Published: February 6, 2025
Screams echoed within the defensive line.
The attack from the thorn demon, combined with the boulders thrown by the corpse apes, resulted in casualties of at least dozens, including several evolvers who were not spared.
This marked the greatest chaos since the battle began.
"Hold the line, hold the line! Stay calm, if we panic, we'll all die!"
Mo Ye rushed back and forth to stabilize the defense, his gun firing continuously, taking down one zombie after another.
Ye Zhongming's sniper rifle roared, the sound almost melding into a continuous barrage. Every threatening target in his line of sight, including the two corpse apes, faced ruthless retaliation.
After Ye Zhongming's precise and fierce attacks, the offensive from the higher-level zombies in the horde began to wane, and the threat to the defensive line diminished, allowing the survivors to gradually regain their composure and their shooting turned fierce once more.
However, taking advantage of this moment, the zombie horde pushed forward again, now only over thirty meters from the defensive line!
At this distance, as long as one was not nearsighted, they could see the flesh stuck between the zombies' teeth.
"Ordinary people, retreat to the third defensive line as planned! Evolvers, hold your ground!"
Mo Ye shouted while pulling the trigger, having seen the horde cross the warning line. Her chosen two assistants immediately began organizing the ordinary soldiers for a retreat.
At that moment, a section of the horde suddenly collapsed; the trench hidden in front of the defensive line proved effective, with a large number of zombies falling into it.
This trench was different from the simple ditches used during the grain raid; this time, steel bars or wooden stakes were fixed in the trenches. Anyone who fell in would be pierced at the bottom, even if they didn’t die immediately.
And with enough time, the trench was deep, resulting in at least a thousand zombies falling in at once.
However, before the humans could cheer, the horde quickly filled the trench with their sheer mass, stepping on their fallen comrades and continuing forward.
The remaining survivors fired fiercely, trying to slow the horde's advance as much as possible.
Since the battle had started, it had been less than half an hour, and the first defensive line had killed over three thousand zombies, but against a horde of more than twenty thousand, this number was far too small.
The first defensive line had the largest number of personnel and the highest morale, but it was also the line with the most traps. Yet this line could hardly hold for even an hour and was soon facing the danger of being breached.
Ye Zhongming felt a bit helpless. Although he had ordered his subordinates to shoot in volume, due to factors like marksmanship and other objective reasons, the results differed greatly from his expectations.
Moreover, without grenades or bombs, the effectiveness of their attacks against the horde suffered.
In his previous life, facing such a zombie tide, after the initial gunfire, it would quickly turn to close-quarters combat. At that time, half of the evolvers were professionals with higher evolution levels, accustomed to facing danger head-on, and their combat style was vastly different from now. If it were like that, these evolvers should rush in to hit the horde hard and then withdraw in an orderly fashion, which would yield much better results. Unfortunately, the current evolvers lacked such capabilities.
With more than half of their firepower suppressed, the horde advanced more quickly, soon breaching the twenty-meter line. The survivors began to retreat. At this distance, some high-level zombies could cross in moments; if they didn’t move, the risk of an accident became too great.
After emptying their magazines again, dozens of evolvers began to retreat quickly, heading back to the second defensive line for a brief rest before continuing the fight, also triggering the traps in front of the line.
Mo Ye personally led people to set up defenses at the third line, while Little Tiger and Ye Zhongming took the evolvers directly to the second defensive line.