Chapter Thirty-Five: Walking Up the Stairs

  "Alright! Everyone calm down!"

  As everyone's gaze began to converge on him, Lin Chen clapped his hands, drawing all attention to himself.

  "It's really dead! I said it a long time ago."

  Lin Chen pointed to the zombies at his feet, meeting Lel's disbelieving gaze, and explained: "The T virus, a secret research project of the Umbrella Corporation, is a destructive military weapon!"

  "It's a virus!"

  Matt's expression changed, and indeed it was the T-virus!

  "The monster we encountered before and this thing under my feet now are all products of the T-virus!"

  "The T-virus was originally designed to revive dead cells, but unfortunately, ordinary living organisms couldn't withstand its power and underwent mutation, turning into this thing."

  Lin Chen pointed at the zombie under his feet again, his eyes scanning across the faces of the others, and quickly said: "To put it simply, it can bring the dead back to life! And what's left is only the most primitive desire for food!"

  "Conventional means can't kill them!"

  "What's their appetite? What do they eat?"

  Matthew had a bad premonition in his heart.

  "We!"

  Lin Xuan cruelly smiled and said: "Because we were once of the same kind, so our flesh and blood are their best food!"

  "Damn it! There are over two thousand workers in this hive!"

  Sweat on Kalanpu's forehead, unknowingly, becomes more and more!

  "You can't kill me!"

  Everyone took a deep breath, facing the two thousand monsters that couldn't be killed. To say they weren't desperate would be self-deception!

  Lin Chen's short sword in his hand turned its tip, and the five fingers and wrist seemed to be a precise mechanism, interlocking with each other, transmitting power layer by layer!

  "Whoosh!"

  The jet-black short sword almost completely merged into the darkness, making it impossible for human eyes to capture!

  "Pffft!"

  The sharp sword tip, like a red-hot branding iron, easily pierced the zombie's hard skull, leaving only the hilt exposed in the air!

  The zombies that were still struggling earlier stopped moving, leaving only their greyish-white death pupils staring in the direction of Lai and the others.

  "Ordinary means can't kill them, but as long as you destroy their brains or cervical vertebrae, you can stop their actions! No matter how powerful the T-virus is, it's just a virus and doesn't have the ability to think independently!"

  Lin Chen drew out his short sword and gave it a slight flick, causing some red and white objects to fall to the ground, giving everyone an injection of adrenaline!

  "This is also why I let you fire and make you conserve your bullets! Because... the enemies that threaten our survival are as many as two thousand!"

  Everyone couldn't help but shudder, and when they looked at the corpse lying on the ground, their faces all changed color!

  "Want to live back on land? Then you have to do what I say, follow my command, without a moment's hesitation. Can you do that?"

  Lin Chen loudly shouted at everyone, giving them confidence.

  "Got it!"

  Apart from Alice and Matt, six mercenaries immediately responded loudly, boosting morale!

  "Roar......"

  Matt was about to speak when Lin Chen stopped him with a hand gesture. Then, Lin Chen tilted his head, perked up his ears, and put his fingers on his lips, making a "shh" gesture: "Don't say anything anymore, be quiet, listen carefully..."

  A metallic dragging sound came in waves...

  In the distance, a man with an iron rake, wearing a vest, his ankle bent at a ninety-degree angle, using his ankle to support his body, hobbled towards them.

  Then, figures flashed from all sides, and they all had a characteristic: pale faces.

  Lai even saw a man with only half a face yelling at him, and Jiedi also aimed his gun at a man with a left half-face that was completely disfigured, with eyeballs drooping out.

  "Damn it! The noise is too loud, it's attracted them all!"

  Matt cursed and looked at the six mercenaries with some dissatisfaction.

  "Don't panic, everyone! Fall back along the original route! These guys are moving extremely slowly, bigger than stationary targets. Bring out your elite shooting skills!"

  "Damn it! Anyone who wastes bullets will get his ass blown up!"

  Violent woman Lai said fiercely, through this matter just now, Lin Chen once again showed his extremely familiar understanding of the beehive. She couldn't imagine that if there was no Lin Chen, whether their mercenary squad could have made it back to the ground alive!

  So, Le has thoroughly turned into a fan and unconditionally executes Lin Chen's orders!

  Even they knew there was another elevator in B restaurant that could go upstairs!

  Lin Xun knew that the elevator was full of zombies, and in the time it took to clear them out, enough other zombies might have surrounded them!

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  Ledi was the first to open fire, and the submachine gun in her hand sprayed out a tongue of flame, accurately hitting the zombie that had lost half its head more than ten meters away, leaving a blood hole in its brow!

  "Over here!"

  Lin Chen pointed at the stairs leading down to Restaurant B and said, "Withdraw, they can't outrun us!"

  Everyone received the order and picked up their weapons. The muzzles of the guns were aimed at the nearby zombies, and their heads were blown up one by one!

  At the same time, he quickly ran towards the stairs pointed by Lin Chen!

  "Don't waste bullets, fire when they're within five meters, we can outrun them!"

  Lin Chen's voice came through the earpiece and accurately entered the ears of the six mercenaries.

  "I understand!"

  Matthew replied, then the dense gunfire slowed down, only occasionally bursting out and quickly subsiding!

  "Jade, Le, don't go too fast, save your strength!"

  Lin Chen followed in the team, paying attention to every move of each person, and reminded them at any time, to maximize the combat effectiveness of this team!

  Killing a zombie earns 15 minutes of survival time, but pet kills don't count. Otherwise, Lin Chen can just wait for the time to explode. The Lickers facing zombies are one-sidedly crushed as long as they don't know how to unite.

  Lin Xun turned his head to look at the stairs below, where a dense crowd of zombies seemed to be surging up like a tide, never retreating, only getting higher and higher!

  Most of these zombies were disfigured and had obvious bite wounds on their bodies, making Lin Chen's scalp feel numb, and he couldn't bear to look at them.

  Conservative estimate, over 500 heads!

  Obviously, when T virus spreads in the air, a considerable number of people have immunity, but they are all infected by their peers who have become zombies!

  When going downstairs, he didn't feel it, but now that he's going upstairs, the physical exertion has increased sharply, and Lin Chen also feels a wave of pressure, his breathing starts to quicken!

  Mercenaries with physical abilities beyond those of ordinary people naturally had no problem, and Alice and Matt had also undergone rigorous training, their muscular endurance having long since reached the limits of human potential, so they too had no problem!

  Matthew noticed that Lin Chen seemed to be having trouble keeping up with the high-intensity prolonged movement, and with a hint of his eyes, two stuntmen who were originally in the laser channel immediately separated from the middle of the team, one on each side holding Lin Chen's hands, relieving his pressure.

  As for the good intentions of the mercenaries, Lin Chen did not refuse and accepted them without hesitation.

  "Damn it! There's some of that stuff up there too!"

  "They're coming down!"

  "Wow!"

  "My goodness!"

  Lin Xun followed Jady's gaze upwards, and couldn't help but take a cold breath. Unbeknownst to him, a large group of zombies had gathered at the top of the stairs, a sea of black pressing down, desperately squeezing downwards!

  The stiff joints made the zombies' flexibility extremely low, and the front row of zombies were squeezed by their peers behind them, most of whom also became rolling pumpkins, thinking about rolling down the stairs!

  Although disheveled, he arrived in front of everyone even faster!

  A zombie with a smashed head and blood all over its face didn't care about anything else, it opened its mouth and bit down on Jady's calf!

  "Damn it!"

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  Lai loudly cursed and her precise marksmanship allowed almost every one of her bullets to enter the zombies' skulls!

  This one is no exception either!

  "What should we do now, boss?!"

  Jade's hand moved swiftly forward, firing off half a clip of bullets. Except for a few that swept across the chests and abdomens of several zombies, the rest accurately entered the zombies' skulls!

  "You're still addicted, aren't you, Ghost Heart classmate? I've cried my eyes out. From now on, if there are less than 50 chapters of updates, I won't explode... Also, the collection has exceeded a thousand, continue to desperately ask for recommendations! Desperately ask to join the bookshelf!"