Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Chapter 461: Fighting at the Humen Bridge

As the helicopter lowered and lowered to the zombies, it stopped just within a few hundred feet above them.

A massive horde had already been built up, rapidly stacking on top of each other in an attempt to reach them.

"You ready?"

With a nod from the pilot, the two quickly opened the crate to the side, revealing a box full of grenades.

The two captains immediately began pulling the pin and throwing it out the window, timing it just right so that it would explode upon impact.

However, the explosion was so loud and close that the helicopter itself swung side to side a little before it stabilized again.

"Sorry! Miscalculated the distance." The pilot apologized as he quickly ascended back up.

After reaching a much safer distance, the two captains repeated the same steps.

This time, the explosion didn't affect the zombies. Instead, it blew up before it could reach them.

Yet the two of them didn't stop, continuing to let the grenade explode mid-air, almost as if that was their initial plan.

"Geez, this thing is so damn loud even though the ear protector." The first captain complained.

"What did you say?"

As the second captain threw another grenade into the air, the pilot started to fly down the designated path.

"Nothing!"

The two of them began to slow down the speed of the grenade being thrown out, only doing it occasionally every few minutes.

After almost three hours of dragging the horde, they were forced to head back to refuel first.

When they headed back to the horde, they somehow had traveled much further down the intended path.

Not wasting any more time, they resumed luring the zombie down the road all the way until they finally reached the bridge.

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"There they are," Xiaoyun murmured as he could hear a faint helicopter spinning in the distance.

"All units on high alert! The zombies are incoming!"

As soon as the order was passed out, all of the soldiers stood ready and waited.

After ten minutes, the first zombie finally approached the front line as the helicopter flew towards the makeshift airfield.

Gunshots immediately began at the first defense, drawing the zombie's attention as more and more began flooding in.

Just as the zombies overran the first defenses and reached towards the cars, explosions quickly went off.

As the hundred soldiers ran back to the main defense, the wall of fire from the cars continued to rage on.

The tightness of the zombie hordes immediately caused a cascading effect as more and more of them caught on fire.

Soon, almost all of the front entrances became raging infernal, stopping the zombie's track from advancing any further.

However, after a while, the fire began to die down, and barely any zombies died from the fire itself.

It only caused a small dent in the numbers, with more in the back quickly replacing the ones that had fallen.

The zombies began to make past the semi-truck as the zombies quickly entered through the narrow gap.

As their side of the bridge began to fill up with zombies, Kate started to get a little nervous just looking through her binoculars.

"Why are they still not firing?"

"Just be patient... The Colonels know what they are doing."

After the zombies got within two hundred steps, the rows of MG-42 began unloading its raw firepower. Your journey continues on M V L

The roaring machine had only gone off for a few seconds, yet almost the entirety of the zombie on their side of the bridge had fallen.

Their body parts were splattered all over the place as the bullet wall was so dense that not a single gap remained.

Even with some of them still alive, the zombies behind them quickly ran over them with zero care.

Soon, the first challenge began as some of the MG-42 began to overheat from being fired, reducing the amount of firepower.

The soldier's rifles quickly replaced the missing firepower, with the overheated barrels being changed with new ones.

"How long is this fight going to last?"

Kate curiously asked as the lines of zombies continued rushing forward with no end in sight.

"A day at most... If it lasts longer than a day, then we'll have to blow up the bridge."

With more and more dead zombies' bodies beginning to pile up, it was soaking up the bullet for the zombies to advance slowly.

Soon, it was so high up that it was starting to make it hard for the machine guns to fire in a straight line.

At the same time, the zombies in the back had started to climb over the semi-trucks, rendering the once narrow entrance useless.

"Look like it's time."

Just as Xiaoyun finished talking, the middle of the bridge suddenly caught on fire.

The zombie's advancement came to a complete halt as all the dead zombies became a perfect burning fuel.

"Is the bridge going to burn down?"

Kate raised her concern as the fire soon spread from their side to the bridge entrance itself.

"It shouldn't... The bridge is made out of concrete and steel beams. Those are just Molotov fire, not some jet fuel.

But it definitely is going to damage it. It will probably need to be repaired first before cars are driven over it."

As the fire raged on, the zombie horde all the way to the other side of the bridge entrance suddenly stopped.

It was almost as if they could realize the fire was a thing they shouldn't run into, waiting for it to die down first.

Still, the fire had accomplished its goal, as the piles of dead zombies were drastically reduced.

The zombies were pushed back to the original point, all the way back to the semi-truck.

"So much dust and ashes..." Kate commented as the entire battlefield started to become unviewable from above.

Xiaoyun's face immediately got a little worried as it was now fully reliant on the commanders and officers to act as the pillar of stability.

After a while, the fire finally ended as dust and ashes finally blew away, revealing all of the soldiers standing their ground.

The zombies had once again advanced to the middle, rapidly making gains throughout the smoke screen.

"This is going to make me so rich..."

Kate smirked as she watched all the soldiers free-fire at the zombies, with zero care for saving Ammos.

"You know what, the first thing I'm going to do when I go back to raise the corporate tax to 90%."

Xiaoyun joked as the battlefield became relatively stable, with the zombie's advancement stalled right just a few steps past the middle.

"Hey! Don't do that! Aren't you already getting my best assets?"

As Kate hugged Xiaoyun's arm in her chest, Xiaoyun didn't take her bribe a single bit.

"Too bad. You shouldn't have flexed your money like that. Time for you to pay your fair share."

Kate rolled her eyes as she let go of his arm, turning her attention back to the binoculars in hand.

"Says the one who's the richest person in the whole world right now. Have you ever paid your taxes?"

"I don't even have a salary... There is no taxes for me to pay."

"Oh, right... Totally not because a certain individual just prints his way out when he needs to pay."

Xiaoyun's face finally blushed a little as he turned his attention back to the frontline.

To his surprise, the zombies had stopped advancing, even though it had only been less than an hour.

It has only been exactly thirty minutes, but it is almost as if the zombie horde on the other side was timing their attack precisely.

"Huh... They really are retreating to the other side."

As the two watched with confusion, the zombies had exited the bridge and remained idly by at the entrance.

"Commander, should we remain in position?"

Xiaoyun's walkie-talkie finally spoke up, as the leading Colonel down below couldn't understand what was happening.

"15th and 16th Division, take this time to swap with 13th and 14th, over."

As the unit on the ground began to swap position, the zombies on the other side still showed no signs of advancing.

They did not show any signs of retreat either, as they continued remaining on the other side of the bridge.

"They definitely have someone directing them."

Kate murmured, as the zombies behaved almost the same as the ones they encountered in the past.

All of them stood there as if they had received the order to remain still, even with humans across from them.

"If they want to wait it out, we can wait it out as well." Xiaoyun determined as he looked through his binoculars.

"Can we really afford to wait it out?"

Kate raised her concern as she knew how much it was costing to have an entire Army Corp out in the open.

Not to mention the lingering worry for the soldiers to constantly be worried that the zombies were going to advance at some point.

"It's too late to turn the horse around... Besides, they seemed to be in a hurry, too."