The small LCD screen was full of dense black dots, like sesame-like dragon fruit seeds. Each black spot is a "human head". Some of the hair is still there, while others have rotted and peeled off, revealing the white skull. It can be seen from the aerial footage that countless living dead have filled the nearby neighborhoods.
The black corpses gathered together and were rushing towards the direction of Lang Hua and the others. The leading troops are already at the next street corner, and thousands of "large troops" are following behind. It may not take ten minutes for the two parties to meet!
Why? Is it because of the energy fluctuations in the lake?
If this kind of attraction occurs over time, it will indeed attract crystal core organisms to move closer here. After all, the attraction was so strong that even Lang Hua, who was an intermediate ability user, couldn't ignore it. According to Fu Lianhe's previous observation, a group of black corpses had been gathering in Shashi as early as a month ago. Some of the black corpses were moving from Districts 1 and 2 of Shashi toward the city center. I wonder if it was related to the strange phenomenon here.
At the same time, Fu Lianhe also observed that a considerable number of black corpses had gathered into groups and were moving southwest of Shashi. The movement direction of this group of corpses is obviously opposite to that of Fuhua Botanical Garden. What could be leading them away from this area full of temptation and risk?
Necromorphs have always lacked intelligence, only the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. If these black corpses rushing to the city center were continuously attracted by the energy wave of the Botanical Garden, then the battle just now had obviously intensified this rhythm.
Lang Hua didn't know how An Lushan led Zhang Cheng all the way to the top of the Tianyin Building in his previous life and was finally rescued. But if they want to repeat their old tricks this time, they will have to face several times more black corpses, and it will be even more difficult for them to succeed!
The situation was urgent, so Lang Hua and Zhang Cheng remained silent and concentrated on thinking about countermeasures.
The next moment, Thin Monkey zoomed in on a corner of the screen and suddenly exclaimed: "What should we do? They have arrived near Tianyin Building and completely blocked our way upstairs."
"They" naturally refers to those black corpses. The group of corpses is blocking the road, which is really not good news for the few people who want to go to the rooftop.
Da Zhuang said angrily, "Let's kill them. Company Commander, please give the order! Even if I lose my life, I must send Academician Zhang out!"
"You're a fool who accepts death." At this point, Li Yishan no longer cares about Zhuang's words. He hurriedly said: "Why go upstairs! What's the difference between going there in such a ostentatious way and a torch in the dark night? Do you want us to become turtles in a jar?"
Zhang Cheng also said: "The survival rate is less than 10%."
"The previous plan..." After being given a heads-up by Li Yishan, Da Zhuang ran out of ideas for a while.
"You still have a plan, but the plan can't keep up with the changes, do you understand?" Li Yishan breathlessly gave orders, "Skinny monkey, look at which direction there are fewer black corpses."
"Company Commander, west! There is a fault in the zombie tide in the west. We can break through it in two times."
"Okay, this is it!" Li Yishan made a decisive decision, "Everyone checks the equipment and prepares to break out!"
"Company commander, where will we go after we break out?"
"Langya City in Fengwei Mountain!" Li Yishan turned to Lang Hua and said solemnly, "Brother, it's up to you to lead the way this time."
"Don't worry, everyone. I, Lang Hua, will share hardships, life and death with you today!"
After saying that, Lang Hua drew his sword and was the first to run to the west block. At this time, a new group of black corpses appeared and saw the "big meal" delivered to their door, and their dead fish-like eyes also shone with excitement. But before they could let out their excited and loud howls, they saw an afterimage passing through them in an instant.
The brown-green shadow, with a hint of purple-red, is almost invisible unless it is illuminated by light.
"So fast!"
While Li Yishan and others were stunned, Lang Hua had already walked through the group of corpses and reached the rear. ability stimulation
As the highest-level person present except Lang Hua, Li Yishan actually sensed no sign of his evolutionary ability being activated in the air.
He immediately realized that this person had no ability to evolve, only his speed and the sharpness of the blade!
Using the knife several times in one second, the four black corpses were cut into eight pieces. This was simply unimaginable before the disaster. It was only a few seconds after Lang Hua passed by the black corpse that the upper half of these guys seemed to have lost support and slipped from the lower body. For a while, red, white and green were scattered all over the ground.
The few S2 and P2 that appeared later were no match for Lang Hua. The few people behind Lang Hua only had to deal with some fish that slipped through the net, so the pressure was relieved.
"Captain Li, if we follow this man, our survival rate will be 76%."
Hearing Zhang Cheng's deduction, Li Yishan was surprised and said: "So high?"
Before that, they relied on Zhang Cheng to survive until now. The latter's evolutionary ability "quantum deduction" can perform high-speed analysis and calculation of scenarios resulting from different choices, which provides a lot of help for the team's decision-making and judgment. So far, Zhang Cheng has not missed one, so Li Yishan has no doubts about his judgment.
Zhang Cheng said it was not surprising that he would die, and then said: "But his survival rate is 100%."
The thin monkey killed an old black corpse with one shot, turned around and said quickly: "When you asked us to go back to the rooftop, wasn't the survival rate only 40%? Why has the survival rate become higher now that the zombies are coming?"
"So he is very strong."
Zhang Cheng put his black-rimmed glasses into his pocket as he ran, and said after careful consideration: "And I have a feeling that following him... there will be nothing wrong."
Having said this, several people couldn't help but raise their heads and look at the fighting figure in front of them.
The long sword is dark, like a seedling, and the blade is faintly reddened with the fighting. The man in the dim sunset was invincible with one sword, and no opponent could be his enemy. This situation makes people wonder whether Lang Hua is the invincible God of War who has traveled back from the future, or is a seasoned warrior who has experienced the killing fields of the apocalypse. How else to explain that he can be so handy in such a dangerous situation?
Looking around, the "penetration" obtained from the upgrade of "Blade", the "teleportation" obtained after the advancement of "Brush", and various abilities and skills obtained from "re-engraving" are constantly in Lang Hua's hands. The combination showed super lethality. It only took Lang Hua less than ten seconds for one person to kill a group of black corpses.
The obstacle was cleared in a few seconds. Li Yishan and Da Zhuang hurriedly followed with Zhang Cheng, and Shou Hou collected the drone and followed closely.
While running on the road, Li Yishan couldn't help but think - this man's combat power was even higher than that of the three of them together. If he really had any harmful intentions, there would be no need to use those dirty tricks.
…
This is the largest farmer's market in the suburbs of Shashi. A passage has been cleared under the tall archway, and many trucks lined up to enter and quickly dispersed in front of various shops. Then there are several young and strong workers loading each vehicle, rushing back and forth from rice, flour, grains and oils to daily necessities, like a group of bandits who haven't opened their business in three months.
Outside the archway, there were simple fortifications built with used cars and debris. Lin Wenjin led two teams of people to stand behind and stand ready. After a while, a pair of soldiers appeared at the corner of the street. They ran and fired, followed by a large group of black corpses with claws and teeth. Xiao Heizi flew in the air and used offensive skills to support people on the ground from time to time.
"Don't panic, cross cover and retreat. You guys, hurry up and get on the obstacles."
The group of black corpses were also dying as they advanced. Black corpses were constantly shot and fell to the ground, but the overall number did not seem to decrease significantly. Moreover, those crazy black corpses ran very fast. They not only knew how to attack and bite, but they also unintentionally built human ladders to climb up obstacles.
"Bang!"
Xiao Heizi dropped a grenade and blew up the pile of corpses.
"Come on, the others are waiting for us in front."
Finally, people climbed over the last obstacle and opened a short distance from the corpses. They are now less than fifty meters away from the archway. As long as they have a few more seconds, they will be safe!
But at this moment, a thin black shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the barrier. Its body was long and narrow, its teeth and claws were sharp, and it could disembowel a soldier as soon as it landed. He took out the fresh intestines with his fingers and ate them as if no one else was watching. After it, there were one large, two small and three black shadows attacking, and the soldiers suddenly suffered casualties.
"Ah, my arm..."
"Help me, help me."
"It's a ghost monkey, a second-level ghost monkey!"
"Damn it! Spread out and get down!" Xiao Heizi's eyes widened with anxiety. How come he didn't notice these beasts hiding among the ordinary corpses!
"Look at me, the enhanced version - Dragnet!"
In an instant, countless wind blades and pneumatic drills took shape in the air, and the next moment they split into four torrents of their own accord, rushing straight towards these ghost monkeys! In the flash of lightning, the two S1s were killed on the spot. Their two paws were still in the posture of eating, but their entire upper bodies had been cut into broken sacks. Although the remaining two S2s were not dead, they were seriously injured.
"Roar--"
"Kaka."
The screams suddenly stopped, and the two S2s fell down, with a white feather bow and arrow stuck in their heads. The arrow penetrates deep into the brain. Being able to kill with one hit like this must be Lin Wenjin's "maimang"!
"What are you still doing? Come here quickly!"
Lin Wenjin called for the remaining people to hide behind the fortifications, and the next second he dropped his right hand hard.
"Fire!"
"Da da da……"
The black corpses who had already arrived in front of the fortification were no match for more than thirty submachine guns. They generally only have mid- to late-first-order bullets, and a 7.62mm bullet will create a hole as big as a bowl behind them. In the hail of bullets, the black corpses rushed forward one after another but could not move forward at all. In the end, they could only fall down one after another like wheat cut by a sickle.
While cleaning the battlefield, a soldier carrying a crossbow came to report: "It's not good, captain. The base has issued a red alert, calling on all the teams outside to return to the city."
"Red alert?" Xiao Heizi and Lin Wenjin looked at each other and said in unison, "It's a wave of corpses!"
"Lin Bo, what should I do?"
"Without further ado, I don't want the loot anymore, and return to the city immediately!"
"clear!"
…
At the same time, lights were brightly lit in a steelmaking factory in District 1 of Shashi.
The lights in the huge factory workshop are bright, and the dim skylight breaks through the thick fog and shines into the workshop. You can see that countless steel billets and molten steel have cooled and condensed into gray-black. Under the triangular truss roof, on the rutted ground, black corpses wearing hard hats and gray-yellow work clothes showed their claws and were shadowy.
There was only a moment of silence before gunfire rang out again.
Several people formed a formation on the steel stairs, fighting and retreating. Some people were holding huge shields to block the front, and some were slashing in the middle with precision-forged steel swords. They looked impressive. Although they were almost broken through by a group of corpses just now, fortunately they didn't lose their position.
"Zhao Si, raise your fucking shield lower! Our swords can't cut it down anymore."
"Yes, if the captain hadn't fired, I would have been scratched by the black corpse just now!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I panicked just now, and I won't do it again."
"Really, I should have known I wouldn't be in the same group as you!"
"Stop talking, he will change it when he finds out."
Soon after, the five members of the team retreated to the corner of the stairs, and Hai Ping fired another shot, killing an S1 ghost monkey who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to attack.
"Talk less and do more," he said.
"Yes, Captain!"
Haiping raised his head and didn't look at them again. He wore black pants, black boots, and a black hoodie over his head, covering his face so that no one could see his expression clearly.
The second floor of the workshop is a circle of steel platforms, connected to the first floor through four stairs. Haiping was sitting on the edge of the high platform with one leg propped up at the moment, silently observing the movements nearby, seemingly unaware that Lan Xi had walked behind him.
"The number of black corpses is on the rise, and the rate of accumulation is accelerating," she said.
"Um."
"According to reports from secret sentry, nearby corpses are gathering here."
"It's not strange to be attracted by the sound of gunfire." Haiping still had no reaction when he heard the group of corpses.
"Alas", Lan Xi sighed and came to sit next to Hai Ping.
She said: "Aping, I know that you are not afraid of the zombies. I have known it since the beginning of meeting you. But our reconnaissance purpose has been completed, what is the point of staying here?"
"Training? Resting? Maybe both." Hai Ping raised the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly, "It's just a wait, it's nothing serious."
"What are you waiting for?" Lan Xi frowned.
Haiping lay down on his back with his arms as pillow, closed his eyes and muttered: "Wait for...an opportunity."
The two of them were silent for a while. The young man in black hat and black clothes breathed steadily, and seemed to have fallen asleep in the noise of the fight. The girl wearing a baseball cap next to her gradually relaxed her brows, and her large peach skin jacket with a row of buttons also slipped to one side of her body.
She raised her arms to shield her eyes, trying to block the light scattered by the setting sun. But no matter how she blocked it, there was always a hazy light and shadow in her field of vision. In this ball of light and shadow, her consciousness gradually blurred. She saw her past self, her past life, her mother, father, master... and finally Lang Hua.
Suddenly there was a sound of kicking footsteps, and a shadow blocked all the light in front of him, taking away the hazy light and shadow. She opened her eyes and saw a team member standing next to her with sweat on her face.
"Team Lan, it's bad! The base is in emergency. Hundreds of thousands of black corpses have gathered along the jungle of Fengwei Mountain outside Langya City!"
Hearing this, Lan Xi sat up suddenly. Haiping still had his eyes closed, but his eyebrows suddenly trembled when he heard the news.
"What's going on?" Lan Xi asked in a deep voice.
"I don't know, there was a sudden letter from the information department of the base." The team member was so anxious that he stuttered, "It said... those black corpses appeared suddenly, and after a whole night... they were all over the entire jungle!"
"All of them?"
At this time Haiping also opened his eyes, and Lan Xi stood up straight and asked him: "Aping, what do you think next?"
"Of course we will go back to Fanglangya City." Haiping stretched and jumped up like a carp, and said matter-of-factly, "The master is not here, so we have an obligation to take good care of his property."
Lan Xi nodded and ordered everyone: "All groups obey the order. The four groups gathered into two charging formations. Follow me and fight out!"
"Don't use grenades, we still need the equipment here." Haiping added. Before he finished speaking, others had already jumped off the second floor platform. The three-meter-high drop seemed like nothing to him. When he landed, a pair of Tang Hengdao had already been unsheathed. The sword was as bright as snow and the body was like a swimming dragon, killing all the black corpses surrounding him.
Behind him, each team left one shield bearer behind, while the rest lowered the ropes on the railings beside the high platform. When a clearing opened up in Haiping, the most skilled people just landed on the ground. They spontaneously formed a fan shape and attacked outward to expand the safe area. The last retreating shield bearer was shot and covered by his comrades who landed first, and soon he successfully landed and joined them.
Lan Xi walked at the end, always paying attention to what was going on around her. The black corpses that successfully made their way to the second floor roared angrily when they saw the prey they were about to capture trying to run away. But when they tried to go downstairs again, they were blocked on the landing by the bustling crowd of their kind. Some black corpses tried to imitate humans and jumped off the platform, but they were simply thrown to pieces with broken bones and tendons, and they lost their threat in a short period of time.
The survivors have formed a formation. Each team consists of ten people, divided into four shield-bearers, four sword-bearers and two sword-bearers. Four of the shields were separated in twos, with guards on the left and right sides of the team. The swordsman was protected in the middle. The formation of a group of ten people was as thin as an arrow. At Hai Ping's order, he pierced into the group of corpses like a long bow splitting silk, breaking through the loose formations that blocked them. Hai Ping and Lan Xi slowly followed behind them, guarding the left and right as they rushed out, occasionally cutting down a few black corpses that wanted to resist.
"Strike steadily, target Langya City in Fengwei Mountain!"
"yes!"
…
Ten minutes ago, in the factory of a medical glass company in District 2 of Shashi City, a group of survivors were fighting and retreating outside the square color steel plate factory building. They are all young women. Their tight-fitting clothes highlight their graceful curves. Under the brim of their military green hats are young and beautiful faces.
They were Lin Qian's subordinates, and the order they received was to clear out all the black corpses in the factory. Although twenty people seemed like a drop in the bucket in front of the corpses that often came in hundreds or even thousands, they never lost their composure from beginning to end. Instead, the group of corpses were constantly weakened by the constant "walking", leaving corpses along the way.
This is the largest pharmaceutical glass production site in Shasha City. Before the disaster, it mainly provided special medium borosilicate glass bottles for special vaccines. During a global virus epidemic more than 150 years ago, there was a massive shortage of this medicine. There were once rumors that even if all the glass vials currently on the market were filled, it would not be able to meet the worldwide demand for vaccines. Therefore, in the post-epidemic era, this kind of special medicine glass film bottle has been greatly popularized.
Compared with medium borosilicate glass, low borosilicate or soda-lime glass is of slightly lower quality, which will affect the efficacy of the vaccine to a certain extent. The medicine bottle Lang Hua once took out is also made of this kind of medium borosilicate, which can withstand low temperatures, maintain a minimum crystal energy escape rate, and can withstand a certain degree of wear and tear during transportation. For the crystal core pharmaceutical industry in the apocalypse, the technical equipment here is also very critical, and it is one of the locations that Langya City must compete for.
If the various pharmaceutical formulas in the apocalypse are the dragon-slaying swords in the world, then the special pharmaceutical bottles are the corresponding Heavenly Swords. Only by combining the two can we obtain the martial arts secrets and realize large-scale pharmaceutical production and trade. As long as humans continue to evolve, mass production of evolutionary potions will be one of the lifeblood of human society.
It has been seven days since Lin Qian was ordered to bring people here. The black corpses were exhausted by their fishing tactics, and now only one out of ten is still a threat to humans. They have harvested a large number of crystal cores and have rich experience in street fighting. Although all of them were injured, none of them died, which has to be said to be a miracle.
"No. 9 and No. 10, it's time for you to rest. No. 7 and No. 8 will come to the front to take your place."
"yes!"
"Everyone, don't relax and fight according to the established route. There are sisters ahead of you to explore the way for you."
"The time is almost here, the use of guns is approved. Each team is free to fire, pay attention to cross cover."
"Da da da……"
"Hoho——"
In addition to carrying rifles, they also carry relatively generous engineer shovels and fire axes. They fight like desperate warriors, which would make even men feel embarrassed.
The early close combat was Lin Qian's idea. Ever since Lin Qian was rescued from the prostitution industry, these women have been devoted to her. The transformation from hell to heaven is both dreamy and real. In their hearts, Lin Qian is always the god and the only leader. Maybe even if Lin Qian orders a counterattack on the base, they will obey her words.
Each of the more than twenty female soldiers was commanded by a corresponding team leader. Lin Qian was currently closing her eyes in an open space not far away to relax. There were dead black corpses all around her, including rough-skinned and thick-skinned P1 and P2, as well as swift and cunning S1 and S2... All kinds of dead special black corpses were piled up in a mess, giving the scene a mellow smell of blood. After being exposed to the sun during the day, the body was swollen and had an obvious fishy smell.
A girl is sitting on the central platform with her arms supported. She has black pants and red boots, slender and plump calves, a dark black battle ax resting on her side, and a dark purple cloak draped behind her. Her red hair is slowly swaying in the wind, like a tower. A motionless sculpture.
"Lin..." A female soldier who was the team leader came forward and hurriedly changed her words mid-sentence, "Hong...Sister Hong."
Although they loved Lin Qian, they were extremely afraid of Lin Hong. Every time this woman appears in Lin Qian's place, there will be a bloody and cruel battle. No matter it is a black corpse, a black beast or a hostile living person, no one can escape the fate of being skinned and broken. Although they had to thank Lin Hong for solving all the special black corpses on her own so that they wouldn't all be trapped here, the scene at that time... was really creepy.
"What?" Lin Hong said with her eyes closed.
"Sister Hong, the base communication is urgent." The man quickly collected his thoughts, knelt down on one knee and replied, "A certain size of black corpses have gathered outside the city."
"Oh, that's right."
Seeing that Lin Hong was silent again, the man couldn't help but ask: "Sister Hong, do we want to go back home?"
"What's the hurry?" Lin Hong opened her eyes in time, and sharp light seemed to shine out of her slender phoenix eyes, "Do what we should do."
"Don't worry, they won't die so quickly."
