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Putting aside everything else, most people would go crazy if faced with a survival chance of less than one in ten.

No one trained them, no one provided weapons, no one supplied supplies and equipment, no one organized or mobilized them…

In this disorganized state, with over 90% of the population utterly defenseless against zombies, the outcome is clear. Social order collapse is the least of their worries; far from one in ten surviving, even a 1 in 100 surviving population is unthinkable.

Overseas, this is the current situation: everyone is scattered and fighting their own battles, with factories almost all shut down. There's no other way but to keep production; the supply chain has completely collapsed. Without a complete supply chain, what's the point of producing even a component?

The West is somewhat better off; due to higher gun ownership rates, most people are more or less trained and can quickly eliminate zombies when they encounter them. However, the biggest drawback is the complete lack of organizational and mobilization capabilities. Social order has collapsed, and everyone is fighting for resources on their own, making the situation no less brutal than that of zombies.

Other extremely underdeveloped regions have little industry, a large population, but limited mobilization capacity and weaponry. Much of their weaponry is imported; they lack the ability to produce it themselves.

Faced with the greatest disaster in human history, they had no power to resist and were completely wiped out.

Many countries are now overrun with zombies, with only a small number of survivors hiding and barely surviving; in a strict sense, these countries have been wiped out.

Fortunately, this is China, where the government has a strong mobilization and organization capacity, and order remains good.

Chapter 493 Lying Down and Self-Improvement

Several more days passed, and the situation became increasingly dire. In the Yuyuan residential area, the number of people mutating into zombies every day had reached as high as forty.

Of the original seven veterans, another one mutated.

Fortunately, under Li Mu's conscious training, the militia grew rapidly. With zero casualties, twenty or thirty people working together were able to deal with individual zombies decisively.

Li Mu simply formed two night shift duty teams, each led by three veterans, who took turns working the night shift every day. This freed him from the night shift, allowing him to do other things.

Early that morning, Li Mu got up and was about to go for his morning exercise when he looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window at the outside of the community and his gaze immediately sharpened.

"That's... a zombie... how could it be on the street?"

Looking around again, I saw zombies not only on the main street, but also in some of the surrounding residential areas.

After a moment of shock, I quickly realized what had happened.

The problem is that, unlike during the day, night watch personnel can't spot mutated individuals in advance and arrest them immediately. At night, everyone is alone in a room, so if someone mutates, no one else will notice. They'll only encounter mutated zombies, making it extremely dangerous.

Too many militiamen have sacrificed their lives fighting the zombies during this period. In many places, no one is even allowed to work the night shift anymore, leaving it to the police to deal with during the day.

However, while the militia became the main force fighting the zombies, it didn't mean the army's firepower weakened. It's just that with the increasing number of zombies, they couldn't keep up and eventually became the general reserve and firefighters.

If the neighborhood militia can handle the zombies in their area, they won't get involved. Only if the neighborhood can't handle it will they send in the military to help.

The workload was greatly reduced, which allowed us to maintain the situation.

Like the zombies before us, these are people from neighborhoods that are unable to deal with the zombies. Some people, realizing they are about to mutate, try to avoid staying at home and harming their families. During the brief moment when they retain their sanity, they run out of their homes, out of their apartment buildings, and even outside the neighborhood...

This resulted in the roads and neighborhoods being overrun with zombies. In this situation, the military, as the general reserve force, would definitely send troops to clear out the zombies.

Sure enough, Li Mu had only run a few laps downstairs when he heard gunfire all around him, and there was even a helicopter patrolling the area.

When Li Mu returned upstairs after finishing his workout, the gunfire gradually subsided. The nearby zombies had been cleared out, and the army had begun to withdraw. Only a large number of auxiliary police officers and volunteers remained, cleaning up the ground, dealing with the riddled corpses, and completing the cleanup work.

It seems the situation is still under control.

This morning, thanks to the excellent performance of the Yuyuan Residential Community recently—not only were the militia members well-trained and achieved zero casualties in dealing with the zombies, but their combat awareness was also quite high—the community managed to eliminate all the zombies without requiring military support and thus reducing the military's burden.

Given their outstanding performance, it is only right to reward them.

On one hand, there are honorary rewards, which goes without saying; on the other hand, there are tangible rewards in terms of weapons and equipment.

They've performed so well and have such potential, so of course they should be given more support. It's better than using that support on those neighborhoods that are performing terribly.

Around 9 a.m., shortly after the training began, three supply trucks arrived.

Looking at the weapons list, I was pleasantly surprised; they've really gone all out.

First, there was the personal protective equipment: stab-proof vests, explosion-proof helmets, and cut-resistant gloves, two hundred sets were delivered at once.

Then there's the blast protection equipment: one hundred blast shields, one hundred blast forks, and one hundred capture forks.

A considerable amount of firearms and ammunition were also delivered this time.

The main items were Type 56 semi-automatic rifles; fifty of them, along with 250,000 rounds of ammunition, were delivered in one go this time.

In addition, there are five Type 95 assault rifles currently in service and ten Type 81 rifles that have just been retired.

This brought the number of firearms in the hands of the militia members of Yuyuan Community to over one hundred.

With firearms and riot gear, the militia, while not quite equipping every soldier with a weapon, was close enough.

Weapons were distributed so that everyone could continue training, with the most important task being live-fire training. Each militiaman was allotted five bullets for training each day.

In the afternoon, Li Mu drove around the nearby residential areas. Of the more than twenty residential areas, only twelve had been cleared of zombies on their own, with militiamen on night duty every day.

Moreover, according to the results of the communication, six or seven communities have suffered considerable losses in the fight against zombies at night, and the militia members are terrified of night shifts and are almost unable to continue.

There is currently a lot of internal debate about working the night shift. During the day, symptoms can be detected in advance, and people can be tied up before they mutate into zombies. At night, there is no such opportunity, as most of the people encountered have already turned into zombies.

Now, everyone is only thinking about fulfilling their responsibilities during the day, and no one wants to go out at night.

By then, of the more than twenty residential communities under the jurisdiction of the entire street, only five or six were normal; the other communities became zombie hordes at night.

We can only rely on the army to clear the zombies outside during the day before we can go out; otherwise, we can only stay at home.

In this situation, there is only so much Li Mu can do. He can only try his best to guide the anti-explosive drills in each community and the tactical design for dealing with zombies, so as to improve their safety and efficiency in dealing with zombies and reduce casualties.

Most importantly, it depends on the attitude of the militia teams in each community. Will they give up and rely entirely on the authorities, or will they strive to save themselves, refusing to compromise or give up?

Li Mu had a premonition that with a survival rate of less than one in ten, as the situation developed and more and more people mutated, the government and military would also suffer large-scale casualties.

There are fewer and fewer elite soldiers capable of fighting zombies on the front lines, and many areas are left unattended.

Currently, the military comes to clear out zombies from those flattened neighborhoods every day, but the future is uncertain. With more and more mutated zombies appearing each day and fewer and fewer soldiers available, clearing out zombies in any one place can take up a lot of time, let alone have the energy and time to attend to other places.

In the future, it will become the norm for some less important neighborhoods to go three to five days, or even ten days, without the army coming to clear out zombies.

At this point, the community's own combat effectiveness and self-rescue capabilities become extremely important.

In neighborhoods lacking the ability to save themselves, being trapped in a zombie apocalypse for ten days or more becomes a high-probability event. If food runs out during this time, or even if someone in the household turns into a zombie, there will be no one to help, leading to an even worse outcome.

He briefly explained these pros and cons when he contacted these communities, and how to deal with them was up to them.

And so, time slowly passed, and another seven or eight days went by. The cruelty of reality chilled everyone to the bone.

In just eight days, more than 400 people in the Yuyuan residential area mutated into zombies, averaging more than 50 people per day.

Before the zombie outbreak, the community had a total population of over four thousand, but now only over two thousand remain, demonstrating how cruel reality can be.

This was all under Li Mu's leadership. The casualties in the community were almost entirely due to mutations into zombies; other causes of casualties were very rare, which was quite different from other communities.

Many communities have experienced significant non-mutant casualties as well as combat casualties.

Li Mu could only learn about places that were too far away through the internet, but he had seen the surrounding communities with his own eyes, and the reduction in residents there was much more serious than in Yuyuan Community.

That day, after finishing his morning exercise and having breakfast, Li Mu went to the rooftop and looked around. Sure enough, there were many zombies wandering around the nearby streets and residential areas.

The military's daily efforts to clear zombies from some collapsed neighborhoods, which began two days ago, have finally become unsustainable.

The army didn't arrive the day before yesterday, and yesterday morning, despite everyone's anxious anticipation, no one came. Countless calls for help were made, and it wasn't until yesterday afternoon that a unit was finally dispatched.

Through the binoculars, Li Mu could see that the troops were exhausted, bearing the marks of the previous battle. They probably hadn't even had time to rest; they had just wiped out the zombies in another area before being brought here.

Seeing the soldiers' exhausted faces, yet still forcing themselves to begin clearing out the zombies, Li Mu sighed. The situation was far from optimistic; his predictions from a few days ago would soon become reality.

With a shortage of frontline combat personnel and limited military resources, many areas are beyond the reach of the military. Some communities that are unable to deal with zombies may not receive military support for a long time.

Downstairs, I continued to instruct the militia team on their training. Then I heard Liu Wei report that the number of people in the community who mutated into zombies yesterday was as high as fifty-seven.

Li Mu took a deep breath and looked at the militiamen training diligently in front of him. He remembered that when the militia was first established, it had more than 1,500 members.

Now, only eight hundred people remain, a loss of more than seven hundred. Seven hundred militiamen who had been together day and night have turned into zombies, and everyone has to eliminate them by their own hands. Reality can be cruel sometimes.

Even so, compared to other communities, the situation is already quite good. In many communities, the militia teams have suffered losses of more than two-thirds, with less than one-third surviving to this day.

Those communities that were laid flat didn't actually want to be like this; they were just terrified by the cruel reality and temporarily lost the courage to fight the zombies.

Another day passed in the blink of an eye. The number of people in the community who mutated into zombies reached 59, more than yesterday. Now, the night shift guard team is basically kept at more than 100 people to prevent any accidents from happening.

Looking outside the residential area, there were even more zombies than yesterday. It was clear that the military wouldn't be coming today either.

That evening, on the rooftop terrace, Li Mu enjoyed the warm breeze while drinking beer and slowly browsing messages on his phone.

I first looked through the news, and it was pretty much the same all over the country, except that some places were more serious and some were less so. Everywhere there were news reports of neighborhood militia teams being unable to clear out the zombies, being blocked in their homes by zombies, and calling on the outside world for help.

Fortunately, overall order has been maintained relatively well. As for overseas, it's completely chaotic, with many places practically overrun by zombies.

I watched the news for a while, then browsed through WeChat groups. Since he is the militia inspector for more than 20 surrounding residential communities, he has joined many of the community's WeChat groups.

At times like these, the group chat becomes a mess, filled with complaints and requests for help. Some families don't have enough food, some are sick and need medicine or to be taken to the hospital... and some have family members who have turned into zombies and are too afraid to go out or stay at home, feeling utterly hopeless.

Looking at these messages, Li Mu could feel the helplessness and panic of some people even through the screen.

He let out a long breath, looking at the zombies on the street in the distance. Shouldn't he do something? The army was too busy to pay attention to this area, but he had plenty of time and the ability to do something.

After considering it for a long time, he decided to wait and see how things went tomorrow. If no troops came to clear out the area by tomorrow, he would then take action.

The next day, the number of mutated zombies exceeded sixty, with sixty-two people becoming zombies, and the militia also lost more than twenty members.

Everyone was numb to it; they could only wipe away their tears and continue training.

The army still hadn't arrived by morning; this was the third day. Li Mu, being the supervisor of the nearby community, asked around to see if the army would come.

I received a positive reply; it won't happen in the next few days!

He also learned the reason: compared to the surrounding area, the city center was the most densely populated area, and many residential areas were also flattened. Every day, a large number of zombies gathered in the residential areas and even flooded the streets.