The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 162 Occupying territory is just a matter of minutes.

"Even you haven't seen him take off his mask?" Li Can had been curious about this Bai Zhuo ever since the beginning of the mental hospital instance.

It seems that he maintains this mysterious state even in the real world of Earth, and that he is not only wary of him.

It could even be said that it prevents everyone from getting close, placing all sources of danger in a very distant location.

However, this is contradictory compared to what he does.

Well, how should I put it?

Li Can knew that he was the earliest founder of the base and the first leader after the cataclysmic apocalypse on Blue Star.

A person with such methods and courage is certainly not just looking out for their own good life.

He once joked that he wasn't a heartless capitalist.

Li Can's feelings for him didn't seem like those kinds of people.

It's more like an early and timely intervention to save more survivors.

In addition, considering the need to protect their privacy and security, they hid themselves very well...

Wang Defa's gaze drifted to the ceiling above, as he tried to recall the scene in his mind. After a while, he shook his head.

"I've never seen him before, and there aren't any real photos of him on the forum. How should I put it, it's like he appeared out of thin air."

Li Can asked in disbelief, "Appeared out of thin air?"

Wang Defa then took out the box of cigarettes from his storage space, put one in his mouth, and handed the other to Li Can.

"Yes, logically speaking, he created the base mode group survival and has great power in his hands, but he doesn't like to hold power and easily puts it into the hands of others, which is why Chen Ling and the others are now taking his place."

Li Can didn't take it; he just waved his hand. He didn't smoke.

Wang Defa didn't try to persuade him any further and silently put the cigarette away. Nowadays, whether in the game or in the real world of the apocalypse, it's very difficult to get cigarettes.

This is a rare item.

People already face immense pressure to survive, so obtaining this item is extremely difficult for anyone.

Wang Defa, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, lit it with a lighter with a "click".

A cloud of smoke immediately billowed outwards.

He looked up, wanting to continue speaking, but saw that Li Can had put on a transparent gas mask at some point.

Although it looks no different from a regular transparent popscreen and isn't particularly striking, it still felt too abrupt.

"Haha, you really value your life. You even have this hand protection to avoid inhaling secondhand smoke." Wang Defa said with some amusement, pointing at Li Can's mask as the topic was diverted.

Since looting the base's warehouse, Li Can now has almost every kind of resource in his gacha, so it wouldn't be surprising if he pulled out something random.

Anyway, things are meant to be used, so he doesn't care about that.

"Go on."

Wang Defa continued puffing on his cigarette, saying, "It's precisely because of this unique aspect that people are quite curious about him. Many survivors have started digging up his past."

"And guess what happened?"

"What's wrong?"

"No one has been able to find any information about his life, not even about his family. It's as if he was born out of thin air, like a monkey emerging from a stone."

"Is it possible that he went into hiding, even wearing a mask so that there was no facial information, and that everyone was looking in the wrong direction?" Li Can added his speculation.

Wang Defa, holding a cigarette butt between his fingers, had been sitting against the wall for a while. He changed his posture, placing one leg straight on the ground and the other leg propped up with his arm resting on it.

"It's not impossible... Phew... Anyway, it's incredibly mysterious. Do you think the white fluid might also be an alien imposter in disguise...?"

Wang Defa spoke in a mysterious tone.

Li Can had considered this possibility, but in the end, he completely overturned it himself.

Because, in fact, it's simply impossible.

When I first participated in the dungeon, I encountered Bai Zhuo, and I was also the first dungeon player to learn that I had traveled to Blue Star ten years later.

If he were a fake alien, he would have attacked me back then. Why wait until now to make things so complicated?

He also downloaded that survivor forum software for himself... He was able to contact the survivors on Earth entirely thanks to his help.

In a sense, Bai Zhuo was more like a guide for me when I was just starting out.

Aside from some knowledge that I gleaned indirectly from Wang Qing and Chen Qi, most of the information was provided to me by Bai Zhuo.

This alone proves that he is definitely not on the side of the alien pseudo-humans.

Even though he doesn't manage base affairs, he seems to be "busy" every day... He seems to have a lot of things to do.

Even when he first appeared on Earth through a forum, a moment that garnered immense attention, he was not at the base.

Li Can couldn't figure it out, so he decided to put it aside for now and look into it later.

The focus is not currently on leukorrhea.

The information he gleaned from Wang Defa indirectly confirmed his conspiracy theory, representing a major breakthrough.

Having sorted out her thoughts, Li Can basically had nothing left to learn.

He thought for a moment, watching Old Wang smoke his cigarette down to the butt and carefully stomp it out with the sole of his shoe, then asked:

"By the way, you said you were coerced into agreeing to the alien puppets' demands. What exactly happened in the first place?"

Old Wang's shoulders twitched almost imperceptibly. He held the completely flattened cigarette butt in his hand, rubbing it between his index finger and thumb, as if doing so would give him a sense of control and make him feel a little better.

He chuckled self-deprecatingly, "I thought you didn't care about this."

"Actually, it's nothing... My family is in their hands. If I do well, they'll release them after I complete my mission. If I don't..."

"You know, things definitely won't end well."

"Back then, when I first came to the base, I wanted to bring my family to join us, because it was the only place that accepted ordinary people at that time."

"At the same time, among the twenty-odd brothers around me, more than ten have awakened some kind of superpowers to varying degrees, some of which are useless, while others are better."

Wang Defa seemed to get a little confused as he spoke, so he paused and started recounting his story again:

Even if it's the end of the world, they still choose to stick with me...

"I was a bit cocky back then. I thought the world was in chaos, and I had people under my control. It would be a piece of cake for me to become a king of the land."

"So, at first, he and his brothers did some beastly things."

"It's inhumane, but not too outrageous. I don't think any of us are completely rotten."

"Later I realized that looting supermarkets, hiding from zombies outside, and living a life of eating here and there wasn't going to work, and everyone's family members were mostly ordinary people."

"When we go out to find supplies, we inevitably get targeted by our enemies."

"People are naturally inclined to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. I was fed up with this unstable life. Just then, the base opened up a new policy, and my brothers and I discussed it and realized that this was tailor-made for us."

"So after some negotiations, we were incorporated into the base, but officially we weren't part of the base. We mainly handled some shady business for the base."