Word count: 3027Update time: 2012-11-21 14: 28: 59
Panting like wild beasts appeared in the pitch-black alley. About seven to eight living corpses forcefully used their noses to suck in the air. To them, air was something that they could ignore. Their alienated bodies no longer needed oxygen, but the smell that the living corpses liked the most was blood!
Whew, whew, whew.
He stuck out his tongue and walked towards the source of the blood like a dog. In the end, a live male corpse found it.
It was an oval object, stained with blood. The living corpse stretched out its tongue full of thorns and licked it. The tongue that could have licked the concrete off a layer only brought a faint amount of blood when it grazed against the little thing. Although the living corpse found it strange, its companions had already rushed forward to s.n.a.t.c.h the "food" in its hands. The remaining intelligence made the live male corpse make a decision.
He put the thing in his mouth and swallowed hard.
He turned around and was about to leave when he suddenly felt hot and swollen in his stomach.
The living corpse"s stomach suddenly swelled, and a bright yellow light shone from beneath its skin. In the next moment, the living corpse suddenly exploded, accompanied by the explosion of its body, a ball of orange coloured flames and a loud sound resonating throughout the entire second floor of the base.
The flames from the explosion engulfed the living corpses nearby and then rose up in the pa.s.sageway. The light from the flames could be seen clearly for a thousand meters. As the light gradually faded away, more and more living corpses converged towards this direction.
Zero took off his helmet, used his eyes to identify the rising flame a hundred meters away, and then gestured for it to move forward.
It was a simple trap he had set for attracting a small number of living corpses with grenades and bloodstains. He could then wait for the high-energy grenade to explode and ignite more flames to attract more predators on the second floor of the base. Although they were well-equipped, their ammunition was limited and they could not fight with hundreds or thousands of zombies. Moreover, they still had to enter the fifth floor of the base. Who knew how many monsters were waiting for them on the way.
Therefore, it is very necessary to save ammunition.
The second level is the living and medical area. Judging from the scale of the base, the amount of food stored should be enough to allow the base to survive for a longer period of time. Moreover, the medical facilities in the living area can reduce the incidence of diseases. It could be said that if not for the living quarters being occupied by the zombies from the base, this place would be a good place to live, especially when compared to the terrible world outside. It was like heaven.
In order to facilitate management, the living quarters are divided into A, B, and C. The three regions were further divided into six sections. Zone A was a living area, mainly for the staff to rest, and included facilities such as the street park, which was in no way inferior to the flower gardens of the old era. Zone B was a medical area, with no less than 3,000 doctors, nurses, and support personnel stationed at the underground base, providing medical security for all the people in the huge base; and the last was a grain reserve, where large warehouses of all kinds were constructed to provide food for the members of the base during the day.
Naturally, these three areas are not evenly distributed. In fact, area A is equal to area B and area C.
Right now, all four of them were still in the A2 region. They had to pa.s.s through Area A, cross Area B, and finally reach the safe pa.s.sage to the C6 and reach the third level underground. This was not an ordinary mission. First, the distance between the two regions was more than two kilometers. The main road could not be walked, the wide road was filled with living corpses, if one took the main road, it would be like stuffing himself into the mouths of the living corpses. This was one reason, the other reason was that there were too many living corpses. Judging by the size of the base, it was not difficult to accommodate a population of twenty or thirty thousand. With the exception of those who died of accidents, starvation, or illness, as long as only half of the remaining people became living corpses, there were at least ten thousand of these monsters on the second floor.
Thinking about it, with the four of them facing off against an army of nearly ten thousand zombies, they had no chance of winning. When the difference in strength between the two was not obvious, the Sea of Corpses"s tactics could easily kill four people.
As a result, they had no choice but to set up some traps to deceive the living corpses on the road ahead, and then carefully make a detour around them. As a result, their speed was naturally slow. It had been almost four hours since they"d entered the second level of the bas.e.m.e.nt. It wasn"t unreasonable for them to be wandering around Area A.
After finding a small villa with a collapsed top, the four sneaked into the three-story building. After confirming that there were no living corpses, the four took this as their temporary resting place. Ma Pei was in charge of guarding, while the other three people were resting on the spot and taking out compressed food to eat. Every four hours, they would march and take a break. This was to ensure the strength and combat strength of the team members.
During the 15-minute break, the team tried to relax to reduce tension and fatigue.
Zero silently put a tasteless compressed pastry filled with nutrients and calories into his mouth. He chewed the biscuits, letting the saliva in his mouth seep out to help his stomach take in the food better. Although he believed that with his digestive system, even if he swallowed the whole biscuit, the energy would be absorbed without a trace.
It"s just that this makes Zero feel more like a person than a machine, so he likes the way he eats.
After eating the biscuit, Sue looked at him and said, "Honestly, when we entered the second level, where did you go?" "Don"t tell me to go and cheat a child, that would be fine."
Feng looked at Zero with a wronged expression, saying, "I"m not lying, Captain can prove it to me."
Zero, who was dozing off with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and said seriously, "He"s not going to relieve himself."
"I sent Feng to create some trouble for the vanguard team." Zero added.
Sue"s eyes widened as she said, "Didn"t the vanguard team come before us?"
"No, they"re hiding in the bas.e.m.e.nt." He looked at Feng, saying: "When we entered the first level, Feng discovered one of their members."
"It"s Bridget." Feng put away his sloppy expression, and a cold light flashed in his clear eyes: "He should be the one in charge of monitoring us. It"s laughable that he thought he was hiding very well, but I could smell the stench on his body the moment I stepped into the base."
"Are you a human or a dog …" Sue said sarcastically.
Feng was speechless.
Zero coughed dryly. If he did not interrupt, the two of them would be at each other"s throats again: "I can understand the way the vanguard team does things. With Anthony"s shrewdness and intelligence, there"s no way he doesn"t know what the chief instructor"s unrestricted words mean. If I were him, the simplest deduction would be to stand guard at the exit, and then wait for the other teams to take back the quest items. So it"s not surprising that they hide on the ground floor and spy on us. "
"By now, Bridget should be finished. I can lead a Ripper and no less than a hundred living corpses to make trouble for them. " Feng said with a sneer.
Zero said calmly, "It"s alright, as long as we don"t let the vanguard team get into trouble. "According to our previous plans, we will create obstacles and problems for the other two teams as we move forward. We will definitely be the ones to complete the mission."
As soon as his voice fell, Ma pei, who was standing guard outside the window, suddenly stood up and shouted, "Something"s wrong!"
Zero went to the window. After the helmet activated the infrared vision, he saw a hundred or so living corpses moving around the park downstairs, approaching their villa. Zero immediately signaled them to retreat. The four of them did not need to go downstairs. They quietly went around the villa and into the residential area with streets that stretched in all directions.
However, just as they pa.s.sed through two streets, suddenly, dozens of zombies at the front of the group crashed into them from around the corner. Zero immediately ordered the team to retreat. As soon as he turned around, he saw that another wave of zombies was coming from behind him. For a time, all four of them were surrounded by nearly two hundred living corpses.
"What"s this, close the door and release the body?"
Feng still had the mood to sneer, but no one could laugh. Zero"s face was full of seriousness. The surrounding corpses, was it a coincidence that they were still alive? If it was the latter, then it meant that the living corpse in the base already possessed intelligence.
There was nothing more frightening than a mutated creature evolving into an intelligent being. Adepts were, after all, just a small part of the human population. Furthermore, after the catastrophe, humans had to rely on their intelligence to survive under the dangerous environment and mutated beasts" claws.
If other mutated beasts knew how to encircle a wall like the living corpses in this base, then the living s.p.a.ce for humans would be much smaller. The intelligence of mutated organisms evolved further, resulting in the formation of a social structure, which allowed them to learn how to produce division of labor and weapons. Then, the end of mankind would be near.
But now, Zero had no time to think about such a long term plan. What he was trying to avoid finally happened. Since fighting was inevitable, he had to quickly avoid it. Otherwise, if the living corpses from other areas were to rush over, then the few of them would not even have the chance to escape.
Zero stretched out his right hand, opened his palm, and held it tightly. He made a fighting gesture.
At this time, the living corpses that had discovered the four had already rushed over while roaring loudly. Amongst these living corpses, there were a few that had automatic pistols in their hands. Judging from their uniforms, they should have been ordinary guards of the living quarters. However, the guns in their hands told the few of them one thing. Feng"s guess had already become a reality. Amongst the remaining living corpses, there were indeed individuals who knew how to use firearms.
Without hesitation, he pulled out a pair of Browning pistols and fired a few shots in an instant. The muzzle of the gun was fired. As soon as the gunshot rang out, the live corpses with guns in their hands were shot in the forehead and fell to the ground dead.
Just as he finished doing all this, the ordinary living corpses had already pounced on him. The battle would start at the first touch!