Seeing Qin Shilei ignore Liu Min’s explanation and cut off the opponent’s head with a sword, everyone felt a chill engulf them.
This was also the first time they had witnessed Qin Shilei’s iron-blooded side.
Qin Shilei returned to the high platform and said, “Now, anyone who still wants to leave the 007 Legion can step forward immediately.”
After a while, three people still left with more than ten followers each.
As for the remaining people, the first reason was that they had benefited from the 007 Legion for these three days and were reluctant to leave.
When faced with irresistible danger, they had an invincible leader to rescue them. If they performed well, they could also enjoy the attribute bonus of the Hot-blooded Military Banner. Moreover, cooperating with the legion to kill zombies was safer and faster.
The second reason was that, as Qin Shilei had said, there was no safe place in this world. Even if they left Nanzhuang City, where else could they go?
Seeing that no one else left, Qin Shilei continued, “Since everyone has chosen to stay in the 007 Legion, you are all members of the 007 Legion.”
“Our goal is to survive and strive to become stronger.”
“To prevent some people from retreating in fear on the battlefield and endangering everyone, I demand that you obey orders without question.”
“I will not let you cover the retreat and escape alone, nor will I issue orders that send you to your deaths.”
“Fight to survive!” the crowd below shouted in unison, “Fight to survive!”
Qin Shilei kept only fifty-four evolved individuals with cultivation exceeding seven stars, and had the other members leave temporarily.
Then, they merged with An Qian’s personnel, totaling 106 people.
They were divided into four groups, taking turns to defend Luyang Bridge.
Qin Shilei’s group, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli’s group, and Zhang Qiang and Xie Haimei’s group were assigned to deal with potentially appearing super-mutated zombies.
After the tasks were assigned, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli led the first group towards Luyang Bridge.
Qin Shilei, on the other hand, prepared to find a retreat route for them first.
He first found an empty large warehouse to upgrade his spatial ring.
Because upgrading a spatial ring required emptying its contents, he had not upgraded it for several days.
He first transferred some important and lightweight items to a spatial ring with a capacity of 0.1 cubic meters.
Then, he took out the bulky supplies and placed them in the warehouse.
Finally, he took out two oversized backpacks, containing thousands of spatial rings.
Most of them were obtained through trading on the system.
Top-grade Spatial Ring: Capacity of 10086.36 cubic meters.
This was the capacity of his original spatial ring, and to be honest, it was mostly sufficient.
However, Qin Shilei wanted to store some larger items, so he had to continue expanding the capacity.
Qin Shilei continuously fed the top-grade spatial ring with those inferior spatial rings.
When only a few dozen spatial rings were left, the system finally emitted a pleasant prompt.
Qiankun Ring: Capacity of 5 million cubic meters. (Please do not feed me those inferior spatial rings anymore, I am truly tired of them.)
“Nice!” Qin Shilei smiled contentedly.
With dimensions of 100 meters in width and height, and a length of 500 meters, it was more than enough.
With the spatial ring issue resolved, Qin Shilei arrived at the Chiyuan River.
With a wave of his hand, he collected several cruise ships of various sizes docked at the pier.
The largest was a luxurious cruise ship 150 meters long, over twenty meters wide, and nearly five meters high.
There were also several ordinary liners, forty to fifty meters long.
The smallest were several speedboats.
He had also asked people how to operate ships, and the 007 and 018 legions had several sailors and first mates.
If Hequ Mountain were to fall, he could lead the two legions away by boat.
Leaving by water was currently the safest route.
After resolving the ship issue, Qin Shilei rode Xiaoqiang along several main roads leading out of the city.
Although a small number of people had chosen to leave, the military had not blocked the roads. It was unknown whether these roads would still be passable if Nanzhuang City fell.
When Qin Shilei returned to Villa Number Five, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli had been replaced by Zhang Qiang and his team.
Both women looked exhausted, suggesting the battle had been fierce.
Qin Shilei asked with concern, “Are you alright?”
An Qian frowned and replied, “We’re fine, just that two of our people died.”
Zhang Xiaoli said with some dejection, “Their throats were bitten off by zombies in one go. I couldn’t save them even if I wanted to.”
Qin Shilei comforted them, “War is never without casualties. The most important thing is to protect yourselves.”
“Mm!” The two women nodded in response.
The three ate a little and then returned to their rooms to rest.
In the latter half of the night, Qin Shilei got out of bed and, with over twenty people, headed straight for Luyang Bridge.
The sound of machine guns and artillery fire had not ceased.
The zombie corpses tens of meters in front of the defense line were once again piled into a small mountain.
Thick blood flowed down the bridge into the Chiyuan River, dyeing a large area of the river red.
Qin Shilei and Zhang Qiang exchanged a few words, and then Zhang Qiang led the remaining teammates back.
Their team had also lost two teammates who could not be rescued in time.
Luyang Bridge was a bidirectional six-lane road, over twenty meters wide.
It was neither very wide nor very narrow, and if mutated zombies broke through, it could easily cause casualties.
Qin Shilei arranged his teammates in defensive positions and then moved to the central position.
From this position, if any mutated zombies broke through, he could quickly provide assistance to the left and right.
“Damn zombies, they’re using iron doors to block machine guns now.”
Suddenly, the cursing of the Fifth Company commander reached his ears.
Qin Shilei looked up beyond the bridge. Under the illumination of countless solar lights,
he could clearly see numerous zombies, carrying wooden planks, iron doors, large pots, and even trash cans, running towards the bridgehead.
Machine guns fired furiously, sweeping towards the horde of zombies.
“Dong dong dong!”
As time passed, the power of the guns and artillery had greatly diminished.
After penetrating the thick iron doors, they could not easily kill the zombies behind them.
“Quick, use rocket launchers!”
Qin Shilei reminded them while taking out his own rocket launcher and firing at them.
A series of roars erupted, and the zombies were sent stumbling. Although not all of them were killed, their offensive rhythm was disrupted.
Moreover, several more powerful artillery shells landed further away from the bridgehead, blowing up a large number of zombies in the distance.
However, the explosion also caused the bridge to shake.
No wonder the military had not chosen to use more powerful artillery shells for defense at the bridgehead; perhaps they were afraid of causing the bridge to collapse.
“Commander, wall-climbing zombies!” suddenly shouted the Fifth Company commander from the outermost part of the defense line.
Upon hearing this, Qin Shilei kicked off the ground and dashed towards the edge of the bridge like lightning.
He switched from Blood Soul to a short bow.
Arriving at the edge of the bridge, he peered out and saw over a dozen wall-climbing zombies rapidly scaling the second defense line along the side of the bridge.
Qin Shilei leaped onto the guardrail, drew his bow, and rapidly shot at the zombies.
“Plop, plop!”
The swift arrows struck down the wall-climbing zombies one by one, causing them to fall into the Chiyuan River below.
“Whoosh!”
Qin Shilei summoned Xiaoqiang, leaped onto its back, and descended to the river surface. He then looked under the bridge.
Indeed, there were dozens of wall-climbing zombies underneath.
Some of the wall-climbing zombies were even carrying other zombies with pustule-covered heads on their backs.
If they managed to climb up from under the bridge and suddenly appear on the second or third defense line,
it would undoubtedly cause heavy casualties to the unprepared personnel on those lines.