146: The zombie horde has broken out ahead of schedule, with fifteen level 5 monsters launching a surprise attack!

The sound was sharp and urgent, carrying a heart-palpitating sense of impending crisis.

Countless birds in the forest were startled, flapping their wings as they took to the sky.

Lu Sheng's movements as he reached for something suddenly froze.

He straightened up, his brow furrowing instantly, his gaze shooting toward the port like lightning.

"Level 1 combat alert?"

According to Chen Yan's previous intelligence, the Corpse Tide was not supposed to arrive until tomorrow.

How could it have arrived a full 24 hours early?!

"Something has gone wrong."

Lu Sheng made a decisive choice, abandoning the idea of continuing his search.

"Boom!"

Lu Sheng exerted force with his feet, and the ground instantly exploded, leaving a two-meter-wide crater.

Like an arrow released from a bow, he shot forward with a piercing sonic boom, leaving a white afterimage through the dense forest as he sprinted at full speed toward the port at the foot of the mountain!

Meanwhile, at the Shuangjian Peak Port command post.

The atmosphere was so heavy it felt as if it might drip water.

Zhang Yi and Chen Yan stared fixedly at the massive radar screen before them, their expressions grim to the extreme.

On the edge of the screen, the once-calm black expanse of the sea was now completely covered by a dense swarm of red dots.

Numbering in the thousands, those red dots were like a red flood, advancing toward Shuangjian Peak Port at a terrifying speed that made one's scalp tingle!

"How could it be this fast?!"

Zhang Yi's hand gripping the radio was trembling slightly, his forehead slick with cold sweat. "The scout ship didn't detect anything half an hour ago. Did these beasts crawl out from the bottom of the sea?!"

Chen Yan's expression was as dark as water, a flash of sternness in his eyes.

"Regardless of how they got here, since they've arrived, we have to fight!"

Chen Yan spun around and roared at the communications officer, "Notify all units! Abort the rest period! All personnel to combat stations!!"

"Get all the heavy weapons out here!"

Just then, the radar operator suddenly shouted in terror:

"Report! A high-energy source has been detected at the center of the Corpse Tide!"

"Quantity... one, two, three... fifteen!"

"Energy signature... suspected Level 5 Floating Corpses!"

"Woo—woo—!"

The piercing sound of the alarm echoed over the port.

In the past, whenever this sound rang out, the soldiers would likely have worn expressions of numbness and despair.

Because it meant having to go hungry again, clutching their dwindling ammunition, and throwing themselves into a bottomless pit.

But today was different.

"All units, Level 1 combat readiness! Move, move, move!"

"Machine gunners, take your positions! Bring up the ammo crates! Don't bother saving it, fire until they're dead!"

In the trenches and behind bunkers, soldiers in uniform deftly mounted their heavy machine guns. The sound of bolts racking—clack, clack—merged into a symphony of steel.

Their faces were flushed with health, a confidence born from having just eaten their fill of braised pork and rice.

There was no fear in their eyes, only a fierce intensity, like wolves eyeing sheep.

Having eaten the meat, they were bound to the giver.

Having eaten the meat Major Lu provided, they would lay their lives on the line today!

At the very front of the defensive line.

Zhou Hai leaned against a sandbag fortification with a freshly lit cigarette in his mouth, cradling a six-barreled Gatling gun with a polished, gleaming barrel.

"Pah!"

Zhou Hai spat out a piece of tobacco, watching the churning, boiling sea in the distance, a look of annoyance on his face.

"Damn it. I just ate my fill and was looking for a place to walk it off, and these bastards just had to show up."

Zhao Ze stood beside him with a grim expression and said in a low voice, "Don't be careless. The size of this Corpse Tide is significant."

Su Li said nothing, merely materializing the Shura Bloodblade in silence, its edge glinting with a bloodthirsty, cold light under the searchlights.

"Splash!"

The sound of crashing waves rang out.

The vanguard of the first wave of the Corpse Tide finally burst from the sea!

They were thousands of amphibious Floating Corpses, possessing webbed, razor-sharp claws and blue-gray skin. Agile as apes, they roared as they scrambled up the embankments and mudflats, charging toward the defensive line like a pack of rabid beasts.

As the pale beams of the searchlights swept over them, the dense mass of pale limbs and twisted faces was enough to make anyone with trypophobia drop dead on the spot.

"Five hundred meters!"

"Three hundred meters!"

Standing on the high platform, Zhang Yi watched the surging Corpse Tide, then suddenly swung his arm down and roared:

"Fire!"

"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

In an instant, the defensive line at Shuangjian Peak Port transformed into an erupting volcano!

Hundreds of heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, and automatic rifles spewed dazzling tongues of fire simultaneously.

Countless orange-red tracer rounds wove a dense, impenetrable web of death across the night sky, carrying enough kinetic energy to tear through anything as they slammed into the Corpse Tide.

Thanks to Lu Sheng having emptied the Lingyuan Association's warehouse, the defensive line was now stocked with an outrageously large amount of ammunition.

The density of their firepower was more than triple what it had been before!

"Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!"

The hundreds of Floating Corpses in the front were instantly shredded into bloody sieves.

Black flesh flew everywhere, and severed limbs danced in the air.

It felt as if a high-pressure water cannon was blasting through a pile of muck; the vanguard of the Corpse Tide was forcibly shaved away layer by layer!

"Awesome! This is so damn awesome!"

Zhou Hai clamped down on the trigger, the barrels of his Gatling gun spinning rapidly as hot shell casings piled up into a small mountain at his feet.

"Come on! You were screeching so happily just a moment ago, weren't you?!"

"Eat a full clip from me!"

The soldiers fought with increasing fluidity, even beginning to fire in rhythmic bursts and provide cross-covering fire.

This was not an evenly matched battle at all.

This was a battle of abundance!

Standing at the command console, Zhang Yi watched the scene unfold, his eyes growing slightly warm.

This was the battle he had dreamed of!

This was what a human army should look like!

Not like beggars, counting every bullet just to survive!

However.

Just as everyone was immersed in the thrill of their overwhelming firepower.

"Thud!"

A dull, deafening boom suddenly erupted from the deep sea, drowning out even the dense roar of gunfire and artillery.

Immediately after.

The surface of the sea five hundred meters in front of the defensive line began to churn violently, like boiling water.

Over a dozen massive shadows, each as large as a small hill, charged through the dense rain of bullets and burst from the water with a roar!

Their colossal shadows instantly loomed over the entire front of the port!