Chapter 136 Opportunity

"Huh?"

Hearing Zhao Dahai's words, both Xiao Lü and Guo Jianyong looked bewildered. Back in Qing City, Zhao Dahai had immediately chosen to leave before they could even suggest it. How come he was being so stubborn this time?

"Boss! Don't be impulsive! With so many enhanced zombies...no matter how awesome we are, we can't fight them!"

Guo Jianyong quickly tried to dissuade Zhao Dahai. He and Xiao Lü genuinely believed in Zhao Dahai's protagonist theory now, which was why they were so devoted to sticking with him.

In novels, the people around the protagonist lived longer and had better lives. Of course, they wanted to be those people!

But now, Zhao Dahai actually wanted to stay? Was he going to face those thousands of enhanced zombies head-on? He was the protagonist, so he was probably not afraid because he wouldn't die. But the problem was, the people around the protagonist weren't necessarily so lucky!

In every novel, especially apocalyptic ones, some of the protagonist's companions were incredibly powerful and stayed with him until the end. But many of the protagonist's buddies also died due to various accidents!

Guo Jianyong wasn't sure which type he was, so it was best not to take risks if possible! What if he was just cannon fodder used to stir up the readers' emotions?

"Yeah, Boss! There are so many cities. We don't have to stay here! We can develop just as well in another city, right? You're the protagonist, what are you afraid of?"

Xiao Lü felt the same way, so he earnestly tried to persuade him.

"You don't have to worry!"

Zhao Dahai saw through their thoughts with one glance and said, "I won't fight these enhanced zombies head-on, and I won't send you to kill them either. I don't even plan to disturb them!"

"Huh?"

Xiao Lü and Guo Jianyong were stunned. They exchanged a look.

When they first met, Xiao Lü and Guo Jianyong actually disliked each other and always wanted to compete.

But later, Zhao Dahai kept saying he was the protagonist, and it seemed to be true. Once they realized this, they stopped competing.

Because a protagonist couldn't just have one helper. And it was written clearly in novels that if the protagonist had two people scheming against each other, they usually didn't end up well. So now, they got along very well.

After seeing the look in each other's eyes, Xiao Lü and Guo Jianyong understood each other's thoughts. They looked at Zhao Dahai again, and Guo Jianyong asked, "Boss, if we're not fighting these enhanced zombies, what are we staying in Qi City for? Just to watch them?"

"That's right! Just watch them!"

Zhao Dahai nodded with a confident smile. "Since there's an opportunity here, I just need to wait for it. The opportunity will definitely be mine! However, generally speaking, to trigger this opportunity, we need some external factors, like villains or something!

So, we just need to send two people to watch this place, and the others can continue doing what they were doing before. We have a base here, a base with thousands of people. It's not something we can just move!

If we leave Qi City, not everyone will follow us. And if we leave here, we'll have to start all over again! That would greatly slow down our development.

You've all played games, right? In games, the most important thing is the first few days, so players who join as soon as the server opens always have an advantage! We've already changed cities once, which has wasted a lot of time. If we change cities again, we'll fall even further behind!

So, what we need to do next is wait, monitor this place, and continue our base expansion efforts! I believe that with enough patience, our opportunity will definitely come! Don't rush!"

"Alright, Boss! I'll listen to you!"

Guo Jianyong nodded immediately.

"Me too!"

Xiao Lü followed closely behind. As long as he didn't have to charge at those enhanced zombies, anything else was fine!

So, after continuing to observe the enhanced zombies and circling them once, Zhao Dahai left ten people on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings, two people per building, specifically to monitor the area. The others all returned.

Moreover, Zhao Dahai specially arranged for many people to set up "beacon towers" along the road leading to their base.

Because all communication was down, even if they left people to monitor the area, they wouldn't be able to send news back quickly if something happened with the enhanced zombies.

Especially since they were all enhanced zombies. If they rioted and spread rapidly, the people on the rooftops wouldn't even have time to go downstairs.

To avoid this, Zhao Dahai found a building every two or three kilometers along the road from the mall towards his base and left two people on the rooftop, prepared with combustibles, like the ancient beacon towers.

Once the enhanced zombies changed, no matter what the change was, the people monitoring them would immediately light a bonfire to send a signal to their companions on the distant rooftop. The people who saw the signal would also light a bonfire to continue passing the signal down!

There were a total of five bonfires. Lighting different numbers of bonfires represented different meanings. From this, it could be said that Zhao Dahai's brain was indeed working well enough.

After that, Zhao Dahai continued to collect population and gather supplies step by step. However, he slowed down the rate at which he killed zombies.

Previously, he had been quickly clearing cities and constantly expanding his cleared area. But now, he slowed down. After clearing an area, he wouldn't immediately go to the next one. Instead, he would concentrate his manpower to move all the supplies from the cleared area back, thoroughly cleaning out the supplies before expanding further!

Zhao Dahai had his own reasons for doing this, but he didn't explain them to Xiao Lü and the others. Xiao Lü and Guo Jianyong didn't ask either, because they liked this slower pace!

However, although Zhao Dahai began to reduce his efforts in clearing zombies, he greatly increased his efforts in reconnaissance!

Zhao Dahai sent out many people, all of whom were stationed in high places in the city, specifically responsible for monitoring the movements within the city. When they discovered other survivor teams, they would immediately report them. Zhao Dahai then used these people to find their bases, annex them, and expand his own base!

The reason they were able to come here and find Sun Qi was naturally because those people had seen Sun Qi and discovered that he was an extremely powerful lone wolf. Therefore, Zhao Dahai personally took action, preparing to subdue Sun Qi.

As for Sun Qi's feeling that it was the light from his cigarette that attracted Zhao Dahai and the others, he was completely overthinking it. They had already known Sun Qi's location for a long time and were waiting for him to come to a place where it was difficult to escape before attacking at night, leaving him with no way to run...