Trembling At A High Altitude

"Sniper! Observer! Searchlight! Quickly find out who's sending the signal flares!"

Number 5 immediately issued another order.

"Can we shoot? The sniper rifle is also very loud, and the zombies are only a few dozen meters away," the Sniper was standing right next to Number 5 at that time.

"If we don't shoot, are we waiting for him to send the signal flare directly above our heads? What's the difference?" Number 5 was clearly getting desperate.

He had never imagined that his supposedly impregnable military camp, which could not be penetrated without heavy weapons, would be approached by Li Teng in this manner.

Just then, another signal flare was launched.

This time, the distance between the explosion and the military camp was reduced to 30 meters.

"Found him! On the east side!"

An observer with a telescope located the person launching the signal flares.

The person, following behind the zombie horde, launched the flare and then immediately turned and ran, quickly disappearing into the darkness that the searchlight could not reach.

The person who ran away was Li Teng.

The first signal flare had been launched by Liu Hui from a tree.

The second and third ones were launched by Li Teng.

The second was launched under the cover of darkness, but by the third, he had entered the edge of the searchlight's reach, making it very risky as the sniper could lock onto him, so he fired a shot and ran.

The Sniper, roughly aware of the direction of the signal flare launcher, quickly swung his rifle in that direction and, following the observer's lead, searched for Li Teng's figure in the scope.

Unfortunately, Li Teng had already run away.

However, unexpectedly, just as the Sniper had turned his rifle towards the direction where Li Teng had disappeared, another signal flare was launched.

This launch point was even closer than the previous one.

The signal flare exploded directly above the military camp.

The observer and the Sniper together locked onto the person launching this signal flare.

By the figure, it seemed to be Liu Hui, who, after launching the flare, also hurriedly fled towards the area outside the beam of the searchlight.

She had ventured too deep into enemy lines to get the signal flare above the military camp and had no chance to escape. After being locked by the sniper, she was shot in the back, a bloody hole piercing through her, and she fell face down on the ground, motionless.

A while later, her body mysteriously disappeared from the ground.

However, those standing on the wooden walls of the military camp, including Number 5, hadn't noticed this.

Because, following the explosion of that signal flare above the camp, led by a dozen mutant zombies, the horde charged directly toward the military camp, quickly discovering the fresh human flesh stationed on the wooden barricades.

"Boss! Fire the cannon now! If they get through, we're done for!" the Sniper and the Assault Rifleman, sensing the dire situation, urgently suggested to Number 5.

"Damn it! Damn damn damn!" Number 5 was immensely angry.

His portable rocket-boosted grenade launcher, and the twenty grenades it held, had been intended for Li Teng.

Now, they would be wasted on these zombies!

Weren't these zombies supposed to help them fight Li Teng according to the script? How had they become Li Teng's allies, now attacking their camp?

This was downright unscientific!

But No. 5 had no other choice.

If he didn't fire the grenade launcher now, once these mutant zombies breached the camp, they would have nowhere to be buried!

At his command, the sound of gunfire erupted from dozens of soldiers on the wall.

The assault riflemen's guns spewed flames, the snipers began to pick off the mutants' heads, and No. 5's grenade launcher fired off grenades.

The frenzied firepower suppressed the advancing wave of corpses.

The battle was brutally fierce.

In no time, seven or eight mutant zombies lay fallen on the ground.

Most of the regular zombies hadn't even reached the wooden walls before they were shot dead in the open ground in front of the camp.

But because the distance between the two forces was too short, the fierce gunfire was not enough to wipe out the thousand-plus zombies in a short time. Eventually, five or six mutant zombies led over two hundred regular zombies to the base of the wooden fortification. After a roar from the mutants, they easily busted open or lifted the wooden fortifications of the camp and led the remaining regular zombies into the camp.

The camp was filled with wails and chaos; No. 5 retreated further inside the camp and fired another grenade at one of the mutant zombies.

The result was that the grenade did not kill the mutant zombie but instead blew away several NPC soldiers who were fighting it!

No. 5 dared not fire grenades at random anymore, seeing the five or six mutant zombies strutting unchallenged in the camp and confirming they were beyond salvation, he gave a desperate command to the soldiers to defend the camp to the death, then led the assault riflemen, snipers, and about a dozen of the Black Dragon Association's elite to abandon the camp and flee towards the hill on the east side of the camp.

Atop the hill on the east side, there was a four-story building made of reinforced concrete, long abandoned.

No. 5 had set up a sentry post there, with a few soldiers stationed at it.

It was the last escape route he had prepared for himself, although he had never intended to use it when preparing it. He was naturally cautious and still organized this retreat path, never knowing it would actually come into play.

In this building, the snipers could still overlook the camp below from the upper floors, as well as Point B inside the camp, which was the final task handoff point for Li Teng and Liu Hui.

When No. 5 and his group reached the top of the hill and looked back down, there were no more living people in his camp, only a few mutant zombies and dozens of regular zombies gnawing on the bodies of the previously deceased NPC soldiers and NPC civilians.

No. 5 sighed deeply and walked into the four-story building on top of the hill.

Some rooms in the building were intact, with doors and windows, but most of the doors and windows were already in ruins.

These intact doors and windows had been installed later, to provide living and resting places for the soldiers in the outpost.

As soon as No. 5 led everyone into the building, instead of being greeted by the NPC soldiers in the outpost, they saw several bodies lying on the floor in the lobby.

The bodies were still wet with blood.

This immediately put them on high alert.

Could it be... that Li Teng had already killed his way here before them?

"Boss, there's writing on the wall!" the assault rifleman shone his flashlight toward the white wall opposite the entrance of the lobby.

In blood, two lines were written.

"Welcome to the 'Snowfield Hunter' filming site!"

"Wishing all the prey fun."

Beneath those lines was the writer's signature.

"Li Teng."