Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 998 - 432: Approaching Winter

Chapter 998: Chapter 432: Approaching Winter

Shana said, "Everyone, pay attention. We now have two issues to resolve. The first issue, if refugees move near the railway bridge and set up camp near our camp, how should we handle it? The second issue, our outpost was built to defend against human infiltration, should we remodel it to cope with the potential threat of a zombie horde?"

Maya said, "We can abandon the outpost and set up defenses at the head of the railway bridge. The bridgehead is six meters wide with a 15-degree slope and has a depth of one hundred meters."

Shana asked, "What about the helicopter next to the outpost?"

Maya replied, "Move it to the rear, and use a waterproof tarp to set up a landing spot. Level the ground, helicopter transport repair and maintenance equipment to the landing spot, and then cover it with the waterproof tarp. In this way, we can also solve the refugee problem. Neither refugees nor zombies can cross the bridgehead. If they want to go into the mountains, they can walk a few kilometers forward and enter the mountains from the highway bridge to the west."

Xiao Zhuan said, "These next few days will be busy. One task is setting up the landing pad. Another is searching for supplies at the gathering site, trying to replenish as much as possible. One task is to deliver a batch of defense weapons to the mountain strongholds. The last task is to establish the bridgehead outpost."

Stone said, "It’s ironic, humans are truly the destroyers of humanity." The Survivor’s Alliance has already stabilized South City and begun to restore production and construction. However, because of this, it has become a tempting target for East Base. The conflict between the two sides has opened Pandora’s Box. New South City suffered the least from the flood, and with the aid of the floodwaters, it became the area with the most survivors. But now it has become the main base for zombies, and without another major flood or other event, the situation will be irreversible in the short term.

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The situation is thoroughly reshuffled, East Base established a shelter centered around the power plant. However, due to limited buildings, most refugees are crowded inside tents, sanitation conditions are worrying, and medical conditions cannot meet the needs of two thousand refugees. Even worse, due to previous propaganda, many refugees from the outskirts have gathered near the power plant. Due to objective reasons, they cannot proceed with the planned potato planting.

East Base, in a sense of resignation, according to their agreement with the United Nations, does not bear the responsibility to provide survival supplies for the refugees, thus only a team of 40 personnel was dispatched to guard South Bridge.

Zombies continuously enter South Grand Bridge, and since their numbers are small and easy to defend against, the zombies are all killed on the bridge. However, because of the gunshots and the allure of zombie corpse food, the zombie tide continues to expand along the river from Central South City, affecting the Southwest Industrial Zone.

On Day 119, the Railway Bridge Base found through drones that Old Veteran Base, ten kilometers distant, had a significant number of zombies. With the growing density of zombies, they will continue to spread outward.

New South City’s western side has some factories but is not part of West City; this area is known as a high-value park with high technology content. In this area, there is a 15-story building, an office building of an electronics group at the Hou Tian City Branch, integrating research and development, administration, sales, and plant management. It’s also one of the rare buildings in the industrial area that is over seven stories high.

The reason being that buildings over seven stories must install elevators. Because of this law, the workers’ dormitories in the industrial park are essentially limited to seven stories or less.

On the night of Day 119, the 15-story building suddenly started setting off fireworks, the massive explosions and brilliant fireworks lasted half an hour. This event did not lead to a reduction in zombies in South City, as a large number of zombies from the north side of South City instead turned towards the western industrial area. As a result of this event, further zombies from the north flooded in, increasing the total number of zombies.

At five in the morning on Day 120, a dormitory building in West City also started setting off fireworks, leading to the zombies in West City surging toward the industrial area.

Over the next two days, besides the repeated setting off of fireworks in the southwest direction of Hou Tian City, fireworks were also set off in the southeast direction. No one knew who was responsible, but zombies from East City, West City, and Central City, attracted by the fireworks, gathered towards New South City.

As a result, by Day 123, the density of zombies at the assembly site reached one per ten square meters, and the numbers were only growing.

At seven in the morning on Day 124, East Base finally addressed the events of the past few days through their broadcast, stating whatever truth there was at least someone clarified the situation.

According to the intelligence from East Base, there was a community in New South City that had previously been transformed into a secret base by Xiao Zhuan. The situation of the community was similar to Starlight Base, resembling a fortress located in the northwest of New South City, enclosed on three sides, with one side dug into over a 20-meter deep pit by excavators, and entry and exit managed by the drawbridge method used at Starlight Base.

Actually, this community was the earliest shelter of the Survivor’s Alliance, initially established for defending against zombies. After the flood, as locals, Xiao Zhuan was very familiar with the terrain of New South City and believed a large shelter based in New South City could be established.

After a major attack from East Base, Xiao Zhuan and his team retreated to the old base and implemented a survival plan.

The so-called survival plan was to lead zombies southward to protect themselves. East Base suspected that zombies from the north could move south smoothly and had not been discovered by humans for several days, which was closely linked to Xiao Zhuan. East Base believed the recent fireworks incident was done by the pilots of Xiao Zhuan’s Survivor Alliance, specifically the paramotor pilots. These people used the fireworks, originally stockpiled to be made into bullets and bombs, and set them off around New South City to attract zombies from East, West, and Central Cities towards South City.