You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!

Chapter 202 - An Opportunity to Perform

As Xu Lin spoke these words, a chill spread throughout everyone's body in an instant, causing several people who had followed Wang Hu out to shiver uncontrollably.

No one doubted the authenticity of what he said.

Ever since Zhang Ye decided to establish a safety zone centered around the villa district, all the initial combat missions were almost exclusively completed by him leading a combat team.

Later on, as the Combat Department's staff grew in numbers, the original combat group expanded to four.

Only then did he gradually retreat to a position of back-end command.

The task of leading the teams then fell to the leaders of each group.

And the captains under their authority.

Even so, whenever there were particularly dangerous missions or issues that the lower ranks couldn't handle, Xu Lin would still personally take the field to command.

The cumulative experience from countless battles large and small was enough to write an apocalypse survival manual.

And the reason he spoke so was quite simple.

Now the main enemies in the city were zombies and Mutant Beasts, and these two were in a predator-prey relationship, but generally speaking, it was still the zombie hordes, often tens of thousands strong, which held the advantage.

Where zombie crowds gathered, it was easy for a variant zombie that fed on its own kind to emerge.

Or perhaps even hordes of Mutant Beasts equally vast in number.

Therefore, the situation at hand was very clear.

Either something nearby had devoured all the zombies on the road.

Or they had all gone into hiding.

And hiding itself is a behavior that zombies exhibit only when their intelligence reaches a certain level, in other words, the group had mutated.

It was very likely the D type variant that likes hiding in dark buildings.

Either situation would be troublesome to deal with.

There would definitely be casualties.

Yet Zhang Ye showed no fear or hesitation, just a touch of nostalgia for the days when those foolish zombies were more common.

Even the most ordinary zombies on the streets now knew to call for help from their kind when they couldn't overpower an enemy.

This had directly increased the difficulty of capturing laborers.

And the casualties had increased significantly.

Take the current situation for example, where they had arranged the trucks in a circle to form a makeshift fortification, and the zombies outside even attempted to build human ladders to climb up from below.

If it weren't for the fact that the road underneath them was asphalt and concrete, Zhang Ye even suspected they might try to tunnel their way through.

However, this change had its benefits for him.

The newly captured laborers were very smart.

So smart that they could match the intellectual level of their predecessors who had already been assigned professions, even without the need for a professional buff.

Once they were assigned jobs according to their talents, they could completely compete with human employees in the same positions.

Fearless of hardship and fatigue, they didn't even complain behind your back about the company's welfare and treatment.

They still had rigid thinking and lacked any creative ability, though.

In other words, they could work as technicians.

But not as engineers.

Thanks to these newly promoted zombie workers, the company's several factories had seen improvements in both product quality and production efficiency.

"Did you bring the transformer?"

Zhang Ye suddenly asked.

High-voltage electricity was a magic weapon against zombies.

Connected to the power supply in the vehicles, it could save lives at crucial moments and also serve as a means of capturing zombies.

The power supply loaded on these more than ten heavy-duty trucks was also modified by a group of technicians.

Naturally, the power was sufficient for their use.

Upon hearing this, Wang Hu's face immediately took on a confident smile as he said, "Brought it, brought it; now we have to take it with us when we go out!"

As he spoke, he was about to signal his subordinates to move the transformers out of the truck.

Seeing this, Zhang Ye quickly raised his hand to stop him, then shook his head and said, "I just asked casually in case we find ourselves needing it later and realize we didn't bring it. As long as you've brought it, that's good enough."

Xu Lin, upon seeing this, immediately came over with curiosity, "Set up a few traps first?"

"Will that work?"

Zhang Ye replied with a question.

Before Xu Lin had a chance to answer, Ding Zhixiong, who had been quietly listening to their conversation, volunteered eagerly,

"Director Zhang!"

"Let me do it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Bing, the Deputy Captain of the Hunter Squad who had been waiting for an opportunity to showcase his abilities, also hastily patted his chest and assured, "Let us handle it, the Hunter Squad does this kind of thing often!"

His statement was indeed accurate.

Compared to the combat teams that often carried out extermination missions, the Hunter Squad, mainly responsible for reconnaissance of mutant intelligence, was more familiar with the situation at hand.

The hospital and crossroads, which should have been filled with zombies, looked as if they had been mowed down.

It was spotless.

And across the hospital, there was only a row of buildings less than five stories tall, all shops facing the street below.

It was clear that the enemy must be hiding inside the hospital.

Possibly even inside the building.

Zhang Ye hesitated briefly, but in the end, he assigned the task to Liu Bing's Hunter Squad.

Liu Bing, who received the mission directly from the company's top leadership, was so excited that his lips trembled. Since his last encounter with Zhang Ye, he hadn't had such an opportunity again.

Now that Gao Feng had already branched out to manage the security of Jiangbei Base independently, he was still just a deputy captain.

To say he wasn't envious would be a blatant lie.

After patting his chest several times to assure Zhang Ye and Xu Lin that he would definitely complete the mission, Liu Bing immediately set off with ten Hunters.

Eleven fully armed men carefully traversed the steel forest at the crossroads.

Those were the remnants of car accidents.

Scorch marks were everywhere.

Scattered around, about seven or eight zombies wandered through the wreckage, quickly killed by the experienced Hunters who took down three, after which the rest scattered and soon disappeared into the green planters and shops next to the crossroads.

Soon, they arrived at the hospital.

The barrier at the entrance had been broken, half of it directly piercing the driver's cab of a white sedan, with the driver hanging on it looking emaciated. Explore new worlds at My Virtual Library Empire

Even skinnier than the stray dogs rummaging through the garbage cans in alleys.

He seemed to be just skin wrapped around a skeleton.

But he was still alive.

With a clatter, the car window was instantly smashed.

A tri-edge spike made of fine steel pierced straight through the driver's head, and then someone reached in and took out the keys.

Liu Bing yanked open the car door and dragged the corpse out onto the road.

The onslaught of the stench made him instinctively furrow his brows, but they relaxed slightly when he saw the dusty, yet undamaged, driver's cab that appeared to still be usable.

The engine started quickly.

"Beep beep—"

The piercing sound of the horn instantly erupted.

Everyone's vigilance shot up to the maximum in an instant.

Directly in front of them was the hospital's outpatient department building, with a parking lot below.

Glancing over from the entrance to the lower level, there were at least dozens of cars parked.

They completely obstructed their view.

"Beep beep—"

Another horn sounded.

Liu Bing, who pressed the button, held his breath in tension.

His eyes were fixed on the open space ahead, as if in the next second, countless zombies would surge towards him.