After a day of rest, Gu Chengyuan arranged a new mission the next day: to clear the West Campus.
The mission's objective was to establish a zombie-free zone where survivors could engage in activities and even production.
The situation now was different from the beginning. Gu Chengyuan now had five combat squads under his command. With the help of the dormitory supervisor's office records in each building, they could accurately locate rooms that had been active before the apocalypse.
They conducted targeted searches for people and cleared out zombies.
Besides Gu Chengyuan's forces busy with combat preparations in the morning, the survivors were also organized, unlike before when most were idle and scattered.
After listening to Gu Chengyuan's instructions yesterday, Cai Anxin's Survivor Management Committee held a meeting overnight and devised a plan to enhance the physical fitness of all survivors, which began implementation this morning.
At six o'clock, all survivors were awakened room by room by the Survivor Committee led by Cai Anxin, thanks to Gu Chengyuan's previous methods in Shelter Zone 2.
Although many survivors showed dissatisfaction and even cursed, none dared to directly defy the orders, knowing that no one here would indulge them.
Under the organization of Cai Anxin and others, all 316 survivors, excluding children under ten, elders over seventy, and the cooks preparing breakfast, participated in morning exercises without exception.
They were divided into about six formations, each with around fifty people, running energetically on the rubber track outside the gymnasium. As a manager, Cai Anxin also led the run at the front.
Seeing Cai Anxin, a man in his fifties and former head of the Hongtu Group, running so earnestly, the other survivors gradually let go of their grievances.
After arranging the work in the morning, Gu Chengyuan strolled to the sports field, watched for a while, and seeing that they were well-organized and spirited, he felt reassured and walked back.
After breakfast, the troops set off according to the plan. Due to the short distance, only two Mengshi 3 Armored Assault Vehicles were used, serving as ammunition supply points and heavy firepower for emergencies.
Except for the drivers, others did not ride in the vehicles but followed behind on foot.
The five squads, fully armed with tactical helmets and bulletproof vests, carried various weapons and followed the vehicles like a flowing stream.
Gu Chengyuan walked on the side of the team, holding Xiao Hei, the military dog that reached his chest, while continuously assigning tasks.
"1st Squad to Building 21, 2nd Squad to Building 20, 3rd Squad to Building 19, 4th Squad to Building 18, 5th Squad to Building 17."
As Gu Chengyuan issued each combat target, the squads, led by their squad leaders, jogged toward their objectives.
The scene resembled streams branching out and flowing in all directions, the entire process well-trained and pleasing to the eye.
Jia Sanniu's 1st Squad was the first to reach Building 21. As they approached the dormitory, Jia Sanniu raised his hand to signal a stop, then issued the command to unlock safeties and advance tactically.
Click, click~
The soldiers of the 1st Squad crouched slightly, gun stocks against their shoulders, cheeks pressed against the cold gun bodies, eyes constantly locking the sights on potential danger through the 3x QMK-171 White-Light Scope.
They quietly approached the door of the dormitory supervisor's office on the first floor. Jia Sanniu first listened at the door, then gestured to the others, took a deep breath, and kicked the door lock area hard. Enjoying the story? Read on at NovelPing.
Bang~
With a loud crash, the door was kicked open. As Jia Sanniu dodged to the side, gunfire erupted.
Bang, bang~
The zombified dormitory supervisor aunt hadn't even reacted before her head was simultaneously hit by two 191 Assault Rifles, leaving two bloody holes in her forehead and a large hole in the back of her head. She fell to the ground, dead beyond any doubt.
After killing the dormitory supervisor aunt, Huang Jiaqi, maintaining a shooting stance, quickly advanced to the doorway, performed two rapid side sweeps to confirm no other zombies were in the dormitory, and then signaled OK to the others.
As he engaged the safety, he casually swung the gun to his side, slinging it over his shoulder, and began searching the office desk.
"Squad Leader, found something! The list is here!"
Jia Sanniu took it and saw an A4 paper with the list of remaining personnel. Scanning the distribution, he found that only twenty-one students were left in the entire building, all on the 14th and 15th floors.
To save time, he divided the squad into two combat teams, one led by Assistant Squad Leader Huang Jiaqi and the other by himself.
After forming the teams, Jia Sanniu led Combat Team 1 quickly up the stairs to the fifteenth floor. Carrying nearly 30 pounds of gear, the soldiers climbed fifteen floors in one go, only slightly out of breath.
To ordinary people, this might seem unattainable, but for their elite infantry squad, it was not a big deal, just moderate.
After all, during previous training, their warm-up before morning exercises was at least an eight-kilometer variable-speed run, with a daily running volume of nearly thirty kilometers.
Three-kilometer armed runs, five-kilometer armed runs, and even five-kilometer heavy-loaded runs were routine. The military training might not make their strength surpass ordinary people, but their endurance was certainly beyond reach.
The four of them quietly reached the iron door leading to the corridor, gently pushed it open, and Jia Sanniu angled his gun barrel out.
In the corridor, four zombies were frantically clawing at a security door in front of a dormitory.
My name is Ye Qing, and I'm in a panic right now.
The apocalypse has been going on for almost a week. Initially, I was very excited, feeling that my time had come and the unchanging society had ended!
As a follower of the "Survivalist Sage" path, I recalled countless apocalypse novel plots during this time.
I was convinced that I was the most dazzling golden scale, and as long as I mustered the courage to step out this door, I could transform into a dragon upon encountering a zombie.
I even imagined what kind of earth-shattering skills I would gain after killing zombies and extracting brain cores, and how many campus belles and celebrities from before the apocalypse I could woo. New chapters come out on novelping(.)com first.
But cruelly, I still didn't dare to touch the doorknob within reach, and the worst part was that after finishing my instant noodles, I dared not go out even after licking the bag for three days.
Just now, I was so dizzy from hunger that I fell and knocked over a chair, attracting zombies to the door!
If only I had mustered the courage earlier, now I'm so weak from hunger that I don't even have the strength to fight to the death.
Lying on the ground, Ye Qing's body was so limp that he didn't want to move, watching the security door being clawed open by zombies, the gap gradually widening.
Even with blurred vision, he could focus on the zombies' rotten faces, their almost bursting big eyes, and the huge mouths full of pus-yellow liquid, nearly splitting to their ears.
"Is this how the great Ye Emperor, the supreme of my generation, will fall into such a disgusting mouth?"
Although the zombies' appearance was so abstract, Ye Qing could still recognize his classmate Zhao Xiaopang.
"Damn it, you always borrowed money and never paid it back, joking that you were sucking me dry, and now you really are."
"Damn it, this shoddy security door, even if I become a ghost, I'll report you!"
"Oh Ye Emperor of the same name, I am your multiverse counterpart! Please lend me your supreme power to kill Zhao Xiaopang, who owes me money and wants to eat my flesh!"
Bang~
In his dazed state, Ye Qing seemed to hear a firecracker sound.
"Who's setting off firecrackers?"
Bang, bang, bang~
Then came a continuous sound of firecrackers.
"Damn~ I'm not dead yet, and they're already celebrating?"
.....
"Whatever~"
"I'm so hungry, can I have a bite before I'm buried~"
"I'm a waste!"
....
"Don't shoot, it's a live one!"