Those orange snakes that advanced towards the center of the city were nothing other things than 3 lines of fire, the creation of this was due to the diesel that the trucks that I mentioned earlier pumped through the grooves that the grenades and workers made.
The purpose of the machine guns was not to kill many zombies, they only had to save time for the grooves to be filled with fuel and then with the detonations of the grenades that the men threw, ignite it.
The zombies that were standing on these grooves quickly begin to burn and these, in turn, spread it as if it were a disease on the others around them. As they had formed a horde without many spaces, not long after, those three snakes become a single large one that ran the entire street.
I had already checked before, but seeing this I can confirm that zombies really burn easily. Although they probably do not feel pain, they must still retain their instinct of fear of fire since their roars and sounds that they made intensifies when the flames begin to devour them.
"It smells really bad ~"
Shisuka who was at my side shooting trying to take down some enemy along with other girls who had not participated in attracting them while everyone else saw the fire, complains about the smell resulting from the burning zombies. I cannot blame her for this and say that she is exaggerating... in truth, the aroma of burnt meat was something very nauseous, so as we had all participated in the fight, we stepped back trying to get away from the strong smell.
"Yamada, communicate with the other groups and ask how things went where they are. Shisuka and also the others, if you want can get in the car, maybe the smell is less there "
"It's okay"
"Great ~"
I ask Yamada to ask for information about where Yuriko-san and Soichiro are, as well I told this to the girls that were trying to block the smell by covering their noses with one hand. There was no point in torturing them by smelling this, as everyone had somehow participated in the fight, should be enough to get energy from all those zombies that burn.
A minute later, most of the girls follow my advice by getting inside a car closing the doors and windows, also Yamada back and informs me of the news of the other places.
He tells me that things with the other groups were also a success and that they are also now seeing a lot of zombies burning. Then I simply do assent to his words and stay half an hour watching the show to make sure nothing strange happens.
"I don't think there's a problem here for the moment, so it's time to start the fourth phase of the plan. Yoshioka, I left this place for you to watch, if something happens then let me know through the radio."
"Okay, also if you see that it is very risky to enter the port, it is better that you do not take the risk and entering. Having eliminated most of the zombies from the city center, we can delay things a bit and take care of those in the port after carefully without danger"
"We will only see how things are in that part, do not worry, if things look very dangerous I thought to do just that. I do not want to put my life or that of the girls in a silly way at risk, also please take care of Shisuka while we are leaving ... not only of zombies but also of any person with strange ideas "
As the place I intend to go can be much more dangerous than now, so it is better for Shisuka to stay here. Besides, I don't think any of our soldiers try anything silly, but since there are also men from other groups, it's better to be safe and that's why I ask Yoshioka for that favor.
Ending our conversation I go to the car that the girls had climbed, Yamada, Komuro, Hirano, Saeko, Leona, and Scythe who had stayed by my side come with me. Upon entering the car the first thing I do is tell Shisuka to go to another car and wait for our return there and then while see her leave, I take the radio to talk to the other teams.
"Here Alexander, we will begin with the third phase of the plan, that Rina and Soichiro-Messiah's teams... I mean the group of... the police group find us at the agreed point, also the other groups that were waiting, start to move"
"…it is understood"
"...the name of the leader of the police group is Mukito-san... Alex, you should try to remember at least the name of the other leaders"
"..."
I wish could answer Kurisu that I will try to do it, but since it is probably something impossible for me, I better decide to remain silent and not promise things that I cannot fulfill...
Minutes after we left the place where the zombies burned and Yoshioka stayed watching, on the way to our next target we found several vehicles that were marching in the same direction but at a slow pace.
One of the reasons for its slow speed compared to ours was because they were waiting for us, but the main reason was that the vehicles that headed the caravan could not move too fast.
This was not because they worked badly or something like that, but because of the enormous weight they had to move. These were nothing other than the 5 Tanks that had been repaired, besides accompanying them there was a good number of LAV and Jeep with machine guns following behind.
The tanks crushed or set aside anything that blocked their path, this was something impressive to see and probably very similar to one of those shows where someone drives a Moster truck through an arena to crushing other cars. It was just a little different since these vehicles passed by cars with their big wheels and the tanks instead seemed flattened...
A little excited by what I saw we continued to the ports and when we approached see other groups of cars in which Rina and the police captain who came by different routes closer to where they were should come.
We took a slightly more direct route very adjacent to the city center which was possible because of the caravan of heavy vehicles that could break through all the abandoned cars, but they had to come around this one since these streets had fewer obstructions
Once all them that would go to the port is assembled we stop right on the opposite side of where we started the attack to the city center several kilometers away where we would have to divide into two groups since although we greatly reduce the number of zombies from the center, we had to make sure that those who were left would not attack us by the back once we arrived at the port and this team would be in charge of keeping them rooted.
"Well, I think this location is good for them to try to defend it ... come out Venus, it's time for you to work a little"
"W-what is that? ... how did you make the plant you had in your camp appear here?"
I take out my poke-ball and immediately throw it, so that my other monster shows up. The soldiers of our group are not very surprised, but those of the other teams go back several steps and get nervous when they see a green area that appears out of nowhere.
"... they didn't tell you? My second hobby apart from killing zombies is to do magic"
"Stop joking boy! No 're playing and seriously answer me!"
"Calm down, Rina-san, it would be late and very troublesome for us to get into those issues, so let's better focus on our work."
"Kurisu-san is right, it is better to hurry and see how things are in the port"
Hearing my answer, Rina gets angry ... she really is a woman with little patience, but as Kurisu says, explaining this would be problematic now, so because of that I answer the first thing that came to my mind. It is good that with the comments of Kurisu and Saeko she does not insist on that and concentrates on organizing her men to defend the place.
The police captain although he had an expression of also wanting to ask about my plant, seeing Rina put that aside also does the same as her.
"Scythe, you will stay with your little sister to block the path of the zombies that come here"
"Yes... Master…"
It may be that most of the zombies in the city center were attracted to the streets that are now on fire, but like the plague that these are, not long after parked here a good amount comes to where we are.
The advantage is that these can no longer be grouped into tens of thousands, so with the men who will stay here, several Jeep with machine guns, some LAVs, 3 tanks, and several other weapons, then it shouldn't be much trouble to contain them. In addition to that, they will also have the help of a devourer and a crusher of zombies.
When the sound of shooting begins then we board our cars to continue our way, we are accompanied by 2 tanks to break through any obstacle and a few more heavy vehicles. Our main objective is to see what action the zombies took from that place for the recent events and evaluate it and then if we can kill some of them we will do it.
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We moved a little further until the coast of the sea is visible in the distance, it had been a while since I saw the vastness of it and smelled the slightly salty aroma that emanated, but unfortunately, it would not be a trip where I would see the girls wear swimwear again and I will surely only see rotten bodies there, haa ...
Not long after, the cars enter the port area ... I expected to find a good number of zombies that were attracted in the direction of where the grenades detonated yesterday because of the loud sound, but the number of zombies that we passed on the road was not big.
A little intrigued by this we continue until we to where we can see the cranes that are responsible for loading and unloading the large cargo ships and the end of the mainland and the beginning of the sea are distinguished.
What found there was a scene that we were not expecting to see at all ... now I understood the reason why instead of the zombies being attracted to where we started fighting yesterday, the amount of these increased in the opposite direction in the direction of the coast.
"W-what's going on there?"
"... I can only see that as a battle between 2 groups"
Saya speaks in doubt as she watches what was going through the windshield of the car a few hundred meters in front of us. She was not the only one who was a little surprised or confused by the unexpected development, along with our car, the others also stop to observe what was happening and try to understand it.
But no matter how you look at that, it's as Saeko says and it was a two-sided battle in which they killed each other every second. One was obviously the zombies that attacked the other in large numbers, but the other side was also no less and devoured their enemies constantly... this group was composed of sea creatures that went to the land to fight or dragged the zombies into the sea and eat them there.
"Those over there are not evolved zombies that we haven't seen yet?"
"Is that a crab? ... isn't it too big?"
"Geeh, there is a huge octopus... I hate slug creatures"
I don't know how long these two groups have been fighting but what is certain is that due to this fight between them, several creatures from both sides had to constantly evolve by feeding each other.
As Komuro says there was a good amount of agility or force E3 zombies that killed creatures of the sea or were eaten by one of them of the same level or higher... the E3 type force, as usual, their size had become larger exceeding a little 3 meters high making them very distinguishable from the crowd.
The E3 agility type, on the other hand, did not change much in size but in appearance they were somewhat different from their predecessors... now instead of 4 limbs this zombie had 6. In addition, that was not all since the evolved zombies that were here did not they had stopped at that level and could also see several E4...
These also changed but the good thing is that the E4 type force no longer continues to grow, really that was a relief since if they maintained that way then would end up becoming giants. The trouble is that they continued to develop their defense... now it seemed that they were covered by a bone armor and from their elbows things similar to two blades extended.
The agility-type E4 grew a little in size... or maybe it was just the impression they gave, no more arms grew but instead, four appendages came out of their back and that if they didn't use them you probably wouldn't notice it since they were bent on their back, but when they used them and extended them you can notice that were 2 pairs that were connected by a membrane between them making them appear larger.
The use of this new organ of these zombies was simple, I saw one of these thrown itself from the top of a crane and although at first, I thought that the idiot slipped causing me to make a little fun of thinking that they continued without having a brain, but it was good that I didn't say anything to ridicule it because otherwise, I would be the one who would have been seen as a stupid.
When I was laughing inside me, as if it wanted to shut my mouth extended those appendages and began to plan in the sky until reached a sea creature and kill it... my comfort was that I was not the only one surprised and several of the who watched with me involuntarily dropped their jaws for this.
Although these were the strongest zombies in their group, no because that they would be the kings of this battlefield, on the sea side I could see the huge crab that Hirano mentioned fighting with a force-type E4 zombie trying to cut it with its tongs.
And that zombie E4 not for having reached that level could ignore what that crab did, it was a level 46... besides the octopus that Rei mentioned, that seeing it seemed that it generated her and other girls a chill that went through everything their body was also level 43 and this with its long tentacles dragged zombies to the sea constantly.
" What do we do, Alex? This is very different from what we expected to find."
"Let's watch for a while... most zombies gather on the coast to fight and the sea creatures don't seem to be far from the sea, so we can afford to do that."
As most zombies ignored us and we were a good distance from the coast, I answer Kurisu that way. I was really a little baffled by this and did not know how to proceed, so I thought it was best to observe for a while and then decide.
But damn! I had already prepared and assumed that we could meet an E3 zombie at any time, but I did not expect to see them in this amount. But there was even E4 here... isn't it unfair to jump 2 limits directly and have them appear? They should have waited several months to show up!
[As you thought before, Alexander. Any creature if it has many resources to develop, then it will do so much faster than compared to others]
Haaa, I understand Aurora, but it's still frustrating. Although not everything is bad, during this month I don't know how many zombies have died on the coast, surely several tens of thousands and for that reason maybe I should thank the creatures of the sea for that.
In addition, of these sea creatures I also have the opportunity to collect crystals and the most important thing is that these are edible. Now the problem is that to hunt them it will not be as simple as before and on the other hand, I do not think that if we eliminate the zombies and put a group of people here as fishermen, not because they are human they will stop attacking us.
So to create a base here on the coast and take advantage of the sea it is necessary to have the right equipment to defend the place and the most appropriate to do this would be the energy shield…
"Kurisu, how are things going with the energy shield?"
"HMN? The technology research group should be creating the prototype right now... probably still a week when it is ready and we will start testing, ¿why?"
"... don't you think those creatures look delicious?"
Kurisu who was focused on watching the fight is a bit surprised by my question, but she immediately answers me and curious why I ask this now tilts her head as she questions me back.
To her question, I answer while smiled and pointed to the great octopus that was seen at the seashore and then everyone put their eyes on it.
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