146: Zombie Attack

Woo! ...... The entire Shelter's alarm sounded.

Tian Ming frowned tightly: "On the public channel, tell the Shelter defense personnel to bring their weapons and all come to the city wall."

At this moment, Doggo ran over and handed a pair of glasses to Tian Ming.

"What is this?" Tian Ming asked.

"AR glasses, still in the testing phase, developed by Zhang Mengqi and Ye Fan. I don't understand them either, Boss, you put them on and see."

Tian Ming nodded slightly and put on the glasses. Instantly, a bird's-eye map of the Shelter appeared before his eyes, with the satellite high above directly marking the horde of zombies ahead.

In the southwest direction, there were dense red dots, each representing a zombie. In the upper right corner of the screen, there was also a counter, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty-eight, which was still continuously increasing. But the zombies were not attacking; they were still gathering.

It felt as if they were being commanded by someone. At this moment, Meng Xian also ascended the city wall, also wearing glasses. He had just come out of the confinement room not long ago, and he had become noticeably thinner.

"Boss, this wave of zombies means trouble," Meng Xian said.

"Indeed," Tian Ming nodded.

He glanced at Meng Xian and asked, "After the punishment, are you holding up? You look like you've lost weight."

Meng Xian smiled and shook his head: "No big problem, I'm a Second-Class Ability User after all, with self-healing abilities. The weight I lost will be back in four or five days."

"Good, then. The Shelter's defense will be under your command. I won't interfere; let's see how you command," Tian Ming said.

"Understood, Boss." Meng Xian nodded and began to arrange the city wall's defense via the public channel.

Tian Ming stood on the city wall. These zombies came at just the right time; if they had attacked when he was out, the Shelter would undoubtedly have suffered significant losses.

Currently, seventy percent of the Shelter's defense personnel are from Hua Xin Group. All these people have undergone military training, and nearly a hundred of them are mutated Ability Users. By letting Meng Xian command, Tian Ming wanted to see if the Shelter could defend itself if he wasn't present.

Shen Yuan stood beside Tian Ming, watching the increasing number of zombies in the distance, and couldn't help but frown and say, "Boss, aren't you going to deal with those two big guys in the zombie horde first?"

"No rush. I'll make my move when they get closer. I wonder if those two big guys have evolved Red Crystal Cores."

For Tian Ming, only Corpse Kings that had evolved Red Crystal Cores were valuable to him; he had no interest in ordinary zombies.

At this moment, Iron Dude and Dr. Qiao communicated with Tian Ming via radio waves. Tian Ming frowned; he actually felt Iron Dude and Dr. Qiao's fear.

Dr. Qiao's fear was understandable, but Iron Dude was already at the quasi-Corpse King level, so why was he afraid? Could it be that those two big guys were more highly evolved than him?

At this moment, the vast horde of zombies in front began to move, with their number fluctuating around thirty-five thousand. They spread across the land, like a tide, surging towards the Shelter's city wall.

"Everyone prepare to fire! At the five-hundred-meter line, single-person rocket launchers, cover areas for Group One, Group Two, and Group Three. Coordinate coverage according to the map coordinates. Don't all fire at the same spot and waste ammunition!" Meng Xian's voice rang out on the public channel.

"Group One, understood!"

"Group Two, understood!"

"Group Three, understood!"

"Everyone else, open fire in staggered volleys according to your firepower allocation."

"Understood!"

The Shelter's defense was a typical trench warfare. Facing zombies, as long as firepower was coordinated properly, it was no different from playing tower defense. Below the city wall, ammunition was continuously transported up, while drones scouted the air, making the entire situation around the Shelter crystal clear.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The zombie tide reached five hundred meters. With a command from Meng Xian, the first wave of single-person rocket launchers opened fire.

"All fire units, proceed according to the planned schedule. Firepower coverage extends to the zombie horde ahead, ensuring no blind spots!" Meng Xian's voice echoed on the public channel.

Booming explosions continued. As far as the eye could see, flames soared into the sky and smoke billowed. The first wave of firepower directly covered the zombie horde ahead.

The zombies at the very front were covered in a thick layer of metallic cuticles. The rocket launchers seemed powerful, but their effect was not good.

In the smoke and dust, the zombie horde's advance was only delayed for a moment before they continued to push forward. Meng Xian was a bit dumbfounded; he had originally thought that the first wave of firepower would eliminate at least one-tenth, but the effect was extremely poor. In the image projected by the AR glasses, the number only decreased by about one percent.

"What are you standing there for, open fire!" With Meng Xian's command, the heavy machine guns on the city wall began to roar.

Tat-tat-tat! ......

On the city wall, firepower was unleashed, and ammunition poured out like rain. Rows of bullet streams dragged trails of fire. The bullets equipped by these heavy machine guns were armor-piercing rounds, and when they hit the Metal Zombies, the sparks that splattered formed a continuous sheet.

The heavy machine guns on the city wall continuously spewed fire. Some zombies hit by machine gun bullets were merely pierced through their bodies, yet they continued forward without any sensation of pain. These zombies would only completely lose their mobility when they were entirely blown to pieces.

The zombie horde seemed boundless, advancing one after another, showing no fear of death whatsoever. The entire horde dispersed, as if someone were commanding them.

Three minutes later, the leading zombies had approached within thirty meters of the south city wall. The previously dug trench had long been filled with snow, and some zombies directly fell into it.

Boom! Someone threw a grenade into the trench. Instantly, shrapnel flew, almost hitting the defending soldiers on the city wall. This distance was too close; throwing a grenade at such close range was suicide.

Meng Xian cursed loudly on the command channel: "Which imbecile threw that grenade? Are you sent by the zombies, you damn idiot?!"

"Everyone, maintain the firing line fifty meters outside the city wall! Ability User squads, you go down and deal with the zombies that get within fifty meters of the city wall," Meng Xian said.

On the city wall, heavy machine gun fire continued, but the offensive had slowed somewhat. The Ability User squads, totaling over a hundred people in twenty groups, unleashed a continuous stream of abilities like heat generation and confinement after they went down. Although they only had one or two abilities, the difference between humans and zombies was that humans understood cooperation.

Below the city wall, the members of the Ability User squads displayed their strength, with various abilities emerging endlessly, temporarily suppressing the zombie offensive.

However, as time passed, the number of zombies increased, and their offensive became more intense. The heavy machine gun fire on the city wall, however, began to show signs of faltering; over a dozen heavy machine guns fired and reloaded in rotation. One battle alone would likely exhaust all the reserved ammunition.

Tian Ming sighed slightly, seeing this situation. It seemed it still wasn't enough. The number of zombies reached over thirty thousand, while the number of defenders was less than nine hundred. The numerical disparity was too great; even with the support of heavy firepower, it was difficult to withstand a group of zombies that felt no pain and had no fear of death.

It was time to act. Tian Ming's eyes narrowed, and he leaped directly from the city wall.