You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!

"That's it?"

Gao Feng's expression showed some displeasure.

After all this time, there wasn't any clear message about the variants?

She hadn't brought these people over to make deliveries but to gather intelligence on the Type-D Mutant Zombies and the Mutant Beasts in Jiangbei District.

Who would have thought that after all the fuss of bringing more than a dozen people over, they would only get a "There might be a mutation in the west"?

Big Beard, however, remained calm, though his smile was somewhat helpless.

He had simply reported the Peng family brothers' exact words, who knew that the higher-ups would send a whole Hunter Squad over?

These people, working solely for corporate rewards, were truly desperate.

Sly, brutal, and ruthless in pursuit of their interests.

Since the formation of the Hunter Squad to this day, just over a month had passed, yet the results they had achieved far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Driven by hefty rewards, these individuals living on the edge of life and death had unleashed astonishing combat power.

They even specifically requested the machinery factory to custom-make equipment for them.

This included shotguns and handguns with enlarged calibers and a few modified bulldozers and excavators, formerly used by the engineering team, all designed to deal with Type-D Mutant Zombies.

With the support of this equipment, the Mutant Beasts that once flourished around the safe zone were the first to suffer.

Whether it was wild dogs or rats, in the eyes of these Hunters, looking only for vouchers, they all became pieces of bloody skin and fresh meat that were eventually taken to the safe zone to be sold.

Even the currently most dangerous Type-D Mutant Zombies had been found a way to capture by them.

Those modified engineering vehicles were precisely the weapons the Hunter Squad used to deal with the Type-D Mutant Zombies.

The only tougher challenge turned out to be the ghostlike Type-T Variants they had encountered in the abandoned factory district. To date, no less hazardous method of capture had been discovered.

"Sister Feng, I don't think we're needed here," one man said.

"How about we speak to the higher-ups--"

The man stopped talking there.

But everyone in the room understood what he meant.

Without accurate intelligence, their coming here was a complete waste of time.

Time was precious to these Hunters, meaning they'd just missed earning a few more vouchers, indirectly decreasing their chances of enjoyment.

So the best option right now was to explain the situation to the higher-ups and request to be sent back.

Gao Feng thought for a moment and then directly used her communicator to contact the headquarters. But after hearing the voice from the other end, her expression suddenly tightened.

"Yes, I understand."

A few minutes later, she calmly put down her walkie-talkie.

The surrounding Hunter Squad members immediately gathered around and asked:

"What's the situation?"

"What did the people above say?"

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Gao Feng scanned their faces, her expression indescribably complex:

"Going back?"

"We're not going back."

Hearing this, the Hunters instantly became anxious. What was going on?

Could they have been fired?

Before they could ask further, Gao Feng had already announced the decision from above:

"From now on, this is the headquarters of the Jiangbei Hunter Squad."

"We've all been promoted!"

Promoted?

At first, everyone was surprised.

Then a Hunter asked cautiously:

"Does this mean our rank—"

Seeing Gao Feng nod, the dozen or so Hunters instantly burst into cheers, each excited as if they were about to receive a paycheck.

To date, the Hunter Squad still only had three team leaders as formal company employees, with family arrangements and benefits just like other team leaders in the Combat Department.

But aside from those three, the rest were contract mercenaries.

Now they had all been turned into official employees of the Combat Department.

What did this mean?

It meant they no longer had to live the precarious day-to-day existence of their past.

Before this, everyone in the Hunter Squad's income came from the high rewards of capturing prey.

So if there were no gains in a short period, everyone would face the situation of having no money in their pockets and could only watch others hook up with the ladies.

But now things were different.

Having an official post meant having a steady income.

It also seemed they would be shedding their past lives of constantly walking the line between life and death.

Big Beard was the first to realize this.

The Hunter Squad in front of him was likely to stay here as a garrison.

Even the reason was ready-made, which was to search for mutants.

As for whether the Peng family brothers would object...

Would they dare to object?

First, a deal had just been struck, and relations were friendly.

Second, the convoy had suffered heavy losses.

Externally, there was Chen Xiaoyong who might bring men to attack at any time.

Internally, everyone had witnessed their humiliating retreat back here, which left everyone anxious.

Given their current strength, they were no longer capable of ensuring the security here, so the best solution was to request external support.

Even if the company did not take the initiative to request a garrison, Peng Yue would probably take the initiative to ask this well-equipped Hunter Squad to stay.

And under the protection of the Hunter Squad, the Jiangbei special operations division established by the company could freely probe the surrounding intelligence.

Incidentally, it would bring over those emerging civilian caravans already within the safe zone.

The larger the territory, the greater the population, the more prosperous the commercial activities became.

Such backroom trading practices had become extremely common within the safe zones today.

The goods provided by the company were ultimately too few to satisfy everyone's needs.

Some nearly spoiled food, clothes that were still somewhat clean.

Even the remaining medicines on the collapsed shelves of the drugstores.

Because of the emergence of exchange coupons, these originally private bartering acts had all turned into open commodity transactions.

And several civilian markets of varying sizes had even emerged.

The appearance of civilian traders further intensified the company's demand for population and territory.

Peng Yue's convoy compound was the first breakthrough point.

All of this was the plan discussed by Zhang Ye, Ai Bing, and the others.

Meanwhile, at the company headquarters.

Zhang Ye set down the walkie-talkie he was holding,

The woman sensed his gaze and looked up at him, but her movements didn't stop.

"Is it working out?"

"Hmm."

"Don't talk, keep going."

He said as he lay back, shutting his eyes to relish the moment in comfort.

The woman kneeling on the ground gave him a slightly resentful glance when she heard that, but the words she said carried a teasing flavor,

"Others are fighting their hardest out there."

"And you, well, if the people downstairs knew about this..."

But before she could finish, she was already pulled into the man's arms.

Zhang Ye chuckled, felt a wave of forbidden sensation from below, then whispered a few words into the woman's ear,

"How can I, as the boss, dominate Jiangbei if my subordinates don't work hard?"