Chapter 29: A Massive Array of Force

Just as the Base leadership was holding a meeting.

Inside the Base, in a small Western-style building, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl sat by the window, gazing at the distant green hills, quietly lost in thought.

Tap, tap, tap...

Footsteps approached, but the girl did not even turn her head.

"Ruixi, time to eat!" A loving voice rang out.

The girl slowly turned her head, and what met her eyes was a beautiful middle-aged woman.

"Mom, I'm not hungry, you eat first."

"You child, are you still thinking about your classmate? The He Family has already said that your classmate has most likely already died at the hands of the Sangshi. Besides, in this apocalypse, partings and deaths are nothing to be surprised about; why must you torture yourself for him?" the woman advised in a flat tone.

Hearing this, the girl's eyes instantly turned red, and tears welled up uncontrollably.

"Mom, it was me who harmed him. If I hadn't insisted on dragging him to the hospital for a check-up that day, he wouldn't have been targeted by the He Family..."

Hearing this, the woman hurriedly said: "He fell ill suddenly, and you had good intentions, didn't you? And didn't you help him escape later? Now that even you have been dragged into this, you have already done right by him."

"If you want to blame someone, blame your useless mother; my ability is not as strong as He Yongsheng's. If I were also a Top-tier Ability User, how would the He Family dare to treat you like this? In the end, it's just that I am useless."

"Mom, please don't say that anymore, I don't blame you. I was only ten when the apocalypse came; if you hadn't raised me through all that hardship, I wouldn't have survived until today. This is just my fate."

The girl spoke faintly: "I also blame myself for being incompetent; it's been two years and I still haven't been able to awaken an ability. If I could awaken an ability, I wouldn't need you to risk your life to protect me like this anymore."

"You silly child, I am your mother; if I don't protect you, who will? Don't let your imagination run wild. I have already made an agreement with He Yongsheng: as long as you marry his son and bear a child for the He Family, whether you want to stay in the He Family or leave afterward is entirely up to you..."

Hearing this, the girl did not respond further, only casting her gaze back toward the distant green hills, her eyes hollow.

Beyond these green hills lay the former Funancheng.

Today, Funancheng had long since become an abandoned dead city occupied only by Sangshi.

At the very beginning, there were still quite a few people who dared to come to the outskirts of Funancheng to scavenge.

But as the Sangshi grew stronger and stronger, fewer and fewer people came here.

And Chen Yusheng, at this moment, was inside Funancheng, focused entirely on frantic cultivation.

Days passed one by one.

Every day, Chen Yusheng did nothing but cultivate.

With constant cultivation, his mastery of the technique became more and more proficient, and his speed grew faster and faster.

At the beginning, it took him almost an hour to cultivate one strand of True Qi.

But as his proficiency continued to improve, by now, he only needed an average of fifty minutes to cultivate one strand of True Qi.

At this rate, he could cultivate about twenty-eight strands of True Qi a day.

Days flowed by.

Chen Yusheng's total amount of True Qi, from one hundred and fifty strands, quickly broke through two hundred, then three hundred, then steadily broke through four hundred, until it reached over six hundred.

On the day Chen Yusheng's True Qi reached six hundred and twenty-one strands.

A dense and intense sound of gunfire and artillery suddenly reached his ears.

"What's the situation?"

Chen Yusheng opened his eyes abruptly.

He focused his hearing and discovered that the sound of gunfire and artillery was coming from all directions.

A few minutes later, Chen Yusheng arrived at a high-level window of a building.

He stood at the edge of the window and looked into the distance, and his whole person instantly froze.

He saw that in the direction of the city outskirts, countless dense crowds of people were holding various weapons, launching a siege against the Sangshi in the city area.

Carefully sensing the movement around him, Chen Yusheng estimated that there were at least several thousand people participating in the siege.

"Damn, the He Family actually went to such great lengths just to catch me?"

Chen Yusheng was completely stunned.

Looking at this posture, the He Family intended to clear out all the Sangshi in the entire city.

Chen Yusheng had no idea that these people were not coming for him at all, but to slay the Zombie King in the city.

The terror of the Zombie King was extraordinary; a month ago, it had directly wiped out a super-large Base. Therefore, after the Fubei Base discovered the Zombie King, the entire national leadership was shaken.

Thus, it was imperative to completely annihilate the Zombie King before it fully matured.

And to besiege the Zombie King in the city area, one had to first clear out the ordinary Sangshi in the city.

If the ordinary Sangshi were not cleared, the Zombie King could summon them to its side at any time to act as a barrier to protect itself.

Therefore, in order to kill the Zombie King, the country had long been prepared for a comprehensive sweep of the Sangshi in Funancheng.

As long as Funancheng was taken, not only could the Zombie King be eliminated, but a human city could be reclaimed, along with vast surrounding lands suitable for planting crops.

To deal with the Zombie King, the country had specifically mobilized a large number of elite Ability Users capable of going head-to-head with Mutant Zombies, mainly to contain the Mutant Zombies around the Zombie King.

As for the ordinary Sangshi, there was a large amount of weapons and ammunition to deal with them.

As long as there was sufficient ammunition, even ordinary people could fight against ordinary Sangshi.

It was just that weapons and ammunition could not be mass-produced at the moment, so this time, in order to exterminate the Zombie King, the country had concentrated almost all the reserves from dozens of nearby Bases.

"What kind of virtue or ability do I have to make the He Family go to such great lengths?"

Chen Yusheng did not know that this was the country besieging the Zombie King, and thought it was the He Family specifically dealing with him, which left him somewhat speechless.

"The He Family's influence is too exaggerated; they can actually mobilize so many people."

Listening to the dense gunfire outside the city, Chen Yusheng looked up at the sky and indeed saw many drones searching for his tracks everywhere.

Chen Yusheng did a rough count; there were at least a dozen drones circling in the high altitude.

Seeing this scene, Chen Yusheng's scalp went numb.

He dared not imagine if he were exposed now, whether he would attract missile strikes again.

It was because he had exposed his location before that he was chased and bombed by missiles.

Therefore, right now, he truly dared not take this risk.

Chen Yusheng's brain spun rapidly, thinking about how he could evade the search and capture by the He Family.

If it were before, he really would have had no way, but now it was different.

Chen Yusheng brought several Mutant Zombies to the deepest part of a basement.

"Boss, Second, Third, Fourth, dig for me! Dig a tunnel for me starting from here!"

Chen Yusheng pointed at the basement wall and gave the order to the several giant zombies.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Very quickly, violent crashing sounds rang out inside the basement.

The strength of the giant Mutant Zombies could easily shatter concrete walls, and before long, the several zombies had broken through the basement's concrete wall.

Behind the concrete wall was nothing but soil and gravel. Chen Yusheng directed the Mutant Zombies to dig continuously, and soon they had dug out a large hole.

Next, Chen Yusheng directed the zombies to dig the hole while backfilling the excavated soil behind him.

In order to make the soil behind more compact than the soil in front, Chen Yusheng even utilized a Tuxieshufa to make the backfilled soil even harder than it was before.

In this way, there was no need to worry about the loosened soil in front increasing and blocking the path behind, leaving not even a place to stand.

While Chen Yusheng directed the zombies to dig the underground tunnel, he felt pleased with himself.

The He Family probably could never imagine in their dreams that he would escape from underground.

In such a large city, just finding the location of the basement was already not easy.

And even if it were truly discovered, no one would think he had escaped from here. After all, the soil Chen Yusheng backfilled was truly too compact; it looked as if it had never been dug at all.