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Chapter 851 The First to Move
“Who volunteered? Theresa asked with a bright, mischievous smile.
Lucas shook his head. “ Neither Ark Camp Two nor Ark Camp Three agreed. They’re still observing from the sidelines.”
Her grin widened, laced with mockery. “Only an idiot would help those fools,”
“They’re offering a hundred thousand gleamstones and a hundred thousand tons of food”
“I can’t just stand by while others suffer! She immediately sprang to her feet. “Helping those in distress is my duty. I’ll go!” (D
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Meanwhile, in the satellite communications station of the Keaton family base, a stream of urgent messages flashed across the large screen in front of Theresa.
‘ Help! Help! Ark Camp One is in urgent need of rescue!”
“We’re requesting immediate assistance!”
“Ark Camp One is willing to provide 100,000 gleamstones or 5,000 doses of Evoloid serum, plus 100,000 tons of food to anyone who helps!
But the screen showed only messages from Ark Camp One. The other two camps remained completely. silent. Not a single response.
“They’re calculating down to the last grain, muttered Xavier with a look of contempt. They’re waiting for the other side to make a move first, or for Ark Camp One to reach its breaking point and offer up the best possible deal.”
“Can’t they just wait for Ark One to be completely wiped out and swoop in to scavenge the corpses?” she said bluntly.
He shook his head, gaze sharp and shrewd. “If it gets to that point, Ark Camp One will likely self–destruct rather than let them take a single piece.
“Right now, both sides are just stalling, even testing each other–waiting to see who loses patience first. Whoever reveals their hand, and the other reaps the bigger reward.”
She nodded thoughtfully. Then, all the more reason for us to help Ark One. Let’s put an end to this game.” Xavier paused for a beat, then burst out laughing. “Go ahead. Do it in my name.”
Thirty minutes later, five helicopters took off.
The flags of the Blazing Sun Camp were replaced with the KI Camp banners.
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Theresa led the mission, bringing along Kyle and Qochtin. The rest of the team were Lucan
She entrusted James to Tyger, asking him to start managing alliance affairs and report directly to her, s was in charge of bunker security, and Theron and the others were to remain ort the frontlines.
With the alliance running smoothly, Theresa, Lucas, and a team of about twenty boarded the helicopters, bound for the Ark Camp One.
This was her first time leaving the eastern region.
Once they exited her territory, the view below became desolate and grim.
To the north lay a massive coastal megacity, once home to over ten million people. As the helicopters flew above, not a single trace of human life could be seen.
The streets, rooftops, and building tops were swarming with zombies, densely packed like a dark tide.
The once–bustling city, ravaged by two years of apocalypse, had fallen into decay. Skyscrapers now stood broken and hollow. Exposed steel beams jutted from collapsed walls, thick weeds sprouted from every crevice, and one building had clearly been gutted by fire.
Charred marks stretched from its middle floors all the way to the top–like a face marred by deep scars. Just one glance was haunting enough.
There wasn’t a single living soul in sight.
“Major cities collapsed the fastest. Not a single one was spared–all of them were overrun, with barely any survivors left,” Lucas said solemnly beside her.
“Okay
The survival rate was less than one percent, but that figure wasn’t distributed evenly.
Some areas were completely barren, with no survivors at all. Others, due to low population density and sheer luck, had higher numbers of survivors. The vast northern and midwestern regions were among them.
That was where the three massive Ark Camps had been established.
Theresa’s view expanded as the cities faded into endless prairie. Human settlements became increasingly sparse.
The endless sprawl of zombie–infested cities eventually gave way to open, sweeping plains. After flying for hours, Theresa finally spotted it- massive dome–like structure rising from the horizon, stark and surreal against the empty wilderness, like/something out of a forgotten world.
Only much, much bigger.
The dome’s top was a huge helipad, Jarge enough to fit ten helicopters. The structure itself was made from ultra–durable, specialized materials. Doors stood on all four sides–east, west, north, and so
In emergencies, all could be opened at once, transforming the dome into a giant evacuation valve to
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rapidly disperse the crowd.
There it is, Lucas said, eyes fixed on the structure ahead, as the helicopters began to descend toward
Meanwhile, across the vast expanse of grassland, a small group of people were fleeing, chased by four or five zombies.
In such an open space, there was nowhere to hide. Zombies were highly visible–but so were humans
o someone, there was nowhere to run. And once the undead locked onto