“Mayor…”

Seeing that Zhu Haitao was really about to leave, everyone was unwilling to let him go and hurried forward, wanting to bring him back.

Everyone knew that the construction of this base had been smooth from the beginning, and even their management was easy. This was not because of their personal ability, but because of Zhu Haitao's reputation in Jin City.

Zhu Haitao was a very good mayor. He had been in power in Jin City for more than ten years and had done countless things to benefit the people. Therefore, even in the apocalypse, when they saw Zhu Haitao, those citizens were still willing to follow him!

Just like at the beginning, when they were going against the traffic in the city, countless vehicles that were originally preparing to flee turned around and joined them. This showed how popular Zhu Haitao was!

Zhu Haitao was like a Dinghai Shenzhen (a calming force, lit. sea-pacifying needle) for this base. As long as he was there, the base would definitely operate normally and continue to be stable. But if Zhu Haitao disappeared, that would be uncertain.

At least, none of the leadership team members present dared to say that they had the ability to be the leader of this base—they simply couldn't control the people!

“Wait a minute!”

Just as everyone rushed to the door, Director Gao stood up and stopped them:

“Everyone, you don't need to chase him. That's his family over there. He definitely wants to take a look!

I will take people to follow the mayor. If he really wants to rush in, we will try our best to stop him!”

“Can you guarantee to bring him back?”

Someone asked.

“I can’t!”

Director Gao shook his head:

“I can only say that we will try our best, but I can’t guarantee it. If any of you can guarantee to keep him at the base, you can go and stop him now!”

Hearing Director Gao's words, everyone looked at each other. Of course, they couldn't guarantee it. Seeing that everyone stopped talking, Director Gao nodded to them slightly, then turned around and chased after Zhu Haitao.

Zhu Haitao and Director Gao took only ten people and set off towards the city. They were driving a modified truck. The cab and the carriage of the truck were all reinforced with steel plates, and the body was covered with spikes. A one-and-a-half-meter-high guardrail was welded onto the carriage.

If they were surrounded by a horde of zombies, the soldiers could shoot at the surrounding zombies from behind the guardrail. And the guardrail was naturally specially processed to prevent zombies from climbing. However, this kind of defense was only useful against ordinary zombies. When encountering evolved zombies, it was estimated to be just a formality.

Of course, Director Gao's men had only seen the evolved zombies. They had not really fought them, so they didn't know their strength, and naturally couldn't design targeted defenses.

When they came to the edge of the zombie horde and saw its scale, Zhu Haitao's heart sank.

The zombie horde was indeed expanding outward by more than two kilometers, just as Director Gao said. The building he had gone to before was already deep in the zombie horde.

Moreover, the zombie horde was still so dense that it was impossible to force their way in. It was estimated that their car would lose power before they could advance a hundred meters, and then they would be surrounded by the zombie horde!

“We have to go around to there. You should be able to see your home from the top of that building!”

Director Gao pointed to the right and said. There was a very tall building over there, and there were no higher buildings blocking the view between that building and Zhu Haitao's home.

“Okay! Let’s go there!”

Zhu Haitao said immediately. He was anxious to confirm whether his wife and children were still alive!

“Turn around and go over there!”

Director Gao immediately patted the roof of the truck and said to the driver below.

“Director! This…”

The driver stuck his head out, looked at Director Gao, and his eyes flickered.

“Obey orders!”

Director Gao said expressionlessly.

“Yes!”

The driver reluctantly retracted his head…

In fact, the soldiers who came with Director Gao didn't want Zhu Haitao to see his home.

During this period of time, in order to stabilize the base as soon as possible, Zhu Haitao had not come to the city to see what his home was like, because he knew that it was useless to look. He simply devoted himself to the base in order to build it and stabilize it as soon as possible.

But Director Gao and his subordinates had been rescuing people in the city and had come here for reconnaissance countless times! So they knew the situation here better.

According to their calculations, Zhu Haitao's family was very likely to have died or mutated into zombies.

Although their home was on the top floor of a high-rise building, generally speaking, as long as the door was not opened, the zombies could not enter. This was also the reason why Zhu Haitao was willing to leave in the first place!

But at that time, the zombie horde was all ordinary zombies. Now, evolved zombies had appeared, and Zhu Haitao's home was no longer so safe.

Director Gao and the others knew that there was a type of evolved zombie in the zombie horde. They were quite agile and could climb high-rise buildings as if walking on flat ground. The most terrifying thing was that they would search for survivors everywhere.

Those high-rise buildings that ordinary zombies couldn't climb, they climbed up one by one, entered the room through the windows, and looked for hiding survivors.

And the rooftop of Zhu Haitao's home, because it was a very large viewing terrace, did not have any guardrails or anything like that. After all, it was the top floor, and it was a strictly managed community, so there was no need for any anti-theft measures.

But in the apocalypse, the rooftop with only glass doors couldn't stop the Moying (shadow demon), which was the zombie that Director Gao and the others had seen. And the mother and son, who didn't know that there would be such zombies, would naturally not be prepared.

However, although Director Gao knew that Zhu Haitao's family was likely dead, he still asked people to take him to see his home.

Director Gao knew in his heart that if he couldn't confirm the situation of his family, Zhu Haitao would definitely not give up. Since that was the case, it would be better to let him see it!

In fact, Director Gao was even thinking in his heart now that it would be best if Zhu Haitao's family was dead. Only in this way might Zhu Haitao still be willing to go back with them.

If the mother and son were still alive, Zhu Haitao would definitely try to rescue them, and that would be difficult for Director Gao!

Help him rescue them? That was obviously a death sentence, and there would be no hope at all. Let him rescue them himself? Director Gao couldn't do that either!

So, Director Gao simply let Zhu Haitao go over and take a look. Anyway, he would leave it to fate. If the mother and son were so lucky and were really still alive, then Director Gao would simply take Zhu Haitao to Qin City.

Qin City was a bit far from here, but the garrison there had an armored battalion. If they went there, they might be able to get a tank back. It was estimated that only driving a tank would dare to rush into this kind of zombie horde.

When they arrived at that building, Zhu Haitao and Director Gao climbed all the way to the rooftop in one breath. Sure enough, they could see their home from this rooftop.

Zhu Haitao took out a telescope, took a deep breath, then raised the telescope and looked towards his home…