Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 970 - 388 Driven Out_2

"So, what's their situation exactly? Could they turn into zombies again?"

Ding Yuqin furrowed her brows and asked.

Although she had a rather kind heart, she wasn't a pushover. If these two were still a threat to Wang Tao, she wouldn't hesitate to take action against them.

"I don't know..."

Qu Shilin shook her head.

"Not sure... but there's definitely something wrong with these two."

Wang Tao also shook his head.

Leaving aside the issue of their sudden spike and dip in internal impurity, just the fact that their strength was questionable—

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They were obviously ordinary people, but the speed at which they lunged at Wang Tao just now was no less than that of a Level 3!

Wang Tao looked over at the 1v3 situation again; their battle hadn't ended, and it seemed like the second round had started. And that woman had been tied to a pillar with chains the whole time without being released, but she hadn't turned into a zombie or anything.

Unable to discern anything for the moment, Wang Tao came back.

"Let's wake her up first and ask her."

Wang Tao had just used a mental attack to knock these two women unconscious, controlling the strength precisely. If he had used slightly more force, they probably wouldn't have survived.

Nie Siyan came over and woke the two women up.

"Uh..."

The two women were a bit groggy upon waking up.

When they saw Wang Tao, they instinctively tried to crawl over to him.

"Big brother~"

Everyone was on guard for a possible sudden attack, but they just crawled up to Wang Tao and didn't show any intent to attack.

"Why did you attack me?"

Wang Tao squatted down, looking at the two women seriously.

"Ah? We, we didn't attack the boss..."

The expressions on the two women's faces were a bit blank, which didn't seem like they were lying.

"Hmm? Amnesia? You don't have that memory?"

Wang Tao frowned.

But these two women might also be pretending...

Wang Tao continued to inquire about the situation just now and used his spiritual power to carefully observe every move the two women made.

If they were lying, it could be seen through certain details.

After about ten minutes, Wang Tao stopped questioning them.

The two women genuinely didn't know anything, the memory of them attacking Wang Tao was gone.

Everyone frowned.

They had never seen this kind of situation before. Was it a mental issue, or had they encountered some mysterious phenomenon?

Wang Tao discreetly probed the surroundings, but he didn't feel like he was trapped in an illusion or anything...

"Big brother, you must be mistaken, we really didn't attack you! You just gave us so much food, why would we attack you?"

Seeing the somewhat wronged looks on the women's faces, Wang Tao shook his head.

"Then it seems I haven't been resting well lately, probably hallucinations... Let's not talk about this anymore, put on your clothes."

The two women, believing Wang Tao truly had no interest in them, shivered as they changed back into their clothes. It was only a few degrees now, still very cold.

Once they had dressed, Wang Tao asked again:

"I'm asking you, now that you're free, do you plan to wander in the apocalypse, or do you plan to come back to Changhe Base with me?"

Wang Tao had just asked this question, but the two women didn't seem to hear it before, as they started undressing and then suddenly attacked Wang Tao, so they hadn't answered.

Now hearing the question again, the two women's reactions were somewhat unexpected to Wang Tao.

"Free? We don't want freedom! We want food!"

Looking at the somewhat terrified expressions on the two women's faces, Wang Tao and his companions were all somewhat puzzled.

If they were wandering in the apocalypse, they might indeed not be able to get food, after all, in their normal state, they were just ordinary people.

But Wang Tao had only given them a choice, and he hadn't actually suggested they go wander.

Wang Tao's intention was to take them back to the base, where there would be food, wouldn't there?

Wasn't that better than being locked up with iron chains, selling their bodies for some food that wouldn't even fill their stomachs?

"I said, you can follow me to Changhe Base, you don't have to wander around here..."

"We can't go! We can't go to Changhe Base!"

The two women shook their heads like rattle drums.

"Hmm? Why?"

Wang Tao frowned.

"Because... we were driven out by Changhe Base!"

There was a hint of fear in both women's eyes.

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Wang Tao was perplexed, wondering why Changhe Base would drive them out. That didn't seem likely!

Changhe Base was very short on people, and under normal circumstances, they wouldn't drive people away.

Unless they had a criminal record, like Shang Qin who was imprisoned and tortured—if discovered, they definitely wouldn't be let in.

But these women were victims... Could it be that they had already been in the state of "suddenly becoming like zombies" when they arrived at Changhe Base?

As if thinking of some sad events, one of the women wiped her tears and said:

"We traveled a long way, facing life and death to reach Changhe Base, but they said we were unqualified for something, and so they drove us out... There was even a tide of zombies then, we almost died..."

"Unqualified?"

Wang Tao instinctively looked towards Qu Shilin.

He hadn't been at Changhe Base for long, and was not very familiar with many things here. Qu Shilin had been at Changhe Base much longer than him, so she should know something, right?

Qu Shilin first frowned, then seemed to suddenly understand.

"It looks like Wang Tao knows what's going on..."

Changhe Base classified people with more than 80% internal impurity as a high-risk group, and their danger level was even higher than those infected with the zombie virus.

Those infected with the zombie virus were all on record, nobody would hide it. Because the base would sponsor a certain amount of inhibitors free of charge.

But this kind of excessive internal impurities was rather concealed and the individuals themselves might not even know about it. And it wasn't necessarily the fusion crystal cores that increased the internal impurities; other things might increase it as well... so the danger was relatively higher.

If an official resident of the base had internal impurities reaching 80%, then they might be monitored every day, and that's if you were still useful. If an ordinary person reached such high internal impurities, the base would send you to a special place for closed management. This place was full of people with high internal impurities, somewhat similar to a prison. But it was not as strict as a prison, except for not being able to leave freely, the life inside was not much different from outside.

It was an unavoidable situation, as many bases were destroyed starting from the inside, which was a lesson learned from past experiences. If a zombie appeared within the base, it might lead to its complete downfall, so such matters had to be taken seriously.

Moreover, the base already considered this quite humane, restricting freedom, but at least allowing these people to live inside the city, still alive.

As for those outsiders, the base was much colder—those with more than 80% internal impurities were not allowed into the base.

After all, this was like a ticking time bomb, never knowing when it might explode. If the base let too many such people in, it would be doomed sooner or later.

The official residents of the base had contributed to it in one way or another, so it was only right for the base to provide them with a space to survive, but outsiders hadn't made any contributions, and the base had no obligation to let these ticking bombs stay inside the base...

"So you're saying, the two of them were probably turned away from the base because of excess internal impurities?"

Wang Tao looked at Qu Shilin and said.

"That's probably it."

Qu Shilin nodded.

To confirm her guess, Qu Shilin asked the two women some questions. Just as she thought, these two women had indeed fused with zombie cores before coming to Changhe Base, and not just a few—they were white crystal cores, so it made sense for them to have accumulated a lot of impurities inside.

Seeing it this way, it was indeed reasonable to turn away those with excessive internal impurities. It was not worth risking the lives of hundreds of thousands within the city for a bit of kindness.

Unless there was a way to solve the problem of their internal impurities... using the cleansing potion clearly wouldn't work, as Wang Tao didn't have many bottles. Ascension was one method, but it came with a hefty price.

"Big brother, I know you are a good person, but we truly don't need freedom, we would already be very grateful if you could give us some food..."