You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!

Chapter 129 Hope is just like a meal

Hope is like food.

You can't go without it.

The government was once their hope.

Until time passed and that flicker of hope gradually extinguished.

Thousands of survivors hid like rats, terrified of making even the slightest noise, lest they be devoured by those ever-present Wraiths outside.

The company's people later rescued them from various neighborhoods, shops, and even schools.

And so a new hope was born.

It didn't matter whether it was Lin Mo or the kids, their thinking was now very simple.

They wanted to survive by any means possible, and it was best to find a job in the company, so they would never have to worry about going hungry again.

Only those who have starved know how painful that feeling is.

You wish you could swallow everything you see.

As for the military—

Besides the intermittent broadcasts, there was nothing else.

Perhaps they would appear suddenly one day, but for the survivors struggling in the city, solving the immediate problems was the most important thing.

Opportunities come and go in a flash, and Lin Mo certainly didn't want to let the chance he had risked his life for go to waste.

Moreover, who said there were only three of them?

There were plenty of people outside.

There are currently four zones in the safety area.

The first zone starts from the villas and goes to the second intersection to the west, with more than twenty habitable buildings in between.

The second zone extends from the second intersection northward to the department store.

There are few residential buildings there, mostly shops.

The third zone is where Lin Mo and the others are located, made up of two neighborhoods and a street, but there are only just over a hundred survivors living there.

Continue west from here, and you reach the industrial area to the west of the city center.

It is also the fourth zone that the company is actively clearing.

There are hardly any survivors.

They're all in the factories.

Their previous task was to clear the remaining zombies indoors with other survivor teams.

At first, without equipment provided by the company, people were often injured or killed.

Now, such incidents have become quite rare.

Indoor spaces are cramped, and with a person wielding a shield, a well-coordinated team of five can easily handle the dozens of zombies within a building—

assuming that these zombies don't swarm the corridors.

There are two such teams in the third zone.

One is Lin Mo's group, and the other is led by someone named Liu Bing, who everyone calls Big Soldier.

This man has only three people under him, so naturally, they are not as strong as Lin Mo's team.

And the other party was looking at him calmly, the silence of his expression explaining the answer.

Ten minutes later.

Bang.

The man punched the table.

"Why should you be the captain?"

"Our guys are the majority, if anyone, Bing should be the captain!"

But no sooner had his words fallen than someone on the other side started scoffing.

"Just because you have more people?"

"Our boss hasn't even spoken yet!"

Aside from Lin Mo and Liu Bing's groups in the room, there was another group of people, six strong, and three of them were carrying shields.

In the current scavenger teams, this was definitely considered a luxury lineup.

The leader was a woman with an indifferent expression, named Gao Feng.

Unlike the others in the room.

She hadn't been rescued, but had escaped to a safe area with her family, and it took her less than a week to stabilize her position.

"Did you really see the company's chairman?"

"What does he look like?"

The woman didn't dwell on her subordinate's issue, instead asking about Zhang Ye's intelligence.

She queried everything from his appearance to his attire.

It was clear that not only she was curious about the company chairman, by the end even the hot-tempered Liu Bing was listening intently.

"Are you sure that kid is the company chairman?"

"Could you have mistaken him for someone else?"

But after hearing Lin Mo's description, he couldn't help but feel a bit skeptical.

He looked like a college student?

Could he be that young?

The kid immediately rebutted, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"You all know Xu Lin, right?"

Everyone nodded at once.

"Then Xu Lin was standing right behind him."

"How long have you all been here, when have you ever seen him play bodyguard for someone else?"

With these words coming out of his mouth, suddenly all the doubt in Liu Bing and others' hearts was dispelled, and each face became somewhat complicated.

They had thought that Lin Mo's team was completely finished.

But who would have imagined that the three of them would turn misfortune into a blessing, not only meeting Xu Lin but also the legendary company chairman Zhang Ye?

But the task that this chairman assigned to them was also rather dangerous.

Scout and capture mutant zombies and Mutant Beasts?

With just them?