Chapter 21: Dialogue with High-level Officials
The second milestone required saving 100 people and keeping them alive for at least an additional 10 days.
He went on a killing spree,
and rescued 1,502 people in one go,
exceeding the task requirements!
The next step was to ensure that at least 100 of them survived for 10 days.
[You dismantle the walls in the ruins]
[You build a safe house for the survivors]
"Clever!"
Wang Ran gave himself a thumbs up.
If there were only one or two people, he could protect them very well with his own skills.
But it was a different story with more than a thousand people.
The best thing to do was to build a safe house on the spot and wait for the military to rescue them.
[You were busy all day]
[You recruited several volunteers, all of whom had the great courage that ordinary people did not have, and were willing to risk their lives to assist you in distributing supplies to the safe house] Wang Ran sighed deeply.
He had only temporarily wiped out the monsters in the school, and new monsters could still crawl out from underground or come here from other places.
Being a volunteer in this situation was very dangerous.
But there were always people who did not lack courage,
they upheld noble qualities and the spirit of sacrifice,
and were willing to take risks for the collective.
Wang Ran thought to himself,
there were many such people among the victims, if they all had the same power as him...
"I wonder if the powder underground has any effect on ordinary people." Wang Ran pondered, "If everyone could unleash their talents with that powder, maybe they could fight the doomsday without me." After reaching a cooperation agreement with Bai Fan,
he must ask Bai Fan,
to see how much Bai Fan knew about that powder.
The text continued to scroll.
[That night, a small number of monsters broke into the campus]
[You slaughtered them all]
[You did not sleep all night]
Wang Ran had a complex expression.
In the blink of an eye,
the life and death of 1,502 people rested on him alone.
He not only couldn't sleep tonight,
he couldn't easily fall asleep in the next ten days and nights.
[The next day, the volunteers came to you with worried faces]
[You learned that supplies were tight]
[The resources you had on hand were only enough to sustain three days of consumption]
[You organized a resource search team]
He had now become the leader of the surviving teachers and students.
[The team inevitably suffered casualties]
[Although you brought back enough resources to sustain you until the military rescued you, everyone's mood became even more low] [That night, the camp was filled with the sound of sobbing]
[You did not sleep all night]
[On the third day, nothing happened]
[The camp was filled with a sense of defeat]
[You did not sleep all night]
[On the fourth day, you received a rescue message from the military]
[Because of your large numbers, the military specially dispatched a political commissar to come to your camp by helicopter] [The political commissar powerfully boosted morale]
[Many people contacted their distant relatives through the political commissar's satellite phone] [The atmosphere in the camp became positive]
[You told the political commissar the intelligence you had, including "The Root of Doomsday", "The Slumbering Beast Underground", "The Mysterious Flowers", and "The Powerful Apostles"] [The political commissar was greatly shocked]
[You applied to talk to a high-level person]
"This step was brilliant!" Wang Ran exclaimed in surprise.
A real doomsday had occurred in the simulator, and the country would definitely believe him.
If he could get some proof to make the country trust him in reality.
He would get great help!
[You got the opportunity to talk to a high-level person]
[You had previously received a hint that among the several students who had drowned in Yong'an City University City, one of them was carrying a USB drive] [The USB drive contained a file]
[The file detailed the existence of the Doomsday Apostles and their plans] [But it did not get the attention of local law enforcement]
Wang Ran was stunned.
A hint?
He immediately thought of Bai Fan.
Although there was no evidence,
his intuition told him that this had something to do with Bai Fan.
Bai Fan had leaked information,
no wonder Fourteen wanted to kill him.
But what about those drowned students?
Did Bai Fan kill them?
Wang Ran remembered that Lin Ying had mentioned the drowning of the students to him, and it had happened just a few days ago, in other words, law enforcement in reality had already obtained that USB drive.
Unfortunately, they did not pay attention to it,
they treated the Doomsday Apostles as an ordinary cult organization.
[You requested proof that could make the country trust you before doomsday]
[You received a special code]
[8017192]
[You got a phone number]
[1273157988]
[You learned that by calling this number and entering this special code, you could contact a high-level person before doomsday] Wang Ran jumped out of bed.
He took out pen and paper,
and solemnly recorded these two sets of numbers.
"This is the key to saving the world."
[You ended the conversation]
[Nothing happened that day]
[No monsters, no Doomsday Apostles, everything seemed particularly calm, but you had a vague bad feeling] [You did not sleep all night]
[On the fifth day, flowers bloomed on the ruins]
Wang Ran's pupils contracted sharply.
Flowers!
No wonder he had a bad feeling.
[No one noticed when these flowers appeared, not even you who had stayed up all night] [By the time you noticed these flowers, they had already filled every corner of the ruins] [You tried to deceive them]
[You failed]
[You realized that these flowers were not the same species as the ones underground] [The ones underground were Listening Flowers]
[These were Flowers of Death]
[You tried to eradicate these flowers, but the broken roots would release a powder, and you watched with your own eyes as a volunteer slowly turned into a horrible mushroom stake amid piercing screams] [New flowers grew out of the mushrooms]
[Densely packed]
Flowers were more terrifying than monsters.
Monsters were just the appendages of the beasts, and the spikes all over their bodies might be used to scratch the beasts' itches, while the flowers were related to the beasts themselves, and their level of terror was incomparable.
Wang Ran felt his scalp go numb just from reading the text description.
"One touch and you grow mushrooms!"
"Too creepy!"
He couldn't imagine that feeling.
The person was still alive,
vividly feeling the fungal spores squirming under the skin,
the mycelium deeply constricting the bones,
the flesh drying up and cracking,
clusters of mushrooms boring out of the eye sockets, mouth, and gaps between the bones.
The suffering in the process far surpassed being cut by a thousand knives!
At this time, the person would struggle violently,
struggling while growing mushrooms,
eventually turning into an ugly, twisted mushroom stake spreading terror...
[Fear permeated the camp]
[Everyone was in danger]
[You warned everyone not to damage the flowers]
[The entire university was covered by this kind of flower, and the flowers grew very quickly, some safe houses had already been invaded] [You had to leave here]
[At this point, you heard a familiar voice]
["Yo, Wang Ran?"]