Chapter 12 Leaving the Base

The convoy of twelve buses finally departed. By the time they left, Liu Jinshan had become a Level 1 Evolver, though he hadn't used both evolution potions.

After learning about the effects of the evolution potion, Liu Jinshan only used one. He intended to give the other three to his brothers.

Li Yunshan naturally wouldn't interfere with how Liu Jinshan distributed them, as long as he didn't use them all himself and reach Level 4!

"Actually, Commander Liu wasn't bad. I hope...we'll have a chance to see them again in the future!"

Watching the convoy disappear into the distance, Grey Bear sighed. Liu Jinshan and the others had left in a hurry, unwilling to stay even one more night and leave the next day.

That evening, Li Chenzhou and the others ate grilled fish and drank beer by the lake, enjoying a leisurely night. Qingluan and the others joined in, and in fact, everyone in the mountain villa base ate fish that day.

Stewed fish, grilled fish, fried fish, deep-fried fish, fish soup...

The few survivors who were originally chefs used all their skills to create a variety of fish dishes. Because of their skills, they didn't have to go out and fight; they only needed to cook for everyone in the mountain villa.

For them, this was naturally a sweet deal, so no one dared to slack off, all desperately trying to prove their worth, afraid of being eliminated.

Lake Qianyuan had a lot of fish, all kinds of freshwater fish, even fish weighing thirty or forty *jin* (a Chinese unit of measurement, roughly 1.1 pounds). Therefore, at least in the early stages, this base wouldn't lack food.

In particular, Qingluan had specifically dug a huge pond in the mountain villa and diverted lake water into it. Many of the captured fish were kept in the pond for future needs.

In addition, Qingluan and Li Jing, Li Meng, and some other girls, along with Xu Kai and the others, discussed for a long time and finally came up with a list, filled with the materials their base urgently needed. They planned to collect all these materials after entering the city with Li Chenzhou and the others the next day.

On this list, the most important item was various seeds. Although there was Lake Qianyuan, Qingluan still wanted to grow things in the mountain villa, whether vegetables or grains. Even fruit trees, she kept them all—the conditions at the mountain villa were indeed unique; it could be said to be the most suitable place Li Chenzhou had seen to use as a base.

Because it was a rare opportunity to relax, everyone partied until after midnight before dispersing. Li Chenzhou and the others simply parked Dark Blood by the lake and spent the night there.

The next morning, just after six o'clock, Li Chenzhou and the others got up, washed up, and made some more grilled fish to solve the problem of breakfast before driving Dark Blood to Commercial Street, where they had agreed to meet yesterday.

At this time, three buses were already parked on Commercial Street, packed with nearly two hundred people, all members of the combat and search and rescue teams. The combat team was basically composed entirely of soldiers from the garrison regiment, with Xu Kai as the leader, and Li Jing and Li Meng as the deputy leaders.

Although Li Jing and Li Meng were closer to Qingluan, and they were also Awakeners, they were, after all, just ordinary young girls. They were definitely not as good as Xu Kai and the other professional soldiers when it came to commanding a team.

Therefore, Qingluan handed over the combat team to Xu Kai to command, and Li Jing and Li Meng also had to obey Xu Kai's orders when they went out!

Li Chenzhou felt that this arrangement showed that Qingluan was actually quite good at using people!

Three buses with two hundred people were actually quite crowded, but this was Li Chenzhou's suggestion. Although the mountain villa had many vehicles, at this time, there were even more vehicles in the city. Therefore, try to drive as few cars as possible when leaving, so you can drive more cars when you come back.

Now it's not like before. Before, when Li Chenzhou and the others were rescuing people in Qing City, because there were constantly survivors joining, there was naturally no shortage of drivers.

But now, more than a month had passed, and the survivors who hadn't left the city had either starved to death or been eaten by zombies; there were very few left.

Therefore, although the search and rescue team was nominally collecting supplies and rescuing people, in fact, now only supplies could be collected; it was probably difficult to meet people!

With everything ready, Qingluan set off with Li Meng. As for Li Jing, she stayed in the base to guard it. After all, Qingluan had only just become the leader of the mountain villa base yesterday, and her position was not yet stable, so she had to leave one of her own people behind!

Dark Blood took the lead in front, and the other three buses followed closely. At this time, Qingluan and Xu Kai were in the Dark Blood car. Li Chenzhou was not afraid of revealing the secrets of Dark Blood.

After all, it's the end of the world now, and people can basically accept seeing some strange things!

"Boss! How are we going to clear out the city this time?"

On the way to the city, Duan Lei looked at Li Chenzhou and asked.

Yesterday, when they were chatting with Xu Kai and the others, they discovered that something was a little strange about Qi City. That was that Xu Kai and the others had never seen enhanced zombies, and didn't even know of the existence of enhanced zombies.

Xu Kai was a soldier in Liu Jinshan's garrison regiment, and had entered the city with Liu Jinshan many times before, rescuing countless survivors. Therefore, the number of zombies he had killed was naturally countless.

According to the timeline, Liu Jinshan was locked up for about ten days, and it was now a little over a month after the end of the world. That is to say, the last time Liu Jinshan was not locked up, and their last sweep of the city to rescue people, should have been more than twenty days after the end of the world.

At that time, enhanced zombies had already been born. Even in Qing City, Li Chenzhou and the others had encountered hundreds of enhanced zombies.

Although those enhanced zombies were the work of corpse demons, even if Qi City didn't have corpse demons, a small number of enhanced zombies should exist, right?

To be on the safe side, Li Chenzhou specifically asked the other soldiers, and the answers he got were consistent. No one had seen enhanced zombies. Even after Li Chenzhou asked the question, many soldiers curiously asked what enhanced zombies looked like.

Logically speaking, not having enhanced zombies is a good thing for humans, but for some reason, Li Chenzhou always felt a little uneasy, and even Duan Lei had this feeling.

Therefore, after studying it for a while yesterday, Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei still hadn't decided what method to use to clear Qi City today.

They had three options. One was to proceed step by step, clearing the zombies on the periphery and slowly advancing forward. This was the most stable!

The second was to go directly into the city center to see if the downtown area of Qi City also had corpse demons like Qing City.

The third was to first help the people of the mountain villa base collect supplies, and then they would return, and Li Chenzhou and the others would go to the city center by themselves.

And now, Duan Lei was asking Li Chenzhou's meaning, wanting Li Chenzhou to choose a method...