This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 58
Zou Lang and Yu Jingtang quickly formulated a battle plan.
However, Yu Jingtang himself was a bit worried afterwards. He frowned slightly and pondered repeatedly, “If this is a kind of zombie reversion phenomenon. This kind of zombie might have some abilities similar to a centipede.”
“What do you mean?” Zou Lang thought for a while and finally understood, “I remember learning in the past textbooks that centipedes have similarities with earthworms in terms of nerve conduction and some habits.”
Centipedes are multi-segmented insects, each segment had an air hole, each segment had sensory nerves, belonging to the balance distribution of nerves, so sometimes even if the body was cut off, it would still breathe and continue to move.
They had already experienced the undead zombie last time, and they were a bit scared of this mutated zombie at this time.
If this centipede was like an earthworm, it could regenerate, which was the situation they least want to see, and it may also cause new battle damage.
The two looked at each other and were silent for a moment.
Zou Lang picked up the gun and decisively said, “Let’s try it first. If we don’t try, we are just wasting time here. We will first choose a shorter tail, cut it off, and if it works, we will decapitate it!”
Yu Jingtang nodded, and could only try it first. He turned his head and asked little brother ten, “Where is there an open terrain suitable for battle nearby?”
“Open terrain?” Little brother ten frowned and thought, “There is a May 1st Square nearby.”
Yu Jingtang looked at the 3D map and shook his head, “This place won’t work. There are multiple subway entrances here, and the subway is under construction. The square is hollow underneath, with several safe houses set up. If this centipede tosses about, it is likely to fall into the ground and escape, and it is easy to harm civilians.”
“What about others…” Little brother ten thought for a while, “There is a construction site with a good foundation on this side. Because the end of the world began, the project was abandoned, and no one came to take over, so it became a stalled project. It’s called… Deji Building, everyone here knows.”
Zou Lang cast a vote in favor, moved his fingers and said, “This place sounds good, it’s open, uninhabited, and suitable for action.”
“Deji Building has a small underground parking lot, which is a disadvantage, but… it seems that we can’t find a more suitable place.” Yu Jingtang pulled up the 3D map of the Deji Building construction site and analyzed, “We will plan a new route and lead it there. Two vehicles will lead the attack, and two will assist, attacking from both sides at the same time.”
This tail-cutting plan could not be completed by Yu Jingtang alone, the members of the rescue team were definitely not as good as these specially trained soldiers.
Zou Lang needed to switch to another vehicle to coordinate with Yu Jingtang.
After a brief discussion, Zou Lang picked up the walkie-talkie and cleared his throat, “Listen everyone, this is the handsome and dashing deputy team, we are now going to carry out the tail-cutting operation, we will try to cut off a few segments of the centipede’s tail, the location of the operation is chosen at the construction site of Deji Building. Later we will plan a new route map, and discuss the details, the third car will stop at the next intersection, I will go with the third car. This time the third and fourth cars are responsible for the main attack, the first and second cars are responsible for the assistance. Since we are not sure whether the zombie’s tail will be aggressive after being cut off, everyone must pay attention to safety.”
The walkie-talkie soon came the answer from the team members, “Understood!”
Zou Lang turned his head and discussed with Yu Jingtang, “Instructor, which segment should we hit?”
Yu Jingtang pulled up the previous battle scene for a closer look, the entire centipede now had nearly a hundred segments, if it was too short, it was meaningless, if it was too long, the centipede’s tail might move after being cut off, the attack power might be too great.
Yu Jingtang thought for a moment, pointed at a thinner part of the centipede’s tail, “Hit the tenth segment from the tail.”
These zombie-like bodies were wrapped in a hard shell formed by mucus after death, and then underwent mutant growth, its color was similar to the dark red of a centipede.
The tenth segment was equivalent to containing ten zombie upper body joints, due to the mutation, each joint was much larger than a normal zombie, the actual length of ten joints was about five meters. The arm span of each joint also almost reached three times that of a normal person.
This length, even if the tail continued to attack, they should be able to cope with it.
Soon the team members were in position at the predetermined location.
Zou Lang switched to the third car, and the first and second cars also guided the mutated centipede to drive over.
The construction site of Deji Building was even larger than Yu Jingtang had imagined, this place was originally planned to be a large commercial area, the foundation was already done, the entire construction site was flat, showing the finely backfilled yellow soil, and some places were piled with steel bars, around the construction site, there were several abandoned excavators.
Four cars began to guide the centipede to circle around the foundation of Deji Square.
After entering the second circle, the third and fourth cars began to drive side by side, both cars approached the tail of the centipede, trying to keep pace with the centipede’s forward speed.
The centipede was moving fast, and the vehicles were also driving at high speed. At high speed, it was very difficult to hit a joint that was changing position, and it had to be hit repeatedly.
Once all the preparations were completed, Yu Jingtang climbed out of the sunroof of the car and sat directly at the sunroof. He tried to stabilize his body, closed one eye and began to aim. Soon, Zou Lang also poked his head out of the third car.
Bang bang bang!
Yu Jingtang’s gun fired first.
He directly aimed at the left side of the tenth joint from the end of the monster and fired a burst of bullets.
Almost at the same time, Zou Lang also fired, hitting the monster’s right rear.
The zombie was hit repeatedly, let out a roar, and there were several torn openings at its tail joint. Some mucus flowed out of the wound, but it hadn’t broken yet.
The fourth car where Yu Jingtang was located shook violently a few times to avoid the centipede’s attack. He picked up the walkie-talkie and reminded again, “There is a parking lot under this construction site. To avoid collapse, try to lead the centipede around.”
The ride was slightly stable, Yu Jingtang raised his gun, and another set of bullets were fired, each bullet almost hit the same position. These few shots directly punched a big hole in the joint of the monster, the zombie’s dark red viscous blood flowed down from that big hole, sprinkling all over the ground.
The centipede finally felt the pain, shaking its body violently, it was this shaking that suddenly broke its tail, the huge body instantly split into two.
The head of the centipede burrowed forward, and the tail fell to the ground, quiet for a moment as if it had lost its life.
Yu Jingtang said to the walkie-talkie, “Cars one and two, continue to lead the head, cars three and four, stay and observe.”
Quiet, time passed second by second.
More than ten seconds later, a teammate on the side made a safe gesture.
That tail had not moved.
Yu Jingtang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as everyone was preparing to gather around to investigate, suddenly, that quiet tail, like a fish out of water, twitched violently, the ground was whipped and made a crackling sound, the construction site suddenly raised dust, and visibility instantly decreased.
Yu Jingtang’s face changed, their worst fear had happened, this thing was indeed the same as the performance of a centipede!
Its tail still had a huge attack power. Yu Jingtang hurriedly said, “Zou Lang, hit the fifth joint from the end of the tail!”
The monster lost its head, couldn’t see anything, could only crawl around blindly, precisely because it couldn’t see, all inductions became uncontrollable.
That tail crawled forward a few steps in the violent twisting and struggling, carrying a gust of fishy wind, and with a bang, it hit a two-story building where the construction workers lived on the side. The white board broke instantly, and the residential building collapsed a corner all at once.
Then the tail suddenly crawled towards the third car where Zou Lang was located. Zou Lang quickly got into the car, the driver was also shocked, stepped on the gas pedal and turned the steering wheel sharply, the whole car drifted, almost colliding with the monster’s tail.
Then the monster quickly crawled towards the open space in the middle, its tail whipping the ground, trying to escape.
Its current location was right above the underground parking lot. If it smashed down like this, it was likely to cause a large area of collapse.
The fourth car followed the tail towards the middle, and Yu Jingtang, in order to aim more accurately, shouted, “Stop the car!”
Little brother ten stepped on the brake, and the car abruptly stopped at a position about ten meters away from the zombie’s tail.
Yu Jingtang opened the car door and rushed down with his gun, each shot aimed at the fifth joint from the end of the monster.
The third car also hurried over, Zou Lang found his hat to be in the way, twisted the brim and wore it backwards, he opened the car door with one hand, half leaning on the car door, using the car door to brace the gun in his hand and kept shooting.
The other team members also got out of the car one after another to cover them, several people joined forces, and once again opened a hole in the second half of the monster.
The tail was struggling, and the latter half of the body was broken into two sections again, the two bodies used their “feet” to keep scratching the ground, and rushed around crazily.
Yu Jingtang kept changing magazines, the closer he walked to the monster, the closer he got, until he was seven or eight meters away, he finally stopped.
Yu Jingtang clenched his teeth and dared not stop, the recoil of the strafing shook his arm numb.
If two sections didn’t work, they would be divided into four sections, if four sections didn’t work, they would be divided into eight sections, he didn’t believe that this monster could still move, still crawl when it was divided into one section at a time!
Zou Lang on the other side was also shooting crazily, fearing that a mistake would let this tail escape again.
This battle lasted about ten minutes.
Boom!
Under the continuous attack of several tail sections hitting the ground, the floor finally collapsed due to the inability to bear the force, those few tail sections fell from the air, the severed limbs were pierced by the steel bars in the underground garage that had not been built yet, and a piece of stinky blood was splashed out.
The monster finally stopped moving.
Yu Jingtang finally took his finger off the trigger, the edge of the collapse was just over a meter away from him.
It was extremely dangerous just now, if this tail was a little bigger, or if the attack was a little slower, then they might all fall into this collapsed pit with this tail.
Zou Lang walked to Yu Jingtang’s side, sighed with lingering fear, “We might be lucky… it didn’t grow another head and become two.”
Yu Jingtang, panting, picked up his gun, looked solemnly at the chunks of flesh on the ground, besides the spine connected, the esophagus of this thing was also stuck together. At this time, it was shot full of holes, the internal organs were broken all over the ground. The ground was full of the monster’s limbs, he looked at the broken spine and suddenly said, “Maybe we can cut this monster.”
“Cut it again?!” Zou Lang covered his chest, “My heart can’t take it.”
Yu Jingtang squatted down, looked at the collapsed underground parking lot and said slowly, “It’s not easy to handle if it’s cut horizontally, but it can be tried if it’s cut vertically.”
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