Return to the Base

After Lin Feng had devoured everything in the Dark Elf spaceship's cockpit, he shut off the ship's holographic display.

He had no interest in what happened to Thor and Loki afterward.

For now, he needed to return to the base first.

Lin Feng activated the ship's external live surveillance. After watching Sunny and the ordinary people walk away, he slowly piloted the spaceship into the air.

He had no idea why Thor and Loki had not taken this ship, but that worked out perfectly for him.

Lin Feng had gained a spaceship for free. With its technology as a foundation, he could research and develop many more new things.

The elongated spaceship slowly rose, as though it were hovering through gravity alone.

The portion embedded in the grass steadily lifted upward, while the dirt clinging to its hull continuously fell away under some unknown force.

Until the matte-textured hull beneath was revealed.

Then, the entire elongated ship rose into the sky and slowly turned.

Lin Feng pressed several more buttons on the console, and rippling waves began to appear ahead of the ship.

Like a leaf swept into a whirlpool on a lake, the entire spaceship's shape was altered by a mysterious spatial force.

The next moment, the ship vanished instantly, leaving behind only the silent university and the mess strewn across the ground.

Siberia, somewhere within a freezing snowfield.

Amid the snowflakes filling the sky, a spaceship was suddenly squeezed out of the air.

The ship's sudden appearance shattered the silence. On the empty snowfield, several dull white figures seemed to notice the commotion and began walking toward it.

"Whew, this ship is pretty easy to control."

Lin Feng had thought a Dark Elf spaceship would be difficult to pilot. After all, Thor had once piloted one and blasted the head off his grandfather's statue.

Yet to Lin Feng's surprise, the ship was unexpectedly easy to operate.

Looking at the familiar scene displayed before him by the ship, joy surged through his heart.

But once that joy faded, Lin Feng's attention was drawn to the several slowly shuffling figures on the snowfield below.

The surrounding area was all ocean, and with temperatures this low, hardly anyone would come here.

Where had these figures come from?

With some doubts in mind, Lin Feng stepped down from the spaceship. He descended all the way down on an elevator-like platform until it slowly stopped at the bottom of the ship.

With a series of clacks, the ship extended sloping ramps from both sides of the elevator. Lin Feng walked down them and gazed at the figures in the distant snowfall.

"They... don't look human..."

Lin Feng quickly activated his pulse sensing, like tossing a stone into a tranquil lake.

The rapidly spreading ripples struck the figures and swiftly returned, feeding their information back into Lin Feng's mind.

As Lin Feng examined the information returned by his pulse sensing, he frowned slightly.

The figures staggered through the snow with strange, uneven gaits.

Moreover, in the images from his pulse sensing, each of their limbs seemed to be missing parts. Yet they did not look like disabled people.

A blood-red glow slowly lit up in Lin Feng's eyes. He wanted to see just what these things were.

A few minutes later, Lin Feng finally saw the first figure emerge from the heavy snow and arrive before him.

Beneath a layer of white frost and snow, the humanoid figure had a pale frozen face devoid of all life.

Its gray eyes carried an instinctive greed and bloodlust. Its stiff limbs moved rigidly forward, dragging a long trail through the snow.

This was obviously a zombie.

But Lin Feng's base was in one of the most remote places on Earth. If even this place had zombies, what must the rest of the world look like?

Lin Feng sensed it slightly and found a tiny trace of his Blacklight Virus inside the zombie.

Not much, but it was definitely there.

If his senses had not been so sharp, he would not have detected it at all.

At the same time, this zombie contained more than just one kind of virus.

Lin Feng also sensed other, different viruses. They lacked the vitality of the Blacklight Virus and relied purely on sheer numbers to dominate this zombie's body.

If he wanted to identify the other viruses within the zombie, Lin Feng would have to dissect it.

"Urgh..."

During the few minutes Lin Feng had spent thinking, the zombie had finally shuffled over to him.

The zombie stretched out hands frozen into chunks of ice and clawed at Lin Feng. Its fingers were so stiff they could barely move, lightly brushing across Lin Feng's cheek without causing the slightest harm.

"With this kind of strength, how did humanity lose?"

Lin Feng extended a finger and lightly flicked the zombie's arm. He did not use much force.

The zombie's arm shattered at once like fragile thin ice.

With strength like this, humans could kill them even with brooms.

The confusion in Lin Feng's heart only grew. In the memories of the big man he had devoured, there was not much about humanity's resistance.

After the zombie outbreak, those people had accidentally fled into the Dark Elf spaceship.

Then, since they did not know how to operate it, they had remained there for more than half a month, surviving by eating people.

It seemed that if Lin Feng wanted to understand the cause and course of the zombie outbreak, he would need to investigate further.

"Come back with me. There are some of your predecessors in my base. Remember to greet them when you get there."

Lin Feng operated the entrance of the Dark Elf spaceship a few times, setting it into a state similar to a car being left in neutral after starting.

Then, he leisurely walked through the snow toward his base.

The zombie behind him, along with the other zombies that had just arrived, followed after him, step by step, into his base.

Lin Feng opened the base's doors. Seeing that the base had not changed much since he left, he relaxed slightly.

"Welcome back, sir."

Black Doctor's pleasant voice rang out as Lin Feng inspected the things inside the base.

Fortunately, the Mind Stone was still here. The Tesseract without the Space Stone was also still here, and nothing else was missing.

It seemed no one had come here. Black Doctor had fulfilled his duties well.

"Has Sun Wukong come back?"

Lin Feng looked at the round hole above the base. Sun Wukong had accidentally activated the Bifrost through it back then.

That planet-destroying energy had easily pierced the defenses Lin Feng had set up, swept him out of the base, and sent him into space.

"No, sir. No one has come here since you left. Many things have happened on Earth. Would you like me to play them for you?"

Black Doctor's intelligence seemed to have evolved. Without Lin Feng even asking, he could now provide information Lin Feng might want.

Lin Feng had originally designed Black Doctor as an intelligent interactive butler capable of learning, but he had set a limit to its evolution.

In other words, there was a limit to how intelligent Black Doctor could become. Once it reached that limit, it could no longer evolve.

That also prevented an artificial intelligence like Ultron from being born.

"Sure."

Lin Feng walked over to the chair he usually sat in. Seeing that not a speck of dust had settled on it, he sat down with satisfaction.

It seemed those little robots had not been designed in vain. They did a decent job as cleaners.

"These are reports from Earth's major media outlets after your departure. Regarding the zombie incident, this planet no longer belongs to humanity."

Lin Feng looked at the holographic screen before him, where footage of a foreign female reporter on the front lines was playing.

In the dark night, while the foreign reporter gave her report, several zombie-like people could vaguely be seen hopping around amid the chaotic crowd behind her.

They leaped more than a meter high. Their faces were bluish-white, fangs protruded from the corners of their mouths, and their bodies seemed to be covered in white fur like down.