Chapter 889: Zombies Are Coming, Stand Attention

"Just hand it over. I've had enough of this kind of life. It's good to be an ordinary citizen..."

Tang Wen looked at the mountains in the darkness in the distance that were rolling and seemed like something indescribable, and then looked at the bright and even brilliant lights in the nearby safety zone. There was no need for him to hesitate about what to choose.

Who would want to be in the darkness when you can run towards the light?

On one side is wilderness and blood, and on the other side is civilization and stability. Anyone who hesitates for even a second is not a human being.

At this moment, the light of civilization in the safe zone ahead was also projected onto Yang Shuren. On his weathered face, deep wrinkles were interlaced with light and shadow to create ravines. If there was a mirror in front of him at this moment, he would certainly sigh:

"I never thought that I would be so wounded by the end of the world and become so haggard. From today on..."

If it weren't for the end of the world, would he, a retired old man in his 60s, have to bear so much pressure?

I guess he has already lived a wonderful life of doing morning exercises with the beautiful old lady in the morning and dancing with the beautiful old lady in the evening.

"I do not wish to be a noble, but I wish the seas to be peaceful"

If he had a choice, he would not want to be the person in charge of this useless thing, but his subordinates are a bunch of rough migrant workers and civil engineering technicians with little management experience, which is really difficult for him to handle...

Being a leader in the last days is not an easy job. You are tired, think a lot, feel stressed, and don’t eat much every day...

But if you are the leader of a group of evil survivors, then again... I guess you will have parties every day...

But I am used to being a human being, and I cannot be an animal...

So thinking of the above, Yang Shuren could really empathize with Tang Wen’s thoughts!

"It is indeed a blessing to be an ordinary citizen. You don't have to worry about anything. You just need to take care of your own little piece of land..."

"But I'm just afraid that something unexpected will happen in the future... To put it bluntly, no one knows what will happen tomorrow... There are always some weird things in this end of the world..."

Yang Shuren's words were not groundless worries, but he had personally witnessed a very prosperous gathering place in Wulong District being destroyed overnight...

Nearly 10,000 people. It is said that they opened a militia depot in a mountain. He almost took his people there.

But it suddenly disappeared, without a sound, not even a gunshot, not even a single sound of Poland... It was so quiet that it was like being silently soaked by water...

To this day, that place is still a forbidden area for the survivors of Wulong. There are many different opinions about the cause of its destruction, and it is almost becoming a supernatural story.

Some people said that they saw fireflies all over the sky that night... Some people said that everyone died with a smile on their face that night...

However, Yang Shuren, who has been a science student all his life, would definitely not believe such a superstitious story.

As for the fact that he abandoned the well-built shelter and fled with his men overnight after hearing the military movement, it was only because he was loyal to the army and the country, not because of some supernatural story.

Not everyone present had the same experience as Yang Shuren, but in the extremely dangerous and unstable environment of the end of the world, the survivors must have felt extremely uneasy.

Just like people who are not optimistic about their future income will instinctively reduce their consumption before the end of the world, Yang Shuren's words also instantly aroused the uncertainty in the hearts of the people present...

What if...what if in the future?

If the army in front of us can't hold on, then all the vehicles and weapons will be gone, and we won't even have a chance to resist...

As a result, the excitement of Tang Wen and the siblings about arriving in the safe zone was instantly cooled, and they were replaced by concerns about the recovery of the weapons vehicle...

These are the foundation of their lives. It took them so long and so many dangers to accumulate them. Besides being the result of their hard work, it also means that they have no way out...

The army is strong, but no one knows how strong the army in front of them is...

This feeling is very similar to stock speculation. This stock is indeed rising, but how high can it rise? Is it worth risking your life? If it collapses, then we will have to wait and see.

Perhaps Commander Yang Wei, who was sitting at the East Column Command Headquarters at the moment, did not know that the order he casually issued could actually become a choice question that determined the life trajectory, or even the life and death, of these ordinary survivors...

In fact, Yang Wei didn’t really care whether the weapons were surrendered or not. In the eyes of him, the commander of the East Column, the weapons that the survivors had were only as good as children’s water guns.

The reason why he asked them to hand it over was purely because he was afraid of trouble. In case any large-scale vicious incident occurred, he would have to spend energy to deal with it. After all, execution would also take time. How could he have that energy?

Now, the three columns of East, West and North on the battlefield of Yucheng are all trying their best to speed up, hoping to show face in front of the heads of the military region and even the heads of the war zone.

Especially as a cadre of the 77th Corps, Yang Wei is eager to gain a firm foothold in the Zhongzhou War Zone system with excellent combat records!

As a result, it became inevitable that military action would take precedence over everything else.

As for taking care of the survivors' emotions? I thought we were still living in the good old days before the apocalypse?

If more than half a year of apocalyptic life still hasn't made them understand life, the 4th Infantry Battalion deployed on the scene wouldn't mind helping them wake up, because they prefer to use force to speak rather than standing guard.

To put it bluntly, these soldiers wanted to cause trouble more than anyone else present.

If you don't cause any disturbance, wouldn't that mean you're really a security guard?

The brothers from other battalions were reaping military exploits crazily on the front lines, but I could only serve as a security guard in the rear. There was no way I could be happy about that!

So these extremely hungry soldiers did not care about the size of their achievements. No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat, and it is better than nothing.

However, under the daily education and restraint of the squad leaders of each squad system, these soldiers of the 9th Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade can only have the desire in their hearts, but it is absolutely impossible for them to actually do anything.

This is the advantage of using system squad leaders to fill the survivor troops. No matter what kind of people are recruited, there is no need to worry about polluting the purity of the troops. It can ensure that Gu Chengyuan's will is fully implemented.

Instead of being like before the end of the world, some good policies were introduced, but when they reached local levels they were intentionally or unintentionally distorted, which eventually led to widespread complaints and forced them to be terminated.

Therefore, the relationship between superiors and subordinates is only relative. It is not what ordinary people think that subordinates must obey their superiors. In fact, the seemingly unattainable superior center still needs to make a lot of compromises and bargaining with the local authorities.

After all, reality is not a computer program that can be executed meticulously by inputting commands. The chain of command transmission is composed of people with independent thoughts and different interests, and the specific execution level also has its own interests.

The move of using system soldiers as the backbone of grassroots troops has effectively solved the political problem that has plagued the Zhou State for thousands of years. With them, even if there is a long chain of war zone-military region-column-brigade-battalion-company-platoon-squad, the grassroots troops can be used as if they were their own arms.

This makes the recruitment work in the Zhongzhou war zone extremely easy. There is no need to consider background, experience, character, motivation, etc. All one needs to do is to meet physical fitness requirements and have no serious illnesses. The rest will be trained by the squad leader step by step.

Under the personal instruction of the system squad leader, even if a zombie sneaks in, you have to be a good soldier and a model soldier!