70: Chapter 70 Zombie Siege

Chapter 70 Zombie Siege

Hearing this news, Ren Chuan's expression changed.

Wang Ting furrowed his brows, instinctively sensing something odd about the situation.

"Drive, I'll go back and take a look."

Ren Chuan immediately prepared a vehicle, and Wang Ting drove straight from the Cafeteria Building stronghold to the Vine Town stronghold, passing through the stairwell passage without a moment's pause and returning to Outpost Camp.

At this time, all the members of the combat team at Outpost Camp were standing atop the perimeter wall, waiting in strict battle readiness.

Dong Hu was even guarding this side, waiting for Wang Ting to arrive.

As soon as Wang Ting arrived, Dong Hu immediately stepped forward to report: "The patrol team just discovered a large wave of zombies wandering toward the camp, with a scale of at least three to four hundred, and they are still gathering continuously."

Wang Ting furrowed his brows even deeper: "How far is the distance from the camp now?"

"When the patrol team discovered them, it was at about two kilometers. Right now, they might have reached eight or nine hundred meters away."

Because the patrol strength was limited and consisted of a mix of combat team members and militia, the patrol radius of Outpost Camp was far inferior to Scarecrow Town, so it was set at 1km.

When they found that something was wrong, the zombies were already about one kilometer away from the patrol point.

During the time Wang Ting rushed over, the zombies naturally got closer and closer.

After Wang Ting and Dong Hu went up the city wall, they picked up binoculars and looked towards the distant slope.

At this time, although the main army of the zombie horde was not yet visible, sporadic zombies could be vaguely seen poking their heads out, with ferocious expressions, staggering as they approached Outpost Camp.

Dong Hu furrowed his brows with a serious expression: "There have always been zombies wandering around in the desert, in varying numbers, but they will never easily gather into such a massive zombie horde unless an abnormal riot has occurred."

Wang Ting retorted: "Do you think this is an abnormal riot?"

"Impossible."

Dong Hu answered decisively: "An abnormal riot will inevitably have special signs, and abnormal type monsters will also appear more frantic. These zombies do not look like they are affected by an abnormal riot at all. As for natural gathering, if it were a natural gathering, our patrol team couldn't possibly have failed to notice it. Moreover, we are only a small camp."

Camps with more people and more frequent travel would attract more monster groups to gather. Zombies chase human scent and activity, which is determined by their characteristics.

But how long has Outpost Camp been established?

"I suspect that the desert bandits have targeted us. Luring monsters to attack the city is their common method to figure out the camp's situation while also depleting the camp's ammunition."

Upon hearing this, a trace of cold light immediately appeared in Wang Ting's eyes: "Which batch of people do you think it is?"

"Wild Dog Gang, Black Gun Gang, or Three Wolves Gang are all possible. They are the most active bandits in our area. Previously, the grain transport team of Scarecrow Town was also ambushed by them, suffering heavy losses."

"How is their strength?"

"Their strength in this wasteland is not weak at all, comparable to most Shelters. The leaders all have the strength of at least secondary limit-breaking. Smaller ones like Black Gun Gang only have thirty or fifty people, but their weapons and equipment are the most abundant. Both Wild Dog Gang and Three Wolves Gang have over a hundred people, all of whom are able-bodied young adults with considerable martial prowess, with almost no elderly or weak people."

These bandits who lick blood from the edge of a blade are hyenas wandering in the desert, so naturally they wouldn't keep useless old and young. Perhaps their old lair would have dependents, but definitely not many.

They did not engage in production, keeping their eyes on those towns and explorers to constantly plunder, and occasionally hunting monsters to obtain transcendent materials in exchange for massive supplies.

They hovered in this desert like vultures, and being targeted by them was the most troublesome thing.

"Captain, we must prepare."

Wang Ting showed a pensive look: "Deal with the zombies first, have the brothers get ready, and once the zombie horde approaches, wipe them all out."

"Understood!"

Dong Hu had already given instructions, and all members of the combat team stood fully armed on the city wall, waiting in strict readiness.

They were not only guarding against these zombies, but even more so against the bandits who might come along with the zombies.

Dry hot wind blew across the top of the city wall, carrying many sand grains in the wind that stung painfully when hitting people's faces.

As time passed, on the ridge of the Gobi Desert, one zombie after another staggered over.

In Wang Ting's Vibration Perception, behind those zombies, there were endless vibration sources approaching step by step.

On the city wall, the combat team members gradually became serious, their expressions solemn.

Those militiamen gripped their weapons even tighter, their eyes revealing tension.

The zombies continuously approached, forming a small, dark horde of corpses.

This number was definitely more than three or four hundred.

When they converged here, the number had already broken through four hundred and was heading straight for five hundred.

As they continuously approached, their pale eyeballs seemed to capture the scent of living people in the dry air after seeing the tall city wall, instantly speeding up their pace.

Low roars issued from their nearly decayed mouths; clearly still over a hundred meters apart, those roars seemed to ring right in everyone's ears, drifting over with the wind.

Bang—

Wang Ting picked up his rifle and pulled the trigger at the foremost zombie; the bullet streaked across mid-air, directly piercing through the zombie's body.

The huge gunshot awakened this area of zombies; they were like engines started instantly, filled with strength throughout their bodies, roaring as they rushed and killed toward Outpost Camp.

One zombie after another scrambled to step into the area of the Wall of Thousand Vines covered with vines.

The Wall of Thousand Vines activated its ability, with strips of vines entangling their feet, pulling these charging zombies down to the ground.

The vines kept extending, and the zombies kept charging. The vines submerged zombie after zombie, but even more zombies rushed and killed toward the city wall, with the dark mass of zombies crowding the bottom of the city wall.

Dong Hu roared loudly: "Open fire, kill them!"

The combat team members on the city wall began to bombard, shooting bullet after bullet to pierce through the zombies' heads.

The tall earthen wall displayed its powerful defense at this moment; the zombies kept charging, but the earthen wall remained motionless.

The Wall of Thousand Vines attached to the earthen wall extended its vines continuously, binding those zombies attempting to continue charging within its vines.

Four to five hundred zombies all swarmed to the bottom of the city wall, their roars merging into one.

Looking down from the city wall, the ferocious faces of those zombies and the bursts of foul odor they emitted made one shudder.

Guard Team members continuously opened fire, shooting one shot after another, all aiming at the heads of the zombies. Every time a bullet was fired, a zombie fell to the ground and died.

With the obstruction of the Wall of Thousand Vines, this batch of zombies simply could not break through the city wall.

Guard Team members exterminated zombies at an extremely fast speed, shooting and killing over a hundred zombies in just a few short minutes.

At this time, a few swift figures darted out from among the zombie group, launching rapid pounces and charging directly toward the city wall.

Although the vines wanted to bind them, their speed was too fast, and for a moment they couldn't catch their limbs at all.

Roar—

That monster let out a roar, its figure leaping high, wanting to jump right onto the city wall in one go.

With quick eyes and nimble hands, Wang Ting manipulated the vines to shoot out sharply, entangling the monster's body, and at this moment he finally saw the appearance of that monster clearly.

That was a huge hound with cracked skin revealing all-over scarlet flesh, sticky saliva constantly dripping from its mouth, scarlet eyes, and bulging eyeballs.

[Discovered low-level abnormal type Zombie Dog, Zombie Dog cataloging progress 10%]

Before he could make a move, another prompt appeared before Wang Ting's eyes.

[Discovered low-level abnormal type Sprinter, Sprinter cataloging progress 5%]

Amidst the corpse horde, there were also several thin yet extremely fast zombie monsters rapidly approaching.