Chapter 79 76: The Zombies Are Coming
Weng City had been built for four days, but there was no sign of zombies.
The storm was coming.
After a week of clear weather, the wind started to blow on this day.
The wind was strong, shaking the trees, rolling up fallen leaves, swirling them around and letting them fall to the ground.
The fallen leaves on the ground were picked up by the wind again.
Round and round it went.
Suddenly, the wind stopped.
Without warning, large drops of rain began to fall bit by bit.
Then, as if the sky had broken open, rain poured down.
The heavy rain came suddenly, without any signs beforehand.
Li Yu had been in the Observation Tower these days, the lack of a Zombie Tide always left him feeling unsettled.
After the rain started, Li Yu walked from the back wall to the front wall of Weng City.
It's worth mentioning that during the recent construction of Weng City, due to the abundance of cement and rebar, a concrete guardrail about waist-high was built on top of the wall.
And at the base wall, you could directly climb the steps to walk on the wall of Weng City.
At this moment, Li Yu felt somewhat fortunate standing on the wall of Weng, glad that it had been built early and exposed to several days of intense sunshine; otherwise, if the rain came the day after it was built, the wall might have had problems.
Suddenly, a sound of trampling came from the distance, irregular, but like thousands of troops.
Followed by a chorus of roars, continuous and unyielding.
In the torrential rain, Li Yu couldn't see ahead, but just listening to these sounds, he knew, the Zombie Tide had arrived!
Li Yu grabbed his walkie-talkie and shouted to the others in the base, "The zombies are here!"
After a while, looking from afar.
The zombies surged like a tide, endless.
Zombies generally become more active and sensitive under two conditions:
One: in darkness.
Two: when it rains.
And at this moment, it was just past six in the evening; with dark clouds dense and heavy rain, the sky seemed pitch black with nothing visible.
With this dual reinforcement, the zombies were unusually agitated!
Next to Li Yu, Zhao Dapao shifted the direction of the spotlight and saw the densely packed zombies below the wall.
He sharply inhaled a breath of cold air.
"Shh, that's too many!"
Next to him, Yang Tianlong, Second Uncle, and others seeing this scene were also a bit terrified.
Other people also came out from the base and gasped in shock upon seeing the scene.
This Zombie Tide was much larger than the last one.
Li Yu turned back and asked the people, "Are there zombies appearing from other directions?"
Li Hongyuan said, "We are surrounded. The zombies from the front have enveloped our base."
Li Yu's expression became grim. Based on his past life's experience, Zombie Tides usually last from one hour to more than ten days.
As for why the Zombie Tide formed, why the zombies suddenly rioted, the reasons are unknown.
But now, the zombies below the wall kept crowding and even some were clawing at the concrete wall, making a cringing sound.
Fortunately, the concrete wall was already dry and very hard; the zombies couldn't dig through it.
Li Yu looked at the remote control in his hand. He had anticipated a zombie attack, so he had placed several loudspeakers 2000 meters away in different locations.
At this moment, Li Yu pressed the loudspeaker.
Beep!
The loudspeaker was enormously loud, and the zombies beneath Weng City surged towards the direction of the sound.
However, many zombies still lingered under Weng City.
Seeing this, Li Yu instructed everyone to take out the spears they had prepared beforehand. The spears were long, allowing them to have the upper ground when positioned under the wall, making it convenient to stab and kill the zombies.
But due to the torrential rain, they also had to be very careful. Sometimes, exerting too much force could cause them to lean forward and fall due to inertia.
However, the half-human-high, less than one-meter wall they had built beforehand provided good protection for everyone.
The speakers installed were long-lasting wireless ones with a very long standby time, capable of continuously playing for over 6 hours.
The speakers were installed in four directions around the base, with two in each direction.
As planned, after the speaker had been on for an hour, it would be turned off, and another speaker in a different direction would start.
Originally, the sound from the speaker could travel about 5 kilometers, but due to the rain, the effect was not as good. However, the speakers proved to be effective enough for the current situation.
Thus, by continuously using their spears to kill zombies and switching the speaker direction intermittently, they managed the situation.
The zombies seemed tireless, constantly running in different directions.
Under these circumstances, the number of zombies under their wall was maintained at a low level, significantly reducing the pressure on everyone.
5 hours passed. Everyone was somewhat exhausted.
The ground beneath the wall was densely littered with zombie corpses.
To prevent the corpses from piling up continuously, Li Yu and the others also lured zombies to other directions of the wall to kill them.
Li Yu assessed the situation; the zombies would persist for a while, but everyone was tired.
Therefore, they divided into three shifts for a rotating duty system.
Each of the three shifts was led by Li Yu, Second Uncle, and Uncle, each taking around ten people to guard the base.
In the stormy weather, with zombies besieging the city, it was both a time to enhance and test the team's cohesion.
Li Yu also kept an eye on everyone's movements, especially the five workers who had recently joined the base.
To Li Yu's relief, these workers were obedient. They were distributed across the three shifts, actively killing zombies, sometimes even more diligently than others.
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6 hours,
12 hours,
The zombie tide had been going on for a full 24 hours. Although many zombies had been killed, due to the large base number of the zombies, they hardly seemed reduced at all.
For Li Yu, the current situation was much better than before his rebirth.
In his previous life, many times when they faced zombies besieging the city, the walls were not strongly fortified, forcing the survivors to expend more energy and effort against the zombies.
Sometimes, due to the overwhelming number of zombies, everyone was forced to fight together just to barely hold off the zombie assault.
Moreover, often because of the zombie siege, people inside couldn't go out to find food, fighting on with diminishing strength, and in the end, it was the mere will to survive that kept them going.
But now, relying on the sturdy walls, ample food, sufficient rest, and superior weapons, they had the geographical advantage making it far easier to kill the zombies.
So even now, facing the siege of zombies, the pressure was far less than before the rebirth.
It was Li Yu's turn to be on the wall again.
Standing on the wall, he looked at the dense crowd of zombies in front of him.
Li Yu felt somewhat sentimental; this zombie tide must have swept over many places, and he wondered how many would die in this disaster.
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