#217 - Chapter 217 Zombie Tide!
Inside the quarantine zone.
After Li Bowen led his team to Zhushi, Zhong Yu and Zhang Tiankai also followed closely, leading a convoy of eight vehicles towards Shanshi.
Unlike the oil extraction site in Zhushi, there were no immediate plans to station personnel in Shanshi.
Based on the footage taken by the helicopters, the Shanshi mines lacked protection and it would be difficult to establish walled-off isolation zones, so Qin Jin decided to acquire coal from Shanshi in a different way.
Directly trade with local survivors.
Unlike oil, which serves as the lifeblood of industrial development and is needed for power generation, automobiles, airplanes, and various other machines,
Coal is mostly only used for power generation and heating. If there is enough oil, the value of coal becomes more symbolic than practical.
Therefore, Zhong Yu and his team's main objective in Shanshi was to set up trading posts near the mines, clear any potential obstacles, and inform the local survivors about the possibility of exchanging resources for food.
At the same time, several helicopter sorties would be dispatched today to continue scouting other mineral resource points in Guangnan Province.
Once these locations were identified, combat units would be sent to clear them and establish resource exchange points.
Qin Jin's goal was to establish countless resource exchange points throughout Guangnan Province!
This would essentially turn all the survivors in the province into laborers for the Green Source Base!
This was Qin Jin's current objective!
He wasn't counting on the entire country, as the journey was too long and they didn't have enough manpower.
In the future, as long as food production increased sufficiently to supply the survivors outside, they would theoretically acquire countless resources!
*****\nFenghe County.
Since the temperature had risen and the ice and snow had melted, this once-bustling city had regained its original appearance.
Although it was still scarred and desolate.
Today, during the daytime, the streets, which were usually deserted after the apocalypse, were filled with numerous figures.
They were zombies who had been starving all winter!
It was unknown what had stimulated them, but they emerged from the shadows during the day, twitching their noses as if they had discovered something, and slowly walked in one direction.
That direction was Mentang Town!
Since Green Source started distributing leaflets at the end of last year, hundreds of thousands of survivors had rushed to the vicinity of Fenghe County. Later, due to the heavy snow blocking the city, only a small number reached the Green Source Base, while most remained on the road!
Many of them died during the winter, but several thousand survivors still endured until the ice and snow melted and reached Mentang Town!
The aura of these survivors and the sounds they made attracted these long-dormant zombies, who converged towards Mentang Town!
Fenghe County didn't have a large population, but it still exceeded 300,000!
Of the deceased, apart from the few who were completely devoured, most had turned into zombies.
At this time, if not all, at least nearly one-third of the zombies in Fenghe County were disturbed by these migrating survivors and moved towards the source of attraction!
Among them were some strange figures!
A disaster was slowly heading towards Mentang Town.
*****\nAround noon.
At the main gate of the Green Source Base.
Wang Yang was making records with a notebook in hand.
Since some time ago, more than 3,000 survivors had come to seek refuge at the Green Source Base!
The leaflet distribution operation before the New Year had begun to show its power.
Wang Yang could only admire the leader's arrangements wholeheartedly.
He used to be one of those who questioned why President Qin didn't expand recruitment, and he never understood why the Green Source Base didn't absorb more people.
But after experiencing several events, he realized that he was short-sighted.
As expected of the boss.
The sudden influx of so many people these past few days had also caused them to be a little flustered, but with Zheng Yi's suppression and the combat team's demonstration of power, the survivors had settled down.
Now, most of them were searching for supplies around Mentang Town and exchanging them for food at the base.
About three hundred people were busy at the branch base. In just a few days after the base was built, the walls had reached a height of 3 meters!
This speed was extremely fast for them in the past!
As expected, there is strength in numbers.
Wang Yang looked at the list in his hand, which was filled with various survivors' information, including professionals such as doctors, various engineers, scientists, chemists, agricultural scientists, and other highly educated talents. He had also specially marked some people from the military.
These were the people that Qin specifically instructed to keep an eye on.
The base was lacking in many aspects, and these people were likely to be absorbed into the branch base later.
"Well, not bad, 3 doctors, 2 nurses, 15 engineers, 5 scholars of various kinds, and 27 former soldiers. We can replenish our base again!"
Wang Yang looked at the recently registered forms and sighed contentedly in a low voice.
Now Green Source mainly absorbed useful talents, and other ordinary survivors were not even allowed to enter the branch base unless they made significant contributions.
The apocalypse was so cruel.
Suddenly.
A commotion broke out at the branch base.
His personal walkie-talkie also sounded on the public channel.
"Attention everyone! A lot of zombies have suddenly appeared outside. Security personnel, please prepare to defend and eliminate them!"
Zombies?
Wang Yang looked up at the sky. The sun was shining brightly!
Zombies were coming during the day. Was it because their construction work today was too loud?
Without waiting for him to think too much, the professional security team had already taken up arms to suppress the attracted zombies.
The perimeter of the base had been set up with interception belts by Li Xu again a few days ago. At this time, nearly a hundred ragged zombies were baring their fangs and claws on these interception belts.
The arriving team members used silenced pistols or crossbows to shoot at these zombies from a distance.
These zombies, who had not yet tasted a bite of warm flesh, fell one after another on the interception belts.
"Phew, luckily we have Li Xu's interception belts and the base's powerful security team."
Wang Yang stood near the gate of the base, watching the small crisis that had been dealt with in the distance, wiping non-existent sweat, and muttering to himself in relief.
Recently, the base had been receiving new survivors and setting up some facilities in the quarantine area, so he often worked at the gate.
If one wanted to truly enter the interior of the base, of course, there was still a process to go through.
It was impossible to keep the gate open every day.
"Eh?"
Just as he saw the security team eliminate the wave of zombies just now, he actually saw several zombies rushing over from a distance again!
Bang bang bang!
Before they could rush to the interception belts, these newly appeared zombies fell under the guns of the team members.
But new zombies were still appearing one after another in the distance!
Something was wrong!
Even Wang Yang, a non-military person, could see that something was not quite right.
How could there be so many zombies coming during the day!
Just then, the walkie-talkie on his waist sounded again.
It was still Qin Jin's voice!
"Everyone, immediately enter a Level 2 alert state! The branch base outside should stop construction immediately, and arrange for them to transfer to the quarantine area!"
"We received news that a zombie horde is heading towards Mentang Town!"
(End of chapter)
