Chapter 150 — The Metal-Type Squad Reassembles
“Is this Yan Fei?”
The voice on the phone belonged to Captain Guo, someone both Luo Xun and Yan Fei knew quite well, though they hadn’t been in contact for some time.
Calling at a time like this…
Luo Xun and Yan Fei exchanged glances, both already roughly guessing why he was calling.
“Yes, Captain Guo. What’s the matter?” Yan Fei answered calmly, waiting for the explanation.
Sure enough, the call was about the city wall defenses.
Yan Fei had already switched the call to speakerphone, so both he and Luo Xun could clearly hear Captain Guo’s surroundings. It sounded unusually quiet—definitely not near the city wall.
After briefly asking about Yan Fei’s situation and learning they’d just returned from the midnight shift and had barely slept, Captain Guo explained:
“Higher-ups ordered me to contact the former metal-type ability users… The east wall has been breached. Zombie rats dug a large hole through it, and the troops over there are scrambling to repair it while killing the zombies and zombie rats getting inside. The metal reinforcements on the wall have also suffered major damage, so we urgently need metal-type users to help repair the wall.”
Yan Fei and Luo Xun both stared wide-eyed in shock.
How long had it been?
How had the wall already been breached?!
“The wall broke?!”
Captain Guo’s voice grew heavy.
“Yes. It broke. I heard zombies are constantly squeezing through, and some zombie rats have already entered the base. That’s why every squad that previously worked on wall construction has been called in immediately. I finally managed to contact you two. Can you come right away? Gather at the south gate of the military camp. Vehicles are waiting there.”
The two looked at each other helplessly and could only agree.
If this had merely been a request to assist in defending the wall, they honestly wouldn’t have wanted to go, especially since their own squad already had assigned defense duties.
But now the wall itself had been breached.
Once the wall failed, nobody inside the base would survive for long.
Whether they wanted to or not, this wasn’t something they could avoid.
The two hurriedly got up, grabbed some portable dry rations and water, then knocked on Li Tie’s group’s door to explain the situation before rushing downstairs toward the military camp.
The snow and ice crunched loudly beneath their feet as they trudged through the freezing cold.
Luo Xun couldn’t help complaining internally yet again—
Winter without vehicles was absolutely miserable.
When they finally arrived, armored vehicles were constantly roaring in and out of the military compound gates.
Unable to find Captain Guo immediately, they called him. Soon afterward, he came jogging out from between several vehicles and waved at them.
“This way!”
Only then did Luo Xun realize—
The “vehicle” Captain Guo mentioned was actually an infantry fighting vehicle.
Luo Xun was speechless.
Across both his lifetimes, he’d never ridden in something this high-end before. At this moment, he felt like a complete country bumpkin.
There was no time to stay stunned.
The three quickly climbed aboard, where they discovered Xiao Li—the metal-type ability user from their old squad—already inside.
Xiao Li looked genuinely happy to see them and smiled with a nod.
But aside from Xiao Li, Captain Guo, and the soldier assigned to partner with Xiao Li, Luo Xun recognized nobody else in the vehicle.
After returning Xiao Li’s nod, Luo Xun and Yan Fei sat nearby.
Captain Guo also sat down, frowning while repeatedly checking the time.
Luo Xun glanced around the cabin and noticed a man sitting opposite them impatiently crossing his arms while continuously bouncing one leg.
The man wore a thick military coat, and the insignia on his shoulder clearly indicated a rank even higher than Captain Guo’s.
The atmosphere inside the vehicle felt oppressive.
Even Xiao Li, usually talkative, sat silently with lowered eyes.
Luo Xun and Yan Fei wisely chose not to ask questions.
Finally, the man across from them impatiently snapped at Captain Guo:
“When is the last person arriving? Did you even manage to contact him?”
Captain Guo didn’t even bother looking at him.
“The roads are this bad. You expect people to fly here?”
“What kind of attitude is that?! Don’t forget you still have disciplinary action hanging over your head! If this mission didn’t require you to contact these people, you’d already have been reassigned—”
Captain Guo couldn’t even be bothered to raise his eyelids.
Just as the man was getting worked up, Captain Guo’s phone suddenly rang.
It was Sun Shaoyang.
Like Luo Xun and Yan Fei, he’d arrived at the gate without knowing which vehicle to board. But since he had a military background, once Captain Guo gave him the vehicle number and model, he quickly found them.
Sun Shaoyang wasn’t wearing a military uniform, but he was dressed quite well. At the very least, the down jacket he wore was something most people in the base could no longer afford—or rely on for warmth.
The moment he boarded and saw the officer sitting opposite Luo Xun’s group, his face immediately darkened.
The officer noticed him too and coldly snorted while turning his head away.
Captain Guo simply grabbed Sun Shaoyang and sat him beside himself.
“Alright, everyone’s here. Let’s move.”
The vehicle doors slammed shut, and the armored vehicle rumbled into motion toward the eastern city wall.
Many other vehicles were clearly heading in the same direction.
After all, only the eastern wall had been breached by the zombies, so the military had no choice but to throw everything they had into containing the disaster.
Their vehicle took a slightly different route than the others, though it still headed toward the same destination.
When they finally reached the eastern wall, they could already see military trucks and layers of earth walls created by earth-type users surrounding one section of the wall.
“Out of the vehicle! Follow me onto the wall! Watch your feet—zombie rats have gotten inside!” Captain Guo shouted as he jumped out first with his weapon.
The higher-ranking officer’s expression darkened even further, but he said nothing and climbed out as well.
The group ascended the wall from another staircase, finally getting a clear view of the damaged section.
A hole roughly half a meter high had been torn through the wall.
Zombies were desperately squeezing through it nonstop while gunfire and artillery thundered around them.
“Move! Hurry! Priority one is sealing the breach! There may be metal-type and earth-type zombies down there, so stay alert!” Captain Guo shouted while running.
The three metal-type ability users all wore grim expressions as they followed closely behind him.
Meanwhile, the officer from the vehicle gradually fell behind, panting heavily while several soldiers protected him.
Luo Xun glanced back distractedly and saw the man bent over, gasping for breath.
Then he exchanged a look with Sun Shaoyang.
Clearly now was not the time to ask about old grudges.
The group rushed to the top of the damaged wall section.
Immediately, Yan Fei and the others activated their abilities, pulling scattered metal from beneath the wall upward at incredible speed.
Standing above the breach, Luo Xun could clearly see there was also a deep pit beneath it—obviously dug by the zombie rats.
Metal rapidly fused together outside the wall, repairing the excavated section.
Even though they hadn’t worked together in a long time, the three metal-type users quickly rediscovered their old coordination.
They supported each other instinctively, repairing and reinforcing simultaneously.
Before long, the breach was sealed again, cutting off the zombies outside from those inside.
“There’s a metal-type zombie down there,” Yan Fei said suddenly.
“Not sure whether it’s a zombie rat or a normal zombie.”
He could feel something below competing with him for control over the metal.
“Where?” Captain Guo immediately pulled out a grenade and hooked a finger through the pin.
“There.”
BOOM!
Without hesitation, Captain Guo hurled the grenade exactly where Yan Fei pointed.
“You—you—you’re violating orders!” the officer finally exploded after catching up.
“That’s the city wall down there! The wall! If you blow it apart, can you take responsibility?!”
The former metal-type squad members didn’t even spare him a glance.
After quickly repairing the blast damage, they all looked toward Captain Guo and Yan Fei.
“So what’s next?”
Captain Guo rubbed his chin and glanced down toward the interior side of the wall, where troops were finally beating back the zombies no longer pouring through the breach.
“We circle the wall once, I guess… You all still have stamina left?”
Everyone laughed.
“What’s there not to have?”
They all understood exactly what Captain Guo meant.
He intended to resurrect the old “grindstone squad” strategy—sweeping around the wall and crushing any possible zombie rat tunnels before they could emerge.
Luo Xun quickly added:
“But first we need to clear away the snow and ice. Otherwise some zombie rats could hide underneath and avoid getting crushed. We also need to inspect the wall thoroughly for damage caused by metal-type zombies or rats. Ideally we’d get earth-type users to help reinforce the ground outside the wall too…”
As he spoke, Captain Guo continuously nodded.
Meanwhile, the officer nearby was nearly turning purple with rage.
“What exactly are you people trying to do?! This is against orders—”
Still nobody paid him any attention.
Luo Xun continued:
“And we need aerial defenses ready too. The zombie birds might launch another air raid.”
When they arrived this time, there hadn’t been any zombie birds visible overhead.
Luo Xun guessed they’d temporarily withdrawn to recover their ability energy.
But nobody knew when they might return to ambush everyone again.
Captain Guo nodded at that and took out his phone to contact people.
Nearby, the officer’s face had darkened completely into a deep purplish red.
He glared resentfully at Captain Guo.
After several heavy breaths, he angrily swung an arm, turned around with his men, and stomped back toward the staircase leading down to the armored vehicle they’d arrived in.
As he walked, he too pulled out his phone.
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