Chapter 11 Night Raid

Night, around eleven o'clock. After the first day of activity, the prison base had quieted down, and everyone was resting. The entire base was dark, including the surrounding watchtowers.

In the northeast corner watchtower of the prison base, two combat personnel were smoking and chatting idly.

Actually, Ding Ning had arranged for just one person per tower to be on duty, but because each watchtower housed four combat personnel, and it was the first day, everyone was rather excited, so the other person was there to chat.

"Ah! Damn it! This is the first time I've been so relaxed since that night!"

The sentry took a puff of his cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and said with emotion as he watched the smoke dissipate.

"Yeah! Thinking back to the past few days, sigh... it was really nerve-wracking. I watched helplessly as our neighbor pounced on my wife and children playing downstairs, tearing at them frantically..."

The combat personnel chatting with him said, looking at the night sky.

"I'm sorry, Old Yang!"

The sentry was stunned and quickly apologized.

Old Yang shook his head gently, took a puff of his cigarette, and then said:

"It doesn't matter anymore. I've already come to terms with it. In this world, we might die at any time, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, so... I don't need to grieve for them, because we'll reunite soon!"

Hearing Old Yang's words, the sentry's expression was complicated. He didn't know what to say, so he remained silent. The two of them smoked together, watching the smoke drift into the air and blend into the darkness...

"Captain! Didn't they say... that the leader of our base would be chosen from among you captains? How did this guy suddenly appear?"

In another watchtower, a combat personnel asked Wang Li beside him.

"In this world, what's the point of being a leader or not?"

Wang Li was very calm. He smiled and said:

"Right now, the most important thing for us is to survive. As long as we can guarantee that, everything else... is unimportant!

Besides, judging from the situation on this first day, Ding Ning is quite capable. At least he understands the prison, and his personnel allocation is also reasonable, so it's fine for him to be the leader!"

As he spoke, Wang Li patted the sentry's shoulder and said:

"Xiao Qiang, you remember, at this time, the most important thing for us is to stabilize this base. So, don't have any other thoughts, it will only weaken our base's strength! And don't form cliques or small groups. There aren't many people left alive, we can't afford to make trouble anymore! Understand?"

"Yes! Captain!"

The sentry nodded quickly.

"Okay! Do your job well! Don't doze off. If you feel like you can't hold on, call me, and I'll take over!"

Wang Li said, then turned and walked into the watchtower.

Time passed, and the night grew deeper. Some of those who had been chatting felt tired and went into the watchtower to sleep. On almost all the watchtowers, only one sentry remained outside!

As the time approached two o'clock, the sentries began to feel fatigued. Some had already started dozing off on the watchtower railings. Ding Ning didn't allow stools or chairs to be placed in the watchtower posts, because once someone sat down, even the strongest will would slacken.

He was right. If the sentries were allowed to sit down, they would probably all be chatting with the Duke of Zhou by now. Even as it was, many people were drowsy, and perhaps no one could remain vigilant and listen to the surrounding movements.

After all, these combat personnel were not professional soldiers. How could they have such high qualities and vigilance? It was already considered very responsible of them not to lie directly on the ground and sleep soundly.

They were called combat members, but they had only been doing it for a day. Before Li Chenzhou's team arrived, they had all been hiding in their homes, afraid to come out.

Moreover, their combat was just picking up the scraps left by Li Chenzhou and the others, dealing with one or two zombies, group attacks at that. At most, they had a little bit of combat experience. If they were really made to fight one-on-one, they would probably turn around and run away!

Just as the prison base fell into silence, a figure suddenly appeared quietly on the roof of the main prison building. He looked at the surrounding watchtowers, found that the sentries were all motionless, and none were walking back and forth to patrol, and a sneer suddenly appeared on his face.

Then, he came to a corner of the building and set his sights on a watchtower.

The prison's watchtowers were built around the walls, and the angles were very particular. Each watchtower could be seen by people on at least two other watchtowers. This was to prevent the watchtower itself from being attacked, and it was a protection for the sentries!

However, this protection was based on the premise that the sentries were qualified. When replaced by these sentries who had just been converted from ordinary people, and who had been on duty for less than ten hours in total, this protection was completely meaningless.

The figure looked at the two watchtowers on the left and right, and found that the sentries in those two watchtowers were already lying on the railings, motionless. So, with a flash, he actually leaped from the roof towards the watchtower in front of him.

After landing on the watchtower, he directly pounced on the sentry in a daze. With a soft thud, he plunged a dagger into the sentry's neck, then gently twisted it, pulled out the dagger, and forcefully tapped the sentry's neck before opening the door of the watchtower and gently placing the sentry at the door...

After doing all this, the figure nimbly descended the watchtower, came to another watchtower from the ground, and after climbing up gently, killed another sentry and placed him at the door of the inner tower as before.

His dagger had severed the sentry's artery and throat, and then the tap had stunned the sentry. In this way, the sentry would die from blood loss while unconscious, and then turn into a zombie.

Even if the sentry woke up, it wouldn't matter, because his throat had been cut, and he couldn't make any noise, especially at this time, when humans were sleeping soundly, and it shouldn't be easy to wake them up.

The shadowy figure methodically moved from watchtower to watchtower. He didn't fail at a single one of the four watchtowers, so no one was able to sound the alarm.

There were only eight watchtowers in the entire prison, and now, four had been cleared. If all of them were cleared, it could be said that the base would be completely undefended!

The shadowy figure had now climbed to the fifth tower. This sentry was even worse than the previous ones. He was already sitting on the post, leaning against the wall and sleeping, even snoring.

Seeing this, the shadowy figure walked over directly with a dagger, preparing to give this guy a slash like before, and then throw him into the inner tower, so that after he turned into a zombie, he would help himself kill those people who were sleeping inside.

"Enemy attack!!!"

But just as the shadowy figure was about to bend down and cut the sentry's throat, a shrill voice suddenly sounded, and then, a searchlight shone on the shadowy figure, making it impossible for him to hide...