Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

Wang Tao frowned a bit.

If the people here were unwilling to see him, they probably wouldn’t have opened the door. But why would they open the door to let them in and then not come out?

At this time, He Jijun spoke:

“Let’s look for ourselves!”

“Okay!”

The lobby on the first floor was spacious and empty, with very little in it. There were a few doors that led to unknown places, but all were locked.

Since this place was clearly occupied by others, it was their territory, Wang Tao naturally did not attempt to pick the locks, so the group headed towards the second floor.

No sooner had they started climbing the stairs than the lights on the staircase lit up, while the lights in the lobby below instantly went out.

“Perhaps it’s energy-saving mode…”

However, since Wang Tao said that a Colonel Luo Guozhong was here, there should be people…

He Jijun didn’t say much else, and he along with Wang Tao and the others made it to the upper floor.

The second floor also had a large hall with many monitors that seemed capable of surveilling the entire base. However, all the screens were dark.

“There are signs of life here!”

He Jijun suddenly pointed to something.

Wang Tao and the others looked over, and it was a ceramic cup. Inside were dry tea leaves, but no water.

He Jijun picked up the cup and checked it before frowning and saying:

“This must be tea from a long time ago, at least a month old…”

“That long?”

Wang Tao’s brow furrowed. He had just communicated with Colonel Luo Guozhong a few days ago, hadn’t he?

Before he could think further, Jiang Shixue’s voice suddenly rang out.

“Brother, there’s a letter!”

The group immediately turned around and saw an envelope on a desk where Jiang Shixue stood.

Wang Tao and the others promptly walked over.

There was no writing on the envelope. Wang Tao opened it directly, and indeed there was a letter inside.

‘Wang Tao, hello, this is Luo Guozhong. If you can see this letter, then I am already dead.’

“Dead?”

Seeing the first sentence of the letter, Wang Tao was a bit stupefied.

“Colonel Luo is dead? He airdropped supplies to me just a few days ago; could something have happened after that? If I had come a week earlier, could I have met him?”

Wang Tao’s face was filled with regret. Both from a utilitarian perspective and his personal feelings, he had really wanted to meet and get to know this Colonel Luo, but it was too late…

‘I have shut down all the base’s defense systems, except for the electric grid. If anyone comes in, they just need to get past the electric grid. I believe that if they are human Ability Users, they should be able to get in.’

“All the defense systems shut down?”

Wang Tao looked towards He Jijun.

He Jijun suddenly realized and said:

“I was wondering why the base’s defense systems weren’t active! It doesn’t seem like it was completely destroyed… It turns out it was manually shut down!”

Before entering the military base, He Jijun was extremely cautious. He mentioned that the base contained many defensive weapons. If the defense systems were active, it would be very dangerous to break in from the outside.

But from the moment they entered the military base until now, they hadn’t encountered any defensive measures. This puzzled He Jijun—it couldn’t be that the entire system had collapsed, could it?

He knew that many defensive devices inside the base could operate unmanned, and as long as the systems were functioning, they would continue to do so unless the base’s energy supply was exhausted or they were completely destroyed. But if someone had manually shut it down, then that would make sense.

‘I don’t know if you can make it here, and I don’t want you to because it’s too dangerous. But I also hope you can make it because if you do, it means you’re safe. Plus, I wanted to taste your liquor.’

Reading this, Wang Tao suddenly felt a surge of sorrow.

‘I have been infected with the zombie virus and have used too many Inhibitors; there’s no cure for me. I could die at any moment, or at the latest by tomorrow. But being alive until now, I am already content, so please don’t feel sad for me.’

“…”

‘Although this is a military base, it’s not as good as you might imagine. On the contrary, this is a place mainly besieged by zombies. There are combat logs in the computer; everything is recorded there. I have removed the computer’s password, and I hope the base’s power lasts until you arrive.’

That didn’t surprise Wang Tao, as the military base was sure to have seen intense combat, naturally attracting zombies.

As for the combat log, Wang Tao was quite interested in it.

‘To be honest, I wanted to live.’

‘But I don’t have the chance anymore, and I don’t allow myself to live a cowardly life. Although I can’t continue fighting on the frontlines, I will do everything in my power to help those in need.’

‘In the days following the virus outbreak, the satellites in the sky also began to malfunction one after another, eventually leading to a total breakdown. Fortunately, we still had other backup communication methods to get in touch with other bases and the Hope Research Institute. The Hope Research Institute truly was our hope.’

‘Unfortunately, we lost contact with Capital City and with the Hope Research Institute. I don’t know if anyone there is still alive, but I hope they are and that they do not end up like me.’

‘I miss my daughter, my wife, and my parents. If they hadn’t died, how wonderful that would be!’

‘I really miss them so much!’

‘I want to die.’

The three words “I want to die” were extraordinarily fierce.

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