Chapter 435: Beginning Defense

The crowd dispersed, with Yuan Rui also being dragged away by Gesar, leaving only Zhang Mu and Hachikuju on the city wall.

Zhang Mu looked at the approaching sea of zombies calmly, memories of his past life reminding him that such a scene was rare, as before that war, a zombie sea of that scale had rarely occurred.

By the time they acquired such power, the major Era Cities had initiated comprehensive protection measures for humans due to the abundant successful promotions of Junior Sub-merchants, making it useless for zombies to besiege the city.

Just as Hachikuju mentioned, there really was no way back. According to Zhang Mu, in the current Hohhot City, the Junior Era Sub-merchants with the highest completion rate in the Caravan Alliance should belong to the local Era Sub-merchant of Hohhot Era City.

But even that person had not become a Junior Era Sub-merchant; it was just a temporary opening of basic permissions last time, which doesn’t count for much.

The identity of a Trainee Era Sub-merchant does not qualify to have the Era Merchant bestow protection upon the entire Era City.

Although the current Hohhot City must have the authority of Era Merchants, deterring zombies from provoking, without full protection, it is inevitable that zombies controlled by someone will eventually overwhelm the entire city.

They wouldn’t dare to act rashly within a few hundred meters near the Era Store, but how many people can that small area accommodate, with no food or water supplies? In the end, only the Era Merchant may survive.

“I didn’t expect Brother Hachikuju to be so eloquent. I saw several soldiers trembling in fear just now. Your words have ignited their fighting spirit to this extent,” remarked Zhang Mu.

Zhang Mu looked at the silent Hachikuju and spoke slowly.

“Zhang Mu, aren’t you nervous? Honestly, when I saw that sea of zombies earlier, my first thought was that the capital city of Inner Mongolia was finished. I only act this way after being looked up to by so many people. I didn’t expect you, Zhang Mu, to be much calmer than me or Hachikuju.”

Just now, I was speaking from my heart. Does Zhang Mu really think that I haven’t read any books? Should I recite “I Have a Dream” for you?”

“I Have a Dream”? Wow, that’s impressive, but please don’t. The battle is about to begin.”

Hachikuju finally spoke, turned to look at Zhang Mu. The anxiety from earlier had already settled down. After entering the city, he found that the Red Flame Wolf Rider and the reserves were all intact in the city, and the vast majority of the city residents had also moved over, so he felt much more relaxed.

Even if Ejin Horo Banner Sub-city is taken, all that will be lost is an empty city.

As long as people are safe, everything will be fine.

Cities can be rebuilt, but if people are gone, there won’t be time to make more.

However, he admired Zhang Mu greatly. Even as the lord of the city, he was feeling a bit overwhelmed, yet he couldn’t detect any panic on Zhang Mu’s face. Hachikuju was clear that it wasn’t an act; it was genuine composure.

You should know that this is a whole horde of zombies, numbering a million!

“Zhang Mu, how can you be so calm? Do you have some cards up your sleeve to help me get through this crisis?”

Zhang Mu smiled bitterly and pointed to his chest, saying, “If I had such ability, would I still be ambushed like this?”

Hachikuju looked at the spot where Zhang Mu was covering his chest again, worriedly asking, “What should we do next? Should we find the best surgeon to operate on you?”

Zhang Mu shook his head and said slowly, “As long as I don’t experience severe shocks, I should be able to survive. Forget about the future, just surviving this time is already a great gift from heaven.”

“Woo… woo… woo…”

After a long trumpet sound, the relaxed expressions of the two became serious at the same time.

It was the trumpet sound from the front line, signaling that the zombie sea was about to enter the outer defenses of the city in a minute.

“All units, be on high alert. The zombie sea will enter the defenses in fifty seconds. The earth-type evolvers handling the mechanisms can start preparing.”

There were many talented individuals under Hachikuju’s command. Now the division of labor was very clear, the ordinary reinforcement earth-type evolvers had already withdrawn to the city, leaving the remaining three hundred core evolvers controlling different mechanisms positioned a thousand kilometers away from the city. They controlled the mechanisms in batches.

Watching everything proceeding in an orderly manner, Hachikuju suddenly felt something was not right. Were things going too smoothly?

“Zhang Mu, you said there must be a spy in the capital city, but when we came back, not a single soldier was lost. This time, gathering everyone together seems to have helped us instead.”

“If we were scattered in eight separate cities, we would definitely be slowly eaten away, with no chance of winning at all.”

Zhang Mu nodded and said, “I understand.”

“If you knew already, then why?”

Looking at Hachikuju’s puzzled face, Zhang Mu replied calmly, “Why, did I not say anything?”

“The enemy hasn’t made any move against us. There are only two possibilities.”

One, they don’t want to. In that case, they are so confident in defeating us that they don’t bother with small actions.

“The other possibility is they can’t. I can’t think of anything we have that would make it impossible for them.”

Zhang Mu looked at Hachikuju and said slowly, “The chances for these two possibilities are fifty-fifty. I couldn’t decide, so I only mentioned it when you brought it up. Now we must be flexible. If we can solve this zombie problem, at least we won’t end up with a total disaster.”

While Zhang Mu and Hachikuju were talking, the sounds of zombies’ growls and roars could be faintly heard from two kilometers away.

One kilometer away in a shelter, the flat ground was completely cleared of vegetation.

Lin Qing, the person in charge of the earth-based traps this time, could already see the front row of zombies with blood-stained teeth through a telescope.

“Captain Lin Qing, the zombie horde has entered the trap range, should we activate the first defense?”

“Wait a little longer.”

Hachikuju had entrusted all defense authority to him for him to decide on his own.

When he saw one-tenth of the enemy advancing three hundred meters, Lin Qing made a decisive decision and gave the order.

“Ascending Dragon Wall, rise!”

Dozens of earth-based evolvers, who had been prepared for a long time, suddenly connected earth energy at the command.

The loud rumbling sound started, drowning out the roar of the zombie vanguard approaching with a smell of human flesh.

A huge thick wall rose around the entire capital city, blocking one-tenth of the zombies, which is one hundred thousand of them, while the rest of the ninety thousand were scratching and clawing at the Ascending Dragon Wall.

The Ascending Dragon Wall finally stopped when it reached a height of fifteen meters, causing a few zombies hanging on it to fall and shatter on the ground.

However, Lin Qing’s orders were still being carried out efficiently.

“Open up the first trench for me!”

“Pour oil, and explode the meat slices!”

Normal zombies have no intelligence, so the hundred thousand zombies charged towards Lin Qing and his team, completely unaware that their companions had been stopped behind them.

Suddenly, the ground in front of them cracked open without warning, forming a massive trench.

All the zombies who couldn’t stop in time fell into it, as their simple minds did not understand the concept of retreating.

One hundred thousand zombies fell into the first trench set up by Lin Qing and his friends!

Just as the zombies were about to build a human wall with their companions’ bodies to climb out of the first trench, a strong smell of gasoline filled the entire pit.

The next moment, a raging fire ignited with the wailing cries of the zombies echoing through the trench, fiercely engulfing all one hundred thousand zombies.

Success!

The result was even better than expected, as just another minute of burning would weaken one-tenth of the zombies’ strength in the first line of defense.

However, the joy on Lin Qing and his friends’ faces did not last long, as an earth-element Evolver urgently shouted,

“The Ascending Dragon Wall has been breached! A large number of zombies are pouring in!”

Lin Qing’s gaze froze for a moment, staring incredulously at the person speaking.

How could this be?

The first line of defense, the Ascending Dragon Wall, only stopped the zombie army for twenty seconds, much less than the expected forty seconds. It was cut in half!

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