Chapter 269: Empty Building

"Hmm, the light is bad..."

In the driver's seat of a van, Tan Huajun leaned down, set up her gun from the passenger window, and looked at the snow-white church with the help of the dim moonlight. She could see the black window on the spire, but couldn't see anything else. She herself doubted, if there were someone, could she hit them?

"Strange..."

Xin Qi frowned deeply, lowered the car window, and looked at the pitch-black church, scratching his head: "Shouldn't be, really shouldn't be. Hey, where are the three donkeys going?"

He shouted loudly, but there was no response in the empty field, yet the atmosphere felt unusually eerie.

"What the hell are you saying..." Zhao Dezhu asked with a grin.

"This sentence should be asked by the people at the outpost, and then I answer that I'm going to the Nanshan Bone Tower. This is how our own people talk. If it's an outpost in another direction, change it to the corresponding direction."

Xin Qi explained.

"Damn, it's not easy to use if you only know one sentence, quite rigorous!"

Zhao Dezhu touched his head.

Zhang Su curled his lips and said: "It only looks rigorous. After a beating, it's impossible to only tell one sentence. They all pour it out like beans. By the way, what's the situation now? Is slacking off not enough, are they absent from work?"

"No! No, no!"

"Is anyone there?"

Zhang Su looked up and shouted. He didn't even hear the faint sound of breathing, knowing that it was empty here, but it was just for the people around him to see.

Xin Qi pointed to the stairs.

"The driver stays to watch the car, the rest follow me!"

Soon, several people arrived at the attic located at the spire.

"Hmm?"

Zhang Su led people to the church.

More than a dozen flashlight beams illuminated the interior of the church, but no living things were found.

"I don't know either..." Xin Qi scratched his head and looked around, his face shriveled, having never encountered this before.

Qi Xiaoshuai frowned deeply, picked up a thermos cup placed by the Simmons mattress, unscrewed it, and said: "Brother Su, the tea inside is still hot!"

It was probably sparsely populated in this area, and even zombies weren't seen. It was quiet like a ghost town.

"Go upstairs over there, Big Brother, do you want to go see?"

The church was set up with long benches in a fake way, but there was no traditional prayer room. It could be seen that the outbreak of the disaster did not cause much impact on the church, or maybe the people of the Azure Dragon Legion had tidied up the interior, and it didn't look messy.

In the three-meter-square conical space, a Simmons mattress was laid in the corner, an ashtray was placed on the windowsill, and some domestic garbage was piled in the corner, which had a very lively atmosphere.

"Get out of the car."

A very traditional Protestant-style church, with a wooden structure. Including the cross on the spire, the total height did not exceed 20 meters, and the main body was about 12 or 13 meters, which was the level of a four-story apartment building. It was definitely enough for taking pictures.

Zhang Su tightened his gun strap and casually led a few people to walk towards the stairs together.

Zhang Su took the water cup and felt it. There was indeed hot steam floating out of the cup mouth. It felt quite hot. He probed the water temperature with his finger, at least 70 or 80 degrees!

"There are no heating facilities here, and the temperature is close to zero. The cooling speed of water in a thermos cup is also very fast. With this temperature, people left at most one or two hours ago!"

"Go, go see!"

Zhang Su took out the walkie-talkie to notify, then pushed open the car door and walked down.

Zhang Su quickly came to the conclusion. This was a conclusion he had drawn when he was bored guarding the convenience store before. It wasn't rigorous, but it was enough.

"Shouldn't be..." Xin Qi frowned, suddenly dazed and said: "I know!"

"Don't be startled!" Zhao Dezhu was startled.

"Sorry, sorry..." Xin Qi apologized repeatedly, then added: "It must be that something important happened at headquarters, so all the outer outposts were recalled!"

"Important thing?" Zhang Su frowned slightly, suddenly remembering the factional struggle Liu Lei had mentioned, and secretly wondered if someone had launched an internal war while the three squads were out collecting grain?

"What the hell, what important thing could there be that even outer outposts aren't needed? Has it happened before?" Zhao Dezhu kicked the domestic garbage on the ground and asked.

Xin Qi thought for a while and said: "I heard from the old people... it seems that once before, because of a zombie swarm attack, all members outside were recalled. I hadn't joined the legion then. By the way, ask Old Fang, Old Fang knows!"

Old Fang was also one of the prisoners, the one who strongly requested to show himself earlier.

Zhang Su and the others didn't stay in the attic for too long. After walking downstairs, they found Old Fang, who was like a monkey.

"Heard that the legion once urgently recalled everyone to headquarters?"

"Ah? Oh, right!" Fang Great Ming was slightly stunned, then came back to his senses, nodded and said: "That was two months ago, not two months, about a month and a half. A large group of zombies came south from the north. At that time, the legion's fortifications were still relatively fragile, so the commander called everyone back. More than thirty people died in that battle, which was quite tragic!"

Speaking of the zombie tide more than a month ago, Fang Great Ming had a lingering fear on his face.

"So many died? How many zombies besieged your headquarters, to die so many?"

Zhang Su was surprised. Thirty-something was not a cold number. Before United Village merged into Tianmayu, their population was just that!

Fang Great Ming rolled his eyes and thought, then said: "Later it was counted, I forgot... I didn't care much about this kind of thing, anyway, there must have been more than ten thousand, maybe about twenty thousand!"

"Ten or twenty thousand..."

Zhang Su was secretly shocked. This number was quite terrifying. Even if hiding behind strong fortifications, it would take a considerable amount of firepower to eliminate them!

If it were a zombie tide of this magnitude attacking Tianmayu, even relying on terrain advantages and fortifications, it would be very difficult. It would be difficult to kill them all even if all firepower were exhausted. It would be a process of close-quarters combat, firepower killing, and then close-quarters combat again. If it went badly, they would have to abandon the city and flee...

"Brother Su, it's been so long since the last zombie tide, will the Azure Dragon Legion be besieged by zombies again?"

Zheng Xinyu saw Zhang Su pondering and asked.

"Go, go ahead and see, and you'll know!"

Zhang Su decided to investigate. No matter what, he had to continue moving forward.

Everyone returned to the cars, and the convoy started again.

Continuing forward, according to Xin Qi, there was a second outpost one or two kilometers away from headquarters, but when everyone arrived at the outpost location, it was still empty!

"Something must have happened, something big!"

Several prisoners said in unison.

Zhang Su stood on the roof of an abandoned factory outside the city and looked into the distance. Because the terrain around Qingxian was rugged and the view was blocked, he couldn't see anything.

"Keep going, it's not far!"

The Azure Dragon Legion built its base with the barracks and was not in the urban area of the county, but in the west of the county, about two kilometers away by car.

Zhang Su learned from Xin Qi that the traffic in the urban area was fine, so he planned to cross through the urban area.

However, before the vehicles could enter the urban area, Zhang Su stepped on the accelerator and stopped the car from afar.

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Dezhu pressed his face against the car window and looked at the pitch-black street outside, not understanding.

"Zombie swarm!" Zhang Su looked ahead and said this result that everyone had expected with an extremely serious voice!

"Is there really a zombie swarm?" Zhao Dezhu's heart tightened. He lowered the car window and stuck his head out, letting the cold wind blow on his face. He watched for a long time, then retracted his head awkwardly: "Big brother, I can't see it..."

At the same time, the inquiry from the driver of the car behind also came through the walkie-talkie. After learning that the zombie swarm was blocking the way, they all fell silent.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 270 =====