In the apocalypse, ordinary soldiers could defend a city using fortifications and firepower. However, in the wild, they were less effective against zombies and mutated creatures. If a soldier mutated, it would be troublesome.
But Qin Jun had brought along more than 70 Evolvers!
Over the past few days, more people had awakened their talents. Moreover, the Qin family had monopolized the space dungeon near the Eastern Capital, obtaining talent seeds and creating a batch of Evolvers.
Now, the Qin family commanded nearly a thousand Evolvers!
Although this was still a small number compared to the millions in the Eastern Capital, it was an impressive force.
Wang Hai and Wang Zhi sat in the military vehicle, looking at the massive convoy in awe.
Was this the power of the Qin family?
Just randomly gathering some people like this would be enough to crush all the shelters in Donghua City...
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Donghua City, outskirts, First Affiliated Hospital.
This used to be the largest hospital in Donghua City, but now it had become the largest shelter in the area.
The hospital's perimeter walls had been reinforced with iron sheets and wooden planks, topped with barbed wire, and a moat had been dug outside the walls.
This shelter housed tens of thousands of survivors.
However, even within this one shelter, there was a strict hierarchy.
The elderly and the weak, those considered useless, could only live in tents on the plaza outside the hospital, where they did everything—eating, drinking, and relieving themselves—in squalid conditions.
Inside the hospital building, the young and healthy men resided in the wards and staff dormitories. Although they hadn't awakened any talents, they were strong and served as valuable labor.
As for the Evolvers, they lived in the VIP rooms on the upper floors, where the environment was better and had been modified for greater comfort.
The top floor, where the original director's office was located, was reserved for just one person.
The floor one lived on symbolized their status...
On the highest floor of the hospital, the screams of a woman echoed. Outside the door, a few of her captors exchanged knowing glances, grinning wickedly.
After what seemed like an eternity, the woman's screams gradually weakened and eventually faded away.
After a while, the door opened.
A man with a ferocious expression and a well-built physique emerged. He was abnormally tall, nearly three meters!
His body was packed with explosive muscles, like a mountain of flesh, exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression!
Just a glance at him could make one's legs weak and heart race...
This man was the ruler of this shelter, the most powerful Evolver in Donghua City.
Blood Bear!
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The underlings showed expressions of reverence when they saw Blood Bear emerge.
"My Lord!"
Originally, Blood Bear's men had called him "Boss," but Blood Bear found the title lacking in grandeur, too reminiscent of common street thugs.
So, he had them call him "My Lord."
Blood Bear nodded slightly and said indifferently, "That woman is dead. Throw her far away, or the smell of her corpse will attract zombies."
The underlings shuddered at his words. How many women had Blood Bear played with to death by now?
He truly was brutal!
But looking at Blood Bear's physique, there probably weren't many women who could withstand his abuse.
The underlings hurried into the room to drag out the woman's corpse.
She was completely naked, her body covered in bruises and scars, clearly having suffered inhuman torment.
She was beautiful and young, at most eighteen years old, just out of high school.
Her face still bore an expression of extreme pain, her empty eyes wide open as if questioning the heavens why she had to suffer such a cruel fate.
But this was the harsh reality...
There was no white knight to save her from distress. In the apocalypse, there was a ninety-nine percent chance of encountering scum like Blood Bear.
For a woman who was both beautiful and without power or background in the apocalypse, a fate worse than death was almost inevitable.
Perhaps, for her, death was a form of release...
As the underlings dragged the girl's body away, Blood Bear remained indifferent, not caring about the loss of life.
He couldn't even remember how many women he had played to death.
With thousands of people in the shelter, there were plenty of women. He could easily pick another one.
At this moment, a refined-looking young man approached respectfully and said, "My Lord, the shelters in the eastern suburbs have also submitted."
This man was Song Bin, who had been a middle school teacher before the apocalypse.
When the apocalypse hit, he abandoned his students and fled, surviving the initial zombie outbreak.
Later, he awakened his talent and became Blood Bear's right-hand man.
He was now the second most important person in the shelter.
Hearing this, Blood Bear smiled, "Good. Now, most of the shelters in Donghua City have submitted to us."
A cunning glint flashed in Blood Bear's eyes, a stark contrast to his enormous physique.
His real name was Qian Sheng, and he had been a small-time gangster in Donghua City. However, he had unexpectedly awakened an A-level talent, a transformation ability that provided immense combat power in the early stages.
Using his A-level talent and ruthless methods, he quickly became the leader of the shelter, with over a dozen Evolvers under his command.
He became the most powerful force among the many shelters in Donghua City.
Initially, Blood Bear hadn't planned to go through the trouble of conquering other shelters, but after hearing news of the Zombie King, he quickly changed his mind.
He knew that the Zombie King was a valuable asset.
He was currently at the peak of a Level 1 Evolver.
The energy core within the Zombie King would surely allow him to break through to Level 2, or maybe even directly to Level 3.
However, he also knew that the Zombie King was extremely dangerous.
If he led his men to attack the Zombie King, they would surely suffer heavy losses, and someone else might snatch the prize.
So, Blood Bear decided to conquer the other shelters instead.
Although he had to pay some costs, these shelters varied in strength and were scattered, and their internal conflicts allowed Blood Bear to easily conquer them one by one.
Now, Blood Bear had over forty Evolvers under his command.
His plan was to lead these forty-plus Evolvers to attack the Zombie King.
He intended to force the newly conquered Evolvers to make the first move.
Then, he would take the spoils.
This way, those untrustworthy Evolvers would suffer heavy casualties, leaving them too weak to oppose him.
Meanwhile, he would obtain the Zombie King's core.
If he could break through to Level 3 Evolver, he would become the king of Donghua City, capable of establishing a major force!
At that point, even the Qin family in the Eastern Capital would have to take him seriously!
At first glance, people assumed that Blood Bear, given his massive size, was a simple brute.
But in reality, Blood Bear was extremely cunning.
After all... in the natural world, bears were known for their high intelligence!
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Donghua City, outskirts.
A shadow darted through the streets like a gust of wind, the few zombies it passed completely ignoring it.
This shadow was Xu Zhao's Shadow Form.
Xu Zhao's consciousness was projected into this shadow as it sped through the streets, taking in everything around it.
He was already aware of the recent developments in Donghua City.
Blood Bear and his group were swallowing up the other shelters, and now most of the survivors and Evolvers from the Eastern Capital had submitted to him.
This made Xu Zhao's heart sink.
He was concerned that Blood Bear's target was the Zombie King.
If Blood Bear and his army of Evolvers went after the Zombie King, Xu Zhao's chances would be slim...
Xu Zhao had once observed Blood Bear from a distance. His strength was formidable.
At the very least, Xu Zhao was far from being a match for him at this point.
Reflecting on this, Xu Zhao felt a pang of regret. He had spent too much time fooling around with Zhou Lan recently.
Other than going out to gather essential supplies, he had hardly left the bed!
But who could blame him? After being single for twenty years, he finally encountered a woman, and not just any woman—a goddess like beauty from the old world, someone he never had a chance with before...
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