Mu Tian was dazed and answered rapidly, "There are one thousand and forty-two people in the base, basing on the data we gathered this morning. It should be one thousand and seventy but a lot of people died during the attack of the zombies last night."
"More than one thousand people." Chu Han smiled faintly as coldness surfaced in his expression. Slowly, he spoke, "A base with a population of more than a thousand people lost 28 with just a hundred zombies attacking! So tell me, of the more than a thousand people in the base that has survived, how many will still be alive after facing thousands of zombies?!"
"Who can tell me?!" Chu Han shouted at the ma.s.s while his violent voice reverberated across the s.p.a.ce, "Say it! How many?!"
No one answered and no one also dared to calculate the numbers. They had no idea regarding the casualty rate. They could not imagine, rather, they could not dare to calculate the numbers. Maybe all of them?
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The roars of zombies successively came along with Chu Han`s shouts, a distinct warning towards the people of the base.
"Did you hear that?" Chu Han`s voice was so gloomy as he looked towards the ma.s.s of people in the base. "There is someone fighting to block the zombies for you guys. Did you think about why there would be zombies in this quiet base? And why their numbers are getting more and more while the frequency of attacks are getting more often?!"
"You guys! Have you thought about it?!"
Panic and shock appeared in the faces of these people. Yes, why really?
"Use your head!" Chu Han shouted and pointed towards the opposite bridge rapidly, "A zombie tide has formed due to the man I have killed just now. Tens of thousands of zombies are coming, yet what are you doing? Cursing other people and complaining!"
Tens of thousands of zombies are coming?
Chu Han`s words shocked everyone as they felt like they were just hit by lightning. Tens of thousands of zombies? But there were only a thousand of them. They brushed off the idea that this base will be overrun when they saw how valiant the people at the frontlines were fighting, but after Chu Han said those words, they immediately went limp and their knees went weak. They could almost already feel the threat of death.
So that was why Chu Han killed Zhou Shuli without the slightest hesitation. He was the one who aroused the zombie tide!
Soon, everyone’s eyes no longer held any sense of blaming him for what he has done, instead; it was replaced by a complicated emotion. Should they feel happy and appreciated? They did not know. All they knew was that the young man before them was not a devil, surprisingly; he was even admirable at times.
"We only number at roughly a thousand people, including two hundred old people and young children who couldn`t fight with zombies. Who has thought of the coming crisis?" Chu Han actually used "We".
Chu Han’s word shocked and at the same time confused everyone. Yes. What should they do? How were they going to survive this crisis?
"You have your country, your kin, your friends, your lover, you have what you care for and that is all that matters; that is your way of thinking." Chu Han`s voice, coupled with his st.u.r.dy rubber boots. .h.i.tting the ground, created a sound that greatly etched itself into the memories of the people there, "But all of these..."
"─are built on the basis of existence!" Chu Han did not stop walking as his loud voice sounded throughout the base. He walked through the ma.s.s slowly with powerful strides, "I asked Cheng Xianguo to a.s.sign you guys to carry something that you deem as rubbish and to work hard even without breakfast. So you thought I was crazy?"
Suddenly, the crowd was stumped by Chu Han`s words.
Chu Han stopped his footstep as mockery flitted across his face, "You thought that my brain has gone haywire? You thought I was r.e.t.a.r.ded? Was I wasting your labor while I am doing nothing? So you are anxious and unhappy, complaining even?"
The people who were not thick skinned lowered their heads for they really thought like that.
"Do you really think I am a fool, to go even as far as to annoy the people in the base?" Chu Han laughed and his smile was tinged with coldness, "I know the tide of zombies is coming but you think I still have the f**cking guts to prank you all?"
"No, no." Someone replied.
"Sorry."
"Sorry. But, but—"
"But what?" Chu Han walked closer and quietly looked towards the crowd as he then said, "You guys don`t know what these things are going to be used for so you started to doubt my sanity and judgement?"
Chu Han harshly asked to shush the crowd. But when he wanted to take a deep breath to continue, suddenly---
Roaring--
Roaring---
Suddenly, deafening roars could be heard from afar, more numerous and was louder than before.
Panic stricken, the crowd subconsciously turned around to look at where the roars came from.
The bridge was no longer empty as countless black dots squirmed along its s.p.a.ces to rush towards the base. They were roaring and shouting excessively. It looked like a dark flood. Tens of thousands of zombies were rus.h.i.+ng towards the base. They looked like a swarm of locusts. They rushed to the bridge with rapid pace with the base as their target.
The tide of zombies was coming!
Tens of thousands of them!
There were too many of them that the people in the base started to ask themselves what would be left of this place when those zombies successfully invaded the base. Only destruction and ruins would be left behind while all of the people here would be bitten to death.
Panic and helplessness rapidly engulfed the base.
Some people hugged their heads and cried while some hugged their friends and tried to feel the last warmth this cruel world could offer while the rest started to curse this unrelentingly cruel world.
Cheng Xianguo`s eyes was now red. According to what he saw, the number of zombies was greater than what Chu Han had expected, probably more than twenty thousand.
Bang--
Suddenly, a loud sound of something heavy hitting the floor reverberated throughout the base. It came from beside Chu Han.
It was an axe made of iron and its blade was deeply embedded into the ground. The cracks its impact created formed a one meter wide spider web.
"They are coming. They have turned us into homeless people by destroying our homes and plaguing our world. They are coming!"
Chu Han’s voice was filled with calmness. Next, he lifted the axe with one hand as he pointed it towards the ma.s.s of zombies coming towards them. The axe glinted with killing intent as Chu Han shouted, "Do you see that? They are our common enemy! The enemy of human beings, and we, the people here, are all allies!"
Yes! Zombies were the reason why they have lost everything.
Anger and hate surged out of the hearts of the people of the base.
Yes, they are allies against their common enemy, the zombies!
"Now you have two options." Chu Han stretched out his left hand and pointed towards the residential district, "Escape into your rooms and shut the door to wait for death! Lay your life to destiny as it labels you a coward!"
Chu Han then continued as he pointed towards his chest and shouted, "Or stay here and choose to believe me! Stand by my side and fight with me to kill these zombies! Stay here and be a warrior!"
"You guys!" Chu Han’s voice was extremely loud, "Make your choice!"