Safari Park

Xiao Fan's side brought the team to set off. On the prison base side, Chen Fudong was completely furious now.

"Sure enough! Feng Zhenxiang must have died, otherwise he would not possibly have not contacted me for three days. He must have died at Xiao Fan's hands!"

His subordinates were standing next to him, looking at the enraged leader without opening their mouths to comfort him, only waiting for orders.

"Immediately contact Lu Wang from the wholesale market, just do as I said, no matter what, I must see Xiao Fan alive or see his corpse!"

The subordinates immediately contacted and opened the radio station to call Lu Wang from the wholesale market.

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Yan Yun City's wholesale market was located in the western suburbs of Yan Yun City, about forty kilometers away from the Chishui County town. It was the largest food wholesale market in the city.

It mainly operates vegetables, fruits, meat products, seafood, frozen foods and so on. Every day, vendors from counties and towns below came here to purchase goods. It was one of the busiest sections of the entire city.

Lu Wang was an aquatic product owner here who had basically monopolized all the live fish sales in the wholesale market. To monopolize the market like this, he was naturally not an ordinary person. To get to this point, Lu Wang had recruited a group of thugs along the way to fight for territory and interests.

There were many people who could not survive this apocalypse, but with such a large population base, there were always people who could seize opportunities to rise.

Lu Wang was undoubtedly one of those people. When the apocalypse arrived, he noticed the opportunity and rushed directly to the security office of the wholesale market. He had actually found several guns there.

Since then, he had also embarked on a road of no return. Bringing some of the surviving men, using the wholesale market's unique food resources, he continued to expand his power and developed to where he was today, with strength firmly occupying the top five in Yan Yun City.

But Lu Wang was not satisfied with the fifth position. He wanted to go further.

However, whether it was the prison base, airport base, hot spring mountain villa base, they all had unique conditions that were not inferior to those of the wholesale market base. It was also very difficult for Lu Wang to surpass those bases.

So he needed an opportunity. In his eyes, that opportunity was the Mid-Autumn Festival trade fair.

The wholesale market was not lacking in food. There were still many cold storages that could be used. He planned to exchange food for supplies or people.

If there was an opportunity, he even planned to engage in some backstabbing!

He was just worried about doing this alone without enough strength. He didn't expect Chen Fudong from the prison base to come find him.

After listening to Chen Fudong's conditions, Lu Wang laughed.

"Haha! Chen Fudong, that's all you've got, going all out for a dead relative. You can hardly be called a powerful figure, and his achievements were probably limited."

His men asked, "Boss, shall we agree or not?"

"Agree, why not? It's just killing a little punk, easy as pie. It would be foolish not to."

"Boss, don't underestimate them. Chen Fudong's side said just now that Xiao Fan's side seemed to have more than a dozen veterans."

"No problem. Veterans are still human. No one has three heads and six arms. Not to mention they have no previous skills after retiring. You go and notify Li Nanfeng. Tell him he can go into action now. His men have been itching for a fight all this time. Now give them this opportunity. Whether they live or die, they must bring Xiao Fan back to me."

"Alright, Li Nanfeng's nickname is Madman. His methods are cruel, and he is very strong. The little brothers who follow him all worship his madness and have learned to do things his crazy way. With them making a move, Xiao Fan's side is definitely finished."

"Haha! Good to know. Go on now."

His subordinate left to notify them. Lu Wang didn't take this matter seriously either. In his eyes, with Li Nanfeng's people taking action, there was simply no suspense in this matter.

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On the road from Yan Mountain to Chishui, a convoy was traveling at high speed.

Three SUVs, a 212 Jeep, a Bobcat utility vehicle, and a heavy truck were all dispatched.

The convoy had traveled fifty kilometers already. Thanks to the radar, Xiao Fan discovered quite a few survivors along the way.

He found that some survivors were still hiding in their homes, unwilling to go out, not knowing how they had survived until now.

Although there had not been a complete power outage yet, more and more districts had lost electricity due to transformer damage, fallen utility poles and other reasons. Faults were increasing.

It had been almost a month since the apocalypse began. Over the past few days, Xiao Fan had a vague worry that the day of complete power failure was getting closer and closer.

Once the power went out, everywhere would be plunged into darkness. Only then would the truly difficult times arrive.

But now he didn't have time to care about those survivors. He was rushing at full speed towards Chishui County.

After running another twenty kilometers, Chishui County was faintly in sight.

Xiao Fan opened a map in his hand, which was part of the supplies he had collected in Yan Mountain Town.

The Chishui County town had the Chishui River running through its center, hence its name.

There were also more than a dozen large and small lakes within the county town, and lush vegetation because of abundant water resources. It was the largest forest park and wildlife conservation area in the nearby Yan Yun region.

On the edge of the county, there was also a wildlife park. It contained not only various northern wildlife but also many rare animals that the zoo had purchased from all over the world at great expense to build the wildlife park into a name card for Chishui.

Every holiday, many people from the surrounding area would come here with their families to visit the park and see the animals. The tourism industry had become one of Chishui's pillar industries.

Xiao Fan's sister Xiao Tian attended Chishui No.1 Middle School here, which was also Xiao Fan's alma mater.

The school's location was in the east-central part of the city. It could not be considered downtown, but it was not quite the suburbs either.

There were two routes to get to the school. One was to take the southern ring road, the other the northern ring road. However, both routes required passing through parts of the urban district before reaching the school. Although Chishui was not large for a county town, it still had a population of several million. Xiao Fan's small team simply did not have the ability to pass through.

If they didn't take either of these two routes, there was a shortcut: directly crossing the wildlife park, entering from the east and exiting from the west, which could lead directly to the back gate of the school.

After weighing the pros and cons of the three routes, Xiao Fan decided to traverse the wildlife park.

When the apocalypse broke out, it was not during a holiday. There shouldn't have been many people in the wildlife park, so less people meant less zombies and an easier crossing.

With the route decided, the vehicles stopped about two hundred meters from the wildlife park entrance.

This was the outer ring road of the city. After getting off on the ring road, Xiao Fan led his group and started walking from there.

The wildlife park had an isolation zone outside, surrounded by barbed wire fences, so vehicles simply could not get through. Leaving the cars on the ring road, they would also have to come back and leave from this point later. He believed no one would run out to this desolate wilderness to steal their cars at this point.

The roads were full of cars that no one cared about now, regardless of how nice they were.

As they drew closer and closer to the wildlife park, Xiao Fan also felt some blind optimism on his part.

Because more and more purple dots were appearing on his radar map!