Zombie Apocalypse: Don't be afraid, I'm not a good person.
Chapter 239 The Last Survivors of the Ancient City
Beichuan City is an ancient city.
It is also called Beichuan Ancient City.
It is a famous tourist city.
Xu Zhenghui chose this place because it has a city wall that surrounds the entire city. It has existed for hundreds of years and is still intact.
The city wall is twelve meters high, about fifteen meters wide at the base, and twelve meters wide at the top. Even if it cannot stop mutated zombies, it can still withstand the most numerous ordinary zombies.
Just 20 kilometers away from Beichuan Ancient City, there is a modern metropolis with complete supplies.
Therefore, Beichuan Ancient City is definitely a good place to be a base. It has a good foundation, and it will be much more convenient to expand on it in the future than to build from scratch.
Beichuan Ancient City covers a vast area, and the existing houses can accommodate 200,000 people. If comfort is disregarded, the number of people that can be accommodated by setting up tents on open ground can be several times higher.
The apocalypse occurred during the peak tourist season, which was also the month when the ancient city was at its most scenic, resulting in a huge influx of people into the city.
The streets were teeming with tourists, walking shoulder to shoulder. In some of the more popular tourist spots, the congestion was so bad that people were packed together, with no way to turn back.
This resulted in tourists having no way to survive after the outbreak of the virus.
On that day, the total number of residents in the ancient city, including both locals and tourists, was about 500,000.
After the virus outbreak, a large number of zombies ate some of the people, so there are at least 400,000 zombies left in the city.
In the days that followed, many survivors were persuaded by the zombies' eloquence to betray the human camp and join the zombie ranks.
At this time, a riot was taking place in the ancient city of Beichuan.
The last survivor squad failed to break through the city gate and was forced to retreat onto a section of the city wall.
The city walls were an impregnable fortress to the outside, but to the inside, they were a cage that blocked any way out.
Moreover, the cage also houses hundreds of thousands of wild beasts with gaping, bloodthirsty mouths.
The group consisted of over fifty people, with only seven or eight men and the rest being young women, since most tourists are women.
The men, all dressed in antique-style armor from the tourist attraction, held rattan shields in one hand and daggers in the other, forming a human wall shoulder to shoulder, blocking the steps leading to the city wall and confronting the surging zombies head-on.
Everyone was exhausted and sweating profusely, their hearts pounding wildly, but no one dared to take a single step back.
If this breach is made, everyone here today will lose their lives.
Among the women, more than thirty of the bolder ones were not idle either. Some carried the same kind of sword and shield, while others held spears. They stood in the gaps behind the men, waiting for an opportunity to stab forward and finish them off.
They were scared, their hands trembled violently, but in order to survive, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and persevere.
Several timid girls huddled at the base of the parapet, clutching the hilts of their knives. They huddled together, trembling with sobs, too afraid to even glance at the scene of the battle.
The fact that this group of people has survived to this day is entirely due to good luck.
When the apocalypse broke out, they were all experiencing NPCs at a tourist attraction. Wearing armor and armed with weapons, they barely managed to survive.
At first, those weapons were all unsharpened and just for show; only the tips could actually stab people. Later, they found an opportunity to sharpen the blades on stones, which gave them some killing power.
"Pfft!"
Lin Miao, with her hair in a bun, gritted her teeth and thrust her spear forward. The spearhead slipped through the gap between the shoulders of the two men in front of her and pierced the eye socket of a zombie.
The zombie stiffened and fell straight down.
Lin Miao withdrew his spear, panting heavily. He glanced down at the dense, ever-growing horde of corpses below the city wall, his face as white as paper.
As she mechanically repeated her stabbing motions, she shouted to the man at the front, "Haiyang! This can't go on! We can't hold on much longer!"
Standing in the center position, Song Haiyang is the tallest and strongest in the team, and also the backbone.
He raised his hand and slammed the rattan shield forward, knocking the charging zombie off balance. He roared back in a gruff voice, "Have Li Xue take a few men to the city gate tower! Check if it's safe inside. We need to go in and catch our breath!"
As he shouted this, sweat streamed down his forehead and into his eyes, stinging painfully. He didn't dare raise his hand to wipe it away, and could only blink hard, his gaze never leaving the horde of zombies.
Lin Miao turned around and looked at Li Xue, who was not far away.
Li Xue also heard the conversation, bit her lower lip, and nodded to the girls beside her.
The dozen or so girls looked at each other, gripped their weapons tightly, and followed Li Xue, crouching low as they ran towards the city gate.
Two days ago, this group of people rushed out of the tourist attraction and fled all the way to this section of the city wall. They haven't even had a drink of water, let alone a meal, and now they are completely blocked by the horde of zombies.
"Aaaaaah—!"
Suddenly, a scream came from beside Song Haiyang, and a man's legs went weak, causing him to fall to the ground.
Song Haiyang glanced down and was so angry he almost ground his teeth to powder. A zombie without legs slowly crawled up through the gaps between the legs of the other zombies, opened its mouth and tore off a large chunk of flesh from the man's calf, chewing it with its face covered in blood.
He kicked away the zombie that lunged at him, raised his waist knife in the backhand, and slashed down hard, directly cutting off the head of the attacking zombie, sending it rolling away.
But looking at the injured brother, the other party also knew what the consequences of being bitten were.
His forehead was covered in cold sweat. He glanced at Song Haiyang, said nothing more, and not wanting to make things difficult for his brother, he limped to the city wall.
"Take care...and live well."
He glanced back at everyone one last time, gave a grim smile, braced himself against the wall with both hands, and without the slightest hesitation, flipped over and jumped off the city wall.
"Bang!"
Everyone felt as if a stone was lodged in their hearts, but they didn't even have time to grieve.
With one less person, a gap immediately appeared in the defense line at the top of the steps, and the zombies in the front row took advantage of the gap to push their way in like madmen.
Once this breach is torn open, everyone will be swallowed up by the horde of zombies.
At this critical moment, a petite figure, holding a rattan shield, charged forward headfirst, shoving the zombies that were about to squeeze in back.
"Well done, Xiaoran!"
"Well done!"
Several hurried words of praise came from the side. Feng Xiaoran didn't have time to respond at all; her whole face was flushed red as she used all her strength to hold up the shield and block the gap.
Song Haiyang and the others wielded their swords and shields even faster, but as time passed, their arms grew so heavy they could barely lift them, sweat dripped down their chins, and their hands gripping the swords began to tremble.
"what!"
A scream suddenly came from behind.
Lin Miao turned around, and her expression changed instantly.
It was Li Xue and the others.
The wooden doors of the city gate tower were pushed open, and several zombies that had been hiding inside suddenly sprang out…
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