Chapter 25 The Healer

“The biggest loss this time was the elimination of the player with the healing ability.”

Mingmei, who had been delivering meals to Lu Xiaoyao for several days, saw too many injured people at the medical center. Lu Xiaoyao and Zhu Li'an, who were relatively unscathed, were very fortunate.

She overheard some medical staff talking about the healer who had sacrificed himself in the battle, and they felt sorry for him.

According to their descriptions, the other party's ability had reached the level of helping people reattach severed limbs.

Moreover, even for people like Lu Xiaoyao who looked like they were covered in injuries but were still in one piece without any amputations needed, Mingmei felt that as long as they were wrapped up tightly and rested quietly, they would be fine.

However, the constitution of ability users was much stronger than ordinary people. The enhanced recovery ability caused the itching sensation produced when the wounds healed to be particularly obvious.

Because of this, every time Mingmei went to see Lu Xiaoyao these past two days, she was constantly groaning and couldn't stop crying because of the discomfort.

The doctor didn't dare to prescribe any pain-relieving or anti-itch medicine for her, fearing that it would affect the healing of her whole body. It would be terrible if something went wrong and they couldn't detect it in time.

Zhu Li'an in the next bed was also very painful and suffered both mentally and physically.

“I don’t seem to have heard much about that player with the healing ability before.”

Thinking about her own ability, Mingmei could imagine the sensation caused by having a healing ability, but in fact, the opposite was true. She hadn't heard anyone mention it.

“If it weren’t for the giant wolf incident, I wouldn’t have heard of him at all.”

“Because his ability is special, he has been protected by the higher-ups from the very beginning, and they generally don’t let him take action.”

“Huh? Isn’t that the same as hoarding boxed lunches and not giving them to ability users in need?” Mingmei frowned.

Mu Chen also remembered what he had heard from those who cleaned up the battlefield a few days ago. It was said that the other party had his head and arms bitten off by the giant wolf.

However, he shouldn't tell Mingmei about this scene.

“By the way, is there a conclusion about the investigation of those giant wolves?”

Although everyone in the base had been busy with infrastructure construction during this period, such as rebuilding the outer city walls, and rebuilding the greenhouses that had just been built before winter and had not had time to function before being knocked to pieces by the giant wolves.

This base infrastructure construction could keep up with the early days of the base.

But this didn't mean that no one above was able to investigate this matter.

“There are some clues. It seems that the higher-ups are going to invite representatives of our teams to a meeting tomorrow to talk about this matter.” Mu Chen said, and then sighed, “There are still a few months before the game’s one-year anniversary, plus the additional mission to protect the base. I suspect…”

“This attack is just the beginning.” Mingmei immediately understood what Mu Chen hadn't finished speaking, and then complained about her uncle, "He generally does terrible things when designing games."

At this time, someone who was slacking off at work was adjusting the time flow to watch his niece's game live broadcast, and heard this sentence as soon as he came in.

…

Just like the two of them guessed, Mu Chen called everyone together for a small meeting the next day after returning from the meeting.

“The higher-ups mean that we may have to move directly into the inner city as soon as possible.”

"Ah? The inner city... is it big enough to live in?"

Accustomed to this kind of quadrangle courtyard life, Bai Xiao was reminded by Mu Chen of the single apartment she lived in at the beginning, and looked disgusted, "If you turn around there, you will go from the bed to the bathroom, and there is no place to directly use an open flame... How can so many of us live there?"

“Remodel + rebuild.”

Regarding Bai Xiao's worries, the answer from above was very simple and rude. They would renovate the original single apartments and then add some houses recently.

"Well, at the beginning, they said that the inner city was not enough to live in and drove people out. How can it be livable now?"

Zhen Po slightly mocked the notice. Zhen Hu glared at his stupid younger brother. Can't you use your brain when you speak?

Are the people who didn't let people enter the inner city at the beginning the same group of people who are now letting everyone enter the inner city?

Why so cynical?

Sure enough, Wang Wenyin, who had been speaking very little recently, said: "From the beginning to now, the base has lost many people, and the population cannot withstand such consumption. Moreover, the current upper levels are more stable, and the formulation of policies is more humane. Since the higher-ups are urgently asking everyone to withdraw to the inner city, is there something important happening behind it?"

"Yes."

Although Wang Wenyin was an NPC, she was obviously a high-level NPC. Among their group, they couldn't feel any difference between her and a real person.

Mu Chen told everyone about the investigation from the meeting, mainly that when cleaning up the battlefield, they discovered wounds on the giant wolf corpses that were different from those caused by ability users or firearms in the base.

"Four or five giant wolves had obvious bite and tear wounds from ferocious beasts, but those wounds were not caused by ordinary or mutated beasts. The base also specifically tested the wounds."

"Zombies?" Mingmei said, and then added, "Zombified animals?"

“Yes, according to the measurement of the wounds, the size is not small.”

"Holy crap!"

Now everyone was not calm. Zombified beasts? Or the kind of ferocious beasts?

For a while, everyone's minds had already thought of the most ferocious zombie image they had encountered when they first entered the game, and then enlarged it proportionally—

Everyone couldn't help but shudder.

It was chilling just to imagine it!

“So… these mutated giant wolves are likely to have come out because they were threatened.” Mingmei remembered their previous deduction that some terrible changes had occurred in the wild, causing some mutated animals to move to areas where humans live.

“Yes, the higher-ups are worried that in addition to mutated giant wolves, other mutated beasts may attack in the future, and even zombie animals will move over because of this.”

“Hiss——”

This kind of speculation made everyone feel terrified just by thinking about it for a second. Everyone who had been complaining that the inner city was not as comfortable as here now couldn't wait to pack up and enter the inner city directly.

“Then… what about the outer city? It’s so big. Can’t we just waste it?”

"This is what I'm going to say next."

“Except for areas where specific production must be carried out, other areas of the outer city must be prepared with traps, and the residential areas of the outer city will be converted into temporary safe houses for ability user teams. In the future, ability user teams will be divided into two teams, excluding non-combat personnel, and one team will be stationed in the outer city every ten days to ensure the safety of the base.”

…

On the first three consecutive sunny days after the New Year, residents living in the outer city and a large number of ability users moved towards the inner city. The ability user cafeteria that had been abandoned for a long time opened again.

It provided three meals a day specifically for the teams stationed in the outer city for patrols, and the location was also changed, directly to the ability user dormitory in the outer city.

And Mingmei returned to this cafeteria once again…