After taking over Jiangyue Community, Liu Yanran implemented a series of policies and, after a day of training, led a large group of people to Wangjiagou.
The guards who had been left behind took on the task of leading the way. With not enough community vehicles, Liu Yanran forced everyone to search for usable vehicles on the road. However, because most of them were ordinary people, and because Ye Yunyi had managed them well while they were protected, the ordinary people were afraid, inexperienced, and lacked skills. In the blink of an eye, more than 30 people died from zombie attacks and intentional or unintentional injuries inflicted by their own teammates.
But in the end, they still brought back more than 30 vehicles. Liu Yanran did not express any regret or condolences for the deaths of those more than 30 people. In her mind, no one else mattered except herself. As long as the mission could be completed within 15 days, it was worth it even if everyone was sacrificed.
If it weren't for vehicle restrictions, Liu Yanran would have mobilized the entire team, with 5 people in each car, totaling 180 people.
The way they traveled was also completely different from when Ye Yunyi and Zhao Yong led the team. When Ye Yunyi led the team, either Ye Yunyi or Zhao Yong would always have their most capable people in the front row to protect them from the most dangerous situations. But Liu Yanran, despite having the most professional soldiers from the ambulance station, placed them in the safest middle, while letting Ye Yunyi's original personal guards, who hadn't left yet, be at the very front.
As she walked, Liu Yanran even wondered how good Ye Yunyi's expression would be if she saw her subordinates turn against her.
The night before Liu Yanran set off, Ye Yunyi led the group that was willing to leave.
Each team was assigned a captain. Ye Yunyi had already made contact with each village. Each team here was led by a guard who liaised with the original village or town leaders. They traveled along the same route, and each village or town they reached reduced the number of teams, making the once grand procession smaller and smaller. But they also felt increasingly at ease.
At three o'clock in the morning, Ye Yunyi and her team finally arrived at Wangjiagou, where Wang Zichao and Wang Zixiang greeted them at the village entrance. The group then went to Wang Zichao's house.
Although it was the early hours of the morning, most people were still awake. The whole village was brightly lit, and everyone felt relieved to see Ye Yunyi and the others return.
"Is everything settled in?" Ye Yunyi asked.
"We're almost settled in. We've only been here a short while." Wang Zixiang followed Ye Yunyi into the house.
"Okay, Xiaofang, thank you for gathering all the combat forces for a meeting to prepare for battle."
"Okay, Sister Yiyi." Xiaofang is really capable. Although she hasn't lived in Wangjiagou for long, she quickly got into the swing of things.
More than 10 minutes later, the guard teams from Wangjiagou and the original community came to assemble.
The fighting force here is truly elite. "Brothers, let's do something big," Ye Yunyi said with a rare slyness.
"Okay," everyone said in unison.
Turning on the community surveillance footage, Liu Yanran and her gang were also causing chaos, with some organizing troops, others tidying up supplies, giving instructions, and checking vehicles—a veritable army of soldiers.
Li Li, one of the remaining guards, suggested, "Sister Yanran, this time we're facing all the elites of the community. Not to mention Sister Yiyi and Brother Zhao Yong, even Instructor Deng and Instructor Qin will be a challenge for us."
"What did you call me?" Liu Yanran asked, giving him a sideways glance.
"I'm sorry, President Liu," Li Li said quickly, bowing his head meekly.
"Hmm." Liu Yanran snorted and glanced at Li Li, saying, "How can you boost others' morale while diminishing your own? If I hear you say something like that again, I'll throw you out to feed the zombies."
"Yes," Li Li replied, silently retreating to do his own thing.
At this moment, he was filled with regret. Why didn't he go with Ye Yunyi? It was all his own fault. If he had another chance, he would definitely leave without hesitation.
Liu Yanran didn't care about the people from her original community, but she treated the 100 people from the ambulance station differently. She not only provided them with good food and drink, but also gave them the safest place to be used as cannon fodder.
As they watched Liu Yanran's team set off, Ye Yunyi and the others estimated their arrival time and saw that there were more than 100 of them. More than 50 of them were from the ambulance, more than 30 were from the original community, and the rest were all people who had gathered together from the previous days.
Ye Yunyi made arrangements for the more than 100 guards she had gathered. Because the Wangjiagou team was relatively weak in combat, she selected 10 people from them and took another 10 people from her original personal guard. They set off lightly equipped with drones to actively search for the zombie horde. Because they had encountered a zombie horde before and had been badly defeated, the zombies were still lingering nearby. Ye Yunyi and her team found a good place to ambush them without alerting the zombie army, and waited for Liu Yanran's group to arrive.
At 11 a.m., as expected, Liu Yanran led her team to the highway exit of Wenji Town, where they unexpectedly encountered a horde of zombies. Leading the way were Li Li and the original guards.
When he saw the horde of zombies, he immediately turned around and walked away. Fortunately, he and his former teammates still had a tacit understanding and their walkie-talkies had not been taken away. He still had some conscience and notified his former teammates that there was a horde of zombies ahead and they should run for their lives.
The teams behind him also turned around and ran away.
However, because there was no unified command and mutual support, the people in the middle, even though they were relatively regular troops, were slowed down a lot due to the vehicles blocking and colliding with each other.
Liu Yanran screamed hysterically, "Protect me! Protect me!"
However, no one cared about her; at that moment, everyone was only thinking about escaping.
The people at the back of the procession actually benefited from the misfortune. After seeing the riot ahead, they quickly turned around and ran away. Those at the front, because they turned around quickly enough, also sped away, leaving only the middle group desperately fleeing.
It truly lived up to Liu Yanran's words: "A mob."
Ye Yunyi and the others, who witnessed the situation through the drone, smiled broadly. The zombie army was indeed gaining a lot of points.
"Let's go, it's our turn." Zhao Yong said, and fired the first shot.
The bullet grazed the first retreating car and hit the third, causing the driver to fall to the ground. The following vehicles rear-ended the third, triggering a chain reaction that left cars scattered haphazardly on the highway, completely blocking the way.
Li Li, who was running in the lead, saw all of this through his rearview mirror. He glanced in the direction the gunfire was coming from and couldn't help but feel grateful. Ye Yunyi and the others, who had once been part of the guards, had ultimately left him a way out.
Seeing all this, Liu Yanran realized that her path was blocked and a vast horde of zombies was behind her. On the highway, she had nowhere to escape, so she could only force herself to remain calm and prevent the people in the car from getting out to feed her to the zombies.
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