Chapter 272 - 242: The Last Bullet

Chapter 272: Chapter 242: The Last Bullet

But their attacks only landed on the steel armor, which blocked most of the damage.

At this moment, having caught the scent of humans, large numbers of climbing zombies scrambled out from the horde. They advanced rapidly, circling around the fire pits in an attempt to break through the defenses from other directions.

"Fire at will!"

A barrage of concentrated firepower erupted. The soldiers riddled the climbing zombies with bullets, their brains splattering everywhere.

A Port, naturally easy to defend and difficult to assault, became a slaughterhouse under the kill zone Qiao Yunliang had established. The soldiers endlessly reaped the lives of the zombies, not letting them take a single step past the line.

Meanwhile, the ordinary zombies fell directly into the series of fire pits, where they were burned to ash.

At that moment, from within the horde, a distinctly tall and muscular zombie—Cai Hong—grabbed two sturdy climbing zombies and hurled them toward the top of the wall.

WHOOSH!!!

The immense force sent the two climbing zombies flying directly onto the top of the wall.

A soldier who was firing didn’t even have time to turn his muzzle... CRUNCH!

A climbing zombie sank its teeth into the soldier’s uniform, tearing at his combat fatigues. The long-range firefight had instantly devolved into close-quarters combat.

Amidst the violent struggle, the other soldiers didn’t dare to shoot for fear of hitting their teammate. They could only resort to fixing bayonets and stabbing the creature to death.

At this, the large muscle zombies at the front stopped in their tracks. Copying Cai Hong’s move, they began grabbing nearby zombies and heaving them over the walls.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH~

A rain of zombies began to fall from the sky!

Large numbers of climbing zombies were thrown directly over the trenches and onto the first defensive line, tying up the first group of riflemen. In the ensuing struggle, they took down many soldiers.

The top of the wall was no longer safe.

"Damn it! Abandon the outer wall! Prepare to detonate!"

They had more walls further in.

The moment the gunfire ceased, the zombie tide surged forward, an endless, overwhelming flood.

This time, Yu Dong was watching from a high vantage point. Aided by the high-powered searchlights, he could see things more clearly; this was definitely not just a horde of a few hundred thousand.

This was a horde a million strong!!!

’It’s like every last zombie in the city has been lured out!’

The first defensive line outside A Port was quickly overrun. The three flaming anti-zombie trenches were simply filled by the sheer mass of bodies, sending up plumes of thick smoke.

The large muscle zombies charged suicidally onward, ignoring the self-detonating drones, and slammed against the first defensive line with immense force.

The horde swarmed the first defensive line, and the climbing zombies simply scrambled over the mounds of bodies to charge inside.

Just then...

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!

A series of massive explosions erupted. The huge quantities of explosives packed inside the shipping containers of the first defensive line detonated, instantly engulfing the zombies at the front!

Countless zombies were annihilated in an instant!

The air fell silent for a moment.

Yu Dong watched the scene, his heart clenching.

’Cai Hong... Is he dead?’

’Of all the zombies in the horde, Cai Hong is the most terrifying. He’s intelligent.’

Just as the soldiers were peering through the thick smoke to observe the horde’s condition after the blast and flames, a grenade flew out from the chaos and slammed directly into their second defensive line.

BOOM!!!!!

The soldiers on the second defensive line hadn’t even regained their footing when the shipping containers beneath them... all blew up!

The second defensive line, which had also been rigged with explosives, was detonated by the grenade, killing a large number of their own men.

The massive, muscular zombie Cai Hong stood amidst the horde, holding a grenade launcher. He fired indiscriminately into the human defenses, setting off a chain of explosions!

Their own weapons were blowing gaping holes in the very defenses they had constructed!

Zombies feared heavy firepower, but so did the humans.

The drones lost their bearings in the billowing smoke, plunging blindly into the horde below. They created small bursts of fire, but... there were simply too many zombies.

The blasts were enough to kill zombies, just not enough of them.

The horde pushed forward, absorbing hundreds of thousands of casualties to fill the gaps. The steel-armored muscle zombies were even more relentless, continuing to hurl climbing zombies into the defensive perimeter.

The entire defensive line was being rapidly torn apart!

The battle had barely begun, and Qiao Yunliang’s eyes were bloodshot as he watched his men and defenses get torn to shreds.

"FUCK!!!"

Flames, explosions, roars... Standing on the deck, Yu Dong had grown numb to the sounds.

Qiao Yunliang and his soldiers were still fighting desperately. They fell back to the next line of defense to continue their resistance, lighting up the zombie ranks with countless Molotov cocktails...

But Yu Dong could already see the outcome.

’If we don’t have an Intelligent Zombie on our side... we can’t possibly win.’

’This is the monster the ’Flawed Vaccine’ created, a creature that strikes fear into the world.’

’We’re done for.’

The plan Qiao Yunliang had devised was even better than their original one. It would have been more than enough to handle the zombie horde from his ’past life,’ but... this time, there was Cai Hong and the hundred-plus muscle zombies he was leading.

Not only did he know how to attract other zombies, but he also armed them, used them as projectiles, and wielded a grenade launcher!

He understood human weaknesses as well as zombie strengths...

Thanks to a single Intelligent Zombie, Cai Hong, the combat effectiveness of this horde had at least doubled.

The horde led by Cai Hong advanced with unstoppable momentum. The cruise ship was frozen solid in the ice at A Port, completely immobilized.

Several thousand survivors huddled inside the cruise ship, trembling in terror.

With the sea on three sides, the location was easy to defend and difficult to assault, but... once the sea froze over, they lost their only escape route.

"AHHH!!!"

"Zombies are on the ship!"

"There are zombies! Help us, Officer Wang!!!"

Yu Dong looked down and saw them. On the ice... a swarm of bloated zombies were venting gas as they leaped onto the docks of A Port, attacking the soldiers from behind. Some even managed to jump onto the cruise ship.

A large number of climbing zombies were also sprinting across the ice, beginning to scale the cruise ship from every direction.

The horde... was coming from the sea, too!

The battle on the front lines was far from over, and already the zombies from the rear had begun to overrun the cruise ship.