The next day they continued to set traps. This time all the helicopters in the base were dispatched together. Each helicopter was equipped with a very powerful long-range psychic to escort them. In the end, they all arrived safely at the place where they were yesterday.
Lin Tantan and his men continued to dig the pit. A group of people found the right place and angle on the mountains on both sides and buried oil tank launchers, which could remotely control the projection of small oil tanks. The oil tanks would explode after hitting the ground, and the oil inside would splatter and burn. If there were enough oil tanks, they could create a large enough sea of fire.
There were more Earth System people coming to help this time, and they had dug the tunnels before dark. There were tunnels dug under the road with a total length of about eight kilometers. If the tunnels and the oil tank fire can function, this section of road will be able to leave behind about 300,000 zombies, or even more.
Coming out of the highway are fields. The fields are wide. In order to keep as many zombies as possible, they brought many vehicles as roadblocks. Planting-type wood-type mutants transplanted trees and bushes to divide the fields into strips and surround them.
Lin Tantan's digging team was digging various pits in the fields. They didn't dig big pits, but small and deep pits of more than ten square meters. They dug one after another, densely distributed in the fields and very close to each other. After digging, they put soil on top again. It looked no different from the normal land around it, but once the zombies came in, they would fall into the pits like dumplings.
After two more days of hard work, the zombie tide finally arrived.
From the not very clear satellite map, the tide of zombies looked like a long, thick black line, winding its way. They bypassed the river, entered the mountains, and moved along the road. Finally, on June 4, they came into people's sight.
It was just after three o'clock in the afternoon. The sunlight was still very strong, and the tide of zombies was not moving very fast. Before I saw the zombies, I could smell the nauseating stench brought by the wind.
Lin Tantan was waiting quietly at this end of the field. The plan later would still require the support of the Earth Element, so she requested again and again, and was finally allowed to stay on the scene, and naturally Ye Xiao was by her side.
Through the feedback from satellite maps and their own remote observation, they could see the tide of zombies moving through the mountains, slowly walking to where the cave began, and then slowly walking back over.
Everyone held back and did not move.
The tide of corpses was like a big black and gray insect, crawling slowly towards them, and one could not see where its tail was. When the front of them finally walked through the eight kilometers and came out of the mountain road, Lin Tantan finally saw their appearance through a telescope from a distance of several thousand meters.
The zombies walking in the front were obviously very ordinary. They only vaguely retained their human form, their bodies were rotten and mutilated, their heads were drooping, their arms were twisted, their steps were stiff, like a bunch of skeletons whose flesh was about to rot away, they were covered in tattered clothes that could not recognize their original appearance, and they were moving forward crookedly.
They first had to pass through a dirt road and wasteland, which was a safe area with no traps. The team of zombies, which started out as a row of a dozen or twenty zombies, became wider and wider, and the group of zombies gradually dispersed. However, because there were barriers on both sides that looked messy and natural, but were actually artificially placed vehicles, transplanted bushes, and moved rocks, they did not completely disperse, and most of them still walked within the range they should go.
And because they encountered obstacles from time to time, the zombie herd's forward speed was slowed down, and the zombies behind slowly caught up. The zombie team looked increasingly strong, larger, and longer, but their tail still had not finished walking on the road surrounded by mountains.
Just what you see before your eyes is hundreds of thousands in number, which is shocking at first glance.
In this way, the group of zombies were gradually led onto the fields, and finally, the front row of them stepped on the land covered with small pits, but still nothing happened, because on the slope at the edge of the field, Lin Tantan and several earth-type psychics were putting their palms on the ground, using their supernatural powers to prop up the pits so that they would not be collapsed by the zombies.
This was a very difficult task. Although everyone was responsible for a small part of the pit, they couldn't hold on for long. Ye Xiao took his walkie-talkie and said quietly, calmly and firmly: "Bait on."
Immediately afterwards, several people appeared on the slope on their side, as if they had accidentally discovered the dark group of corpses in the field below. They shouted loudly a few times and ran away quickly.
The sounds and human smell stimulated the zombies. They changed their slow pace as if they were wilted by the sun and became excited, rushing towards the slope with hoarse sounds.
If you look down from above, there are all kinds of obstacles in the field that seem to be placed naturally. They form a pear-shaped area, which also looks like a pocket. The zombies are like ants that enter the pocket by themselves. They are now blocking the mouth of the bag, and then rushing into the bag excitedly and quickly.
The ones in front rushed in, and the ones behind followed. The bag was quickly filled up. Time passed by minute by minute, one minute, two minutes... The earth elements persisted, and Ye Xiao was looking at the screen.
The bag was not full yet, but the zombies in the front were about to climb up the slope, and on the road behind, after the eight-kilometer section, there was still a long line of zombies.
But there was no time to delay any further, Ye Xiao said in a deep voice: "Release!"
All earth-based systems stopped outputting energy at the same time. In the fields, all the earth pits stepped on by the zombies collapsed instantly. All the zombies on them, whether they were one or two or dozens or hundreds of them crowded together, fell down.
The bottom of the pit, which is more than three meters deep, is covered with extremely sharp thorns made of various materials. They pierce the legs, body, and even the head. They have no sense of pain, and as long as the nerve center is not injured, they can continue to struggle. However, because they are stabbed, they are trapped and cannot break free.
There were also many zombies that were not pierced. They wanted to climb up, but the steep earth pit more than three meters deep was not so easy to climb. Some zombies were particularly agile and climbed up quickly like monkeys, or even flew up.
They successfully came to the ground, and there were many zombies on the ground that were not standing on the pit at the time but on the normal ground. Some of them continued to run forward stupidly and fell into the pit, while many of them had developed low-level intelligence and avoided the pits and continued to move forward.
Even the advanced zombies hiding among the ordinary zombies began to roar miserably, as if they were delivering some orders, leading the zombies to avoid the small pits, but there were so many pits so densely packed that they had to go around them and could not speed up.
At this moment, several cars drove out on the slope where the humans were. The cars were very strange. They were obviously temporarily modified. There were huge trebuchets-like crude machines on them, and oil barrels were placed on them. The next moment, all the oil barrels were thrown out.
Some of them were thrown very far, while others were very close. They suddenly exploded while still in the air, and the oil inside poured down on the corpses like rain. After several barrels of oil were thrown, countless fireballs fell into the corpses, ignited the oil, and bursts of bright and dazzling flames sprang up.
Ye Xiao was standing on the slope. He had just used his wind blade to break and explode the oil barrels, and immediately sent out a strong wind to help the flames spread everywhere, and soon covered the entire place.
The zombies that fell to the bottom of the pit were burned and couldn't climb out, while those zombies that did not enter the pit were burned even more severely. They were not afraid of the flames and continued to run fearlessly, like firemen, bringing the flames to more places, and more zombies, hay, bushes, and trees on the ground were ignited.
Or some zombies would become stiff as they burned, and they would roll to the bottom of the pit, burning the unburned zombies in the pit as well.
The whole field was suddenly engulfed in flames.
The high-level zombie who played a leadership role was no longer useful and was also burned.
Naturally, there were quite a few zombies that did not enter the sea of fire. They became agitated, stopped advancing and began to retreat amid the roars of the high-level zombies.
People here were watching through binoculars and couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts. This group of corpses actually seemed to be in a very orderly manner.
At this time, Ye Xiao picked up something like a remote control and pressed a red button on it.
In the distance, in the mountains, on the eight-kilometer road, zombies were moving forward numbly, and the commotion ahead had not yet reached here.
Suddenly, in the quiet mountains, bang, bang, bang! The ground exploded one after another, the concrete road was blasted apart, concrete blocks blew up into the sky, and the zombies were either blown away or fell into the huge pits under the road, pierced through by the sharp thorns below, or knocked down by the fallen concrete blocks.
The zombies that were not above the pit were still at a loss. At this time, small black things were thrown down at them from the mountains on both sides. They exploded, and liquid mixed with flames poured over the zombies. Soon, the eight-kilometer-long road was engulfed in a sea of fire.
The group of zombies in front that were about to retreat now couldn't retreat. If they retreated, they would all be burned to charcoal. There were still some zombies behind the road, so they couldn't move forward either.
In an instant, the entire long line of zombies was divided into four parts. The first and third parts were engulfed in the sea of fire, while the second and fourth parts were separated by the sea of fire.
On the mountain, a zombie watched all this coldly. It was so skinny that it looked like a layer of skin wrapped around a skeleton, and its clothes were tattered, but the overall degree of decay was far less serious than that of ordinary zombies. Its skin was even intact, and its body was pale and gray, not the color of decayed corpses like other zombies, with black blood, looking dirty and ugly.
The zombie's pale eyes looked at the two far-separated seas of fire below, then looked at the team separated by the two seas of fire, and suddenly raised his head and screamed.
Its howl could only be considered an ordinary howl, but it had strong penetrating power. After hearing the howl, the two groups of zombies that had not been engulfed by the sea of fire slowly calmed down from their chaotic state, and several slightly more advanced zombies in the group, whose degree of decay was less than that of ordinary zombies, began to howl in unison.
This scream is no longer ordinary. If there is a sound wave display instrument, you can find that with the screams of each zombie, sound waves are emitted one after another. They merge into a larger and more powerful sound wave, spreading in all directions.
Wherever they passed, the wind stagnated and the fire paused, as if attacked by a powerful force. Within seconds, the sound waves reached everyone on the slope. For an instant, people felt as if they had heard the sharpest sound in the world. Their heads shook, their chests felt suffocated, and their blood surged. Some who could not bear it sat down directly.
Lin Tantan was also in pain. She was shocked. Sonic attack?! How many zombies were launching sonic attacks together? Could there be dozens of them
Although this group of zombies is huge, don't forget that the zombies' superpowers are divided into ten categories just like humans, and sonic attacks are just a small category in the system. Anyway, so far, she has not found a superpower with the ability of sonic attacks among the people around her.
Based on this inference, wouldn’t it be possible that there are thousands of zombies with special powers in this corpse group
When Lin Tantan was shocked, the zombies on the mountain howled again, and then several zombies ran out from the group of zombies, bypassing the sea of fire in the field at an extremely fast speed and running towards the slope.
Ye Xiao was the first to recover from the sonic attack. He was not very clear that it was a sonic attack, but at least he knew that this method of attack was related to the sound made by the opponent, and the propagation of sound requires a medium. He raised his hand, and a large area of air in front of him suddenly condensed to form an invisible and solid barrier, and the transmission of sonic waves was immediately terminated.
People's various uncomfortable reactions finally disappeared, but some of them still couldn't recover.
Then I saw dozens of zombies breaking away from the team and rushing towards me like arrows.
Lin Tan Tan recognized that this should be a wind-type zombie, otherwise it would not be so fast. Ye Xiao also recognized it and immediately said, "Follow the original plan and retreat!"
Even without this wave of zombies' counterattack, they would have almost retreated, but now their retreat was a bit embarrassing.
There were several earth-type soldiers and a few fire-type soldiers, only about a dozen people in total. They got in the car and left after hearing the order.
Ye Xiao didn't leave. He looked at the zombies that quickly flew in front of him, stretched out his hands, and gently placed them in the air. Lin Tan subconsciously guessed what move he was going to make. Was it his tornado? Or was it to blow these zombies away and into the sea of fire
But given their speed, they should be able to run out immediately after entering the sea of fire. If their speed is fast enough, the flames on their bodies will not burn faster as they run, but will most likely be extinguished.
Plus zombies have less fat on their bodies, so without fuel, it's not very easy to burn...
But if you just release the wind blade, the zombies are so fast that the hit rate probably won't be very high.
She is always ready to help.
At this moment, Ye Xiao's ten fingers suddenly tightened.
Lin Tantan vaguely heard a sound, as if the wind suddenly tightened. In the air, which she could not see, in front of the zombies running towards her, bundles of air were suddenly tightened, as if they had turned into transparent ropes, both horizontal and vertical, forming a large net.
Then when the zombies entered this range, the net suddenly closed in.
In Lin Tantan's eyes, the zombies were about to rush in front of him, but suddenly they stopped moving, and then they were forced together as if they were strangled by something and were squeezed hard.
Almost in an instant, their hands and ribs broke, and their bodies seemed to be squeezed together. Although their heads were not crushed, their rotten faces were flattened. Then the brain tissue in the cranial cavity was squeezed into a paste and flowed down, leaving behind the crystal cores that were shining with green light.
It turned out to be a wind-type zombie.
But Lin Tantan couldn't think of anything about wind at the moment. She was stunned, and there were only four words in her mind: wind net strangulation!
Isn't this Ye Xiao's ultimate move from the end of the world? Can he use it now? Although its scale and power cannot be compared with those recorded in history books, but, but this is definitely a wind net strangulation!
She was extremely shocked, but when she saw Ye Xiao suddenly become weak after using this move, she hurried to support him.
Looking down, dozens of zombies, looking as fierce as if they were equipped with motors, were gathered together, you stuck to me and I stuck to you, so close that your limbs were twisted, as if they were an inseparable whole, or as if they were garbage blocks compressed by a machine, motionless, and each one was... dead.
Ye Xiao leaned on Lin Tantan, breathing rapidly. Most of his supernatural powers were suddenly taken away, and he was unable to move for a while. After all, his body had not fully recovered yet.
The group of zombies in front did not move for the time being. The zombie that was hiding somewhere and could only make shrill sounds seemed to be silent for a moment. Then, an even more shrill shriek that seemed to contain infinite anger came out again.
The zombies started to make a commotion, and then began to move in large groups around the sea of fire and towards the people on the slope. They were moving very fast, like a black and gray wave approaching quickly, but they were still much slower than those dozens of wind-type zombies.
Ye Xiao's eyes darkened slightly, and he waited for a while before saying, "Let's go!"
"Oh." After hearing this, Lin Tan Tan picked up Ye Xiao without thinking and ran towards the vehicle next to him. The driver who was waiting for them and a lightning-type mutant in the passenger seat stared at the scene with their mouths wide open.
Ye Xiao also: “…” He couldn’t react to what was happening.
Then he was thrown into the car, and Lin Tantan quickly got in as well: "Let's go!"
The driver closed his mouth, started the car, and sped away.
According to the plan, they were going to lure the zombies into the city. Given the zombies' current hatred level towards them, this should be a relatively sure thing. The only problem was that they couldn't be caught up by them.
The car was speeding. Ye Xiao silently climbed up from the back seat and sat down. Lin Tantan also sat down with a flushed face, which was due to the excitement of this life-and-death speed.
No matter how many times this happens, it still feels exciting.
Her voice was tense as she asked, "Which way do we go?"
In the past two and a half days, they have been digging pits and laying traps outside, and more people are laying traps in the city. There should be pits one after another on those winding roads and paths, as well as many bombs and other things. If you don't know the location of these things, you may become the unlucky person who checks whether the traps are qualified before the zombies.
Ye Xiao picked up the navigation device in the car, which displayed a real-time map of the entire city of Ning. The red dots represented traps such as bombs, the red crosses represented pits, and safe roads would be marked with a green background.
Some roads will have green background markings next to the red dots and red crosses, which means that there is still space for passing next to the trap. The solid green line means that cars can pass, and the dotted green line means that only people can pass on foot.
In order to build such a navigation system, Lu Jianping, as the leader of the base, used his prestige and some rewards to mobilize a large number of people in the base. Most of these people were highly educated and could use computers and read electronic maps.
The people who set the traps outside will pass the information back in a timely manner, and the people gathered in the base will be responsible for marking the computer map based on the feedback information and entering it into the system in a timely manner.
Every entry of information and icon will be reviewed by someone. Once an error is found, the person who entered the data will be held accountable and the consequences will be very serious, so everyone is cautious and strives to avoid mistakes.
So this navigation system is still very reliable.
At the same time, there are countless yellow dots on the map. They are the people who are setting up ambushes. Each person who is setting up an ambush will wear a communication watch with a powerful positioning system. This watch is the ready-made technology and sample contributed by the Zhengyang Brigade. Lu Jianping mobilized people to rush to produce it.
In addition to the traps in the city, various roadblocks and traps are also being built on the construction site outside the base wall, and deep moat trenches are being dug under the city wall.
It can be said that in order to fight against this zombie tide, most of the Ning City base has been mobilized. Although it cannot be said that the entire base has been mobilized, it is not far away.
Having said that, by now, most of the traps in the city have been set up, and the roads that were designed from the beginning to be left empty for vehicles to travel on will never be moved. Several green and thick passages pointing from all corners of the city to the Ning City base appear particularly eye-catching on the screen.
But Ye Xiao didn't want to take these roads directly back to the base. He wanted to lead the swarm of zombies to the largest trap.
He quickly pointed out the passage to be taken, and the driver immediately drove towards the designated road.
Ye Xiao took out the crystal core to absorb the energy, and looked behind the car: "The zombies are a bit slow, slow down."
The driver glanced at the rearview mirror, swallowed, and obediently slowed down the car.
In this way, at first glance, the car in front seems to be running for its life, but in fact, the car and the zombies always maintain a distance that is neither far nor close.
Some zombies with a slightly faster speed broke out of the group and were about to catch the car. The man sitting in the passenger seat who had been conserving his strength until now suddenly opened his eyes, leaned out from the roof of the car, raised his hand, and a blue-purple lightning as thick as two fingers struck the head of the zombie in front.
With one move, the zombie's entire head was charred black and fell from its neck like a crispy cookie. Its body ran forward a few steps due to inertia before falling down.
Lin Tan Tan looked out the window and thought that the lightning element was just so overbearing.
Then, this thunder-type mutant continued to release his superpowers, knocking down the zombies that had escaped from the zombie group one by one, killing each one with one strike.
There were also zombies screaming in strange ways, and suddenly a fireball was released, hitting the car. Fortunately, the distance was far enough and it didn't hit the car. The driver was so scared that he stepped on the accelerator harder.
The car crossed the road, crossed the highway, passed under the overpass, and plunged into the city road. After entering the city, there were too many obstacles, and the speed of the zombies and the cars slowed down at the same time.
The zombies seemed to be a little slack and were not chasing so closely, so the thunder-type mutant took out a big blood bag and punctured it. The blood inside kept flowing to the ground as the car moved forward. The smell of blood once again stimulated the zombies and they chased even more closely.
When they came to a fork in the road, there was a car parked on the left side of the road. Seeing the horde of zombies passing by, the people in the car launched a long-range attack on the zombies and took out blood bags and pierced them. The zombies were both angry and tempted by the blood, and a small group of zombies came out from the large group and pounced on the car.
The people next to the car immediately got in, turned the wheels, and grabbed the ground with great force, leading this small group of zombies away.
At the next fork in the road, the same thing happened again.
The swarm of zombies is constantly being divided up like this, with the number of zombies divided up at a few hundred to several thousand, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands each time. These small groups of zombies will be led to traps and eliminated one by one.
After driving for more than ten minutes, Ye Xiao absorbed two crystal cores and replenished his energy. While looking at the navigation screen, he picked up the communicator and dialed a number: "N028, the zombies are about to arrive, are you ready?"
The reply came immediately: "Ready."
Ye Xiao said: "There are still ten minutes."
n028 is a place rather than a person. There is an abandoned industrial park here, which has long been abandoned by Ning City.
At this time, some people were hiding at a distance from the abandoned industrial park. They were nervously waiting for time to pass. Ten minutes was not a long time, but it was short enough to make people anxious.
Finally, the sound of a car approached, and a black SUV appeared in sight. Then, behind it, a group of zombies appeared, and the number of them was astonishingly large.
The car got closer and closer, and crashed into the gate of the industrial park, and the group of zombies behind it followed in.
The car turned around in the industrial park, and the group of zombies behind it followed it around.
After turning all the roads, the car was ready to leave from the back door of the industrial park. However, a wave of zombies had already taken a shortcut here, blocked the door, and pounced on it ferociously.
There were hundreds of zombies, and they looked very dark. Lin Tan was a little nervous, but also understood something. These zombies were not so easy to fool, and they all knew to block them here.
Then she moved. She and Ye Xiao moved together.
She leaned out of the right window, Ye Xiao leaned out of the left window, Ye Xiao released a whirlwind, blowing the zombies on the left blocking the exit into the sky, Lin Tan Tan released a big fireball to blow away the ones on the right, and the next moment, the car rushed out of the industrial park exit, driving wildly, and the zombies followed from behind. At the same time, there were explosions one after another from behind.
The noise was so loud and earth-shaking that when I looked back, I saw the zombies being blown into the sky. Dilapidated buildings and factories collapsed, burying the zombies and smoke and dust rising everywhere.
Ye Xiao and the thunder-type mutant worked together to clear out all the zombies that followed them. The car slowed down slowly, and when they looked back, the industrial park had become a ruin.
The zombies that had not yet had time to enter the industrial park seemed to be stunned by the explosion and began to retreat along the same route. Although they still maintained a general formation, they were no longer as neat as before. Many zombies simply dispersed on the spot and wandered away on their own.
Ye Xiao retracted his gaze: "Let's go, continue."
Next, they acted as bait again, leading a wave of zombies to another trap and destroying them.
There are many people like them, just like those who had diverted the zombies away at each fork in the road. Or they drove to the station, and after the zombies entered the station, they blew off the roof of the waiting hall and buried the zombies.
Or lead the zombies to a street with a pit dug.
Or they would take the zombies to an old residential area with winding alleys, and some people would ambush there by taking advantage of the terrain.
Or on a narrow street, as the zombies are chasing each other, a large net falls from overhead, or a thick nail board made of steel bars, or a huge stone tied with a long chain is swung over and can smash the zombies into meat paste.
There are also snipers who carry sniper rifles on buildings with wide views and good locations, and specialize in killing lone zombies in groups of three or two.
There is also a bomb team that brings homemade ammunition and throws it at the zombies as soon as they see the target.
There is also a super powerful lone ranger who walks alone in the desolate streets, waiting to slaughter zombies.
Some are from al-Qaeda, and there are also many private teams, ranging from dozens of people to a single person. From this day on, many people have used their own methods to consume the manpower of this tide of zombies that came from afar.
The sun gradually sets and another night falls. Night is the home turf of zombies, so people moving around in the city should either immediately move away from the urban area invaded by the zombie tide, or contact each other, gather together, and find a suitable place to spend the night together.
Lin Tan and Ye Xiao and the others moved away from the battlefield, then gathered the others and found a place to spend the night.
This place and the Ning City base are almost at the two ends of the city, and the distance between them is very far. When they brought the zombies into the city, it was almost five o'clock. There was no time to call a helicopter to pick them up, so spending the night there was the best option.
This was also the reason why Ye Xiao was unwilling to invite Lin Tan to come together at the beginning.
They gathered more than a hundred people from the surrounding area and chose a teaching building of a middle school as their overnight place. People occupied several classrooms, trying to stay together and take advantage of the last bit of time before dark to have their dinner.
Lin Tan Tan was counting something on his fingers. Ye Xiao asked what she was counting. Lin Tan Tan said, "I'm counting how many zombies I killed today and how many are left."
Ye Xiao smiled and said, "Can you figure it out?"
Of course I can’t figure it out. Lin Tantan said, “Just tell me directly.”
Ye Xiao didn't keep anyone in suspense: "On the highway, about 300,000 zombies were killed. About 100,000 were burned to death in the fields. About 120,000 zombies were led away before and after entering the city. Now almost all of them have been eliminated. There are 20,000 zombies in the industrial park. The last trap just now killed nearly 30,000..."
All in all, as far as they know, the larger numbers have totaled about 570,000 zombies that have been killed.
This is a huge number, but the problem is that this zombie tide is much larger than Bai Cheng originally estimated, and the number of zombies should be over two million.
So only a quarter of them have been eliminated so far.
I don't know if it's a good thing or not, because the zombie team is longer than expected. There is a group of zombies left behind the burning highway. Because the highway is engulfed in flames, they can't keep up and can only cross the mountain. There are probably three or four hundred thousand zombies there, so there are still more than one million zombies active in the city.
This does not include the zombies that already existed in Ning City.
Ye Xiao leaned against the wall, tapping his knees with his fingers. "The most important thing is the leading zombie. Even if we can't see it, a whistle can make the zombies obey. Without it, more than a million zombies will be a mess. With it, it's hard to say that the zombies in Ning City will not be under its command."
Lin Tantan was munching on a piece of toast made by the chef, and couldn't help but think of the pale and skinny zombie he had seen on the other side of the river before.
She heard the howl last time, and she also heard the howl just now, but she couldn't really tell whether the two howls were made by the same zombie. After thinking for a while, she said, "A leader must be of a very high level, with wisdom, and naturally able to make low-level zombies submit, or he must be stronger than all the zombies. I don't know what the situation is with this leader."
The former is fine, but the latter is tricky.
She told Ye Xiao the characteristics of the zombie she saw by the river. Although she was not sure, she vaguely felt that the zombie that issued the command howl today was the same zombie as before.
The zombie gave her a very strange feeling. She couldn't tell whether it was dangerous or not. Anyway, the zombie's eyes were very odd. She was holding a telescope across the river, and it seemed as if they stared at each other for a moment. It was quite scary.
Her heart almost skipped a beat.
Suddenly someone next to him said, "We seem to have seen the zombies you mentioned."
Lin Tan Tan looked over with slight surprise. It turned out to be a short-haired, long-faced woman about 27 or 28 years old. There were several men and women sitting closely beside her, and they were obviously companions.
Lin Tan Tan asked, "When did you see it? It was definitely pale skinned, and the whole body was extremely skinny, like skin and bones, but it didn't look rotten at all?"
"Yes, that's it." The woman said, "About an hour ago, when we were ambushing a group of zombies, it suddenly appeared on the roof. The straight-line distance at that time was at least thirty hundred meters. I am severely nearsighted. It has improved a little after I got my superpowers, but it is still mildly nearsighted. I haven't worn glasses because they are worried that they will get in the way. Logically, I shouldn't be able to see the zombie clearly at that distance, but I felt like I was looking into its eyes and saw its eyeballs clearly."
Talking about that moment, the woman frowned and felt a little nervous: "I was scared at the time. I thought it would pounce down, but it nimbly climbed to the top of another house, and then I couldn't see it anymore."
After listening to her description, Lin Tantan had an idea in her mind. It should be the zombie she had seen.
The woman's companion, a man with a short haircut, also said: "Xiaolu screamed at that time, and I followed her gaze and felt that I was staring at the zombie. It was really weird."
The woman’s other companions also said that they had made eye contact with the zombie, except for one who was too busy killing zombies to pay attention. When they looked again, the zombie was gone.
Several people shared their feelings at the time, but they couldn't say more. They just felt it was weird, but they didn't know what was weird about it. Anyway, it was quite disgusting.
It was already dark as they were talking. They closed the doors and windows, turned off the lights, and just sat or lay down to rest. Some of them actually fell asleep, but most of them couldn't sleep in such a situation.
Ye Xiao told Lin Tan Tan to just sleep on his own, as he was there for her. Lin Tan Tan leaned in his arms, treating him as a sofa, which was quite comfortable. Her body temperature was also transmitted to her slowly, which was very pleasant in this slightly cool night.
She whispered, "Then I'll sleep in the first half of the night, and you sleep in the second half."
Ye Xiao smiled and said, "It's okay. Sun Pan will be on guard in the second half of the night. You don't have to worry about this." Sun Pan is the one with thunder-type abilities.
Lin Tan Tan said nothing more, her eyelids began to feel heavy, and I gradually fell asleep in his arms. Before falling asleep, she was still thinking that he was by her side, and she would not have the nightmare of fishing him out of the water this time.
As a result, before she had a nightmare, she was woken up by the slightest noise around her.
When she opened her eyes, it was pitch black, with only the faint moonlight shining through the curtains. She felt Ye Xiao move from leaning to sitting upright, and she caught the sound of heavy, rapid breathing not far away. There were also people whispering "no" and "help", and there was more than one person.
Lin Tan looked towards the source of the sound. Ye Xiao noticed that she was awake and whispered in her ear, "Awake?"
Lin Tan Tan hummed and sat up: "What's going on?"
Ye Xiao turned on the flashlight and shone it over. The woman who had spoken to her before and her companion were sleeping soundly against the wall, but the strange thing was that everyone had a frown on their brows, ferocious expressions, sweat all over their foreheads, and even kept shaking their heads and mumbling, as if... they were having a nightmare!
Their breathing became heavier and heavier, revealing a strong sense of fear, and their hands and feet began to struggle. More and more people in the classroom were disturbed and opened their eyes.
Ye Xiao asked Lin Tantan to sit still, and he went over and patted the man with the short hair on the shoulder: "Wake up, wake up!"
One of their companions who did not have a nightmare was also woken up. When he saw that his companions were all in terror, he hurriedly followed suit to shout for help.
But no matter how they shouted, clapped or shook, these people could not be woken up.
The other people in the classroom also noticed something was wrong. Even if it was a nightmare, it shouldn't be impossible to wake him up, right? This situation was really weird and terrifying.
Lin Tan Tan frowned, went over and pulled Ye Xiao: "Get out of the way." As he spoke, a bucket of water appeared out of nowhere in his hand and poured over.
Everyone was splashed in the face and woke up in shock, gasping for breath as if they had escaped from the gates of hell. Everyone had a terrified expression and some were even shaking. A younger girl even screamed when she woke up.
"Xiaolu, Dayuan, what's wrong with you?" The only person who didn't have a nightmare asked his companions worriedly.
The short-haired, long-faced woman named Xiaolu was speechless for a long time. She had a nightmare. She dreamed of the thing she feared the most, the scene she least wanted to recall. She reliveed that feeling and her whole body went limp. She covered her face in pain.
The man who didn't have a nightmare looked confused and worried.
The youngest girl suddenly started crying: "I had a nightmare. I dreamed that a ghost was chasing me. I am most afraid of ghosts!"
The man who didn't have a nightmare laughed: "Where are the ghosts in this world?"
"But I'm just scared! I dreamed that I was in a big house, and it was empty everywhere. Something was squirming in the shadows, and a shadow flashed in the mirror. I wanted to escape, but I couldn't control myself at all. I almost opened a door. There must be something behind that door. There was even hair sticking out from under the door! I was almost scared to death! Woo woo..."
The girl was almost on the verge of a breakdown, covering her face in pain, which showed how terrified and desperate she was in her dream.
Looking at the others, they all had the same expression. The man with a crew cut named Da Yuan swallowed his saliva and said in a hoarse voice, "I had a nightmare too. I didn't dream of ghosts, I just dreamed that I was being chased. I was kidnapped when I was a child and the kidnapper chased me with a knife. The scene in the dream was exactly the same as that time... That was the thing I was most afraid of. I almost went crazy in the dream. What on earth is going on? Why would I have that kind of dream for no reason!"
The remaining two people also said that they had nightmares, but they refused to talk about the content of their dreams. That was definitely a corner they were unwilling to touch. Finally, the woman with short hair and a long face nodded weakly, indicating that she also had a nightmare.
Everyone else looked at each other in bewilderment. What kind of nightmare could be so exaggerated that it made each of them feel like they had died once before? However, their behavior did not seem fake. Moreover, all five of them had a nightmare at the same time and had the same extreme reaction. It was really weird.
The man who didn’t have a nightmare scratched his head: “Strange, why do you all suddenly have nightmares? I’ve been with you the whole time, so why didn’t I have any dreams?” Didn’t he fall behind the main group
A low, cold voice suddenly said, "Because they have all made eye contact with that zombie, but you haven't."
Everyone was stunned. The man who didn't have a nightmare and the five men and women who had a nightmare also suddenly looked up at Ye Xiao who was speaking.
Ye Xiao was holding a flashlight in his hand, but the light made him fall into shadow, making it difficult to see his expression. One could only subconsciously feel a little afraid and not dare to get close.
"How can this be?" Da Yuan with a crew cut suddenly said, "We just glanced at each other from a distance!"
"Didn't you also say that the zombie was weird?" Ye Xiao said.
Several people were suddenly speechless.
The short-haired, long-faced woman asked in a hoarse voice, "Is this a supernatural power? Will this effect only happen once, or will I always have nightmares in the future?"
The other four people shuddered together. If they continued to have nightmares, it would be better for them to die!
Ye Xiao pursed his lips: "I don't know."
He suddenly glanced at Lin Tantan. The short-haired, long-faced woman seemed to remember something and looked at Lin Tantan for help: "Didn't you say that you also made eye contact with that zombie? Did you have a nightmare? Does it only take one time to be fine?"
Lin Tan Tan swallowed and felt a little dazed.
So the zombie had such a magical ability? So her nightmare was not caused by her being too sensitive and timid
Not noticing that everyone's eyes were on her, she raised her hand and scratched her hair: "Yes, I have nightmares too."
Ye Xiao's face immediately changed. The woman looked at her for help, hoping that the next answer she would give would be what she wanted to hear. Unfortunately, Lin Tantan could only tell the truth: "And I've had this dream more than once. I guess it happens every time I sleep."
As soon as she said this, the woman's face suddenly turned pale. The other four people also had expressions as if the sky was falling. Ye Xiao grabbed Lin Tantan's hand.
Ye Xiao, who didn't have a nightmare, had an expression as if he was facing a powerful enemy, almost the same as those five people.
Lin Tan Tan said quickly: "But my condition is not that serious. I can basically wake up as soon as I have a dream." She wanted to comfort Ye Xiao and also give these five people hope. They were all hit by the same trick and had the same symptoms, and suddenly became fellow patients. Lin Tan Tan could understand their feelings very well, and quickly told them her medical history.
"I have been staring at that zombie for several days now, right? I had a nightmare that day and was scared to tears, but I woke up immediately, Ye Xiao, right?" They were lying together in a mound of earth at that time, and it was Ye Xiao who woke her up. She remembered it clearly. She was looking for Ye Xiao in the dark river in her dream and was about to despair. Suddenly she heard his voice calling her, and she woke up all of a sudden, and quickly got out of the emotions of the dream.
Ye Xiao's face was dark blue. It turned out that she had a nightmare because she was possessed by a ghost. He thought she was just scared!
Thinking about the frightened reactions of these five people, he felt angry and distressed, and nodded stiffly.
“Then the next day, I had a nightmare not long after falling asleep, but I woke up quickly, and then I was a little afraid to sleep, and then the third day... Hey, was it the third day? Anyway, I stayed up late on purpose and fell asleep when it was almost dawn. I slept for an hour and had a nightmare again, but this time I knew I was dreaming as soon as I started, so I forced myself to wake up and woke up quickly... Later, I made myself very tired and slept soundly for half the night, and then I had a nightmare again. This time I woke up as soon as I fell asleep, and it has been like this in the past few days.”
Lin Tan Tan shared his experience of overcoming nightmares with five patients: "Anyway, don't go to bed until you are extremely tired or sleepy. When you are dreaming, remind yourself that you are dreaming and wake yourself up... If you can't do this, have someone watch over you and throw water on you when they see you are dreaming... Think about happy things more often and keep a good mood, that's it."
The five people listened obediently. After hearing her downplay it, it seemed that the nightmare was not that scary. However, when they recalled their dreams, they still felt as if their necks were being tightened by a scary hand. Their hearts shrank into a ball, and they felt scared and painful. Even their breathing was filled with fear.
After she finished speaking, the girl, who was no more than in her early twenties, asked cautiously, "Does that mean you still have nightmares?"
Lin Tan Tan glanced at Ye Xiao and saw that he was about to explode. He scratched his head and said, "Yes, but since I can wake up every time I dream, I am not affected much. It's just that I can't sleep for a long time, which is more tiring. But as a superpower, I can handle less sleep."
The five people were all psychics and agreed with this, but they were still afraid. They looked at each other, unsure if they could wake up as quickly as Lin Tan Tan when they dreamed again, so they decided not to sleep and would wait until they could fall asleep the moment they closed their eyes.
After Lin Tantan finished sharing his experience, he and Ye Xiao returned to their original seats and quietly looked at his face: "You are angry, I didn't hide it on purpose, I didn't know it was because of this reason, I thought it was just a normal sleep disturbance."
Ye Xiao took a deep breath. He knew of course that he couldn't blame her for this. He was just angry at himself for not knowing her situation at all. Even if he didn't know it was because of the zombies, he should have known that she couldn't sleep well every day. He should have taken it to heart when she said before that she didn't want to go to bed!
He hugged her and said, "I have neglected you. Please tell me if you have any problems in the future. Even if you just feel that you have trouble sleeping, you can tell me. At least I can accompany you and help you find the reason and find a way to fall asleep."
Lin Tantan felt warm inside: "Yeah." She whispered: "I really thought it was nothing before."
Ye Xiao asked: "Aren't you afraid of having nightmares?"
"I was a little scared in the dream, but I wasn't scared anymore when I woke up." When she woke up, she knew that Ye Xiao was still fine. She pulled him out of the river, and she was immediately healed and felt better.
Ye Xiao smiled and said, "It's great to talk about it. What kind of nightmare did you have? If you don't mind, tell me and we'll see if there's any way to solve it."
Lin Tantan's lips just curled up and then froze slightly: "Uh..."
The nightmare was about not being able to find you in the water? Lin Tantan suddenly felt a little ashamed, and she couldn't say it out loud.
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