After resting until 4 a.m., the entire 528 squadron immediately threw themselves into a new round of digging.
Last night, the excavator that had overturned was finally delivered, and the work started today, with the speed noticeably increasing.
As dawn broke, an exaggeratedly deep trench, resembling a crack left by a major earthquake, appeared on the wasteland southeast of Jiangcheng.
This morning, everyone finally learned why the excavation work had been suddenly brought forward.
"The S-level mutated umbrella-shaped mushroom in Jiangcheng has disappeared?"
How did they disappear?
"Does a mushroom know that our main force is coming for it and just grow legs and run away?"
During the brief ten-minute break, everyone was talking excitedly and discussing it intensely, finding it unbelievable.
Some people suspected that this was just a trap set by the mushrooms for humans, and loudly warned everyone to be careful, as it might all be an illusion.
But the resurrected and active Others in Jiangcheng were witnessed by everyone.
So, the mutant umbrella-shaped mushroom has truly disappeared.
It was precisely because of the disappearance of the umbrella mushrooms that the trench crew had to dig out the White Walkers' burial site in the shortest amount of time and at the fastest speed.
The thought of an army of White Walkers numbering in the tens of millions sent chills down everyone's spine.
In order to avoid becoming food for the White Walkers when they rushed out, the digging team used all their strength and completed the trenching task assigned to them in three days.
During these three days, Zhao Xiaoxiu, dragging the hovercar and carrying the small path that Mo Shigui seemed to have forgotten to put away, continued to wander around the trench.
However, due to the temptation of the delicious food on the first day, other teams deliberately left behind low-level mutants to deal with themselves, so Zhao Xiaoxiu's harvest was much less than on the first day.
However, she still often manages to find those mutant species that have mutated from grade C to grade B.
Because this transitional mutant will be automatically classified as Grade B by the detector, the current evolved warriors have not yet evolved to the point where they can separate the two.
Zhao Xiaoxiu also discovered that she was currently the only one who possessed this ability to separate food.
Perhaps in the future, evolved humans will also develop such abilities as they evolve to a certain level.
Then, perhaps humanity will be able to put those old recipes back on the table.
Everyone worked very hard during the three days of digging the hole.
Because of the hard work and her strong appetite, the ingredients that Zhao Xiaoxiu collected became very popular at the camp.
She only picks the best ones, as long as they are edible and taste good.
The lower-level mutants that other squadrons processed themselves didn't taste nearly as good as the ones she found.
Mo Shigui is like a shrewd businessman. He sells the delicious ingredients in his own fleet at the best price, and the supply still can't meet the demand, causing other fleets to compete for them every day.
If it weren't for the pressure from higher-ups, people would fight countless times a day over a single meal.
Whenever the group argued over a piece of meat or a green leaf, Zhao Xiaoxiu would sit on the small wooden stool that her teammates had specially prepared for her, with a meat skewer in one hand and fresh vegetable soup in the other, eating while watching the balance on her father's points card increase.
3000 Hope Base Points added, current total balance points.
"Ah~" Zhao Xiaoxiu finished the soup in her bowl in one gulp and let out a satisfied sigh, "It's so delicious!"
However, the days of happily scavenging for food are over.
On the fourth day, the entire force launched an attack, divided into ten groups, taking turns to surround the huge trench and begin the White Walkers' sweep.
The high-temperature flamethrowers were deployed in unison. The warriors, fully armed and carrying small flamethrowers on their shoulders, unleashed intense flames powerful enough to pulverize stone, all directed at the White Walkers attracted by the special sound waves.
For those few days, terrifying screams echoed throughout the city.
The air was filled with a nauseating and greasy smell of burnt meat.
Zhao Xiaoxiu was left at the camp, while Zhao Gang went to the front line. He would come back every three hours, rest for three hours, and then continue to take over.
For five whole days, Zhao Xiaoxiu watched helplessly as her father went from being human to looking like a ghost that had crawled out of an incinerator, his body charred black.
Because I was wearing a breathing mask, only my nose and mouth were clean; the rest of my body was covered in ash flying in the air.
Zhao Gang is usually a very patient person, but this time even the sheer number of White Walkers threw him off balance.
On the sixth night of the cleanup mission, during a break, Zhao Gang, covered in grime from lack of water for a bath, pitifully whispered to his cub:
"Can Daddy become even more amazing?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu was silent for three seconds, then asked in surprise, "Dad, can you breathe fire?"
As everyone knows, being burned to ashes is the only way for a White Walker to die.
Zhao Gang: "I can't breathe fire."
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "......"
Let's just keep burning the White Walkers then.
It's been burning for six days already, the trenches are almost full, they should be almost done killing everyone, right?
The result was no.
In order to avoid destroying the entire city, the instructions issued from above specifically emphasized that large-scale weapons should not be used.
Therefore, the only way to deal with the large number of aliens in Jiangcheng was to "burn and bury them on the spot".
However, perhaps because the higher-ups were aware of the soldiers' gradually collapsing mental state, the burning mission was finally suspended on the eighth day of the burning.
The reason for the shutdown was quite practical—the fuel ran out.
Excavators filled in the trenches filled with White Walker corpses, and the main force carried out the final step of the city sweep plan.
This was the step everyone had been looking forward to the most. While sweeping away the remaining White Walkers and mutants in the city, the soldiers could also pick up some loot.
The authorities usually turn a blind eye to such bargain hunting, as long as it's not something that shouldn't be picked up.
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