End of the World

When the Third Reconnaissance Battalion was operating in Longshan, the shelter sounded the air raid alarm, officially announcing the zombies' attack on the shelter.

As soon as the news was released, it immediately caused some commotion. In less than a month, the city was besieged by zombies twice. However, many people were not too worried. Last time, apart from the damage caused by corpse moths, other zombies could not penetrate the defensive walls at all. Everyone still had confidence in the army.

Unlike the optimism of ordinary people, the atmosphere in the army is very serious. The commanders are all worried. The actual situation in the shelter is far from what ordinary people imagine. The army has begun to implement new ammunition rations.

The main targets of the ration changes are various types of artillery shells, especially ammunition for the 155 heavy howitzers and 130 cannons, which have consumed more than half of the total inventory of artillery shells.

The artillery readjusted its tactics. The trajectory of the 155mm howitzer can be an arc-shaped parabola, which can hit zombies very close to the city wall. It mainly provides artillery support to the city wall. The arc of the trajectory of the 130mm cannon is not as good as that of the howitzer. It is suitable for attacking zombies in the distance. The 130mm cannon is responsible for the early artillery bombardment.

"Boom boom boom!"

At the artillery position, a battalion of 18 cannons are bombarding the zombies, using artillery fire to attack the areas where the zombies are most densely populated. This bombardment has been going on for three days, three to five times a day, and each time only lasts ten minutes.

The army has issued a new conscription notice, which states that the new troops will only serve as reserves to support the defense of the city walls, regardless of gender.

This announcement gives people a sense of something unusual. Judging from the content of the announcement, it seems that there is a trend of everyone becoming a soldier.

At noon, the shelter sounded the alarm for the second time. Because the front line of defense was lost, the troops on the defense line began to retreat across the board, and the west wall was ready to meet the zombie attack.

The key is the east side of the city wall. The main defense force has been transferred to the west. If the Dongzhou zombies cooperate in the attack at this time, then the shelter will have no chance of successfully defending.

"Look everyone, this is the shelter's new recruitment notice!" Li Xun went out to get food and took a photo with his mobile phone. The content of the notice was all in the photo.

"It seems that the zombies are coming in force this time!" After reading the notice, Zhao Bofeng said to everyone, "The shelter is now fully open for recruitment, regardless of gender, and anyone with hands and feet will do!"

"Recruit soldiers, recruit soldiers! They only know how to recruit soldiers, but they don't show any sympathy to ordinary people like us!" Meng Zihan couldn't stand it. Qiao Xinghua and the others were nowhere to be found, and now they want to recruit soldiers again. Don't they treat ordinary people as human beings?

"Sister Zi Han, calm down first. Xinghua and the others will be fine!" Lu Qiqi comforted.

“I should have known not to let them go. It would be so much better for us to be outside...!” Meng Zihan wiped her tears and choked up as she spoke.

He Yuxin patted Meng Zihan. She also regretted it. If she could have predicted what would happen today, He Yuxin would have been willing to leave the shelter. She had now lost trust in the army, and they were still hiding the truth.

"What do you think about this announcement?" He Yuxin didn't read it. In her heart, she no longer wanted to believe in the shelter.

Everyone looked at each other, wondering what they could think of the conscription notice.

He Yuxin knew from everyone's expressions that no one took the announcement seriously. That's right, they participated in the first round of conscription and didn't want to pay attention to the rest.

"Uncle Zhao, how is the progress of the car modification?"

Zhao Bofeng was a little slow to react. He Yuxin changed the subject so quickly!

“Only two buckets for the front of the car have been made, and the wheel wing guards have been cut, but not welded yet!”

“Put aside other work and load the finished products onto the car first!”

"Yuxin, what are you doing...!" Li Xun felt that He Yuxin was a little strange these two days.

"Whether the shelter can be defended or not has little to do with us. Let's wait a few more days. If Brother Bin and the others haven't returned yet, we'll go out and look for them!"

Everyone was surprised that such words actually came from He Yuxin's mouth. It seemed that she was quite disappointed with the shelter. She did not even dare to admit the serious consequences it caused, and chose to fool and deceive.

"I agree!" Meng Zihan was the first to support. She was bored with this place. Although it was dangerous outside, her life was in her own hands and could not be controlled by others.

"Uncle Zhao, please do us a favor. If you don't want to leave, we will leave something for you!" He Yuxin pleaded.

"What are you talking about!" Zhao Bofeng smiled and said, "I'm tired of this place. Instead of waiting aimlessly, I might as well go out and try my luck!"

Zhao Bofeng likes this group very much. Everyone loves each other and there is a sense of family. Everyone is an important member of this family.

In fact, Zhao Bofeng still had the hope of finding his son deep in his heart, and perhaps he could find out some news about his son by going outside.

On the other side, Wu Bin and his two companions were driving towards the shelter. They were not far from the shelter. Wu Bin did not know that the shelter was resisting the attack of zombies on the west side.

On the east side, the group of zombies in the distance behind the three people were ready to move, as if attracted by the artillery fire from the west.

The three drove to the outer guard post set up by the shelter, but the shelter had not been reopened since the last zombie siege. Firstly, there were not enough people, and secondly, the shelter was preparing a plan for the Nanhu Air Force Base.

Dafeng drove the truck along the road originally opened by the engineering troops. None of the three had been here before, but coming here meant they were not far from the shelter, and Chen Guangjun belonged to the outpost troops.

"Brother Bin, the direction is correct. If we follow these roads, we will soon reach the outskirts of the shelter!" Qiao Xinghua spread out a paper map, but the content was extremely brief.

"Where did you get it?" Wu Bin didn't know when Qiao Xinghua made a map.

"This...!" Wu Bin was speechless when he saw the map. Apart from the mark on Wuping Mountain, there was nothing else and no roads either.

"Haha, Brother Bin, Xinghua has fooled you. This is the tourist map of Zhangdongzhou City!" Dafeng, who was driving, stretched his head to take a look and laughed loudly. This kind of map only focuses on scenic areas.

"What a joke! It's good to have a map. At least we know where we are!" Qiao Xinghua retorted. Wuping Mountain is a military restricted area, and ordinary maps will certainly not have detailed markings.

"Then tell me, where are we now?" Dafeng didn't believe it. How could you find the direction without a compass?

"We are probably here!" Qiao Xinghua roughly circled the area on the map, but his tone was unsteady.

"Probably? I said we were probably in Dongzhou...!"

Before Dafeng could finish his words, the truck suddenly shook, then its speed dropped sharply, and soon it stopped completely, and the body of the truck slowly tilted slightly to the right.

"Dafeng! How do you drive?" Wu Bin didn't hold on firmly and hit his head.

"Brother Bin, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened!" Dafeng said innocently, the road was fine just now.

"Where is this? There seems to be a foul smell. Did Dafeng drive the car into a ditch?" Qiao Xinghua looked around and smelled a foul odor. The land in front seemed unstable and the car seemed to be stuck.

"There is a smell, so disgusting!" Wu Bin also inhaled the stench that drifted in from outside the car. He could skip dinner tonight.

Dafeng found that the vehicle did not respond when he stepped on the accelerator. Only when he put the vehicle in reverse gear did the vehicle body move slightly, as if it was completely motionless!

"Brother Bin, the car is stuck!" Dafeng saw the mud thrown by the rear wheels through the rearview mirror. It seemed that there were clothes in the mud, and the vehicle was motionless.

"Let's get out of the car and take a look!" Seeing that Dafeng couldn't drive the car out, Wu Bin had to get out of the car to check.

The moment the three people opened the car door, they were hit by a stench, choking them and making them cough repeatedly. When their feet landed on the ground, they felt the ground was soft, but not soft enough to cause anyone to sink into.

After the three got out of the car, they discovered that a dark brown, foul-smelling liquid was slowly flowing out of the pit where the front wheel of the vehicle had sank, and there were even maggots wriggling in the liquid.

"Come on!"

The three returned to the car, picked up their equipment, and immediately ran to the back, not stopping until the ground became solid.

"Damn, what a hell of a place is this!" Dafeng put down his equipment, sat on the ground and looked at the truck.

"It might be a huge pit of corpses!" Qiao Xinghua saw the clothes thrown out by the rear wheels of the truck, with some human remains in the clothes.

"Damn it, they didn't even put up a sign after backfilling!" Dafeng cursed. All the land was the same color, it was not his fault.

"Okay, let's continue on our way while it's still early!" Wu Bin spat and put his rifle on his back. There were still quite a number of zombies nearby, and it would be very troublesome to get entangled with them.

The three had to bypass the giant corpse pit, but they walked to the edge of another corpse pit. For some unknown reason, this pit had not been backfilled. The pit was six or seven meters deep, and there were many corpses at the bottom of the pit, all of which were highly rotten.

"It's really weird, why are there dead bodies everywhere!" Dafeng pinched his nose and looked at the bottom of the pit.

"Brother Bin, is that a guard tower over there?" Qiao Xinghua pointed to the wooden tower in the distance.

"Let's go and take a look!" Wu Bin estimated that the tower was at least two kilometers away. The land here had been plowed by the army, so the view was quite good.

"Wow! What is this?" Dafeng found something incredible in front of him. Half of a shell was stuck in the soil, with a piece still left on top.

"Dud?" Qiao Xinghua saw the shell and found that for some reason, the 155mm grenade did not explode.

"Dafeng, stay away from that thing, it's very dangerous!" Wu Bin couldn't help sweating when he saw Dafeng touching the dud.

"It's okay, Brother Bin!" Dafeng waved to Wu Bin and tapped the projectile gently.

"Bang!" Qiao Xinghua shouted loudly.

"Fuck you!" Dafeng's heart really skipped a beat.

"Haha, don't worry, I don't have a sister!" Qiao Xinghua said with a smile.

"Have you had enough? Let's go!" Wu Bin shook his head helplessly. These two guys can really make trouble everywhere. It's also good. It reduces troubles.

"What do you think about us detonating it?" Dafeng said with a laugh.

"You are crazy, I won't accompany you!" Qiao Xinghua did not dare to agree with Dafeng's idea. The 155 grenade was no joke.

"Hey! Look how scared you are! You really should look in the mirror!" Dafeng laughed.