301: Chapter 301 The Zero Body: One Touch and the Person is Gone.

In front of the main control console, three paper tapes were pinned under the whiteboard.

Jiang Xiaowan's postoperative monitoring data.

Opening report for the twelve silent wells.

Tang Qiqi's drawn curve overlapping the fetal heartbeat and black marks.

The System was still dark.

Lin Yuan raised his hand to test it once; before his eyes, there were no attributes, no Superpowers, and no quests.

Only the mechanical alarm bells outside the corridor rang in, one after another.

The night shift duty officer hurried to the desk and handed over a paper tape.

[The first batch of Zero Entity has reached the outer wall's firing range.]

[Estimated quantity: over two thousand.]

[Subsequent quantities continue to increase.]

Lin Yuan flattened the paper tape.

"Connect to Lu Yan."

The wired telephone connected, and the sound of artillery fire came through the earpiece first, followed by Lu Yan's voice.

"Boss, the targets are moving very slowly."

"There are no cries, no crystal core reactions, and no heat sources."

"Their appearance is close to ordinary zombies; bullets pierce their chests, leaving only black ash."

Lin Yuan didn't speak.

The first row of artillery positions on the outer ring opened fire.

Boom!

Shells smashed into the grayish-black crowd.

Black ash rushed into mid-air.

More than a dozen Zero Entity were blasted until only their upper halves remained, their leg bones broken and torsos missing, falling into the muddy ground.

On the outer wall, someone loosened their grip on the trigger.

"They can be hit!"

"Conventional firepower is effective!"

"Keep blasting!"

Lin Yuan was still holding the earpiece.

He was waiting for the next paper tape.

The paper tape machine made a friction sound.

A line of pencil writing was pushed out.

[Three seconds after the hit target falls, the black ash gathers again.]

[The individual has resumed movement.]

The main control console quieted down.

Lin Yuan took a black pen and wrote two words on the whiteboard.

[Indestructible.]

[Consumption.]

Outer ring.

A Zero-Entity whose half body was blown off by a shell had the black ash on its chest roll inward.

Its broken spine straightened out again.

Its hollow skull pieced itself back together bit by bit.

It stood up.

There was no roaring.

No lunging.

It just dragged its feet and continued walking forward.

Tank drove titan no. 1 forward to press the position.

The mecha crushed concrete blocks by the roadside, and its alloy fist smashed toward that Zero-Entity.

Bang!

The Zero-Entity's chest was pierced by a punch.

The fist burst out from its back.

The surrounding space shrank inward slightly, and the black ash scattered half a meter away.

Tank controlled the mecha to step back.

Three seconds later.

The black ash gathered back.

The Zero-Entity stood up again.

Inside titan no. 1's external camera, the grayish-white figure raised its head, its face devoid of facial features.

Tank gripped the control stick tightly.

"Boss."

"It was pierced through, yet it stood up."

"Pierce it through again, and it stands up again."

"The consumption ratio is one-to-one; ammunition is not enough."

Lin Yuan looked at the two words on the whiteboard and did not cross them out.

The third row of defense on the outer ring.

A defender stepped on a cartridge case while retreating, and their body tilted slightly.

A Zero-Entity walked out from the gap between the mechas and raised its hand.

The defender instinctively raised their gun, using the butt to block.

The gun butt touched the opponent's arm.

A section of the wooden gun butt vanished first.

There was no snapping sound.

No wood chips shattered.

That part of the gun butt was as if it had never existed.

The defender's right hand was still gripping the gun.

The next second.

The wrist vanished.

The arm vanished.

A large chunk from the shoulder down became empty.

The person next to them raised their gun, their mouth open, but no sound came out.

Two seconds later.

At the spot where the defender originally stood, only a string of cartridge cases left on the ground remained.

Not even blood was left.

The outer ring commander grasped the wired telephone, their breathing suppressed very low.

"Contact equals deletion."

"No residue, no corpses."

Su Xiaonuan sat before the main dispatch seat, her fountain pen not stopping.

She wrote on the battle damage file:

[Contact casualties.]

[Permanently written off.]

The pen tip stopped for half a second.

Afterwards, she added:

[Zero corpses. Zero disposability.]

Lin Yuan took the file and signed at the end.

"Lu Yan, hold the formation."

"Yes, Boss."

...

Second line of the outer ring.

Lu Yan stood behind the prefabricated wall, clutching a wind-up hourglass in his hand.

The Zero Entity were still walking forward.

One step.

Two steps.

Twelve steps.

The fine sand in the hourglass finished falling for one round.

Lu Yan raised his head.

"No more than twelve steps per minute."

Zhou Heng ran over from the other side, his cuffs stained with ash and dirt, holding a map in his hand.

"Zhe City has also been tested."

"When under fire suppression, they will stop."

"When approaching personnel, crystal core equipment, or Superpower energy sources, they will briefly speed up."

Lu Yan looked into the distance.

The queue of Zero Entity was very long.

Stretching all the way from the direction of the silent wells, like an endless gray line.

"How long did it take to walk from the silent well to the outer wall?"

"Nineteen minutes."

Zhou Heng used a pencil to draw two arcs on the map.

"From the peripheral nodes to the main body of Tiangong No. 1."

"At their speed, forty minutes."

"If they detour around the northern side, fifty minutes at most."

Lu Yan shoved the paper tape into the messenger's hand.

"Send it to the headquarters."

"Run faster."

The messenger turned and rushed toward the main gate.

...

Liu Qing hugged two paper reports and walked up to Lin Yuan.

"Master."

"Zhao Dingshan from Shanghai reports that no Zero Entity have appeared in the local silent wells."

"Only three wells in Zhe City had a small number of units crawling out, and the quantity is far lower than Jiangcheng."

She adjusted her glasses.

"They are concentratedly heading toward Jiangcheng."

Lin Yuan pressed the two reports onto the right side of the map.

The twelve silent wells in the Jiang-Zhe-Hu Region.

Only Jiangcheng has the largest horde of corpses.

Only Jiangcheng has Zero Entity appearing on a large scale.

His finger swept across the Jiangcheng map.

Outer ring building materials node.

Peripheral agricultural area.

Logistics station.

Old railway supply line.

These places are piled with supplies and also piled with people.

Lin Yuan rubbed his trouser seam.

"Su Xiaonuan."

"Initiate the outer ring evacuation."

Su Xiaonuan raised her head.

"Abandon the area?"

"Everything outside the outer wall."

The pencil in the duty officer's hand dropped onto the table.

The peripheral nodes were won bit by bit by Tiangong No. 1 over the past few months.

There are cold storages.

There are greenhouses.

There is a mecha maintenance line.

There are thousands of laborers and defenders.

Su Xiaonuan picked up the steel seal.

"Confirm."

"Everything outside the outer wall is abandoned."

Thud!

The steel seal slammed down.

The evacuation order spread outward simultaneously via wired telephones, paper tape machines, and running messengers.

...

"Everyone fall back!"

"Engineering team goes first!"

"Wounded personnel onto the track stretchers!"

Yu Qingyi stood before the outer ring dispatch platform, checking the list one by one.

"One hundred and thirty-seven laborers on the east side have passed the gate!"

"Forty-two people in the south engineering team, three are missing!"

"Mecha maintenance squad, confirm your headcount!"

Sister Long held an entrenching tool and stood beside the evacuation passageway.

Two people who wanted to run back against the crowd toward the warehouse were kicked over by her in one blow.

"You're about to lose your lives, and you're still hugging that box of broken canned goods?"

"Get rolling inside!"

Lu Yan stood in front of the Titan mecha.

Twelve mechas formed a fan-shaped formation.

Artillery fire continuously pressed backward.

Every ten meters the mechas retreated, a layer of the prefabricated wall dropped.

Someone grabbed a megaphone and shouted.

"Commander Lu, we can hold!"

"Fight for ten more minutes, and the periphery can stabilize!"

Lu Yan raised his head.

The Zero Entity were standing up amidst the gunfire and flames.

One after another.

He only replied with four words.

"Obey orders, fall back."

In front of the outer ring iron fence.

The first batch of Zero Entity hit the protective railing.

The railing did not bend.

It did not break.

It simply began to vanish inward from the point of contact.

Two centimeters per second.

Metal, bolts, cement base.

All reduced to zero together.

...

When the last batch of evacuees rushed through the main gate, Tang Qiqi ran all the way up from B2.

She held a stack of wind-up recording paper in her arms.

"Great Demon King!"

She slapped the paper in front of Lin Yuan.

Twelve sets of Zero-Entity movement trajectories.

Twelve broken ray lines.

Whenever any Zero-Entity moved laterally, it would deviate three degrees toward the direction of the medical area.

The deviation was very small.

Twelve records, not a single one missed.

Tang Qiqi wrote a line of words in the corner with a pencil.

[Traction source: direction of the medical area.]

[System interface, Superpower energy source, newborn.]

After reading, Lin Yuan handed the paper to Liu Qing.

"Archive separately."

"Do not transmit to the outer ring."

"Yes, Master."

Liu Qing tucked the paper into an independent file folder and locked it with a physical lock.

Inside the medical area, Jiang Xiaowan had just finished surgery.

The child was still in the incubator.

No one should know that those faceless things outside were approaching them.