Things Had Changed in the Past Year

"What the hell, man! You are finally willing to come out! I thought you were going to stay there for a lifetime!"

Hearing that Yun Che had left the space with his members, Accompanied by Tan Jianting and deputy base commander Miao Xinbai, Tan Weiye stopped the meeting he was holding, left all the colleagues there, and hurried to meet Yun Che. He beat Yun Che and Xing Feng on their chests as soon as he met them. With so many things that happened in the last year, especially they had evidence that the Northeast Bast was studying mutant human beings, they had been waiting for Yun Che and the rest to come out.

"If you miss us, just say it. Remember you are now a base commander, alright?"

Xing Feng held his son with one hand and returned the favor to Tan Weiye with the other. Even if they were now a family, Xing Feng still had the desire to challenge him.

"Miss you? Am I crazy?"

Rolling his eyes against Xing Feng, Tan Weiye then hugged Yun Che and Yun Cheng both, "I miss my little brothers, all right?"

"Brother Ye!"

Yun Che and Yun Cheng called him in unison, but when they saw Tan Jianting, they both pushed him aside and went forward, "Grandpa!"

"It's good to see you guys! Cheng, how's your health? You feel good?"

Tan Jianting was so excited that he patted Yun Che first and then Yun Cheng. Time passed so fast. He couldn't believe it had been a year since they met last time. However, he was relieved to see them in good health.

"Yeah, I feel much better now."

As Yun Cheng replied, he joined Yun Che and held Tan Jianting to the sofa. Xing Feng put his son down and told him, "Go find Heiyu and enjoy your time with your brothers."

In less than an hour, Heiyu, Chenchen, and the letter's pet Xiaobai got familiar with Yun Che's boys. Xiaobai had grown bigger, so he and Heiyu got the children's attention immediately. The boys even asked to have both of them as their gifts.

"Grandpa, how have you been in the past year?"

With everyone settled down, Yun Che asked Tan Jianting with concern. Before retreating, he left a lot of water and fresh vegetables to Yun Yao and the rest, wishing that would be enough for them to take care of themselves. Seeing that Tan Jianting seemed to be younger than before, he was relieved. Although their superfunction and cultivation had improved a lot in the past year, they hadn't had the chance to spend much time with their family. When they first came out, the boys couldn't even recognize them, and that hurt.

"Better than ever of course! Yao has always been here taking care of me, and Weiye and Xinbai have been taking charge of the base. Living with my lovely great-grandsons, I just feel my life much better than those retired before Doomsday."

It had been years that only he and his grandson Tan Weiye lived here. In the past year, their life was much more boisterous than ever with the accompany of the children. Tan Jianting just wished they could stay here forever if that was possible.

"That's good to hear, Grandpa! Just remember Ningning and my other boys are counting on you to host their weddings. So, please take care of yourself."

Yun Che couldn't help joking in a good mood, and Yun Cheng added, "That's right, Grandpa. Brother Weiye and Wenyang, my sister and Mingxuan, they all haven't held their weddings yet. You are our only hope on this."

"You guys are really sweet, aren't you?"

Tan Jianting was amused. But when he saw Chenchen playing with the kids, he said to them, "I'll leave you young people to catch up. Chenchen, I'm coming!"

Tan Jianting bypassed them and walked toward the kids. Then he simply sat with them on the carpet. Chenchen looked up when hearing someone calling him. Seeing Tan Jianting, he threw himself in his arms.

"So, where is Mingxuan?"

Yun Che shifted his gaze from the kids and asked puzzledly. Gu Mingxuan was worried about Yun Yao's safety, so he didn't join them to be in retreat but stayed outside.

"He has gone to the Southwest Base. Not long ago, the base was besieged by a large number of zombies, so he went back to help Wenyang. That happened in many bases this year. Currently, only seven bases left in China, except for the Southwest, the Coast, the Capital, the Northeast, and the Northwest, there are only the Central China Base and the South China Base. The rest small bases have all been destroyed. The Central China Base has most people there, yet they have suffered the attack three times within a month. I don't think they would hold much longer."

Speaking of this, Tan Weiye sighed deeply. Rumors had that level 9 zombies had appeared already. Even if he hadn't seen any yet, he knew what level 8 zombies were like. They were as intellectual as human beings in their 15 and they looked like humans as well, which meant level 9 zombies would only be more impressive and harder to recognize. Also, the level 8 zombies were able to split into countless low-level zombies at their will, so the number of the zombies had grown crazily and all the bases were worried.

"What about the Southwest Base?"

Hearing the conversation, Ye Xingchen came over and asked. After all, the Dragon Squad had gone there already.

"Don't worry. Wenyang blasted the bridge decisively to prevent the zombies on the opposite side of the river from crossing. By doing so, the zombies in the base were easy to handle. Given the geographical advantages of the Southwest Base, the zombies couldn't fight the way they dealt with other bases. I called Wenyang this morning. He told me he's coming back with his parents to celebrate the boys' birthday."

"Now we see the geographical advantages of the Southwest. Speaking of which, how is it going with the food planting? I assume it's no longer a problem for the survivors to fill their stomachs."

Yun Che nodded. The last place he would worry about was the Southwest Base. With the solid foundation and three army groups, it was the safest base among all. Even if millions of zombies would attack them, they could deal with them easily.

"We harvested three times last year and got fruitful production this March. Now we have enough food to eat, so does the Southwest Base. Mingxuan had watered newly developed land with your spring. And I heard everyone got their land right now. The Southwest is definitely the most prosperous base compared to others."

That was the only thing that might light up all of them. The harvests had solved the food problem eventually and even gifted them surpluses. The survivors became more and more motivated and they were no longer afraid of the life after Doomsday.

"How's the capital? Are Grandpa and our family alright?"

"They had a big harvest as well, but they got too many people there. Section C and D are fine. Don't forget they have enclosed two cities as their planting base. Section B and E, on the contrary, didn't share a similar situation. Their research institute got nothing on their study, so they had been looking for you."

"And whose fault is that? I had suggested to them sincerely that they should try their best to enclose more land, but they were too scheming to follow my advice. I say they asked for it."

Yun Che spread his hands. It was true he had named the price 100 level 3 crystal nucleus for each mu, but he gave them a 50% discount and didn't ask for more in the end. But the military of Section B and E played him. All the five families only enclosed one or two hundred mu of land symbolically. Probably they had planned to dissolve the medicine from the soil after Yun Che used it for purifying the land, expecting that they might save a large number of materials. Yun Che had tried to remind them that it wouldn't work, but they only got pissed. In the end, Yun Che could only give up. After all, if the research institute could work out the elements of his medicine, he had to accept his bad luck.

"What about the Northeast Base? Any movements?"

Xing Feng asked solemnly. It had been a year and they had too much to learn. But right now, the Northeast Base was their priority.

"It has been proved that they were doing researches about mutant human beings. In fact, they already have mutant human beings appearing in their base. It's said that they were miserable, mostly with a human head and a beast's body. Various shapes, you name it. Some had been injected mutant beasts' genes and they've become… Well, I'd say you would be frightened if you take a look at their pictures."

The Gao family of the Northeast Base was insane. According to reliable information, mutant human beings were mostly from the military. The military commander-in-chief used his soldiers to do research. That was really crazy and frantic.

"You have moles in the Northeast Base?"

Yun Che raised his eyebrows surprisingly. Otherwise, why did they have such pictures?

"Oh, come on, our men just went missing for no reason after getting there. I don't think they are likely to be alive. The mutant human being thing and pictures are all from Mingxuan. He had mentioned once that it was your friend Fei Ye who kept sending him these pictures regularly."

Tan Weiye was pissed when saying this. He could accept if his men were all dead. But if those in the Northeast Base dared to turn them into mutant human beings, he would like to risk his life to revenge them!

"Fei Ye?"

How did he get into the Northeast Base?

Yun Che was beyond surprised. Taking his laptop out and connecting the Interest, he saw many unread emails in his mailbox, all of which were sent by Fei Ye. The last one was sent at the beginning of this month, asking him for contact once he was out of the space. Seeing this, Yun Che hurried to give him a reply.

"See it yourselves. This is the mutant human beings we are talking about. Their bodies are as tough as the mutant beasts and they are capable of performing superfunction, stronger than any ordinary mutant beast or superfunction possessors."

Opening the emails and glancing at the pictures, Yun Che immediately sent them to all the members.

"What the hell? Are those of the Gao family not humans or something? Why didn't they just do this to themselves?"

"A gecko's body and a human's head! Damn it!"

"I saw a wild boar with a human head. Oh, fuck it! What's the point of living in the world in this way? Even zombies are much better than them. At least they are almost like human beings if they got lucky to reach level-10. But them, I don't see any possibility to make a change."

"I've never considered myself a good person. But this! I feel like a nobleman to see this! The Gao family deserves a fucking death!!"

All those from Chaoyang and Peak were furious when seeing the pictures. There were not only the mutant human beings who barely survived but also discarded fragments of those who didn't make it. The staff there simply sewed and then abandoned them. Some of the pictures showed that the researchers in white robes were pushing carts to transport the corpses outside to feed the zombies. The members were all in a great rage, wishing to rush to the Northeast Base and make them pay for this.

"Have you seen this picture? I can't see the research institute of the Northeast Base. It's not in the base, is it?"

Yun Cheng couldn't help asking when seeing a picture. Yun Che took a look at it and then opened the same picture on his laptop. It was a half-view of the base, from which one could see how the mutant human beings escorted humans into the warehouses. They had heavily-armed soldiers guarding all around, each having an energy gun in their waists. What puzzled Yun Cheng was that he could see clearly that the wall was full of bone-dissolving blood vines, and outside it was giant trees in the distance. But there shouldn't be any trees inside the base.

"Are you saying this is the research base of their mutant human beings?"

Yun Che looked up at the rest and put forward a reasonable doubt. If so, did it mean that Fei Ye had infiltrated the wolf's den?

"I'm afraid so."

Xing Feng echoed his suspicion, and the others nodded one after another.