Invincible through Touching Corpses

Chapter 301: The Heaven-Sundering Mercenary Corps’ Harvest

Fifteen minutes later, Lin Xinghai left the conference room. He had ultimately agreed to Lin Zhengyang’s request to stay at the Industrial Park for another five days, until the branch base was established.

The news spread quickly. Everyone found it incredible, but they also felt a surge of excitement.

After all, this was something they hadn’t even dared to dream of before.

The Military Department also quickly extended an invitation to all the major Mercenary Corps, hoping they would stay and help build the branch base.

Those who were willing to stay and help would not only receive a substantial amount of Points, but they would also get a Mercenary Corps headquarters within the branch base, with an area of no less than 300 square meters.

This reward held an irresistible appeal for many Mercenary Corps, especially the First and Second Level ones.

After all, not all of these First and Second Level Mercenary Corps had a headquarters in the Star Shield Shelter, let alone one that was a full 300 square meters.

And the price for all this was just five days of work.

Almost 99% of the Mercenary Corps agreed to stay.

Of course, this reward cost the Military Department next to nothing. After all, there were plenty of factory buildings in the Industrial Park.

It could definitely be described as a win-win situation.

Of course, everything hinged on the premise that this branch base could actually be established and possess enough Defense Power to take root in Guanghan City.

Lin Zhengyang had also given this full consideration. The branch base’s defense system was being designed to withstand a horde of three million zombies.

The requirement to withstand a three-million-zombie horde sounded fantastical, but upon careful consideration, it wasn’t actually that difficult to achieve.

After all, a temporary outpost, modified in just an hour or two, could easily fend off a horde of 20,000 to 30,000 zombies.

Therefore, it wasn’t so hard to understand that a branch base, meticulously constructed over five days with vast resources, would have its Defense Power increased a hundredfold.

Of course, here in Guanghan City, the base wasn’t guaranteed to be safe even if it could withstand a three-million-strong zombie horde.

Given the density of zombies here, it wouldn’t be difficult for the Mutated Zombies to gather a horde of four or even five million if they were willing to spend the time.

Therefore, in addition to building the branch base, they would also simultaneously construct a safe corridor.

The previously built outposts would not all be dismantled. A sufficiently wide main road would be left intact, and its defensive measures would be reinforced to form a long-term safe corridor.

And besides this overt safe corridor, they would also dig an underground tunnel beneath the branch base leading directly outside of Guanghan City.

With these two safe corridors—one overt and one covert—as a contingency, the safety of the personnel stationed at this branch base in the future would at least be guaranteed.

The other Mercenary Corps, including Lin Xinghai, had only agreed to stay after hearing the entire plan and deeming the construction of this branch base to be feasible.

The construction of the branch base went from planning to official implementation in just one hour.

These soldiers and Mercenaries, who had just fought through the night, had no time to rest and immediately threw themselves into the massive construction project.

To build a branch base, the first task was to erect a towering perimeter wall.

According to the plan, this wall had to be 20 meters high—at least the height of a six-story building—and at least 1 meter thick.

The Industrial Park was a full 10 square kilometers in size. To encircle the entire park with such a wall would require a massive amount of construction resources.

Fortunately, that was one thing Guanghan City wasn’t short on.

Mechas were deployed one after another, demolishing the buildings outside the Industrial Park. This both created a clear, defensible zone and provided the raw construction materials, as the destroyed buildings themselves could be used.

They just needed to be piled up and have "quick-dry concrete" poured over them to rapidly construct the wall.

Of course, both the concrete and other engineering equipment needed to be transported from the Star Shield Shelter, which would take time. However, some preliminary work could indeed be done in advance.

If all went smoothly, they could build the wall in three days at most. The remaining two days would be for constructing fortifications and installing various defensive weapons.

However, neither Lin Xinghai nor the entire Heaven-Sundering Mercenary Corps participated in this. Such low-risk tasks were all handled by the First Level Mercenary Corps.

The main task for Second Level and Third Level Mercenary Corps like them was to clear out the surrounding zombies, using the Industrial Park as their center of operations.

Of course, after a series of major battles, rest was essential. These Mercenary Corps would have the morning off, and the cleanup operation would begin after noon.

The Heaven-Sundering Mercenary Corps’ temporary camp was set up in a factory building near the central area.

But when Lin Xinghai returned, he found that no one in the Mercenary Corps was resting. They were all gathered together, joyfully discussing something.

Lin Xinghai walked over and listened for a moment, then immediately understood. They were dividing up the bonus Points.

For the past few days, everyone had been busy clearing paths and surrounding zombies, with no time to calculate and distribute the Points.

Now that the Industrial Park had finally been taken, this matter was naturally put on the agenda.

"Captain Lin, you’re back!" someone soon spotted Lin Xinghai and greeted him respectfully.

Lin Xinghai nodded in response. The others also hurried to greet him, their eyes filled with respect and admiration.

"How have our earnings been these past few days?" Lin Xinghai asked, walking up to Fang Tianhe and the other senior members.

He really hadn’t paid attention to how many Points they had earned over the last few days.

"Heh, take a guess," Fang Tianhe said, trying to build suspense.

"Three or four million Points?" Lin Xinghai estimated.

"More than that, of course. In the final battle last night, the Military Department alone gave us a full 2 million Points. Adding that to what we earned in the preceding days, our total Points on the books has now reached 6.13 million." As he finished, Fang Tianhe couldn’t help but break into a wide, slightly foolish grin.

This was a day he had never even dreamed of.

Even Lin Xinghai was taken aback. This income was a bit beyond his expectations.

"Oh, right. Of that 6.13 million, 3.065 million is your cut. As for the remaining three million-plus, I plan to use 2 million for bonuses and leave the other million-plus Points for the Mercenary Corps’ development fund. That should be enough," Fang Tianhe added.