Chapter 112        Zetas

Putting aside whether or not the women had become overpa.s.sionate due to the cataclysm, Butcher still clearly lost to Zhou Qingfeng. He sobered up from a hangover from last night, let go two of the blonde girls, and volunteered to lead the search them.

Kenney Street, which was occupied by Zhou Qingfeng and his mates, was already under paramilitary management. Butcher and Katrina tried to keep everyone busy. They announced to everyone that those who do not work will be kicked out. As a result, the atmosphere of the whole team was relatively depressing.

Butcher led the search team, Katrina was in charge of arranging the people in the base, and Zhou Qingfeng went to see Mox. They already obtained the fire truck and found a lot of equipment that could break the wall easily. The next step was to see whether Mox could find a suitable route from the underground to the police headquarters.

“The route is confirmed.” Mox simply opened up his hand-written drawing on the table and returned the armband computer to Zhou Qingfeng. He said in low voice, “Your computer easy to use, but I prefer doing it by hand.”

Mox drew a red line on the graph. It went through the underground subway, tunnel, drainage tunnel, water supply tunnel, gas tunnel, and train track on the drawing.

“This is the fastest route I found to get into the headquarters. However, we’d need at least seven days to get through it.” The route Mox gave was from the subway station near Kenney Street all the way to Chambers Station. Above Chambers Station was the area near the NYPD Headquarters; the place occupied and controlled by dozens of armed gangs.

An excavation was required at the Chambers Station, following the route that would go through a series of tunnels and finally get into the underground dugout of the NYPD Headquarters.

“Seven days is a bit too long. We won’t know what’s happening to the armed gangs above ground.” Zhou Qingfeng doubted the plan’s success. What if people had already occupied the headquarters as they dug halfway through? It would be a waste.

“So we need to hurry up. For the next seven days, Butcher will lead the search team, Katrina will stay in the base. Only you and I will go for it,” Mox said.

“The two of us won’t be enough. We need more people. Maybe around ten.” Zhou Qingfeng worried. “We’ll start moving now.”

“Wait until tomorrow. The equipment you brought back need to be arranged. I found a garage nearby and there were a lot of useful tools. We could bring them with us,” Mox said.

“All right, we’ll leave tomorrow morning. It would give me enough time to pick the people who would follow us and get familiar with the equipment,” Zhou Qingfeng acquiesced. He asked Katrina, who was familiar with the people and got sixteen of them. All of them were relatively strong and brave.

Everyone in the base worked in an orderly way. As the sky turned dark, Butcher came back happily with the search team. Behind him were three huge trucks loaded with resources. There were also a few normal-sized trucks and two tanks.

“Butcher, it looks like you’ve gained a lot today!” Zhou Qingfeng looked at the search team, frowned, then said, “How many of you died?”

Butcher brought more than fifty people with him, but only around forty of them returned. Some of them were even injured. The people from the search team had experienced killing and seen a lot of dead people. They have been through the purgatory in the subway for a week, and their mentality was far stronger than ordinary people’s.

In fact, Katrina even sent people to other subway stations to rescue more people. There were actually a lot of people who were trapped in the subway stations, but more time was required to rescue them. Right now, the strongest group of people Zhou Qingfeng had comprised the survivors from the subway station. They have a common feature: They have suffered through life and death situations and had survived.

However, Zhou Qingfeng was a little mad as more than ten had died. He expected those people to help him and give him a better life in the last phase.

As Butcher heard Zhou Qingfeng, he cannot help laughing. “We met a bunch of idiots today. They wanted us to surrender. We killed them all and stole their vehicles. Don’t worry; they lost far more people than us.”

The three big-sized trucks were really huge. One of them even had a cold storage compartment. The cooling system was supported by the fuel and had kept the inside of the compartment frozen for the whole time. Zhou Qingfeng opened the compartment and was taken by surprise. “Who’s this freaking wasteful guy? Where did he get all these ice cream?!”

There was not just ice cream; there were also frozen meat, seafood, vegetables, and supplies enough for all of them to eat for a week. The question was, who was capable of getting these resources at this chaotic period?

Butcher let the people from the search team rest and handed their loot to the people under Katrina. After that, he pulled Zhou Qingfeng and Katrina to the temporary command room and said seriously, “We’re in trouble.”

“Continue, I’m listening.” Katrina grabbed a chair and took a seat.

Butcher pulled out a flyer from his pocket, put it on the table and said, “Someone is trying to gather the forces within Manhattan. They are suggesting we build a ‘Republic of New York’. I robbed those resources from them.”

What… who’s doing such a ridiculous thing?

Zhou Qingfeng picked up the flyer and took a glance. He was surprised. “Is there really someone like this? Someone called… Los Zetas is claiming to be the president of the Republic of New York. Hold on, why does this name sound so familiar?”

Beside him, Katrina replied, “He’s the leader of Zetas. He was the one who forced you to escape yesterday. Los Zetas often uses violence to solve any problem he encounters. He was the commander of a narcotics team in Mexico. However, after a few years of working anti-drug, he brought his whole team and defected to become renegades, then started trafficking drugs. He’s very dangerous!”

“A drug dealer trying to build a country? They are strange beyond all description!” Zhou Qingfeng saw the photo of Los Zetas on the flyer. The Mexican looked ferocious and ugly. He even stated in the flyer that all the people in New York needed to obey him and said that a founding ceremony would be held in the town hall of Downtown Manhattan after seven days.

“He’s not just a small drug dealer now,” Butcher said. “I caught a few of their members and questioned them. The news is very bad. They’ve already unblocked the Brooklyn Bridge and are recruiting large amounts of people from the Brooklyn area. They’re all coming to Manhattan.

“Los Zetas believes that New York is the center of the United States. Manhattan is the center of New York, and Downtown Manhattan is the center of Manhattan. That’s the reason why he wants to build his foundation in Downtown Manhattan. He’s following this belief. They said that he has recruited more than fifty thousand people from Brooklyn, and there are already more than five thousand people under him in Manhattan.

“Other than that, he’s recruiting famous criminals and ruffians from overseas. He’s appointing them as his government officials. For instance, he nominated Victor Hugo as the Chief Police Officer of the Republic of New York. I heard it was because you killed the original Chief Officer of New York and that you’re well-known.”

“What?” Zhou Qingfeng was astonished once he heard that he was under another person all of a sudden. “How dare that b*stard command me?!”