“Commence attack!” Lu Zhuoyan commanded.
“Boom!” A fierce barrage of artillery fire covered an area from 800 to 1000 meters. Zombies were blown to pieces, but the subsequent tide of corpses still charged forward fearlessly.
A few zombies that weren't killed by the blast continued to roar and rush towards the city wall.......
“Da, da, da……”
Heavy machine gun bullets poured out like a rainstorm. These machine gunners were responsible for hunting zombies in the 600 to 800-meter zone.
Under the dense hail of bullets, zombies fell one after another, but more zombies continued to advance relentlessly.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Intense sniper fire echoed through the night sky, precisely targeting zombies within 400 to 600 meters. Zombies that could break through to this layer were mostly advanced zombies with Three Vertical Bars or more!
In the 300 to 400-meter zone, rocket launchers fired simultaneously, creating a blaze that reached the sky. Any advanced zombies that had slipped through were torn to shreds in the explosions. Next came the most crucial part: the 300-meter range from the city wall, the battlefield where Mutants fought advanced zombies, and also the most vital battlefield! Once advanced zombies breached the defense line, the entire base would face a huge threat.
The Mutants held their breath, their entire bodies surging with energy, ready to meet the most intense confrontation.
“Boom——” A dazzling light streaked across the blood-red night sky, and the deafening explosion was so violent that even from a thousand meters away, the intense shockwave made them feel a pang of fear;
The TNT had been detonated! At the moment of the explosion, the soldiers on the city wall felt the ground tremble and dust flew everywhere.
A whole ton of TNT, its explosion instantly covered an area of several hundred meters. Zombies fell in swathes like harvested wheat, and the dense tide of corpses was instantly torn open, creating a huge gap with dismembered limbs flying everywhere.
In the explosion zone, flames shot skyward, even suppressing the surrounding blood-red moonlight.
“It must die, it must die!”
Lu Zhuoyan clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot, roaring internally with all his might.
He personally witnessed the Seven Horizontal Bars Zombie being flung hundreds of meters by the violent explosion, crashing heavily into the tide of corpses, crushing a large number of zombies, and then being submerged by the dense tide of corpses surging from behind.
“Fire at them, hit them hard! Empty all the ammunition!”
Lu Zhuoyan’s roar echoed across the battlefield. Several minutes later, the Seven Horizontal Bars Zombie still hadn't risen. The soldiers' morale soared, and they unleashed full firepower, bullets and shells pouring down like rain;
Lu Zhuoyan even handed over command to his confidant and leaped down from the four to five-meter high city wall, entering the Mutant's defense line;
Dealing with the Seven Horizontal Bars Zombie did not mean the battle was over; more zombies were constantly surging forward.
Among them were also Six Vertical Bar Level zombies. Although they were not as massive as the Seven-Bar Zombie, they stood out in the horde.
Lu Zhuoyan held a long spear, its tip gleaming with a cold light. He stood behind the Mutants, ready for battle. He did not make a move; his target was only the Six Horizontal Bars zombies that broke through the defense line.
He dared not waste a single bit of his stamina now. To kill a Six Horizontal Bars zombie, he would have to go all out. But fortunately, no Six Horizontal Bars zombies had broken through the defense line yet.
On the hillside, Firefly's people nervously observed the battle through binoculars. This was their first time witnessing the brutal scene of a zombie horde attacking a city, and everyone's face was filled with tension and solemnity.
Zuo Feng couldn't help but admire the commander of this war. The battlefield areas were meticulously divided, the firepower points precisely arranged, and each link was interconnected, ensuring maximum lethality.
Furthermore, the Mutant's defense line had no firepower coverage, which also ensured a casualty-free battlefield.
“Feng Ge, look quickly, there’s a Five Vertical Bars zombie!”
The young married woman's exclamation broke the tense silence. Zuo Feng quickly adjusted his binoculars, following the direction she pointed, and his gaze locked onto the Five Vertical Bars zombie.
At the far rear of the tide of corpses, that zombie was covered in thick ice armor. Each step it took froze the ground, and frost spread, leaving nothing alive in its wake.
It advanced slowly, its ice armor shimmering with an eerie blue light under the blood-red moonlight, like an ice demon from hell.
Any zombie that came near the ice-armored zombie was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture, then shattered into countless ice shards.
However, it was not levitating; it was just an ordinary Mutant zombie, not a Variant. This was also the first time Zuo Feng had seen a Mutant zombie. The difference from a Variant was not significant; the only difference was that it wasn't levitating.
Even so, Zuo Feng speculated that its combat power was definitely not inferior to a Six Horizontal Bars zombie.
Unfortunately, Sunshine Base had very few records of Mutant zombies and levitating Mutant zombies, so Zuo Feng could not accurately judge the strength of this zombie.
“Has anyone spotted a Variant?”
Zuo Feng's gaze swept around, and the women all shook their heads.
They had been observing the battle for a long time and had searched extensively, but so far, they had not found any trace of a Variant.
Zuo Feng gripped his binoculars tightly, his brow furrowed. Logically, this shouldn't be the case. In a zombie horde of tens of thousands, Variants should exist. Yet, not a single Variant had been found.
“Could it be that the zombie tide doesn't affect Variant zombies?”
Zuo Feng wondered, his gaze refocusing on the battlefield.
By this time, a small number of zombies had already breached the 300-meter defense line and entered the Mutant's battlefield.
Two Four Horizontal Bars zombies and one Five Horizontal Bars zombie appeared. Instantly, three Mutant teams went to meet them, and various abilities bloomed at once. Flames, frost, and lightning intertwined into a net of death, trapping the zombies firmly.
The Mutants cooperated seamlessly, their attacks precise, each strike hitting a vital point. The zombies' roars echoed in the night sky, and they soon fell to the ground, lifeless. The teams that dared to confront the zombies after seeing their strength naturally had the confidence to quickly eliminate them.
Zuo Feng, observing the battle through his binoculars, was not surprised by this outcome.
An entire hour of relentless bombing filled the battlefield with zombie corpses. The air was thick with the stench of decay and acrid gunpowder. Fortunately, the piled-up corpses also slightly slowed down the zombie horde's advance.
Subsequent zombies had to climb over mountains of corpses to continue forward, giving the Mutants and the soldiers on the city wall more time to prepare.
The exhilarating battle made Zuo Feng's blood boil, and he secretly praised:
This is the art of combat! It also made Zuo Feng pay more attention to hot weapons. The power of firepower coverage should not be underestimated. Precise strikes and tactical coordination complement each other, especially when encountering large-scale enemies like zombie hordes, which further highlights their importance.
Although abilities are powerful, they are difficult to sustain in prolonged battles. Currently, the continuous output of hot weapons is the key to victory.
If Firefly encountered a zombie horde of this scale, Zuo Feng was certain it would be instantly overwhelmed. Firefly Base's defense system was far inferior to the base before him, and its hot weapons were incomparable to this base's, a complete world of difference.
Although the battle seemed to favor the base, the number of zombies was still in the tens of thousands. An hour of relentless bombing had only eliminated less than a third of the zombies.
Zuo Feng knew that the real test was yet to come, and the subsequent offensive of the zombie horde would only be more ferocious. Because in the far rear of the zombie horde, Zuo Feng and the others had already discovered the traces of several Mutant zombies, and the number of advanced zombies also far exceeded the vanguard.
“I wonder how long their firepower coverage can last.”
Zuo Feng worried. Once any of the base's multiple defense lines collapsed due to insufficient firepower, the subsequent lines would inevitably fall into crisis, and the entire base would face the risk of a complete collapse.
Zuo Feng gripped his binoculars tightly, his brow furrowed. Suddenly, Zuo Feng's pupils contracted instantly. Through the binoculars, he saw the fallen Seven Horizontal Bars Zombie raise an arm!
It—wasn't dead yet!
Zuo Feng's heart sank abruptly. Such a violent explosion hadn't killed it. Once it joined the battle, the entire situation would become even more perilous, and the base's defense line would face unprecedented pressure.