Chapter 251: Meeting

The conference hall of the Qingshi Safe Zone was located on the top of the hills,

with four walls spliced together by reinforced steel plates, and three heavy machine guns mounted on the roof, the muzzles aimed at the open plains. When Lin Chen led ten elite team members into the hall,

it was already full of people, smoke swirling, and various sounds mixed together, making people's eardrums ache.

On both sides of the long conference table sat representatives from seven safe zones, each with two fully armed team members standing behind them, their eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings.

Seeing Lin Chen come in, the originally noisy hall fell silent for a bit, and all eyes focused on him, with scrutiny, wariness, and a few traces of imperceptible hostility.

The person in charge of the Qingshi Safe Zone, Wang Hu, stood up immediately, walking up quickly,

a warm smile on his face: "Team Leader Lin is here, please sit, we were just waiting for you."

Lin Chen nodded slightly without speaking, walking straight to sit beside the main seat at the conference table.

His team members immediately dispersed, guarding the door and both sides of the windows, their hands pressing on the weapons at their waists, their eyes staring coldly at everyone in the hall.

Wang Hu smiled awkwardly, turning to the crowd and saying,

"Alright,

everyone is here,

let's start the meeting."

He cleared his throat, picked up a document, and said loudly: "Now the global anti-virus network has collapsed, the secondary infection virus is spreading,

and the power of the Black Scorpion Organization is growing larger. We safe zones must unite to survive."

As soon as his voice fell, a short and fat man stood up immediately,

slamming the table and shouting: "Uniting is fine, but how do we divide the resources?

Our Yellow Sand Safe Zone's food is running out, and you guys in the Qingshi Safe Zone have so much piled up in the warehouse; you must give us half."

"By what right?

" Another tall and thin man immediately retorted, "Your Yellow Sand Safe Zone has few people,

our Qingshan Safe Zone has three times more people than you; if we divide it, we should get it first."

"Stop arguing!

" Wang Hu slammed the table hard, "Now is the time to discuss uniting,

not the time to divide resources. Once we defeat the Black Scorpion Organization and eliminate the secondary infection mutant bodies, there will be plenty of resources."

"Who can't talk big?" The short and fat man sneered, "Without food, our people can't even hold a gun; what are we going to use to fight the Black Scorpion Organization?"

The hall fell into arguing again, representatives of each safe zone accusing each other,

saliva flying everywhere, no one willing to retreat a single step. Lin Chen leaned against the back of the chair, closing his eyes to rest, turning a deaf ear to the farce before him.

He had long expected this to happen. Under the apocalypse, everyone puts their own interests first; wanting to truly unite is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

He didn't know how much time had passed before the arguing gradually quieted down. Wang Hu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead,

looking at Lin Chen, his tone carrying a bit of pleading: "Team Leader Lin, say something. The Starfire Safe Zone has the strongest strength; you say how to divide it, and we will divide it that way."

Everyone's gaze focused on Lin Chen again, with anticipation, calculation, and a few traces of probing.

Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sweeping over everyone, his voice cold: "Resources can be discussed later; now the most important thing is to establish a unified command system,

coordinate the troops of each safe zone, and fight against the Black Scorpion Organization and the secondary infection mutant bodies together."

"Unified command system?

" The short and fat man shouted immediately,

"Who will be the commander-in-chief?

You?

Our Yellow Sand Safe Zone won't recognize it."

"I won't recognize it either!"

The tall and thin man followed, "By what right should we let people from the Starfire Safe Zone command us?"

Representatives of the other safe zones also nodded one after another, clearly all disagreeing with Lin Chen being the commander-in-chief.

Lin Chen's mouth curled into a cold sneer: "I didn't say I wanted to be the commander-in-chief.

The command system can be rotated among the representatives of each safe zone, with each person responsible for three days, how about that?"

As soon as this proposal came out, everyone was stunned. They didn't expect Lin Chen to say this, and for a while, no one refuted it.

Wang Hu reacted immediately, saying hurriedly: "This proposal is good, fair and just, I agree."

Other representatives also nodded one after another, expressions of satisfaction appearing on their faces.

They all felt that they had taken advantage, but didn't think that rotating command would only make the command system more chaotic.

Lin Chen looked at their hypocritical smiles, feeling disdain in his heart.

What he wanted was this kind of chaos; only then could the Starfire Safe Zone grasp the initiative.

Just then, a team member ran in quickly, saying in a low voice to Lin Chen: "Team Leader Lin, traces of the Black Scorpion Organization have been discovered outside, not many, only a dozen or so people."

Lin Chen's eyes sharpened, standing up and saying: "Meeting suspended, everyone follow me out to take a look."

The representatives looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, but still followed Lin Chen out of the hall.

In the open space outside the hall, a dozen men wearing black windbreakers were standing there,

holding submachine guns in their hands, ferocious smiles on their faces. The leader was the third-in-command of the Black Scorpion Organization, Poison Tooth.

"Lin Chen, I didn't expect you to really dare to come." Poison Tooth sneered, "Today is your death day."

Lin Chen gripped the ice blade in his hand tightly, preparing to make a move, but heard a voice coming from Poison Tooth's communicator: "Poison Tooth, do it, don't waste your breath with him."

This voice was the leader of the Black Scorpion Organization, Ghost Shadow.

A look of ruthlessness appeared on Poison Tooth's face, and he raised his submachine gun, firing frantically at Lin Chen.

At the same time, the snow vehicle on the ice plains was still speeding. Chu Aiyao held the steering wheel, her eyes staring fixedly at the ice plains mountain range ahead,

Xia Nuan sat in the passenger seat, holding a long sword tightly,

vigilantly watching the accumulated snow outside the car windows. A-Nian's face grew paler, his hands clutching his head, his body trembling more and more violently, his mouth continuously muttering: "They are here, they are almost here."

The team members all gripped the weapons in their hands tightly, their eyes filled with fear. They could feel that under the accumulated snow outside the car windows, something was moving rapidly, bringing a bone-chilling cold.

Suddenly, the accumulated snow outside the car windows exploded violently, and dozens of zombies with ice-blue skin burst out from the snow.

Their limbs were long and slender, their bodies covered in a thick layer of frost,

and their eyes shone with ghostly blue light. The moment they landed, they pounced toward the snow vehicle, their speed astonishingly fast, three times faster than on the plains.

"Fire!"

Chu Aiyao gave the order, and the team members immediately pulled the triggers, bullets whistling toward the zombies.

The bullets hit the zombies' bodies, emitting *ding-ding-dang-dang* crisp sounds, only leaving shallow white marks, unable to penetrate their skin at all.

"It's useless, ordinary bullets can't hurt them!" Xia Nuan shouted, leaping out of the snow vehicle, her long sword waving, a cold light flashing, and the head of a zombie rolled to the ground.

Chu Aiyao also followed, leaping out of the snow vehicle, her long saber dancing, continuously reaping the lives of the zombies. Seeing this, the team members took out melee weapons one after another and rushed up.

The battle broke out instantly, and deafening roars and metal collision sounds rang out on the ice plains. Beside the snow vehicle, the corpses of zombies piled higher and higher, and fresh blood dyed the white accumulated snow red.

A-Nian's body trembled even more violently; he could feel that more zombies were crawling out from under the accumulated snow, surrounding them. ===== CHAPTER 252 =====