Infinite Days

Too many, there were really too many. They had thought about the horde that Li Ke had mentioned, and assumed it would be waves upon waves of zombies, but they never imagined that everything would be as exaggerated as Li Ke had said.

"These zombies..."

Kelly swallowed, her hand trembling slightly. She finally understood why Li Ke was so insistent on traps and fire attacks.

At this scale, she could never kill them all with just her revolver!

"Where did they all come from? And didn't you say they wouldn't appear until the seventh day?"

She lowered her voice, knowing that as long as she didn't shout, she wouldn't be discovered, but she still tried to keep her voice as quiet as possible.

"How would I know..."

Li Ke patted his clothes, subconsciously wanting to find a cigarette. He was also panicking now. He still had a lot of work to do, he still had to...

"Calm down, Li Ke, we're here."

Tsunade, her face pale, spoke. Because of the distance, she had recovered some of her strength.

"Besides, based on your description and the number of zombies we've seen, they can't possibly defeat us... First, cover the windows with something. I need to rest for a while, then block the door."

Li Ke took a deep breath and immediately acted according to Tsunade's instructions, blocking the window directly facing Tsunade.

After a while, Tsunade recovered some strength and firmly blocked the door with materialized steel blocks, giving the zombies no chance at all.

The three of them hid in the house without speaking. Li Ke and Kelly silently observed the outside, while Tsunade hid by the bed, staring intently at the steel blocks at the door, afraid that a blood-covered monster would burst in at any moment.

Silence was the theme of the house now, every minute and every second was so difficult. No one wanted to fight unnecessarily, Li Ke didn't want to, and neither did Kelly.

"If we start shooting now, these monsters will overwhelm us in one go, right?"

Kelly wiped the Hose Machine Gun in her hand, as well as the revolver that Li Ke had given her. She was happy when she got the revolver, because it was a huge boost for her, allowing her to easily display her strength.

But now it seemed that the revolver was not as convenient as a machine gun.

"Give me two more machine guns, and I'll see if they're easy to modify after being materialized."

Li Ke didn't speak, he just silently made two more Hose Machine Guns and handed them to Kelly.

Kelly didn't hesitate, she took them directly and materialized them to observe for a while, then closed her eyes helplessly.

There was nothing to modify. After being materialized, they were even weaker than the System's machine guns.

At least the System's machine guns didn't have to worry about jamming or falling apart, and they didn't have to worry about the rate of fire or ballistics. But after being materialized, these things were bound to fall apart, and the ballistics were even worse, without any rifling at all, making it impossible to shoot accurately.

So Kelly helplessly put them aside, preparing to try whether constantly switching between reality and the System could be effective, firing in reality and reloading in the System... or vice versa.

She couldn't determine it in actual combat now, but she was sure of one thing, and that was that when using the revolver, the System's reloading technique was definitely not as fast as hers.

She could install all the Bullets into her revolver in an instant, taking less than 0.4 seconds, but for Li Ke, the System's reloading was obviously faster.

Li Ke knew from her expression that modification was worse than no modification.

He sighed and continued to watch the slowly walking zombies, and the blood-red moon gradually appearing in the sky.

If he remembered correctly, the moon wasn't turning red this fast.

Li Ke took a deep breath. If the blood moon time was advancing every time, and the speed of the blood moon's arrival was increasing, then on the seventh time, would it be a full-day blood moon?

At the thought of this possibility, Li Ke couldn't help but clench his hands. He stared intently at the moon in the sky that was gradually turning red, watching the time slowly advance towards noon.

And by noon, the moon had indeed turned red by half! The zombies' mobility also increased, and their movement speed was noticeably more Agility.

Li Ke was silent for a while, because this process was three hours faster than last time, he couldn't help but mock himself.

"Why is it that only these ominous premonitions come true?"

Chapter 31: Zombies Like a Tide

Because of the current harsh situation, everyone had no expectations for lunch. Especially for Tsunade, although Li Ke still prepared food for her, Tsunade didn't finish a piece of bread even after eating for an hour.

The reason for not making a fire to cook was simple. The three of them were afraid of alarming the zombies, letting them discover them before the blood moon, which would force them to start fighting early.

Cold Spam and water couldn't boost morale. Instead, Li Ke felt a little sleepy, but he didn't dare to sleep because he was so tense. The time of the blood moon was obviously advanced, and he didn't want to be asleep when the blood moon started, that would be too dangerous.

Kelly's situation was much better than Li Ke's. Although she had never seen such a scene, the battle-hardened gunner still had a strong heart. She was able to relax a little, watching the zombies' movement trajectories while eating.

Unlike Li Ke, she was very curious about where these zombies were going. Because the direction they had walked before was the direction the zombies were advancing, but they hadn't found so many zombies, which really puzzled her.

Moreover, the fact that these zombies would avoid these impassable cliffs also made her feel puzzled.

Because this was obviously wrong. If these zombies could see the situation on the opposite side clearly, then their state of observation would have been discovered long ago.

If they couldn't, how did they know they couldn't pass the cliffs?

"This world is really amazing..."

While unconsciously playing with the revolver in her hand, Kelly continued to observe the canyon that they had dug full of potholes, and the slightly clumsy explosion traps that Li Ke had left behind.

These zombies had no weapons and no special abilities. Even if there were hundreds or thousands of them, they were only as strong as an attack by a team of Kartel soldiers.

She, Kelly, had faced hundreds or thousands of Kartel soldiers more than once or twice, and these zombies had no ability to attack fortifications or attack from a distance, so she wasn't afraid at all.

But looking at so many zombies in front of her, Kelly, chewing on Spam, couldn't help but ask.

"How did you survive last time?"

Li Ke shook his head. He didn't know how he survived last time. To be precise, he felt that being able to climb to the gas station was a miracle, let alone surviving the attack of so many zombies.

But at this moment, it was impossible to rely on the previous EXP, because no matter how you looked at it, this was different from the last time.

Last time it wasn't this early, and it wasn't this fast!

"I don't know, I almost fainted after climbing to the top of that gas station, and when I woke up again, it was the next day. I don't know how I survived. I think the fire might have burned the zombies, but I don't have any evidence."

Kelly nodded. She also remembered clearly that on the day they arrived, the ground was covered with all kinds of charred bodies. If that was the case, it made sense.

Although she didn't know why the bodies of those zombies disappeared afterward, it could also explain how these things were destroyed in the first place.

"Is that why you put so much wood and fuel down there?"

Looking at the wood and Gunpowder traps below, Kelly nodded. She was just trying to find something to say to help Li Ke relax.

"Yeah... I just don't know if it's useful, and if we need to add more fuel."

Li Ke took a deep breath, his eyes constantly looking at the time and the moon in the sky. The red traces were eroding the moon he could see bit by bit.

He didn't dare to gamble on whether there would be something more terrifying appearing today, but according to the development of the game, it was basically inevitable, so he tightly gripped the firearms in his hand, hoping this thing could give him some sense of security.

However, he quickly found another way to divert his attention.

Taking out some empty cans, Li Ke began to pour Gunpowder into them, putting each filled one aside. Because he didn't have grenades, he could only use this as a substitute.

As for how to ignite them later...

Li Ke didn't expect this thing to become a reliable grenade, so he was just making something, thinking that at the very least, he could ignite some wood or something.

But Kelly came over and took out some waste paper, starting to help Li Ke make fuses.

Simple fuses didn't allow them to light them and then throw them, but they could be thrown into a burning place to ignite and explode. And even if there was no burning place, Kelly could use the revolver in her hand to detonate it in the air.

In this way, the two of them kept making Gunpowder cans and observing the surrounding zombies.

As the blood-red light continued to increase, the zombies' mobility also became stronger, as did their observation ability. Several times when Li Ke and Kelly were observing, they were even discovered by the zombies. If they hadn't quickly retracted their gaze and heads, they might have alarmed them.

Time passed bit by bit. When they felt hungry again and started to eat something, the red moon, under Li Ke's gaze, bit by bit...

Completely turned red!

Almost in an instant, all the zombies they could see, and those they couldn't, roared, and under the illumination of the blood moon and yellow sand, instantly turned their heads and charged towards their direction.

Their terrifying faces were filled with horrifying expressions, and their half-rotten bodies, illuminated by the moonlight, were even more terrifying, as if they had rushed out of hell.

Almost in an instant, they all collectively turned around and, with a physique that Bolt would be ashamed of, sprinted towards Li Ke and Kelly's direction.

The zombies, who had previously been concerned about the road, now didn't care about the towering man-made cliff at all. They rushed down one after another. Even if many of the first batch of zombies directly broke their legs from the fall, and were directly trampled underfoot by other zombies, causing them to fall into death, they still continued to charge, constantly charging towards their position.

As they charged, green light constantly flashed in their bodies. Li Ke could see very clearly that as they moved, their bodies, their eyes and mouths, and their arms all flashed with green light.

The yellow earth was instantly submerged by a black torrent. Kelly subconsciously pulled the trigger and issued the order.

"Open fire!"

Li Ke also subconsciously pulled the trigger in his hand. With the System's help, the machine gun's muzzle constantly fired deadly flames, and Bullets constantly impacted the bodies of those zombies, knocking some of them to the ground, or directly shattering some of their limbs.

But it was useless. Li Ke and Kelly could knock down more than twenty zombies in an instant, but this amount of zombies was just a drop in the bucket in the face of the constantly charging zombie army. Just as the two of them were changing ammunition, Li Ke saw that some zombies had already charged to half the distance of their man-made canyon.

The wooden traps he had set up were directly smashed. Although the sharp wood pierced their bodies, they didn't care at all. Although some were nailed in place, the zombies running behind directly stepped over him, or squeezed their bodies and continued to move forward, constantly charging towards their position.

Li Ke couldn't help but take out a Molotov Cocktails, but at this moment, Kelly stopped him.

"Don't panic! Throw the Molotov Cocktails when they get to the bottom! Don't light it, I'll light it directly with Bullets!"

Kelly spoke to Li Ke while constantly shooting. With her powerful shooting skills, every shot could accurately blow up a zombie's head.

She wasn't too flustered, but she was afraid that Li Ke would light the Molotov Cocktails here and then not throw it out. Li Ke looked like someone who hadn't undergone proper training, and she didn't want to take the risk.

"Okay."

Li Ke took a deep breath, put the Molotov Cocktails back, and kept shooting like Kelly. Zombies kept falling under his attack.

But it was useless. The two of them couldn't form an effective firepower network at all, and the limit of 15 Bullets was also very deadly. They almost needed to reload for two or three seconds after firing for two or three seconds, and they couldn't achieve continuous suppression at all.

This was the reason why these zombies could constantly charge at them. If they had modern machine guns, even just two, it would be enough for Li Ke and Kelly to form an impenetrable firepower network and constantly kill these charging zombies.

Gunfire kept ringing out. No matter how hard Li Ke and Kelly tried, in the face of these almost endless zombies, their efforts still didn't have much effect. The bottom of those cliffs was already piled up with thick, immobile zombies, and those new zombies had already reached their feet and started to constantly attack the soil under them that hadn't been dug away!

Obviously, these zombies wanted to reach Li Ke and Kelly's position by climbing or digging, and then find Li Ke and them.

Although this was impossible, after Li Ke and Kelly discovered this, they couldn't help but look at each other and saw the same thought in each other's eyes.

Terrible!

Kelly and Li Ke immediately realized this. That was their backup passage, and underneath was their backup base. If these mounds were dug through, then it would mean they had lost their last retreat!

"Damn it! These things are so hard to deal with!"

Looking at the dense zombie horde in the distance, constantly running towards here, and showing no signs of decreasing, Kelly cursed a little irritably, because this was too unreasonable!

The constant charge of these zombies didn't cause their ranks to become empty at all, but instead allowed the zombies in the distance to constantly accelerate to get closer to them.

It was as if the zombies in the entire world knew their location in an instant, and the zombies all over the world were moving towards their position.

"Throw the Molotov Cocktails!"

Biting her teeth, Kelly gave the correct order, and Li Ke didn't hesitate, directly throwing two bottles out of the window. Almost at the moment the bottles were about to land, Kelly pulled out her revolver. Li Ke only heard six gunshots, and saw that the Molotov Cocktails he had thrown out changed direction, and was ignited in the air, forming a curtain of fire that enveloped the zombies surging below.

Not only that, but at the same time, the heads of six zombies were directly blown up, and in an instant, Kelly's revolver was filled with ammunition again, and she shouted at him again.

"Throw more! Otherwise, it won't light up!"

Li Ke didn't hesitate, throwing another twelve Molotov cocktails, two at a time. Kelly's revolver also traced a series of phantoms, continuously shooting the Molotov cocktails, allowing them to burn continuously while also blasting the heads of the zombies heading there.

The originally dim vision suddenly became bright, and Li Ke could clearly see what the zombies below looked like. Their already hideous faces appeared even more bizarre in the face of the constantly jumping flames.

The numbers of EXP gained constantly jumped in the corner of his eye, but he had no time to care about that now. Instead, he used the flames to continuously snipe and kill the approaching zombies one by one.

Shoot, fire, reload, shoot, fire...

The numb actions continued. He couldn't remember how many shots he had fired or how many times he had repaired the iron pipe machine gun in his hand, but he knew one thing.

It was useless.

He watched helplessly as more and more zombies appeared in the pit, and the zombies rushing towards them from a distance were still densely packed. His nerves were basically numb from this repetitive work. All he could hear was the sound of shooting and the roars of the zombies.

His brain was gradually becoming chaotic. The long-term mental tension and such enormous pressure almost crushed him, but—

Just then, the entire canyon shook.

Li Ke's somewhat chaotic brain was suddenly awakened. The next moment, he saw countless zombies being thrown high into the air. A series of iron nails flew past, and some even bounced off their steel walls.

A large area of the canyon was suddenly cleared, and the burning zombies were catapulted into the pile of zombie corpses that was almost level with the cliff, igniting the other zombies.

This explosion boosted his spirits, causing him to quickly turn his body and once again pull the trigger of the gun in his hand with passion, constantly shooting the zombies that were gradually approaching their steel wall.

However, just as he passionately killed more than a hundred zombies, something happened.

Seemingly having reached its limit, or perhaps a zombie's hand just happened to grab the steel plate deeply embedded in the soil, a zombie pulled down a steel plate the moment it fell after being shot in the head.

Li Ke was stunned for a moment. He and Kelly had long anticipated the arrival of this moment, because of the digging ability of the zombies, these steel plates would be torn down sooner or later. But when he really saw his retreat being cut off, Li Ke couldn't help but explode.

He continuously threw the bottles filled with Gunpowder around him, continuously throwing them onto the bodies of the zombies that had been set on fire.

The explosion of the Gunpowder jars didn't bring much power. Even the most successful ones only overturned three or four zombies. Most of them just emitted a burst of intense sparks, then ignited a few zombies around them, and then there was no sound.

Kelly, seeing this scene, no longer stopped Li Ke, but continued to silently pull the trigger, allowing Li Ke to continuously throw out the simple explosives they had made.