"Tian'an City", the largest settlement in North China, was established in the first month after the disaster. Relying on the existing military buildings and a nearby retreating army, it gradually became a lucky departure.
A safe place that people in the city long for.
This is one of the few settlements that can barely maintain social order. Traces of the past laws can still be seen here. Although the food problem is still a problem, the managers are quite capable, while organizing armed forces in adjacent abandoned towns.
During the harvest, we organized the reclamation of farmland to make up for the shortcomings. Everything is improving for the better. People who are hiding here can't help but rekindle hope in their hearts. Everyone works hard to stand up again in this rotten world.
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But rot is rot, and it will continue to spread.
It is impossible to eradicate the disease simply by being so restless, and can only wait for it to be corroded by decay in a temporary dream.
Xue Wusuan had discovered before that zombies are not dead in terms of body or soul. They just have their minds sealed and only their instincts are left. There are no absolutes, and people can see them from time to time while they are alive.
All kinds of weird things, and so are these zombies.
Some bodies have undergone secondary mutations and become deeply infected. Their bodies have become all kinds of strange and weird. The appearance of the lickers is already the most loving among this type of secondary mutants.
There are also some people whose souls are naturally powerful. Even if they are sealed, some of them are forcibly unlocked, causing their souls to dream and wake up, produce mutations similar to "superpowers", and become "callers".
Compared with the ferocious killing of single physical secondary mutants, zombies with "superpowers" generated from their souls are called "callers" and are even more difficult to deal with. Not only are they good at hiding themselves among ordinary zombies
, and also have the most basic instinctive concepts of "similarity" and "territory".
This leads these callers to inevitably regard "human beings", creatures that are between food and threats, as aliens. Aliens mean that they need to be eliminated.
As a result, these supernatural zombies with the ability to summon the same kind of people wander around diligently. As soon as they find out where the aliens live, they immediately start to form gangs, trapping a large number of mindless zombie brothers of the same kind, and even zombie brothers who have undergone the second mutation.
They, mighty and fearless, were overwhelmingly pressing towards the aliens.
This is the tide of corpses.
Corpse tides can be large or small. Generally, it depends on whether there is a big city around the settlement. If not, the scale of the zombie tide will generally not exceed one million. This is considered a small-scale zombie tide. The number is more than one million and five hundred
Less than 10,000 is a medium scale. More than 5 million is a large corpse tide.
There are no big cities around Tianan City, because it was originally a military garrison and naturally far away from the bustling city. But something strange happened just like that.
A month ago, the Tianan City guard team discovered that zombies were gathering towards Tianan City from all directions. At first, the number was not large. For the sake of safety, Tianan City also specially organized three clearance operations. But the more the clearance operations became, the more zombies were collected.
, the more zombies there are. Three days ago, it was discovered that a huge zombie wave unprecedented since the founding of Tianan City was brewing in the surrounding area!
In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not a surprise. It is an inevitable result. Because the settlements close to the city were all destroyed by zombies. The idle callers naturally walked further and further and discovered this huge alien settlement.
After that, I was naturally overjoyed, and of course I would work tirelessly to bring my "troops" all the way.
Moreover, there was more than one caller who discovered Tianan City, which explains why standing on the city wall of Tianan City and looking around, there are zombies surging and roaring in all directions, covering the mountains and plains, filling pits and valleys, as boundless as the sea.
Like waves.
Eight million! This is the most conservative estimate! The actual number is likely to have exceeded 10 million!
If this were the time when mankind was at its peak, facing such enemies who could only rely on brute force to swarm us, not to mention ten million, even one hundred million would be slowly polished off!
But now is the end of the world. The production base, transportation lines, and resource supplies are completely paralyzed! There is a battle with tens of millions of zombies. This kind of consumption makes people desperate just thinking about it.
But what can we do? This is not a war between humans. If you can't win, you can give in and surrender. There are no easy terms to negotiate with the zombies. Either die, or fight and die again. Want to live? The 350,000 people in the city
People, from top to bottom, no one thought they could survive after seeing such a tide of corpses.
That night, fierce gunfire and gunfire roared all night long. The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the smell of corpses and blood filled the whole city.
No one in the city, young or old, was sleeping. They all stood outside the door, waiting for the soldiers wearing white armbands to come and select the militiamen.
There are no young and middle-aged people in the militia, because the young and middle-aged people were recruited long ago before the zombie wave attacked. The remaining second batch of people who were taken away were middle-aged men under sixty and over forty, followed by middle-aged women...
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It was daybreak. The sound of artillery fire stopped because the last cannonball was empty. Then the gunfire began to become sparse and no longer dense. The bullets were almost exhausted.
Everyone knows that their death is approaching. Some are filled with righteous indignation, some are calm, some are crying, and some are streaming with feces and urine, but no one retreats. To use the words of the city guard: I can be afraid of death, but I am afraid of death.
Is dying useful? It's better to bite off a piece of flesh from the zombie while it's still alive. You can earn a little more interest and eat the flesh before you die.
The gunfire also stopped. Despair had turned into madness. Many people were licking their dry lips with red eyes, as if they really wanted to eat a meal of meat before death, even if it was zombie meat.
Ding ding ding!
A crisp sound of bells suddenly appeared. It actually overwhelmed the roars of zombies on the battlefield like waves, and strangely passed through the long killing field and reached the ears of everyone and every zombie.
For some reason, all living people, no matter whether they had become crazy or crazy just now, immediately shuddered when they heard the sound of the bell. A chill seemed to burst out from the deepest part of the body, sweeping through the whole body instantly. It made people feel paralyzed.
My whole body began to feel scared unconsciously.
This is different from the fear of death just now. It is an inexplicable fear. Well, that’s not right! It should be fear, an inexplicable and irresistible fear from the heart. It even overwhelms the face of death!
The soldiers covered in smoke and blood on the city wall listened to the bell with pale faces, and then saw the zombies below the city who were about to climb up on the corpses of their companions. They all screamed in low voices, and then gradually retreated to both sides. This scene was really real.
So shocking.
The vast tide of corpses was as boundless as the sea, but at this moment it seemed to be cut open with a knife, and a ten-meter-wide, straight passage extended from the sea of corpses.
The city guard reacted the fastest. He quickly cheered up, picked up his binoculars, and looked along the passage where the sea of corpses split. Then he saw two women and three children, riding a tricycle, coming from a distance.
Come over slowly. There is a billboard hanging on the tricycle with the words "Yin Yang Street" written on it. A red bell the size of a fist is tied to the left side of the billboard and is swinging from side to side...