Chapter 553 Support Base
Kyoto base.
After the zombies' coordinated attack, the situation gradually began to tilt towards the zombies. The psychics were stretched to the limit and casualties gradually increased.
With the destruction of an entire small team, the already stable morale of the army began to waver.
Seeing that the situation was not good, several small teams began to retreat.
Mr. Zheng still inherited the idea of "the one who retreats will die" and wanted to suppress it by force, but this time Lu Xiao and Zhao Qiang stopped him at the same time.
"It's not easy for every superpower to upgrade, and they shouldn't die at the hands of humans." As an upgrade maniac, Zhao Qiang is well aware of the life and death involved in every upgrade.
He has been fighting on the front line since the zombies started using strategies. He has lasted for two days and one night. At this moment, he is leaning against a protruding earth wall to support his body. His voice is hoarse as if he has a piece of sand in it. "Old man, please give me a specific time for the support to arrive. I will lead the team away after that."
"I can't let my brothers die in a battle with no prospects."
"Anti-Zombie Alliance..."
"Only living people can form an alliance. Look at the endless stream of zombies outside. Are you planning to bury all the superpowers in Kyoto again?" Zhao Qiang had heard about Mr. Zheng's previous heroic deeds in battle countless times, which was why he agreed to let him command this battle. However, he did not expect that Mr. Zheng was so paranoid that he would defend the city regardless of the lives of the superpowers.
If Zheng Yi had not also led a team to guard another direction, he would have suspected that the old man's attitude of rather dying than retreating was to pave the way for the Zheng family's future.
"team leader--"
"Sixth Brother——!"
A few sharp screams were heard not far away from him. Zhao Qiang looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the captain of his team six had been pierced through the chest by a vine as thick as an arm.
The vines extending from under the city wall dragged his body into the air and waved it. His eyes were wide open, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. The crystal core gun in one hand was still pointed directly at the city wall. White frost condensed around his body but froze very slowly, as if his supernatural powers had been exhausted.
Everyone who saw this scene gritted their teeth in horror. Several fire dragons indiscriminately swept towards the pile of zombies under the city wall, making the zombies under the city wall even more excited.
"Cut the vines, wood-type psychics, pull the people up." As Zhao Qiang gave the order, the city wall under his feet seemed to be thinned by some force, and a huge shield made of bricks, stones and soil appeared in the air and appeared in front of the surrounding psychics, defending them from the psychic attacks from below.
The continuously thrown down supernatural powers made the wood-type zombies that controlled the plants swing irregularly in a hurry, and Lao Liu on the zombies was suddenly beaten against the city wall. Even if a wood-type supernatural user took action and pulled the person up, he would be completely dead.
"Where is the healing department? Fang Ke? Jiang Xi!" A young boy, with blood on his face, shouted loudly towards the wall-climbing passage behind him.
"Gangzi, calm down."
"Old Six, he..."
"Sixth brother will be fine, his supernatural power is very strong!" Gangzi opened his eyes wide and glared at the person who spoke. He looked like he would take action immediately if the other person said another word.
Zhao Qiang took two steps towards this side and saw Lao Liu lying on the ground. In addition to the blood gushing out of his pierced chest, his bones seemed to be crushed, presenting a kind of "human pancake" appearance. Even if the healing ability of the psychic was extraordinary, it would be impossible to save him.
"Gangzi..."
Zhao Qiang wanted to say something when he saw the youngest psychic in their team six, with red eyes filled with tears, looking at him with grievance and hope, and asked, "Sheriff, didn't you say we had support? Why hasn't it arrived in three days?"
"It only takes two hours for the fighter planes from Yueban Bay to arrive here."
The people around also looked at Zhao Qiang, as if asking him a silent question.
The shield that was used to block the attacks collapsed with a loud bang. Broken stones and soil fell to the ground, then condensed into a fist shape in mid-air and suddenly smashed towards the ground.
The "bang bang bang" sound of the hammering sounded like the venting of emotions.
The same scene was happening in different places. Lu Xiao was watching his psychics getting injured and dying, and Zheng Yi was also powerless.
As the three most powerful people in the Kyoto base, they have always been the objects of pursuit among the base's superpowers. But now, the zombies have taught them a lesson with their blood and lives, making them clearly see their own weakness.
At the same time, they all had doubts in their hearts, wondering if their decision to stay was a wrong one.
"If support has not arrived within five hours, the escort team will withdraw immediately."
Zhao Qiang's voice came from the communicator.
He seemed to be making a promise to everyone, or he seemed to be talking to Mr. Zheng on the other end of the communicator.
Before Mr. Zheng could speak, Lu Xiao's tired voice came from an open communicator, "Let's fight together with the flames."
Zheng Yi didn't say anything, but at this moment, no support was silent approval.
The departure of the two top teams meant the complete destruction of the Kyoto base.
Mr. Zheng was silent for a long time and said, "They are already on the way."
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The old man did not lie, support was indeed on the way, but it was not the Yueban Bay base as everyone thought.
Instead, it is located at the An Giang base in the central part and the Jin Province base in the southwest.
After the end of the Superpower Conference, the surrounding bases had begun to build underground passages, which played a huge role at this time. As expected, it did not take long to travel back and forth.
At the same time that Kyoto received support from the Yuebanwan base, the nearby bases that had been prepared immediately accepted the support and set off. As Ning Yuan said, they were all afraid that they would be too late and the battle would be over, and they would not be able to get a share of the pie.
This resulted in them arriving at the battlefield before Ning Yuan, who was late, arrived.
At this time, the large-scale thermal weapons of the Kyoto base had been exhausted, and the base had to rely entirely on the support of the psychics. More than 30,000 psychics from the two bases quickly joined the battle, which greatly alleviated the dire situation.
However, the lack of high-level psychics failed to completely reverse the situation.
As the battle progressed, the zombies became more and more skilled in coordinating operations, and even began to use the five elements to coordinate and suppress the superpowers of the psychics. It was as if they had a unified brain directing the battle, and their mobility and execution were very fast.
The zombies, which were obviously different from the previous ones, quickly attracted everyone's attention. Even after support teams from Zhongdu Base and Cangnan Base arrived, they still failed to play a suppressive role. Due to the completely unexpected battle situation, several teams even began to disobey orders.
The atmosphere in the command post was also extremely tense.
The heads of several bases gathered here and were asking Mr. Zheng where the support for Yueban Bay was.
"It was you in Kyoto who said that the Yuebanwan base had arrived, so our mayor agreed to this cooperation. Now, not only is there no trace of Yuebanwan's support, but you have even been hiding the situation of the zombies, making us work for nothing. Don't you intend to give us an explanation, old man?" Chen Guozhong is the confidant of Lin Minghong, the former mayor of Anjiang City and current director of Anjiang Base. His attitude outside represents the director of the base.
As the second team with unified power besides Yueban Bay, his attitude was naturally not comparable to those of the temporarily formed support forces. His sonorous and powerful questioning showed no mercy to the old man at all.
"How can you talk like that?" the guard beside the old man asked angrily.
"After doing so much, are you still afraid of what others will say?" Pang Xinghuo, who is young and looks quite frivolous from the Jin Province base, put his hands in his pockets, looked around, and responded casually.
Compared to Chen Guozhong's indignation, he was not excited at all, and even had the mind to observe the team's deployment.
"Grandpa, the situation at Kyoto base is already at the end of its strength. There is no need to continue fighting. If there is no support from more high-level psychics or high-risk thermal weapons, we decided to return as soon as possible. At least we can save the psychics in our team." The person who came from Cangnan base was Luo Ming, the captain of the base's largest team, Fengming Team. At fifty years old, he was quite steady and had more respect for the old man than the younger generation.
Without waiting for the people around the old man to speak, he continued, "I believe in your character, so you brought the backbone of our base, but we can't let them be consumed in a completely hopeless battle. Don't say you can't see that the zombies in the center of Kyoto are still moving towards the base in an endless stream."
"Can you give me a definite answer? Will Yuebanwan participate in this battle?" asked Haiqin, the person in charge of Zhongdu Base.
"They are indeed on the way," said Mr. Zheng, "This is the message sent by Yuebanwan half an hour ago."
Mr. Zheng handed the information from the communicator to several people, which clearly indicated the weapons carried by the Yuebanwan team.
The various crystals and weapons alone made people feel at ease. Chen Guozhong was shocked by the weapons storage in Yueban Bay, while calculating the possibility of victory in his mind.
"However, most of the underground passage from Yueban Bay to the Kyoto base was destroyed by a sinkhole, and the sudden proliferation of mutant animals left everyone too busy to repair it. Now it will take more time."
"Then can't their fighter planes be dispatched first?" If they can get air support, it can at least relieve the pressure on the front-line psychics.
"Mutated birds are rampant in coastal areas, and fighter jets lack the self-defense capabilities. If they are attacked by mutated birds, it is easy to cause unnecessary losses," said Mr. Zheng.
"They don't even have the ability to protect themselves. Are you sure the crystal core weapons they carry can cause a large-scale attack on zombies?"
"Yeah, no one has ever seen these things. Are you sure they can play a decisive role in this battle?"
"Didn't they kill hundreds of thousands of zombies with crystal core rocket launchers two years ago? So there was an S-level zombie among them?"
"That's just a rumor. No one has seen it, so who can be sure it's true? What's more, the S-level zombies were killed because of Lu..." The person who spoke seemed to remember something and suddenly stopped talking.
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