Published: February 5, 2025
The collapse of the third defense line and the subsequent two lines left the survivors somewhat unprepared.
Level two evolved beings began to appear in large numbers among the horde of corpses. The three defense lines seemed rather weak in front of these powerful mutated individuals.
Even with evolvers holding the line, it was of no use.
When all five defense lines outside the community were breached, the survivors had already left behind nearly two hundred corpses, and even four evolvers were dead.
Xia Lei, Mo Ye, Little Tiger, Park Soo-young, and even the injured Liang Chuyin were fighting desperately at the entrance of the community, covering for the retreating people.
The collective effort of Ye Zhongming's team slightly stabilized the situation. Relying on the sharpness of Edge of the Moon and the advantages of professionals, they posed a great threat to the level two evolved beings. No mutated creature could withstand two consecutive attacks from Edge of the Moon, not even those known for their defenses. White-grade weapons were simply beyond what level two evolved beings could resist.
Once the people retreated into the community, a few individuals quickly fell back.
The horde surged like a tide, flooding all areas outside the community and directly entering it.
At this moment, the various traps set at the entrance of the community began to take effect.
Gear fragments, wooden traps, elastic steel wires... These easily available and simply made traps ruthlessly claimed the lives of the zombies, especially in such densely packed conditions. Falling and getting injured were hardly different; the zombies that fell were immediately trampled into pulp by those following behind.
"What a pity it’s too few, too few," Le Da Yuan lamented while watching from a building at the entrance of the community. If he had been given more time and materials, he could have created more and more powerful traps. Unfortunately, with the limited conditions, he could only accomplish this much. Although it inflicted great damage on the zombies, Le Da Yuan could not be satisfied.
"These little things are really simple, but why didn’t we think of them before? Some of the traps are quite ingenious," commented an assistant following Le Da Yuan while looking at the trap sketches Ye Zhongming had shown them, clicking their tongue in amazement.
"Because the purposes are different," Le Da Yuan clenched his fists. It was already good that Ye Zhongming had brought him along today, but he was strictly forbidden from participating in the battle, which made him somewhat frustrated. "We used to make things for profit, while those who designed these traps are here to kill."
A few assistants exchanged glances and fell silent.
Le Da Yuan was no longer the Le Da Yuan of the past; the once timid good person had vanished, replaced by the eager-to-fight Le Da Yuan.
The apocalypse's change in people was particularly evident and rapid in this future father of magic crystal weapons.
"Let's go, it’s time for us to leave!" Le Da Yuan quickly left the community with several assistants and Li Qiang's gunmen, heading back to the base.
Just as Le Da Yuan left, the battle within the community erupted.
Compared to the obstruction battle in the open outside, the fight within the community was much more three-dimensional, and the combat methods available to humans were more diverse.
These unfinished buildings became the best vehicles for human combat.
Once the horde entered the community, a diversion occurred due to the stakes, stones, abandoned cars, and sandbags forming a maze with dozens of entrances. The horde could not push aside these solid obstacles and could only be passively diverted.
Hidden among these obstacles were hundreds of people.
At this moment, long steel bars with sharp spearheads became the best weapons. The survivors only needed to insert their weapons into the eye sockets of the zombies, which had been squeezed to the point of moving slowly, almost at a standstill. These nightmarish beings would perish after spraying out a jet of black blood.