The rotting corpses let out roars, even though most of the zombies' vocal cords had decayed for so long that their roaring was only as loud as a person's normal speech.
Yet in the face of such a terrifying number, the hoarse growls converged into a dreadful tidal wave, like the roar of an ancient giant beast, shaking the earth. Every step they took made the ground tremble. Countless withered arms stretched out in the twilight, as if trying to tear the sky apart.
A zombie in the horde stumbled, and before it could rise from the ground, the decaying bodies behind it trampled it into mush.
In the face of such a massive scale, even the previously scarce Extraordinary Zombies were enough to form an army.
Over a thousand stitched-together abominations moved their five-meter-tall bodies, multiple twisted faces on them letting out angry roars.
Huge blood-flesh zombies piled up in layers, with massive amounts of flesh converging into mountains of writhing meat dozens of meters high.
In front of the calamity horde, within a ten-kilometer radius of the settlement, thousands of landmines had been laid, with violent explosions and fireballs lifting many zombies into the air, and at least tens of thousands of zombies perishing in the minefield explosions.
However, in front of the calamity horde, this loss was like a small wave in a pond, just causing a ripple before quickly settling down.
The casualties from the landmines did not even match the number of zombies crushed into mush while advancing.
In the initial design, this minefield was supposed to block the horde for half an hour. But the reality was, this area did not delay the horde by even a second.
As the distance closed, the atmosphere of doom spread throughout the settlement.
On the city wall, the brave soldiers just tightened their grip on their guns, but as they gazed at the endless horde, their spirits instantly collapsed.
In the settlement, some cursed Li Hao loudly, while others claimed this was the apocalypse's punishment for humanity's attempt to rebuild civilization.
Even the most optimistic Li Hao was now filled with despair.
The helpless people began to pray for the gods to bestow Divine Power and drive away the calamity horde before them.
Among the crowd, someone took out an altar, carved with a vague statue of a deity, wearing a dark robe and holding a Soul Banner.
Seeing this scene, the others also knelt one after another, bowing to the crude statue, seeking a sliver of spiritual comfort.
Amidst this panic and anxiety, finally, someone could no longer bear the despair before them.
A brawny young man rushed into the worshiping crowd, his expression furious, grabbing the vague statue and shouting loudly:
"All you do is pray, do you really think the god will come to save you?"
Just as the young man attempted to smash the statue, the sky seemed to tear open, and a massive spatial rift appeared above Settlement 73.
Six hundred Ghost Generals and six thousand Yin Soldiers descended, riding sinister ghostly mist, above the settlement surrounded by the calamity horde. Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝓷𝓮𝓽
And at the top of this Underworld army, Lu Yan stood proudly with the Soul Banner in hand.
"The god has come! The god has truly come!"
The crowd erupted into intense cheers, and someone grabbed the statue and placed it back on the altar, shouting at the brawny young man:
"You fool, put down the statue and bow to the god to apologize!"
The brawny young man's lips quivered, and after a while, he spoke: "Even though he has come, it doesn't mean he can solve these hordes."
The brawny young man's words echoed the sentiment of the people in the settlement.
Although the Underworld Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals were imposing, they were too insignificant in the face of the tens of millions in the calamity horde.
In the watchtower, Li Hao, who had just taken a breath, felt his heart leap to his throat; he too was unsure if Lu Yan held the key to contacting the Underworld deities.
In his eyes, these Yin Soldiers could not possibly contend with the thousands-fold difference in size of the massive horde.
No one could see that high above, Lu Yan watched the calamity horde without any fear in his eyes.
In his eyes, there was only the yearning for the great harvest about to come.