Chapter 1891: Chapter 1891
Su Sigui appeared helpless; how could she not wish to make that [Dried Leaves Sanctuary] a little bigger? But the difficulty lies in the fact that a sanctuary city capable of housing 300,000 people being just in time for completion at this moment is already the greatest fortune.
Tang Ye didn’t say anything further. He also understood the bitterness in her heart. He had long known that the Cloud Gorge Base housed over 20 million people. He never had a clear concept of this number, but upon seeing the sea of people outside, he marveled at the population explosion in the Cloud Gorge Base!
If this turns into a zombie tide, even for a Level 9 New Human stronghouse like Su Sigui, it would be quite a headache!
"By the way, why did you name your sanctuary Dried Leaves? It’s very strange."
"Strange is right." Su Sigui laughed, then explained, "The name came from a comment I once saw in the comments section of a song on a music app. It said that the flame of humanity will one day reignite on a pile of dried leaves called hope. If we lose this battle, humanity might never have a chance to rise again, and we will have a long history as livestock to be slaughtered. But no one can guarantee when this history will end. Perhaps in the future, zombies will go extinct and humans will fare no better, or humans might endure millennium after millennium in darkness. Or, perhaps, in the long years to come, someone might emerge as a legend, leading people to overthrow history and revive this civilization that belongs to humanity."
"If such a thing really happens, everyone, whether they survived in the Dried Leaves Sanctuary for a long time or barely scraped by on the surface, will be a trigger for the birth of that legendary person."
"Don’t you think so?" Su Sigui looked at Tang Ye, seemingly wanting his affirmation, to which Tang Ye pouted and said, "Rather than what you’re saying, I’m very curious about what your current psychological state is like."
"As for me, I don’t think I could place hope in future generations. By that time, I’d be dead and gone. Why worry about such things?"
"Alright, I can’t really explain it clearly either. After all, humans are inherently contradictory." Su Sigui said as she propped her chin, and just then, her phone suddenly rang. Upon checking, it seemed someone had sent her a voice message on the chat interface.
"Mayor, Camutos’ action route map has been transmitted to your phone. Remember to check it."
Su Sigui didn’t reply. She directly opened the document sent above. The phone screen was initially blank, but soon dense lines spread out with textual annotations for some region names. It should be a map, but Tang Ye didn’t grasp what places were presented on it at first glance.
Until Su Sigui zoomed out of the map, Tang Ye immediately spotted an eye-catching winding yellow line. Although he wasn’t sure whether this yellow line represented the route map of that Zombie King Camutos, he noticed Su Sigui’s face visibly turning somber upon seeing this yellow line.
"What’s wrong?" Tang Ye asked.
Su Sigui was silent for a long time and didn’t answer immediately. The atmosphere was probably quiet for over ten seconds before she finally put down her phone, looking expressionlessly at the street view being pulled closer by the moving vehicles.
Finally, she said, "It’s already completely certain that Camutos has entered into China, but that’s not the point. The point is it bypassed survivor bases it could have encountered around. You understand what I mean, right?"
Hearing this, Tang Ye’s expression also turned grave. Just what he feared is happening!
"Well, have to admit, this confirms many people’s theories that those Zombie Kings are in collusion."
"Alas, it was expected." Su Sigui sighed.
The Zombie King entering China, not only refrained from attacking nearby survivor bases but also carefully bypassed them. To most people, this might not seem like a bad thing, but Su Sigui and her group knew that Camutos lingering without reason in the Indian territory for such a long time and then suddenly starting to move while sparing so many survivor bases around established that those Zombie Kings coming closer to the Chinese Continent were indeed colluding!
Why did other continents turn into lifeless forbidden zones? It was due to those Zombie Kings recklessly plundering! To satisfy their own cravings for flesh, they devoured all living beings in their land! Long periods of hunger forced them to depart from their homelands to the resource-rich land of China!
The reasoning of high-level zombies is no less than humans’. However stupid they are, after starving for so long, they should know the meaning of ’fishing by draining the pond’ and understand the importance of sustainable development!
For this reason alone, Camutos didn’t approach those survivor bases but skirted them from afar. It understands that its mere existence holds terrifying destructive power. Rushing in recklessly would only destroy the already few resources.
If you compare the Zombie King to a person living in a sanctuary, then for them, the survivor bases and sanctuary cities are like herds of pigs, ducks, cows, and sheep raised in "sanctuaries!" And these pigs, ducks, cows, and sheep are the "entire world’s" remaining food. Once consumed, there’s none left.
Now more than ever, as beings seeking survival, the Zombie Kings should know to cherish food.
They are ’people’ yearning to continue living. If they kill livestock recklessly without understanding moderation to satisfy their appetites, then one day, with the disappearance of food, they too will slowly starve to death!
If they wish to live, they too must give the ’livestock’ some time to breed, reasonably schedule their meal times, and create more living resources!
Before this, if Camutos rashly approached those survivor bases, its own intrinsic destructive power would be no less than tossing the already extremely scarce ’meat cans’ into the trash, wasting them!
Camutos is well aware of its mighty passive destructive capability; hence it chooses to evade those survivor bases. However, the existence of Zombie Kings like it is not singular. Allowing it to approach survivor bases and waste ’meat cans’ is inevitable!
Zombie Kings are not humans, but can anyone guarantee they are more generous than humans? If Camutos can’t get certain things, how can it ensure that, at the very end, it will share in the benefits?
On this point, it indicates that, even if Zombie Kings come in conjunction, among them there must be someone to serve as a leader, to take on the role of commanding, and this leader can only be the Radiation Zombie King Ryle, who is more familiar with human society!