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Chapter 69 Zombie Siege

DAY93

Last night's discussion ended without a result. Lu Yuan was on the first night shift last night, and he said he needed to think it over carefully, so he sent everyone back to sleep.

However, he didn't have a chance to think quietly. Perhaps the meteor shower stimulated the evolution of the zombies. Around 2 a.m., Lu Yuan vaguely heard shouts of "Help!"

The noise even woke up Gu Nanfeng and Yang Xiao, but Pei Sihao and Zhong Qiang slept soundly as always, completely undisturbed. It was quite a while before they were finally awakened and rushed to the third-floor balcony.

Lu Yuan used his binoculars to survey the villa area and was surprised to see several survivors running towards the villa area from the university campus and dormitory area, each followed by a number of zombies.

These zombies were clearly faster than the survivors, but they seemed to be doing it on purpose, refusing to directly engage them. They were trying to wear down their will. Two girls eventually couldn't run anymore and slumped to the ground in despair, waiting for the zombies chasing them to finish them off. But they didn't. The zombies just circled around them...

Soon, more and more people gathered in the small garden of the villa area at night. Without exception, they had all been chased by zombies. Most of them looked like they had been starving for a long time, their steps were unsteady, and their faces were full of despair. Many of them were probably wondering why the zombies chasing them didn't just come up and bite them, so that they wouldn't have to suffer anymore.

"There are still so many survivors in the school?" Pei Sihao roughly counted the people gathered in the small garden. There were at least nearly a thousand people. If these people hadn't been starving to the point of being unrecognizable, they might have been able to fight back against the zombies surrounding them and perhaps some of them could have escaped.

Just as Pei Sihao was thinking this, a small group of about forty or fifty people in the middle of the crowd pushed aside their unsteady and staggering comrades and rushed towards the weakest gap in the zombies, trying to break through.

Just as they were about to rush out, several arrows shot out at their feet. Lu Yuan remembered that these were the arrows from the female zombie with the bow and arrow.

“If there are still so many survivors in the school, then the rough survivor data that Brother Pei and the others obtained is far too rough…” Gu Nanfeng couldn’t help but sigh. Indeed, under the current circumstances, each provincial and municipal government only has specific data on the safe bases under its own control. Survivors from other small survivor bases, large communities, schools, and public places who did not go to the safe bases or encounter government supply teams are probably not included in the statistics.

While it's reasonable to assume that most provinces and cities tend to overreport survivors, the range won't be too high. Right now, nearly a thousand people have been driven out of the university town by zombies in just one night, not even considering that some were bolder or had ample food, and their hiding places were more concealed and haven't been found.

When they returned to the villa area, there were at least twenty or thirty survivors in the area, and the exact number of people was probably close to a hundred. Two days ago, the zombie horde wiped out two households, and even if it affected one or two households, today, the zombies only drove the people from other parts of the school to the small park in the villa area, and did not raid the villas.

"Help……"

"I don't want to die..."

"Come on, if you dare, come and bite me!"

The sounds in the small garden grew increasingly chaotic. Some didn't want to die, while others wanted to end their lives quickly and become part of the zombies. Some even tried to hug the zombies surrounding them.

Lu Yuan found the female zombie in the horde. She was exactly the same as when she appeared on their balcony a couple of days ago: bluish-purple skin, a delicate face, and wearing a pure white dress; from behind, she looked like a high school girl. But Lu Yuan sensed she had evolved. The moment Lu Yuan looked at her, she immediately turned back. Her speed and instincts were more agile, and the fact that she had just fired three arrows at once indicated that her movements were more coordinated.

"The meteor shower caused the zombies to evolve," Lu Yuan concluded.

"What are they trying to do? It's been more than half an hour." Yang Xiao was puzzled. After the zombie horde surrounded the nearly 1,000 people from all directions and chased them into the small garden, they made no further moves. Those who wanted to run away were blocked and brought back, but those who wanted to die could not find relief.

Just when the five of them thought this situation would continue and relaxed their vigilance a little, several figures appeared on the roof of one of the detached villas. Lu Yuan only saw them when he accidentally moved his binoculars.

He put down his handheld binoculars, sat down on the small single sofa, and looked in that direction again with the astronomical telescope. With the high magnification and precision of the astronomical telescope, he could clearly see the situation on the balcony of the villa.

There were five men on the rooftop balcony, all tall and muscular, several of them about the same size as Zhong Qiang. Gu Nanfeng noticed Lu Yuan's reaction and also looked over with his binoculars. When he looked over, the men were setting up guns on the rooftop; they looked like rifles.

"They have so many rifles?" Pei Sihao also saw the roof of the building and said incredulously, "Those who can equip everyone with a rifle within three months are either people like us with space or soldiers!"

"Their movements are very skilled; they must be soldiers." Lu Yuan was using a telescope and could clearly see how swiftly they set up their guns. "Could rookies like us finish this in a minute?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, I'm just not good enough." Yang Xiao, a man who considered himself to have five years of experience killing zombies in the military, was simply not good enough.

"Bang bang bang!" Just as they finished speaking, the five men on the other side started shooting.

Lu Yuan quickly turned his binoculars towards the female zombie; she dodged the bullets, but two zombies beside her had been shot in the head. These five people were indeed soldiers, but why weren't they heading to the safe base?

"We'll help too!" Gunshots continued from the other side, and many people who didn't want to die took advantage of the chaos to start running around. The small park became even more chaotic, with people and zombies intermingling. The zombies no longer just surrounded humans as before, but started biting anyone they saw.

Lu Yuan took out rifles from his spatial storage and handed them to Yang Xiao and Gu Nanfeng. He also gave their sharpshooter, Pei Sihao, a sniper rifle. The three of them were quite experienced in shooting. Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang might cause trouble in this chaotic situation, so they were responsible for observing with binoculars. They opened the small vent they had deliberately left on the third-floor balcony and began firing at the zombies in the garden.

Lu Yuan used a telescope to track the female zombie with a bow and arrow. He suddenly realized that after Pei Sihao fired the first shot, the female zombie looked in the direction of their villa, and then rushed towards the villa where the five men were at a speed that Lu Yuan could not even imagine.

"It was just trying to lure those soldiers into making a move!" Lu Yuan exclaimed. "It went towards that villa!"

Pei Sihao shifted his sniping direction and aimed at the villa where the five men were. The female zombie had already rushed to the small courtyard downstairs from the villa. Pei Sihao aimed and fired without hesitation.

"Damn it, it dodged again. Did it use an evasion ability?" Pei Sihao was extremely dissatisfied. From the moment he fired his first shot, he had been aiming at this female zombie, but out of five shots he only managed to hit her once. This was because the female zombie was bumped into by a frantically fleeing person while dodging, and the shot missed, hitting the female zombie's left shoulder. The person was instantly torn in half by the female zombie, without even having a chance to turn into a zombie.