180 Colony (1/2)
Chapter 180: Colony
Translator: _Min_Editor: Yukira_
The battle ended swiftly, completely in contrast with the stalemate they were in when they encountered the mutated humans last time.
The 30 infantries, who entered the town, did not suffer any casualties, and only one unlucky guy was shot in the leg by a recalcitrant mutated human. The bullet happened to pass through his artery. Although the blood gushing out was quite frightening, the combat medic was quick to rescue, and the man was no longer in a life-threatening condition.
A total of 35 mutated humans were killed including 29 who died from electromagnetic pulse cannon and six of which died from of assault rifle and sniper attacks. Five were captured, and although mutated humans would rarely take the humiliation of being captured by a human lying down, under that overwhelming firepower, instinctive fear prevailed over the ridiculous pride.
A total of 721 human captives were rescued. If the bodies outside the town were all dead, the population of the town should be 779 before the mutated humans came.
There were bullet holes the size of a bowl throughout the exterior buildings outside of the town, and collapsed concrete buildings could be seen everywhere. Half of which were destroyed by the mutated humans.
The Fishbone Base infantry maintained the order of the queue as they recorded all the rescued townspeople and then provide them with the nutrient supply that originally belonged to them.
The five Tigers didn't drive into the city but stopped at the bridgehead of Zhufeng highway. A few soldiers were carrying concrete bags to build five crude bunkers.
This move was very intriguing.
All the Shenxiang townspeople had one thought hovering in their mind: do these people want to stay here?
They had a sense of foreboding.
...
Type-51 helicopter landed about a half kilometer away from the town in an open space. Jiang Chen, clad in kinetic skeletons, jumped down from the top. Cheng Weiguo, along with the mayor of the town, greeted Jiang Chen and saluted after seeing him.
”Did you finish the census?” Jiang Chen cut to the chase.
”It's done.” Cheng Weiguo handed a tablet to Jiang Chen for him to check.
Jiang Chen swiped the screen while he perused the statistics.
Population: 721, captive mutated humans: 5.
Seized: 24 machine guns, 72 various models of rifles, 100 thousand rounds of bullets, 1 shoulder-launched missile, 5 surface-to-air missiles, 5 recoilless cannons, and 40 rounds of ammunition. And there were 40 sets of C-type steel armors, though most of them were destroyed in the explosion.
Looking at these batches of firearms, Jiang Chen was secretly stunned.
Oh boy, these firearms reserves could catch up with the entire assets of the Fishbone Base!
It could be seen that these mutated humans invested a lot in this outpost, but now all of these belonged to Jiang Chen.
These firearms would remain here, but he ordered the armors to be shipped back. Although these lumps of irons were of little value to humans, nevertheless it's still pretty good to reforge them. Fishbone Base could use more C-type steels. With about ten tons of steel, however, modifying them into two armored vehicles wouldn't be a problem.
In addition, there were also hundreds of preserved mutants cadavers which appeared to be the food of mutated humans, since only they could eat something this toxic. However, so as not to waste anything, Jiang Chen still ordered Cheng Weiguo to throw these into the organic extractor to produce some nutrient supplies. With the ratio of one mutant to 100 nutrient supplies, it could easily extract 10,000 nutrient supplies.
Including the 30,000 in the storage, he temporarily did not have to worry about the rations of more than 700 people.
What excited him most was the construction materials that he seized. The mutated humans left a huge amount of cement and steels in the warehouse which were originally used to build an outpost, but right now, they were in his hands.
With these batches of prefabricated construction materials, Jiang Chen could easily stretch out reinforced concrete defensive line along the shore.
He returned the tablet to Cheng Weiguo, said a few words, and the latter received the order at once and left.
Then Jiang Chen finally turned to look at the mayor, who had been standing there and smiled amiably at him.
Seeing that Jiang Chen was looking at him, the mayor quickly bowed, ”The honorable Fishbone Base leader, Mr. Jiang Chen, on behalf of all the survivors in Shenxiang town, I would like to express our utmost gratitude and sincerity to you.”
”Don't worry about it...Do tell, what's your name?”
”Deng Bin.”
”Okay, Mr. Deng Bin, I want to go to the town hall now. Do you have time to take me there?”
”My pleasure.” Deng Bin bowed again.
To be honest, as the mayor, their ”savior's” behavior after eliminating the mutated humans made him very uneasy. At the moment, however, they were wielding guns, and the entire military power of the town was wiped out after the onslaught of mutated humans. Not possessing confidence nor knowing what to say, he could only meekly follow Jiang Chen on the side.
With hands in his pocket, Jiang Chen looked at the surrounding buildings while walking on the road leading to the town hall.
The reek of blood lingered in the nose and did not fade away even after a long time.
Along the way, he didn't say anything which actually made Deng Bin somewhat uncertain.
After hesitating for a moment, Deng Bin looked at Jiang Chen and asked tentatively, ”In just three days, they already slaughtered more than 60 of us. Truly grateful to you—us survivors from Qingpu. If there is anything we can help you with, we'll do our absolute best.”
”I've already said not to worry about it,” Jiang Chen, however, didn't directly answer. Instead, he only responded in a brief sentence before no longer speaking.
While Deng Bin's heart was still apprehensive, the two had arrived in front of the town hall.
To his surprise, the leader of the mysterious organization didn't seem to have the intention to go in; rather, he just stood in front of the town hall.
Did it deserve to be called a government building? It was aesthetically built, and based on the damage, it could be considered the only intact building in the entire town.