"Mother!"
The two little ones were startled and immediately rushed to Jiang Wan's side. Jiang Xiaoshu was scared herself, but she didn't forget to protect her younger sister.
Jiang Wan was also startled. Although the apocalypse had come, she had never heard gunshots. Firearms and ammunition were still controlled by the government, and civilians were not allowed to own or use them. This largely ensured the relative stability and peace of society.
But now gunshots have been heard!
Cheng Zhen and his group are superhumans, and they've never used guns to deal with mutated plants before!
So, what exactly did they encounter this time?
Jiang Wan leaned out of the car window and looked out; the gunshots seemed to be coming from ahead.
But as soon as she saw clearly, she gasped, her pupils widened involuntarily, and she immediately covered the twins' eyes with her hands: "Be good! Don't look."
Outside, Cheng Zhen shouted loudly, "Level One combat readiness! Accelerate the harvest!"
Then he ran to Jiang Wan's car, threw Sun Sanhai and Wu Xuan back into the camp from the portal, and knocked on the RV: "Hide in the car, lock the doors, and don't get out!"
Jiang Wan immediately drew the curtains and locked the car doors.
It turned out that the rice harvest was over, and as they were shoveling snow forward, they discovered a wheat field. The wheat was ripe, and wheat was a valuable crop, so without asking for permission, everyone started harvesting. However, after a short while, they realized something was wrong with the field!
There were two corpses in the field, or rather, mummies, but it was still clear that they were a man and a woman.
These soldiers, who were used to making lewd jokes when they were together, couldn't help but tease the corpses: "Looks like a pair of lovebirds! They were sneaking around when they were alive, but now that they're dead, they're a perfect couple!"
"You little rascal, you found out again, huh? You're still calling yourselves 'wild lovers'! Hahaha!"
"How could they not? These two clearly suffocated to death during the apocalypse, didn't they? When was that? Midnight! That's right! At this hour, they're still doing this in the middle of nowhere. What else could they be but adulterers? What respectable couple isn't at home? Is their bed too hard? Or are there needles on the hotel bed?"
Upon hearing this, everyone agreed that it made sense, and they all burst into laughter.
The laughter brought a sense of relief to everyone, a welcome respite from the tension of the past few days spent frantically collecting supplies.
Just then, the two mummified corpses lying on the ground suddenly moved. Right before everyone's eyes, they got up from the ground and rushed towards the crowd, stretching out their arms and opening their mouths, as if they wanted to bite people!
Just like a zombie!
Moreover, these two mummies moved incredibly fast. By the time Jiang Wan saw them, they had already injured several people, forcing them all the way from the wheat field onto the road.
The city guards fired at them, but the bullets passed through their bodies without knocking them down.
It wasn't until Cheng Zhen aimed at their heads and two bullets struck them precisely in the forehead that they truly fell to the ground and became still.
"Holy crap! What on earth is this?!" Zhang Yu and the others gathered around, their faces filled with shock.
They weren't unaware of what it was; they simply couldn't believe it!
In an oxygen-deficient post-apocalyptic world, the presence of mutated plants is already difficult enough, because it's impossible for them to live in a place without plants, and they have no idea when one of the plants around them will suddenly mutate!
Now, things are really messed up. Not only are there mutated plants, but even the people are having problems!
No, it's not a person, it's a corpse!
These are zombies!
groove!
Cheng Zhen was also very agitated. He felt the pressure on his shoulders increasing. He ran his hand through his short hair, then looked at Pingjiang and Zhang Yu, and said in a deep voice, "Let's request reinforcements from the camp. We don't have enough manpower!"
We must harvest the supplies and return to the city as soon as possible. We also need to gather herbs, deal with mutated plants, and be careful to prevent the plants around us from mutating. Now there is another danger – zombies!
They only brought a hundred people out of the city, and they were suddenly divided into several groups, so the progress of harvesting supplies was really too slow!
Zhang Yuping and Jiang did not hesitate. They both realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately requested reinforcements from their respective camps.
However, the results were surprisingly consistent and infuriating.
Pingjiang was a rigid person who always followed orders from above. Although he was very angry, he wouldn't say anything.
But Zhang Yu was different; he had a very direct temper and immediately started cursing.
"Damn it, they only assigned thirty men! Not even a full company! What can they do with so few people?! The entire camp has been transferred to protect Xiangcheng. Are all the people in the city dead?!"
He was cursing the people in the inner city barracks!
Although the plague is spreading throughout Xiangcheng, the inner city's garrison can easily control and suppress it from the inside, sealing off the entire city. Why should they send troops from the outer city camp to guard it?
This directly resulted in a shortage of manpower to kill the mutated monsters!
Of course, there were even fewer people available to send out to help them salvage supplies!
The situation was even worse in the First Battalion. In addition to guarding and killing monsters, they were also responsible for brewing and transporting traditional Chinese medicine, which put them under even more pressure!
Therefore, only fifty more people were sent to the First Battalion.
In the past, they might have been able to conscript able-bodied men from the city, but now that the plague has broken out, how could they dare to use city dwellers?!
The two battalion commanders were both in a real bind, and neither of them was any less temperamental than Zhang Yu.
These people were all gathered in the city's military camp, where Cheng Zhen opened a portal to space and time and brought them out directly.
Old Liu sent him a voice message and instructed him: "Your superpowers have been expending a lot these past two days, right? When you're out there, try to mine more crystals or kill more mutated plants. Don't be stingy with your crystals, or you won't be able to handle it."
The twins, who were squatting nearby digging for crystals, overheard the words of advice. They had been focused on digging for crystals for the past two days and had made quite a few. Jiang Xiaoshu looked at the crystals in the small sack next to her, thought for a moment, and picked out a few of the better quality ones to send to him.
"You've worked hard these past two days, here you go."
Cheng Zhen was quite surprised, but also very happy. She smiled and accepted the crystal, wanting to pat the boy's head, but the little guy turned around and left with a very proud and agile air.
Jiang Xiaoxin pouted at her brother's actions, then struggled to drag the small bag of crystals beside her, her bottom sticking out as she huffed and puffed her way to the RV. Seeing Jiang Wan, she called out:
"Mom, quickly put all of these away!"
Jiang Wan was puzzled, so Jiang Xiaoxin tugged at her hand, signaling her to squat down, and then whispered in her ear, "Brother gave the crystals to the weird uncle, let's quickly hide them and not give them to him!"
Jiang Wan raised an eyebrow, chuckling inwardly, but still cooperated with her, carrying the bag to the car and then sending it into the tree hole space.
She was about to call Jiang Xiaoshu back for dinner when she caught a glimpse of the tree hole space out of the corner of her eye. Her pupils suddenly contracted, and she froze.
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