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"Boss, guess what we found!"

Chen Bingjiang was listlessly waiting in the car when suddenly an excited shout came from the walkie-talkie in front of him.

The voice was urgent and shrill, belonging to one of his staunch subordinates.

Zhao Xiaolong.

He immediately leaned forward.

"Cut the crap!"

"What did you find, hurry up and tell me!"

Chen Bingjiang now had no patience for playing guessing games with him.

Without waiting for a reply, he urged again:

"If this goes well, that woman is all yours!"

"Come on, out with it!"

At that moment, Zhao Xiaolong was also sitting in a car.

The sedan was parked right across from the villa construction site.

Dozens of people were bustling on the site.

Identical yellow hard hats.

From this side, nearly the entire side of the villa area was in view, without any obstruction except for a row of unknown small trees on the periphery.

Those inside were obviously trying to close off this gap, so they were preparing to build a wall on this side, thus enclosing the whole villa area.

Zhao Xiaolong's gaze quickly focused on a woman.

Tall figure.

Her slender, fair legs were almost dazzling under the sunlight.

It was just a pity that after the woman made a few rounds on the construction site, she went into one of the villas.

Not until the woman's figure had completely disappeared from view did Zhao Xiaolong lick his lips and pick up the walkie-talkie again.

"Heh heh, boss."

"Guess who I just saw?"

On the other end, Chen Bingjiang started cursing out loud.

"Are you fucking sick?"

"What time is it and you're still beating around the bush with me?"

"Hurry up, spit it out!"

Hearing that his boss was truly angry, Zhao Xiaolong immediately chuckled and said:

"Boss, it's that woman we saw the other day!"

"The one standing next to that kid!"

"You forgot?"

On the other end, Chen Bingjiang suddenly fell silent.

It wasn't until Zhao Xiaolong began to suspect the walkie-talkie was broken that he heard the other side's voice come through again.

"Xiaolong."

"Are you tired of living?"

"I sent you to scout, not to ogle women."

"If you really can't control those couple of ounces of flesh, I'll have someone help you cut it off when you get back."

"How about that?"

The sinister tone from Chen Bingjiang instantly made Zhao Xiaolong break out in a cold sweat.

He hurriedly explained:

"No, boss, you've got it all wrong!"

"I saw that woman going into one of the villas!"

Seeing this, the people next to him also quickly chimed in with a few more details, reporting back everything they'd seen happening on the site.

More than twenty workers?

And quite a few people patrolling inside the community?

As Chen Bingjiang listened to the reports from his subordinates, the thought of launching an attack vanished in an instant.

This kid's got that much power?

Just the workers alone numbered over twenty, and counting the patrol—

At least as many as his own, if not more.

His mood suddenly became irritable.

It had been difficult just getting here, and more than a dozen people had died along the way.

Was he really going to return empty-handed?

His men weren't like Zheng Youcai or Xu Lin.

After more than a month of repression, the once law-abiding citizens had long become crazed and ferocious under the catalyst of hunger and fear.

They had turned into a pack of hungry wolves.

Chen Bingjiang was the alpha wolf.

The pack followed him because he could provide them with the sustenance they needed to survive in this brutal apocalypse.

But if the alpha failed,

The pack would swarm him, tear the now worthless leader to pieces, and select a new alpha in the next round of power struggle.

So Chen Bingjiang could not go back.

At least, not like this.

His mood suddenly became heavy, but his face showed no signs of change.

"Da Yong."

"Tell Zheng Youcai what Xiaolong just said."

"Let's see what he thinks."

Zheng Youcai's reaction was somewhat strange.

He didn't seem to pick up on Chen Bingjiang's anxiety, but instead asked the question again.

"Are you sure there are only workers on the construction site?"

"No security guards?"

"Or any sort of guards?"

After receiving Chen Bingjiang's affirmative answer, not only did Zheng Youcai not show any sign of disappointment, but he actually became even more excited.

The people he had sent out had also returned.

Xu Wei had recounted everything that happened at the entrance to the residential area, especially about the two security guards outside the gate.

A gleam shone in Zheng Youcai's eyes.

First, two guards unafraid of zombies, and then more than twenty unprotected workers daring to work in the open air.

What did this mean?

That kid was hiding a secret.

This secret could perhaps allow living people to avoid zombie attacks, or maybe just help them mask their scent?

No one knew exactly what it was.

But without a doubt, it was a secret that could change the fate of all of them.

Get it!

We must get it!

As long as he could get that secret, he would be able to escape his current predicament!

By then, not to mention a shopping mall, who could threaten him in the whole of Sanjiang City?

Zheng Youcai became more and more excited the more he thought about it until finally, he gave Xu Wei a satisfied pat on the shoulder.

"Well done."

"You'll get double when we get back."

Before Xu Wei and Liao Wenlei could even say thank you, he immediately instructed his subordinates to reconnect with the intercom in Chen Bingjiang's car.

"Boss Chen, I've got an idea."

"But when the time comes, I might need your people to cooperate a bit."

The reply from the other side was also very straightforward.

"Sure."

"We'll follow your lead."

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Night fell quickly.

As the sunset gradually disappeared, the convoy parked at the intersection was completely obscured by shadows and finally vanished into the darkness.

It was eerily silent all around.

It was as if even the insects in the ground had disappeared.

The only sounds were the shuffling of zombies dragging their feet.

Suddenly, a pickup truck burst out from the intersection.

Boom!

A huge crash sounded!

The pickup truck that had barreled into the underside of the lorry was almost completely flattened!

The compressed, deformed cabin had turned the people inside into a mash of flesh!

At the moment the sound erupted, a light suddenly shone at the gate of the residential area, and under the shadow of the light, it seemed as though countless figures were lingering.

Zheng Youcai and Chen Bingjiang, who had been waiting on the opposite side of the construction site, looked at the five or six remaining workers with excited smiles breaking out on their faces simultaneously.

They had succeeded!

"Quickly!"

"Everyone move faster!"

"Xiaolong, you take the lead. If you see anyone, slash them!"

Time was of the essence, and neither of them delayed, quickly directing their people to surge forward.

They crossed the ten-odd-meter-wide road in an instant.

The people on the construction site spotted them but turned and ran.

They showed no intention of putting up a fight.

Probably because they saw the overwhelming numbers and were scared.

The group quickly passed through the gap in the construction site and entered the interior of the villa area, with the villa that Zhao Xiaolong pointed out not far away.

The opportunity was fleeting.

But they had successfully seized this moment.

"We're here!"

"Boss, it's this one right here!"

Zhao Xiaolong excitedly looked at the gate ahead and called back.

Chen Bingjiang's heart surged with joy as well.

The plan was going even more smoothly than imagined, as if fate itself was cooperating.

As long as they got through this gate and controlled that kid, the villa area would be theirs!

"What are you waiting for, open—"

He hadn't finished his words when suddenly a white light flared up in front of him.

Then, bright searchlights from all directions shone over them.

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One of the orange beams, however, came from the head of a truck.

Above, unbeknownst to when, someone was sitting.

"I was wondering who it could be."

"Isn't this Boss Zheng and Brother Chen? Have you both come together?"