Due to the limited range of psychic attacks, the psychic attack range of novice psychics and second-level zombies is about 50 meters, so they have to try to suppress the zombies beyond 50 meters. Once the zombies enter the psychic range, casualties will occur.
However, without strong firepower to resist, it is impossible to suppress the zombie’s advance with only the soldiers on the outer wall and the rifles in the hands of the psychics.
Therefore, the psychic confrontation is already inevitable.
Wen Le’s spirit was highly concentrated, completely abandoning his attention to the rear, and extending all his mental power outside the wall, trying to kill the second-level psychic zombies as much as possible.
But almost all of the forefront of the zombie tide are second-level zombies. Because the action speed of the second-level zombies is much faster than that of ordinary zombies, long-distance travel is enough for them to surpass ordinary zombies.
But this is also fortunate. Because the second-level zombies are almost all concentrated in the forefront, most of the second-level zombies killed by the army outside the relief station before were killed.
Wen Le continuously fired, and the boundary line between the second-level and ordinary zombies appeared where his mental power could reach. That is to say, as long as the zombies in the front ten meters of the zombie tide are eliminated, most of the second-level zombies can be solved. As long as the psychic’s power is not exhausted and the ammunition is sufficient, the zombies after the second level are not to be feared.
“Is there any way to notify all areas to eliminate the zombies in the forefront as much as possible? Almost all the zombies gathered in the front are second-level zombies. Their existence will threaten the relief station from a long distance away.” Wen Le found an opportunity to get close to Song Shiran and shouted as he shot.
Song Shiran paused, then immediately took out the walkie-talkie and conveyed Wen Le’s words to the headquarters. Only the headquarters could notify all the places in the relief station in the fastest time.
When Zhang Quanliang, who was waiting at the headquarters, received the news, he waved his hand to immediately pass it down. Although he didn’t know what “second-level zombies” meant in the message. In this situation, it was impossible for someone to make a joke intentionally. Since the world has become unbelievable, there will definitely be strange people and things. They do not know and do not understand does not mean that no one knows and understands.
“Chief, do you want to ask who provided the information? It sounds like that person has a certain understanding of zombies. Maybe they can provide more helpful suggestions for us.” A military officer beside Zhang Quanliang asked.
Zhang Quanliang shook his head.
“It’s already this late in the game. If there were any useful suggestions, do you think that person would still be keeping it to themselves? If we can make it through this, we can go find them later, but maybe that person doesn’t want to be found by us anyway,” Zhang Fulliang said.
The officer was unhappy, “This is about all of humanity, that person should report it.”
“Why?” Zhang Fulliang asked.
“Just because they’re also a human being, if they report it, it could help us fight the zombies better.”
Zhang Fulliang stood up and patted the officer’s shoulder, “You’re thinking too simplistically. We can discuss all this later, but the priority now is to survive.”
The officer pursed his lips and remained silent.
Outside the rescue station, everyone received orders to eliminate nearby zombies as much as possible. All snipers aimed their guns at the front lines and focused on killing the zombies closest to them.
“You guys finally made it,” said Bai Yang as the retreating troops regrouped and rushed to the city wall without taking a break. The 108th regiment was assigned to the east.
Bai Yang saw that Wen Le was by Song Shiran’s side, and when he looked to the side, he saw Xiao Wen and Lin Yan were there as well.
“At a time like this, how can we just stay behind with the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled!” said Lin Yan as he shot at the zombies.
Before the apocalypse, he had never touched a gun. Now, with a gun thrust into his hand by Wen Le, it was obvious that he couldn’t suddenly become a sharpshooter and he had no idea where his bullets were flying. But with the zombies below so densely packed, as long as he didn’t shoot into the sky, he was bound to hit some of them.
Bai Yang didn’t speak, quickly arranging the soldiers to lie on the wall and begin their attack.
Even with the retreating soldiers having reinforced them, they couldn’t stop the zombies from approaching.
As they watched, the zombies had entered the range of the esper abilities.
Boom!
With a loud bang and a scream, the people on the city wall finally suffered from the zombie’s ability attack.
This sound was like a switch, and more and more abilities fell on the wall. Similarly, the ability attacks of the abilities fell into the zombie group.
After all, the zombie group had a large base number. Even after the previous consumption, the number of second-level zombies far exceeded that of human abilities.
The wall was continuously attacked and had already lost many people. But every time a place was attacked, it would be immediately filled with soldiers prepared under the wall the next second.
The city wall around Wen Le was the most intact section of the entire outer wall of the rescue station. After all, with his spiritual power, he mainly shot the attacking zombies with ability attacks before they got close.
“Lin Yan! Have the three water-based ability users on your side move to the right and coordinate with the lightning-based user on the other side to attack!” Wen Le changed his gun again and yelled at Lin Yan during the brief period of numbness in his arms.
Lin Yan’s brain was already numb from being targeted and shot for a long time. He vaguely heard Wen Le’s words and immediately relayed them to those next to him without thinking.
After hearing the command, the three water-based ability users brought by Lin Yan quickly moved to the right until they met up with the lightning-based user on that side. They simultaneously used their abilities and discovered that the combined power of the two abilities was much greater than before.
The attack power of water-type ability users is extremely low. They had been taking advantage of opportunities, releasing their abilities whenever they detected zombies getting closer to the wall, using the impact force to delay the zombie’s footsteps as much as possible. However, now that they were paired with a lightning-type ability user, the water conductivity allowed the three water-type ability users to concentrate their abilities to form a water curtain and charge at the zombies. The lightning-type ability user only needed to attack the water curtain with their abilities, changing their previous attacks into ones that used the properties of water to attack the zombies that had been hit by the water curtain.
As the leader of the group, Bai Yang had been forcibly taken down from the wall by Liu Yikun and other soldiers when the zombies attacked. However, seeing that this part of the wall was unexpectedly not being attacked by zombie abilities, he climbed back up. But he was forced to squeeze himself between Wen Le and Xiao Wen.
As Bai Yun’s father and having had a fair amount of contact with Wen Le and Bai Yang recently, he naturally couldn’t just sit back and watch him be in danger.
Bai Yang heard Wen Le’s shout to Lin Yan and took a glance in that direction while changing his magazine. He saw that the combination of water and thunder abilities had a significant impact on the attack. He quickly took out his radio and switched it to the public channel.
“Coordinated attack between water and thunder abilities!”
He not only reminded his own soldiers but also had other troops follow suit.
“Han Yifeng! Get down from there! Lin Yan, have those who have exhausted their abilities on your side come down to the bottom of the wall! Stop hogging the space and let the soldiers below come up!” Xiao Wen was the first to notice that Han Yifeng was no longer using his abilities and looked pale, clearly depleted. Resting below was better than wasting bullets up top.
Hearing Xiao Wen’s words, there was no need for Lin Yan to repeat them. Those who had exhausted their abilities on the wall quickly came down, and as soon as the ropes were released, soldiers quickly took their places climbing up.
“Where are the bullets? Did the logistics team all die?!” Bai Yang shouted as he once again unloaded his magazine, looking at the empty box.
“Boss Bai, over here!” As soon as he heard the voice, Li Ran, who had been guarding below the wall, picked up a machine gun along with two bundles of bullets, climbed up the rope and handed them to Bai Yang.
Bai Yang looked at the gun in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then looked down at the wall.
Changed to a machine gun, huh…
Many soldiers on the wall had already put their rifles aside and were attacking with pistols, while others were holding machine guns like Bai Yang.
It seems that the ammunition is running low.
“Report, the 108th division is requesting for bullets…” Before Bai Yang could finish his sentence, he heard the low voice of his superior Yan Weiguo from the other end of the intercom.
“The ammunition depot is out of bullets…”
…
Bai Yang gritted his teeth and picked up his gun.
Finally, Wen Le breathed a sigh of relief. There were no more Level 2 zombies within his psychic range, which meant that the pressure on the aid station would be greatly reduced without the zombies’ long-range attacks.
But before he could let his guard down completely, he felt the sound of gunfire around him decrease.
Looking around, he saw that many soldiers on the wall had already put down their guns.
Wen Le pulled Bai Yang next to him and exclaimed, “What are you all doing? Are you just going to wait and be sitting ducks at a time like this?”
Bai Yang smiled bitterly, “I want to fight too, but how can we fight without any bullets?”
Wen Le’s anxious expression froze, and he slowly let go of the hand he was gripping onto Bai Yang’s collar.
At this point, the ammunition provided by Wen Le had also been exhausted.
As Wen Le locked eyes with Xiao Wen, the latter shook his head.
The military had run out of ammunition, which meant that they had lost the cover of getting bullets from the space.
Wen Le refused to give up.
Just as the situation was improving, with the second-level zombies being eliminated, as long as they continued to work hard, the countless ordinary zombies under the city could be wiped out. But now, they were being told that they couldn’t continue the fight because of a lack of bullets?
Bullets? He had them in his space! But he couldn’t bring them out!
He watched as the zombies that had been suppressed for so long, just ten meters away from the city wall, rushed towards them as their firepower dwindled. He couldn’t accept this!
“All personnel listen up, immediately evacuate the D-level defense line and retreat to the wall!”
Zhang Quanliang’s voice came through the intercom.
Regardless of whether they were willing or not, everyone had to evacuate quickly.
With the suppression on the wall gone, the army of zombies continued to surge towards the wall. Under the enormous pressure, the solid wall began to crack.
Boom!
Boom!
As one section of the wall collapsed, the others followed suit.
The zombies completely broke through the outer walls of the relief station.
The D-level defense line collapsed!
“Brothers, grab your weapons!”
Someone shouted.
All the soldiers who had withdrawn picked up the makeshift knives and sticks that had been distributed on the ground, their arms numb from the recoil of their firearms.
“Kill!”
Humans and zombies officially engaged in close combat.
The weapons in the soldier’s hands were very simple, almost all of them were assembled from machine parts or building materials in a short time.
Some had sharpened iron pipes, some had steel pieces with cloth wrapped around them as handles, and some even had kitchen knives.
Under these conditions, facing zombies who had no pain and could use their nails and teeth as weapons, many people fell down as soon as they met.
In his hands, Wen Le held two curved knives, constantly waving them and getting closer to Xiao Wen, Lin Yan, and the others. Chen Ye and Han Yifeng were not very skilled, in an environment where there were almost only zombies around, if it weren’t for Yin Chengyang and Mo Yan and others to protect them, they would have been scratched by the zombies a long time ago.
“Kill them!”
As the battle line approached the C-level defense line, countless soldiers were wounded and killed. The ordinary survivors stationed on the C-level defense line opened the gate of the inner wall and threw themselves into the battle, regardless of their own safety.
Although the number of survivors outnumbered the soldiers by many times, they lacked the training that the soldiers had accumulated over time, and their ability to attack and resist was much weaker.
But even so, the constantly shrinking battle line stubbornly paused briefly at the cost of many lives.
However, facing the huge number of zombies, the pause of the battle line was extremely short-lived, and it soon began to compress again.
“Xiao Wen! Take me out!” While wielding his sword, Wen Le grabbed Xiao Wen’s hand.
With each flash of his blade, Xiao Wen could easily slice through two or three zombie heads.
“What are you planning?” Xiao Wen asked during a brief pause.
“This can’t go on, we lack firearms and firepower, we’re going to be doomed soon! I want to take a chance and see if we can find that Level 2 Spiritual Zombie,” Wen Le pursed his lips.
Xiao Wen continued to swing his blade, but did not immediately agree to Wen Le’s request.
“We have no other options, this is our only hope. If worst comes to worst, we can still retreat into space. The chaos here is so great that no one will notice us!” Wen Le said anxiously.
After one final swing of his blade, Xiao Wen turned to look at Wen Le with a serious expression.
Ignoring his expression, Wen Le attacked the zombies with numbness in his body.
Seeing Wen Le’s determined face, Xiao Wen ultimately agreed to his proposal.
Although the situation outside was terrible, the two of them were fully capable of hiding in the space before getting hurt.
Xiao Wen grabbed Wen Le and charged into the zombie horde. By the time the others reacted, the two of them had already disappeared.
“Are they crazy?!” Bai Yang, gasping for breath, retreated to the defense line and shouted to Lin Yan.
Lin Yan didn’t know why Xiao Wen and Wen Le would rush in so recklessly. It was agreed beforehand that if they couldn’t hold this position, they would retreat. Lin Yan didn’t think the two of them were so stirred up by the current environment that they were willing to risk their lives to fight the zombies. He couldn’t understand what they relied on to ensure their safety in the midst of the zombie horde.
Xiao Wen quickly carried Wen Le and flew over the zombie horde, using the heads of the zombies as stepping stones.
Despite Xiao Wen’s best efforts, it still took them a while to reach the back of the zombie horde.
Nothing!
Maximizing his spiritual power, Wen Le scattered it out but didn’t detect any mental fluctuations, let alone the psychic zombie.
“Let’s go, stick to the outer perimeter and circle around! The psychic range of a second-level psychic zombie is not large, so it must be somewhere near the outer edge!”
As long as this psychic zombie hasn’t evolved to the third level, Wen Le’s ability is definitely stronger than it, comparable to that of a second-level psychic ability user.
As long as that zombie wants to control the horde, it won’t be too far away. Wen Le’s spiritual power range far exceeds it, enough for him to find it!
Xiao Wen sliced the zombie that was counterattacking them with one slash and, following Wen Le’s instructions, started running around the outskirts of the zombie horde.
Wen Le furrowed his brows and observed carefully, not missing any tiny details.
It wasn’t until the two of them had circled around half of the rescue station that Wen Le suddenly sensed a faint spiritual fluctuation.
Wen Le tightly squeezed Xiao Wen’s shoulder and, following the direction of the fluctuation, searched with all her might until she found the second-level spiritual zombie.
“Quickly! Over there! It’s trying to escape!” Wen Le yelled loudly while lying on Xiao Wen’s shoulder.
Xiao Wen followed Wen Le’s direction and rushed over.
“TMD!” The zombie couldn’t run as fast as Xiao Wen, but as the two got closer, he couldn’t help but curse.
This second-level psychic zombie is really afraid of death. It was surrounded by nearly 10,000 zombies, many of which were other second-level zombies.
Just as a row of ice arrows narrowly shot in front of Xiao Wen and Wen Le the latter took Xiao Wen and flashed into the space.
“What should we do?” Wen Le collapsed on the grass and asked, while Xiao Wen also collapsed beside his.
Xiao Wen took a deep breath and didn’t begin thinking about Wen Le’s question until he no longer felt suffocated in his chest.
“We can’t eliminate those nearly ten thousand zombies even if we become superheroes in a short time,” said Xiao Wen helplessly.
Wen Le frowned anxiously, his eyes wandering around.
Suddenly, Wen Le’s eyes lit up.
“Did you collect any bombs among the weapons you collected?”
Xiao Wen thought for a moment, “Yes! But the blast range is not large. Bombs with a large blast range cannot be bought on the black market.”
After Xiao Wen finished speaking, he and Wen Le looked at each other, both with surprise in their eyes.
The small blast range doesn’t matter, what if they throw a few with a larger range?!
Pulling up Xiao Wen, Wen Le quickly ran towards the warehouse. He didn’t know much about the types of bombs, so he left it to Xiao Wen to find them.
In a short while, Xiao Wen came out of the warehouse holding a pile of bombs.
“When I throw them out later, we’ll go back to the space,” Xiao Wen cautioned carefully before going out.
The power of these bombs was enough to blow them both to pieces.
Wen Le nodded solemnly, and the next moment, the two of them appeared again in the midst of the zombie tide.
The second-level psychic zombie that was still in the area had run away, but it was still within the range of Wen Le’s psychic power. Pointing in the direction, the two of them hurried over.
This time, they didn’t have to wait for the attack of other second-level zombies. Xiao Wen lit the fuse of the bomb and threw it directly into the zombie horde.
At the moment the bomb left his hand, Wen Le pulled Xiao Wen back into the space.
After waiting for two seconds, the bomb outside had almost exploded. Xiao Wen held another bomb in his hand and waited for another three seconds to be safe.
With the same action, the large pile of bombs that Xiao Wen had carried out were thrown into the zombie horde one by one by the two of them.
“That’s about it,” Xiao Wen estimated.
Throughout their exits from the space, while throwing the bombs, Wen Le had been keeping a close eye on the surrounding environment, fearing that they might be attacked by fire from the zombie horde before the bombs could be thrown. Therefore, he hadn’t had a chance to continue monitoring the level 2 psychic zombie. Just before the last bomb was thrown, Wen Le took a quick glance and saw that the nearly ten thousand zombies had been reduced to just a few, and even though some of them were not completely dead, it would not affect Wen Le’s attack on the level 2 psychic zombie.
“Let’s go!” Wen Le climbed onto Xiao Wen’s back. He was responsible for reconnaissance, but they would still rely on Xiao Wen’s speed for the actual attack.
However, when the two of them appeared again on the devastated ground, Wen Le had completely lost track of the level 2 psychic zombie.
“This can’t be.” Wen Le frowned. The speed of a psychic zombie wouldn’t be very fast, and it didn’t make sense that it had disappeared so quickly.
Xiao Wen looked at the pile of zombie debris and asked, “Do you think it could have been blown up?”
Wen Le thought it made sense, so he carefully covered his psychic power over the large pit created by the bomb.
Searching inch by inch, he finally found the crystal nucleus that represented the second-level psychic zombie.
During the search, Wen Le didn’t spare the zombies that had lost their limbs in the explosion, shooting them one by one until all the zombies were killed.
Wen Le got off Xiao Wen’s back, walked into the pile of corpses, and took out a small knife to open up a skull and remove a silver-glowing crystal from the center.
“This is it.” Wen Le put the crystal into a plastic bag and used his psychic power to examine every head of a second-level zombie. He didn’t miss a single one.
The crystal nucleus, for the future, almost replaced the value of gold and circulated as a currency among various bases after the apocalypse.
If they wanted to establish their own power, they would inevitably have to deal with other bases, and crystal nuclei were a necessity.
Xiao Wen furrowed his brow and watched as Wen Le stirred the brain matter one by one, “Is this thing useful?”
Wen Le didn’t notice Xiao Wen’s twisted expression and nodded, “This thing is called a crystal nucleus and will become the currency of circulation in the apocalypse.”
Since Wen Le said so, Xiao Wen had to endure the nausea and work with him to pick out the crystals in the sticky mess.
As the two of them continued to collect the crystal nuclei, the survivors at the rescue station couldn’t help but cheer.
After Xiao Wen and Wen Le left, the front line of the battle between humans and zombies had retreated to the B-level defense line. After all, the warehouse complex did not have a unified wall, and the zombie tide had flooded in through the gaps between the warehouses.
As the humans retreated, facing the danger of extinction, a deafening roar in the distance momentarily bewildered the survivors.
The military had run out of ammunition, so what did this sound mean? Who made the noise?
After the first deafening sound, before people could react, there were several more loud explosions in succession. When the sound of the explosions finally subsided, people suddenly realized that the previously rampaging zombie horde had slowed down.
“Charge!” A loud shout came from somewhere, waking up those who were still dazed.
As the zombie horde finally slowed down, why not take the opportunity to fight back?!
With the horde’s movements finally slowed down, what were they waiting for to counterattack?!
With the human’s final counterattack, the horde surprisingly ceased their advance and slowly retreated.
As the horde finally left the rescue station and slowly disappeared in the direction they came from, all the surviving humans let out a cry of relief.
Some cried, some laughed, some were excited for their success, and some were grieving for the dead.
In this moment, people indulged in all their emotions, eventually converging into a roar of cheers that echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
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