103: A tough defensive battle

Seeing that Qin Shilei completely ignored Liu Min's explanation and chopped off the opponent's head with a single sword, everyone felt a chill envelop their entire bodies.

It was also their first time seeing Qin Shilei's ruthless side.

Qin Shilei returned to the high platform, "Anyone who still wants to leave the 007 Corps can step forward immediately."

A moment later, three people still left, each with more than ten others.

As for the remaining people, the first reason was that they had enjoyed the benefits of the 007 Corps for the past three days, so they were reluctant to leave.

When an irresistible danger appeared, there was an invincible commander to rescue them. If they performed well, they could also enjoy the attribute bonus of the Blood Soul battle flag. Furthermore, working together with the Corps to kill zombies was safer and faster.

The second reason was that, as Qin Shilei said, there was no safe place in this world; where could they go if they left Nanzhuang City?

Seeing that no one else left, Qin Shilei continued, "Since everyone has chosen to stay in the 007 Corps, then you are a part of the 007 Corps."

"Our goal is to survive and strive to become stronger."

"To prevent everyone from falling into danger due to some people's cowardice on the battlefield, I demand that you follow orders strictly."

"I will not make you cover the rear while I escape alone, nor will I issue orders that send you to your death."

"Fight to live!"

The crowd below also shouted loudly, "Fight to live!"

Qin Shilei only kept fifty-four Evolutionaries whose cultivation exceeded seven stars, while other members were told to leave temporarily.

Then, combined with An Qian and their personnel, there were a total of 106 people.

They were divided into four groups, taking turns participating in the defense of Luyang Bridge.

Qin Shilei's group, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli's group, and Zhang Qiang and Xie Haimei's group were formed to deal with any potentially appearing super Mutated Zombies.

After assigning the tasks, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli, the two women, led the first group of members towards Luyang Bridge.

Qin Shilei, on the other hand, prepared to find a retreat route for them first.

He first found an empty large warehouse to upgrade his Qiankun Ring.

Because upgrading the Qiankun Ring required emptying the items inside, he hadn't upgraded it these past few days.

He first transferred some important and lightweight items to a 0.1 cubic meter Qiankun Ring.

Then he took out all the bulky materials and placed them in the warehouse.

Finally, he took out two oversized backpacks, which contained thousands of Qiankun Rings.

Most of them he had exchanged for items on the trading system.

Supreme Qiankun Ring: Contains 10086.36 cubic meters of capacity.

This was the capacity of his original Qiankun Ring, and frankly, it was basically sufficient.

However, Qin Shilei still wanted to store some large items, so he had to continue expanding the capacity.

Qin Shilei continuously fed the supreme Qiankun Ring those trash Qiankun Rings.

Until only a few dozen Qiankun Rings remained, the system finally emitted a wonderful notification sound.

Qiankun Ring: Contains 5 million cubic meters of capacity. (Please don't feed me those trash Qiankun Rings anymore; I'm really tired of them.)

"Nice!" Qin Shilei smiled contentedly.

100 meters wide and 100 meters high, and a full 500 meters long, it was completely sufficient.

With the Qiankun Ring problem solved, Qin Shilei arrived at Chi Yuan River.

With a wave of his hand, he collected several cruise ships of different sizes docked at the pier.

The largest was a luxurious cruise ship 150 meters long, over twenty meters wide, and nearly five meters high.

There were also several ordinary cruise ships, each forty to fifty meters long.

The smallest were several speedboats.

He had also asked people how to operate a boat, and there were several sailors and first mates in the 007 Corps and 018 Corps.

Once He Shan District truly fell, he could take the two Corps and leave by boat.

Leaving by water was temporarily the safest route.

After solving the boat problem, Qin Shilei rode Xiaojiang along several main roads leading out of the city to observe.

Although a small number of people chose to leave, the military did not completely block the roads, and it was unknown whether these roads would still be clear once Nanzhuang City fell.

When Qin Shilei returned to Five Villa again, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli had already been replaced by Zhang Qiang and his team.

Both women had tired expressions on their faces, indicating that the battle must have been fierce.

Qin Shilei asked with concern, "Are you two alright?"

An Qian replied with a frown, "We're fine, it's just that two of our people died."

Zhang Xiaoli said somewhat dejectedly, "They were bitten through the throat by zombies in one bite; I couldn't save them even if I wanted to."

Qin Shilei comforted them, "There's no war without casualties; the most important thing is to protect yourselves."

"Mhm!" The two women nodded in response.

The three of them had a simple meal and then returned to their rooms to rest.

In the latter half of the night, Qin Shilei got out of bed and, taking more than twenty people with him, headed straight for Luyang Bridge.

The sound of machine guns and artillery fire never ceased.

Tens of meters in front of the defensive line, zombie corpses had once again piled up into a small mountain.

Thick blood flowed down the bridge into Chi Yuan River, dyeing a large section of the river red.

Qin Shilei and Zhang Qiang exchanged a few brief words, then he let the other party lead the remaining teammates back.

Their team had also lost two teammates whom they couldn't rescue in time.

Luyang Bridge is a six-lane bidirectional bridge, with a deck width of over twenty meters.

It's not very wide, nor is it very narrow, but once Mutated Zombies break through, it can easily cause casualties.

Qin Shilei arranged his teammates in defensive positions and then came to the very center.

From this position, if any Mutated Zombie broke through, he could provide timely assistance to the left or right.

"Damn zombies, they're actually using iron doors to block machine guns now!"

Suddenly, the Five-Company Commander's cursing could be heard.

Qin Shilei looked up and out of the bridge, under the illumination of countless solar streetlights.

He could clearly see countless zombies carrying wooden boards, iron doors, large pots, and even trash cans jogging towards the bridgehead.

Machine guns furiously spat fire, sweeping across that group of zombies.

"Thump, thump, thump!"

As time passed, the power of the guns and cannons had greatly diminished.

After penetrating the thick iron doors, they couldn't easily kill the zombies behind them.

"Quick, use rocket launchers!"

Qin Shilei reminded them while taking out his own rocket launcher and firing it over there.

Bursts of roaring sounds erupted, and the group of zombies were blasted sprawling; although not all were killed, their attacking rhythm was disrupted.

Several even more powerful shells landed further away at the bridgehead, blowing away a large section of the distant zombies.

But the explosion also caused the bridge to shake.

No wonder the military had never chosen more powerful shells for defense at the bridgehead; perhaps they were afraid of causing the bridge to collapse.

"Commander, wall-climbing zombies!" Suddenly, at the outermost edge of the defensive line, the Five-Company Commander shouted loudly.

Hearing this, Qin Shilei pushed off with his feet and rushed towards the bridge edge like lightning.

The Blood Soul in his hand simultaneously transformed into a short bow.

Arriving at the bridge edge, he leaned out to look and found more than ten wall-climbing zombies rapidly climbing along the side of the bridge towards the second defensive line.

Qin Shilei jumped onto the railing, drew his bow, and shot arrows rapidly at those zombies.

"Plop, plop!"

The swift arrows shot down wall-climbing zombies one by one, causing them to fall into the Chi Yuan River below.

"Whoosh!"

Qin Shilei summoned Xiaojiang, jumped onto his back, and when he descended to the river surface, he looked under the bridge.

Indeed, there were also dozens of wall-climbing zombies up there.

Many of the wall-climbing zombies even had zombies with festering sores on their heads on their backs.

If they were to climb up from under the bridge and suddenly appear on the second or third defensive line.

It would definitely cause significant casualties to the unprepared personnel on those defensive lines.