"Who can speak Chinese?
If you can, come out. If you can't, scram as far as you can …. "
Zhang Xiao Qiang shouted after dealing with all the S2s. He needed someone who could understand him, as the number of zombies chasing after them would increase. He didn't want to be a babysitter and bring along a bunch of people who didn't understand the language. If they were scared witless by less than 100 zombies, how could he expect them to help him?
After he shouted a few times, all the evolvers looked at him speechlessly. After Zhang Xiaoqiang lost his patience, a slightly shorter, curvy evolver took the initiative to take off her mask and smiled at Zhang Xiaoqiang. She looked as though she wanted to blind Zhang Xiaoqiang with her shiny blonde hair.
She stared at Zhang Xiaoqiang with a hint of flattery. Her porcelain white teeth were exposed outside her red lips, which made people unnaturally attracted to her smile. As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. This smiling woman tried her best to show her charm to express their goodwill. However, Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't feel anything towards this woman. His eyes were as cold as before, as if this beautiful western beauty was not much better than the ugly zombie in Ono's arms. His indifference made the beautiful woman very embarrassed, and the smile on her face became forced. She unnaturally raised her right hand and waved it, "Please forgive us for being presumptuous. My name is Jemma, Jemma Hixon. We have no bad intentions. We hope to cooperate with you. This is also the intention of our superior …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't understand much of the English that the girl spoke. At most, he could only make out her name. The name Jemma had a harmonious translation of the Chinese dialect, which left a deep impression on him. If it was a name like Charlotte or Christie, he wouldn't be able to remember it. However, he only remembered the woman's name and didn't understand what she was saying. He didn't understand, but Ono understood. At least his stern face softened a little. However, Jemma was speaking in British English, which was the same as what Jason and the others had spoken.
Jemma and the others could only speak English, but Ono didn't understand Chinese. Other than Mandarin and his hometown dialect, Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't even understand the dialects of Chinese, so he naturally couldn't communicate with Jemma and the others. He turned around and gave Ono a puzzled look, then ignored them and yelled at Ono, "Clear the way …" Ono didn't want to communicate with this group of people either. He pretended that he didn't understand English, and used retreating as his motivation to move forward. He turned around and walked towards his final destination. Jemma, who was watching Zhang Xiaoqiang and Ono leave, was extremely anxious. She pulled out the small communicator from her collar and wanted to call Lieutenant Colonel Byron, but she didn't know what to say. Could it be that the other party had rejected her request? Could it be that the other party's arrogance hurt her?
"Follow them, don't leave. We have no way out. Even if they belittle our self-esteem, don't leave. If we leave, we will die. I hope you won't fight back …"
The rest of the evolutionaries didn't make a sound. Even if Jemma didn't say it, they would still do it. Human rights were not important when they couldn't even hold onto their lives. Seeing Zhang Xiaoqiang walk away, everyone felt a chill in their bones. They thought about how many zombies were still chasing them, so they all started to chase after Zhang Xiaoqiang.
Zhang Xiaoqiang took the seven British and one Japanese with him, and after walking for the last ten kilometers, they finally reached the outskirts of Axe Mountain. Once they reached the outskirts, there were a few sentries. Jemma's team was more experienced in dealing with these hidden enemies, and in order to prove their usefulness, they sent the Japanese to Zhang Xiaoqiang one by one. Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't want to interrogate the Japanese, so he asked them to stay where they were while he led the team to the highest point of Axe Mountain.
Axe Mountain was very careful with their management of the camp. Along the way, evolutionaries who were hiding were found, and according to the usual practice, they were all knocked unconscious and left on the ground. The British didn't hesitate, and Ono didn't show any displeasure. He even seemed to be happy. The group slowly advanced to a 200-meter-high mountain about five or six kilometers away from Axe Mountain's camp. Although the mountain was only five or six kilometers away from the camp, because they had to go around the outskirts of the camp, Zhang Xiaoqiang and his team had to walk an extra twenty kilometers to reach the mountain. They were all evolutionaries, and the British were all Agility-based evolutionaries, so it took them less than two hours to reach the mountain. Even so, when they reached the foot of the mountain, they heard all sorts of metallic sounds coming from the camp. Then there were all sorts of shouts coming from the forest near the mountain. Apparently, the camp had discovered their invasion.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiao Qiang did not intend to attack the campsite by force. After the evolvers near the hilltop ran out and shouted, it became easier for them to climb the hilltop. Axe Mountain discovered that there was an enemy invasion, and it was a covert infiltration attack. The vast campsite immediately implemented a strategy of loosening the outside but tightening the inside. The hilltop that they were hiding on was not taken seriously, and it became a blind spot for Axe Mountain.
Standing on the top of the mountain, Zhang Xiaoqiang used the British military radio frequency telescope to capture the entire camp. This military telescope was the most advanced telescope that Zhang Xiaoqiang had ever seen. It was even better than the telescopes built into the tactical helmets of the New Era. Everything seemed to be happening right in front of his eyes. The telescope had a built-in microcomputer that could automatically focus and display the distance and height difference between the target and himself. It could also quickly search for the most threatening military weapons and mark all the targets in red. At the same time, it also listed the priority targets for attack. What made Zhang Xiaoqiang dumbfounded was that the radio antenna in the center of the camp had become the priority target.
What caught his eye the most were the evolved people running around the camp. They were dressed in all sorts of clothing, from winter to summer. They looked like a group of bandits before the liberation of China. Most of these evolved people did not have firearms, and they carried all kinds of strange weapons, looking for every corner of the camp with a fierce look on their faces. When Zhang Xiaoqiang roughly estimated the number of evolved people, he gasped. He had always thought that there were at most two thousand evolved people in this camp, and that was according to the information he had obtained before. He did not expect that there would be more than four to five thousand evolved people in the camp, and he had not seen any ordinary armed people.
The evolvers of Axe Mountain used all sorts of bright colors to dress themselves up like the demons in the Hundred Ghosts Parade. Other than using colors to draw patterns on their bodies, there were also some who wore masks of demons and ghosts to show their power. Some even wore armor from the Warring States Period, like moving statues, looking for enemies to vent their anger on. Even if these evolvers were just beginner evolvers, without the elite troops and the best weapons and equipment in China, Ono and Zuotian would never be able to take down the camp. Even he himself would not be able to do it. Although the Firebird Machete was good, its ability to control fire could not last long. After killing dozens or hundreds of people, he needed to rest, and the Zhanmadao could only be used as an ordinary weapon. Facing the chaotic attacks of thousands of people, even if he was as strong as a mutant beast, he had to run away.
At this time, the details of the settlement became clear at a glance. This settlement near the mountain paid great attention to its fortification, relying on a small river that was nearly 20 meters wide for protection. The river was artificially guided into a moat that surrounded the entire camp. This moat was like a noose that firmly locked the camp within a radius of several kilometers. On the side of the moat, there was a wall that was six to seven meters high. This wall was made up of giant logs that could not be hugged by strong men. The main body of the wall was not just logs. Zhang Xiaoqiang could see through the gaps between the logs that it was filled with mud and stones. The thickness of this wall was also two to three meters, enough for a lot of people to walk on it. God knew how many people had died just to build this wall. In addition to the wall, there were also many trenches and fortresses behind the wall. The trenches were like chess boards, and the fortresses were like flags. The crisscrossing flags provided a second line of defense for the camp. In the most densely packed place of the fortresses, Zhang Xiaoqiang also saw a piece of black land.
This piece of black soil was different from the others. It was like a piece of scorched earth that was isolated on the edge of a cliff. This seemingly scorched earth was covered in bright red vines. Involuntarily, Zhang Xiaoqiang aimed the binoculars at that piece of land. After the binoculars stopped moving for seven seconds, the binoculars continuously zoomed in on that piece of land. As the images continuously zoomed in, Zhang Xiaoqiang finally saw those bright red vines clearly. This type of mutated plant that he had never seen before, every branch and leaf was suffused with a dark red color. This color made him feel an oppressive disgust from the bottom of his heart. It was an indescribable feeling of disgust, as if this thing had brought an evil stench to this world from the day it was born.
Beside the plant was a gigantic pit, this pit seemed to have engulfed the charred ground. As his vision became clearer and clearer, he finally saw what was faintly discernible in the pit that was mostly covered by the plant. It was countless emaciated corpses piled up in the huge pit that was a few hundred metres wide. He couldn't see how deep the pit was, but when he thought back to the few houses filled with corpses, he had an idea. Without a doubt, the corpses in the houses were only a small portion of the survivors in the colony. The majority of the survivors were probably here, all drained of their blood and irrigated on the dark red and gloomy plant.
Suddenly, Zhang Xiaoqiang guessed what the plants were. Just like how he had used zombies as fertilizer to irrigate the mutated plants, Axe Mountain had also used the blood of the survivors to irrigate the plants. Then he thought about how Jason had forced Zuo Tian to reveal information about the colony. This time, Japan's biggest secret was exposed to the world. He finally understood why the British didn't search for the red algae, but instead searched for survivors all over the world. Perhaps they had the same plan as Axe Mountain.
At this time, Zhang Xiaoqiang suddenly realized something. Japan was finished. Since Axe Mountain and the British knew about it, then New Era, Genesis, and even the Americans and Russians knew about it as well. New Era was not a native of Japan, and they would not treat the Japanese as their own citizens. There were only two paths left for the Japanese: to be captured and bled, or to shed the blood of others. If his guess was correct, this evil plant could reap an unimaginable reward. The only thing that Zhang Xiaoqiang understood was that other than the Fountain of Youth, which could increase the lifespan of humans, the most tempting thing in the post-apocalyptic world was the ability to become an Evolver and improve the abilities of an Evolver. Other than the first time, nothing else was worth exchanging human lives for, let alone the future of humanity. Axe Mountain had more than double the number of survivors.
Along the way, the colony that was supposed to be under Axe Mountain's rule had been captured and slaughtered. There was also Okamoto and the other small and medium forces that had captured survivors and sent them to Axe Mountain. Everything was clear now. All the Evolvers that were sent or captured had become the fertilizer for the blood-colored plant. They had become the new Evolvers of Axe Mountain. And this was just the beginning. Perhaps not long after, all the survivors in Japan would become the prey of the strong and powerful forces. In the end, all the ordinary people in Japan would die, and this disaster would spread all over the world with the seeds and plants brought by the outsiders. At that time … Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't dare to continue thinking about it.