Free Web NovelChapter 95: Chapter 95: Zombies Swarm, Other Races Are Coming
There weren’t many tall buildings around the city museum, mostly just plazas and parks.
It was also a riverside area.
Faye Yardley sprinted wildly toward a cluster of buildings, not even bothering to dodge the zombies she ran into head-on, simply plowing straight through.
Compared to the handful of zombies in front of her, the crushing black mass behind was far more terrifying.
She made it through, but the four people behind her weren’t so lucky. They got tangled up with one, and by the time they dealt with it together, the faster zombies from behind had caught up to them.
The speed-type Superpower Users among the zombies gradually pulled ahead of the horde, closing the distance between them and the group.
Faye Yardley wasn’t just running blindly; she was searching for a suitable battlefield.
It didn’t have to be a fortress, but at the very least, it had to be a place where they wouldn’t be instantly swarmed and surrounded.
’The high-rise building from last time would have been perfect,’ she thought.
But the buildings here didn’t offer the same advantages; they were completely unsuitable for a large-scale battle against thousands.
Glancing back quickly and seeing the zombie horde closing in, Faye Yardley abruptly threw two bombs in front of them. The powerful explosion briefly slowed the pursuit of their main force. frёeωebɳovel.com
Pivoting on her heel, she dashed toward a two-story shop on the side of the road.
She raised her left arm, took out two zombies in front of her with her Arm Crossbow, then turned and shouted, "Over here! Quick!"
She then pulled out her Iron Axe, smashed the glass of a storefront, and dove inside. She smashed it a couple more times—BANG! BANG!—to make the hole bigger.
The shop had a back door. Faye Yardley opened it to find a wandering zombie. Without a word, she raised her crossbow and fired an arrow straight into its eye socket, extinguishing its Soul Fire in one shot.
Behind the shop was a complex of three connected office buildings. Excellent—all three access-controlled doors were already broken.
Returning to the shop, she saw Gavin Donovan already climbing through the shattered glass opening.
"Boss!" Gavin Donovan shouted back over his shoulder. "Hurry, the boss is really in here!"
Faye Yardley had already run to the entrance to cover them. The Arm Crossbow was incredibly convenient. ’A pity there are no special-effect Crossbow Arrows,’ she mused.
Finally, Zachary Pierce threw two bombs at the pursuing horde, briefly halting their advance. One by one, the others quickly scrambled inside, then followed Faye Yardley out the back and into the office building on the right.
There were only a few zombies inside the office building, all of them basic-level, so they were dealt with quickly and easily.
They had just finished clearing out the few zombies in one company’s office when the massive horde from the museum arrived at the base of the building.
"Damn, they’re fast."
A fireball was the first to hit the main entrance. BOOM! CRASH! TINKLE! The glass doors shattered into pieces all over the floor.
Outside, the zombies were a crushing black mass. Many of them leaped onto the walls, clinging to the bricks and glass as if magnetized, and began scurrying rapidly upward.
Even more of them climbed over the shoulders and heads of other zombies, scaling the building like they were building a human pyramid.
From a distance, all three office buildings looked completely choked with zombies.
"Mr. Pierce, don’t you have bombs? Use them! Blow them up!"
Faye Yardley was protected by the others in a concrete corner, but zombies were already pouring in through the doors and windows.
"Those were the only two I had. They’re gone."
Zachary Pierce replied, sparing a moment from his fight with the zombies.
Faye Yardley watched as dozens of zombies flooded the small office in an instant. A glance out the door and windows revealed nothing but a sea of grotesque faces. The combined stench was enough to make a person pass out.
While raising her left arm to fire an arrow, Faye Yardley produced a bomb with her right hand and hurled it out the window.
A moment later, with a BOOM, the entire office building shuddered twice.
The blast affected the other four’s fighting as well.
When the building shook, Finn Ford stumbled slightly, nearly offering his neck to a zombie’s sharp claws.
Faye Yardley’s Crossbow Arrow shot true, burying itself in the eye socket of the zombie in front of him. Finn Ford punched the zombie’s jaw and used the momentum to sidestep away.
But there were too many zombies. He may have dodged that one, but he couldn’t escape the ones to his left.
A long spear thrust out, blocking the zombies from Finn Ford.
The doors and windows were now completely blocked by the swarming zombies, leaving not a single gap. This made Faye Yardley hesitate to throw another bomb.
In such tight quarters, even the Fire Ability Users among the zombies stopped using their Fire Ability.
Punches and kicks, swords and spears, clubs and blades—they all flew, carving out a small, precious pocket of space.
Faye Yardley held her Arm Crossbow in her left hand and a pistol in her right. She observed the battle, occasionally taking a potshot to headshot a zombie trying to sneak into the fight.
Her position also meant that for any zombie to reach her, it would first have to break through the defensive line of the other four.
They could hold this formation for now, but it wouldn’t last forever.
In between fighting zombies, Faye Yardley did her best to observe the layout of the company office they had randomly entered.
She was in a corner. The open-plan design might have been pleasant for office work, but it was hardly friendly to their current situation.
BANG!
Over on his side, Caleb Colby was sent flying by a zombie’s punch. He crashed through several already-scattered desks and chairs before finally slamming into the wall to Faye Yardley’s left.
Faye Yardley instantly swapped the pistol in her right hand for a long saber, lunging forward to block Caleb Colby and meeting the zombie’s sharp claws head-on.
As the fight dragged on, their stamina began to dwindle. The bodies of the dead zombies were piled high, nearly boxing them in, yet the living ones kept relentlessly charging at them...
12:00 PM.
[Dear players, hello. To enrich your entertainment and ensure you don’t feel lonely on the great sea, The Survival World will soon welcome the arrival of various races from other worlds. Please respond appropriately when encountering members of other races. As for the specific game content, please discover it for yourselves.] x3
The system announcement, repeated three times, once again shattered the people’s brief moment of peace.
Immediately after, a new message appeared: [Friendly Reminder: The rafts of players who have entered a Dungeon will not encounter members of other races until they exit the Dungeon. You may continue to challenge Dungeons with peace of mind.]
[How soon is "soon"? What kind of races from other worlds? You mean they’re not human?]
[If they’re not human, what are they, ghosts?]
[You guys have time to chat? Go fish for treasure chests. If all else fails, we can just hide on our rafts and ignore them, right?]
[So you guys didn’t pay any attention to the warnings from the veterans before, huh? Speaking of which, for those who can, hiding out in a Dungeon for a while should be fine, right?]
[You think Dungeons aren’t dangerous? A friend of mine went into one and never came out. It’s been five days. He’s definitely dead.]
[We don’t know what the future holds. Let’s just focus on the present and try to grab a few more chests before the Otherkin arrive.]
"Second Sister, I can’t see anything outside the raft anymore."
Eamon held his fishing rod, his heart pounding a little as he watched a thin fog rise over the sea. He turned to Willow Yardley, who was sitting calmly beside him.
"It’s fine. Just keep fishing for chests like normal. This is the world’s way of protecting the rafts."
A thin fog also rose before Ethan Yardley’s eyes. Gavin Donovan’s raft, which had only just appeared at dawn, was soon enveloped by the mist and vanished from sight.
"I wonder how my sister and the others are doing."
Back in the office building, Faye Yardley and her team had each found a moment to down a Physical Potion and an Energy Potion.
Without the potions, they really wouldn’t have been able to hold on.
’I’m getting stronger, but the zombies are getting stronger too,’ she thought. ’This world is just too insane.’
