Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 041: The Ruins of the City

The Thorn Tiger leaped from the blaze that enveloped it, opened its mouth and roared loudly, emitting electromagnetic waves capable of affecting signals and electronic devices.

But according to Wang Bin and Xu Chen, the Fourth level Mutant Beasts were still unable to affect the signal nor damage the electronic circuits of the items purchased in the Stronghold Shop using Coin©.

The rocket-propelled grenade shot back, making the Thorn Tiger stop its roar and swing its claws.

The claw hit the rocket-propelled grenade, resulting in an explosion that sent the claw crashing, shaking and breaking due to the shockwave.

Fu Shen again moved in front of the Thorn Tiger, he leaped high into the explosion. He stretched out his hand, inserted a hand grenade into the open mouth of the Thorn Tiger, then stepped on the tiger's head as a foothold for him to jump away.

Boom up!

Grenades exploded inside the tiger's mouth, making the blood spread. The tiger shouted, but the more he shouted, the more blood came out.

Seeing the Thorn Tiger fall into the road with its supine position, Fan Chen leaped onto the tiger with an iron pipe in his right hand. Without delaying any longer, Fan Chen swung his hand, throwing an iron pipe with a large bottle on top.

The pipe pierced the throat of the tiger.

Fan Chen jumped back while pressing the button on the bottle made of iron. The bottle counted the time backwards with flickering red lights.

Fan Chen retreated away until he took cover behind the steel door and waited for the time that had been set.

Bang out!

The bottle exploded, spewing out hundreds of falling munitions raining down on the inside of the Thorn Tiger's open mouth. Blood flowed more profusely than before, his breathing looked heavy, plus the blood that had accumulated within his mouth, it aggravated the situation.

The principle of this explosion came from a landmine that threw hundreds of bullets, only Fan Chen asked related personnel to modify it.

Fu Shen stuffed a hand grenade into the mouth of the severely injured tiger, then kicked its head to keep its mouth closed. Then he ran away to the side of Fan Chen.

Boom up!

Finally, after a long and exhausting struggle, the extremely violent Thorn Tiger was successfully killed with a grievous wound. His jaw was crushed, half his face was gone and his brain was splattered, his neck was almost severed.

[System Guide: Successfully killed a Level 80 Mountain Tiger (Mutation). +640 Coin System, +320 Points]

Fan Chen sighed. He walked up to the Thorn Tiger without loosening his guard, he looked at the beast in front of him, then stored his corpse. He had once eaten a Mutant Beast while in Wind Protection City, but he had never eaten at this high level.

According to the news, the Awakened could improve physically by eating the Mutant Beasts.

“Great brother! Brother killed him!”

Fan Xiaoyu's voice sounded quite loud in Fan Chen's ears.

Fan Chen smiled, shook his head and said, "No, this is not an individual achievement, this is everyone's achievement. Since everyone's working together, we can kill him."

There was a short silence before the reply came, “Alright. By the way, the zombies surrounding Brother are only a little left. As for the target in front, one of the groups with the red dot is already moving, expect Big Brother to act faster.”

Fan Chen flew the drone to observe around, then a view of the ocean of corpses was visible from the perspective of the drone flying in the sky. "Yes, it's almost done. But we need time here for a while, we have to collect the Energy Crystals."

"Captain, I'll lead the group to collect it." Fu Shen said it directly, then after getting permission from Fan Chen, he turned around and led the group.

Fan Chen went to Cougar HE No. 01, but he did not enter, but rather sat on the roof. He saw this was still easy, but he knew, it didn't take long for zombies to evolve like humans. In fact, there might be a Mutant Zombie.

Imagine there are zombies that can think like humans, and have cunning that is worse than humans. Can control zombies around to attack somewhere.

"The plan must be accelerated, but we are short on manpower. The cliffs also had to be dug to open up a temporary industrial area, then we had to build a basement, at least a kilometer from the surface to avoid the sight of satellites to be built later."

Fan Chen looked up at the blue sky. Not only will the satellite be launched by the Beijing Government, but he will also have to be aware of satellites from other countries. Of course, it is impossible for China alone to plan to launch a rocket, surely other countries have the same thoughts.

"Captain, it's all done. All of them were white, only a few were slightly blue. For now it might be useless, but after Xu Chen's research came to fruition, it should be able to be used instead of Uranium."

Fu Shen came to report with a few people carrying sacks of Energy Crystals.

When Fan Chen heard that, he was shocked wordlessly, then smiled widely. Uranium Replacement! Even though he already had knowledge of the Controlled Heavy Nuclear Fusion, but he still could not find a replacement for Uranium, and here, Fu Shen said that the Energy Crystal could be his successor.

Even though it has not been proven, it does not matter as long as there is hope.

"Good!" Fan Chen nodded, he saved everything, then jumped down and said, "Now enter, we continue on our way. Just eight more kilometers to get there, I don't know what's going on there, but according to reports, a group of suspected bandits will act."

"Everyone knows, we need a lot of manpower to develop Mingyue Defense, therefore, save the humans who deserve to be saved!"

"""Ready, carry it out!"""

All the soldiers rushed back in, then they started filling up the ammunition in the empty magazine, preparing all the weapons.

Fan Chen bought a new weapon, he bought a M203 Grenade Launcher that could be installed on the M4 Carbine.

The car continued to go at a steady pace, no matter if the road was broken, hollow, or blocked by stone ruins. Everything could be passed easily, even when there was a tree trunk blocking it could be destroyed easily.

Fan Chen and Fan Xiaoyu continued to communicate, either reporting trivial issues, or venting about the life of the school days and longing for his three best friends who did not go together while leaving Wind Protection City.

Fan Chen himself did not respond too much to that, although he had a good impression with Fan Xiaoyu's good friend, but not with their parents. Despite already having a wife, the father of good friend Fan Xiaoyu always stole a glance to look at Yun Mingyue with a lustful gaze.

"Good friend .. When I went to Wind Protection City with Fu Shen, there was a lot of chaos. Then I feel like this good friend of yours is long gone, probably before the Second Disaster. Then, the Mayor abandoned the city, so the city completely collapsed."

There was only silence there after Fan Chen spoke of the Wind Protection City.

Fan Chen also did not speak, he simply kept silent and closed his eyes.

Until finally the car stopped, Fan Chen opened his eyes again. He could see the ruins of the city, but the ruins of this city were different from those of other cities, as these ruins were filled with greenery.

Tree roots stick to the walls of the building, the road is broken overgrown with grass and at the bottom of the building there is wet moss.

This place is like a forest city and it will look a little beautiful, at least if there are no zombies filling the streets.

"Zombies are in this place? From the looks of it, the city has long since been abandoned, there should be no zombies."

“Captain, this is just my speculation, the Captain can think about it or throw it away. I guess, after the Second Disaster came, this Zombie Virus not only attacked the living humans, but also the dead bodies that had been dead for a year or two. As long as the body is still intact, maybe they can be turned into zombies.”

Katerina's voice rang out in Fan Chen's ears through the Smart Glasses.

Fan Chen pondered over it, and thought that this speculation could be considered a proper theory. Maybe, he could research it later.

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