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As the sun set in the west, all core members of the Firestorm Team prepared for action. They consisted of the original Butcher and Left Guard members, along with warriors recruited later, totaling a formidable lineup of seventy people, including elite assault troops and zero snipers.
Of course, they were not using sniper rifles but rather crossbows. Today's mission was to gather intelligence on the situation within Ruiguan.
If they could conveniently eliminate those bastards along the way, everyone would surely smile faintly and then proceed to deal with the detestable Fellows.
“Hey! Brothers, we have two objectives today.”
“First, we need to ascertain the specific conditions inside Ruiguan, particularly in the South of the River. We need to know about the vast number of Scattered Zombies and whether there are any other Zombies present aside from the two confirmed Third-Stage Zombies.”
“Second, if conditions allow, we should aim to destroy the Cannibals at Cat Ear Cliff Gathering Place and rescue those who have been imprisoned by them.”
“Is that clear to everyone?”
Left Guard stood at the center of the crowd, exuding authority. Although everyone wanted Zheng Yifan to boost morale, Zheng Yifan firmly insisted that Left Guard take the lead.
After all, he would often have to navigate between reality and the apocalypse and could not always lead the team. In such circumstances, a dedicated captain was necessary.
Moreover, with Left Guard's good reputation and Zheng Yifan's initial trust in him, Zheng Yifan was now prepared to hand over an entire team for him to lead, with an initial estimate of personnel set at one thousand.
Now, the prototype of the elite team had emerged; it just needed to be expanded upon with the current personnel as its foundation.
The sunset served as excellent camouflage, while the roars of Zombies rendered the movements of the seventy-one silent and stealthy.
Zombies continued to roar as they wandered aimlessly. They had already slain hundreds of Zombies along their path.
Looking far into the distance, Zombies still roamed across the hills; the mountainous terrain had become their hunting ground. Blood nearly covered every inch of ground on the mountain paths, where lush vegetation thrived.
Occasionally, one could see a corpse or two lying among the greenery.
The lush trees and fragrant wild grasses filled the air with a heady scent, but Zheng Yifan knew that this was all a result of the Zombie Crystal s and Zombie corpses. Otherwise, the plants would have gradually dried up, waiting for the autumn winds to sweep through and turn into next year's spring soil.
It was September, a time when the sky should be clear and high, yet here there was a lingering smell of blood.
That was the scent of fresh blood, which attracted Zombies, drawing them slowly into the mountains and forests.
The entire road had naturally become a gathering place for Zombies, causing quite a bit of trouble for the Firestorm Team.
"Captain, just a few hundred meters ahead is the Gate beneath Cat Ear Cliff. There are only a dozen man-eating flowers there; everyone else is hiding in the stronghold above," the Pointy-Mouthed Adventure Team Leader said eagerly as he followed Zheng Yifan.
Their team had managed to acquire five hundred pounds of well-sorted rice, not those troublesome grains still encased in husks.
There were no dehuskers available now; if they were given raw rice, it would truly be a hardship for them. The only manual dehuskers in the Gathering Place were used by Zhang Xiao's subordinates, and others didn't even have the right to touch them.
The cheerful adventure team leader led Zheng Yifan onward.
Ahead lay a dozen massive man-eating flowers, towering three to four meters high. Their thick bodies revealed countless Zombie Crystal s flowing within their branches. The ground was soaked with pools of bright red blood, while Zombie corpses had long since dissipated into the air, leaving only occasional shattered bones behind.
Only the stingers from Second-Level Zombies' Scorpion Tails remained, piled beneath the man-eating flowers. Each flower had dozens or even hundreds of these stingers heaped beneath it like trash.
"Man-eating flowers lack intelligence; since they were planted, they have remained fixed in place. They only consume Zombies and pose no threat to living beings. The only thing to watch out for is not stepping on their roots," the leader explained while guiding Zheng Yifan along the path.
"Report, Captain. We've spotted an enemy lookout. Should we eliminate it?" the Left Guard quietly approached Zheng Yifan and asked.
"Leave the tongue intact as much as possible, with safety as the primary goal," Zheng Yifan instructed, frowning. "You are the captain of the first team now; all arrangements are up to you. After all, I'm not a professional."
The Left Guard nodded. Then, the dozen or so brothers from the special forces lowered their bodies and disappeared from sight with a few agile leaps.
Before long, a faint sound was heard, followed by several flashes of cold light as a few figures tumbled down from Cat Ear Cliff.
Those were actually sentries hanging from the cliff. Without crossbows, it would have been impossible to take them out.
However, these special forces members could use crossbows to eliminate them directly and ensure a fatal shot, leaving no survivors.
Strangely enough, this brought back the feeling of executing missions for these well-trained special forces members.
In direct combat, Butcher had the upper hand. When unrestricted, they fought with even more ferocity and understood their unique fighting style between life and death. But when it came to special operations, these former professional soldiers were far more formidable.
At least a dozen sentries, both visible and hidden, were swiftly dealt with, and they captured as many as eight tongues.
The methods of coercion were left to the professionals who had received specialized training and could extract the desired information quickly.
As for the means...
In this post-apocalyptic world, taking lives had become something that could be done at any moment; what was there that couldn't be done?
Soon, Zheng Yifan obtained all the information he wanted.
It took less than five minutes. The eight individuals were tortured beyond recognition, and in the end, one was given a knife to end their lingering lives.
"Captain, according to the confession from the captured tongue, there are over two thousand refugees living in Cat Ear Cliff Gathering Place. They fled here from Hansui City across the river two months ago."
"Their pursuer is a Fifth Level Zombie, leading countless Zombies into Ruiguan."
"Two months ago, nearly a million people fled at the same time; now, there should be very few left. The vast majority must have hidden deep in the mountains, while the Advanced Zombie relentlessly chased the leader of Hansui City through Ruiguan and south of Ruiguan."
"Most of those who remained here are Low-Level Zombies. It is said that the Superpowered Individual team from Hansui City closed the gates of Ruiguan, leaving behind the slow-moving First and Second Level Zombies inside, effectively separating that Fifth Stage Zombie and its two Fourth Stage Zombie subordinates from its massive Zombie horde."
"The people in Cat Ear Cliff Gathering Place are those who initially fled and hid in the mountains along the way."
"Currently, the leader on Cat Ear Cliff is Guo Yi. In the Post-Apocalypse, he was a thug in Hansui City, managing two fruit wholesale markets where he collected protection fees. When the apocalypse struck, he led dozens of people to hunt Zombies in the wild to capture Zombie Crystal s for food at Han Sui City Gathering Place. When not on the move, he would rob others, engaging in risk-free trades and producing Blackhearted Canned Food."
"When they left their group, Guo Yi brought over three thousand people to hide in Cat Ear Cliff; now their numbers have dwindled to nearly two thousand. The other thousand were killed and eaten by him. Food is scarce at Cat Ear Cliff; its only advantage is safety."
"The more than ten man-eating plants were grown from seeds provided by Guo Yi. No one knows how he obtained them, but it is known that each plant consumed nearly a hundred Zombie Crystal s during planting."
"As for everything else, no one asked further. Everyone rested while we wait to conquer this place; surely someone will be able to explain everything clearly afterward."
The Left Guard organized all the information and slowly recounted it to Zheng Yifan.
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