doomsday survival

Chapter 146 Losing the Siege
"Everyone get ready!" Shi Jian shouted loudly, and then ran to the signal tower, he had to see the situation below for himself.

On the signal tower, Lilia's face was pale, and her whole body was shaking like chaff.If she hadn't been fixed on the top with a rope beforehand, Shi Jian doubted that she would fall from it.

Shi Jian made three thumps at the same time, and quickly climbed up. He didn't care to comfort the little girl, and took the binoculars to look down the mountain.

Shi Jian glanced down, but he almost didn't fall.The zombies at the foot of the mountain were densely gathered in one place, and they were moving up the mountain. At first glance, it looked like a flooding red river, trying to submerge this lonely mountain.

"Don't look down, pay attention to the surroundings of the courtyard wall." Shi Jian gestured with his hands, and simply instructed Lilia, regardless of whether she understood it or not, he immediately climbed down.

Back to the courtyard wall, Shi Jian said nervously to Chen Qiong: "Old Chen, there are too many zombies, and they are all under the mountain. If we can't do it, we can withdraw?"

"It's raining here, how did the zombies get attracted?" Chen Qiong frowned, and instead of responding to Shi Jian's question, he asked a question.

"Oh, old Chen, when is this? Do you care how they came here? Hurry up and think about it, whether to withdraw or not?" Shi Jian said anxiously.

"It is necessary to withdraw, and we must understand this, otherwise what will they do if they keep following us?" A trace of worry appeared on Chen Qiong's face.

"It's definitely not the smell. It has been proved that water can isolate the smell." Feng Kuang said with certainty.

"Vision is also impossible, I don't believe they can see through." Shi Jian added.

"Then there is only sound," Chen Qiong continued, "I just don't know if the hearing of zombies is so sensitive that they can hear our voices."

"It's not ours, it should be the zombie's own voice," Feng Kuang immediately judged, "Our voice decays quickly in the atmosphere, I guess the zombie can emit a kind of infrasonic wave while making audible sound. The frequency of infrasound is low, and it can travel far in the atmosphere without attenuation, and they are still connected by this!"

Shi Jian felt that Feng Kuang's analysis made sense, which also explained why the zombies could launch an organized ambush against them after they escaped from the arms warehouse.Only infrasound, which is inaudible to the human ear, travels at the same speed as sound, and travels far away can allow zombies to communicate.

Since everyone judged that the zombies were not attracted by the voices of the crowd, then there is no need to be afraid of being tracked by the zombies using their voices.Shi Jian immediately asked Xia Rou to light the burner of the hot air balloon, and as soon as the hot air balloon was ready, they would run away together.

Now the zombies haven't passed through the woods that are densely covered with traps. Even on the mountain, everyone can hear the sound of traps being activated from time to time, as well as the screams of the zombies after being injured.

Shi Jian looked back from time to time to see if the hot air balloon was ready, with anxiety written all over his face.At first, he thought that the zombies couldn't find them, so they had to scatter into the jungle. At most, he would be like in Plants vs. Zombies, facing waves of zombies. With his powerful firepower, it was entirely possible to eliminate them in batches zombies.

But who would have thought that zombies have such advanced means of communication, just like bats.The only difference is that bats use ultrasound to locate, but zombies use infrasound to communicate.Although it is only a few people's speculation, but from previous encounters, it should not be far behind.As for relying on telepathy, Shi Jian would never believe it. In that case, the zombie would be beyond the level of this universe, and would eventually become the only master in the universe.

Before the hot air balloon was ready, the zombies had already appeared in front of everyone.Probably because of the traps in the forest, only a dozen or so zombies showed their heads on the mountain road.

"Hit!" Shi Jian shouted loudly.

For a moment, the sound of the dripping rain was immediately suppressed by the gunfire, and even the roar of the zombies could not be heard.There are only noisy gunshots in my ears, like boiling water, one after another, endless.

Everyone desperately pulled the triggers in their hands, regardless of whether they could kill the zombies or not, they let out the bullets in the guns as much as they wanted.They all knew that if they could stop the zombies from taking a step forward, they would give themselves a glimmer of hope for escape.

No one blamed Shi Jian for not organizing the retreat earlier. Even if he had that idea, he didn't even have time to think of it.Now all they think about is shooting, reloading, shooting again, reloading, repeating this set of actions mechanically over and over again.

It's impossible not to do this, and more and more zombies have appeared in everyone's sight.

Not everyone has superb marksmanship, and only Chen Qiong and Feng Kuang can be called flawless.Andre and Xia Qing were far behind, and the trio of Shi Jian and Feng Chen came next.As for those women, their biggest role is to consume bullets, hoping to kill zombies with stray bullets, or to break the legs of zombies and make them lose their ability to move.

Don't think that doing so is useless and just a waste of bullets.You know, during World War II, the US military averaged 20 rounds of bullets to kill a Japanese soldier!What's more, these women and children who have only been exposed to guns for a short time?

The bullets denser than the rain in the sky slowed down the zombies' progress, but with the appearance of zombies on both sides, the Xing'an tribe could no longer stop the approaching zombies.

"Release the log!" Shi Jian shouted.

Andre and Meizi immediately drew their knives and cut off the ropes that fixed the log.

Logs with a diameter of more than half a meter rolled down the stairs, and the zombies were overwhelmed by the aggressive logs.Even though they had a hard appearance, they couldn't withstand the repeated crushing of giant trees. After howling, they were filled with hatred on the spot.

The rolling log emptied the mountain road of zombies, but the following zombies filled the gap, and the situation became critical again.

"Why not!" Shi Jian looked back at the hot air balloon that hadn't floated off the ground, and said loudly.

"You have to hold on for a while, don't be reluctant, let's explode!" Chen Qiong shouted without raising his head.

Shi Jian froze for a moment, and immediately understood that Chen Qiong was talking about grenades and Molotov cocktails.He felt ashamed, he was not willing to part with it, he simply forgot!

"Throw the grenade!" Shi Jian hastily shouted.

Except for Chen Qiong and Feng Kuang, everyone picked up the grenade and threw it out.The zombies that were bombed immediately flew into blood and flesh, and even fell into the wall.Fortunately, Shi Jian was well prepared, and everyone took strict precautions, so that the blood of the zombies did not get on them.

However, to Shi Jian's surprise, more than ten grenades were thrown, but only nine voices were heard, and five grenades did not explode.

"Griphook!" Shi Jian shouted loudly.

It turned out that several women didn't pull the ring of the grenade at all, and just threw it out.

How could this explode!

Shi Jian also knew that it was not easy for these women to stand here and shoot at the zombies. It was completely understandable that they would make mistakes in panic.

"All women throw Molotov cocktails!" Shi Jian immediately shouted again.

This thing does not require any operation, just throw it out, and the impact after landing can completely detonate it.

As expected, the result was outstanding, and the explosion of Molotov cocktails came one after another.Although the explosion power of the Molotov cocktail is much lower than that of the grenade, it also has its own advantages, that is, burning.

Gasoline mixed with sugar is extremely flammable, and when it touches the zombies, it is like maggots attached to the bones, and there is no way to extinguish it.Even if there were no flames that didn't splash on the zombies, they were all floating on the stagnant water on the ground, burning tenaciously.

The zombies burned by the flames bumped around, disrupting the rhythm of the zombies' attack and giving everyone a little time to breathe.

"Keep throwing!" Shi Jian shouted loudly.

Molotov cocktails and grenades flew out of the wall one after another. With the sound of explosions, batches of zombies fell to the ground, and a layer of flesh and blood of zombies had piled up outside the wall.Fortunately, the rainwater kept washing the ground, washing the flesh and blood down.The burning gasoline also flowed down the mountain along the water, attached to the trees and continued to burn.Slowly, the trees were also ignited. Although the flames were not big, they also showed the potential of starting a prairie fire.

Shi Jian had no time to observe the situation outside, he kept urging everyone to throw out the explosives in their hands, hoping to block the attack of zombies as much as possible.

However, the zombies didn't all come from the front. They spread out along the woods, passed through numerous traps and blocked, and surrounded the entire camp compound.

Although the five-meter-high wall stopped the zombies, it also made them gather more and more towards the middle ground.Who makes this place have the smell of delicious food, who makes countless compatriots die here.Whether it is the attraction of food or the hatred of compatriots, it is enough to attract zombies to attack desperately like a magnet.

"Old Chen, we are going to lose." Shi Jian said in a low tone as he threw the grenade.

"Not necessarily!" Chen Qiong yelled, retracted the gun in his hand, and began to install the grenade.

"Boy, what are you afraid of? At most, you will be a good man again in 20 years!" Feng Kuang also said loudly, put aside the rifle in his hand, jumped down from the shooting position, and brought a machine gun from below.

This is one of the only two machine guns that Shi Jian got. Ammunition is not abundant, so he has not used it yet.

Seeing that these two gray-haired old men did not admit defeat, how could Shi Jian be willing to stay behind.He threw the grenade again, and then shouted: "Andre, take the machine gun! Fengchen, you three will exchange grenades with me, even if you die, you will have a blast!"

"Okay, leader!" Several people responded in unison.

The power of the machine gun was indeed extraordinary. After several shots, an arc-shaped space was formed in front of it, and no zombie could stand here.Although some zombies did not die, but had their legs or spine broken, and they were still crawling forward stubbornly, but they were no longer considered a threat by Shi Jian.Coupled with the grenades exploding everywhere, the zombies finally slowed down, which brought more hope to everyone, and their morale also improved.

"Come on! Let's fight to the end!" Shi Jian shouted.

(End of this chapter)