"Why are they following us?" Leo Hale asked.
"Could it be another Psionics Unit from the base, looking to trail behind us, kill some zombies, and pick up Crystal Cores?" Alaric Fletcher chimed in, a puff of white mist billowing in front of his face with every word.
"Ignore them," Nina Jacobs said. Jessica Vance immediately dropped the subject, refocusing entirely on slaughtering the zombies below.
Their outdoor activity limit in this extreme cold was strictly thirty minutes per rotation. This duration was based on tests conducted by the base specifically for the harsh conditions. After half an hour, the freezing temperatures would begin to impair the human body's mobility, sharply increasing the danger when facing zombies. Nina enforced this time limit rigorously, requiring them to retreat to the vehicles for a thirty-minute rest after every thirty-minute combat shift.
