To find Xiao Ning, who is hiding in a secret place, the first task is to break out of the current zombie siege.

Lu Sheng led his group for over an hour, finally wiping out all the zombies blocking their path. By the time everything had settled, the sun was almost setting, and the entire Blue Ocean Base was shrouded in a blood-red hue.

Unfortunately, Xiao Ning seemed to have vanished into thin air; Lu Sheng searched the entire Blue Ocean Base but couldn't find him.

Except for those who fought their way out from the underground level with Lu Sheng and the others, almost all the remaining people from each base were wiped out.

The Blue Ocean Base was leaderless, and almost four-fifths of it had been torn apart by zombies.

The survivors, having escaped death, staggered out of the Blue Ocean Base gates, and many of them collapsed to the ground as soon as their knees buckled.

They almost... all of them died here...

If Lu Sheng hadn't led them out of the encirclement, the Blue Ocean Base would have been completely wiped out by now, just like the entire Central Base.

After weighing the pros and cons, the remaining population of several bases immediately expressed their willingness to join the M City Alliance Army led by Lu Sheng.

"From this moment forward, you are members of the M City Alliance. The Alliance will ensure you have enough to eat and a stable life, just like before the apocalypse. But in exchange, everyone who joins the M City Alliance must adhere to the principle of shared prosperity and shared loss. If any base within the Alliance is in danger, the other bases must unite to fight it together with all their might."

Lu Sheng spoke calmly, giving these people an opportunity to be recruited.

M City is simply too big. With the current staff that Lu Sheng, Su Zheng, and Zhao Mujia have, it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the operation of such a large city. She still needs to recruit more high-quality personnel.

The survivors felt as if they had seen the light at the end of the tunnel when they heard Lu Sheng's words.

After several years of the apocalypse, they can finally see hope.

Lu Sheng brought most of the surviving personnel from the various bases back to M City, while also arranging for some people to return to their original bases to contact the remaining personnel.

Those willing to join the M City Alliance will be brought back together, while Lu Sheng will not force anyone who is unwilling to come.

Everyone who followed Lu Sheng and the others back to M City was shocked by the sight before them the moment they stepped into the city.

M City was one of the first cities in the central region to fall to the Japanese, and it had long been rumored to be a ghost town where no one survived. But now that they had come here in person, they found that the city was full of life.

Everyone was working and living enthusiastically, and everyone had rosy complexions and good health. Their happiness index was even higher than that of the corporate slaves who worked 996 for capitalists every day before the apocalypse.

The city has begun to recover to its pre-apocalyptic state; supermarkets have resumed operations, and there are even schools that provide temporary care for parents' children.

Everyone here has a look of longing and hope for life on their face, and they all regard M City as their home.

All the newly arrived survivors were collectively stunned into silence.

Three years into the apocalypse, there are still such pristine paradises in the world!

Lu Sheng quickly assigned all the new staff to new positions and they began to fully resume their work.

Compared to the harsh and dire environment outside, these people were like they were on steroids as soon as they joined the Allied Forces, almost swinging their tools until they sparked.

More than ten days have passed in the blink of an eye, and with the influx of a large number of new residents, M City has developed rapidly.

However, some minor hidden dangers caused by insufficient basic supplies were soon exposed.

Everyone was so enthusiastic about their work that they worked from day to night.

Humans can endure it, but machines cannot.

Due to overuse, many machines in public areas and factories in the city have been overloaded, causing electrical circuits to explode and resulting in several small and medium-sized fires.

Although the fire was quickly extinguished on the spot, it still caused some losses to the Allied forces.

This also exposes the hidden danger of insufficient fire protection resources in M ​​City.

Lu Sheng had a bit of a headache. At first, she just wanted to survive in the apocalypse with Sun Tiantian. She never thought of starting such a big business. She didn't even take the fire-fighting equipment and such.

“Sister Lu, there’s a large company in City A next door that specializes in producing fire-fighting equipment. They should still have some stock. Even if they don’t have finished products, we can still get some fire-fighting materials and make our own,” Zhao Mujia said to Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng, who was worrying, suddenly brightened up. "Why didn't you say so sooner?"

"I just remembered that too. I had a friend who did cosplay and worked at the fire department in City A."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's head to City A now!"

"I only know that the company is in City A, but I don't know the exact location."

Lu Sheng really wanted to punch Zhao Mujia a couple of times, but looking at his clear and foolish eyes, he gritted his teeth and held back.

...

Lu Sheng is always very efficient, and half an hour later he led his people to City A by helicopter.

As a former internet-famous economic city, City A has a very high population density.

This has resulted in the entire city now being teeming with zombies.

As the helicopter slowly descended to about ten meters above the city, countless zombies, attracted by the sound, rushed out of the streets and followed Lu Sheng and her team's helicopter at breakneck speed.

Zhao Mujia pointed with a regretful expression to the two conspicuous zombies cosplaying as Calabash Brothers and Pleasant Goat in the horde of zombies below, "Hey, these two are from our cosplay club."

The helicopter eventually landed on the roof of a nearby building.

After the plane came to a stop, Zhao Mujia immediately stepped out of the cabin to clear a path for Lu Sheng, acting like a lackey.

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