Chapter 219 Time Reversal
Wu Ming quickly made a decision: "Meng Shiwan will attack the direction of the cave, the rest of you will guard the surrounding area and the rear, and we will slowly make our way into the cave."
As he finished speaking, everyone found their place, each guarding their own area, and handed over the direction of the stone path leading to the cave to Meng Shiwan.
Meng Shiwan used his lightning-based superpowers to kill a large number of zombies. After carving out a vacuum zone, they moved forward quickly.
The entire team had only walked a dozen meters when the zombie horde completely engulfed the vacuum zone that Meng Shiwan had created, forcing them to their feet.
Meng Shiwan was about to unleash her lightning-based superpowers once again to cleave open a vacuum zone.
At the same time, the others did not dare to let their guard down. They were also struggling to hold off the zombies chasing from behind. Despite their best efforts, they could only keep the zombie horde a meter away from them.
If they let their guard down even for a moment, a zombie's arm could reach out and deliver a fatal blow.
Surrounded by the crowd, Ye Sangyu looked up at the entrance of the cave. In the dark, torrential rain, she couldn't see it clearly at all and could only roughly locate it using the map in her mind.
She estimated, "At our current speed, it will take more than forty minutes to reach the cave entrance. We can't be sure if there are zombies inside, or if the number of zombies will be the same as now."
Furthermore, it's uncertain whether the zombie king we're looking for is even inside the cave.
The only thing we can be certain of now is that, at our current rate of power output, our internal energy simply won't last for forty minutes.
The current situation is a predicament. What they need to do now is either find a way to break out of the predicament or withdraw and reconsider their options.
Wu Ming gritted his teeth, "In that case, let's use firearms."
Under normal circumstances, using firearms to hunt zombies will attract more zombies, leading to a vicious cycle where the more you fight, the more zombies you encounter.
However, the current situation is clearly abnormal. Firearms, with their high lethality and wide attack range, have become the most suitable method of attack.
Someone took off a backpack covered with an acid rain protection layer and pulled out a bomb.
Many modern bombs are small in size but powerful, making them ideal for carrying around.
Everyone stopped moving forward and built their nests on the spot.
Earth-based abilities control the growth of the ground soil, which condenses into a wall around them, enclosing everyone in the middle. Metal-based abilities transform and reinforce the wall, forming a metal wall that the zombies cannot break through for the time being.
The remaining people took out all the explosives, grenades, and other explosive weapons they were carrying.
After pulling off the safety wire and turning on the detonator, they threw everything over the wall.
The wind-based ability propelled it even further, and explosions outside the wall rang out one after another, the sounds booming and flashing bright lights in the torrential rain, causing the ground to tremble.
"With so many bombs, even the densest horde of zombies can be blasted open."
"We'll kill one wave, then another. That should clear out most of them. This valley is big, but the road has been blocked by a landslide. We'll eventually clear out all the zombies in the valley."
Dozens of superhumans threw out all the explosive weapons they had brought. After a series of explosions, Wu Ming condensed wind wings and flew to the wall to check the situation outside.
In that instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared, illuminating the entire world. A withered arm, as dry as dried meat, reached in from outside the wall at incredible speed and pierced Wu Ming's heart.
At that moment, time seemed to stand still. Everyone's head was filled with thunderous roars, their limbs went cold, and their heartbeats skipped a beat.
Clearly, no one expected this to happen.
When Meng Shiwan realized something was wrong, it was too late. Wu Ming's life force was rapidly fading away, and he was falling from mid-air.
Meng Shiwan didn't even have a chance to use her healing abilities.
"I... I can save him."
Ye Sangyu stood up, wanting to reverse time, but Meng Shiwan grabbed her wrist.
She was puzzled. The next second, zombies outside the wall surged in like a tide.
Several superhumans were focused on Wu Ming and didn't notice the commotion above. By the time they turned around, the zombies were already right in front of them. They were so frightened that they retreated in panic, frantically using their superhuman abilities.
The wall that once protected them has now become a trap, and they are the unfortunate group of turtles with nowhere to escape.
Everyone quickly used their superpowers to defend themselves. Faced with the sneak attack of numerous zombies, everyone was only thinking about saving their own lives and didn't think about anything else. When they unleashed their superpowers, they not only killed the zombies, but also accidentally injured their own people in this cramped, besieged city.
A chaotic battle between superpowered zombies ensues. Inside the small walled enclosure, superpowers fly wildly, making it impossible to distinguish friend from foe.
Someone was accidentally injured by their own people, and then the zombies seized the opportunity to climb on the person and bite them, and then they were overwhelmed by the zombie horde.
Meng Shiwan grabbed Ye Sangyu and blasted down the wall to retreat. She used her wind-based ability to create a vortex, firmly protecting herself and Ye Sangyu in the middle.
Ye Sangyu no longer had time to marvel at what kind of superpower Meng Shiwan possessed; all she could see were endless black shadows in the torrential rain—they were all zombies.
The zombies were so numerous that there was no end in sight.
Ye Sangyu's voice trembled, filled with despair, "How could this be? We threw out so many firearms just now, there should have been a lot of zombies killed, how come there are still so many? Where did these zombies come from?"
As she spoke, her voice trembled with sobs. Her teammates behind her were dying one by one in the chaotic battle, while the zombies in front of her were endless and densely packed.
No wonder none of the superhumans who came before were able to get out; how could they possibly get out in this situation?
As Meng Shiwan gazed at the horde of zombies approaching from afar, her eyes suddenly turned calm.
She conjured a metal umbrella and held it over Ye Sangyu's head, "Time Reversal."
Ye Sangyu unscrewed the power-enhancing liquid in her hand, opened her mask and poured it into her mouth, then put the mask back on and began to use her time-manipulation ability, covering an area of fifty meters in radius with a magnetic field.
The raindrops, which were pounding down relentlessly, froze in mid-air, and time began to rewind.
The two of them retreated back into the circle, and the wall that Meng Shiwan had knocked down became intact again.
The zombie horde that had flowed in flowed back, Wu Ming was resurrected and descended from the sky, the protective wall disappeared, and they retreated rapidly.
When everything stopped, they formed a group not far from the cave entrance of the collapsed mountain, dealing with the surrounding horde of zombies.
Although they hadn't returned to the cave, they were not in any immediate danger.
After everyone came to their senses, they all felt a sense of relief, as if they had been given a second chance at life.
The memory of being overwhelmed by the zombie horde and facing death and fear is still vivid in my mind.
Wu Ming instinctively covered his chest, which was unharmed; his heart had not been ripped out by the zombie's hand.
He was stunned. "Time has reversed."
Having experienced death and now being brought back to life, his feelings are complex.
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