Chapter 78: Giant Zombie

The armored vehicle proceeded as planned, occasionally rolling over tall piles of zombie corpses and then dropping back down.

Fu Jingmo took inventory of their ammunition. Besides the explosives loaded in the armored vehicle, they also had individual incendiary bombs and two precious C9 explosive packs—these were their final trump cards.

If they found the mutated zombie, they would inevitably have to leave the armored vehicle.

He glanced at the instrument panel, which displayed 3:24. Even though a large number of zombies had been eliminated, the zombie horde continued to advance relentlessly.

Fu Jingmo found it strange. Could the mutated zombie’s energy be inexhaustible?

The last time they encountered it at the supermarket, there wasn’t such a large-scale attack. However, it was also possible that they had discovered it in time back then and quickly escaped from its control range.

After a few more minutes, the armored vehicle came to a stop.

“Major, we’ve arrived.”

This area was a villa district under construction. The southeast corner was piled with a large amount of building materials, including several unfinished buildings. Scaffolding was still set up outside, and the dark, windowless structures had only cement frameworks without doors or windows.

The mutated zombie was hiding somewhere in this area.

As soon as the armored vehicle stopped, it was quickly surrounded by zombies. Perhaps the commotion had also alerted the mutated zombie to their presence.

Lin Mu stood up from the floor. Thanks to the zombies outside, each time the explosives killed a batch, he was able to absorb a significant amount of energy, allowing him to recover about thirty to forty percent of his strength.

Machine guns extended from the front and back of the armored vehicle, unleashing a barrage of gunfire in all directions. The buildings had one advantage: it was difficult for zombies to climb up to higher floors.

The first floor was crowded with zombies, but the second floor was noticeably less crowded, not to mention the scaffolding outside—zombies would step on it and immediately fall off.

Lin Mu glanced outside; in the darkness, it was hard to see anything clearly. He could only make out the faint, swaying silhouettes under the moonlight.

“Prepare to head out!”

Fu Jingmo’s voice was firm and decisive, his gaze cold yet unwavering as he looked outside.

He was the one truly fearless, in contrast to Lin Mu, who was suppressing his own fear.

There were about ten buildings in total, and now they needed to get up onto those buildings!

The mutated zombie seemed to have detected them. A large portion of the zombies that were originally surging towards the safe zone changed direction and began attacking their position.

Two more armor-piercing shells were fired, struggling to clear a path ahead. The armored vehicle’s machine guns continued their relentless firing, barely maintaining speed as they approached the buildings.

They finally reached the base of the first building. At this point, only the last three armor-piercing shells remained loaded, and the incendiary bombs were still unused, along with the C9 explosive packs.

The machine guns on the armored vehicle had already fallen silent due to running out of ammunition.

“Park below the building! Get upstairs! Bring the incendiary bombs; we’ll clear them building by building!”

Fu Jingmo picked up a heavy machine gun, slung the ammo belt over his shoulder, and swiftly opened the top hatch.

The two C9 explosive packs were a last resort; their blast radius was so powerful that even they might not escape unscathed.

Fu Jingmo climbed out through the top hatch, standing on the armored vehicle’s hood. With the vehicle parked there, the rapidly gathering zombies had already started attempting to climb onto the armored vehicle.

The heavy machine gun fired fiercely as Fu Jingmo stood on top of the vehicle, and spent shell casings flying everywhere. The rest of the team climbed out through the top hatch.

Each of them strapped an incendiary bomb onto their backs. Lin Mu was the last to disembark; he glanced down and, with a wave of his hand, swept the remaining incendiary bombs from the armored vehicle into his spatial storage.

They moved toward the stairs, guns at the ready, firing wildly and carving a blood-soaked path through the throng of zombies, tearing out a road of flesh and gore amidst the relentless horde.

Zombies occasionally fell from the second floor, and Lin Mu used his vines to fling them away. Slowly, they managed to clear a path to the stairs. The team split into two groups, with five people each covering two rows of buildings, left and right.

The gaps between the buildings were originally about five meters wide, but due to the scaffolding, they had been compressed to just two meters.

Once they got upstairs, they could use the scaffolding to jump to the next building.

Fu Jingmo steadily led the way, but the number of zombies was overwhelming—far beyond imagination and impossible to count.

Lin Mu’s energy was no longer sufficient to maintain the spread of his awareness. They needed to get closer, even closer. As long as the mutated zombie got within Xiao Yuan’s vicinity, he would be able to sense it.

The zombies behind them charged madly as the five of them reached the edge of the second floor. Two of them turned back, firing and blasting the advancing zombies into a mess of flesh.

Fu Jingmo leaned out onto the scaffolding, observed briefly, then leaped across and shouted back loudly.

“Quick! Move faster!!!!”

If they didn’t hurry, the two machine guns wouldn’t be able to hold back the zombies from behind. Lin Mu swung his vine and jumped across as well.

With a roll, he backhanded two zombies that had just climbed up to the second floor, flinging them away.

Once the last two soldiers jumped over, the group of five continued forward, repeating their actions and unleashing a barrage of bullets wildly at the surrounding zombies.

However, after crossing just two buildings, the mutated zombie grew anxious. All the zombies became wildly agitated, attempting to climb the scaffolding. As one group fell, another quickly took their place.

As a result, the makeshift bridge between the two buildings became blocked.

Unable to climb up, the zombies started ramming the scaffolding frantically.

When the scaffolding of the building ahead was knocked down by the zombies below, they found themselves trapped in the third building.

They quickly suppressed all the zombies trying to reach the stairwell, but their ammunition was depleting rapidly.

Incendiary bombs were thrown, flying into the horde of zombies outside. Fu Jingmo took aim and fired a single shot. The moment his finger released the trigger, he turned back and pushed Lin Mu’s head down.

Rough gravel scraped against his arms, tearing the skin, but there was no time to worry about that. The bomb exploded in mid-air with a thunderous roar, and the powerful blast wave shattered the heads of countless zombies.

At that moment, an even louder noise than the bomb erupted. Lin Mu looked up in horror as the roof of the building opposite them was ripped off.

Yes, ripped off!

It was as if a toy had been slapped away by a giant hand.

Under the moonlight, Lin Mu felt a chill run through his entire body. It was a massive zombie, nearly five or six stories tall, composed of countless severed limbs and zombie parts!

With a sweep of its arm, it tore off the second floor of the building. If he remembered correctly, five young soldiers had just entered that row of buildings…

Before he could think further, the building erupted with a massive explosion, sending debris flying everywhere. The survivors, with their last breaths, had ignited the incendiary bombs strapped to their bodies.

They faced death unflinchingly, with no intention of retreating.

Lin Mu’s body began to tremble violently, it’s a shivering beyond his control. He knew he was going to die; he had already prepared himself for this outcome.

But as the moment approached, his body reacted more intensely than his mind had anticipated.

Fu Jingmo’s voice echoed in his ears, as if he had already called out to him several times.

“Lin Mu! Lin Mu!!”

He was grabbed and rolled forcefully twice, his head slamming against the edge of the wall, the intense pain snapping him back to consciousness.

Amidst the swirling dust, the spot where they had just been standing was suddenly crushed by a gigantic fist.

As the fist moved, countless zombies and severed limbs stuck to it fell off in a cascade!

Right beside him, two young soldiers had already fallen from the collapsing building; their fate was all too obvious.

Half of the entire building had collapsed, leaving the section they were standing on teetering precariously.

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