Chapter 586 The Envelope Left Behind

Zhao Yaru was a little anxious, fearing that Wang Tao would leave regardless of them.

Now the entire Zizhu base is leaderless and needs a backbone. Other senior personnel, including herself, can theoretically be leaders. But their prestige in the base is similar, and no one has an absolutely overwhelming advantage. If they run for the position of leader, it will definitely not be solved in a short while. It might even cause some unrest.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the situation in the base is not very good now. They are self-aware and know that they are not qualified to manage the base.

There are more than 10,000 people in this Zizhu base, and the supplies have been almost exhausted. If someone wants to be the leader, the first thing that must be solved is the problem of eating, drinking and urinating for more than 10,000 people.

Zhao Yaru asked herself that she couldn't do it, and she felt that others couldn't do it either.

Although they have discovered news about an underground granary, which may contain a large amount of food, the problem is that there is a mutant beast nearby that can defeat the fifth-level giant zombie. Who knows where that mutant beast is? If they encountered that mutated beast, they would definitely die.

But Wang Tao is different. Not to mention how powerful Wang Tao's combat power is, let's just say that Wang Tao has a flying mount. This is already a huge advantage!

With a flying mount, at least you can go far away to find food. Even if you encounter a mutant beast, you can escape in time! Not to mention that Wang Tao's own strength is extremely terrifying and can kill giant zombies instantly! Even if he does encounter the mutant beast, it may be the mutant beast that needs to escape.

So Zhao Yaru hoped that Wang Tao could become their leader. On the way back, when he was still on the back of the golden eagle, Zhao Yaru secretly exchanged opinions with others. No one objected, and they were all willing to let Wang Tao be their leader.

This seems to be giving the entire Zizhu Base to Wang Tao, but in fact, their Zizhu Base is embracing Wang Tao's lap!

What he is most worried about is Wang Tao's unwillingness. After all, for Wang Tao, the entire Zizhu base may be a drag...

Although she now has great trust in the Twilight Church, Wang Tao is a normal human being after all. As a human being, he would not want to carry an oil bottle, right?

So after she asked Wang Tao to become the leader of Zizhu Base, she felt very uneasy. Especially when Zhao Yaru saw Wang Tao frowning, she secretly thought something bad. It feels like Wang Tao is going to refuse!

"Master Priest, don't refuse in a hurry! We will definitely not drag you down and will bring you rewards!"

Zhao Yaru spoke quickly again.

Wang Tao was originally thinking that if he incorporated these people, he would keep them here in the future or move to a better place to live. But as soon as he saw Zhao Yaru like this, Wang Tao understood that the situation in this base was far from being as good as what he saw.

"Is the situation at the base bad?"

Wang Tao asked directly.

"...Well, the current situation is very bad. Even if there are no giant zombies, we should go out to look for food. When the apocalypse came before, we were lucky, stored a lot of food, and even transplanted some crops. But now , the stored food is basically exhausted, and the crops can no longer bear fruit... We don’t think we have the ability to solve this problem, so..."

Zhao Yaru lowered his head and explained with some embarrassment.

"Didn't you find an underground granary?"

"Let's not talk about whether there is food in the granary. Even if there is, there is a mutant beast outside that is about as powerful as the giant zombie..."

"...Okay, then this is really troublesome for you."

Wang Tao shook his head.

No wonder Zhao Yaru asked herself to be the leader of Zizhu Base. It turned out to be because this place was a mess.

But this is not a problem for Wang Tao. But he didn't agree immediately. After all, things that are easily obtained are often not cherished.

"You are also seriously injured, go and rest first. Is it okay for me to take a stroll here?"

Wang Tao said with a smile.

Zhao Yaru was a little disappointed when she saw that Wang Tao didn't directly agree, but Wang Tao didn't refuse either. They still had a chance.

"Of course, no problem! This is the key to our base. The priest can go wherever he wants - oh, by the way, there is also the key to our previous leader. The previous lord's home, if you want to rest, you can come here . The previous lord has always been alone, without a wife and no descendants... If you need anything, you can contact me at any time. "

Zhao Yaru quickly handed a few keys and a walkie-talkie to Wang Tao, and then silently retreated. She definitely couldn't rest. She had to find other people and work together to find a way to make Wang Tao the leader of their base.

"Oops, I forgot to ask the priest his name..."

…

There is actually nothing interesting to see about this base. Wang Tao mainly wanted to see the survivors here. To put it simply, he wanted to see if these survivors had the potential to awaken. After all, there were more than 10,000 people.

After Wang Tao left the conference room, the other survivors must have gotten the news. After seeing Wang Tao, they all respectfully called the priest.

Wang Tao smiled and nodded without any airs.

After some observation, Wang Tao unexpectedly discovered that there were not many people with hidden attributes here, there were more than twenty.

In other words, there is a chance that more than twenty awakened people will appear in Zizhu Base.

"good……"

Wang Tao nodded.

In the future, we can give these people some resources to promote them to awakeners, and greatly improve the overall strength of Zizhu Base.

Wang Tao has already tacitly taken over the Zizhu Base, but Wang Tao himself will definitely not stay. He can only solve the food crisis for them and improve their strength. Wang Tao does not seek any reward. Anyway, he is capable now, and it is just a small effort. It is always good to rescue more survivors in the end of the world.

The only thing that needs to be determined now is the character of these people.

Not to mention the standards before the end of the world, that is unrealistic. As long as they can pass the current general standards, it will be fine.

At present, these people give Wang Tao a good impression. They are a little poor, but Wang Tao can see that most people have a positive attitude towards life, nothing dirty, and are very similar to the people in Changhe Base.

"Is this... the room of the previous lord?"

As Wang Tao walked, he came to a room with a sign that said "Leader's residence, no idle people allowed".

He had the key in his hand and opened the door directly.

The decoration inside is very simple, similar to the outside, but it is normal. After all, this is an underground air-raid shelter, and the decoration cannot be much better. As for the space, it is quite large, about 100 square meters. After all, he is the leader. It is normal for the space at home to be larger.

"Huh? This is..."

Wang Tao suddenly found that there was a storage room inside, with many wooden boxes piled in it. These wooden boxes are about the size of suitcases, and there is a faint smell that makes Wang Tao very familiar...

He immediately took out one of the boxes and pried it open. He saw something wrapped in waste newspaper inside. Suddenly, the familiar smell became stronger.

Wang Tao tore open the newspaper and revealed the black powder inside.

"Sure enough!"

Seeing this thing, Wang Tao's face was a little serious.

The smell of these powders is clearly the same as the "holy medicine" of the Twilight Church!

If these powders are mixed with water and boiled, a large pot of holy medicine will definitely be boiled out.

Wang Tao said before that the people of the Twilight Church did not drink this poisonous holy medicine. Now it seems that he was still careless-not right!

Wang Tao suddenly thought that people who drank these holy medicines would show a state of poisoning. But Wang Tao just observed those people, and none of them were poisoned!

"Did they not drink it? Or is this holy medicine upgraded and will not be poisoned? But this doesn't seem right. These medicines will have a strong smell when they are boiled, but I didn't smell the smell of the medicine, and I didn't see anyone boiling it..."

Wang Tao was a little puzzled, but he still took out all the wooden boxes. There were more than 60 boxes in total, which could probably make a lot of "holy medicine".

After thinking about it, Wang Tao took out the intercom handed to him by Zhao Yaru.

"Zhao Yaru, can you hear me?"

"Zizi-Master Siduo, I'm here, what do you want!"

Zhao Yaru obviously had been holding the intercom, and immediately replied.

"Come over, I'm in the 'leader's residence'."

"Yes!"

A moment later, Zhao Yaru came. But she didn't come alone, and the awakened people who were rescued by Wang Tao before also came.

Compared with the previous state, these people's condition is obviously much better. Although they are still far from being cured, they are not in mortal danger. This is obviously the result of the treatment of the supernatural power.

Zhao Yaru took a bath, changed her clothes, and revealed her true face. Except for the many scars on the exposed skin, she is also a great beauty.

"Master priest!"

Zhao Yaru immediately led a group of people to bow to Wang Tao.

"You are all here, that's just right, you can take a look at this."

Wang Tao didn't waste any words and directly let a few people into the house and look at the black powder in the box.

"Huh? What is this?"

What surprised Wang Tao was that these people looked surprised, as if they had seen it for the first time.

Wang Tao's mental power was fully activated, and he could feel that these people did not speak, and they were really surprised.

That's strange, these senior officials have never seen these black powders?

So Wang Tao described the situation of brewing holy medicine. He did not say that these medicines were poisonous, but said that these medicines were taken daily by members of the Dusk Church in other places, which could strengthen the body, and only members of the Dusk Church were qualified to take them.

After hearing what Wang Tao said, the others were stunned.

"Ah? Our Twilight Church often drinks medicine made from this stuff? But I haven't drunk it?"

"I haven't..."

"I was the first to come to Zizhu Base, and I haven't seen it either..."

"Could it be... our previous leader hid this good thing and drank it himself? He doesn't want to share it with us?"

"... Although I don't want to believe it, it seems that this possibility is the greatest..."

"But our leader is still a good person... Is he pretending all this? That's too scary..."

Everyone started talking at once.

Obviously, they couldn't believe that their former leader would hide such a good thing. But the facts were in front of them, and they had to believe it. So they felt that their personality collapsed instantly.

Wang Tao frowned.

Could it be that their leader really hid these poisons and drank them by himself?

But that's not right. If one person drank so many holy medicines, he would have been poisoned to death long ago...

"We really don't know. We rarely came to this room before. If anything happened, the leader would always go to the conference room to discuss it with us..."

Zhao Yaru was afraid that Wang Tao wouldn't believe it, so he quickly explained.

But Wang Tao waved his hand, and then used his mental power to carefully explore the room.

After a while, Wang Tao came to a desk and opened the drawer. There was an iron box inside. Open the iron box and inside there are some photos from before the end of the world.

The main contents of the photos are a beautiful woman in her thirties, a boy in his teens, and occasionally a muscular man in his thirties.

After Zhao Yaru saw it, he immediately pointed at the strong man and said:

"This is the leader... That woman and child should be the leader's family, right? But the leader has never mentioned it..."

Obviously, the leader's wife and children should be gone.

Wang Tao handed the photo to Zhao Ruyi, and then saw a letter at the bottom of the iron box. The letter was written with the words "personally addressed by the current leader".

A letter in advance for those who come after you?

Wang Tao was not polite and tore open the envelope directly. There were several folded pieces of letter paper inside. Wang Tao looked at the first one. After a while, his expression became complicated.

"I see……"

The letter stated that these powdered medicines were given by the bishop to the leader, who mixed them with water, boiled them, and gave them to other believers to drink. Drinking them would strengthen their physique and increase their chances of surviving in the end of the world.

The leader ostensibly agreed, but in fact he did not comply and hid all the potions.

Because the leader had come into contact with the Twilight Church before—that is, his wife and children.

The family had been separated before. Later, he finally found his wife and children, but they were already members of the Twilight Church and drank the so-called holy medicine. However, they both died soon after due to overdose.

The Dusk Church explained that it had nothing to do with the holy medicines, but the leader used to be a doctor, and he felt that it was the problem with these holy medicines.

However, the people from the Dusk Church were very strong and he couldn't defeat them, so he withdrew first.

Later, he met the bishop of the Church of Twilight. This bishop was stronger than him and he knew he couldn't beat him, so he pretended to want to join the Church of Twilight, and then planned to avenge his wife and children when he became stronger.

The bishop left quickly, and he kept these potions secretly, not intending to give them to others.

The leader wrote all this down, and he told the next leader to try not to trust other members of the Twilight Church, let alone the bishop. They want to develop a completely different Church of Twilight, and it would be best to replace that bishop!

"This is somewhat consistent with my thoughts..."

Wang Tao said to himself.