Faint red flames flickered in the city, and as the two were stunned, several more fireballs fell from the sky.
A meteorite?!
Su Li looked up at the sky in astonishment and saw a fireball growing bigger and bigger, seemingly flying straight toward her!
She was about to get up in fright when she suddenly felt a blur before her eyes, and then a large hand covered her eyes.
Then I felt the ground beneath me vibrate violently.
Everything was pitch black.
Su Li blinked and felt the hand covering her face tremble. A few seconds later, the hand lifted, and a sliver of light shone in.
"It was a meteorite, but there weren't many. It's over!"
A faint voice came from above. Su Li looked towards the front of the courtyard and saw flames burning fiercely.
A meteorite landed on the hillside directly in front of the yard.
Su Li looked up again. The dense meteor shower had only a few scattered trails of light left. In the nearby city, seven corners of the sky flickered with firelight.
Su Li frowned as she looked at the distant firelight.
Such a commotion is not a good thing.
The only thing to be lucky about is that no meteorite fell into the city at the base.
As for the meteorite in front of her yard, Su Li herself couldn't be sure whether it was just lucky that it happened to land on the hillside, or whether it was automatically blocked by the house because of the existence of the space villa.
The wildfire caused by the meteorite didn't burn quickly. Before Su Li could even make a move, Xuan Qing simply waved his hand, and the flames dissipated on their own.
A pungent smell of smoke gradually drifted into the air, and Su Li couldn't help but wave her hand to clear it.
Standing on the mountaintop, by the moonlight, one can vaguely see the large crater left by the meteorite impact on the mountain.
Su Li stood there for a while, then suddenly her ears twitched, and she turned to Xuan Qing and said, "Let's go back."
Just as the two entered the courtyard gate, a small group of people in black uniforms hurriedly ran over from a distance, carrying flashlights...
The next morning, Su Li received a message from Lin Dong.
The meteorite impact did not cause any damage to the facilities in the base, but the noise of the impact seemed to have been sensed by the slowly gathering horde of zombies!
The reconnaissance of the base was correct.
Not only at the base, but in the following days, Su Li could also sense that the speed and number of new mutated animals appearing on the mountain were increasing.
These days, Su Li and Xuan Qing would take a walk around the villa on the mountaintop and the village every day.
The number of zombies and mutated animals cleared each day has gradually increased from being completely gone to three or four, seven or eight, and now even more than a dozen.
This doesn't even include the amount cleared daily by the base's military division.
All the buildings of the military division have been completed. The buildings look more like a scaled-down base, except that the walls are higher and have enclosed observation rooms built on them.
Now, people from the base come here to take turns guarding the mountaintop every month, which makes Su Li feel that the mountaintop has become more lively.
That evening, after washing up, Su Li lay in bed, engrossed in reading a novel about a domineering CEO's forced love.
Lying beside her, Xuan Qing looked at the pink and gorgeous book cover in Su Li's hand and pondered. Could it be that Su Li liked that kind of style?
However, before he could figure it out, he suddenly heard Lin Dong's voice coming from the walkie-talkie that was on.
The attention of both the human and the demon was drawn away at the same time.
But what Lin Dong said over the walkie-talkie made both of them frown simultaneously:
"The base has observed that the formation of the zombie horde is accelerating, likely caused by the sound of the meteorite falling last night. It is estimated that the zombie horde will reach Tongcheng in less than forty hours."
"Moreover, the zombie horde is coming from all four directions. According to observations from the mountains, the mutated animals gathering from those mountain ranges are all larger. Be careful while you're on the mountain."
The zombie horde has indeed arrived.
Su Li sat up straight, thought for a moment, picked up the walkie-talkie, and pressed the talk button:
"What preparations has been made at the base?"
Lin Dong quickly responded:
"Currently, we've observed that most of the zombie hordes are coming from the southwest of the city. It's expected that around 10 a.m. tomorrow, three zombie hordes will converge in the southern suburbs. The base plans to bomb several waves of them at that time."
"As for the military and the external defense department, given the extreme danger posed by the zombie horde, they should remain within the base and operate under a unified command."
Upon hearing this, Su Li's expression became more serious.
He then told Lin Dong to "be careful" a few times before ending the call.
As the night deepened, the atmosphere of danger seemed to intensify.
Xuanqing remotely turned off the main light in the room. The two lay on the bed, and after a while, Su Li's breathing gradually became long and even.
Xuan Qing opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on the ceiling above him, seemingly lost in thought, but in reality, a wisp of his soul had already drifted out of the villa.
The densely packed houses on the mountaintop were quiet, and in the fields not far away, withered mutated crops stood silently.
But faintly, one could hear the panting of some enormous creature, and the rustling of its leaves as it moved.
Xuanqing's soul wandered around outside, dealing with several exceptionally large mutated animals before returning to the room with the crystal core.
After withdrawing his consciousness, Xuanqing turned his head to look at the girl who was already fast asleep beside him, then lay down on his side and naturally reached out to pull her into his arms.
The next day, during the day.
Even though she didn't go outside and was just in the courtyard, Su Li could still feel the intense tension coming from outside the courtyard and into the city below the mountain.
Early in the morning, she received an invitation from the military branch stationed on the mountaintop, asking her and Xuanqing to take refuge inside the military branch's walls, but Su Li refused!
Lu Yutong informed the military branch that Su Li insisted on not going, so he did not force her.
At 11 a.m., Su Li stood on the mountaintop, holding a pair of binoculars, looking towards the southwest of the city.
Just now, more than a hundred shells were fired from four directions of the base!
The powerful missile trailed a long white plume of smoke, and its deafening roar echoed through the air, even from the mountainside in Zurich.
By this time, a hundred missiles had landed. Through the telescope, thick smoke rose up along with flames, and at the same time, large flocks of mutated birds began to rapidly gather above the thick black smoke.
These mutated bird flocks were initially just gathered in their respective patches of sky above the city, but gradually moved closer to the base.
In just one morning, various weapons mounted on the base's walls launched a continuous attack, and a considerable pile of corpses had already accumulated on the walls.
But those are still a minority.
At this moment, the flock of mutated birds that had gathered together because of the explosion found no food at the source of the explosion. So they suddenly turned around and began to swarm towards the base in a dark mass!
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