Chapter 1641: Cold-Blooded
"Why do I feel like there are more and more of these things?"
Carlos had already gotten off the helicopter. After precisely picking off two zombies with his rifle, he saw five more emerging from around the corner in response to the gunfire and couldn't help swearing.
Their five-man S.T.A.R.S. team, along with Xu Yue, the "civilian" they had rescued on the way, made six people in total. They were currently on a street.
Together with officers from two police cruisers and a police bus, they had formed a small defensive line, holding back the infected from one direction while rescuing fleeing civilians.
The S.T.A.R.S. members were all highly trained, with an impressive headshot rate. With the police officers supporting them, they had temporarily stabilized the situation.
But Carlos and the others had noticed that their ammunition was dwindling, they were getting more exhausted, and yet the number of zombies was only increasing!
Around seventy or eighty civilians had gathered around them, including twenty or thirty who had been bitten. For now, they had merely separated the bitten people from the rest.
With such a huge burden in tow, even their plan to withdraw steadily seemed extraordinarily difficult. Worse still, they did not even know which direction to retreat in!
The entire city had been sealed off. It felt as though nowhere in the city was safe...
They knew that those who had been bitten were infected and would likely turn into those monsters.
But for the members of S.T.A.R.S., they still could not bring themselves to kill civilians. They could only hope that a miracle or a vaccine would appear.
"You'll only get more people killed this way."
Xu Yue, who had not fired a shot and had merely observed the scene from the side, spoke