Return to Camp

The Old Medical Clinic is a small pharmacy opened by the old Chinese medicine practitioner Qi Zhiwei in the old rental house. After the micro disaster, the poor survivors nearby instinctively chose to gather here, forming a campsite.

Tom's evacuation plane was attacked and crashed by the mutated cat Ah Huang. In order to survive, he struggled several times in the pouring rain and finally arrived at the old clinic, where he was rescued.

After experiencing a series of struggles, Tom gained everyone's recognition and developed the Awakened Armor. However, he was eventually rescued by the aircraft from the shelter of Haiwei Mini Industry outside the Longyao Home community.

Now I accidentally returned to the old medical camp, only to find that there was no one here.

"Has their camp been captured by mutated dogs?" Li Qiang's speculation made others very uneasy, looking around, afraid of a mutated dog running out from any corner.

Tom thought for a moment and said, "There's another backup camp, come with me."

Then he led everyone up the third floor and walked straight to the landlord's room where they had previously discovered a security door.

Before he left, he had warned Uncle Seven and Bozi to evacuate decisively and use the landlord's relatively safe room as the second camp if they couldn't hold on to this place.

Coming to the iron gate, Tom asked others to be on guard, then knocked on the gate and shouted loudly, "Is anyone there? I'm Tom."

After shouting for a while, a joyful voice came from behind the door: "Is it really Ange? Is it really you?"

Tom was overjoyed and quickly said, "That's right, it's me. I'm back!"

"I... I'll open the door now," the person inside shouted happily.

"No, you have to wait for Poppy or someone else with the security team to come and guard before driving. This is just in case in the past."

"Well, Brother An, what you're teaching is that Axing has already informed Brother Bo and they will come over soon. Please wait a little longer."

Li Qiang, who was behind him, was very happy and nodded repeatedly at the other members, saying, "Look, this is Brother An. After the disaster occurred, he was the first to understand that this is an era full of danger and malice, thoughtful and selfless."

Other members also heard Li Qiang talk about the pursuit of Tom's escape, and seeing it with their own eyes naturally brought great joy. There is such a responsible and disciplined leader who has a much higher chance of surviving in this apocalypse.

After a while, the iron door opened an entrance, which was not very large and only about 10 centimeters, just enough to accommodate worker ant armor, so Tom walked in first.

More than thirty people holding cold weapons formed a circle, and four others were wearing tall armor, holding long repulsive guns in their hands. One of them saw Tom without a helmet and happily took off his face armor, revealing Tom's familiar face.

"Apo!"

"Tom! Haha!"

The leader is none other than Bozi, a former gangster.

The two hugged each other cheerfully, and the others immediately put down their weapons and burst into laughter.

"You all come in!" Tom called for the people outside to come in, and 49 survivors walked in one by one.

Unconsciously, Tom had been separated from the crowd at the old clinic camp for over three months. Now that Tom has returned with a group of survivors, it has made everyone in the camp extremely happy.

At this point, Bozi had become the leader of the camp, and Uncle Qi Zhiwei was his assistant. In order to welcome Tom and others back, Uncle Qi specially instructed Uncle Rong to add vegetables. Zhou Guangrong, Uncle Rong, is the head chef in the kitchen of the old medical school campsite. They are also quite good with Tom, so naturally they responded happily.

After settling in the survivors led by Li Qiang, Tom, Shen Jiayi, Wei Shu and others found an office to understand the situation. As soon as he spoke, he asked about the campsite because as he entered, he noticed that many people seemed to be injured.

Bozi's face turned pale and he sighed, "After you went missing, Iron Old Man and Dr. Lin were both developing new weapons and armor. Our old street armor has now been upgraded to the second generation. But more than a month ago, we found stray dogs appearing on the opposite street again, and there were more mutated mice. The once cleared street has become restless again."

Tom thought for a moment and said, "What kind of secondary mutation?"

Bozi nodded and said, "Yes, at first we thought it was a scattered creature wandering over from Xinmin Street, but as the number and variety continued to increase, we felt that the situation was not good. The skinny guy went to scout a few times, and more and more mutated creatures were gathering towards us. Although the speed was not fast, the trend was there. Dr. Lin also proved this point. Some mutated creatures could even smell the scent of the skinny guy sneaking in, and then see through his stealth. The skinny guy escaped from injury and is still recovering."

Tom nodded and said, "It could be a lack of food, or..." He turned his head to look at Shen Jiayi, who had been sitting since she entered without expressing any opinions.

Seeing that she still hadn't expressed anything, he could only continue to add, "Someone brought them in."

Bozi thought for a moment and said, "Is that the group of people who punched and killed the pug that time?"

Knowing about the Darwin Order was when Tom blew up the water pipe bridge and was in Longyao's home. The people at the old clinic camp were unaware of their purpose and influence. Tom briefly told them about his encounter with Wen Sitian and also mentioned the bitter experience he encountered while in the shelter.

"The threat of mutated creatures in our old street has decreased, will they create more difficult environments to test us?" Uncle Wei frowned anxiously and said, "Eliminating ordinary people and leaving only the awakened ones is what they want?"

Tom said decisively, "That's their wishful thinking. What we need to do is to live, whether it's ordinary people or awakened ones."

And the mutant... he silently added that sentence to his heart.

Speaking of this, Bozi gave him a brief report on what had happened in front of the camp.

Three young people in the camp have awakened their abilities, two of which have both speed and strength enhancement abilities. The old iron slag man naturally made new old street armor for them, namely, Old Street 4 and 5. The weapons are naturally equipped with repulsive guns and cannons, further enhancing the combat power of the camp.

At the same time, Lin Meiqi obtained the mind controlled metal technology that Tom had exchanged from the shelter. While studying the Metamorphosis Sword, she also invented her own "ability activated energy temporary storage technology" and taught this technology to Tom through her "dream exchange" with Tom.

She herself was eager to make larger armor, which coincided with Tom's desire.

Although they didn't have Level 5 Red Mighty Crystals at the time, she, like Tom, was prepared for the rain and worked with the Iron Scrap Old Man to get the basic framework of the armor in advance. So a month and a half ago, Bozi and his team encountered a mutated dog on the old street and started fighting. Although they lost some manpower, they successfully killed the mutated wild dog and obtained a level 5 red powerful crystal.

Half a month ago, four mutated wild dogs attacked the old clinic camp. Although the camp learned from that lesson and had four well prepared and technologically mature repulsive cannons, they were still badly beaten, and the old street armor of Pozi and others still struggled against the mutated wild dogs.

In a hurry, Lin Meiqi had Bozi and another survivor put on unfinished giant armor, and together with everyone, they successfully killed two mutated wild dogs, while the other two were injured and fled.

Subsequently, they counted the casualties and immediately relocated to the second backup camp, which is now the former landlord's room. Relying on a sturdy safety iron gate, they blocked the coveted wild dog from outside.

As soon as Tom mentioned the giant armor being made, he became interested and immediately asked Poppy to take him to see it. Bozi understood his temper and naturally set off immediately. As for Shen Jiayi, she was also polite and followed behind in a grand manner.

A few people wandered down to a small room next to them, which was the location of the kitchen, warehouse, and experimental base. Under the iron bar glass window, a clearing was created, and a tall and dark figure instantly caught Tom's attention.

He ran over excitedly, and the giant armor was much higher than the male ant armor he had made. His hands and feet were more like normal people than the male ants, and he used his arms instead of iron claws. This technique made Tom very curious.

"Hmph, what are you doing here?" A cold voice rang out from beside Tom. He fixed his eyes on that sixteen year old mixed race beautiful girl, Lin Meiqi?

"Hey, Meggie, long time no see, I'm back!" Tom greeted her with a smile, only to see her pout and turn her head to look aside.

"Hmph!"

"No, why are you angry?" I just heard that Tom came back, and many people came to see him. However, Lin Meiqi never showed up. Tom was surprised. It turned out that he was angry, but he couldn't figure out why he was angry.

"You're a useless person. They keep thinking about how to meet and exchange information with you in their dreams every day, but unfortunately, you haven't been online since the next day."

"Online?" Tom thought for a moment, and the little girl compared the meeting with Mengjiao to chatting online.

"I also do dream communication experiments every day, but I don't know how I succeeded the first time. I can't see you in the experiments every night afterwards."

"Really?" His tall nose bridge and blue eyes approached Tom with suspicion, facing Tom's eyes. Half a minute later, a bright smile appeared on his cold face. "Okay, you're not lying, I've decided to forgive you. But it's been a while since you came back... you have to compensate me."

"Compensation? What compensation?"

"Make me a new doll and help me modify this Reinhardt armor together."

"Reinhardt?" Tom was stunned. How did this giant armor get its name?

"Big hammer!" Lin Meiqi pouted, "Isn't that your big hammer Reinhardt?"

Tom suddenly realized that when Lin Meiqi first met him, she was deeply impressed by his tall Old Street Zero armor and used the nickname of a burly character from a certain game to refer to him. And Reinhardt is the name of this character called the Hammer.

"Can I help you? How did you think of making it so big?" As soon as Tom picked up the armor, he became energized and rolled up his sleeves, ready to climb up to see. However, Lin Meiqi suddenly shouted.

"How could you, this old lady, appear here?"

Auntie? Looking in the direction pointed by Lin Meiqi, what she saw was Shen Jiayi with a cold and indifferent face.