It is said that among those 150,000 people, almost no one turned into a corpse after having a fever. Is this the credit of this person? What is the percentage of people who turn into corpses after having a high fever in our base?"
Someone next to him answered, "About ten people had fever, and three of them were transformed into corpses."
The people from the Academy of Sciences also slammed the table and said, "We want this person. She has such ability and is a dual-system psychic. She has very high research value!"
The doctor from the medical department said, "This is the best doctor. Do you know how many people get sick from their hands every day? You have such a talented person, but you are leaving him idle? How could you imagine that? This is a waste of resources!"
The Academy of Sciences said excitedly, "You refused to release the first two dual-system superpowers, so you have to give us this one, right? You want us to research a vaccine, but you refuse to give us this and that. Do you think that just because we put up a sign and call ourselves the Academy of Sciences, we are truly the National Academy of Sciences?"
"I'm not stopping you from challenging the army."
"Commander, tell me who you want to tell it to!"
The lovers all looked at the square-faced middle-aged man in military uniform sitting in the first seat, who said coldly, "Don't ask me for it. Find a way yourself. Whoever can invite the person will get it."
The head of the medical department frowned and said, "Most people with special abilities are very arrogant. If you let them choose, I'm afraid no one will choose."
"Then I can't do anything about it." The middle-aged man said, "I don't care about people."
The Academy of Sciences frowned: "You are in charge of that Colonel Ye."
"Oh, I can't control that. He won't accept any appointments."
The head of the medical department said dissatisfiedly: "He is a serving soldier!"
The square-faced chief's face turned even colder: "There are many serving soldiers out there who want to pull me down."
Everyone was speechless.
The chief sighed and said, "Today is the second day of the zombie siege. Do you have any solution?"
"What can we do? The rain is so heavy that some superpowers are useless and the power of ammunition is greatly reduced. The most important thing is that those old guys are not doing anything." said a man also in military uniform.
Now the military and politics are unified. Those sitting here are the ones who won the previous struggle and became the ruling class in the Ning City base. However, this power is not particularly enjoyable, and there is a mess everywhere.
The leader was silent.
Suddenly, the chief's guard came in and said, "Chief, Ye Xiao called."
The base built its own signal tower. Although the signal is very weak, it is still possible to make internal calls.
The chief took over: "Ye Xiao, it's me." After hearing two sentences, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Help me hire someone to guard the base?"
…
Back to a while ago, everyone looked at the vegetables brought by Yang Xinyu for a long time. This kind of vegetable is commonly known as chicken feather vegetable. It is very small and grows very fast. Yang Xinyu can grow a small piece at one time.
A bag of greens were put into the pot and cooked. The fire was lit by a fire-type psychic, the water was provided by a water-type psychic, and some salt was sprinkled on it to make a pot of vegetable soup. Everyone looked at the soup with great anticipation and tasted some. It tasted pretty good and was not much different from ordinary vegetables.
After eating the vegetables, they naturally sat down and chatted. These people with special abilities came here not just to deliver food, but mainly to ask for advice on what they should do in the future.
Bai Cheng was quite friendly with them, and took out a pen and paper to analyze: "According to what you said, those who came to recruit you last night and this morning can basically be divided into five categories. The first category is various gangs. As long as they have combat effectiveness, they will regularly organize team activities, such as going out of the city to kill zombies and find supplies, accepting family search missions, dispatching missions, and may also involve fighting between gangs;
"One is a chosen organization composed of people with special abilities. Anyone with special abilities can join, but the nature and purpose of this organization are unknown.
"One is the official personnel management department of the base, which sent a stack of forms with descriptions of various positions in the base;
“One is the military recruiting soldiers, which requires extremely high obedience, and even within the military, there are factions;
"The last category is to hire you privately, such as fire-types as bodyguards, water-types to provide them with water, and wood-types to treat them or produce fruits and vegetables for them."
"My advice is that without understanding the situation, don't easily join any faction, even if the other party says the treatment is very good, including the military and the current interim government of the base. You can find a job that you think you are capable of and the salary is relatively satisfactory, and sell your supernatural powers in the form of commodities."
"For example, Yang Xinyu, the Agricultural Department of the Base Academy is recruiting people. You can consider it, or sell the vegetables you grow with your supernatural powers as commodities, but it is not recommended that you be directly employed by someone."
“As for the direction of battle, you have such great abilities, it would be a waste to do ordinary work, and it will not be good for your strength improvement. On the premise of not joining any faction, I can introduce you to a way. It depends on whether you are willing to go.
"What way?" many people asked in unison.
Bai Cheng smiled and said, "Form an employment relationship with the base."
Everyone looked puzzled. What’s the difference between this and finding a job
"What I mean is to establish a direct employment relationship with the military at the base. For example, now that zombies are surrounding the city, there is an urgent need for defenders. You can go to the city wall to fight zombies. First, you can train yourself, second, you can relieve the pressure on the base, and third, you can get compensation from the military in this way."
"This way, you don't have to join the army, and your freedom is guaranteed. You can choose to participate in military operations at your discretion. If you are unsure about the danger of a mission, whether it is worth participating, and are afraid of being cheated, I can be your advisor. I can also help you negotiate with the military for compensation."
He paused and said, "Oh, by the way, our Captain Ye will also participate in helping the base fight zombies."
Hearing this, the combat-type psychics' eyes lit up. Following Ye Xiao, they felt like they had a backbone. Although they were no longer a team, they still had the friendship they had in the past. If something went wrong, Ye Xiao would not ignore them, right
They looked at Ye Xiao. Ye Xiao's face was a little dark. He glanced at Bai Cheng and nodded.
Lin Tan Tan watched from the side for a long time, and finally understood what Bai Baicheng was talking about. She whispered to Mei Bosheng, "I was wondering why Brother Bai was so enthusiastic all of a sudden. In other words, Brother Bai got himself a part-time job as an intermediary, and promoted Ye Xiao to advertise for him?"
Mei Bosheng also whispered, "The boss is actually very worried about the zombies outside the base. He said in the morning that he wanted to go to the city wall to take a look, but was stopped by Brother Bai. Brother Bai said that since we don't care about the things in the base, then we should not care about anything, so as not to be taken for granted. At the same time, he also guarded against us coveting power and so on. It's thankless work, so he might as well do the work in the form of hiring. The money and goods are clear and understandable. Speaking of which, this inspiration came from you."
"Me?"
"Yes, you show people your pathological abilities for free, but no one seems to remember your kindness. After you charge them, people are more in awe of you."
Awe? Is that serious
Lin Tan thought about it and finally said, "It really can't be done in vain."
“That’s what I mean.”
"Are you going too?"
"Go ahead. I also need to practice my supernatural powers. But in the end, it's all about killing more zombies."
Then Ye Xiao called the current top military figure in Ning City, discussed the cooperation matters, and then took these psychics and Mei Baisheng to go out to work. Of course, he also had to go to where the psychics lived and bring more people with him.
Ye Xiao was about to get in the car when he suddenly saw something and walked to the car next to him: "Let's talk, don't come."
Lin Tantan was sitting in the car, trying very hard to hide her body, but she was still caught. However, she was in a very happy mood, and she rolled down the window and said, "Why? You guys come out to work, and I want to work too."
Working or something... Ye Xiao's expression was a little distorted, and he said: "You treated so many people this morning."
"Then I'll just stay over there and watch for a while." Lin Tantan looked like he didn't want to stay at home alone, he wanted to come out and play too.
"Qinan and Xiaotian are also in the villa." Ye Xiao tried to persuade her to stay. It was raining so hard, was it so fun outside
Cheng Qinan is sick and has been sleeping all the time. Lin Tan Tan thinks that he is about to awaken his superpowers, and Jiang Xiaotian is essentially a fat otaku. He either plays with his treasures or curls up on the sofa eating snacks and watching TV. Although he and Lin Tan Tan can get along well, it would be too boring for the two of them to stay alone and chat all the time.
Anyway, Lin Tantan just didn't want to stay.
Ye Xiao had no way to deal with her.
The car drove all the way to the residential area and stopped in a simple carport. Lin Tan Tan did not get out of the car. He rolled down the window and looked at the buildings, which were also rural-style five- or six-story buildings. This base, which expanded with the garrison as the core, covers a large area, but there are very few buildings. Most of them were built in a hurry after the end of the world. Because manpower and material resources were mainly used on the city walls, the houses were built in a sloppy manner. Many of them are brick sheds, which look too shabby. This place is still considered good.
After a while, a lot of people came down from upstairs, each holding a variety of raincoats, umbrellas, and rain hats. Some came down with a piece of oil paper wrapped around them. They got into the cars laughing and drove out one by one.
The car drove to the gate of the base, splashing mud and water all the way. The person guarding the gate was the mixed-race young man from yesterday. He had received the news and looked at these people with a twitch of his mouth: "Are you all superpowered people?"
"All of them." Bai Cheng came forward to negotiate. He smiled and said, "Except for a few people who didn't participate in killing zombies, there are a total of 57 people left. Arrange us in one area. By the way, the remuneration I agreed with your leader is that each person will have lunch and dinner, and ten kilograms of food a day."
When he mentioned ten kilograms of food, he felt a little dissatisfied. This number was too little, but who made the base poor? Ordinary young and middle-aged people could only earn three to five kilograms of food a day at most. If they earned more than that, they would have to pay for people with special abilities. Ten kilograms was the best price Bai Cheng could negotiate.
Originally, the leader wanted to give Bai Cheng crystal cores, but Bai Cheng refused. Crystal cores are worthless now. The ground outside the base is full of zombies, which means that the ground is full of crystal cores. If he wants to get them, he can only find a way to get them himself. Food is the most scarce thing.
The mixed-race youth gritted his teeth and said, "I hope you can afford the price. Come with me."
Bai Cheng smiled gently, but he looked like a debt collector. "We hope that the employer's attitude will satisfy us. Today is only half a day. Prepare dinner and five kilograms of food. Don't cheat on us, otherwise it will be a problem whether we can come tomorrow."
The mixed-race youth almost missed the step.
The psychics wearing their own colorful raincoats behind were a little confused. Does Deputy Captain Bai have this side to him
Lin Tantan was also stunned.
Mei Bosheng whispered to her, "Do you know what Lao Bai's biggest hobby is?"
"Cheating people?"
"No, bargain. I think he has been wanting to be this kind of agent for a long time."
Lin Tan Tan: "I think he is more like a contractor now."
"What's that?"
Lin Tan Tan thought for a moment and said, "Foreman? Team leader?"
Mei Bosheng burst out laughing, and the people around him who heard what he said also laughed.
After a while, the news of Ye Xiao's new identity as the captain of the work team spread everywhere. All the workers in the team looked at Ye Xiao: "Hehehe." They felt they could not bear to look directly at the title of Captain Ye.
Ye Xiao looked at these people and felt that he had been cheated.
After climbing up the seven or eight meter high city wall, the wind was strong and the rain was heavy, so everyone could hardly open their eyes. A few smart people wore motorcycle helmets and were immediately looked at with admiration.
This is right next to the gate. There was a group of soldiers here. When they saw the mixed-race youth coming over, they shouted, "Boss, the zombies keep climbing up. Requesting support!"
Lin Tan Tan leaned over to take a look and saw a large group of zombies stacking up below. Unfortunately, the city wall was too smooth and their stacking skills were not good enough, so they were knocked down by a poke from above.
The mixed-blood youth said, "Support is here, you guys go and rest." Then he said to Ye Xiao, "This area is handed over to you. If a zombie breaks through your defense line, millions of people in the base will face a catastrophe."
With a serious expression, he handed an invisible but heavy burden to Ye Xiao. Ye Xiao said expressionlessly, "After we get the reward, we will definitely do a good job."
Mixed-race youth: “…” What’s wrong
Bai Chengna opened a large package and said, "Everyone come over here to get a safety rope."
Mixed-race youth: "What safety rope?"
"It's so slippery here, and the battlements are so low, what if I accidentally fall down? When working at height, safety must be guaranteed."
The mixed-race young man's face cracked. Are these people poisonous
However, everyone really went to get the safety ropes obediently, and tied two ropes on their bodies and one on the battlement behind them according to what Ye Xiao and the other soldiers taught them. The knots were tied laboriously and professionally, ensuring that they would never fall off the wall and be bitten by zombies.
Then everyone found their own position and started to smash down their superpowers.
Xu Qin, Xu Li and Zhong Xiong have all come. These three have no superpowers. In this situation, no matter how many bullets they have, they don't plan to draw their guns. A big reason why they came here is that they were stimulated by Jiang Zhongyi and Cheng Qinan. One of them was caught in the rain and awakened his superpowers, and the other was caught in the rain and is in the process of awakening his superpowers.
So after the three of them discussed it, they became superstitious and planned to get themselves sick by getting wet. Anyway, with Lin Tantan around, they didn't have to worry about getting sick worse. There was no other way, it was too inconvenient without superpowers.
However, considering their physical condition, it is not easy to get sick from being wet, so at this moment, they only wore hats and no raincoats.
At this time, Xu Qin was looking at the corpses of zombies gradually falling under the city wall. After looking for a long time, he said, "I have an idea. To ensure safety, let's make a cage." Then they went back to the car to tinker with something.
The mixed-race youth really wanted to know what they were doing, but he was not an idle person, so he had to leave first.
When he came back an hour later, he saw that they had welded a large iron cage. They lowered the cage onto the city wall, and a woman released several green ribbons, which looked like wood-related abilities. She picked up a zombie's body and threw it into the cage. She threw three zombies into the cage, and then the cage closed and was pulled up.
"What are you doing? Why are you dragging the zombie corpses in?" the mixed-race young man was anxious.
The three who answered him fiercely broke open the zombie's head with a knife and dug out the crystal core.
After that, they put the cage down again and dumped out the bodies inside, while discussing: "Ordinary people can do it, too."
"It's too tiring to load the whole body. It's better to cut off the head and pull it up."
"Or install a jack next to the wall."
The mixed-race youth looked at it for a long time and couldn't help asking, "You can just pull the zombies up, why do you need a cage?"
Xu Qin looked at him with an expression that said, "Are you an idiot?" "What if the zombies aren't completely dead?"
Lin Tan Tan also said: "It's not easy to throw the zombies into the cage. If you rely on superpowers to pull them up to seven or eight meters high, the superpowers will soon be used up." She was talking about the level of ordinary superpower users. In fact, they are also exploring this work content for ordinary people. It would be a pity not to pick up the crystal cores on the ground, and in the future, zombies will develop a new way of evolution, which is to eat the brains and crystal cores of their own kind.
The rainstorm came earlier, and the evolutionary method of eating their own kind might also appear earlier. If you leave the zombies all over the ground without dealing with them, when you come the next day, you will find that their brains have been eaten clean, creating a group of more powerful zombies. Isn't that very infuriating
After they finished talking, they went on to discuss improvements.
The mixed-race youth walked away drunk.
When he came back in the evening, the zombies in the area that this group of people were responsible for were almost extinct, leaving behind tens of thousands of corpses piled up on the ground. A simple pulley was assembled on the battlement, pulling an iron cage up and down, and a wood-type mutant sent out vines (it was a different person, no longer a belt, but a vine), pulling the zombies to a guillotine under the wall. That thing was also electric, and the person on top pressed a button, and the guillotine chopped off a rotten head, and then another wood-type mutant sent out something like a long grass stem, wrapped the head and put it in the cage.
When the cage was full, several people pulled the cage up with a pulley and dumped the heads into a large wooden box. Then two people wearing protective clothing, even with their eyes protected, put the heads into a machine with large pliers. With a roar of electric saws, the heads were cut open. The third person, who was also dressed in the same way, was responsible for finding the crystal core from the pile of rotten tissue.
The mixed-race young man moved his lips and felt a little nauseous. He thought he was quite fierce, but chopping off the zombies' heads and processing them like taking pearls from shells, he still felt inferior to him.
At a glance, the four guys who first came up with this idea were talking leisurely. When he heard what they were talking about, they were talking about supernatural weapons. He felt a little numb. Who are the people in Ye Xiao's team
Ye Xiao was also a little numb. He felt something was wrong when he heard others call him Captain Ye, especially when dinner and five kilograms of rice were distributed. Everyone took their share and said goodbye to him with a smile, agreeing to come back tomorrow. It always felt like they were saying goodbye to the foreman.
Bai Cheng picked up the last one: "Do you want it?"
Ye Xiao shook his head.
Bai Cheng called Lin Tan Tan and said, "Tan Tan, here, this is for you. This is the first salary for our Captain Ye."
"Give it to me?" Lin Tantan looked at Bai Cheng and then at Ye Xiao. Since it was given to her by Bai Cheng, she accepted it without any burden and felt it was very novel.
Seeing her curious and funny expression, Ye Xiao couldn't help but laugh.
The author has something to say: Night snack: I am always the one who gets hurt
Talk: Oh my god, the salary he worked so hard for all afternoon is in my hands
Midnight snack: Foreman is foreman, it feels good to hand in wages
Big fat chapter, added more on Sunday o(n_n)o