He Zizhong returned to his car after registering and waited for the signal. The last two days allowed the pair to get a good rest and regain their spirits, as they waited to start the mission.
Generally speaking, during the military operations, most of the zombies will be crushed with firepower and dealt with in a unified manner, before going to collect materials. But the teams have to deal with zombies in the nearby residential houses themselves. Any injuries and accidents that happen can only be credited to one’s bad luck and cannot be blamed on anyone else.
The departure time was set at 6:45. At around 6:20, almost all the teams arrived. Some of them began to notify the team leaders to come down for a meeting.
After Fang Hao stayed to watch the car, He Zizhong went down alone to the so-called meeting place. There are a total of 134 civilians participating in this operation, and according to statistics, there were 32 teams participating. Many of these teams are similar to He Zizhong and Fang Hao, comprising of two or three people. There were even two brave souls who established their own one-man teams, preparing to form long term cooperation with some people with good strength each time they went out. Being able to cooperate, of course, needed to be on the premise that they could prove their strength.
Of the 32 teams, two teams had a large number of people and were more experienced in participating in this kind of activity. Seeing that the people had almost all arrived, they started to explain: “When participating in this kind of military mission, our teams need to wait. After the military has cleared the block and allow us to enter, we can drive in. Generally speaking, our task is to clean up the zombies in the residential area and collect supplies. For ordinary buildings below six floors, each building has about ten people entering at the same time. Those who enter start the clean up from the first floor. In order to ensure everyone’s safety, it is best to have two people enter each household at the same time. After entering, you will allocate your own gains. Which house you enter and what you gain depends on your own luck. But if someone grabs the rewards of the people who share the task…”
The scanned the crowd before opening his mouth again. “Those who do not follow the rules will be punished, so don’t make too much trouble. These kinds of large-scale cooperations will happen more often in the future, and I hope that everyone will not be blinded by momentary gain, so as not to be embarrassed when we meet again in the future.”
People who steal and rob others’ things happens every time. If their strength is enough, others naturally cannot do anything. But if one’s strength is lacking and they were retaliated against and killed, they can only blame themselves for their bad luck. It’s just that these words need to be said first, after all, only when everyone abides by the rules can the benefits be maximized.
No one had any objections. After all, following the military’s plan to act is stable, and no one wants to make trouble randomly.
The meeting was just a verbal negotiation. People who often do tasks naturally understand the rules, so after speaking, they turned around and returned to their cars.
At 6:45, the large force set off in a mighty manner.
The goal of the army this time is the central area of a certain district to the west of the city. The periphery was previously cleared by survivors and the military. Now with military vehicles clearing the road ahead, pushing forward is easy.
At about ten o’clock in the morning, the team finally advanced to the target area. Many buildings and houses on the periphery were affected by artillery fire and collapsed in the previous battle.
He Zizhong’s car was mixed in the convoy, but there was still some distance between the troops as they slowly advanced forward. The front team entered the destination for centralized cleaning, hallmarked by the continuous rumble of gunfire as all the zombies scattered in the streets nearby gathered. The heavy firepower at the forefront was a fiery web, devouring everything that approached.
Today, all zombies have evolved and have flexibility that is almost indistinguishable from humans. However, even humans with agility and wisdom cannot hold up against such concentrated firepower, let alone these zombies?
In order to collect materials and recover lost land as much as possible, the base’s management can only invest lots of effort and cost for troops to carry out clearing activities around the city. Of course, that was what the ordinary people in the base believe. In fact, using large firepower to clear nearby places is to give the base a chance to breathe.
After all, zombies gather towards people! People fled to the base from all directions, and those doing missions also returned to the base, leaving behind the heavy taste of human beings leading zombies straight to the base!
In less than a month since the apocalypse began, many small bases were pushed to the brink and destroyed after being surrounded by zombies day and night. After the gates fell, undoubtedly, the survivors also became zombie chow.
In order to protect themselves, the major bases had to keep “expanding” outwards. They may have a chance if they take the initiative to attack, but it was a road to death if they sat around waiting to defend the base.
The gunshots in front pushed farther and farther. Gradually, the logistics team following came out to deal with the corpses. The remaining logistics personnel entered the side of the road with the assistance of armed personnel to collect supplies.
The following vehicles waited for more than half an hour before they were able to follow up and collect supplies.
In addition to the shops that were cleaned by the army, there are also some small shops untouched. The things sold in them might be expensive before the end of the world, but today, even a bag of biscuits won’t be left behind.
He Zizhong and Fang Hao mixed in and entered a shop that sold pots and pans. The most valuable clothing store and small restaurant in this block of the road were already cleared by the military. The two largest teams divided the remaining children’s clothing stores and general merchandise stores, leaving the rest of them to select relatively valuable items from the remaining stores.
The two took some pots and pans at will. Seeing that there were many small casseroles in the warehouse behind the store, Fang Hao quickly threw most of them into the space, and they put the rest in the car.
Several useless stores were wiped clean as they followed the convoy, before everyone finally came to a neighborhood.
“There are twelve buildings in total, each with six doors.” The captain of one of the two more powerful teams spoke. The two leaned aside and discussed in a low voice before turning their heads to say to everyone, “We happen to have more than 130 people across the twelve buildings, so let’s not be so troublesome. Every 2 persons can draw lots for a home, and what they find will depend on luck.”
There were 134 people. The wealthier buildings amongst the twelve were divided by the two leading teams. Although others were upset, they could only remain silent in this mixed crowd. After all, being able to occupy all the materials within a set space was already undoubtedly a very generous action.
The crowd got off their vehicles, gathered at the gate of the community, and began to deal with the scattered zombies still wandering around. After cleaning up, they entered their respective buildings according to the results of their previous lotteries.
The Fengche team moved quickly and killed zombies much faster than other teams. Although most teams were still dealing with zombies scattered in their homes, the ones they were responsible for were quickly dealt with.
Many people who work in city A lived in this community, so not many supplies were expected to be inside. Being able to find half a bag of about ten kilograms of rice and noodles, was already pretty good. They also found scattered instant noodles and potato chips, and dry snacks like biscuits.
Fang Hao uncovered a large bag of all kinds of sweets from the cabinet of the family. He looked at the newly renovated house and walked to He Zizhong’s room with the bag of sweets. “Zizhong, this seems like wedding candy… ”
He Zizhong looked at the bag of sweets, and then at the huge double photo on the bedside. “There are no zombies in the room, they might be fine.”
Fang Hao also looked at the photo. The couple in the photo was full of happy smiles, seeming a little out of place in the current situation. “Yes, this is very close to the base.”
There are so many zombies wandering in the streets and communities outside, how many originally happy families have completely fallen apart?
The two climbed all the way to the top of the building and gathered most of the materials that could be collected. Only then did He Zizhong whisper a few words to Fang Hao, and return to the space.
In the space, the white ball was jumping in place. Seeing He Zizhong coming in, it jumped and slammed into He Zizhong’s arms.
He touched the soft and bouncy head. “Have you entered? No one is there, right?”
Tuanzi’s big eyes blinked, and its whole body tilted to nod, its watery body moving with it.
“Take me over.”
Hearing the sound, Tuanzi disappeared in place with He Zizhong, and the two appeared in another place.
It was a small shop the troops passed through on their way into this area. At this time, the outside of the shop was piled up with corpses of zombies, and the door of this shop was blocked tightly.
The things placed in this shop had nothing to do with the outside shop signs written on the outside—the outside of the shop had “xx flower shop”, but the inside was filled with various knives, and there were even tools used to polish and imitate various knives and weapons inside.
He Zizhong hurriedly walked around the shop, sweeping away almost everything inside, and returned to the space holding Tuanzi.
Fang Hao, who had received the news, hurriedly entered the space, took He Zizhong’s hand and they returned to the building together.
“Get everything?”
“Well, most of them are imitations, but there were a few good things inside.” He Zizhong was obviously in a good mood. The two substitute weapons they got in the base before were broken in the previous battle to clear away the zombies in the community. If it wasn’t because of his quick reaction and jumping backwards, he would have been injured by his own weapon.
Even his knife was cracked, and the weapons they found just happened to be usable.
Weapon level up!
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