Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

After discussing the details of the operation, Xiao Jun ordered the battalion commanders to return to the convoy.

Xiao Jun looked at the man standing next to him, whose hair was gray but who was full of energy, and said:

"Advisor Liu Ding, I'll need you to communicate with the Iron Wolf Gang later."

Liu Ding adopted a humble posture and quickly replied:
"Yes, Commander."

This staff officer, Liu Ding, worked at the staff office of the Big Camphor Tree. Before the apocalypse, he was a political and legal official in a prefecture-level city. He was very skilled at assessing the enemy's situation, understanding their mentality, and knowing how to handle things appropriately.

This time, he was selected by the headquarters and transferred to be in charge of peace negotiations with the Sanjiang Stone Alliance.

The camphor tree is currently the largest force in China, without exception.

Having gained a broader perspective, they have long since moved beyond the small-scale skirmishes of fighting for territory and food.

Standing at the pinnacle of power within the country, commanding millions of people, and possessing a well-established institutional framework, they already possess the rudiments of a post-apocalyptic new regime.

They tend to consider the long-term implications when doing things.

Population is a core resource that Dazhangshu values ​​highly.

The most desirable outcome for Dazhangshu would be a peaceful liberation of Sanjiangshi Alliance, with no casualties or only a very small number of people killed.

Although they wanted a peaceful resolution, they still brought a large force of over 10,000 people, partly to demonstrate their strength.

Let them see for themselves the difference in strength between the two.

Otherwise, just talking without any sense of pressure or credibility will not work.

Xiao Jun looked at Zhou Dafu: "Old Zhou, when Staff Officer Liu Ding is negotiating with the Iron Wolf Gang later, you take some men to protect him."

“Okay.” Zhou Dafu agreed without hesitation.

Xiao Jun thought about it and felt it wasn't quite right, so he contacted the mecha team again.

During the negotiations later, send out four mechs to help maintain order.

The mechs, each five meters tall, standing there, exuded a strong sense of oppression on the Iron Wolf Gang.

Everything is arranged.

Xiao Jun issued the order: "Move out!"

The large convoy headed towards the first checkpoint guarded by the Iron Wolf Gang, twenty kilometers away.

At the head of the convoy were fifty armored vehicles and two missile vehicles bringing up the rear.

One hundred armored vehicles followed, interspersed among heavy trucks, tankers, and medium and light trucks transporting various supplies.

At the rear of the convoy, another fifty armored vehicles were responsible for bringing up the rear.

In the sky, twenty-five helicopters were arranged in a V-shaped formation.

The convoy was so powerful that the roar of the engines could be heard even from several kilometers away.

The Lancang River flowed swiftly beside them, from west to east, in the opposite direction of the convoy.

Yet it created an extremely stunning scene.

the other side.

Jitang Town, the base of the Iron Wolf Gang.

Hei Biao was lying outside the house sunbathing, holding the canned fruit that the judge had given him earlier, and eating it with relish.

A group of people were playing cards on the side of the street.

Several barricades were placed sparsely outside the checkpoint, with four armed guards standing behind them, chatting idly on the ground.

"Huh? Was there an earthquake?" One of the guards looked at the stones bouncing up from the ground, a hint of fear on his face.

Their area is located in the Sanjiang Fault Zone, one of the places where continental plates are subjected to intense compression.

The faults are very active, and earthquakes occur frequently.

A man wearing a hat next to him looked terrified, and his legs went weak so much that he could hardly stand up.

"Fuck."

"It's an earthquake!"

The guards were stunned for a moment, then ran wildly toward the town.

"Earthquake! Run!"

In the small town, those playing cards, chopping wood, and repairing cars heard their shouts and felt the ground tremble the next second. Their faces changed drastically, and they ran around the town like headless flies.

Hei Biao also heard the shouts. He carefully sensed the situation and looked at the cliffs on both sides, but found no signs of loosening.

"What's all the noise about!"

Blackie touched his shiny bald head and fired a shot into the sky.

"What's all the fuss about! If an earthquake strikes, we can't even run away. What's the panic? The tremors are so small. Even if it is an earthquake, it's definitely a low-magnitude one and won't have much of an impact!"

The town is small, and there are no more than a hundred people guarding this checkpoint.

Upon hearing Hei Biao's warning, the group immediately stopped and carefully felt the ground shaking.

The vibration doesn't seem to be very strong.
It was a false alarm.

Just then, a man who had fallen to the ground while running away in a panic pointed to the sky not far away and stammered:

"Look, what's that?!"

Hei Biao and the others all looked up at the eastern sky, where they saw dozens of helicopters flying towards them in the distance.

Hei Biao frowned slightly, thinking to himself: Could this be helicopters sent by the people of Dazhangshu? Why are so many here all of a sudden? Are they going to take action against the Sanjiang Stone Alliance? Or do they want to discuss cooperation?

There's no need to make such a big fuss about discussing cooperation, is there?

Just as he was thinking, another exclamation came from the side.

"Boss, look outside!"

Hei Biao looked in the direction his men pointed and saw several armored vehicles driving towards them outside the checkpoint, with more vehicles following behind, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Behind those armored vehicles, four mechs stepped forward.

The towering mecha reflected a golden light under the sunlight.

The highly technological mecha stands in stark contrast to the surrounding cliffs and dilapidated houses.

"There are more behind! Holy crap, how many cars are there? There's no end in sight!"

Because the mountains in this snowy area are high and steep, and there are relatively few plains, Jitang Town is just a small town built along the Lancang River, and its area is not large.

The convoy that could be seen was only a drop in the ocean compared to the rest of the army.

Even so, it was enough to shock them.

Boom boom boom~
Ten armored vehicles charged straight at them, with the lead vehicle even ramming through the wooden barricades they had placed outside the checkpoint.

The signboard erected at the checkpoint was smashed to pieces by a single punch from the mech.

The tires and sandbags piled up on both sides of the checkpoint were quickly cleared away by the mechs.

Instantly, the obstacles set up at the checkpoint were completely destroyed by this group of people.

Every step the towering mech took on the ground caused a tremor.

Blackie stared dumbfounded at the ten armored vehicles—four of which looked like futuristic devices, completely unlike anything from the apocalypse—that had just barged into their camp without any reason or just brute force.

All the facilities they had built before were rendered useless.

The Iron Wolf Gang, consisting of over ninety members, stood frozen in place, staring blankly as the vehicles and mechs entered the camp.

The hand holding the gun seemed numb.

If they were facing ordinary survivors from the east, they would have already charged forward, guns in hand, cursing and swearing.

But now, how could they dare!?

When the gap in strength becomes too large, resistance becomes meaningless.

It's like you're holding a fruit knife, which might scare an unarmed ordinary person, but if you're facing a two-meter-tall, burly man with an RPG and the barrel pointed at you, you wouldn't dare to move at all.

crunch~
The first armored vehicle in the line suddenly stopped.

The armored vehicles behind also stopped.

Immediately afterwards, the door at the back of the armored vehicle was opened, and dozens of combat personnel dressed in uniform tactical gear and carrying automatic rifles rushed out.

Guns were pointed at them.

The machine guns on the armored vehicle were also aimed at Hei Biao and his men.

Even more terrifying was that the four mechs slightly raised their right hands towards them, their palms crackling with electricity, containing terrifying power.

Quiet.

They dared not move. No one in the Iron Wolf Gang dared to speak or move, for fear that they might accidentally trigger a chain reaction and have the people on the other side kill them.

Even the ninety-odd members of the Iron Wolf Gang dared not breathe loudly.

Gudong!

The sound of them swallowing hard indicated that they were in a state of extreme tension.

Just then, a strange dog barked from a wooden house on the side of the street.

It wasn't the clear, crisp bark of a normal dog; it was a low, hoarse growl, as if the throat was rotten and the chest was filled with thick phlegm and rotting flesh.

Immediately afterwards, a man walked out of the wooden house leading a zombie dog.

"What's going on?" The snake spirit asked, looking at the stunned Blackie and the others as she walked out with her dog.

Hei Biao didn't answer him, so the snake spirit looked in the direction Hei Biao and the others were looking.

"What the hell? Am I seeing things?"

Zombie dog?
The mecha has an automatic danger detection function. Inside the mecha, Su Yuan looked at the red circle in front of him and heard the alarm sound.

He asked, "Captain Zhou, should we eliminate them?"

Zhou Dafu frowned slightly. "Okay."

next second.

Sizzle—Boom—

Laser beams erupted from the right palm of the mecha.

puff~
The laser struck the zombie dog precisely; the zombie dog, which was barking just a second ago, vanished from the spot the next.

It melted, vaporized, leaving only a faint mist.

Unlike bombs, laser weapons concentrate energy at a single point, and the target hit will be burned through, melted, or vaporized.

At least when you're hit by a bomb, there are some bits of flesh and blood left, but when you're hit by a laser, very little remains.

The snake spirit watched helplessly as her zombie pet dog was killed, and in a moment of grief and anger, she was about to raise her gun.

next second.

The mech detected danger and Su Yuan subconsciously pressed the laser firing button again.

*Splat*

The snake demon's upper body was burned open, and her head disappeared along with it.

His lower body landed on the ground like a puddle of water.

Even the gun in his hand was melted by the laser.

hiss.
Seeing this scene, Hei Biao felt a chill run down his spine, a cold sweat rising from the soles of his feet to his back.

There wasn't even a corpse left; what the hell is this weapon?

Blackie's hands trembled violently, but he looked at the insignia on these armored vehicles and saw that it was the camphor tree insignia.

He tried to calm himself down and think about how to deal with it.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he shouted:

"I know the judge, can you please stop? We surrender!"

As he spoke, he shouted to his men around him:
"What are you all standing there for? Drop your guns!"

"quick!"

Upon hearing this, the people around him quickly threw their weapons to the ground as if they were throwing away a hot stick.

Seeing that the other side hadn't made a move yet, Hei Biao quickly raised his hand:

"We surrender! We'll do anything you want!"

His men quickly did as he was told, showing no contempt for Blackie.

After all, what's the point of arguing about saving face under these circumstances?
Moreover, they are merely subordinate forces of the Sanjiang Stone Alliance.

Their status was extremely low.

The number of people entering Tibet from the east has decreased in recent years, so the potential profits have naturally decreased as well.

The checkpoints guarding the eastern part of the Sanjiang Stone Alliance are mostly occupied by affiliated forces.

Not only is there little profit to be made, but their side is also the most dangerous, as they need to defend against the zombie hordes invading from the east.

But the checkpoints in the western part of the main city of the Sanjiang Stone Alliance are much more comfortable.

People from the Fanyuan Sanshou Alliance and the Anding Alliance could easily find riches and few zombies in the Sanjiangshi Alliance's main city after passing through the checkpoints.

For Hei Biao, there was absolutely no need to risk his life for the Sanjiang Stone Alliance.

Anyway, he's just a nobody. Even if the higher-ups change, he can still coast along.

The armored vehicle is here.

Zhou Dafu looked at Hei Biao and the others who had surrendered, and then glanced at Liu Ding, the staff officer who was preparing to put on a show of eloquence and persuade the other side with his silver tongue.

He coughed and said:

"Ahem, that Staff Officer Liu Ding, do we still need to talk to them? They seem to have already surrendered."

Even the usually composed Liu Ding's lips twitched slightly.

"Ah."

A thought popped into my head: Damn it, will the next few levels be like this too?
I haven't even talked to you yet!

The normal procedure should be to first talk, then I try to figure out your bottom line, then we engage in some backstabbing and testing, then I try to intimidate you a bit, and finally you set your conditions and I have no choice but to surrender, right?

This is... damn it.
No terms were discussed.

His mother didn't say a single word!

You just knelt down?
How am I supposed to perform like this?!
Zhou Dafu glanced at the unnatural expression on Liu Ding's face and wanted to laugh, but he was professionally trained and didn't show it.

He picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted Xiao Jun to report the situation.

After learning about this, Xiao Jun gave the following instructions:

"Confiscate all their weapons, as well as dangerous items like gunpowder. Leave two armored vehicles and 20 combat personnel here to watch over them."

"Army, keep advancing!"

"Yes." Zhou Dafu quickly gave the instructions.

After disarming them, Zhou Dafu left twenty men behind.

He then returned to the armored vehicle and continued to act as a trailblazer.

The four mechs stayed in the town for a while, and then loaded onto the heavy trucks when the convoy behind them arrived.

Hei Biao and his gang gathered on the open space on the right side of the street, put their hands behind their heads, formed several large circles, and squatted on the ground.

They watched as car after car drove past in the middle of the street.

They were all relieved that they had surrendered in time.

"Holy crap, I recognize that. It looks like a missile vehicle. The missiles are gone, but they've been fitted with heavy artillery. Holy crap, four shots from that heavy artillery could level our town."

"788, 789"

"They've already counted almost 800 cars? This camphor tree is insane! What are the Three Rivers Stone Alliance supposed to do? They're completely outmatched; they're not even in the same league!"

"And what's that thing, a mecha? I've seen it in sci-fi movies before, it's fucking ridiculous. It's ridiculously absurd that it can open a door for his mother, this is the apocalypse, how can there be such advanced stuff?"

"Brother Hei, from what I've seen, they have several hundred armored vehicles alone."

"Yes, boss, I admire you so much. If it weren't for you, we would all be dead."

"In their eyes, we're not even worth a dish."

Blackie held his head and whispered:

"Quiet down, everyone. Don't disturb the esteemed person under the camphor tree."

"Keep quiet."

"I'll shut up."

"I'll shut up too."

"I open my mouth, but I don't speak."

(End of this chapter)