#36 - Chapter 36 Neighbors
Morning.
Inside Green Source Base.
Everyone has become familiar with the new life.
It's just past six, and the sky is barely light.
Most people are already up.
The combat team is especially well-prepared.
Qin Jin led the teams of Li Bowen, Zhang Tiankai, and Zhong Yu to continue searching other police stations.
Chen Junchi and Liu Wenhao's team took another ten people, including Wang Bin, a total of seven trucks, to the chemical factory to haul goods.
They split into two groups.
The base didn't relax either.
Qin's father and other managers are speeding up the construction of walls and other facilities.
They need to complete the wall's heightening as soon as possible, as it relates to everyone's safety.
Today, a group of people was transferred to move supplies from the chemical factory, but it doesn't affect the speed of wall construction.
After many days of construction, everyone has begun to adapt to this physical labor.
They've learned a lot about the techniques and key points.
In a roundabout way, the construction speed has also accelerated, so the overall construction speed hasn't slowed down.
The base is a hive of activity everywhere.
It's still developing according to plan.
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Three kilometers away from Green Source Base.
In the same industrial area.
A factory of considerable size.
A certain office building.
A certain room on the seventh floor.
Several people are gathered by the window, their eyes looking into the distance.
That's the Green Source combat team that just drove past on the road.
One of the men, tall and thin with a face full of stubble, said:
"Boss, that convoy has gone out again, it's been a full three days!"
One of them, burly, with a missing eyebrow and a gloomy look in his eyes, stared at the departing convoy, without turning his head, and said:
"Keep a close watch on them when they come back this afternoon, see where their lair is, and who they are."
"Yes, Boss."
This room is large, and the interior is a bit dim.
The light from several flashlights illuminates the interior.
Looking inside.
You can see a lot of sofas and tables placed in a circle, but they seem out of place in the room.
It seems they were dragged over temporarily.
Besides the few people by the window, there are other people on the sofas inside.
Some of them are sitting on the sofas, smoking and drinking what appears to be alcohol.
Smoke fills the air, and the air is murky.
The table in the middle is covered with leftover snack wrappers, wine bottles, beverage bottles, and various food scraps scattered everywhere.
Seeming to have just woken up, some people are still sleepy-eyed, muttering something under their breath.
In the darker corner, figures sway, and upon closer inspection, there are actually several men and women!
Two of the men are disheveled, bruised and swollen, covered in blood, as if they've been beaten badly.
Their hands are tied behind their backs, and they're lying on the ground without a sound, seemingly dead or alive.
Next to them, there's a mattress thrown on the ground, stained and filthy, with three women, not too old, huddled together!
Strangely, none of them are wearing clothes!
Only a few thin, dirty underwear hang on their bodies, revealing glimpses of their figures.
At this moment, they are disheveled and look terrified.
Faint red and blue bruises and stains can be seen on their snow-white bodies, which also emit a strange smell.
They don't dare to look directly at the men in the middle of the room.
Occasionally, they sneak a peek, but they quickly lower their heads as if electrocuted.
It seems that attracting those people's attention will lead to something terrible.
The tall, thin man and the man called Boss seem to have finished watching the situation outside and walked from the window to the sofa in the middle.
The boss came to the sofa and kicked away a sleeping man lying on it.
The latter woke up and was about to get angry, but his anger dissipated when he saw who it was.
He quickly greeted him with a smile, respectfully inviting him to take a seat.
This boss didn't stand on ceremony, and sat down boldly.
He stretched out his legs, resting them on the table, his leather shoes directly pressing down on some leftover snacks, and spread his hands out, holding onto the edge of the sofa.
He had the air of a boss.
No one present was dissatisfied because everyone knew that things were different now than before.
They quite enjoyed the present.
Unrestrained.
Things they never dared to think about before, they can now do whatever they want.
For example, the women in the corner were the kind of women they could only stare at with their eyes and fantasize about in their minds.
Now they can enjoy them at will.
This boss is called Zhao Qiang.
He was originally the security captain of this factory.
On the night of the mutation.
The factory production line didn't have overtime scheduled, and there were only a few people in the factory.
In the end, only one person was lucky enough to mutate.
Zhao Qiang led several security guards and employees from the factory and spent a lot of effort to eliminate it.
They were all people who had watched zombie movies, so of course they understood the weaknesses of this kind of monster, that you had to attack their heads.
Things happened that night, and combined with the situation they saw on the internet later.
They knew the world might have changed.
With fear, and the excitement hidden deep in their hearts.
They closed and sealed all the entrances and exits of the factory, and easily obtained a safe and spacious base.
They had also been paying attention to the news on the internet for the past few days.
Finally confirmed.
The apocalypse has really arrived!
The outside world is in chaos, and official organizations are nowhere to be seen.
No one will come back to manage this factory, and theoretically, they are the new owners here!
Zhao Qiang, as the security captain, and with the highest combat power, became the boss without question.
At that time, there were only seven people in the factory, six men and one woman, all employees who had stayed behind to work overtime at night.
After confirming that peace was no more, he quickly integrated and ruled them.
In addition to closing all the entrances and exits of the factory before any zombies could find their way over, he also collected all the food inside and stored it on the top floor of the tallest office building, this spacious office on the seventh floor.
Several people piled up the supplies in this room, and also brought in a lot of sofas and tables.
They planned that if the factory was breached, they could also resist the invasion of zombies here.
They would live as long as they could.
Naturally.
Next to several men with low moral character and infinitely growing dark desires, the only woman among them was bound to be unable to escape.
She was violated on the second day of the mutation.
The next two days were even more hellish and terrifying. In endless ravaging, she lost her life, and her body was abandoned outside the factory.
These men released the darkness in their hearts, and watching the corpse fall into the crazy zombies outside, their moral compass completely collapsed.
They became even more unscrupulous in doing outrageous things, frantically venting their inner despair.
Until two days ago, the fog disappeared, and the zombies outside calmed down.
Perhaps because they were few in number and didn't have a strong "meat smell," almost no zombies surrounded their factory.
They saw new hope.
A kind of crazy bestiality was rising.
The day before yesterday, they began to muster up the courage to leave the factory and go outside to find "prey!"
They also knew some tricks, creating sounds to distract the zombies, and the weakness of hitting the head.
Fortunately, they hardly encountered large groups of zombies. They drove around and killed a few zombies, without encountering any major dangers.
They became bolder.
Later, they ran to a place a few kilometers away from the factory to find supplies and prey.
That was a residential area.
Several survivors who were hiding in nearby buildings discovered them and thought they were a rescue team!
They were amused. They had just killed people and done things worse than animals, but they were mistaken for good people.
They quietly lured this small group of five survivors down, and found that there were actually three young women inside!
Zhao Qiang and the others were overjoyed.
This small group was tricked back to the factory.
Then they showed their true colors. Under the threat of their iron bars and machetes, they first controlled several women. The two men resisted for a while before giving in, and then the rest goes without saying.
Naturally, the men were tortured and beaten to get more information about resources and prey, and the women became their tools for venting their desires.
They never dared to imagine that life could be so happy!
Before, they could only rely on traditional handcrafts!
They didn't even dare to spend money to buy flowers in brothels!
Before, they were like stray dogs on the side of the road, and no woman would give them a second glance.
They all knew that they were the losers at the bottom of society, who could only take meager wages and breathe quietly.
Now it's different.
Although the days in the new world are a bit dangerous.
But it's too comfortable.
In the past two days, they had several more bouts of crazy output.
Last night, they even started a crazy party that didn't end until dawn.
If they didn't have new goals, they would have played even longer.
Yes, the day before yesterday night and yesterday morning they discovered people entering and leaving Green Source Base.
They found that there were other forces active outside!
Several cars went out in the morning, and more cars were added in the evening, so it can be guessed that these people must have returned fully loaded!
They were envious.
They were preparing to find out about this force's background.
If it's a soft persimmon.
Then just kill them and take the supplies.
If it's harder.
You can also consider joining or avoiding them.
They believe that other people will be like them.
When desires can be shown without restraint, no one can hold back.
Zhao Qiang is not stupid. He saw that this force has more than ten vehicles, and the number of people must be even greater.
He's not his opponent yet.
So he wants to strengthen his team. If he has the opportunity to take down this force, then the food and women will definitely be endless.
Today he wants to take people out to search for supplies.
By the way, see if he can also find some "like-minded" people to come in and strengthen his strength.
He's a little obsessed with power.
Even if it's only a little bit now, he just imagines the majestic appearance of his subordinates when they are in groups in the future, and his heart blossoms.
It's a pity that the two men in the survivor group he brought back before refused to work with them.
It made him furious.
A group of people punched and kicked them.
This is the end of the world, but these two people are still pretending to be noble!
It made them extremely angry.
In the past two days, they have tortured these two men to the point of near death, but they still refuse to join.
They also gave up.
They were preparing to throw them into a room to fend for themselves, and if there was a chance, they could be used as bait for zombies one day.
He glanced at his surrounding partners with a sinister look, spat on the floor, and shouted:
"Get up, we're going out to work."
"You only know how to eat and xx, damn it."
The people around just giggled, not taking it seriously, they were used to this kind of rudeness.
One person was left to guard the house, and the women were retied, so only one person was needed to watch them.
The others drove out to "hunt".
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Green Source Base.
They don't know that someone has begun to set their sights on this place.
Everyone is still working hard to build the walls.
When the combat team came back yesterday, they all heard about the zombie resistance situation yesterday.
The combat team was trapped in the chemical factory, using the two-meter-high walls to resist and kill hundreds of zombies.
The process was full of crises, but fortunately, it turned out to be safe.
Their own eight-meter wall is almost three stories high.
But no one thinks it's too high, and they continue to work hard to build it.
No one dares to slack off or cut corners, and if they are seen by the people next to them, they will be reprimanded.
This is not taking everyone's lives seriously.
Everyone now regards the base's walls as their wall of life.
On a certain section of the wall.
Qin's father, wearing a safety helmet, directed some people to assemble some kind of equipment.
He was still writing and drawing on the paper in his hand, not knowing what he was recording.
At this time, this equipment is basically formed.
Underneath is a wheeled movable base, extending a ladder-like staircase, which is placed on the wall and fixed, and the upper end has an iron hanging basket that can stand more than five people.
The whole thing looks like an extended ladder on a fire truck.
There is also a conveyor belt for transporting supplies, and the lower things can be transported up by manually pulling the pulley.
This equipment has a great effect.
It is specially designed to directly attack zombies on the wall.
Qin Jin had spent money to find someone to design and order more than a dozen of these things, and now they are pulled out and officially planned to be used.
Yes.
Green Source Base's training has begun.
Today, the on-duty personnel who stay at the base will be arranged to kill zombies.
At present, there are only a dozen or twenty people defending the base. Qin Jin and Qin's father and other managers have discussed that this group of people needs to be trained first.
At least when facing zombies, they can swing their knives and guns, instead of running away in fear when they see zombies.
After this group of people has a certain amount of experience and overcomes their fear of zombies.
All the people in the base will have to do this.
To survive in the apocalypse, you need to overcome the fear of facing zombies.
At this time, five of these devices have been pulled out and placed next to the nearly nine-meter-high wall.
Each ladder has one person climbing to the iron hanging basket at the top, with a rope wrapped around their waist, and the upper buckle is fastened to the hanging basket.
This is to prevent excessive force or the spear being grabbed by the zombies and dragged down.
Qin's father, as the leader of the base's father, was the first to go up.
He doesn't plan to stay behind and be protected all the time in the future.
As one of the base managers, he had to lead by example.
Everyone on the suspended platform held a specially made extendable spear.
The spear weighed 6 kilograms and was currently adjusted to a length of nearly 10 meters, making it perfectly capable of attacking the zombies below.
A dozen or so zombies had already appeared one after another below the wall, attracted by the construction noise inside the base.
Even a nearly ten-meter-high wall couldn't completely block the sound from escaping.
Not to mention that the more people there were, the stronger the "smell of flesh" would be. Even if the zombies' sense of smell hadn't reached its peak, they could still detect it to some extent.
At this moment, the five people on the suspended platform were somewhat nervous.
This was their first time killing zombies. In the eyes of many, zombies were the same as humans.
They had the same appearance, and killing zombies gave one the illusion of killing people.
That's why many people couldn't bring themselves to do it in the early days of the apocalypse and were eaten.
The purpose now was to overcome this psychological barrier.
Qin's father above took a deep breath and shouted, "They are no longer people. Do it for yourselves, for your families!"
"Attack!"
"Kill!"
(End of this chapter)
