Chapter 104: Orangutans
Night.
Tang Zheng looked at the radar screen, and Tangtang sneaked out along the river.
He knew that the little guy was looking for something to eat.
Its food may be zombies, maybe it may be mutants, whatever it is, this little guy is getting bigger and bigger.
Now its tentacles are stretched out and have exceeded eight meters.
Despite this, Tang Zheng still felt that Tangtang was not big enough.
"Before the corpses arrive, I hope you can grow up a little more, the bigger the better."
Maybe Tangtang sensed Tang Zheng's thoughts, and when Tang Zheng woke up the next morning, he saw Tangtang, which was a little bigger, sleeping in the waterhole.
"It seems to be a little bigger, almost 8.5 meters."
Today is the day of negotiations with the alliance, and Tang Zheng did not participate in person.
The person in charge of the negotiation on the side of Chasing Light City was Guo Yun with a few scientific research soldiers, and Tang Zheng gave them a task, that is, not to complete the negotiation today, not to complete it tomorrow, and when the day after tomorrow, he will go over in person before giving a result.
Guo Yun, who had received Tang Zheng's order, understood and began to argue with the negotiation team of the scientific research soldiers and Lianna.
The two sides exchanged views on a number of issues, such as the level of taxation, demographic discrepancies, and the possibility that the alliance would send garrisons to help defend the city.
On the issue of demographics, the Alliance believes that everyone in the City of Light must pay taxes, which is a rule set by the Alliance.
Guo Yun and the others believe that there are a large number of mercenaries and adventurer groups in the city now, these people are not permanently stationed in the city of light chasing, but sometimes they will transport supplies back, these people should not be considered as a member of the city of light chasing, and the city will not pay taxes to them.
The two sides talked back and forth on this issue for a morning, and in the afternoon, they reached an agreement that these people would not be required to pay taxes.
However, the number of these people is very large, and the specific statistical work is also a difficult problem.
There is also the issue of taxation, Guo Yun believes that if the alliance wants to garrison troops, then it should not continue to be taxed, these two problems should not exist at the same time, please make a choice on the alliance side, either negotiate on the garrison issue, or negotiate on the taxation issue, when the alliance does not give a clear answer, the negotiation cannot be carried out.
On the first day of negotiations, it was only a matter of not a problem, because once the city agreed to garrison, then there was no point in taxing the population.
Lena and the others returned to their residences and were quite satisfied with today's negotiations.
Because the city of chasing light has not completely sealed the mouth of the garrison, it seems that there is still some talk.
It seems that Tang Zheng also realized that his current shortage of manpower is not enough to defend such a large city.
He wants to use the power of the alliance, but he doesn't want the alliance to have an advantage here, and the degree of this has to be carefully controlled.
After discussing it for a while, and after consulting Xie Jinshan, they decided to completely abandon the issue of taxation and go all out to win the garrison.
The next day's negotiations, the issue had to be finalized.
When the negotiations began the next day, Tang Zheng had already left the city of chasing light.
He has now come to Fengcheng.
Feeling that the zombie army should have passed Fengcheng, Tang Zheng wanted to go over to see the situation, but what he didn't expect was that the zombie army turned a corner here in Fengcheng and did not continue to the north, but entered the Fengcheng area.
This made Tang Zheng a little confused, and he didn't know what this corpse group was going to do, so he followed him to the sky above Fengcheng.
On the roof of a high-rise building more than 100 meters high, the plane landed.
Helicopter landing here is also very risky, because there are quite a few mutant birds in the sky over the city.
When the plane arrived, many mutant birds tried to get closer, and the soldiers kept shooting and expelling them, and it took a long time to find a place to land.
Tang Zheng stood on the rooftop, watching the corpses pouring into the city below.
The number of this corpse group is at least 600,000, but after entering Fengcheng, it is nothing.
In Fengcheng, hundreds of millions of zombies are scattered in every corner of the city.
The arrival of this group of corpses is like a river flowing into the sea, and it is not at all inconspicuous.
However, Tang Zheng soon discovered that the river was not simple.
When the corpses entered the city, they attacked the zombies around them!
This surprised Tang Zheng.
You know, when zombies are alive, they never take the initiative to attack each other.
When they die, their companions will devour their corpses, but not when they are alive.
But I didn't expect that this group of corpses would attack the zombies in Fengcheng.
The attacked zombies naturally did not wait for death, and immediately began to fight back.
Zombie battles are brutal and bloody, attacking each other with sharp teeth and sharp claws, just like wild beasts.
However, humans are not beasts in nature, and their minions are not as powerful as beasts, and it is difficult to kill the opponent with a single blow.
You bite me, I grab him, and he bites you again.
The intestines are pulled out, it doesn't matter, the bones are exposed by the bite of the face, and I don't care.
Until one side is completely torn apart, the victor may not be able to enjoy a good meal, because soon others of the same kind will come.
In such a battle, ordinary zombies can only be consumables, and there is no eternal winner.
The real victors are those mutated zombies, or the strong ones who are about to become mutated zombies.
Their minions are sharper and their defenses are stronger, and it is difficult for ordinary zombies to attack effectively, but they can easily kill ordinary zombies and easily obtain food.
The more it devours, the more powerful it becomes, and this kind of battle is a virtuous circle for mutant zombies.
As the battle progresses, the number of fallen zombies is simply uncountable.
But in this group, there are more and more mutant zombies.
When Tang Zheng saw a licker appear in the group of corpses and keep killing other zombies, he completely understood the intention of the leader of the corpse group.
It's building an elite zombie army!
"I didn't expect to make the zombies evolve in this way, and even the lickers came out, this group of corpses is not easy to deal with."
Tang Zheng took the telescope and continued to observe the situation of the corpses below, and soon made another discovery.
"That zombie looks so big."
He found a huge zombie in the corpse group, which seemed to be more than three meters tall.
With a wave of his arm, this zombie can smash the iron armor more than two meters high next to him with a single punch, and then put it in its mouth and devour it.
Compared to the iron armor, it is more than two heads taller, and the robustness of its body has increased exponentially.
If an iron armor can have 200 kilograms, it will have at least 400 kilograms.
Through the telescope, Tang Zheng could clearly see the hideous face of this zombie.
The zombie's face has changed a little, there are not many human appearances, more like beasts, the fangs are poking out of the mouth like vampires, and the torso and arms are incredibly thick, looking like a gorilla magnified countless times.
The head was as big as a water tank, and the cuticles on his body had changed.
The cuticle of the original ironclad zombie resembled scales, but now the cuticle of this orangutan zombie is thicker, and there seems to be a layer of oily substance on the surface.
"At the beginning, the skin of the iron-armored zombie could barely resist rifle bullets, and the defense of this kind of orangutan zombie seems to be much stronger than that of the iron-armored zombie."
Tang Zheng waved his hand to a sniper, "Shoot this thing." ”
This sniper is not Chu Xuan, but a one-star sniper who was transferred from the field company after Chu Xuan served as the commander of the city guard company.
Given the order, the sniper raised his gun on the rooftop and opened fire on the orangutan zombies below.
"Bang!"
One shot hits.
Tang Zheng was in the telescope, and clearly saw that the orangutan zombie's body staggered, and the shot hit the top of the head, and some black-brown blood oozed out.
The hit was hit, but it didn't kill, it only caused minor injuries to this zombie.
"General, this Steyr sniper rifle of mine is 7.62 mm caliber, and there is no problem with sniping iron armor, but it is not enough to cause lethal damage to this zombie."
Tang Zheng did not hesitate and immediately bought a Barrett in the system.
"Try this gun."
The Barrett sniper rifle is known as the king of sniper rifles, with a large caliber of 12.7 mm, capable of penetrating even armored vehicles.
Tang Zheng didn't believe that this kind of orangutan zombie could still block Barrett's shot.
The sniper took the new gun and was about to take aim when the situation changed.
The orangutan zombies below seemed to sense danger and entered a building on the side of the road.
Not only it, but also the two lickers, also entered the house on the side of the road, and did not give the sniper upstairs an angle to shoot.
"The Corpse King, the Corpse King of this corpse group, has already discovered us, but he hides in the shadows and refuses to appear, and now he finds out that we are going to snipe high-level zombies, and he has taken precautions."
Tang Zheng can also be sure at this moment that the corpse king of this corpse group has wisdom that is not inferior to that of humans.
But Tang Zheng didn't want to give up so simply, he had to wait for another opportunity.
From morning to afternoon, Tang Zheng has been waiting for an opportunity on this rooftop.
With the portable radar there, he doesn't worry about being surrounded by zombies, and with the helicopter there, he can leave at any time.
In the process, he found that the corpses had changed again.
A large number of zombies poured into the building, and many zombies were still holding some sundries.
Tang Zheng even saw that a group of zombies pushed a rusty cash truck into the room.
Seeing such a move, Tang Zheng had some guesses in his heart.
He felt that the zombie leader might be trying to protect the orangutan zombies and lickers.
If this is the case, the zombie will be much more difficult to kill.
His suspicions were confirmed in the afternoon.
The orangutan zombie that appeared again, the top of the head, was really protected.
Large pieces of bulletproof door fragments, bulletproof glass, and some iron filings, and even metal rust, were covered with the oily material on the zombie's head.
This made the already huge head of the orangutan zombie immediately grow two times larger, and the defense looked extremely terrifying.
Looking at this artificially modified monster, Tang Zheng asked the sniper: "Are you sure to shoot it?" ”
The sniper was also a little unsure: "If it was the kind of orangutan before, it should be able to shoot, but it's hard to say now, the thickness of those protections and the cuticle of the zombie itself make it much more difficult to shoot, and this kind of zombie has already taken precautions against me, I'm not sure, but I can try." ”
Tang Zheng waved his hand: "No need to try, there are too many zombies here, even if you can kill a few, it will make the corpse king realize the lack and have more preparations, in a few days, maybe someone else will try it for us." ”
(End of chapter)