Chapter 611: Just the Beginning
Chapter 611: Chapter 611: Just the Beginning
"Senior, aren’t you afraid?"
When the densely packed zombie army surged madly toward them, Sylvia Shawn, who had never witnessed such a scene, couldn’t stop trembling. She had never seen so many zombies in her life. Even though they stood on the high ground of the dam and the zombies were still quite a distance away, the overwhelming pressure from their sheer numbers was suffocating. Sylvia wasn’t the only one; the others were also momentarily frozen in fear.
"It’s normal to be afraid," Nina Jacobs replied. They were afraid because zombies were an entirely different species. "But I can guarantee that in a few minutes, you won’t be scared anymore," she added with a smile.
"Really, Senior?" Sylvia’s voice trembled. With the zombies drawing closer and multiplying by the second, how could she possibly stop being afraid? However, out of her trust in Nina, she managed to steady herself. Right at that moment, the large swath of zombies at the very front fell into the deep pits.
"Artillerymen one through eight, fire!"
The instant the command was shouted, artillery shells launched downward. Along with the sparks of the exploding shells, towering infernos instantly ignited within the several deep pits. It wasn’t just the thousands of zombies in the pits; the ones behind them caught fire as well and cascaded downward.
Some Mutated Zombies had already swiftly used their Superpowers or stepped on other zombies to avoid the traps. But artillery shells from several other positions immediately exploded right beside them.
"Is that a Liaoyuan Crystal?" Caleb Carter asked. The monstrous flames expanded in an instant; it had to be the base’s Liaoyuan Crystal.
"Yes, it’s a Liaoyuan Crystal. Are you still afraid?" Nina asked.
Sylvia was looking down at the battle with excitement written all over her face. Because the combination of traps and weapons was so effective, she seemed to have completely forgotten her fear.
"I’m really not afraid anymore," Sylvia replied. Right now, she was itching to throw a Liaoyuan Crystal herself just for fun.
"Don’t rush, there’s more to come," Nina said, her expression calm. The zombies running at the front were mostly ordinary ones. This was just the beginning.
The massive fires in the pits continued to burn relentlessly, but incredibly, some of the zombies with Superpowers had already begun trying to extinguish the flames. A grayish-white Earth Element Zombie raised its arms high, manipulating the surrounding clods of dirt and rocks in a vain attempt to fill the two deep pits. Sylvia also saw several Water Element Zombies pouring large amounts of Water Ability into the pits.
ROAR!
The number of zombies in the rear kept increasing. Nina watched impassively until a large mass of them began scaling the dam’s slope from below.
"Superpower Users one through three hundred, prepare to kill the enemy!" Adrian Paige shouted.
They had already divided the Superpower Users into three teams, which would take turns killing the zombies. Naturally, the other two teams also had to watch the defenses on the flanks.
"Sylvia, it’s time for your Thunder Element Superpower," Nina said, seeing that enough zombies had climbed up.
Sylvia nodded and immediately led a group of Superpower Users to a specific spot. Several metal plates were laid out there. Each plate was an electrical conduction device, and buried beneath the ground in a circle below was a massive metal power grid. This was their second temporary trap. Once triggered, the second trap would buy the first three hundred Superpower Users some time to attack and halt the advancing zombie horde momentarily.
Wayne Warner stood at the very front. With a single command, densely packed arcs of blue lightning instantly surged downward along the power grid!
"Make it rain!"
Triggered simultaneously with the Thunder Superpower was the Water Element Superpower. Large swathes of zombies on the ground were electrocuted and collapsed, some even charring completely into blackened corpses. The surrounding zombies couldn’t escape either, all perishing atop the powerful lightning grid.
"The effect is amazing!" Sylvia said excitedly to the group.
"Yes, it really is. It’s much more effective than us just killing the zombies directly," Heath Chandler said, unable to help but admire Nina.
Using the simplest traps to inflict the maximum amount of damage. Though it looked simple, he knew that arranging these traps and timing their triggers perfectly required an experienced hand. Nina had most likely survived a zombie horde before...
Heath’s thoughts were interrupted by a massive Fire Dragon. By now, some Mutated Zombies that were immune to the Thunder Superpower had reached the bottom. The first three hundred combatants were still slaughtering zombies on the slope, and Nina had already led the others to join the fray.
The Fire Dragon roared as it crashed into a cluster of zombies, instantly relieving the pressure below. Flaming spikes shot out from the jaws of the midair Fire Dragon, while Nina hovered beside it, her feet floating above the ground. An Alloyed Mutated Zombie materialized several Gold Spikes and hurled them at her, only for them to be completely deflected by the Diamond Sand Cover surrounding her.
SLICE!
In the next second, the Alloyed Zombie had its head lopped off by a blur moving too fast to see. Down below, Holden Shaw was mercilessly reaping zombie heads to his heart’s content, his figure nearly impossible to track with the naked eye. The people around him also noticed that despite only having a Speed Element Superpower, Holden was the most efficient among them.
With a wave of Nina’s hand, over a hundred brilliant Flaming Arrows rained down on the battlefield below. The ground was blasted into pitted craters, but what was even more shocking was Nina’s pinpoint accuracy. A hundred zombies instantly perished beneath the Flaming Arrows, and barely two seconds later, Nina launched her next volley.
A second Fire Dragon materialized on her other side. Both Fire Dragons simultaneously spewed waves of fire at the entrance where the zombies were the thickest.
BOOM!
The fiery waves churned below, while Nina hovered above, using her Wind Element Superpower to control the direction of the inferno. On the other end, Adrian was also manipulating two giant tornadoes. The situation was temporarily stabilized.
"It’s getting dark," Shirley Lucas said with some concern as he stood above. He had already set up spotlights all around; that many lamps should be enough to illuminate the area around the dam, making it as bright as day.
"What’s the status on the drones?" Heath asked while continuing to channel his Thunder Superpower into the power grid. They were still trying hard to establish contact with the South Riven Base.
"We still haven’t reached them yet," Shirley replied. No one knew what the situation was like over at the South Riven Base, but as of right now, they had already lured ten to twenty thousand zombies from the rear. And more zombies were still endlessly pouring in.
Inside the South Riven Base, Akira Gallagher was flying into a rage.
"No one is allowed to take any of the base’s supplies! Leave if you want to, but our South Riven Base has no room for people like you!"
Dark circles rimmed his eyes; he hadn’t slept a wink in two days. While the base was under siege by a zombie horde, the inside of the South Riven Base was in utter disarray. The very people he used to value highly were now fleeing for their lives one by one, even attempting to take some of the supplies with them. Luckily, someone had noticed and stopped them in time.
"Akira, the South Riven Base is doomed! Do you want us to stay here and perish together with you?" Preston Chase demanded.
Not far behind them sat several parked helicopters. A few had already successfully flown out of the base, and they intended to leave before nightfall.
"Doomed my ass!" Akira couldn’t help but curse furiously. However, he also knew that forcing these people to stay was useless.
"Miss Ulrich, even you’re leaving?" Akira spotted a few people he had never expected to see there.
Melanie Ulrich had been sent down by the command center. She had claimed she was here to help the South Riven Base, yet she was running for her life at a time like this.