NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 269 Airplane Crash_2
"Next, let's head to Red Stone Base,"
Wang Tao returned to the co-pilot's seat.
"Okay."
Wang Tao knew the location of Red Stone Base, and He Jijun had looked at the map before. He slightly altered the direction and headed towards Red Stone Base.
Wang Tao had never seen what Red Stone Base looked like. He had only heard some news about Red Stone Base during the early days of the apocalypse when the internet was still functioning.
His impression of Red Stone Base could be summed up in two words — safety.
Back then, many people were heading to Red Stone Base, and Wang Tao had paid special attention to a few individuals, wanting to follow their updates. But unfortunately, the internet went down subsequently and he didn't know what had specifically happened to them...
When Wei Zhenguo and the others fled, they headed to Red Stone Base. Wang Tao felt they should have been able to reach it, and there was a high probability that they were indeed there.
Red Stone Base was a bit far from Zijing City, requiring some time to reach.
On the way there, Wang Tao had already encountered numerous hordes of zombies, both large and small.
It felt as though the zombies were especially active, and he didn't know what was going on.
However, aside from Zijin Base, Wang Tao had not come across any other Survivor Base. Of course, there might be survivors who were well hidden and couldn't be seen even from the sky. Nevertheless, this weighed somewhat heavily on his mind.
The only consolation was that, for the time being, he hadn't encountered any Level 4 zombies.
Wang Tao speculated that perhaps only the area around Wuyang City had a significant number of Level 4 zombies?
The base that had been in contact with them but was now obliterated was located at some distance from both Wuyang City and Zijing City, with the three forming a triangle. It was possible that zombies from Wuyang City had overrun it.
But if that were the case, Zijing City might also face the arrival of Level 4 zombies, given its proximity to Wuyang City.
Wang Tao furrowed his brow in thought. If Zijing City really did have a lot of Level 4 zombies approaching, he would need to think of a way to evacuate Lan Yulian and Lu Yingfeng, perhaps using a helicopter.
But Zijin Base had over ten thousand people...
Shaking his head, Wang Tao stopped considering these matters.
His capabilities were limited; he was not a savior, nor could he act as one.
After a while, the plane finally reached the vicinity of Red Stone County.
"Huh?"
Red Stone County was not very large; from a distance, he could already see the entirety of it.
But... where was the Survivor Base?
Before the internet outage, Wang Tao had seen photos of Red Stone Base, and its tall walls had filled him with longing.
But now, where were those walls? The tallest structure here seemed to be an abandoned hotel over ten stories high.
Wang Tao's expression turned grim.
Could the Red Stone Survivor Base have been a sham? But that seemed unlikely... The Government wouldn't deceive people with something like this, would they? After all, places like Zijin Base were real...
At that moment, He Jijun suddenly spoke up:
"There seem to be traces of tall walls amid that ruin..."
Wang Tao looked in the direction he pointed and immediately frowned.
Ruins were all too common in the post-apocalyptic world, and Wang Tao hadn't paid much attention to them before. But now, looking closely, he could indeed see signs of collapsed structures that resembled tall walls.
The plane circled the area, and Wang Tao got a clearer view of the situation.
However, his expression grew even more troubled.
"There seems to have been a large base here, but it's been destroyed! It was most likely blown up by explosives, with even the foundations obliterated..."
An uneasy thought flashed through Wang Tao's mind about Zijin Base, where a large amount of explosives were buried, intended to obliterate everything if the base were to fall to the zombies!
So could it be that Red Stone Base activated its Self Detonation mechanism and was annihilated along with the zombies?
If that was indeed the case, there must have been a moment of desperate crisis; otherwise, there would be no need to destroy a base! Stay connected through My Virtual Library Empire
Just like Zijin Base, which had not been fully constructed and was overrun before completion, it did not Self Detonate. Perhaps they still saw a chance to retake the base, and, in fact, survivors did manage to recover it from the zombies.
But now, Red Stone Base might have faced utter despair, knowing there was no hope left, and so those inside chose to perish together with the zombies...
Now, only one question remained. When did the base explode, before Wei Zhenguo and his group arrived or after...
He Jijun quickly provided an answer.
"I believe that this base exploded quite some time ago," he said.
Then he explained:
"Compared to Zijin Base, it's clear that the area of this base's ruins is smaller, yet the space here is ample enough to have built a much larger base."
"Since these bases were built by the Government, the design would likely be similar under comparable spaces, aiming for large survivor bases. There'd be no need to purposely create smaller bases."
"So I think, this base might have faced problems right at the beginning of its construction. Didn't we say that Zijin Base encountered issues before it was finished? The problem here must have occurred even earlier than that..."
After hearing He Jijun's analysis, Wang Tao's tightly knitted brows relaxed slightly.
If that was indeed the case, then Wei Zhenguo and the others still had a chance at survival. After all, during the early days of the apocalypse, they were at Shuize University Base.
Wang Tao instructed He Jijun to circle a few more times around Red Stone County and the neighboring towns, but they found nothing.