The torrential rain blanketing London seemed to mourn the death of the entire city.
Silver-white lightning stretched across the sky, briefly illuminating the military base in the darkness.
Red emergency lights marked the entrances and exits. Though they offered a little light, they only made the whole base seem colder and more sinister.
Inside the base, rows of tanks and armored vehicles stood silently. Aside from the long blood trails on the ground, it seemed as though nothing had happened.
It was like a military exercise that had taken everyone away, leaving everything exactly as it had been.
Suddenly, the roar of an engine rapidly approached from the distance.
Bang!!
An eight-wheeled heavy truck burst in like an uninvited guest, smashing through the barrier before charging inside like a rampaging beast.
With a shriek of brakes, the truck skidded sideways across the entrance.
Before it had fully stopped, six people leaped out and quickly formed a standard triangular formation.
Zhang Tie and He Zheng took the lead, followed by Ye Lin. Hu Jia and An Ke stayed in the middle, while Huang Liang brought up the rear, holding a gun in one hand with a sniper rifle on his back, watching warily.
"Ye Lin? What's the plan? Do we go straight in, or...?"
A little nervous, He Zheng instinctively turned to Ye Lin.
Looking at the pitch-black entrance ahead, he felt it was quiet. No, too clean.
Most of the base had been built into the mountain. Its dark entrance resembled an oversized railway tunnel, and all he could see beyond it was a slightly warped camouflage-painted gate, a full six meters tall.
He knew the Mutant had fused with many zombies, but he had assumed there would still be some left here.
They had made such a racket coming