I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 676 - 674: Are They Going to Rob?_1

Chapter 676: Chapter 674: Are They Going to Rob?_1

On the helicopter, Su Sigui looked at Liang City slowly shrinking in the distance and retracted her gaze. She stretched her muscles and bones, returning her body to its normal appearance. By now, her injuries inflicted by Ah Fu’s punch had significantly healed.

"This Tang Fu is no simple character. He’s also a formidable figure, and perhaps he has the potential to evolve into a Level 9 New Human. But if Li Henian continues to grow like this, my endeavors in South China will become quite troublesome. Li Henian will inevitably be a thorn in my side for a while. He can’t die, but I can’t always cater to him either. I need to find a way."

Su Sigui pondered and suddenly thought of someone, recalling their current predicaments and the difficulties they had encountered. A faint smile crossed her face, and a conspiracy began to form.

...

At the entrance of the Gujin Base, Tang Ye glanced at the corpses around him, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.

"Chairman."

Wounded and with his bandages barely in place, Xu Changchi made his way over to Tang Ye after being treated by the medics.

His face was somber at the moment. In the earlier clash with the soldiers of Bright Moon City, the Peace Party suffered heavy losses due to the gap in equipment.

"How many casualties?" After surveying the scene, Tang Ye saw Peace Party soldiers trickling in and out, carrying their fallen comrades back to the base. The sight was rather bleak.

"We lost 302 people, and slightly over a hundred were injured."

Upon hearing the news, Tang Ye’s eyes turned cold. After a moment of silence, he said, "It seems we need to expedite our weapon upgrades. The weapons from before the Apocalypse are already obsolete. Smash all the brain tissues of the corpses, then give them a proper burial."

"Yes, sir!"

Xu Changchi acknowledged the order and conveyed Tang Ye’s instructions to a soldier. As the soldier ran back into the base, Tang Ye also walked in.

On the way, Xu Changchi barked orders at the surviving members and Peace Party soldiers, commanding them to clean up the battlefield. His strong leadership skills made the process well organized. By the time he finished, Tang Ye had finished touring the entire Gujin Base.

The Gujin Base was small, only one-fifth the size of the Qinshan Base. It took Tang Ye only half an hour to tour the entire base.

Next, after handling all the matters, Xu Changchi led Tang Ye out of the base towards the outskirts.

"Chairman, look, that’s our agricultural zone," he pointed in a direction.

Tang Ye scraped off some mud from his shoe on a step and looked towards the direction Xu Changchi pointed. Across the expansive field, thousands of survivors were tilling the soil with farming tools. Some were weeding, while others were digging irrigation ditches. The division of labor was clear.

When Tang Ye first occupied the Gujin Base, he had assigned Liang Hanyang, a Level 5 zombie, here to help drive away any zombies that wandered into the area.

Exactly because of this, combined with the Peace Party’s continuous propagation of coexisting peacefully with zombies, the people eventually realized that within a ten-mile radius of Gujin Base, there were no more zombie appearances. Encouraged by the Peace Party, they started cultivating the land. Over time, they got used to it.

This was a win-win situation. Even though Gujin Base had an ample food supply, the base commander before the Peace Party’s arrival stored all the food and only shared it with his close relatives and followers. The living conditions of the other survivors weren’t much different from those in Qinshan Base.

But when the Peace Party arrived, they opened the granary. They didn’t distribute food to everyone but saved it for those who worked, making it fair for everyone. Some survivors were hesitant to work outside, but it was far better than the previous situation.

Tang Ye looked around, a surprised look on his face. He suddenly realized that survivors could be seen all over the mountains and fields, even in the distance.

"Chairman, how is it?" Xu Changchi asked from the side. Gujin Base was thriving, a society established amidst the Apocalypse. Whenever he thought about how he himself had contributed to all these developments, Xu Changchi couldn’t help but feel proud.

He had never imagined before the Apocalypse that he would one day rise to a position of power. However, life could indeed be unpredictable.

Tang Ye nodded, saying, "You’ve done a good job. Now our main issue is the equipment. Just now, I saw that in the face of laser weapons, we..." Tang Ye shook his head, feeling a headache coming on over upgrading the equipment.

He thought about acquiring laser weapons. Even though he owned several laser weapon production lines, Tang Ye didn’t have anyone to handle the maintenance. The Peace Party was well-rounded, except for the lack of skilled personnel.

It wasn’t because Tang Ye didn’t want to recruit these people. It was because Li Songhua was guarding against the Peace Party every step. Tang Ye also offered high payments to recruit talented individuals with research capabilities. However, after the first time the Peace Party seized a production line for laser weapons, Li Songhua realized the problem and tightly held onto his own talents, especially the research personnel. Li Songhua spared no expense! He either imprisoned the researchers’ families or firmly bound them using incredibly generous rewards!

You can’t just assume that once you have the production line, you can quickly start producing. For example, even with the production line of a laser weapon like Dongyue-01, the production might seem to go smoothly at first. However, no one knows when the machine could blow up, producing only defective or substandard parts. At such times, it needs to be repaired by technicians—exactly the kind of people the Peace Party needs.

"Are we really going to rob?" Tang Ye rubbed his head. When he just arrived here, Bright Moon City had already started their battle with the Peace Party. The outcome was hundreds of casualties on the Peace Party’s side. Even if some people were only injured and not killed, the burns from the laser were scorching. Many of those injured probably couldn’t survive.

The troops Su Sigui brought were just over two hundred men, yet half of them survived. It was clear just how disadvantageous the Peace Party was due to the gap in equipment!

Tang Ye had thought about stealing people from Li Songhua before, but after thinking it over again, he gave up. Forced cooperation was not ideal, and Tang Ye always felt that those who joined them unwillingly would betray him one day. Even if they were forced to join, they would eventually be executed. In that case, it might be better not to rob them and wait for faithful talents to come forward. But God knew when that would happen.

"Hahaha, I dug up an Evolution Crystal Core!"

At this moment, in the wasteland in the distance, one of the survivors who was clearing up the weeds held up a green Evolution Crystal Core and roared with laughter. Excited, he ran towards a small cabin not far away with a sign that read "Exchange."

The survivors nearby saw this and showed envious looks.