Chapter 223 Leaving the City
"Cuckoo!"
Pigeon Huihui brought first-hand news about the battle situation at the front line.
"Sure enough, they are crazy enough!"
Qiao Lan quickly called on his friends to retreat in time.
The scene Yin Wanying had revealed became reality, as the armed zombies activated. The Black Cloud herd, which had captured the Temple base, engaged them, but their unstoppable offensive was halted, resulting in considerable casualties. Black Cloud chose not to confront them head-on, accepting Qiao Lan's advice and leading his men in a retreat.
The herd ran very fast and had already left the front line of the battle.
However, those armed zombies did not focus on hunting down the beasts, but spread into the city.
They attack indiscriminately!
Attack mutant beasts, attack any survivors in the city you encounter, and even attack the temple's own believers and warriors!
"Coo! Coo!"
The gray pigeon urged Qiao Lan and his group to hurry on their journey.
Faster, faster, run out of the city, the farther the better, those things are too scary!
I saw the armed zombie pigeons on the front lines and was truly terrified. What the heck were those? They were clearly dead, but how could they still move, kill, and bite? It was terrifying! And they were wearing mechanical parts, making them more aggressive and defensive, and incredibly fast!
The ferocious mutant beasts under Heiyun suffered great losses, let alone humans?
Just run, run quickly!
"City C is probably doomed. The Temple has abandoned even its own believers."
"If those things spread to the city, all the survivors in the city will be in trouble. They will either be killed or flee for their lives."
"Perhaps a few experts can survive, but by then, there won't be many living people left in the entire city."
"All forces, big and small, will be defeated. City C may become a dead city."
Qiao Lan, Xiao Li and the others discussed while retreating, and they hated the Temple for releasing the armed zombies.
Survival in a post-disaster city is difficult, but as long as the city and people are there, and each faction is working hard to manage their own piece of land, the ruins can be rebuilt, and supplies can be found and cultivated, there is always a little hope. But once the city is controlled by armed zombies, what hope is there for the survivors?
Forced to retreat into the wilderness and compete with mutant beasts for survival resources? Rebuilding a home in the wilderness is much more difficult than repairing ruins. Besides, zombies will also chase into the wild.
Therefore, armed zombies, such killing machines, should not be created!
"These loudspeakers, could you please help me, Boss Black Cloud, and spread the word?"
On the way of retreat, after encountering Heiyun's herd of beasts again, Qiao Lan changed his voice and recorded a few words, "The Temple Zombies are coming! Run! The slower you run, the faster you die. If you don't want to die, get out of the city quickly!", and recorded it on many loudspeakers, asking the herd of beasts to help spread the word.
Heiyun thought for a moment and growled twice.
Xiao Li: "This leader wants to record some animal language and spread it together, and asked how many speakers Sister has."
Qiao Lan quickly said that there were many.
He immediately found a secluded place along the way and released a large number of loudspeakers from the space, all of which were powered by batteries.
This is a storage room in an audio equipment store I rented out while searching for supplies. The batteries were already installed and ready for use.
The Black Cloud leader recruited representatives from each of his animal tribes to record warning calls into a loudspeaker. Once the recordings were completed, he dispatched animals skilled in running and flying, armed with loudspeakers, to various districts and streets.
As a result, human survivors everywhere in the city, as well as various animals living in the city, heard high-decibel danger warnings one after another.
This is what happened later.
If you look down at the city from the air, you'll see that the base of the temple looks like a dot with ripples radiating out from it.
It is a killing wave with blood and violence.
There were two thousand armed zombies, killing people and animals as they marched across the city, harvesting lives.
Outside this circle of ripples was a large group of galloping animals, running towards the outside of the city at an extremely fast speed.
There were also small groups of people and herds of animals appearing in various places in the city, gathering and running one after another, trying to stay away from the wave of killing.
From dawn to dawn and then to noon, loudspeakers blared warnings throughout the streets of City C, and people and beasts alike fled. How many ultimately escaped? Specific statistics are unavailable, but the suburban roads were packed with people, even where there were no roads. Beasts were even more numerous, the mutant beasts within the city and those outside, combined, scurrying about, leaving the human survivors trembling with fear.
However, most animals do not actively attack humans.
This was all thanks to the Black Cloud herd's powerful control. They were very organized and disciplined, forcing the other mutant beasts that were fleeing to avoid indiscriminate killing. Fighting among beasts was forbidden, and killing was also prohibited. Any animal that disobeyed would be killed.
So that night, when it got dark, the human survivors who had escaped the city gathered in a small town called Blackwater to spend the night, while the beasts settled down in the fields not far from the town, about a kilometer apart from each other, without invading each other and living in peace.
"This is simply a miracle, Chief Black Cloud, you are truly amazing. Please accept my knees."
Qiao Lan flattered the big black cat. It wasn't flattery, but she really admired him.
She and her companions stayed with the beasts and were well taken care of along the way. Lao Guo and Hou Tian, who hadn't regained consciousness, were carried out of the city on the backs of two larger mutant wolves. Later, Qiao Lan and the others were simply carried by the mutant beasts, as they could run faster than humans.
When setting up camp at night, Qiao Lan took out a batch of meat and food from the space to comfort the army of mutant beasts.
"Thank you for your gift. I will remember this friendship deeply." said the Black Cloud leader.
Without hesitation, it distributed the food Qiao Lan gave it to the mutant beasts under its command. There were too many beasts and not enough food, so Qiao Lan wanted to take some out, but was rejected by Heiyun.
"We can't just rely on the gifts from our friends to survive." It asked its mutant beasts to go to the mountains and wilderness in batches to look for food and be self-reliant as usual.
What a smart leader, Qiao Lan thought to himself.
She had come into contact with many mutant beasts in her two lifetimes and knew that some advanced mutant beasts had high IQs, but she was still shocked by the black cloud.
"So, may I ask, besides helping me, do you have any other considerations when you led your army into the city to attack the temple?" Qiao Lan couldn't help but think about it a little more.
With the assistance of translator Xiao Li, Qiao Lan and Heiyun communicated very smoothly and without any obstacles.
Heiyun nodded approvingly at Qiao Lan, obviously satisfied with her intelligence.
"We need more living space and don't want to be enemies with humans forever. But it is obvious that the people from the Temple will not coexist with us in peace," it said.
"So?!" Qiao Lan thought of a possibility in surprise.
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