A figure disregarded the rules of the earth, leaping continuously across rooftops with great speed towards the distant horizon, where the outline of a transport plane soaring in the air could faintly be seen.
Sighting the silhouette of the transport plane relieved him somewhat.
Just seeing it was enough.
The appearance of the transport plane over Huang City was also noticed by other survivors there, and they were equally excited about its presence.
But their excitement was short-lived, followed by a feeling of helplessness.
Clearly, the transport plane wasn’t there to rescue them.
Yet, when something was seen falling from the sky, the group that spotted the transport plane was curious, wondering what could be inside the cargo container.
Inside the transport plane.
Several soldiers were busy, looking at the map in their hands marked with red circles.
"I didn’t expect Huang City to have two shelters. Indeed, we humans won’t be easily wiped out by zombies," said one soldier with a trace of relief on his face.
The other soldiers looked very grave; they could no longer contend with the zombies. Their base had been surrounded by zombies, a group that could instantly breach their defenses as if they were corralling animals, simply watching them.
"Gentlemen, we have completed our mission; it’s time to return," said a middle-aged man.
Their mission was to take off from the base, transport weapons to already known shelters because those weapons were useless to them now. As long as those zombies existed, there was no use for firearms.
What they didn’t know was someone was constantly shadowing them from below.
"Changed direction, huh?" Lin Fan looked up at the soaring transport plane in the sky, which suddenly changed its trajectory towards another destination.
"If I follow the transport plane, I should be able to reach where they are," he thought.
In a wasteland a distance away from Qing City, there was a military base surrounded by walls.
A middle-aged man stood in the watchtower, surveying the outside, his expression extremely grave—the area was swarming with zombies, too many to count.
Initially, they had over ten thousand people, continuously clearing out zombies in Qing City. It started very smoothly, as no zombie could stop the advance of their iron flood.
Just when they thought they could completely reclaim Qing City, the zombies that truly drove them to despair appeared, forcing them to retreat after retreat, numerous people dying in the mouths of zombies.
The middle-aged man wasn’t General Zhou, as General Zhou had already sacrificed himself.
His name was Lei Yongzhi, the leader of the special forces. Following the general’s sacrifice, he took charge of the base.
"Lei, these zombies are corralling us, what do they want to do?" asked a soldier.
Lei Yongzhi shook his head, "I don’t know."
He truly didn’t know. Looking towards another section of the wall, there towered a zombie about five or six meters high, its pale eyes fixedly staring at the situation inside the base.
Any other zombie, upon seeing live humans, would have charged like a mad dog.
But this zombie remained motionless, like a statue, staring fixedly at them.
Now, only a little over a hundred of them remained, having hoped to leave by transport plane. However, when they began to organize boarding, the giant zombie became extremely agitated, clearly wanting to charge inside.
They later realized this giant zombie was only there to watch them.
Not wanting to let them leave.
"Lei, rather than being watched , why not fight these creatures?"
"Yes, the result is the same either way; why not fight them? We can take down as many as we can. We have never been afraid of these since joining the military."
Lei Yongzhi said, "I understand everyone’s thoughts, and I’m ready to sacrifice just like everyone else, but let’s not rush. The zombies haven’t attacked us yet, which means there must be an intelligent one among them. I’m waiting for that kind of zombie to appear, to blow up the base and perish together with it."
"If we must die, we should die with value and not let that kind of zombie live; otherwise, it would be a disaster for us humans."
The crowd listened to Lei’s words.
Everyone nodded firmly. Death was terrifying to anyone.
But they always remembered their mission and responsibility.
Not afraid of fatigue, not afraid of sacrifice.
Even if faced with an enemy hundreds, thousands of times their size, they were fearless.
Right at that moment.
A disturbance occurred.
An ear-splitting roar erupted.
In their line of sight, the zombies were howling, shifting from calm to madness, the specifics of which remained unknown to them.
Lei looked gravely into the distance, where the zombies seemed to clear a path. He grabbed the binoculars to look into the distance and shockingly saw a strange zombie.
It wasn’t large, just about one and a half meters tall, its body pale and seemingly frail. This type of zombie surprised Lei, unclear why such a feeble zombie would make the other zombies around behave fearfully as if terrified.
"Lei, what’s happening?"
Lei replied gravely, "There’s a frail-looking zombie appearing over there. It seems ordinary, but it’s like the king of these zombies, with all other zombies clearing a path for it."