End of the World

"Will it track humans?" Gong Shusen thought this was troublesome. Zombie dogs could smell humans from a long distance and then follow them.

"It should be!" Chen Guangjun said. Zhu Zhenguo and his men had been chased all the way. Chen Guangjun hesitated whether to say that the zombie dog also had the ability to summon other zombies. This sounded incredible and it was probably difficult for others to believe it.

"Do you want to say anything else?" Gong Shusen noticed that Chen Guangjun seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"The zombie dog seems to have the ability to summon other zombies!"

This statement shocked everyone present. Summoning zombies? This was going against the will of heaven. Of course, they forgot that they themselves also had the ability to summon zombies. As long as the gunshots were heard, the effect would be no less than summoning thousands of troops.

"Are you sure?" Gong Shusen stared at Chen Guangjun.

"I've experienced it myself!" Chen Guangjun briefly recounted his experiences in the factory, many of which were mentioned in just one sentence, with emphasis on the encounter with zombie dogs.

After listening to Chen Guangjun's narration, Gong Shusen was silent for a while, and then said: "Then the original row should have been wiped out because of a few beasts!"

"The previous row encountered this?" Chen Guangjun was surprised. He thought that the previous row was destroyed just like Zhu Zhenguo, because they were surrounded by the zombies while carrying out a mission in the urban area.

"The communication the original platoon sent to the battalion headquarters when they were on patrol mentioned that they were attacked by zombie dogs, and were surrounded by zombies shortly afterwards. They probably didn't handle the situation cleanly!" Gong Shusen sighed. He never thought that zombie dogs had the ability to gather zombies.

In fact, zombie dogs do not have the ability to summon other zombies, they just bring the zombies over.

Chen Guangjun returned to his post, and through conversation with Gong Shusen he learned that the zombie dogs did not appear at the beginning. The earliest discovery of zombie dogs was not recorded and reported by the Wupingshan shelter in Dongzhou, but data shared by city shelters in other provinces. The zombie dogs were discovered about three months after the disaster. According to analysis, it is very likely that they were ordinary dogs that mutated after eating zombie corpses.

Above the sky, large dark clouds floated in from afar at some point in time. They flew very fast, and in just ten minutes they completely covered the entire sky and earth. It seemed as if something was brewing in the black clouds, as if it was going to swallow up the earth.

After dark clouds appeared in the sky above the outpost, the wind that was almost still suddenly started to blow, causing the watchtower to sway continuously. Although the watchtower swayed in the wind, it did not seem to be on the verge of collapsing, and the quality of the project was still quite good.

The two people on the watchtower held the handrails to prevent themselves from losing balance. Chen Guangjun had to hold the handrails, not to mention Xiao Wu. He had just adapted to the situation in the morning, but in the afternoon, he was given something more exciting. He wondered if God couldn't bear it and deliberately increased the difficulty for him.

Chen Guangjun looked at the sky covered with dark clouds. It seemed that it would rain heavily tonight. Then he looked at the simple ceiling made of wooden boards nailed together above his head. He was afraid that tonight would not be a good night. The sunshade of this ceiling leaked light, let alone in the rain. It was just for decoration.

During dinner, the platoon leader brought raincoats to the two people, indicating that they would be on duty until midnight and then take over.

At eight o'clock in the evening, when everything around was plunged into darkness, heavy rain arrived with lightning as expected. The pouring rain made the already poor vision even more hazy. Now it was impossible to see far or hear anything. The sound of raindrops falling was heard all around, drowning out all other sounds.

Chen Guangjun picked up the night vision goggles and could only barely see within two to three hundred meters around the outpost. What was farther away was blocked by the rain and could not be seen clearly. The outpost was not equipped with a searchlight, so it was impossible to observe far away. In this situation, the outpost did not even know that it was surrounded by zombies.

In the woods not far from the No. 10 outpost, a zombie army quietly approached, with dozens of zombie dogs leading the way. The zombies in this group numbered tens of thousands, and there were also mutant zombies among them. Because they had been wandering slowly in the woods in the northeast, the army helicopters that were flying here for patrols did not find them in time. Today, the planes on this route happened to be grounded due to malfunction, giving them an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

No one expected that a disaster was about to strike. If the weather was good, they might have discovered the approaching zombies in advance. But this time, God was on the side of the zombies. The heavy rain and the darkness provided the zombies with excellent cover, and the sentinels on the outpost’s watchtower became almost decorations.

The zombie dogs in front of the zombie army stopped and looked in the direction of Post No. 10. They smelled a hint of human scent through the rain, then growled and ran over collectively. The zombies behind noticed the movement of the zombie dogs and sped up, fearing that they would be too late and there would be no soup left.

The speed of the few mutated zombies in front of the corpse group is almost the same as that of the zombie dogs. When they sense that the zombie dogs have found their target, they follow them. It’s not that they have evolved intelligence after mutation. Their originally developed brains have long since wiped out everything, leaving only the instinctive predatory reaction.

"Attention, there's a situation!" The sentry on duty at the No. 10 outpost noticed some dark shadows passing by. He couldn't see clearly what they were, but he felt something was wrong and immediately gave the alarm.

After the sentry gave the warning, the soldier on duty in the post immediately climbed up the wall with a flashlight and shone the flashlight outside the wall. There were dozens of zombie dogs where the flashlight shone. The zombie dogs became agitated when they sensed someone on the top of the wall. This scared the soldier on duty so much that he almost fell off the wall.

"Contact the platoon leader immediately!" The squad leader of the third squad on duty felt his scalp tingling when he saw the zombie dogs outside.

Upon learning that there were hundreds of zombie dogs surrounding the outpost, Squad 4 at Outpost No. 10 prepared for battle.

Gong Shusen, the platoon leader at the No. 9 post, was shocked to learn that the No. 10 post was surrounded by zombie dogs. When did so many zombie dogs appear here? He ordered the third and fourth squads of the No. 10 post to remain restrained and not to shoot. The zombie dogs could not get in through the more than three-meter-high wall of the post.

"Chen Guangjun, what's the situation around us?" Gong Shusen's voice suddenly came from the communicator.

Chen Guangjun observed carefully and replied: "Report, there are only a few zombies, no other abnormalities found!"

"Okay, be alert!"

"Yes!"

Gong Shusen felt that it was abnormal for so many zombie dogs to appear here at the same time, and immediately used the radio to communicate with the battalion headquarters.

In the battalion headquarters communications room, the soldier on duty received Gong Shusen's communication request. Upon learning that the situation was urgent, he did not dare to delay and sent someone to notify the battalion commander Shi Dewen.

At the same time, the third and fourth squads of the No. 10 outpost received orders to leave some people behind to monitor the zombie dogs while the others went down, not knowing that the real danger was about to come.

Several mutated zombies arrived at the outpost two minutes later than the zombie dogs. The mutant zombies were on all fours, as if they were lying on the ground, and had amazing jumping ability. They were dark red in color, had no eyes or nose, and moved entirely by hearing. Their tongues could be extended, just like a frog's, and they could also climb walls like a gecko.

"What is that?" A soldier in charge of surveillance discovered a zombie with a dark red body crawling out of the darkness.

The mutant zombie has locked onto the soldier. When it is only five meters away, it slightly opens its bloody mouth, curls its bloody red tongue, and then suddenly shoots out the tip of its tongue, fiercely piercing the soldier's chest.

"Ah!" The soldier let out a scream, and the mutant zombie retracted its tongue. The soldier was pulled out of the wall and fell into the pack of zombie dogs.

"Yu Dajie!" another soldier shouted. He didn't see how Yu Dajie fell down, he only heard a scream.

"Ah!" The scream rang out again, and another soldier was dragged off the wall.

Now the remaining two people saw clearly what was dragged away, it was the newly appeared zombie lying on the ground.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

The two men immediately raised their guns and opened fire. The mutant was hit by several bullets, and blood splattered on its surface.

When the other mutant rushed over and was two meters away, it kicked its limbs, jumped up, and flew directly over the three-meter-high wall, knocking a soldier into the yard.

When the other people at the outpost heard the gunshots and came out, they saw the mutant pounce on the soldier. Everyone was shocked. No matter what could jump in, they raised their guns and shot. Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire.

The mutants are no longer bulletproof after the mutation, especially when they are being fired at by more than a dozen guns. They can't withstand it at all. Their bodies are covered in blood and flesh, and they soon fall to the ground.

The soldier who was knocked down was not seriously injured, but his body was covered with disgusting pieces of flesh. Just as the two men went forward to pull him up, the last soldier who was still on the wall was dragged outside with another scream.

Several soldiers wanted to rush forward but were stopped by two squad leaders. It was obvious that there were more terrifying monsters outside.

"boom!"

An explosion was heard. It should be the last soldier who was pulled down who detonated the grenade on his body. He would rather die than leave his body unharmed than to kill the zombie dogs that surrounded him.

"Sergeant! There are a lot of zombies outside!" The sentry on the watchtower also saw the scene just now. When he reacted, he saw a large group of figures approaching outside the sentry post.

"Take your equipment and retreat!" The two squad leaders gave the order decisively. It was obvious that the outpost could not be defended with a large group of zombies coming, not to mention that there were even more terrifying things outside.

Outpost No. 9 was unaware of what happened at outpost No. 10. The gunshots could not be heard clearly due to the heavy rain, but the explosion was clearly audible.

When Gong Shusen heard the explosion, he was about to contact Post No. 10, but Post No. 10 contacted him first.

"Platoon leader, the outpost is surrounded by zombies. Three soldiers have been killed. We are preparing to retreat. Be careful outside. We may have encountered a new type of zombies!" The voice of the squad leader of squad three came through the communicator.

"Got it, you guys retreat back to the battalion headquarters first!" Gong Shusen agreed to retreat when he learned that the situation at the No. 10 outpost was critical.

"Yes!"

"Chen Guangjun, have you found anything unusual?" Gong Shusen contacted the two people on guard in the watchtower.

"No, there is nothing unusual within 300 meters of the outpost!" Chen Guangjun replied.

"Okay, continue to be alert and prepare for retreat."

"Yes!" Chen Guangjun guessed that something must have happened at post No. 10.