Number of words: 5146 Update Time: 2013-01-06 21: 55: 21
When Zero saw it, he had an indescribably complicated feeling.
It was the place where the two of them had met that day at the University of Lampitz, where their fates began to intersect. Not wanting to be separated by nearly half a year, Zero once again set foot in the academy city. It was as if fate had inadvertently changed its course and brought Zero back to this place.
Arriving at the University City was not an accident, but the result of a reverse derivation after observing the route of the walking dead. From here, the living corpses set out, crossing the complicated and broken city road, and finally arriving at Remt, becoming part of the huge sea of corpses.
This was the nest of the living corpses, but the number of them heading towards Remus was far from being a steady stream. In fact, when they arrived at the University City in the evening, there were almost no more zombies to be seen.
They were on the rooftop of an abandoned factory building near the University City. From this direction, there were still living corpses in the University City, but they had stopped sending reinforcements to Remt. However, what was strange was that where did these living corpses from the Higher Education Mega Centre come from?
At the same time, there was a series of questions.
Why did the living corpses gather? The purpose of attacking Remus? And, there was also the most important question. Where are the intelligent beings behind this series of events?
Agatha opened her eyes.
The golden-haired beauty had been standing at the edge of the rooftop with her eyes closed ever since. She was facing the direction of the University City as she activated one of the abilities, "Life Perception". This ability was similar to Anthony"s spiritual scan, but not all of it. Mental scanning used one"s spiritual force to scan an area, and then model the area in one"s mind.
Although the Life Perception was also used to scan the entire area with spiritual force, the only difference was that this ability was mainly used to determine the number of lives in the area as well as their location.
When Agatha opened her eyes, a few glances fell on her. Agatha found an indifferent gaze and saw zero.
"How is it?"
"Not very optimistic." Agatha reached out her hand and gently tucked the strands of hair behind her ear. "There are about two thousand life reactions in the University City, but their level is extremely ordinary. They don"t show the kind of reaction an intelligent life should have."
"That"s normal." "If it"s an intelligent life form, you should know how dangerous it is to be discovered. So if they really exist in this school, they must be hiding themselves. "
"If that"s the case, then we"ll have to use the stupidest method." Feng stretched his back and yawned.
Zero nodded and looked at the blonde woman, "Captain Agatha, it looks like we need to split up for now. We will search from east to west and from east to west. If we find intelligent life forms, we will be able to contact them through the communicator. Remember, don"t provoke it. "
"I see." Agatha was just saying this when an explosion came from a street to the northeast behind them.
Within the smoke from the explosion, there were electric snakes coiling around. From afar, he could see more than a hundred zombies near the explosion site, including a butcher and two bomb corpses. They were like bees that had seen Honey, quickly gathering towards the explosion site.
"It looks like our Captain Beryl has a lot of work to do." Agatha smiled softly, her smile so clear that Johnny and Jonah were both stunned.
"Ignore him. I actually hope to complete the mission in advance before he arrives." Zero signaled them to leave, and Feng and the others began to move. Zero looked at Agatha and said lightly: "Take care."
After Zero left, only Agatha"s team remained on the rooftop. The simple but sincere words still lingered in her ears. Agatha smiled, and her attention returned to the present. This time, we must let everyone know that we are not some idle scout. "
Agatha"s determination was evident from the other side of her slender fist.
By the time Agatha left the roof, the sky had already begun to darken.
It was dark.
Nightfall, but the world is not pure black. The faint red light of the sky shone through the radiating clouds on the wild ground, replacing the moonlight of the old era. The wilderness was not as quiet as it usually was. Some of the smaller mutated beasts were gradually leaving the university city and the city where Remus was. This place had already become a battlefield for the living and the dead. Regardless of which side, their auras would make the mutated beasts living in the ruins feel uneasy or even fearful.
Under the urging of their instincts, they chose to leave. Especially in the vicinity of Remt, the smell of living corpses and the smell of gunpowder chased away all the mutated beasts nearby, causing the species here to change from a rich variety of species to a single species.
The battlefield in front of Remus was not as lively as it was during the day.
After only one afternoon of fighting, the battlefield was littered with the corpses of five thousand soldiers and the wreckage of a thousand soldiers.
This was an intense offensive and defensive battle. Both sides had experienced a number of reversal situations, but in the end, the living corpses were temporarily pushed back, allowing Remult to obtain the initial victory.
Now, the Ramter base was filled with the sounds of jubilant singing, but it was the Ramters who were celebrating their first victory in days.
However, Avenot seemed to be deep in thought as he sat in the command car. On the tactical board in front of the commander, there was a video playing. The content of the video was the entire fight in the afternoon. It was shot by dozens of surveillance cameras, and was cut professionally so that Avenot could watch the fight from a panoramic perspective.
In the two hours before this battle, humanity had the absolute advantage. The might of the missile armoured vehicles and artillery tanks covered almost the entire battlefield, causing countless living corpses to constantly die. But with the lack of ammunition, this advantage was quietly lost. Just as the two powerful tanks stopped their bombardment, a vanguard formed from dozens of butchers took their first powerful charge at the human defense line!
The onslaught of butchers was very moving. They were like biological tanks that, in the absence of heavy firepower, had been fired at full blast across the human blockade, destroying the defenses that had just been set up by the soldiers with their crude but crude weapons.
The fortifications built using the liquid gel technology were unable to withstand the huge force of the butcher"s attack. Fortunately, Avenot decided on the spot and sent out all the remaining team members of the Destroyer Hammer from the base. He also had the help of the s.h.i.+eld of Dawn, a unit of light descent, to repel the butchers" attacks. However, in the next wave of attacks, over a hundred bomb corpses were dispatched.
These free moving biological bombs posed a fatal threat to the human soldiers. If not for the limited number of them, the newly built defensive line would have completely disintegrated under the suicidal attack of these new zombies.
For the next two hours, the situation remained tense. The number of living corpses made up for their lack of firepower. There were a few times when the corpse sea almost destroyed the defense line, and the soldiers had used their lives as the price to fill the gap in the defense line, giving the comrades behind them the opportunity to beat back the living corpses.
For two b.l.o.o.d.y hours, soldiers died every minute. The battle situation tested everyone"s mental strength and willpower. Fortunately, the soldiers of Asgard managed to survive this ordeal. Thus, they left behind the corpses of hundreds of soldiers.
By the last hour, the living corpses had become frantic and irritable. They also changed their tactics, throwing live corpses from the air into human positions by the butcher or the Ripper, even though most of them were intercepted in midair. However, there would occasionally be some monsters that would slip through the net. Living corpses were no threat to those with sufficient strength, but they were just common slave warriors. Once they were approached by these fast moving monsters that did not fear death, they would become a huge threat.
In this strange way of fighting, the human position was slightly disordered. And when the living corpses began to build a human wall, the chaos only continued to expand.
Perhaps they felt that this tactic was too inefficient as the living corpses could no longer be thrown at them by the high-level monsters. They built a human wall and charged towards the fortifications like giant waves. In such a situation, even if the living corpses were killed below, the dead on the human wall would fall from the sky and roll into the human position like drops of water on a reef.
Facing such a strange tactic, Avenot had to sacrifice hundreds of soldiers to beat back the zombie. But after this, the zombie stopped attacking. Under the constraints of some final knowledge, all of them, though unwilling, retreated, hiding in the ruins of the distant city, waiting for the order to attack again.
After watching the video for the third time, Avenot closed his eyes. Judging from the actions of the living corpses, Avenot definitely had a person leading the way behind them. The first few rounds of attacks were fine, but the final round of attacks from the human wall was definitely not an attack that a low intelligence monster like a living corpse could instinctively launch.
What made Avenot even more worried was the type of zombies they were, since it was possible to get a bomb in one of the zombie"s body, then would it be possible to evolve a flying zombie that was used for low-level attacks? If the answer was yes, then this sudden evolution of the living corpse was no longer within the scope of nature, but rather something that could be modulated by those who had the ability to advance.
The adjustable form of evolution meant that the living corpses had already moved from the simple mutated creatures into the ranks of biological weapons!
At this thought, Avenot suddenly opened his eyes. The hairs all over his body stood up. He was thinking about what kind of disaster it would be for humans if a living corpse were to become a biochemical kingdom with different divisions of labor and armies.
Now, he could only place his hopes on them. Avenot said in his heart.
Naturally, they referred to the three squads.
A flash of light appeared in the darkness.
At first it was as weak as a firefly. However, in the blink of an eye, the light suddenly expanded and like a bolt of lightning that spanned across the world, it appeared before its eyes.
The next moment, its world fell from different directions.
The living corpse in the tie did not know that its head had been neatly cut in two and hung in different directions.
Zero kicked it away and the Light Tooth danced in his hand. Another light flashed in the darkness, leaving a trail in the air. On the other side of the saber light, the head of a living corpse flew up.
After killing the second zombie, a male zombie dressed as a worker threw himself at Zero, who was holding onto his sword with both of his hands.
With a stuffy groan, the Light Tooth bounced up from his hand and landed on his left palm.
After catching the Light Tooth, he stabbed it into the eye sockets of the living corpse. The light sabre effortlessly broke through the skull. Then, from above the zero palm, it went straight up, and finally came out from the head of the living corpse, bringing with it a pool of dark red corpse blood.
The living corpse immediately died, and the hand holding Zero loosened.
At this moment, the last living corpse came cras.h.i.+ng straight at him from the darkness.
Zero jumped up and the zombie missed its target. He did a somersault in midair and fell down vertically. His legs bent and he knelt on the living corpse"s shoulders. He grabbed the live corpse"s head with his legs and twisted his body. With a "kacha" sound, the vertebrae around the neck of the living corpse turned to zero. A piece of white bone even had blood oozing out of it. With a kick, the lifeless body flew into a dark tunnel.
At this point, the four corpses on the fifth floor of the student dormitory were quietly killed by Zero in the darkness.
He put away his Light Tooth and continued forward.
In this dormitory building, there were already thirty or so corpses of living corpses. They were broken necks, cracked heads, and all manner of deaths, but not a single bullet wound. Although Zero was not a master of close-combat, but with the help of Light Tooth and some other common fighting techniques, as well as the power of his second step, it was still enough to kill these ordinary living corpses.
When Zero stepped onto the roof of the dormitory, in his mind, this building had already been marked with a large cross. This meant that there was no intelligent life in the dorm.
Three hours had pa.s.sed, and there were no stops or stops. There was a battle and a break, but he couldn"t find any traces of intelligent life, which made his eyebrows knit even more. If there wasn"t any intelligent life, then where did the invisible restrictions on the movement of the living corpse come from? If there were no commands, then what was the reason for the living corpses to behave in a regular manner?
Instinct? This possibility had already made Zero throw it out of his mind. The instincts of living corpses that were similar to wild beasts were not enough for them to carry out such complicated actions.
At this moment, a series of sounds came from the tactical communications device. It was the sound of a few people reporting every half an hour that they had been instructed to do by Feng. Like Zero, Feng and the other two didn"t have any gains. Other than searching along the way, they only killed over a hundred living corpses.
Standing on the rooftop, the wind blew through his hair. In the darkness, the golden flame in his right eye burned incessantly. It was just like the determination of zero. It had no intention of giving up.
At this moment, Agatha"s voice appeared on Zero"s communication channel. "Captain Zero, where are you right now?"
Zero replied immediately, "I"m in the dorm area of the school. Captain Agatha, did you discover an intelligent life form?"
"I"m sorry, I found nothing. However, I"ve found some suspicious circ.u.mstances. Maybe you should come over and take a look. "
Then Agatha gave a location. Zero immediately informed the others to head there. The location of the Agatha Team was the school"s library rooftop. On the way to the rooftop, Zero saw some corpses. Just like Zero, Agatha"s team used close-combat techniques to clear the path of corpses in order to not alert the school of their presence.
Among these corpses, there were many corpses that had traces of being killed by sharp weapons. However, there were also a few corpses that had strange wounds. Most of the injuries on these corpses were caused by the blunt force. They did not seem to have been hurt by swords or sabers at all. Seeing these bodies, Zero believed they were the masterpiece of the fighting master, Johnny.
Arriving at the rooftop, the night wind was blowing vigorously. The eight janissaries of the hinting team were on guard, and Agatha"s team, in addition to herself and her two pursuers, also had the lowest level of janissaries, just like Khukchev. A slave soldier"s combat power was limited, but he was able to accomplish some trivial things, and vigilance was one of them.
On the roof, Agatha stood straight under the night sky. She was on the edge of the roof. One more step and Agatha would fall out of the library. The night wind caused her long golden hair to flutter in the air like beautiful arcs. Agatha half turned her face when she heard a sound behind her. The wind ruffled her hair, which obediently covered half of her face, softening it a little.
"Did you find anything?" Captain Agatha. " He was surprised to see Agatha holding an electronic telescope. If someone like Agatha, who had the ability to perceive the domain, had to hold a telescope, then the distance she observed would usually be measured by a kilometer.
Throwing the binoculars to Zero, Agatha pointed to a spot under the ruins of a distant city in the south of the University City. "Look over there."
Suspiciously, Zero picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of Agatha"s finger. The binoculars had already switched to night vision mode. In the red image, Zero could see a deserted street with multiple cracks in the road and a few cars parked messily on the street. Some of the cars were severely damaged, while others had only an empty shelf, looking like a rotten corpse.
In the middle section of a collapsed building, tons of huge stones were dumped on the street, forming a natural barrier. A few street lamps were strewn all over the floor, further complicating the environment that was obstructing their path.
In this complicated environment, a group of living corpses came from that direction. They crossed the streets of the ruins of the city, and if the living corpses did not change their direction, they would eventually reach the University City. In the telescope, Zero saw that the team of living corpses numbered in the hundreds. In addition to most of the normal living corpses, there were five butchers and eight Ripper.
They looked like guards, because in the middle of the group was a strange living corpse.
This living corpse looked like a fatty, but it was actually a fatty with a height of nearly five meters. It was like a moving mountain of flesh, and beneath its short-haired head was its chubby body. When it moved, it shook the fat on the fat man"s body, creating layers of waves. The fat guy had two hands that were disproportionately small, and because of the angle, he could barely see the foot under the fat guy"s body.
Judging from the vibrations in the flesh, the living corpse"s legs didn"t seem to be just two, but had multiple legs like a caterpillar.
It was another new type of corpse that he had seen before! Zero frowned as he thought to himself.