#174 - Chapter 174: The Fall of the City
No one could tell the middle-aged commander where hope lay.
The frenzied zombies wouldn't give him much time to think either.
"Commander! The brothers can't hold on much longer! The zombies below have already climbed up seven or eight meters!"
The soldier beside him shouted anxiously.
The middle-aged commander looked back.
The situation was even worse.
The closest zombies were less than two meters away from the top of the wall!
It was only a little after seven in the evening, the night had just begun!
"Everyone, look over there! There's a strange zombie over there! Shoot it!"
A sharp-eyed soldier looked into the distance and saw an unusually tall figure. Unlike the other zombies that were desperately charging towards them, this tall zombie stood there motionless.
Many people looked in the direction he indicated.
This zombie was more than two meters tall!
One of its arms was ridiculously huge, taking up almost half of its body. Its muscles were bulging, tearing through its clothes, and its enormous head was staring at them on the wall! (The other one)
The sense of oppression was extremely strong!
Just then, it moved.
Each of its steps covered a distance of ten feet, ignoring the ordinary zombies blocking its path as it charged towards them!
The ordinary zombies were like paper, unable to slow its speed in the slightest!
Bang, bang, bang…
Many soldiers opened fire on it.
A terrifying thing happened!
This zombie actually raised its enormous arm to block in front of it!
The gunfire did not cause it any effective damage!
The bullets were merely stuck in the surface of its giant arm, unable to penetrate it at all!
In an instant, this zombie had crossed a considerable distance, jumped onto the pile of corpses under the wall, and let out a terrifying roar at the survivors on the wall!
"Roar—!"
Terrifying sound waves, unlike anything a living being could produce, swept over them, and many survivors felt deafened and dizzy!
In this brief delay, the charger had reached the top of the corpse pile, stomping on the zombies under its feet, causing black and red corpse fluid to spill out, and leaped with all its might!
Its giant arm grabbed the edge of the wall!
Using the force, it climbed over the wall of life that the Yangcheng Shelter had struggled to build!
"Kill it! Quick!"
The middle-aged commander's eyes were bloodshot, and he grabbed the gun from the soldier next to him and frantically pulled the trigger at the charger!
Unfortunately.
The charger reached the wall and moved again.
Its two legs, which seemed "slender" compared to its giant arm, were actually extremely thick, and its strength was not lacking at all.
It began to run along the wall at a speed exceeding that of a human 100-meter sprint!
The giant arm raised in front of its chest was like a hard shield, and all the humans blocking its path were sent flying in all directions like they had been hit by a truck!
The few bullets that hit its body were completely painless. As long as its motor center was not completely destroyed, it would not stop at all!
"It's a monster!"
Some non-military soldiers, survivors who had been pulled from the civilian population to help, broke down.
They dropped their weapons and jumped off the wall, running towards the buildings inside the shelter!
It was like a fuse.
When the first deserter appeared, more and more survivors threw down their weapons and began to flee back!
Even though they knew in their hearts that this would lead to the wall being breached, and everyone would die when the zombies rushed in, they just didn't want to be the first to die!
What if a miracle happened and they survived!?
The defense line that the Yangcheng Shelter had held for so long finally collapsed completely at this moment!
The middle-aged commander's eyes were bloodshot for the nth time, the blood vessels in his eyes ruptured, and he shed tears of blood. Seeing fewer and fewer people on the wall, he knew that there was no point in continuing to stay.
"Brothers! I order you to leave here immediately! Go back to where we parked! Drive out!"
"I'll cover your retreat."
He shouted these words with all his strength.
"Commander!"
The soldier next to him wanted to say something, but he was cut off by the middle-aged commander.
"This is a military order! In the future, you must find a way to rebuild hope for humanity!"
"Go!"
Not every soldier was so pedantic as to want to die fighting here. Many of the soldiers saluted the commander, and then rushed towards the place where their troops were stationed with red eyes!
In less than half a minute, only a dozen soldiers remained on the wall, all of whom wanted to fight to the death here with the commander.
Looking back at the zombies that had climbed up the wall, and the comrades who had stayed behind.
A smile appeared on the middle-aged commander's face.
"You little bastards."
*****
The city fell.
The survivors inside were screaming, they didn't know where the road to survival was.
The shelter that had been so hard to build was wiped out at this moment.
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Green Source Base.
The time came to 8 o'clock.
The zombies surrounding the base outside still showed no sign of weakening. At this time, the number of zombies killed under the wall had exceeded three thousand.
Qin Jin did not keep staring at the defense on the wall. He handed over this important task to his uncle and other combat captains to arrange, and he only occasionally asked about the situation and checked the monitoring.
There was no threat for the time being.
After all the personnel in the base had dinner in the evening, they stopped their usual evening work, and the cadres asked everyone to return to their dormitories to rest first.
Internal stability was more important at this time.
The base personnel also knew that there was a situation today, and they did not dare to come out and cause trouble.
If they messed around, they might not be killed by zombies, but instead be thrown out by the higher-ups.
So the entire Green Source Base seemed unusually stable.
The defense had been arranged, and they just needed to continue to deploy and kill the zombies that rushed over according to the plan.
According to Qin Jin's memory, this corpse fog day would last until tomorrow morning.
There were still a full 10 hours.
Very long.
Continue to deal with it carefully.
He lit a cigarette in the office, took a puff, stared at the screen on the wall, and muttered to himself softly:
"Will there be a day when all the zombies disappear?"
No one answered him.
Of course, this was just his own murmur.
The night was still long.
The zombies reveled in this rare day, impacting those fragrant delicacies.
Most humans could only hide in their homes and pray that this moment would pass quickly.
Corpse fog days do not always occur globally synchronously like the first mutation night. Sometimes they may occur on a certain continent, and sometimes even only in a certain area, without a fixed location.
This time, it was happening throughout China, including some surrounding countries.
Qin Jin extinguished the cigarette that was about to burn out in the ashtray.
He got up and walked to the wine rack next to him, poured himself a glass of foreign wine, picked it up and slowly walked to the window.
Looking at the sky outside that seemed a little purple.
His eyes flickered.
"After this corpse fog day passes, it's time to prepare to develop and expand the base."
A low murmur came from his mouth again.
"I wonder how far my base can develop in the future?"
"It's really exciting."
After speaking, he raised the glass in his hand to the night sky, and then brought it to his mouth.
He drank it all in one gulp.
(End of this chapter)
