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A few days later!

Quy Thu Nguyet, during her time in Pang Vien's team, had been constantly thinking about the base's affairs. The clues were few, and their time at the base was not long.

Pang Vien could see that Quy Thu Nguyet had been subtly inquiring about internal information related to the base.

"Thu Nguyet."

"Mhm?"

"Don't inquire anymore. Don't look at me being ranked second among the awakened at the base. Even I don't know who the mastermind behind the base is. For any survivor, they don't care who controls the base, nor do they care what its purpose is. Everyone just treats the base as a place to rest, accept some missions, and obtain crystals in the apocalypse."

"And you are not an ordinary survivor."

Pang Vien looked at Quy Thu Nguyet. He felt that she was not an ordinary person. Whether in times of peace or in the apocalypse, the person before him definitely had a mysterious background.

"You could tell?" Quy Thu Nguyet was surprised, feeling she had hidden it well.

Pang Vien laughed and said, "Of course I can tell. Maybe you haven't noticed, but in our eyes, your purpose is still very clear. If you don't believe me, you can ask everyone."

The "everyone" he was referring to were Pang Vien's companions.

The telekinetic Awakener, Tran Ninh Tinh.

A girl wearing thick black-rimmed glasses, looking a bit of a recluse, a bit of a stranger-phobe.

The speed Awakener, Ton A.

A slightly plump little fatty. To be honest, she always felt it was a bit strange that this person could become a speed Awakener. It wasn't that she was discriminating against her, but she just felt that she didn't seem very suitable for such an ability.

At this moment.

Tran Ninh Tinh pushed up her glasses, looked at Quy Thu Nguyet as if asking, nodded, and said nothing, but the meaning was clear: that's right, I've already seen it.

Ton A scratched his head and said with a smile, "Sister Thu Nguyet, you're actually very obvious."

"Obvious" was usually not a compliment, a deeper understanding of it was that it was a bit foolish.

Alright then.

Quy Thu Nguyet smiled helplessly, "During this time together, I believe everyone is a trustworthy person. Then I won't hide it anymore. I am indeed investigating who is behind the base. During this time in the apocalypse, I have encountered many apocalypse bases similar to this one, but behind them are all filled with unknown secrets."

"So I want to investigate clearly and give everyone a heads-up."

The reason why Quy Thu Nguyet didn't stay in Hoang City was also because she wanted to find the reason for her own problems along the way, and also to see the situation outside.

Unfortunately, the world in the apocalypse was truly miserable. Compared to the Duong Quang shelter, it was like two different worlds.

Tran Ninh Tinh looked at Ton A and said, "I already said Sister Thu Nguyet has no bad intentions, but you still said we should be on guard."

Hearing these words, Ton A blinked, his eyes revealing a blank look.

As if to say, you really can't be serious.

Quy Thu Nguyet smiled and said, "Everyone can rest assured, I have absolutely no ill will towards you all. Indeed, I had a purpose in joining your team, because Brother Pang is ranked second among the Awakener abilities. I thought Brother Pang might know some inside information, so I wanted to ask."

She told the truth. There was no need to hide it. She had no ill will towards them in the first place. If she hid it, it would easily cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

Look, Ton A had been suspicious of her from the beginning.

And Pang Vien proactively asking her must have been because Ton A had told him. So Pang Vien asked her in front of everyone to resolve this misunderstanding.

"Okay, the suspicion is cleared now, right?" Pang Vien said with a smile.

Ton A nodded, "Sister Thu Nguyet, I'm sorry, I've been suspicious of you all this time."

"It's okay, suspicion is normal. After all, in the current situation, if you're not careful, you could get into big trouble," Quy Thu Nguyet wouldn't hold such things in her heart.

Tran Ninh Tinh said, "Sister Thu Nguyet, I heard you mention Lam Pham from the Hoang City Duong Quang shelter before. Do you know him?"

"I do."

Quy Thu Nguyet said.

"What kind of person is he? Is he really just like what's said in the "Illustrated Guide to Zombies"?" Tran Ninh Tinh asked curiously.

Quy Thu Nguyet said, "I haven't had much contact with him, but during our interactions, I found that he is different from others. He has always used Hoang City as a base to clean up the zombies in the city, opening up a shelter for survivors to live in with his own strength. The survivors living there are all very happy, living a life no different from before."

She recounted what she had seen and felt.

She hoped that more people could go there.

"Wow, that's so amazing."

Tran Ninh Tinh's eyes shone with a longing light, but this light quickly faded, replaced by a kind of determination, a kind of using the goal in her heart as her direction, sparing no effort to move forward.

"Ninh Ninh, haven't you thought of going there to live a stable life?"

In Quy Thu Nguyet's feeling, this little girl, Tran Ninh Tinh, gave her the impression that her personality was a bit weak and not very suitable for the life of the apocalypse. But for some reason, Ninh Ninh still wanted to live in such an environment.

Tran Ninh Tinh shook her head and said, "I thought about it before, but not anymore. I want to become a god, I want to become a new human."

Quy Thu Nguyet smiled faintly at Ninh Ninh. Becoming a new human was possible, but how could one become a god? It was all fake. She wanted to tell Tran Ninh Tinh that there were no gods.

"Because only by becoming a god can I resurrect my dearest parents, grandparents, and maternal grandparents."

Speaking of becoming a god to resurrect her family, Tran Ninh Tinh's mood was extremely happy, her whole body filled with a kind of impulse for the future.

Uh...

Quy Thu Nguyet's words got stuck in her throat.

Alright then.

Sometimes, a kind of hope can often become the motivation to live on.

Why would Tran Ninh Tinh think that a person could become a god?

It was clearly something illusory, even impossible in times of peace.

The booklet explained everything.

People who had received higher education revered gods but would not believe that gods really existed.

However, there would always be special moments. No matter what kind of education a person had received, when their family encountered a major crisis, they would abandon all their perceptions and only hope that a god would truly manifest. They would even kneel on the ground and pray, "I am willing to exchange ten, twenty years of my life for my family's safety."

She felt that speaking too frankly with Tran Ninh Tinh might destroy the yearning in her heart. It was better to let her keep that yearning and fight to live for it.

"Ton A, what about you?"

Quy Thu Nguyet looked at him.

Ton A said, "My life was saved by Brother Pang. I'll go wherever Brother Pang goes."

"Brother Pang, what are your thoughts?" Quy Thu Nguyet felt they were good people.

Pang Vien said, "Gods may or may not exist. The meaning of life varies from person to person. For some people, a stable and safe life is what they pursue. But that's not what I pursue. Life is short, why not live it vigorously?"

Speaking of the topic of gods.

In the past, Pang Vien naturally didn't believe in them.

But now... with the appearance of Awakeners and the evolution of the human body, someone once said that the human body held endless mysteries. It looked like it was housed in a single body, but in reality, it was as vast as the universe.