Apocalypse: The Supporting Actress Made a Comeback
Chapter 468 - 259 Lin City Base (Third Update)

Chapter 468: 259 Lin City Base (Third Update)

The driver stuck his head out of the window, his eyes warily watching them, his hand quietly gripping a gun, ready to retaliate if the other party made a sudden move! He asked, "Are you from out of town?"

Bai Ye had already learned about Li Qingyun from Fang Yuxin, so he stopped the car, leaned out, and said to the other, "We want to go to your Safe Zone to find someone, are there any rules we should know about?"

The driver exchanged glances with his colleague and then told Bai Ye, "To enter the Base, each person must pay a Basic-level Crystal Core. If someone is a superpower user or has special skills, the Crystal Core fee can be waived. Also, everyone must undergo a blood test. We were just about to head back to the Base ourselves, so if you don’t have any issues, just follow us."

Bai Ye, thinking that the others might not have a Crystal Core, helpfully asked, "What if someone can’t pay the Crystal Core, can they run a tab?"

At this, the driver was momentarily stunned. Logically, anyone who could get through a zombie encirclement had to be capable, and how could such people not have a Crystal Core? He was filled with doubt. However, he didn’t voice this doubt and simply said, "Running a tab is possible, but you must work off the debt."

In fact, the management of their Safe Zone was rather iron-fisted or, one might say, extremely stringent. Ordinary People who couldn’t produce a Crystal Core ended up as the lowest labor class, toiling day and night and never getting enough to eat.

But for those who were capable, life in the Safe Zone could be quite good.

So, he didn’t tell Bai Ye this, having noticed that, aside from the relatively nice car Bai Ye was driving, the other vehicles were battered and clearly belonged to those of lesser ability.

He understood Bai Ye’s implication and realized that the people following weren’t on the same level as Bai Ye.

The rest of the journey was relatively secure since they were already at the outer reaches of the Safe Zone. Patrols went out daily to hunt zombies, so there weren’t many around. Along the way, they only encountered a few stray zombies, which the people in the truck dealt with before Bai Ye could even act.

These zombies were not particularly strong, and for the people in the truck, it was as if they were just delivering Crystal Cores; naturally, they did not want to share the spoils with Bai Ye and his group.

Soon, they saw the outline of the Safe Zone. The first thing visible was the Protection Wall, towering ten meters high. This wall wasn’t so high at first, but after the incidents of zombie groups attacking the city, the Base leader had ordered daily reinforcement of the Protection Wall, and it had gradually reached its current impressive size.

Outside the Protection Wall, numerous defense works had been constructed to fend off zombie sieges.

They reached the gate; the truck went in first, with Bai Ye and the others following. Only after entering did they see a row of buildings on the right side of the road—the first was for filling out forms, the second for testing, and further on were isolation rooms, mainly for isolating individuals infected with the Zombie Virus.

Fang Yuxin released her Spiritual Sense to check inside and saw that there were people detained in the isolation rooms, their limbs secured to the wall, with gags in their mouths to prevent them from biting others if they suddenly turned into zombies.

Although these people looked quite pitiful, the authorities had at least given them a chance to Awaken, rather than killing them outright, which could be considered relatively merciful.

On the left side of the road was a temporary parking area. After entering, Bai Ye and the others parked their vehicles as directed and then went to fill out forms and undergo blood tests.

Fang Yuxin had already peeked and seen that the so-called blood testing involved squeezing out blood onto a special type of paper. If the paper turned black, it indicated an infection with the Zombie Virus; if there was no change, it meant there was no infection yet.

Fang Yuxin found this method quite novel and couldn’t help but be curious about who had invented it.

For security, the window was fitted with iron bars and tempered glass, similar to those at a bank counter, with a semicircular small window formed under the iron bars and glass for passing documents.

The person on the other side took a quick look at them, seeing they were unfamiliar, and said evenly, "New here? First, fill in your identity information." After he spoke, he placed a form through the small window. Bai Ye took out the form and quickly began to fill it out using a pen from nearby.

The form required information like name, gender, age, previous residence, whether one was a superpower user, type and level of superpower, and other special skills.

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