Chapter 613: Nightfall
Chapter 613: Chapter 613: Nightfall
"Oh no, there are no defenses over there. Does that mean they..." someone muttered. Hearing this, Lindsay Lynch’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
"It seems it was all in vain," Melanie Ulrich said with a shake of her head.
Without strong reinforcements, it would be difficult for the South Riven Base to turn the tide. She firmly believed that those people wouldn’t survive the night. However, due to this delay, their departure schedule also had to be pushed back.
It was getting late. If they left now, the helicopter would likely struggle to find a safe landing spot. Moreover, once night fell, the temperature outside would drop a few more degrees.
"Aaron..." Lindsay frowned tightly in worry.
Her younger brother was quite timid, yet this time, he had been willing to go to City D to seek reinforcements for the South Riven Base. The facts proved that they had succeeded, but now they were faced with this dire situation.
"Kyle Stone, lead your men and launch a general offensive immediately! The defenses under the city walls cannot be relaxed either. We must survive tonight first!" Akira Gallagher commanded. Accelerating their attacks here might relieve some pressure on the people in the rear.
What he didn’t know was that near the abandoned dam at this moment, over thirty Speed Element Superpower Users were luring zombies under Holden Shaw’s leadership. After several Red Lotus Boxes bloomed around the dam, more and more zombies were drawn over.
"That’s about enough. Let’s begin," Nina Jacobs ordered over the walkie-talkie.
"Understood." Holden was the first to pull out a Superconductive Hand Grenade.
It was said that the lethality of this weapon was immense. Despite its small size, a single one could obliterate thousands of zombies at once.
Dozens of grenades had their timers pulled before being hurled into the zombie horde attracted by the Red Lotus Boxes. In the next second, the Speed Element Superpower Users vanished from sight.
Three seconds later, a series of massive explosions erupted.
Accompanied by the continuous roars of the explosions, Nina also used the system’s "Instant Detonation" on several buildings near the dam. Holden had planted Red Lotus Boxes in those buildings, so the number of zombies inside was quite substantial.
[The system has detected that the host used the "Instant Detonation" skill 4 times, killing 6,215 zombies and gaining 6,125 System Experience points!]
The system sent a notification. The effect was a notch lower compared to when she used it in Crestfall, but Nina was already satisfied. After all, there had been millions of zombies in Crestfall.
"It worked!" Heath Chandler shouted in excitement.
The barrage of over twenty Superconductive Hand Grenades had instantly cleared the zombies in front of them. Right now, he actually felt that the zombies were approaching too slowly.
"They’re coming!" Adrian Paige announced. Following the explosions of the Superconductive Hand Grenades, his Spiritual Element Superpower could sense that even more zombies from the direction of the base were moving toward them.
"Captain Jacobs, the barricades in front of the combat zone have all been constructed!" an Earth Element rescue team member reported.
Following the blueprints Nina had drawn on the spot, they had built numerous barricades designed to slow down the zombies’ movement speed. If the zombies wanted to advance, they would have to navigate several loops through the maze-like structures to reach them.
"Yeah. This will be our last battle before nightfall," Nina said after checking the time. This abandoned dam was simply a phenomenal battlefield.
"Senior, we’ll follow your lead!" Sylvia Shawn, on the other hand, was growing increasingly excited.
This was her first time fighting such a massive scale of zombies. Although the weapons had proven highly effective, their traps and superpower combat were also proceeding very smoothly. Furthermore, they had already established contact with the South Riven Base. The next two hours would be a joint operation between both sides.
"What is that?" the South Riven soldiers standing in the rear murmured as they looked at the slope of the dam.
They saw dazzling streams of liquid flames flowing downwards like cascading magma.
"It’s a Fire Element Superpower! And it’s Captain Jacobs’!" someone pointed excitedly at the source of the liquid flames.
"Team 2, Team 3, split up and fight on the left and right flanks. Weapons operators, watch out for Mutated Zombies!" Adrian, standing with his back to Nina, ordered the rescue team members behind him.
At this moment, Nina was gathering the surrounding discarded rocks. A few minutes later, a nearly four-meter-tall stone giant appeared at the forefront of the zombie horde. With a gentle turn of Nina’s palm, the stone giant swung an arm and smashed it into the zombies on the ground!
Black blood immediately splattered everywhere, freezing into dark red ice shards in the frigid temperatures.
Many people’s mouths dropped open in shock. Even Holly Morgan and the others were seeing Nina use such a technique for the first time.
"This is practically... a No-Harm Defense!!" Ivan Young and the others exclaimed, utterly awed by the stone giant even as they continued to kill zombies.
"The effect seems pretty good," Nina thought to herself as she looked at the stone giant. However, this wasn’t as convenient as her "Puppetry Technique" because every movement of the stone giant required her superpower to control it. Perhaps after night fell, she could give the Puppetry Technique another try.
The daylight gradually faded away. The chilling air grew increasingly biting once more.
A faint gray mist wreathed the abandoned dam. It was the Stone Smoke Bomb, a creation from the Weapons Research Institute at the City D Base designed to disorient zombies’ targeting abilities. It was said to contain ingredients extracted from a type of traditional herbal medicine; once ignited, the disrupting effect could last for one to two hours. The effectiveness varied depending on the location of use.
Meanwhile, the crowd inside the abandoned dam finally had a moment to catch their breath. The temporary containers were exceptionally warm, and the Healers were tirelessly treating the injured.
"Have we finished the headcount?" Adrian asked as he saw Heath approach.
Heath nodded. "Four people."
After several hours of combat, they had only lost four people, three of whom were South Riven Base soldiers. This number couldn’t help but shock everyone present.
"We also just received a message from the base. They’ll be fighting through the night," Ivan stated.
"Don’t celebrate too early," Kevin Nash, securely bound with ropes in the corner, sneered. "South Riven’s zombie tide isn’t that simple. For all you know, the more you kill, the more will appear."
Licking his lips, Kevin wore a brazen expression. "You may have caught me, but you might just die before I do! Hahaha!"
"Why do you say that?" Heath asked, even though he really wanted to give him a hard slap across the face.
"Three quarantine zones, and the South Riven Base hasn’t resolved a single one this month. With the zombie tide here, do you really think the things inside those quarantine zones will just sit there quietly?" Kevin said.
"The reason they couldn’t resolve them is all because of you!" Aaron said angrily.
The collapsed roads and the gathering zombie hordes could very well be the result of those mutated moles. The base soldiers who had sacrificed their lives on expeditions were also highly likely to be the handiwork of Kevin and his cohorts.
"What are you getting so worked up for? It’s only a matter of time before the South Riven Base is finished. Who knows, maybe we’ll all be dead by tomorrow! Hahaha..."
Listening to Kevin’s arrogant laughter, Adrian directly knocked him out with a Wind Ball.
"Where is Nina?" Adrian asked. Even though Kevin was nothing but scum, there was indeed a possibility that what he said was true.
"Senior wanted to rest alone for a bit. She’ll come over when it’s time," Sylvia answered.
Meanwhile, Nina had already used the Puppetry Technique to control four Mutated Zombies.
"Tonight, kill zombies in areas without humans, and kill yourselves at dawn," Nina ordered the four Mutated Zombies.
Since time was of the essence, she had only managed to find a few of these zombies. Although they couldn’t compare to the Puppet Zombies in Crestfall, they were still incredibly ferocious Mutated Zombies.