The second floor of the central city.
The six-story building of the headquarters did not collapse, but cracks appeared on the walls. The corridors were full of soldiers running hurriedly, holding cartons containing important documents and materials in their arms, and the beams of flashlights and forehead lights were waving.
The doors of all the rooms were open, with documents scattered all over the floor, except for a room deep on the second floor whose door was still tightly closed.
The room was very quiet, blocking the footsteps and voices outside the thick door. Chen Size, the governor of the Eastern Alliance Army, was sorting out documents at his desk, while his adjutant put the documents into a cardboard box. A brazier was lit in the middle of the room, and two soldiers threw the important documents that could not be taken away into the brazier to burn.
"Sir, please retreat quickly. Vehicles cannot drive, so you have to walk. Leave these follow-up matters to us." The adjutant whispered.
Chen Size stopped and sighed: "Let's all go, don't keep anyone here, everyone leave."
Several people walked towards the door, and Chen Size asked as they walked: "Are those beetles still there?"
The adjutant followed closely behind him and replied, "We just received a report from the soldiers. They seem to be living with the zombies. But after corroding the giant metal pillars, many beetles were eaten by the zombies."
"Born with the help of zombies..." Chen Size pondered and did not comment on this conclusion.
"So what should we do next?" the adjutant asked anxiously.
Chen Size said: "Ran Pinghao and I have always believed that the Central City is not impregnable. Even giant metals must have their flaws. In order to be cautious and prepare for a rainy day, our two armies have joined forces to clear the wilderness on the other side of the mountain. A part of it was opened up as a mine and plantation, and the remaining large area was to deal with the situation today. It's just that the situation I imagined was many years later. I didn't expect that this kind of beetle would suddenly appear now, and the city would be destroyed so quickly..."
"So have you been living in the wilderness behind the mountain ever since?" asked the adjutant.
"We must come back. We must come back after we get rid of the beetles. The wilderness is full of mutants. We can only stay in such a place temporarily." Chen Size went downstairs quickly, his leather shoes tapping on the floor. "The most important thing is not the mutants. As long as the problem of zombies is not solved, no matter where we live, there will only be more and more zombies. In the end, we still have to build a sky city to separate ourselves from the zombies. It will be much easier to repair the central city than to rebuild a new city."
The officer replied carefully: "But as long as there are zombies, there will be beetles. It is difficult to eradicate them, and it will not be easy to return to the central city."
"No, that can't be the reason." Chen Size waved his hand. "There are many zombies in other places, but why are there no beetles? I think they are related to giant metals. Only places with a lot of giant metals can produce this kind of beetles."
"But Central City has been built for so many years, and the beetles only appeared recently."
Chen Size stopped walking, his eyes becoming sharp. "The first person to discover this kind of beetle was the man who made the necklace out of the giant metal. He said he discovered it by accident one day three months ago. So think about it, did Central City encounter anything unusual three months ago?"
"Three months ago... something unusual happened..." The adjutant's expression was stern, "This darkness started three months ago."