Chapter 33 Underground City
After walking for more than 20 minutes and dealing with a few zombies along the way, they came across an underground city.
The 4-meter-high city wall looks majestic and imposing at first glance.
The city wall was covered in a dark, unidentified liquid and debris, but it was not dilapidated.
Outside the city wall, there were two rings of sandbags and iron fences with barbed wire, and at intervals there seemed to be a firearm set up.
"Wait...are there NPCs here?"
"Shout we...?"
Jiang Baiyue: "It's a bit quiet. I can only hear the sounds of zombies, nothing else... I'll go check it out first. I have a superpower that allows me to hide quickly."
The others nodded worriedly, watching nervously as the lying-flat salted fish slowly walked over.
However, no one came out to stop her until she reached the first line of defense.
Jiang Baiyue had Mercenary Number One push open the barbed wire fence, and soon she arrived at the city gate.
Looking up, the city gate seemed to stretch endlessly, giving one a strong sense of pressure.
This is a ghost town...
Four people stood at the city gate shouting stupidly for more than 10 minutes without getting a response, only hearing the roars of zombies.
Sunflower patted the iron gate with her hand, listening to the sound; it was muffled.
"This iron gate must be very thick."
"It's too heavy, we definitely can't push it open. Should we look for somewhere nearby where we can get in?"
Tian Tian looked around at Xia and made a suggestion.
Jiang Baiyue walked to the left side of the city gate, while the other three went to the right.
Hoo—!
The zombie that had been twisting and climbing on the city wall suddenly scurried down, carrying a foul stench. Mercenary Number One quickly opened fire and killed it.
Jiang Baiyue reacted quickly and dodged, instinctively using her iron axe to block.
The zombie's impact was so violent that it slammed her against the invisible barrier. She felt a sharp pain in her back, but before she could even utter a sound, the zombie, still weakened, continued its attack.
With its limbs on the ground, it moved at an extremely fast speed, and Jiang Baiyue only had time to launch a fireball in front of her.
Hoo—!
【Climbing Zombie (Lv1: 106/150)】
The zombie screamed, and a fireball ignited its clothes, then burned its rotting flesh.
Taking advantage of the zombie's pause, Jiang Baiyue raised her iron axe and struck its head several times.
The zombie dies, leaving behind 1 energy crystal and 8 coins.
After picking up the items, the others ran over.
There's nothing over there, so what's going on here?
All three of them heard and saw this, and felt that they should have gained something from this.
"There's a small door, Jiang Yuan, shine the light on it, I guess... oh!"
Jiang Baiyue cut off the conversation and looked inside along the beam of light. The passage and the top of the passage were filled with zombies.
Under the light, all the zombies stiffly twisted their necks and looked outside.
Ho! Ho ho ho!
"Move back, move back, don't crowd here!"
Everyone quickly retreated to an open area, while the zombies, following the lights, caught up with a few of them.
Gunshots, explosions, and the screams of zombies rang out.
Knowing that she wasn't doing much damage, Jiang Yuan used a wooden axe to poke the zombie away, then followed closely behind Lying Flat Salted Fish, thinking that if anything went wrong, Lying Flat Salted Fish might be able to save her.
Along the way, she realized that the two tall men in black were with Tangping Xianyu, and Tangping Xianyu's side was clearly safer.
The climbing zombie was very fast, using all four limbs and jumping up to bite from time to time. Fortunately, the mercenary's reaction speed was also not bad, and she could always shoot the climbing zombie to stop it when it jumped up to bite her.
It was a bit inconvenient to be holding a torch and an axe at the same time, with the flashing light in front of my eyes.
Jiang Baiyue noticed that a zombie had somehow circled around behind Jiang Yuan, leaping up and opening its mouth wide to bite Jiang Yuan's head.
Jiang Baiyue quickly teleported over and pulled Jiang Yuan away. She then swung her axe sideways and chopped down on the zombie's neck. Unexpectedly, she crippled the zombie with just one axe blow.
Their weakness is their necks; their heads actually seem to be tougher than those of the zombies outside.
She immediately told her companions about her discovery.
Jiang Baiyue said to Jiang Yuan, "You follow behind and provide the light!"
Jiang Yuan was still shaken. She had wanted to do this for a long time, but she was afraid they would think she didn't want to kill zombies to gain an advantage.
However, she couldn't just sit idle.
Jiang Yuan opened her backpack, took out a pistol, and loaded it with steel balls. Her aim wasn't good, and if she were to kill zombies alone, it definitely wouldn't be as effective as a wooden axe.
But now that she's hiding behind the lazy bum, she'll definitely find an opportunity to fire.
There weren't many zombies this time, and they quickly dealt with them together. After resting and replenishing their strength, Jiang Baiyue led Jiang Yuan to continue irradiating the small door.
After several rounds of this, no more zombies came out of the passage. Jiang Baiyue then had the mercenaries take Jiang Yuan's flashlight and scout ahead.
The passage was poorly ventilated and not very wide. After walking for a while, two forks appeared.
The road to the left was messy, with some items scattered on the ground, indicating that people were fleeing in panic.
The right side was clean, with only traces of zombies climbing and walking around.
After discussing it, they decided to go to the left. Following the reverse logic, the safer the path, the more abnormal it seemed. They were also worried that they wouldn't be able to get through smoothly on the right, or that the door might not open.
They continued walking along the passage for a while and saw signs of habitation. It appeared to be a living area with a hall, bedrooms, and a kitchen.
They rummaged through the kitchen for a while to replenish their food supplies.
The sunflower backpack was out of space, so she ate the food she found in her backpack and put the newly found food into it.
"Haha, good luck! I found a flashlight."
Xia put away her flashlight and continued searching. She boldly guessed, "This must be where the soldiers guarding the city gate live. Could there be an armory here?"
Jiang Yuan thought it was very likely; there were slogans on the walls, clearly indicating that this was an official organization.
"I'm almost out of steel balls. Maybe I should go find some. I want to replace my wooden axe. The wooden axe's damage is too low, and it's also quite prone to breakage."
"good."
After finishing their meal in the kitchen, the group began to carefully search for weapons.
According to the signs and markers on the walls, they are now in the C-15 dining area.
Beyond the entrance to the dining area lies a residential area, but this area has very few rooms, suggesting it's an area frequented by people of high status.
Jiang Yuan: "Luckily, this place isn't winding and twisting, otherwise it would be really easy to get lost."
"Actually, I'm more disappointed that my backpack wasn't big enough, otherwise I could have found a lot more stuff here!"
Xia felt regretful, but her backpack only had 10 compartments, and she didn't have any other backpacks or travel bags to carry it all, so she could only choose to take the supplies she needed.
"You can go out now!"
The sunflower accidentally opened a door and discovered that it led directly into the city.
At the same time, Tian Tian Xiang Xia also discovered a place that appeared to be an armory.
"Come quick! There are lots of weapons here, we should be able to loot some!"
Jiang Baiyue and the other two ran over.
The room was small, containing only shelves with rows of iron boxes and guns and cold weapons.
However, Jiang Baiyue only saw a few resource points.
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