Chapter 44
A visit to learn about mutants caused countless students to fall into fear of mutants.
Within two days, this feeling of fear gradually disappeared.
Because they discovered that no matter how short-staffed they were, the training camp would not leave trainees and ordinary people to deal with mutants, as that would be no different from delivering food.
If a zombie tide or mutants really attacks the base later, the first things to be brought out will be heavy weapons, and they will not be the ones to act as human walls.
The students couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Their main training content has returned to physical fitness and practical training.
However, this batch of students had not yet been trained, and the A City base gradually accepted nearly a thousand survivors.
There were still three to four thousand people crowded under the city wall outside the base, waiting for almost harsh full-body examinations and stay-behind inspections.
With such a large-scale expansion, the number of students in the training camp also increased sharply, from more than 100 at the beginning to more than 400 later.
In this way, Wen Xin was promoted from the captain of the seventh team to the monitor of the new seventh class.
The number of students under management also increased from fifteen to forty-three.
While keeping track of the new names of students, he devoted more energy to practical training.
The new students were not frightened by the ferocious instructors, but were impressed by Wen Xin’s persistence and hard work.
“It’s so scary!”
They patted their chests with shocked expressions.
“When I came this morning, I saw the squad leader doing squats and weighted squat jumps in the training room. When I came back from lunch break, I saw him in the training room again.”
“I left something behind last night. When I came back to get it, I saw that the light in the training room was still on. I walked over and saw that the monitor was still inside!”
“He doesn’t need to sleep? He doesn’t need to rest? He doesn’t need to go to the bathroom??”
Both warm and spicy are used.
It’s just that the training camp is a bit far from where he lives. Even if Li Yongming sends a car to pick him up, it will still take nearly an hour to drive there.
In order to save time, he simply agreed with Li Yongming and rented a dormitory next to the training room.
This place is quite remote, so there weren’t many houses originally.
All the construction resources of the base were invested in city defense construction, leaving little room for building new student dormitories.
The place Wen Xin could get was not big.
It’s about 20 square meters and can be filled with a bed and a cabinet.
Student Lin Nan came here because of its reputation. He went in with a curious look on his face and came out with a confused look on his face.
He looked at Wen Xin’s nonchalant face, held his breath for a long time, and then uttered two words.
“You’re awesome.”
Wen Xin also felt a little constrained.
But on the way to escape, I slept in the small space like a car seat.
Compared to the car chair, there is at least a bed here where you can lie down and stretch your legs, and the quilt is thick enough to keep you warm.
After listening to this, Lin Nan was even more impressed and asked sincerely: “Brother, why do you torture yourself like this?”
No one understood why Wen Xin was working so hard.
Especially on the second day after visiting and learning about the mutants, the young man felt like he had received hundreds of injections of stimulants.
That selfless attitude made others not only admire him, but also made their scalps tingle.
Only Wen Xin knew that he was working hard to improve himself as quickly as possible and qualify to join the formal army.
When Wen Xin saw that the snake in the video was not A-Lu, he was indeed depressed for a while.
But then, a glimmer of hope arose in his heart.
Since the dumplings are not monsters, they are mutants with traceable signs.
That means that he doesn’t need to go to great lengths to find them. As long as he can get information about the mutants, there is a great chance that he can find them in advance.
Li Yongming hasn’t seen Wen Xin for several days.
It’s not that he doesn’t care. After all, Wen Xin’s instructor was carefully selected by him, and he will report to him immediately if anything happens.
He was just too busy to think about anything else.
Not long ago, Captain Luo and his team who rescued Wen Xin brought back a specimen of a giant zombie, but also brought back a terrible piece of bad news.
There is a high possibility that zombies will evolve!
After learning the news, Li Yongming became busy as a whirlwind.
We need to seek confirmation from other bases or organizations, hold meetings with management, and urgently formulate corresponding preventive measures to implement all actions.
If the news that zombies will evolve is confirmed to be true, it will definitely be a huge blow to the survival of mankind!
When he was almost done with his work, Li Yongming finally had time to pay attention to Wen Xin’s recent situation.
As a result, as soon as the instructor opened his mouth, he almost dropped the thermos cup in his hand.
Later, Li Yongming heard that Wen Xin almost collapsed several times on the way back after training due to excessive physical exertion. His face was complicated.
He suspected that this was an exaggeration.
Until this day, Li Yongming took time out to come to the training camp. Seeing Wen Xin sweating profusely during training, he had to believe the instructor’s words in shock.
He never could have imagined that Wen Xin would go to such lengths to protect his boss!
That evening, when Li Yongming was reporting his work to Wen Jinfeng, he also informed him of the young man’s intentions.
I don’t know if it’s because the signal is bad, or if the signal towers along the way have been damaged, causing communication delays or interruptions.
Wen Jinfeng didn’t reply for a long time.
It was not until the next day when Li Yongming got up early that he received the radio message from the other party.
In addition to the review of the base’s work, there was also a puzzling question.
What is his purpose?
If one day, the first sentence of Wen Jinfeng’s reply is not a direct mockery, it will be enough to show that he is genuinely confused.
Li Yongming felt that their leader’s calmness ultimately prevailed.
No matter how much he cared about his younger brother Wen Xin, he would not be affected by the brotherly affection, but would rationally doubt and analyze the reasons behind his diligent behavior.
Sure enough, only a Wen Jinfeng could have managed to gain a foothold in City A with the most thunderous and ruthless means at the beginning of the apocalypse and establish the current survivor base.
Li Yongming couldn’t help but admire.
Not long after, the second telegram came.
[Forget it, tell him not to work so hard, I’ll be back soon.]
soon?
Li Yongming was stunned.
The multi-party meeting that the commander is participating in this time will involve the distribution of local border minerals. This is an important source of materials for weapons construction and infrastructure construction. The old guys in other bases will definitely not give in easily.
Even Wen Jinfeng himself said that this trip might take more than two months.
How come he came back so “soon”?
Not long after, Li Yongming, who was in the previous article, came to his senses and looked very unhappy.
Good job.
It turns out that Wen Jinfeng saw that Wen Xin was working too hard, so he returned early and planned to go to the bathroom directly after he came back!
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Time passed in the training camp day by day.
Even though he knew that Wen Jinfeng would be back “soon”, Wen Xin did not slack off in his training and continued to go back and forth between the training camp and the dormitory.
Li Yongming saw this and felt even more emotional.
Such perseverance not only brought about qualitative changes in physical fitness and combat capabilities, but also earned Wen Xin the favor of the instructor.
He began to frequently hear news about mutants from the other party.
According to rumors, the mutants originally originated from H City, which is where the first base is now established.
The First Foundation discovered mutants the earliest and conducted the most in-depth research. Most of the existing reliable sources of information related to mutants come from the First Foundation.
Therefore, everyone is more or less dependent on the First Base in dealing with the thorny issue of mutants.
Once a difficult mutant is discovered, most people will immediately seek help from the First Base.
In this regard, the First Base has never been stingy with its support, and even charges a small amount of compensation based on the individual’s needs, which is quite generous and magnanimous.
There is only one condition they won’t budge on.
That is, after subduing the mutants, the researchers must take the mutants back for follow-up research.
Even if the mutants died and only corpses were left, they would collect and clean them up without missing a single one.
When talking about the First Base, the instructor expressed his heartfelt gratitude.
“Each time they cleaned up very carefully, not even leaving out scraps of meat the size of a finger joint. One time they even ignored the danger of being surrounded by a large wave of zombies and cleaned for two or three days straight, fearing that the corpses left behind would infect other animals and cause mutations.”
“Until now, the number of mutants has not increased significantly. It can be said that the First Base has made an indelible contribution.”
When hearing this, Wen Xin should have been as fond of and admired the First Base as his instructor.
But for some reason, he felt very strange, but he couldn’t tell what was strange.
Wen Xin suddenly remembered something: “Did the tiger we saw in the video first appear near the First Base?”
The news was told to them by the security personnel at the entrance of City A.
Instructor: “Yes.”
He frowned. “It seems that they escaped from the First Base. We were not able to catch them back immediately. Many people died.”
Besides, the tides have been rising fiercely recently.
Some people said that they saw the shadow of a whale near the shallow sea, but they thought they were seeing things.
After all, for whales that have adapted to the high-intensity air pressure in the deep sea, they would die if they came ashore, so how could they appear in the shallow sea?
There were also witnesses who said that he had seen large numbers of fish migrating in the same small sea area more than once.
The types of fish vary.
Wen Xin reacted immediately.
The instructor had told them in class that this kind of group behavior, which went against biological nature and seasonal climate, was most likely a characteristic of S-level mutants.
The instructor praised him for his prompt response.
Although he knew that the sea area where the mutants were suspected to exist was tens of thousands of miles away from here, he still gave a warning: “Even if you have to go on a mission in the future, try not to go towards the sea.”
Wen Xin nodded and replied, “Yes.”
The instructor looked at his well-behaved and obedient appearance and suddenly laughed: “Speaking of which, I also thought of an interesting thing.”
Wen Xin looked puzzled.
“The news from the southeast is that a new sect has emerged recently and has come into conflict with the largest local religious organization. What do you think their sect’s manifesto is?”
After the outbreak of the apocalypse, many people are in desperate situations and see no hope. They always seek some spiritual sustenance, praying for peace of mind and comfort.
When a group begins to believe in a religion, the people around them will gradually be influenced.
In some areas, religious organizations that have been suppressed have even revived and grown to an extremely large scale.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. After all, everyone is in danger now, and no one has enough energy to fight against feudal superstition.
Looking at the instructor’s uncontrollable smile, Wen Xin instinctively felt that it might have something to do with him.
I can’t guess it for the moment.
After all, he was neither religious nor had he been there very often.
Wen Xin humbly asked: “Instructor, I can’t think of it.”
The instructor grinned: “They say that idealism is supreme and idealism is the best!”
“If you say this ‘Weixin’ with an accent and pronounce the word a little differently, it would be your name, Wen Xin!”
He patted Wen Xin’s shoulder with his big hand and laughed: “When you go there, just say your name, maybe you can even become a real master!”
Wen Xin: “…”
Unfortunately, he has no sense of humor and did not understand the instructor’s joke at all.
Wen Jinfeng did not break his promise.
He said he would be back soon, so the originally scheduled two-month negotiation period was compressed into just one month.
As for what methods were used in the process and how those old foxes were persuaded to nod in agreement, no one knows.
After this incident, more and more people were obviously afraid of the name of Wen Jinfeng in City A.
But it was unfortunate.
When Wen Jinfeng contacted Li Yongming casually and asked him to convey the good news to Wen Xin, Wen Xin had already reached the threshold to join the formal army.
He accepted the mission as soon as possible and couldn’t wait to follow the troops to leave the A City base.
Coincidentally, the content of the mission is related to the emerging sect that the instructor mentioned not long ago.
Those are not Wen Xin’s focus.
What he was concerned about was the presence of mutant foxes in that area.
