Chapter 215: Run, Everyone!

Regarding Yang Shuo's signature, it could be considered a part of Liu Mu's precautions; since they love writing slips, getting a few more blank slips was not a difficult task.

As for the content in the "slips," with Heitao A around, she could make them say whatever she wanted.

Plus, Liu Mu herself possessed the proxy authority of the military commander of the three provinces, which should be used at a time like this.

Bai Chonghuan said that side needed a little time to establish contact, and Liu Mu's side had also just about reached the peak of the shockwave impact.

"Sister Rui Ya, if there is food, help them replenish their strength. Also, bring your personal property; we are about to conduct an extreme survival long-distance run."

Liu Mu felt the pressure on the church roof gradually decreasing. After data analysis, "Everyone, I will state the plan for what comes next. In ten minutes, the greatest shockwave impact will pass. I will clear the path in front; you follow me to the Base core area. Those who don't want to go, or who run slowly, I don't know what you will encounter, but don't count on me coming back to save any of you."

"I want to stay in the church, is that okay?" The woman holding a child was already skin and bones, and the child in her arms had also started crying uneasily just now, but the sound was like that of a kitten, intermittent, as if that tiny life could disappear from the mother's arms at any moment.

"No!" Liu Mu refused heartlessly, but still did not remain cold to the end, "All Survivors in the city must enter the Base core within one hour. After that, an army will escort you out of Haiyang City. The war has already broken out. Everyone, I don't want to talk nonsense; staying behind is a dead end. Since you have managed to survive until now with such difficulty, you should want to continue living, right..."

Words ended there; even if the crowd had other thoughts in their hearts, they dared not risk staying in Haiyang, which was about to become a battlefield. After all, everyone here was an ordinary person.

Just as the Mecha woman said, they had struggled with great difficulty to survive until today.

Feng Rui Ya took out all the food remaining in the church and distributed it to everyone, "Everyone, try your best to help each other. The Lord will bless us. The task of saving Haiyang belongs to Division Commander Bai and the others; we must live well. I will pray for everyone at all times, Amen."

The food was not meant to be eaten all at once; many people used their own clothes or worn-out bags to pack it up, hoping to continue living in the life-long run ahead.

"Then what about him?" Someone pointed to the man who had already been thrown out by Liu Mu against the wall. He was already on the verge of death, but some people still could not bear to watch a life fade away before their eyes.

"Can't save him. If you want to save him, carry him yourself. Heavens, in his state, he can't run anyway; better to look after those of us who can move."

People are selfish, yet also relatively selfless; a strong man can help a weak child, but he will not save someone he knows is about to die.

After the Ten-Day Burning, they had already understood many truths from the disaster: the people around you can die at any time; when it is time to give up, don't get yourself dragged in.

Even though they were prepared from their shoes to their stomachs to their minds, the moment the church doors opened, everyone's eyes still turned red.

They had heard of many cities becoming ruins in the disaster, but that did not include Haiyang; even after the disaster, there still existed a bit of elegance and completeness here.

But at this moment, what met their eyes was not a single intact block, not a single building standing tall. The shockwave of this explosion was like the last straw that broke the camel's back; everything was destroyed! Thoroughly.

When their group looked back, they realized the church had also tilted severely. Thinking about it, if the Mecha warrior hadn't been propping it up the whole time, this century-old building would likely have collapsed, taking their lives with it.

Finally, the Mecha warrior slowly exited the church after them.

Whether the Lord would bless His followers, they did not know.

But a few seconds after the Mecha warrior retreated, the 'Lord's' sanctuary in the mortal world collapsed.

*Boom—*, it is an onomatopoeia, but at this moment it is also a verb, and even more so, a life-shortening warning.

"I am blocking the debris, what are you waiting for? Waiting for a starting pistol?"

Liu Mu felt helpless at the expression on their faces as if the sky had fallen, then she truly raised the gun in her hand, "Then let's have one! Get into position!"

"Ready!"

"Run!"

The Magnetic Cannon was like a torrent, instantly pushing away the obstacles on the main road, forming a cylindrical passage, "Keep up, fast!"

Why was Liu Mu so anxious, forcing a group of post-disaster personnel to run for their lives? The reason was none other than her fear that the idiot organization, the Viper, would ignore the Warship that had just been blown up and launch the next wave of attacks directly.

It was not that she was belittling herself; since it was a large-scale military invasion, she could bomb them, so why wouldn't their fleet have equivalent strike capabilities?

Self-comfort was not how things worked; she was already accustomed to making the worst-case plans for all situations.

——Make the worst-case plans, reap the most benefits.

This long-distance run did not have any major accidents. When they reached the foot of the high wall, they saw the ground covered in Zombie corpses, and some severed halves were still struggling to crawl, emitting 'hissing' roars even more crazily upon smelling the scent of living people.

The crowd, whose bodies were already frail, had finally run over, and seeing this scene of a hell of dismembered corpses, they all turned pale with fright and dared not approach any further.

Liu Mu stood in front of the crowd again, "Walk behind me, don't run around."

The Sea Soul Squad had been climbing in the snow for several hours, facing almost the same scene as them.

The top of the black rock was covered with a layer of snow, standing solemnly on the mountainside. The surrounding vegetation and ground had obvious traces of having been cleared, as if people walked there often.

"This is it," Ma Si closed the map, stuffed it back into his backpack, and pulled down his mask, which was already covered in white frost, "The entrance should be behind the rock, we..."

"What is that?" Jia Guan, who was responsible for reconnaissance, was certain he had seen something, but he couldn't believe it, "Deputy Captain, come take a look, is that a Zombie?"

The word 'Zombie' made all the team members raise their guns at the same time, and they quickly gathered near Jia Guan. They were very careful in guarding against the surroundings, but their gazes kept drifting toward that side.

Black mud had polluted the white snow into a quagmire, in which several twitching Zombies were decaying, but they were not dying completely right away; instead, they were struggling and crawling in the black mud, making one's scalp tingle.

But the people whose scalps were tingling did not include Li Fei. He pulled out the dagger from his lower back in one motion, "You few defend, the rest put on your protective gear and follow me forward. The Boss said there are Crystal Cores."

Under the effect of the Internal Circulation Protective Respirator, the possibility of airborne transmission of the Zombie Virus was cut off, and coupled with the loss of resistance due to decay, the Sea Soul Squad harvested the Zombies as ruthlessly as the Grim Reaper.

Only... "Not a single one?"

Niu Feng lay on the high point of the Black Stone, setting up his gun, and only after confirming there was no danger did he tease downward, "Deputy Captain, the Boss also said that only Mutant beasts that have grown for a period of time have them."

Thinking about it, Li Fei remembered that this was indeed said during the lecture Liu Mu gave personally.

"Alright, prepare to enter the Base!"

"Wait a second," Niu Feng pressed his ear against the rock, frowning and listening for a while, "There is movement inside, it seems like someone is coming?"

"Hide, be on alert!" Li Fei immediately issued the order, and his own footsteps moved quickly. After all the team members had retreated a sufficient distance, he shouted toward the entrance, "Brothers inside, we are the Sea Soul First Squad, we have a handwritten mission letter from the Division Commander, we are not enemies, don't open fire directly!"

The black rock was, of course, not just a rock, but a man-made mechanical 'gate'. The low and heavy mechanical sound was not very loud in the snow-covered mountain, and the rock rose amidst this sound, revealing a large iron gate over five meters high.

The inside of the iron gate, with some rust on the edges, was dark and deep; there was actually no lighting. The team members heard dense but chaotic footsteps, and among them were sounds of heavy objects being dragged.

Everyone felt suspicious and uneasy in their hearts, tacitly holding their breath, waiting for something to come out.

Li Fei had a very bad premonition; this door being opened was not a good thing.

Soon, human shadows appeared behind the door, followed by a sea of heads. Borrowing the light from outside, one could see their walking posture was strange and stiff, as if their legs and feet were inconvenient.

"Retreat!"

The moment he saw the shadows, Li Fei immediately gave the order—those were simply a massive number of Zombies.

At the same time, the Zombies inside smelled the scent of living people and rushed out agitatedly.

All the team members of the Sea Soul Squad had already run out a hundred or so meters as if chased by dogs, without the slightest hesitation, each one more agile than a rabbit.

Fleeing for one's life, one must be desperate; after all, it is a matter of staking one's life—Liu Mu.

The Boss's teachings were deeply ingrained in their hearts.

Half an hour later, the team members gathered one by one, their breathing and moods consistently anxious.

"Could the entire Military Base have turned into Zombies? Good heavens, there should be quite a lot of people here."

"I saw no fewer than five hundred people, that whole hillside is covered in them; was the base attacked?"

"It might be the same group that attacked Haiyang Base; good grief, to think they could even sneak into such a secretive Military Base..."

The team members spoke one after another, piecing together the severity of the situation.

Li Fei shook his head at this moment, "Not all of them, it should only be a small portion. We don't know the exact number of garrison troops here, but the base's main gate must have been opened by humans. Have you forgotten? Zombies have no brains."

Actually, it is not that they have no brains, but rather that when the brain is infected by the Zombie Virus, it secretes some rotting substances, thus losing the ability to think and possessing no memory, so naturally, it is impossible for them to open the base's complex mechanical gate.

According to military encryption technology, this kind of gate requires at least three levels of verification to open; this is common knowledge, which proves that there are indeed survivors inside.

What they did not know was that the soldier who opened the gate to release the Zombies in order to save the entire base had already fallen among the Zombie horde.

There were not many attackers who came before the base, and they were impersonating people from the Haicheng Barrier.

The entire process did not involve any clever infiltration methods; they only needed to make contact with the Barrier's soldiers to achieve the goal of infection.

And this time, the Zombie Virus had upgraded once again, possessing an incubation period of over ten minutes; the attackers wanted the entire base to fall under the virus.

Living up to their expectations, the people who arrived made contact with the soldiers who came out and were successfully identified. It was just that they did not expect the base to have already implemented War-time Regulations, directly shooting them dead as they were of unknown origin.

Their corpses turned into Zombies after death, but only the squad that came out was infected. After returning, the area this squad spread to was limited, and by the time the base discovered it, over eighty percent of the people had been saved.

The three tunnels connected to this entrance had their Firewalls pulled down directly and were abandoned.

Just when those inside were worrying about what to do with the Zombies in the tunnels, the Sea Soul Squad arrived, and they were then mistaken for another group of attackers, so the Zombies were released.

Of course, the base's primary goal was still to get the Zombies out to prevent the virus from continuing to spread; a soldier voluntarily sacrificed himself to head over and open the gate.

Li Fei's guess was correct, but they dared not go back now. As for whether the base had other entrances... I fear the result would be the same if they went; they would either be bitten to death by Zombies or killed by the highly nervous soldiers inside the base.

Even though the situation was urgent, all they could do now was wait.

Wait for the Zombies to decay before approaching the base again.

During the time they were in action, Zheng Tian's motorcade also returned to Qijia Village.

After sending the people on the vehicles to Qi Fengxia, he went directly to find Qian Kesheng. Although he did not understand why Liu Mu believed that the man surnamed Qian would help, he still had to deliver the message that needed to be said.

Just after he finished speaking, Qian Kesheng stood up from the sofa, the anxiety on his face not appearing fake, "Where are the people you brought back? Let me see them. How could Haiyang Base be captured? This is simply impossible!"

It could be said that Qian Kesheng was someone who had followed Haiyang Base from nothing to something. Although he only held two forces in his hands—the church and another post-disaster organization—as the third most powerful figure in the base, he had great confidence in the internal military strength and layout.

In his view, with the defenses of Haiyang Base, there was no possibility of it being captured, unless the opponent was insane enough to use nuclear weapons.

Upon seeing the people, Qian Kesheng actually picked out two familiar faces from among them. He went straight over and grabbed the other party's shoulder, "What exactly happened? Lao Wu, tell me clearly right now."

The one called Lao Wu was the leader of this group. The county he was in was one of the bases for the forces in Qian Kesheng's hands; he not only witnessed the outbreak of the Zombie Virus but also saw the Warship on the sea.

At that time, he decisively led his people to leave the county. He originally wanted to go to the city's base to seek refuge, but halfway there, he received news that the city had also been invaded.

So, they made a turn and drove their cars up the mountain.

"Big Brother, I could only come to find you. I thought if there was no Zombie Virus here yet, I would come to notify you not to go back. Who knew the road on the mountain was truly difficult to travel? The car broke down just after crossing the mountain. We walked for several hours, and in the end, we were truly too cold to bear it, so we dug a snow den, wanting to recover some strength..."

"You actually lied to my Boss?" Zheng Tian was even more furious, "The transmission speed of the Zombie Virus is extremely fast. Did you really see people turn into Zombies with your own eyes?"

"See, see, I did see them," the man shrank back, his eyes dodging, "I saw a few from far away, but the Warship on the sea is real. I am certain that is not our Huaguo navy. They had markings on them, completely different from our own warships that appeared on the sea before."

"You..." Seen the navy?

Zheng Tian stopped his question in time, a flash of joy appearing in his eyes. The navy of the Southeast Three Provinces was exactly what the Boss Liu Mu had been digging for, wasn't it? This is great; it turns out they were at Haiyang Base!

"Didn't you say you saw Haiyang Base fighting?"

He changed his question, but it was also a crucial point. If they hadn't heard that there was fighting in the base, the Sea Soul Squad couldn't have rushed over so anxiously.

"Isn't fighting sooner or later?" Facing this question, Lao Wu did not feel guilty; he was deeply convinced of his own speculation, "The Zombie Virus was definitely just the first step. Ultimately, if they wanted to occupy Haiyang Base, they would have to come ashore for a firefight."

Qian Kesheng glanced at Zheng Tian, somewhat dissatisfied that he had snatched his question, and asked, "Can you tell which force the Warship belongs to?"

"This," Lao Wu's eyes rolled, and he said somewhat uncertainly, "It was far away, but I still saw the marking clearly. Big Brother, I think it looks like the Sky Viper's."

"Sky Viper?" Zheng Tian did not notice Qian Kesheng's expression, only secretly thinking to himself that this was the same as the Boss Liu Mu's guess.

"Alright, Boss Qian, I need to take people to provide support now. What do you say? Do you want to come with us? Of course, if you don't have combat experience and don't want to take risks, I understand."