Namlong City, the large conference room of the city hall.

It was supposed to be a meeting of the Standing Committee, but it turned out to be an enlarged meeting. Mayor Guo Longchang, in his fifties, is a little bald, with half a hundred hair, a slightly hunched back, and a thick nasal voice when he speaks.

“…… Comrades, everyone spoke freely, expressed their opinions, this meeting was very democratic, the atmosphere was also very good, in this chaotic period of the world, everyone can still maintain such political consciousness, not chaotic, not impatient, I am very grateful, about the problem of insufficient police force mentioned by Vice Mayor Lai, we need to recruit mercenaries from the society to make up for it, everyone should take a stand. ”

"The society is unstable every day, the people's hearts are uncertain every day, I admit that the mercenaries must have a lot of problems, but at the very moment, extraordinary measures must be taken, we cannot deny that the combat effectiveness of the mercenaries far exceeds that of civilians, I agree with Deputy Mayor Lai's proposal." Vice Mayor Xiao, who is in charge of urban construction, was the first to raise his hand.

"There are difficulties above, we are temporarily powerless to support us, we can only rely on ourselves, the small situation must be subordinated to the overall situation, I agree with Deputy Mayor Lai's proposal, as long as those mercenaries who are too guilty are eliminated, I believe the citizens will understand."

"For the benefit of one party for the sake of one official, the safety of people's lives and property is not guaranteed, how can we talk about the legal system? I agree with Vice Mayor Lai's proposal. ”

……

Ten deputy mayors, except for Vice Mayor Ma, who was eaten by zombies, Vice Mayor Lai was the proposer, and the other eight deputy mayors all agreed to recruit mercenaries to replenish their troops.

Guo Longchang was very calm on the surface, but a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, Nanlong City was leaning on Governor Ma, before this, it had always been like this, so for a long time, with strong support from above, economic construction has moved forward steadily, but all this has changed after the outbreak of zombies, first of all, Deputy Mayor Ma was bitten to death by zombies.

Vice Mayor Ma is so afraid of death, there are more than a dozen guards in and out, even if he Guo Longchang is dead, Vice Mayor Ma can't die, but Vice Mayor Ma hung up, the Public Security Bureau investigated for three days and did not find anything abnormal, Vice Mayor Ma was very unlucky, a ghoul happened to appear near his mansion, when the police received a call to the police, Vice Mayor Ma's mansion was already in tatters, and Vice Mayor Ma also became a pile of minced meat, guards and bodyguards died, fled, and there was no living person at the scene.

He reported this matter to Ma Xuewang, Ma Xuewang didn't say anything, just said 'I know' and hung up the phone, very ordinary four words, without any meaning, but it made him feel cold for a long time. He didn't come to Nanlong City to pick up the beam, but to be a nanny, to escort Deputy Mayor Ma, and now that the person he wants to protect is dead, he doesn't know what kind of outcome he will face, but it is certain that there will be no good end.

There are monsters rampant outside, there are zombie turmoil inside, two-thirds of the police force and one-third of the army are suppressing the zombies in the city, and now the zombies are compressed into two towns, but because the best time to kill zombies was missed in the early stage, the zombies have evolved very quickly, and now it seems impossible to eliminate the zombies, the zombies were originally compressed in one town, and now they are two towns, and it is estimated that they will soon become three towns.

Vice Mayor Lai's idea of recruiting soldiers was mentioned to him not long after the zombie happened, and he suppressed it, and then mentioned it a few times, but he still pushed it over, although Vice Mayor Lai's reasons were high-sounding, but he was very clear about his ambitions. Recruiting soldiers privately is a taboo for those in power at any time, this kind of thing, those in power can do it, but the people under him must not touch it, Deputy Mayor Lai will not know this, and still ask for recruitment, wolf ambitions, obvious.

However, Nanlong City, which lost Deputy Mayor Ma, couldn't hold the scene alone, otherwise, there would not have been an expanded meeting this time.

Vice Mayor Lai is very young, 32 years old, at this age, even if he is placed at the county level, he still has to say that he is young and promising, and this person is indeed promising, whether it is policy or resources, in Nanlong City, Vice Mayor Lai cannot be compared with Vice Mayor Ma, let alone contacts, there is no comparison at all. Vice Mayor Lai started from the town clerk, step by step, the context is clear, and the relationship is very straightforward, he is such a person, but he presses Vice Mayor Ma everywhere, in Nanlong City, if he Guo Longchang retires, the highest voice is definitely Vice Mayor Lai, not Vice Mayor Ma appointed above.

Guo Longchang squinted at each deputy mayor, and finally stayed on Vice Mayor Lai for a few seconds, wearing a blue suit, white shirt, the whole person looked clean and tidy, his hair was meticulously combed, and his face was very calm, he still remembered that when he was just promoted to vice mayor, Vice Mayor Lai's face was pale, but now it has completely become wheat color, after taking office, he ran all over the township, took root in the countryside, and came back for three months, even if it is a show, it is not something that ordinary people can do, Guo Longchang knows, Vice Mayor Lai is definitely not a show, he is really down-to-earth. Compared with him, Deputy Mayor Ma is completely an academic and has too many showmanship.

Really young! In the midst of a bunch of bad old men with an average age of 49, the arrival of Vice Mayor Lai lowered the average age by one or two years. After all, this world is a matter for young people, thinking about this, Guo Longchang's heart was light, and he suddenly thought, why should he stand in the way of others, now in this troubled world, Ma Xuewang can't manage Nanlong City, can he still manage it, thinking of this, he didn't hesitate, and knocked on the table.

"For the benefit of the official one, it is well said, in extraordinary times, we can not be limited by the rules and regulations, the proposal on the recruitment of Vice Mayor Lai, officially adopted, I hope that Vice Mayor Lai will control the overall situation, eliminate the zombies as soon as possible, and return the general public a stable and peaceful social environment......"

Most people didn't notice that Guo Longchang said 'recruiting mercenaries' as 'recruiting soldiers', the difference between the words is completely different, mercenaries are limited to mercenaries and limit the scope of recruitment, while 'soldiers' are different, anyone can do it. Vice Mayor Lai's eyes flashed with a gleam, and his heart was put in his stomach, he knew that the biggest obstacle in front of him was not in the obstacle.

Lai's deputy mayor's name is Lai Qicheng, as soon as the meeting ended, he took the secretary, the driver and a few cronies to go straight to Fushang Town, Fushang Town is heavily guarded, many workers are under construction, a protective circle surrounded by a row of steel Great Wall, separating Fushang Town from other places, zombies are attracted to Fushang Town by tons of blood but because of insufficient troops, it was not eliminated in time, resulting in a catastrophe now.

Now it is already a very difficult thing to destroy zombies, and the way Lai Qicheng adopts is to eliminate and isolate at the same time. Isolation is to forge walls with steel, and elimination is to send strange soldiers to destroy the zombies one by one, this strategy is not clever, but it is the only way when there is a lack of heavy weapons.

The construction of the city wall has been done for a long time, and the recruitment has actually begun, and now through the municipal committee meeting, it is just to make the recruitment official. If he were a legalist, he would not have gone from a town clerk to the current deputy mayor in just ten years, holding great power. However, as soon as he arrived at the temporary command post, his face sank, because he found that there were many people missing.

"Director Zhang transferred people away, saying that he was arresting a wanted criminal." The deputy director explained in a whisper.

"What kind of wanted criminal? River Bandit or Interstellar Pirate? Lai Qicheng glanced at him lightly, and his face had returned to calm.

"Neither." The deputy director shook his head, "I heard that it was a young man named Liu Wei'an who killed the son of Vice Governor Ma." ”

"Nonsense!" The green aura on Lai Qicheng's face flashed away, for a person who could not cause harm to society, it was a waste to use dozens of valuable police forces, and when he touched his mobile phone, he slowly put it down when he was about to dial. Director Zhang and Vice Mayor Ma are in the same vein, and it is normal to lean on Vice Governor Ma, and you can't fall out with him at this time, Nanlong City is still a small city, and it can't do without the support from above. He said to the deputy director: "You will be solely responsible for the recruitment of troops in the future, I hope to bring back a team of 3,000 people within three days, is there a problem?" ”

"Guaranteed to get the job done." The deputy director straightened up and said loudly, because he was so excited, he almost bit his tongue. Soldier power, soldier power, there are soldiers means power, Lai Qicheng gave him the recruitment of soldiers, you can imagine the importance of him.

One director of the Public Security Bureau, four deputy directors, and the deputy director also sound good, in fact, the power is not as big as imagined, but Lai Qicheng's words let him directly ascend to the sky.

……

The meandering of the river, a river that could not have appeared in the city, has appeared, causing the emergence of this river, in addition to economic factors, there are also political factors. Needless to say, the economy is short-sighted, most people are short-sighted, and environmental protection is neglected for the sake of economic construction, and this inferior nature cannot be changed for many years. The political factor is because of factional struggles, the upstream of the river is Nanquan City, several factions are overturned, and several bills to control pollution have failed because someone has pulled back, and over time, no one cares about this matter.

Biological waste, excrement, and industrial sewage are poured into this river, Mars is short of water, most of the rivers are dry, and this river can be kept moist all year round, which has to be said to be a miracle.

Standing fifty meters away, you can smell the stench, feces, dead rats, rotting unknown animals, colorful industrial sewage, plastic bags, and more unknown things that have been dyed black, maggots crawling around, flies flying all over the sky, mosquitoes bigger than fingers, from time to time I see a mouse rushing out, and it didn't take long to burrow into the turbid water, and the plastic bag was churning. For the rats here, even the extremely hungry slaves dare not eat them.

Fat Tiger and Yang Tiecheng stood on the bank of the river for less than thirty seconds, and then they couldn't stand it anymore and hurriedly left, their faces ugly. The other mercenaries were not reconciled, and fired at the surface of the river, but they did not find it at all, so they had to leave the river bank, but they did not leave, and continued to search for a distance of about a hundred meters.

They believed that Liu Wei'an was nearby.