#64 - Chapter 64 Dongguan Base (I)

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~

In a villa district.

A huge roar resounded through the sky and earth, as a helicopter of considerable size hovered about 50 meters in the air.

It had been flying continuously in this area for nearly five minutes, and seemingly not finding its target, it began to ascend again and flew in another direction.

It was Qin Jin and his group who had come out.

The journey from the training ground was smooth, taking only a dozen minutes to reach the place.

But after arriving, they couldn't find a single trace of the helicopter.

After searching around and confirming it wasn't there, they had to cross this place off the list and continue searching elsewhere.

Next, they would go to a TV station.

According to previous information, this TV station was located somewhere in Yang City, and there was usually a helicopter for interviews parked on the roof.

Their next target was here, an estimated 70 kilometers away.

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Wan City.

Within a long circular wall, there were a number of buildings standing.

Among them, several taller and larger buildings could be vaguely identified as school classrooms and other teaching buildings.

Besides the buildings, there were also many open spaces inside.

But it had been built with a lot of tents and iron shacks, randomly distributed within the walls, and some places could be seen as originally football fields, basketball courts, and the like.

The wall surrounded all these things, and it already had the prototype of a base!

At this time, it was approaching noon, and many people could be seen walking inside, and from the direction they were heading, they were all going to a certain building.

Most of the people on the road had sallow complexions, dull and lifeless eyes, and their clothes were dirty and tattered, like refugees.

No, they could indeed be called refugees.

This is the Wan City Survivor Gathering Area!

"Gangzi, wake up! They're giving out porridge up there, let's hurry up and line up to get some! It'll be gone if we're late!"

A thick, middle-aged man's voice rang out in a certain tent.

Inside this tent were two men, one older, about thirty or forty years old, and the other younger, looking only in his early twenties.

They were none other than Brother Chen and his brother, who had previously passed by the Longmen County Expressway!

But judging from their expressions and complexions, they seemed even more haggard than before, and even Brother Chen's once-spirited eyes had dimmed a lot.

"Cousin, let's not go, shall we!? What can we get full with that little bit of porridge? We still have some food, right?"

"Shhh~~! Keep your voice down!"

The man called Brother Chen, hearing his cousin's words, quickly rushed over to cover his mouth, his eyes also looking around, seemingly worried that the words had been heard by others.

Brother Chen observed for a while.

Seeming to think that his words had not been heard, he wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

Turning his head to glare at his cousin, he lowered his voice and said:

"Damn! You want to die!! How many times have I told you not to mention those things! You still have to mention it! Don't blame me for being rude if I hear you say it again!"

"Okay, okay, I know, Brother, it's just that the porridge they give out over there is too thin and too unpalatable, it's not enough to eat at all, sigh, coming here was a mistake, we might as well have stayed at home."

The cousin, called Gangzi by Brother Chen, was still complaining.

Brother Chen didn't answer his words, but just stood up himself.

Searching around in the tent for a while, he found a mess tin that hadn't been washed for a long time, but didn't show any stains, and then walked out of the tent.

Before leaving, he glanced back at his cousin Gangzi, and said in a tone of disappointment:

"I'm going to get porridge, you better come too, it's better to have something to eat than nothing!"

After saying that, he shook his head and sighed, turning and walking towards the direction where the most people were going.

Brother Chen was also helpless.

That day, he took his cousin and some other neighbors and residents, and after a lot of difficulties, finally managed to reach the target Wan City, and finally found this survivor gathering area.

Originally, they were excited to think they had found the Garden of Eden.

After excitedly passing the gathering area's inspection and entering.

They realized that the situation inside was very different from what they had imagined.

There was no delicious, hot food here, nor was there a comfortable living environment.

This gathering place was said to have been a middle school before, located in a relatively remote part of Wan City, and was established as a refuge by some official personnel and large company consortiums relying on it.

Perhaps those high-level refuge officials did not expect that someone would release the news before the network was disconnected, causing many people to see it, and it spread by word of mouth, and finally the swarm of survivors filled the place.

Brother Chen and the others didn't come early, nor were they late.

Those high-level refuge officials who arrived earliest were said to be able to find dormitories to live in.

The rest of the people in the refuge could also live in buildings such as classrooms.

As for the earliest survivors, they could go into the gymnasium to set up tents to live in.

Those who came last really had no place, so they could only set up tents in the open air.

Although Brother Chen and the others' location was also in the open air, it was at least in the middle of the building and the wall, and it wasn't too noisy at night.

Because there were too many humans in this gathering place, according to inaccurate statistics, it was said that it had reached more than eight thousand people!

The "meat smell" emitted by this number of survivors was enough to attract the attention of zombies from far away!

There was no doubt that this place was harassed by many zombies every night.

It was better during the day, but every night after dark, there were quite a few zombies trying to climb over the wall.

That wall, which was only four meters high, couldn't hold on at all.

So every night, people from the refuge were resisting the zombies.

They were resisting the invasion of the zombies with long knives, iron rods, and even any weapons they could find.

There were only two or three hundred of them, but they had to guard several thousand, nearly ten thousand people!

It's not that there were no guns, it was said that there were quite a few at the beginning.

But facing the endless stream of zombies, they initially relied on powerful firepower to resist, but the consumption was too great, and bullets were consumed one by one, and there was no way to replenish them.

It was said that the remaining official troops initially brought as many as three trucks of ammunition.

After more than half a month of consumption, there was not much left, and some had to be reserved for going out to search for food during the day.

Resisting the zombies like this every night, the shouts of killing would inevitably be heard.

So it was basically difficult to fall asleep in the tents close to the wall.

Brother Chen's position, which was closer to the inside, was already an enviable location for many people, at least they could occasionally fall asleep at night.

As for food.

According to those who came earlier, the refuge pulled a lot of food from somewhere, and there was rice and vegetables at first.

It's just that more and more people came later, and the higher-ups couldn't support it either.

Even if they organized people to go out to search for food every day.

But the quantity was limited after all.

The result of hundreds of people supporting thousands of people was like this.

There were also many people in Wan City, so the number of zombies was also very terrifying.

The teams that went out to find food often suffered attacks from a staggering number of zombies when they entered buildings, and many people had already been sacrificed.

It was said that the refuge team now also had a lot of resentment, working hard every day, but not getting a good word, and being scolded and complained about by the survivors every day.

The result of various situations was that the conflict between the two sides was getting bigger and bigger.

The survivors hoped to get more food and a better living environment.

The refuge side hoped that the survivors could take the initiative to stand up and help them resist the zombies and do other work.

For example, increasing the height and thickness of the wall.

And joining the team searching for food.

Most of the survivors sneered at this.

They felt that these things were supposed to be done by the refuge side.

Only a very few people were willing to stand up and help.

These people who helped were often given the cold shoulder by others, who thought they were stupid, wasting their energy and risking danger.

Going out was a life-threatening risk, and it was over if you were caught by a zombie.

It was better to stay in the refuge and lie down every day waiting for food to be distributed.

Anyway, there were many people from official organizations in the refuge, and it was their duty to take care of them.

After all, there was a disaster, shouldn't the victims be helped?

The Wan City gathering area refuge was developing slowly in this kind of contradiction.

(End of this chapter)