When Xia Lei and the others rushed here, they saw the open gates of the warehouse that they once feared.
It wasn’t surprising to them that Ye Zhongming could do such things. After all, they witnessed this man survive in the dungeon for several days and even hunted many high-level mutated lifeforms.
But to the new members of Cloud Peak, the fact that they solved the series of problems recently made them realize how strong their boss was. They also saw how overpowered his methods were.
When the boxes of guns and ammo were placed in front of them, they noticed that they had still underestimated the strength of their new boss.
Many people knew about the army warehouse near Cloud Peak. Apart from Black Cloak Motorcade, who managed to get some things from this place, they hadn’t heard of anyone else who could take weapons from this place.
Due to the grain-stealing plan, everyone discovered that the three factions had worked together to attack this place. However, that failed. Now, their boss took this place down alone. What kind of strength did he have?
Thus, many people’s respect towards Ye Zhongming reached a new height.
Lu Yi came over to thank Ye Zhongming. This old man was prepared to give up when he was captured. He knew that for a base, a few evolved wasn’t as important as so much grain. If it were any other boss, they would sacrifice you and then use your death to take revenge.
Lu Yi didn’t expect Ye Zhongming to be willing to fight to the death for him and force East Mountain Village to release them. Now that he had met Ye Zhongming, he came to express his thanks and loyalty.
It needed some time to move the weapons, so the evolved were on guard. Ordinary people were doing the hard work. The core members were also called into the warehouse.
Any human would get angry about these pregnant bodies when they saw them. They also learned new things about the Demon Monsters.
“This Liu Zhenghong… Doctor. She is a famous biologist and doctor. She is famous in the field and would join our base to research. Now, follow her instructions to collect some specimens that we can use in the future.”
Ye Zhongming introduced Liu Zhenghong to everyone. He could only call her a doctor to not scare off everyone.
The core members greeted this 40-year-old sister. She didn’t hold back and started to arrange duties for everyone.
But not everyone could do such a thing. Liang Chuyin and Park Xiuying lasted half a minute before running out. Shengyuan lasted just a minute. Xia Lei, Little Tiger, etc., had ashen white faces. If not for them being cops, they would have probably vomited out everything. Ye Zhongming had no choice but to do it himself.
Xia Bai looked calm and was doing it expressionlessly. Liu Zhenghong wasn’t shocked at her performance; those two worked together best out of everyone here.
When they returned to the base, Ye Zhongming saw the modified gate having a corpse hanging from there. It was that guy who betrayed the team at East Mountain Village. Uncle Hai didn’t protect him and sent him back to Cloud Peak.
Ye Zhongming saw the corpse and didn’t say a word. He knew why Uncle Hai would do that. Xia Lei’s words had a considerable effect such that the old man was terrified. He didn’t know the true strength of Cloud Peak.
But that was good; sending one into fear was better than making them think they could bully you.
As for this corpse… Ye Zhongming felt like his men were adapting to the apocalypse.
Three days, close to four, were used to solve all these problems. They only had a few dozen hours till the zombie horde arrived.
So even if they had obtained so many weapons, they were momentarily happy before entirely focusing on construction.
Each day, the base would send evolve out to attack the horde. Ordinary people were forced to join in too. Everyone would get weapons and try to use their near-expiry bullets to hunt zombies. It trained them while also reducing the future pressure that they would face.
The former target was achieved. After a day of fighting, although they lost some numbers through the fight, many of them could hold the guns well. They also knew how to aim and listen to orders. As for the effects, that wasn’t something that could be trained in a short time.
As for drawing the zombies away, that wasn’t as effective.
One reason was that the survivors didn’t dare to get close to the horde; even Ye Zhongming didn’t dare to. There were too many zombies; if you got trapped, you would get drowned immediately. The zombie horde had a mind of their own and was connected to some of the higher-level mutated zombies within. They wouldn’t change their path because of some nose and some food.
It was impossible to use a hanging piece of meat off a cliff to con them into jumping off. Although normal zombies were stupid and had no intellect, they had instincts. If they continued to evolve, they would start hunting. Their hunting instincts were not things that humans who lived at the top of the food chain for thousands of years could compare to.
As for why the zombie horde was moving in a fixed direction, the zombie researchers didn’t have an agreed idea in the past. But they all felt like it was a matter of randomness. So, one could say that Cloud Peak was unlucky.
With large amounts of weapons, Ye Zhongming had more thoughts. He pushed the defense line to the foot of the mountain while asking to hunt the squad to absorb more survivors. He told people to dig defenses at the foot and set up defense lines after every short distance.
There were four defense lines planned from the foot to the peak. The gate of the base was the 5th and final line. In the ideal situation, the horde would get wiped out here.e
Apart from that, they set up several tough firepower spots to ensure they could deal damage and chaos to the zombie horde even if the base gets broken through.
Le Dayuan led people to set up traps. These things wouldn’t ensure their victory, but they could damage the horde and deal sizeable kills.
Anyways, the entire base was busy.
Yuanshang came too, but he wasn’t here to help defend but to ask for payment. Ye Zhongming still owed him a two-star evolution potion. But Ye Zhongming told him that he would pay after this battle. He gave him some ammo, but that wasn’t for free, which made Yuanshang roll his eyes.
But he wasn’t honest, so he used an invitation card to pay after keeping the bullets.
“What is this?” Ye Zhongming looked at it, and it wrote that it was a networking event.
Yuanshang smiled, “You know that Cloud Peak only has a few factions around, and if you wipe them out, wouldn’t I just die from hunger?’
Ye Zhongming’s ability to solve the crisis filled Yuanshang with shock.
Others didn’t know, but Yuanshang’s motorcade traded with those few factions. He had many sources and knew that Ye Zhongming assassinated Ying City Jail’s Menglin alone. He charged onto the lake island and killed the three young masters of Lou Family before retreating. He also sent his troops to force East Mountain Village to yield. All of this made him realize that he had underestimated Boss Ye.
Thinking about his little actions before sent a chill down his spine.
“Renxing Battle Squad is famous in Ying City. Each member is evolved, and I heard over 200 of them. They are the leader of this trading event.” Yuanshang said the news he knew, “Apart from them would be Star Beauty Company, Furious Roar Squad, Olive Green Assault Team, etc. factions.”
“The people invited are all companies or squads. I spent some effort to get this card.”
Ye Zhongming took this exquisite card and was tempted. Yuanshang might not have noticed, but Ye Zhongming saw many things from this card.
It was printed, and it had very high anti-forgery properties. At least it showed that the team that made the cards could produce energy. They also controlled a large printing factory as ordinary machines couldn’t make such a thing.
As for the trading location, it was the city center of Ying City, which meant that the Renxing Battle Squad was planning to judge those invited.
Ying City was a province city and had a high population. It wasn’t something that a suburb like Cloud Peak could compare to. There were zombies and mutated lifeforms, and these monsters occupied the streets. The difference from this place was that you could walk for half a day and not see a single zombie here.
To get to the city center, one had to have skills. Anyone who could get there would prove their ability. Such people or factions would have some good things on them, which meant that there would be a point in the whole trading event.
With such strength and such thoughts, this Renxing Squad was not a regular faction.
At the same time, Ye Zhongming knew trading was influential in the apocalypse. Only by helping and working together would one proliferate. He held the card and made his mind up to take a look.
After getting more ammo, Yuanshang left satisfied. Although he decided to trade more with Cloud Peak in the future, that didn’t mean he would fight the zombie horde with them.
No matter how the Cloud Peak tried, the horde still appeared in the range of the mountain. Standing at the peak, one could see a black line slowly becoming longer and thicker.
“Boss, as you expected, a few fellows behind the horde are planning to take advantage.” Little Tiger was unhappy. He was suspicious when Ye Zhongming mentioned it, but after confirming it, he was annoyed.
Ye Zhongming smiled. This was normal in the apocalypse. Many factions would choose to follow the zombie horde. Apart from occasionally killing some zombies, they would benefit when bases were attacked.
Two months had passed since the start, but there were still many intelligent people.
“Go, chase these flies away. It isn’t so easy to benefit from us.”