Chapter 374: On the Eve of the Decisive Battle

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

His arm drew afterimages, and the arrows aligned in a line pierced and exploded the distant zombies like artillery shells.

The arrows infused with spiritual power had power comparable to small-caliber artillery shells.

After a brief panic, the soldiers on the front line turned back and opened fire with their guns.

"Gao Tian is truly formidable!"

During the shooting, the soldiers couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

In just a few seconds, Gao Tian had already shot dozens of arrows.

The spirit-infused arrows actually tore a gap in the thousands of zombies that charged out.

"Yeah, it feels like Gao Tian can casually match the firepower of an entire company..."

"That's not archery at all, it's practically a mortar."

"As expected of the guardian beneath the deity."

Chattering excited discussion.

Supernatural power always elicits awe from the people of this world.

Gao Tian did not continue attacking; after confirming the defensive line would have no issues, he prepared to go find Lin An.

These past days, he and Zhang Tie have hardly taken any action.

On one hand, there was no need; on the other, they speculated whether the Awakened Ones taking action would provoke a zombie riot.

After all, the zombies that had remained motionless were too suspicious.

These past days, he and Lin An repeatedly reverse-engineered what the Awakened Ones mentioned by Huang Shaohua would encounter.

In their speculation, the time of death of a batch of Second-Level Awakened Ones was truly bizarre.

If the zombie tide does not move, then, logically, before they have confidence to charge the high tower, the Awakened Ones should not die.

However, in the information provided by Huang Shaohua, the time of death vaguely did not match up.

Therefore, they had considered that if the Awakened Ones took action, it might attract a zombie riot.

If surrounded, there could be a threat to their lives.

After wiping out the attacking zombies, Luo Bing's hands trembled slightly from weakness.

The veteran beside him feeling sorry, handed him a sip of water.

"Drink some water, don't choke."

"Glug"

As the youth took the water flask and gulped it down, his gaze toward the battlefield momentarily stalled.

It was already approaching night; on the dim battlefield, the zombie corpses were dissolving at high speed.

Although ordinary zombie corpses also dissolve, the speed is absolutely not this fast.

If it weren't for his habit of liking to calculate how many zombies he had killed, it would also be hard to notice the difference.

He astonishedly patted the veteran beside him, his eyes blinking.

"Uncle Wang, how come the zombies killed by Lord Gao Tian dissolve so quickly?"

The veteran beside him glanced and then shrugged it off:

"Lord Gao Tian is different from us, haven't the priests all said so?"

"Those who die at the hands of the divine envoy will have their souls purified and granted peace..."

"Ding-ding-dang-"

A clear bell sound rang out.

The missionary priestess girl walking behind, with a solemn expression, chanted softly:

"May the souls of these resurrected dead find peace."

"Death is rebirth."

In the command vehicle, unlike his optimistic demeanor in front of the soldiers, Gao Tian's face grew grave as he reported the battle situation:

"Squad Leader Lin, food is severely insufficient."

"According to our calculations, at the current pace, food stores will not last until the zombies are wiped out."

The soldiers thought there were still large quantities of heavy weapons unused, believing there was enough time.

But only a few high-level officials know that the actual large-scale lethal weapons are actually insufficient.

Without nuclear bombs, relying on only twenty-something cloud burst bombs cannot clear hundreds of millions of zombies.

Under three years of catastrophe, weapon stores lack maintenance, and many high-end heavy weapons can no longer be used.

Moreover, over these three years, hardly any faction has the capability to establish a large arms factory.

Even impoverished factions are using earthen hunting rifles.

Lin An quickly flipped through the report in his hand:

"How did the burning experiment go?"

"At the current speed, how long is estimated to clear a route sufficient for us to charge forward?"

Gao Tian shook his head.

The so-called burning experiment is Lin An's idea of using large amounts of fuel to burn the zombies to death.

At any cost, dispatch the aerial forces to drop fuel.

"The burning effect is very poor."

"The zombies in this world dissolve spontaneously, especially under high temperatures."

"What they produce after dissolving is not flammable corpse oil, but rather a mixture similar to the aftermath of biological tissue breakdown."

"After running many supercomputer simulations, the best effect in the experiment was merely able to burn a few million zombies."

But the cost is consuming all the fuel reserves.

After saying that, Gao Tian, somewhat irritated, lit a cigarette and then sat down:

Lin Dui, as for the efficiency of clearing zombies,

Actually, there is no efficiency to speak of.

Kesiman's reconnaissance images uploaded yesterday clearly showed that the Corpse Horde at the Rear of the high tower is increasing.

Through analyzing the scanned images, the increase in zombie numbers...

It's not less than the number we've eliminated!

Strictly speaking, it's just decreased a little.

His heart felt heavy, like a huge stone blocking it.

Especially as we advance, the number of zombies emerging is also increasing.

With a small number of zombies, we can still achieve point shooting, conserving ammunition.

But once faced with an occasional large-scale zombie assault, we simply cannot conserve ammunition.

If it weren't for the self-destruct crystals, many positions would actually encounter problems.

Unwilling, miserable.

Gao Tian's voice was bitter, he weakly let his head droop:

Lin Dui, the skinning plan has failed.

I didn't expect to fail already in the first stage.

We've already repeatedly calculated it.

Only by first establishing a major rear, restoring civilization, and then arming forces through a perfected technological system.

Only in a protracted war of attrition does the skinning tactic have hope of completion.

We're too hasty...

Lin An remained silent.

Strictly speaking, it's actually not that being too hasty led to the current situation.

But rather, they simply have no time.

Rebuild civilization, restore the technological system.

Without five years, or even ten years of time, it's simply impossible.

After adjusting his thoughts over this period, he has become very clear.

If that's the case, then there's no need to drag on any further.

Tomorrow morning, directly launch the general assault.

Prepare the blood bait.

As Lin An walked out of the command vehicle, Gao Tian, sitting dazedly in his position, couldn't stop trembling.

Blood bait.

That is, made from the corpses of executed nobles secretly collected, as 'fish bait'.

No matter how the zombies 'defend' the high tower.

But in the face of naked, massive amounts of flesh and blood, they will only follow instinct.

Scatter the blood bait from the air across the entire battlefield, then draw the massive horde of zombies entirely onto the positions.

Exchange lives for time, using all firepower to blast open a path to the high tower.

At the same time they enter the high tower.

Detonate thirty million self-destruct crystals.

Then.

A battle to the death.