Doomsday: I can see the health bar, kill monsters and drop treasure.

Chapter 586 The Envelope Left Behind

Zhao Yaru was a little anxious, fearing that Wang Tao would just leave without caring about them.

The entire Zizhu base is now leaderless and needs a backbone. Theoretically, other senior personnel, including herself, can also be leaders. But their prestige in the base is similar, and no one has an absolute overwhelming advantage. If they run for the position of leader, it will definitely not be resolved in a short time. It may even cause some unrest.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the situation in the base is not very good now. They are self-aware and know that they are not cut out to manage the base.

There are more than 10,000 people in this Zizhu base, and the supplies have been almost consumed. If someone wants to be the leader, the first thing he has to solve is the problem of feeding, drinking, defecating and urinating these more than 10,000 people.

Zhao Yaru asked herself if she could do it, and she felt that no one else could do it either.

Although they have discovered an underground granary, which may contain a large amount of food, the problem is that there is a mutant beast nearby that can defeat the fifth-level giant zombie. Who knows where the mutant beast is? If they encounter the mutant beast, they will definitely die.

But Wang Tao is different. Not to mention how strong Wang Tao's combat ability is, just say that Wang Tao has a flying mount, which is already a huge advantage!
With a flying mount, at least he could go far away to find food, and even if he encountered a mutant beast, he could escape in time! Not to mention that Wang Tao's own strength was extremely terrifying, and he could kill giant zombies in seconds! Even if he really encountered that mutant beast, it might be the mutant beast that he needed to escape from.

So Zhao Yaru hoped that Wang Tao could become their leader. On the way back, when she was still on the back of the golden eagle, Zhao Yaru secretly exchanged opinions with others. No one objected, and they all wanted Wang Tao to be their leader.

This seems to be giving the entire Zizhu Base to Wang Tao, but in fact, it is their Zizhu Base that is clinging to Wang Tao's thigh!

What he was most worried about was that Wang Tao was unwilling. After all, to Wang Tao, the entire Zizhu Base might be a burden...

Although she now has great trust in the Twilight Church, Wang Tao is a normal human being after all. No human being would want to carry a burden, right?
So when she asked Wang Tao to become the leader of Zizhu Base, she was very nervous. Especially when Zhao Yaru saw Wang Tao frowning, she thought to herself that it was not good. It seemed that Wang Tao was going to refuse!
"Master Priest, please don't rush to refuse! We will definitely not drag you down, and we will bring you rewards!"

Zhao Yaru spoke again quickly.

Wang Tao was originally thinking, if he recruited these people, should he keep them here or move them to a better place to live. But when he saw Zhao Yaru like this, Wang Tao realized that the situation of this base was far from as good as he saw.

"The situation at the base is bad?"

Wang Tao asked directly.

"...Well, the situation is very bad now. Even if there are no giant zombies, we should go out to find food. When the apocalypse came before, we were lucky and stored a lot of food, and even transplanted some crops. But now, the stored food is basically exhausted, and the crops can't bear fruit... We think we have no ability to solve this problem, so..."

Zhao Yaru lowered her head and explained somewhat embarrassedly.

"Didn't you find an underground granary?"

"Let's not talk about whether there is food in the granary. Even if there is, there is a mutant beast outside that is almost as powerful as the giant zombie..."

"...Okay, then your situation is indeed quite troublesome."

Wang Tao shook his head.

No wonder Zhao Yaru asked me to be the leader of Zizhu Base, it turned out it was because this place was a mess.

But this was not a problem for Wang Tao. But he did not agree immediately, after all, things that are easily obtained are often not cherished.

"You're also seriously injured, go and rest first. Is it okay for me to walk around here?"

Wang Tao said with a smile.

Zhao Yaru was a little disappointed when she saw that Wang Tao did not agree directly, but Wang Tao did not refuse. They still had a chance.

"Of course, no problem! This is the key to our base. Master Priest can go anywhere he wants. Oh, and here is also the key to our previous leader. This is the home of the previous lord. If you want to rest, you can stay here. The previous lord has always been alone, without a wife or offspring... If you need anything, you can contact me at any time."

Zhao Yaru quickly handed a few keys and a walkie-talkie to Wang Tao, and then quietly left. She certainly couldn't rest, she had to find other people and work together to find a way to make Wang Tao the leader of their base.

"Oh, I forgot to ask the priest's name..."

……

There was nothing much to see in this base. Wang Tao mainly wanted to see the survivors here. To put it simply, he wanted to see if these survivors had the potential to awaken. After all, there were more than 10,000 people.

After Wang Tao left the meeting room, the other survivors must have received the news. When they saw Wang Tao, they all respectfully called him "Master Priest".

Wang Tao nodded with a smile, without any airs.

After some observation, Wang Tao unexpectedly discovered that there were quite a few people with hidden attributes here, actually more than twenty of them.

In other words, there is a chance that more than twenty awakened people will appear in Zizhu Base.

"good……"

Wang Tao nodded.

We can give these people some resources later, allowing them to be promoted to awakened ones, thereby greatly improving the overall strength of the Zizhu Base.

Wang Tao had already tacitly accepted the taking over of the Zizhu base, but he certainly couldn't stay to help them solve the food crisis and improve their strength. Wang Tao didn't expect any reward. He was capable now, so it was just a piece of cake. It was always good to rescue more survivors in the apocalypse.

The only thing that needs to be determined now is the character of these people.

Not to mention the standards before the end of the world, that is unrealistic. As long as they can pass according to the current general standards, it will be fine.

Wang Tao had a good impression of these people. They were a little poor, but Wang Tao could see that most of them had a positive attitude towards life and were not filthy, much like the people in the Changhe Base.

"Is this... the previous lord's room?"

As Wang Tao walked, he came to a room with a sign that read "Leader's residence, no disturbing allowed."

He had the key in his hand and opened the door directly.

The decoration inside is very simple, similar to the outside, but it is normal. After all, this is an underground air raid shelter, and the decoration can't be much better. As for the space, it is quite large, about 100 square meters. After all, he is the leader. It is normal for the space at home to be larger.

"Huh? This is..."

Wang Tao suddenly discovered that there was a storage room inside, with many wooden boxes piled up inside. These wooden boxes were about the same size as suitcases, and they faintly exuded a familiar smell to Wang Tao...

He immediately took out one of the boxes and pried it open. He saw something wrapped in waste newspapers. Suddenly, the familiar smell became stronger.

Wang Tao tore open the newspaper, revealing the black powder inside.

"really!"

Seeing this thing, Wang Tao's face became a little serious.

The smell of these powders is exactly the same as the "holy medicine" of the Church of Dusk!
If you add these powders to water and boil them, you will definitely get a big pot of holy medicine.

Wang Tao had said before that the people of the Twilight Church did not drink this poisonous holy medicine. Now it seems that he was careless - that's not right!
Wang Tao suddenly thought that people who drank these holy medicines would show signs of poisoning. But Wang Tao just observed those people, and none of them showed any signs of poisoning! "Did they not drink it? Or has this holy medicine been upgraded and will not cause poisoning? But this doesn't seem right. These medicines will have a strong smell when they are boiled, but I didn't smell any smell, and I didn't see anyone boiling them..."

Wang Tao was a little puzzled, but he still took out all the wooden boxes. There were more than sixty boxes in total, which could probably produce a lot of "holy medicine".

After thinking about it, Wang Tao took out the walkie-talkie that Zhao Yaru handed to him.

"Zhao Yaru, can you hear me?"

"Zizizi - Master Priest, I'm here. What do you want me to do?"

Zhao Yaru was obviously holding the walkie-talkie and replied immediately.

"Come here, I'm at the 'Chief's Residence'."

"Yes!"

A moment later, Zhao Yaru arrived. But she was not alone. The awakened people who were rescued by Wang Tao before also came.

The conditions of these people are obviously much better than before. Although they are still far from recovered, they are no longer in mortal danger. This is obviously the result of the treatment by a healing psychic.

Zhao Yaru took a bath, changed her clothes, and revealed her true appearance. Apart from the many scars on the exposed skin, she was still a great beauty.

"Master Priest!"

Zhao Yaru immediately led a group of people to bow to Wang Tao.

"You're all here. That's great. Take a look at this."

Wang Tao didn't waste any time and directly asked a few people to go into the house and look at the black powder in the box.

"Huh? What is this?"

What surprised Wang Tao was that these people all looked surprised, as if they were seeing it for the first time.

Wang Tao activated his mental power to its full potential. He could feel that these people did not speak and were really surprised.

That’s strange, have these senior executives never seen this black powder?

Then Wang Tao described the process of making the holy medicine. He did not say that these medicines were poisonous, but he said that these medicines were taken daily by members of the Twilight Church in other places, and they could strengthen their bodies. Only members of the Twilight Church were qualified to take them.

After hearing what Wang Tao said, the others were stunned.

"Ah? We in the Twilight Church often drink medicine made from this stuff? But I've never drunk it before?"

"I do not have either……"

"I was one of the first to come to Zizhu Base, and I haven't seen it either..."

"Could it be that... our previous leader hid this good stuff and drank it himself? And he was unwilling to share it with us?"

"…Although I don't want to believe it, this seems to be the most likely possibility…"

"But our leader is a pretty good guy... Could it be that he is faking all this? That's too scary..."

Everyone started talking at once.

Obviously, they couldn't believe that their former leader would hide such a good thing. But the facts were in front of them, and they had to believe it. So they felt that their character collapsed in an instant.

Wang Tao frowned.

Could it be that their leader really hid the poison and drank it himself?
But that's not right. If a person drank so much holy medicine, he would have been poisoned to death long ago...

"We really don't know. We rarely came to this room before. If there was anything, the leader would go to the conference room to discuss it with us..."

Zhao Yaru was afraid that Wang Tao would not believe her, so she hurried to explain.

But Wang Tao waved his hand, and then used his mental power to explore the room carefully.

After a while, Wang Tao came to a desk and opened the drawer. Inside was an iron box. He opened the iron box and found some photos before the end of the world.

The photos mainly feature a pretty woman in her thirties, a teenage boy, and occasionally a muscular man in his thirties.

After seeing this, Zhao Yaru immediately pointed at the sturdy man and said:
"This is the chief... That woman and child, they should be the chief's family, right? But the chief never mentioned them..."

Obviously, the chief's wife and children should be gone.

Wang Tao handed the photo to Zhao Ruyi, and then saw a letter at the bottom of the iron box. On the letter were written the words "Personally from the current leader".

A letter left in advance for those who come later?
Wang Tao didn't hesitate and tore open the envelope. There were several folded pieces of letter paper inside. Wang Tao looked at the first one first. After a moment, his expression became a little complicated.

"I see……"

The letter said that the powdered medicine was given to the leader by the bishop, who asked the leader to mix it with water and give it to other believers to drink. Drinking it can strengthen their physical fitness and increase the probability of survival in the end times.

The leader agreed on the surface, but actually did not do so. Instead, he hid all the potions.

Because the leader had come into contact with the Church of Twilight before—his wife and children.

Their family had been separated before. Later, he finally found his wife and children, but they were already members of the Church of Dusk and drank the so-called holy medicine, but due to an overdose, they all died soon after.

The Church of Dusk explained that it had nothing to do with the holy medicine, but the leader used to be a doctor and he thought that it was the holy medicine that was the problem.

However, the people of the Church of Dusk were very strong and he couldn't defeat them, so he retreated first.

Later, he met the bishop of the Church of Dusk. The bishop was stronger than him. He knew he could not beat him, so he pretended to want to join the Church of Dusk, and then prepared to avenge his wife and children after he became strong enough.

The bishop left soon, and he secretly kept the potions and did not intend to give them to anyone else.

The leader wrote all of this down, and told the next leader not to trust other members of the Twilight Church, let alone the bishop. They wanted to develop a completely different Twilight Church, and it would be best if they could replace the bishop!
"This coincides with my thoughts..."

Wang Tao said to himself.

(End of this chapter)