A rapid burst of gunfire rang out.
In an instant, the Variant’s head was riddled with over a dozen bullets.
It finally lost mobility and tumbled to the ground, where it was crushed under the wheels of the armored car.
Seeing this, Mu Bai’s heart sank.
A Variant’s head was far too hard.
Even when hit by modern assault rifle rounds, their skulls wouldn’t explode like those of normal Zombies.
Ordinary bullets simply couldn’t destroy a Variant’s brain in a single shot.
Moreover, the sound of the explosion wouldn’t just attract this one Variant.
If several of them pounced on the armored car at once, they would be in serious trouble!
“Yuan-yuan! Use this!”
Mu Bai signaled Tang Shifu and Mo Cha to make some room.
She pulled a heavy sniper rifle from her Storage Space and mounted it directly onto the roof of the armored car.
If assault rifle rounds weren’t enough, what about sniper rounds?
Brute force was the solution!
In their urgency, Tang Shifu and Mo Cha didn’t stop to ask where the sniper rifle had come from, assuming Mu Bai simply had a special storage item.
As scattered normal Zombies began to emerge from the blind spots of the nearby buildings and block the road ahead, Ye Yuan handed her M4A1 to Tang Shifu.
Mo Cha also raised another assault rifle.
Tang Shifu and Mo Cha focused on clearing the normal Zombies in front of them, while Ye Yuan took charge of sniping any Variants.
Mu Bai stayed by their side, preparing bullets and spare magazines, ready to reload at a moment’s notice.
Due to the interference from the previous Variant and the need to clear the path ahead, Scarface chose to slow the armored car down, maintaining a speed of about twenty or thirty miles per hour.
Now, he had to rely on the strength of Mu Bai’s group on the roof to clear the obstacles.
Behind them, the large group of Players saw the armored car slowing down and began to chase even more frantically.
To survive, they also needed the armored car to pave the way.
Regardless of what that explosion had been, Zombies were surely swarming in from all directions.
The best route to break out was the direction the armored vehicle was heading — and time was limited.
The armored car leading the way was the tip of the spear for this breakout team!
The main force was gradually failing to keep up with the vehicle’s speed.
Only a few Players with outstanding physical stats and Talents, or those with special items, continued to give chase using their various abilities.
At this moment, Mu Bai’s group of four could no longer afford to worry about the Players behind them.
They fired with everything they had, killing the Zombies swarming from outside the Zombie King’s Territory.
The armored car could not afford to be surrounded or stalled!
Bang!!
The roar of the sniper rifle was heart-pounding.
Ye Yuan pressed the stock of the M110 firmly against her shoulder, taking precise aim at a distant Variant.
100 meters away, a burly Strength-type Variant was decapitated by a single shot, its head flying several meters through the air.
This was the terrifying lethality of a sniper rifle!
Soon, a slender Speed-type Variant appeared at the edge of her vision, sprinting toward the armored car at the speed of a 100-meter dash.
Ye Yuan took aim and quickly fired.
Suddenly, the armored car bumped as if it had run over a Zombie’s corpse.
The bullet went wide, merely grazing the Variant’s ear.
Ye Yuan’s heart tightened.
She wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but she felt as if the Zombie had intentionally tilted its head.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have dodged the bullet entirely!
However, the advantage of the M110 was its semi-automatic fire.
Two deafening gunshots rang out almost simultaneously.
Ye Yuan followed up with two more shots, instantly taking down the Variant just before it could collide with the armored car.
When no Variants were in sight, she picked off the normal Zombies to relieve the pressure on the two assault rifles.
When her ammunition was nearly spent, Ye Yuan waited for the right moment, detached the magazine, and handed it to Mu Bai while slamming in a fresh one.
The entire process took less than two seconds.
Mu Bai hurriedly reloaded the magazines.
Providing ammunition for three people at once was no small task.
Finally, a brief lull in the firing occurred.
Since none of their magazines were completely empty yet, Mu Bai took the opportunity to observe their surroundings and assess the overall situation.
Looking back at the Players desperately chasing them, Mu Bai was startled.
Good grief, not only had 200 to 300 people managed to stay on their tail, but a few of the fastest ones were less than 100 meters away from the vehicle.
While she couldn’t see the faces of the Players wearing cloaks, those in the lead were all Level 2 Players she had seen before.
‘Wait, why is that cloaked Player carrying a Baguette on their back…?’
There wasn’t much to see to their left or right.
The closest things to the road were rows of trees, followed by town buildings or factories.
Occasionally, Zombies that couldn’t reach the armored car would lunge at the chasing Players instead, but these scattered few were easily handled by the Level 2 Players.
From the look of it, as long as the Zombies in front could be cleared, they wouldn’t encounter any insurmountable danger…
Yet for some reason, Mu Bai felt a lingering sense of unease.
Suddenly, sensing something, Mu Bai looked up at the sky.
A gray drone was flying parallel to them at a speed similar to the armored car, trailing far behind as if it were observing the Players who were breaking out.
Instantly, alarm bells rang in Mu Bai’s head.
She remembered clearly that the Zombie King had been spotted by this very thing before a shell had taken it out.
“Yuan-yuan, look at the drone above! Can you shoot it down?”
Mu Bai asked urgently.
The Military and the survivors were by no means in a cooperative relationship.
Escorting the researchers was a mere ruse.
Those people wanted the survivors to scout the path and sacrifice themselves just so the Military could locate the Zombie King!
Whether they had other motives remained unclear, but for the Player faction, the Military was definitely an enemy.
Having first deceived the Survivor Organization and then pushed these “survivors” into a desperate situation, the relationship between the two sides had reached a point of life and death.
The Military wouldn’t want the Survivor Organization to continue existing; they had never planned for such an outcome!
Ye Yuan also looked up and immediately noticed the small dot “hanging” in the sky.
It was likely less than 500 meters away…
Taking a deep breath, she clutched the M110 and rolled onto her back on the roof.
Facing the sky, she aimed at the drone.
Bang!
Bang!!
After the first shot, the drone seemed to make an evasive maneuver, but the second follow-up shot struck true.
It erupted in sparks and was shot down.
A few seconds later…
Nothing happened.
The feeling of the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head finally extinguished.
Just as Mu Bai was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a violent explosion roared from over 100 meters behind and to their side.
Without the drone’s positioning, the strike was inaccurate.
It didn’t affect the armored car, though a few Players were knocked to the ground by the shockwave.
Mu Bai broke into a cold sweat and swallowed hard.
Tang Shifu and Mo Cha both turned slightly pale, and Ye Yuan’s pupils constricted for a moment.
That was close… far too close.
***
In the Military District.
“Heh, these yellow skins are quite resilient. They’re still thinking about breaking through the encirclement,” the Young Adjutant chuckled.
“Have a drone follow them. See if they have any chance of survival. If there’s still hope, hit them with another rocket,” the Middle-aged Officer said coldly, a cigar clamped between his teeth.
“Don’t worry, sir… Speaking of which, those girls are quite fair and pretty. It’s a shame they have to die.”
“If you’re so inclined to show mercy, you can keep them alive. It’s also a bit of a waste to destroy an armored car like that… Wait, that gun.”
The Middle-aged Officer looked at the screen in disbelief.
In the blink of an eye, how did a sniper rifle suddenly appear on top of that armored car?
Under the magnification of the high-definition camera, it was clearly an M110 — most likely the very one that had gone missing!
A black-haired girl was using the M110 to accurately snipe high-speed Variants from the top of the jolting vehicle.
The Middle-aged Officer and the Young Adjutant looked at each other, momentarily speechless.
For a long time, neither could find words.
Whether it was a heavy sniper rifle appearing out of thin air or a girl who looked like she was only in high school being able to handle an M110 so well, it was enough to overturn their worldview.
Over a dozen seconds later, the Young Adjutant finally recovered and decided to say something to mask his shock.
“It really was stolen by that group. Yellow skins are only good for these kinds of dirty tricks… Send another rocket. Aim for the armored car’s coordinates provided by the drone.”
He spoke the last half of the sentence into the radio.
“Yes, sir!”
On the screen, the black-haired girl suddenly rolled over and faced the camera.
Her ice-blue eyes narrowed, and she pulled the trigger.
The camera shook violently and began falling rapidly from the sky.
After a few moments, the screen turned pitch black.
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