Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

As the meeting was getting close to the end, the meeting room door suddenly slammed open.

It was the radio operator that worked next door.

"Sir! There's a massive zombie horde running towards our direction!"

"What?" Xiaoyun yelled out in shock.

The entire room was just as shocked as Xiaoyun.

"Where are they coming from?" Yezi asked calmly.

"Our sentry near the entrance of the city transmitted back a message." The radio operator replied.

"How many zombies are in the horde?" Xiaoyun asked the question in everyone's mind.

"He said at least above one hundred thousand."

"How long do we have before they get here?" Yezi asked.

"They said within an hour or so. But some are already rushing towards our town."

"Everyone, get your regiment ready."

As soon as Xiaoyun released everyone, all the Majors immediately rushed out of the room.

"Why did they choose to walk here? And out of all the possible time to start walking toward us..."

Xiaoyun muttered as he was slightly irritated by his plan, which was now interrupted from being implemented.

"Who knows... Anyway, let's get ready before everyone is gathered up." Yezi commented as they walked out of the command center.

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The town's entrance had drastically changed since the last time it was mentioned.

The forest in front of the town was completely cut down, with the main entrance's road being expanded from two lanes to five lanes as it connected to the highway to the city.

Although the road outside was expanded, the entrance door was still the same, being only tall enough for a truck and just wide enough for a tank.

Besides the entrance, the wall has also gone through an upgrade.

The outer wall of the town had been raised from two stories tall to all the way to three floors tall, with a reinforced width thick enough to withstand tank mutants' hits.

The inner wall was very similar to the outer wall, except it had buildings in front of it, which was intended to be a trader zone with hotels and warehouses.

It also had a few shops held by private individuals rather than government-owned. But they needed a license from the commercial department to trade with the outside.

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As Xiaoyun stood at the main entrance of the outer wall, he could hear a quiet growling sound in the distance.

"Sir, the scout reported back that the horde is within ten minutes." A soldier reported.

Xiaoyun pulled out his walkie-talkie to talk and pulled Yezi's channel.

" Yezi, is everyone evacuated?"

"Yes. All the traders between the outer wall and inner wall have been evacuated inside."

"Okay. Did any of them complain about it?" Xiaoyun asked curiously.

"No, they all accepted. And some even offered to help fighting." Yezi replied.

"Tell them it's not needed... Keep few people there to watch them."

"Okay."

Xiaoyun ended the transmission as zombies were beginning to appear on the road, running towards the wall at full speed.

He could hear gunshots already from the far right side of the wall, which used to be the back entrance of the town.

But now, it was just another entrance among the four different entrances of the town.

"Lingang, what's the reason for the gunshot?" Xiaoyun asked curiously over the walkie-talkie.

"Some invisible zombies tried to climb the walls, but luckily, we got thermal cameras," Lingang replied.

"That's good. If you need more ammo, just make a request to the logistics." Xiaoyun reminded Lingang as he ended the transmission.

"I didn't even know zombies have heat signatures," Kate murmured.

"They are always going to have a heat signature, considering they run so much underneath the sun. And the moment they eat something, they are going to need to digest it." Xiaoyun pointed out.

"You're right... Um, should we move to the inner wall?"

Kate suggested as the main zombie horde could finally be seen in the distance.

The zombie horde appeared to be endless as rows of zombies stretched out the entire horizon in front of the two.

"We are staying here. If I ran away, all the other soldiers would think the same."

"Couldn't we just direct from the inner wall?" Kate asked.

"Not yet. It's going to be the last resort..." Xiaoyun ended the conversation as the zombies were now within a thousand steps.

The Majors and Captains had already started to direct the soldiers to get ready as Xiaoyun leaned back on the back wall.

"Are you not nervous?" Kate asked with a little scared tone in her voice.

"Why would I be nervous? All the soldiers already have weapons to deal with whatever zombies throw at them.

If they really can't deal with so little zombies, then we are doomed from the start." Xiaoyun calmly replied.

After Xiaoyun finished replying, nearby soldiers were already starting to fire their guns with light taps.

As the sound of AK and K98K being rang on the battlefield, Xiaoyun suddenly felt the urge to fire a gun himself.

So he walked over to a nearby stockpile and picked up a gun himself. Then began firing at the zombie horde below the wall.

"This feels so much more different than fighting the zombies up close..." Xiaoyun murmured as he thought back to the days when he needed to melee kill all the zombies he encountered.

Kate pulled out her pistol and began firing down at the zombie horde as well, although it barely made a dent.

After firing and restocking ammo for a while, the two eventually stopped and let the other take over.

"You're right... this really does feel different. I feel so insignificant on the battlefield." Kate commented as she reloaded her gun.

"Everyone is a small pawn when there are hundreds of thousands of zombies."

As the zombies got to within ten steps of the wall, the soldiers finally received the order to begin firing the MG-42.

Within seconds, the zombies that had just gotten to the wall were instantly killed, with their bodies slowly stacking against the wall.

"Should we do something about those bodies stacking up?" Kate asked curiously.

"Nothing we can do besides burning them. But it's too risky right now."

As the number of zombies began to dwindle, suddenly, the ground started shaking.

Xiaoyun immediately took out his binoculars, and he could see several mutants running in packs toward the wall.

"Everyone get ready with mutant showing up near your area... Make you have enough grenades and RPG to kill tank mutant." Xiaoyun warned over the walkie-talkie.

"Man, if we had caught them earlier, we would have been able to thin them down with artillery," Xiaoyun murmured as he watched all the bullets being wasted to kill the zombie.

To Xiaoyun's expectation, almost all the tank mutants were gone as the firepower from multiple RPGs being fired towards them made quick work of them.

However, Xiaoyun kept hearing from soldiers reporting on invisible zombies sneaking past the thermal camera and almost getting all the way up to the wall.

But Xiaoyun didn't really have any other plan to help them besides telling them to be more careful.

After a few minutes, casualties began reporting in from invisible zombies scratching the machine gunners operating the MG-42.

Xiaoyun immediately ordered the regiments to put at least two people near the machine gunner to protect them. Then, he started creating more thermal cameras in a hidden corner and passed them out to the soldiers.

---

Less than an hour later...

As the zombie's lines began to thin much faster than Xiaoyun expected, suddenly, a soldier ran up from behind.

"Sir, the radio operator asked me to send this message to you."

The soldier handed the paper to Xiaoyun and then left.

Xiaoyun unfolded the paper, only to see a simple single sentence.

"More zombies are coming."

"Fuck... Of course, there are more zombies."

Xiaoyun sighed as he looked toward the thin lines of zombies.

"More? How can there be more zombies than what we are facing already?"

Kate complained as she was getting a little tired from shooting a rifle she had picked up from the stockpile.

"I don't know... It's certainly a little odd for the zombies to run straight toward our town as if someone was directing them..."

As Xiaoyun started thinking of the possible reason behind the zombie attack, the zombies were finally all dead.

The soldiers started celebrating and cheering as they collapsed on the floor from the tiring fight.

"Good job everyone! But unfortunately, we are not done yet... There is another wave of zombies coming towards us."

As soon as Xiaoyun announced the news, all the soldiers let out a sound of complaint.

"I know everyone is tired, so the 1st regiment to the 15th regiment will be switched with the 16th to 30th regiment at the inner wall."

After repeating the same thing in the walkie-talkie, the soldiers looked much happier as they began walking down the stairs and toward the inner wall.

Meanwhile, the soldiers from the inner wall walking toward the outer wall all looked extremely excited as they had been waiting for their time to shine.