The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 171

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Chapter 171

Crunch!

With one bite, the zombie tore open the wire flooring,

Bang, bang, bang!

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

Bang, bang, bang!

Gunfire blasted through the corridor again.

No one expected this batch of zombies to shrug off bullets.

Their dried, leathery skin was as tough as metal. Every shot sparked against thera, leaving only shallow dents.

These were mutated zombies with iron hide!

Liam’s entire team had never seen anything like this. They had run into mutants before, but never ones so dried out and hardened that bullets couldn’t punch through.

And these were incredibly fast, to boot!

“Fall back to the entrance!” Liam shouted.

Everyone immediately ran toward him, watching every angle as zombies lunged from above, below, and both sides.

With every step they took, the zombies clinging under the walkway shredded more of the wire mesh.

Clang, clang, clang!

The flooring split open in hole after hole.

From both sides, zombies shot out and grabbed people’s legs, yanking them down.

Anyone who fell dropped straight into the grain pit below, sinking as fast as if they had fallen into quicksand. In the blink of an eye, half of their group of 70 was gone.

They blasted forward with gunfire, but soon realized that gifts worked better than bullets.

The zombies were naturally weaker against gifts.

Liam’s squad stopped using guns. Everyone switched to their abilities instead.

Fire, water, and metal orbs, as well as lightning attacks shot in every direction, hammering the zombies coming from all sides.

The surge of power bought them a little time.

They were all thinking the same thing: run!

Everyone fired up every ability they had left, blasting zombies wherever they appeared

Just as they were about to reach the entrance ahead of them, something crashed down.

A massive shadow dropped from above at the end of the corridor with a loud boom.

Thud!

The figure turned its head.

It was a huge, bloated zombie whose entire body looked boiled and rotting. Its staff uniform had melted into its deraved flesh

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Half its face sagged off as it stared at the group packed into the narrow passage.

“Raarh!”

It charged straight toward Hayley and the others.

The floor shook, and the whole corridor trembled.

Up ahead stood a huge zombie, and there wasn’t an escape route behind them.

The zombies climbing from below had already reached the feet of the last person.

There was nowhere to run.

Even worse, they were out of abilities.

“Aaah!”

Suddenly, a member of Future Base at the back was yanked down by the leg. His teammate grabbed his hand to pull him up, but with a sharp crack, a zombie climbed onto his back and struck straight at his heart.

At the same time, the centipede-like zombies swarmed them like predators closing in on a trapped meal.

Everyone was crushed together with no way forward, no way back, no room anywhere.

Just when everyone thought they were dead, a wall of water suddenly rose around them.

They had never seen anything like it. The water wall was so powerful that for a moment, they felt the moisture being sucked straight out of their own bodies, and the air turned painfully dry.

Bang!

Water droplets burst forward like high-pressure rounds, punching clean through the zombies’ iron-hard skin, which even bullets couldn’t scratch.

“From now on, I’ll be the one dividing the supplies!”

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