Chapter 1049: Doomsday Big Boss 53

After arriving at Tang Wan’s room, Tang Wan immediately asked, “Feifei, why are you here? Why didn’t Xu Jintang come with you?”

At that, Liu Feifei suddenly threw herself into Tang Wan’s arms and burst into tears. “Jintang… Xu Jintang is with another woman! I ran away secretly!”

The moment she said this, Tang Wan’s expression turned cold.

“That Xu Jintang is really blind! How dare he betray you?” she snapped. “Just wait—if I run into him, I’ll deal with him for you! Don’t cry. It’s better you saw his true colors early!”

“Mm…” Liu Feifei nodded weakly, her voice trembling.

Once Liu Feifei had calmed down a bit, Tang Wan continued, her tone shifting to something more serious.

“But you were really too reckless! The zombies outside are already evolving, and you still dared to come all this way?”

“I wasn’t alone… Li Feng came with me,” Liu Feifei replied softly.

Tang Wan snorted. “One person or two people—what difference does that make? Don’t you know how dangerous it is out there now?”

But after a moment, her expression softened again.

“Still… it’s good that you’re safe.”

Liu Feifei nodded, though a trace of guilt flickered across her face.

Even so, after finally seeing Tang Wan, the heavy weight that had been pressing on her heart for days began to lift.

In the following two days, Tang Wan stayed by Liu Feifei’s side, comforting and encouraging her.

After that, life gradually returned to routine.

Tang Wan resumed going out to hunt zombies, while Liu Feifei—being a rare healing-type ability user with no combat power—was arranged by Ling Chi to run a small medical station.

Her job was to treat those injured during zombie encounters.

Payment came in the form of zombie crystal cores.

This way, even without going out to fight, Liu Feifei could still earn resources to strengthen herself.

Once she became busy, the pain of heartbreak slowly faded into the background.

Time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, an entire year went by.

During that winter, over two hundred people in the base awakened abilities, bringing the total number of ability users to a new level. With their help, the base expanded significantly, and its defenses became much stronger.

But at the end of August, after a sudden heavy rain—

the base experienced its first real zombie siege.

Fortunately, at this stage, the zombies hadn’t evolved too far. Bullets were still effective.

Under heavy artillery fire, the base managed to repel the attack.

For many, this victory brought a fragile sense of confidence.

But Tang Wan and the others understood something deeper—

this wasn’t just an attack.

It was a signal.

A sign that zombies were beginning to develop awareness.

From that moment on, everyone trained even harder.

Because while humans were getting stronger…

so were the zombies.

And they had to stay ahead.

As expected, zombie attacks began occurring every few months.

Thankfully, the base had been reinforced repeatedly, and each wave was successfully held back.

It was during one of these incidents that Hu Tongxia made a shocking discovery—

he could control zombies.

The reason he hadn’t realized it earlier was simple: he had never even considered the possibility.

To him, zombies were enemies to be destroyed, not controlled.

But this time was different.

Tang Wan had been separated from him and was suddenly attacked by a powerful zombie.

Too far away to intervene physically, Hu Tongxia panicked.

In desperation, a single thought flashed through his mind:

No—stop!

And unbelievably—

the zombie actually froze in place.