Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 836: Over Forty Thousand Zombies Blocking the Road

Chapter 836: Chapter 836: Over Forty Thousand Zombies Blocking the Road

This road was still the detour they had taken on their way here. Everyone had been ready to return with the joy of a completed mission, but they hadn’t expected so many zombies to emerge halfway.

However, the forty thousand zombies that Mao Qiqi had anticipated were indeed far fewer than the hundred thousand they had encountered in the North Suburb.

"It seems we are all destined for a fight,"

Xing Taian said regretfully.

Sitting drowsy in the vehicle, Su Jin immediately woke up; she had just been calculating the remaining crystal cores in her space and had started feeling sleepy during the process; fortunately, including the crystal cores brought back from City A by Dragon Ruler, there were still about six million left.

If killing more zombies could extract more crystal cores, then kill as many as you can!

The intense afternoon sun was shielded by the large-leaf vines summoned by Su Jin’s wood element ability, and with Mao Qiqi’s warning, they had not yet reached the zombie horde when everyone began setting up defenses.

Lin Cheng and a dozen earth element ability users began building walls of stone, giving the advancing zombie horde the challenge of climbing the half-man-high barriers, providing everyone ample buffer time since, after all, forty thousand zombies attacking at once could be overwhelming for even a thousand people.

The four man-eating flowers had also been summoned, placed on the surface of the first stone wall, and were shaking as they awaited their meal.

As per Lu Hao’s directive, ten such stone walls were constructed, and the chosen battle area was between buildings with high walls on both sides of the street. The zombie horde would have to climb over those ten stone walls to reach them.

The hot air quickly spread the human scent in the air, Mao Qiqi stared intently ahead, saying, "Five minutes."

Five minutes later, zombies began to spill into the street like sand through an hourglass, with the outermost man-eating flowers eagerly starting to devour them the moment they started to climb over the first wall.

Kou Ning was somehow already sitting on top of one of the stone walls in the middle, and his conjured metal wire swiftly intercepted forward, slicing off the heads of zombies in the first wave directly at the neck.

"Is it possible we’ve made too many obstacles?"

Xing Taian couldn’t help but say, after having waited here a few minutes and still no zombies were getting through...

"Not too many, this is just the appetizer; whether we can stop them later is still a question,"

Lu Hao replied calmly.

But just ten minutes later, Kou Ning had already retreated to the front of everyone, not because he, who was fully metalized, was afraid of being scratched, but because there were simply too many impatient zombies, and he did not want to be trampled by those stinking creatures in a zombie den.

Because, by now, the zombies had already filled up the first stone wall. They excitedly reached out their hands to climb forward, and some mutated zombies had begun to jump over the walls, sprinting towards the group along the high walls on either side!

Boom!

Bursts of flame ignited on the stone walls, and another wave of zombies fell, giving those fighting behind a brief respite for breath.

Seeing this, the fire element ability users, without waiting for the zombies to reach the back, began to use long-range attacks, burning large numbers of zombies within the stone walls.

Seeing zombies running or climbing down from the high walls on both sides, with a guard squad member nearly bitten, Su Jin conjured vines in the nick of time to block those zombies, the vines flexibly transforming and promptly piercing through the heads of the zombies.

In the sweltering heat, that guard squad member had broken out in a cold sweat, but he still quickly bowed in the direction of Su Jin’s vehicle before rejoining the fight.

To prevent further harm from zombies suddenly appearing on the high walls, Su Jin decided to create sharp wooden spikes on both high walls. Some zombies that climbed onto the high wall were directly hung by these spikes, then easily dealt with by those below.

"Hey, Xiao Rong Yuan, your special ability is not bad. Want me to teach you a few tricks?"

When Kou Ning was killing zombies, he noticed that Rong Yuan, with his mechanical arm, was so fervent that it piqued his interest. In his view, someone could concentrate on something as mundane as killing zombies.

"No need,"

Rong Yuan ignored him and with a jump, sliced off half of a zombie’s head.

"The zombies aren’t even close yet, and your sweeping movements will exhaust you quickly. Why not practice more ranged and close attacks with your Special Ability?"

Kou Ning still said.

He didn’t know how much training and actual combat Rong Yuan had undergone. Every move he made was stable, precise, and fierce, but in his opinion, he was overexerting himself a bit. If he paid attention to this, he wouldn’t be much behind him in the future.

Rong Yuan blinked for a moment, still looking at Kou Ning and nodded.

Kou Ning, like him, was a Metal Element Special Ability user. His calm and effortless way of killing zombies, and the way he managed to make it look like he was toying with them, was truly enviable. He even continued to chat and joke with the people around him while killing zombies.

Li Haochu had told him to participate in real battles more often, to learn from others’ experiences and lessons. Kou Ning was already Level Seven, so his advice should be worth taking, right?

Thus, Rong Yuan no longer focused solely on the zombie in front of him. Instead, he started paying attention to himself, as his physical strength often couldn’t keep up with his special ability power. Perhaps this was where his current bottleneck lay.

Seeing that Rong Yuan quickly changed his combat style, Kou Ning nodded in approval and continued discussing and killing zombies with Lu Hao nearby.

About forty thousand zombies for a group of over a hundred people was indeed a daunting task. Everyone managed for the first few hours, but as physical and special ability power gradually depleted, some Guard Squad Members already began to lose strength.

"Those who can’t hold on, go rest in the vehicle to recuperate,"

Xing Taian, seeing the situation, quickly assessed it and gave his order. He didn’t want to see anyone go on a suicide mission.

Lin Xiuyuan also seized the opportunity to get onto the armored vehicle, drinking water in big gulps and letting Su Jin help him replenish his Ice-Element Special Abilities. The consumption rate of Ice Element abilities was generally faster than that of other abilities, and he found that in hot weather, Ice Element power depleted much faster than it did in winter.

"It’s killing me, it’s so hot,"

Lin Xiuyuan had already finished the full cup of Spatial Water.

"I’ll summon a few more Man-eating Flowers; more and more people are resting now, and I worry we won’t be able to hold on soon,"

Su Jin said.

In a battle field with such a disparity in numbers, every person who exits the battle adds pressure on the others. Now, the only option was to summon more Man-eating Flowers.

"Yeah, and bring me another cup of peach juice; I need to replenish my sugars,"

After Lin Xiuyuan spoke, Su Jin fetched a cup of fresh-squeezed peach juice from the Space. As Lin Xiuyuan took it, the juice was already chilled to a cool beverage.

"Later, send some to those resting too, and tell them it’s freshly squeezed by us,"

Su Jin said.

In such stifling heat and fatigue, the juice squeezed from peaches in the Space would surely help everyone recover quite a bit.