Panting sounds like wild beasts appeared in the dark alley, and about seven or eight living corpses sucked in the air vigorously with their noses. Air is dispensable to them. The alienated body has long needed no oxygen supply, but the air has the favorite smell of living corpses, blood!
Huff and wheeze.
Sticking out his tongue, he groped towards the source of the blood like a dog. Eventually, a male corpse found it.
It was an oval object covered in blood. The living corpse stretched out its thorny tongue and licked it. The tongue that could have licked the concrete down, but when it rubbed against this little thing, it only brought up a faint blood. Although the living corpse felt strange, other companions rushed up to snatch the "food" in its hand, and the remaining intelligence made the male living corpse make a decision.
It threw what was in its mouth into its mouth, and swallowed hard.
Turning around, the male living corpse was just about to leave when suddenly, it felt very hot and swollen in its stomach.
The stomach of the living corpse suddenly swelled, followed by a bright yellow light under the skin. The next moment, the living corpse suddenly exploded. Along with its body bursting, there was also a mass of orange flames and a loud noise resounding through the entire second basement floor of the base.
The flames of the explosion devoured the nearby living corpses, and then curled up in this alleyway. The light of the flames could be clearly seen within a kilometer. So as the light gradually fell, more living corpses gathered in this direction.
Zero took off his helmet, used his eyes to confirm the flame rising a hundred meters away, and then made a forward gesture.
It was a simple trap he set, using guns and blood stains to attract a small group of living corpses, and then waiting for the flames from the explosion of this high-energy gun to attract more predators on the second floor of the base. Although Zero's equipment is excellent, their ammunition is limited, and they cannot fight against hundreds of living corpses. What's more, they still need to go deep into the fifth floor of the base, and they don't know how many monsters are waiting for them on the way.
Therefore, saving ammunition is very necessary.
The second basement is the living and medical area. Judging from the size of this base, the food stored in it is enough to allow the people in the base to survive for a long time. Moreover, the supporting medical facilities in the living area can further reduce the occurrence of diseases. It can be said that if the living area was not occupied by the living corpses transformed by the base personnel, this place is indeed a good place to live, especially after comparing with the harsh world outside, this place is like a paradise.
For the convenience of management, the living area is divided into three areas: A, B, and C. The three areas are divided into six units respectively. Among them, Area A is the living area, which is mainly used for employees to rest. The building complex also includes facilities such as street parks, and the environment is not inferior to the garden-style communities of the old era; There are no less than 3,000 resident doctors, nurses, and support staff, providing medical security for all the personnel in this huge base; as for the last area is the food reserve area, where various large warehouses are built. Provide the food needs of base personnel on weekdays.
Naturally, the size of these three regions is not evenly distributed. In fact, area A is equal to the sum of the areas of area B and area C.
Right now, Zero and his party are still in the A2 area. They have to pass through Area A, cross Area B, and finally reach the safe passage of C6 to go to the third underground floor. This is not an ordinary task. First of all, the distance between the two areas is more than two kilometers, and the buildings are full of buildings and obstacles. You can't walk on the main road. There are living corpses all over the spacious road. Walking on the main road is like stuffing yourself into the mouth of the living corpses. This is one, and the other is that there are too many living corpses. Judging from the size of the base, it is not difficult to accommodate a population of 20,000 to 30,000. Except for those who died of accidents, starvation, or diseases, as long as half of the remaining people become living corpses, there are at least tens of thousands of such monsters on the second floor.
Think about it, with four people facing an army of nearly ten thousand living corpses, there is no chance of winning such a battle. When the power gap between the two is not obvious, the sea of corpses tactic is easy enough to pile up zero and four people.
Therefore, a few people had to create some small traps to deceive the crowd of living corpses on the way forward, and then carefully bypassed them. As a result, the speed of advancement is naturally not fast. Almost four hours have passed since entering the second basement floor, but it is not unreasonable for Zero and the others to still wander in Area A.
They found a small villa with a landslide on the top floor and sneaked in. Zero and four people eliminated the dangers of the three-storey small building. After confirming that there were no living corpses, the four of them took this as a temporary foothold. Mapei was in charge of vigilance, while the other three rested on the spot and took out compressed food to eat. Every four hours of marching, there is a regular rest, which is to ensure the physical strength and combat effectiveness of the team members.
During this 15-minute break, the players try to relax as much as possible to relieve tension and fatigue.
Zero silently put a piece of compressed biscuit, which was tasteless but rich in nutrition and calories, into his mouth. He chewed the biscuits, letting the saliva in his mouth flow to help his stomach pouch absorb the food better. Even though he believed that with his own digestive system, even if he swallowed the whole biscuit, the energy in it would be fully absorbed.
Just doing it makes Zero feel more like a human being than a machine, so he likes eating this way.
After eating the biscuits, Su Wang looked at Feng and said, "Be honest, where did you go when we entered the second basement floor. Don't tell me to take a pee, it's okay to lie to children like that."
Feng looked at Zero with a look of injustice, and said, "I'm not lying, the captain can prove it to me."
Zero originally closed his eyes and fell asleep, but he opened his eyes after hearing this, and said seriously: "He didn't go to relieve himself."
"I asked Feng to create some trouble for the pioneer team." Zero added.
Su stared wide-eyed and said, "Aren't the Pioneer Squad walking ahead of us?"
"No, they are hiding in the basement." Zero looked at Feng and said, "When we entered the basement, Feng found one of their members."
"It's Bridge." Feng put away his carefree expression, and a cold light flashed in Cheng Jing's eyes: "He should be the person in charge of monitoring us, it's ridiculous that he thought he was hiding very well, but I just walked in The first floor of the base can smell the stench of his body."
"Are you a human or a dog..." Su sarcastically said.
Feng was speechless.
Ling coughed dryly, and if he didn't interrupt, the two of them would have started to quarrel again: "I can understand what the pioneer team did. With Anthony's city skills and intelligence, it is impossible for him not to know the meaning of the chief instructor's unrestricted words." Meaning. If I were him, the easiest deduction would be to stand guard at the exit and then grab the quest items when other teams get them back. Therefore, it’s not surprising that they would hide on the first floor and monitor us.”
"Bridge should be finished by now. I can lead a Ripper and no less than a hundred living corpses to cause trouble for them." Feng said with a sneer.
Zero said lightly: "It doesn't matter, as long as the abacus of the vanguard team can't work. According to our previous plan, we will create obstacles and problems for the other two teams while advancing. We must be the ones who successfully complete the task."
As soon as the voice fell, Mapei, who was in charge of guarding the window, suddenly stood up and shouted: "There is a situation!"
Zero came to the window, and after the helmet activated infrared vision, he saw hundreds of living corpses downstairs bypassing the park in the middle of the street and approaching their villa. Zero immediately gestured to retreat, and the four of them went downstairs, walked around the villa quietly, and retreated into the residential area where the streets extend in all directions.
But just after walking two streets, dozens of living corpses suddenly crashed in from the corner in front of the team. Zero immediately asked the team to retreat, turned around when he didn't want to, and the same number of living corpses blocked him from behind. For a moment, Zero Four was surrounded by nearly two hundred living corpses.
"What is this, close the door and release the corpse?"
Feng was still in the mood to tell a bad joke, but no one could laugh. Zero's face was filled with solemnity, whether it was a coincidence or intention to surround the living corpses. If the latter, it means that the living corpses in this base already have wisdom.
There is nothing more frightening than the evolution of intelligence from mutated creatures. After all, people with supernatural abilities only account for a small part of the human population. After the cataclysm, human beings can survive in the harsh environment and under the claws of dangerous mutant beasts, relying on wisdom.
If other mutant beasts know how to surround themselves with walls like the living corpses in this base, then the living space of human beings will be even smaller. And the intelligence of mutated creatures further evolved, thus forming a social structure, and then learning to divide labor in production and manufacture weapons, then the end of human beings is not far away.
But now, Zero has no time to think about such long-term things. What he tried to avoid finally happened, and since the battle was inevitable, he had to fight quickly. Otherwise, if the living corpses from other areas came, the few people would probably not even have a chance to escape.
Zero stretched out his right hand, opened his palm, and squeezed it tightly. He made a full-strength gesture.
At this time, the living corpses of Zero Four were found, and they rushed forward screaming. Among these living corpses, there were actually a few of them holding automatic pistols in their hands. And judging from the uniforms on them, they should be ordinary guards in the living area. But the guns in their hands told a few people that Feng's guess had become a reality. Among the living corpses that retained their instincts in life, there were indeed individuals who could use firearms.
Without hesitation, Zero took out a pair of Browning pistols and fired several bursts in an instant. The flames of the guns flickered and extinguished, and as soon as the gunshot rang, the living corpses with guns in their hands were shot in the eyebrows and fell to the ground dead.
Just after all this was done, ordinary living corpses had already pounced. The battle is about to start!