After the Zhao family blew up more than a dozen cross-river bridges, the tide of millions of corpses that had gathered south of Poyang had to change its route and find another way out.
They divided into three groups and marched eastward. The northernmost group of about 300,000 super zombies advanced along the river bank. In just one week, they had defeated three medium-sized bases.
At this moment, the forward troops of the corpse group have crossed Jiuhua Mountain and arrived outside a base in Phoenix Ridge, Qingyang.
This is a large city with ten thousand people, and the base lord is the famous fourth-level ability user Huba under the Kong family. He is also known as the Tiger Overlord and is a mimic type ability user.
When Huba activates his ability, he can transform into a colorful tiger that is ten feet tall. It is so ferocious that it can easily jump over a ten-meter city wall.
It is said that his pair of front claws are as thick as trees, and when they are swung, they roar in the wind. It is said that the power of one claw is as strong as ten thousand kilograms.
In the early days of the disaster, Huba gathered people and built this mountaintop base while escaping from the city.
At that time, he was just a low-ranking second-level ability user. He relied on ruthlessness and strategy to annex several small nearby forces, and finally formed the prototype of the Phoenix Ridge base.
After the Qinchuan Peace Conference at the beginning of the second year of the disaster, it was a foregone conclusion that the major forces would be separated and autonomous.
Huba took the initiative to get in touch with the Kong family at this time.
He voluntarily joined the Kong family's forces, not only for the support of resources and weapons, but also to use the Kong family's help to eliminate dissidents.
Until now, Huba's Phoenix Ridge base has become the most powerful human force within a hundred miles.
To the east of Fenghuangling is the main jurisdiction of the Kong family, to the west only Shitai County and Dongzhi County, two small forces with only 3,000 people, dare to oppose him.
These people are all stubborn and stubborn. Normally Huba would like to receive the news of their death every day when he opens his eyes.
But Huba, who was now standing on the top of the city, felt infinitely melancholy. He only regretted that these two old rivals did not hold out longer before the zombie tide.
"Chen Wang, Chen Wang, you and Xu Huang are usually so arrogant, why can't you survive even a day in front of these walking dead..."
Looking at the mutated black corpse with teeth and claws under the city, Huba thought to himself: As long as you persist for two more days, why should I, Phoenix City, be in such a mess?
At this moment, a guard came to report to Huba.
"Boss, the slope under the wall has been built again. The height is getting higher and higher, and it is almost approaching the city head."
He then stretched his head out of the battlements and looked down. He saw dead black corpses crowded like mountains under the city wall. Many black corpses were climbing up along the huge slope composed of the corpses of their companions. Their white and turbid eyes seemed to be shining. A desire for human flesh and blood.
"The Exotic Land Development of Vegetable-Growing Skeletons"
With a "bang" sound, Huba picked up his pistol and shot it in the head, killing the ordinary black corpse with a hideous appearance.
The latter fell down immediately after being shot and became part of the corpse ramp.
The remaining black corpses quickly took up their positions, stepping on the unlucky guy's body and crawling towards Huba.
The black corpse jumped up high, and its sharp claws were only two or three meters away from touching Huba's chin, making Huba fall back in shock.
He exclaimed: "Our Phoenix City wall is ten meters high. Why are these monsters coming up again so soon?"
This is just an ordinary second-level black corpse. If it were a ghost monkey that was good at jumping, wouldn't it be possible to use the corpse slope to reach the top of the city with just one jump?
No, this is absolutely not okay.
Huba looked around and saw that several such corpse slopes had formed under the city wall.
Although the others are not as tall as this one, nor are they as big as this one.
But they can't take this risk!
"Quick, quick, call the flamethrowers." Huba shouted, "Same as in the morning, burn these guys to death, all of them!"
The city wall is made of reinforced concrete, which can withstand a bit of fire.
Unexpectedly, the guard next to him cried out:
"Boss, there is no one left. Those fire-breathing soldiers just went out and sprayed a few times this morning, and they were killed by a barrage of bone-spurred black corpses. Now no one dares to spray."
"If you don't go, are you waiting to die?" Huba was furious when he heard this. He pointed a gun at the guard's head and said, "If they don't go, go! Whoever is afraid of death and dare not go, I will let him go first." Die by my hands!"
"Boss..."
The guard was about to cry when, unexpectedly, there was a sudden sound that broke through the air.
Huba's expression suddenly changed, and he squatted down and hid behind a wall.
The guard was not so lucky.
Before Huba's bullet penetrated his head, the poisonous sting of the Bone Spur Black Corpse had already penetrated deeply into his neck.
The guard fell to the ground with a muffled sound, staring at Huba with wide eyes, and blood sprayed out from his mouth.
The spore toxin attached to the bone spurs quickly spread throughout his body. The body of the guard gradually stopped twitching, and purple scars soon appeared on the skin.
Before he stood up again, Huba added
One shot hit him in the head.
Because the distance was too close, sporadic plasma sprayed all over Huba's face.
"Oh, bad luck!"
Huba looked around again and saw that many city-defending evolvers had been hit by corpse poison bone spurs.
Some of those who were seriously injured had already fallen to the ground and died. The next moment they transformed into corpses and got up and flew toward their companions.
"Guards, where are the guards?"
Huba shouted loudly, and soon a group of heavily armed guards arrived.
They shot at the zombie-turned-evolvers when they saw them, sometimes even those who were seriously injured but not dead.
"Boss!" A man who looked like an adjutant ran towards Huba.
"Hurry up and bring people to clean up the city wall. Don't spare anyone who is poisoned and will transform into a zombie. The next wave of zombie attacks will arrive soon. You guys stay on guard at the top of the city while I go down and clean up the corpse slope!"
"Boss, be careful!"
The next moment, there was only a roar of a tiger, and a big and beautiful tiger jumped down from the top of the city.
It flicked its tiger tail and knocked away a few black corpses that dared to get close.
The big tiger's two front paws hurriedly flipped over, overturning the corpse slopes built close to the city wall one after another.
The corpses of thousands of black corpses are scattered on the ground, but fortunately, there will no longer be a corpse slope for the corpse tide to climb in the short term.
After climbing three corpse slopes in a row, there were still two corpse slopes in the distance that had not moved.
Huba was about to jump forward, but unexpectedly, his tiger ears moved slightly and he heard a popping sound in the air.
He was immediately frightened and tried to find a place to hide but could not.
Huba was caught off guard and was hit by a ball of green mucus.
He jumped up to the top of the city with a "ooh", hurriedly changed back to his human form, threw away his shirt, and shouted around: "Water, water!"
The guards who were already prepared quickly picked up buckets and poured water on Huba.
The large bucket of clean water rushed through Huba's body, taking away the highly corrosive mucus, but it also made Huba's teeth tremble from the cold.
"Boss! Boss, are you okay?"
"Fuck you, do you think I'm okay?"
Huba pushed the adjutant away with one hand and hurriedly summoned the city defenders to throw grenades at the two remaining corpse slopes.
Who would have thought that these people were hiding behind shields or wall stacks, not daring to stick their heads out of the wall anymore.
Next to these people, several unrecognizable corpses were lying.
They were the unlucky ones who had been poured down on their heads by the corrosive slime. Now the skin on their faces has been lost, and they are dead in a horrific state.
The remaining mucus is continuing to corrode the remaining flesh, muscle, and bones, making it sound squeaky and chilling.
These people are just ordinary evolved people and do not have the powerful self-healing ability of Huba. Of course, they are afraid of avoiding these mucus.
Huba was furious when he saw this. He took the whip and struck one of them hard in the face.
While pumping back, he shouted: "Get up quickly, if we don't collapse those two corpse slopes, we will all die!"
This back-and-forth battle lasted for most of the day. During this period, Huba transformed several times and jumped off the city wall to rescue the enemy, and then came back with injuries all over his body.
More and more guards on the city wall died, and less than half of them were left.
But the black corpses pouring out of the black mist in the distance seem to be endless.
The endless tide of corpses and the black fog that covered the sky seemed to be connected together, almost making everyone feel despair.
At this time, Huba walked up to the top of the city and loudly encouraged morale.
He lied and said: "The Kong family has sent reinforcements to support us. As long as we persist until the reinforcements arrive, we will be saved! Otherwise, the city will be destroyed and everyone will become the food of these walking dead. Are you willing? I, Huba No! Today’s battle is all about death! Kill all these black corpses, and we will be the ones who survive!"
After this encouragement, people's fighting enthusiasm suddenly increased, and for a time they completely resisted the Black Corpse offensive.
Only Huba who walked down the city shakily lit a cigarette and sighed deeply.
How could he not know that the Kong family cultivated these foreign forces, and their original intention was to use them as a bridgehead against the black corpses radiated in the two lakes area.
As the saying goes: Eat the emperor's salary and worry about the emperor.
In normal times, the Kong family might come to rescue them, but now a large-scale wave of corpses has broken out all over the south of the Yangtze River. It's too late for the Kong family to save themselves, so how can they still come to save them?
After the nuclear explosion in the early years of the disaster, they thought that the black corpses in the Lianghu area would disappear.
Unexpectedly, the black corpses that survived the nuclear explosion were radiated and mutated one after another, and then became more ferocious, and also contained severe corpse poison.
These guys are already extremely difficult to deal with normally. But now I don’t know what evil happened. The group of corpses Phoenix City encountered today does not seem to be a mob.
Being able to be the city lord of a base with ten thousand people, Huba is certainly not a mediocre person.
generation.
He had long discovered that those who had been charging into the battle since early morning and being used as expendables were all ordinary black corpses.
Only after a wave of charges, the bone-spurring black corpses and spitting black corpses hidden in the distant mist will exert their strength together, so that the defenders on the city wall dare not show their heads.
After that, the zombie tide will take advantage of this gap to launch a massive attack...
At this time, the cigarette butt suddenly burned his finger. Huba trembled and threw away the cigarette butt. His arm moved and it happened to involve the wound on his body.
The wounds caused by these corrosive mucus show large areas of flushing, and a sharp pain will hit them at the slightest touch.
Huba is just a mimic-type ability user. He is not invulnerable, so he will naturally be injured.
And as time goes by, the times when Huba needs to jump off the city to save the situation become more and more frequent.
But thinking about it, there are only three thousand defenders who are truly loyal to him in this city of ten thousand people, and most of them are already dead on the city wall.
When ordinary firepower fails to respond, Huba needs to come to the rescue constantly.
But what if he, Huba, also dies?
Thinking of this, Huba's heart trembled.
Coupled with the pain from the wound just now, Huba's mind couldn't help but wake up three points at this moment.
He then thought of many doubts in this battle.
For example, why the zombie wave only attacked the west side of the city, and other special features that have not yet appeared...
The longer he thought about it, the more Huba felt chilled all over his body.
no. Where there is life, there is hope.
Huba was so anxious that he immediately ran to the east of the city and opened the gate, letting those survivors who had long wanted to escape leave.
At the same time, he covered his head and face with a piece of dirty cloth, took off his armor, put on rags and trousers, and blended into the crowd of refugees, then left the city and ran eastward.
Not long after, the front line in the west of the city was in crisis again. The adjutant looked for Huba but could not find it.
"City Lord, City Lord, where are you?"
At this time, a follower reported that the east city gate was wide open, and many evolvers living in the city ran away with their families.
"These cowards! They only know how to run away, but they don't know how to defend the city with us!"
"I just don't know where the city lord has gone..."
"Adjutant Zhang, someone in the east of the city saw the city gate opened by the leader."
"What? Did Huba abandon us and run away?"
"Well, no wonder this guy disappeared too!"
At this time, on the west city wall that had lost Huba's support, black corpses gradually broke through the defense line and climbed onto the wall.
These zombie monsters with dark red skin and covered in herpes will bite someone in the face once they catch them.
There was soon chaos on the city wall.
The news that Huba abandoned everyone and fled also leaked to the city wall.
Many people discussed running away like Huba.
"Withdraw! As people with abilities, there is no place where we cannot show off our talents."
"Yes, you will die if you stay here!"
Almost all those who had seen the ability ran away, and the other followers of the Evolvers were also scrambling to escape.
At this time, the competition is who can run faster.
As long as you surpass your companions, you can live longer!
In just ten minutes, the zombie wave broke through this defenseless city.
On the afternoon of October 17, the second year of the end of the world, Qingyang Phoenix Ridge City was destroyed.
After the zombie wave broke through the city, it chased eastward following the scent of living people. During this period, the evolved people with their families were constantly being caught up, bitten and devoured. The condition was horrific.
The crowds of people running for their lives and the groups of corpses chasing each other appear in the satellite photos as two thin lines getting closer and closer.
As the evening approached, the second batch of fleeing combatants and the people in the city had been overtaken and slaughtered by the corpse tide.
Only Huba and the others who escaped in the first batch were safe and sound, and seemed to have put a considerable distance away from the tide of corpses.
This distance, which represents life and hope, is precisely what Huba fought for with the lives of the second batch of people who left the city.
When this group of people reached a mountain col to the east of Fenghuangling, something unexpected happened.
Countless special-sense black corpses appeared from the forest, starting an indiscriminate massacre among the crowd.
Huba wanted to transform and escape, but his throat was torn open by a petite black corpse.
The murderer was wearing a gray robe, but under the gray robe was a face that looked exactly like a young girl's.
Thin red lips, pale eyes, sickly fair complexion, and long and sharp nails on all ten fingers...
"Are you a human... or a black corpse?"
Huba asked this question with all his strength.
But the other party looked at him in confusion, and did not say a complete sentence until Huba died.
"Ho...ho ho...I..."
She squatted down and played with Huba's body with her fingers, then opened her mouth and bit it as if following instinct.
