#154 - Chapter 154 Ending
Five o'clock in the afternoon.
Inside the shelter of the new Green Source base.
The burning pile of corpses had finally died down.
The corpses were all burned into a pile of charred remains, still emitting faint black smoke.
The entire shelter was filled with a foul odor.
Next, the team members would spread lime and other materials to mask the smell.
Today was an exceptionally difficult day for most of the team members.
The only consolation was that everyone had weathered the worst of it and things were much better now.
The sky began to darken, and the temperature grew colder.
The number of zombies outside the wall remained constant, possibly because it wasn't yet night, so it hadn't increased much.
In the afternoon, the defending team members had already stabbed hundreds of zombies, and many had blisters on their hands, but they still hadn't killed them all. Attracted by the pile of corpses inside the shelter, they continued to relentlessly batter the wall.
Fortunately, the walls and gates here were relatively sturdy.
Maintaining a low level of zombie density.
The other combat team members had already arranged the night watch, still divided into three groups, each group taking four-hour shifts.
Tonight would be tiring.
Everyone could foresee that the zombies outside would likely increase further at night, and they would need to stand on the wall to resist their impact.
Energy-saving lamps had already been set up, and the team members had prepared their weapons, using silenced firearms when necessary to reduce the pressure.
Among them, the office building where Director Guo had worked before was the most intact and tallest.
At this time, the team members who were not assigned tasks were resting here.
A large pot had been set up, bubbling and steaming as it cooked food.
Everyone unanimously agreed to have the simplest vegetable noodles for dinner tonight, without adding any oil.
To have the strength to resist the zombies at night, they had to eat something to replenish their energy, even if they had no appetite.
In the original Director Guo's office.
It had now become Director Qin's office.
Qin Jin sat in the original luxurious executive chair, with a bowl of noodles and some paper documents on the clean desk.
These documents contained information obtained by Gao Qiang from interrogating the old man and the other two women.
There was a lot of content in the documents, and Qin Jin was reading them while eating his noodles.
As for the old man and the others?
Killed.
No matter how loudly he asked, Gao Qiang just silently did his job, only speaking when he needed to question Guo Chunrui.
Even if Guo Chunrui had been ruthless before, he was now just an old man. Faced with various forms of physical torture, he quickly confessed what he knew.
Seeking to exchange it for the luxury of dying sooner.
Gao Qiang did not give him any preferential treatment because of his age, treating everyone fairly and equally.
The other two women were also interrogated by other team members, and the conclusion was that they were just two of Guo's mistresses.
Along with the remaining two companions with broken arms and legs, they were given a quick death.
Including the old man who had died, a total of five people, all had their heads destroyed and were buried in a pit.
This was considered a complete cleanup of everyone in this shelter.
Qin Jin had seen the photo frame on the old man's office desk, a family of four.
The young master of the Guo family, who had never appeared from beginning to end, was also learned about during questioning of other team members, who had seen him while moving corpses.
Let their family go on their way together.
Returning to his thoughts.
Qin Jin finished his noodles and continued to review the voluminous paper documents.
This Director Guo was quite a figure in his lifetime and knew a lot of things. Many previous secret messages were interrogated and written on paper.
But now it was of no use to Qin Jin.
As he continued to browse, he suddenly stopped at a piece of information.
It stated that the Guo family's shelter was in contact with the largest shelter in Yang City, preparing to exchange food for firearms and other weapons.
Heh.
This Director Guo was really ambitious. There were as many as 16 pistols seized today, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition. It was unknown how many police stations or where they had scavenged them from before.
If they were allowed to continue developing, they might really cause a "small" trouble to their Green Source base in the future.
But.
That was impossible now.
As for that Yang City shelter, he didn't have much interest in getting involved with them. In a while, a catastrophe would befall them. Let the survivors talk to him then.
There might be a lot of weapons inside, but two thousand people were not to be trifled with, there was no need to provoke them.
Today, they had consumed hundreds of TNT bombs made by Dong Hui in the base, as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition to clear the enemy, and immeasurable aviation fuel and gasoline.
When they inventoried the supplies here in the afternoon, they found that a lot of ammunition had been replenished, increasing their ammunition reserves.
An unexpected surprise was that they also found more than twenty tons of grain here.
This trip was not a loss, or rather, they had made a lot of profit.
He put these materials aside to be taken back to the base for safekeeping, and they could be reviewed if needed.
He took out a tablet again, unlocked it, and a video appeared, showing the internal environment of the Yang City Military Region!
He would go to this place early tomorrow morning.
Hopefully, he could find something useful.
The night was long.
After night fell, the zombies impacting the wall did indeed increase.
Even though the corpses had almost been burned to coke, and a lot of lime and other odor-masking items had been sprinkled, they still had a certain attraction to the zombies.
Fortunately, it wasn't too strong. The newly arrived zombies gradually increased by several hundred, and the highest position piled up against the wall was only about three meters. The night defense team members could still handle it.
The team members only left one or two people to observe from the high-rise buildings, and the others directly stabbed the zombies at the edge of the wall.
Even so, the team members who had been busy all day were exhausted.
They were still sweating profusely in the cold weather, which was due to the physical exertion caused by long-term, large-scale movements.
Four hours later, the exhausted team members returned to the building to rest, replaced by another team of teammates on night duty.
They were so tired that they didn't have time to worry about whether people had died in the building, and they fell asleep snoring as soon as they got into their sleeping bags.
After Qin Jin completed the review of tomorrow's plan, he also took the initiative to run to the wall to help resist the impact of the zombies.
Each of his strikes could take away at least one zombie, and the defensive pressure was greatly reduced with continuous attacks.
It wasn't until the second half of the night that the zombies that had been attracted basically disappeared, and at this time, the average number of zombies that had fallen outside the wall was almost three meters!
This was still under the condition of deliberately controlling and pushing away the corpse towers.
Only then was the danger completely eliminated.
Qin Jin went back to sleep, and the team members could easily stand guard at night.
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The next day.
The team members, who had not yet recovered their energy, woke up early.
Today, they would go to another target of this trip!
Not all of them were dispatched, only most of the convoy set off, and the remaining vehicles and personnel would stay at this temporary base to continue defending and cleaning up the corpses outside.
Qin Jin sat in the Saber-toothed Tiger.
Leading more than twenty team members, as well as military heavy trucks, transport flatbeds, and two armored vehicles, he went straight to the Yang City Military Region!
(End of this chapter)
