As attacks like these multiplied, order in Hemp Mountain rapidly began to collapse. Local thugs also took advantage of the muddy waters to fish for profit, making the situation ever more complicated.
Of course, this was no movie. Most of the footage offered only fleeting glimpses. Soon came scenes of the military crackdown...
Then they saw Great Chu's Ground Forces in full gear, battling Zombies with riot shields and rubber batons...
Of course, these were only excerpts from that day's military operation, and heavily edited excerpts at that.
But they were enough to shock everyone watching into believing that what they saw was the whole truth. Faced with such violence and such Zombies, a death toll of a hundred thousand no longer seemed impossible.
Once they believed it, however, panic inevitably spread.
Elders and commoners alike imagined Zombies leaping out beside them at any moment and lunging for them. Not one of them could keep the color in their face.
Remembering that even the Elder Council had just seen a Zombie-like Holy Salt mutant appear, countless people were seized by a sense of insecurity and immediately shut their doors and windows tight.
Helicopters roared into the city, which had almost entirely become ruins.
Fires burned everywhere, and Zombies wandered unsteadily among them. Tear gas was thrown at the Zombies, but it had no effect at all. Instead, they lunged at the Ground Forces...
The scenes looked like something from a movie, yet they were far too realistic. They chilled everyone who watched.
In fact, by then, these were no longer Holy Salt mutants. They were the Corpse Ghosts from the Mysterious Yin Seven Fiends Yellow Springs Formation... But no one could tell the difference between the two.
Especially after gunfire erupted at the docks, Corpse Ghosts whose bodies had been