Published: February 6, 2025
Sister Rong and Mo Mo, both women who had recently become one-star evolvers, were continuously throwing chunks of meat from the back of a pickup truck to attract the horde of zombies trailing behind them. Standing beside them were Mo Ye and Tang Tian, who were there to prevent any unexpected incidents. Jia Yi had just undergone surgery to remove a seedling of the hypocritical ghost tree and had not fully recovered, so she stayed behind to guard their base.
Inside the truck, protected by a wire fence, sat other evolvers who were driving while keeping an eye on the situation with the zombies through the rearview mirror.
In the distance, gunfire could be heard.
"Move forward five hundred meters, and then we retreat!"
Mo Ye tapped the roof of the truck to inform the driver inside.
Once they reached that point, their mission would be accomplished. The sounds of battle from the armory would attract the zombies, significantly reducing the pressure on the granary.
This was not an act of sabotage, nor was it a deliberate attempt to disrupt the efforts to eliminate the monsters at the armory. If those people were truly capable of exterminating the monsters completely, Ye Zhongming would even be pleased with it.
But the reality was that the people over there would definitely not succeed!
After being reborn, Ye Zhongming had become accustomed to utilizing all available resources. When he saw the location of the granary in Yingchun County, he decided to take advantage of those teams attacking the monsters.
The Cloud Summit Villa team would lead as many as ten thousand zombies from the granary towards the vicinity of the armory, about two kilometers away. In the open and quiet apocalypse wilderness, this distance would be sufficient for the zombies to be attracted by the gunfire from that side. Given the slow pace of the zombies, this two-kilometer distance would allow them to take a long time to reach there. Furthermore, due to various obstacles and terrain during that time, the zombies would not be able to arrive before the battle at the armory was over.
In Ye Zhongming's view, this was the only value of the battle that was destined to fail over there.
Without a large number of zombies, the granary would finally see a glimmer of hope for breaching.
Of course, attracting zombies was not as easy as it sounded, and it was impossible to lure away all the zombies at once. Successfully leading away a few thousand zombies was already a commendable achievement.
In one corner of the pickup, Xia Bai crouched with her back hunched, hugging her knees and burying her face between her legs.
She had become increasingly unaccustomed to exposing herself to the sunlight; for her, the night was the most suitable environment.
Attracting zombies was easier said than done. There were more and more high-level evolved individuals among the zombies, which made Ye Zhongming cautious. He could not bring too many main forces over here; otherwise, the assault on the granary would be in jeopardy. However, he also had to guard against high-level zombies attacking the bait, so the two-star evolver Xia Bai was sent here to hold the line.
However, whether with Mo Ye and the others, whom she had only recently met, or with Sister Rong, whom she had known for a long time, Xia Bai had gradually grown distant from them. Even when sitting in the same vehicle, they no longer spoke.
Mo Ye and her team were fine since they were merely acquaintances. But it was difficult for Sister Rong and the others, who did not want their past sisterhood to turn out like this. However, worrying was futile, and all they could do was sigh.
After driving slowly for a while, the gunfire became clearer, and everyone knew it was time to stop throwing the meat chunks. They began to leave the scene quickly, taking a well-explored detour back to the battle at the granary.
"Hurry up and drive!"
Xia Bai suddenly stood up and shouted after remaining silent the whole time. This took everyone by surprise, not knowing what had happened.