Apprehensive
The two hundred or so survivors who were gathered by Cai Jingyi and Zhong De were surrounded by the more than one hundred men chosen by Wu Yijun to be part of the armed forces of the Beginning Village.
The hundred men were using machine guns, rifles, and pistols. These were all firearms that Bai Zemin had taken out of the military camp the day before for precisely this purpose.
Of course, while security was a lot higher due to the modern weaponry, in reality none of these hundred men had the ability to take on a large group of mutated creatures. In fact, probably only a dozen Agility-based or especially high defense beasts would be more than enough to decimate them all.
However, this would not stay that way for long as Bai Zemin would not let them get too used to modern weaponry. Modern weaponry would be used by those who did not have the courage to fight enemies face to face.