It turned out that the situation in the southern theater of operations was becoming less and less optimistic.

The zombies did not advance like a plate of loose sand, but steadily, and even in recent months, the zombies have developed a lot of advanced equipment to fight humans. First of all, the kind of signal jammer that appeared in Qingxiu City, the large-scale appearance has caused satellite signals in many places in the southern theater to be blocked, and it has been difficult for the empire to reconnoiter the zombies in the southern province.

There are also zombies who have even begun to stop killing indiscriminately, and after the zombies conquered human cities in the past, they naturally slaughtered on a large scale to satisfy their instinctive thirst for blood.

But now there is news from the front line that after the zombies attacked the city, they did not kill humans on a large scale, but were responsible for the high-level zombies with intelligence, and tried their best to capture humans and enslave and keep them in captivity.

This is a great improvement for the zombie civilization, they like to demand human blood, before they only knew how to kill humans and drink human blood. But now, they are clever enough to know that keeping captive humans in captivity is similar to humans raising pigs, and they have nothing to do, and they need to be killed again.

There is even definite news that the zombies are enslaving hundreds of thousands of captive humans, and are building the Dark City in the southern provinces, that is, the cities and empires that truly belong to the zombies.

The zombies in the southern theater of war, under the leadership of the Slaughter Corpse Emperor, have become more and more terrifying, and they have the ability to challenge the human empire.

They fought steadily, not rashly attacking the other provinces of the Chinese Empire, but slowly encroaching and digesting the southern provinces. It is estimated that they intend to completely wipe out the humans in the southern provinces and turn this place into their kingdom before they continue to expand outward.

After all, zombies have almost eternal life, and they are not in a hurry, but if they continue to operate and develop like this, humans will feel unprecedented fear.

Although the zombie army did not attack other provinces, in the past two months, there have been several zombie troops that have repeatedly attacked the defense line around Vermilion Bird City, and they have succeeded every time, as if the zombies can grasp the deployment of the defenders of the Vermilion Bird City defense line.

Chen Ning heard that the Metropolitan Governor said that there was an important task to be handed over to him, so he asked: "Metropolitan Governor, if there is anything you want me to do, you can just give orders." ”

Metropolitan Governor: "When you read the information just now, did you notice a report about the sudden increase in the number of missing people in the displaced area of Suzaku City?"

Chen Ning had just read the information that the Metropolitan Governor had shown him, and there was a very inconspicuous report, which was submitted from the exile area outside Vermilion Bird City. The report said that in the past two months, the number of displaced people outside Suzaku City has suddenly increased significantly.

At this time, hearing the Metropolitan Governor's inquiry, Chen Ning nodded: "I have noticed that the displaced area is very chaotic, and now there are about 10 million displaced people, these people live in poor conditions, and in order to compete for limited resources, they often kill each other in private. There should be many people who have been killed quietly, and many others may have quietly left and smuggled into other provinces to find a new way out. For a variety of reasons, the number of displaced people has skyrocketed!"

"I thought the same way you did at first, but yesterday I learned that the situation is serious. ”

Chen Ning was a little stunned: "Metropolitan Governor, I don't understand very well. ”

The Metropolitan Governor said: "Not long ago, a unit led by the butcher entered the southern theater of operations and launched a retaliatory attack on the zombies. The butcher's troops will kill the zombies when they see them, as long as they don't encounter zombies above level ten, the butchers can easily eat them. ”

Chen Ning still doesn't understand, what does this have to do with the sudden increase in the number of displaced people outside Vermilion Bird City?

The Metropolitan Governor saw Chen Ning's doubts and explained: "Later, after the butchers eliminated a group of zombies, they rescued more than a thousand humans who were kept in captivity by zombies. To the butcher's disbelief, many of them said that they were homeless people outside Suzaku City, and they were inexplicably attacked in the middle of the night, and they were directly knocked unconscious and kidnapped. These homeless people woke up to find that they had fallen into the hands of the zombies. ”

Chen Ning took a breath of cold air when he heard this: "It means that someone secretly kidnapped the homeless people and then sold them to the zombies?"

"That's why the report says that the number of missing people will increase dramatically. ”

Chen Ning couldn't believe it: "Who, who would do this? And what benefits can they get by selling their compatriots to zombies?"

The Metropolitan Governor snorted coldly: "Who knows, it may be that some rich people want to get the kiss of death from the super zombies to obtain eternal life, or there may be other reasons." But no matter what the purpose of these people is, the crime of betraying humanity and colluding with zombies is unforgivable. ”

The Metropolitan Governor paused and said, "Chen Ning!"

Chen Ning: "Yes!"

Grand Duke: "I am in a hurry to summon you here, and I want you to investigate this matter." I suspect that there is a group of people who are secretly cooperating with the zombies, not only providing the zombies with a steady stream of humans for the zombies to enslave, but even selling a lot of confidential information about our Vermilion Bird City to the zombies. Otherwise, with the several attacks on the defense line of Vermilion Bird City not long ago, how could the zombies be so accurate and hit our death hole every time?"

Chen Ning couldn't help but say: "If someone really colludes with zombies, then it is estimated that it will not be an ordinary person, and it may even be the wealthy gate lord of Vermilion Bird City, I am a little colonel to check on them, I'm afraid it will ......."

Grand Governor: "You don't have to scruple, just let go and check, everything is with me." However, before there is evidence, you can't make a statement, and this kind of thing spreads and has a bad impact. ”

Chen Ning was relieved when he had the words of the Grand Governor, and said, "Okay...... I have a request, though. ”

Grand Governor: "Say, if it's not too much, I'll meet you." ”

Chen Ning said: "I will be in charge of the troop duty schedule in the displaced area for the last three months. ”

Grand Governor: "Maintaining order in the displaced area is mainly the troops of the two legions of the Greedy Wolf Breaking Army, and letting them be in charge of this task is mainly due to the fact that they are the original defenders of Vermilion Bird City, and they are very familiar with this place. In addition, these two legions are ordinary legions, although there are many people, but the overall combat effectiveness is not very strong, not as good as the elite legions of the immortal bird, black shark and Canglong, so I let the two legions of greedy wolf and broken army take turns to be responsible for the basic defense inside and outside Vermilion Bird City, and I will give you a detailed troop duty schedule later. ”

Chen Ning nodded: "Thank you, Metropolitan Governor." ”

Grand Governor: "By the way, Bai Chongshan and Liu Luanlin have been guarding Vermilion Bird City for many years, and the two of them are very prestigious here, until there is definite evidence, you have to keep a low profile." After all, Liu Luanlin is Marshal Mutian's person, and you killed his son before, so I don't want Mu Shuai to protest to me at that time, and my protégé has a personal vendetta against his subordinates. ”

Chen Ning: "Understood. ”

The Grand Governor called his adjutant and asked the adjutant to give Chen Ning a copy of the duty schedule of all the troops in the displaced area for the last three months, and Chen Ning left the City Lord's Mansion.

That night, Chen Ning studied the situation of missing people in recent months, as well as the duty schedule of the troops in the displaced areas.

The next day, he asked the Bull Demon King to call the quartermaster Liu Ruyan.

Not long after, Liu Ruyan, who was wearing a cyan embroidered cheongsam and stepping on high heels, came to Chen Ning's office with Nana, and said with a smile: "Sir, you are in such a hurry to call me so early, is there anything wrong?"

Chen Ning didn't go around in circles with Liu Ruyan, and asked straight to the point: "Your Liu family firm, in the past two months, have there been caravans entering the southern war zone to do business and transport materials?"

Liu Ruyan didn't know why Chen Ning asked about this, and said honestly: "The southern provinces are either zombies or rebels, and the caravan is doing business here, so it's not easy to do." Our Liujia trading firm basically had no caravans to do business in the southern provinces three months ago, and our business was mainly in other provinces. ”

Chen Ning: "Are there any other trading houses still doing business in the southern provinces?"

Liu Ruyan: "Yes, but not much, according to what I know, it is about Ruyi Commercial Bank and Huafeng Commercial Bank, Ruyi Commercial Bank is the Bai family, and Huafeng Commercial Bank is the Liu family." The Bai family has Bai Chongshan, the Liu family has Liu Luanlin, and both trading houses have the Imperial Legion behind them, so they still dare to do business in the southern provinces. Especially the Liu family, it is said that their caravans have been in and out of the war zone frequently recently, and it is estimated that they have made a lot of money. ”

Chen Ning said: "Can you help me check these two firms, when will there be a convoy to go to the war zone recently?"

Liu Ruyan said: "It should be no problem. ”

Chen Ning added: "Remember, keep a low profile and find out when they will have a convoy to transport supplies to the southern theater next time, remember to notify me immediately." ”

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment when she heard this, she vaguely realized that Chen Ning seemed to be checking the caravan cargo vehicles of the Bai family and the Liu family, why, could it be that the Bai family and the Liu family's business house were doing illegal business?