Lord of Illusions City
Chapter 156 Was the Caravan Robbed?
Looking at the gloomy sky in the distance, Duan Xue smiled radiantly and whispered to herself. Then, she raised her arm and looked at the combat blade Li Chenzhou had given her:
"Thank you, little bug..."
In the distance, Gray Bear, who had reached another entrance to stand guard, looked back at Duan Xue, then at Duan Lei. Suddenly, he turned his head towards the building where Leopard was, and murmured:
"Having family! That's good..."
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"Let's go! Everyone get ready, return to your own teams. Gray Bear, go inside and shout, see if anyone else is left?"
More than an hour later, Duan Lei stood on top of the armored vehicle where Duan Xue was, shouting into the walkie-talkie.
Now, the moving from the store was finally over—not that the store was emptied, but they had no place left to put anything. Moreover, according to Duan Lei's estimation, the supplies currently loaded on the vehicles were enough for all the survivors in the team to live for at least half a year.
In fact, if they used all the people who could drive, and all the cars in the parking lot, they could indeed transport a lot more supplies, perhaps enough for them to hide in a base for a whole year.
But Duan Lei did not intend to do that. He knew Li Chenzhou's intention in saving people, so he wanted to give these survivors a sense of crisis. Although the supplies they had now were enough to last them for half a year, they would continue to save people on the way out.
Therefore, according to Duan Lei's prediction, when they truly left the city, the number of people should double or increase by one and a half times. In other words, these supplies would ultimately only last these survivors for three or four months.
This time was actually already very long, but Duan Lei was confident that after they established a base, they would have enough sense of crisis, no longer shrink back in the base, but strengthen themselves as soon as possible—people have two lips, isn't it all up to you what you say?
After announcing the departure, Duan Xue stepped on the accelerator of the armored vehicle and moved it to the side. A large bus immediately roared past Duan Xue and her vehicle, heading forward.
Now, this convoy was quite long, even surpassing the team that Luo Hong had led at the time. Therefore, Duan Lei decided that his armored vehicle would no longer be the lead vehicle, but would escort the convoy in the middle.
Because Li Chenzhou was already clearing the zombies ahead, the lead vehicle was not in too much danger. Duan Lei knew Li Chenzhou well. He might miss some zombies, but they would definitely be single ones and would not pose a threat to the lead vehicle, because in the first bus, Wang Yuanqiang and the members of the combat team were in that vehicle.
As for Kong Xiang, he was leading a team of brothers at the rear, accompanying Gray Bear. Wang Yuanqiang and Kong Xiang were the candidates Duan Lei had currently designated as the leaders of the base.
Li Chenzhou and his group rescued these survivors, of course, not to take them out of the city and then let them fend for themselves, but to help them establish a base, just like Luo Hong did in the beginning.
And to establish a base, there must be a base leader. This choice was of course most suitable for Duan Lei to decide, because at least the leader he chose would definitely be "green," that is, completely without hostility towards Li Chenzhou and his group, only gratitude.
Wang Yuanqiang and Kong Xiang were both such people, and from the beginning to the present, their performance had been very good. They had even gathered some manpower around them to assist him.
Duan Lei had no objection to this, but rather quite supported it. Knowing how to build their own small group was the means to secure the position of leader. Otherwise, now with Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei supporting you, no one would dare to do anything, but what if they left?
Duan Lei was quite clear that Li Chenzhou would not establish a base, so he could not possibly stay in a certain base. Therefore, what they were doing now was to save the survivors, try to gather more people together, and then help them establish a base!!!
So Duan Lei wanted to indulge Wang Yuanqiang and Kong Xiang. Moreover, in the future, even if there were conflicts between the two of them, Duan Lei would not interfere. He would just be responsible for saving people, and then helping them establish the prototype of the base. After that, they would be on their own!
Looking at the team that suddenly surged to more than a hundred vehicles, Duan Lei felt a little emotional. He didn't expect that after just finishing a third of the journey, his team would actually be comparable to Luo Hong's.
Of course, this was related to the fact that Luo Hong was taking the overpass and not deliberately saving people. Moreover, because it was impossible to establish a base, these people would ultimately have nothing to do with him. But Duan Lei still had a considerable sense of accomplishment in his heart!!!
Every vehicle that passed by, the survivors in the vehicle would enthusiastically greet Duan Lei, and some would even directly shout words like, "Little Asura is awesome!"
After a period of contact, almost all the survivors now knew that although the Little Asura killed people without saying hello, as long as you didn't actively provoke him, he would definitely not make things difficult for you. You could even joke with him, and he would respond with a smile.
This undoubtedly made Duan Lei more approachable. Of course, not everyone thought so, but now no one dared to jump out and provoke him anymore.
Duan Lei kept paying attention to the surroundings while constantly waving, urging the vehicles to pass by him as soon as possible. But after a while, he discovered that the convoy had stopped.
"What's going on?"
Duan Lei was stunned for a moment. Wang Yuanqiang was leading the team. He had told Wang Yuanqiang long ago that unless they discovered a zombie horde or Li Chenzhou, they should keep moving forward, because as long as the lead vehicle stopped, the entire convoy behind would stop. It wouldn't be so quick to start again, which would waste a lot of time.
Just as Duan Lei was wondering, Wang Yuanqiang had already run over like he was flying. After reaching Duan Lei, he supported his knees with both hands and panted for more than ten seconds before looking up at Duan Lei and saying:
"Our convoy... has been robbed!!!"
"What?"
Duan Lei couldn't help but be stunned. He had thought of countless possibilities, but he hadn't thought of this one. In the apocalypse, there were actually highwaymen???
"How many vehicles were robbed? How many people are there on the other side?"
Duan Lei asked immediately.
"No vehicles were robbed. They just blocked our way and wouldn't let us pass. And... they seem to know many people in our team!"
Wang Yuanqiang said:
"Oh! Right, they're all wearing police uniforms. I asked people in our team, and they're from this police station. Oh! Right, the place where our convoy was robbed is right in front of that police station gate!"
"Alright! Then let me see what kind of police officers are blocking our convoy!"
Duan Lei sneered, then waved to the survivors behind him and said:
"Pass the word back, tell Gray Bear to come to the front immediately. His time to show off has come!"
Since they were wearing police uniforms, they must be police officers. Duan Lei didn't even need to think about it. They must be using their identity to suppress those survivors. Then, Gray Bear, this special agent, seemed to be able to suppress them perfectly...