If Qi Lin's speculation is true, then is it because of the invasion of this consortium's private army that led to nuclear leakage, and then all the talents in the 404 base were spared?

Thinking of this, Qi Lin couldn't help but feel moved. If that's the case, then this 404 base can be regarded as a perfect stronghold tailored for him - it has a large amount of materials, weapons, and a terrain that is fatal to ordinary people, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If you want to control this base, the visitor's permission is definitely not enough now. As for how to improve the permissions in your 404 base...

Qi Lin looked at the depths of the base, where there was a tower-like building that rose up from the ground and connected to the underground space dome hundreds of meters high. A discerning person could see at a glance that it was the core hub of the entire 404 base.

It is impossible to count on the unreliable Ai who almost killed himself, but now pretends to be dead. If you want to gain control of the base, the first step is to enter the core building of the base.

This 404 base, or this city, has a high technological level, its layout is exactly the same as that of the small towns in the old era, including passages, alleys, shops, supermarkets, factories... Qi Lin even saw the sign of "mass-sale KTV" on a large building.

"...This is a completely town..."

On the side of the road, Qi Lin found a vehicle similar to the old electric patrol car. After looking at the structure of the electric vehicle, Qi Lin found that he actually carried a slot for a nuclear energy battery. He immediately took out a standard nuclear energy battery on his body and inserted it into it.

Although this kind of nuclear battery technology was very mature in the old era, it was mostly used for military purposes, but relatively rare in civil use. Unexpectedly, a seemingly ordinary transportation tool found here can actually use nuclear batteries.

Of course, Qi Lin started the car not to use it for transportation, but to find some valuable information - with the restart of the car's power system, a touch screen under the steering wheel also lit up.

The operating system of this electric car is very brief and clear. After turning on the animation, three options appear directly, namely "Navigation (automatic driving), "Radio" and "Driving Record".

Qi Lin first clicked on the driving record, but there was a blank inside. Obviously, it was either the data was lost or it was emptied.

Given that no one cleaned the battlefield outside, Qi Lin prefers the former. After all, nuclear radiation will have some impact on electronic products.

Then, Qi Lin turned on the radio again, and a meaningless current noise immediately came from the built-in amplifier of the electric car - the radio function was not broken, but in this underground space, the bands that can be received are very limited, and even if this radio can receive signals on the ground, it is meaningless. The micro-intelligent brain that each player brings is much easier to use than the radio.

Then there was only navigation left. Qi Lin turned on the automatic navigation system with the last little hope... Fortunately, he did not disappoint this time, and a large number of dense place names popped up on the display screen.

"Supermarket, food factory, water supply station, physical examination center, research institute, core column tower... etc., core column tower? That should be that?" Qi Lin raised his head and his eyes fell on the city center, which was the extremely eye-catching tall tower.

The underground city is nearly ten kilometers deep, and this tall tower is about five kilometers away from Qi Lin’s current location.

“Are you sure of the destination: core column tower?”

"confirm."

“Does navigation be enabled?”

"confirm."

"Please select driving mode: manual driving/automatic driving."

“Automatic driving.”

The electric car started slowly, but Qi Lin jumped out of the car, picked up his gun, and hung it about forty or fifty meters behind the car.

The electric car was very quiet when driving, but Qi Lin didn't want to sit inside and turned into a striking live target.

Judging from the ai and the life-threatening organ at the entrance corridor, Qi Lin was not sure that the city must be safe now.

Especially the core pillar tower, Qi Lin would never believe it if he had such a mysterious core base without any defense measures.

However, before the car had driven out for a hundred meters, I didn't know why it stopped. Qi Lin observed behind for several minutes, but found no abnormality.

"Didn't have power? It's impossible... It's a brand new battery. According to the power consumption of this car, it can definitely be driven for several months without stopping..."

Qi Lin walked to the edge of the electric car with confusion. At this time, the display screen on the car suddenly flashed violently a few times, and then two words appeared on it—

"Hello."

"?!" Qi Lin was shocked. Although he immediately calmed down, he looked around and then turned his eyes back to the display screen.

Is this the i?

Before Qi Lin could think about it, a second line of text appeared on the display: "I am a survivor of Base 404. You can communicate with me through voice. There is a sound receiving device in this car."

"Survivor? Didn't that AI at the entrance say that there are no survivors at this base?" Qi Lin said suspiciously.

“It just tells you that there are no living people at the base.”

"Are you a living dead... a zombie?" Seeing the word "living person", Qi Lin suddenly realized.

"right."

The living dead, that is, zombies and zombies, are new species produced by humans remaining on the ground under the action of radiation. However, in fact, whether it is zombies or zombies, the word "corpse" is due to people's misleading understanding of them at the beginning.

The living dead are not corpses resurrected through viruses, as in Resident Evil, as in "Resident Evil", and to be more precise, they are not dead objects, but "abnormal evolution" humans.

Whether it is zombies or zombies, they are new species born to adapt to the high-radiation environment after the nuclear war. Although even scientists like to describe the living dead people as "before life" and "after death", there is one thing that everyone recognizes: zombies, zombies, are like those mutated creatures, are a kind of "creature".

It’s just that mutated creatures are mutated by radiation from animals or plants, while the living dead were originally humans.

In addition to the living dead, there is actually a kind of mutant in the wasteland, which is also caused by radiation mutations in humans, but the number is very small.

The bodies of the living dead also have a metabolic system, but due to mutation, they can absorb energy from radiation, so they eat very little or even no food at all.

In addition, huge strength, long life span, infertility, etc. are also well-known characteristics of the living dead.

As for the difference between zombies and zombies, it is simply that the former's brain has been alienated and has become a beast dominated by instinct, while the latter's brain is relatively intact and can still think the same as humans.

Like the zombie that Qi Lin encountered by the Radiation Lake, although his brain was damaged a little, he still had independent consciousness and thinking ability, so he belonged to the category of zombies. In Thunder City, there are also a small number of zombie NPCs that can be communicated by human players.

It seems that this person who communicates with himself through the electric car display screen is not only a zombie, but may also be a high-level zombie with extremely high IQ.

"Then can you tell me what this 404 base is for?" Qi Lin asked.

The other party seemed to be silent for a while before a long string of words popped up on the screen.
Chapter completed!