#811 - Chapter 811 Arriving on the First Floor
“Roar roar roar!!!”
A series of startling roars echoed through the underground parking garage, violently assaulting the minds of the humans who had trespassed here.
An unavoidable sense of panic surged.
Xiao Yun's words halted their forward rush towards the parking garage exit, leaving them all frozen, unsure of what to do.
Hundreds of zombies had flooded in from outside, and there was virtually no chance of them breaking through with just the six of them!
Not every one of them was Captain Li, possessing the ability to take on more than ten ordinary zombies single-handedly.
They might be able to handle one or two on their own with weapons, but when zombies swarmed in from all directions, it was a guaranteed death!
Even the slightest scratch from those ghastly things would infect them with the virus and turn them into zombies!
So, continuing in that direction was a dead end!
“Find another way out! Xiao Yun, listen to the stairwell and see if there are many footsteps! If not, we'll go upstairs first and then figure out another way to escape!”
Captain Li's entire being was tense as he quickly thought of a potentially useful plan.
They needed to leave this place, where the number of zombies was constantly increasing, as quickly as possible. The open space offered no obstacles to fend off the approaching zombies. They had to relocate to a position where they could continue to escape to survive!
Although he was somewhat confident in taking on a dozen or twenty ordinary zombies alone, any more than that would still lead to his demise.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yun quickly dispelled her panic and focused on listening to the sounds from the stairwell Captain Li had mentioned.
Thump thump thump!
Mentally counting the number of footsteps, she quickly replied without hesitation:
“There are about a dozen footsteps!”
There's hope!
Li Bowen's eyes lit up, and with a loud shout of “Follow me!”, he led the way, charging towards it!
At this time, the surrounding zombies continued to close in. Yao Lei occasionally fired shots to kill the nearest zombies, while Liu Qing, Brother Qin, and Xiao Fei used their machetes to mercilessly hack at any zombie that dared to approach.
Xiao Yun wasn't very strong; her role was to continue listening to the surrounding situation, informing everyone of the approximate number of zombies, and using two flashlights to illuminate any attacking zombies.
The team began to move towards one of the stairwells in the underground parking garage that led to the 1st floor.
The machete in Captain Li's hand was like a meat grinder, and no zombie that approached could last more than two seconds in front of him.
However.
He could feel a faint ache from his previous injuries, a slight aftereffect of exerting himself too much before fully recovering.
But he had no time to worry about that now. He needed to lead his team out of this encirclement of zombies as quickly as possible!
They've reached the stairs!
In the beam of the flashlight, three or four zombies were crowding the stairwell, trying to pounce on Captain Li, who had just stepped into the area.
“Swish swish swish!!!”
The nameless blade technique, enhanced by immense strength, struck the unprepared zombies, instantly dismembering their heads and bodies into pieces of varying sizes.
Ruthlessly stepping over the organs, Li Bowen continued to clear the way, while Yao Lei and the others behind him had no time to be disgusted by the corpses on the ground, continuing to concentrate on repelling the zombies chasing from behind.
“Bang bang bang!!!”
Three consecutive bullets accurately hit three zombies chasing from behind, causing them to fall down the stairs, forming a layer of obstacles that slightly hindered the pursuing ghouls.
Liu Qing and Brother Qin, who were at the rear, breathed a sigh of relief and quickly disengaged from the zombies' entanglement, stepping onto the stairs to catch up.
The whole process was extremely dangerous.
After reaching the stairs, everyone clearly felt the pressure decrease. Now, with Captain Li clearing the path at the front and Liu Qing and Brother Qin retreating while fighting at the rear, along with Yao Lei's occasional crossbow or gunfire support, they actually managed to hold them off for a short time.
But the danger was still far from being over.
They spent nearly a full minute on this staircase before finally reaching the first floor!
“Huff—huff—huff—”
Even with Captain Li's strong physique, the continuous high-intensity bursts of energy in a short period of time made him feel slightly breathless.
He was the first to break through the zombies on the stairs and step onto the first floor. Shining the flashlight outwards, he saw some figures in the distance constantly approaching.
Needless to say, the zombies that had been on the first floor were also attracted.
It wasn't that they wanted to use guns to commit suicide, but the battle had already begun.
The zombies themselves would make loud roars and running and collision noises. Even if they reluctantly used cold weapons to fight without firing a shot, they would attract more zombies sooner or later.
What was more important now was to quickly escape the entanglement of the zombies and find a way out of here!
“Quickly find a way out! I'll go clear out the approaching zombies first!”
Taking a deep breath, Captain Li said to his companions who had just caught up behind him without turning his head, and then charged towards the zombies that had come upon hearing the sounds.
He had to hold off the zombies first to create conditions for his teammates to find a way to escape.
The first floor here used to be a combination of restaurants and various commercial shops in the Min Kang residential area. Yao Lei and the others who walked out of the stairwell quickly surveyed the environment here.
Liu Qing and Brother Qin, who were at the rear, killed the two monsters that were following closely, then slammed the door shut and locked it tightly, giving them a chance to breathe and help find a way out.
After arriving on the first floor, most of the zombies from the underground parking garage couldn't catch up. Xiao Yun roughly judged through hearing that there were also several hundred zombies coming from the first floor here!
It was definitely unrealistic to rely on Captain Li alone to withstand the tide of zombies. Finding an exit as soon as possible was the key!
“Look there! The window on the side of that restaurant can see outside!”
Xiao Fei had the sharpest eyes and quickly saw the faint light from the outside shining through the glass of a restaurant dozens of meters away!
There's a chance!
“Everyone, gather over there!!”
Without hesitation, Yao Lei shouted and began to move over there.
The captain was still fiercely killing zombies at the front to reduce their pressure, but he was injured and couldn't be caught by the zombies, not even a little bit. His current state of going on a rampage could collapse at any time!
They had to hurry!
After quickly determining their target, the five of them moved over there, while also killing zombies that bypassed Captain Li or attacked from other directions along the way.
Their current situation was hard to describe as anything other than precarious.
One must know that Captain Li alone had attracted more than half of the zombies that had come upon hearing the sounds!
If it weren't for this fierce man sharing the pressure, they would have been submerged by the tide of zombies long ago.
The current situation was even more dangerous than a few days ago in that shopping mall!
There were more zombies here than they had imagined, as expected of a once-famous residential area in Longyan City.
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Two minutes later.
Pfft!
Yao Lei stabbed the machete fiercely into the eye socket of a zombie, bringing out a spray of dirty blood. After shaking it off, they finally arrived at the restaurant that Xiao Fei had pointed to earlier!
(End of this chapter)
