Although the Overlord Base was considered one of the largest bases in C City aside from the official government base, it actually only occupied an area about the size of a small town.
Three- to four-meter-high walls surrounded the entire base, with patrol teams constantly walking along the top. Outside the base, long lines of people waited—some were survivors coming to seek refuge, while others had returned from scavenging outside. At the entrance, workers were specifically assigned to register everyone entering.
Because Song Siyu and the others were with them, the group quickly handed over some supplies and entered the base smoothly.
The first thing they saw after entering was a massive area filled with tents and crude wooden shacks.
Most of the people inside were skin and bones, dressed in ragged clothes, walking around with numb expressions. They looked no different from homeless people before the apocalypse.
Compared to them, this group of newly arrived elderly, weak, and injured people actually looked much cleaner and more spirited.
Especially Sheng Ge.
At this moment, she looked extraordinarily out of place, attracting countless open and covert stares from the crowd.
Seeing this, everyone’s mood became heavy—for the cruel apocalypse, and for the uncertain future awaiting them in the base.
Since Song Siyu and the others needed to hurry back to submit their mission report and treat Feng Shuang’er, they told the group to first go register for housing before leaving. They only left behind an address and told Gu Xiaoxue to visit them tomorrow.
“Do you need someone to guide you around?”
Suddenly, a skinny little boy walked up to them.
“I know every place in the base really well. Wherever you want to go, I can take you there. Just give me a pack of instant noodles or some bread.”
The little boy enthusiastically advertised himself. Zhuo Dahong thought it was perfect since they weren’t familiar with the place, so he didn’t refuse.
The little boy immediately grinned happily when they agreed, revealing several teeth that looked especially white against his grayish-black dirty face.
The boy truly was very familiar with the base. Along the way, he enthusiastically told them all kinds of things about the base.
It was also through his introduction that they finally learned why the Overlord Base had such a cringe-worthy chuuni name.
Apparently, before the apocalypse, Song Xiangsong had been a professional boxer who had even won championship titles. He was quite famous in boxing circles, and rumor said he greatly admired Xiang Yu.
Later, when the apocalypse arrived, he awakened a strength-type ability and gained the legendary power of the Chu Overlord who could lift massive cauldrons.
Afterward, he and a group of friends from his boxing gym occupied a refrigerated warehouse outside the city—the same building now located at the center of the Overlord Base.
Relying on the supplies inside the warehouse and the combat strength of their group, they gradually built the current base and named it Overlord Base, comparing himself to the Overlord Xiang Yu.
He had even boldly declared that in this apocalypse, he would accomplish the great conquest Xiang Yu had failed to achieve in history.
Emmm…
How should they put this? Was this some kind of middle-aged hot-blooded anime plot?
“Actually, our Base Chief is a pretty good person. He used to personally come to the slum district to distribute supplies to us. He’s much better than the Second Base Chief and Third Base Chief.”
Seeing the complicated expressions on their faces, the little boy couldn’t help but explain.
The group responded with awkward yet polite smiles.
The little boy: Tough crowd. Why did he accidentally expose the Base Chief’s embarrassing past again the moment they arrived?
Very quickly, the little boy led them to the housing registration office.
After asking around, they learned that the cheapest slum district required either five low-level crystal cores or five jin of food per month. Above that were different zones ranked C through A, requiring between twenty and two hundred crystal cores or equivalent food supplies.
There was also an S-class area, though that was where the base leaders lived. Most A-class residents were ability users.
After sorting through their supplies, Zhuo Dahong and the others decided to jointly rent four rooms in the C District and paid one month’s rent.
As for Sheng Ge, she completely skipped all hesitation and directly chose the best A District.
Grandma Grandmaster, who had “gotten rich overnight” several times already, was not lacking in crystal cores for the moment.
Ah Bao had no objections either, though when he watched Sheng Ge paying crystal cores, his little heart ached.
Ahhh~ those were all crystal cores he had painstakingly dug out one by one! More than half were gone just like that! Wuwuwu, Grandma Grandmaster was way too extravagant!
After completing the rental registration, the group took their keys and left.
What they didn’t know was that the moment they left, the staff members and nearby residents immediately started gossiping among themselves—and naturally, the center of the discussion was Sheng Ge.
After all, Sheng Ge was truly eye-catching. Combined with the fact that she had rented an A District residence the moment she arrived, everyone began wildly speculating about her identity.
Some guessed she might be a newly arrived powerful ability user. Others denied it.
Didn’t they notice there weren’t even any ability fluctuations coming from her body?
Then if she wasn’t an ability user, how could she possess so many crystal cores and supplies? Could she be the lover of some base official or powerful ability user?
For a while, rumors spread throughout the entire Overlord Base that a woman in white had arrived and was suspected to be some high-ranking leader’s mistress.
Of course, Sheng Ge and the others knew nothing about this for now.
Led by the little boy, the group first headed to the C District.
The houses in C District actually weren’t much better than the slums. Most were small single rooms constructed from shipping containers. After finding their assigned rooms, everyone began doing some basic cleaning and organizing.
“Little Sister Sheng Ge, I’ll accompany you to your room first before coming back. You’re just a girl with a child—what if it’s unsafe?” Zhuo Dahong offered.
“Big Brother Dahong, let me go,” Gu Xiaoxue said as well. “Auntie Lin and the others just arrived too, so someone should stay here and watch over things. You stay—I’ll go.”
Before Sheng Ge even had the chance to refuse, the two had already made the decision for her. Seeing this, Sheng Ge figured it didn’t matter anyway, so she simply allowed Gu Xiaoxue to accompany them to the A District.
“Big Sisters, outsiders aren’t allowed into A District. I can only take you this far.”
The little boy stopped at the entrance to A District. Hearing this, Gu Xiaoxue handed him two flatbreads.
The boy accepted them with obvious delight and hurriedly stuffed them beneath his clothes.
Then he smiled brightly at them and said, “Thank you, customers! If you ever need help or want to ask about anything in the future, you can come find me. My name is Ah Cong.”
After saying that, he ran off quickly, clearly feeling the food on him was unsafe and wanting to hurry home.
Ah Bao handed their door number plate to the guard at the entrance, who then allowed them inside.
Following the room numbers, they quickly found their residence.
The A District houses were probably old residential homes left over from before the apocalypse. Some were large while others were small.
The one Sheng Ge rented had two bedrooms, though the total space wasn’t particularly large. Aside from one table and two simple beds, there was basically no other furniture inside.
Thankfully, back then Ah Bao had moved all the furniture out of the Wuji Sect.
Grandma Grandmaster once again sighed emotionally over her precious disciple-grandson’s foresight.
After dumping out all the Wuji Sect furniture from storage and having Gu Xiaoxue help replace the shabby original furniture, the house finally started to look somewhat livable.
Gu Xiaoxue: She really had no idea how huge Sheng Ge’s storage space actually was. It even had wall paintings inside! What should she do? She was so jealous~~~!
“It’s getting late. I should head back now.”
Seeing that things were mostly cleaned up, Gu Xiaoxue prepared to leave.
“Thank you for your hard work, Sister Xiaoxue. This is for you.”
Ah Bao handed Gu Xiaoxue two eggs, both laid earlier by Xiao Huang.
“The other one is for Sister Zihan.”
Gu Xiaoxue smiled and accepted them. After returning, she gave both eggs to Wang Zihan.