#176 - Chapter 176 After the Disaster

Early morning.

As the first rays of sunlight rose, the thin purple mist in the air began to dissipate.

The team members on the walls of Green Source Base, who had fought all night, watched as the remaining zombies below regained their composure and slowly wandered away.

They knew that this defense was a victory!

"The purple mist is dissipating! The zombies outside are retreating!"

Standing on the wall, Zhang Tiankai excitedly picked up the walkie-talkie and announced the situation on the base's cadre channel.

The others who received the message were naturally overjoyed.

Starting from nightfall last night, the defense team and the combat team took turns on the wall to defend and kill zombies. Almost everyone took several shifts. Zhang Tiankai and other defense team members were on duty near dawn.

In the leader's office, Qin Jin had naturally learned of the situation through monitoring long ago.

He hadn't slept all night either.

For him now, staying up all night was not a big problem.

Now that the corpse mist day had just ended, there were many things that needed to be dealt with immediately.

He picked up the walkie-talkie and began to arrange things directly on the channel.

"The defense is over. Organize manpower later to shovel all the corpses outside and bury them in the distance!"

"At the same time, count the consumption of weapons and ammunition, conduct a safety inspection inside the base to confirm that the purple mist has not caused internal impact, and repair the walls and external barriers!"

"Let other personnel in the base go out to help. The personnel who worked hard all night can be arranged to rest in shifts. You can arrange the details yourselves."

A response soon came from the walkie-talkie.

After waking up, Green Source Base started operating at high speed again. Many of the personnel who returned to the dormitory last night did not sleep well. At this time, they came out and heard that the zombie attack had ended, and naturally talked and exchanged information happily.

"I said, our base is so strong that we are not afraid of a mere zombie attack!"

"Huh? I seem to remember you saying something different in the middle of the night? Who was it who said the sounds outside were so terrifying that they couldn't sleep?"

"Damn, you misheard."

After breakfast, under the command of the managers and other cadres, the personnel were quickly divided into many groups and began to work inside and outside the entire base.

When the base gate was opened in the isolation area, the scene that met their eyes stunned them.

"嘶!!!"

"Holy crap! How many zombies did we kill last night!? No wonder the sound of gunfire and fighting never stopped all night. We killed so many!!"

A male base member wearing a gas mask and protective suit looked at the pile of corpses that rolled into the base after the gate was opened, and felt a little numb!

The corpses piled up at the door alone were three or four meters high!

Higher than two people standing up!

"The people in front, move aside! I'll push the corpses at the door out first to clear a path for everyone!"

Behind this team member, several rumbling large shovel trucks and bulldozers appeared.

There were also base personnel wearing protective suits on the vehicles.

They were here to shovel corpses.

Soon the personnel in front made way, and the shovel trucks and bulldozers drove forward without hesitation.

The bucket was lowered and drove towards the mountain of corpses piled up at the door.

The pile of corpses finally slowly moved outside the base under the action of these large machines.

A trail of black and red corpse water emitting a stench was left on the ground where the bulldozer passed.

"The disinfection team and the flushing team, hurry up! Flush the corpse water on the ground out and don't let it flow into the base! Those liquids may contain strong viruses, so be careful not to get them on your skin! Pay attention to safety!"

At this time, Wang Yang, Zhao Ling and others were directing personnel to work above the gate wall, and telling the base personnel some precautions.

After nearly two months of doomsday baptism, the people of Green Source Base had long been accustomed to seeing dead bodies. Everyone had basically killed a lot, and they were often arranged to come out to clean up.

But the current situation still had a great impact on them.

"Damn! There should be tens of thousands of zombies that fell last night!"

"Definitely! Look, the outer walls are covered with them. My brother is in the defense team. I just heard him say that the zombies outside never stopped coming to our base last night. It's really scary! If we didn't have our walls, we might not be alive!"

Many people were talking to each other during the clean-up, shocked by the number of corpses in front of them.

If they didn't have high enough walls and weapons, they might have had a very miserable night.

"Everyone, hurry up and clean up and talk less. It's too smelly outside. When the sun rises and those corpses ferment, they will produce more bacteria and viruses. Let's shovel these corpses away as soon as possible."

Even with gas masks, everyone could still smell the unpleasant stench in the air.

It was too suffocating.

In an open space far away from the base, considering that they often had to kill and dispose of corpses, many large pits had been dug according to Qin Jin's requirements before.

Now it was just right to use them to throw the shoveled corpses into and bury them.

The internal investigation of the base was relatively simple and fast. Team members had also been constantly patrolling last night, so there were no problems. Running through it again was just to do a confirmation.

Soon, the many piles of corpses under the outer wall were removed, revealing the stinking base of the wall.

The bottom was as black and strange as if it had been dyed with ink. The personnel quickly sprinkled disinfectant and disinfectant powder, and then pulled water pipes to wash it with brushes.

"Tsk tsk, it's really scary. Even a layer of cement on the wall has been scratched off."

One person washed while looking at the devastated base of the wall, his hair standing on end.

They who were hiding in the dormitory last night had no idea what happened outside.

Now they finally reacted.

*****

Outside world.

Many survivors saw the zombies retreating after dawn, and for a while they didn't dare to step out of their homes.

After half an hour, an hour.

After they really couldn't see any crazy figures outside, they truly stepped out of their residences and bathed in the sunlight.

Countless survivors hugged each other and wept.

Fenghe County.

In a slightly remote small house with a yard.

A group of nearly ten survivors stayed up all night, watching the zombies finally retreat from the yard, and many people cried out in excitement.

"Brother Li! Are we saved!? Wuwuwu."

A young woman covered her mouth, not daring to cry too loudly, and asked a man checking a window next to her.

"A Zhen, don't cry, we're saved! The zombies have really all left!"

The man was also a little excited, but not to the point of crying, and answered the woman who had just asked him.

The other survivors in the room finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The situation last night was too terrifying, reminding them of the scene of the night of the mutation.

If the small building they were hiding in wasn't tall and sturdy enough, and the zombies couldn't climb up to the second floor, they might not have seen today's sun.

"I wonder if Sister Cai and the others found a place to hide last night. I hope they are also safe and sound."

A Zhen did not forget to pray for her good friend.

The man called Brother Li also quickly put away his excited mood, and instead a worry appeared in his heart.

The pair of mothers and daughters who left.

I wonder how they are now?

(End of this chapter)