Chapter 386 Hongli and Jinyuan

"Hongli, Jinyuan, I'm leaving this base in your hands. I've already told you what to do. Make your own arrangements for tonight. We'll rest here and leave first thing in the morning!"

Li Chenzhou stood at the gate of a chemical plant, speaking to the team in front of him. It was already evening, and they had successfully completed their mission, bringing over three thousand survivors to the chemical plant.

This was the most survivors Li Chenzhou and his team had ever rescued in a single day. One reason was that they had ventured deeper into the city this time, and another was that it had been too long since the apocalypse began. In the past, survivors hiding in their homes might have been afraid to come out when they saw the team, but now, if they didn't come out, they would starve to death, so they had no choice but to take the risk.

The location of this chemical plant was a bit far from the city, and the river next to it had a bit of a smell, but at least the plant area was large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of survivors.

Moreover, although the factory's walls weren't as high and strong as a prison, they were at least enough to stop ordinary zombies, which should be sufficient for the initial period.

Hongli and Jinyuan were the base leaders that Duan Lei had chosen for these survivors. There were actually a few others, but these two were the main ones. Like Wang Yuanqiang and Kong Xiang, one of them was good at overall planning, i.e., internal affairs, and the other was good at combat, i.e., external affairs.

Jinyuan was a retired soldier, so combat was no problem for him. Moreover, as a former soldier, Li Chenzhou was relatively relieved, feeling that this guy should have his own bottom line no matter what, making him the most suitable candidate.

"Don't worry! Leave everything to us!"

Hongli and Jinyuan agreed together, then exchanged a smile.

After spending a day together, these two were now on good terms. As for what would happen in the future, it was hard to say, and Li Chenzhou couldn't worry about things that far ahead.

"Brother Yuan, there are a few cars coming over there!"

Just then, a burly young man ran over and shouted. He was a combat team member under Jinyuan. Even now that they had arrived, he was still stationed around the team as a scout—this was a soldier's habit.

"Over there?"

Seeing the direction the young man was pointing, Jinyuan was stunned, because that direction wasn't toward the city, but the opposite direction.

Could it be… that people from other cities, like survivors from Liaocheng, had the same idea as he did before, and ran here from other places?

Then, Jinyuan and Hongli climbed onto a truck together, looked over the factory wall towards the highway over there, and sure enough, they found a few cars driving on the highway.

The two of them subconsciously looked down at Li Chenzhou, because they had become accustomed to listening to his orders along the way.

"You guys handle it yourselves, I'll take a look from the side!"

Li Chenzhou didn't give them any advice. He also wanted to see how these two would face outsiders!

"Hey, doesn't that look like the cars Xu Fatty and them were driving?"

Seeing this, the two had no choice but to look at each other, then looked at the cars. Then, Jinyuan suddenly said.

Hongli next to him was confused and turned to look at Jinyuan. Jinyuan explained:

"It's the survivors who left our team when we first met you guys today, this is the second group to leave, there are about a hundred people! But looking at their cars now… it seems like there are two less, and they're driving erratically, like they're running away?"

"Oh!"

Hongli nodded and looked at the cars again. Sure enough, after Jinyuan's reminder, he also saw that the cars seemed to be a bit panicked.

"Don't all stand at the gate, it's going to get dark soon, hurry up and enter the factory, first clear out a space, arrange for people to go in and organize, and find a factory building to clean up!"

Hongli looked at the others and ordered, because Li Chenzhou and the others had already gone into this factory building and cleared it out. There were definitely no zombies, and they had even killed three mutated beasts, so safety was no problem.

"Yes!"

A few small leaders immediately agreed, and then began to direct the team to drive into the factory.

This time, they were preparing to drive all the vehicles in, because Li Chenzhou's suggestion to them was to put the vehicles against the wall, on the one hand to reinforce the wall, and on the other hand, they could climb onto the wall from the inside. If zombies really came, it would be easier to defend.

Soon, the cars arrived. Sure enough, they were the cars that had left earlier, and as Jinyuan said, they had indeed lost a lot of people, and even Baldy and the others, who had left first, were in these cars!

"What's going on? What happened to you?"

Seeing this situation, Jinyuan frowned and asked. Judging from the returning vehicles, if you included Baldy and the others, that would be one less bus and one less truck, and even the dozens of people on the bus and the supplies on the truck were gone.

"Little Jin ah! Haha, it's nothing, we thought about it carefully after we left, and thought it would be better for everyone to stick together and keep warm, so we came back!"

Baldy was sitting in the driver's seat of the first SUV. He got out of the car and said with a laugh, while looking at the convoy driving into the factory:

"Are we going to be here from now on? I think it's good!"

"Old Chen, where are the others?"

Jinyuan wasn't fooled by Baldy Old Chen's words. He looked into the distance and didn't see the vehicles, so he asked.

"Oh! They still plan to go to other cities to take a look, so they left on their own, just a few of us came back!"

Baldy said quickly.

"Yes! Little Jin, we all feel that it's better to come back, it's better for everyone to be together, those people don't think so, then we can't stop them, can we?"

At this time, Fatty Old Xu, who had left later, also came over and said, then waved to the cars behind him:

"Alright, we'll be here from now on, you guys go in and pick a place, we'll live together, we'll be neighbors with Little Jin in the future, and everyone will have to help each other!"

"That's right! We gave a lot of resources to those people when they left, we'll have to pick some from you guys later!"

Baldy Old Chen quickly added, and winked at Old Xu, then said:

"Old Xu ah, you take the brothers to pick two cars to carry resources, just treat it as us borrowing from Little Jin! We'll return them after we go to the city to collect them!"

"Okay! Thanks, Little Jin!"

Old Xu agreed happily, and waved to Jinyuan, preparing to take people to the convoy to get some resource cars.

Of course, they saw that this convoy stretched for hundreds of vehicles, basically all fully loaded, so they had an idea. According to their understanding of Jinyuan, this guy was always easy to talk to. As long as they cornered him with words, he would definitely not refuse…