Heaven perhaps heard Lin Yuan's doubts. Ten minutes later, just as the flames were about to reach them, a dazzlingly fierce purple lightning bolt split through the long-silent clouds. Immediately following was a thunderous boom that shook the very air, scattering the clouds and making one's eardrums ache.
This was merely an overture. The scene that followed was as if the Jade Emperor's Ling Xiao Bao Dian had been smashed to pieces by Sun Wukong, with the nectar of the Yao Pool spilled from the heavens.
It was as if the sky tilted to the northwest, and the Heavenly River poured into the human world.
When raindrops the size of a baby's fist struck his face, splashing water everywhere, Lin Yuan finally recovered from the overwhelming heavenly might.
The flames that had been raging in the forest moments before were now like withered cucumber strips on a thin bamboo pole, devoid of their world-devouring ferocity.
They were forced to retreat under the assault of the heavy rain.
"Captain, what do we do next?"
Zhu Mingjun's voice suddenly came through the headset. Lin Yuan remembered that they were all wearing Bluetooth earpieces!
"Everyone take off your earpieces, turn off the intercom, and act according to hand signals! Sniper team on the watchtower, retreat to the second-floor windows. Meng Yue, take the weapons and equipment directly to Position One, quickly!"
The others were initially puzzled. It wasn't until they saw the scene of silver serpents dancing in the sky that they understood. Wearing Bluetooth earpieces now was suicidal. They all followed Lin Yuan's orders.
After completing the basic lightning protection measures, Lin Yuan returned to the position. Although these weapons and equipment could also attract lightning, these life-saving items couldn't be abandoned at such a time.
Just as everyone fell silent, Jiang Ziqi suddenly asked, "Captain, have we covered our potato greenhouses?"
Lin Yuan: "??????"
Other team members: "????????"
Sister, at a time like this, you're still thinking about potatoes.
But surprisingly, Wu Tian took over and answered seriously, "Don't worry, I just checked this morning. They're covered, not much rain will get in."
The potato fields were located behind the area where those night demons and evil spirits had come from, and the road was very difficult to traverse. The zombies probably wouldn't bother with these greenhouse fields.
Although it wasn't the right time to talk about this, everyone felt a sense of relief. Indeed, the safety of food held an important position in the eyes of the Chinese people.
The team members were preparing to use this opportunity to liven up the atmosphere, but Lin Yuan raised his hand to stop them. The sniper team on the watchtower reported that zombies were approaching.
Mu Qingtian even ran over desperately, shouting as she ran, "Captain! Two large piles of zombie aggregations are climbing up!!!"
Upon hearing "zombie aggregations," Lin Yuan had already begun loading the HJ-12.
"Quick, quick, quick, bring out all the remaining armor-piercing rounds and grenades. A big one is coming."
Then he turned and asked, "Sister Qingtian, how big is that thing?"
"It's about the size of a small two-story villa, its outer shell is charred black, and I can only see many zombies stretching their limbs out from inside to move."
What is this thing?
A new species, a zombie tortoise?
Or zombie pill bugs??
"Whatever it is, everyone load armor-piercing rounds and prepare to fire!!"
The high-explosive rounds were gone, but there were still four or five remaining 120mm armor-piercing rounds. The HJ-12's armor-piercing incendiary and armor-piercing high-explosive rounds were not yet depleted.
This zombie aggregation, which resembled a low-quality game promotional video from the past, crawled surprisingly fast and had excellent balance, with no top-heavy appearance.
Seeing this zombie aggregation, Lin Yuan suddenly understood. This wasn't a small villa; it was a small mountain, a mountain of corpses formed by zombies, thick at the bottom and thin at the top, with a very stable center of gravity.
"Fire!!"
Before the two things could get close, Lin Yuan gave the order to fire. The first to attack were the HJ-12 and the 120mm armor-piercing rounds. After several shots, a dumbfounding situation occurred. There was no scattering of corpses as expected, nor did the mountain of corpses crumble as imagined. The shells only made the thing swell a little.
What's going on?
Does this thing eat artillery shells?
Lin Yuan, of course, refused to believe it and continued to fire rockets into the large holes created by the explosions on the two zombie aggregations.
After all, it was composed of carbon-based life forms. This corpse mountain had not practiced the "Sky Devouring" technique. After Lin Yuan and the others completely expended their rockets, it finally couldn't withstand it, stopped advancing, its size growing larger and larger, and then with two loud bangs.
It exploded.
Shards of corpses flew everywhere, but among the flying debris, most were zombies with intact mobility and limbs!
And many zombies flew directly into the camp, where there were children and three nurses!
Seeing this, Lin Yuan knew it was bad and roared, "Leave four people to guard, everyone else return to defend the base, quickly!!"
The team members at Position Two heard Lin Yuan's roar and, after leaving guards, rushed back into the camp.
Lin Qingyan, Sun Qin, Wu Mengyao, and the others who were resting in the center of the camp also noticed the commotion.
Seeing the children becoming somewhat panicked, Wu Mengyao, as the eldest sister, quickly stepped forward and said, "Don't panic, everyone, let's retreat! Let's let the zombies get closer before shooting. Brother Lin Yuan and the others will definitely come back to save us, so don't friendly fire!"
Lin Qingyan, who had intended to come out to stabilize the emotions, smiled with relief at Wu Mengyao's maturity and calmness and retreated with them.
The flying zombies numbered at least a hundred. Fortunately, Lin Qingyan and Zhou Ping were holding the Type 95-1, with the small pistol shooters like Sun Qin assisting, they managed to hold back the flying zombies.
With the timely arrival of Lin Yuan and the others, the flying zombies were quickly eliminated.
However, fate is unpredictable, and nothing is absolute. The flying zombies did not all land in the same location. Two zombies flew in and landed behind the house without Lin Qingyan and the others noticing.
Jiang Ziqi had just recovered from the battle, and just as she was about to remind them, she saw the zombies charging forward one after another.
The first to be affected was Liu Ziyi. His pistol was out of ammunition. After the day's fighting and the recent battle, his three spare magazines had been depleted.
He could only keep firing his empty gun, but not a single bullet came out.
In a moment of crisis, Lin Yuan's adrenaline surged. He rushed forward, knocked the leading zombie away, and then tightly protected Liu Ziyi. Even though the slightly trailing zombie had already opened its mouth to bite, he had no regrets.
He, Lin Yuan, had said he would bring everyone to the safe zone safely, and he would keep his promise! Pao Ge does things, never backs down!
"Bang!"
He didn't feel the bite of the zombie. Instead, he heard the sound of the zombie falling to the ground behind him.
He looked up and saw Sun Qin holding his pistol with brows furrowed like a sword, staring at the fallen zombie.
The bullet hanging around his neck had been sent into the zombie's head.
After confirming that the zombie was dead, Sun Qin looked at Lin Yuan, who had already stood up, and said, pointing to the broken red string around his neck, "Brother Lin Yuan, I told you it was fine to just tie it without making a hole, see? I made a great contribution now, hahahaha!!"
Sun Qin stood with his hands on his hips, very pleased with himself.
The team members stared at him for a moment, then erupted in thunderous cheers, wanting to rush over and lift him up to celebrate. That shot was incredibly crucial.
Unfortunately, the battle was not over.
They could only give Sun Qin thumbs-up one by one.
"Well done, Sun kid!"
"Nicely done!"
"Little brother Sun is amazing!"
"..."
Sun Qin: "(｢･w･)｢ Hehehe~"
"Captain, the zombies are rushing again."
"Bang bang, bang bang bang."
The sound of machine gun bursts rang out.
"Why is there still machine gun fire?" Lin Yuan, who was about to return to his position, couldn't help but feel puzzled.
"It's Captain Zeng Yilong and his team! Our reinforcements have arrived!"
"Great!!!"
Finally, they're here!!!