Chapter 190

"Ready, single shots! Flanks, coordinate defense!"

Click, click, click.

A row of sounds of pulling bolts rang out. Zheng Xinyu and the other four, after day-after-day of training, were very proficient with automatic rifles. The stocks were firmly pressed against their shoulders, they tilted their heads to aim, and pulled the triggers!

Rat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat-tat.

The five fired in unison, striving to hit the zombies' heads as much as possible. Even if there was some deviation, it didn't matter much. The pfft-pfft-pfft sounds were incessant, and rows of zombies soon fell under the gunfire.

With thirty bullets per person, even with single shots, they would be emptied in just over a minute.

Everyone carried four spare magazines full of bullets. This set of reloading movements was also a project trained on weekdays, and no one would delay the important work due to unfamiliarity.

"Stop, stop shooting, we're back!"

When the fourth magazine was emptied and Zheng Xinyu was preparing to change to the last one, she heard Zhang Su's voice on the walkie-talkie.

Zhang Su gave a word of caution. At this moment, there were still twenty or thirty zombies surrounding the car, and the crisis was far from resolved. The time when tragedy is most likely to happen is when victory is in sight and one lets their guard down!

"Kill!"

"Take them down!"

"What's a horde of zombies? Humans are invincible!"

"Be serious, don't get distracted!"

Seeing victory right before their eyes, the energy that had been drained from everyone returned. Various hormones in their bodies were secreted crazily, their fighting spirit was high, and they were extremely brave. Even the youngest, Mo Qianlan, was gritting her teeth and fighting zombies with all her might.

"Put away the guns, kill our way out!"

"Brother Su, the sister-in-law has brought people to kill their way over!"

"Kill! We've won!"

Someone sat down on the ground. As the levels of various hormones in their bodies began to drop, a sense of exhaustion spread throughout their bodies. They couldn't suppress their excitement, their limbs were trembling, and their faces wore unbridled smiles.

Zhang Su and his party parked the RV on the mountain road and leaned out to kill zombies, which both ensured their own safety and had a very high killing efficiency. Soon, four piles of corpses appeared beside the car.

"Brother Su and the others are back!"

"Oh, oh, oh!"

Everyone immediately understood that the tail of the zombie horde had been intercepted by Zhang Su and the others.

On the car, Lu Yubo saw a group of people killing their way down the hillside and was instantly excited.

After dealing with the remaining zombies at the mountain gate, the group rushed down from the mountain like fierce tigers entering a flock of sheep, struggling to strangle the last zombies surrounding the RV, their faces full of excitement.

At the same time, Wu Lue climbed onto the wall and pointed down the mountain: "Brother Su and the others are surrounded by zombies in the car!"

The rest of the people naturally wouldn't let Zheng Xinyu fight alone. Those who hadn't been assigned shooting tasks and couldn't squeeze to the wall to kill zombies were ready to go, and at the order, they launched an attack again.

"Hahaha, we won!"

Zheng Xinyu slung her rifle over her shoulder, not knowing where her steel rebar club had been thrown, pulled out the baseball bat from her back, jumped onto the pile of corpses, and started close-quarters combat with the zombies again.

A moment later, as the last zombie was finished off and fell to the side with a thud, the mountain road leading to Tianma Island fell into a brief silence, followed by ecstatic shouting.

"Haha, we've won!"

Zhang Su and the others stepped off the RV over the zombie corpses, each of them also stained with filth.

"Is anyone injured?"

The first sentence Zhang Su asked was about injuries.

"No!"

"Report to Brother Su, zero damage!"

"Damn it, I feel like my bone has shifted again!" Zhao Dezhu sat on the ground, adjusting the strap holding his arm.

"Does a sprained ankle count as a work-related injury?"

Wang Xin walked two steps with a limp. He had fallen while climbing the caltrops earlier. Fortunately, there were piled-up corpses, so he only sprained his ankle; otherwise, whether he was impaled on the caltrops or fell into the zombie pile, his life would have been over.

"It counts. Remember to report any injury to Nurse Zhong; she will distribute supplies to everyone. It's good that everyone is fine. This defensive battle was quite successful. Everyone has worked hard!"

Zhang Su stood on the zombie corpses to encourage everyone, his eyes meeting Zheng Xinyu's and Zhong Xiaoshan's in a simple glance. The few nodded slightly, everything understood without words.

"Brother Su, you've worked hard too!"

"If we had known it was this easy, you wouldn't have needed to rush back!"

"Exactly, exactly. You went out to handle business; just leave the rear to us! Rest assured!"

If it were some fat-headed leader giving a speech after everything was over, everyone would sneer, but they wouldn't toward Zhang Su. Because although Zhang Su and the others returned late, the number of zombies they killed was not small at all.

Their absence was because they were handling more important matters, not because they were slacking off.

"Although the horde has been resolved, don't let your guard down. Be safe when clearing the zombie corpses. This can be done slowly; pull them all to the fields below, it's best to burn them."

Zhang Su stepped off the pile of corpses and saw Guo Dachao and Yang Wenjie in the crowd. The two were holding weapons and had naturally participated in the battle. He walked up to them and said: "How do you feel?"

"It feels quite satisfying, Brother Su!"

Guo Dachao waved the steel rebar club in his hand. He was dirty all over, but he couldn't hide his excitement, and his lips were trembling slightly.

"Being able to fight side by side is a good thing. You two keep these two weapons from now on!"

After saying that, Zhang Su looked at Liu Tianji and said: "Little Liu, accompany me to check the surveillance. Others start cleaning up. Go and ride out those small electric scooters, and the Haranda too, use them all to pull the corpses!"

"Surveillance?"

Watching Zhang Su and Liu Tianji leave in a hurry, the people on the scene looked at each other.

"Could it be... there's a problem with this zombie horde attack?"

Lu Yubo was the first to ask the question in everyone's heart.

"Didn't the big brother go to investigate? Don't guess around, get to work, hurry up and work!"

Compared to killing zombies, clearing zombie corpses was a huge workload. Fortunately, the camp had enough manpower, and more than ten people acted in unison.

"Brother Su, could it be... you feel this zombie horde is not right?"

Liu Tianji followed behind Zhang Su and asked in surprise.

"Don't ask so much, let's look first!"

Zhang Su walked quickly toward the camp. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, his mood was not high because he felt that this zombie horde attack was a bit suspicious!

Soon, the two arrived at the monitoring room.

"Brother Su, look, this is the surveillance footage facing the highway."

Liu Tianji very skillfully adjusted the surveillance footage from an hour ago for Zhang Su.

Due to factors like angles and equipment, the camera facing the highway couldn't clearly record scenes too far away.

Zhang Su fast-forwarded, found the time node, and then slowed down to watch the surveillance.

"I knew it!"

Under slow motion, Zhang Su soon discovered the problem.

"Knew what, Brother Su?"

Liu Tianji had been watching from the side and hadn't seen the clue.

"Pay attention to this place, before the zombies appeared, look!"

At the very top of the surveillance footage, due to the obstruction of trees, only a very blurry scene could be seen. Before the horde appeared on the screen, a few extremely strange figures flashed by. Even if they weren't living people, it was the handiwork of living people!

Obviously, this wave of zombies was not naturally attracted by the gathered people, but artificially guided.

"This..."

Liu Tianji pointed at the screen in astonishment and said incredulously: "Someone is luring zombies to our camp?"

Zhang Su replayed the video again. After repeated viewing, he nodded and said: "If the police used this to solve a case, this crappy image quality definitely couldn't be used as evidence, but it's enough for us to confirm the situation!"

"Then... could it be the people from Beita Camp?"

Liu Tianji asked subconsciously.

Zhang Su took out a cigarette and lit it. After thinking for a while, he said: "Either it's a force we don't know about, or it's the people from Beita Camp!"

Currently, it seemed there were only four forces in this area: Xidaying Village, which guarded the bridge and collected protection fees; Lianhe Village, which farmed and raised livestock next to Beidong Town; Tianma Island, where Zhang Su was; and then the untraceable Beita Camp!

Continuing north, there must be other forces, but they were far away, and without grievances or grudges, they wouldn't be idle enough to come and cause trouble!

"That's right, it must be Beita Camp!"

After finishing a cigarette, Zhang Su drew a conclusion based on his previous trip around.

"Little Liu, you haven't been to Niuquanzi Town, so you don't know the situation there. Thousands of zombies were trapped in the streets. It's impossible for zombies to naturally gather there. It must have been those people from Beita Camp. It seems they have unique methods in terms of luring zombies!"

Any group that can survive in the apocalypse must have a specialty. Based on the situation Zhang Su had grasped, Beita Camp was very powerful in luring zombies, making bombs, and hiding their tracks!

"Damn, Brother Su, these bastards are too much. Doing this is trying to drive us to extinction!"

After hearing Zhang Su's analysis, Liu Tianji only felt his scalp tingle.

Fortunately, the wall on the mountain road was basically finished, and Yu Wen had led people to build a batch of excellent spiked caltrops; otherwise, they would have had to pay at least ten times the ammunition to defeat the horde today, and there might have been casualties!

It wasn't that they couldn't afford the ammunition, but this feeling of being framed was quite stifling!

"First they set bombs on the only road we use to enter and exit to weaken our combat power, then they lured zombies to attack our camp. This series of actions was designed long ago. But since they could do it to this extent, they definitely haven't gone far; they must be hiding in some village nearby!"

Zhang Su was not as angry as he was after being bombed. The enemy's viciousness and insidiousness were beyond imagination; only by calming down could he deal with them. Manic behavior would only lead to a quagmire!

(End of chapter)