Chapter 224: Human Body Outline Master?

"Quick, get on the three cars behind!"

When Wang Longzhong's group ran to within thirty meters of the Mercedes RV, Zhang Su pointed to the rear and shouted. Although the other party no longer had the breath to answer, they definitely understood.

At the same time, Zhang Su pulled the safety pin of the grenade and threw it forward with all his might.

The grenade, slightly larger than a goose egg, turned into a small black dot in the firelight. A beautiful arc crossed the night sky. When it reached its highest point, Wang Longzhong's group had already approached to within ten meters.

Under Zhang Su's powerful throw, the grenade flew a full eighty meters (the soldier's record is one hundred and two meters). The timing was calculated perfectly, landing exactly at the head of the long dragon of fire!

"Everyone, fire!"

When the flames engulfed the grenade, Zhang Su gave the order.

Boom!

Steel balls shot out. The power might not be as good as the detonators, and the lethality was limited, but it still played a very good containment role, significantly slowing down the zombies' forward speed!

Tat-tat-tat-tat, tat-tat-tat-tat...

With the dense gunfire, sparks flew from the horde. Occasionally, a zombie would collapse to the ground, but others would fill in from behind. The fire dragon's advance didn't stop completely; it was still stubbornly pushing toward the RV. If this heroism and persistence were placed in human warfare, it would be simply moving and tragic!

Tat-tat, tat-tat.

Zhang Su stood next to the driver's seat, having emptied a magazine. Just as he was about to change the magazine, the sound of the Faulkner Mobil loudspeaker reached his ears.

Beep-beep!

"Cease fire!"

Zhang Su shouted, quickly jumped onto the car, stepped on the gas, and turned the steering wheel at the same time, chasing the taillights of the van toward the north!

In the streaming rearview mirror, Zhang Su could clearly see the flaming zombies, after a simple regrouping, chasing the vehicles again with perseverance. However, their speed was completely incomparable to an internal combustion engine, and they were soon left further and further behind until they disappeared from the screen!

"Damn it, what's wrong with that group of zombies?"

Zhao Dezhu had been poking his head out, watching the zombies behind until he couldn't see them anymore, then closed the window, which was letting in a cold breeze. He sniffed his nose and said loudly, "Why do I feel like that group of zombies was jumping around? Were they burned by the fire?"

The heavy and tense atmosphere was eased by Zhao Dezhu's "burned by the fire."

"Brother Dazhu, you really are a talent. Zombies aren't afraid of pain, okay!"

Qi Xiaoshuai leaned against the refrigerator, thinking about the shooting just now, his heart surging and unable to calm down for a long time.

Zhang Su said: "I also feel like the zombies are not right. By logic, even if we can't achieve precise headshots like Old Tan and Teacher Yu, hitting other parts of the body should cause damage, and it's possible to lose mobility. But just now..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Su hesitated slightly, because he could see details that others couldn't. If he spoke too specifically, he would definitely be suspected, so he reorganized his language and said.

"Just now, not many zombies fell. It's impossible that we were all outlining the human body, right?"

"That's right, that's right. I also feel like not many zombies were killed. Were you all saving bullets?"

"Fart, I emptied a magazine."

"Me too, I even fired ten extra bullets!"

Everyone added it up. In the short minute or so just now, a total of over four hundred bullets were consumed.

According to the previous killing ratio, so many bullets should have been able to kill over a hundred, because everyone was aiming for point-shooting, not mindless spraying.

But what was the situation just now? Without counting carefully, one could feel the obvious difference from the falling flames. The number of fallen flaming zombies was indeed close to a hundred, but there were clearly some struggling and crawling on the ground, not dead at all. The number of dead was probably only forty or fifty!

The ratio of bullet consumption to zombie deaths reached a staggering ten to one. This ratio was too exaggerated.

"Wait a while and ask Wang Longzhong and the others what's going on."

Zhang Su's face was heavy. He had already caught up to the cars in front, and he could even hear the dense and rapid panting inside the cars ahead.

At high speed, the four cars soon returned to Tianmayu.

"Brother Zhang, United Village is finished, finished, it's all my fault for improper command!"

When the vehicles stopped steadily, Wang Longzhong got off the car, his body went soft, and he collapsed to the ground, weeping bitterly.

During the ten-minute journey back, he had gradually calmed down, feeling that under his command, the villagers had suffered heavy casualties and were almost wiped out. He was incredibly guilty and his heart was dead.

Every leader shoulders the mission of leading companions to survive. A leader is the spiritual sustenance and hope of a group. Wang Longzhong felt from the bottom of his heart that he had failed everyone who trusted him.

The villagers of United Village who got off the car one by one all had tear stains on their faces. Wang Xingui comforted Wang Longzhong on the side, his expression sorrowful.

The people of Tianmayu were also infected and sighed. As an important subordinate force, United Village had suffered heavy losses, and no one felt good about it.

Zhang Su could see that Wang Longzhong wasn't acting. He had just taken over the banner of the village leader and was rolling up his sleeves to do a big job, but it ended up like this. He felt that if someone gave him a knife, he could commit suicide on the spot to apologize.

"Don't cry here first. I want to know what's going on with those zombies. Old Wang, explain it clearly to me!" Zhang Su pulled Wang Longzhong up and then said to the crowd: "Find them a place to sleep, everything should be done step by step, let's not be chaotic!"

After saying that, he took Wang Longzhong and walked toward the rooms of Fu Weijun and Duan Wu.

Previously, there were no relevant scientific researchers in the camp, so everyone could only guess. Now that there were experts specifically studying zombies, they naturally had to participate in the discussion.

The same information, to a layman, is just a spectacle, but an expert can find the clues in it.

It was very lively outside, and Fu Weijun and Duan Wu naturally knew something had happened. Before the two could figure out a clue, they heard a knock on the door.

"Brother Zhang, what is this? Quick, quick, come in first and then talk!"

Duan Wu opened the door and saw Zhang Su outside with a serious face, followed by a middle-aged man who was crying his eyes out. He was confused.

Zhang Su hadn't notified Duan Wu and Fu Weijun when he took people to rescue United Village. After all, the two had just joined the camp and hadn't even been issued guns, so they couldn't participate in such an operation.

"United Village was attacked by a zombie horde, but it's a bit different from the previous zombies. He is the village chief of United Village, come to tell us about the situation tonight."

Zhang Su and Wang Longzhong walked into the room.

"Mr. Zhang, and this uncle, my legs are a bit inconvenient, so I won't get up. Please sit down, both of you."

Fu Weijun leaned on the head of the bed, saw the two enter, put down the book in his hand, and sat up straight.

The two sat down. Zhang Su took out a cigarette, thought about it, walked to the window to light it, threw one to Duan Wu, and then said: "Old Wang, speak, what the hell happened to you tonight? From the distress call to fleeing for your lives, was it a quarter of an hour? What the hell are you playing at!"

This was what made Zhang Su the most depressed. He thought his side had moved fast enough. In his heart, he thought United Village was fighting hard in the village, and they would directly outflank from the rear, one shot per kid, successfully rescuing the United Village crowd, and by the way, pull a few trucks of supplies back to Tianmayu.

The result was far beyond expectations. Before they even arrived at the place, the villagers had already collapsed and fled in a panic. Absurd!

"Sigh..." Wang Longzhong sighed tremblingly, adjusted his mood, and said: "Not long after I finished dinner tonight, I was in the room with Xingui studying the migration, when I heard someone shouting that zombies were coming. Once I understood the situation..."

"The zombies in the quarry crawled out. There were over two thousand zombies piled up in there. Even if half of them came out, it would be too much to handle. I sounded the highest alarm at that time."

"I thought there was still time to prepare, but before the people were gathered and deployed, the zombies had already arrived in the village! It seemed like they were specifically aiming for us. Yes, it's also possible that the sentries in the quarry didn't pay attention and made a noise, attracting the horde's attention."

"Then we started a conventional battle with the zombies. This fight caused trouble. Damn it, before, zombies would only stupidly step forward when blocked by roadblocks, pushing the roadblocks. But the zombies before could jump. It's not to say they jumped very high, just ten centimeters or so."

Wang Longzhong gestured, his face filled with horror: "The zombies directly flipped over the roadblocks, climbed up, and continued to charge. The roadblocks were basically ineffective. Fortunately, there was a tripwire at the waist position to slightly contain them..."

"This is... slight jumping ability?" Fu Weijun saw Wang Longzhong pause briefly and took over: "It seems that the change brought by that light snow yesterday to the zombies. Mr. Zhang, my theory should be correct. Their programs have been upgraded, and their abilities have been slightly strengthened."

From only knowing how to walk stupidly to knowing how to jump a little bit, it seems like a small progress, but in fact, the change is huge. Many previous methods of fighting zombies need to be synchronized and upgraded, otherwise, they will make the same mistake as United Village!

Today's text is typed and modified on a mobile phone. I don't know if there are many typos...

Tomorrow I have to wait until the afternoon or after dinner to return. The time is too rushed. I'll take a day off. Happy holidays to all fellow readers.

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