The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse

Chapter 289: Chapter 240, Do You All Fight Like This_1

The number of people dispatched with each departure increased.

It was no longer one person per vehicle; a companion was also assigned to the copilot seat to deal with any unexpected emergencies.

Given the current number of people in the shelter, it was sufficient to make such an arrangement.

On the bus blared blissfully.

Li Yahong, gripping the steering wheel, glanced at Wu Heng beside her, and said, “I’ve been in touch with Flame God Shelter. They currently have no plans to exchange ammunition.”

Previously, after finding the grenades handy, they’d planned to have Li Yahong procure some from Flame God Shelter.

However, it now seemed that the other party wasn’t planning to sell to them so readily.

The reason wasn’t hard to guess.

Flame God Shelter’s current status was due not only to Ma Zhiyong awakening his superpower but, more importantly, their armored vehicles and modern weapons.

These weapons weren’t just useful in times of crisis;

They were also enough to deter other shelters.

Having weapons and not having weapons made a big difference.

It made perfect sense that they were not planning on making a trade at this time. Without any special requirements, who would exchange their ammunition?

Wu Heng nodded, “No problem, when they need resources, they will naturally trade with us.”

‘Hmm’, Li Yahong grunted in agreement. She continued, “By the way, the main station just released some new information, and it’s pretty shocking.”

“What is it?”

“They said according to their tests, the average strength and speed of the zombies have increased by about 40%. And it could keep increasing.”

A frown appeared on Wu Heng’s forehead.

He already knew that the zombies were gradually getting stronger.

Because now after the regular zombies converted, there were now level two and three zombies.

This implied there was also a boost in their attributes.

The main station had obviously done some testing and provided more accurate data.

The zombies all over the world were strengthening. This was not good news for the survivors.

Zombies were evolving with time, while human awakening did not show significant progress.

“Did the main station offer any countermeasures?”

“They suggest that all shelters speed up the clean-up of nearby zombies. The longer we wait, the harder they will be to kill. They also urge disaster control commands in all areas to rescue surrounding survivors,” Li Yahong finished her sentence and added, “And many other shelters, like ours, have ordered strong crossbows, presumably for cleaning up zombies.”

Last time, Flame God Shelter swapped ten of the strong crossbows.

There were only two left in Li Yahong’s possession, and she needed to keep them for her own use.

There was nothing left to sell.

“Okay, I’ll figure something out,” Wu Heng said.

He was about to be reassigned.

He was not sure if he could finish the first batch of strong crossbows.

The convoy pressed on.

There were more and more zombies.

On both sides of the road, zombies were continuously drawn to the convoy and swarmed onto the road, thudding against the sides of the vehicles.

Even with the addition of the metal plate at the back, the vehicle was still swaying with the constant onslaught.

Li Yahong took out the walkie-talkie, asked, “Any issues with the lead and tail vehicles?”

Soon, a response came through the walkie-talkie, “No problem with the lead vehicle, we can still move forward.”

“There’s a bit of a bump on the tail vehicle, but it’s not a big concern.”

The drivers of the convoy were all veterans who had been out with Wu Heng many times and had seen plenty of zombie hordes.

Despite the impact of the zombies, there was no noticeable fluctuation in their tones.

Li Yahong pressed the walkie-talkie again, saying, “Prepare to slow down and clear the zombies when we get close to the intersection.”

“Received!”

The lead vehicle accelerated, and the entire convoy also began to move forward quickly.

…

The convoy, braving the horde of zombies, moved forward a few hundred meters.

A signal came from the lead vehicle to start slowing down.

The convoy pulled over, and the skeleton army quickly jumped off the vehicles, killing the approaching zombies around them.

At the same time, the spearmen skeletons quickly took formation, rapidly charging at the horde of zombies chasing after them.

Wu Heng opened the car door, and glanced towards the back.

He gave an order to Big Head Skeleton, who was still sitting in the car, “Spearmen Skeletons, prepare to hurl the spears.”

Whoosh! Ish!

The spear-throwing skeletons that had formed a team removed the throwing spears hanging from their bodies and assumed a spear-throwing posture.

“Release!”

Whoosh~!

Iron spears rained down like raindrops.

The chasing zombies fell in heaps, trampled into mud by the zombies at the back.

“Keep going…”

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Iron spears kept falling, and zombies kept falling layer by layer.

When they had finished throwing the spears,

The zombies charged directly at the spear formation and began a fierce fight.

…

Members of the original automobile repair shop were not surprised at the scene before them.

Taking advantage of the break, they ate and drank to restore their strength.

However, the new people who joined the convoy were trembling, unable to suppress their panic.

There were so many zombies right there.

Were they going to take them head-on?

And with cold weapons, no less.

“Are you cold?” Qiangzi looked at the man with glasses in the seat next to him.

The man was not old and looked scholarly, his hand clutching a machete was shaking while his eyes were glued to the rearview mirror.

“I’m not cold…” the man with glasses swallowed, “Can we win this?”

Qiangzi unscrewed his water bottle and took a sip, “What kind of question is that? Why would we stop the convoy if we couldn’t? Are we here to just offer ourselves up to be killed?”

“I didn’t mean that, I just… there’s too many of them.”

“How did your shelter deal with zombie hordes before?”

“Zombies?” The bespectacled man looked puzzled, “You guys deal with zombie hordes?”

“Of course, how do you think we cleared out the passenger station?” Qiangzi retorted.

Just as the man with glasses was about to speak, a creaking sound interrupted him.

The driver’s side door was opened, and Qiangzi leaned out, looking back.

“Damn~! Qiangzi, have you lost your mind? What if you get bitten?” The bespectacled man exclaimed, stretching out his hand to pull Qiangzi’s belt.

“Hey, don’t pull my underwear, are you a pervert!”

“Didn’t Sister Hong forbid us to leave the vehicle!”

“I’m gathering material, you wouldn’t understand.”

“Brother, I have a weak heart, please close the door!”

…

As the battle continued.

The number of zombies was decreasing, with only a few scattered ones charging forward.

They were slashed down by skeletons wielding war hammers and battle axes, their heads severed from their bodies.

The bodies of the zombies littered the entire street.

The stench of blood was thick and suffocating.

Wu Heng commanded to clean up the battlefield, and the skeletons started to remove the bodies at once.

They moved back to the bus.

Li Yahong took out a tablet, called up an offline map, and said, “If we turn at the intersection ahead and go a bit further, we will reach the ‘Green Peak Living Plaza’.”

Wu Heng took the map and glanced at it.

With a thought, Xiao Xiao flew out from his body.

Hovering in mid-air, she looked at him and asked, “What’s up?”

“Xiao Xiao, do you see the intersection ahead?”

“Ah!”

“Turn right, then there’s a plaza, go and check if there are any dangers,” Wu Heng directed.

“Okay!”

Xiao Xiao didn’t say anything further but directly passed through the bus, disappearing from sight.

The convoy stopped for a while.

Xiao Xiao turned her head and flew back.

“So many zombies.”

“Hmm, let me see!” said Wu Heng.

Xiao Xiao nodded and dove back into his body.

In his mind, the images Xiao Xiao saw just now immediately appeared.

After turning at the intersection, there were quite a few zombies along the way, and the closer they got to the plaza, the more zombies there were.

When they reached overhead of the plaza, it was already filled with zombies.

Among them were zombies wearing bulletproof vests, still holding rifles in their hands.

With stiff movements, their fingers occasionally pulled the trigger, with bullets striking the ground.

This caused chaos among the nearby horde of the undead.

On the side of the plaza, there was a military green off-road vehicle and two military trucks parked.

The back of the trucks had canvas canopies, which were still in fairly good condition.

Wu Heng let “Xiao Xiao” out again, telling her to continue to keep watch around.

Li Yahong asked, “How’s it looking ahead?”

“There are military trucks, and some zombies are carrying firearms.”

After a moment of silence, he speculated, “It’s possible that a rescue team came here to deal with the crowd, but something went wrong, and they were left behind.”

Even now, many shelters, or some survivors without radios, were still waiting for the arrival of rescue teams.

It seems that even small groups are unable to carry out rescue work under the current situation.

In contrast, places like the Flame God Shelter or the auto repair shop could at least take in nearby survivors.

Li Yahong sighed and asked, “What do we do now?”

“It’s not far from the plaza, so we’ll leave the convoy here and go there with the skeletons,” answered Wu Heng.

“Hmm!”

“Do we have Molotov cocktails on the bus?”

“Yes!”

“Get them off.”

“Yes!”

Li Yahong picked up the walkie-talkie and informed everyone in the convoy of the next plan.

Then she and Wu Heng both got off the bus together.

Soon, several drivers unpacked the boxes of Molotov cocktails.

Wu Heng directly put them into the Space Ring.

…

The skeleton army, put down their work of lugging bodies.

They quickly assembled in the middle of the road.

Forming an army of skeletons that blocked the entire road.

At Wu Heng’s command, they stepped over the scrapped vehicles and corpses along the way, and began to move forward.

Turning right at the next intersection.

The appearance of the skeleton army immediately drew the attention of the zombies.

The zombies on the road roared in rage, and like a chain reaction, the zombies at the back all turned their heads and continued to howl.

More and more zombies were attracted here.

Gradually, a dense horde of zombies was formed, the end of which was out of sight.

Bang, bang, bang~!

A burst of gunfire rang out from the horde. The claw-waving zombies pulled their triggers, dropping a group of zombies around them.

At the same time, it also served as a kind of signal.

The horde of zombies, like a gathering flood, surged and rushed over.

“Throw spears, go!”

Whoosh~!

A rain of iron fell.

A large number of zombies fell. Those which tried to stand up were trampled into a pulp by the running zombies from behind.

After several waves of spear-throwing, a large section of zombies had already fallen.

But even more zombies were still rushing forward.

Soon, like waves, they lunged at the first row of skeletons.

The screams, the sound of weapons hacking, and the sporadic gunfire from the zombie horde filled the entire space.

…

Wu Heng took out the boxes of Molotov cocktails.

Without lighting them, he handed them directly to a few skeletons named ‘Skull Crusher’ and ‘Battle Axe’, “Throw them into the horde.”

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~!

The glass bottles kept flying out and smashed into the horde.

It toppled a large number of zombies, and the glass bottles broke.

Once they were all thrown, Wu Heng directly cast the Fireball Technique towards the sky above the horde.

The fireball exploded in the sky, and the burning shrapnel fell into the horde.

Whoosh~!

Flames soared into the sky, quickly spreading around.

It blocked off the entire street, with zombies continuously crossing the fire, continuing to attack the skeletons.

The Grease Skill has a certain casting distance and needed to be close to the front of the skeletons to be released.

He missed the time to release it just now, but the Molotov cocktails could produce better effects.

The fire kept blazing, swallowing up one zombie after another.

Wu Heng continued to look back at ‘Lieyi’ and said, “Find a position and take out the ones holding guns. Don’t let them get into the fire.”

With a rifle on his back, Lieyi quickly left, climbing onto the second-floor balcony of a shop on one side.

He didn’t use a sniper rifle, but set up an ordinary rifle and pulled the trigger.

Bang, bang, bang!

With each targeted shot, the weapon-wielding zombies were taken down.