readx(); The battle ended quickly, without any stalemate like the last time we encountered mutants.
None of the thirty infantrymen who broke into the town were killed, and only one unlucky guy was shot in the leg by a stubborn mutant. The bullet happened to pass through his artery. Although the blood spurted out was a bit scary, the medical team rescued him in time and the guy was out of danger.
A total of 35 mutants were killed, 29 of whom were killed by mass bombs from the electromagnetic gun, and 6 who were killed by rifles or snipers. Five people were captured. Although mutants rarely accept the humiliation of being captured by humans, under the overwhelming firepower, the biological instinct of fear still defeated the ridiculous pride.
A total of 721 human captives were rescued. If the bodies hanging outside the town were all the dead, the population of this town before the mutants came would have been 779.
Bullet holes as big as a bowl can be seen everywhere on the outer buildings of the town, and collapsed cement houses can be seen everywhere. Half of them were destroyed by mutant attacks
The infantrymen of the Fish Bone Base are maintaining the discipline of the queue, registering all the rescued townspeople, and then distributing to them the nutritional mixture that originally belonged to them.
The five Hunter Tigers did not drive into the city, but stopped at the bridge of Zhufeng Highway. Several infantrymen carried cement bags and built five simple bunkers.
This move is very intriguing.
All the citizens of Shenxiang Town have one thought in their minds. Do these people want to stay here permanently
They always have an ominous premonition.
... ...
YZ-51 landed in an open space about half a kilometer outside the town, and Jiang Chen, wearing a mechanical exoskeleton, jumped down from it. Cheng Weiguo had already brought the former mayor of the town to greet him. After seeing him, he neatly gave him a military salute.
"Have all the people been counted?" Jiang Chen asked straight to the point.
"It's finished." Cheng Weiguo handed a tablet to Jiang Chen and showed it to him.
Jiang Chen swiped the screen and glanced at the statistical results.
Population: 721, 5 mutants captured.
24 machine guns, 72 rifles of various models and 100,000 rounds of ammunition were seized. One shoulder-fired missile launcher and five Feijian anti-aircraft missiles. 5 recoilless rifles. 40 rounds of ammunition. There were 40 sets of armor made of C-shaped steel, although most of them were beaten to pieces.
Looking at this batch of arms, Jiang Chen was secretly speechless.
Good guy, this arms reserve has almost caught up with all the assets of the Fish Bone Base.
I can tell. These mutants invested a lot in this outpost, but now they all belong to Jiang Chen.
The munitions were left here, and the armor was shipped back under his orders. Although these iron knots are useless to humans, it is still good to remove them and put them back into the furnace. There is still a shortage of C-shaped steel fish bone bases, and with these tens of tons of steel. Modifying two more armored vehicles will not be a problem at all.
In addition, there were hundreds of pickled corpses of mutated creatures. These things seemed to be the rations of mutants, and only mutants could eat such poisonous things. However, in the spirit of not wasting anything, Jiang Chen still ordered Cheng Weiguo to throw all these things into the organic refining furnace to make a nutritional mixture. Based on the fact that one mutated creature can extract a hundred nutrient mixtures, it should be no problem to extract a total of 10,000 nutrient mixtures.
Counting the 30,000 nutritional mixtures in stock, he doesn't need to worry about the food rations for these more than 700 people for the time being.
What excites him the most is the seized building materials. The mutant left a large amount of cement and steel bars in the warehouse, which were originally used to build the outpost, but now they are in his hands.
With this batch of ready-made building materials. Jiang Chen could completely build a reinforced concrete defense line on the shore.
He returned the tablet to Cheng Weiguo, and after giving a few instructions, he quickly took the order and left.
Then, Jiang Chen turned his attention to the mayor who had been standing there and smiled friendly at him.
Seeing Jiang Chen looking towards him, the mayor quickly bowed and continued: "Dear Mr. Jiang Chen, leader of the Fish Bone Base, on behalf of all the survivors of Shenxiang Town, I would like to express my highest respect to you. and gratitude.”
"You're welcome... By the way, what's your name?"
"Deng Bin."
"Okay Mr. Deng Bin, I want to go to the town office now. I wonder if you are free to take me there?"
"It's an honor." Deng Bin bowed again.
To be honest, the behavior of these "rescue soldiers" after dealing with the mutants made him, the mayor, very uneasy. However, at this moment, someone else was holding a gun, and the town's combat power was basically wiped out when the mutants attacked. He had no confidence and didn't know what to say, so he just followed Jiang Chen obediently.
Put your hands in your pockets. Jiang Chen looked at the surrounding buildings while walking on the road leading to the town office.
The smell of blood that lingered on the tip of his nose could not go away even after most of the day.
He didn't say anything along the way, which made Deng Bin feel a little unsure.
After hesitating for a moment, Deng Bin glanced at Jiang Chen. Still asked tentatively.
"In just three days, they massacred more than 60 of us. Thank you very much... the survivor forces from Qingpu. If there is anything we can do to help you, we will definitely help you." "
"I've already said it, you're welcome." However, Jiang Chen didn't answer, he just said something briefly and then stopped talking.
Just when Deng Bin was feeling anxious, unknowingly, the two of them had arrived in front of the town hall.
To his surprise, the leader of this mysterious force seemed to have no intention of going in, but just stood downstairs of the town office.
Should it be said that it is worthy of being a government agency building? It is indeed beautifully built. Judging from the degree of damage, this is the only building in the entire town that can be called complete.
"Speaking of which, has a man named Lin Chaoen been to your place?"
Deng Bin was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect Jiang Chen to suddenly ask this irrelevant question.
Frowning, he thought carefully and replied.
"There seems to be such a person... He came from Jia Shi."
"Didn't he tell you anything? For example, mutants are coming or something like that." Jiang Chen asked casually.
Looking at Jiang Chen blankly, Deng Bin shook his head and said, "No. He just stayed in our town for one night and then left in a hurry."
Didn't say anything
This is very unusual. If they desperately wanted to prevent mutants from going to Wanghai City, there was no reason why they wouldn't remind the people here to make preparations in advance. At least build a fortification or something to resist.
Jiang Chen frowned slightly and stared at Deng Bin's eyes carefully.
The confusion didn't seem to be fake.
"How do you remember him... I mean, what was there about him that deserved your attention?"
"Hey, this is it. Because the people who pass through the Zhufeng Highway are often scavengers from Jia City, looking for chips or parts removed from military equipment. These things are very popular in any place in the mainland. No matter how bad it is. They would also go to Liuding Town to buy a few boxes of canned sea fish and take them back, and the price would at least double. But only Lin Chaoen came back empty-handed."
"Did he come only once?"
"Yes, he probably took another route when he entered Wanghai City."
He nodded thoughtfully. Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.
Deng Bin, who was standing aside, was trying to figure out the expression on Jiang Chen's face, but he couldn't read any useful information. He didn't understand why Jiang Chen suddenly asked about the lone traveler. Is there any deep meaning in it
However, just as he was speculating, Jiang Chen spoke again, but this time he asked another question.
"Change the topic. What do you do for a living?"
There are more than 700 people, which is not a small number. This is not an urban area, and there are not many zombies that provide organic matter that can be used to refine the nutrient mixture. Although there are many alien species, they are usually those with strong combat capabilities. If they were hunting alien species, they didn't look like a group of survivors with high combat effectiveness.
"We are growing some crops on the farm outside the town to refine the nutrient mixture." Deng Bin looked into Jiang Chen's eyes and said cautiously.
The fruits of mutated plants cannot be eaten, but they are good as raw materials for refining nutritional mixtures. Many survivor groups in Qingpu will also grow such crops on the roofs of buildings and take them to the sixth block to exchange for sub-crystals or nutritional mixtures.
"Oh? What's the soil pollution level here, and what's the radiation level?"
Seeing that Jiang Chen did not show greed for the nutritional mixture in the warehouse. Deng Bin breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "It seems to be 9...and 20."
Regarding this, he had nothing to lie about. Those two data are very easy to measure. The radiation value can be measured with E, and the soil pollution level only needs to take a sample and add two drops of reagent.
"9? Very good!" Jiang Chen suddenly smiled, then reached out and patted Deng Bin on the shoulder, "From today on, the farm will be in your charge."
Deng Bin was stunned and looked at him confused. Didn't understand what he meant.
"Farm? Me?"
"That's right, who else could it be?" Jiang Chen looked at him with a smile and said.
After swallowing, Deng Bin asked in confusion: "If you want those mutated fruits, we are willing to pay tribute to you—"
Those things are worthless. Not to mention the current decline in the price of organic matter. Even based on the price two months ago, one ton of fruit would be enough to extract a hundred nutrient mixtures in exchange for ten points of sub-crystals. And the Ripper rifles they were holding cost twenty crystals, and they didn't seem to care about such a small gain.
Jiang Chen raised his hand to interrupt him.
"You misunderstood, we don't care about the rotten fruits you planted."
This is the truth, the fish bone base does not need nutritional mixture at all.
"What do you mean-"
"Didn't I speak directly enough? Mr. Former Mayor. I need you to take care of my farm for me." There were two words that Jiang Chen bit particularly hard, namely "former mayor" and "mine".
Hearing this, Deng Bin's face turned pale, and he stared at Jiang Chen with wide eyes, "You, are you going to occupy our home? You can't be like this-"
"But we can. The mutants have to pass through this river, and I don't allow it, so here we are."
"But they are all dead now..." Deng Bin said with difficulty.
Jiang Chen glanced at Deng Bin strangely, smiled and said: "Did you misunderstand something? Do you think we came here specially to rescue? I'm sorry to tell you that we are just fighting mutants, and here, It's just an outpost we captured from them. Besides, according to the rules in the wasteland, I rescued you, and you are all my prisoners."
Deng Bin's lips trembled and he couldn't say a word. He originally thought he was saved, but he didn't expect that it was just a change of ownership.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Jiang Chen didn't care.
"They are still coming back, and there will be a lot of them, but I will protect this place."
After a pause, he pointed to his feet.
"Relatively. From now on, this is my colony." (.)