Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 059: Signals from the Imperial City

—Empire— City

There was a small bar in one of the deserted alleyways that people had never passed through, and in this alley it was very dark, prone to evil, but strangely, this place was completely clean with no trash, no matter what, very inappropriate for small alleys in general.

From amazing looks and nothing special, so even when stepping inside. But in fact every resident of this little alley is a blood-soaked military veteran, an enemy killed by more than a thousand if total.

In the quiet bar, sat eleven people, men as well as women. They sat at a fairly large round table, there was a simple dish on the table and each drank alcohol with a high content, but strangely did not make them drunk, he said, maybe because it is used and used to warm the body.

There are no other customers besides them, and the door bar was closed with the words “Close” in front of him.

The bartender was an old man who was cleaning glasses and cups while closing his eyes.

One of the men who sat down, sighed. His body was not large, but his body muscles were completely formed without fat. He wears a simple black shirt and his haircut is neat. He looks like a normal person, but if his shirt is taken off, it will look scarred, like knife cuts and bullet shots.

She looked at the woman sitting beside her, her age was only three years younger than her. The two stared at each other, then nodded their heads in agreement.

"I know you're all wondering why I called you all here."

Another man wearing glasses and a black suit, fixed his glasses and said, "Yes, Captain. We haven't been together for a long time, maybe twenty years, if not wrong, two years after the Vice Chairman chose to retire."

Captain nodded. "You know my son joined the military and joined the Intelligence Department, a few days ago, he was able to return home and say that there was a signal coming in. The signal came from the Cold Rose."

When he heard that, there was suddenly silence, even the bartender who was originally indifferent, suddenly opened his eyes.

"Wait!" The beautiful woman sitting next to the bespectacled man raised a hand. "How did your son know that the one who sent the signal was the Cold Rose?"

The captain smiled faintly, then replied, "I told my son the morse code known only to all of us, I asked him to report if there was a signal coming in and using the code."

The woman who sat beside the Captain, nodded and added, "Yes, our son is still keeping this a secret from his superior. We all know that the Cold Rose was targeted by General Fan, and General Fan staged a coup in the dark. From the outside it looks like there's no problem, but we all know, the military is coming to power."

"Even though I'm from the military, I don't like this kind of operation, and since the Cold Rose took the initiative to make a risky call, maybe she's asking us for help to get together again." The woman added.

The glasses guy named Luo Zhu again corrected the position of the glasses he was wearing. "Sending a signal to the Phoenix Headquarters from Shenzhen, this is not impossible, but we need to know, now electromagnetic waves are often disrupted because of the damn monsters out there. If he could send out a signal, then there were only two possibilities: Cold Roses were around the Imperial City, or had more advanced technology."

The captain named Tang Zixuan looked at Luo Zhu. "You're good at computers, hacking and radio. Is it possible to send a signal there? If you can't, do whatever it takes to let you know that Alpha Team is assembled, but make sure it doesn't get caught by the State Intelligence Department."

"It's hard ..." Luo Zhu sighed and said, "But it can be tried."

Luo Zhu looked at the bartender, he raised his hand and shouted, "Old Brother! Lend me your equipment!"

The bartender picked up the bottle and threw it towards Luo Zhu without hesitation. "I'm your former boss, don't call me “Pak Tua” you crazy boy!"

Everyone laughed when they saw the angry Old Man, this reminded them of their early days in the military.

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—Guangdong—

Their group again rushed over with quick steps but did not raise too much noise, and whenever there were high-leveled zombies that were still unaware of their existence, Fan Chen will be using the DX-5 Ravager Laser.

The ones with high-power laser weapons were currently still very limited: Yun Mingyue, Fu Shen, Fu Shan and Jackson who were guarding the cliff top.

For others, you must apply first and meet the requirements. But it could also be by exchanging contribution points obtained from killing zombies or completing missions. The contribution points from killing zombies were calculated by Xiaochu who was deploying thousands of Scanning Drones in real time, and the number of points earned depended on his level.

The drones themselves can survive wind storms at speeds of 60km/h, and to date are still trying to be developed to be able to survive Category 5 storms (>250km/h).

Back again in reality, their group was only a few hundred meters away from the city gate filled with zombies. To get into the headquarters that was in the middle of it required a lot of effort and courage.

Fan Chen leaned against the overturned bus, he turned his head back to look at the dazed zombies.

“Master.” Xiaochu suddenly appeared in Fan Chen's gaze.

"Is there something important?"

Xiaochu nodded, then he showed the Imperial City that was still standing strong as if there had never been a Second Disaster. “Xiaochu found a communication signal from this place, but using a strange code that was not in Xiaochu's data. But Xiaochu made the calculations, and maybe this is related to General and Team Alpha.”

"Are you serious?"

Xiaochu nodded his head as he waved, revealing a long list beside him. "Even though Xiaochu had knowledge of something from the database, but Xiaochu could learn on his own from the existing data, and Xiaochu made hundreds of thousands of calculations on his own to decode.”

Fan Chen looked back, and found hundreds of zombies that started running through the carcasses. "Xiaochu, send a signal that hasn't been deciphered to Mom, and let her make her own decision."

“Good, Master.”

Fan Chen stood up, he dashed forward or retreated from the city to keep his distance from the zombies.

The sound of gunfire could not be avoided anymore, thus attracting more zombies. Even without shooting, zombies would still come because of their sharp smell and their hoarse voice that attracted the attention of other zombies.

Fu Shen jumped quite high, even to the point of being able to pass through the bus and stand on it. He took out a rocket-propelled grenade, then fired in the other direction to distract the zombies.

Boom up!

Rocket-launched grenades hit the car wreck that could still be used, it exploded violently with a blazing fire and attracted the attention of zombies.

But not all zombies are attracted by the explosion, because many zombies are high-leveled, there are even those whose sense of sight is back.

Fan Chen dashed backwards in the true sense while shooting. With the Exoskeleton, he could even jump over walls easily, let alone run backwards.

Fan Chen looked at the car beside him. "Scan."

The carcass next to it looks completely up to the inside with nothing to hide, though in fact only red and green stripes.

Fan Chen held the car frame, grasping it with all his might. He tried to lift it.

“Master, car load is too heavy for Exoskeleton!” Xiaochu suddenly appeared giving a warning.

"I know ..." Fan Chen gnashed his teeth and gripped the car's pitch tighter until it dented, then he swung his hand, throwing the carcass away. "But I am the Awakened One with Level 63!"

The car wreck was thrown towards the zombies...

Fan Chen felt a pain in his hand from forcing himself to throw the car. He gritted his teeth, took out the DX-5 Ravager Laser, then shot towards the fuel tank.

Boom up!

The car exploded with a fire that was burning quite large. The fire snatched the seeping fuel from the other cars whose fuel tanks were already shot by ordinary bullets, making the flames burn even bigger forming a wall of fire that was over five meters high.

Ming Xuan retreated while shooting and occasionally looked at the small map in the corner of the Smart Glasses signifying her comrades. He attached a sticky bomb to the cars he was passing through, then after being at a safe distance, he pressed a button.

Boom up!

“Go to the open.” Xiaochu appeared in everyone's Smart Glasses, and gave everyone a path to go through.

Fan Chen pulled the battery on his shoulder, then replaced it with a new one. Because he lifted the excess load earlier, the battery power was drained and the servo motor in the right arm was almost damaged.

Fan Chen stored the weapon and took out the Healing Fluid, then injected it into his painful arm while running down the given path.

Katerina and Fu Shen stood beside Fan Chen, both of them guarding Fan Chen who was taking care of themselves.

Fan Chen looked at the small map, and found no troops left behind. He waved his left hand, taking out tons of fuel.

After being hundreds of meters away, the wall made of oil barrels fell and toppled because it was hit by a wave of zombies.

Fan Chen who was already very far away, raised the DX-5 Ravager Laser. "Let's burn meat."

Whoooooooshes!

Boom up! Boom up! Boom up!

The oil barrel instantly explodes when exposed to a hot laser, giving rise to a louder explosion. The ground below was destroyed, rocks rose into the air, thick smoke soared high into the sky, and the heat could be felt up to a radius of 100 meters from the center of the explosion.

Fan Chen looked at this explosion with a complicated expression. He was silent for a while, then muttered, "The Waking of the Imperial City, are they able to survive this explosion?"

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