vncnus Chapter 60 is noteworthy
Chapter 60 is noteworthy
Of course, Lu Chen didn't kill all the zombies.
After clearing out three waves of zombies surging from the street, the elite zombies discovered a special zombie on the sidewalk in front of Sunshine Garden. That zombie was noticeably larger than the ordinary zombies around it; it was a "Big Strong" type!
Lu Chen immediately had the elite zombie change its posture, retracting its claws and instead sweeping its entire arm horizontally, slapping the guy to the ground.
Tiezhu and Erzhu went up to hold down the hands and feet, while Sanzhu pulled out a nylon rope from his backpack and quickly tied it up tightly. He then stuffed a strip of cloth into its mouth and had it dragged back to the community by two strong zombies, one on each side.
The fire in the square burned brighter and brighter.
The black smoke had turned into a thick column of smoke, shooting straight into the sky, clearly visible from several kilometers away.
But Lu Chen discovered that the number of zombies attracted by the firelight was far less than he had expected.
After killing several waves of zombies, the density of incoming zombies began to decrease.
However, since the fire was already burning and the smoke was rising, he decided to burn everything that needed to be burned at once.
He sent out five more zombies to drag back the corpses of the zombies he had just killed along the street and threw them directly into the fire.
He also arranged for Gao Yuan to lead a group to drag down all the zombie corpses from the fifth floor and burn them all today.
The bodies were kept being thrown into the fire, and Gao Yuan had someone pump out another round of gasoline.
Gasoline was poured on it bucket by bucket, and flames shot up, half a meter higher than before. The heat wave could be felt on your face even from more than ten meters away.
The floor tiles at the edge of the fire crackled and popped as they burned. Several corpses that had just been thrown in twisted and deformed under the high temperature, their fat melting into liquid and flowing into the cracks between the tiles to continue burning.
The black smoke grew thicker and thicker, casting a large, constantly shifting shadow in the afternoon sunlight.
Even in broad daylight, this column of smoke was exceptionally conspicuous, and anyone still alive within a radius of several kilometers would not miss it if they looked out the window.
So, just as Lu Chen had predicted, this scene was not just about attracting zombies.
In a building in Cuizhu Garden, on the 7th floor, behind a window facing the Yang Community, a chubby boy with a round face was holding a pair of gleaming binoculars, his eyes fixed on the plume of smoke shooting into the sky across the street.
He had been lying on the windowsill for almost half an hour, not moving an inch since the first plume of black smoke rose, muttering to himself incessantly.
"They actually caused such a huge commotion... drone broadcasts and burning corpses."
He pressed the binoculars closer to his eyes, his chubby face squeezing together under the eyepiece. "Could it really be an official outpost? But what if someone's impersonating them? Drones can be faked, broadcasts can be recorded—what can't be faked these days?"
He put down his binoculars, paced back and forth in front of the window twice, tapping his chubby fingers unconsciously on the windowsill, and then raised the binoculars again to continue looking.
"Even if it's not an official base... their combat strength is still quite formidable!"
He saw a zombie over 2 meters tall leading a group of fully armed zombies rushing out of the neighborhood, cutting through wave after wave of zombies surging into the street. The ordinary zombies couldn't even last a single round against that giant zombie.
He then saw the group of zombies dragging the corpses from the street back one by one and throwing them into the fire. The whole process was efficient and orderly, like a well-trained squad.
"We're both superhumans, but he can control such a large group of zombies and even lead his men to brazenly burn corpses at the entrance of the residential area... Why is my superhuman ability so useless?" He scratched his hair, his chubby face almost squished into a ball, and two red marks were pressed on his forehead by the eyepiece of the binoculars.
"No, I can't be impulsive! Let me look again, let me look again." He leaned back against the windowsill and raised the binoculars.
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Lu Chen stood in the square for half an hour.
In the past half hour, over a hundred zombies attracted by the firelight and smoke were killed.
At this point, no more zombies were actively heading in this direction. All the ones that were meant to be attracted had been attracted, and the rest were either too far away or trapped in their rooms.
He then controlled the elite zombies to patrol the streets around the neighborhood. Apart from the corpses that had just been killed, the main roads were empty.
After confirming that the zombie density in the surrounding blocks had decreased significantly, the elite zombies led a team back into the community and repositioned their defenses at the entrance.
He handed over the burning in the square to Zhao Yongqiang, and asked Ning Tieshan to take a few people to continue watching the gate.
He then called Shen Qingci and Gao Yuan, and the three of them went down the fire escape stairs back to the 5th floor.
For them, there is still one very important thing to do: buy equipment!
The three of them went to Lu Chen's room.
The living room in 501 has been reorganized. The coffee table has been moved to one side, and the desk is piled with a list of supplies compiled by Gao Yuan.
Lu Chen and Shen Qingci each took out their satellite phones, sat down on the sofa, and simultaneously opened the military app with the icon labeled "Military Merit Mall".
The screen lights up, and the product list loads page by page, with categories so comprehensive they're dazzling.
Gao Yuan held an enamel mug in his hand, dragged out a chair, and sat quietly to the side.
Having completed the preliminary tasks, Shen Qingci has now officially become a second lieutenant with 100 military merits in his account.
As for Lu Chen, since 115 survivors were assigned to his name, each receiving 10 points, that's 1150 military merit points. Adding the extra 1000 military merit points from Zhang Zhenhua, he now has a total of 2150 military merit points under his name.
The two of them together have a total of 2250 military merits.
Such military achievements would be an astronomical figure in the eyes of any superhuman on the fourth day of the apocalypse.
The two quickly scrolled through the online store list.
The vast majority of the items on the list are military supplies, categorized in such detail that it's like a military logistics warehouse has been moved directly online.
The firearms page lists various models, from pistols to sniper rifles, each with its caliber, range, weight, and price.
The ammunition category page is further divided into standard ammunition, armor-piercing ammunition, tracer ammunition, and silenced ammunition, and is sold by the box.
The protective equipment category offers a full range of individual protective gear, from light to heavy, available in camouflage, black, and urban gray color schemes.
The categories of communication equipment include individual soldier radios, squad communicators, backpack encrypted radios, and various antennas.
The category of night vision equipment includes monocular night vision devices, binocular night vision goggles, and thermal imaging sights.
There was also a category specifically labeled "Exclusive to Superpowered Individuals," which contained Crimson Spirit Cores and several other mutated plants he had never heard of before, all priced ridiculously high.