1196: Strategic Mistakes

"Old Yun, we've traveled so far, and only this small area is covered by sunlight. Shouldn't we stop and figure out the situation?"

In the convoy heading towards the Northern Side of Qianyang County.

Inside one of the ordinary jeeps sat a White-Haired Old Man with graying temples and a stern face.

He was the Commander-in-Chief of this team, and also the "Old Yun" referred to by the similarly aged White-Haired Old Man beside him.

"We have such a heavy mission on our shoulders, how can we have the time to figure out what's going on here?"

"The Commander entrusted the defense line here to us, which means we have hundreds of thousands of common people behind us. We cannot be careless about this mission in the slightest."

Old Yun shook his head, his face full of seriousness.

"You, this place has sunlight, it's clearly worth investing time and energy into. Even leaving a small squad here to collect information would be good. Do you really just listen to the Commander for everything, without any opinions of your own?" His old friend beside him was quite helpless.

"Otherwise? Should I not obey orders? As a Soldier, my duty is to obey orders. Wasting time and energy on some meaningless things, if it causes the main plan to go wrong, I wouldn't be at ease even if I died!" Old Yun stiffened his neck, leaving his old friend beside him momentarily speechless.

"Our Commander probably valued your completely obedient nature, which is why he sent you to do this job." His old friend beside him shook his head helplessly, then advised, "A general outside is not entirely bound by orders. I think this mission is very complex, don't listen to the Commander completely."

"Old Yang, what are you saying? Are you rebelling? If it weren't for the fact that you've worked with me for so many years, I would have reported what you just said!" The Commander-in-Chief, known as Old Yun, showed a hint of anger on his face.

"Sigh... Look, you're getting worked up again." Old Yang shook his head helplessly, his sigh carrying a touch of unease as he lowered his voice, "I just feel that our Commander has been a bit abnormal recently."

"You don't interact with the Commander often, so you wouldn't know. I've been working by the Commander's side for the past two years, and I've noticed that recently he's been a bit... a bit unlike himself."

Old Yang rubbed his forehead, then patted Old Yun's shoulder, "In short, you must remember what I said. I also have a mission, and I should get off the car ahead. This mission... you need to think more."

"Alright, alright, what kind of nonsense are you talking about all day? Hurry up and get out of the car."

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Standing on the roof of the villa, Hong Lei, Da Hu, their families, and Xu Si Xu all gazed towards the road.

After the planes passed, the batches of Army on the road were endless!

Transport vehicles covered with green tarps were heading towards the Northern Side of the County.

"So many Soldiers, what kind of large-scale battle is this going to be?!" Da Hu exclaimed with emotion.

"What kind of battle it is depends on the amount of supplies." Hong Lei looked seriously at the transport vehicles loaded with supplies, his expression full of solemnity.

His intuition told him that what these people were dealing with was the second wave of Zombies that he was about to face!

After all, the geographical direction was the same!

Hong Lei had been constantly reminding himself that the number of Zombies in the second wave would definitely not be as simple as the first.

Now it seemed the situation was even more serious and terrifying than he had imagined!

A clearly discernible sense of urgency directly pressed down on Hong Lei's shoulders!

"Da Hu, hurry up and help me build the defense line!" Coming back to his senses, Hong Lei said to Da Hu beside him without any delay.

Among the supplies they had purchased earlier, there were a large number of iron mesh walls.

One of the original plans was to surround the villa with a circle of them, which could at least block a considerable portion of the Zombies.

The forces they could mobilize at hand, if put together, could at least play some role.

Earning energy points was not something that could be done in the short term.

The Sunflowers in the villa had reached saturation.

To absorb more energy from Sunflowers, they would have to plant them in the Dark areas outside the villa.

In that case, the safety of the Sunflowers could not be guaranteed, and it was not realistic.

If the second wave of Zombies arrived today, he would have roughly one hundred and sixty or seventy energy points to operate with.

The lottery had drained some vitality, but fortunately, the base of energy points obtained by exchanging Wang Yang's car at that time had not been destroyed.

If it wasn't enough later, Hong Lei was even prepared to exchange his own RV!

Of course, that was a last resort.

...

While the Army on the distant road rushed to the front line, Hong Lei and Da Hu also began to build the outermost defense line of the villa.

The pillars of the iron mesh wall were deeply driven into the ground by a pile driver. The wall, constructed of high-strength iron mesh, could even withstand the impact of a private car!

They were busy for the entire afternoon.

When the sunlight in the sky disappeared and Darkness like a deep sea swept over the villa area again, Hong Lei and Da Hu finally completed the construction of the iron mesh wall.

During this process, the women in the villa also helped move some things.

After all, every second counted, and even a little help could save some time.

Fortunately.

After the iron mesh wall defense line was built, the Zombie tide that Hong Lei was worried about did not arrive immediately.

Looking at the pitch-black sky, Hong Lei turned to look at the weather function on the System panel.

It was already night.

But he could still exchange for the 'Sunny' weather from the weather function on the System panel!

Of course, the price was much higher than during the day.

After dinner, Hong Lei consciously came outside to smoke.

"Hong Ge, there are people outside. They say they escaped from the Northern Side, and their car ran out of gas. They want to buy gas from us." Da Hu came over from the iron mesh wall and reported the news to Hong Lei.

"How many?" Hong Lei stood up, a cigarette in his mouth.

"Five, looks like three generations of a family."

"Originally, these guys wanted to climb over the wall, but Hong Ge, you had Pea Shooters set up behind every section of the iron mesh wall. The guy who climbed first was hit by a bullet from a Pea Shooter and broke his arm."

"Serves him right." Hong Lei's expression was slightly cold.

Outside the iron mesh wall, he had kindly put up a sign prohibiting climbing.

That guy still had the nerve to climb the wall, he deserved it!

He came all the way to the area of the iron mesh wall.

Hong Lei immediately saw a young man with a twisted face, pale lips, crying while holding his wrist.

Beside the young man were a Middle-aged couple and an elderly couple.

Aside from the young man, the elderly couple among the five people also looked unwell, as if they were sick.

"Are you the Master of this villa? Do you know what you've done? My son just got close to here and was harmed like this by you! Do you still have any humanity, any reason?!"

After Hong Lei came over, the Middle-aged woman among them shouted fiercely.

In response, Hong Lei took a deep puff of his cigarette, "Get lost."

"What did you say?!" The woman's tone rose by eight octaves.

Her husband beside her awkwardly pulled her behind him, faced Hong Lei, and said properly, "Brother, my woman has no brains, don't argue with her."

"My Child was being reckless, this situation is his own fault."

"Actually, we just came to ask for some gas. This car has been running all the way from the Northern Side, and the gas is already burned out. If it's convenient for you..."

"Of course, we will definitely pay!"

The Middle-aged Man spoke quite politely.

However, Hong Lei's expression didn't change much towards the other party's attitude.

Having dealt with people for a long time, he could roughly judge a true villain, a hypocrite, or a smiling tiger at a glance.

"You are from the Northern Side? What's the situation there now?" After discovering this information from the other party's words, Hong Lei became a little more interested.

"Northern Side?" The Middle-aged Man's eyes shifted slightly when faced with this question, then he smiled with an unchanged expression, "The Northern Side is pretty good."

"Recently, as you also know, the County gave us such preferential housing policies in the Northern Side. We are planning to go to the County to see the specific situation."

After the Middle-aged Man finished speaking, Hong Lei nodded, "It seems I don't need to move anymore. I thought some danger would come over."

"Hahaha, there's no danger, Brother, you can rest assured and live here!" When the Middle-aged Man said this, a hint of pleasure flashed in his eyes.

This was the result he wanted.

These guys with tattoos, who harmed his Child without reason, and didn't look like good people, should stay here guarding a house and die in the mouths of the large group of Zombies that were about to arrive!

"Boom!!!"

Suddenly.

An earth-shattering super explosion directly erupted from the North, dozens of kilometers away!

The pitch-black night sky in the distance was like a Sun wrapped in crimson light rising, becoming the focus of the entire Black Night!

This explosion in the North made Hong Lei's expression gradually turn serious on the iron mesh wall side.

Outside the iron mesh, the Middle-aged Man who said there was no danger in the North had a stiff and pale expression at this moment.

"There's really a big problem in the North." Hong Lei turned around and left the area of the iron mesh wall, looking at the sky in the distance, and said calmly.

"Hong Ge! Was that a nuclear bomb?!" Da Hu's voice trembled at this moment.

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Northern Side of Qianyang County.

There were several Towns here, with a population of nearly 30,000.

Due to the County's revised housing policy and various related orders, 80% of the permanent residents in these Towns had moved to the County.

At this moment, the Town buildings as far as the eye could see had been completely leveled by the explosion!

Wisps of black smoke mixed with sparks of Fire, a scorched dark red, on the ground full of ruins, lay scattered broken bodies!

Among them should have been a large number of Zombie bodies and even the bodies of human-monster and other Dark Creatures, but upon searching, there were not many at all!

"Commander-in-Chief, there are no monsters in the area where we placed the 100,000 tons of TNT!"

Old Yun stood among the mountains and forests, looking at the rolling sea of fire from the explosion in the distance, his eyes already red.

"Impossible! This is the location given to me by the Commander, the order given to me by the Commander! This move of ours was prepared to wipe out all the monsters here at once, how could it not even harm a bit of the monster Army?!"

At the moment all the explosives were released, Old Yun, as the Commander-in-Chief, was exceptionally confident.

However, after learning the results of the explosion, he was completely unable to accept it!

"Commander-in-Chief! The Dark value in the explosion area is skyrocketing!" The operator reported another emergency message.

Dark value, this is an international value used to judge the danger level of an area.

Upon learning this information, Old Yun and the surrounding Soldiers could see with their naked eyes that a fifty-meter deep gap was gradually tearing open on the ground filled with the sea of fire and ruins!

As the faint purple-black light spilled out, a hideous head struggled to emerge from the gap!

"Pfft~" As it struggled, more and more of the monster's body appeared in this World!

This was a humanoid monster with five arms, a bluish-black body, wearing tattered armor, and as huge as a residential building!

"Roar!" After the monster arrived, it looked up and roared, as if celebrating its arrival.

And this was not the end.

In the next breath, another hundred-meter long White Snake with two heads and blood-red eyes all over its body appeared in the gap behind the monster!

After the White Snake arrived, there were more monsters struggling to break through behind it.

However, as the World passage tightened, a monster that came after it screamed and had an arm severed and left behind.

"Commander-in-Chief! It's a Forbidden Creature! A Forbidden Creature!" The busy Soldier reported this news to Old Yun.

Forbidden Creature.

The strategic definition of this type of creature is a super powerful and terrifying existence, far more powerful than Dark Creatures like Zombies and human-monster. Without heavy weapons like nuclear weapons, they cannot be resisted!

Their explosion seemed to help these guys descend!

"Request reinforcement!" Old Yun pursed his lips and finally issued this order.

Although the overall plan had failed and there was a serious strategic error, he could not retreat!

"Commander-in-Chief! We can't contact the Command Post!"

"If you can't contact them, keep trying until you do!" Old Yun left this order and then began to formulate a combat plan.

"Beep beep beep~" The communicator among the mountains and forests kept trying to contact the Command Post, but there was no response.

"Ding-a-ling~" At a certain moment, a ringing sound appeared in Hong Lei's RV.