T/N: All you lucky duckies must’ve won the lottery. The finale and extra are longer than usual, so expect 5-6 releases (including this one) before He Zizhong and Fang Hao’s journey ends.
When people before the end of the world read history books and studied history, they always heard that it was normal for a war in ancient times to last three or five years. But since entering the modern society, whenever wars between countries erupted, most battles were often over in a short period of time. The remainder of the time was mostly stalemates between countries.
But now, in the face of these dauntless zombies that don’t feel pain and exhaustion, battle is once again infinitely prolonged.
It has been nearly two years. Yes, they’ve been defending hard for nearly two years!
If it hadn’t been for people arranged into hundreds of teams by the current commander, rotating for shifts no one would be able to get adequate rest. If not for the large number of plant abilities in the base that could provide food… If not for the space abilities who have stimulated telekinesis in the base, and can cooperate with the physique abilities to compete with zombies for crystal nuclei… How could they persist until now? How can they not despair?
It’s been nearly two years… Now it’s about to enter the rainy season again, and it won’t be long before the anniversary of the third year. The day that made everyone despair, the day when everyone had to begin fighting hard to survive.
“The number of zombies in the periphery has been reduced to about 400,000.” Yan Xin tapped the corner of the table with his pen, and looked at Jiang Feng, who was slumped in a corner with a frowning expression. Even though his ability has been upgraded to level 4, whenever he activates it, it will give him a headache and feeling of wanting to die…
“With a little more effort, they can be completely wiped out. God dammit, I’ve been suffocated to death for these two years!” Guo Bing slammed his fist hard. His ability also rose to level 4 thanks to the He Zizhong, Fang Hao pair, and his wife, Le Tian.
After more than half a year into the defense, He Zizhong and Fang Hao rose to level 5. The two of them even dared to jump directly into the sea of zombies and rush to level 4 zombies! Those fourth-level zombies that were slashed by them and caught in the space tunnel that Le Tian caught up with, and the corresponding crystal nuclei could be grabbed before any zombies grabbed them! This greatly improved the endurance and resources of everyone in the base.
Today, the color of He Zizhong and Fang Hao’s abilities are only revealed when they activate their abilities; usually they look no different from ordinary people. It’s just that the light in their eyes when they activate their abilities is far more terrifying than any fourth-level ability user.
This is because these two people do not have attack-type abilities. If they had a fire ability and activated it after reaching level 6… it can really be called flaming eyes.
There are still many people in the base who can’t rise above level 3, and most of the people with low combat effectiveness and too little courage stop there. However, the original team members brought by Yan Xin have now all reached level 4.
“When there are about 100,000 zombies left outside, we can open the city gates and let those ability users out to breathe.” Yan Xin said lightly, as if he was talking about letting everyone go out to shop, not to desperately kill zombies. Of the remaining zombies, the highest are all hovering at level 4. This is because aside from the base grabbing crystal cores early on, zombies were unable to grab those in the heads of other zombies. Later, this discovery was quickly found out and the speed of grabbing things accelerated even further.
Zombies can’t eat people and can’t grab zombie crystal cores, yet they continue to consume them. How could they level up and rise above the people in the base?
“Okay!!” There was a burst of cheers in the conference room. After two years of hard work, they were about to grow fur!
“Hualala-” On the day when it was confirmed that the number of zombies outside was reduced to about 400,000 or 500,000, the rainy season started once more. After three years of survival in this world, everyone has learned the end of the world is divided into two seasons – the rainy season. and dry season.
During the rainy season, the rain is continuous, and there is hardly a day without rain. Even if the rain stops, it will only stop for an hour, and then it will continue to rain non-stop.
During the dry season, there is no drop of water in the sky, and even the water-type abilities can only produce water for everyone to use, but cannot use water abilities as a means of attack.
Therefore, people need to store water in the rainy season and use it for irrigation in the dry season.
Just when people were thinking that they could open the city gate and kill the damn zombies outside, Jiang Feng suddenly hugged his head. “Ah——!!”
“What’s wrong?!” Everyone in the conference room was startled, and quickly looked at Jiang Feng.
To be honest, since the day everyone met Jiang Feng, he has had headaches all day long, and the higher his ability, the more severe the pain. A few people with bad mouths even secretly discussed behind their backs, “This guy will be hurt to death by his own headache someday!”
Today’s screams really have the feeling of “deathly pain”, and made everyone’s heart hurt. There were some inexplicable emotions for a while – was he finally going to be hurt himself to death? What should they say at his funeral?
“Incoming!!” Jiang Feng raised his head in horror.
Yan Xin frowned and stepped forward, grabbing his trembling arm: “What’s coming?”
“That…that thing…” Jiang Feng closed his eyes abruptly, then opened them again, his eyes full of despair. “SH… The thing under the prison base is here! And, it’s even more… terrifying!”
Everyone was stunned for a while. Some uninformed people stared at Jiang Feng in surprise, but Yan Xin’s pupils shrank – the thing he talked about before!
A mighty tide of zombies appeared in the distance. At first, the people who were stationed on the city wall and attacked the zombies below the city didn’t notice it, but when one of them raised his head to wipe his sweat, he thought he was hallucinating.
“That… what is that?”
“Huh? What is it?”
“So dense… No way!! Why are there still so many zombies?!!”
The zombies here were almost wiped out. Why is there another batch now?!
One by one, one by one, densely packed, with no end in sight.
The zombies slowly advancing northward from the south of the base, lined up neatly like a fortified army.
The zombies who were persistently sieging the base suddenly collectively stopped. All the zombies, including the fourth-level zombies, stood still, turned around, and walked towards the zombie army!
The zombies blocking the door left, but at this time, none of the people on the city wall were happy.
“It, it blocked the feeling of all zombies until just now.” Jiang Feng, who was sitting in the car following Yan Xin and the others, rushed to the walls at this time, snot and tears streaming down his face. His entire body was trembling so much that those sitting beside him almost thought there was an earthquake.
The car stopped at the stairs on the south wall, and Yan Xin walked up to the wall with a long face.
He Zizhong and Fang Hao, together with Yin Dong, who was in charge of commanding on the other side of the wall, came to this wall and stared into the distance.
“How’s the situation?”
Hearing Yan Xin’s voice, Yin Dong didn’t turn his head. He held the binoculars in his hand to observe the situation in the distance. “The zombies below gave up attacking the city at the same time and converged with those zombies.”
Yan Xin’s brows furrowed even tighter.
“How many of these zombies are there?” He Zizhong couldn’t estimate the distance and the zombie team was too large.
“They came from the prison base. Now it seems that it was accepting the younger brothers along the way.” Yan Xin’s words stunned everyone in the vicinity. They turned to look into the approaching sea of zombies with disbelief. Little brothers?! From SH city?!
How many bases were encountered northwards from SH city? How many zombies were gathered outside these bases when the zombie tide broke out? Except for those zombies that were killed trying to break into those various cities and bases, now, the zombies outside the base are the resulting harvest of that little zombie.
Zombies have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. They are different from He Zizhong and them who went on the mission back then. When passing by certain places, humans will use the surrounding buildings and signs of another team hunting crystal cores as a sign of a base nearby. But zombies only need to lift their heads and smell the air to determine the direction of human flesh, and the approximate level and quantity of those delicacies.
They went all the way north, breaking through bases one after another, gathering group after group of new members, and grew tremendously. The large base exuding an incomparably fragrant smell not far in front of them will be their next hunting ground.
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