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When he saw the men walking away, he took all the soldiers and made it clear was not prepared to show any support. Luo Xun frowned and whispered, "Will Captain Guo be in any trouble?"

Li wryly smiled and Sun Shaoyang sneered, "No trouble? After you left, Captain Guo was locked up. He was previously sent to sweep the streets and was responsible for almost all of the outside cleanup. If it wasn't for the zombie siege and needing to contact metal users, who would think of Captain Guo?"

Luo Xun's eyes widened in size. "Locked up? Sent out for base cleanup?" The soldiers sent out for that job were only one thing – cannon fodder, other than those with heavy weapons.

Zombie clean up was basically the military's job since the beginning but after a few years ordinary citizens would be called in too. Although they were given some weapons, food and water...these people were basically cannon fodder, no one could guarantee their safety!

Even now, although more experience soldiers were sent out, but they were mostly regular people without abilities. Such a team often suffered heavy losses...

"Right? I think the higher ups just want to end his life." Li's voice was cold with a stiff expression as he clung to his partner's arm.

"Just because of what happened last time?" Luo Xun's brow wrinkled. "Because the last time we went to the wall during a blizzard and one person died? They wanted to nail the captain's head to the wall?"

Sun Shaoyang spoke again. "Yes. But that's not all, it's all an excuse. Captain Guo did not want to say which higher up to follow, so they took away the metal team as a warning and then think about tossing him to death.."

Yan Fei suddenly turned to Sun Shaoyang and asked. "What about you? Are you off the team?"

Sun Shaoyang's clothes were obviously not military uniform, it was easy to see at a glance. Remembering the look on his face when he saw the officer on the bis, Yan fei guessed that the other was not part of the team.

Sun Shaoyang laughed and pointed to the tank that everyone had rode. "I had a big fight with that young master. You don't know since he became captain, he checked with other captains for how many nuclei and how long they last. He decreased the number of nuclei and the work hours were increased to six o'clock in the evening. Relying only on sleep to rest...*Tch* we aren't people to them! I only learned when I got into a fight and got fired and joined a squad – he pocketed the metal nuclei and secretly sold them!"

Luo Xun and Yan Fei suddenly understood why the logistics department suddenly had so many more metal nuclei. It was because they were being ghosted! The military gave basic priority to the members of various ability squads and the wealthy would sell them to logistics. Non military or military with the wrong nuclei could redeem afterwards.

In the past because Captain Guo was able to cheat...*cough* because of his connections, other than the small number that must be given to logistics, the rest would be given to the team. But after the change of leadership, the new captain withheld as many nuclei as possible to secretly sell...

Luo Xun laughed, "He did not think about who he could sell the metal cores to if all the metal ability users left the team?"

Li's partner helplessly shrugged his shoulders. "Even if we did not leave the team, there were not enough cores. We privately buy crystal cores so he can always get the benefits."

Captain Guo had not come back for a while. Luo Xun and the others stood in a place that did not affect the defense personnel while chatting. Sun Shaoyang joined a power squad and now lives in New Town. He was a new addition but because of his ability he was pursued by many people but in truth...if the army situation was not so bad, he actually wanted to return to his previous life.

Luo Xun and Yan Fei were fine, after all they just returned to their previous living lifestyle. Li had it slightly worse, being withheld crystal cores, from time to time he needed to vent.

Of course, he was the only metal user on the team and his partner Zhang Quan was actually the angry one. When the new captain arrived, he wanted to get rid of all the original members except for the metal users. However because of Sun Shaoyang's and Li's opposition it failed to start immediately.

However the metal team was missing people, the new captain filled these vacancies first with his confidants. It was supposedly to protect the metal users, but the truth...everyone could guess the details.

Before long, the new arrivals began to fight with the original members. Sun Shaoyang's partner quarreled and without saying the new captain fired him. Sun Shaoyang evidently quarreled after and was dismissed from the army. In rage, he simply took the opportunity to leave with his partner.

After a lack resistance, the captain immediately dismissed all the ordinary people in the original metal team. But Li and his partner had a deep relationship and there was a precedent with Sun Shaoyang. The captain knew that his situation was precarious because he was the captain of the metal, if the last one left...what would he have to show?

That was why he had to leave Li's partner along. But the rest of the team was a confidant of the new captain and there was only one metal user. Who did not want to have control? So all kinds of trouble was to be expected.

Speaking of which, Li clung to Zhang Quan's arm. "They are going to far, I am afraid that..." In fear that shady things would happen, he did not even dare let him to to the washroom alone.

Zhang Quan helplessly smiled and patted him comfortingly on the shoulder. "In fact, if not for my words, your days in the team would be quite good."

"Without you?! We've been together for how many years? We enlisted together, I will not stay in the team without you!"

The two people stood on the wall holding hands and staring into each other's eyes. Luo Xun could only bow towards the emotional image. In fact, keeping the ability user safe was somewhat ambiguous.

Luo Xun and Yan Fei had entered the team as a pair. The former had also worried about the latter's safety in the team.

Sun Shaoyang also argued with the new captain because his partner was fired. They now lived together in a team assigned home and formally established their relationship.

As for the death of the former team two metal user, the team was also directly dismissed by the new captain.

*Cough, cough* They turned to find that Captain Guo was back. "Pick a better time for this, watch out for zombie mice while we cover you."

The two men flushed and lowered their heads, they could not meet anyone's eyes for a while.

Captain Guo then turned to Luo Xun. "I called, in a moment there will be a team of earth users to come cooperate with us." He had a provoking smile. "Okay with our actions."

Sure enough there was a team of people coming to find Luo Xun who was resting at the wall edge – five earth users and three fire ones. Luo Xun and the captains had a discussion and the two teams began to cooperate.

The metal team was responsible for checking the walls to determine their condition and repair. The earth users divided and checked the walls beneath the ground and repair anything damaged by the zombie birds. The remaining three people were responsible for cleaning up the snow and ice beneath the walls.

While the fire ability users were busy melting the snow, the water users also arrived and were responsible for moving the melted water outside.

It took three hours for the group to mend the whole and repair the damaged walls. Of course the earth users were slower since there were many walls damaged by the zombie birds this morning.

After this three metal users made a metal wheel and started their rolling operation! The grinder team had appeared again and the rumbling echoed through the base!

The exhausted defense teams cried tears of joy at the scene. The news that there was a big hole in the wall had spread through the various channels – the desperate people were almost mad with worry. But the grinder team showed that the outer wall was under control. They could once again organize an effective counterattack against the enemy!

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Huge metal wheels rumbled outside the base walls, overwhelming and crushing all the surrounding zombies. Luo Xun suddenly thought of a phrase – the wheels of fate had begun to turn...fine it was a little out of place.

Luo Xun and some others without abilities protected Yan Fei and the other metal users. Luo Xun lead with Captain Guo making up the rear, each holding a metal shield guarding one person. They brought towels, water, weapons, nuclei and other things. Several earth users were responsible for handling the ground outside to make sure that nothing important would get crushed by the metal.

The fire users from the military were responsible for scouting and defense, lest they get mistakenly injured by stray bullets from base.

After a round, the group rested and then prepared for another round of fighting. At this time the sky had darkened, it was close to six o'clock in the evening. The soldier responsible for sentry duty loudly yelled.

"Watch out! Air raid incoming!"

The group who was about to set out again stopped and looked into the distance. They saw a dark mass of flying zombies...

"Those damned cheating birds!" The team cursed in a low voice while glaring at the approaching zombie birds.

"Not just birds...looks like there are wind zombies!" Luo Xun's sharp eyes picked something out. Indeed within the group of birds there were cyan wings from human zombies.

"No way! Wind zombies can actually fly?!" The past two days, they had found some level four wind nuclei and the corresponding ability users appeared on base. But they did not expect to be able fly properly so soon after the upgrade. Right now they could float in mid-air, it was impossible to fly like those zombies!

"Attention! Shoot as many zombie birds as you can!" The alarms sounded again. They were mounted on the walls were squads usually patrolled so they did not disappear like the other speakers on base.

When they heard the sounds, some of the ability users continued shooting zombies under the wall, while the others with better guns aimed into the air. The zombie birds were sneaky, perhaps because the previous birds had failed, they gave a wake-up to the zombies. Instead of carrying out the attack during the day, instead they launched an airstrike in the dark so the defenders were unable to target them.

Everyone had to take advantage of the light to kill as many birds as possible! Gunfire sounded throughout the air while at least half the people on the wall targeted the zombie birds with guns or abilities.

The vanguard was attacked by the first wave. Although some were hit, the rest circled around and flew back.

Sure enough, it was not long before the second wave of flying zombies took off!

"What's in front of them? I missed!"

"Something is falling!"

"Ouch, stone!"

"Roost, glass! They're throwing garbage!"

The zombies mental strength also affected their flying powers. They even seemed to have gained IQ as they chose not to use their abilities but instead picked up projectiles!

The crowd scrambled to defend themselves from the air attack with cover and shields. At this time, the zombies below also began a new round of attacks!

A group of giant zombies suddenly broke through the regular sized zombies. The footsteps caused tremors while running towards the wall!

When the giant zombies arrived, they rammed the wall with their shoulders!

"Ah!"

"Help!"

"AH——-"

"Fell, someone fell down!"

Some of the people standing at the edge were knocked off balance and one accidentally fell off. In just a few seconds, the person was devoured by the crazy zombies below, there was not even time to turn into a zombie!

Most of the people who fell were those paying attention overhead to the zombie's air strikes!

"Damn it!" The attack let the zombies in the back catch up and climb.

One person loudly yelled. "Quick! You can't let them create a path!"

Although the walls were tall enough, if the zombies were bent on climbing up, they had no real way to stop them.

Captain Guo got up and then someone else shouted. "Earth, the ground is moving!" There's an earth zombie making a dirt ladder!"

"What?! How can we survive?!" Several people hatefully pounded the wall while quickly contacting their superiors.

"Earth ability users! Quickly take control of the earth near the wall. There's a zombie outside using earth to make a ladder!"

The zombie and dirt ladders, there were even some who tried to open the metal wall while Yan Fei and the others were not present.

The battle at the wall was muddled. Everyone who had witnessed the fight was deeply fearful from the bottom of their hearts. No one said it aloud, but everyone had a similar guess – the zombies...there was intelligence and battle strategy!

No matter what kind of zombie...anyway they could do everything to fight, even if it was in vain. They had to guard as much as possible for even just a minute...Because if not, they would lose themselves and become one of the walking zombies.

"Remember the three locations I just said?" Luo Xun and the metal users were crouched in a corner. Seeing the three nod, Luo Xun got up. "That's it, three people each responsible for a section. Yan Fei and I responsible for the northeastern sections. Everyone careful!"

"Don't worry, you should also be careful not to stray too close to the edge." The two other metal users nodded, they were in charge of the north and south while the protectors followed.

"The military will certainly support you. Don't worry about anything else, keep up with the metal users for the walls you are responsible for. Stay near the walls you are defending and make sure the metal wheels work properly, don't care about anything else!

With that, the men split into two directions following their respective metal user. Three metal wheels appeared in different locations outside the base wall accompanied by rumbling and crushing sounds.

Luo Xun learned that Sun Shaoyang and Li were close to edge of level four. They could control a metal wheel, although the operation would be a bit unstable. But at this time they had to split into three groups. In order to deal with as many zombies as possible with the soon-to-arrive earth users.

As for the zombie birds...Captain Guo had just forcibly snatched a few earth and wind users from another team. They were responsible for their safety against unexpected surprises from the sky.

Luo Xun was here in addition to metal shield he called Zhang Yi over. Although Li Tie and the others needed to be protected, Xu Mei and some others were with them so there should be no accidents. There was still some time before their shift, so Zhang Yi could help out.

Yan Fei once again evenly spread some metal from the wall to make a huge wheel. The one he made before was taken by the least power of the three. Yan Fei and Sun Shaoyang each needed one to do their work.

Huge metal wheels soon appeared on the edge of the wall and the rumbling continued. Zhang Yi quickly arrived using his wind ability using the rumbling sound to track their position.

He saw the two men as a new wave of zombies came in holding all kinds of rubbish from the abandoned city. Once they flew over the wall, they started throwing their ammo.

But this time, there seemed to be something wrong with the rubbish. The littlest pieces seemed to have scarlet dots of light...wait!

"Zombie mice! The birds are dropping zombie mice!"

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Who knew the first one to realize the true nature of the 'rubbish' but the zombie mice caused everyone on the wall to shudder in fear.

Zombie mice?! It was said that those things ran into the city during the day and there was no way to confirm whether they were still there. There were rumors that people in the base had been bitten by the zombies!

Now if the air strikes were bringing in zombies...how would they survive?!

Suddenly something condensed towards one section of the wall. The cyan winds hovered around a figure, gradually getting bigger and taller, sucking in all the air around them.

The fallen human and bird zombies were all drawn into the hurricane, spinning around wildly. At the same time, the small pieces of garbage were absorbed and turned into weapons sharp enough to kill the zombies!

As the huge hurricane rose, a huge rolling metal wheel originally outside the wall came alive and became a bowl catching the fallen zombies and rubbish. Then the huge bowl continued downwards and fell...

*Bang* The huge bowl gradually turned into a metal board that slammed down...All at once the held and fallen zombies were being squashed.

The metal board came alive and twisted and rolled around thrice before stopping...

Yan Fei's face was beaded with sweat while sitting to the side absorbing a crystal core. Luo Xun carefully wiped his face while keeping vigilant. He was afraid of zombie mice coming to attack them.

On the other side the hurricane swallowed up the zombie mice and birds. Zhang Yi grabbed the nuclei and walked towards the couple. Although he also consumed a lot of energy and needed to rest. It seemed that he did not seem as tired as the other pair.

"What's going on? How long have you been busy?" Zhang Yi walked over and leaned against the wall.

Luo Xun looked up while handing another bag of nuclei to Yan Fei. Captain Guo had forcibly collected them from the 'captain' in the tank. The new captain had withheld the nuclei even during combat. He would watch the situation before sending any more.

"I don't know, supported as much as I can." Yan Fei was not the only tired on, Luo Xun's voice was hoarse as well.

He took out some water for Yan Fei and himself before asking. "There might be rats in the base. Have you sent a message home to be careful when they come out at night?"

Zhang Yi smirked. "There's a need to wait for your instructions? The news as all over base in the afternoon. I heard someone was bitten but thanks to the weather we are dressed in thick layers so there were no skin wounds."

Luo Xun was relieved and showed a slight smile despite the situation. Yan Fei glanced at Zhang Yi. "Be careful, the wall is so messy. When those big zombies hit the wall some people at the edge fell down."

Zhang Yi looked over in surprise. There were people with weapons firing down the wall and throwing grenades and so on.

After taking a rest and restoring some energy, the pair also ate something to replenish their strength. The two got something good – an energy bar. Although it must have expired, this was much better at replenishing energy.

Luo Xun felt some regret at not getting some cocoa seedlings before the end to make all sorts of things. If it could be planted, it would easier to heal up when hunting for crystal cores.

After the break, the group of people returned to battle. There was more safety with Zhang Yi with his strong, ranged wind ability. Luo Xun was relieved and maintained his caution. They accidentally found zombie mice on top of the wall while Yan Fei was manipulating the metal wheel.