Apocalyptic Villain: Female Leads, Don't Even Think About Running

Chapter 99: The Zombie Tide

In an instant, the base's residential area was overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of zombies.

An elderly man stumbled and fell as zombies descended upon him from behind.

"Mom!" A nearby man shouted, frantically searching for a weapon. His eyes landed on a metal rod lying on the ground not far away.

He quickly grabbed the rod and swung it at the nearest zombie, smashing its skull open, but it was too late; his mother's throat had already been torn open by the undead. Her aged, rough hand clutched desperately at her wounded neck, blood oozing through her fingers as she pushed her son away.

With a roar of fury, he declared, "Damn it! I'm not running anymore; I'll fight these zombies!"

Behind him, his family rallied, and several brave men picked up whatever weapons they could find, preparing to fight back against the horde.

However, as time passed, the ordinary humans found themselves outmatched by the relentless zombies. The addition of mutated zombies to the mix rendered their efforts futile, and they were quickly torn apart.

The gruesome scene of carnage unfolded in the residential area below.

The Xiacheng Base, with its tens of thousands of residents, fell in less than an hour under the relentless assault of the zombie tide.

"Damn it!" Ye Zian cursed inwardly. This was supposed to be his future labor force; the Xiacheng Base had just come under his control, and now it was slipping away.

He finally understood why there had been no zombies near Xiacheng Base—the entire base had been cultivated as food by Liu Sisi.

With the Soul-Eater Knife infused with spiritual energy, he executed a Soul-Eater Slash, clearing the mutated zombies in front of him.

Ye Zian turned and swiftly dispatched a gaping-mouthed zombie, beginning to move toward the fortress.

With the residential area destroyed and Liu Sisi unable to attack him directly from above, she would eventually exhaust her spiritual energy if the battle dragged on.

He had to retreat for now and later find a way to deal with Liu Sisi.

Ye Zian noticed that the zombies halfway up the mountain had begun their advance toward the summit. If they converged, even his strength as a third-tier ability user would be overwhelmed by the endless tide of zombies.

On the fortress, Zhao Wanrong recognized Ye Zian's intent. Once the zombies surrounded him, even he would face significant trouble.

She spoke to her comrades, "Ye Yu, position the fortress above this roadway and prepare to let Zian come up. Anna, Zhou Ruyan, and An Ziyu, take your teams to the other side and fully engage the zombie tide."

"Yes!"

Ye Yu dashed to the power room, maneuvering the fortress to hover above the road leading to the Liu family, allowing it to overlook the advancing zombies.

Meanwhile, An Ziyu and her team called upon their subordinates to start countering the zombies making their way up the mountain from the other side of the wall.

Fortunately, the winding road could only accommodate two vehicles side by side. For now, their abilities and arrows managed to contain the advance of the zombie horde.

Countless ability arrows struck the zombies on the road, piling their corpses high and slowing the advance of the following waves.

Liu Qinghuan raised her staff, unleashing flames and icy hail that spread across the roadway, momentarily bringing the situation under control.

In the air, Liu Sisi smirked, her confidence soaring as if victory was already assured.

Ye Zian felt a surge of wariness rise within him as he began to scan his surroundings with his psychic energy.

He sensed that many mutated zombies lay dormant within the earth of the mountains.

"Wanrong, quickly lift the fortress into the air!" Ye Zian urged.

As his words fell, Liu Sisi waved her hand, and thousands of Bone Spike Zombies and Spider Zombies erupted from the mountainside, along with the so-called Giant Power Zombies.

**Bone Spike Zombie** - a B-class mutated zombie that walks on all fours like a beast, covered in hard bone armor, capable of firing bone spikes from its shoulders.

**Spider Zombie** - a C-class mutated zombie that crawls backward, capable of spitting out a sticky, highly durable web.

As these two types of mutated zombies appeared, thousands of Bone Spike Zombies crouched down, launching a barrage of bone spikes directly at the fortress's shield.

This concentrated piercing attack was effective against the fortress's defenses, and the bone spikes quickly breached the protective barrier.

As the shield shattered, the Spider Zombies began to fire their webs, ensnaring the fortress's foundation.

A horde of Giant Power Zombies began pulling on the webs, working together to drag the fortress down from the sky.

Ye Zian watched in disbelief as nearly ten thousand mutated zombies suddenly appeared before him, and the fortress was uncontrollably falling.

Now Ye Zian understood the fate of the Eastern Empire researchers: the so-called awakening potions had been used by Liu Sisi to transform the zombies.

On the fortress, Zhao Wanrong spoke to Liu Qinghuan, "Liu Qinghuan, take the fire-type ability users and focus on destroying those webs. We can't let the fortress fall!"

However, there were simply too many webs. Liu Qinghuan and the other fire-type users could only manage to burn through a few, and the fortress was ultimately pulled down by the thousands of Giant Power Zombies, crashing heavily onto the mountaintop.

"Boom!"

The collision between the mountain and the fortress produced a deafening sound, visibly shaking the entire mountain.

The soldiers inside the fortress were thrown around as if on a roller coaster.

Fortunately, the fall was only ten meters, and only a few soldiers sustained minor injuries. They quickly got back on their feet to organize a counterattack.

The tremors subsided, and the mutated zombies at the mountainside began to crawl toward the Liu family's vicinity, with some continuing their assault on Ye Zian while the majority targeted the fortress's walls.

Now, the two forces were officially engaged in close combat.

Ye Zian faced several dozen fallen mutated zombies, but hundreds more awaited him behind.

Under Liu Sisi's control, the mutated zombies had assessed Ye Zian's strength. Now, only the physically strong zombies were sent to the frontlines, relentlessly wearing down Ye Zian's energy reserves, giving him no chance to regroup.

Meanwhile, Liu Sisi in the air was slowly recovering her strength.

Feeling some of her psychic energy return, Liu Sisi ordered her zombies to retreat before unleashing another wave of psychic attacks against Ye Zian.

"**Soul-Eater Slash!**"

At this moment, Ye Zian disregarded everything else, channeling all his spiritual energy into a powerful dark blade that instantly devoured all the mutated zombies in front of him along with Liu Sisi's psychic attacks.

Even the Liu family villa was significantly destroyed by the Soul-Eater Slash.

"No!" Liu Sisi screamed, her emotions spiraling out of control as she plummeted from the air.

She landed in the courtyard of the Liu family, staring at the ruins that had once been her home, her eyes turning blood-red with rage.

It was only when she caught sight of her bedroom, miraculously intact, that she regained her composure. Turning back to glare at Ye Zian, her tone had lost its earlier teasing lilt, now icy and deliberate, "Ye Zian, I will kill you."

Under her command, the surrounding mutated zombies once again surrounded Ye Zian.