Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"Everyone! Do not move out of formation! I repeat! Anyone who moves out of formation will be treated as mutiny and shot on sight!" Han Bang yelled as loudly as he could.

As he looked around, he noticed a few of the newer soldiers were failing to reload their weapons as the pressure started to build up.

Even the older soldiers panicked a little as well, as they had never seen this many zombies at once.

The two regiments finally made it to the office block. But before any of them entered inside, Han Bang ordered two soldiers to put the speaker in the middle of the street.

"Everyone, get in your defense position!" Han Bang ordered.

The 2nd regiment rushed upstairs, and the 3rd regiment behind them took a defensive position outside in a semi-circle around the entrance.

As the four companies fired back at the zombies, it barely made a dent as the numbers of zombies filled up the entire street rushing towards them.

"1st Company and 4th company, gradually start moving inward!" Han Bang spoke through the walkie-talkie rather than yelling this time as the gunfire outside was getting extremely loud.

As the two companies moved inward, the zombies were able to advance toward the office block much quicker with less firepower. And soon, they were just within a hundred steps.

After the two companies had fully retreated inside the building, Han Bang executed the next part of the plan.

"2nd and 3rd company, throw your grenades and retreat!"

The two companies threw their grenades out and rushed inside.

With a loud explosion, it created the much-needed space for everyone to rush into their position.

When the zombies started flooding toward the entrances, Han Bang raised his hand to signal the soldiers to hold fire.

None of the soldiers asked and followed it silently as the zombies began pouring towards them as they broke through the entrance door.

As every second passed, a drop of sweat dripped down the soldier's head as the zombies were now within fifty steps.

But Han Bang still maintains his hand up to hold fire as the zombies rush closer.

Just as the zombies were now within twenty steps, Han Bang finally lowered his hands.

All the soldiers immediately pulled their trigger as waves of bullets fired towards the zombies in unison.

Within seconds, thousands of bullet casting fell and hit the floor as waves of zombies fell onto the floor at the same time.

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On the outside of the office building...

More and more zombies were standing outside, all trying to get inside the building. But the narrow entrance meant only a certain number could come in at once.

Soon, the zombies started stacking on top of each other as if they wanted to get in from the second floor.

But what was awaiting the zombies was the 2nd regiment who had been waiting the whole time.

"Major Li Chen, should we fire yet?" A captain rank soldier asked.

"Not yet..." Li Chen replied.

Just as the zombies got up to the second floor, all of them noticed the 2nd regiment standing inside and immediately went into a frenzy.

They immediately started using every part of their body, trying to break through the window, but it was still taking a while as only small cracks appeared.

But as more and more zombies got up to the 2nd floor, a window finally broke open.

"Everyone get ready." Li Chen warned as he raised his rifle at the hole in the window.

All the soldiers stared at the zombies with their fingers at the trigger, awaiting Li Chen's order.

Just as the zombies finally make a breakthrough as the entire window breaks open, a loud explosion sound appears from downstairs.

"They already using the MG-42? Fuck, everyone, open fire!" Li Chen yelled out loud.

Immediately, all the bullets went flying right into the glass, breaking them into pieces in the process as bullets hit the zombies outside the glass.

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As both regiments started unloading as many bullets as possible to keep the zombie back in bay, the ground suddenly started shaking a little.

"Shit... Squad Five, get your RPG ready!" Han Bang ran over and ordered.

As the squad takes out the RPG from their bag and prepares to load it in, the entire suddenly shakes a little.

It was a tank mutant approaching the 3rd regiment as the mutant ran over all the zombies in front of him.

Soon, the mutant and 3rd regiment could see each other face to face as the mutant got all the way to the front.

Several of the soldiers shifted their fire to aim toward the tank mutant's head, but the bullets simply bounced right off its head.

"The hell, they don't even need to block it with their arms anymore?" Han Bang was in complete shock as he watched the mutant start pounding its chest as if it was enraged by the bullet flying toward him.

"Fire the RPG at the tank mutant now!"

Immediately, the squad fired a shot of the RPG, and it hit the tank right in the face.

As the large smoke floated in the air, none of the soldiers stopped firing as there were still thousands of zombies rushing inside the building.

After a while, the dust finally settled, and the soldiers could finally see the mutant.

To everyone's surprise, the mutant had completely blocked it, as its massive muscular arm blocked the explosion with barely any scratches.

"What the fuck... How are we supposed to fight this?" One soldier mumbled as he watched the tank mutant start walking slowly toward them.

"Squad ten, fire your rocket. Squad Twenty, fire your rocket from the other direction." Han Bang quickly came up with a solution as ordered it.

Just as the tank mutant was getting dangerously close, the two squads finally fired their rockets.

This time, the dust was much larger, and a loud drop sound lit up the mood of every soldier.

As the dust settled, everyone could see the tank mutant with its head completely gone.

"Whew, thank god it worked..." Han Bang sighed in relief as he didn't need to order someone to make a heroic sacrifice to blow it up.

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As the fighting continued, Xiaoyun felt a little concerned as there hadn't been any transmission back from the walkie-talkie.

But he knew they were still fighting as he could see the smoke coming out in the distance.

As all eight of the regiment waited patiently, the loud music in the distance suddenly stopped.

Just as Xiaoyun was about to ask Han Bang, the walkie-talkie got a transmission.

"All of the MG-42 are overheating, and dead zombies are filling up the building! We need backup! Over." Han Bang urgently requested.

Xiaoyun immediately sent out an order.

"Xiaoyun here. 4th,5th,6th, and 7th regiment, you are authorized to begin operation. Over."

Wuli got up from her seat and moved toward the edge of the building as she pulled out her binoculars.

Xiaoyun pulled out his binoculars as well and looked towards the street over.

Although the buildings blocked their views of the front entrance, the two could still see the side and the streets nearby filled with zombies.

After five minutes, the two could see the first bus driving towards the zombies from the right.

They couldn't tell what the bus did, but the majority of the zombies on the east side started chasing the bus rather than trying to get inside the building.

Next, the bus on the west side arrived, but it wasn't able to lure as many zombies as the one on the east side.

"7th regiment, how did you drag so many zombies?" Xiaoyun asked over the walkie-talkie.

"We put our cellphones together and played the loudest music we could." The Major from the 7th regiment replied.

"All other three regiments. Please copy the example of what the 7th regiment did. Over."

The north and south buses were able to do the same thing as the east side as they drew a similar amount of zombies away from the building.

The office building still had a lot of zombies surrounding it, but it was much less as it went from around in the hundreds of thousands back down to within the ten thousand range.

With nothing much to do on the roof, Xiaoyun and Wuli, along with his two bodyguards, went back downstairs to check the map.

As they arrived downstairs, all the soldiers were either closing their eyes and resting or cleaning their weapons as if their life depended on it.

"Everyone get ready... Is the artillery ready?" Xiaoyun asked the captain assigned to handle the artillery.

"Yes, sir! It can be fired at any time... But we do not recommend using it in this such a dense city..." The captain replied.

"Why not? There are no civilians in any of those buildings. It's already been scouted clear." Xiaoyun asked again.

"Well, artillery isn't always accurate... And if we fire in this close approximation, it might friend-fire."

"Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Xiaoyun lifted the captain's collar in frustration.

"I-I didn't know we're using it this close." The captain replied in panic.

"Xiaoyun, calm down. It's not like we need to use it right now."

Wuli gently pushed Xiaoyun's hand to make him drop the captain back down.

"What if it is needed as a last resort? How does he not know that is what I'm using the artillery for?

All the soldiers should have gotten the memo. This would be a court martial for not warning about the inability to use the equipment. " Xiaoyun argued.

Wuli understood Xiaoyun's point, but she didn't want her comrade to get fired over this.

"Captain Ni Ping, why didn't you know about this?" Wuli looked over and asked.