Chapter 55: The Silent Scarecrow
"Report! Commander, Muyang City is ahead. The zombies in the outer area have been cleared. Please give us instructions on whether we should enter the city to carry out the cleanup operation." A messenger saluted the commander in a military jeep and asked loudly.
The battle had been going on for five days. As the commander of the First Army of the Red Star Renaissance Corps, Yang Wei was extremely excited. You know, this kind of first merit will definitely go down in history! Yang Wei felt sincerely proud to lead this army of 200,000 people, the most powerful army in the Red Star Republic. Therefore, he was extremely grateful to Li Zhenhui. Of course, this was inseparable from his loyalty to Li Zhenhui.
In front of him was a satellite holographic image of Muyang City. Muyang City was the closest city ruins to Haijing. It was once a city with extremely developed light industry, where millions of zombies gathered. In the satellite image, the entire Muyang City was strangely quiet, and the only way to determine the location of the zombies was by the black patches on the streets. However, it was a bit strange that the zombies on this map were basically gathered in the center of the city, and they were motionless. Under their feet, the ground was covered with a black substance, and no one knew what it was used for.
The zombies in these cities seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. If people didn’t know that they were all zombies, they would probably think that they had all been dead for a long time.
The ragged figures just stood there, swaying slowly, like scarecrows.
If there were only dozens or hundreds of scarecrows, it wouldn't be a big deal. What really makes people feel horrified is that there are millions of scarecrows here!
Moreover, it is a "scarecrow" that may pounce on people and eat them at any time!
I can’t care about that anymore… Although Yang Wei was excited inside, he appeared to be extremely calm on the surface. After hearing the messenger’s report, he immediately waved his hand and said, “After the artillery fire, the entire army will enter the city, led by the cyborg corps.”
Now it seems that these zombies no longer pose any threat.
Could it be that they have completely lost their energy because they have no food? It is possible. Someone from the Institute of Biology proposed this theory before, saying that after a period of time, the zombies will become weak because they have no new energy supply and their metabolism is extremely fast. They will die on their own without humans starting a war. Yang Wei thought to himself.
I hope this operation can go smoothly... Yang Wei narrowed his eyes and thought as he looked at Muyang City, which was more than ten kilometers away. One of the main reasons for only using dense artillery fire and not using bombers to bomb was to preserve the supplies in the city to the maximum extent. In Yang Wei's view, the human army has already won, and it is only a matter of time before peace is restored. Therefore, he wants to search for some good things in this big city with millions of people in advance. Even if he can't use it himself, it's good to give it to Li Zhenhui and others.
What's more, the major fortresses were even more short of ordinary supplies. Although the main energy source of the major fortresses and motor vehicles was solar energy, vehicles could use solar energy, but people could not directly absorb solar energy. Even the food rations of the Renaissance Legion under his command were not particularly balanced, and could only be said to be enough to fill people's stomachs.
"Boom!" A loud noise was heard, followed by a series of earth-shaking roars. Tens of thousands of artillery pieces fired at the same time, immediately plunging the Muyang City in front of them into a sea of fire! Balls of flames rose into the sky, and puffs of black smoke hovered in the air like black dragons. Precision-guided shells were all poured onto the streets where zombies gathered, and the carefully calculated trajectory, under the guidance of satellites, carried out the most perfect killing!
The bombardment lasted for half an hour. On the holographic map in front of Yang Wei, the zombies in Muyang City had almost disappeared. All that was left was the billowing smoke and broken limbs on the ground.
What surprised Yang Wei was that the surviving zombies were still standing there quietly, like sculptures!
Because the zombies were too dense before, the artillery attack had extremely alarming lethality. Almost half of the zombies in the city were torn to pieces by the artillery fire, and many of the remaining zombies were seriously injured or even broken in two.
At this time, the number of zombies suddenly decreased by more than half. Yang Wei was finally able to distinguish the secret of these zombies standing among the mountains of corpses and sea of blood in the city.
All the zombies seemed to be standing in front of a certain tall building. The one hundred skyscrapers in Muyang City divided the millions of zombies into one hundred groups. Around each building, there was a circle of zombies standing in a radial pattern, forming strange circles. From the sky, it looked like crop circles. However, these circles were made up of human heads.
"Commander, the first round of shelling is completed. Do we need to launch a second round?" the commander of the artillery division asked via the radio.
"No need, the artillery fire has killed most of the living forces, all units immediately enter the city and carry out the final sweep!" Yang Wei directly opened the public channel and ordered all officers above the company level. Although he felt that these zombies were a bit strange, he had to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
"Understood!" The officers responded in unison. Facing such a large city full of supplies, they could no longer hold back and wanted to rush in to kill and plunder! You know, in this end times, war is the best opportunity to make a fortune!
Immediately, two hundred thousand well-trained and armed to the teeth former Red Star Republic soldiers, led by two thousand modified soldiers, rushed madly into Muyang City, which had just been bombed.
"Da da da..." A series of gunshots rang out, and the first wave of soldiers who encountered zombies had already started shooting.
"Kill! Kill all these bastards! Hahahaha!" Zhang Hongtao approached a silent female zombie with a submachine gun, put the muzzle of the gun on the head of the female zombie, and shot her head off without even a splash of blood or brain matter. Then, he took the lead and rushed towards another zombie. As an ordinary soldier of the First Legion, Zhang Hongtao was determined to become a soldier who specialized in killing zombies, ever since the day when his wife and children were all torn to pieces by zombies in front of him. Now, he finally got his wish!
Although he was not interested in those cold-blooded mutants, Zhang Hongtao still followed closely behind them, madly firing bullets from his submachine gun.
As the vanguard, they can also take the opportunity to hide some items as their own spoils. This one-sided battle is the best opportunity to make a fortune!
Moreover, he was delighted to find that even if he passed by the zombies, they did not react at all. On the contrary, their mouths were all filled with black and red pus and blood, which kept dripping onto the ground, forming streams of black blood. At the same time, some soldiers could even see that there seemed to be fragments of internal organs in the black blood!
At this time, Zhang Hongtao also discovered a disgusting fact, that is, the ground of Muyang City was covered with a layer of pus-like things, and no one knew where they came from. These pus-like things almost covered the entire city and even flowed into tall buildings.
The zombies in Muyang City seemed to be disturbed by some kind of thoughts. They just allowed the human soldiers to slaughter them without any attacking moves!
The zombies' heads were blown up one after another, and they fell in a pool of blood on the ground. Some soldiers saw that the zombies did not react, so for convenience, they directly chopped off the zombies' heads with knives, and even chopped the zombies into pieces.
"Bang!" Zhang Hongtao smashed a zombie's head with the butt of his gun. He looked up at the endless sea of corpses standing in front of him. There was no fear in his heart anymore. What was left was only excitement and the pleasure after venting!
At this time, the vanguard troops were like a cone, and had advanced to the center of Muyang City. The 200,000-man army had basically entered Muyang City, and they also killed more than one million zombies! In the places they passed, there was no living zombie.
At the beginning, many soldiers were too scared to approach the zombies and just shot them from a distance. Now, they feel a little bored. Killing zombies like this is just like killing chickens. They have long let down their guard and sometimes even pinch the zombies' faces and touch their bodies. Seeing no reaction, they will shoot them in the head.
Zhang Hongtao was one of them. He was carrying a huge backpack full of food, cigarettes, alcohol, gold, gems, etc. His comrades were also dressed in the same way. Food and consumables were the most in short supply. Gold and gems would allow them to live a good life after the war. In the eyes of these soldiers, victory was just around the corner. Because of this, the army's advance slowed down, and the officers turned a blind eye, and even made a lot of money themselves. If the government took over the city, they would have no money left.
Zhang Hongtao looked up at the dark building in front of him, stepped on the sticky and hardened organic matter under his feet, held a cigarette in his mouth, and walked to a female zombie standing with her eyes closed.
He had already noticed that although this female zombie was pale, she looked very beautiful. He felt that she looked very familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before. Zhang Hongtao stared at the female zombie for a while, and suddenly a name flashed in his mind, and he immediately shouted, "Zhao Wanyi!"
International movie star Zhao Wanyi! A name that was extremely popular at the time, with a movie salary of an astonishing 100 million Red Star Coins. How could she be in Muyang City?
Zhang Hongtao's words immediately attracted a group of soldiers, who surrounded Zhao Wanyi's zombie and marveled at her. Before the biochemical crisis, these people would have boasted for half a day just to see Zhao Wanyi in person, let alone approach her. How could they not be excited now? Moreover, even though Zhao Wanyi had turned into a zombie, her face was pale and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth, she still had a charming beauty, which was really weird!
"Fuck, I used to be her die-hard fan! I didn't expect to meet her here!" said a black fat man with a red face, and at the same time he stretched out his hand while panting, wanting to touch Zhao Wanyi's face. The soldiers around him all looked at him with a smile. In their opinion, this kind of thing can really be used as a topic of conversation in the future and can be boasted about.
The fat black man had a dreamy smile on his face, and rubbed Zhao Wanyi's face back and forth with his big hand, looking very satisfied.
At this moment, something strange happened!
Zhao Wanyi, who had originally closed her eyes, suddenly opened her bloodshot eyes and stared at the fat man. Then she suddenly opened her mouth and bit off the fat man's finger!
