"Bad news."

"The bad news is that we don't have the tools and piping equipment."

Lu Sheng: "..."

"And what's the good news?"

"The good news is that there are two steel mills and a warehouse that supplies municipal projects in the next province, and there should still be some stock in there."

Lu Sheng: "?"

"Therefore, we need to form a temporary alliance and take over the steel mill first."

...

Two days later, under Su Zheng's organization, several major bases, led by K3, dispatched elite forces to assemble.

The steel mill and municipal warehouse are both located in M ​​City in the neighboring province, which was the first city in the entire province to fall. Currently, the city is almost deserted, and the once modern metropolis has been completely transformed into a zombie paradise.

To obtain the treasure, we must first break through the encirclement and reclaim the home that once belonged to humanity.

Most of the bases that gathered this time were ones that Lu Sheng had seen before at the Radiant Base, including Zhao Mujia from the Spirit Wind Base (who was known as Hatsune Miku), the Rising Sun Base, the Blade Base, and a group of forces that Lu Sheng had never seen before.

As Lu Sheng listened to Su Zheng introduce the identities of these people, a scrutinizing gaze fell upon him.

She looked up and saw a person she had never seen before looking at her with a half-smile.

"By the way, this is Xiao Ning, the base manager of the Blue Ocean Base." Su Zheng gestured with his eyes.

Xiao Ning was probably in his early twenties, and looked about the same age as Lu Sheng. He had a handsome face that was neither male nor female, with slightly upturned peach blossom eyes, and his ear-length bangs covered his eyebrows and half of one eye.

His thin lips always maintained a slight upward curve, making him seem friendly, but Lu Sheng keenly sensed that this person was hiding a knife behind his smile.

"Hello."

Xiao Ning extended her hand to Lu Sheng in a friendly manner.

"Um."

Lu Sheng calmly responded, stepped aside to avoid Xiao Ning, and turned to discuss the follow-up matters of the airdrop with Ma Dongmei.

A woman's intuition is incredibly accurate, especially someone like Lu Sheng who has teetered on the brink of death many times.

She doesn't need to pretend to be polite to people she doesn't have a good first impression of.

Xiao Ning's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, a soft laugh escaping her lips.

Before meeting her, he imagined Lu Sheng to be a tall, strong, and rugged woman, or at least someone with a tough appearance. But he never expected her to be such a beautiful young woman.

She's even a bit arrogant.

Even in this supposedly omnipotent base, the members are almost all young people who don't seem to pose any threat.

After a brief exchange among the bases, a preliminary simple alliance was formed.

To demonstrate the sincerity of the various bases in wanting to cooperate, all of them except K3 paid a deposit of several thousand crystal cores to Lu Sheng. This deposit would not be refunded for any reason for withdrawing midway.

Despite the alliance, each base harbored its own agenda, hoping to seize the opportunity to retake M City and plunder as many resources as possible.

To ensure fairness, Su Zheng simply used a lottery to determine the areas each base was responsible for conquering, and finally everyone gathered at the steel factory.

This way, they can obtain steel, and after clearing out the zombies, the Allied forces can also acquire some essential supplies in M ​​City.

Lu Sheng and her team, as off-site support for this event, do not need to participate in the lottery; they can simply slack off with the K3 base.

Once inside M City, the streets were filled with roaming zombies.

As soon as the Allied vehicles entered the city, they immediately attracted the attention of all the zombies in the vicinity.

In order to seize control of M City as soon as possible, the various bases used their unique skills to quickly clear out the zombie hordes on the outskirts of the city before rushing towards their respective areas of responsibility.

Lu Sheng and Su Zheng's teams were responsible for the downtown commercial district. They advanced swiftly, and soon arrived at the most prosperous area before the apocalypse.

"Young Master Su, we've found something!" At that moment, the bespectacled young man's voice came from around the corner ahead.

Lu Sheng and Su Zheng rushed over with their men and found the bespectacled young man squatting near the drain in the commercial street, peering down.

"What are you looking at?" Ma Dongmei went over and patted the bespectacled young man on the shoulder.

"Look down below."

Both groups glanced in the direction the bespectacled guy was pointing.

The drainage outlet had clearly been artificially expanded, and below it was a tunnel-style sewer system, a rarity in China, where a dozen zombies were staring at them with wide eyes.

"Aww!"

The zombies in the sewer stretched out their arms, their fingers sticking out of the drain and digging hard into the bespectacled guy's shoes.

With a wicked grin, Zhang Xiaojuan took out the half-eaten hamburger from her pocket, broke off a piece, and threw it down the drain. The zombies in the sewer immediately started howling excitedly and fighting over it.

The aroma of fried chicken lured the horde of zombies to frantically reach for the drain, their black, sticky tongues licking the cold steel bars of the drain with lingering relish.

"The shoulder blades of these zombies have been pierced and are pinned to the sewer wall," Ma Dongmei said, pointing to the finger-thick bone nails on the zombies' shoulders.

Because they were chained up, the zombies could only manage to extend two knuckles at most when they struggled desperately, and they had no way to crawl out of the sewer.

Su Zheng's eyes were fixed on the group of hungry zombies in the sewer. "Someone must have kept them here. There must be someone in the sewer."

He gave Lü Song a wink, and Lü Song and the bespectacled guy immediately lifted the drain cover and quickly snapped all the zombies tied to the wall.

The two teams jumped into the sewer from the drain and quickly discovered the anomaly.

The tunnel was very clean, and the smell of revenge was not very strong. After walking a few steps, you could see some neatly arranged living tools, as if someone was living in the dark and damp tunnel.

"Don't move!"

Just as the two teams were slowly making their way forward, a child's voice suddenly came from behind them.

Lu Sheng turned around and found about a dozen people standing behind him, including several children who were seven or eight years old.

These people were holding crudely made pistols, while several children were holding shovels almost as tall as themselves.

The simple and unadorned weaponry gave Lu Sheng the feeling of watching a black-and-white movie about tunnel warfare.

Su Zheng took the initiative to communicate, "We are from the K3 base and want to come to M City to pick up the pipeline that was just built."

Before he could finish speaking, a strange, gurgling sound suddenly came from deep within the tunnel.

"Uncle, the blood beast is here again!" A chubby-faced little boy in the crowd clung to the man beside him in fear.

The young man looked tense and gritted his teeth as he called out to Su Zheng, "Don't just stand there like an idiot, quickly hide with us."

The unassuming team with simple weapons hurried ahead, and Su Zheng, Lu Sheng, and the others exchanged glances and quickly followed.

After going around two corners, the young man led them through a rusty iron gate.

Zhang Xiaojuan originally wanted to walk at the very back, but the man pulled her in, saying, "Stop dawdling, hurry up!"

The moment the door closed, a strong stench of blood seeped through the crack and assaulted everyone's senses.

The young man's face was tense as he gestured to Lu Sheng and the others to keep quiet.