Chapter 552: Zombie Horde Rampage (Prince, please subscribe)

"Very good!"

Zhang Su walked forward and patted Li Zongkai on the shoulder, saying solemnly: "Lack of experience can be learned. I believe in your ability!"

The fundamental reason for making this kind of punishment, besides Zhang Su himself, probably no one else could guess.

Yang Xinqi and Liu Yao, who envied Li Zongkai, couldn't envy him at all now. Originally, everything was quite good—not to say high and mighty, but he was in a high position with heavy power, and it was gone just like that. This whole thing was a mess.

"Yang Xinqi!"

"Here!"

He was still feeling sorry for Li Zongkai in his heart when he heard Zhang Su call him, so he hurriedly answered.

"Take over all the affairs of the brothers in the barracks for the time being, and leave the kindergarten side to Old Liu!"

Having dismissed Li Zongkai, he naturally had to appoint someone to manage these people in the barracks.

Yang Xinqi and Liu Yao looked at each other, then looked at the emotionless Li Zongkai, and then nodded to Zhang Su: "Everything will be as you arrange, Brother Su."

"Brother Su, what... what should we do now? Do we need to notify the brothers over there to come over?"

Liu Yao walked forward and asked, pointing toward the Le Gou Mall direction. The responsibility on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier, and there was a steadiness on his face that was almost never seen before.

"That..."

Zhang Su saw that the people in the barracks had complex emotions and were confused, so he said: "Everyone has suffered a huge shock today. Those who need to rest, rest; those who need to work, work. We will notify everyone when there is something later. Old Yang..."

Zhang Su gave Yang Xinqi a look, meaning: new official taking office, get to work quickly.

Li Zongkai understood first and waved to the crowd: "Everyone, cheer up. Yang Xinqi is the former leader of the Tianqi Regiment. You must listen to him. That, listen to Leader Yang and cooperate with his work!"

"Very happy to meet everyone. There will definitely be many places I'm not familiar with, and some ways of doing things will be different from President Li's, so please take care of me. Follow me first. If you have any questions or difficulties, we'll talk while we walk..."

Yang Xinqi wasn't a pushover; he could handle things when they came to a head, and he organized the dozens of people to leave the playground.

The matter on the barracks side had basically come to an end, but twenty-odd kilometers to the northeast of the barracks, things were far from over!

On a dilapidated roof, Qi Xiaoshuai and Pang Dakun were exhaling smoke. The white mist looked very desolate under the dark sky. At this time and scene, even without a filter, one could capture a cold and broken artistic conception.

"This group of zombies is so awkward. A big group squeezing themselves so they can't move. Without a brain, it really doesn't work."

Qi Xiaoshuai complained boredly, then flicked cigarette ash into a tattered shoe on the side.

"Hehehe..." Pang Dakun giggled, then revealed a fierce look: "I really want to ask Uncle for a bunch of grapes to blow them all up. No, blow them into ashes. Damn, these things are too disgusting!"

"A bunch of grapes? You're one to talk... Although I don't know how much stock of that stuff there is, I can be sure it won't be too much. You say it so easily, 'a bunch' at a time. Do you think Brother Su is that fruit seller Zhang Xin?"

Qi Xiaoshuai had black lines on his head.

Pang Dakun curled his lips and said: "Also true. If we really could have that many grapes, we'd bomb them wildly. I don't dare say other places, but at least this area of Qincheng would be clean, right? By then, our Yama Legion would be the kings and hegemons. How cool would that be!"

"Damn, you say it so easily, 'kings and hegemons'... Look at Civilization Guardian. They have plenty of weapons, right? Various protective measures aren't weak either. And the result? They were almost wiped out by a group of bandits. They couldn't even protect their own lives, let alone protect civilization..."

"The struggle between people doesn't count for much; zombies are the scary ones." Pang Dakun waved his hand naively.

Qi Xiaoshuai shook his head helplessly. He didn't continue to correct Pang Dakun's thinking. Looking at the gloomy sky, he suddenly thought of the future and asked.

"Dakun, you say if in the future all the zombies are killed, or they no longer pose a threat to us, and like you said, the interior of humanity is basically stable, what do you want to do then?"

"If it really stabilizes, I will..."

Pang Dakun was silent for a moment and revealed a yearning smile: "I want to find a wife and then open a kindergarten—a real kindergarten, the kind where you take children to play games. I'll recruit all the children in the camp into the kindergarten, and I'll take them to play!"

Happy people use their childhood to heal their whole lives; unhappy people use their whole lives to heal their childhood.

Pang Dakun belonged to the latter. The rural area where he lived when he was a child was relatively close to Qincheng, and the education industry of kindergartens had sprung up.

Privately run kindergartens naturally had profit as their main goal. With Pang Dakun's family conditions at the time, he couldn't afford to go at all and could only stand outside the wall and watch the children inside playing happily. Fortunately, there were several children like him, and everyone was laughed at together, which slightly shared the psychological damage...

"Holy crap..." Qi Xiaoshuai turned his head in surprise and looked at Pang Dakun: "You kid, you're not big, but your heart isn't small. You've just started growing hair yourself and you're already thinking about having children with a wife and opening a kindergarten. Awesome..."

"No, I just said find a wife and then open a kindergarten. I didn't say I wanted to have children. You didn't listen clearly."

Pang Dakun corrected Qi Xiaoshuai very seriously.

"Ah? You mean find a wife and then not have children, just open a kindergarten? Why?" Qi Xiaoshuai didn't understand. You want a wife not to spread your branches and leaves, just for fun? Pang Dakun finished the last puff of his cigarette, extinguished the butt, and revealed a strange smile: "Anyway, I don't want them. Don't talk about me... Little Handsome, what do you want to do?"

"Me..."

Qi Xiaoshuai smiled very brightly and yearned: "The future camp should be very big, right? Many people, and there should be restaurants. I'll open a delivery station. I'll be the station master, recruit ten—no, twenty. Whatever, anyway, all the running errands and delivery work in the entire camp will be monopolized by me. Hehe!"

Another miserable person using his whole life to heal a certain stage of his life.

When he finished speaking, Qi Xiaoshuai was very happy, but he stopped laughing in less than three seconds and gradually became depressed: "Both of us think quite beautifully. Is there a possibility that we humans have no future at all?"

"That won't do. No future definitely won't work. We humans must have a bright future. Don't worry, Little Handsome, our dreams will all come true! That, do you want to report the situation to Uncle?"

Pang Dakun encouraged him optimistically, although he was also a bit shaken in his heart, so he hurriedly changed the subject.

"What's there to report? It hasn't moved much in a few minutes. It'll take until the year of the monkey to reach the barracks. We should find a way to solve it!"

Qi Xiaoshuai raised his chin and pointed toward the direction of the zombie horde. A large black mass was lying in the distance, like a melanoma growing on the earth. Looking from afar, it was almost motionless, as if it were stuck.

"Then we... hey... no, Little Handsome, look, what is that?"

Pang Dakun picked up the walkie-talkie, preparing to apply to Zhang Su for the next step of the plan, but at this moment, he saw a moving flashing point appear in the distant sky! Under the cold and dark sky, even birds shouldn't exist; logically, there shouldn't be moving things in the air. But the moving speed of that light point wasn't slow. Soon, two more appeared following it, and very quickly, five light points were floating in the air!

"Drones! Those are drones!"

Qi Xiaoshuai stood up with a start, staring at the distance with a serious expression. Five flashing points were circling and dancing in the sky. Having drones meant someone was controlling them. He didn't know what the purpose of these drones was, but he could be sure they were going to make trouble! "Where did these drones come from..."

"Hello hello, Dakun, Xiaoshuai, what are you guys doing over there? Why hasn't there been any sound for so long?" At this moment, Zhang Su's voice sounded from Pang Dakun's palm.

Pang Dakun was focused on watching the moving light points and was startled by the voice. The walkie-talkie in his hand almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and caught it. He hurriedly pressed the talk button.

"Uncle, I was just about to report the situation to you, but just now I had a situation here. We discovered drones—five drones! Hey, no, there are only four left, it seems like four, no, that's not right, just the lights went out... Owa!"

Inside the barracks, Zhang Su stood in front of the Yama Legion. A group of people heard Pang Dakun's very chaotic shouting, and expressions of embarrassment appeared on their faces.

"Since there are drones, there must be other factions nearby. Little Pang might be in a hurry..."

Yu Wen didn't want to see Zhang Su scold Pang Dakun in front of so many people, so he hurriedly smoothed things over.

Zhang Su licked his lips, took a deep breath, and said: "Can you straighten it out and speak properly?"

After several practices, Zhang Su deeply felt that the Emotional Release Source was indeed easy to use, but the drawbacks were also obvious. When he wanted to release emotions, he probably had to find a place with no one around, especially for negative emotions.

Right, he should find an opportunity to test how wide the range of release was. While waiting for the other party's reply, Zhang Su thought this way. Of course, the thing he should test most was the "switch." If there was a way to actively control the opening or closing, it would be easy to use! "Brother Su, the situation is like this: the movement of the zombie horde was very slow before, and it was hard to notice the movement of the zombie horde without binoculars. But just now, five drones appeared from the other end of the zombie horde, further to the northeast. It looks like they are circling above the zombie horde, but the quality is not good, and one of them broke down."

This time it wasn't the incoherent Pang Dakun, but Qi Xiaoshuai.

"Northeast direction... drones, and being able to dispatch five at once—Mr. Zhang, I'm afraid only the largest faction in the Shanhai District has this kind of foundation!"

Yu Wen analyzed calmly.

"There's no one else coming from that direction. I estimate there's only one camp left in the entire Shanhai District!"

Zhang Su frowned. According to the situation analysis of the past few months, small survivor camps had no need to exist independently. Whether peaceful or non-peaceful, they would slowly gather toward large camps.

"What are those drones preparing to do?" Zhang Su pondered secretly.

There were many ways to use drones to deal with a zombie horde. You could gently lead them away, you could violently drop bombs, or you could use them to pour gasoline and then burn them with a fire, as long as you weren't afraid of the zombie horde rioting and being implicated...

Zhang Su was preparing to press the talk button to let Qi Xiaoshuai and the other keep a close watch, but the walkie-talkie in his hand rang first.

"Uncle, the situation is not right. Those damn drones seem to be planning to lead the zombie horde toward us. They are flying in several directions. I didn't hear the sound, but the zombies on the ground have already..."

"Stop talking, let me say it!"

Qi Xiaoshuai listened to Pang Dakun's messy language and was in a hurry, so he interrupted the call and took the walkie-talkie.

"Brother Su, five drones are flying separately toward the north, west, and southwest, dispersing and attracting the zombie horde. Most of them are coming toward us. The zombie horde has been affected and become irritable, and the speed has become faster! It can be seen that they don't have a plan to lead them to Qincheng; it's mainly to stay away from Shanhai District..."

"Right, one of the lights is broken, and other situations are as Little Handsome said. Owa!" After Qi Xiaoshuai finished reporting, Pang Dakun added a sentence.

Everyone in the barracks who heard this news took a deep breath.

"Those damn things!"

Zhao Dezhu punched the iron fence beside him with a clanging sound.

Yu Wen waved his hand and said: "Don't curse, it's useless!"

Cursing was indeed meaningless. No matter which faction was leading the zombies, it must be for the safety of their own camp; otherwise, they wouldn't be idle and come out to take risks. Qi Xiaoshuai's analysis was very objective. The other party's purpose was likely not to frame the Qincheng survivors, but just for their own safety.

Zhang Su could clearly feel the people around him becoming irritable, with only a few remaining calm and stable. He didn't rush to reply. He touched his pocket and found he was out of cigarettes, so he gestured to the gloomy-faced Lu Yubo.

During the process of lighting the cigarette, Zhang Su adjusted his mindset, trying to make it peaceful and calm. After exhaling a puff of smoke, the anxious expressions on the faces of the people around him had slowly calmed down.

"Just like Old Yu said, the situation is indeed very bad, but cursing is useless, and being anxious is useless. We must respond calmly. Zhuzi, Bozai, go and notify all combat personnel to stop everything they are doing and gather at the playground for easy dispatch. Old Tan, you and Zhang Ya go and tell Yang Xinqi to have everyone pack their things. We might not necessarily leave, but be prepared!"

"Good!"

"Alright..."

Several people nodded and left with hurried steps.

"If you really plan to withdraw, that's a big move..."

Yu Wen pointed obscurely at the tanks and several warehouses parked deep in the barracks. He didn't dare say how abundant the living supplies were, but in terms of military supplies, the barracks were definitely the most abundant among the Four Tigers of the North City. It wasn't that they couldn't transfer, but it was a labor-intensive task.

This was also why Zhang Su wanted people to transfer over and build a camp around the barracks...

"I'll ask about the specific situation first!"

After Zhang Su finished speaking, he pinched the talk button: "Xiaoshuai, how is the zombie horde?"

"Two drones have already turned back. I guess the remote control distance is not enough. The zombie horde is running wild and can't stop, and the number is so large... Not just fifty thousand, I feel there are one hundred thousand. It's on par with the zombie horde that attacked the Qinglong Legion back then. Damn, are all the zombies in the entire Shanhai District here!"

On the roof, Qi Xiaoshuai held binoculars in one hand, shaking his head left and right, and held the walkie-talkie in the other to report the situation to Zhang Su.

He didn't know what had happened before, but the zombie horde was squeezed into a lump very tightly. Under the guidance of the drones, it gradually dispersed, like a huge anthill collapsing in an instant. Black, dense zombies were running on the earth, with a wide range and amazing momentum.

"The resident population of Shanhai District is over two hundred thousand... Little Qi's words are really not exaggerated..."

Yu Wen's face twitched. He had witnessed the huge zombie horde that flattened the Qinglong Legion, and looking back now, it was still shocking.

Of course, if it were just the zombies of that level before, even if there were one hundred thousand, with their current strength, it wouldn't be impossible to deal with. But these were mad-dog zombies that had been strengthened once!

"Hmm... Survivor camps should sign a 'Mutual Non-Leading Zombie Treaty'!"

Zheng Xinyu said with a strange expression.

"Currently, there is no faction strong enough to promulgate such a treaty."

It was a joke, but Yu Wen commented on it with deep conviction and shook his head, looking very troubled.

Zhang Su was amused by the serious appearance of the two and shook his head with a bitter smile: "Even if a treaty was signed, it would have no binding force. Didn't we also lead a lot of zombies to the distance before? Now, in this kind of time, who would comply with a treaty with you? Are you crazy?"

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