As the approaching zombie's belly grew larger, Lin Yuan immediately abandoned the entanglement, leaped aside, and used the remaining zombie's body as a shield.
The team members also realized the danger and quickly dodged.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Mu Qingtian's qbu-191 gunshots and the zombie's self-destruction sounded almost simultaneously.
The open space was now covered in organic debris, and the zombie in front of Lin Yuan perfectly blocked all the splashing corrosive fluids and disgusting body tissues for him.
The zombie didn't attack him anymore, but instead ran backward, even tripping and falling at the center of the other zombie's explosion.
Lin Yuan found it hilarious, how could this zombie slip? It was too unlike the identity of this mini-boss.
But as he was smiling, Lin Yuan couldn't laugh anymore. He saw the flesh and blood scattered from the previous zombie's explosion continuously wriggling towards the center.
It gathered onto the mutated zombie that had fallen and was lying on the ground.
This scene immediately sounded the alarm in Lin Yuan's heart; he absolutely could not let this zombie stand up again.
He quickly roared, "Mu Qingtian! Hit it with high-explosive rounds and incendiary rounds!! Don't hold back, everyone else put on gas masks and retreat quickly!!"
After speaking, he urged the team members to retreat.
Mu Qingtian knew that this scene was excessively bizarre and didn't dare to hesitate. He fired all the grenades on him, then took the three grenades carried by Wu Tian and continued to fire them without stopping.
However, Lin Yuan, covering the rear, saw clearly that the grenades had little effect when hitting the zombie undergoing some kind of change.
The zombie, whose neck had been half-severed by Lin Yuan earlier, had now turned into a mass of wriggling flesh and blood, its bones shattered, enveloping another zombie. When the grenades hit, the flesh and blood would swell, resisting the impact of the explosion.
The incendiary rounds also didn't have much effect. Perhaps it was due to the small quantity carried, but the flames were extinguished by the mass of flesh and blood before they could ignite.
"Go, go, go, don't look back!!"
Lin Yuan pulled Wu Tian and Mu Qingtian, who were also staying behind, and they fled madly.
Not only was this transforming zombie in pursuit, but there was also a zombie horde attracted by the sound of the explosion.
"Smoke bombs, smoke bombs!! Throw them quickly!!"
He yanked the smoke bomb hanging from his belt and threw it backward without looking, and the others did the same.
The smoke bombs took effect quickly, and thick smoke immediately covered the area, blocking the pursuit of the zombie horde.
When Lin Yuan heard the sounds behind him fading away, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly turned on the walkie-talkie:
"Convoy, convoy, get the armored vehicles to come and support us! Everyone else immediately return to your positions and stand by!"
"Let's not stop, these smoke bombs won't last long, hurry back to the convoy!"
The group ran quickly and finally boarded the armored vehicle before the zombies caught up.
Upon arriving at the convoy rendezvous point, Lin Yuan and the others returned to their positions. The walkie-talkie was still on, and before they could even sit down, Jiang Ziqi grabbed him.
"Brother Lin Yuan, it's coming, it's very fast."
"Is there a zombie horde too?"
"Yes, it's charging at full speed."
Jiang Ziqi's brief words startled Lin Yuan and also surprised everyone in the convoy.
They didn't know how it caught up.
Its speed was very fast, which meant the convoy might be overtaken.
"How much time is left?"
"15 seconds."
Before Jiang Ziqi could finish reporting the time, Lin Yuan unloaded a box of weapons and ammunition from the pickup truck, along with all the grenades.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and said in a commanding tone, "Attention all vehicles, Yan Ruyu in the co-pilot seat of Vehicle 1, Vehicle 3 will cover the rear, depart at full speed!! Do not look back!!"
Wang Zhihai, the driver, did not hesitate and shouted, "Yes! Captain!!"
Vehicle 1 started, followed by Vehicle 2, Vehicle 4, and Vehicle 5. Lin Yuan and Jiang Ziqi got into Vehicle 3.
Zhao Mengnan floored the accelerator the moment Lin Yuan got in.
"Open the firing ports."
Jiang Ziqi opened the two firing windows at the rear of the armored vehicle, just wide enough to fit the Type 95-1 attached to the grenade launcher.
Lin Yuan half-crouched, skillfully loading bullets and systematically assigning tasks.
"An Jing, you and I will fire grenades together. Ziqi, you come over and guard the observation port, report our positions to us."
"Mengyao, Mengmeng, you two come and hand us grenades. The ones with the flame symbol are incendiary rounds, and the ones with the explosion symbol are high-explosive rounds, understand?"
The two little girls nodded obediently and replied, "Understood."
"Brother Lin Yuan, I see that mutated one, it looks like..."
"Report the position!" Lin Yuan and Zhao An Jing had already loaded a high-explosive round.
"About 75 degrees to the upper left."
As soon as Jiang Ziqi finished speaking, the explosion sounded.
"Report the situation."
"No major damage, just the chest plate is a bit black. Might have some cracks."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan quickly said, "Incendiary rounds!"
Wu Mengyao and Liu Mengmeng quickly handed over the incendiary rounds.
"Report."
"No effect, it was blocked by its bone layer."
"Incendiary rounds!"
"No effect..."
"Incendiary rounds!"
After all the incendiary rounds were fired, Jiang Ziqi reported that a lot of the zombie's bone armor had fallen off.
Now the high-explosive rounds should be able to penetrate it.
"High-explosive rounds!"
"Captain! There's a vehicle blocking the road ahead!!!"
Just as he was inserting the high-explosive round, Wang Zhihai's roar came through the walkie-talkie.
"How long to clear it?"
"Only 2 minutes!"
In the past, these two minutes wouldn't have mattered, but now these two minutes separated them from the gates of hell.
The mutated zombie and tens of thousands of zombies were less than 500 meters behind. If they stopped, the convoy would be swamped by the zombies.
His hands didn't stop moving, and high-explosive rounds were continuously fired.
He immediately issued an order: "Mu Qingtian, Zhu Mingjun, Zhao An Jing, you stay with me to defend the rear, bring two boxes of ammunition from the pickup, and also the items left by the two high-level mutated zombies from Vehicle 5, all of them. Everyone else go and clear the wreckage."
"Understood!"
In times of crisis, one must not panic.
The convoy stopped, and everyone acted according to the orders, but the zombies and the mutated zombie behind them had already caught up.
There were still 6 high-explosive rounds left, and this damned mutated zombie was still jumping around.
After the bizarre fusion, the zombie was now 3 meters tall, its skin covered in bone armor, its right arm exceptionally thick, its hand turned into a giant claw, and bone spurs grew at its joints.
It looked particularly ferocious.
Just as he was about to send another high-explosive round its way, the zombie directly dug up a section of the concrete road base and threw it over.
While Lin Yuan and the others were dodging, it launched its attack.
The first to be attacked was, of course, Lin Yuan. It pierced his chest with a shot and almost severed his neck. The evolved creature remembered this enemy.
The mutated zombie engaged Lin Yuan in a one-on-one fight, while the remaining zombie horde was suppressed by Mu Qingtian and the others. The point-shooting mode made them feel like they were in an automatic end-of-the-world scenario.
On the other side, the clearing work was also proceeding rapidly. Jiang Ziqi, unusually agitated, directly tore off car frames with her tentacles and threw them away.
While desperately buying time, they were also desperately trying to speed things up.
The number of zombies was growing larger and larger, and they were getting closer and closer.
It was a matter of life and death.