Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter 102 Ranch

With Long Yuanchen's guarantee, the group quickly entered the base.

After a group of mutated pigs and mutated cattle entered the pasture, they obediently lay down on the ground to rest, much to Long Yuanchen's astonishment.

"Yuan Chen, there are seven mutated animals with special abilities here: two level four, three level three, and two level two. Is your army interested in subduing them?"

Long Yuanchen was very interested in Fu Muyu's words. The army really did have beast speakers, ten of them. If they could cooperate with these supernatural animals, they would definitely become a formidable force.

“Their highest level of superpower is only level two, so let’s forget about it.” Long Yuanchen shook his head, thinking about the overall strength of the army.

“Sister, Mu Yu, you’ve just arrived, so you probably don’t know much about the situation at the base. Let me tell you.”

Through Long Yuanchen's introduction, Long Yangyang gained a general understanding of the power distribution within the base. In general, the base's power was roughly divided into three parties: the military, the government, and civilian organizations.

The original four major families of Qingdu were the Long family and the Han family, who belonged to the military and whose main sphere of influence was in the military. The Fu family belonged to the government and had intricate relationships with the base chief An Xiong and the deputy base chief Guo Bei.

The Ming family is considered a neutral force. They have an independent research institute that specializes in studying the medicinal and edible value of mutated plants and animals. Their sphere of influence is mainly in farms and ranches.

The civilian organizations are third-party forces, mainly composed of various superpower groups. However, as can be seen from Long Yuanchen's introduction, the base's superpower groups have been able to grow and thrive thanks to the support of various forces.

Fu Yang's Fengyun Ability Group is backed by the Fu family, Long Yuanxi's Shenyuan Ability Group has close ties with the Long family... The Luming Ability Group seems neutral, but the group leader Lu Yuanshan's wife is a member of the Han family.

"The base currently has a population of over two million, with more than 100,000 people possessing superpowers. The military has only about 50,000 personnel, the remaining superpowered groups number about 10,000, the remaining 30,000 are under the government's control, and the remaining 10,000 are superpowered individuals hired by the base."

"Most of these people are wood-type and water-type ability users, and they work on the farm."

The Qingdu base appears to have a well-organized work schedule, but the three parties at the base—no, the military and the government—are clearly separated and do not interfere with each other.

"In the base, although the points are universal, the military and government share all kinds of work equally. Take the exchange office in the office building, for example. Both the military and government have people stationed there. In the end, whether the supplies are exchanged for to the military or the government depends on their own abilities."

Long Yangyang suddenly realized why An Xin had suddenly appeared when she went to the office building to exchange supplies last time, willing to exchange them with double points.

"Big brother, who was An Xin you met before?"

“An Xin is the daughter of An Xiong, the base chief. She recently awakened her healing ability and has won over many people among folk ability users with this ability,” Long Yuanchen said.

"Big brother, what is the relationship between our family and the Han family?" Long Yangyang thought of the original novel's male protagonist, Han Xijun, who was the eldest son of the Han family, and also Han Nanjun's older brother.

Although she didn't have any major conflicts with the original novel's male and female protagonists, she still avoided them. Anyone who's read the novel knows that the male and female protagonists are troublemakers.

Especially in post-apocalyptic novels, if you're not a member of the main characters, you might end up being wiped out if you're not careful.

Wasn't that how the original character was killed off? At the very beginning of the apocalypse, before she even escaped the school, she was killed by a horde of zombies. The female protagonist was the only one to escape the entire school scenario.

"For now, it's considered a cooperative relationship, since we both belong to the military," Long Yuanchen explained.

In other words, that means their relationship is just so-so. Long Yangyang mentally mapped out their network of relationships.

Their Bloodthirsty Ability Group is a civilian ability group. Their collaborators, the Feather Ability Group and Second Brother's Abyss Ability Group, can be considered as backup partners.

The eldest brother belongs to the military and can be trusted for the time being, but the Han family, who are also in the military, need to be watched, since Long Yangyang doesn't intend to curry favor with the protagonist.

Because of Fu Muyu, the Fu family and the Fengyun Superpower Group are clearly enemies. Given this, the government that has ties to the Fu family should also be on high alert.

Based on my experience with Anxin, Chayan Chayu seems to be a completely different person from me.

Moreover, according to the information provided by Uncle Pao, superhumans frequently disappear from the Qingdu base. To be able to make people vanish without anyone noticing in such a large base, the power behind it must be considerable.

Currently, the military and government are the most likely suspects.

Long Yangyang has not been in contact with the Ming family and will reserve her opinion for now.

Long Yangyang didn't want to get involved in the power struggle at the base, but if someone was really conducting illegal experiments on people with superpowers in secret, their high-profile entry into the base would have already attracted attention.

"Big brother, since you don't plan to keep these mutated animals, can our superpowered group rent a ranch and raise them?"

“Sure.” Long Yuanchen answered generously. This ranch was originally built by the base to raise mutated animals. Who knew that the mutated animals were too aggressive and ordinary people couldn’t raise them at all.

As for those with superpowers? Most of the people who awaken to superpowers after the apocalypse have a sense of superiority and would never want to raise pigs and chickens on a ranch.

After the ranch breeding failed, the ranch was left idle. Before the rainstorm, it was originally planned to be turned into a farm. Since Yangyang and her group of superpowered individuals wanted to try raising animals, Long Yuanchen naturally wouldn't stop them.

“I’ll give you a thousand points each month and I’ll let the Ming family know,” Long Yuanchen said.

After settling the mutated cattle and pigs, the people Long Yuanchen had arranged to inspect the group arrived. Long Yangyang looked curiously at the instruments in their hands, "Big brother, what are these?"

"This is a virus detection device developed by Uncle Le Lu, specifically designed to detect zombie viruses. Once infected by the zombie virus, the device will issue a warning."

"That's amazing?" Long Yangyang had indeed seen this kind of instrument in the novel, but she didn't expect that the Qingdu Base had developed it at the very beginning of the apocalypse.

"Uncle Le Lu was an expert in biology and virology before the apocalypse, and he became even smarter after the apocalypse, especially in his research direction. Although a vaccine for the zombie virus has not yet been developed, a detection device has been developed."

Ming Lelu? Long Yangyang searched through the original owner's memories and finally found relevant information about Ming Lelu in the gaps of those memories.

Ming Lelu, the youngest son of the Ming family, is 37 years old this year. He is a dual professor of virology and biology at Qingdu University and is a rare genius in Xia Kingdom.

At such a young age, he already had his own independent research institute, which, according to the original owner's memories, was located in the southern district of Qingdu, not far from the Qingdu base. It seems that after the apocalypse, people were arranged to rescue this genius as soon as possible.

"By the way, the heat-resistant wheat currently being grown at the base was also developed by Uncle Le Lu and his team. He's incredibly talented."