Upon discovering such a massive zombie horde approaching, Lin Xinghai and the others didn’t dare to delay. They imdiately rushed back and reported the news at the first opportunity.
However, to everyone’s surprise, although the Military Departnt had received the news, they weren’t ordered to retreat or given any other tasks. They were simply told to continue monitoring the zombie horde.
"What in the world does this order an?" Zhuo Yongyuan said, his brows furrowed in confusion.
The zombie horde was about to reach 700,000. This was completely beyond what the Military Departnt and the rcenary Guild could handle. Logically, they should have been organizing an imdiate retreat.
Lin Xinghai also frowned, but he remained silent, simply standing on the skyscraper’s roof and gazing quietly into the distance.
Ti continued to pass, and an hour went by quickly. By 1:00 PM, the number of zombies gathered to the west of the Industrial Park had exceeded one million.
As the horde grew, the nearby zombies seed to beco more and more agitated. At this rate, even without the command of a Mutated Zombie, they would probably form a horde on their own before long.
At this point, Lin Xinghai and the others didn’t even dare to go forward to investigate. If they got caught in the middle of it, even they would have a hard ti making it out alive.
Of course, the Military Departnt had also relaxed its surveillance requirents for them. They could simply observe from a distance with optical equipnt. All they had to do was report the mont the zombie horde broke out.
"I’m going back to ask about the situation! You guys be careful. If anything seems wrong, retreat imdiately," Lin Xinghai said to Zhuo Yongyuan and the others with a soft sigh.
He couldn’t shake the feeling of unease without getting so clarity.
"Okay!" Zhuo Yongyuan nodded. "Don’t worry about us here. We’re observing from a distance now, which is even safer than when we were scouting with zombie radar. Also, if you find out anything that isn’t confidential, please let us know."
"Alright!" Lin Xinghai agreed, then piloted his Rapid cha away.
On his way back, he passed straight through the entire Industrial Park and discovered that the number of zombies here had multiplied several tis since they arrived last night.
At this rate, even if they managed to clear a path before the horde erupted, collecting Elental Crystals in the Industrial Park would be incredibly difficult.
He quickly passed through the Industrial Park and continued on his way. Ten minutes later, he finally encountered the first team.
It was a mixed team of military personnel and mbers of a rcenary Corps.
Clearly, the military had taken over command, and now all the major rcenary battalions were just following orders.
What surprised Lin Xinghai was that this team wasn’t clearing a path toward the Industrial Park. Instead, they were just clearing zombies from the sides of the road while also removing obstacles from the road itself.
The debris from collapsed buildings and the cars on the road were all piled to one side, and any potholes were filled in as much as possible.
’What are they doing?’ Lin Xinghai wondered, surprised.
However, after a quick look, he didn’t linger and continued on his way back.
By now, there were very few zombies in the area he was traveling through. The rcenary Corps he encountered further back were doing much the sa work, but they had an additional task: building sentry posts and various fortifications.
Lin Xinghai used his Perception Power to observe them. Although the sentry posts and fortifications were quite crude, they were built very densely. The sentry posts, for example, were spaced barely a hundred ters apart.
And most importantly, beneath these sentry posts, machinery had been used to dig an underground tunnel, a full two ters wide, allowing for reinforcents or retreats between the various posts.
’Don’t tell they’re actually planning to fight the zombie horde to the death!’ Lin Xinghai thought as he observed the dense network of sentry posts behind him. He was puzzled, but he also felt a surge of excitent.
What the Military Departnt had created wasn’t just a few defensive lines; it was a massive, sprawling defensive network.
At this mont, Lin Xinghai felt he had to look at the Military Departnt in a new light. He had been skeptical and incredulous when he previously heard from Zhuo Yongyuan that the general staff had assessed their combat strength as capable of withstanding a 500,000-strong zombie horde.
Now, seeing this scene before him, all his doubts vanished.
If they were to fight a positional war like this, their 35,000 troops, holding their ground with such a defensive network, could indeed defeat an army of 500,000 zombies.
But the problem was, the zombie army had now exceeded one million, which was far beyond their estimates.
More importantly, their purpose in coming to Guanghan City wasn’t to exterminate zombies.
The zombies were endless. Plundering resources to enhance the overall strength of the Shelter was what truly mattered.
Therefore, even if the Military Departnt truly had a way to defeat this million-strong zombie horde, if all their people were wiped out, or even if they lost half of them, it was a price the Star Shield Shelter could not afford to pay.
After all, in the apocalypse, population was the most important resource, to say nothing of the fact that everyone here was an experienced rcenary or soldier.
With doubt and a hint of anticipation in his heart, Lin Xinghai continued on his way.
At last, he found soone he could question: Jin Canlan.
Lin Xinghai hadn’t expected that the supre leader of the rcenary Guild, who was supposed to be holding down the fort at headquarters, would have also rushed to the front lines.
And by sheer coincidence, he was with the First Battalion.
"Don’t ask. I don’t know anything," Jin Canlan said preemptively, before Lin Xinghai could even speak after getting out of his cha.
Lin Xinghai was taken aback. "How do you know what I was going to ask?"
"What else could you be here to ask about? It’s not like I’m completely clueless about the situation at the front. Sothing big must have happened for the military to halt the advance and have us build these sentry posts."
"But the thing is, other than ordering our rcenary Guild to coordinate in building fortifications, the military really hasn’t revealed anything else. Oh, right, there was one other thing: an order to be ready to retreat at a mont’s notice."
"You just ca from there. Hurry up and tell what the hell is going on!" By the end, Jin Canlan was the one asking the questions.
Lin Xinghai was rather speechless. He looked at the man’s fat face and saw that he didn’t seem to be joking at all, which ant he really was in the dark.
Lin Xinghai thought for a mont. "Since the Military Departnt hasn’t announced anything, the information is still confidential for now. In any case, just be prepared to retreat at any ti."
He understood that if he ntioned the million-strong zombie horde, it would likely cause a panic. If the Military Departnt had a plan, he could ruin it with a single sentence.
Hearing this, Jin Canlan grew even more uneasy. He couldn’t help but urge, "Your status isn’t ordinary. You have a good relationship with that old man Wei Tianxing, and Lin Zhengyang, the top commander of the military, also thinks very highly of you. Why don’t you go ask around? You might be able to find sothing out."
"I’m not asking for much else. I built this rcenary Guild with my own two hands. Even if we’re being sent on a suicide mission, I don’t want to go into it blindly."
"Fine! Tell the location," Lin Xinghai asked directly, not wasting any ti.
"Three kiloters to the rear. The general staff’s temporary camp is over there."
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