This was already the fifth day that Lu Bai had been in this world.
In sight were all dense and disorderly trees, most of which were not straight, with crooked branches.
Underfoot was a one-person-wide yellow mud road, or more accurately, it was hard to even call it a road; it was more appropriate to say it was a passage formed by occasional passersby.
It was completely a standard wilderness in the suburbs.
Afternoon sunlight filtered through the branches and leaves, sprinkling on the decayed and rotten wooden stakes; this scene did not feel pleasant, but instead stirred up irritation.
As for why Lu Bai came to this place, it had to start from the location information announced one hour ago.
Previously, he had always been searching for death fighters based on the location information; although the efficiency wasn’t very high, there were no better methods.
However, from the recent few rounds of announced location information, he noticed something rather strange.
Quite a few death fighters seemed to be gathering toward a certain place.
This was very strange.
What was in that place attracting the death fighters?
After reaching this conclusion, there was nothing more to say.
Even if there was nothing there, just seeing the more than thirty red dots already gathered in that area, Lu Bai had to go join in on the fun.
However, he was unfamiliar with life in this city and had forgotten to grab a map from the department store.
So he followed the principle that the straight line between two points is the shortest, heading straight toward that area.
Who knew that after leaving the urban area, it became increasingly desolate, without even seeing an urban-rural fringe area.
“Roughly five to six kilometers in straight-line distance, behind this mountain?”
Lu Bai looked up at the mountain in front of him and licked his somewhat dry lips.
On flat land, let alone five to six kilometers, even fifty or sixty kilometers wouldn’t be a problem for Lu Bai at full speed.
But mountain roads were different.
Those who have hiked through mountain forests know that even such a short distance might take a full day without guarantee of completion.
Not to mention the possibility of slipping and falling during the journey, which could be fatal.
Fortunately, Lu Bai’s current physical fitness was no longer that of an ordinary person; if he moved a bit faster, he should arrive before dark.
Of course, walking such sparsely populated roads wasn’t without benefits; at least there was no worry about zombies suddenly jumping out.
Lu Bai continued along the path deeper into the mountain forest, where the surrounding environment became increasingly cold and eerily quiet.
When he finally reached the mountain top, he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
In fact, upon arriving at the mountain top, he didn’t even need to look from a height; as long as his eyes worked, he knew the situation of that place attracting many death fighters.
At the angle between two mountains, there was a military base with a massive footprint.
Calling it a fortress would be entirely appropriate.
A road extended from the base’s main gate, with a tunnel piercing through the mountain, connecting the base to the outside world.
In the watchtowers around the base, fully armed soldiers were on vigilance.
At the tightly closed main gate, there were dozens of soldiers guarding it.
In front of these soldiers, at least over a thousand civilians were queuing for inspection, seemingly allowed entry into the military base only after confirming no infection.
As for the training ground inside the military base, it was covered with continuous military tents.
Looking down from above, it was quite spectacular.
During this time, vehicles occasionally emerged from the tunnel, apparently survivors who had escaped from the city.
Lu Bai was slightly dumbfounded; after seeing this scene, he vaguely remembered hearing it mentioned on the broadcast.
【Nearby residents, please head to the suburbs for shelter as soon as possible while ensuring your own safety…】
However, due to the influence of zombie films from his previous life, he hadn’t taken it seriously.
So you can actually seek shelter here.
“Stereotypes are no good.”
To be fair, this situation was actually the normal development.
Film and television works need to render a doomsday atmosphere to highlight the protagonist group’s difficult survival; reality doesn’t need that.
The fact is, as long as the army survives the initial chaos, even with only one to two hundred people, clearing a city of hundreds of thousands presents no great difficulty.
After the Maxim machine gun took the historical stage, traditional dense charges had lost all meaning.
Television and games weaken the lethality of firearms; flesh-and-blood bodies are also more fragile than commonly imagined.
You know, the damage a 7.62mm bullet inflicts on a human body is completely excessive.
Hitting the body, it first leaves a hole at the entry point, and the exit wound is chiseled out larger than a fist.
Without exaggeration, among currently known carbon-based lifeforms, including dinosaurs, none can withstand a 7.62mm bullet unscathed.
Conventional heavy machine guns fire 12.7mm and 14.5mm caliber bullets, which are basically trunk separators for humans.
Zombies, even the absurdly tough ones Lu Bai had seen, still fell within the scope of carbon-based lifeforms.
The army facing a zombie tide might even be easier than facing an equal number of humans.
After all, zombies won’t turn and run.
However, this situation wasn’t actually too good for Lu Bai.
Standing on the mountain top observing for a while, he roughly estimated that this military base now probably had tens of thousands of people.
Tossing dozens of death fighters in wouldn’t even make a splash.
Most importantly, even if Lu Bai found the death fighters mixed in, it wouldn’t be easy to act openly.
But he had already come…
He somewhat headache-inducingly pressed his temple, hesitated for a moment, then headed toward the military base along the downhill path.
……
“Halt!”
On the wall, a soldier in camouflage uniform raised his gun and aimed at Lu Bai.
The wall on the side of the military base was a full ten meters high, and its reinforced concrete material left no doubt about its sturdiness.
After a simple observation and seeing no obvious wounds on Lu Bai, the soldier pointed his muzzle toward the gate: “Go queue for inspection.”
“Okay.”
Lu Bai obediently nodded; he had originally planned to climb over the wall directly.
He thought to himself: “Even such a remote place has guards; it seems this base has more manpower than I imagined. With such strong defensive power, probably no death fighters dare to kill here; in a sense, it’s a safe zone?”
Lu Bai pondered as he blended into the crowd.
Anyway, there were still over a thousand civilians queuing for inspection outside the gate; blending in wouldn’t stand out.
Two rows of checkpoints temporarily set up with tents divided the queuing crowd into two lines.
Under the influence of occasionally needing to maintain order, the queue’s progress speed couldn’t be considered fast.
Lu Bai looked around; the people in the crowd around him didn’t look to be in good mental states, and many even had bloodstains on their clothes.
Presumably, it hadn’t been easy for these people to survive and reach here.