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　　Lin Qiang was well aware that charging with both survivors and warriors would ultimately be less effective than charging with just the warriors.

　　It was like sending ten tigers to attack a pack of wolves, but then adding a hundred sheep to the mix. Naturally, it would be better to just use the tigers.

　　However, Lin Qiang's intention was to waste Duan Lei's vehicle's ammunition. The more people there were, the better. That's why Lin Qiang issued the order.

　　Furthermore, when arranging the formation, Lin Qiang anticipated that Duan Lei would adopt a defensive strategy. In fact, everything that had happened since the siege of the villa, up to this point, was within Lin Qiang's expectations.

　　Therefore, Lin Qiang had foreseen the current situation. He even predicted that when his team reached a stalemate, Duan Lei would launch another fierce attack to completely shatter the survivors' psychological defenses!

　　Originally, Duan Lei had indeed planned to do just that. Only in this way could he cause the besiegers to flee, or even directly overwhelm the soldiers behind them, and resolve the villa's crisis.

　　But just as Duan Lei took a deep breath, preparing to press another button, he suddenly noticed that the stalemated formation had actually begun to loosen!

　　Originally, according to Lin Qiang's plan, Duan Lei's defensive contraction would allow his "brothers" and their warriors to surround all the survivors in front, preventing them from retreating.

　　However, Lin Qiang didn't expect that his supposedly perfect plan would be ruined by one person – Lao Wu!

　　That's right, Lao Wu, the one who went back to the camp to get reinforcements and ultimately chose the position behind the villa!

　　After hearing Lin Qiang's order, Lao Wu felt that something was wrong. Unlike Lin Qiang's other brothers, although some of them also felt that the order was strange, they didn't think too much about it.

　　They all felt that they were Lin Qiang's confidants. As long as Lin Qiang wanted to survive in this apocalypse, he had to rely on them!

　　But Lao Wu was different. Lao Wu had long known that Lin Qiang had another group of people in his hands. He had spent a lot of money to find orphans from all over the country, and then Lin Qiang had specially found people to train them.

　　Those people were Lin Qiang's true confidants. After all, they had been cultivated since childhood, and various brainwashing techniques had been used on them. Those people, who were now around twenty years old, all regarded Lin Qiang as their father.

　　Moreover, a week ago, Lao Wu accidentally saw Lin Qiang meeting with someone. Out of curiosity, he eavesdropped on their conversation. Although he didn't hear everything due to the distance, and he wasn't very clear, Lao Wu was able to guess the gist of it!

　　Therefore, after hearing Lin Qiang's order, Lao Wu knew that Lin Qiang was planning to use them as cannon fodder as well. In this guy's eyes, his old brothers were probably no different from those survivors!

　　Of course, Lao Wu didn't want to wait for death. So, he deliberately lagged behind and got the position opposite the villa, which was the farthest one. Then, he also told the survivors and his soldiers about Lin Qiang's arrangements, just like the others!

　　When night fell, Lao Wu called some soldiers he trusted and quietly slipped away while the others were sleeping!

　　Lao Wu and his soldiers' disappearance wasn't discovered by the soldiers under him until the morning. Naturally, they didn't know that Lao Wu had deserted. Instead, they searched everywhere for him.

　　While they were looking for him, the signal flare appeared.

　　Because Lao Wu had warned them and the survivors yesterday that Lin Zong (General Manager Lin) had said that once the signal flare went off, everyone had to launch an attack on the villa, and anyone who disobeyed would be killed without mercy!

　　Therefore, the soldiers under Lao Wu didn't dare to delay any longer and simply stopped looking for Lao Wu. Some squad leaders even took the initiative to order the soldiers to urge the survivors to launch an attack.

　　They felt that Lao Wu's disappearance might be a good opportunity for them to move up in the ranks. As long as they performed well and took down the villa, they might be able to take Lao Wu's place!

　　Thus, the remaining soldiers under Lao Wu drove the survivors to launch an attack. When Duan Lei launched the missiles and the villa's soldiers began to show their power, causing their attacking team to reach a stalemate, things started to fall apart on this side.

　　In other places, people of Lao Wu's level were watching, and the soldiers naturally obeyed orders. But here, Lao Wu had already run away with his confidants, and most of those who were left behind were ordinary soldiers.

　　Some soldiers with ambition wanted to order the other soldiers to keep an eye on the survivors and prevent them from escaping, but the other soldiers didn't think so.

　　Seeing that the villa even had such powerful weapons, some soldiers had other ideas. They even wondered if Lao Wu knew that the villa's firepower was fierce, so he had already escaped?

　　Therefore, some soldiers began to retreat, even deliberately letting go of those survivors who wanted to escape, and then they themselves ran away to save their lives.

　　Some soldiers intended to stop them, but they weren't Lao Wu, they were just squad leaders. Apart from the people in their own squads, the other soldiers simply didn't listen to them. As the number of people fleeing increased, coupled with the dense gunfire from the villa, more and more soldiers actively joined the ranks of those who were running away.

　　In the end, even several squad leaders began to flee. They had ambitions and wanted to take advantage of Lao Wu's absence to move up in the ranks, but that was only possible if they took down the villa and everything went smoothly!

　　Now, almost all of their people were running away. If they stayed, it wouldn't be a promotion, but rather a one-way ticket to heaven – to the Western Paradise!!!

　　Therefore, the originally tight encirclement had a gap due to Lao Wu's escape. Even the soldiers had run away, so how could the survivors still stay? Naturally, they all fled out!

　　When the other survivors saw that there was a way out here, of course they also ran towards it, and then ran wildly outwards!

　　It was like a dam that had burst. The gap created by the flow of people was getting bigger and bigger, and even the soldiers on either side of Lao Wu were affected and began to run for their lives!

　　Seeing that the people around them were all starting to flee back, more and more soldiers couldn't hold on any longer. Not to mention them, even in a regular army unit, as long as a few soldiers deserted, it would seriously affect the morale of the entire unit. Therefore, armies all over the world have only one word for deserters: kill!

　　As a result, the number of people fleeing began to increase rapidly, spreading continuously to both sides…

　　"Damn it, these good-for-nothings!!!"

　　Seeing that his team was collapsing before the other side even played another trump card, Lin Qiang couldn't help but fly into a rage, cursing fiercely. Then, he picked up the communicator and said into it:

　　"Begin! Don't let any of them go!!!"