NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 510 Ocean Base
Ocean Base, central meeting room.
"Everyone, please feel free to speak your mind."
Looking at the crowd before him, Yao Hai's tone was somewhat weary.
The Ocean Base currently housed 1,037 people, all of whom obeyed Yao Hai's orders; he was rightfully the Local Tyrant here.
But at this moment, he no longer had the spirited enthusiasm that he had when the base was first established; he even wanted to abdicate and let someone capable take over!
Beside him, Su Jie seemed to sense his thoughts and immediately grasped his hand.
Looking into Su Jie's encouraging eyes, Yao Hai sighed again in his heart.
If someone could lead the base forward, he truly wouldn't mind relinquishing his power, but unfortunately, no one was capable!
"General, could we discuss with Zou Jian the possibility of borrowing some food from Mammoth Base? After winter passes, we could hunt and return it to them, even with some extra interest..."
At that moment, someone spoke up.
The others also turned their gaze toward Yao Hai.
"No."
But Yao Hai shook his head directly.
Seeing the disappointed looks of the crowd, he explained,
"First, let's not talk about whether the other party is willing to lend us food. Even if they really do, just having food is not enough..."
Hearing Yao Hai's words, the faces of the crowd immediately tensed.
"General, are you saying..."
"Yes, those passages won't hold for long. In about three days, we'll have to face an onslaught of a Zombie Tide. We can't retreat this time. After all, the space inside the air-raid shelter is limited. If we retreat further, there will be no place left to live. We need to handle this Zombie Herd and then reseal the passages..."
Yao Hai sighed.
"This..."
The people exchanged looks with one another, their expressions turning ugly, some even regretting why they chose to establish the base here. If the base were somewhere else, maybe they wouldn't have this kind of "surprise"... But thinking it over, Yao Hai had sought their opinions at the time, and they had unanimously approved.
The crowd fell into silence.
Seeing the regretful expressions on their faces, Yao Hai also felt some regret.
They were all excited when they accidentally discovered this air-raid shelter while moving; it seemed like a natural base.
The air-raid shelter was large, with highly developed passages, like an underground labyrinth. Naturally, that was beneficial for them; they wouldn't mind having as big a base as possible.
However, they soon changed their minds because they discovered zombies in this "underground labyrinth"!
Aside from the entrance and some areas they found, zombies inhabited the other passages!
Luckily, each passage in the air-raid shelter had a door, isolating the zombies outside. As long as the doors remained closed, with the steel-reinforced concrete doors, holding off the zombies should not be a problem.
But they underestimated the zombies; once they detected food, their destructive powers were terrifying. Moreover, these zombies were strong, and the people at the base might not be a match for them.
As he saw the door about to be breached, Yao Hai promptly took action.
He had awakened the Earth Element Ability earlier and could create earthen walls as strong as steel. He used an earthen wall to block the zombies.
Yao Hai's earthen wall not only had great defensive power, the most crucial aspect was that within a certain range he had created, he could perceive the condition of the earthen wall, thus determining whether any zombies were approaching.
It was like being a human radar!
Therefore, the task of holding back the zombies inevitably fell to him.
Of course, he knew that this was merely a temporary solution, and not a cure; they had to either handle these zombies or move.
The possibility of handling the zombies wasn't great; if possible, he would have already done so.
Moving was even more unlikely since he had just relocated here not long ago, and suddenly heavy snow began to fall, with temperatures outside dropping sharply. He might be fine going out, but the other survivors would definitely freeze to death.
Fortunately, his earthen wall did indeed hold back the zombies, keeping them temporarily safe. Yao Hai decided to wait until winter was over to see whether to think of ways to deal with the zombies or to move again.
But this winter proved much harder than he imagined, and the zombies blocked by the earthen wall didn't give up; they continued tirelessly to wear down the wall!
Yao Hai couldn't be sure of handling those zombies and could only keep reinforcing the earthen wall.
A few days ago, a herd of zombies reached their base entrance; it seemed they were preparing to build a nest there.
Yao Hai of course wouldn't allow zombies to build a nest right at his doorstep, or else they wouldn't be able to leave.
After assessing the strength of these zombies in his mind, he felt that he could handle them with a group of people, so he went out to fight.
Coincidentally, while they were fighting outside, one of the passage's earthen walls was breached. A massive number of zombies directly rushed into their base!
Yao Hai panicked terribly, thinking the base was doomed, but fortunately, his wife, Su Jie, was there.
Su Jie wasn't very capable in combat, but she was quick-witted; a lot of the rules and regulations leading so many people were established by Su Jie. She organized manpower, leveraged the special terrain of the air-raid shelter, and managed to arduously withstand the attack of the Zombie Herd.
When Yao Hai returned from handling the outside fighting, he found that they had lost just over a hundred people — considering the emergence of zombies inside the base, losing just over a hundred was indeed not many; he had seen too many bases wiped out due to a single zombie.
Ultimately, Yao Hai handled those zombies and sealed the passage once again. Fortunately, the zombies from that passage did not swarm all at once but came in waves, giving him breathing space; otherwise, they likely would have breached it.