Black Bear Survivor Base

Due to the impact of the zombie horde, the population had decreased significantly. Many people had fled during the zombie horde outbreak, leaving the base short-handed and unable to track down and bring back everyone.

In a certain room, Xia Xuebing was reporting information to Li Xuan.

"There are too many zombie corpses outside the base. Even if we mobilize all available personnel, it will take at least ten days to clean them up completely. This zombie horde has left the area outside the base permeated with a stench of decay that can mask human scent. In the future, as long as the base isn't discovered by mutated zombies, only a very few ordinary zombies wandering randomly will approach the base. There won't be any more zombie horde attacks on the base."

Li Xuan nodded. Experiencing the zombie horde had both advantages and disadvantages for the base.

"Be careful of plague. Piles of corpses exposed to the sun are particularly prone to causing epidemics."

Xia Xuebing sighed, "We want to be careful too, but we don't have the conditions. We can only have people eat more to boost their resistance."

With the base population halved, food had become more abundant, and everyone could eat their fill.

Li Xuan couldn't think of any good solutions either. His personal strength was great, but he couldn't reverse the trials that the apocalypse had brought.

"Has Scar Tiger been found?"

"Not yet. Scar Tiger seems to genuinely know an escape route. I've sent people to follow the traces. If things go smoothly, we should have news within the next few days."

Li Xuan nodded. He didn't feel much anger about Scar Tiger's betrayal.

After all, he had never considered Scar Tiger one of his own people, nor did he believe Scar Tiger would fight to the death for him.

What surprised him was that Scar Tiger had run away, while Xia Xuebing hadn't.

"Inform me immediately when there's news."

"Yes."

Xia Xuebing nodded and continued, "Boss, the location of the silver vault you asked me to find has been confirmed. The underground vault of the Shadow Fire Bank headquarters in K City, North River contains large amounts of silver."

"What about steel?"

"The machinery factory where you killed the mutated zombie last time has hundreds of tons of steel stored inside. Additionally, there's a large shipyard in T City that also contains substantial amounts of steel."

Li Xuan pondered. After the zombie horde ended, he had handed all base affairs over to Xia Xuebing.

Currently, the base had no base leader, only Xia Xuebing as the deputy base leader. Due to her performance during the zombie horde attack, many soldiers respected Xia Xuebing, so when she took control of the base's authority, she encountered little resistance.

During his free time, he had been continuously thinking about what substance to fuse with.

Currently, he was leaning toward fusing with steel, but silver was also possible.

The former would give him extraordinary defensive capabilities, and his weight would reach terrifying levels. Even if his speed decreased, with super-heavy weight and defensive power, the giant beast's destructive capability would rise by a large margin.

Silver has high density, strong ductility, and another point is that it looks very cool.

As for gold and others, he hadn't considered them—not for any particular reason, but because quantities are small. To use gold to modify the entire giant beast body would require an astronomical amount of gold. Even if he searched the entire country for gold, it might be enough, but that would take too long.

Besides this, he had also considered fusing with the Deep Sea King mutated killer whale to obtain the Killer Whale King's Devouring Ability, or fusing with creatures that would awaken powerful abilities in the future according to intelligence.

He had even considered the ancient tree deep in Kunlun Mountain that would bear three divine fruits.

Would fusing with the ancient tree give him three S-level abilities simultaneously? Or would he bear stronger and more divine fruits?

Meanwhile

Behind the mountain, Scar Tiger led a group of people over mountains and through wilderness, finally seeing a city in the distance.

"Ahead is the city! Once we enter the city, we'll find a survivor base! If it's an official survivor base, we won't have to live in fear anymore! If it's a non-official survivor base! Please help me seize control! Then women will be yours to enjoy as you please!" Scar Tiger shouted.

The tall, thin soldier who had enticed Scar Tiger raised his hand with a grin, "Brother Tiger, can I pick first?"

Scar Tiger laughed heartily, "Of course I pick first! I want ten, the rest are for you!"

"Hehe, I want five!"

"Five? Can you handle that? I'll take three."

"Even if I can't handle it, I have to try. Such opportunities are rare, can't miss out."

While joking, movement sounded from the forest.

The group held their breath and focused, vigilantly watching their surroundings.

The sounds grew closer.

Scar Tiger stared intently in the direction of the noise, his body tense, muscles bulging in his hands as he tightly gripped the large machete.

Thump~

A dark shadow burst from the forest, heading straight for Scar Tiger's face.

Scar Tiger instinctively swung his blade. A cold gleam flashed as the machete cut through flesh and bone.

He quickly activated his transformation ability, turning into a majestic fierce tiger.

Only after completing everything did he realize what had jumped out was a sika deer. The machete was stuck in the deer's skull, and the deer was already on the ground twitching, blood flowing freely.

"Just a sika deer! Brothers, we're in for a treat today!" Scar Tiger opened his mouth, drool flowing from his tiger jaws.

Fresh sika deer meat!

Made into braised meat rice, how delicious would that be!

The soldiers behind him swallowed saliva one after another, their eyes fixed on the deer on the ground.

"Boss, how about we eat before leaving?"

"Right, right, brothers have walked so long, we have no strength left. We need a full meal to have energy to search for a survivor base."

Scar Tiger also found it hard to resist the strong desire for good food. "Okay, we'll eat our fill before leaving. Everyone spread out, find some dry wood, prepare to roast meat!"

The soldiers agreed with laughter, leaving in small groups.

Scar Tiger and a few soldiers remained on the spot, skinning and dividing the meat.

"The heart is a good thing, keep it, keep it. Large intestine too. What? You say it's dirty? It won't be dirty after roasting. This stuff is much cleaner than food fished out of water."

The soldier who had enticed Scar Tiger cut the meat into strips with a small knife for easier roasting. "This stupid deer, crashing into people, deserves to be eaten by us."

The group held their breath and focused, vigilantly watching their surroundings.

When large animals flee chaotically and don't avoid humans upon seeing them, there's a high probability that a higher-level predator is chasing them.

Gulp~

Scar Tiger's body stiffened. "Is the smell of blood a bit too strong?"

A soldier said casually, "It is a bit strong. We're cutting deer meat, the blood smell is all coming out."

"Wrong! This blood smell isn't coming from the sika deer! It's from the mountain forest!" As soon as Scar Tiger spoke, a massive black shadow burst from the mountain forest at extremely high speed.

Thump~

Crack~

A tiger!

A giant mutated zombie tiger!

With one bite, it snapped the soldier's neck, his head exploding!

If Li Xuan were here, he would immediately recognize the mutated tiger's identity.

North River Zombie King!

North River had hundreds of millions of zombies, with numerous mutated zombies. In the future, ten would be rated as North River Zombie Kings, and the strongest among them was the mutated zombie tiger!

Previously, Li Xuan had specifically searched for the head of the North River Zombie Kings, but came up empty-handed.

Scar Tiger didn't hesitate, immediately transforming into a fierce tiger and fleeing deep into the mountain forest.

A few seconds later, the fierce tiger's spine was broken, blood dripping everywhere.

Comparing the two tigers, Scar Tiger's transformed fierce tiger seemed like a cub! There was no comparison at all!

Whether in size, strength, speed, or any other aspect.