Chapter 198

Chapter 198: Zombie Siege 1 – The Door of Rebirth in the Apocalypse

Thanks to their usual rigorous training, the military assembled at an extremely fast pace. In less than ten minutes, soldiers from various regiments had already gathered at the main gate.

Third Brother hurriedly stepped onto the platform and, without any unnecessary words, directly stated: “I believe everyone is aware of the current situation, so I won’t waste time. The zombie horde is expected to arrive outside the walls in twenty minutes. I have only one demand of you! No matter how many zombies come, even if it costs us our lives, we must stop them from entering the base, not allowing them to set foot on our land! Can you do it?”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

Without a hint of hesitation or fear, only determination and self-sacrifice, the three shouts nearly shook the ground!

Gu Ning, standing at a distance, listened to the soldiers’ shouts and felt as if she was also infected, her blood boiling with excitement! The acrid smell of gunpowder in the air had not dissipated, filling the entire base with the night wind, a prelude to the war.

She turned and climbed onto the city wall.

“How’s it going?” she asked.

Xiang Xu’s soft bangs were tousled by the night wind, his small face full of gravity: “The mutated zombies are moving very fast, the closest is less than five hundred meters away, and they will reach the base of the wall in less than five minutes.”

Gu Ning picked up her walkie-talkie: “Daozhang, how’s it going on your end?”

After a while, Jia Daozhang’s panting voice came through the walkie-talkie: “Halfway done!” He was sitting on a small electric scooter, driven by Lin Xiuping, speeding along the wall. After reporting, he stuffed another crystal core into his mouth, and his special ability surged out again. Wherever he passed, the area outside the wall was filled with cold air, and the walls instantly froze into smooth ice surfaces.

“Jia Daozhang, you can rest now, leave the rest to me,” Gu Ning’s voice came through.

“Roger that,” Jia Daozhang exhaled cold air and patted Lin Xiuping’s back, saying, “Turn around, turn around!” He didn’t care how Gu Ning would handle it, but since she said so, it must be fine.

Gu Ning took a deep breath, and her sea of special abilities churned violently, the output so vast that it shocked the mute boy who had just evolved a psychic system special ability.

Noticing the mute boy’s astonishment, Xiang Xu said, “Sister Gu Ning has the most special abilities I’ve ever seen, naturally her output is much stronger than ours.”

The mute boy remained silent, his eyes shining brightly as he looked in Gu Ning’s direction under the light.

Like bamboo shoots breaking through the soil after a spring rain, countless vines burst out from the soil beneath the wall, growing astonishingly fast with the wind. As soon as they climbed the wall, they slithered like spirit snakes, their newly opened leaves emerald green. In the blink of an eye, the walls not covered by ice were all covered with vines, from which sharp thorns grew between the leaves, as long as a child’s forearm, sharp as needles, gleaming sharply in the dark—it was easy to imagine that any zombie trying to climb the wall would be pierced all over by these thorns.

The special ability users had already ascended the wall.

Inside the wall stood square formations, the army of the Oasis Base. They had no special abilities, but their expressions were cold, solemn, and resolute. On their young or mature faces, there was no trace of fear or hesitation. Compared to their hesitation when establishing the base at the settlement point, they were now extremely determined, for they were protecting their home, the women, elderly, and children standing behind them. They stood silently like statues, waiting for the moment the battle began, exuding a quiet strength.

It was not yet their time to act.

This was the battle for the special ability users.

A whiff of decay came with the night wind, and Gu Ning’s gaze sharpened.

Xiang Xu, who had been closing his eyes, finally opened them, staring into the boundless night, and said, “They’re here.”

The special ability users on the wall tensed up, seemingly hearing the footsteps and growls of the evolved and mutated zombies. In a few breaths, the first figure emerged from the thick night, entering within a hundred meters. Its form gradually exposed under the floodlights from the wall, first the head, then the body, and finally the long tail dragging behind. It was a skinny mutated beast, resembling a stray dog, with patchy fur clinging to its bones, half a person tall, with extremely long limbs. It moved incredibly fast, covering the hundred meters to the base of the wall in just a few breaths, like a gray lightning bolt.

Behind it, countless mutated beasts, zombie beasts, and evolved zombies burst out from the night, rushing towards the base from all directions like a floodgate opening! Their hideous and terrifying faces were exposed under the lights, as if the gates of hell had opened.

At this moment, everyone standing on the wall felt a chill in their hearts.

Gu Ning was also horrified inside, but her face remained calm. The zombies and zombie beasts with speed advantages were at the forefront.

The scent of humans in the base made them emit urgent desires, they roared and charged towards the wall, eager to climb over and wreak havoc inside the base.

“All machine gunners, prepare!” Gu Ning’s calm voice reached everyone’s ears through the small microphones on their collars. She coldly watched as the zombie horde charged within twenty meters before decisively giving the order:

“Fire!”

Almost all machine gunners pulled the triggers the moment her voice sounded: “Bang!”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Instantly, the sound of machine guns firing continuously filled the entire wall. Over ten kilometers of wall, with a machine gun every fifteen meters, boxes of bullets at the gunners’ feet, the gunfire connected into a continuous roar, drowning out the wall and echoing throughout the base. Bullet casings flew everywhere, hitting the walls and ground with crisp clinks, but were drowned out by the massive gunfire.

Rows of evolved zombies fell, their angry growls and the gunfire merging into one, completely drowning out any other sounds, nearly deafening!

People hiding in rooms, tightly gripping their weapons, were terrified by the gunfire and zombie roars. Adults covered their children’s ears, while the brave stepped out of their rooms to look towards the wall from balconies or windows, sincerely praying that this would soon pass, and that the base’s soldiers and special ability users could withstand the zombie attack. They looked at the resolute figures on the wall and prayed again for minimal casualties.

Zombies, zombie beasts, and mutated zombies and beasts continuously tried to climb over the wall.

However, as soon as they charged at the wall, the thorns on it pierced holes in their bodies, some even piercing through their heads. The layer covered with ice made it impossible for zombies to climb up!

Bullets mercilessly pierced through the heads of zombies one by one, some even having their entire bodies torn apart by countless bullets while running. The evolved zombies and zombie beasts fearlessly charged forward through the hail of bullets, while the mutated zombies and beasts dodged the bullets by leaping and changing directions, some even silently retreating back into the night. Gu Ning coldly watched all this, knowing they wouldn’t leave easily, just waiting for the best opportunity.

Gu Ning roared amidst the gunfire: “Machine gunners, cease fire! Special ability users, prepare!”

The gunfire gradually ceased.

Below lay a field of zombie and zombie beast corpses, the stench of decay carried by the night wind was suffocating.

“Special ability users, prepare! Take care of the remaining zombies below!” Ordinary zombies were much slower than these evolved ones, taking at least fifteen more minutes to arrive. They had to deal with these evolved zombies first, otherwise, when the ordinary zombies arrived, mixing with the highly agile evolved zombies and zombie beasts would be much more dangerous!

Most of the base’s special ability users were newly evolved, their control over their abilities not yet sufficient to accurately attack the constantly moving evolved zombies and agile zombie beasts from over ten meters high.

Vines descended from the wall, the speed system special ability users were the first to enter. Over forty speed ability users, led by Method, grabbed the vines and flipped over the wall. The thorns on the vines instantly retracted, and they landed on the ground in the blink of an eye, then turned into gusts of wind charging towards the evolved zombies rushing over!

Following closely were fifty earth system special ability users. High-altitude rapid descent was a must-train item for them in the military, so they were very familiar with it. Without any fear or hesitation, they flipped over the wall, grabbed the vines, and rapidly descended to the ground.

Next were the fire, wood, strength, and metal system special ability users, all descending to the ground.

Wood system special ability users manipulated vines to cover the ground. As soon as any zombie or zombie beast stepped on them, the vines would immediately cling like living creatures, trapping the zombies firmly on the ground. Speed ability users swept past like gusts of wind, their blades flashing with the light of death, lightly slicing through the zombies’ necks, heads rolling to the ground.

Water system special ability users and thunder system users were the best partners. Water arrows exploded above the zombies’ heads, thunder dragons instantly coiled around, the zombies howling until charred.

Earth system special ability users handled it themselves, with earth walls trapping, earth spikes attacking, and earth shields occasionally blocking stray fireballs coming their way.

A young man raised an earth shield over his head as a fireball grazed past it. He angrily looked towards the source of the fireball: “Hey! Aim better!”

“Sorry! I didn’t mean to!” The girl holding a fireball was also startled, her face red with embarrassment, stammering an apology: “Sorry! I only evolved my ability three days ago, I’m too nervous, really sorry!” Her expression suddenly changed, and she hurled the fireball in her hand towards him! The young man was horrified, before he could react, the fireball had already flown past his right side! With a bang! It hit something. He turned around in shock to see a zombie hit squarely by the fireball, instantly engulfed in flames. “It came up behind you!” The girl nervously explained.

The young man pursed his lips, then said, “Follow me!”

“Can I?!” The girl was both surprised and delighted, already running over like a little rabbit, sticking close to the young man, who impatiently said, “Don’t stick so close, keep some distance!”

“Oh oh oh!” The girl quickly stepped back a bit, nervously asking, “Is this okay?”

“Follow me, don’t get lost,” the young man said, then ran towards where the zombies were, the girl closely following behind, constantly looking around, holding a fireball like a bowling ball.

“I’ve never seen a fire system special ability user throw fireballs like that,” the young man asked strangely.

The girl paused, then said, “Uh. This way I can throw more accurately.” As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly cried out in pain: “Ah!”

“What’s wrong?” The young man immediately turned around.

The girl pulled up her pants leg to look, then glanced at a small dark figure scurrying away in the distance: “Seems like a rat.”

The young man squatted down, pulled up her pants leg to look, then looked up, full of horror: “It’s a zombie rat.”

The girl’s face instantly turned pale.

“Lie down!” The young man suddenly said, then stood up and drew the knife from his waist.

The girl looked at him in fear: “What are you going to do?!”

The young man said, “The base only has the first type of antidote, it can’t cure the zombie beast virus. I have to cut off your leg now to prevent you from getting infected! Lie down quickly!”

“No! I don’t want to!” The girl backed away in terror.

The young man angrily shouted, “Do you want to die?!”

“I’d rather die than lose my leg!” The girl desperately shouted at him.

“Damn it!” The young man cursed angrily, then rushed over, grabbed the girl’s hand, and ran towards the wall, making a few gestures to those above, and a vine descended.

They were pulled up.

Liu Xin, carrying a medical kit, hurried over with a few medical staff: “What happened to her?”

The young man quickly said, “She was bitten by either a zombie rat or a mutated rat. She’d rather die than have her leg cut off, please take her to the hospital to find Dr. Gao. Please!”

Liu Xin glanced at the girl’s bite wound, then injected her with a dose of the first type of antidote.

“Will I die?” The girl anxiously looked at Liu Xin.

“I don’t know,” Liu Xin said expressionlessly, then nodded to the medical staff, who quickly came forward to lift the girl onto a stretcher and carried her away.

“Gu Ning, don’t you think Liu Xin is becoming more and more like Dr. Gao?” Zhang Xiaobai, watching Liu Xin carrying the medical kit and moving forward to find the next person in need, suddenly asked Gu Ning, who was closely monitoring the battle.

“Is there anything wrong with that?” Gu Ning retorted.

“Uh, no,” Zhang Xiaobai said.

“The zombie horde will arrive in five minutes…” Xiang Xu paused, as if “seeing” an extremely terrifying scene, his voice trembling slightly: “Very, very many…”

Gu Ning glanced down at Xiang Xu, noticing her unusually pale face, her expression serious, she called out again: “All special ability users, the zombie horde will arrive at the battlefield in five minutes, please evacuate immediately!”

“Three minutes…”

“Two minutes…”

“They’re here,” Xiang Xu’s eyes instantly refocused, looking at the boundary between darkness and light, she softly said.