Chapter 24: Missile Bombardment

Inside the building, the little girl first raised her eyes to look at Chen Yusheng, then immediately tilted her head to look up at the sky.

Over a thousand meters high in the sky, hidden within clouds imperceptible to the naked eye, a medium-sized drone hovered silently, its lens filming every movement on the ground and transmitting the footage in real-time back to the command post.

"The Zombie King has gone upstairs; it is on the roof now."

"Good opportunity! If the Zombie King were still holed up in the basement, we wouldn't be able to do anything about it for a while. But now that it's on the roof, we can completely use a missile saturation strike."

"Are the missiles ready?" A middle-aged man with a stern expression pulled out a communicator and quickly dialed a number.

"Reporting to the leader, the missiles are all in position and ready to launch at any time!"

"Very good. Lock onto the coordinates *** and stand by for orders."

"Understood, leader!"

Subsequently, the middle-aged man turned his head to look at the drone operator nearby, his tone brooking no doubt: "Check the infrared designator mounted on the drone and ensure it is working properly."

The operator did not dare to be negligent, their fingertips tapping rapidly on the control screen. "Leader, the infrared designator is functioning normally, and the signal is stable."

"Very good, aim the designator at the building where the Zombie King is located immediately."

As the words fell, the middle-aged man grabbed the communicator again, his voice suddenly becoming sharp: "Launch the missiles immediately, fire both of them, do not hold back!"

Less than twenty seconds after the order was given, a clear response came through the communicator: "Missiles launched, target coordinates ***, flight path normal..."

"Very good."

One minute later, two striking smoke trails suddenly appeared on the distant skyline, and everyone clearly saw two fire meteors whistling in from the direction of the Base.

The missiles' speed far exceeded the speed of sound; before the sonic boom arrived, their silhouettes were already rapidly enlarging in the field of vision, hurtling toward the urban area in a way that was almost visible to the naked eye.

"Keep the infrared designator locked tight on the Zombie King's position and provide continuous guidance for the missiles!" the middle-aged man ordered sternly.

"Locking on... Oh no! The Zombie King has gone downstairs!" the operator shouted in shock.

The roof of the shopping mall.

After Chen Yusheng finished off a few Flying Type zombie birds that had lunged at him, he did not leave the rooftop immediately.

Having been stifled in the dark, sunless basement for several days, he also wanted to soak in the long-lost sun and relax his tense nerves a little.

Just as he closed his eyes to enjoy the sunlight, a faint yet piercing red light fell before his eyes without warning.

Chen Yusheng looked up abruptly, unable to see the specific situation clearly.

Under these circumstances, he immediately channeled a large amount of True Qi into his eyes, and his field of vision instantly increased several times over.

Soon, he clearly captured a tiny black dot high in the sky, and that red light was shooting directly from that black dot.

"A drone, infrared?"

"What are they trying to do?"

Chen Yusheng's brain was running at high speed, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

He could not immediately judge what the other party intended by locking onto him with an infrared beam.

But an instinctive sense of crisis crawled up his spine like a needle prick.

"Go!"

Chen Yusheng had no time to think carefully; he made the safest judgment immediately and moved away from the open area of the roof at once.

He led the few Mutant Zombies accompanying him and rushed down the stairs, not stopping for even a second on the floors, and ran straight toward the basement.

He had already deduced in his heart that the drone in the sky was nine times out of ten sent by the He Family to seek Qiu.

If the He Family were truly nearby, the nearly three thousand ordinary zombies inside the basement could serve as his bargaining chips to maneuver with.

A moment later, Chen Yusheng had already rushed into the basement.

Almost the moment his front foot stepped into the basement—

On the horizon, two missiles trailing blazing exhaust plumes, like the spears of death, flew fiercely toward the shopping mall building with overwhelming force.

In the sky, the laser designator mounted on the drone precisely pinned the infrared beam onto the roof of the building, and the infrared light scattered and reflected off the building's surface, forming a clear guidance signal.

In the distance, the infrared seekers of the two missiles captured the reflected infrared signal and instantly activated the terminal guidance system; the flight paths, which had previously deviated slightly, were corrected instantly, and as the angles shifted, they locked onto the building's position.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

Outside the city, a group of people held their breath and stared at the rapidly approaching missiles, and the middle-aged man in charge counted down in a deep voice, the atmosphere suppressed to the extreme.

Several seconds after the countdown ended.

Two blindingly bright lights exploded almost simultaneously and vanished in a flash.

The next moment, a deafening roar erupted in the center of the city, and two pillars of smoke rose into the sky; as the dust rolled, it even faintly condensed into a small mushroom cloud.

It took several seconds for the ear-splitting sound of the explosion to reach everyone's ears.

"Success!"

The drone pilot stared fixedly at the screen, their gaze never leaving the location of the shopping mall.

In the drone footage, that five-story shopping mall had been completely swallowed by fire and smoke under the bombardment of the two missiles.

When the smoke and dust dissipated slightly, everyone clearly saw that the entire building had completely collapsed, with broken walls and ruins piled up like a mountain, no longer resembling its original appearance.

To obtain a clearer picture, the pilot maneuvered the drone to descend rapidly, then approached the airspace above the ruins to film.

A few minutes later, most of the smoke and dust filling the sky had dispersed.

Everyone in the command post gathered around the drone's remote control screen, staring intently at the footage.

"The whole building has completely turned into ruins; if the Zombie King was really on top, it is absolutely impossible for it to have survived."

"Our Base's last two missiles have all been fired; let's hope the Zombie King was truly blown to death, otherwise the cost is just too great."

"Bring the drone lower; I want to see clearly at close range what the building has been reduced to," the middle-aged man ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The pilot responded and immediately maneuvered the drone to sweep at low altitude over the shopping mall building that had become ruins.

"First, check if the entrance and exit to the underground garage have been blown shut."

Very quickly, the drone camera aimed at the entrance of the shopping mall's underground garage.

"The underground garage has completely collapsed; there is a high probability that the Zombie King has been blown to death down there."

"Do not be careless or underestimate the enemy. From now on, the drone will monitor the urban area around the clock; once the Zombie Group returns to a scattered and disordered state, it will mean the Zombie King is dead."

"If the Zombie Group remains as organized and hidden as before, it will prove that the Zombie King is still alive."

"Leader, should we send someone to personally investigate the scene?" a young team member nearby couldn't help but ask.

"Continue monitoring first. If the Zombie King is not dead, its first reaction after suffering such a massive attack will definitely be to summon a large number of the Zombie Group to gather around it for self-protection."

"Next, we only need to see if the Sangshi are gathering on a large scale to determine whether the Zombie King is dead or alive."

Once these words were spoken, everyone present nodded one after another, all feeling it made sense.

If the Zombie King were still alive, its primary task would inevitably be self-preservation, and summoning the Zombie Group to surround and protect itself is the most direct and secure way to do so.

Therefore, as long as the Zombie Group moves and gathers, it means the Zombie King is not dead; if the Zombie Group shows no reaction and remains scattered, then the Zombie King has likely been buried in the explosion.

……

At the exact same moment the building where Chen Yusheng was located was razed to the ground.

In another building a few hundred meters away, that little girl Zombie King with a pink dress, black hair, red eyes, and a tiny horn growing on top of her head, widened her scarlet eyes, her pupils surging with unconcealable horror and shock.

"Aba aba..."

Her small mouth opened slightly, emitting a series of childish yet fear-filled sounds.

Inside her small head, thoughts churned rapidly.

It was very clear that the two heaven-destroying and earth-shattering terrifying attacks just now were launched by other humans to deal with that man who could control the Sangshi.

That humans would actually kill each other was something the little girl Zombie King had completely not anticipated.

Just as she remained in a state of shock, her gaze suddenly tightened.

She clearly saw that flying iron box in the high sky—the drone—was rapidly lowering its altitude.

Realizing that if she did not hide she would likely be discovered, the little girl Zombie King immediately left at high speed.

After the little girl Zombie King quietly retreated, the drone circled the collapsed ruins several times, recorded the scene in its entirety, and then quickly ascended and returned.

At the same time, beneath the layers of ruins of the underground garage.

Chen Yusheng was not dead, but he had fallen into a coma.