Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 60 - Surrounded

Hundred thousands of zombies surrounded the warehouse. It's an ocean of zombies, as far as the eyes can see, they are everywhere! It was so crowded that the zombies were shoulder to shoulder, pushing against each other. These are new zombies, they just died less than 24 hours ago, most of them still have an appearance of a real human. The pale faces and skin, traces of blood spilling out of their red eyes, some from their mouths and all over their bodies.

The Bali Logistic warehouses, placed on the easternmost corner of the terminal, right by the shore. Each warehouse has a size of 4 basketball courts put together. Its ceiling is 8 meters high. It has a steel mezzanine on the interior, circling around the inner wall. All the unit's sharpshooters position themselves on the upper mezzanine. As the ammunition is limited, they focus mainly on a clear headshot targets or to help the crews on the ground who were in trouble.

At this point, some of the group are still positioned on the warehouse outer gate. The compound is surrounded by orange colour Balinese stone walls. They are only 2 meters high with authentic ornaments on the top.. Clearly not an ideal defensive wall, but nevertheless, it is still somewhat an effective barrier. They deemed it to be pointless to close the gates as they were only made of mere thin metal. It is also probably wiser to keep a steady flow them in or they might pile up and spill all over the wall. There are 4 entry gates.

The 30 soldiers from Death Squad and 20 of Pencak Silat disciples combined forces and split into two teams. One will be facing the zombies from the front gate flowing from the Denpasar city, while the other set up at the rear gate facing the Nusa Dua island. Major Sandi with Densus police forces were assigned to the West gate. That left Captain Adnan Red Barret with the East gate. At first it seemed that the front gate were dealt with the most zombies.. but as time passed, there wasn't really not much of a difference anymore. The zombies are everywhere!

There were few mutated ones approaching, but they were almost immediately shot down by the snipers. As tempting as it was, Alex didn't bother himself with spirit stones at that moment as lives are more important. Soon enough there will be enough spirit stones for everyone to consume. But these 90 men are his elites. Their tactical knowledge and battle experiences are irreplaceable. Alex has big plans for each of these men.

After 30 long minutes, the soldiers ammunitions are finally gone. The danger has just been elevated to another a whole other level.

"We should be able to see the ship on the horizon by now. Where are they?"

"It should take them only one hour to get here, and the last we heard they have left the port. They should be here any minute now"

"I don't feel right about this! Try to establish contact with them"

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"No one answered, Sir"

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The main objective of the 'Bait' operation was to give a better chance for the Denpasar city survivors to escape towards the North. And now that the zombies were successfully drawn to this location, the units need to hold them off for as long as possible.

The second objective is to annihilate as many zombies as they can. Now the units have achieved both objectives, it is time to LEAVE. There is no other way out other than through the shore and by the ships. It is only 500 meters to the dock and another 400 meters till the end of the dock. That's 900 meters dash to the pickup point.  

The group could just run and jump into the ocean and wait for the pickup, but for how long? And with the red zombies around, floating defenseless in the water will be too risky.  

Alex begin to feel the anxiety settling in as the ammunition starts to run out, casualty starts to fall. About a dozen of the units were heavily injured and some were incapacitated. Between all of the gates, The North and the South gate were still the strongest, mainly because of the Pencak Silat disciples. When the guns were rendered useless, these martial artists were the strongest men on the ground.

Alex also has prepared many edges weapon from his storage rings, he started giving out spears and pikes to the 60 survivors and dispatched them to help the units on the frontline.

After 15 minutes, Major Sandi's group on the Western gate were the first to crumble. One of the red mutated zombie managed to get through the parameter and attacked the Major. He was badly injured and was escorted inside along with all the other injured soldiers.  

With his heightened senses Alex kept monitoring the situation. Secretly, he planned to train and test the soldiers and fighters to their limits. But now, with the ships still not within sight, the predicament was impossibly critical. The time has come for HIM to act.

"EVERYONE, MOVE IN TO THE WAREHOUSE!"

Defending the outer gates have now become a lost cause. There are simply too many zombie corpses on the ground. With no other resort than to move into the warehouse, the units promptly moved inside. They were now effectively cornered.

From the 150 men that they started with, about 30 of them were injured, some were unable to move. Alex knew this has to stop now! Otherwise at this rate, by the time the ship comes, evacuating the injured will definitely slow them down significantly, thus jeopardizing their survival.  

There are two small back doors, 6 rolling gates and one extended gate inside the warehouse, it's 30 meters wide. Alex decided to lock up all the other doors and open the big gate. Everyone gathered in a semi-circle formation behind the gate, those who were exhausted from the previous fights will act as the reserve fighters.

"You guys hold this line, I will buy more time"

Alex open up his ring and he took the Golem out, along with that, two pieces of Katana. They were the Japanese swords he took from the Ninjas back in Singapore.  A golem on his side and sharp swords on both hands. He leaps forward into the ocean of zombies, holding nothing back.

BAAAAMMMM!!!!

The golem plummeted into the group of zombies with full force and crush them with its gigantic stoney figure.... at once, dozens of the zombies were annihilated or thrown back a few meters.  An opening was created. Alex took the chance, immediately jumped into the centre and start slaying zombies with the skilful slashes of the Katanas.

SWISH!! SWISH!! SLASH!! SLASH!!

Four zombies' heads flies with just one body rotation. Alex took out four grenade from his storage ring and threw it in each four separate directions.

KABOOMM!!... KABOOMM!!... KABOOMM!!... KABOOMM!!...

There are now four more openings created, Alex leaped forward, positioning himself right in the middle of these zombies, A high stage mortal realm with a medium level movement techniques. Even a hundred Deathsquad soldier would find it challenging to touch him. Alex movement was inhumanely fast and his hexagram steps enable him to move around without being cornered. His strength also allows him to cut zombies' heads effortlessly, no different to slicing tofu in the kitchen. Not a single movement was wasted...  

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Jump to the front... SLASH... heads rolled.

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Roll back... SWISH... heads rolled.

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Alex moved in a circle formation, none of the zombies can stop him. He made it look like a walk in a park.

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GROOAAAARRR!!

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Suddenly, one of the red mutated one charged at him.. this could be a problem.

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BANG!

The red zombie's head exploded, it seems Aria still have a few bullets left. And boy was she glad she saved it. A proud big smile bloomed across her face. Only for a split second, then she aims at another red zombie behind Alex.

BANG!

Sure enough, another head exploded. The red zombies have increased speed compared to a normal human being, and their movement is quite unpredictable, most highly skilled snipers would need a few shots to get a hit, but not Aria.

With Aria watching his backs from the unpredictable red zombies, Alex was able to slaughter the regular zombies easily.

SWISH!! SLASH!! Continuous heads rolled.

His performance in the field left an impression to all the spectators. Some of them got so excited, so much so, that they get the spirit to jump and help. Five Pencak Silat specialists ran forward and join the fight. They were Rama and the four white sash fighters. These five have acquired the master level with the title 'Pendekar'. They were by far the BEST fighters among all the Pencak Silat society in the world.

There were now 3 layers of defense. Alex right in the middle of the zombie waves. The Golem and the five Pendekar on the second layer. Then all the rest straggler will be faced by the rest of the group inside the warehouse.

This went on for another long 15 minutes... the zombies did not relent while the fighters were getting more and more exhausted. Alex managed to kill a few of the red zombies who escaped Aria's sight. At this time, he already broke both Katanas. These regular steel swords were simply not strong enough. Fortunately, he still has a few more spares stored. The zombies who fight the golem, face even more tragic ends. The golem was the perfect zombie killer, equipped with its hard as a rock exterior, each punch would unquestionably crush the zombie's heads in a single blow... Zombies bodies start to pile up in front of the warehouse gate.

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Just as things were starting to be slightly under control...

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Aria said "The destroyer is in sight!"