Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2183 Bad News: The Guillotine is Malfunctioning!

"Bring up the King Kong zombies below!" Li Gang shouted to his men.

"Yes."

Just as Li Gang and his team had finished off the first wave of about a hundred King Kong zombies, the second wave of zombies quietly arrived three kilometers away from the city fortress.

This time, the number of zombies was far greater than that of the first wave, stretching endlessly and filling the entire screen.

Infrared thermal imagers showed that many of these zombies were in a non-human, upright posture.

Wow~
Heavy rain.

The torrential rain seemed to have made the zombies and zombie sea monsters even more excited.

Bai Wenyang quickly reported the situation.

Upon receiving the message, the I Ching immediately issued an order:

"Annihilate these zombies!"

Although the city fortress had conducted live-fire exercises before, exercises are still just exercises and are different from real combat.

In response to this zombie horde, they are constantly testing and searching for a suitable rhythm to deal with it.

After all, they didn't know how long the sea fog would last; they were facing a protracted war.

The most important thing in a protracted war is to have a good understanding of the enemy.

The I Ching also aimed to figure out how strong these zombies were by observing different battle rhythms.

After receiving the message from Chief Yi Jing, Bai Wenyang and other battalion commanders immediately relayed the orders to the artillery and firing groups.

"Fortresses No. 4, 5, and 6, heed my command."

"Artillery barrage, covering the zombies within a range of 15 degrees southwest to 35 degrees southeast!"

"Heavy artillery fires in five rounds, mortars fire in twenty rounds."

"Yes."

"clear."

"Number four is ready."

"Number Five is ready."

"Number Six is ​​ready."

Without hesitation, Bai Wenyang picked up the communicator and shouted:
"emission!"

The voice just fell.

The three defensive fortresses to the south instantly unleashed a barrage of cannonballs.

dong dong dong~
There are tracer rounds between the shells to correct the bombardment direction.

The rainy night was illuminated by the light of tracer bullets.

The entire south turned into daytime in an instant.

Under the illumination of the tracer rounds, the zombies and zombie sea monsters rushing here could be seen clearly.

Boom~Boom~Boom~
The bombardment lasted for five minutes, and a crater was blasted into the area where the zombies were located.

When the smoke cleared, they were surprised to find that a small number of zombies had survived the bombardment of more than two hundred shells.

The surviving zombies were mainly on the edge of the bombing range, so they were less affected.

The zombies that survived did not rush towards the city fortress immediately, but instead began to devour the corpses of their own kind on the ground.

These zombies had been starving for far too long; they were tearing at the charred remains of their own kind.

The scene amidst the sea of ​​fire was extremely bloody.

After Bai Wenyang discovered this scene through his telescope, he quickly reported it to Yi Jing.

Headquarters Base of Dazhangshu.

Administration building, command center.

Yi Jing relayed the information Bai Wenyang had reported to the others in the hall.

The eldest uncle sat in his seat, a thoughtful expression on his face:

"It seems that even if the zombies in the ocean have mutated, they still cannot withstand our heavy firepower."

"Now that the test results are in, there's no need to waste any more shells. Let's move on to the next phase of testing."

Although they had prepared plenty of ammunition and shells, they still didn't have enough to fight off such a massive number of zombies.

Moreover, they have sturdy walls and mobile guillotines. If the walls can stop these zombies, why don't they just ignore them below?

They should conserve their strength in preparation for the appearance of zombies like the terrifying giant squid.

Previously, when facing zombie hordes, they mainly relied on tall and sturdy walls to block the zombies.

This method is the most time-saving and labor-saving.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to spend so much manpower and resources to build such a tall wall.

Furthermore, they also need to get the zombies close to the vicinity of the camphor tree headquarters base.

This allowed Bai Jie and others to observe some new types of zombies up close, and even capture these zombies for research.

Some of the larger zombies are extremely difficult to transport. They may not be able to fit through the underground tunnels between the city fortress and the headquarters base, but it would be much easier to place them at the headquarters base.

time flies.

The three southern fortresses were firing precisely at the surviving zombies.

They eventually wiped out this wave of zombies once again.

Fortress No. 4, second platform.

One of the combatants put down his sniper rifle, leaned against the wall, and said to his comrade next to him:
"The zombies in this sea fog aren't that great. With our current firepower, defending should be a piece of cake."

The member of the formally organized militia brigade sitting next to him didn't answer him immediately. Instead, he took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and said:

"Ha! This is just the beginning. The first two waves of zombies were just appetizers."

"You're just a reserve soldier; you've never seen a mountain of zombies before, have you?"

Wang Rui, a member of the reserve militia, retorted:

"How could that be? I've seen it before!"

His old comrade smiled and didn't continue arguing with him.

He has experienced too many crises during his many years of defending the city.

The scale of the zombies we just saw was simply ridiculous.

The more popular a place is, the more zombies it will attract.

Today, the big camphor tree has a population of 500,000, and after so many years since the apocalypse, there are probably very few survivors left.

There are very few survivors outside, which means that almost all the zombies that come ashore from the south will run to the camphor tree.

Veterans have a good intuition.

Less than half an hour after the second wave of zombies ended, even more zombies surged in from the south.

The number of zombies this time is incomparable to the previous two waves.

Sonar detection showed that the area within a radius of more than ten kilometers was full of zombies.

Moreover, sonar has a limited detection range, and there are likely even more zombies surging towards them from more than ten kilometers away.

The number of zombies that rushed in this time was incalculable.

However, this time the three southern fortresses did not retaliate at all, allowing the zombies to enter the fortresses.

Clouds ripple with rain, water ripples like silver.

In the rain, the high beams of the searchlights on the twelve fortified cities shone on the ground, making the zombies on the ground ripple like sunlight on the sea.

The horde of corpses surged toward the headquarters of the Great Camphor Tree like a tidal wave.

The sheer number of them was terrifying.

Among the horde of zombies, you can see all sorts of strange creatures.

Some zombies leaped and flew up, closely following the King Kong zombie.

A giant zombie, five meters tall, with exposed bone spurs and two huge bulges on its back, caused the ground to tremble with every step it took.

There was also a zombie that was entirely golden yellow, making it stand out among the other zombies.

A massive horde of zombies, bathed in rain, surged towards the headquarters of the Great Camphor Tree like an army. However, neither the fortified city walls nor the guards on the outskirts of the Great Camphor Tree made any move, allowing the zombies to approach.

Soon, an hour later, the outer walls of the city were surrounded by an army of zombies.

The fastest King Kong zombie had already reached the base of the wall before the horde arrived and was climbing it.

However, they were all knocked down by the moving switch.

Three hours later.

Repair and replacement of indoor switch breaker No. 3 (South 3).

When the switch repairmen Xiang Dong and Luo Jing pulled the switch, the switches within a range of over a hundred meters immediately stopped.

After the power is turned off, the knife blades automatically retract.

They inspected and maintained the switch blades.

Of the ten blades, nearly half had a notch about the size of a thumb.

Xiang Dong said in shock:
"Holy crap, this King Kong zombie is too fierce! These five guillotine blades are now useless!"

Luo Jing frowned and said:
"The same thing happened in maintenance room number 4. At this rate, we'll run out of spare switch blades very soon!"

They prepared a complete set of guillotine blades. When facing hordes of zombies besieging the city, the blades would become dull, but they could be re-sharpened with a machine and used again.

However, under the onslaught of these Vajra zombies, the blades are now riddled with dents and chips, making them difficult to reuse.

Ge Xu, the leader of the 3rd maintenance team, said with a grim face:
"Replace the broken blades quickly; we don't have much time left."

They acted quickly, immediately replacing the spare guillotine blade and then tightening the screws that had loosened the rotating mechanism after the impact.

They replaced the first layer of moving switch blades. When replacing them, the first layer of switches stopped, while the second and third layers of moving switches continued to operate.

Generally speaking, they mainly replace and maintain the first layer of switch blades, and rarely replace the second and third layer switch blades.

Because the zombie hordes they had faced before could only reach the height of the first layer before being cut off by the moving guillotine of the first layer, blocking the zombie horde below twenty meters.

But this time, they lacked confidence.

clang clang ~
They could all hear the collision between the second-level moving guillotine and the King Kong zombie from inside the maintenance room.

After replacing the blades, Ge Xu and others immediately turned on the power switch, and the first layer of movable switch resumed operation.

Ge Xu picked up the communicator to report, "The switch in the South Third Block has been repaired, and five sets of blades have been replaced."

"What?" the South District Smart Switch Repair Team Leader asked after hearing the news.

"Are you sure? The fourth group only replaced three sets of blades just now, how come your blades are worn even more than theirs?"

Ge Xu quickly said:

"Captain, it's not just worn out, it's practically scrapped. You can come and take a look."

A few minutes later.

Su Yan, the maintenance team leader in the southern part of the buffer city, rushed over. When he saw the old guillotine blades that had been replaced, his expression changed immediately.

He crouched down and touched the nick on the blade; it was clearly caused by a high-speed impact with a hard object.

The powerful embodiment of the King Kong zombie is conveyed through the notch in the blade.

"Indeed, these blades are no longer usable."

He was in charge of the maintenance and repair of the gate on the southern side of the city wall, and he had more than 100 maintenance workers under his command.

There are four maintenance teams stationed along the entire perimeter of the city, with a team leader in charge of each of the four cardinal directions.

He stood up abruptly, his mind a jumbled mess; the guillotine failure rate had never been this high before.

Only four hours have passed since the King Kong zombie appeared.

It wasn't just the blades in the South Group 3 repair room that had problems; the damage rate in other groups was also quite high.

However, the damage rate in the South Third Group reached a staggering 50%!

That means you have to replace half of the blades every four hours.

this.
Adding the damage rates just reported by other groups, a total of more than thirty blades of the Southern Guillotine were damaged by the impact of the King Kong Zombie.

Even when surrounded by hordes of zombies, the blades were never damaged to this extent.

More than 30 blades were worn out in four hours.
These blades are all upgraded tungsten carbide alloy blades, which are extremely hard!

"I must report this to my superiors!" he thought to himself.

He then immediately took a picture of the razor blade and hurriedly took the elevator to the top of the wall.

"Hello, I'm looking for Captain Li Gang. I have something important to report." Su Yan went up to the wall and found a combat squad leader.

Seeing his panicked expression, the squad leader asked, "What happened?"

"The guillotine blade is faulty!"

"What?!" The squad leader was horrified upon hearing this.

"Come with me!"

The squad leader grabbed him and rode off on an electric scooter.

A few minutes later.

The squad leader brought him to Li Gang.

"What is it?" Li Gang was observing the movements of the zombies on the ground through binoculars.

The squad leader tugged at Su Yan, signaling him to report personally.

Su Yan quickly said:

"Captain Li Gang, when we were repairing the first layer of guillotine blades, we replaced nearly half of them. All of these blades were damaged in the collision with the King Kong Zombie!"

"In just four hours, more than thirty switch blades on the southern perimeter wall under my responsibility have been damaged. At this rate of damage, the replacement blades we have will only last for three days."

To help Li Gang better understand the breakage rate of the blades, Su Yan also used the concept of time to explain it.

Li Gang's hand holding the binoculars trembled slightly. He put down the binoculars, turned his head, and stared intently at Su Yan.

"You mean our spare guillotine blades will only last for three days?"

“Yes!” Su Yan nodded heavily, but he quickly added:
"But if we remove the guillotine blades from the buffer city, it can probably be used for another day."

Li Gang grabbed Su Yan's shoulder. "Come with me!"

This matter has a huge impact. If the switch system malfunctions, the defensive function of the wall will be rendered 80% useless.

The wall can only stop zombies that cannot climb.

However, there are now at least six types of zombies capable of climbing around the wall.

The most ferocious of them all is the King Kong Zombie, whose skin is incredibly tough. It is precisely because of the King Kong Zombie that the guillotine blades have such a high damage rate.

Li Gang temporarily handed over command of the area to his deputy.

He then took a special car and went directly to the outer city administration building.

Along the way, they passed through the edge city, buffer city, and fourth outer city at an extremely fast speed, all the way to the administrative building of the second outer city.

Because they used special channels, they encountered no checks and moved extremely quickly.

Command Hall.

Li Gang pushed open the door, and everyone in the hall looked at him.

The two stood at the doorway, wearing raincoats, with raindrops dripping from them onto the ground.

A cold, damp airflow blew in from outside.

The windowpane instantly fogged up.

"Leaders, the damage the King Kong zombies have done to our mobile guillotine is too severe. In just four hours, we've lost more than thirty guillotines in the southern part of Edge City!" Li Gang said to everyone as soon as he entered.

quiet!
Everyone's hearts skipped a beat when they heard the news.

Li Yu looked at Li Gang and the other man, stood up, and asked:
"What is the specific situation?"

"Go ahead," Li Gang said, looking at Su Yan.

This was Su Yan's first time meeting so many big shots, and he was a little nervous.

But he was keenly aware that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shine.

He took a deep breath and reported:
"The outer skin of the King Kong zombie is too hard. Although our upgraded tungsten steel alloy guillotine is also very hard, the edges of the blade are relatively thin to ensure sharpness. After colliding with the King Kong zombie, the inside of the guillotine is prone to cracking."
After repeated impacts, a large number of nicks appeared on the outermost part of the guillotine blade, which would dull the blade.

Currently, the southern part of Edge City faces the most King Kong zombies, and the blade damage rate is also the highest. If this damage rate continues, our stockpile of guillotine blades will only last for three days.