The zombies, a sea of them (perhaps a sea of green?), surged over Dragon Roar Mountain and had reached the foot of Phoenix Cry Mountain.
The snipers on the watchtower had already begun their deadly work.
"Rockets! Clear the obstacles ahead!"
Wang Zhihai shouted, shouldering a 120mm recoilless rifle.
Everyone now wore Bluetooth headsets, using walkie-talkies as relays to clearly hear commands.
Immediately, three rockets, trailing flames, streaked forward, carving a narrow path for the zombies.
The zombie horde was too vast; it was better to divert than to block. Instead of letting them surround the entire mountainside and pile up like logs, a small path was opened for them to charge up.
Although the zombies had a semblance of discipline, their intelligence hadn't improved much. They couldn't discern that this suddenly appearing path was a trap.
The lead zombie, in its presbyopic vision, saw an opening ahead. It let out a long roar and led the horde charging forward.
This delighted Wang Zhihai and his men. They quickly returned to the machine gun positions, suppressing the charging zombies with a rhythm of short bursts.
The accuracy of the domestically produced light machine guns was very high with these rhythmic bursts. The charging zombies fell like wheat stalks, one wave after another, their bodies piling up before tumbling down the mountainside due to gravity.
Even with the small path deliberately opened by Wang Zhihai, it was still difficult for the zombies to ascend. However, due to their sheer numbers, some would inevitably clamber up. Seeing the path again, they’d squeeze through, creating the illusion of "harvesting wheat."
In reality, Wang Zhihai knew that they had only eliminated about three hundred zombies so far, with many more preparing to pile up layer by layer at the mountain's base.
If viewed from the sky, the foot of Phoenix Cry Mountain, in the direction of Lin Yuan's position, would show little trace of vegetation, having been covered by another kind of green.
The zombies charged relentlessly towards the source of the sound on the mountain, having lost the strange discipline warned about in the safe zones. Now, they were no different from ordinary zombies.
"Sniper team, excellent work!"
Lin Yuan had also observed this phenomenon and knew the sniper team had performed admirably, eliminating the commanding zombie within the enemy horde.
"No problem, Captain. We were just guessing, but we actually hit it by chance. This commanding zombie is truly tough. After shattering its head, another, more disgusting one grew, and it took a sniper grenade to finish it. Just like the people from the convoy we encountered last time. It's strange."
Hearing Mu Qingtian's words through the earpiece, Lin Yuan's heart skipped a beat. This damned thing again?
That meant there was a possibility of more commanding-type zombies appearing.
As if on cue, after a silence of less than two minutes, the zombie horde began to advance upwards with renewed order.
Lin Yuan even spotted through his binoculars that the zombies were splitting into two groups. The common fungal mutant variants charged along the path Lin Yuan's team had blasted open, still in a staggered advance. Meanwhile, the Alpha variants, adept at climbing, and other high-tier variants were flanking through the woods.
Three Nightmares, two Ghasts, and six Alpha variants had bypassed the firing arcs of the machine gun positions and were moving at high speed towards the camp.
"Zi Qi, put on your gas mask and move out. Sniper team, quickly eliminate the commanding zombie you find!"
As he spoke, several high-tier variants had already charged forward. A Nightmare and a Ghast had already been dealt with by Mu Qingtian and Wu Tian.
"Within 2 minutes, the Ghast's corpse took a bit longer." As long as the neural spheres within their bodies weren't absorbed, the tentacles were quite efficient.
Lin Yuan remained silent, only nodding. He continued reloading his weapon, spinning the cylinder back into place.
Immediately, good news came through the earpiece: the "newly appointed" commanding zombie in the horde had been eliminated.
"Attention all units, attention all units. The flanking high-tier variants have been neutralized. Focus on blocking the zombies ascending the mountain."
"Understood!"