Chapter 41.2 - Setting Each Other Up
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After yesterday passed, a good number of people in the base awakened an ability. And a small number of people with relatively stronger abilities were still in a coma.
These people had their awakening while sleeping on the ground in a protection zone designated by the base for awakening. However, the environment was very crude, only a bit better than an open field.
But there were people from the base’s law enforcement team standing guard, so they won't have to worry about being stabbed in the back as they are going through the awakening.
"There are 30 people who are still in the midst of awakening a relatively stronger ability, meanwhile, the other 3000 are only of ordinary abilities." A senior executive reported during the meeting in the conference room.
The leader nodded. "For a few thousands to awaken out of a few hundred thousand, this ratio is acceptable. However, the constitution of those who failed to awaken is just too poor, in the future, it’ll probably be even more difficult for them to make a living in the base. What did the Research Institute say about this?"
"They're already working on medicine to improve physical constitution, but the estimation is that it would take a while. As of right now, they have yet to find a breakthrough."
The leader frowned. "A slow remedy wouldn’t be able to address this immediate of a problem. But... After we pass this zombie tide, we’ll need to speed up the construction of all the factories, at that time we’ll give hiring priority to these people. In any case, it could be considered that they risked themselves and took the stimulant for the base’s sake, they should be taken care of."
A few hundred meters outside the city wall of the base, a simple earthen wall with rebar was being erected.
The location was selected according to the range of long-range attacks, ensuring that were zombies to attack from behind the encirclement, the attacks wouldn’t land on the actual city wall.
And so the zombies in this new area now needed to be cleaned up.
Those who had just become ability holders have all registered with the base before, so the base immediately organized these people into teams and took them to clear out these zombies.
On the one hand, it was to clean up the zombies in this dangerous area between the outer wall and the inner wall; but on the other hand, it was also to train these ability users who had just come out of the oven.
In a laboratory of the Research Institute, Chen Xiaohui was still doing experiments in seriousness.
From time to time, he would look at the clock on the wall, wondering just how far along the rumors were spreading.
That [vial] was the toxin that he had extracted from zombies. Once Ji Anran drinks it down, he will definitely turn into a zombie!
"Oh, how pitiful." Chen Xiaohui secretly murmured under his breath.
It’s too bad... But who asked for the fact that Ji Anran wanted to steal a man from him, and even won?
He is now a distinguished researcher of Chenxi Base with boundless prospects. This is the privilege that he actually should have, that he deserves. Those days when he stayed in Geng Yan's team, unable to display his brilliance, that was just a momentary deviation of his true trajectory of fate...
That erroneous past, he will erase that history with his own hands!
"Ding ling~"
The bell rang to signify the end of the workday. Chen Xiaohui took off his white coat and walked out.
In the past, how touching was that love story of the separation between a man and ghost, however, when compared with the love between a man and zombie now, then it’s no longer quite up to par.
How so very touching, such a grand, admirable love...
He’s so moved, so moved that he wanted - needed - to go over... and help Ji Anran beg such that his corpse would be left whole[4]~
Chen Xiaohui made a pretense of inquiring about the situation with some flustered pedestrians, then arrived at the entrance of the base’s executive office building, joining the great army that was engaging in a sit-in.
As it was mealtime, the new ability holders who were responsible to clear the zombies were also back.
The base was now particularly lively, and fuss around this issue of Ji Anran having been turned into a zombie was growing greater and greater.
A lot of people were very afraid, and so one after another, they all ran to the front of the base office building to join the sit-in.
The leader of the base had also heard about this by now, and he couldn’t help but feel a bit bewildered.
Didn’t Geng Yan's team rush back through the trials and tribulations because they were ambushed and intercepted by others who were aiming to rob and kill them? What did this have to do with zombies?
But although they couldn’t understand what exactly was this current situation, with the emotions of the populace being this turbulent, they naturally can't just ignore it.
Thus, a small law enforcement team appeared in front of the door of the office.
"We have received the latest order, we will now go to Geng Yan's house to investigate. May everyone please rest assured."
Seeing that the base had finally decided to intervene, everyone was finally at ease.
Of course, there were also people who were still consistently instigating the matter.
"Will the base deliberately try to cover up and protect Geng Yan? After all, with the zombie tide imminent and Geng Yan being a third-order ability holder, will the base really dare to offend him?"
"Geng Yan is friends with a senior executive of the base, they wouldn’t be pulling some under-the-table manipulations to keep everyone in the dark, right?"
"It’s not like I can enter the residential building in the area for ability holders, who could know whether there really was a zombie or not? As long as Ji Anran doesn’t show up, I won’t believe it!"
[4] The standard that people would humiliate the dead by desecrating their corpse, usually due to anger, etc. In this case, under the assumption that Ji Anran was a zombie (inside the base), it would definitely end up messy if the other residents were to want to take care of him. But all in all, this is just Chen Xiaohui being petty and dramatic. He’s very theatrical, as you can see… And as you can see, he won’t be jumping around much longer.
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