Chapter 79 Clearing a Path?

Hearing Tian Ya and Grey Bear's conversation, Duan Lei paused, then suddenly realized the source of his unease.

They had been fighting on the edge of the zombie horde, so only three sides were surrounded by zombies. But now, Duan Lei suddenly noticed that the Dark Blood was completely surrounded.

Duan Lei was sure that the Dark Blood, controlled by him, had been moving horizontally. Even if they had to enter the horde a little, he would immediately pull back.

So, their current encirclement wasn't due to them going too deep, but because the horde had moved in their direction! He had been so focused on the zombies in front that he hadn't noticed the ones behind sooner.

"Tian Ya, come back! Don't go!"

Realizing this, Duan Lei shouted into the communicator, "Boss, retreat! We're surrounded by the zombie horde!"

"What?"

Everyone heard Duan Lei's words through their communicators and looked back. Sure enough, a large number of zombies had appeared behind them.

"Retreat!"

Seeing the situation, Li Chenzhou didn't hesitate to retreat. Although the slaughter brought him a lot of Slaughter Points, safety came first. The horde wasn't going anywhere.

Swinging his long staff, he smashed the zombies in front of him and rushed towards the Dark Blood, leaping into the vehicle. Duan Lei immediately drove away.

But at that moment, the previously slow-moving zombie horde suddenly surged towards them with insane speed. Behind them, hundreds of enhanced zombies appeared, blocking the road completely.

These enhanced zombies were all Endurance-type Vajras and Strength-type Tyrants. From the buildings on either side of the street, dozens of Agility-type Shadowfiends emerged. Somehow, these enhanced zombies had quietly circled behind them and only revealed themselves when they were about to escape.

"Damn it! We've been ambushed by zombies?"

Grey Bear was stunned at the sight, then cursed and began firing even more frantically.

Grey Bear wasn't shooting at the enhanced zombies, but at the ordinary zombies rushing towards the Dark Blood.

They had been having fun earlier because the horde hadn't attacked them directly. Only the zombies at the front kept charging at Li Chenzhou, so they maintained a safe distance.

But now, the entire zombie horde was desperately rushing towards the Dark Blood. Even with Grey Bear's unlimited ammo rifle, he couldn't kill them all.

Fatty and the others were also shooting frantically, but the moving zombies weren't easy to hit, and their pistols had too slow a rate of fire to be effective!

As the Dark Blood was about to be overwhelmed by the horde, four car-mounted Gatling cannons, each with barrels as thick as ping-pong balls, flipped out from the vehicle's body, as if it was a transformer. The four Gatling cannons opened fire simultaneously, pouring a dense rain of large bullets into the surrounding horde…

"Thump-thump-thump-thump…"

The strange and muffled sound of the Gatling cannons tore through the horde around the Dark Blood like paper, instantly clearing a large area around the vehicle.

Whether the bullets, with a caliber of over three centimeters, hit any part of a zombie's body, the enormous kinetic energy would tear it apart. The bullet would then continue forward, tearing through several or even a dozen more zombies until its energy was depleted.

In human terms, any gun with a caliber exceeding twenty millimeters, or two centimeters, was no longer called a gun but a cannon. So, the Gatling cannon should really be called a Gatling rotary cannon.

Seeing the power of the four Gatling cannons, Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei were excited. The ammunition for these cannons cost Slaughter Points—one point per shot—so they hadn't used them before, only read the instructions.

Now it seemed Li Chenzhou's nearly twenty thousand Slaughter Points had been well spent. Without these four cannons, they definitely wouldn't be able to withstand the horde coming from all directions.

Grey Bear and the others were overjoyed and quickly used their guns to kill the few zombies that had luckily dodged the cannon fire.

The Gatling cannons displayed their power, not only clearing a swath through the horde but also killing many of the Vajras and Tyrants blocking the road. Although they were enhanced zombies, even ordinary firearms could headshot Tier 1 enhanced zombies, let alone these car-mounted Gatling cannons.

"I'll go take a look!"

Seeing the surrounding area cleared, Tian Ya suddenly shouted and darted out, rushing towards the building Duan Lei had told him to go to earlier.

Although Duan Lei had told him to come back, Tian Ya felt it was better to observe from a high vantage point, at least to know how deeply they were surrounded by the horde!

Tian Ya was too fast, and Li Chenzhou and the others couldn't stop him. Inside that building were a dozen Shadowfiends. They were Agility-type zombies, equally fast. Tian Ya couldn't shake them off without using his skills.

"Xiao Lei!"

Li Chenzhou shouted immediately. Duan Lei, in the vehicle, saw the situation and raised one of the car-mounted Gatling cannons, firing at the Shadowfiends on the third and fourth floors of the building.

Even if the Shadowfiends were fast, they couldn't outrun bullets, especially since they were zombies and didn't know how to dodge, particularly against such powerful cannons.

In just two or three seconds, the car-mounted Gatling cannon fired over a dozen shots, blasting through the walls of the third and fourth floors, creating a huge hole in the building.

The Shadowfiends that had been standing there had all disappeared, either torn to pieces or falling down.

At this moment, Tian Ya rushed to the bottom of the building. He raised his hand and shot down a few zombies blocking the way, then plunged into the building, rushing towards the stairs.

Seeing Tian Ya rush into the building, Li Chenzhou frowned but didn't rush to rescue him, preventing Grey Bear from going as well.

"Don't go! Tian Ya is fast, and he still has his skills. If he's in danger, he'll come back. If we go, we won't be able to keep up with his speed!"

Hearing Li Chenzhou's words, Grey Bear stopped and turned to look around.

Although the Gatling cannons had killed a large number of zombies, this was, after all, a horde gathered from almost the entire city. The one controlling the horde clearly didn't care about the lives of these zombies and continued to send them towards Li Chenzhou and his team.

At the same time, the enhanced zombies that had been blocking their way retreated into the horde after some were killed, disappearing from sight. The Shadowfiends on the buildings also did the same.

"Where did all the enhanced zombies go?"

Fatty couldn't help but ask.

"There are few enhanced zombies, so he can't use them as cannon fodder! But you'll see them again soon!"

Li Chenzhou said, looking around.

Now that the horde was pressing in from all sides, even with the frantic fire of the four car-mounted Gatling cannons, the encirclement was still shrinking, closing in…