My apocalyptic heroine has come true

Due to insufficient resources, the metal plates are made of uneven materials and have different colors. From a distance, it looks like colorful patches on a rotten wall.

There was no doubt that another explosion had occurred in Shelter 2737.

This explosion posed a sufficient threat to Shelter 2737.

Fang Ming controlled the drone to enter the shelter, and then followed a familiar route to the upper level of the shelter.

This time he did not encounter the incident of having a sack put over his head.

At the same time, there was no trace of Shi Yi and Shi Si.

At the end of the corridor, there was a gap in the administrator Xiao La's office, and Fang Ming squeezed the drone in sideways.

As soon as we entered, the smoke inside blurred the drone's camera for a moment.

After the fog dissipated, Fang Ming finally saw the people in the house clearly.

The man was smoking a cigarette and leaning back on the sofa.

He placed his casually crossed legs on the table, closed his eyes and puffed on a cigarette.

Sometimes, Fang Ming couldn't help but admire the psychological quality of the manager of Shelter 2737.

You could say he has a good attitude, but he's always sweating. You could say he has a bad attitude, but he can still sit back and smoke at this hour.

In fact, what Fang Ming admires most about him is his obsession.

With Xiao La's ability, he could easily run away.

With his vast resources, he could flee to a so-called town or seek refuge in a more distant shelter. He had many opportunities to escape from the quagmire of Shelter 2737.

But he chose not to do so.

Fang Ming didn't think he was a righteous man who was willing to sacrifice his life for justice.

Xiao La is a veteran in this wasteland. He doesn't run away, not because he wants to protect the residents of his shelter so much, but because he is just protecting the position he has worked so hard to get.

The position he is in now is something more important than his life?

Or did he actually leave himself other ways out?

Fang Ming didn't understand.

But this was, after all, the apocalypse, and Fang Ming hadn't yet fully grasped its rules. Perhaps an administrator like Xiao La simply had no chance of being accepted into other shelters, his very existence already tied to Shelter 2737.

Fang Ming didn't have time to speculate why this man was still here.

The other party did not run away, which was at least a good thing for him to say.

"I thought you wouldn't come."

Noticing the drone hovering in the room, Xiao La slowly exhaled a puff of smoke in thought and looked up at Fang Ming.

The look in his eyes did not resemble the despair of someone struggling to survive, but rather a calmness that went beyond despair.

"I also thought you wouldn't come back." Fang Ming said.

Hearing this, the hideous scar on Xiao La's forehead twitched and he lowered his legs from the table.

"I went out yesterday, but at least I got back before dark."

Xiao La did not explain much. He stood up and said to Fang Ming:

"New individuals have appeared in those mutant species... They seem to have completed a new evolution, shrinking in size and compressing the energy within their bodies. Furthermore, they've mastered some kind of vibration signal that can make the surrounding energy crystals..."

"I know."

Fang Ming interrupted Xiao La's description without waiting for him to finish.

Xiao Ba looked up at him, and Fang Ming continued:

"Such mutant species have also appeared in my Ark Shelter."

Hearing this, the gloomy expression on Xiao La's face brightened a little.

He even thought it was good news.

If the Ark Shelter is experiencing the same disaster as Shelter 2737, then the owner of the Ark Shelter will have to take action.

Moreover, those energy crystals will explode after resonance, and the destructive power of the explosion will reduce people and machines to ashes.

As a result, the Ark Shelter can no longer harvest large amounts of energy crystals to continue its development...

Think of this.

Xiao La opened his eyes wide and the corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably.

However, since it was in front of Fang Ming after all, Xiao La did not laugh too wildly.

He suppressed the expression on his face and extinguished the cigarette with his mechanical fingers.

"...Those spiders evolve so quickly, we never know where they'll go next."

Xiao La stood in front of the telescope, peering outside. Then, in a heavy voice, he continued to speak to Fang Ming, "As you can see, my shelter is almost collapsing... I'm afraid that if they explode two more times, Shelter 2737 will be completely breached. By then, we won't even have to wait for nightfall. Those mutant spiders could easily wipe out my residents."

Xiao La looked apprehensive as he spoke.

He knew Fang Ming was a 'good' person.

That's why he put the safety of the residents of Shelter 2737 first.

"The thousands of people in my shelter will instantly become their food... This is the last thing I want to see." Xiao La said regretfully.

Fang Ming hovered the drone, waiting for him to finish.

In fact, Fang Ming didn’t care about Shelter 2737 at all.

The only thing he cared about was the life and death of his two reserve soldiers.

As for the rest, the safety of the lives of the residents of Shelter 2737 should be the responsibility of the administrator of Shelter 2737.

This is the apocalyptic world. In this harsh environment, everyone is struggling to survive. Sympathy and pity are not the rules of survival in this world.

If Xiao La wanted to use his own residents to threaten Fang Ming, he was simply overthinking it.

"What other solutions do you have?"

Fang Ming said indifferently.

Upon hearing this, Xiao La shook his head in embarrassment.

"What can I do? I've thought of everything I can think of. I brought back a truckload of metal yesterday, but just as I used it up, this huge hole was poked today. Now the metal I'm using to patch the wall is even some rusty iron. I can't imagine how many mutant species these metal materials can withstand. I'm afraid we won't even survive tonight."

Fang Ming also saw what Xiao La said when he came here.

However, it's not so bad that I can't resist it for the whole night.

According to Fang Ming's observation, the shelter wall itself has another layer of thickness, and the wall material becomes stronger as it goes inward. The innermost layer should be the alloy with the highest hardness.

But there is no doubt that there is not much time left for Shelter 2737.

So, at this juncture, Fang Ming wanted to know what the administrator Xiao La's last trump card was.

He even had the leisure to sit here and smoke, at least he didn't look like someone who was about to die.

"...Are you asking what other methods I have?"

Xiao La forced a smile through his cracked lips, as if he had guessed Fang Ming's thoughts.

"To be honest with you, I do have another step I can take...but I don't want to do it unless it's absolutely necessary."

As he spoke, Xiao La limped forward and opened another door in the room.

Fang Ming looked down and saw Xiao La's cut trouser leg.

Xiao La's leg seemed to be injured, with several bandages wrapped around it.

Following Xiao La into the room, Fang Ming discovered that there was actually a bedroom hidden inside.

The layout of the bedroom is very simple, with a table, a bed, and a large wardrobe. The decoration style looks like a small hotel with a log style.

Xiao La came to the table and Fang Ming saw what was placed on it.

It is a rectangular black box with a few buttons and a black and white display on it.

Even in modern times, Fang Ming has seen this kind of thing.

This is a... radio device.

"You're probably aware that when the shelters were first established, they were fully equipped, including a 'radio communicator' as standard. Initially, communication between shelters was quite frequent, but as more and more people broke the rules, and as shelters gradually disappeared and became ruins, communication became rarer."

Xiao La was talking to himself as he fiddled with a few buttons and then turned on the device.

Fang Ming heard a burst of electrical noise.

Apart from that, he heard nothing.

"This is the channel for Shelter 0331. Shelter 0331 is the closest shelter to us. We often exchange supplies, so I used to communicate with the administrator there..."

As Xiao La spoke, he continued to dial the buttons and introduced them to Fang Ming:

"This is a public channel, and it's also our regional channel. There are only five shelters left in our area, but some of them seriously disobey the rules and some even rob other residents, so we hardly communicate."

"This button adjusts the longitude and latitude. The farther away we are, the worse the signal will be..."

Xiao Ba twisted the button and said, "When I adjust the channel to full screen and adjust the longitude and latitude to here, then press this emergency button, the message I send will spread across most of the world."

"This function was originally used to announce catastrophic disasters... Almost no one does it now. After all, everyone is already accustomed to all kinds of disasters. Besides, 'intelligence' is the most valuable thing to us. None of us are willing to proactively disclose the dangers we have detected. This is a rule from over a hundred years ago and is no longer applicable today."

Xiao La turned the latitude and longitude buttons to the maximum, and then he actually pressed the emergency button.

His finger hovered over the signal switch, but Xiao Ba chose not to press it.

He looked at the drone in the air again.

"If I really come to this point, I will release all the information about what happened here, the appearance and characteristics of the white race, their evolutionary speed, and evolutionary types." Xiao La said word by word.

You can tell that he is very serious when he says this.

The eyes slowly raised up, the deep eye sockets were bottomless, and the black pupils quietly reflected the camera of the reconnaissance plane.

Xiao Ba’s attitude is very clear.

If this continues...

He would choose to perish along with everything here, including the Ark Shelter.

After all, once the news spreads.