Chapter 297 The Imaginary Apocalypse
"It's a zombie!"
Qi Ling tried to calm his excited emotions and told the Zero Team members, "The monsters below are called zombies, which are common monsters in the post-apocalyptic novels we read back then."
"Zombies?"
Song Liang reached out and activated the automatic launcher in the car, saying, "Never heard of it."
The sentries are always training and on missions; they have no time to read novels.
Yun Zhao had read a few of them; his uncles had found them on the edge of the contaminated area, but they were almost all romance novels featuring domineering CEOs.
What are zombies?
While sniping at the approaching monster, the rabbit still had the leisure to ask, "Why are there these things in the contaminated zone?"
Qi Ling immediately gave them a brief explanation.
"In those novel settings, most of them are humans who died and came back to life after being infected by a virus or mysterious radiation."
"They have lost their reason, leaving only the most primitive appetite—the craving for living things, especially human flesh and blood."
"This kind of virus usually spreads rapidly, causing social order to collapse, human civilization to face an unprecedented crisis, and ushering in the end times..."
Tao Haohao set up the cannon and fired a shot at the monster horde, instantly sending blood and flesh flying and killing a large number of them.
Tao Haohao didn't quite understand, "These slow-moving, clumsy-looking things can drag down the entire human civilization?"
Duan Xi also expressed skepticism, saying, "This thing is disgusting to look at. It doesn't even have the attack power of a level one mutant. An ordinary person could destroy it with an iron rod, right?"
Ten minutes passed.
The captain seemed to be studying information about the contaminated area, while Yun Zhao was experimenting with mental power on zombies.
With just four people's firepower, the monsters were unable to break through their firepower defenses.
Zombies look like they're just flesh and blood.
In the 22nd century, there are a lot of high-tech firearms. If zombies can't even be stopped by a single bullet, how could they possibly stop a missile?
Qi Ling: "...That's how it's written in the novel."
Everyone's reading apocalyptic novels now, who cares about this logic anymore?
Qi Ling recalled carefully the plot of the post-apocalyptic novels he had studied in depth: "A single zombie is indeed easy to deal with, but their numbers are huge, and they are not restrained by pain and fear, so they can attack humans endlessly."
"More importantly, this virus or radiation is extremely contagious. The virus breaks out without warning, and the streets and alleys are instantly overrun. Ordinary people are powerless to fight back. Once bitten, they immediately mutate and join its ranks, multiplying exponentially."
"And in some novels, zombies even evolve superpowers or something..."
Yun Zhao withdrew his hand and asked, "Then why is there this thing in the contaminated area?"
She hesitated for a long time, but in the end she did not try to let the spiritual threads enter the zombie.
The main problem is that this thing is just too disgusting.
Their bodies were covered in black, foul-smelling blood, emitting the stench of death. Some of the zombies were so badly rotten that their bellies had large holes torn open, with their intestines sticking out in a bloody mess.
She had never seen such an ugly, bloody monster.
The little bluebird grumbled and complained, unwilling to let the spiritual threads enter the body of such a thing.
I don't want to get dirty!
Get these ugly freaks away from me!
[Ah, what an ugly monster! What a hideous and trashy thing!]
Yun Zhao had no choice but to temporarily abandon the experiment.
Xie Tu was still studying the map. The peregrine falcon had returned and confirmed that the terrain had not changed. This was Rizhao City, Shandong Province.
He took out a pen and drew out the routes to all the ammunition supply points.
As for Yun Zhao's question about why there were zombies in the contaminated area...
Xie Tu said, "It should be the apocalypse imagined by the gatekeeper. It hopes that the real apocalypse will look like this, rather than endless darkness and despair."
As Duan Xi said, zombies are monsters that ordinary people can deal with.
While mutants are initially made of flesh and blood, their strength lies in the dark matter within them.
When the dark apocalypse came, scientists reached a conclusion from the very beginning.
The planet entered the Dark Ages precisely because of these dark substances.
They permeate the entire surface and interior of the planet, blocking out sunlight and rapidly eroding the planet's electrical system and all energy sources.
Early humans also attempted to launch rockets into space to explore, after all, there were space stations and countless satellites outside the planet.
But without exception, they all failed.
Let alone rockets, even airplanes, once they take off, will be corrupted and crash within minutes by the dark matter.
People were completely trapped on the ground.
Moreover, dark matter also possesses extremely strong destructive power.
Once a creature undergoes mutation, it will evolve in a different direction. The mutated species, covered in corrosive black slime and possessing astonishing speed and combat power, are not something ordinary people can deal with.
Not to mention the terrifying and eerie contaminated areas that exist.
Ordinary people can only desperately try to escape, utterly powerless to fight back.
"Is this the kind of apocalypse the gatekeeper wants?"
Yun Zhao lowered his head and repeated, "Could this be a clue?"
"Um."
Xie Tu stood up and walked to the front seat. "The most urgent thing is to leave here. We can't use up all our ammunition. Let's find a safe place and check if there are any weapon supply points in the city."
The terrain has not changed.
The armory is probably still there, but it's uncertain whether the ammunition inside has been taken.
Only by understanding the resources within the contaminated area can we plan the next steps.
—Find a 'living person' and retrieve the key.
Moreover, he wanted Qi Ling to experiment with whether she could leave the contaminated area without a key.
Xie Tu ordered, "Duan Xi, have the Peregrine Falcon lead the way. Song Liang, just smash through the wrecked car in front."
"receive!"
Upon hearing this, Song Liang put away his gun and immediately started the armored vehicle.
Tao Haohao and the rabbit climbed up to the second floor to help clear the road.
Gunfire continued.
Zombies fell one after another on the street, but many monsters still roared and charged forward.
Those twisted, rotting faces and mangled limbs dragged across the ground, leaving behind trails of sticky, foul-smelling blood.
The stench in the air grew stronger and stronger, almost suffocating.
"Holy crap, it stinks so bad, my sense of smell is going to fail!" Tao Haohao couldn't help but yell.
Qi Ling also pulled out his sidearm and began shooting down the zombies on the roadside. "Yes."
It smells terrible.
It's a suffocating stench that even a normal person's sense of smell can detect.
He could smell it too, he could finally smell it...
Qi Ling's training results were on full display at this moment; he was full of energy and his marksmanship was quite accurate.
Pull the trigger, and the bullet, as if it had eyes, pierced straight through the zombie's skull.
They instantly subdued the roaring monsters that charged at them, splattering brains and pus everywhere, adding a few more grotesque strokes to the filthy ground.
There were only three of them on the second floor, helping to clear the zombies that were getting close to the car.
Tao Haohao praised, "Not bad! Looks like you've put in the effort to train hard."
It's much more accurate than Yun Zhao's ridiculously bad marksmanship.
Qi Ling's cheerfulness was palpable as she nodded emphatically, "The captain checks my homework every day."
No matter how late Xie Tu came back, he would assign him training tasks.
Qi Ling completed them all well.
"Really? The captain..."
Tao Haohao's voice stopped abruptly after he saw Qi Ling's face clearly.
His eyes widened, and he pointed at Qi Ling in disbelief, "You...you...you..."
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