#572 - Chapter 572: Still Easy
"The life belt is being filled! Everyone, pay attention to shooting! Clear out those fast-running, seemingly mutated zombies!!"
Qin Guoqiang, the security department captain, wasn't one to be outdone, as he strained his voice shouting commands to the security team to start firing their weapons!
The defense officially began!
The life belt, which had held out for so long, continued to fill up despite the constant explosions of dynamite and the addition of burning oil, and the number of burning zombies inside kept increasing!
The bottom of the pit was covered with charred bone fragments and strange remains, and the original four-meter-deep trench couldn't withstand this tireless filling!
The newly arrived zombies, stepping on the remains of their predecessors, quickly climbed over the edge of the life belt and began running towards the headquarters!
The first line of defense was still the newly installed interception ropes!
These ropes had been upgraded several times and were now long ropes woven from special steel wire.
The interception height was about three meters, and most of the charging zombies were tripped and then shot by the team members on the wall!
"Bang, bang, bang——!!"
Bullets were being fired as if they were free, and the dense zombies on the interception belt were being picked off by the personnel above!
The team members who could get their hands on firearms were basically core personnel from the main base and combat personnel from the branch bases.
After this period of hard training, even if there weren't many sharpshooters among them, at least everyone was familiar with firearms.
They were constantly picking off the figures stopped by the barrier ropes at a set frequency. Moving targets were difficult to hit, but fixed targets were not?
If one or two bullets didn't work, then four or five?
They would eventually kill the zombies that were restrained below.
This wave of zombies was also Qin Jin's purpose for conducting more in-depth training for these combat team members.
Compared to shooting those dead targets every day, it was more effective and satisfying to shoot zombies.
The base's self-produced bullets had long exceeded the level of 100,000 per day, and at this time, the base had hundreds of millions of conventional bullets. There was no problem in using a small portion of them in this zombie wave.
When it reached the heated stage, other zombie-killing weapons would naturally be brought out to reduce the pressure on bullet consumption.
For a time.
Gunshots constantly rang out from the walls of the entire base headquarters. These armed team members were constantly improving, and their originally poor marksmanship was also constantly strengthening and becoming more accurate.
Practice is the best teacher.
At this moment, there were specialized personnel counting the number of zombies currently approaching.
"President Qin! About 170,000 zombies have come to our side! According to the intelligence returned by the helicopter and drone teams, the zombie swarms outside are still surging and show no signs of decreasing!"
"That means even more zombies will come to us later!"
The person reporting the news swallowed, feeling shocked and worried about the message they were reporting.
It was too terrifying!
This wave of zombies only started after dusk, and in just over an hour, more than 170,000 had come, already exceeding half of the total number of the last zombie wave!
That time, it took an entire night to resist 300,000!
And now they are still constantly running over from outside. He couldn't imagine how many zombies the base would face this time!
Different from the reporting personnel, Qin Jin only nodded to indicate that he knew.
This zombie wave was not ordinary.
It was attracted by zombies who had been hungry for several months, plus the lady Lin being kept in his base acting up.
It was estimated that this was the only case on the entire Blue Star.
"Continue to observe! Report the news regularly!"
After speaking, he continued to look at the life belt that had been flattened and the zombies being picked off on the interception belt.
At this time, it still couldn't be considered pressure.
If the Green Origin Base, which had developed to its current state, felt pressure from a mere hundred thousand zombies, Qin Jin estimated that he would be too ashamed to face anyone.
The bigger challenge was yet to come!
He would not forget that there were many mutated types among the zombies!
Those were where accidents could occur.
Helicopters and drones had photographed some peculiar existences in the approaching zombie swarm. Without asking, they were very likely some mutated zombies!
Not in a hurry.
The good show was yet to come.
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Outside Green Origin Zone.
Inside many buildings inhabited by survivors, terrified eyes carefully watched the running zombies pass by.
They were so frightened that they almost lost their minds.
"What on earth is happening!!? Why are so many zombies running towards the Green Origin Base?"
"It is estimated that there are too many survivors over there! The smell of meat is too strong, attracting a large-scale zombie wave! I thought that Green Origin Base would have an accident sooner or later for frantically accepting people like that! See, it really happened!"
"Hey, I heard people estimate the population of Green Origin to be about two thousand! That's really too many! These zombies may really be attracted there. Green Origin is finished this time!"
Many survivors hiding outside the Green Origin Zone couldn't help but rejoice that they hadn't joined Green Origin before, otherwise they would have suffered this super-large-scale zombie wave disaster.
"This is divine punishment! Green Origin was too self-righteous during the drought. This time, they probably won't make it through. There are too many zombies!"
Many survivors hiding at home began to feel that Green Origin would be destroyed in the face of the frantically surging zombie wave.
The diversity of human nature was on full display.
Some were gloating.
Some were panicked.
Some were hoping that Green Origin would survive.
There were also some who hoped that Green Origin would fall, so they could wait for the zombie wave to recede and go inside to pick up bargains.
If Green Origin really couldn't hold on this time, and it was flattened by zombies?
After those zombies left, wouldn't they be able to get a huge base for free!?
Just thinking about it was exciting!
Inside one of the houses.
Pan Xing and Pan Wei, two brothers, were anxiously looking in the direction of Green Origin.
They were sent back outside the Green Origin Zone after the drought stabilized, and their wives and children were only allowed to stay in the small residential area.
At this time, they were very worried about their relatives in the small residential area.
"They must be alright! God bless!"
Their family was really grateful to Green Origin for surviving this drought, because they released the transaction points for exchanging water in the early stage, and sent people out to solve the problem when the cannibals caused trouble later.
Otherwise, these two men would have died in the drought long ago.
So these two brothers still recognized and appreciated Green Origin Base.
"Brother, don't worry! You've seen how awesome Green Origin's armed forces are, right? Their people will definitely not be troubled by these zombies. Maybe they are dealing with it easily now!"
Pan Xing smiled reluctantly to comfort his elder brother.
He was also saved by Green Origin's medicine during the drought, so he had a very high recognition of the base.
He later heard his brother say how extraordinary Green Origin was when they went to Dragon Gate County to find those cannibals to save people.
And various Green Origin deeds he had heard before.
He felt that such a base could not easily fall into the mouths of these unthinking zombies!
They will definitely make it through!
(End of this chapter)
