The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 123 The Temperature Drops Again (2)

Just as Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng had guessed, they were indeed taken back to the upper lobby of the hotel.

"Untie them." Before Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng could even stand still, a voice rang out. Then, the tape over their mouths was torn off, and the blindfolds were pulled off. Of course, their hands, which were behind their backs, were not untied.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Liu Jia, I'm 38 years old, and I'm a fund manager..." As he said this, the man in the trench coat sitting on the single sofa in front of Qin Yuan and the others in the lobby chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Heh, before the apocalypse, I was struggling to make a living like a dog, and now I'm struggling to survive, still like a dog."

“This is our base’s second-in-command, Li Minze. He’s a top student in elementary school, majoring in mechanical engineering, but unfortunately he hasn’t graduated yet.” The man in the trench coat then pointed to the bespectacled man sitting to his right and the burly man to his left. “Third brother, Wang Sanhai, is the captain of a cargo ship. He was lucky; the zombies were still at sea when they first appeared.”

Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng remained silent, listening quietly to the man in the trench coat speak.

“You two don’t need to be so wary. Come, sit down,” the man in the trench coat pointed to the sofa to Qin Yuan’s left, gesturing for them to sit down. “Our base is so big, and we weren’t all together from the beginning.”

From the man in the trench coat's words, Gu Nanfeng could guess that the other party had called them in to talk, probably wanting to recruit them as allies. After all, although they were few in number, they were all superhumans. In contrast, although this base had more people, the number of superhumans was hard to say...

"Okay, go ahead and we're listening." Qin Yuan relaxed a lot after sitting down. Although his hands were tied behind his back, he still found a comfortable position to lean back. Gu Nanfeng, on the other hand, sat properly. Even though he was tied up, his usual demeanor and upbringing were still evident.

"Boss, boss, something bad has happened!" Just as Liu Jia, the man in the trench coat, was about to speak, a survivor ran in from the lobby entrance.

The outdoor temperature in the port city has been below minus thirty degrees Celsius for the past few days. Although the man in the trench coat and his base didn't have much food left, they had plenty of other supplies. More importantly, they obtained a large batch of imported cold-weather supplies from the cargo ships in the port, which were to be transported to the north via the port city. So after the temperature stabilized, the ordinary survivors in the base also began to take on some patrol and guard duties. The person who rushed in at this moment was an ordinary survivor who was assigned to guard the entrance of the lobby.

"Boss, Brother Liu, Brother Liu, he..." The survivor exuded a chill, his eyelashes were covered in ice shards, and there was a small ice crystal under his nose, clearly indicating that his snot had frozen as soon as it came out.

"Don't rush, speak slowly." Wang Sanhai glanced at the person who came in. Although he noticed that the other person was freezing, as a superhuman, he didn't feel very cold. He just thought it might be snowing outside again.

"Achoo!" Liu Jia had just woken up and was speaking when he saw Li Minze on his right had huddled into the single sofa, wrapped his down jacket tighter around himself, and kept sneezing. He immediately turned around and asked, "Minze, what's wrong?"

"It suddenly feels cold!" As soon as Li Minze opened his mouth, you could feel the cold air rushing into his mouth and down his throat, causing him to cough incessantly.

"Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!" Qin Yuan saw the bespectacled guy across from him coughing incessantly, and he couldn't help but sneeze three times in a row. After sneezing, he turned to Gu Nanfeng and joked, "My mom said that if I sneeze three times in a row, it means I have a cold."

After saying this, Qin Yuan paused. He saw Gu Nanfeng's face suddenly darken, so he followed his gaze and saw that the man who had rushed in had turned pale and stiffened and collapsed to the ground in just a few minutes.

Even the few people standing near the door in the lobby suddenly collapsed, falling straight to the ground like stones with a "thud".

"What's going on?" Wang Sanhai glanced around the hall in confusion. Apart from a few people who were also superhumans like them, everyone else had collapsed like stones in an instant. He immediately rushed to the person lying in front of them, squatted down to take a closer look, and exclaimed, "Big brother, this... he... he's frozen solid!"

"No...no...impossible!" Shivering in the single sofa, Lee Min-taek shook his head in disbelief, desperately trying to stop his teeth from chattering. "Theoretically...a person...can't...freeze into ice in an instant..."

"You...you stop...speaking..." Qin Yuan began to tremble involuntarily, but Gu Nanfeng next to him seemed not to feel anything as he glanced at him, and then with a "snap," Qin Yuan felt his hands, which were bound behind his back, being released. Without hesitation, he controlled his supernatural power and ignited a small ball of fire in his palm.

Then the ball of fire landed with a "snap" on the mahogany table between the group. Within seconds, the mahogany table was ignited, and the firelight illuminated the entire hall, finally bringing some warmth. At least Qin Yuan and Li Minze's shivering decreased significantly.

"Is this what they call natural selection?" Gu Nanfeng looked around, releasing his mental energy to scan the area within its range. The number of life forms he could detect was nearly three-fifths less than when they were first brought in...

In other words, in those few short minutes, five or six hundred people died in this survivor base with nearly a thousand inhabitants, and these people were likely ordinary people who had not evolved.

"What's going on?" Yang Xiao and Ji Lang stopped hiding and rushed in through the safety door.

"I don't know, but those who died should all be ordinary people." Qin Yuan gritted his teeth to keep himself from shivering, and patted the shocked Gu Nanfeng. Although they had come all the way from G City and knew about and encountered many similar situations, seeing so many people freeze to death in just a few minutes was still quite shocking for someone like Gu Nanfeng who had always been focused on his research at the university. Of course, Yang Xiao, who had come in with Ji Lang, was equally shocked.

Zhong Qiang and Wei Cheng were called to the lobby along with the others from the base. Qin Yuan had already lit all the wooden furniture in the lobby to keep warm. There were less than a hundred people left in the base, some of whom were ordinary people, like Li Minze. But no one had time to study why they hadn't frozen to death like the others. Everyone was lost in confusion, as if they had suddenly reached the end and could only sit around piles of fire, waiting for death to come.

"How did all these people suddenly die?" Wei Cheng and Zhong Qiang were still completely confused. They hadn't felt cold when they were being held captive, and the guards in the room were all superhumans. Everyone was just staring at each other normally when suddenly someone knocked on the door and told them to all gather in the hall.

Then along the way, they saw some people running and then suddenly standing still. The people behind them didn't know what was going on and gave them a push, and the people in front of them fell down hard. By the time everyone reached the top floor lobby, there weren't many people left.

"It's getting colder again..." Yang Xiao saw the two of them and immediately ran over to pull them to the fire that Qin Yuan had lit at the beginning. At a time like this, the six of them could no longer be separated.

"Cooling down? I don't feel anything." Wei Cheng said as he walked over to Qin Yuan. They had already retrieved their backpacks and coats, while Qin Yuan, wrapped in three coats, was still shivering as he warmed himself by the fire.