Chapter 34 Zombie Tide

The ramen shop was next to a barbecue restaurant. Behind it were many tables and an extended awning. Now, the zombies below were stacking themselves, climbing onto the awning by stepping on their companions.

"They... possess consciousness?"

Grizzly Bear watched in shock as the zombies, aided by their comrades, climbed onto the awning and tried to lift other zombies to reach the third floor.

"It's not them who possess consciousness, but that one!"

Li Chenzhou pointed to the female corpse king still hiding in the small house:

"The corpse king is an intelligent zombie. The other zombies are merely being commanded by it. That's why I say that a horde with a corpse king is the most terrifying. Right now, it's only commanding ordinary zombies, so we can easily shoot them here.

But as time goes on, more and more enhanced zombies will appear among them, and the corpse king's intelligence will continue to increase. When that time comes, hunting zombies won't be so easy anymore.

That's also why I say that the cities of the future will belong to the zombies. Don't even mention these low buildings. Even those dozens of stories high won't be able to stop the zombies' advance."

"No wonder you insisted on staying to eliminate that corpse king!"

Grizzly Bear murmured, looking at the small house. He took out his pistol and tried to aim, but the corpse king was hidden inside, and from this angle, he could only shoot her legs.

"I'll go down and take her out!"

Grizzly Bear turned to go downstairs, unable to find a good shooting angle.

"No need! There's no rush to kill her. Let's save her for last."

Li Chenzhou grabbed Grizzly Bear:

"Right now, it has no enhanced zombies to command, so it's not much of a threat to us. On the contrary, it'll help us summon all the zombies nearby, which will save us some trouble.

Besides, you guys probably don't have much ammunition left, right? Try to save it. When you encounter ordinary zombies, try to use melee weapons to deal with them. Because when enhanced zombies appear later, ordinary people who haven't been enhanced will have a hard time killing them with melee weapons. Don't let it get to the point where you run out of bullets for your guns."

"Thank you!"

Grizzly Bear put away his pistol and nodded seriously at Li Chenzhou.

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

At this moment, Duan Lei's gun continued to fire. After all, he was now a Level 1 Awakened. In terms of strength alone, he was the strongest of them all. The recoil of the pistol had basically no effect on him.

Therefore, after familiarizing himself with the gun, his accuracy also began to improve. At least he wouldn't let Li Chenzhou lose money. The only pity was that he didn't have Li Chenzhou's system space. Therefore, whenever the magazine was empty, he needed to replace it himself, so his efficiency was definitely not as high as Li Chenzhou's.

"See? The corpse king has already realized that it's at a disadvantage and has started to think of a way!"

Li Chenzhou looked down and smiled.

Grizzly Bear also looked down. Sure enough, those zombies climbing onto the awning or trying to climb up in other locations had given up on their futile attempts. They dispersed and poured into the open unit door.

Li Chenzhou took out his Zhan Ren (battle blade), went to the entrance of the only unit door that hadn't been sealed off, and stepped into the stairwell. Seeing this, Grizzly Bear's eyes lit up, and he followed behind.

Duan Xue looked at them, then at Duan Lei, and ultimately stayed by Duan Lei's side.

Just then, gunshots rang out in the stairwell, accompanied by Leopard's sharp shouts:

"Quick! Run upstairs!"

Judging from the gunshots and Leopard's shouts, he was no longer on the second floor, but around the third or fourth floor. This meant that Leopard was also running upstairs, and he wasn't alone.

Grizzly Bear's expression immediately changed. He immediately drew his gun and prepared to rush down, but Li Chenzhou reached out and stopped him, saying:

"Guard this place!"

As he spoke, Li Chenzhou had already rushed downstairs. Watching Li Chenzhou's back, Grizzly Bear gritted his teeth and ultimately didn't chase after him. Instead, he aimed his pistol at the stairwell below, ready for battle.

Having just run to the fifth floor, Li Chenzhou saw the father and son. The father's arm was bleeding profusely, and he was being helped up the stairs by his son. Li Chenzhou glanced at his injury, frowned, but still dodged past them and continued to rush down.

"Are you injured?"

Halfway up the fourth floor, Li Chenzhou saw Leopard, who was holding a rifle and shooting downwards. He immediately asked.

"No!"

Leopard replied:

"But there are a lot of zombies down there!"

"You go upstairs. I'll handle this! Be careful of the one who was bitten!"

Li Chenzhou said immediately, then pushed down Leopard's rifle, stood in front of him, and swung his Zhan Ren, splitting open the head of a zombie that was charging up.

"Okay! Then be careful!"

Leopard had seen Li Chenzhou's strength before, so he didn't say much. After giving a word of caution, he rushed up.

"Pu! Pu! Pu..."

Li Chenzhou stood in the stairwell, constantly swinging his Zhan Ren, killing one zombie after another. In this narrow stairwell, Li Chenzhou, standing high above, was truly a one-man fortress.

With enough combat experience, Li Chenzhou killed the zombies while also using his feet or the Zhan Ren in his hand to kick the zombies' corpses away, using them to block the path of other zombies. This allowed him to face at most two zombies at the same time.

Moreover, he was also retreating as he fought. In the stairwell filled with corpses of their own kind, the zombies' movements also became less agile, and Li Chenzhou managed to block their way all by himself.

At this time, Duan Lei also stopped shooting, because all the zombies below had entered the unit door under the corpse king's command. All that remained outside were the zombies' corpses.

Duan Lei turned and scanned the rooftop, discovering that the doors to the other two rooftop entrances were also echoing with huge impacts. Obviously, the zombies that had entered those two unit doors had rushed to the top floor and were trying to smash the doors open and break into the rooftop!

The rooftop doors were made of iron and were quite sturdy. Moreover, they had been wrapped with wire. In theory, the zombies shouldn't be able to break them open, but Duan Lei frowned as he listened to the constant impacts.

He looked at the father and son who had rushed onto the rooftop and suddenly noticed the bloodstains on the father's arm. He quickly walked over and took a closer look, exclaiming in astonishment:

"This is... a zombie bite?"

"Yes!"

The father nodded:

"We heard the zombies rushing into the stairwell just now. The guy with the gun told us to close the door and hide in the house, but he ran upstairs himself. We thought it would be safer to follow you, because you have guns, so we followed along.

Unfortunately, we were a little slow. The zombies behind us caught up. One of them grabbed my son. I pulled him out with all my might, but I was bitten by that thing. Fortunately, your people heard the commotion and came down again, shooting and killing a few zombies, saving us."

Hearing this, Duan Lei suddenly took a deep breath, then raised his arm and pressed the pistol against the father's forehead...