Chapter 291 - creator (1/2)
Word count: 5329Update time: 2013-01-01 20: 02: 00
Shane's trump card allowed him to quickly regain his position as the union president. In the following time, the information of the various situations on the surface came flooding in like snowflakes. The severity of the situation had exceeded Sean's expectations.
The first platoon had been wiped out, including a hundred men and Glenn, the captain of the team, who had the ability to reach the fifth step. It was a great loss for Remter, and Sean could not help but scold him for his stupidity. After receiving the surface formation report, Chownok refused to open the entrance to the base for soldiers and civilians. Of course, it was because he was afraid of death that he did not dare to do so. In fact, if the second and third platoons were used as cover when the zombies attacked, at least half of the soldiers and civilians would survive.
But it was too late for Theon to do so now. The first platoon was completely wiped out, and more than half of the civilians had died. The rest didn't just hide in the wilderness. The living corpses had finished cleaning up the ground and were now in the siege phase. As Sean opened the entrance to the base, what awaited him wasn't civilians but a large amount of living corpses. Naturally, he wouldn't do such a stupid thing, but he gave Pera an order to send him to prison.
Then, an hour later, Theon gave a speech outside the Union Hall. Almost all the remaining two thousand citizens of Remter were present. Looking at the flustered faces, Theon said quietly to Pera, ”These poor people need a savior.”
Leaving the words ringing in her ears, Theon strode out of the union hall.
In the square outside the main hall, everyone's eyes were on Sean. Sean stepped forward and said loudly, ”My dear brothers and sisters, I believe you know what is happening right now. Yes, the home we love is being trampled by the dead. Just now, I had received exact figures. On the surface, all the soldiers in the first platoon had been killed overnight. They were respectable people, and they never left their posts, not even a second before death! In addition to them, more people were dying or dying. Amongst them, there may be relatives and friends. All of this shouldn't be so bad. Even if we can't save everyone, we can at least save a large portion of them. ”Then, do you know why it became like this?”
The square was silent, the citizens staring blankly at Theon. Shane snapped his fingers, and the rattlesnake soldiers led him out. So when he was escorted out of the hall and saw Theon and the people in the square, he seemed to say something, but only a vague sound came from his mouth.
Shane pointed his cane at him and shouted, ”That's him, our honorable President.” After receiving the ground troops' warning, not only did he not send out the second and third platoon to assist, he even gave the order to close the base's passageway. As a result, a large number of people on the ground had died. If the living corpses were the killers, then Jonok was the devil. A devil whose hands are stained with nearly ten thousand lives! ”
The citizens were stunned. Listening to Sean's words, they realized that their families and friends might be able to survive. All this hope, however, was stifled by a simple command from Chownok. And so …
”Demon!”
It was unknown who shouted in anger first, but following that, repeated sounds of punitive exclamations rose and fell. At the end of the day, if Theon's soldiers had not kept order, he would have been torn to shreds by the angry men.
Sean raised his hand. ”Quiet. Everyone, listen to me. I will give you a satisfactory answer for what Chownok has done, but now is not the time to convict him. We have more important things to do, and that is to defend our homeland. ”
”I believe that many of those present were people who participated in the construction of the Remter, and I am one of them.” Theon gestured, and Pera followed. Through a few simple commands, the electronic screen in the union hall reflected the scene of the residential area on the surface. From the view of the screen, although there weren't many living corpses, there were still living corpses wandering around. Then, Sean said, ”At the beginning of the construction, due to defensive considerations, when I was designing this city, I had already secretly set up a tactical platform in the residential area. Once it was activated, they would form effective ground fire and could help us temporarily beat back the living corpses.”
Hearing this news, the citizens became excited, and constantly shouted ”Long live” to Shane. Shane had to signal them to quiet down again, and he added, ”However, because of Chownok's policy, the addition of his new residential building to the ground floor damaged the array of previously designed platforms, leading to a dead angle of fire, which made the tactical platform extremely limited. I need to blow up these obstacles, but I don't have enough soldiers, gentlemen! ”
”Now, I need you to answer a few questions …” ”I want you to answer me. Do you want to sit here and wait for death, or do you want to follow me to the ground and blow up those things that are preventing us from saving ourselves? Or do you want to take out your weapons and fight? Or do you want your loved ones to die?”
As he said the last sentence, Sean raised his voice, making his words sound like a hammer pounding on everyone's hearts.
Among the citizens, a white-haired old man raised his hand and shouted, ”I'll go, let me kill those bastards!”
Then, more and more voices rose up, converging into a gigantic volume: ”Let me kill them!”
”Very good, now go to the armory and retrieve your weapons.” ”Gentlemen, I am proud of your bravery!”
With that, he turned around and walked into the hall. Paula followed closely. Theon listened to the waves of excited roars outside and whispered, ”So, we have two thousand more soldiers.”
Looking at the man with the twinkling eyes, Paula's heart was filled with reverence. Although Shane didn't have any ability, he might not be able to turn 2,000 civilians into brave soldiers just like Shane. This was no longer something that could be done with one's ability, but a type of charm.
Sean's charm.
”But this isn't enough. Although courage can make people fearless, it can't change their natural limitations in terms of physique and strength. At the very most, it can only buy us some time.” ”Pera, keep in touch with our allies. Right now, they are the only ones who can save us. ”
She nodded, put the tablet down on the table, ran her fingers through it, and sent an email to a designated mailbox. On the mailbox, there were countless soldiers holding their guns to the sky.
That was the symbol of the Heroic Spirit Hall!
As soon as Sean sat down, he saw a flash of an icon requesting a call on the computer screen on his desk. Theon immediately opened it, and a window popped open, revealing a lean man.
The man was around 30 years old, and behind him was a room with a wolf's corpse.
”Bobby, what's going on?” Sean asked hurriedly.
Spicer, the best scout in the Cobra unit. Before Theon could take over President Remter's chair, he had already allowed Sby to sneak out of Remter in order to survey the ground.
”Not very well, sir.” ”I have reason to believe that this is not a simple attack.”
”How so?”
The scene changed and a new window popped open. The scene was of a dark corridor filled with the corpses of civilians. The lights in the corridor flickered, giving the scene a sinister and terrifying look. ”This is one of the videos I took. If you look closely, sir, maybe we're not dealing with the three thousand zombies …”
As he spoke, the dead bodies on the screen began to tremble violently. Soon after, the corpses rose from the ground in slow, sluggish movements. They stood like logs, then gradually began to move. At that moment, one of the corpses pounced towards the screen. The scene shook violently, but before that, Sean could see clearly that the corpse's eyes were bloodshot.
This was the sign of a living corpse.
In other words, the civilians of Remete in this corridor had become living corpses. New living body.