After the first grenade trap exploded, Brian whose eyes had been shutting tightly opened the eyes sharply and said, “Tell everyone to start plan A. Lit the fire. These bastards are somehow coming directly to us. We are no longer safe. Since hiding is meaningless, let’s prepare for the battle.”

All grenade traps were placed by him carefully and each of them were in unique places. Only the enemy walking directly towards the house of Julia would trigger them. Chester walked to the corridor and shouted, “Start the plan A.”

Soon, the windows were opened and already lit fire torches were threw away to the designated places. Fire spread along the path made by pouring the fuel and four big bonfires appeared. They started to chase the mists around their place and provided the brightly lit vision to the survivors in the house.

However, the spreading of fire didn’t stop at there. Soon, the two houses at the opposite also started to burn. They provided more light to the surrounding and dense figures of undead came into light. Many men even got cold sweats on their back after they saw densely crowded figures of undeads. Their skeleton bodies were formed and wrapped by dark gray mists. Pale red fire was burning inside their skulls. The good thing was large part of them had no good weapons but just some bones or even wooden rods.

Everyone didn’t forget the plan. Although they were amazed and delayed for several seconds, they quickly got back their mind. Large part of the crowd put the guns into gunholes and started to aim the undeads in sight. However, they got limited gunholes. So, besides the middle windows with Vulcan Gatling, several people made two rows in other two windows. First rows would kneel and aim while the rows behind them would just stand and aim at the densely packed skeletons. There were also similar situation happening at the other three sides. However, only the front one had been facing the enemies at that time. Even so, nobody dared to relax because they might face a big siege in the next minutes.

There were also men with guns in the first floor. They did the same thing and they were waiting for the engaging order from old Brian. Brian was also checking at the outside through the opened windows. He was confused because the undeads were strangely standing in place and seemingly waiting for something. A man besides him asked, “Shouldn’t we take the initiate first?”

Old Brian scratched his thin hairs and nodded, “You’re right. No matter what, we should strike them first.”

Then, he walked back and gave the windows back to four men. And he said firmly and loudly, “Old rule. Aim for the heads and blast the skulls of these undeads. Let them return to peaceful sleep. Start shooting.”

The men at the first floor started to shoot and the ones at the second floor also followed behind and attacked the skeletons. Instantly, many heads were blasted. Legs and arms were crashed. Especially, bullets came out from Vulcan Gatling were tearing the bodies of undeads apart. However, the undead skeletons were trying to recover their lost body parts with broken bones near them. As long as they picked up the bone fragments and used the dark gray mists in their bodies, even the already blasted skull would be recast. Under the constant attacks, large amount of undead skeletons were falling apart. Only the skeletons which were entirely in lack of arms could not gather the bones again. Even so, they were rolling on the ground full of bone fragments and trying to piece the missing arms again under the help of dark gray mists. However, there were exceptions. Several ones which were only left with a handful of pale red burning fireball could only hover slightly on the ground of full of bones.

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In just a minute, almost every person had poured out nearly a hundred rounds of bullets. Especially, the Vulcan Gatling had already run out of bullets. The two burly and tough looking men who were responsible for it were having an argument. One wanted to keep the last two ammo cans while the other one wanted to use all to take down these undead skeletons. The first man wanted to leave a guarantee to face unknown danger like giant monster. However, the second man was full of angers at that time because he realized that these skeletons might come from the familiar people. And he lost his family in this tragedy.

That scene was seen by Chester who came to inspect how they were doing. Chester held the shoulder of the second man and said while looking into his blood red eyes, “Take a breathe first. You have to control your anger. There are thousands of them at the outside. We don’t have many things here. Save the bullets for now. I promise you that we are going to find and kill those bastards who made this happening. Okay?”

The tough man shed tears and nodded hard. Chester patted his shoulder and said, “Very well, my friend. Now, pick up your rifle and take down those poor undeads as much as you can. Let them return to peaceful sleep.”

Before leaving, Chester asked, “Tell me your names, friends.”

The man said in a low voice, “Lucas.”. The other man beside him also told his name in a normal tone, “Bernie.”

Chester gestured them to work and walked away. He didn’t need to tell his name because almost everyone knew his name. Things returned to normal and tensions disappeared along with Chester. It was right for him to come up to inspect. Some hidden dangers were quietly erased. Otherwise, nobody could predict what those with unstable mind would do.

Although many skeletons were shot down repeatedly, many were still coming from behind. They were like mindless puppets which only came to make a parade. They would stop when they reached the opposite sidewalk. The survivors also got into better ways to eliminate the threats. Their targets were only skulls and arms. Although some tried to shoot the pale red fireball inside the skull, they found that bullet caused no damage to it.

Several minutes passed, and loud sounds of footsteps appeared. Everyone was alerted greatly and stopped attacking the undead skeletons. Especially, a group of men in the small attic were greatly alarmed. They would never be able to forget the source of the same similar loud sounds like that. Many people in the house instantly knew that giant monsters were coming. Ronald hurriedly searched for it. Scope didn’t work due to the influence of gray mists. But he found the four figures with strong thermal activity at a distance of around three hundreds meters through the thermal goggles. He was scared. It was not one or two but four giant monsters after all. He was not sure of whether they would be able to get over this crisis or not.

Ronald silently waited and counted. The muzzle was also pointing straightly at the direction of those huge heat sources. Soon, they were seen as they got into near the burning house. Ronald aimed at one head and shot directly. A hole appeared in the head and the target giant monster leaned forward and fell down. Ronald pulled the bolt handle. Emptied 20mm bullet casing came out and dropped onto the floor of attic. He quickly moved the muzzle direction and wanted to take down another giant monster. However, Allen who was acting as the spotter exclaimed at that time because the fallen giant monster had stood up again in his vision.