Chapter 189

Awoooo!

Lured by Qi Xiaoshuai, more than ten zombies rushed toward the obstacle. At the very moment of the clash, the walkie-talkie hanging on Zhang Su's chest emitted a burst of static, followed immediately by Zheng Xinyu's urgent voice.

"Brother Su, where are you? A horde of zombies is heading toward the camp!"

Inside the Tianma Island monitoring room, Zheng Xinyu stared at the screen with an extremely solemn expression.

"What?"

Zhang Su's heart tightened. He pressed the talk button and said, "What's the specific situation?"

After speaking, he immediately threw himself into the battle to exterminate the zombies.

"A large group of zombies suddenly emerged from the fields across the road. On the monitor, there are at least four or five hundred of them. The ones in front have already reached the road and are heading straight for the camp!"

"Damn it!" Zhang Su stabbed a zombie with great force, then pressed the talk button: "Don't panic. The camp's perimeter wall is basically finished. Everyone stop what you're doing and immediately place the caltrops to block the gate. Even if the zombies charge the camp, there's only one narrow path, which makes them easy to kill!"

"Should we use guns?"

Zheng Xinyu asked.

"Brother Su, what's the situation at the camp?"

Zhang Su slammed on the accelerator. The RV wasn't pulling anything and the load was very light, so it accelerated quite rapidly, hitting over a hundred with one foot on the gas.

At this very moment, the situation at Tianma Island was not nearly as good as Zhang Su had anticipated...

The massive horde, spread over a hundred meters long and more than ten meters wide, was relatively sparse due to their fast movement. But regardless, the number far exceeded the four or five hundred Zheng Xinyu had mentioned; it had likely doubled, reaching as many as eight or nine hundred!

Fortunately, the road up the mountain was only five or six meters wide, so the horde couldn't swarm up all at once. It was like yellow millet poured into a funnel, which indirectly reduced the pressure on the camp; otherwise, the situation would have been even more critical!

"Everyone, get ready for defense! We are all battle-hardened elites; do not fear the crisis before us!"

Behind the caltrops, Zheng Xinyu had her usual baseball bat and rifle slung over her back. She gripped a newly made steel rebar club tightly in her hand, standing resolutely in the very center of the crowd.

"Retreat quickly!"

Awoo, awoo, awoo.

"A wave of zombies suddenly appeared from the west field. At this time, they should have just passed the explosion site. If we hurry and catch up from behind, we should be able to lure a large portion away, and the pressure on the camp will be reduced!"

Tan Huajun asked nervously; her daughter was still at the camp, and she couldn't help but feel anxious.

The horde's goal was very clear: they were moving toward Tianma Island. Compared to aimless wandering, their speed was slightly faster.

As a woman who had followed Zhang Su all the way out of Shengqin Garden, she could not shrink back at a time like this. She had to stand at the very front on Zhang Su's behalf. A moment of crisis was the best time to establish prestige; if someone else stood up to lead the crowd at such a time, the cohesion would be scattered!

It seemed the others knew this too; no one competed with Zheng Xinyu for this dangerous yet prominent position, leaving the tip of the blade to her.

Zhang Su believed that by the time the zombies had just passed the explosion site, the leading zombies had actually reached the foot of the mountain, and even the tail of the horde had passed the explosion site.

Zhang Su wasn't just stingy with bullets; he also considered that the people in the camp might cause accidental injuries if they used firearms in a panic.

Lu Yubo and the other two heard the news while Zhang Su was talking to Zheng Xinyu. Feeling anxious, they worked very efficiently. Upon hearing the order to retreat, they grabbed their weapons without a word and ran toward the RV.

The surviving zombies were blocked by the obstacles and couldn't rush over for a while. Being stupid, they didn't know how to go around. Watching the fresh blood and food run away, they became abnormally violent, but it was useless. By the time they broke through the obstacles, the Mercedes RV had already retreated more than two hundred meters.

"Go, go!"

"Keep the guns in reserve; use cold weapons first. With the caltrops and the wall, a number of four or five hundred isn't too many. If it really comes to it, then open fire, but be absolutely careful with the line of fire—don't hit your own people!"

"Okay, okay... Everyone has already started preparing. I won't say more, I'm heading over now!"

Ending the call, Zhang Su glanced at the remaining zombies, gritted his teeth, and waved his hand: "Forget about this place, let's go! There's a horde attacking the camp!"

The road into the village was too narrow to turn around. Zhang Su stared at the screen while reversing all the way, soon driving onto another field road. With a flick of the tail, the car headed toward the highway.

Lu Yubo and Qi Xiaoshuai also felt urgent. That was their shared home, a warm home in the apocalypse. No one wanted anything to happen to the camp; when the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken!

Except for Pang Dakun, who was bedridden with unhealed injuries, everyone in the camp had been mobilized. Zhao Dezhu, with his arm in a sling, also stood among the crowd. The Corgi, Lucky, was not absent either, though she was too short to have much presence.

"Give us weapons! We can help kill the zombies together!"

Guo Dachao and Yang Wenjie stood at the back of the crowd, their faces full of anxiety. Having finally found a place to stay, they felt too stifled to be unable to contribute while crises were erupting everywhere.

"Yes, really, rest assured, we sincerely want to do something for the camp. Believe in us!" Yang Wenjie gripped a hoe used for farm work; it could kill zombies, but the effect was predictable.

"Wu Lue, take two steel rebar clubs and give them to them!"

Zhong Xiaoshan didn't dawdle. With thousands of zombies attacking the camp below, every bit of combat power was precious right now. Cold weapons could be given, but firearms could not.

The weapons were handed to Guo Dachao and Yang Wenjie. Under Yu Wen's arrangement, the two stood by the wall, using the pre-reserved holes to stab the zombies outside!

Everyone held their breath. Even though the zombies were still at the foot of the mountain, they could already hear the sound of feet scraping the ground and the unique low moans of the zombies, like the chanting of demons, inching closer to the camp and battering everyone's psychological defenses.

"Everyone, don't be afraid!"

Zheng Xinyu heard the sound of swallowing nearby and didn't know who was being timid. She said loudly: "Brother Su received the news and is already rushing back. We will meet the horde head-on. Brother Su and the other three are very powerful; they will flank from the rear, and annihilating the horde will be a piece of cake!"

Damn it all whether it was a piece of cake or not, she had to boost morale first.

"If anyone gets injured, shout it out immediately. As long as it's treated in time, you won't be infected. Chen Hanzhou is a living example. Everyone, don't be afraid, but be sure to protect important parts like your shoulders and neck!"

Zhong Xiaoshan gave everyone a timely shot of adrenaline.

The greatest fear of facing zombies lies in the certainty of death after infection, but if there is a possibility of not being infected, even cruel methods like amputation are not unacceptable!

"Comrades, ahead are the strong enemies of another race, and behind is our warm home! With our blades held high and our ambition united, let us kill all one hundred and eight thousand enemies!"

Yu Wen's voice wasn't loud, but it was sonorous, encouraging everyone. However, the sound couldn't stop the zombies for even half a step. Soon, the figures of zombies appeared at the bend.

"Come on! We aren't afraid of you! Come on, let's kill you!"

Zheng Xinyu roared toward the front. She wanted to attract a wave of zombies to rush over early to avoid a large-scale impact of the horde.

As a seed player for long-term zombie attraction, one shout instantly startled the zombies on the mountain road.

Awooooo.

The leading zombies of the horde were completely awakened by the shouting. They looked up toward the mountain gate, then immediately took long strides and began to run, their momentum like a rainbow.

The uphill road was somewhat steep, which limited the zombies' speed, so they weren't running very fast, but the sight of dozens or hundreds of zombies running together was still daunting!

"Take them down!"

Zhao Dezhu shouted with his single arm. At this moment, the rear was safe, so there was no need to worry about the sound attracting more zombies to surround them; he could shout to his heart's content to boost their momentum.

"Take them down!"

"Kill!"

Everyone followed suit, shouting and venting the fear and anger in their hearts.

For a moment, the human voices drowned out the zombies' strange cries. In the collision of invisible momentum, the humans did not fall behind!

Boom!

The first wave of zombies finally made contact with the caltrops.

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft...

A series of sounds of sharp spikes piercing flesh rang out. The row of zombies that first lunged at the caltrops were pinned to them, yet they didn't lose their lives; they still clawed and snapped, trying to lunge at the crowd.

The zombies following behind frantically rammed into the road barriers. Under the crowding and pushing, some zombies climbed onto the bodies of their own kind, stepping unevenly as they leaned forward to attack the humans within arm's reach.

Pfft, pfft.

The moment the attack distance was close enough to reach the zombies, the several people standing at the very front acted in unison, mercilessly finishing off the zombies that had rushed to the front with very efficient movements!

Filthy blood and various tissue fluids flew everywhere with the waving of weapons. The bloodiness and brutality of the scene were no less than a slaughterhouse in hell.

The battle process had no delays. In just a minute or two, a layer of zombie corpses was spread over the caltrops. The zombies in the rear stretched out their withered arms, wanting only to reach forward. When they couldn't break through the gate, they spread toward the walls on both sides.

The people responsible for stabbing behind the wall couldn't stop for a second. The holes were fixed and small, so they couldn't guarantee hitting a zombie's vital point every time. They could only trade quantity for quality, and the physical exertion was immense.

"Pei Lan, Lü Leiyang, Liu Tianji, Wang Xin, clear the zombie corpses!"

Seeing the zombies in the rear stepping on the corpses of those on the caltrops as if walking on flat ground to rush into the camp, Zheng Xinyu immediately assigned people to start clearing the zombie corpses. This was something they hadn't anticipated before.

The four dropped their weapons and immediately began dragging the zombie corpses off the caltrops and throwing them aside.

Fighting zombies was generally better than fighting one's own kind; at least zombies wouldn't play dead. If they were limp and motionless, they were truly dead, becoming a pile of safe rotten meat, and there was no need to worry about them faking death to take a bite out of someone.

There were four rows of caltrops in total. The only position where corpses could be cleared was the innermost row, and it was enough to keep one row of caltrops functioning normally to form a buffer, giving the people holding weapons a chance to kill the zombies.

However, things were not as easy as expected.

Just as Pei Lan and the other three had cleared a wave of zombie corpses and were preparing to pick up their weapons to join the battle again, a sound they least wanted to hear reached everyone's ears.

Crackle, crackle.

The wooden caltrops couldn't withstand the impact of so many zombies. The first row was completely crushed, and the second row also showed signs of breaking instantly. The zombie corpses spread on top sank down, which also caused the zombies rushing inward to stumble, which could be considered the last bit of function the caltrops provided.

"Hold on! Once one more row of caltrops breaks, I, Yu Wen, Xiaoshan, Zhao Xue, and Jia Shiqin will prepare to set up guns to meet the zombies! Pay attention to lining up in a row! Once the gunfire starts, everyone else immediately assist with the killing work on the wall!"

Zheng Xinyu was a PUBG streamer after all, often played in squads, and understood a bit of command. Applied to reality, as long as her mind was clear and she didn't panic, it was still quite orderly.

Sure enough, they had to prepare in advance. Less than a minute after Zheng Xinyu finished arranging the shooters, the zombies piled up behind, and the third row of caltrops couldn't support it at all, emitting a sound of wood breaking and collapsing with a bang.

(End of chapter)