Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 294 - Two Hundred Ninety-Four Open the City Gates

Chapter 294: Chapter Two Hundred Ninety-Four Open the City Gates

Hearing the rumbling of artillery and gunfire from outside the base, everyone at the base was shocked.

What on earth had happened?!

Then, the sound of a loudspeaker from outside the window began to relay the situation outside the base to everyone.

Su Jin and the others could tell that it was Liang Jiuqing’s voice. Her voice was naturally loud, and combined with the effect of the megaphone, it was remarkably clear. Liang Jiuqing was sitting in a car driven by Xiao Liu, going around and repeatedly informing everyone about the situation outside the base.

The sound of the broadcast left people in shock.

What? A zombie tide was attacking the base, and they had already started fighting?

...

Everything had been fine; how could a zombie tide suddenly appear?

What even is a zombie tide? Is it as many as thousands of zombies?

Calling on special ability users to defend the city walls against the zombie tide? Is it really that serious?

…

The loudspeaker continued to broadcast, and many curious special ability users had already stepped outside, eager to see what exactly was happening outside the city walls.

Su Jin and her group also had a quick breakfast, ready to go up to the city walls to check the situation.

Dozens of artillery rounds bloomed among the zombie crowd, blasting numerous craters in the ground. Although the effect seemed good, with dozens of zombies destroyed at a time, the number of zombies was simply too great. The blasted areas were like stones thrown into the sea, quickly covered up by the ensuing zombie tide.

“Millions of zombies, millions of zombies!”

An older voice said tremblingly.

“Uncle Ding, it’s windy here. You should go inside the tower,”

This content is taken from fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm.

Liang Jiuhui suggested. Ding He had been a friend of his father in the officialdom before the apocalypse and was now in charge of some logistics work. His management skills were still very effective. Not long after the base alarm sounded, Ding He had come up, suggesting he might have been up all night as well.

Even Liang Jiuhui and his group had not expected the zombie tide to attract so many zombies.

This was not a sustainable way to deal with the situation; the base did not have an adequate supply of ammunition, and from afar, an unending stream of zombies seemed to be converging on the base!

The sounds of gunfire and artillery continued to rise and fall outside as Liang Jiuhui had already summoned several managers to discuss in a tower.

In the end, they decided to first organize the base’s different element special ability users, along with the guard squad, to eliminate some of the zombies with their abilities.

By the time Su Jin and her group arrived, staff were already tallying up the special ability users who had signed up to fight the zombies at the city walls.

Many special ability users climbed the city walls and, after seeing the scene outside, quickly ran back to the registration area, trembling as they started to fill in their names and abilities.

Although afraid, they knew that if the base was breached by so many zombies, the entire base would fall!

Su Jin and her companions were also ready to sign up without hesitation. Registration was organized by the type of ability, and it was said this was to allow the different elements to coordinate attacks together.

Su Jin embarrassingly discovered that there was no registration form for the Wood Element… Even her mother’s Healing Element had people organizing, but there was not a single person to be seen from the Wood Element.

Perhaps it was because the Wood Element had no attack capabilities yet, Su Jin thought with a sigh.

“Xiao Jin can just be with me,” said Lu Hao, pulling Su Jin over, thinking she looked pitiful now.

“…”

Apart from the teams formed by the survivors in the base, there were also those who had passed the recruitment assessment previously. They had undergone several days of training and were now already lined up in order, ready to go up and provide support at any moment.

Watching Su Jin without a registration form to fill out, her family and Guo Yang’s few companions also hadn’t filled out those forms, instead following Lu Hao and Su Jin directly up to the base’s city wall.

Because of the new rule requiring a two-hour wait before entering the base a few days ago, for the sake of convenient management and to prevent people from barging in, there was a circle of metal fences newly built by Metal Element and Earth Element Ability Users at the entrance of the base’s city gate. At this moment, those zombies were outside the fence, trying to squeeze in, but the two layers of fencing were directly rooted into the ground, making them relatively sturdy.

Special Ability Users on top of the city wall had already begun launching attacks down below, but because of the distance, many Special Ability Users’ attacks had their effects reduced by the time they hit the ground, and some Metal Element Ability Users couldn’t even hit the zombies’ heads at all.

“This won’t do, unless…”

Liang Jiuhui frowned in thought. It would be great if they could attack the zombies on the ground, but with so many zombies below, even attacking within the circle of fences by the city gate would be extremely dangerous.

Meanwhile, in the area without fences, zombies had already started to climb up the city wall, stepping on each other in a stack as if playing chicken!

A huge red and black Fireball suddenly smashed into the mass of zombies climbing upwards. The impact of the Fireball was substantial, scattering the pile of zombies.

It was Lu Hao and his group!

Liang Jiuhui, recognizing the familiar color of the Fireball, quickly followed its trajectory and spotted Su Jin, Lu Hao, and their companions.

Other people on the city wall were also surprised to see the ball of fire; who could hit the zombies below from such a long distance?

“You guys made it!” Liang Jiuhui walked towards the direction of Su Jin and her party.

Lu Hao nodded and, pointing at the circle of fencing below, said, “Our abilities can’t be fully utilized here, I suggest going down.”

Liang Jiuhui gave a wry smile. As expected, Lu Hao had the same thought as him; although it was very dangerous below, it seemed like the only course of action.

Li Haochu was surprised when he heard Liang Jiuhui’s instruction. Go down there? Wasn’t that tantamount to suicide?

But thinking about the ammunition in the armory, and the Special Ability Users on the city wall getting anxious, he knew it was the only way.

“All members of the Guard Squad, prepare to open the city gate!”

Li Haochu and Liang Jiuhui’s decision also met with a lot of opposition. Some people felt that opening the city gate now was akin to letting the zombies outside come in.

“Our city wall is so thick, it’s impossible for the zombies to break in. You’re just sending everyone to their deaths by opening the gates now!” Jia Kaiji also jumped out to criticize.

His words had the effect of “leading the charge,” and many people holding the opposing view quickly stood behind him, signaling they couldn’t open the gates.

Jia Kaiji felt somewhat smug, but still pretended to be doing it for everyone’s good, trying to persuade Liang Jiuhui in various ways.

“Those two fences won’t hold up much longer,” Su Jin said.

At this moment, Metal Element Mutated Zombies and Power Element Mutated Zombies were already damaging the two fences. Liang Jiuhui noticed this as well and stopped listening to the so-called opinions and suggestions of the opposition, leading the Guard Squad quickly down.

Li Haochu looked at Jia Kaiji angrily, muttered “coward” under his breath, and then followed the others down.

Jia Kaiji hadn’t expected Li Haochu to discredit him like that. He was about to retort but then considered what they were about to do and chose to stay silent instead.

Fine, I’ll just watch you all go to your deaths.

Jia Kaiji thought to himself, not believing that their lousy idea could break the deadlock!