"By the way, Gray, you said that your squad was completely wiped out in the previous mall. Is there a survivor base nearby?"
Mary, the second-order awakener, was clearing the road, as they moved forward. At the same time, she asked without looking back.
Gray controlled the steel knife that Allen has just given him, and was killing the zombies one by one, without making effort.
At the same time, he nodded and said: "Twenty miles west from this city, there is a big mountain, there is a survivor base on the mountain, and the population is about 20,000."
Answering Mary's question, Gray also realized that none of them was from the Glory base.
But it also makes sense. After all, he was the young master of Glory base. For the second-order awakeners, Gray knows most of them, or it least heard their names, but he doesn't remember Mary's name.
"Only 20,000 survivors? Well, it's a small base, let's go to the Glory base." Hearing Gray's words, Mary nodded, and then they directly killed this zombie-run city.
Although several evolutionary second-order zombies also appeared along the way, they were all solved by Mary's Squad.
"hey, finally found a base. We have been wandering outside for a few months. I really want to eat some hot food. Also, I must find some nice ladies. Gee...." Ogi said while holding the machine gun, with a very excited look in his face.
Allen next to him did not speak, but his movements were much faster.
Along the way, Gray becomes more familiar with his new teammates, and he also notices that Allen's reticent character is completely opposite Ogi's character.
20 miles away from the base, can't say its near, but it's not far either. Soon they were able to see the outline of the base.
The high walls made of mud in the lower circle of the mountain surround half of the Mountain, and the other half of the Mountain is a cliff, which is a natural barrier.
"Glory base. I'm back..." Standing at the gate of the base, Gray's heart filled with emotion.
When he was abandoned by his team at the mall that day, Gray didn't even have the ability to protect himself. He thought he would die in the mall. Unexpectedly, he came back alive.
"As long as I get stronger, I'll get this base back again" Gray knows that as long as he works harder he will get stronger faster and faster. After all, his ability allows him to become stronger.
After entering the base, Mary found a place where no one was, and then took out two bags of rice from a slap-sized pocket hanging on her waist.
From the packaging point of view, these two bags packed about 50 pounds of rice, but they were inside a palm-sized pocket?
"This is a dimensional bag produced by a space-type awakened from Hero city. It may be strange here, but it's not very rare in Hero city" seeing Gray's surprised look. Allen next to him explained.
"No wonder..." Gray suddenly realized.
When they were inside the mall before, he saw them coming out of the supermarket with empty hands. Gray had some doubts in his heart, but now he understands the reason.
Rice is a Common currency material at the Glory base. As the apocalypse came, money has completely lost its function, and the transactions between people have once again returned to the original state of bartering.
They found a restaurant, had a full meal, and then looked for a place to stay.
The wood-built house provided by the base is not beautiful, but it is better than staying outside. This house only needs to pay certain materials to the base every ten days as rent.
"Gray, you are familiar with the base here, take me to the trade center, we will buy some daily necessities and come back." After solving the problem of food and housing, Ogi said to Gray, and then left with Gray.
What he said was to go shopping with Gray, but when Ogi saw a skinny woman standing by the grove, he gave Gray the task to buy everything. and went directly to the grove.
Smiling and shooked his head, Gray went alone.
The apocalypse is full of dangers, especially for the awakeners in the battle, they may lose there lives at any time, so having fun is what most awakeners do in their free time.
Along the way, Gray was thinking about his ability. before he active his ability, his crystal points were only 1 point, and now his crystal points reached 5 points. It seems that Professor X's special training was useful after all.
During the special training, he obviously felt that his metal control ability was getting stronger. Does it mean that the higher the number of crystal points, the greater the power of the copied ability?
In addition, Gray pretended to be very enthusiastic when he came back to the base, and touched Ogi's shoulder for a while.
And as he expected, when he touched Ogi's Shoulder, his ability directly activated, which means that his ability also works on the people of the real-world.
In other words, copying the genes of others is not only possible in another world, but also in the real world.
Gray lowered his head and looked at the pattern in his hand, and found that it's slowly taking a shape, more like a tattoo, which seems to be slowly showing a computer pattern.
This also made Gray more anticipate, could it be after the pattern complete, the vortex will appear again and take him to cross again?
.....
Gray knows that Purchasing daily necessities was just Ogi's excuse. After all, they just swept through the supermarket. There should be a lot of materials on Mary's dimensional bags.
However, since he came to the trade center, naturally he won't return with empty hands. After finding a map, Gray directly bought it.
When he returned to the squad residence, Mary and Allen were very interested in the map. They unfolded the map and started to check it.
"The location of Hero City should be here, and the location of Glory base is here. It's a little far away. I didn't expect that we actually crossed more than 400 miles." Mary pointed inside the map, apparently, she's looking for the way back.
BOOM!
At this time, the door of the house was violently opened, and Ogi rushed in from outside.
"What's wrong?" Mary asked while looked at Ogi with doubt.
"I just saw an acquaintance, Zed" Ogi said with his teeth clenched.
"Zed? He was hiding here!?" After hearing Ogi's word Mary's face changed, and said with a cold voice.
Seeing the appearance of Ogi and others, Gray was surprised.
Who is Zed? Of course, Gray knows, he's a third-order awakened, Iron body ability, and he also the temporary leader of the Glory base.
Gray remembers that Zed came to the Glory base a year ago.
It seems that Zed and Mary's squad knows each other? What happened between them?