Deep inside the villa complex inside the temporary base of city A, some people very important to the country, whether before or after the apocalypse, were sitting around in a meeting.
“The situation is not optimistic. Only one hospital was cleared and more than 100 troops were lost. This is not even counting ammunition.”
“Previously, we planned to complete the renovation and integration, and then concentrate the troops to regain the urban area… Now it seems this might be too difficult.”
“It’s just that their movements are quicker, our soldiers just didn’t get used to it yet…”
“If this kind of…zombie? They call it a zombie, right? What if this kind of zombie is not an exception? Then going deep into the city will be a challenge!”
“Yes, it’s better to stabilize our current position first, and then consider the issue of regaining lost ground…”
Now that the situation is unclear, the big guys are unwilling to let their troops be used as pebbles on the side of the road. They lost so many people clearing a hospital… what about in the future?
After a long discussion, the following plans were developed:
1. Completely eliminate all zombies inside the temporary base, and strive to achieve absolute safety in the safe zone within three days.
2. Repair fences, dig trenches, and create protective nets and guard areas around the safe area as soon as possible.
3. Non-government groups and ordinary residents are allowed to participate in the construction of the city, with food and other goods as remuneration, to prepare for a long-term war of resistance.
4. Civilian groups can go out to search for supplies. At the same time, we will dispatch troops to investigate the situation in the urban area, identify the pattern of zombies, and strive to recover the urban area as soon as possible.
The leaders knew that after a high fever, some ordinary people who did not become zombies accidentally developed abilities. Originally they planned to control it to avoid uncontrollable situations in the future.
But because of the large-scale zombie outbreak, the matter was temporarily shelved. But now, the outside situation was unknown, and letting those unstable factors who suddenly possess abilities go out and assist in investigating the situation can solve two birds with one stone.
After the meeting, all that was left were the details. In addition to sending troops to clean up the zombies in the safe area, almost all the remaining troops and engineers were sent to the periphery-repairing city walls, digging trenches, and repairing wire grids. These are not small projects and require a lot of manual work around the block.
In addition, there is still a lot of work inside the base, which also required manual assistance.
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After ‘relaxing’ in the space for a night, Fang Hao didn’t worry about getting up to make breakfast the next morning. Instead, they took out the big steamed buns and mung bean millet porridge he made before. The couple left the space and had breakfast in the living room outside.
“There are more people. Those should be newcomers, right?” After breakfast, the two of them looked at the car on the second floor in the lounge on the second floor.
He Zizhong nodded. These people should have been outside the base before yesterday and were allowed to enter after a night of isolation. Of course, this was not always true. Some people with connections can ask to come in early.
Among these newcomers, some people could come and live in the villa area directly, showing that either they had a house here before the end of the world, or had some special status that allowed them to live here.
No matter which group they fell into, they had a certain identity. This fact is indisputable.
Some soldiers came from inside the villa area with weapons in hand and something like flyers. After a while, they heard someone ring the doorbell.
He Zizhong got up and went downstairs, Fang Hao naturally followed. The two looked at the newly released temporary safety zone regulations and couldn’t help but glance at each other. Unexpectedly, the opportunity they were looking for came by so quickly?
One copy of the leaflet per household, and the front and back sides of the A4 printing paper were full of content.
The base introduced compulsory labor rules. Everyone must participate in the construction of the base. The remuneration, “salary” and so on for each type of work were clearly laid out and written down.
The so-called wage is three meals a day plus water, food, and points. No one mentioned the currency used before the end of the world. Today’s base is based on a point system, with points for basic remuneration, just like temporary currency, like a few decades ago.
Looking at the list again, the two found a job that was most suitable for their current situation-transporting ashes.
With the current situation, no one knew what will happen from contact with zombie corpses Will they be infected with the virus and become a zombie? The answer was even more uncertain.
Survivors generally will avoid tasks related to zombies. Of course, most people were not even willing to participate after reading the leaflet. A large portion of people, even those who just arrived in the past two days, had some food and water with them.
Although people were worried that there will be a shortage of food in the future, they are still reluctant to act given the currently unknown state of things.
Although it was clearly marked on the leaflet that everyone is required to participate in the construction, everyone had a mentality of not having public responsibility, and only dealt with their own affairs. People with food at home didn’t and wouldn’t move.
Even if some had to participate in order to survive, almost no one will be involved in handling corpses – it was an extremely taboo job before the apocalypse. Now, who knew whether the corpse of a zombie can also infect living people? By now, countless people have witnessed other people being caught by zombies, and they turned into zombies after one swipe!
The two did not choose the job of cadaver transport, but rather the comparatively conservative job of transporting ashes. After all, a corpse vanishing into thin air is more conspicuous than a handful of ashes. But even so, when the two took the completed form to register at the registration office outside the villa area, the staff couldn’t help but look sideways.
He Zizhong smiled calmly and shrugged. “There is no way. When I fled back here, I didn’t have time to bring anything to eat. After all, I didn’t live in the villa.”
The staff knows that most of the people who have villas here are not bad for money, and many people only come to stay for a day or two as a holiday on weekends and holidays. Naturally, they will not prepare much food here.
Although the work of transporting ashes is taboo, the food remuneration was relatively high. The highest salary is the work of transporting corpses, and the second was looking for supplies. But the tasks requiring them to go out must rely on one’s ability – it’s difficult for anyone to guarantee they could come back alive after going out.
After the two registered, they went back to the community. Some people living nearby also came to register one after another, but most of them were people who didn’t have much food at home. The rest of the people, mostly because they have just arrived the safe zone, would rather rest for a few days before considering other things.
The two entered the villa area. There were already a lot of people in the community. When the two passed a villa, they saw several people unloading the contents of their car and taking them into the villa. He Zizhong looked at those people at random, and suddenly frowned, his heart shaking.
Seeing him freeze in place, Fang Hao followed his gaze — “Allen? That all-round1term used is “三栖” referring to success across the mediums of film, TV, and song star?”
He Zizhong strongly suppressed the killing intent in his heart and swallowed his saliva. He rolled his throat twice and no longer looked there. “Let’s go back.”
Perhaps the days after arriving at the base were too calm, so calm that he almost forgot all about his past life. Until today, when he saw the mastermind who killed him and Fang Hao in the previous life, was he reminded of the fact.
In fact, in his last life, even after He Zizhong arrived at the base of city A, he almost never met Allen.
Except for the day they just arrived at the base. Dai Jun and Xu Lili’s surprised cry when a certain car entered the base drew his attention to it. Sitting in the car was Allen, who was popular before the apocalypse. To women, he was Prince Charming. But to men, he was the common enemy to all (except gay men). It was only because his popularity and fame from before extended to the apocalypse, that Allen was able to maintain his status of a shining male god.
When He Zizhong first came to city A, he didn’t join the Overlord team immediately, but formed a team with a few fellow villagers from city F, and went out every day to try their luck. Of course, Fang Hao was also with him at that time. Only Dai Jun, after arriving at the base and having a place to live, didn’t make a fuss about living in the space again. Instead he asked for enough fruit and water so he could stay in the base to look after the house, and asked He Zizhong and others to go out to find supplies.
At that time, he thought he was finally willing to get out of space and adapt to the outside world. But who knew, he hooked up with the Overlord team within half a month.
In order to join a stronger team, one must first break away from their original team.
To be honest, because his own space was different from others, He Zizhong didn’t want to reveal that he had space from the beginning. If it weren’t for Xu Lili wanting more powerful people on the team in her car and pushing other people out, he would never have revealed his space ability, and would have kept it hidden instead.
However, his body was already exhausted from the low-grade fever. Coupled with Xu Lili’s troubles and Dai Jun pulling hatred for him from time to time, if he could not show his strength and usefulness, he would have been abandoned long ago.
When entering the Overlord team, Fang Hao was still by his side. Because he had a healing ability, he joined the team without any pressure. Two people who should be counted in the logistics department were assigned together to act together. Until Dai Jun stole the bracelet, and he was chased down…
A flash of cold light flashed in his eyes. Coldly glancing in the direction of Allen’s villa, He Zizhong walked towards his villa with Fang Hao beside him.
He knew that Allen himself lived in the villa area, but he had rarely seen him before. In addition, the Overlord team rented a relatively large building outside, and people outside the high-rise buildings usually lived and trained there. In his past last, he was on the Overlord team for less than two months, and did not even get the chance to go to Allen’s villa in those months.
In comparison, he heard that Dai Jun often went in and out of Allen’s villa back then. Thinking about it now, the two must have hooked up a long time ago, so of course he could get in.
He still remembered that after he entered the Overlord team, he learned Xu Lili also joined the team long ago and her plant abilities were very popular. Especially in the apocalypse when most plants could no longer grow, plant ability users were the only ones who could help grow food. They are also the only ones who can use plants to attack. He just didn’t know if the situation in this life will become like his previous life…
That dude shows up… 😠
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