Chapter 503: The game begins.
Inside the Flame Core Base.
"Sizzle—!!!"
The moment the electric current exploded, Lu Nange put down her chopsticks.
The sound was so piercing, it felt like someone was drilling into my eardrums.
Everyone in the restaurant froze for a moment, then turned to look out the window—the sky-covering electronic screen was emitting a blinding white light.
"Let's go out and take a look." Lu Nange suddenly stood up.
The group rushed out of the restaurant.
The survivors pouring out of the various buildings all looked up, their pupils reflecting the eerie light in the sky.
In mid-air, the bright red countdown that had originally shown more than five hours remaining on the huge electronic screen disappeared.
Instead, there was a real-time view divided into countless small squares—covering the entire sky.
Scattered zombies roam among the ruined city streets and collapsed high-rise buildings.
In the crowded, dimly lit underground shelter, people huddled together, their faces gaunt.
A heavily guarded base, soldiers patrolling the walls, in a desolate, uninhabited wilderness...
"Damn it!" He Zhu cursed, his voice a little dry. "What the hell is this thing?"
Gu Qi squinted and tapped his finger in the air: "Quzhou City... Shashi City... The scene is switching."
Lu Xici: "It's not just a few places. Look at those seas, and the ice fields—this could be global surveillance."
“But the satellites have been defunct for a long time.” Luo Xingyou said, mouth agape, “Global communications were down… how did these images come about?”
Lu Beiye tugged at Lu Nange's sleeve: "Sister, look over there—that's our base!"
Looking in the direction he pointed, it was in the seventh small square of the third row in the upper left corner of the screen.
The towering walls, the staggered buildings, and even the tiny figures of patrolling team members walking on the walls.
Chi Yanzhou tilted his head back: "The visual angle is a direct, vertical view from directly above..."
Shi Xu: "That's impossible, we don't have any surveillance cameras above us!"
It's definitely impossible...
With current human technology, it is simply impossible to achieve such global coverage, real-time transmission, and such clear surveillance.
These angles, so high up, seem to have an invisible, enormous eye hovering outside the planet, coldly watching over every inch of land.
unless...
Unless the monitor himself is not considered "human".
[Welcome, my little ants!]
The cold, mechanical voice sounded again, unhurriedly: "[The rules of the game are now being announced.]"
In the center of the screen, blood-red text slowly emerged, each stroke appearing as if written with fingertips dipped in blood.
Your mission is to find the 'intruder'.
Intruder's warnings: 1. Possesses memories of two lifetimes. 2. Can provide items, resources, or objects that 'shouldn't exist in this world'. 3. Contains some kind of 'system'...
Lu Nange's heart skipped a beat... [He's practically asking for my ID number! Am I the intruder he's looking for?]
[That's right!] The mechanical voice took on a hint of mocking malice: [I'm looking for you, 'Intruder.' Are you... ready?]
Lu Nange felt a cold sweat break out on her back, but her face remained expressionless: [This...it's like she's talking to me!]
Mechanical voice: [Before you find him/her, these...]
All the split surveillance screens suddenly went dark, and then switched back to normal!
They all ended up looking the same – a dense, crowded mass of zombies, most of them half-zombie, half-beast, and a few pure zombies!
He Zhuo: "Yellow pupils...green...that's cyan!"
Gu Wan's face turned deathly pale: "Blue...and purple..."
Survivors around the world were in an uproar.
The color of the zombies' pupils indicates that there are no zombies below level four in this group.
Yellow is level four, green is level five, cyan is level six, blue is level seven, and purple is level eight!
These...little cuties are released every 24 hours, at random locations, with the quantity increasing each time...
The deployment will not stop unless the 'intruder' is caught and handed over to me.
Otherwise, high-level zombies will be released every twenty-four hours, endlessly, until... you ants are completely wiped out.
Next, please enjoy—the first wave of content I've prepared for you.
The zombie image on the screen suddenly shrank, instantly turning into a writhing black background in the distance.
The camera angle rises and moves rapidly at a dizzying pace—the ruined city, the desolate wilderness, and the surging sea blur into a murky patch of color in the field of vision.
Finally, it stopped abruptly, freezing on one image—the Flameheart Base.
Complete and flawless, terrifyingly clear...
The towering walls, the staggered buildings, the crisscrossing streets, and even the people walking in the courtyards were all projected in perfect detail onto the enormous screen that blotted out the sky.
At that moment, the survivors of Flameheart felt as if they had been stripped naked and thrown under the spotlight for exhibition.
[Let's get a firsthand feel for the irresistible charm of these cuties... Game, start!]
The cold announcement had barely been made when Lu Nange and Shi Xu's mental energy detected that a large number of vehicles were approaching the Flameheart Base at full speed from several kilometers away!
Almost simultaneously, next to the live feed of the Flameheart Base on the giant screen, small, glaring scarlet text appeared.
[First wave of deployment coordinates: Flame Core Base]
[Deployment Category: Mixed High-Tier Zombie Horde (40% Yellow-eyed, 30% Green-eyed, 20% Blue-eyed, 9% Blue-eyed, 1% Purple-eyed)]
[Estimated arrival time: 4 minutes 37 seconds]
The bright red numbers began to jump relentlessly.
4:36…
4:35…
"Assemble at the sentry post!" Chi Yanzhou turned to Chi Yi: "Chi Yi, notify all combat personnel to take the high ground! Old Gu—"
His gaze swept across the crowd and met Gu Qi's: "Notify Chi Si and the others to move all the elderly and children to the basement of the training room, quickly!"
Below the training room is a basement recently built by the Flameheart Earth and Metal elemental ability users.
The place isn't big, but it's sturdy and safe enough!
The images on the giant screen overhead kept changing.
Lu Nange and Shi Xu didn't need to use their mental powers to detect anything; they only needed to look up to see that a dozen military green heavy trucks were speeding toward Flame Heart, kicking up clouds of dust, a few kilometers away.
Inside those truck beds were countless high-level zombies.
"Let's go!" Chi Yanzhou opened the car door.
Everyone quickly got into the car, and just as the engine started, Grandpa Chi and his entourage of elders blocked the front of the car.
"Grandpa?" Chi Yanzhou leaned out of the car window.
"Go wherever you want! We old folks are still got our bones in our boots, it's none of your business to worry about us! Guard the Flameheart!"
Chi Yanzhou's Adam's apple bobbed, and he nodded emphatically: "Yes!"
Several cars drove out in succession and sped towards the gate.
Inside the base, thanks to Grandpa Chi's decision to have Chi Qingyue raise the base to the highest level of alert from the moment he saw the countdown.
With Lu Nange and Chi Yanzhou's group's faces also visible on the surveillance footage, the survivors of Flameheart, though terrified, were not out of control.
On the watchtower, the patrol members were already in position, their guns pointed outwards.
At the basement entrance, the elderly, women, and children were being organized and were flowing in in a tense but orderly manner...
Lu Nange leaned against the car window and looked up at the sky.
The surveillance footage on the giant screen continued to switch, sweeping across the base's plaza, streets, and training grounds...
All the footage could only be captured in open-air locations.
The countdown on the giant screen flashed: 3:15…3:14…
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