C21

The next day, after a short rest, all the guards began a carpet clean-up of the forbidden area. They gathered over a ton of meat, including two special life forms that had already taken shape. They killed over a hundred zombies and a few other animals, as well as rescued over fifty surviving humans. By the afternoon, there were no larger animals in the restricted area.

As for the hospital patio, it was naturally the most important area for this exploration and clean-up. Therefore, Chen Jing personally led a special team to investigate it. In order to guard against unpredictable dangers, Xiao Gang and Wang Lei held their shields up in front of them while Chen Jing and Wei Dong followed closely behind them, carefully inspecting the center. Of course, for the unknown, Chen Jing would first use his spiritual sense to scan the area. Only with no danger would he continue to follow up.

Yesterday's fire lasted for seven to eight hours, and it had been more than ten hours. The ground was still steaming and the temperature should not be lower than 50 ℃. Chen Jing and his team of four progressed slowly but smoothly. Everything was burned to ashes. Other than the charred building, which only had a frame left, there was nothing else.

By the time they reached the patio, the ten-ton monster was no longer there. All that was left was a pile of black debris. It was possible that a great deal of gas had been released during the combustion, so that the ashes were covered with piles of bubbles. Chen Jing poked lightly, and the scar collapsed with a loud bang. In that instant, another ray of light seemed to flash once again. Chen Jing quickly probed with his spiritual sense and found a pigeon egg-sized, shiny milky white bead in the middle of the ashes. Chen Jing nudged the bead with the tip of his blade. The bead rolled for a moment, then came to a halt again. It seemed there was no danger.

However, Chen Jing and the others did not dare to carelessly touch the monster's remains. After all, the lesson of turning a living person into a mass of flesh in less than an hour was still fresh in everyone's mind.

At this moment, two members of the team were carrying a large basket of dead rabbits, pheasants, cats and dogs. Wang Lei immediately ordered the two of them to bring the corpses over. Chen Jing stepped forward and lifted a dead dog before letting the two carry it away.

Afterward, Chen Jing let the dog's flesh get hit by the pearl. Fortunately, the pearl didn't swallow the flesh and blood. Seeing this, Chen Jing reached out a finger and touched the bead, but nothing happened. He then pressed his finger against the pillar, nothing happened. After a few more tries, Chen Jing carefully picked up the bead and held it in his hand.

At this moment, something unexpected happened. Chen Jing's inner Qi started to circulate involuntarily, and a stream of cool air was transmitted from his right palm into Chen Jing's inner Qi, like a clear stream flowing into Chen Jing's inner Qi. Not long after that, Chen Jing's Qi started to surge as he broke through the Lunar Heart Sutra on Chen Jing's right thumb and practiced the Shaozhang Sword Technique. However, the moment Chen Jing opened his right thumb meridian, the pearl in his hand was snatched away by someone.

It turned out that during Chen Jing's experiment, Wei Dong and the other two were watching nervously, afraid that something might happen. When Chen Jing grabbed the pearl, the three of them naturally found Chen Jing sitting motionless on the ground. The three of them naturally thought that something had happened, and Wei Dong reached out to knock the pearl out of Chen Jing's hand.

After waking up, Chen Jing felt the energy in his body submissive, so he performed the Shaoshang Sword Technique and knocked a piece of cement out of the corner of the wall. After that, he told the three of them how he felt.

Hearing that the bead had such a magical effect, the three of them naturally wanted to give it a try. Who knew that Xiao Gang and Wei Dong didn't feel anything from holding it, and Wang Lei entered a meditative state like Chen Jing did. Half an hour later, Wang Lei stood up and let out a long howl. At this point, Wang Lei had finally arrived. He had successfully cultivated the second route, the Six Passages of Immortal Sword, Shang Yang Sword Technique.

Chen Jing took the smaller bead from Wang Lei. He was very excited. He didn't expect this bead to have such a miraculous effect. Of course, Wang Lei was also feeling the same way as Chen Jing, but Wei Dong and Xiao Gang were a little depressed.

Because it was related to the following important decision, the four of them immediately stood in the ashes to discuss. In the end, Chen Jing wrote down several conclusions:

1. This thing needs to eat 7 or 8 zombies every day. Even if you can't eat that much in the beginning, on average, 4 or 5 zombies should be there. He had eaten at least 200 zombies in the past two months. The energy he absorbed was mostly from growing into that guy's ten-ton body, while the excess energy had formed into this bead.

2. The energy contained in this pearl is of a different attribute to each person's cultivation. Maybe the energy contained in this pearl is similar to that of Chen Jing and Wang Lei, so Chen Jing and Wang Lei can absorb it, but Wei Dong and Xiao Gang can't.

3. The energy contained in the bead is limited, so after Chen Jing and Wang Lei absorbed it, the bead became smaller.

4. This thing can't move on its own. It can only rely on smell to attract its prey, so it doesn't pose much of a threat to people.

5. This creature can reproduce asexually, and even a tiny bit of cell tissue can grow into a new monster by devouring flesh and blood.

6. This thing can exterminate a large number of zombies (Chen Jing and the others thought about it carefully. The zombies exterminated by the guards might not even be more than this monster), and at the same time, it can produce pearls that are very useful for cultivation. Previously, the pearl attribute of the monster was similar to that of Chen Jing and Wang Lei, so if there was another monster, it might be possible for it to have another pearl attribute. (Wei Dong and Xiao Gang had been filled with hope when they came to this conclusion.)

After some discussion, the four agreed that this item was indeed a rare treasure. The decision to completely destroy it previously could not be carried out, but it had to be controlled by the self-rescue camp. News of this thing being able to give birth to a bead had to be kept a secret. At the current stage, only the four of them knew what was going on. No matter how close they were, they couldn't tell them. Of course, if one could obtain a large amount of beads, those close to them could still use them, but there was no need to tell them the origin of the beads.

There was another thing worth mentioning. At noon, in the area that the guards had searched, a strong stench suddenly came. The source was in a sewer and a special life form had already grown into it. When the guard squad members came near, that fellow's tentacles extended out from the sewers and were naturally cut off by the guard team members. Using iron pincers, he pinched out the one hundred kilograms long fellow.

Afterwards, Chen Jing and the others used zombie corpses to nurture the ten special lifeforms and transported them to a vegetable base north of the European apartment building. A reconnaissance revealed that there were thousands of zombies gathered there, so it wasn't easy to transport these meatballs over. Fortunately, the zombies had the habit of sleeping at night, so the guards secretly sent the ten meatballs to the vegetable patch a few hundred meters away from the European apartment. Of course, the saying of the outside world was naturally to use this thing to exterminate zombies. Of course, Li Jianming and the others temporarily didn't use the incinerator, and the rest of the meatballs were sealed away in a large metal box.

During these few days of war, in addition to the hundred or so survivors who escaped upon hearing the news from the self-rescue camp, Little Qingshan's self-help camp had reached over two thousand people by June 7th, 2027. Among them, there were more than 1200 females and more than 800 males. However, the number of evolved humans was still too little. There were about 270 women and 300 men.

However, no matter what, the number of soldiers had increased by a lot. Expanding the number of guards was inevitable, but this time, considering the fact that they had to undergo adequate training to form their combat strength, there were plenty of female soldiers. Therefore, after some discussion, Chen Jing and the others decided to expand the size of both the male and female guards and to start their training.

In accordance with the above principles, the male guards were to recruit 112 new recruits, while the female soldiers were to recruit 212 new recruits. By this time, there were 272 male guards and 212 female guards.

After the integration, the Guard's General Staff, Intelligence Department, Training Camp, Special Forces Brigade, Men's First Brigade, Women's First Brigade, and Sharpshooter Squadron. Guard Captain Chen Jing, Vice Captain Wang Lei, Ouyang Zhenlin.

Youcao's staff had recruited three more people this time, but Quanning had been transferred to the intelligence department because of his ability to analyse and process information. The Intelligence Department was a new intelligence gathering and analysis department that had been formed after the former Special Operations Department's scouting team was formed. The Chief of Operations was led by Zhou Tianyu's girlfriend, Xiao Yaohui. Like Zhang Bin, the little girl had also developed a powerful agility attribute ability, which was very suitable for investigating and gathering intelligence. As for the Director of Intelligence, it was Quanning.

The Special Forces division was cancelled. The Special Forces unit had been expanded to become a Special Forces unit, with the First Guard Captain Huang Xiaogang and the Vice Commander Tang Lin. There were three special teams under the main team. Each team temporarily had 12 people. The first group was led by a special team led by Zhao Hu; the second group was responsible for guarding the underground base, while the third group was a special female team under Lu Min's command. Lin Hong was already 40 years old. She was tall and strong, and after evolving, her strength was no weaker than a man's. She had been chosen by Lu Min as the vice captain of the female special forces squadron.

Originally, there were two full squadrons of 1,017 men. This time, over ten of them were selected by the special forces squadron, and the other two retreated to the training camp, where there were now two full squadrons and vice captains totalling 74 people. In order to quickly draw out the strongest strength of the self-rescue squadron to deal with the emergency, and also in order to make it easier to control and command, the leaders of the full squadron and above would not participate in the formation of the battle. The vice-captain was led by Yang Weidong and Yang Dahai. The first squadron leader was Zhou Jian, and Chen Jing finally realized that putting Zhou Jian in the Department of Management was somewhat of a waste of talent, so he transferred Zhou Jian to be the captain. The position of Department of Management was filled by Huang Chenglin, a district office director rescued by Lu Min in in her European apartment. Squadron leader of Squadron Two would be promoted to the position of vice-captain Tian Jia Qiang.

The female guards were also the original squadron, temporarily creating two squadrons. The captain, Lu Min, and the vice-captain were promoted to the position of squadron leader, Liu Xiaomin. The original vice-captain, Zhou Yan, had fallen into the training camp.

A month ago, Chen Jing let Zhang Xiaoshan recruit some people to be a squadron of 36 people. He specially approved a considerable number of guns and bullets to train with. Currently, the standard number of 26 people was formed into two squadrons, led by Zhang Xiaoshan. The rest of the recruits remained in the training camp to continue their training.

The new division of the training camp was mainly responsible for the training of new recruits and the management of reserve troops. The Battalion Commander was appointed by Ouyang Zhenlin, while the Vice Battalion Commander was Zhou Yan, who had been transferred over by the female army. There are male barracks, female barracks, reserve forces management department, internal force training department, fighting and cooperation training department, magic training department and sharpshooter training camp. Currently responsible for the training of 65 male soldiers and 212 female soldiers, the instructors of the various departments are temporarily not permanent and will be assigned by the various units.

Of course, the various management departments also recruited quite a few people.