Chapter 452: Surrounded

Surrounded by a circle of zombies, Yang Hao and Zhou Erzhu had been knocked off their horses. Forced to fight on foot with their backs against each other for defense.

“Er Gouzi, didn’t the instructor say that dismounting equals death?”

Yang Hao cautiously watched as horses dashed around, the smoke and dust making it hard to distinguish between enemies and others.

“Shut your crow’s beak, maybe the instructor is just trying to scare us. What if we do survive?”

Zhou Erzhu kept a close eye on the surroundings, firmly gripping his battle axe, completely focused.

“I say, Er Gouzi, do you think Mr. Hachikuju and the others will come back to rescue us?”

Yang Hao is now afraid to speak loudly, afraid of attracting the attention of the zombies around him, he asked softly.

Zhou Erzhu hesitated a bit, he was more mature than his peers, and comforted, “The adults are probably going to rescue our parents. When they are done over there, they will naturally come to rescue us.”

Yang Hao nodded and said, “That’s good. There’s no one with awakened abilities near our home. Let’s hold on here for a while. The adults should save our parents first.”

Zhou Erzhu didn’t have time to continue talking with Yang Hao. Two Super Zombies rushed out to his right side. He gritted his teeth and went to meet them, holding a flaming battle axe in his right hand, and punching the other one with his left hand.

Yang Hao also reacted quickly and picked up his battle axe. His earth abilities had been used too much just now, and he couldn’t even form an earth armor on his fists. So, he could only fight the Super Zombies face to face now.

The two of them had a tough battle. Zhou Erzhu was already injured, but more and more Super Zombies were coming their way.

“Er Gouzi, we might die, should we stop fighting? I’m so tired.”

Both of them were covered in zombie blood, panting heavily, their strength was gradually fading. After all, they were only first-level evolvers, still underage and their bodies hadn’t fully developed. They had lasted until now because of Zhou Erzhu’s strong control over awakened abilities and Yang Hao’s strong sense of danger.

“Maybe.”

Zhou Erzhu didn’t feel like comforting him anymore. He thought that he couldn’t handle another zombie attack. The flames on his battle-axe had died out, and his hand was shaking as he held the axe.

“Er Gouzi, I can hear sounds outside. Are we going to die? Is it my parents’ voices?”

Yang Hao looked confused, his tired body collapsed on the ground. With his last bit of strength, he spoke to Zhou Erzhu.

Zhou Erzhu supported himself with the battle-axe, carefully listening to Yang Hao’s warning. He indeed heard some sounds, but his consciousness was not weak enough to identify it quickly. He recognized it as the sound of horseshoes and immediately pulled the collapsed Yang Hao up.

“Oh my goodness, fatty! It’s the sound of hooves, not parents’ voices! The City Lord and the others are coming to rescue us!”

Yang Hao, lacking strength, looked at Zhou Erzhu unwillingly and weakly shouted, “I’ve worked hard to get six-pack abs, and you call me fatty? Are you kidding me?”

Zhou Erzhu shrugged and said, “It just slipped out. Should I call you skinny then? Besides, you’ve always called me ‘Er Gouzi,’ haven’t you?”

Just then, a Super Zombie emerged from the darkness. Both of them were powerless and could only watch as the zombie approached rapidly.

Yang Hao didn’t know where he got the strength from, but he pulled Zhou Erzhu behind him, trying to block the deadly attack from the zombie.

Just as it seemed Yang Hao was about to perish there, suddenly a loud neighing of a horse was heard!

A cold light struck down, splitting the Super Zombie in half instantly. Due to inertia, the two halves of the body flew past Yang Hao and Zhou Erzhu on either side, splattering them with blood.

In the next instant, a dark shadow swooped over their heads.

After seeing who the person was, the two of them were very excited and kept exclaiming.

“It’s City Lord’s Red Blood, and on top of that, it’s the City Lord!”

After realizing that the two young boys she had saved, Hachikuju signaled for them to quickly retreat, then continued charging forward.

Following that, the rhythmic sound of horse hooves swept past the two of them, clearing out the Super Zombies in the area.

“Did I see it correctly? Was it the City Lord who just saved us?”

At this moment, Zhou Erzhu was no longer as calm as usual. He joined the Red Flame Wolf Rider partly because of the high salary, but mainly because Hachikuju had such a strong personal charm that many young people looked up to him.

Led by Hachikuju, the Red Flame Wolf Rider, which merged with other wolf riders, once again broke through the defense of these Super Zombies.

However, it was a bit late. The strength of the reserve army was limited, and only a few, like Yang Hao and Zhou Erzhu, had already charged to the outskirts and survived. Most of the reserve army had fallen prey to the Super Zombies.

This time, the attack by the Red Flame Wolf Rider caught the Super Zombies off guard, and over ten thousand Super Zombies were completely wiped out. However, the Red Flame Wolf Rider also suffered a loss of five hundred people.

Exchanging five hundred for over ten thousand might seem worthwhile, but for the now established Red Flame Wolf Rider, even losing one person is too much, mainly because these Super Zombies have been enhanced too much.

“Things are getting a little tricky.”

Hachikuju looked at the one thousand five hundred official soldiers and three thousand reserve soldiers gathering around him, feeling his heart bleed.

The warriors in the Wolf Rider were the best evolvers selected and had a lot of resources invested in them. But now, they had all been lost here, and their remains could not be retrieved.

But there was no time to mourn the dead now. Whether these people could survive was still unknown.

Because things have taken a turn for the worst beyond his expectations.

The Super Zombies were tough to deal with, it took a lot of time to clear them out. There were a whopping 600,000 zombie soldiers, and now they have surrounded the less than 5,000 wolf riders.

There were already 50,000 zombies coming around in front of them, and this number was constantly increasing.

Hachikuju felt restless, he saw the sea of zombies in front of him, being controlled by someone.

Time didn’t allow them to be surrounded evenly by the sea of zombies anymore. If they were surrounded by 300,000 zombies in front and behind, it would be really difficult to get out.

Hachikuju quickly looked around and found the reserve cavalry. He decisively said, “Everyone, follow me closely, form a triangular battle formation, let’s fight our way back!”

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