Volume 4: National Craftsmanship Chapter 82: Surrounded by 2 million zombies
S City, H Province, the base of the Tianluodiwang branch. This base was built in the suburbs of the provincial capital S City. It took a lot of effort to build it. From the end of the world to now, it has experienced two waves of zombies. The first wave was directly killed. Finally, the entire army retreated from the backup channel to preserve the manpower. Then they wandered outside for more than a month. After the zombie tide was gone, they returned here, because there was the reserve grain of S City. So many officers and soldiers had to be fed, and the survivors had to be rescued. Without the central reserve grain, it was impossible to accomplish this. Fortunately, the zombies were not interested in food. After they went back, except for some external food that was contaminated by zombies, most of the granaries were well preserved. The officers and soldiers of S City took root here again, and requested various support from the Tianluodiwang headquarters, mainly a large amount of genetic medicines. They needed more extraordinary people to guard the granaries.
Later, they encountered the second zombie tide, which was not large in scale, with only more than 70,000 zombies. City S applied to Tianluodiwang for 1,000 "crystal core implosion mines" and used the established maze defense line to carry out a defensive battle. In the end, more than 1,000 ordinary officers and soldiers died, and more than 100 extraordinary people managed to hold on.
However, such a record has become a typical success case in the whole country. Zhang Qiang, director of the Tianluodiwang Branch of City S, has also made many typical speeches at the National Conference on Sharing Experience in Fighting against Zombie Tides. This maze defense line has been promoted many times.
But now, the zombie tide is coming again...
Zhang Qiang's secretary entered his office and was choked by the thick smoke as soon as he opened the door. "Ahem... Commander Zhang, this is... ahem, this is the help that our neighboring cities can provide, please take a look... ahem!"
When the secretary approached, he found that Zhang Qiang had deep eye circles. The wrinkles that had disappeared after his promotion to Supernormal returned to his face again, especially on his forehead. The deep wrinkles seemed to be mixed with countless troubles. He held a Changbai Mountain cigarette in his hand, which was half burned. Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiang took a deep breath and inhaled the remaining half into his lungs, then sprayed a large amount of white mist from his nostrils, "Huh - let it go, Xiao Liu!"
Xiao Liu hesitated for a moment: "Leader, please draw less. Although the extraordinary people have strong self-recovery ability, your method of drawing is still too harmful to the body... Although there are a lot of zombies this time, fortunately, Team Leader Yu of the zombie tide observation team analyzed the trend of four streams converging in advance. We have sufficient time to prepare. At worst... we can retreat again!"
Zhang Qiang frowned deeply and sighed after hearing this, "Hey... Xiao Liu, where can we retreat to? Once these four zombies merge, it will be more terrible than us being defeated. How many zombies are there in these four zombies combined? 2 million! A full 2 million zombies. By then, all the city-level settlements in H Province will be swept away! They will kill wherever they go. How can we still have the face to live by then?"
"But... the largest wave of zombies now is approaching 1 million. We have no way to deal with this wave of zombies alone. As the saying goes, there is life, there is no shortage of firewood!"
As Zhang Qiang's secretary, Xiao Liu knows that although his leader is usually kind, he is a stubborn person and it is difficult for him to change his mind once he has made up his mind. He must persuade him before he makes a decision.
"Leader, there are more than 100,000 residents in our base, and they need to survive. Even if we have to take a gamble, we have to arrange a retreat!"
Zhang Qiang was silent for a moment after hearing this, and his eyes became introverted again: "Bring the support list from the surrounding urban areas !"
Zhang Qiang looked at the list in his hand, which listed the forces that each city could currently mobilize and the estimated number of forces that could stop the zombie tide. Currently, in H Province, only Q City was the cooperation model base of Tianluodiwang - Home No. 1.
The others were all under their control, so there was no lack of support. As long as there was no threat of zombie tides around, extraordinary people and soldiers would be dispatched to block them. Xiao Liu walked to Zhang Qiang and explained while he was flipping through the pages, "City X, City H, and City B are very close to the zombie tides. They will take action when the zombie tides are a little far away from their territory, and contain two zombie tides totaling 500,000. According to their current strength, they should be able to kill 100,000 zombies. City Y in the neighboring province can block another 500,000 zombies for us. They have thirty earth-type mutants. This zombie tide passes through the mountains on the way, and they can create a maze-like terrain on the spot to trap the zombies. It is estimated that more than 100,000 zombies can be killed. The other cities are too far away and unable to provide support..."
Zhang Qiang nodded, but then frowned. "These three waves of zombies add up to 1 million. With the help of the four cities, we can only kill 200,000 zombies at most... It's too little. Even if there are 700,000 zombies at the gates of the city, we will be powerless to save the situation... By the way, what does Q City say?"
If Zhang Qiang still had a glimmer of hope in holding on to the base, 99% of his hopes came from Q City, the city that created the legend of annihilating 200,000 zombies with zero casualties!
If the maze defense line he shared is a typical case across the country, then the No. 1 Home where 0 people were killed in exchange for 200,000 zombies is a mythical case!
In Hu Shou's words: Technological psychics... are so terrifying that they can change the situation of a battle single-handedly. It's a pity that such a battle cannot be replicated elsewhere. First, they cannot build a solid defensive line in a short time. Earth-type psychics can imitate them, but it takes a lot of time to build, and it consumes a lot of energy, so it cannot be fast and solid. This time, Y City is confident that it can kill 100,000 zombies because it has enough time to arrange them on the mountain road in advance.
Second, they did not have so much high-explosive [TNT]. Even if they had buried the "crystal core implosion mines" in advance, they could not create such a good effect because they could not control the timing of the explosion.
Third, they don't have jet packs to move around freely. Even if Shen Jin can provide them with some such individual tactical equipment, they will soon be stranded because there is not enough biogas fuel to replenish it, unless... Shen Jin is willing to build biogas generation stations in all places like the No. 1 Home.
Fourth, they couldn't deal with so many first-order evolved zombies at the same time. Only second-order extraordinary people could quickly kill first-order evolved zombies, and second-order extraordinary people were too rare! Even in S City, the capital of H Province, with the support of a large amount of resources, there were only 10 second-order extraordinary people. The high-end combat power of the zombies could easily contain them.
These four conditions make it impossible for other places to replicate Shen Jin's miracle.
Therefore, Zhang Qiang’s biggest hope at the moment is whether Shen Jin from Q City can help them deal with the largest wave of zombies... 1 million!
He personally called Shen Jin yesterday and asked for help. He was very humble and did not act in a bossy manner just because he was an official. Finally, Shen Jin said that he would consider it and would give him an answer later.
Hearing Zhang Qiang's question, Xiao Liu said, "They promised to send troops to stop the 1 million zombies, saying... they would try their best to kill them all. This is too exaggerated. Fighting in a different place, so far away from us, isn't it unrealistic..."
"Good! Nothing is unrealistic for them. Killing 200,000 zombies with 0 casualties is possible!"
Zhang Qiang's frown relaxed for the first time. "Okay, since they are willing to fight, we may not be powerless! The remaining 700,000 zombies are what we need to deal with this time. Call Commander Hu for me!"
By the way, Zhang Qiang’s 1% hope is that... the zombies dispersed on their own and did not attack them as Team Leader Yu Qi predicted, but... is this possible?
Zhang Qiang wouldn't gamble. When you experience enough, you will know that some seemingly coincidental things must have some inevitability.
