While Ethan and the others were rampaging across foreign lands, back in the Atlas Federation, every compound was squeezing every second it could to get stronger.
The major compounds sent huge numbers of Enhanced out every day to hunt zombies.
The more zombies they killed, the stronger their Enhanced got. And the stronger they got, the easier it became to kill even more zombies.
At this point, Atlas had basically turned zombies into EXP mobs.
When people saw a zombie now, it wasn't fear.
It was excitement.
By now, the cities housing the major compounds—and even the surrounding cities nearby—had been cleared out completely. If you wanted to kill zombies, you had to travel way farther out to even find them.
A lot of teams would go out and stay gone for days at a time, because making a round trip was such a pain.
Copper Ridge City…
