(3) Hello, Can I Take a Few Pictures of You? (3)

"Yes, many people have lost themselves. I've seen a lot. For example, those survivors locked up in prison. It's a good thing Officer Hoang isn't here. If he were, they probably wouldn't have survived," Lam Pham said. There wasn't much he could do. The only thing he could do was save and clean up.

Old Man Vuong said, "Just do your best. The outcome is not something we can decide."

Lam Pham smiled, "Mm, I know. I have to go now. I need to continue cleaning up."

"Go on."

The two old men watched Lam Pham's departing back.

They sighed in their hearts.

"What a good kid. He hasn't changed at all," Old Man Vuong said.

"No, he has changed," Old Man Chu said.

Old Man Vuong looked at Old Chu, not quite understanding what he meant.

Old Man Chu said, "Haven't you noticed that Little Pham's spirit and thinking have changed a lot from before? In the past, Little Pham's way of doing things, while seemingly all correct, gave people a strange feeling. But now, that feeling has disappeared. I think this is the benefit of having more people in the shelter. Not only has it brought that group of survivors back to a normal life, but even Little Pham has integrated into it."

Hearing these words from Old Chu, Old Man Vuong fell into deep thought.

"Now that you mention it, it really seems to be the case."

The street.

Lam Pham looked at the surrounding scene, a faint smile on his face.

The environment was very good.

It was no longer as dilapidated as before.

Suddenly.

He saw an acquaintance walk out of a shop.

Ha Minh Hien.

The one who was unwilling to come to the Sunshine Shelter.

Of course, if he didn't want to come, then he didn't have to.

He wouldn't force the other party's thoughts. The entire Hoang City was very safe; it was the same no matter where you lived.

"How have you been lately?" Lam Pham asked with a smile.

Ha Minh Hien's figure was much thinner than before. He noticed that the other party had changed a lot. Sure enough, the influence of the environment on a person was huge.

"Not bad."

Ha Minh Hien rarely smiled. "Is it okay if I move some instant noodles?"

"It's fine, go ahead. It's just that eating instant noodles all the time isn't very nutritious. You could go to the shelter and get some other dishes from them." Lam Pham knew that he didn't want to stay at the Sunshine Shelter. It was his last bit of stubbornness.

People were all very stubborn.

When they couldn't walk out of their past selves, they would think of escaping.

Of course, for Ha Minh Hien to have changed this much was already very good.

"Thank you, I know," Ha Minh Hien said, then looked left and right. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going."

"Wait a moment. Sister Mieu Yen and her brother miss you a lot. Don't you want to see them?" That pair of siblings had been in the shelter all this time, living a very normal life. Sometimes when they met, they would ask him if he had seen Ha Minh Hien in Hoang City.

He naturally hadn't seen Ha Minh Hien for a long time.

He certainly didn't know.

Ha Minh Hien said, "Forget it. It's all in the past now. I'm going."

He waved his hand.

He saw Ha Minh Hien move the instant noodles into his car and drive away.

Looking at the departing car's back.

Lam Pham shook his head helplessly. Everyone had their own way of life. Even if he had great strength, he still couldn't control another person's true inner thoughts.

A few days later!

"Uncle Ton, why are there so few zombies here?"

Han Hieu Hieu hugged Little Ha, stroking the puppy's head, and asked with a tilted head and curiosity.

There were indeed very few zombies outside. They had even seen many zombie corpses piled together, forming a small mountain. It looked truly terrifying.

Ton Nang said, "It's been cleared by someone. It seems we'll be able to meet a group of survivors soon, and this group of survivors is still of a certain size."

"Is it because zombies are very difficult to deal with, and only by uniting can we deal with them, so there will be many survivors, right?" Han Hieu Hieu thought for a moment and said.

"Yes, very smart. Do you see that huge zombie corpse? That's a Strength-type zombie, a very powerful zombie. It's not something an ordinary person can just deal with." Ton Nang was also very curious about what kind of survivor team could do such a thing.

After driving into this area, the number of zombie corpses they saw was also very large.

Han Hieu Hieu nodded in understanding. During this time, she had learned a lot about the situation in the apocalypse.

A turn appeared ahead.

Their vehicle encountered a row of tanks.

When Ton Nang saw this row of fast-moving tanks, he was extremely puzzled. Could they be military personnel?

With the apocalypse having developed to this point, were there really military personnel who had survived?

He had always been paying attention to whether the military would appear, but there had never been any news.

The tanks stopped.

Ton Nang also stopped his car.

A fully armed man opened the tank's hatch and looked at the vehicle Ton Nang was driving, his expression very surprised, as if he hadn't expected to still encounter survivors.

They had been patrolling here for a long time and had already rescued everyone they could.

"Hello."

The man who spoke had slightly dark skin. "My name is Vuong Du. Where are you from?"

Ton Nang said, "We've come all the way from a place very far from Hoang City. We don't have a fixed destination. We just go where the road takes us."

"Impressive. With the situation outside now, with zombies everywhere, you guys were actually able to come all this way. It seems your luck isn't bad." Vuong Du saw Han Hieu Hieu and a puppy and also breathed a sigh of relief. There was a little girl, and she looked fine, not like those villains in the apocalypse.

Ton Nang said, "It was alright. It's just that on our way here, we saw many zombie corpses. May I ask if you were the ones who cleared them?"

"We cleared them. Our base is just ahead. Do you want to go to our base? After all, it's very dangerous outside now, and there are few people. If you want to survive in the apocalypse, you have to unite." Vuong Du hoped to bring some new blood to the base. Nowadays, besides weapons, they still needed more living people to deal with zombies.

"Alright, thank you very much."

He accepted the other party's invitation.

They continued to drive.

Not long after.

Ton Nang saw the base ahead. It was a base built by taking advantage of the mountainous terrain. Relying on the natural terrain, it formed a perfect base. As long as the entrance was sealed off, it would be very safe.

He saw many people patrolling on the tall city walls.

As they arrived, they needed to go through layers of inspection, and after observing the situation in the distance and finally confirming that there were no problems, the gate was opened to let the tanks drive in.

Inside.

Vuong Du got out of the tank, walked up to Ton Nang, and extended his hand. "Welcome. Let me introduce myself again. My name is Vuong Du, the captain of the cleanup team at this base."

"Ton Nang, Han Hieu Hieu," Ton Nang said.

The situation at this base exceeded Ton Nang's expectations. He hadn't thought that in the apocalypse, there would still be a place like the Sunshine Shelter. Here, there were not only fully armed people but also many ordinary survivors.

"Brother Vuong..."

At this moment, a young man in the distance hurried over, a beaming smile on his face. "Brother Vuong, how is the situation over there? Is it all cleaned up?"

Vuong Du smiled, "No problem. It's all cleaned up."

"Heh heh, I knew that with Brother Vuong on the job, there would be absolutely no problem. Oh... who are they?" The young man looked at Ton Nang and Han Hieu Hieu with curiosity.

Vuong Du said, "We met them on the road. You can show them around later and arrange a place for them to stay."

"Yes, Brother Vuong."

The young man replied.

Vuong Du looked at Ton Nang and said, "I'm sorry, I need to go and report the situation now, so I can't be with you. His name is Trieu Tieu Thien. He will show you around later."

"Alright, no problem," Ton Nang said with a smile.

Vuong Du felt that the survivors he had brought back this time were a bit unusual.

Mainly, Ton Nang was very calm, unlike the survivors he had brought back in the past, who were so excited they were about to cry when they arrived here.

After Vuong Du left.

Trieu Tieu Thien said very enthusiastically, "Next, I'll show you around. Don't worry, I've been here for a long time and I'm very familiar with this place."

"Alright, thank you for your trouble," Ton Nang said.

He followed beside the other party.

Ton Nang was very curious about the situation here.

"When was this base built? The apocalypse came too suddenly. To be able to build it in such an environment is really incredible," Ton Nang asked.

Trieu Tieu Thien said, "It was built before the apocalypse. This was a piece of land bought by a rich man. That rich man's ideas were very strange. He seemed to be particularly fond of zombie culture and was always thinking about how to survive if the apocalypse came one day, so he thought of building a fortress that could resist zombies in the apocalypse..."

Hearing Trieu Tieu Thien's explanation, Ton Nang felt that this rich man was truly amazing to have had such an idea, and the location he chose was indeed the best.

Three of the four sides were surrounded by cliffs, with only one gorge as an entrance. Through the gorge was an open area surrounded by mountains. As long as the gorge was blocked...

It was indeed an excellent apocalyptic fortress.

"Is that rich man still alive?"

"No, he's dead."

"Dead?"

"Mm, he turned into a zombie when the apocalypse came. We only found out why he wanted to build a fortress here after reading his diary."

Alright.

A very logical development.

"Who is in charge here now?" Ton Nang asked.

Trieu Tieu Thien said, "It's Colonel Tran in charge."

"A soldier."

"No, Colonel Tran is not a soldier, but he really wanted to be a soldier before. He just couldn't for various reasons."

Ton Nang: ...?

He found that the situation here seemed a bit different from what he had thought.

He continued to ask.

He learned from Trieu Tieu Thien that this base had a total of more than a hundred people. The food supply was very abundant; it was all stockpiled by that rich man. The food stored was enough for the more than one hundred people here to eat for several years.

And all kinds of equipment were very complete. It was simply a small-scale living area.

Ton Nang said, "Have you seen the "Zombie Illustrated Guide"?"

"Zombie Illustrated Guide? What's that?" Trieu Tieu Thien was very confused.

Ton Nang thought about the distance from here to Hoang City and could understand. It was really too far. Even if Hoang City was constantly distributing the "Zombie Illustrated Guide", it might not have reached here.

Suddenly.

He had a strange feeling and then looked into the distance, where he saw a few male and female survivors chatting and leaving. Those people were Awakened.

Perhaps other Awakened couldn't sense whether others were Awakened.

But Ton Nang could sense it.

Because he had such an ability.

"They are..." Ton Nang pointed at the departing people and asked.

Trieu Tieu Thien said with admiration, "Those people are my idols. They are members of our super-powered team here."

"Super-powered team?"

"Mm, they have all kinds of terrifying powers and are the strongest people in our base. They are all exceptionally powerful. The result for zombies who encounter them is death."

Sure enough, without having obtained the "Zombie Illustrated Guide", the names were truly strange.

However, he found that the strongest Awakened among them should have a 2nd-stage ability.

This stage was sufficient to deal with ordinary zombies.

It might also be enough to deal with ordinary evolved zombies.

But if they encountered a zombie with a light yellow crystal, then the result would basically be a complete wipeout.

"You brought back two survivors?" An old man looked at Vuong Du and said.

This old man was relatively short, about 1.6 meters tall. He looked to be over sixty years old, with good spirits, and was wearing a military uniform, which gave him a certain air.

He was Colonel Tran, the person in charge here.

And also an Awakened.

Vuong Du said, "Mm, a man and a woman. The woman is a little girl. She doesn't look like someone with malicious intent. But that man, I feel, might be unusual. His expression was very calm when he arrived here. He must be someone who has been through a lot. After all, there are few survivors who can survive outside until now who are simple."

Colonel Tran fell into deep thought. "Take me to see them. I want to meet them myself. This is the last place of survival for us humans. I don't want any unforeseen circumstances."

"Yes, Colonel," Vuong Du said.

At this time.

Ton Nang had already roughly understood the situation here.

It was really not bad.

At least, this was the second base he had seen in the apocalypse, besides the Sunshine Shelter, that was relatively humane, or rather, a base that wanted to unite humanity to fight against zombies.

There were many ordinary people here.

But most of them had their own positions.

Patrolling.

Cooking.

Cleaning.

Planting simple food, and so on...

These were all things that ordinary people could do.

"Greetings, Colonel."

Trieu Tieu Thien, who was explaining the place to Ton Nang, saw the newcomer, instantly straightened his back, and greeted him with a loud voice.