#446 - Chapter 446: Where are the nesting dolls?
"Not far now."
The people from Hongyun Base felt their heads buzzing when they heard the patrol team leader's words.
This damn place with such high walls isn't even your base!?
We can't even imagine what your headquarters is like!
Can you please speak human language!?
Of course, they were just complaining in their hearts and didn't show too much expression on their faces.
They wanted to save face.
Please, have mercy...
The people from Hongyun Base once again started their vehicles without showing any emotion and continued to follow the patrol team.
Cough cough.
Nothing happened; it was just an illusion.
However, many of them couldn't help but steal glances at Residential Area 1; even Hongyun didn't have such high walls!
So envious!
It wasn't that their base didn't want to keep building higher and higher, but continuing to build upwards required very high-quality materials and technology.
Blindly building upwards without a good foundation could very likely result in the walls being pushed down directly by zombies one day!
"Let's go; stop looking over there! Drive properly!"
"Don't show such rude expressions later! If you embarrass our base, I'll settle the score with you when we get back!"
Leader Hong's tone was unkind as she spoke to the people in the car.
Although she wasn't much better just now.
She didn't want her people to look like country bumpkins entering the city for the first time; once the other party gained the upper hand, they might get a cut during the upcoming negotiations.
The others in the car quickly restrained their expressions after hearing the leader's words, secretly warning themselves not to show any shock no matter what they saw later.
But.
If this Green Source has twenty-meter-high walls even for the residences of outer personnel, wouldn't their official base reach a height of thirty meters?
Hiss—!
Those who thought of this gasped inwardly, but their faces remained calm, preemptively shocking themselves to prevent being shocked again later.
Alright!
We've already prepared ourselves mentally; we won't be shocked again no matter what we see later!
We are the Iron Mask Army of Hongyun!
Unless we really can't help it!
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The patrol team naturally didn't know what the people from Hongyun Base behind them were talking about in their cars; they continued to lead them to the branch base according to the cadre's instructions.
The convoy continued to drive deep into the Green Source area.
The large residential area was only a few kilometers away from the Green Source base, and the patrol team soon led the Hongyun group to the distant side of the branch base.
"Please open the gate! These are the people Captain Wang Yang requested to come in for discussions!"
The patrol team leader informed the defense personnel stationed at the construction site of the life zone, who had naturally received the message long ago and quickly put away their guns, making a gesture of invitation.
Glug—!
This was a large chorus of swallowing sounds!
What did I just see??!!
Are those walls in the distance?!
They're almost forty or fifty meters high!!
Xiong Sen and the others from Hongyun Base's pupils shrank rapidly, but their expressions didn't change much; the mental suggestion from before had played a significant role!
We can't show a shocked expression!
Although it's really shocking.
Sorry, Green Source, we held back this time!
"Continue to follow me in; these are some of the infrastructure projects we've been working on recently; they are all Level 1 and Level 2 personnel from our base, digging an isolation zone to block zombies; it's not that long, probably only ten to twenty kilometers in total."
The patrol team leader casually introduced to the Hongyun Base group next to him.
These weren't confidential messages, and the base didn't require them to be kept secret.
Those Level 1 personnel who lived on the outermost perimeter often had to go outside to find food to fill their stomachs and would naturally come into contact with survivors from the outside world; there were many things that couldn't be hidden.
Green Source was too lazy to hide some of its major actions.
A series of question marks appeared above the heads of the people from Hongyun Base.
Isolation zone??!
Ten to twenty kilometers??!
Damn it??!
What the hell is that??
Xiong Sen gritted his teeth and tensed his facial muscles, preventing himself from revealing any unusual expression due to surprise.
Bring it on!
I, Xiong 'Iron Face' Sen, can still handle it!
"Your base is very impressive; carrying out such a large project must require a huge amount of manpower and resources, right? May I ask, how many people are there in Green Source Base now? You don't have to answer if it's inconvenient,"
Hong Sister interjected appropriately, winking at the patrol team leader and showing a harmless smile.
Hiss!
Seeing this beautiful woman he had been secretly noticing asking him a question, the patrol team leader's face turned slightly red, and his heart skipped a beat; he hesitated for a moment before really explaining:
"Um, actually, I don't know the exact number; the base hasn't told us that, but we almost all secretly chat and calculate; counting all the Level 1 and above personnel with badges, there are probably a little over two thousand people."
Saying this wasn't considered betraying the base because this was a topic that almost all personnel would talk about when they had time.
Two thousand people!!!?
Damn it!!
Xiong Sen almost crushed his teeth; it took him a lot of effort to prevent his expression from changing drastically.
He quickly turned his head to look at the people working in the life zone next to him to distract his attention.
With this look, he discovered something amazing again!
The people working were all wearing sun hats, various construction machines were running loudly, and there were water dispensers and a pile of bottled clean drinking water on the ground next to them.
Several people were resting, drinking water while curiously looking at the group of people passing by.
Was their water supply unlimited???!
Wasn't there a drought outside, and many survivors were starting to struggle to find water?
They can still drink freely here??
Xiong Sen felt that his Dao heart was unstable and showed signs of breaking.
Even the facial expressions that had been sealed all the time began to loosen and were about to break the seal.
Masaka!
No!
Could it be that Green Source received the news and knew they were coming, so they arranged these things in advance on the necessary routes to shock them??!
It must be like this!
Xiong Sen felt that the seal on his face was re-stabilized.
Huff!
What a Green Source Base!
Everywhere is a trap; it seems they are determined to let them see how powerful they are, so they can negotiate a lower price when they meet!
Although the other party might not know the purpose of their trip, it didn't prevent Vice Leader Xiong from thinking so.
He also gave Leader Hong a solemn and insightful look.
??
Hong Sister was full of doubts and didn't know what her vice leader was wink at her for.
She didn't have time to think about these things because the patrol team leader had already led them across the life zone and arrived at the real Green Source branch base walls!
"Welcome here!"
"This is the branch base of our Green Source Base, which is where the outer personnel of Level 3 and above, including myself, live! Our base's cadres are waiting for everyone inside!"
"Please cooperate! Disarm your weapons and be inspected before entering!"
???
Question marks continued to appear in the minds of Hong Sister and Vice Leader Xiong.
The branch base of Green Source Base?
The place where the outer personnel live?
How many layers are there?
Is this a nesting doll??
(End of this chapter)
