With a loud "boom", the surrounding buildings collapsed instantly.
Dust was flying all around, and gravel was falling from above from time to time. The large army dodged all the way and finally ran out of the alley and came to the street.
Except for some people who were injured by the explosion splash, there were basically no casualties among them.
Because someone sacrificed for them.
Everyone stood on the empty street, looking at the ruins before them. There were not only zombies buried there, but also the bodies of many teammates.
But before they had time to grieve, they had to cheer up and deal with the zombies. Those zombies buried under the rubble and bricks were only a part of the zombie group, and there were still many "living" zombies.
Their crisis has not yet been resolved.
But at least they could breathe a sigh of relief. Their plan was successful. After the house exploded, the zombies were attracted to the side by the sound, about tens of meters away from their team. They were no longer pressing forward like before.
"Dr. Chen, be careful, I'll support you." The adjutant shot and killed a lone zombie that smelled the scent of a living person and wanted to rush over, then quickly reached out to support the person next to him to prevent him from falling.
Next to them, several other soldiers with guns formed a circle tacitly, protecting the fifty-year-old man with slightly graying temples and wearing glasses.
This old man is Dr. Chen, the person they are rescuing this time. The suitcase in his hand contains the first-hand data of the comparative analysis of zombie viruses in water and blood conducted in the laboratory. It is also the hope for solving the water pollution this time.
"Alas, I'm too old to run anymore. I'm holding you back. If you hadn't come to rescue me, so many of you wouldn't have died this time." Dr. Chen couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the dark sky and the zombies roaring at them, humans.
He has spent half his life studying viruses and fighting against them in the laboratory, but he never thought that one day he would witness such a scene with his own eyes: the whole world is being ravaged by an unknown virus, but he is powerless and can only watch more and more people die.
This is the tragedy of these researchers.
"Dr. Chen, don't say that. The problems facing our base still depend on you. Only if you survive, our rescue this time will be meaningful. Only if you survive, the teammates who died at the hands of the zombies along the way will not have died in vain. You must hold on!" Although the adjutant had poor academic performance since childhood, he was not a good student and did not know anything about virus research. But he knew that the world could not solve problems by force alone.
Just like this time, since the base found that the nearby water resources were polluted, although it seemed to be under control, in fact, everyone in the base was exhausted. People can go without food for three days, but they cannot go without water for three days.
But once humans drink polluted water, they will develop all kinds of strange symptoms, and in serious cases, they will transform into zombies. Now no one dares to drink tap water anymore, and there is not enough drinking water in the base.
Now they can still find supplies in the city and use the barreled and bottled drinking water produced before the end of the world. But what about three months later, six months later, one year later, three years later? When they can no longer collect any supplies, where will they get water resources? They can't all rely on the few water-based psychics in the base to supply water.
The base spent so much manpower and resources to rescue Dr. Chen from the city, it must be because he has the ability to do so. Only when people like Dr. Chen survive can more people be saved.
Even if Dr. Chen has only a 10% chance of solving the current water pollution problem at Base No. 3, it will be worth it even if they risk their lives this time!
Dr. Chen looked at the sincere eyes of the man beside him and said nothing more.
He knew that he was carrying the expectations of many people. Just like this time, his assistant risked his life to go outside the laboratory to send out a distress signal, just to prevent his research from stopping.
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When the large army was passing by a shop, a zombie suddenly rushed into the team from inside, grabbed a man and bit him. The man groaned and blood flowed down his arm.
A man standing next to him saw it and immediately shot at the zombie's head, but it dodged quickly and the bullet didn't even hit its body.
"It's a zombie with abnormal speed! Everyone, be on alert immediately!" Someone realized that something was wrong and quickly shouted to the team.
The advancing column stopped.
Everyone held their guns tightly and looked around vigilantly, fearing that they would not be able to see clearly which direction the mutated speed zombie was coming from this time.
The soldiers around Dr. Chen protected him very strictly, not giving the zombies any chance to get close to him.
Although the mutant speed zombie is not as powerful as other mutant zombies, it should not be underestimated. The reason why it is difficult to entangle is that it is unexpected. Every time it suddenly runs out from an unknown corner and catches them off guard. Just like this time.
Behind the main force is a group of zombies, and now there is a mutant speed zombie hiding in the dark beside them. The longer they stay here, the more likely they are to get into danger.
What's more, they were now on an empty street. There were no alleys to concentrate their firepower on, and no buildings to bury the zombies under.
If a large army were surrounded by zombies, they would really be exhausted to death here.
There were also many superpowers in the army, but after an hour of escape and intense fighting, many of them were exhausted and could no longer use their superpowers. The only thing they could use was the few bullets they had left.
Just as everyone was discussing countermeasures, the mutated speed zombie hiding in the dark quickly attacked again. This time it rushed into a group of ordinary people rescued from the city.
Seeing the hideous zombie getting closer and closer to them, someone in the crowd of ordinary people finally couldn't help but let out a scream of fear.
The mutant zombie was attracted by the woman's voice. The others only had time to fire a few shots before they saw a bloody hole the size of a fist in the woman's abdomen. The zombie's long nails brutally pulled all her intestines and internal organs out of her stomach, and they fell to the ground in pieces. The woman twitched a few times and fell to the ground. It was not known whether she passed out from the pain or the fright.
The scene was too bloody, with blood splashing everywhere, making the people standing nearby feel sick and want to vomit. But now everyone's stomachs are clean and there is nothing to vomit.
In addition, the scene that happened to the woman just now was still vivid in people's minds. No one present dared to make any loud noise, for fear that death would fall on their heads in the next second.
The mutated zombies are still running around in the crowd. Those who are lucky can still save their lives, but those who are unlucky, like the woman whose intestines were pulled out, will definitely not survive under the conditions of the apocalypse, even if they don't die on the spot.
Because the mutant zombies were in the crowd and hid quickly, sometimes the bullets were originally aimed at them, but they ran and landed on the people nearby. So everyone did not dare to shoot casually, for fear of hurting their own people, and they were shackled everywhere.
After injuring several people on the periphery, the mutant zombies slowly began to move towards the team in the middle.
"Dr. Chen, be careful. Don't let it catch you." The adjutant has been standing in front of Dr. Chen dutifully, on guard against mutant zombies. He is a mutant, so it's not a big deal if he's scratched by a zombie. What he's afraid of is that something will happen to the person they're rescuing this time. If he's accidentally infected by a zombie, that would be terrible.
Because the team's strength was consumed by the zombie swarm, now even a first-level mutant speed zombie can make everyone in them feel insecure.
At this moment, a bolt of lightning struck from a distance, and the mutant zombie that was originally able to move freely among the crowd was hit in the arm. It roared twice and dodged to the side. At the same time, a wall of earth suddenly rose from the ground, blocking the mutant zombie's body from dodging.
A soldier who was nearby saw this scene and reacted quickly, shooting at the mutated zombie.
Without humans to provide cover and nowhere to hide, the mutant zombies were quickly shot in the head.
"The zombies are coming, everyone, get out of here!"
The majority of the troops were delayed for some time by the attack of this zombie with abnormal speed, and some of the zombies behind them had already caught up.
"Teams one and two are responsible for attacking, and team three is responsible for protecting the others."
The soldiers and team members who were able to participate in this rescue were all good shooters. Although they could not shoot every time in the head, they did not miss a single shot and all of them hit the zombies. Even if they did not hit the head, they could slow down the zombies' movements a lot, and other people in the team would see the opportunity and shoot again.
With the help of the group of people who had just helped them defeat the mutated zombies, their team was getting further and further away from the zombie group.
The middle-aged man leading the team was still a little worried, and the other people in the team did not relax their vigilance. Because in the previous hour of madly fleeing under the zombies' pursuit, every time when they were about to escape from the zombies' hunting range, they could always accurately find them and follow them, just like a beast smelling meat.
Fortunately, this time, the group of zombies finally did not catch up with them. Instead, because they could no longer smell the breath of living people, some zombies slowly scattered in all directions. It was no longer like before, as if there was something behind them directing them to gather together and surround humans.
They ran a little further along the street, and when they could no longer see the zombies, they found a secluded and safe place between several buildings to rest.
After this long battle, everyone was exhausted. Some people leaned against the wall and collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.
I don’t know if they can withstand another wave of attacks if the zombies come after them again.