Chapter 621: Base Cemetery
The most valuable things superhumans possessed, besides the Wonders on them, were the vehicles each one owned.
Even people without Wonders would spare no effort to have their vehicles modified by superhumans from the Mechanic Sequence.
Gong Yong, that idiot, had actually received several transaction requests for vehicle modifications.
But even though his personality had become much more outgoing, he still felt some social anxiety about modifying vehicles for others.
Chu Che and the others didn't forcefully demand that Gong Yong had to do certain things.
This was also the reason.
At the base, many people's vehicles had already become Wonders, each with all sorts of magical abilities.
As for this information, some people kept their vehicle's details buried deep, never telling anyone.
Meanwhile, others had no qualms about revealing their vehicle's information to others, in order to intimidate certain people.
The Silent Council held records on most people, including these Wonder vehicles.
Actually, this vehicle information wasn't hard to find out.
For example, Chen Ye spent every day with the survivors. Even if the survivors didn't know the exact number ranking of the Monster Pickup Truck,
They still knew there was a monster hiding inside the Monster Pickup Truck.
The woman Iron Lion brought back was quickly handed over to the Silent Council's people.
According to Elder Hou, they had ways to extract information from this woman.
However, Hou Junji had also made some preliminary judgments.
This woman was definitely a human being.
As for why she had become like this, he didn't know yet.
But Elder Hou's expression was extremely grim.
Clearly, he had some suspicions, but he didn't voice what he was thinking on the spot.
As for this result, Chen Ye and the others had nothing more to say.
With the current capabilities of the Fair Convoy, extracting any information from this woman was clearly impossible.
They brought her back because they wanted to see if anyone else had a way.
Now that the Silent Council's people said they had a method, they naturally had no reason to refuse.
Elder Hou promised to inform the Fair Convoy's people of the results in the evening.
...
When it reached six o'clock,
Some convoys had already returned from Xi City.
Although many anomalies were no longer too afraid of daytime activity, night was always the active period for these anomalies.
Staying in Xi City at night was absolutely not a good idea.
However, when these people returned, it wasn't as peaceful as the Fair Convoy's return.
The first bus that came back had large amounts of bloodstains on it, along with multiple damages to the vehicle.
Not only was there a lot of blood on the front windshield, but there were also patches of cracked lines.
And in the driver's seat, there was a watermelon-sized hole.
Clearly, they had experienced an extremely brutal battle.
Keep in mind that all these vehicles had been completely overhauled just a few days earlier.
And now this...
Everyone at the base stared at this vehicle.
The bus slowly passed through the base's gate and came to a stop.
It felt as if some heavy atmosphere was spreading through the square, mixed with a strong smell of blood.
This was only the first day, and such a tragic battle had already occurred?
Gong Yong looked at this miserable sight, feeling a huge wave of relief inside.
Earlier, he had thought Chen Ye was slacking off, but now it seemed...
Maybe he should be grateful to have such a slacker of an acting captain.
The bus came to a stop.
The door opened.
A man slowly stepped down from the vehicle.
The man was holding a woman in his arms, a petite young woman.
His face was filled with grief, his head lowered, his black hair disheveled, making it impossible to see his sorrowful eyes.
"This is..."
"It's actually him!"
"You know him!"
"I've seen him before. That man is a superhuman, Sequence 2. The woman in his arms seems to be his wife, an ordinary person!"
"Sigh..."
"Ah... pitiful. The man probably went to Xi City, and the woman couldn't bear the worry and insisted on following. The result..."
"What a shame..."
No one condemned the woman for being an ordinary person and choosing to participate in such a dangerous mission.
As people of the apocalypse, they all knew the reason.
In the apocalypse, any emotional bond was extremely precious!
Your brother, your lover, might be your only family in this world.
Even superhumans might never return while carrying out a mission.
Therefore, many couples simply went out together, avoiding one person worrying and fearing, and also avoiding one person dying, leaving the other alone in the world.
For couples in the apocalypse, the best way to die was to die together, or to stay together in some Uninhabited Forbidden Zone, never coming out again.
The man stepped down from the vehicle, step by step.
Some people gathered around, clearly their teammates from the same convoy.
One of them was obviously the captain, his expression incredibly sorrowful.
The captain said something, but the man didn't respond.
Elder Hou let out a long sigh and walked over.
The two talked about something, but I don't know what was said.
The man nodded blankly.
More people were getting off the bus behind.
The expressions on everyone's faces weren't very good.
They had originally thought today's mission would be simple, and indeed it really had been simple.
The anomalies on the outskirts of Xi City weren't strong.
But precisely because they had this understanding, they let their guard down.
And then the tragedy happened...
In Chen Ye's view, even the lowest-level anomalies required full concentration to handle.
Because, in Chen Ye's understanding, you never knew what abilities an anomaly might have.
Every anomaly was different.
Even the lowest-level ones.
But not everyone had Chen Ye's awareness.
And even if they did, it was impossible to maintain one hundred percent vigilance every single moment.
Under Elder Hou Junji's guidance, the man arrived at a small slope near the base, close to the seaside.
Several workers in Silent Council uniforms picked up their shovels.
They quickly dug a small pit!
The man looked at this small pit and finally broke down crying.
Even from such a distance, you could see the man's shoulders heaving.
No one went to comfort him.
No one knew how to comfort him.
Who said men don't easily shed tears? It's just that they haven't reached the point of heartbreak.
The man's crying gradually grew louder, like a wounded lone wolf, mixing with the sea breeze and the sound of waves, sending his sobs to everyone's ears.
Everyone who heard it fell silent.
The man just stood there, holding that corpse in front of the small pit, wailing!
There was movement at the base again.
Other convoys were returning one after another.
Each convoy had brought back some supplies, more or less.
Normally, this would be a time when the entire base was filled with joy.
But now, the entire base was shrouded in a gray, sorrowful mood.
Many vehicles had all sorts of damage, and quite a few were stained with blood.
Chen Ye spotted the Doomsday Fantasia Convoy.
Ye and Xu Linhao's expressions were extremely grim.
Ye was as cold as a block of ice.
And Xu Linhao had his head lowered, his expression unreadable.
He was also holding someone in his arms.
A pathfinder walked up to the two of them.
Many people quickly gathered around, obviously members of their convoy.
Chen Ye immediately spotted the woman in Xu Linhao's arms.
He had seen this woman once before. Although they weren't familiar, he had greeted her.
She was a youthful, vibrant girl.
Not pretty, but she had a cheerful demeanor.
"It's actually Ge Ling!"
The person beside him, Dantai Bie, spoke.
Chu Che turned his head: "You know her?"
"Ah... she's a superhuman from Ye and Xu Linhao's convoy. Her sequence rank isn't high, but... she was a good girl!"
Dantai Bie's mood was clearly low.
Chen Ye glanced at Dantai Bie in surprise.
Dantai Bie shot Chen Ye a glare, but still said, "Don't overthink it. I just feel sorry for her. She was only in her twenties!"
"I used to hang out with their convoy, and this little girl was very talkative, spoke a lot. She just had a bit of a bad temper, and I argued with her a couple of times."
"I just never thought..."
Chen Ye looked toward the small slope: "Do you know that guy over there?"
He was referring, of course, to the man still weeping bitterly on that small slope.
He only asked out of curiosity.
After all, Dantai Bie was pretty much the know-it-all at this base. In the time they had been here, he had gathered more information than Chen Ye and the others.
Dantai Bie looked toward the small slope, was silent for a moment, and then said, "I know him. The man is called Feng Zicong, and the woman is called Cai Qingqing!"
"The woman was an ordinary person. Ah... what a shame. They were very much in love!"
"And the man?"
"He's from the God Worshipper Sequence."