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Although the pot was small, assembling it was still enough to cook for two or three people. At most, they would just have to cook a few more times. With a few packs of bread and biscuits, it would be sufficient.

Liang Tianyong found the zombie corpses on the ground unsightly. Seeing that Zhang Hu was busy and Gao Qingyang was injured, he called Ning Ting to help him carry the female zombie's corpse and throw it out of the lounge window down to the second-floor hallway. Afterward, they hurriedly closed the window.

The zombies here were no joke.

"That zombie corpse has no wounds. I wonder how it died?" Liang Tianyong asked as he walked.

Jiang Chu replied casually, "Probably starved to death. When I came up, this room was locked. As soon as I pried the door open, it rushed out. There's basically no food here."

Zhang Hu and Gao Qingyang set up a temporary stove, chopping the legs of the table downstairs to start a fire to boil the pot.

Jiang Chu withdrew her gaze. It seemed her previous choice was not wrong. She didn't know what these two did before, but their survival skills were quite good; they could handle almost anything.

Liang Tianyong emptied a backpack of instant noodles and bread.

To save space, they all carried bagged instant noodles, compressed biscuits, and small buns. His backpack contained twenty packs of noodles, ten bags of compressed biscuits, and three packs of small buns. On both sides of the backpack, he had stuffed eighteen chocolate bars and five lollipops.

He tossed a lollipop to Gao Qingyang and Xiang Shu each, then pulled out three bags of seaweed snacks commonly seen in supermarkets from a false wall.

Gao Qingyang took the lollipop and exclaimed, "You really have all the gear."

"Should we search this row of shops later? There must be food."

In fact, everyone in the team carried a significant amount of supplies in their backpacks.

Jiang Chu's backpack mainly contained medicine and daily necessities, but these were just for show since she had her own spatial storage and lacked nothing.

The remaining food in the other backpacks was enough for the team to last two or three days.

The food in Liang Tianyong's backpack alone was enough to feed the nine of them for a day.

The backpack Jiang Chu had assigned to Lu Jiaze also contained quite a few items. He set his backpack down and said, "There's not much left. A while ago, the Honghai investigation team came here. They only entered one unit, and after judging that the amount of food wasn't worth the trouble, they didn't continue searching."

Ning Ting paused and said with a smile, "The Honghai warehouse must contain a lot of supplies. Do you search for food by factories, or do you use a supermarket as a unit?"

"Both. After all, with thousands of people, we can't bother with small shops. In the beginning, before the internet went down, we marked several food factory locations. Some places were empty by the time we arrived late. Taking the Honghai Base as the center, we have basically searched all supermarkets within a ten-kilometer radius," Lu Jiaze said in an emotionless voice.

In this environment, gathering food was extremely difficult, especially raiding a food factory or several supply warehouses.

The people of Honghai were no freeloaders. Their supply gathering team alone consisted of several hundred people, and they lost quite a few members on each mission.

However, compared to other small bases, their strength was not weak, and their casualty rate was slightly lower.

In his heart, he hated He Yuanming to the bone, who had spared no expense in manpower and resources of the base just to eliminate him.

Lu Jiaze sighed, "Once the industrial park incident is over, Honghai will basically no longer be the largest base in Yi City. After the struggle for the leadership position, it will take a lot of time to recover, and we must also guard against being annexed by other bases."

Jiang Chu glanced at him lazily a few times, "Even if it's not the largest base, promises must be kept. If you want to destroy the Shiyuzhe, otherwise you won't even have a chance to recover. They will directly slaughter all of you, and as for that guy Cui Zhaodong... I can't guarantee I can deal with him."

This Shiyuzhe organization was incredibly bizarre.

Whether in her past life or this life, they were extremely sinister.

They weren't zombies, nor could they be considered pure humans, and they even ate human flesh. Yet, in less than two months, their organization had grown immensely powerful, with so many strongholds.

She wasn't threatening Lu Jiaze; either they completely destroyed the Shiyuzhe, or their thousand-person base would be wiped out.

Hearing her words, curiosity began to rise among the team members.

Gao Qingyang waved his hand and said with a flattering smile, "Is it really that formidable? I don't believe it. Captain, don't be so modest. Back then, in the entire Southern Base, not a single ability user was stronger than you. I heard Tianyong say that at the pharmaceutical factory, you killed those ability users without hesitation. This Cui Zhaodong is definitely no match for you."

Lu Jiaze's hand, which was adding seasoning, paused. "You came from the Southern Base in City A?"

Zhang Hu glared fiercely at Gao Qingyang. This guy's mouth never stopped, actually letting Lu Jiaze know their details. He looked nervously at Jiang Chu, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw she wasn't angry and gave him a reassuring look.

They were now in the same team, sharing honor and disgrace. How could Gao Qingyang flatter someone by exposing all their team's details to an outsider?

He would need to have a proper talk with Gao Qingyang later.

There was nothing to hide. Jiang Chu understood Lu Jiaze reasonably well, so she nodded. "Yes. Or do you know about the Southern Base?"

Lu Jiaze also nodded. "I know a little. The Southern Base was formerly the safe zone of City A. Back when the internet was still up, many people knew about it. Later, it broke away from the government's jurisdiction. They seemed to have connections with the old safe zone of City B and a certain large base in Dongcheng."

"A few days ago, when our food investigation team went to check the outskirts, they even encountered survivors fleeing from the Southern Base. They didn't look like ordinary survivors, but more like separated soldiers."

The team looked at him in confusion, unsure of what to say. In this time of no internet and no electricity, they unexpectedly heard news of their old base.

Jiang Chu asked with great interest, "Anything else?"

"No more. They kept their mouths tightly shut and wouldn't reveal any information. Our original intention wasn't to fight, let alone stop them from leaving. Looking at the direction they were heading, it seemed to be Dongcheng."

Dongcheng.

The location Qin Yan gave was also around Dongcheng.

Jiang Chu frowned. Perhaps in a while, she would have to make a trip to Dongcheng.

Lu Jiaze did not continue speaking. From the expressions of the others, it was clear that the Southern Base was indeed not a pleasant memory for them.

After chatting for a while, the water finally boiled. Xiang Shu added the noodles and seasoning. The pot wasn't large, only able to cook two packs at a time.

But they had plenty of time and didn't mind spending a bit of time to cook food.

Jiang Chu lowered her head in thought for a long time, then raised her head and seriously asked Lu Jiaze, "How much do you know about Dongcheng and the Black Market? Do you know where the Black Market in Yi City is and how often it opens?"

Lu Jiaze was stunned.

"I don't know much about Dongcheng, only that it is twice the size of Yi City, with one large base and quite a few other bases. As for the Black Market, what I told you last time is basically all I know. The Black Market in Yi City is located in a club not far from the Heihu Base, in the downtown area."