Zhang Xiaoqiang did not bother with pleasantries and directly stated his purpose of coming here. He saw the admiration in the boy's eyes and could not help but puff out his chest. It felt good to be an idol. Zhang Xiaoqiang took out a bar of chocolate and threw it to the boy. His face was still calm, but the corner of his mouth was slightly raised.
"You want to go out?
How did you get in? "
Cuicui looked at Zhang Xiaoqiang with a strange look in her eyes. It seemed that Zhang Xiaoqiang's suggestion did not pique her interest at all. In other words, she was even more surprised that Zhang Xiaoqiang was able to enter the city.
"I walked in. There's something very powerful outside that can always predict my next move. I killed thousands of zombies but didn't rush out. I don't know what that thing wants to do. You are the owner of this place. Tell me what I want to know and I promise to send people to save you in the future. It's an equal exchange."
Zhang Xiaoqiang did not want to get too involved with the survivors here. He had his own goals and missions. This city was originally not part of his plan. Being surrounded by the sea of zombies was an accident, and being targeted by the Z2 was also an accident. He did not want to challenge the entire sea of zombies alone. What he needed to do was to find a way out of the Z2 zombie's calculations. As for how to deal with the sea of zombies, that was a matter for the future.
"It's not that I don't want to tell you, but no one can leave this city. This is a cursed city, a city of despair. We were able to survive until now because the management of this city did not notice us …"
After saying that, Cui Cui pointed at the dense jungle on the other side of the lake. The jungle here was a typical burial ground for zombies. It had developed from a jungle to a forest. Countless lush trees surrounded the small lake. It seemed that there was no way out. At the roots of the trees, one could faintly see white bones.
Zhang Xiaoqiang knew that the trees here were similar to the Miracle Forest that appeared in Inner Mongolia. They were all made from the corpses of the zombies. Every tree was at least 20 to 30 meters tall. Countless trees that were 20 to 30 meters tall formed a huge barrier, blocking the view of the island and the tall buildings in the city. It was just like how he could not see the small lake and island in the city when he was jumping from the top of a building.
"You mean to say that I was discovered outside because something saw me?"
Zhang Xiaoqiang squinted his eyes and looked at the serious Cuicui. Cuicui nodded and said regretfully:
"The entrance you came from has been destroyed. This city has a ruler. People have only heard of this ruler, but no one has ever seen him. There used to be a lot of survivors in the city, but now they are all missing. No one knows if they are dead or alive, not a single one of them …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang suddenly thought of the woman in the building, the beautiful woman in red. He immediately thought of Zhuo Ming Yue. Zhuo Ming Yue did not admit that she was a human. Her ability was to control humans. Could it be that the woman was the same as Zhuo Ming Yue, evolved from something else, but her ability was to control zombies?
The more Zhang Xiaoqiang thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. The zombies controlled by the Z2 zombies were extremely powerful. In order to achieve a goal, they would not hesitate to use up their resources. Whether it was in the hot spring base or the colony, or even in Wu Hai or Silver Stream, every time they fought against the sea of zombies, they had to come up with all kinds of strategies. The zombies and humans would plot against each other, and humans would use all kinds of advantages to offset the zombies' advantage in numbers. Especially at the stage where the zombies could continue to evolve, controlling the number of high level zombies became the focus of the battle.
The biggest advantage of the Z2 zombies was the number of soldiers they could command. Millions of zombies could be commanded at the same time, and through the feedback from the battlefield, they could find a point of support on the battlefield. They could then use their huge numbers to crush anything that stood in their way like a tsunami.
The Z2 zombies were not a matrix computer. They had their own flaws, and it was precisely this flaw that allowed humans to find the gaps between the zombies and adjust their tactics to achieve a decisive victory. In other words, when the Z2 zombies were controlling the sea of zombies, there would be an unnatural gap. Usually, it would take at least half an hour for the Z2 zombies to complete their operation.
It was this gap that allowed the troops to jump out of the zombie horde's counterattack. If it wasn't for this, they wouldn't have won the grassland battle so easily. Even so, the casualties of the troops were generally more than 10%.
However, in this place, the zombies' reactions were too fast. When Zhang Xiaoqiang escaped from the city, one trap after another followed by another. This caused Zhang Xiaoqiang, who was used to variables, to run for his life. Only he, who was no longer afraid of the zombies, was able to escape the traps with ease. If it was someone else, they would have been buried by the zombies.
Cui Cui saw that Zhang Xiao Qiang was frowning and deep in thought, and the corners of her mouth curled up. What she said was definitely true, but the bad news for Zhang Xiao Qiang was not necessarily bad news for her. Zhang Xiao Qiang's ability was outstanding, and he was also an outsider. He could inject some vitality into the island, and there wasn't much pressure to survive on the island for the time being. If they were to scrimp on food, it would be enough for the people here to survive. Most of the people were struggling day after day in despair, being surrounded in the city was like being sentenced to life imprisonment. No one had any hope for the future, and no one felt the meaning of living.
Humans were very strange. When they were in a precarious situation, they would crave for food and safety. They would do everything they could to survive. Once they had these things, they would crave for more. It was not necessarily a material need, but a spiritual need, or a hope, or a different life. In short, people's emotions were complex and changeable. Once they lost hope and the desire to live, it was time for them to destroy themselves.
Cuicui was successful as the head of the family. She managed the entire island as a big family, but most of her energy was occupied by survival. She did not have the time to care about everyone's psychology. This caused many people to have self-destructive tendencies due to emptiness and despair.
This kind of tendency was the most common in the post-apocalyptic world. If there was no restraint, it would lead to robbery, abuse, killing, rape, and all kinds of violence.
However, Cuicui would not allow these things to happen in her own home. She treated everything here as her own home, a small home that could not be described as warm, but could make her feel at ease. Once someone had violent tendencies or destructive tendencies, she would expel them. No one who was expelled would survive. This caused the island to feel even more depressed. There were fewer people talking, and no one was smiling. Instead, there were more people committing suicide.
At this time, a high-value man with a certain ability and a healthy body who brought news from the outside world had appeared. Not only did he bring news to the island, he also broke the monotonous lifeless atmosphere, and injected some sweet dew into the dried up hearts of the people on the island.
Zhang Xiaoqiang thought for a long time but still could not figure it out. The mysterious red-clothed woman had been marked as an absolute danger in his heart. There was a saying, once bitten, three years afraid of ropes. He had continuously suffered at the hands of Zhuo Mingyue and Gus, so he no longer thought that he was number one in the world. Safety was the number one priority in everything.
Cuicui took the chocolate from the child's hands. Chocolate was a novel thing to the children of the post-apocalyptic world. Although they were curious, they did not think that this thing could be eaten. In their hearts, anything that could be eaten was precious. It was a treasure that could not be casually given to others. Therefore, the child was only playing with it, and did not even think of eating it.
The moment the packaging was torn open by Cuicui, a few gazes from the surroundings stared at the dark chocolate. The child snatched the chocolate and hid it tightly in his arms. His senses were very sharp, and he knew what those gazes meant.
Zhang Xiaoqiang looked at the boy's intoxicated appearance as he smelled the chocolate and shook his head. Cuicui invited him to enter the hall to rest. After the two of them sat down in the hall that was filled with junk but organized, Zhang Xiaoqiang took out the soldier's rations and gave one to Cuicui and her child. He tore open the packaging and started eating, but he did not take the initiative to ask Cuicui to provide him with the island's vegetables.
Cuicui hugged the child and did not say anything. Looking at Zhang Xiaoqiang's rough manner of eating, Cuicui frowned. She was a person who paid attention to details. Zhang Xiaoqiang was very careless when eating, and a lot of biscuit crumbs were scattered on the floor. There was also the leftover packaging. There were obviously a lot of biscuit crumbs, but Zhang Xiaoqiang did not even think of licking them clean and just threw them on the table.
What made her grit her teeth the most was that Zhang Xiaoqiang was very picky when eating. It was such a good canned meat, but Zhang Xiaoqiang actually said that he did not eat garlic and casually pushed it to the side. He did not even care about it. According to what he said, Zhang Xiaoqiang was not someone she could afford to raise.