Paradise base, late at night.

The night shift staff worked diligently, monitoring every corner of the three base areas.

Thanks to the hard work of the cleaning team members, the number of zombies in Ronghai District has dropped significantly, achieving effective phased results.

This was the night with the fewest nighttime alarms at the park base in the past two months.

"Abnormal alarm, quick, open the screen!" The on-duty personnel saw the jumping alarm sign and immediately took action.

The scene switches to a hidden corner of the third base (Qingcheng), where a group of intelligent zombies are seen frantically gathering towards the corner, as if they had discussed it beforehand. It seems that they are planning a quick, accurate and ruthless night attack.

However, when they slowly raised their heads and looked towards the small surveillance camera, a creepy aura emanated from their whole bodies, shocking all the guards in front of the surveillance screen.

It is unprecedented that intelligent zombies can detect surveillance!

"This...how is this possible? How could the intelligent zombie discover the surveillance?" A guard on duty muttered to himself in horror.

Just when everyone was at a loss, the intelligent zombies in the screen lowered their heads, and the surveillance screen was suddenly interrupted and turned into snowflakes.

At this moment, the lights of the entire Third Base suddenly flickered, followed by a loud alarm. All electronic equipment began to make crazy noises, and the surveillance screens were covered with snowflakes one after another.

"Oh no, they are interfering with our system! Emergency notice, emergency notice, the third base..." the guard shouted, and then hurriedly informed his friends waiting outside about the raid on Qingcheng base.

"Activate the emergency plan, quickly! Notify all cleanup teams to be on alert!"

There are no surveillance cameras. Unless the zombies climb over the defensive wall or drill into the third base from underground, if you want to know their movements immediately, you must send out drones to investigate.

The people in the base were sleeping soundly when suddenly the silent alarm flashed a jumping red light, and then the bracelet sounded an emergency combat alarm.

Everyone quickly jumped out of bed, put on their equipment, and rushed to their respective posts at such a speed that it seemed like muscle memory.

At the same time, the drone quickly took off and flew towards the third base.

Before the drone arrived, the zombies outside the base had long disappeared.

"Strange, why did it disappear?" asked the person operating the drone in confusion.

"Patrol the surrounding situation and report any abnormalities immediately!"

The drone swarm conducted a detailed carpet-style inspection around most of the third base, but did not see any trace of the intelligent zombie.

"That makes no sense. Given what they did just now, why would they just do nothing?"

"Then... let's search a few more times, just to be safe."

The drone team circled three more times but still couldn't find the shadow of the intelligent corpse.

For safety reasons, the various cleanup teams did not dare to relax and waited from the second half of the night until dawn, only relaxing after confirming that the danger to the base was no longer there.

That morning, the various cleanup teams arrived at the defense wall of the third base to replace the damaged surveillance electronic eyes. It took nearly five hours to complete the replacement operation.

"I just did a count. Probably more than half of the surveillance cameras were knocked down, and the rest were burnt by electric shock. They know all the surveillance cameras installed in the base very well." The surveillance camera in Bai Chenfei's hand was completely burned and melted. He analyzed with a frown.

"It seems that we have underestimated the ability of the intelligent zombies. No, there are not so many intelligent zombies in Ronghai. Usually, they are all mutants..." Ma Shengli tilted his head and recalled the scene of fighting with zombies. Indeed, most of them were not intelligent zombies, and even mutant zombies were few in number.

"They deliberately avoided confronting us head-on, and even hid themselves, staying active at night and hiding during the day, just to observe us." Bai Chenfei tightened his palms, and the burnt surveillance e-cigarette carbonized in his hand.

"Watch us!!"

Guo Bin, Ma Shengli, Ye Chen, Fang Xiaomei, Fang Siming and others all took a deep breath when they heard Bai Chenfei's words.

"They are observing us, are they planning a bigger action?" Guo Bin said worriedly.

"It's very likely that these intelligent zombies are much smarter than we thought." Ye Chen analyzed, touching his chin.

"Zombie version of the wolf is coming!?" Fang Xiaomei felt her hair stand on end. These monsters were really deadly. They evolved at such a rapid speed. What would happen in the future?

"I don't understand. Our surveillance cameras are small, installed at high places, and covered by vines. How do they know the location of each camera and not leave any traces on the defense wall?" Fang Siming raised his doubts.

This caused the captains present to think. Even if it was a psychic-level zombie, its hunting behavior was directed towards living prey and the corpse cores in the brains of its own kind. This small surveillance camera could actually attract their attention. What did that mean? It meant that the intelligent zombies recognized this thing!

The question is, how did the zombies know that the surveillance cameras could see them?

For several nights in a row, a small group of intelligent zombies could be seen everywhere in the Third Base. They were like street urchins squatting in the corners. They did not attack, but looked up at the newly installed surveillance cameras and then caused damage.

The weekly meeting is held in the conference room.

Dr. Wu has been reviewing videos continuously these days. Due to the lack of samples of intelligent corpses at this stage, he speculated based on research data that this recognition behavior is similar to imitation behavior, but it is an advanced learning behavior that requires a higher level of intelligence.

"But how can zombies have such intelligence? And they can organize themselves and destroy surveillance in a planned manner." Guo Bin asked.

"Yes." Many captains echoed.

Dr. Wu pushed his glasses up and said, "This may be related to some unknown evolutionary factor within them. Our previous research may have been too one-sided, underestimating their evolutionary speed. It's also possible that some of them have evolved into higher-level intelligent zombies, capable of recognizing the equipment and weapons we use, and then teaching these to other, less intelligent zombies."

Dr. Wu's hypothesis was like a bombshell.

"Doctor...you mentioned later that high-level intelligent corpses teach other intelligent corpses identification skills...is this...is this...really possible...!?" Fang Xiaomei said with trembling lips.

"The doctor's assumption is that we should prepare for the worst."

"What on earth are they planning?"

"Since they appear somewhere on the defense wall outside the third base every day, why don't we ambush them and wipe them out right away? The feeling of being secretly watched by zombies is making me feel sick."

"I agree. We can set up some traps on the periphery and double-team the enemy for better results."

"Wait a minute, they'll recognize the surveillance, so setting traps won't be effective."

"Ambush at night is too risky. I don't agree with it. We deliberately choose daytime to fight because the night is not in our favor."

The discussion reached a stalemate, and they finally decided to continue the vigilance tonight. In addition, they increased the aggressiveness of the vines on the defense wall to test the reaction of the intelligent corpse.

This incident resulted in them not being able to go out on zombie clearing missions for several days in a row. The teams took turns to rest during the day and night to ensure they remained alert throughout the day and were ready to fight at any time.

"Implemented tonight. Next meeting item: Mayor Li's situation."

The captains focused their attention on Dr. Wu Shu and Dr. Wei Mingbin.

"The data is not fluctuating continuously like before. It is currently trending towards stability, but awakening... cannot be confirmed." Dr. Wu said calmly.

Based on the superficial diagnosis, Dr. Wei said that Mayor Li's physical signs were good in all aspects, which was similar to the previous statement.

"The Chinese New Year is still a month away. Will Mayor Li wake up before the New Year?" Fang Xiaomei blurted out.

The people present were silent for a few seconds, then nodded affirmatively and said in unison: "Yes, definitely!"

"Qingxiu's due date is around the New Year. When Mayor Li wakes up, we will ask her to help us choose a name for the baby. Don't worry!" Ma Shengli said with a grin.

Song Qingxiu's pregnancy is a great joyous event for the Paradise Base. She is carrying twins. As her pregnancy developed too quickly in the early stages, her body was seriously unable to bear it. Fortunately, the attentive Dr. Wei discovered that she was obviously different from ordinary pregnant women and immediately provided a blood sample to Dr. Wu Shu for testing.

As the results came out, it was true. When parents with special abilities gave birth to babies with special abilities, their development speed doubled, which directly led to the reduction of the due date!

For this reason, Song Qingxiu's daily food intake increased significantly, and she always felt that even just sitting consumed a lot of energy.

"Yes, happiness comes in pairs. Let's wait patiently!"

**

The guards at the base and the members of the cleanup teams stayed awake, waiting for midnight to fall.

Time passed minute by minute, and when midnight arrived, the surveillance images on the defense wall of the third base were played simultaneously on the big screen.

Everyone stared at the screen, not daring to breathe.

However, there was no intelligent corpse in the picture, and everything seemed strangely calm.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed across the screen, and then multiple surveillance screens began to flicker.

"They're coming!"

At the same time, a low roar was heard faintly from outside the defensive wall.

The intelligent zombie broke the surveillance again, and at this time, the vines on the outer wall of the defense were no longer as irritable as before, but had become more sensitive versions. "Swish, swish, swish--" sounds were heard simultaneously, stirring and whipping the danger in the dark night wildly.

Many intelligent zombies had no time to dodge and were rolled up by the vines and turned into fertilizer. The corpse cores became the energy to drive the poisonous corpse flowers. A layer of light purple poisonous mist filled the outer wall, and no more intelligent zombies approached.

In the darkness, several pairs of scarlet eyes looked back at the Third Base, baring their teeth.

A cold wind blew by, the night was as dark as ink, and a brief silence came.

Dr. Wu glanced at Li Kuailejian. At 3 a.m., he finally couldn't stand the sleepiness any longer and fell asleep in seconds on the bed against the wall.

"It's a long, smelly nightmare that even a small amount of brain capacity can't contain."

Li Kuaile looked at the crystal cocoon, stretched himself and yawned.

She finally woke up from the nightmare.

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