"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!"
The next morning, Yuan Cai, holding a soup ladle and followed by a number of muscular men, was distributing food from large pots, each over a meter in diameter.
The members, who had just finished training, rushed over like hungry wolves, shouting and yelling.
The large pot was filled with all sorts of ingredients, from vegetables and grains to meat, eggs, and dairy products—nothing was missing. It even contained a considerable amount of mutated beast meat as a supplement.
Xu Xing has definitely put a lot of effort into the welfare and treatment of his people. Apart from the food being slightly inferior to that of a five-star restaurant before the apocalypse, it is believed that no other force would provide such luxurious ingredients to its subordinates.
Although we don't have any industrial products now, unlike in the future, a can of meat is definitely more valuable than five secondary crystal cores.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Xu Xing issued new battle orders.
The fifteen teams dispersed and cleared the area to the west, with the straight-line distance between each team not exceeding three kilometers.
For them, who are level four or above superpowered individuals, a distance of three kilometers is not much longer than a normal person's sprint.
The main purpose is to provide quick support should the higher-ups be overwhelmed.
Heading west from here leads to the old city area, which consists mostly of various residential buildings. These buildings were converted from villages during the early stages of urbanization, and they stand one after another.
Commercial activity is not developed, but the population density is extremely high because there are subway stations everywhere, and many tenants who come here to work live there.
It is very common for a room of several tens of square meters to be divided into three shared rooms.
A high population density will inevitably breed high-level zombies, which will cause great damage to the lower levels once the upper levels are defeated.
This time, the two Wang brothers were in charge of guarding the house, and their 300 men were given a rare rest, so no one complained.
Su Xixi changed her usual image. When she appeared in front of Xu Xing, she was wearing a tight leather outfit that perfectly highlighted her curvaceous figure.
Her black hair was evenly draped over her shoulders, and Bai Ling quietly clung to her shoulder, appearing extremely obedient. Behind them, three enormous dogs stood respectfully at attention.
Further on, there was a female army of over two hundred women, each one heroic and exuding an aura no less imposing than that of the men.
Xu Xing reached out and gently touched Bai Ling on Su Xixi's shoulder, saying softly, "This isn't your first time leading a team on an operation alone. If anything unexpected happens, contact me immediately via walkie-talkie."
Your abilities are special; I hope you can bring the remaining mutated cats and dogs in the west of the city under your command.
As she spoke, a series of piercing meows came from all directions, and suddenly a large number of cats appeared on the surrounding rooftops, jumping and running to the shoulders of the group of women under Su Xixi's command.
Each person is paired with a cat, and each cat's strength is not much less than that of a superhuman.
Su Xixi nodded and said "Mmm" without any hesitation. She got into a large pickup truck that Xu Xing had chosen for her and drove her men toward their destination.
"It's time to go." Xu Xing looked around and gave the order to the remaining people.
Rumble~
A variety of vehicles, all sorts of them, with the sound of engines starting, drove westward along the planned streets.
Xu Xing's team was the last to leave, and before leaving, he left wontons at his hometown to guard the house.
The streets in the west of the city are too narrow, which greatly hinders the performance of Wonton. Rather than causing damage to houses and accidentally injuring our own people, it would be better to let him stay obediently in his hometown.
Xu Xing pointed to the map at an area with dense residential buildings and said, "This should be it."
He rolled down the car window, stretched out his hand, and gestured. The members in the back understood and stopped the car as well.
"Hexizhuang!" is an old-style residential area in the surrounding area. It does not cover a large area, but it contains more than 20 buildings, each with four units and six floors without elevators.
There was no trace of greenery inside, and the surrounding terrain was very high. The entire Hexi Village seemed to be built in a depression.
Apart from a two-way street and an exit blocked by an iron gate, there seemed to be no other way in or out.
"Where are they?" Xu Xing asked with some doubt. Logically speaking, given the low elevation here, it shouldn't be easy for zombies to move around. Based on his previous estimation, the most likely scenario was that all the zombies were crammed into the gaps between each building.
"You all wait here and prepare for battle. Be wary of enemy ambushes. I'm going to scout inside and will be back soon," Xu Xing said to the group.
Alone, he scaled the tightly locked iron gate and leaped into the interior of Hexi Village.
The village of Hexi was in a state of disrepair. After the zombie outbreak, there were shards of broken glass everywhere, and your bloodstains were scattered all around.
Every now and then, one could see highly decomposed corpses, continuously emitting a nauseating stench.
Xu Xing was surprised to find that the corpses included both zombies and human superhumans, and judging from their degree of decomposition, they had been there for many days.
The crystal core in the zombie's head was violently removed, seemingly in a panic, without even having time to deal with the corpse of a teammate.
Xu Xing frowned; he sensed a hint of threat.
He jumped onto a six-story building and looked down at the surrounding area, where the sight shocked him greatly.
"So horrific?" All that could be seen was that, apart from the relatively clean entrance, the rest of Hexi Village was littered with all sorts of corpses!
They were so densely packed, like paving stones, as if they were dumplings being dropped into a pot, leaving no gaps, treating everyone equally, from three-year-old children to eighty-year-old seniors.
Some of them were executed by those around them before they were even fully infected.
Human life seems so cheap at this moment.
A gentle west wind brushed against Xu Xing's cheeks, blowing away some of the intense stench.
A unique insight struck Xu Xing's mind. Xu Xing, who had been stuck at the late stage of the fifth level, suddenly relaxed and directly reached the peak of the fifth level, even showing signs of wanting to break through to the sixth level.
However, he stabilized halfway through and did not break through to level six, which disappointed Xu Xing. This little episode in his cultivation level also diluted his emotions from before.
Xu Xing weaved through the uneven buildings and soon spotted the zombies still active around him.
This is the very edge of Hexi Village, where hundreds of zombies stare intently. The only relatively new and tallest building in the area is the newly constructed street office.
"So this is all that's left." Xu Xing wasn't just referring to the zombies, but also the twenty or thirty people hiding in the room.
The house has been reinforced in all directions with various kinds of steel plates.
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