Wang Huining scratched Ye Fan, and Ye Fan gave him an injection.

This injection was only half done, the red gel wasn't fully injected.

After giving Wang Huining the injection, Ye Fan injected himself as well.

The red gel was injected, and the scratched wound immediately healed.

This was his Captain-level Antiviral Serum.

As long as a person is less than 75% zombified, they can be saved.

Looking at Wang Huining's condition, Ye Fan could see that his evolution was obviously incomplete.

This guy was like a half-finished zombie, with some human traits in both his mind and body.

Fully transformed zombies are impossible to have humanity.

Wang Huining saw Ye Fan had injected twice and continued to mock him relentlessly.

He believed he was doomed to die, so he was fearless.

Besides, zombies don't fear pain, and he felt nothing worth living for, so he spoke to Ye Fan without restraint.

Ye Fan didn't bother with him, leaning against the tank, watching him spout nonsense.

The siege battle was already reaching its end. To mask Wang Huining, the zombies launched a suicidal assault, falling one after another inside and outside the walls of Dawn City, unable to offer any more support to Wang Huining.

Wang Huining pointed a finger at Ye Fan: "Ye Fan, don't think that just because you've beaten me, you can rest easy. I'm not the only zombie who can control other zombies, sooner or later your broken city will become a living coffin, and by then you'll have nowhere to be buried in peace...".

Saying this, he involuntarily rubbed his severed arm, as if it hurt a bit.

Ye Fan squinted at him: "Keep talking, why did you stop?"

"I'll talk! There's no saving this world, I advise you to just accept your fate of becoming a zombie, better go back and infect everyone in Dawn City, then join me, I'll turn you into a super zombie, ouch...".

The words caught in his throat.

His arm grew increasingly painful, as did his severed leg.

"Do you feel pain?" Ye Fan asked with a smile.

"So what if it hurts? Isn't it normal for broken arms and legs to hurt...".

The words were left hanging as Wang Huining froze.

Why was he feeling pain?

He was already a zombie, wasn't he?

Confused, he looked down at his severed arm and saw black-red blood flowing from it.

"This...?"

He was baffled, a zombie's blood should be black, so why was his black-red?

"Got a mirror? Let me see what I look like now."

Ye Fan raised a hand, and two soldiers came over and lifted him to the river bank, letting him see his reflection in the water.

Compared to his previously near-zombie form, he now looked more like a human.

But he wasn't fully human either, just less zombified.

If before he was 60% zombified, now he's about thirty percent.

"Have I turned into a human? Has the zombie virus disappeared? Ow, it hurts!"

Wang Huining was a bit confused; he felt his ability to control zombies weakening, but still present to some extent.

Before he could figure it out, the two soldiers had carried him back.

Ye Fan looked at him expressionlessly: "Can we have a good talk now?"

Wang Huining glared: "Talk about what?"

Without a word, Ye Fan lifted his booted foot and kicked Wang Huining's injured leg!

Wang Huining screamed out in pain.

At that moment, he suddenly understood that he was no longer the zombie completely devoid of pain; he had hope of becoming human again, as long as Ye Fan continued to inject him with that red gel.

The kick not only hurt him but also sent his recent bravado flying to the skies.

Seeing Ye Fan lift his foot again, Wang Huining was startled.

He hurriedly opened his mouth.

"Ye Fan...Brother...Brother Fan...".

Ye Fan snorted: "Want to become fully human? Then cooperate, answer whatever you're asked."

At this point, Wang Huining was like fish on a chopping board awaiting slaughter.

Ye Fan had no intention of interrogating him personally and simply had a soldier take him back for questioning.

"Don't try to escape or pull any tricks, you've seen during the battle that none of our Dawn Army soldiers are afraid of the zombie virus. If you're not afraid of pain, then go ahead and try."

"I won't, I won't... I promise to confess and tell the truth."

"Take him away."

The soldiers took Wang Huining away, with Engineers present, they could build him a secure cell within a day.

This was a special kind of zombie, and it was worth some careful research if given the chance.

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The battle beneath Dawn City was over.

After the last Crawler was shot dead by the Dawn Army soldiers, out of this wave of three hundred thousand zombies, aside from the captured leader, not a single one was left alive.

The survivors emerged from the resource recovery station, staring in awe at the turret atop the central district's gate.

That towering Giant Cannon gave them a deep sense of belonging and security.

With this big guy around, and so many brave warriors of the Dawn Army, who can still threaten Dawn City?

Although most of them do not yet have the right to live in the inner city, no one has any thoughts of leaving.

They will work hard; even if they can't stay in the inner city, picking a good spot in the outer city is fine too.

The survivors are full of energy, and the construction of Dawn City has once again entered the fast lane.

Outside the city, the warriors began descending the walls to clean up the battlefield.

Collect the jewelry, and burn the rest directly.

The crystals were found in the brains of the slain King Kongs and Crawlers, which Ye Fan extracted.

This time, Ye Fan obtained three ordinary crystals and one special crystal.

This special crystal was found on the Level 3 Mutated Zombie killed by the Giant Cannon.

Xing Hai's crystal was swallowed by Xiaoba, and the body of the one killed by the Giant Cannon was also fed to Xiaoba by Ye Fan.

After continuously devouring many Mutated Zombies, Xiaoba upgraded.

Xiaoba is also one of the Red Alert Units; if counting the slaughter, no one killed more in these two battles than it did.

It ate several hundred Mutated Zombies and a King Kong, especially devouring Xing Hai, which brought it a large amount of upgrade experience.

Ye Fan doesn't know how much Xiaoba costs, but just based on this eating spree, barely upgrading from No-Star to One-Star, it shows how difficult it will be to promote it further.

After upgrading to One-Star, Xiaoba's size visibly swelled up.

The tentacles, which were previously less than thirty meters, are now over forty meters.

The height, originally six meters, is now nearly ten meters.

Lying in the pond, its eyes are exposed outside, constantly watching Ye Fan.

It's not that it wants to stare; it just can't retract.

Looking at this big guy gives Ye Fan a headache.

No-Star equaled the food consumption of a battalion; after upgrading to One-Star, how can they possibly afford to feed it?

Fortunately, it's autumn harvest time, and the Dawn Army has brought back a lot of food; tightening their belts, they should be able to get through this winter.

But come next spring, Xiaoba's problem will become a big issue.

To prevent Xiaoba from being exposed, Ye Fan had to order the Engineer units to get moving.

Two multifunctional obstacle-breaking vehicles were deployed, together with collected excavators, to begin expanding the pond and widening and deepening the river channel.

No need to worry about other places, but at least this section from Ye Fan's residence to the outer city must be widened.

Otherwise, with Xiaoba's big head out on the water every day, it'll scare the survivors sooner or later.

The pond was dug to fifteen meters deep, and its area expanded to four thousand square meters, barely giving Xiaoba a place to stay.

The burning of zombie corpses proceeded quickly, with the Flamethrower Warriors gathering to incinerate the zombie bodies.

The fire burned for nearly a day before Dawn City was clean.

The final battlefield cleanup also brought Ye Fan an income of over fifty thousand Gold, bringing his funds back over sixty thousand.

Ye Fan didn't spend this money.

He didn't continue to deploy troops or add buildings.

Currently, the construction of the Dawn Army can't proceed casually.

The Giant Cannon is a big electricity consumer; after producing it, the Dawn Army's electricity supply is critical.

Before producing the next Power Plant, Ye Fan cannot add more buildings, or else Dawn City would face a power outage.

Ye Fan doesn't plan to build a thermal Power Plant next; he's planning to build a wind Power Plant.

The many hilltops in the back mountain are ideal spots for setting up wind power.

However, with not much money on hand, he hasn't begun.

The soldiers lost in the battle have been replenished, returning them to pre-battle levels.

Through this battle, Ye Fan realized the shortcomings of the Dawn Army.

Firstly, the armored units are not yet of scale.

Even with two light tanks leading, they still can't withstand a large-scale zombie tide.

Of course, the siege battle faced by the Dawn Army this time was unexpected; according to Wang Huining, this situation was an anomaly.

In the wild zombie groups now, let alone a Level 3 Mutated Zombie, he hasn't even seen wild Level 2 King Kongs or Crawlers.

The Crawler Ye Fan encountered in Qinghe County was also an Evolver who turned into a zombie, coming from the same origin as Wang Huining's subordinates.

Besides the armored units, the city wall construction is not high enough.

With ten-meter high walls, the three hundred thousand zombies brought by Wang Huining probably wouldn't even be a threat.

Of course, Ye Fan doesn't plan to use system funds for the city walls; further construction would be for the Outer City District walls, which can allow survivors to build themselves, sparing huge construction costs.

Another important point is that Ye Fan lacks an air force.

If there were an air force and planes, the current zombies wouldn't even be an issue.

Of course, achieving all that Ye Fan wants requires money, and a lot of it.

Relying solely on the mines is too slow; Ye Fan has long had a plan.

A few days ago, there was a deserter among the survivors; although partially due to Ye Fan's deliberate design, it ultimately came down to their cowardice.

Leaving such fat sheep unharvested, Ye Fan would feel he let himself down.

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