Published: February 6, 2025
If given enough time, this Stone Gate could serve a far greater purpose than just defense. Once the walls surrounding Cloud Summit Villa were completed, the defensive capabilities of this gate would astonish anyone.
However, in the early days of the apocalypse, to fend off the tide of zombies with a group of inexperienced subordinates, Ye Zhongming had no choice but to focus on this Stone Gate.
In a life-and-death struggle against zombies, is there a need for a suicide squad?
Yes, there is a need. But every person becomes a part of the suicide squad when pushed to the brink; there’s no avoiding the need to ‘take risks.’ But why still organize a suicide squad? It’s nothing more than bait.
Yet, Ye Zhongming never considered relinquishing this bait, so he put his good brother Shengyuan at the forefront.
Despite that, there would still be casualties.
However, the tasks that needed to be done by the suicide squad were accomplished. The zombies were successfully lured to the Stone Gate.
Perhaps this was the greatest achievement survivors had made since the fighting began. Countless grade 2 zombies were trapped under the Stone Gate. These agile and nimble zombies, which had advanced to near the base entrance, had almost no ability to resist such a heavy gate. Even though some of the zombies on the edges managed to escape, many were crushed into a pulp.
After the dust settled, foul-smelling blood flowed from the gaps and quickly spread onto the surrounding roads.
“Wow!~~~”
A shadow leaped out from the zombie horde, landing directly on the shoulder of a corpse ape. Two long tentacles on its head spun rapidly in the air, and its flattened, tooth-filled mouth emitted a loud and strange sound towards the survivors, filled with anger that anyone could recognize.
The grade 4 choker finally appeared when the subordinates suffered severe casualties.
“Wow!”
The choker let out another mighty roar, the immense energy within its small body fully expressed in this sound.
If the ‘power of the mad dog’ emitted by several zombie dogs from the beast tamer had only increased the speed and strength of the horde, then the choker's roar served as a command for all-out attack and was the source of the zombie tide's fury.
In an instant, the horde surged over the main gate of the villa!
Both sides suffered heavy casualties in that moment.
Before, due to shooting skills, psychological factors, and the need to dodge zombie attacks, although survivors had been able to kill many zombies each moment, the effect was ultimately limited. But at this moment, everyone was facing the horde head-on, their guns almost pressed against the zombies as they fired. In no time, one after another, the green-faced, toothy heads were blown off like watermelons, and in an instant, the front line of zombies collapsed.
Some grade 2 zombies were also killed, but having been crowded into the horde, they had no space to dodge. Compared to ordinary zombies, they were just a bit more powerful in their attacks.
However, before these grade 2 zombies died, they also caused significant casualties for the humans. Their innate skills and formidable special attributes cast a shadow of death over the survivors.
“Evolvers to the front! Everyone else retreat to the main building! Find an angle to shoot at the zombie horde behind!” Xia Lei and Lu Yi shouted, their voices hoarse and torn. In such large-scale close combat, the role of ordinary people was minimal; they needed distance to utilize their firearms effectively. The lethality of hot weapons was far superior to their own.
Before the battle began, the Starved Tiger Knight and the warriors of Cloud Summit Villa had shown signs of wanting to flee, an unavoidable situation. But now, everyone knew that there was no way out. They either had to kill all the zombies in front of them or be slaughtered by them.
So no one fled. Even those wanting to run had to suppress their fear and continue fighting. If they could hold on for a while, they would be inspired by the fierce battle, the splattering blood, and the roars of their comrades, igniting the most primal courage and rage within them to fight against the monsters in front of them.