8: Chapter 8 Zombies? These are all survival coins!

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Accompanied by the continuous sound of gunfire, the zombies surrounding the Blockhouse began to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The five arisaka type 38 rifles had all been fully loaded with ammunition beforehand.

After Chen Ze finished the bullets in one rifle, he immediately switched to another, not daring to delay for even a second.

"Hahaha, satisfying!"

Chen Ze laughed out loud, his eyes filled with excitement.

Ever since he was betrayed by his good brother, he had been paying off debts every day, busy with life, like a spinning top whipped by fate, without a moment to catch his breath.

But now, having arrived in this other world, the debts were gone, and the worries that had made him unable to breathe were gone too.

"Since Heaven has given me a chance to turn my life around, this time, I must seize it!"

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out again. Even though Chen Ze's marksmanship wasn't great, the zombies below were practically shoulder-to-shoulder; any shot would hit, so there was no need for skill.

Just as Chen Ze was about to continue shooting, he suddenly noticed a faint white mist floating in mid-air above the zombie that had just been shot.

"Hmm? What is that? Could it be dropped loot?"

Chen Ze frowned and tried to distinguish it carefully, but the Blockhouse was a full four stories high, and with many zombies surging around below, it was really difficult to see what was hidden within that mist.

"Forget it, I'll just kill the zombies first."

Knowing that items could drop, Chen Ze became even more enthusiastic about killing zombies, only taking a moment to rest after all the bullets in the five arisaka type 38 rifles were cleared.

He rubbed his shoulder, which was aching from the recoil of the rifle butt, but his eyes never left the scene below for a moment.

By now, the number of zombies surrounding the Blockhouse had decreased by nearly half, and two white light orbs and one green light orb were dotted among them, looking very much like candies on a Black Forest cake.

"Two more light orbs dropped! This first blood title is really not bad!"

He touched the medal on his chest, feeling fortunate that he had chosen the random Fortress at the beginning. Otherwise, facing this swarm of zombies, he would probably be struggling painfully just like the others, right?

Taking advantage of the gap while reloading, Chen Ze looked around.

Compared to him, the other survivors were clearly not having such an easy time.

He saw that outside a house not far away, a group of zombies was frantically scratching at the doors and windows.

"Awoo!"

"Creak, creak!"

The roars of the zombies and the friction of sharp claws scratching the door sounded exactly like the heartless whispers of the Grim Reaper.

Inside the house was a family of three; the man was desperately pushing a wardrobe, trying to block it in front of the window to fend off the zombies' attack.

"Mommy, mommy, I'm scared!"

A four or five-year-old girl was clutching her mother's thigh tightly. Being so small, she didn't know what was happening, but the terrifying figures outside the window and the shrill roars still filled her tender heart with fear.

"Yunyun, don't be afraid. As long as Mommy and Daddy are here, we won't let those monsters hurt you!"

The woman forced herself to suppress her fear, crouched down, scooped up the child, and curled into a corner, trembling like a leaf.

Her tears could not stop sliding from her eyes, and her heart was filled with despair.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a loud crash, the entire plastic-steel window finally could not bear the load and completely collapsed.

"It's over! It's completely over!"

The man stopped what he was doing and stood there dumbfounded, the last glimmer of hope for survival in his heart completely extinguished.

But just at this moment, a strange situation occurred.

Those hideous zombies seemed not to have discovered the passage to enter the room; they were still frantically scratching and roaring hideously at the family of three inside.

"If you don't want to die, pick up your weapons and slaughter them all! Otherwise, once your durability drops to 0, you won't have such good luck!"

The one shouting was naturally Chen Ze.

He saw it clearly; in fact, the zombies had long since broken through other windows, yet they were still scratching unconsciously. That was why he deduced this setting.

Not only that, Chen Ze also noticed that the zombies besieging the others were clearly much fewer than those on his side. Even though he had already killed nearly half, there were still over thirty, while there were only twenty-something over there.

As for the reason, Chen Ze felt it was probably because his Fortress was a bit more awesome than everyone else's, right?

"Hurry! If you dawdle any longer, it'll be too late!"

He spoke again.

In his memory, this family of three should have lived upstairs from him; they were always polite and nodded in greeting whenever they met.

Most importantly, they hadn't stood with Manager Guo and those people today.

"Th-they can't climb through the window?"

After Chen Ze's reminder, the man woke up as if from a dream. He turned to look at his terrified wife and daughter, his eyes instantly bloodshot.

"Fuck your mother! I'll fight you bastards to the death!"

The man grabbed a kitchen knife, rushed to the window in two steps, and slashed at the zombie horde without hesitation.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

He slashed three or four times in a row until a zombie's head was forcefully chopped off. That hideous face finally fell, and it went completely limp.

"It's... dead! It's dead!"

The man shouted as if to boost his own morale, waving the kitchen knife in his hand frantically.

Chen Ze looked at the man and took a deep breath.

"Whether you can survive or not depends on yourself."

He knew well that in this strange Fortress survival game, one must absolutely not play the saint. He had already done his best by speaking up to warn them.

He glanced in the direction of Yang Wei's house and found that there were only twenty-something zombies surrounding it. Moreover, several windows had protective bars, so it should be considered safe for the time being.

Recalling the agreement he had made with Wang Yalan earlier, Chen Ze curled his lips.

"I only agreed to help you if I had spare capacity. As for whether you can hold out until then, that's not my concern."

The few arisaka type 38 rifles were all reloaded with bullets, and Chen Ze began a new round of harvesting.

"Ding, congratulations on killing an F-rank zombie, rewarded with 10 survival coins!"

"Ding, congratulations on killing an F-rank zombie, rewarded with 10 survival coins!"

Accompanied by a series of system notifications, the zombies fell down with thuds, and Chen Ze's survival coins were increasing rapidly.

At this moment, in Chen Ze's eyes, the zombies below were no longer a threat; they were all glittering gold coins!

Some were happy, some were worried.

Dozens of meters away, the atmosphere in Yang Wei's home had dropped to freezing point.

"Xiaolan, didn't you already make an agreement with that guy surnamed Chen? Why isn't he coming to help yet!"

Yang Wei watched the shelter durability on the Fortress panel dropping rapidly, and he was so anxious he was stomping his feet.

Unlike Chen Ze's Blockhouse, Yang Wei's home was a normal commercial apartment with a defense value of only a mere 2 points. During this time of the zombie siege, the durability had dropped to 38 points, and it was on the verge of being breached.

"I knew that guy was unreliable; he took so many things from us and didn't do the job!"

Wang Yalan's body, curled up in the corner, was trembling slightly. She was terrified by those hideous zombies, but hearing her husband's words, she couldn't help but frown.

"Yang Wei, what time do you think it is? Instead of thinking about how to kill these zombies, you are pinning all your hopes of survival on someone else. Are you... are you even a man?"