Shen Feng saw Jin Zijue's reaction and guessed his intention, which was nothing more than to teach him a lesson with his strength. However, Shen Feng was unwilling to accept the challenge: "Don't force me to stand on moral high ground and point fingers at you. As for sparring, I'm not doing it."
Shen Feng felt he had no sure chance of winning and didn't want to fight, otherwise, making a fool of himself in public would be truly embarrassing.
Jin Zijue was angered by this and said, "I am upright and honest, how can you point fingers at me? Stop talking nonsense, just say you're scared, don't make excuses."
Shen Feng glanced at Jin Zijue, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth, "Then I'll be direct. You have flaws as a person, first and foremost, you lack manners. You came to find me today under the guise of friendship, yet you don't even understand the most basic etiquette, questioning me right away. If this is what friends are like, then my friends are all over the world."
Just as Jin Zijue was about to retort, Shen Feng spoke again.
"Secondly, this is my base. You came to see me, and I, as the host, shouldn't refuse. However, you didn't even bring the most basic gifts. Are our relationships that good? So good that you forgot the most basic etiquette of visiting someone's home? I'm not picky, even bringing a book would be considered a fine gift, but you came empty-handed. Are you planning to freeload a meal here?"
Shen Feng had now turned his attention to the six people present. Although he might be at a disadvantage in a fight, he wouldn't be in a verbal battle. After all, over the years, he had become a master of online arguments, and even for impolite matters, as long as he could find an excuse, he could turn a passive situation into an active one.
Qin Kewei, as the eldest sister, awkwardly stood up and explained, "It's not that we didn't want to bring gifts, it's just that we came in such a hurry. We just want to understand the reason for your powers being out of control. As for gifts, we'll have someone send them over later."
Shen Feng, however, became more insistent, snorting and turning his head away, "Furthermore, knowing we are defending the city walls, you chose to find me at this time, which is clearly ignorant of propriety. Interfering with the important matter of defending against the zombie tide for personal reasons. In this regard, you are not only ignorant of propriety but also lack judgment of priorities. Do you know how grave your offense would be if I were distracted by your arrival and the defense line was breached by the zombie tide?"
Jin Zijue trembled all over, thoroughly angered by Shen Feng's words. Arcs of electricity flickered around him, clearly indicating his immense rage, wishing he could rush forward and beat Shen Feng severely with his fists. However, reason told him that he absolutely could not do that, otherwise, Shen Feng would blow the matter out of proportion.
In Shen Feng's words, these ability users who had come to find him were all portrayed as impolite, ignorant of social graces, ungrateful, and despicable individuals deliberately interfering with the Yan Jing defense plan. After all, there were always reasons for scolding someone.
Xiao Sheng, seeing the tense atmosphere, quickly intervened, "Gentlemen, gentlemen, let's not fall out. We are all ability users, and any harm to anyone is a loss. Shen Feng, let's put today's matter aside for now. We'll come back to find you when we have time. We'll be leaving now."
The six people then left the base under the protection of bodyguards. Shen Feng watched their retreating figures, a smile he couldn't suppress appearing at the corner of his mouth, thinking, "Still too young, to be forced to leave by just a few words from me. It seems language still has its charm."
Long before the apocalypse, Shen Feng was often infuriated online because a single sentence from a netizen could raise his blood pressure. Many confusing remarks would immediately anger him, but as time went on, Shen Feng realized that his online argumentation skills were also constantly improving. Now, he could scold people without using foul language. He thought that after the apocalypse, his ability to spew venomous words would have no place to be used, but now, it seemed that was not the case at all.
"In similar situations in the future, I can still spray them a good round first," Shen Feng thought to himself.
At this moment, Shu Dapeng ran over from a distance, panting, holding a document. "Mr. Shen, please take a look at these documents quickly. Something big has happened, you need to be mentally prepared and not be afraid."
Shen Feng shrugged dismissively, "Afraid? What kind of major event haven't I seen? I've gone deep behind enemy lines alone many times. What else could I be afraid of now?"
Shu Dapeng said earnestly, "Mr. Shen, please don't joke. This time the danger level is unprecedented, because the zombies are about to officially attack the city!"
Shen Feng's expression immediately tensed upon hearing this. He quickly took the document from her and began to read its contents. It turned out that satellites had discovered that in many areas around Yan Jing, zombies had begun to gather. Each gathering point had at least hundreds of thousands of zombies, and the place with the most zombies had a staggering ten million.
The document concluded: "It is estimated that the Zombie King has also discovered the problem of declining temperatures. Therefore, the Zombie King will launch a final fierce attack before the snow. This offensive will be the most intense. Only by holding on until the snow can we achieve ultimate victory."
"A final fierce attack, is the Zombie King desperate?" Shen Feng thought to himself.
At this moment, Shen Feng suddenly had a question and quickly asked, "Can't headquarters launch an airstrike on the zombie gathering points? Since these zombies dare to gather, we can't miss this opportunity! A fierce attack on the zombie gathering points will surely cause heavy casualties. We can even use nuclear bombs, no matter how many zombies there are, they can all be eliminated!"
Shu Dapeng shook her head helplessly and replied, "No, there are too many zombie gathering points, thousands of them, each with at least hundreds of thousands of zombies. Moreover, the Zombie King has become smarter and is always hiding underground. If the Zombie King is not killed, ordinary zombies will not stop gathering. We don't have enough ammunition to cover tens of thousands of square kilometers. Therefore, airstrikes can only be carried out at critical moments."
"We can't just watch the zombies attack the city, can we? Hundreds of millions of zombies attacking day and night, who can withstand it?" Shen Feng frowned.
"Ahem, some things, although decided, cannot be known by those without sufficient authority. This is the so-called 'not in position, not discussing politics.' Mr. Shen is an auxiliary force, do you understand?" Shu Dapeng began to be mysterious.
Shen Feng understood Shu Dapeng's meaning. It was clear that headquarters did have an airstrike plan, but this plan could not be easily revealed to others, especially to auxiliary forces like himself. Key information would naturally not be shared with him.
Shu Dapeng continued, "Mr. Shen, headquarters has asked me to notify everyone below that the critical battle is about to begin. It is estimated that large-scale zombie appearances will occur in one or two days. It will undoubtedly be a tough fight. At that time, please give your full effort!"
Shen Feng nodded and replied, "Of course, that's not a problem. The reason I came to support Yan Jing is to defend the capital. Now that danger has arrived, we naturally have to share the same boat and persevere until victory arrives."
In fact, Shen Feng was not too worried about the upcoming battle. After all, he had experienced the battle in Rongcheng before and had seen the scene of zombies attacking the city. He imagined that the situation in Yan Jing would be similar to Rongcheng. As long as there were enough bullets and sufficient supplies, Yan Jing could hold out for a year.
After all, in the age of cold weapons, siege warfare was not a simple matter. Now, the zombies under the Zombie King couldn't even match the level of the cold weapon era. To break through the city walls outside Yan Jing would be a fantasy.
As Shen Feng was contemplating the upcoming great battle, the sound of fighter jets tearing through the air suddenly came from the sky. Everyone looked up and saw dozens of fighter jets flying overhead and heading out of the city. This scene was witnessed by many, who were filled with longing. Everyone dreamed of soaring in the sky, and now humanity had already achieved this.
The moment Shen Feng saw the fighter jets appear, he instantly understood that the airstrike had begun. These fighter jets were heading to attack the zombie gathering points.
"I hope it goes smoothly," Shen Feng prayed in his heart.
Shen Feng only saw dozens of fighter jets, but in reality, Yan Jing had dispatched hundreds of fighter jets at once. The purpose of these fighter jets was merely preliminary probing, mainly to assess the casualties the airstrikes could inflict on the zombies. If they could successfully kill the Zombie King, then the subsequent airstrikes would be fully carried out.
Hundreds of fighter jets flew directly to the gathering points tens of kilometers outside Yan Jing, and then dropped cluster bombs and white phosphorus bombs.
In an instant, the ground ignited with blue-white flames, and countless zombies fell in the sea of fire. White phosphorus bombs would not extinguish before the flames burned out, and even pouring water on them would not extinguish them. Therefore, the zombies could only wail in the sea of fire.
Each white phosphorus bomb caused hundreds of zombie deaths, but for zombie hordes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, such attrition was difficult to shake the foundation. Zombies in the distance were still rushing towards the gathering points, clearly, white phosphorus bombs could not stop the zombies from gathering.
Then, the cluster bombs also fell, descending towards the center of the zombie gathering points. As soon as the cluster bombs landed, they produced a violent explosion, followed by endless heat. The zombies in the center of the cluster bomb explosion were instantly reduced to ashes, physically turned to ashes, because the cluster bomb explosion began with intense burning, and the temperature in the central area instantly rose to thousands of degrees. The zombies in the central area disappeared in an instant.
Along with the explosion of the cluster bombs, mushroom clouds rose one after another. The dust on the ground mixed with the ashes of the zombies flew into the sky, spreading upwards. Under such circumstances, even the fighter jet pilots felt terror. Such a violent explosion, even dinosaurs would have been blown to death!
Cluster bombs not only kill zombies through heat, but because cluster bombs are loaded with fuel, they can suck out the surrounding oxygen the moment they explode, while also producing high-temperature zones and overpressure zones. Even hiding in houses would not allow survival. As long as they were within the kill radius, even if not killed by heat, they would be shaken to death by the powerful pressure. In the outer blast zones of cluster bombs, many zombies had no wounds, but their noses and mouths were bleeding, clearly, these zombies were shaken to death.
The kill radius of white phosphorus bombs was large, but cluster bombs were even more terrifying, as each cluster bomb could kill at least thousands of zombies. Cluster bombs exploding in dense zombie areas could even kill tens of thousands of zombies. If it weren't for the limited number of cluster bombs carried by fighter jets, even a small zombie horde would have been decimated by the terrifying lethality of cluster bombs.
However, at this moment, the zombies were still gathering, and even though the casualties of the zombie horde had exceeded one hundred thousand, and even though they would continue to face the danger of airstrikes, the zombie horde was still gathering and preparing for the attack.
Seeing this scene, many pilots had grim expressions. They had never encountered such a terrifying scene. Generally, as long as fighter jets flew around, the enemy could only flee in disarray. But these zombies did not retreat at all; they gathered under the pressure from the sky. This approach truly shocked the pilots.
"Let's go back. It seems the Zombie King is hiding very deep underground, and cluster bombs cannot kill it," the captain said to his teammates, and then led them back to Yan Jing.
It's a strange thing that all Zombie Kings seem to know the terror of cluster bombs and consistently hide underground. As long as there are digging zombies, digging holes is also easy. Just dig thirty meters underground, and all attacks from above cannot harm the Zombie King.
The use of cluster bombs on the battlefield had only occurred once before, during the defense of Rongcheng! Yan Jing and Rongcheng were thousands of kilometers apart, but the Zombie King in Yan Jing seemed to know about the battle that took place in Rongcheng. It hid underground and did not come out, constantly directing ordinary zombies to charge the walls of Yan Jing.
This matter was observed by some behavioral scientists in the laboratory, who were completely puzzled. "Could it be that there is a special communication channel between Zombie Kings that can communicate across thousands of kilometers?"
It is known that humans can communicate across thousands of kilometers only by relying on the internet. Without satellites, people cannot communicate across regions. But Zombie Kings are different. They seem to have mastered other means of communication, methods that do not rely on satellites.
However, the laboratory has neither the opportunity nor the time to research this matter now, because the zombies are about to launch their final attack before the snow. The Zombie King also understands that once it snows, the temperature will drop sharply, and ordinary zombies will only freeze to death. Without ordinary zombies, the Zombie King will lose its greatest shield!
The human side thinks: "Let it snow quickly, let the temperature drop quickly!"
And the Zombie King thinks: "Snow? The later the better!"