Chapter 097 Zombie Apocalypse 35

After receiving the promise, Lu Xizhou felt relieved, thinking that he would not lose control so much in the future.

"I woke up and found that they had spit out so many crystal cores. What happened outside?"

"Last night, the four major bases were hit by a wave of zombies. Many survivors sought refuge in the central area, but even more were assimilated by the zombies."

Judging from the fact that a colored crystal core occasionally emerges from the zombie crystal core, there are quite a few survivors who have died in the mouths of alien plants.

Lu Xizhou: "Is there anything I can help with?"

Xie Yunsui said, "Hua Sheng and the others are taking care of the survivors. Perhaps someone will come to you for treatment this afternoon."

Xie Yunsui added that once Ji Tianyuan and the others learned that they were no longer afraid of the peculiarities of the zombie virus, the number of people coming for treatment in the next few days would probably be lined up from morning to night.

Lu Xizhou quickly packed up and went downstairs with Xie Yunsui.

There were already more than ten people queuing up at the door seeking medical treatment. They were all accidentally injured on the way to escape. Some escaped from a series of car accidents, some were trampled, and some hit themselves with sharp objects and had cuts on their bodies.

When Hua Sheng was relocating them, he picked out these injured people and told them that there was a powerful healing person in the convenience store and asked them to come and take a look.

So, although Xie Yunsui and Lu Xizhou did not participate in the resettlement, they still had to do their part.

Xie Yunsui would occasionally take on some purchasing activities from Hua Sheng and others, sporadically providing more abundant supplies to the survivors who had brought enough crystal cores with them during their escape, and occasionally providing energy food to Xiaoxi.

Lu Xizhou set up a treatment stall in the store.

The person who was receiving treatment at the beginning had no psychological expectations. The scream scared the people in line behind him, and they wondered in their hearts whether this was saving a life or killing a person.

After the first one or two patients finished treatment and were full of energy, the ones behind came up with doubts.

Screams were heard from the convenience store from time to time. The survivors who were placed nearby were frightened and thought that zombies had attacked. They sent someone to inquire and found out what was going on. Then they gradually got used to it. When they were bored, they would even judge the severity of a person's injuries based on the volume and duration of the screams.

The injured survivors from the east, west and south districts came for treatment, but the people from the north district remained motionless.

There is a healing system in their base, but they have never heard of a healing system that would make people scream when treating them, so they dare not come.

"You said that the healing department of the North District died in the base?" Hua Sheng looked at the placement table in disbelief.

"The duration of the unconsciousness during this upgrade varied. We all speculated that the longer they were stuck at level three, the longer they were unconscious. The healing member didn't wake up until the zombies broke through the base, and the others didn't even notice her... I can't say if it was intentional, but the healing members had been following Zou Yao's forces. This time, not only did Zou Yao die in the zombie wave, but not many of his forces escaped."

It was such a coincidence that, except for Lang Hao, the leader of the East District base, who died early, none of the leaders of the three major bases escaped.

Hua Sheng brought her men to take the initiative to resettle the survivors, of course not just to be a good person, she also wanted to take the opportunity to show off her abilities.

It's not necessarily the case that only men can be leaders.

Hua Sheng was in the East District before. Even though Lang Hao was dead and the base was divided, it would be unlikely for her to stand out. That group of people didn't have the courage to be a leader, nor would they allow her to take the position.

On the contrary, because the people she led were all women, she was subjected to various invisible oppressions. If she were not a person with special abilities, she probably would not have the qualifications to talk to them.

Hua Sheng couldn't stand it anymore, so he brought his men to the central area.

After a few days of getting along, she found that the first survivors, led by Ji Tianyuan, did not have much ambition. Even Boss Xie just wanted to run a shop and collect crystal cores in peace and stability. Hua Sheng's heart began to become active again.

Later, people from the East District came, and Hua Sheng took the initiative to take on the task of resettlement, holding the leadership initiative in his hands and winning people's hearts step by step.

This zombie wave gave her a good opportunity.

By asking a few more questions during the resettlement period, all the little-known secrets of the four major bases were dug out. Hua Sheng learned that the other three bases also had their own little thoughts, especially the North District Base, which was the strongest. There were two factions that almost openly challenged Zou Yao.

Zou Yao was so busy with the internal strife in the base that he didn't make any preparations for the zombie horde.

When the zombie tide came, no one was willing to go to the area where Zou Yao's team was and shout a few times, so they were not prepared at all and didn't know where to run in the panic.

There were also forces that wanted to take this opportunity to establish their power, but they were caught off guard by the zombie tide and failed to establish their power, with most of them killed or injured.

——Died from neglect and arrogance of zombies' abilities.

Hua Sheng's heart sank, and he remembered this painful lesson.

Because of the power of the psychics, the survivors always win overwhelmingly every time they go out to clear the zombies. As a result, they have a wrong understanding of their own strength and lethality to zombies, and have no room for resistance when facing the zombie tide.

This is an opportunity, an opportunity for ordinary people to stand up.

Hua Sheng asked, "The zombies around here haven't dispersed yet?"

"No, they are kept out by an invisible barrier."

"Barrier? It's just right for the team of ordinary people to try to clean up the zombies themselves."

Perhaps everyone is used to a comfortable life and is unwilling to take this step.

Hua Sheng frowned and suddenly thought of Lu Xizhou.

If Boss Xie and Mr. Lu support me...

In the evening, after Lu Xizhou treated the last patient with minor injuries, he washed his hands and began to eat frantically.

Xie Yunsui packed up and was about to close the shop when he saw Hua Sheng and Ji Tianyuan at the door.

"Boss Xie, I want to discuss something with you and Mr. Lu." Hua Sheng said with a smile.

Ji Tianyuan was called over and looked confused.

Xie Yunsui didn't think much about it and welcomed the person in.

There were a lot of food on the table, a whole pot of pheasant stewed with mushrooms, with greens, lettuce, potatoes, enoki mushrooms and other vegetables scattered in it. The full pot made people drool just by looking at it. Next to it was a piece of bacon, a plate of braised meat and vegetable platter, a large plate of various fruits, and a small cup of fresh-colored specially mixed sparkling water drink.

Hua Sheng and Ji Tianyuan didn't expect that the two were having dinner. Looking at the sumptuous meal on the table, they couldn't help swallowing.

Hua Sheng said embarrassedly: "I forgot you were busy until now. If I had known, I would have come later..."

Lu Xizhou was busy replenishing his energy, his mouth was full and he could hardly speak.

Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "I would have closed the shop if you were a little late. You came just in time."

The table was filled with Lu Xizhou's favorite foods. Xie Yunsui had calculated the exact amount for Lu Xizhou's energy needs. Since it wouldn't be convenient for them to share, Xie Yunsui took out two lunch boxes, two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, and asked them, "Shall we eat together?"

The two were flattered because Boss Xie usually did not sell these cooked foods and they could not buy them even if they had crystal cores.

Hua Sheng and Ji Tianyuan insisted on paying for the crystal cores. Xie Yunsui didn't want to push it back, so he quoted a price of ten crystal cores.

"You two are here for something important, right?" Xie Yunsui took out two more stools.

Ji Tianyuan shrugged: "I'm fine, she pulled me here."

Hua Sheng smiled and said, "Excuse me, I just wanted to confirm what you think of the survivors in the Central District?"

Ji Tianyuan opened the lunch box and smelled the delicious food. His mind wandered: "I'll help if I can, and let everything else take its course."

Hua Sheng was about to say something serious, but the food in his hand stimulated her and she swallowed her saliva immediately, as if she couldn't wait to go back and eat it.

Xie Yunsui realized something and glanced at Hua Sheng: "You want to be a leader?"

Hua Sheng nodded without hesitation: "Yes."

Then he added: "I don't want to say things like 'If you want to be the leader, I will withdraw from the competition.' To be honest, I want to be the leader."

Her eyes were firm, and at this moment, she had an indomitable spirit.

Ji Tianyuan bit half of a meatball and was stunned for a moment: "Oh."

He looks a little strange. Why should I talk to him?

Lu Xizhou was also confused. It didn't matter to him who was the leader. He only listened to Xie Yunsui.

Xie Yunsui: "What do you need us to do?"

Hua Sheng held the box in his hand and pursed his lips as he said, "If you don't fight for this position, I hope you will maintain a neutral attitude."

Xie Yunsui is a convenience store owner with an endless warehouse on his back, with an inventory so huge that it's hard to tell how much he has. Lu Xizhou is the only person with healing abilities in the entire City C. Ji Tianyuan has a good reputation in the East District base, and he arrived in the Central District earlier than Hua Sheng with a team of more than 20 survivors.

If Hua Sheng wants to become the leader of the central district, he can't avoid these three people.

Xie Yunsui nodded: "I just want to open a convenience store. Unless there is an existence that hinders my opening of a store, I will not be partial to or hostile to any force."

Xiao Wan gave him a task. From now on, he didn't need to focus on earning crystal cores. He just needed to think about completing the task.

One million transactions cannot be handled by just the tens of thousands of survivors in the central area.

Xie Yunsui hoped that someone would come forward as soon as possible and actually build a new safe base to attract more survivors from nearby and surrounding cities.

Hua Sheng looked at Ji Tianyuan. He had already finished his lunch box in just a few minutes. As he was finishing the last grain of rice, he looked up and said, "I just want... to have something to eat."

Hua Sheng: “…”

Lu Xizhou said, "I'll listen to Xie Yunsui."

Hua Sheng's eyes shifted between the two of them, and he nodded as if realizing something. "Thank you, everyone. We have reached a consensus on the above."

After finalizing these, Hua Sheng finally laid out his thoughts: "The survivors in the Central District now come from four bases, each of which has its own forces. If their respective forces continue to develop in the Central District, this peaceful place will sooner or later be divided. First, we must take the initiative into our own hands..."

When Hua Sheng spent a whole morning forcibly resettling all the survivors, he had the intention of breaking up the various forces.

They escaped after a night of fear and anxiety, and with no light at night, they had no time to organize their original forces. Hua Sheng wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to disperse the people. The standard of twenty people in each room was to find a few survivors from the four directions of east, west, south and north and stuff them in together.

In order to prevent chaos, she did not allow those who had been resettled earlier to change rooms at will, and those waiting to be resettled later did not want trouble to arise at this time, leaving them with no place to live.

So far, everyone is safe.

But Hua Sheng knew that as long as these people had nothing to do for a day and didn't have to worry about their own survival, some of them would start to make moves.

Instead of passively waiting for them to make trouble and then spending time and energy to suppress them, it is better to deprive them of this opportunity from the beginning.

"I hope that starting tomorrow, Mr. Lu will no longer offer preferential treatments to everyone. Just give the right price. Those who don't have crystal cores can earn them themselves."

"Boss Xie, the supplies you have are the same. Even if there are special offers, it's best to limit the quantity each day. You can't keep doing business at a loss. With so many zombies out there, aren't you afraid that no one will come to buy them?"

"Captain Ji, you can take your men to clean up the zombies during this time. You are not afraid of the zombie virus, so the bigger the better."

The rest will be handled by Hua Sheng.