The crowd surged.
Li Yu watched the flow of people below from atop the wall, while his Second Uncle observed an endless stream of people pouring into Weng City from the forest, as if there was no end to it.
There were simply too many people.
10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds.
Weng City became crowded with many people; the space of several hundred square meters suddenly felt cramped.
As time passed, the number of people moving against the flow increased, and from the forest side, it finally became clear that no more people were entering.
At this moment, if viewed from a wider perspective, more than half of the people had already poured into Weng City, with half of them inside Weng City.
Li Yu roughly estimated that including those inside and outside Weng City, there were at least 1500 people.
More and more people were moving against the flow, and the influx of people at the entrance also paused.
It was evident that people entering through the main gate were being blocked by those moving in the opposite direction.
If the main gate wasn't closed now, not only would more people not be able to enter Weng City, but on the contrary, those already inside Weng City would try to escape.
"Close the gate!" Li Yu shouted to Li Hang beside him.
Li Hang and Second Uncle pulled the gate-closing button.
The large iron gate made a creaking sound.
This massive iron gate, incredibly heavy and designed with bearings, now descended with a grinding sound, like a giant boulder.
People around the gate, alerted by the sound, frantically moved away from the main entrance, fearing being crushed by the gate.
The gate took some time to close, and a group of people far outside, seeing the gate about to close, thought they would lose their chance to enter, so they pushed hard against those in front of them, striving towards the gate.
Meanwhile, those inside the gate realized something was wrong and pushed hard towards the outside, trying to escape before the gate closed!
These two streams of people.
They were like water and fire, moving in opposite directions, incompatible.
People around the gate were divided into three parts: some surged into Weng City, some surged out of Weng City, and some didn't know which way to run.
But the large iron gate overhead slowly descended, forcing them to make a decision in this urgent moment.
Out, or in.
Often, at crucial moments, some people are always in a panic; both advancing and retreating are decisions, but in such critical times, some people don't know if they are scared or what is going on.
They remained rooted to the spot.
The gate slowly descended, yet six or seven people remained motionless beneath it.
They just watched the large iron gate descend bit by bit.
2 meters, 1 meter.
Among them, two or three people, amidst the pushing of others, escaped outside Weng City.
The iron gate's closing posture became increasingly evident, like a Yuanyang Hotpot with maximum heat, the two soup bases boiling, one spicy, one clear.
This closing of the gate caught them off guard.
Li Yu saw the timing was right, so he shouted to Second Uncle and the others beside him, "Fire!"
Bang, bang, bang!
Gunshots echoed!
Suddenly, everyone straightened up from behind the wall's railing, raising their assault rifles and unleashing a torrent of fire upon the crowd below the wall.
Yang Tianlong, Li Tie, and others arrived later and were now standing inside Weng City.
The idea of 'luring the enemy into the Weng City' was a sudden flash of inspiration for Li Yu; they had initially thought they would eliminate the people inside Weng City at this moment.
However, too many people came, far more than they had anticipated.
There were actually over a thousand people.
Even with so many people already inside Weng City, less than half remained outside.
As Li Tie and the others opened fire, the people inside Weng City fell like cut wheat.
Shock, despair, regret.
Cries of agony filled the air.
Li Yu, atop the gate, did the opposite; after shouting "Fire," he raised his gun and fired at the people outside Weng City.
His Second Uncle, Xiao Lata Yu Tong, Li Hang, and Third Uncle, who were beside him, seeing Li Yu's actions, instantly aimed their guns outside Weng City.
At this moment, the target was the people outside Weng City.
Those inside Weng City were already doomed and could be dealt with slowly later.
However, the people outside Weng City were now the primary target for elimination.
Boom.
Boom.
After emptying a magazine, Li Hang, not feeling satisfied, directly threw two hand grenades about a dozen meters away from the wall, causing chaos and a stampede.
People outside Weng City, hearing the gunshots, especially seeing those beside them fall from being shot, wished they had two more legs to run towards the forest.
And in the forest, the Da Bei Tou mature man, hearing the first gunshot, began to feel fortunate.
He hadn't run fast, and had even stopped later.
Because he had always felt something was off; based on the conversation between the siblings and the man on the wall earlier, it was too abnormal that they just opened the gate.
Logically, for such a large base to operate continuously until now, people who survived the apocalypse to this point couldn't be ordinary individuals.
How could they let people in so easily?
Something was wrong.
While he was thinking outside, he saw the flow of people pouring in, and he observed everything as if he were an outsider.
Later, he heard some chaotic sounds from inside, saying, "No way out." "Get out." It was hard to hear clearly among the voices of over a thousand people.
He hadn't expected it to be less than 30 seconds.
The gate descended, and bullets rained down.
Behind Da Bei Tou, there were still over a dozen people. These people had always followed Da Bei Tou, and now, watching the people continuously running from the gate being shot and killed by Li Yu and others, they felt a surge of relief in their hearts.
Tat-tat-tat!
Suddenly, a rapid burst of machine gun fire erupted. Li Yu's assault rifle didn't stop; he smoothly swapped in a full magazine, inserted it, and continued to spray fire towards the edge of the forest.
He wanted to prevent these people from escaping into the forest, so he didn't prioritize killing those directly below the wall but instead targeted those who had already fled to the forest's edge.
Hearing the sounds nearby, he saw from his peripheral vision that Li Tie and the others, noticing Li Yu and his group firing outside the wall, quickly reacted and immediately ran to the main gate to attack outside the wall.
Suddenly, their firepower greatly increased.
From the wall, over thirty tongues of bullet fire poured out towards the outside. When Li Yu had lured these people in, Second Uncle had already opened the walkie-talkie and called up the other people in the base.
These gunshots were the loudest sound in this area.
All the wails, curses, and pleas for mercy.
Were completely drowned out.
In less than 10 seconds, nearly a hundred people had already escaped from below the wall towards the forest.
This was unavoidable; it was a method Li Yu had thought of on the fly. In that urgent moment, Second Uncle and the others beside him had already reacted very quickly.
Achieving such an effect at this moment was already very good.
