The Real Doomsday

Early next morning, after having a simple breakfast, they left Zhan Yafei's home in the way they came yesterday. Before they left, however, Yun Che collected all the moveable furniture in her home secretly. Maybe because of the experience they had yesterday, they moved much faster than they did yesterday. In less than four hours, they got out of the fifth ring.

Longyang Mountain was to the west of the fifth ring. In order to save some time, they walked through Xicheng District directly. The base was a few miles away right in the front. There weren't too many zombies outside of the fifth ring, and Chu Haoling took out the Cruiser decisively. They had a simple lunch in the Cruiser before they drove to Longyang base. Built on the mountain side, the base was against the best part of the mountain. Houses on the open space at the foot of the mountain hadn't been removed. Common people, however, couldn't live there. Only leaders and secretaries of the base were able to settle down there. Unlike the southwest base where people with earth superfunction and gold superfunction were asked to build houses, there were only original houses in Longyang base. Other people had to live in prefabricated houses or tents. Prefabricated houses were available for superfunction possessors and those who made contributions to the base. Other men, however, had to live in crude and crowded tents, no matter who they were before the doomsday.

In the base there were two walls. People who lived in tents slept inside the inner wall. The outer wall, on the other hand, was used to stop zombies. Whoever came to this base wouldn't be taken in unless he got rid of zombies. Otherwise, the guards wearing uniforms wouldn't open the gate. How cruel and cold!

"Zhan, my dear, hold up! Didn't we make a deal to look for Fei? Don't leave me…"

In one tent inside the wall, a woman with shaggy hair was kneeling on the ground and holding the hand of a man. From his haggard face, it was hard to tell how old he was. His wide-open mouth showed that he suffocated and could hardly breathe. Beside them, a middle-aged couple, a young man and a young girl in their twenties also hugged each other and wept.

"Fei… my daughter… Fei…"

Even though he could hardly breath, the man named Zhan stilled murmured. Tears ran down his cheek with tear stains. The woman was in tears, too. She sprang at him and wailed, "Zhan, honey, don't leave our daughter and me alone…"

The man heard her voice, obviously. Yet he failed to say anything to calm her down. More tears ran down.

"Wang, please don't do that. Let him rest in peace. You're making him more miserable."

Seeing the man refuse to die, the woman of the middle-aged couple walked over and hugged the man's wife. They were friends and their families got on well. After the doomsday, they escaped together. But in less than one month, Zhan was… The woman didn't want to think about it when tears flooded her.

"No! No! I can't live without him. Our daughter is still waiting for us. He can't leave us alone…"

The woman still wailed nonstop. When the doomsday suddenly came, she failed to get in touch with their daughter who studied in Huai City. Her husband, as a result, was the only one she could reply on. If her husband died, how would she still live? And what about their daughter?

"Wang…"

The woman of the couple understood how terrible Zhan's wife felt. If she were in her shoes, she would be crazier. So, she no longer persuaded her, but held her in her arms and wept silently.

"Oh, no, it's my fault. If I didn't go out or walk around, I wouldn't have messed up with those guys. Uncle Zhan wouldn't have… Oh, it's my bad."

The young woman in her twenties fell into the man's arms who sat next to her. Everyone else in the tent was dirty and haggard, except this young woman. She had only shaggy hair and looked a little embarrassed.

Ah!

Zhan, who lay on the ground, got excited suddenly! He glared at the young woman, as if thousands of words welled up in his eyes. Seeing that, only the young man hugged her and comforted the young woman. The other three guys glared at her, too! They weren't stupid. Though Zhan couldn't say anything now, he showed it clearly. Probably the young woman wasn't telling the truth.

In order not to show off, Yun Che removed the air membrane wrapping the Cruiser as they approached the outer wall of the base. They pulled up the Cruiser at the gate. Compared to the crowded southwest base, there were very few people in this place, as if it were deserted. Policemen, who stood inside the gate with guns, looked desperate. Yun Che and his partners frowned. How could such hopeless policemen bring any hope to the survivors?

"Please open the gate. We're survivors and we come under the instruction of the broadcast."

When the policemen didn't open the gate for a moment, Yang Huaien got out of the Cruiser and asked. The others followed him one after another. Before Yun Che got off, he took out some resources and piled them in the Cruiser. Such a base annoyed him. He wasn't going to stay here for long.

"We have a rule. We won't open the gate unless you get rid of the zombies."

One of the policemen, who stood inside, replied coldly as he stared at the space behind them. Twenty or thirty meters away from them were several zombies roaring and rushing up. But even if the policemen opened the gate and let them in, the zombies couldn't catch up. Why did they keep them out?

BANG!

BOOM!

Yun Che turned around grumpily. Meanwhile, several rays of silver-blue lightening lashed out with great power. For a split second, the zombies fell on the ground one by one. Yun Che looked back and asked the policeman, "Shall we get in now?"

Damn it! Did they want to get in? Yun Che knew it was the real doomsday when people were no longer kind or honest as they were in the old days. No one cared for anybody else. In his previous life, he had grown used to this in nearly four years after the doomsday. Even though, he still couldn't help feeling upset. A man like him would never get used to that, however many times he experienced it.

The other members of the team, without doubt, were annoyed as well. They were burning with anger. Looked like they would like to rush over and punch the policemen! Xing Feng was the only one who managed to remain calm, if no one noticed his cold eyes.

"Open the gate!"

Seemed like the policemen were used to such sarcasm. The gate slowly opened. Xing Feng and Yun Che took the lead to walk in. Zhou Zeyu drove the Cruiser in, too. A policeman guided them to a table where a man and a woman sat behind. The appearance and attitude of the team made them upset. The man said rudely, "Each of you shall give five kilos of rice or equivalent resources before you can enter the base. The space in the base is limited. You shall give your car to us for unified management. If you have superfunctions, you can live in the prefabricated houses. Every day, you're obligated to clean out the zombies and collect resources for the base. If you have no superfunctions, you shall live in the tents. You'll be assigned with specific jobs. When you work, you'll be given two meals a day. You'll take care of everything else that you want."

"Damn it! Are you taking in survivors or slaves? Unified management for everything? Then what's the difference between slaves and us? Two meals a day? How could people live?"

Before the man finished, they went purple in the face. Chu Haoling was the first to snarl! If he hadn't experienced this, he wouldn't believe there was such a base and it was even built by the government. Compared to this, the southwest base was like heaven.

"Come in or not, I don't care!"

The woman hissed impatiently. Before the doomsday, cool men together with beautiful women like them could be dazzling wherever they went. Yet in the doomsday, the more attractive they looked, the more jealous others were. Yun Che and his men, though they didn't look very clean, were energetic. It, without doubt, made people envious.

"Fuck it…"

"We're not getting in, then. I want to see your boss who can call the shots."

Xing Feng raised his hand to stop Chu Haoling. Then he walked up, staring at the man and the woman. His majestic aura overwhelmed them. The man and the woman were stunned. The policeman who took them here suddenly said, "If you don't get in, leave right away. Our boss has no time to talk to you."

Recently, they had seen so many people who came to make a scene. At last, however, they had to give up. Anyway, the zombies out there wanted them!

"Go tell your boss we have business to deal with him. If he wants it, come out immediately. If he misses it, I'm sure he'll regret."

Yun Che walked up and stood beside Xing Feng shoulder to shoulder. They would never abide by such a rule or be obedient to such people. Yet, they must look for Zhan Yafei's parents.

"Who wants business in the doomsday? Fuck off! Ah… you broke my arm! Let go of me…"

The policeman waved impatiently, trying to push them out. Before he barely touched Yun Che, Leng Yehan grabbed his arm and had it clasped behind his back. The others also walked up, defending Xing Feng and Yun Che. Even zombies never scared them. Mere humans? Being infuriated, if those people still behaved that way, they would take actions!

"Tell your boss to come here!"

Not going to argue again, Xing Feng waved, and a two-seat sofa appeared out of nowhere. He and Yun Che collapsed onto the sofa. The latter took out a cigarette and lit it. They leant back, waiting for the boss idly.

"Fuck off!"

Leng Yehan pushed the policeman aside and sat down on the chair Chu Haoling took out. In a row, ten of them sat near the gate and looked threatening. People came in and out all looked at them curiously. Soon, a Mercedes-Benz drove out from the inner wall and stopped in front of them. Four men got off the car, and the leader of them was a middle-aged man in his forties who had a beer gut. The other three looked close in age with the leader. Compared to other local people, they looked even more dynamic than Wei Kan and Wang Wei in the southwest base, as if they hadn't experienced the doomsday.

Their appearance reminded Xing Feng and his men that these guys really took survivors as their slaves. They still lived a wonderful life and didn't care for the doomsday at all. They thought they would always live comfortably as long as they were close to Longyang Mountain. What was worse, they had more rights than they did before the doomsday, for they didn't need to flatter anyone else anymore. In this place, they could do whatever they wanted, and didn't need to worry about superior inspection.

"You're making trouble here?"

The man asked proudly in a bureaucratic tone. He sounded as arrogant as one could imagine, as if he were a local tyrant.

"Make trouble? If we are, why are you coming out in person? I'm not patient as you think! Mind your attitude!"

Xing Feng stood up slowly. With sharp eyes, he looked undisguisedly domineering and mighty. The four men winced, not expecting Xing Feng to be so direct. For the moment, they looked pale. They came out upon hearing some of the newcomers had space superfunction and had planned to overwhelm them. Unexpectedly, in such a short conversation, they were overwhelmed instead.