The sun is shining brightly and the temperature is rising.
Summer has officially arrived, and endless heat waves are spreading across the earth. The hot air seems to be solidified, and the strong light projected on the ground forces people to squint their eyes.
Wei Xiyin and Zhang Yuanyan, leading their men, fell far behind the zombie tide.
At this time, they were about two miles away from the zombie army, still according to the data Chu Yu had given them, maintaining a safe distance based on the zombies' hearing and sense of smell.
They were afraid that if they got too close, some of the zombies would turn back, just like the catfish effect, and then the whole army would walk back. Even if they could get rid of them by running fast, once they changed their direction, who knew where they would migrate to next.
Traveling under the scorching sun.
The guards were still wearing thick early spring clothes with armor on the outside, and their faces were flushed from the heat.
Wei Xiyin also felt hot. She gently wiped the sweat from her face with her hands, wishing she could take off her coat and change into a cool short-sleeved shirt.
Of course, it's just thought.
She looked at Chang Ying with envy as he took off his heavy coat and threw it into the cart behind him. Seeing this, the other guards followed suit. Soon, she was the only one in the entire team who was still covered tightly.
Chang Ying understood her look and was a little speechless. No matter how casual the girl was, she was still a young lady. How could she be like these grown men, taking off her clothes at will? He could only say, "Girl, please be patient for a while." It would be fine if she went back to the tribe. There was ice to use.
Zhang Yuanyan kept an eye on the situation ahead and spoke at the right moment: "Girl, Shati County is just ahead."
Shati used to be Zaoqiang, and Liao County was under the two cities.
This place is already on the edge of Qinghe County. If we go further, we will be out of Qinghe County and arrive at the territory of Changshan County. This is also the farthest distance we have traveled since the zombie outbreak.
Wei Xiyin straightened up and squinted her eyes to look around at the unfamiliar environment.
Like other counties, Shati County was littered with corpses and white bones on both sides of the road. Because of the long time, most of them were covered by overgrown weeds. The scene was devastated and the air was filled with the smell of death.
The scouts who had been observing the situation ahead returned and reported, "My lady, we've discovered that Shati County has been breached, and the nearby monsters have converged with the zombie army."
Wei Xiyin sighed when she heard this: "The situation is not good. If this continues, the zombie tide will grow stronger and stronger and it will be out of control. We need to think of a solution."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
They were few in number to begin with. Wei Lang took away fifty people and Qin Shan took away a hundred people. Now there are only more than four hundred and fifty people left. How can a mere few hundred people resist an army of hundreds of thousands of monsters?
Chang Ying asked, "Does the girl have any way to deal with this?"
Wei Xiyin shook her head and replied confidently, "I'm a human, not a god. What can I do?"
These zombies lacked intelligence, and they couldn't negotiate surrender like in war, nor could they use their eloquence to deceive. In the face of absolute power, tactics were of little use.
The only powerful weapon they have is nine gunpowder bombs, but these are gunpowder bombs, not nuclear bombs. Nine gunpowder bombs cannot kill even one-tenth of the zombies.
Since we can't kill them, we can only find a way to stay away from them, observe their movement direction, and make sure they don't run to Ling County.
When we get back, let Chu Yu study it further to see if he can come up with a weapon with even greater lethality.
"But..." Wei Xiyin wiped the sweat from her face in a very ungraceful manner and said, "Even though we can't kill them, we can find a way to disperse them and lure them out of Qinghe County." As for what would happen to the zombie army outside of Qinghe County, he didn't have the ability to take care of it now.
The people around were stunned.
Zhang Yuanyan asked curiously, "How do the girls disperse?"
That was an army of over one hundred thousand strong, and they didn't even dare to get close in broad daylight.
The team suddenly stopped.
Wei Xiyin found a shady spot to squat down. Chang Ying and Zhang Yuanyan immediately gathered around her. She pulled a map from her pocket, placed it on the ground, and opened it. "Beyond Shati County is Zaoqiang County, and to the east of Zaoqiang is Changshan County, and to the north is the border of Bohai County."
She tapped her finger on the map. "At night, we can ignite two gunpowder bombs in these two directions. The huge noise at night will be enough to immediately attract the fast-moving zombies. In one night, they will be scattered in two directions and escape Qinghe County."
Two different directions can divert the zombies once again. As for whether they will continue to grow in the future, that will only be seen later. At present, they do not have the ability to clear such a large number of zombies.
Or we can wait until we can borrow soldiers in the future and have sufficient combat power, and then find a way to solve this problem.
Wei Xiyin even had a malicious thought that it would be better to lead these zombies all the way to Guangping County to give those people a headache. There were also the Yizhou Army and the Guangping Gu family rushing over there.
If they can get rid of most of the zombies, they will be contributing to Yizhou.
Of course, these little thoughts cannot be said in front of Zhang Yuanyan.
Everyone lowered their heads and pondered the feasibility of this method.
Zhang Yuanyan had never seen the power of gunpowder, so it was difficult for him to express his opinion.
Chang Ying pondered for a moment and said, "If that's the case, then someone needs to light the fire. I and the others are not familiar with this area, and it's very dangerous to travel through these areas at night."
Wei Xiyin waved her hand. "Just make a long fuse. The explosion of gunpowder is very loud, and it can reach a distance of five miles. Without further ado, let's split into two groups and plan our route. After igniting the gunpowder, we will retreat immediately."
Wei Xiyin immediately gave an order, leaving twenty scouts to follow the zombie tide and report their location and movements at any time.
She and Zhang Yuanyan agreed to meet up in Dongwu City, each leading a team to two directions to arrange gunpowder and clear the retreat route after igniting the gunpowder.
Wei Xiyin is responsible for the east side, and Zaoqiang County is not far away. If the gunpowder is ignited here, the zombies will definitely pass through Zaoqiang.
It was still early, so after thinking about it, she decided to instruct Chang Ying to take people to search for survivors nearby.
This was the purpose of their coming out this time.
Unexpectedly, they really found the person.
It wasn't Chang Ying who found it. To be precise, they saw the person as soon as they arrived.
There were about dozens of people, very brave, who were digging wild vegetables outside in groups during the day, and armed militiamen were patrolling around.
After turning the path, the two groups of people met head-on.
When they saw Wei Xiyin and others, they were stunned.
Someone came back to his senses and shouted, "Who are you?!"
Chang Ying looked everyone up and down, fearing that they were all followers of the Ten Directions Sect again, so he did not respond for a while.
Seeing that no one answered, the people on the opposite side immediately raised their weapons with nervous expressions. The people behind them didn't even bother to pick wild vegetables. They threw down their baskets and ran back in panic.
They looked as if they would eat people.
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