Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

Chapter 596 - 249: Faith, Diary_3

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So, eradicating the zombies in Wuyang City is very difficult. It’s simply impossible to construct a Survivor Base. Even the survivors are dwindling, and the base can’t find any more...

Moreover, all communication has completely broken down, and for some reason, the satellites in the sky have all fallen!

But thankfully, the military base still has other means of communication, such as radio and wired.

Radios are more convenient, but the corrosive acid rain has corroded many of the signal towers, making it impossible to transmit wireless signals very far, usually only for short-range use.

So, they used wired communications to contact other Government offices, other military branches, and the Hope Research Institute.

There’s not much information about the Hope Research Institute in the log, but it was enough for Wang Tao to grasp a general understanding.

The Hope Research Institute was organized by the Government, with core personnel being surviving technicians, scientists, and other talents.

The headquarters of the Hope Research Institute is in Capital City—actually, they were reluctant to stay in Capital City because it’s even more dangerous than Wuyang City! The place is smaller, the population denser... but there was no alternative since many scientists were there, and the risk of moving them was greater than the risk of staying.

So, they had to struggle for survival in this tight spot.

Thankfully, there were many wartime Defense facilities there, which barely allowed them to survive.

Items such as inhibitors, detectors, synthesizers, and mechanical arms were all researched under such perilous conditions by scientists at the institute.

But it’s not enough to just research these things; they had to be delivered into the hands of the survivors. This was a big problem.

Planes could be used, but they make too much noise, easily attracting zombies, and would require airports, aviation fuel, pilots, and various support facilities. The people at the Hope Research Institute didn’t dare leave their premises, so how could they possibly use planes to deliver these items across the country?

Then someone had an idea: let the Hope Research Institute send the blueprints and formulas to the various military bases because these bases are equipped with military 3D printers capable of producing these items!

The Hope Research Institute thought it was feasible and sent the data to all the military bases.

Upon receiving this data, Wuyang City Base began 3D printing. The Crystal Core Synthesizer, Energy Detector, and mechanical arms were all printed in this way.

As for the inhibitor, naturally, it could not be printed— at most, a bottle could be printed. But the Hope Research Institute provided a formula, and the inhibitor could be produced according to the formula.

The materials for the inhibitor weren’t too rare; some were available at the Wuyang Military Base, and others could be found within the city limits.

So, after obtaining the formula, the Wuyang Military Base began organizing squads to go into the city to collect raw materials.

There weren’t many soldiers left in the base, and sending them into the danger-filled city had predictable outcomes. The inhibitors were produced, but many soldiers were sacrificed.

It can be said that these airdropped inhibitors were obtained with their lives!

Seeing the formula for the inhibitor, Wang Tao suddenly felt a heavy heart.

"The formula must be preserved well. If there’s a chance, I also want to go into the city to collect some raw materials..." Wang Tao thought to himself silently.

Then four months ago, it was unknown whether the underground cables were damaged or the other bases and the Hope Research Institute had fallen, but Wuyang Base suddenly lost contact with them.

This rendered the Wuyang Military Base an isolated island, although not many were left there.

After that, they began to shrink their Defense lines. They gave up on rescuing survivors or killing zombies and started focusing on airdropping supplies instead.

Because those who had survived had used a lot of inhibitors. These inhibitors were produced by them, and they knew the side effects. It was simply a matter of dying sooner or later...

At the time Colonel Luo Guozhong wrote his letter, only the last four of them remained.

Wang Tao saw the monitoring footage of that time; Luo Guozhong and the others had intended to commit suicide. They didn’t want to turn into the unsightly zombies, nor did they wish to harm others.

But plans cannot keep up with changes, their mutation rate was faster than they anticipated. In a very short time, all four mutated and were unable to commit suicide.

However, Luo Guozhong probably didn’t expect that after they turned into zombies, they did not go out to harm others but continued airdropping by instinct or perhaps their steadfast beliefs...

"Sigh..."

Everyone subconsciously let out a sigh.

They felt pity for Luo Guozhong and his comrades and a glimmer of despair for the future.

Wang Tao arrived at the military base with the idea of contacting the outside world.

After all, the military base could contact the Hope Research Institute, so he also wanted to find out what the outside world was like, whether the whole country had fallen, if there were other large Survivor Bases, or whether the Government had organized any large-scale resistance...

But now, all contact between the military base and the outside world had long been severed. Wang Tao had no way of knowing the situation outside.

Wang Tao’s curiosity about the Hope Research Institute could only be sated by snippets of information...

"Could it be that only a few scattered survivors like us are left..." Zhang Hong murmured to herself.

Although Wang Tao was also feeling down, he still patted her shoulder and said:

"Even if we really are the only ones left, what of it? A single spark can start a prairie fire. From now on, we are humanity’s hope! And I think things might not be as bad as we imagine. Maybe, in some place we don’t know about, other survivors are already living better lives!"

"But..."

"No buts! We still have the most important task at hand—scavenging the military base!"

"...Okay!"

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