After leaving Jiefang City, Captain Lv's group led with a cargo truck, followed closely by two buses behind.
Under the setting sun, the sunlight was not fierce, as if there was an infinite beauty.
However, they couldn't feel happy.
Looking through the rearview mirror, they saw smoke rising from Jiefang City behind them, not knowing what had caught fire. In such dry tis, it was easy to start a fire.
Faintly, they could see people coming out of the city gates of Jiefang City, but so couldn't escape.
In such chaotic monts, once all order was lost, the evil in humanity would be infinitely magnified.
At this mont, unspeakable horrors were happening in Jiefang City.
In this riot, no one was a winner!
...
In the cargo truck, Lao Xie, who was driving, looked through the rearview mirror and sighed.
Then he said, "Captain, where are we heading now? It's getting darker, and it might be dangerous at night."
Captain Lv, who had just gotten a mont to breathe from the chaos, saw the setting sun. For so reason, his first thought was of Li Yu and his group.
He then wondered why they would take in people like Li Yu and his group.
The apocalypse's drought made them understand one thing - in the apocalypse, having more people wasn't necessarily better.
Although having more people ant more power, it also ant higher costs. In such an uncertain apocalypse, the first priority was survival.
Why should Li Yu's group take them in? And after a few encounters, his most profound impression of Li Yu was of his decisive killing - killing at the slightest disagreent.
Speaking of combat ability, although most of them were ex-police officers with strong fighting skills, from their previous encounters, he realized that the people around Li Yu were no ordinary folks.
Moreover, he didn't even know where Li Yu's base was, though he roughly knew Li Yu's location from the group of refugees.
Near a gas station not far from Xin City...
Shaking his head, he gave up any fantasies. Although joining Li Yu's group seed like a direction, it raised a question - why?
You see, Jiefang City could take in so many refugees because they were being chased down by Li Yu's group. According to the refugees, Li Yu's group had many people and were well-equipped, having already killed many.
Such a killing god.
Better not to provoke.
"Where to go?" Captain Lv murmured.
"Let's leave the city first, there's no point in staying here anymore," Captain Lv finally said to Lao Xie beside him.
Where to go was a complex question to consider.
He was not alone; he had to think of his brothers and their families.
Now, the city had essentially lost its water supply, making getting water difficult, not to ntion zombies appearing at night.
Moreover, the supplies in the city had been completely scavenged by them, and staying in the city no longer held any aning.
The countryside—while spacious—was hard to defend against a massive array of zombies. The only way to resist the Zombie Tide was with the advantage of buildings; otherwise, low fences alone would not hold.
A small town!
Captain Lv suddenly thought of it. The town also had so seven to eight-story buildings, and there were many rural areas nearby. It was feasible to live near the town, where they could advance to attack and retreat for defense.
The vehicles drove out of the city.
Seeing Captain Lv undecisive, Lao Xie asked, "The road ahead leads toward Xin City. Should we go there? Or head south towards Guangdong Province? Captain, make a decision."
"How do you think?" Captain Lv saw Old Xie seed to have so thoughts, so he asked.
"Anyway, it's all the sa wherever we go; wherever there are fewer zombies and fewer people, that's where we'll head to," Old Xie said.
Captain Lv looked at Old Xie and finally said, "Towards Xin City direction!"
In his heart, he actually had a high appreciation for Li Yu. Only a team led by such a person could truly go the distance, he was clear about himself, leading so people to kill zombies, to protect the base, he could do it.
But to be the leader of a group, he actually didn't inherently have that intention, even just leading these people out now made him feel overwheld by pressure.
In Xin City, he didn't know what they would face, but now letting him go even further to Guangdong Province, he'd rather (prefer) go to Xin City; after all, he had been to Xin City many tis before the apocalypse, and even had so people from Xin City in his team.
Going to a familiar place always felt sowhat more reassuring.
The cars continued roaring, driving towards the Xin City direction.
The sky gradually darkened; Captain Lv took out a map, and saw there was still a long distance to go.
The sun had already set, dusk had arrived.
He was very clear that it would not take more than 15 minutes for the sky to completely darken.
Although it still seed bright now, it would soon turn dark.
The cars raced along the roadside, just ahead there was a small town, also next to this national highway.
Captain Lv saw a building there and said, "That Dingsheng Haotai International." The sign was very prominent.
From a distance, it was easily visible. Previously, Captain Lv often ca to this place to perform his duties, capturing quite a few people and taking them to the station.
Because he had been there, he knew it was the most luxurious place in this small town.
"Okay, Captain Lv."
The vehicles slowly pulled over, finally stopping next to this building.
This building was tightly adjacent to another tall building, which also had a sign saying Dongsheng Hotel.
Everyone got out of the cars, Captain Lv thought for a mont, had several team mbers drive the cars and create a V-shaped barricade around the Dongsheng Hotel which could also serve as a certain form of protection.
Old Xie was a bit confused and asked, "Aren't we going to look for Dingsheng Haotai International?"
Captain Lv shook his head and said, "No, we're staying here; there should be more rooms inside."
He didn't explain further; he summoned a few teammates to go inside and scout first.
The others started unloading things from the cars; after all, they wouldn't be staying inside the vehicles. Although there were no people around now, it would be terrible if soone ca to steal things in the middle of the night.
Captain Lv led a few teammates upstairs.
As dusk deepened, it was already getting dark inside the building.
In the apocalypse, there were always so ways to deal with darkness.
Although they didn't have ample electricity, they had scavenged so generators while in the city, so they were able to charge flashlights for illumination. Just this ti, the generator wasn't brought along because of the rush.
Actually, finding a generator is still possible, but gasoline and diesel are incredibly precious.
With the advent of mobile networks, most gas stations used scan paynts, and getting fuel was easy with electricity at the stations.
Otherwise, you could only use an electric pump to extract the oil.
Jiefang City had operated this way before, but later the electric pump broke, making refueling much more troubleso.
Turning on the flashlight, illuminating the inside of the building, Captain Lv put away his handgun, holding a dagger, and cautiously checked each room.
"Every room must be carefully checked!" Captain Lv said.
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