Chapter 664: Strange people, weird corpses!

Cock-a-doodle-doo, awoo-awoo!

The desolate village was extremely lively. After hearing the rooster's crow, the zombies fell silent for a brief moment, then erupted into manic roars. At the same time, the cacophony became loud and dense—the zombies were rioting!

"Holy shit."

Through the screen, everyone could see the bloodthirsty nature of the zombies. Some were actually jumping up, trying to grab the drone—completely different from the zombies of the past.

"Doesn't this mean they're not far from learning to use tools..."

"Alright, enough of that!"

Over the past few months, the survivors had witnessed the zombies' changes with their own eyes. In this race to become stronger, humans had always been lagging behind in terms of their physical bodies...

Fortunately, there was still technology to rely on. The drone proved to be under no pressure, flying slowly in the opposite direction. The zombies on the ground hopped and jumped, following it one after another, looking somewhat comical.

Zombies without autonomous consciousness were ultimately destined to be toyed with.

"Nice work!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Duan Wu wanted to pat Wu Lue on the shoulder to encourage him, but considering he was busy controlling the drone, the hand about to land on his shoulder hung in mid-air. Yet, the other man still let out a sound of surprise.

"Huh?"

While keeping the drone hovering, Wu Lue said, "Something seems wrong... Look, do you see it? Is there someone hiding next to that collapsed courtyard wall?"

"Someone?"

"Could there be a person? There really is, look, they've got a flashlight on their head!"

"Holy shit!"

Upon hearing this, everyone crowded around the screen. Just as they caught sight of a guy with a glowing head, Wu Lue cursed, and the image on the screen suddenly cut away rapidly.

"That son of a bitch used a rock to smash my drone!"

Wu Lue's voice was sharp, even cracking. The drone was his heart and soul, his precious baby—ten thousand times more valuable than those soft-looking teachers! "Fifty meters high, and he can hit it?"

Park Canyong saw the drone's flight altitude displayed on the screen: fifty-two meters. He was astonished.

Fifty-two meters was as high as the seventeenth or eighteenth floor of a regular residential building. Never mind accuracy; most people would struggle just to throw something that high.

"Must have great strength, not surprising!" The PE teacher, Duan Wu, was unfazed by this and added, "Pull it to a safe distance and see what he's trying to do!"

The cock-a-doodle-doo sounds gradually rose, reaching an altitude of one hundred meters. The camera adjusted its focus, and a figure appeared on the screen. Because the image became blurry after zooming in, it wasn't very clear, but the glare from the flashlight was also reduced.

In the frame, a person was climbing over a dilapidated wall, their movements agile and nimble. They wore lighting equipment on their head and carried a long-handled weapon that looked like a steel spear. They didn't seem fat, but they were wearing so many layers that they looked round and puffy.

"There really is someone... Where the hell did this guy pop out from!"

"Could it be a survivor from this village..."

"Holy shit, holy shit, look at what he's doing!"

Park Canyong pointed at the screen, spewing a string of profanities.

No sooner said than done, the person charged at a small group of zombies with the long-handled weapon and actually started attacking them! Because the drone was hovering in the air playing ringtones, the zombie horde had been gathering toward the center. More than a hundred zombies were squeezed into a tight mass. In such chaotic circumstances, while the outer zombies were being attacked, the ones inside didn't react at all.

"Wait! It seems like... he's not trying to kill the zombies. Is he losing his mind?"

Someone immediately noticed the problem.

The mysterious person had rushed to the edge of the horde. He had a great opportunity to slaughter the outer zombies without being discovered. Even if he didn't kill many, as long as he was fast enough, taking out seven or eight wouldn't be a problem!

But he only used the steel spear in his hand to trip the zombies, sweeping at their lower legs. One, two, five, ten...

In no time at all, a small patch of them had fallen!

"This guy's movements are sharp, his kung fu is seasoned! But why is he wasting energy tripping the zombies..."

Fan Donglu, the combat specialist of the Dragon Head Camp, raised the question. He thought the man was tripping them for more precise kills, but after tripping them, he just ignored them! "I don't get it... Oh no, the zombies have spotted him!"

The zombie horde finally sensed the presence of fresh meat nearby, so they abandoned the drone in the air. The zombies on the side attacked by the mysterious person turned their heads one after another, launching an assault on the fresh meat that had delivered itself to their doorstep.

At this moment, the zombies the mysterious person had tripped earlier acted as a buffer. Only a very few zombies could cross the obstacles in time. The mysterious person retreated while continuing to attack the zombies' lower bodies with the long-handled weapon.

He wasn't killing the zombies, but he was constantly controlling them...

Looking at the ground from the drone's camera, a group of zombies kept climbing up, chasing, and falling again, wave after wave, persistent and unyielding. It was indescribably grotesque.

"This guy... is really fucking interesting!"

"You really have to say, his method is quite clever. These zombies run so fast, but the way he's doing it, one person can easily lure away over a hundred zombies. In the absence of drones or vehicles, that's quite impressive!" "Vehicles wouldn't work anyway. Look at the road conditions now; cars can't move at all. But... is he planning to take this group of zombies to celebrate the New Year?"

The nine people in the courtyard were seeing this way of dealing with zombies for the first time and had to exclaim that they had learned something! But they couldn't just keep dragging the horde along forever, could they? Walk until the end of time and exhaust the zombies' energy?

If it came to physical stamina, ten people working in shifts couldn't keep up with the zombies. The ox-horse generator at Tianma Yu had already proven that.

"Should we take the initiative? There are only a hundred or so zombies, no big guys. That guy is attracting them in front, we can kill them from behind. There's no danger!"

Zhao Dezhu suggested. If Zhang Su were present, he definitely wouldn't have opened his mouth...

"I feel like he wants to trap the horde. Let's not disturb them for now. Little Wu, can you make the phone quiet down? Follow them and see!"

Duan Wu pointed at the receding horde and the mysterious person.

Wu Lue scratched his head and said somewhat dryly, "This... this can't be controlled remotely!"

It wasn't the drone making the sound, but the phone inside the net bag.

"Can't you drop a payload? Just throw it away!"

Duan Wu said. He remembered that when they first installed the "Grape," they used a drone.

Wu Lue gave a sheepish laugh: "The, the net bag was added by me. It's very, very stable... I can't detach it. But I can pull it higher; the sound basically won't affect the horde."

As he spoke, Wu Lue pulled the drone higher again. The sound was indeed minimal, but the image became increasingly blurry. Fortunately, seeing a general idea was enough.

"This is... this should be the village auditorium. It seems I'm right; he wants to trap the zombies!"

Zhou Haiquan understood the functions of rural buildings well and could distinguish it even from the blurry image.

"That broken building doesn't look too good. Will it work?"

Zhao Dezhu squinted. Although the image was a bit fuzzy, he could still see that the roof of the auditorium had been ripped off at one corner; the shockwave had caused it significant damage.

"If he can really trap them, that's not bad. We're only staying here for one night anyway. Better to avoid extra trouble. I hope he succeeds."

Duan Wu nodded slightly. On the screen, the auditorium gate looked like the mouth of a demon, constantly swallowing the zombies queuing to enter.

"Hmm? The alarm seems to have stopped..."

Lu Yubo tilted his head to listen and found that the cock-a-doodle-doo sound was gone.

"It only rings for ten minutes; time's up." Wu Lue breathed a sigh of relief and began to control the drone to descend.

As the drone descended, the image gradually became clear. More than half of the hundred-plus zombies had already squeezed into the auditorium. Just at this moment, the mysterious person jumped out from a window of the auditorium.

The zombies at the main entrance clearly didn't know the mysterious person had already escaped and were still rushing into the auditorium! "Just using that piece of junk to block the door? What a joke!"

On the screen, the mysterious person walked along the wall, circled to the main entrance of the auditorium, pushed some miscellaneous debris to the door, and then turned and ran.

"Hey, is he... coming to find us?"

"Seems like it... Lue-zi, how much longer can the drone last?"

"Just hovering like this? An hour is no problem. Monitoring the horde?"

"Exactly. You keep an eye on it, I'll see what that guy is up to! Everyone, stay alert."

Duan Wu gave the others a look.

The nine people were fully armed, so naturally, they weren't afraid of one person, waiting for the other party with composure.

Meanwhile, on the mountain in Yunlong Valley, a strange zombie crawled out of a cave. Its state was somewhat poor, appearing listless, as if it hadn't received sunlight or energy replenishment for a very, very long time, looking on the verge of collapse.

Awoo, awoo...

The long-headed zombie crawled out of the cave, prostrated itself on the ground, and let out a low howl.

The howls of ordinary zombies sounded no different, devoid of emotion. People just combined the zombies' encounters to assign some imagined feelings. For example, when they yelled upon discovering humans, they felt they were excited; when they yelled after being attacked, it was like expressing anger.

But this zombie's howl was different—it clearly carried a sense of pain! It struggled to stand up. A slender figure stood in front of the cave, over two people tall—nearly four meters, higher than a standard floor! Unlike the big guys, this tall zombie didn't look burly at all; instead, it appeared very slender...

It took heavy steps to the edge of the cliff, its long arms hanging down naturally, past its knees. Its vertically elongated eyes stared intently in the direction of the desolate village.

(End of chapter)