Chapter 263: Roar

The staff officer nodded and walked away quickly. In the command center, only Lin Chen remained.

He looked at the red light dots on the map, his fingers slowly clenching. The threat from afar was approaching, and a fierce battle was about to begin.

Lin Chen raised his hand and pressed the switch of the communicator, his voice spreading through the radio waves to every corner of the safe zone: "Attention all members,

Level 1 combat readiness activated. All personnel enter designated posts and execute defensive deployment missions."

The moment the order was issued, the Western Hills Safe Zone moved completely.

Patrol team members gathered quickly, carrying heavy machine guns and ammunition boxes as they rushed onto the city wall, setting up weapons in preset firing positions.

Logistics personnel pushed carts filled with supplies, shuttling through the roads between the board rooms, distributing food, medicine, and drinking water to various defensive points. Team members responsible for engineering carried shovels and cement, reinforcing the weak points of the city wall and building temporary bunkers with sandbags.

On the safe zone's broadcast, defensive instructions were repeated constantly,

with no panicked shouting, only orderly actions. Survivors living in the board rooms also walked out of their homes one after another, joining the team reinforcing the defenses. Young and strong men helped transport supplies,

women burned water and cooked in temporarily built kitchens, preparing to send hot food to the team members on the front line, while the elderly and children sat at the door,

helping to organize the waste metal they had picked up, used to make simple weapons.

Lin Chen walked out of the command center and headed toward the city wall. Along the way, team members saw him and stood at attention to salute, their eyes full of firmness.

Lin Chen nodded in response, his gaze sweeping over the busy crowd, knowing inwardly

that this was a battle concerning life and death, and no one could stay out of it.

He walked onto the city wall, looking at the defensive works being reinforced below, and looked up at the distant skyline. There, dark clouds were gathering,

as if foreshadowing the coming storm. A deputy walked to his side,

holding a list: "Captain Lin, the heavy firepower deployment on the city wall is complete,

ammunition reserves are enough to support three large-scale attacks, and the reserves of food and medicine have also been counted and distributed according to the combat plan."

"Also, personnel from various satellite camps have withdrawn to the main safe zone,

and all mutant beast meat has been pickled, enough to support consumption for half a month." The deputy continued to report.

Lin Chen nodded, his gaze falling on the open ground outside the city wall: "Notify the engineering team,

dig anti-tank trenches fifty meters outside the city wall, and deploy landmines and tripwire explosives to delay the advance speed of the zombie tide."

"Yes." The deputy immediately turned to convey the order.

Lin Chen's fingers tapped lightly on the bricks of the city wall, calculating inwardly.

The scale of the zombie tide from the Black Forest direction was huge; it must be consumed layer by layer using defensive works

to have a chance of winning. He remembered Lu Ran and A Nian far away in the Icefield Mountains, not knowing how they were doing now; the communicator still only had the rustling sound of current, with no response.

He took a deep breath, turned, and shouted to the team members behind him: "Everyone listen up, the zombie tide is not scary; what's scary is the loss of morale.

We guard here, not guarding a city wall, but our home, our hope for survival."

The team members shouted in unison, their voices loud, shaking the heavens and earth.

Lin Chen looked at them, his eyes becoming even firmer. He knew

that taking precautions was the key to this battle; only by making full preparations could they guard this land when the zombie tide struck.

Meanwhile, on the snowfield of the Icefield Mountains, time seemed to have stopped.

Lu Ran held Sister Chu Yao Yao's body, kneeling in the snow, snowflakes covering his hair and shoulders, freezing his eyelashes white.

His palm gripped the seed ring tightly, the cold texture as if carved into his bones.

A Nian stood to one side, her body trembling slightly. She looked at Lu Ran's back,

not daring to make a sound, only letting tears fall onto the snow. She could feel

that the aura on Lu Ran was becoming more and more violent; that was a sign that his enhancement ability was about to lose control.

Sister Chu Yao Yao's hand still remained beside Lu Ran's cheek, the temperature of her fingertips completely dissipated,

becoming ice-cold. Then, that hand slid down gently, hanging in the snow,

with no more movement. Sister Chu Yao Yao's eyes were closed forever, a faint smile still remaining on her face.

"Sister Chu Yao Yao." Lu Ran's voice was hoarse beyond recognition. He lowered his head,

gently rubbing Sister Chu Yao Yao's forehead. "Wake up, don't sleep anymore; we still have to build a home together, plant sunflowers together."

There was no response, only the whistling of the wind and snow.

Lu Ran's body shuddered violently, and a violent force surged from his body,

sweeping across the entire snowfield. His eyes were bloodshot, the originally clear eyes becoming bright red. He gritted his teeth tightly,

his teeth chattering, the pain and anger suppressed in the bottom of his heart erupting at this moment.

"Ah!"

A deafening roar burst from Lu Ran's throat,

piercing through the wind and snow. As the roar fell, the enhancement ability in his body completely lost control, and an invisible shockwave, with him as the center, spread toward the surroundings.

The accumulated snow was instantly blown away, revealing the thick ice layer underneath. The moment the shockwave hit the ice layer, it made a deafening cracking sound.

The sound of "crack, crack" came constantly, and the ice layer within a hundred-meter radius,

under the impact of the violent force, shattered inch by inch, breaking into countless ice blocks of different sizes, floating on the cold snow water.

The sound of ice blocks colliding, mixed with the whistling of wind and snow, resounded through the entire Icefield Mountains. Lu Ran still held Sister Chu Yao Yao's body,

kneeling on the shattered ice layer, two lines of hot tears flowing from his red eyes, falling into the cold snow water, instantly steaming up a wisp of white mist.

A Nian was blown away by the shockwave, falling heavily to the ground. She struggled to climb up, looking at Lu Ran standing in the center of the ice layer,

her eyes full of fear and worry. She knew Lu Ran's ability had lost control; if this continued, he would completely exhaust his own body.

Lu Ran's roar continued, the sound filled with endless pain and despair, like an injured wild beast howling in the wind and snow.

The shattered ice layer shook constantly, and the snow water flooded over his knees, ice-cold and biting, yet he seemed to have no feeling, only holding Sister Chu Yao Yao's body tightly, letting the violent force rage in his body. ===== CHAPTER 264 =====