Colonel Chu was originally a powerhouse with a level-six ability. His ability was Lock-On, and once copied, it was equivalent to being injured by his own ability, which had already dealt a severe blow to his spirit.
Additionally, the corrosive ability was peculiar; once it took effect, the wounds on the body would become like rotten flesh, continuously expanding and festering.
Even if it was just a pinprick-sized wound, it would eventually corrode the entire body, leading to death by festering.
Lin Chunsheng spoke with deep guilt, hating that his own ability level was too low.
“Commander-in-Chief, with Colonel Chu’s current condition, we need at least a level-six or higher healing ability user to take action for there to be any hope of healing. I am not enough.”
The growth of healing abilities was much slower than that of other abilities. Although he had received cultivation from the base, he still had not broken through to level six.
Chu Chenshan remained composed and sharp, but his tall frame trembled slightly, his fingertips turned white, and his entire being exuded exhaustion.
He fell silent for a moment and then asked:
“By exerting the maximum effort now, to what extent can Muhuan recover?”
Lin Chunsheng pursed his lips tightly: “Replying to the Commander-in-Chief, at most sixty percent. We can control Colonel Chu’s current corrosive state to prevent it from continuing to spread.”
“But I can only maintain this state for at most a week. If we cannot completely cure him after a week, the risks inside Colonel Chu’s body will erupt, and the rate of corrosion will double.”
Chu Chenshan closed his eyes.
“Alright, begin the treatment now.”
Lin Chunsheng and several other ability users immediately went to work, acting with extreme care and caution.
Colonel Chu was a powerhouse of the base and was injured in order to protect it. They hoped the Commander-in-Chief could find an ability user capable of healing Colonel Chu within a week.
At this moment, inside Villa C9 of the base.
The villas in the base were inhabited by ability users or high-level talents. Ranked from A to G and from 1 to 9, the further forward the ranking, the higher the status within the base.
Wu Cheng looked at the two people beside him and said with a playful smile:
“How about it? Currently, Chu Muhuan is injured and unconscious, and Yu Tao hasn’t recovered either. Should we take this opportunity to make our move?”
He possessed an ice-type ability, currently at level six. Considered among the first batch to arrive at the base, he was the captain of Action Team 2, responsible for general external missions.
But unlike other ability users, he was reborn.
In his previous life, Wu Cheng had only lived for two years in the apocalypse before dying at the hands of an exotic species.
However, he did not expect that after dying, he would be reborn.
It was just that the timing of his rebirth was not very good; he had returned to the first day of the apocalypse.
Wu Cheng joined the Central Base just as he had in his previous life.
But he did not plan to continue honestly being just a captain.
He wanted power, he wanted status! He wanted to become the ruler of this Central Base!
Wu Cheng knew very well in his heart that according to the development of his previous life, Yu Tao’s attempt to seize the base would result in a mutual defeat with Chu Muhuan. Later, Commander-in-Chief Chu Chenshan, who was always thought to have no awakened ability, would step in to seal Yu Tao’s ability.
In the end, the base won, and the invaders led by Yu Tao were all killed.
But Chu Chenshan’s ability could only be used once, and it put an immense burden on his body. After Yu Tao and the others died, he immediately selected a new Commander-in-Chief for the base and then passed away.
After Chu Chenshan passed away, Chu Muhuan’s body was not yet fully cured. The Dawn Rescue Team returned to the base in a disheveled state with Lou Lihan’s corpse, bringing back the news that the useless eldest miss, Chu Chaoxun, had died in the zombie horde.
Upon receiving this news, Chu Muhuan suffered a massive blow and left the Central Base to search for his willful younger sister.
Wu Cheng later heard that someone had seen a psychic ability user whose entire body was festered like a poisoned man; he figured that must have been Chu Muhuan.
Therefore, after being reborn, he decided to seize this opportunity, planning to let Yu Tao and Chu Chenshan fight like the clam and the snipe, so that he could reap the benefits as the third party.
When the time came, Yu Tao would be dead, Chu Chenshan would have passed away, and as a level-six ability user, he could take the opportunity to seize power.
Wu Cheng had secretly won over a group of ability users who were dissatisfied with the base, turning them into traitors who colluded with Yu Tao. This was done to get Yu Tao and Chu Chenshan to fight as quickly as possible, and he had also secretly provided Yu Tao with a lot of conveniences.
In truth, he was the biggest traitor.
Otherwise, how could the other party have cut off all communications within the base so easily?
Wu Cheng had thought it through: rather than being an ordinary little team captain in the base, it was better to take the base for himself.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Central Base—just thinking about it made his heart race.
In the future, whether it was fine food, fine wine, or beautiful women, they would all be yours at a single word.
What man wouldn’t want such a status?
Currently, under Chu Chenshan’s administration, the base had many rules, such as ability users not being allowed to bully ordinary people at will, and not being allowed to mistreat women and children…
Violators would be taken away by the enforcement team.
Wu Cheng had long since grown tired of such restraints.
He didn’t understand Chu Chenshan at all. It was already the apocalypse; why did ability users still have to follow rules regarding ordinary people?
Before the arrival of the apocalypse, he was just an ordinary office worker. Having read too many web novels, after the apocalypse came, his mind was filled with thoughts of holding beauties in both arms, waiting for the goddesses who used to ignore him to throw themselves into his embrace, with fame, fortune, and beautiful women all in abundance.
Yet, because of the rules set by Chu Chenshan, when he encountered beautiful women on the road, he didn’t even dare to snatch them openly.
Thinking of this, Wu Cheng looked at the other two.
“Mo You, Deng Qing, what do you say?”
These two were also reborn ability users he had discovered in the base.
Mo You, a prophecy ability user. This fellow had an unstable temperament, spending all day looking as if he couldn’t summon interest in anything—living was fine, and dying didn’t matter either.
In particular, this guy looked at everyone as if they were dead, which was incredibly annoying.
If Wu Cheng hadn’t valued the other’s prophecy ability, he would have really wanted to beat him up.
Deng Qing, a level-five wind-type ability user. In his previous life, he had only lived for a year and a half in the apocalypse.
After being reborn, he mingled with Wu Cheng, who was also a reborn individual, thinking of controlling the base to reach the pinnacle of life.
Hearing Wu Cheng’s words, Mo You stared blankly into space, ignoring him.
Wu Cheng was used to it; this kid looked as if he had seen through life and death every day, sometimes staring blankly for an entire day, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Deng Qing thought for a moment and said:
“Brother Wu, the Commander-in-Chief hasn’t used his sealing ability yet. Why don’t we wait a bit longer?”
“Moreover, the base’s inspections are getting stricter and stricter. Do you think the Commander-in-Chief will discover that we were the ones who passed information to Yu Tao behind the scenes?”
Wu Cheng said:
“It’s fine, relax. Chu Chenshan is currently overwhelmed with his own troubles. How could he find us so quickly?”
Even if they were discovered, so what?
He was currently a level-six ability user, someone who could hold a reputation in the base.
“But what you said makes sense. We should at least wait until Chu Chenshan uses his sealing ability before we act.”
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
He wanted to be that oriole.
Wu Cheng was very confident in this. Of the two strongest powerhouses in the base, one was Lou Lihan, who, according to the development of his previous life, had already died on the way to rescue.
The other was Chu Muhuan, who was heavily injured and difficult to cure, and thus was not a threat.
As for the other ability users in the base, those who were injured were injured, and those who rebelled rebelled. As a level-six powerhouse, he had the confidence to fight.