Bai Zhan was not the only one; the entire safe base was worried about the safety measures. They indeed had some trust in Bai Meiyue, but they could not help but worry when they saw the mutated bugs getting closer and closer. However, just as the mutated bugs got closer, something unusual happened. They all suddenly stopped before slowly turning their path and heading in another direction. When the people in the safe base saw this, they were filled with surprise, but at the same time, they were quite excited. It seemed like the defence mechanism really worked! 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The people in the safe base cheered up. Fortunately, they were able to defeat the mutated bugs.

Bai Meiyue supported her big belly and looked at the sight in front of her through the watchtower. With the binoculars in her hands, she was quite satisfied with the defence mechanisms that she had bartered. It seemed like she was not at all wrong when she chose these things. She then turned to look at the guards who were watching the excitement and said to them in a low voice, "Don’t be careless. Even if the defence mechanism is working well, make sure to keep an eye on things. Don’t let anyone break in or cause trouble outside. There will be another wave in a few hours. Don’t slack off and let it get too close."

The defence mechanism was indeed quite good, but at the same time, it had some defects. They need to be careful and keep an eye on the wave before activating the pheromone system, or else it wouldn’t work, and the effects would be delayed.

"Don’t worry, Miss Bai." One of the ability users agreed at once with a nod. "We will keep an eye on things here and will alert the control room as soon as something happens."

Only then did Bai Meiyue nod and take her leave. However, as soon as she stepped out of the watchtower, she ran into Lu Yu, who brought four men and a woman along with him. This small crowd was full of disabled people. Either they were missing an arm, or they were missing a leg; if not, they were missing an eye or an entire chunk of their face. She looked at the people in front of her and frowned hard. However, she did not feel much; after all, she had seen a lot of things in her past life, and compared to that, this was nothing.

She calmly asked, "What’s the matter?" Bai Meiyue knew that Lu Yu must have a reason to bring these people to her, or else he would have never made a special trip to see her. Now that Lei Qian was out of action, Lu Yu was helping her out by taking care of the majority of the matters of the safe base, as he knew that Bai Meiyue could no longer deal with these things. He had been taking care of all the small matters and only came to look for Bai Meiyue when there was something important.

"These people have awakened the wood ability." Lu Yu responded calmly as he turned to look at the men and the single woman who came with them. The woman’s face was clawed and ripped, which caused her to look exceptionally hideous. Thus, when the woman saw Bai Meiyue looking at her, she took three steps back without looking up. She was worried that Bai Meiyue would find her disgusting and would think of her as useless, like Lu Yin and Dacheng, so she was trying to cover her face with everything that she had.

Bai Meiyue, however, did not mind her half-torn face. She calmly looked at the people in front of her and asked, "What can you do?" Even if they were low-ranking ability users, they could at most do something. As long as they were able to help her mother in the greenhouse, she could always give them a place in the safe base; anyway, she had already accepted these people in her safe base, and whether they could perform well or not was up to them.

The ability users looked at one another. One by one, they showed Bai Meiyue what they could do. And it was just as Bai Meiyue expected. At most, they could only pop the seeds given to them, and the rate at which they could grow these seeds was really slow. They could at most be used for growing the crops at the start, and other than that, there was nothing else they could do at the moment.

Bai Meiyue pursed her lips. She looked at the people in front of her and asked, "Were you all attacked by zombies? Is that how you all awakened?"

"That...that...we were not attacked by the zombies.." The woman finally spoke up, and when Bai Meiyue turned to look at her, she lowered her head and continued, "It was our family members. They wanted a sacrificial lamb, so they all used us."

The woman’s eyes turned red when she recalled how her husband pushed her in front of a zombie to protect himself. Before the end of the world, the two of them lived a rather good life. Her husband and she was always together and never did she ever think that her husband would one day abandon her in such a fashion. Not only did he push her away, but he even ran away, leaving her to suffer alone.

Back then, she felt really regretful and angry, and maybe it was because of this very reason that the heavens let her live. Even though half of her face was clawed off, the woman was still very happy to be alive.

It was just a shame that even after almost losing her life, she could not awaken as a powerful ability user, or else she would have definitely avenged herself.

Behind her, the people who heard her response also turned teary-eyed. Indeed, they were all betrayed by their family members. Some were left to suffer by their parents, their daughters, or their sons. All in all, they all were suffering because of the selfishness of the human heart.