Chapter 111 An Ally

Originally, Li Chenzhou had planned to go to Luo Hong's base in the morning to deliver the remaining mutated crocodile, as it was conveniently on the way.

Since clearing the zombies heading towards Zhang Hu's city district was the priority, Li Chenzhou intended to go to Luo Hong's base first, then head a little east along the base, find a random road into the city, and continue clearing zombies.

However, now that he was taking Wang Yuanqiang and his people along, there was no need to keep the crocodile on his armored vehicle. After all, it had a bit of a smell, so he might as well have Wang Yuanqiang's people haul it over.

Wang Yuanqiang and his men didn't need to prepare much. This trip was just to get acquainted and become familiar with the other party through Li Chenzhou's introduction. As for future resource exchanges, they would need to discuss them carefully.

So, Wang Yuanqiang simply drove a large truck, with the mutated crocodile tied to the top of the truck bed, and followed Li Chenzhou and his group.

From a distance, the people on the roof of Luo Hong's base saw the three vehicles, and they recognized the two armored vehicles belonging to Li Chenzhou and his team. Therefore, they didn't go on full alert but instead directly notified Luo Hong.

Luo Hong went up to the roof and looked carefully through binoculars. After confirming that Duan Lei was driving the lead vehicle, he immediately went downstairs and led people out to welcome them.

"Hahahaha! Brother Li, I didn't expect to see you again so soon. What do you think? Have you changed your mind?"

From a distance, Luo Hong rushed up and laughed loudly at Li Chenzhou, who was leaning out of the sunroof of the second vehicle. Then, he ran to the car and extended his hand to Li Chenzhou.

Li Chenzhou reached out and shook Luo Hong's hand, pulling him up. Luo Hong sat down next to Li Chenzhou without any hesitation, looked back at the mutated crocodile on the truck bed, and asked in shock, "Good heavens! Such a big crocodile? Brother Li, is this the mutated beast you were talking about?"

"Yes! This is a mutated beast!"

Li Chenzhou nodded and said, "Moreover, the skin of this mutated crocodile is so tough that even rifle bullets can't penetrate it. Xiong had fired more than a dozen bullets at its eyelids without even drawing a drop of blood."

"I'll be damned..."

Luo Hong was stunned and subconsciously turned back to look at the mutated crocodile, his expression becoming serious.

If even rifles couldn't harm it, then...

"Brother Li, how did you guys kill this thing? Did you use..."

Luo Hong was about to ask if Li Chenzhou had killed the crocodile with the Death Howl heavy sniper rifle, but then he saw that the wound on the crocodile's head was clearly caused by a sharp blade, so he held back.

This crocodile was the one Li Chenzhou had killed with Lethal Strike, hence the smallest wound.

"My skill has a defense-ignoring effect! That's how I was able to kill it!"

Li Chenzhou explained, "However, there were a total of three. I only killed one, and the other two were killed by Xiong!"

Then, Li Chenzhou told Luo Hong how Xiong and Duan Lei had killed the mutated crocodiles. Although mutated crocodiles might not appear in his area, he might encounter other mutated beasts, so it would be good to learn from their experience.

"The mouth has very poor defense!"

Luo Hong looked at the crocodile carcass thoughtfully.

"Alright, this is a gift for you. You can study it slowly!"

Li Chenzhou patted Luo Hong and said, "Also, don't waste the crocodile meat. Eating it strengthens the human body! At least it can make the people in your base a little stronger!"

"Thank you, Brother Li!"

Luo Hong nodded at Li Chenzhou.

"I came this time for two reasons. One is to deliver a crocodile, and the other is to help you find an ally!"

Li Chenzhou added, "After leaving your place, we arrived at the shopping mall where we met you. It's been taken over by a horde of zombies. Stay away from there in the future and don't get close. The Corpse King leading that horde is highly intelligent!"

Of course, he wouldn't tell Luo Hong that the Corpse King was Leopard, or about the grudge between Leopard and his group, but just warned him to stay away.

"Brother Li, even if you didn't remind me, we wouldn't venture deep into the city in the short term!"

Luo Hong nodded and said, "Right now, my main focus is building the base and improving this place. Of course, I still take a team into the outer city every day, partly to collect resources and partly to increase the base's population!"

"That's right! That's the way to do it!"

Li Chenzhou nodded. This was the safest and most reliable approach. Taking their base as the center, they would gradually advance into the city, slowly expanding their search area. Luo Hong's strategy was perfect!

"Do you know Wu Village?"

Li Chenzhou asked, pointing in the direction of Wu Village.

"Yes, I know it! Didn't you mention it before?"

Hearing this, Luo Hong subconsciously looked at the truck behind them, and after remembering the ally Li Chenzhou had mentioned earlier, he had some guesses in his mind.

"After we got rid of that zombie horde, we chose another road out of the city. Along the way, we killed some zombies and rescued hundreds of survivors. I brought those people to Wu Village, and they're using it as their base now!"

Li Chenzhou nodded and said again.

"They? Brother Li! Did you overthrow another base leader again?"

Hearing Li Chenzhou's words, Luo Hong couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Hahahaha! I told you, I'm a businessman, I won't build a base!"

Li Chenzhou laughed and then pointed to the truck behind him, saying, "That base has two leaders, one is called Wang Yuanqiang, and the other is called Kong Xiang. Of course, nominally, Kong Xiang is the real leader, and Wang Yuanqiang is just the captain of the guard, but the base is managed by two people. Kong Xiang is responsible for construction, and Wang Yuanqiang is responsible for military affairs."

Afterwards, Li Chenzhou also talked about some of the things about the Wu Village base, and also conveyed his understanding of Wang Yuanqiang and Kong Xiang to Luo Hong. He didn't let Wang Yuanqiang come to the armored vehicle before because of this.

This wasn't because Li Chenzhou was being biased, but because Luo Hong's side was, after all, the former war preparedness department. It could be said that they had the most weapons among the nearby bases.

And Li Chenzhou would bring out some more survivors to establish a base in the future, and if their weapons couldn't be collected on the road, then they would only be able to exchange for them from Luo Hong's side.

Therefore, Li Chenzhou had to give Luo Hong a reminder to pay attention to controlling the outflow of weapons! It would be enough to exchange a few rifles for each base, mainly so that they wouldn't be without weapons that could break through defenses when they encountered enhanced zombies.

As for killing ordinary zombies, it would be better to use cold weapons as much as possible. Although it was more dangerous and not as safe as using firearms, it could at least train the combat ability of these survivors...