Ye Fan had already observed the situation yesterday. With just these twelve people and a dog, they would have to choose a suitable location to ambush nearly a thousand zombies.
The area near that restaurant was not feasible. Not only were there too many zombies, but there were also many abandoned vehicles and cement piles. It was also close to another restaurant, with a deep ditch on one side, making it impossible for the mining vehicle to operate.
The most suitable place was the restaurant separated by one building from the last restaurant.
That restaurant wasn't very big, with windows on all four sides of the second floor, perfect for setting up defensive operations.
Ye Fan first led the people to bring a minibus over to block the first floor's entrance, to prevent zombies from rushing into the building.
The Tiger vehicle was left on the side, unmoved, while Xu Haoran went to drive the mining vehicle over.
Almost all their guns were out of ammo, but the mining vehicle's anti-aircraft machine gun still had two thousand rounds.
This time, Ye Fan had Wang Hu serve as the machine gunner, while Luo Fei accompanied him to the upper floor to prepare for defense.
With everything arranged, Xu Haoran drove the mining vehicle into action.
The massive Metal Shovel rammed the road-blocking buses aside, and the rumbling noise immediately drew the attention of the zombie horde.
The zombie horde clustered around the small building began moving.
They wobbled forward slowly but with extraordinary determination towards the mining vehicle.
"Open fire!"
Wang Hu poked his head out of the mining vehicle's turret, setting up the long double-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun.
Pulling the trigger, a bloody storm raged through the zombie horde.
The anti-aircraft machine gun could even shoot down low-flying planes, making it lethally effective against flesh and blood.
Ye Fan, observing from the second floor, asked Xu Haoran, who was driving, "Can Wang Hu quickly promote stars by shooting zombies?"
"Sir, no. He's using the mining vehicle's mounted machine gun, so the promotion applies to the mining vehicle."
"Oh, Nana, how much is the mining vehicle worth?"
"Sir, an armed mining vehicle is worth fifteen hundred Gold apiece."
Ye Fan calculated it quickly. With triple the value for a star promotion, and each zombie worth ten Gold, it would take forty-five hundred Gold, or four hundred fifty zombies.
Although the mining vehicle had two thousand rounds, killing four hundred fifty zombies would be difficult.
The power of this machine gun was vast, but the trade-off for such power was a lack of precision, making it challenging to hit vital points in such a chaotic scenario.
Many zombies were knocked down but quickly got back up again. Their battered bodies didn't affect their tenacious vitality as they still howled towards the mining vehicle.
About four or five minutes later, the mining vehicle's machine gun fell silent.
This kind of machine gun could fire at a rate of six hundred rounds per minute. Ye Fan's order to Wang Hu was to kill as many zombies as possible while they were clustered, without sparing ammo.
Wang Hu executed the order perfectly, using all the ammo in just four minutes.
The size of the zombie horde didn't seem to have decreased significantly, with approximately two hundred zombies shot down to become corpses.
Boom~~~!
An armor-piercing incendiary round was fired.
This weapon, like a small explosive, created a fireball amongst the zombie horde.
More than thirty zombies were engulfed, transforming into torches that staggered around before finally collapsing in defeat.
Boom boom~~~!
Two more incendiary rounds were fired, sending another blaze skyward.
"That's enough, move the mining vehicle this way!"
The mining vehicle moved through the pile of cars, arriving underneath the small building where Ye Fan had set the ambush.
The height of the mining vehicle was almost parallel to the second floor, and with the windows open, Xu Haoran and Wang Hu jumped directly from there into the second floor.
Ye Fan took a glance at the mining vehicle's upgrade progress, barely more than halfway completed.
In the heap of broken vehicles, the mining vehicle couldn't leverage its crushing advantage, and without ammo, it was essentially tactically redundant for now.
Fortunately, today's main combatants were still the soldiers, and the real battle was yet to come.
Having lost over three hundred zombies, the horde didn't appear to have diminished much, snarling as it surged toward the small building.
"Xu Haoran, Wang Hu, prioritize your shots, and maintain precision as much as possible."
The two started firing simultaneously.
Xu Haoran, a scout, had far superior shooting skills compared to regular soldiers, and Wang Hu, who had been promoted twice, was already a near-sharpshooter.
The Model 36 Submachine Gun and the Model 12 Silenced Submachine Gun were both unleashed, suddenly halting the zombie horde's forward momentum.
One by one, zombies suddenly dropped, collapsing in front of the small building.
Out of every ten shots, at least five were headshots, a decent achievement for moving targets.
But the number of zombies was overwhelming. The horde still loomed, with at least six to seven hundred zombies pressing towards the small building.
Ye Fan checked the time; it was ten minutes to twelve.
"Team action, free fire!"
With the order, everyone stationed themselves at the windows, unleashing a hailstorm of gunfire!
Even Ye Fan drew his Model 23 pistol, and started shooting at a zombie below.
Bang bang bang~~~!
The eight bullets were spent, and Ye Fan withdrew the gun.
The zombie he had aimed at was now utterly miserable, with several holes in its body and one arm broken, yet it still stubbornly advanced towards them.
"Looks like I need more practice with moving targets."
The zombies roared around the small building, but the entrance was blocked by a minibus. They couldn't find a way in and could only circle around aimlessly.
This gave the soldiers an opportunity to shoot calmly, waiting patiently for the reload time, which was three more minutes.
Watching the zombies circling the building, Ye Fan felt that this sniping operation didn't seem as difficult.
Xiaotian, who had been crouching beside Ye Fan, suddenly perked up his ears, and warily watched the horde of corpses in front.
Animals have a strong sense of perception. Despite the numbers, Xiaotian wasn't afraid, indicating that something even more formidable was approaching.
Xu Haoran also suddenly reported, "Officer, mutated zombies have appeared."
Ye Fan quickly looked outside and saw the tall mutated zombies moving with the horde.
One was over two meters tall, with four more over one meter ninety.
"Don't worry, everyone. Wait until the bullets reload and take them down."
The giant zombies approached and instinctively spread out, circling the house, seemingly unable to find a way in either.
"One more minute to reload."
Everyone held their guns, waiting for the moment of reload.
At this moment, a zombie suddenly bolted out from the horde.
It was a female zombie, moving unlike a regular zombie, as agile as a monkey, leaping over two meters high and grabbing a second-floor window.
With another leap, it actually jumped straight in!
"Oh no!"
Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat. This was clearly a mutated zombie as well.
Unlike their male counterparts that took the power route, female zombies' agility significantly increased after mutation.
The one guarding this side of the window was Li Biao, whose bullets were long gone. As the zombie charged in, he could only swing the butt of his gun at it.
A Senior Private has the combat power of three ordinary adults, and this swing was powerful and forceful, yet it missed.
The zombie dodged Li Biao's gun butt, swinging its pitch-black claws in the air, making a wound on Li Biao's chest!
Li Biao grunted and retreated, while the zombie lunged straight at Ye Fan.
At this moment, everyone's guns were out of bullets, and Ye Fan's heart tightened; things were going bad!
Woof~~!
Xiaotian, who had been crouching beside Ye Fan, sprang out, meeting it in midair, biting the zombie's calf.
Slowed by Xiaotian, the zombie's pitch-black claws almost brushed past Ye Fan's nose, scaring him into a cold sweat.
Xiaotian bit off the zombie's calf, halting its attack.
On the other side, Xu Haoran swiftly reinforced, the Scout leaping up and kicking out in midair.
In perfect coordination with Xiaotian, taking advantage of the zombie's unstable footing, he kicked its chest, directly knocking the zombie back to the window.
As he kicked, Xiaotian followed through, crashing into the zombie and knocking it out the window again.
Xu Haoran followed up, taking a grenade from his waist, pulled the pin, and threw it at the zombie.
"Goodbye!"
A fireball exploded in midair; the female zombie had nowhere to hide and was blown to pieces by the grenade!
Xu Haoran and Xiaotian joined forces, finally dealing with this agile zombie.
At this time, the bullets were reloaded, and Ye Fan immediately took out a freshly produced serum and tossed it to Li Biao.
"Inject it yourself, everyone else shoot hard!"
Nearly taken out by a zombie, Ye Fan was annoyed, and the second floor burst into full force.
The whizzing of bullets was hair-raising, and the intense firepower immediately turned the zombies topsy-turvy.
Yesterday these soldiers had already surpassed halfway in their upgrade progress, now the bullets were fully reloaded, allowing them to fire wantonly because after star promotion, bullets would auto-reload; not using them would be a waste.
One person, in particular, stood out, being the Army Soldier Luo Fei.
In frontline combat, among individual soldier types, perhaps only the Navy SEALs could surpass an Army Soldier.
When upgraded to Three-Star, with enough distance, not even the Navy SEALs could rival an Army Soldier.
With precise shooting and ferocious firepower, Luo Fei leveled up after emptying the second magazine!
Ye Fan saw him take out a drum magazine from his backpack.
The drum magazine was essentially a large magazine, disk-shaped, placed in the magazine slot, allowing for rolling bullet loading.
Seeing this, Ye Fan was stunned: "Luo Fei, how many bullets does your drum hold?"
"Reporting, sir, I have thirty bullets in the gun now, a thirty-round magazine, and a one hundred twenty-round drum!"
A One-star Army Soldier can wield 180 bullets daily!
With fierce tongues of flames spit forth, the zombies in front of Luo Fei were shot into a vacuum zone!
Ye Fan was secretly overjoyed, it seemed there was hope for this sniping!