Chapter 0300 – Turtle to the Rescue! Tong Xiaoyun’s Passion!
Translated by: Kun
Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition
[Book 2: The Sea of Zombies]
The number of survivors that chose to dive into the river increased as the zombies neared them, each one franticly trying to make their way across.
At the same time, the slaughter amongst those at the bridge had become even more intense, and devastation and desolation was in every survivors’ eyes.
Yue Zhong shook his head and he proceeded to call for Greenie, to pick him up. All of a sudden, his heart shook, and he looked towards the river.
He was shocked as he observed that the waters were churning, as whole groups of Mutant Crayfish were climbing ashore! As they charged out of the water they immediately started attacking the zombies, using their sharp claws to chop them in two, before gobbling them up.
The waters churned constantly, and the Mutant Crayfish continued to come up in droves. Furthermore, there were 20 Elite Mutant Crayfish as well, followed by a Type 2 Mutant Crayfish, and finally Turtle!
Turtle looked at Yue Zhong, and let out a strange call. The Type 2 Mutant Crayfish also let out a sharp shrill call.
[TN: COWABUNGA!]
The 20 Elite Mutant Crayfishes rushed into the horde, and started slaughtering the zombies.
Those Mutant Crayfish had hard shells, and the ordinary zombies could do nothing to break them. They also had terribly sharp claws, and were impervious to the zombie virus, thus they were the perfect counter to the zombies.
The moment those Mutant Crayfish joined in the battle, they attacked the zombies in a frenzy, and huge numbers of the zombies were chopped up and dismembered by them, before being eaten.
These Mutant Beasts it seems, like to feast on zombies. If they could swallow the blood essence of the higher level zombies, they could use it to power up as well.
Seeing the Mutant Beasts coming out from the river, all the survivors felt worse, and the fights began to become more vicious. People were killing each other faster and faster as time went on.
Yue Zhong jumped on top of Turtle’s head, and urged it to go to the bridge: “I am Yue Zhong! All of you stop right this instance! The Mutant Beasts are here upon my orders!! Get in line!! Cross the bridge orderly! Otherwise I’ll execute you!”
The frenzied survivors were frightened by Turtle and had stopped in their tracks. They regained their composure, and observed the surrounded Mutant Beasts, before becoming like sheep and getting in line, crossing the bridge according to their lines.
“Turtle! This time, it’s really thanks to you!!” Yue Zhong looked at the subdued survivors crossing as he sighed in relief, patting Turtle’s head.
If Turtle had not appeared with its countless little brothers, the over 10,000 remaining survivors here would have died at the hands of those zombies.
When Turtle was praised by Yue Zhong, it wagged its tail, and thumped it against the ground. It was obviously pleased. After being tamed by Yue Zhong, it had already established a soul link with him, and could understand what he said.
With Turtle’s command, the countless Mutant Crayfishes guarded the 10,000+ survivors across the bridge. However, these weak cowards had to face the cold winds, the terrible chaos that ensued earlier, where there was slaughter amongst themselves, and over a thousand of them had died. Although the loss was huge, the only consolation was that the majority of them had managed to cross the bridge safely.
“Burn the bridge!!” Yue Zhong came to the other side of the bridge, and immediately issued the order!
‘Hong’! With a loud blast, the bridge that was painstakingly built by countless people before the apocalypse was destroyed. The only way for the 800,000-strong horde to reach Ning Guang County was destroyed just like that.
If they wanted to make their way to Ning Guang County, they had to go on a detour for over a 100 km just to find the road.
After gaining these 100,000 survivors of SY County, Yue Zhong’s next aim was Long Hai County!
As long as he conquered Long Hai County, Yue Zhong would obtain factories, and could start manufacturing ammunition. He wouldn’t have to worry about ammunition shortage to deal with a huge horde like that ever again.
The close quarter combat placed too much pressure on the soldiers. Unless they wore Mutant Beasts hides that could prevent even the penetration of guns and knives, the loss of soldiers from fighting zombies was too much to handle.
The huge horde of zombies followed the scent of human to the river where the bridge once stood.
Under the influence of a mysterious command, the zombies plunged into the waters, seemingly trying to use their own bodies to create a path towards the other side. They had been advancing for such a long way with just their masses, crossing whem they saw mountains and crossing water bodies as they saw them.