Night, still pitch black.
Rain, still falling.
People, struggling to survive.
In this apocalypse, some are teetering on the brink of life and death.
Some are resisting zombies day and night.
Some have lost their humanity.
Yet, some, in this apocalypse, can still have hot water, hot meals, rest, and even entertainment.
Outside the base.
Zombies remained, gathered outside the wall. During this time, Li Yu and the others killed many zombies, and the ground outside the wall was covered with them.
To prevent zombie corpses from piling up, Li Yu even led the zombies to other parts of the wall, so they wouldn't concentrate at the main gate.
Li Yu and his companions seemed to have grown accustomed to this life, facing the cruelest and most brutal scenes on the front lines every day, yet also being able to suddenly quiet down and return to their safe, private rooms to rest peacefully.
It was as if two worlds, two extremes, were pulling people apart.
Day 29 of the heavy rain.
At 12 AM, Li Yu, Da Pao, Li Hang, Li Zhengping, Song Qi, and others were resisting zombies on the wall. Under the heavy rain, the searchlights were on, allowing them to roughly see ahead, but it wasn't enough.
So, Li Yu and the others took out the lasers they had previously obtained from the armory. With the lasers paired with night vision goggles, they could clearly see the zombies even in the pitch-black rainy night.
Everyone had become somewhat numb to killing zombies during this period.
As soon as Li Yu stepped onto the wall today, he saw that the zombies in front, under the drenching rain, had developed exceptionally smooth skin. Recently, everyone had also noticed that when killing zombies, their spears would easily slip.
On the side of the wall, Li Yu, Da Pao, and Li Hang stood in a row. One held a spear with a rope and threw it with force, while another held a spear without a rope and stabbed the zombies below the wall.
In Li Yu's hand, the spear was like a javelin. Li Yu balanced the spear in his hand. During this time, every time he went down from the wall, he had to vigorously sharpen the spear with a whetstone.
The tip had to be sharpened every time after descending from the wall, otherwise it would become dull.
With the laser, Li Yu aimed at a zombie about 8 meters from the wall. Using the height difference, he threw it with force, engaging his waist, which drove his shoulder, and the power from his shoulder then transferred to his wrist.
The spear, like an arrow, pierced straight through, hitting the zombie directly in the eye.
Pfft! The zombie's eyeball seemed to be like water, directly punctured, and some grayish-white substance splattered out.
Penetration! Some red and white matter was directly shot out from the zombie's skull. It was as if a watermelon had been punched open all at once.
After penetrating, he pulled the rope, gave a tug, and the spear lightly brushed against the wall in the air, directly hitting the concrete wall.
Clang!
The metal striking the concrete wall produced a piercing sound.
The zombies below the wall, seeing the spear, all tried to reach out and grab it, but they weren't given a chance as Li Yu pulled the spear back up.
The entire action was fluid and seamless. This sequence had been performed many times, and Li Yu had rarely missed.
In fact, this spear was also specially made; its backend was also polished very smoothly, so when it was pulled back just now, it would be very smooth, basically not getting stuck in the zombie's body.
Actually, during this time, everyone would occasionally make mistakes: for example, sometimes when throwing it out, and then retracting the spear, it would sometimes be perfectly caught by the rope by the zombies below the wall.
In such cases, everyone basically carried a knife to cut the rope at any time, preventing the zombies from pulling on it.
As everyone continued to kill zombies, they had now become proficient.
Everyone rotated, always maintaining a group of three: one person used a spear with a rope, throwing it far away to kill distant zombies.
Two people on the wall used extended spears to stab zombies within 3 meters of the wall.
Li Yu threw twice more, both times accurately killing zombies.
The entire action appeared quick, precise, and ruthless.
“Brother, how do you manage to be so accurate?” Li Hang, standing nearby, looked at his brother's graceful and powerful movements with some envy. He asked this while stabbing a zombie below the wall with his spear.
Li Yu's hands didn't stop. He swung the spear's rope back, and there was another clang.
Then he quickly pulled the spear up.
He then spoke, “It's actually somewhat similar to throwing a javelin, but the difference is that ours doesn't have a run-up; it's more about accuracy.
But the most important step: the grip. The way to grip the spear is to place it diagonally on your palm, with your thumb and middle finger gripping the upper edge of the first circle at the end of the spear's handle.
Your index finger should naturally curve and grip the spear diagonally, while your ring finger and pinky grip the handle.
Alternatively, you can grip the upper edge of the first circle at the end of the javelin's handle with your thumb and index finger, with the rest of your fingers gripping the handle in order. This allows you to better control the javelin in your hand.
Secondly, the position you are holding should be at the front one-third of the spear.
When launching, the bent left leg performs a rapid, elastic push, while the chest is pushed forward as much as possible.
And it drives the forearm forward in an explosive “whipping” motion, applying the strength of the whole body through the arm and fingers to the longitudinal axis of the spear.”
Li Yu said a lot, and Li Hang, standing by, half-understood. He had actually improved his accuracy a lot in the recent process of shooting zombies, but he had never really thought so much when shooting.
Li Yu untied the rope wrapped around his waist, then had Li Hang tie it on, and then told him to try it according to what he had just said.
Li Hang slowly tested it, and Li Yu corrected his movements from the side. Soon, Li Hang mastered the essentials.
His accuracy in killing zombies became higher and higher, sometimes even managing to string them together like a skewer.
These past few days, everyone had been continuously shooting zombies in the dark, rainy night. For some reason, these zombies seemed endless. Everyone had become numb to killing them, but these zombies seemed endless.
These zombies were like flies; as long as there was meat, the longer the meat was left, the more flies would come.
During this time, the loudspeakers outside the base had also run out of power. This was the first time in the base that those loudspeakers had run out of power, and it should be noted that these loudspeakers were designed for long endurance.
Drones were occasionally used under the heavy rain, but most of the time they were not, as the rain was too heavy and could easily bring the drones down.
Li Yu stayed until almost 10 PM that day, waiting for his Fourth Uncle to relieve him so he could go down and rest.
Before descending from the wall, Li Yu, using the searchlight's illumination, looked at the wall. The outer wall was already stained with blood, from the continuous deaths of zombies, then the washing away by the rain, and then the zombies' blood splattering onto it again, over and over.
