Chapter 41 is all for the sake of the lady.
Before Mao Li could recover from the huge surprise, he saw a message from the other party:
"The walkers in the walker hunting grounds have escaped. There will be dangers everywhere from now on. Please prepare in advance."
"Is the source of this information reliable?" Mao Li asked hurriedly.
"It was my father who said that. He is one of the inspectors of the zombie hunting grounds, and the authorities have already set up a no-fly zone, and all four city gates of Lin Dong City have been sealed off."
It is said that three zombie kings have recently appeared, and they all possess a certain degree of intelligence.
One of them was particularly cunning. It found a weak point in the wall of the zombie hunting ground and drove a group of zombies to attack it continuously, finally creating a breach that allowed a large number of zombies to escape.
"To prevent a large-scale viral infection caused by these zombies, the authorities have decided to lock down the city. Starting this evening, no one except for reinforcements will be allowed to enter or leave," Mija replied.
Mao Li couldn't hold back any longer and called her, but she rejected him outright and added a message.
She told him secretly that the authorities had strictly forbidden spreading the news, so she couldn't say it aloud for fear of being overheard.
“Tell me where you live? Is it safe? I’ll come pick you up now. My friends are very capable and can guarantee your safety,” Mao Li said.
"Thank you! But no need, my residential area is very safe, please take care!" After sending this message, Mi Jia never replied again.
Mao Li immediately woke everyone up and told them the news.
"With a large number of zombies escaping, shouldn't the authorities first evacuate ordinary citizens and then organize superhumans to suppress them?"
"They just sealed off the city like this? Do they think there aren't enough zombies and want to turn all the ordinary people in the city into zombies?" Xiao Bai said angrily.
"Has this ever happened before? How did the authorities respond?" Bo Yiyan asked Qiu Jichuan, the newly recruited slave.
“There have indeed been zombie escapes in the past, but they were all small-scale, and by the time ordinary citizens received the news, they had already been brought under control,” Qiu Jichuan said in a panic.
"Use your local connections now to see if you can get your aircraft carrier out of the city," Bo Yiyan said decisively.
Qiu Jichuan didn't want to die, but he knew that if these terrifying enemies didn't untie his slave rings, he wouldn't be able to save his life once the zombies invaded.
Therefore, he didn't dare to act arrogantly and immediately contacted a friend of his in the high-ranking government officials. The two of them had a history of exchanging power for money and had always cooperated.
"Brother Chuan, I really can't help you with this! Let alone letting you out of the city, I can't even get out myself," the other party said dejectedly.
"Why?" Qiu Jichuan asked anxiously.
"When the zombies escaped, the city lord's wife happened to be there sketching with several students."
The incident happened suddenly, and the bodyguards accompanying the lady immediately thought of protecting her, but the lady thought of protecting her students.
The lady ordered her bodyguards to protect the students, but they refused to leave her side. So she rushed out herself to protect the students, but she was bitten by a zombie in the process.
The city lord cherished this lady the most. Before she fell into a coma, she instructed the city lord that the Withering Virus must not be allowed to spread, otherwise the entire Silverwing Star would be doomed.
The city lord immediately ordered the city to be sealed off, and no official was allowed to leave the city under any pretext; they had to stay and fight the zombies together.
If even officials can't leave, how much less ordinary people? Brother Chuan, I'm actually quite envious of you now. At least you're an A+ level, so even if you're surrounded by zombies, you'd definitely be able to escape alive.
But I'm only a C-level, whether I survive or not depends on luck.
My latest news is that the gap has been widened to allow three or four people to walk side by side.
As of now, approximately a thousand zombies have escaped. Most of them have been contained by the city's garrison in the east of the city, but at least a hundred have scattered and escaped from nearby alleys and their whereabouts are currently unknown.
These are all top secrets and cannot be leaked to outsiders, but once the zombies escape into densely populated areas, the news can no longer be kept secret.
"Sorry, I have to hang up now. The city lord has called another emergency meeting, and I probably won't get any sleep tonight!"
When Qiu Jichuan made the call, he used a speakerphone, and everyone heard his words, which weighed heavily on their hearts.
In fact, given their strength, if they were really trapped here, they probably wouldn't be in any danger unless they encountered the zombie king.
However, they were all worried about A-Chen, who had escaped alone with Zuo Shan, and wished they could immediately strike at the heart of the Hua Jing family headquarters so that they could free up time and manpower to find them.
What they can't afford to waste right now is time.
"We have to help the city lord drive all the zombies back to the zombie hunting grounds and re-enclose them."
The zombies all carry the wither virus. Once their numbers surge, infection will not only occur through bites, but they should also be able to spread the virus through the air.
However, after two hundred years of fighting the virus, the people of this galaxy should have developed some viral antibodies, so they will not get sick unless bitten by a zombie.
But we outsiders are different; none of us have antibodies to fight the virus. As high-level superhumans, we might be able to withstand it.
"But Zuo Shan, this patient, is already weak and has no antibodies. Even if he is only exposed to air containing a small amount of the virus, the risk of infection is very high," Bo Yiyan said with a heavy expression.
His medical skills are extremely high, and even a novice would believe his analysis without a doubt.
Only now did everyone realize that although the city lord's decision sounded cruel, it was actually reasonable.
“In that case, we’ll stay and do our best to help fight the zombies,” Xiaobai said decisively.
"What level of combat power does the city lord possess?" Bo Yiyan asked Qiu Jichuan.
"He was originally S-rank, but during a zombie riot ten years ago, he personally led people to fight against the zombie horde, which severely overdrawn his superpowers and damaged his core abilities, so he was demoted to A-rank."
Despite various repairs over the years, it has only barely been upgraded to A+ and has never been able to return to S-class.
However, because he had guarded the zombie hunting grounds of Lin Dong City for over twenty years, he had accumulated considerable prestige, and the higher-ups dared not easily remove him as the city lord. "Qiu Jichuan said.
“Okay! I’ll go talk to him in person tomorrow and hope to reach a cooperative agreement with him,” Xiaobai said.
He possesses both S-level combat strength and rich experience in commanding and fighting against beast tides. I believe that as long as the city lord is a broad-minded and intelligent person, he will definitely choose to cooperate with him.
The situation was sudden, and he decided to change his original intention of taking control of the planet. Instead, he used his own abilities to resolve the crisis of the zombies' escape, thereby securing the right for them to be freed from slavery.
Having the right to walk freely made it easier to take his wife around to find treatments.
At the same time, he also had another secret hope: if he saved many living beings in this world, perhaps he could be favored by the heavens and his wife might wake up.
The city lord sealed off the city at his wife's request, and he chose to cooperate with her to fight against the zombie horde.
Alas! It's all for the sake of my wife!
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