Chapter 535 Other Survivor Bases

The next morning, Wang Tao came to the Awakening School.

The students were planning to have a good rest in the next few days, but no one rested today because Principal Wang was going to personally select the list of the second batch of awakening personnel today.

They fought hard in the cracks for a month, not just for this moment!

I heard from the director that the list selected this time is basically related to points, and students with high points are very likely to be selected. But they don’t know how many points others have, and the student points ranking list has not yet been released. So they are all looking forward to this opportunity coming to them.

"How many places are there this time?"

"Last time there were three people, but Principal Wang said that it was his personal reward and had nothing to do with the school. This time, it's a school reward! So there should be at least five or six people, right?"

"I feel the same way. After all, it's a unified reward from the school, so it should be more than Principal Wang's personal reward."

"I hope I can be selected! I've always been lucky, and I will definitely not waste this opportunity!"

"You are so lucky. If the teacher hadn't saved you the day before yesterday, you would have died. How could you have the chance to compete for the awakening quota?"

"Doesn't that prove that I'm lucky? Otherwise, how could the teacher just see me in danger and successfully save me?"

"..."

In the school square, many students whispered.

"Principal Wang is here!"

I don't know who shouted, and the communication sound disappeared instantly, and everyone looked at the golden eagle in the sky eagerly.

After a night of digestion, they already knew about the golden eagle, the crystal energy poison tree, the barrier and so on. Although these things shocked them, they couldn't care less about them now. They just wanted to know which lucky person would awaken today.

The golden eagle slowly landed on the square. Wang Tao, Gu Yun and others jumped off the golden eagle's back and strode to the podium that had been built in advance.

"All students, I have seen your performance in the cracks for this month. You are all very good, far beyond my expectations. The purpose of our awakening school is to give everyone the opportunity to awaken, so today I will select some students to awaken according to your points and comprehensive performance in the cracks!"

Even though Wang Tao had already informed them in advance, they were still very excited to hear Wang Tao's words in person.

"But let me make it clear in advance that awakening has a success rate. The success rate of the first awakening is 50%, so it is naturally a good thing for the students who are selected next to be able to awaken successfully. If they fail, don't be discouraged, there will be a chance next time!"

Wang Tao was afraid that the greater their hopes, the greater their disappointment, so he gave them a shot in advance.

The students naturally knew that there was a probability of failure in awakening, but many of them subconsciously ignored it, or were unwilling to think about it. Now that they heard Wang Tao personally say this, their excitement suddenly calmed down a lot.

Seeing that the students calmed down a little, Wang Tao continued:

"Then I will announce the next list, please ask the students whose names are called to come on stage..."

All the students were excited, coming!

"Kou Wei..."

Wang Tao read five names in one breath.

The people whose names were called immediately went on stage excitedly, while the others who were not called were envious and disappointed. Sure enough, it was almost the same as they guessed, this time there were five places.

But before they could communicate, Wang Tao read five more names.

"Li Wei..."

Hmm? There are more!

Suddenly, the crowd was a little boiling. There are more? This time there are 10 places?

The five people whose names were called this time were a little unbelievable, but they still ran to the stage excitedly.

The other students were envious again, and they even had a little expectation, will there be more?

Wang Tao seemed to know what they were thinking, and read out five more names.

"Xu Jian..."

Wow!

This time, the students were completely upset, there were 15 places! But when they saw that Wang Tao had not put down the list in his hand, they exclaimed in their hearts, no way? Is there more?

"Yuan Xiaofei..."

Sure enough, Wang Tao read out five more names, and then put the list away.

"This time there are 20 places in total, all the students who were called out please come to the stage."

Without Wang Tao's order, those who were called out had already come.

The other students looked incredulous.

They thought that there might be more places for awakening this time, but they didn't expect so many more! Last time there were only three people, this time there are 20 people directly!

Principal Wang is too arrogant! To provide 20 people with the opportunity to awaken, how much resources does the awakening school have to pay!

Even the 20 people on the stage were a little embarrassed, they felt that they were not worthy... After all, there are only a few awakeners in the entire Changhe base now, and they were given 20 places? If they fail to awaken, they will feel ashamed of the training of the base and the school!

Wang Tao probably saw their thoughts, so he said:

"Don't feel any psychological pressure, this kind of thing depends on luck, anyway, there will be many opportunities in the future..."

After comforting them for a few words, Wang Tao took out the corresponding crystal core and awakening key.

The 20 people this time are all third-level psychics, but their psychic levels may not be enough. Wang Tao asked about their specific situation, and then took out the corresponding high-quality crystal core.

These crystal cores were provided by the city hall, and Wang Tao did not pay any money this time. It's just that the base provided a lot of low-quality crystal nuclei, and he synthesized these low-quality crystal nuclei into high-quality ones.

In fact, although the city hall provided a lot of crystal cores, they also obtained a certain proportion of the crystal cores themselves - in this unified action, part of the loot obtained must be handed over. So this can be regarded as their own efforts.

When these people are ready, they start to merge one by one.

After a while, some people fell asleep excitedly, while others lowered their heads in despair.

"Not bad!"

There were 20 people in total, and 13 of them successfully awakened. This is much better than Wang Tao expected.

Wang Tao and Gu Yun were both satisfied.

"Those who failed to awaken this time, and those who have not yet been selected, don't be discouraged. There will be a chance next time."

Wang Tao said to the students.

"Excuse me, Principal Wang, when will you go to the crack next time?"

At this time, some students raised their hands and asked.

"Of course we will wait until you have rested."

Wang Tao said with a smile.

"We've rested!"

"Yes, we have rested, we can go out now!"

"..."

Looking at these students who expressed their desire to go out, Wang Tao was speechless.

He is not one of those unscrupulous capitalists who crazily exploits others. Humans are not machines. If they don’t get effective rest, bad things will happen.

"I know everyone's determination to become stronger, but haste makes waste. Work hard when you need to, but you should also rest when you need to. You are all the future of our Changhe Base, and the future Changhe Base needs you to protect it. We will encourage growth. It’s not advisable, sustainable development is the way to go…”

Wang Tao's words temporarily stabilized everyone's excitement. They wanted to wake up, but they were tired. If you try to remove cracks in this state, there will definitely be problems...

Seeing that the student no longer said that he wanted to go out immediately, Wang Tao gave a few more words of encouragement, then looked at Gu Yun and Pan Jiandao:

"My task is completed, and I'll leave it to you."

Wang Tao came here this time just to see what conditions these people lacked for awakening, and then supplement them for them. As for the follow-up arrangements, it is up to Gu Yun and Pan Jian.

"Okay, then go and do your work."

Wang Tao left the Awakening School in the Golden Eagle amidst the greetings of the students.

He has also rested at home for two days, and today he is going to take a look at the crack in Mammoth Base.

The last time he killed the destructive-level Tian Hua, Wang Tao wasted a lot of energy, so for the sake of safety, he didn't go exploring. Now that he's recovered, the Scarab is no problem and can go exploring.

Tian Hua could find things like the summoning altar there, and Wang Tao estimated that there should be other good things there. And he also had to save some crystal cores to prepare for promotion to the sixth level.

After returning home and picking up Jiang Shixue and Lightning, Wang Tao and his team flew towards the direction of Mammoth Base again.

Arriving at Mammoth Base again, Wang Tao did not enter the crack immediately. Instead, he searched nearby according to the coordinates given to him by Zhao Yun.

Some of the survivors of Mammoth Base had followed Tian Hua a long time ago and had experienced the process of moving from the original base to the crack. The location of their original base was not too far from the crack, and there were other survivor bases around their original base.

Since Wang Tao came here again, he stopped by to see if there were any survivors in the survivor bases.

The news given by Gu Yun was that there were three survivor bases in total. Wang Tao went to check them in order of distance.

The location of the first base is a village.

Although this is a rural area, the original residents here are very wealthy, so the houses and roads in this village are well built, and there is even a river protecting the village. In addition, the area is vast and sparsely populated, and there are few zombies... …This is obviously a great place to build a base.

But when Wang Tao came here, he suddenly looked disappointed.

The village was almost buried in the wind and snow. After letting the golden eagle flap its wings and blow away some of the snow, Wang Tao saw a large number of frozen zombies below.

This base has long since fallen.

However, in order to avoid missing the survivors, Wang Tao jumped off the back of the golden eagle and searched carefully.

The village is not big, and it was quickly explored. There was not a single living human being left, they were all zombies sealed in ice.

These zombies are not dead, nor have they evolved into frozen zombies. They were just frozen by the low temperature. If the temperature could rise, they would probably survive.

In order not to leave any further trouble, Wang Tao directly killed all these zombies. In the process, he also found some electronic products such as tape recorders and mobile phones in some houses. Wang Tao used his information watch to reverse charge these electronic products and found that some of them were still usable. After opening it, after seeing and hearing the content inside, Wang Tao probably understood how this base fell.

To put it simply, this place was broken through by the zombie virus from the inside - most of the bases in the apocalypse fell in this way.

No matter how good the geographical location of the base is, how high the defense is, or how strong the personnel are, as long as an infected person enters the base, the countdown to its fall will begin.

Just like this village base, their location is really good, there are not many zombies around, and there are a lot of supplies stored here... In the end times, this can be regarded as a paradise. But during an outing, someone was unfortunately infected. That person probably didn't want to be exiled, so he concealed his infection and came back with a fluke mentality, and no one else found it. As a result, that night, in less than an hour, the entire base basically fell.

The few survivors knew that it must be the problem of the team that went out today, but it was too late. After leaving their last words, they were also infected. The entire base was completely wiped out.

"Alas..."

Wang Tao shook his head.

This is how the end times are. In the face of life and death, we can't expect humans to be conscious. Strict rules must be formulated, especially in terms of entering and leaving the base, there can be no carelessness. There are too many lessons from the past...

Wang Tao left the village and went to the next survivor base.

The second survivor base is in a funeral home.

This funeral home is very large and has a very remote location. There is also a cemetery next to it, and basically few people come here. Some survivors took a fancy to this place and built it into a doomsday base.

This funeral home is similar to the village just now. It is still covered with snow and does not look like anyone lives there. However, Wang Tao still went down to check it out in person.

"Huh?"

Wang Tao found that there were indeed many traces of human life in this funeral home, but there were no people, no zombies, and no traces of fighting.

"Is this... moved away?"

After a careful search, Wang Tao touched his chin and muttered to himself.

This survivor base should be like the Mammoth Base, and chose to move actively.

The Mammoth Base moved because of insufficient supplies, and I don't know what the reason is for this funeral home...

Since there was no one, Wang Tao did not stay too long, and took the Golden Eagle again to the location of the last survivor base.

The location of the last base is in a prison.

The prison is indeed a suitable place to build a base. Before in Zijing City, a group of people built a base in the prison. Prisons are usually located in remote areas with few people. There are also certain supplies and even weapons in the prison. The most important thing is that as long as the threats inside the prison are cleared, the prison is a relatively safe place. After all, there are high walls and electric fences...

When Wang Tao saw this large prison, his eyebrows were raised. Although there is a lot of snow in the prison, it doesn't look like there are people, but there is some light white steam floating out of the prison!

Zombies don't burn fires, there are survivors inside!

Just like the last time he went to the Mammoth Base, Wang Tao let the golden eagle move freely. He jumped down in advance, walked to the door of the prison, and knocked heavily on the door.

Dong, Dong, Dong——

There was no movement in the prison.

Wang Tao was not in a hurry and waited patiently.

A moment later, several tightly wrapped figures appeared on the high wall of the prison gate. They held homemade bows and arrows, aimed at Wang Tao vigilantly, and then shouted:

"Are you a human... or a zombie?"

If you can answer, you are a human, and if you can't answer, you are a zombie.

Wang Tao nodded directly.

"Of course I'm a human, can you let me in?"

"You can come in, but we need to check if you are carrying the zombie virus!"

The people on the high wall looked at each other, and the man who spoke first said again.

"No problem."

Wang Tao nodded again.

A minute later, a small door next to the prison gate opened.

A few survivors with guns came out, and they looked at Wang Tao with vigilance.

After seeing these survivors, Wang Tao was quite surprised. Because these survivors all had a badge that made him very familiar.

"Twilight Church..."