End of the World

"Phew, this weather is even colder than last night!"

Wu Bin and two other people gathered together, with their backs to the wind, and built a small bonfire in front of them, eating dry food. In the recruit regiment, most people gathered in groups of three or four, which was in stark contrast to the large groups of veteran troops.

Seeing the scattered new recruits, the commanders of the old troops all shook their heads. Until now, the new recruits still don’t know the principle of sticking together for warmth. The commander of the new regiment is quite helpless. He repeatedly emphasizes that it is still like this. They have suffered great losses in battle and still don’t know how to unite. In the final analysis, they just don’t trust the people around them.

The new recruits have only received combat training and have no team awareness at all. If time was not tight, such a new unit would not have been formed. The troops have summed up their experience and realized that combat training alone is not enough, and the focus must be on collaboration.

Tonight's duty is done by the old troops. The new regiment has no experience and the troops cannot trust the new recruits who were defeated in the battle.

"It seems that the temperature is going to drop significantly in the next few days!" Qiao Xinghua rubbed his hands and curled up to warm himself by the fire.

"If it weren't for this damn mission, we would be lying in the warm RV!" Dafeng was not surprised. He was extremely reluctant to take on this mission, and now the troops had not received supplies and had to sit here in the cold wind.

"Don't complain. Compared to the unlucky guys, we are very lucky!" Wu Bin said. Although he was dissatisfied with his current treatment, at least he was still alive.

"Yeah, that's a good deal for us!" Dafeng laughed at himself, "Maybe we can use it again!"

"Use it again? What does that mean?" Qiao Xinghua was a little confused.

Wu Bin shook his head. Dafeng understood it well, but if it was used again, there wouldn’t be many people left.

"Don't think about those things. What's important is now!" Dafeng waved his hand, and as the fire burned a little more, he immediately felt much warmer.

At midnight, most people had fallen into a warm dream, even the soldiers on duty were a little drowsy. After fighting all day, they still had to be on duty at night. Even the strongest man could not hold out.

"what!"

A few screams woke up the sentries, and several dark shadows broke into the position under the cover of night and attacked several soldiers.

"Alert! There's a situation!"

The sentries were instantly awakened as something broke into their position very quickly and it was too dark to see the attacker clearly.

The attacked soldiers were dead, and the sentinels had no time to feel sad. They had to find the attackers to avoid greater losses.

"There!" Several sentinels wearing night vision goggles captured the attackers. Their bodies were dark red and they were moving very fast. They were the mutated zombies - the Night Walkers.

The shelter does not have much information about them. We only know that they are known for their speed and only come out at night, making them one of the main threats in the dark night.

The sentries fired, but half of their attacks missed. The night zombie roared at the sentries, then flashed out of sight.

"Chase!"

The sentinels must destroy it, otherwise there will be no peace in the middle of the night.

After receiving the alarm, more and more soldiers joined the killing, but it took until dawn to eliminate all the night zombies.

At daybreak, people in the camp smelled a hint of blood in the air. Most people did not know what had happened. The soldiers who participated in the extermination of the night zombies yesterday installed silencers on their guns, so the people in the camp did not know what had happened on the outer defense line.

In the morning, the troops were given breakfast as usual without any notice, as if what happened on the defense line was just a trivial matter.

Except for the troops on duty last night, all people were called together and assigned tasks. The new regiment was assigned to deal with all the dead bodies and dig a huge pit outside the air force base to bury the bodies. The old troops began to arrange a new line of defense and wait for the engineering troops. According to the estimated time, the engineering troops should have set out from the shelter and will arrive in the afternoon.

At noon, the engineering troops had not arrived yet, but an order for the shelter came, which was very brief: cancel the mission and withdraw quickly.

The signalman reconfirmed the same content. It was an irrelevant order. The air force base had been successfully taken. The next step should be for the engineering troops to come and build the city wall. However, the shelter demanded a withdrawal at this time, and all the previous efforts were wasted.

Soon, a detailed order signed by the supreme commander of the shelter arrived.

Earlier today, an Army Aviation reconnaissance helicopter spotted a new group of zombies moving toward the shelter, and their number was several times greater than before.

The shelter immediately mobilized all reconnaissance forces to conduct an all-round reconnaissance, and finally determined that the local zombie group was acting normally. The newly discovered giant zombie group migrated from the neighboring city, and they were chasing a group of survivors from the neighboring city.

This group of survivors from the neighboring city brought shocking news that the Longshan Shelter, located more than 300 kilometers west of the Wupingshan Shelter, was breached by zombies.

When the Wupingshan Shelter first received the news that the Longshan Shelter was besieged by zombies, it asked the shelter's highest military commander whether it needed support. The commander of the Longshan Shelter may have considered that the Wupingshan Shelter had to capture the Nanhu Air Force Base and could not fight on two fronts, so he declined the reinforcements from the Wupingshan Shelter. Unexpectedly, in less than a week, the Longshan Shelter fell.

The fall of Longshan Shelter is not a good thing for humanity. It is like another star representing humanity falling in the dark night sky. In the future, there will be fewer and fewer human shelters.

The fall of Longshan Shelter caused millions of zombies to go around the rear of Wupingshan Shelter. The defense focus of Wupingshan Shelter has always been in the east and south, with Longshan Shelter in the west to deal with it. After the fall of Longshan Shelter, this barrier no longer existed, and Wupingshan Shelter had to face zombies from all directions.

Therefore, the supreme commander of the Wupingshan Shelter immediately ordered the recall of all troops. The engineering troops that were originally heading to the air force base turned back halfway and rushed to the west side of the shelter. They had to build a new line of defense and reinforce the original city wall before the zombies arrived.

Now we have to give up the victory that is within our grasp. It can be said that this crisis will be the biggest crisis for the shelter. If we survive it, we will be greeted with light, but if we fail, we will be completely doomed.

"Pass my order, the troops must reorganize immediately and prepare to return to the shelter!" Lu Yun folded the written order in his hand. Even though he was unwilling, there was nothing he could do. He had to go back as the shelter was attacked. The troops outside could relieve a lot of pressure on the shelter.

Hu Shaolong sighed softly, knowing that plans could not keep up with changes, and turned around to convey the order.

The troops who received the order were very surprised. Why withdraw at this time? Wouldn't all their efforts before that be in vain?

Therefore, some people questioned the order, saying that the victory was achieved with the sacrifice of so many people, and if they retreated, their deaths would be in vain.

Lu Yun anticipated this situation, so he convened an emergency military meeting and reported the situation of the shelter to officers of various troops. Lu Yun did not want to withdraw, but he had to withdraw under the current circumstances. Not only was the shelter in danger, but there was also a signed order from the highest commander.

The meeting was brief and after the meeting no one objected and everyone returned to their teams to organize the retreat.

But bad news came one after another. The reconnaissance troops outside sent news that a group of zombies were advancing towards the air force base, with a number of hundreds of thousands. It was speculated that they were attracted by the fighting noise at the air force base.

Several small drones were released, confirming that the zombie swarm was moving from the direction of the city. If they had not come at such a late hour, people would have suspected that they had planned this all along.

The zombie group is still about ten kilometers away from the air force base, but the troops have not yet fully prepared for retreat. If they do not withdraw in time, they will be in danger of being entangled by the zombies.

Lu Yun asked for help from the shelter and requested artillery support, but the shelter rejected the request and instructed the troops to retreat as soon as possible, leaving some troops to block the zombie swarm if necessary.

Staying to stop the zombies at this time would be seeking death, and the remaining troops would not receive any support.

In fact, the shelter's approach is understandable. As the number of artillery shells increases, the shelter's several arsenals are already depleted. If there were not millions of zombies about to besiege them, there might still be artillery support.

There is no other way. If we don't want the zombies to catch up, we must send troops to stop them. Because the troops are short of vehicles, and the tanks that the tank battalion brought back yesterday were damaged in the battle, there are large gaps.

The troops including Wu Bin and other three were gathered together and equipped with weapons. They were told that there were zombies attacking and ordered to repel the zombies. The tank battalion would provide support, and two veteran companies were also accompanying them.

No one suspected anything, as most of the people travelling were from new regiments and the mission should be easy.

"Quick, build a position immediately and set up the machine guns!"

"You guys, set up the mortars!"

The officers urged everyone to follow orders faithfully because the zombies were very close. Small unmanned reconnaissance aircraft were released and scouts kept reporting on the dynamics of the zombie group.

Only half of the tank battalion had arrived, and they were basically lined up behind the infantry. The tank guns were loaded and ready to fire at any time.

"Tom!"

The mortars opened fire, attacking the zombies that had entered the range. They had received supplies from the shelter yesterday, and now had enough mortar shells. Since they couldn't take them away anyway, they might as well leave them to the blocking troops. The logistics department piled up a lot of shells on the mortar position for easy firing.

Gradually, more and more zombies came in rows and rows. The mortar shells only caused a little wave among them, and the empty gaps were quickly filled. The scene in front of them caused a little commotion on the ground.

"Da da da!"

Heavy machine guns opened fire one after another, and the zombies in front fell down like harvested wheat, and the large-caliber bullets easily tore their bodies apart.

"boom!"

The tank body shook, stirring up dust on its steel body, and the hot shells flew out of the muzzle towards the group of zombies.

"Boom!"

The high-explosive bomb was extremely powerful, killing a large number of zombies in an instant. The shrapnel even flew onto the battlefield, but fortunately no accidental injuries were caused.

When the zombie group came to 300 meters in front of the position, all guns were opened fire. You could hit the zombies without even aiming, they were too dense.

The zombies fell one after another, and were replaced by those behind them. The corpses of the zombies piled up layer by layer, getting higher and higher, which slowed down the movement of the zombies behind them. However, when there were too many corpses, it also hindered the shooting, and they had to be blasted away by artillery shells.