Chapter 1907 Grey Bear Squad in Zombie World
As Jin was messing around to complete his dungeon instance, the Grey Bears Squad finally got to the Great Wall of China from the coordinates based on Jin's World. The System does not have any surveillance prepared nor has it used its powers to scout the place in advance. Thus, the area that the Grey Bears had teleported to, was a destination which everyone had no idea what was installed for them.
"We should have asked for a plane… or a helicopter," Yinn said as the teleportation had brought them several thousand metres up above the sky mainly because the System did not want any disruption of the portal. What if the coordinates of the portal had been stuck in between buildings? Or is it in some pillar? It would be a waste of portal energy and the System's resources.
Thus, rather than attempting to fix the portal coordinates, the System merely used the sky as its entrance. Jin had also made sure that Bai Xin had given all of them a parachute when they entered the portal. Hence when they entered the portal, they would be diving down into their supposed destination.
It did not take long for them to adjust and find a possible clearing for a clean landing. It was only then the entire squad released their parachutes so that they could land safely. But as they were on air, each and every Mechanoid had automatically assigned themselves to do a quick survey of the land.
"Not as many zombies as we expect," Diaz reported and the rest concurred as well.
"Derek did state that there are different kinds of zombie activations so we still have to keep alert of them." Yinn reinforced the squad not to lower their guard or else they might be swarmed over easily.
"We should be fine since there are zombies roaming around over there," Tellie reported and pointed towards the Great Wall's towers, citing that there was at least a group of twenty over zombies mindlessly walking around at that position.
"Then I guess we got lucky and do not have to encounter the sleeping zombies then." Click said as they had heard from Derek that the Sleeping Zombies were one of the more dangerous basic level zombies they could encounter. Those zombies sleep in the day and subsequently become more active into the night. And unlike the zombies who merely roam around mindlessly the entire day, these sleeping zombies are afraid of the sunlight like vampires and once dawn comes, their 'assertiveness' doubles as if to make up for the lost time during the day.
The worst part is that sleeping zombies do not always travel alone but in groups. At first, the squad thought that the groups would not scare them since they had modern weapons with them. However, Derek later explained that when it comes to Sleeping Zombies, their group size is approximately at least a hundred to two hundred at the low size. There were packs that went up a thousand.
When asked how Derek knew all this, he could only say that he had the knowledge within him when he turned into Half Ghoul Lord. Other than that, there was nothing else he could prove whether those Sleeping Zombies were real or whether his information was reliable or not. One thing was for sure, when the Grey Bears saw such zombies, they had to run.
"All landed successfully?" Yinn asked and the rest gave their acknowledgement through the System Channel. They quickly disengaged their parachutes and checked the surroundings to make sure that there were no zombies around that could alert any horde.
"I am dying to try out these chi based weapons though," Diaz said as she checked her rifle only to see that they were almost identical based on the designs in the Synthesis World. While she did not question it, the others did. They had no idea that the weapons were similar and even the naming convention was the same too.
When asked by the System, it only replied that certain items, names, and even doppelgangers could potentially create the same thing on different planets. So, to the System, it was not that unusual at all as it showed the multiverse's Black Market as an example. Various weapons had the same company names and made the very same weapon.
When asked whether that person was the same as Jin, going around various worlds to sell his weapons just as Jin tried to sell his dungeons but failed terribly at it, the System could only answer that there was such a possibility and was unable to give any further clarification to that particular weapon.
As for the rifles that Diaz and the rest were holding, they were chi enhanced rifles where instead of putting their normal battery converted energy into the weapon, they had to use their chi to do so. This way, one of the methods for not getting discovered was that the chi enhanced rifles were imbued with an inscription charm that reduces or completely removes the noise from the shooting.
But most of the time it's the latter unless the user of the said rifle is strong enough to propel the bullet into their enemies without the use of the trigger. This meant that instead of pressing the trigger manually, the user would use its chi to push the rifle out of the chamber instead. The rifle barrel was there to help push the bullet out.
Of course, there was the leftover bullet casing and gunpowder in those bullets so such rifles can handle gunpowder-less bullets and use only chi to propel them. Even the bullet casing had been modified such that it contained a small amount of chi based on the simple inscriptions on it. Hence, such bullets are expensive since each of them was uniquely craved to be part of the ammunition clip.
Most users would usually need three to four years of training to even use such chi enhanced rifles with modified bullets but for the Mechanoids who had brains and processors that outwit most humans, the chi energy usage was a simple feat for all of them to handle once they understood the process.
"We can kill those zombies at the tower or move further through the forest and down to where the highway could be," Yinn said to the group
"That is if this world is similar to the one that Jin resides in." Page reminded.
"Forest would be quite a hassle in my opinion. Our objective is to scout into the cities to see what they have. If we were to spend too much time in the forests, we would be wasting resources." Tellie gave her opinion.
"Yeah, those bunch of zombies should be easy killing. Maybe we do not even need to use our rifles at all, just some close combat fights and knives will do the trick."
"Or swords?" Click smiled as she showed her recently bought a sword from the weapons instance.
"You want to act like Jin is it?"
"We did have some data on his fighting style, should not be too difficult to replicate… I think?" Click replied as she tried to swing her sword but felt it did not have the same feel as she had seen Jin perform it. "Regardless, if we do not try it, we would not know whether it would work or not. Besides, going to the tower gives us some vantage point."
"We had already scouted the area when we were descending from the skies, that should be enough data," Yinn replied.
"Yeah, but that data is useless once we start traveling. At least we know that the highway is down south and what we have to do is to move to the highway as soon as possible since there would be rest stops before approaching the highway." Click argued.
"For once, I will concur with Click. We are well equipped for the situation and we can back out anytime. What we need now is some speed in our scouting or else, it will be a waste of our resources. Besides, our main objective is to test our strength. If we try to avoid everything to reach the city, that would also be quite a shame." Page supported Click and the rest also started nodding their heads.
"Alright, let's go to the tower and kick some zombie butts then. No guns. Let's not waste the bullets for now. Use whatever melee weapons you …you guys all brought swords?" Yinn could not believe it as the entire Grey Bear Squad had brandished their short swords out.
"Don't act like you are the odd one out, we saw you getting a sword as well," Diaz commented and Yinn embarrassingly took out her sword as well and nodded her head.
"Same concept, we all saw how Commander Jin fared with a sword. It is better to use him as an example rather than textbooks." Yinn tried to reason but the rest of the group giggled.
"See, everyone had been influenced by the commander, there is nothing to be ashamed of," Diaz said as she tapped hard on Yinn's shoulder and started running towards the Great Wall's tower with her short sword out. The rest also followed and Yinn reluctantly joined the crowd.
In no time, they reached the base of the Great Wall's tower, and with a rope gun and an ascender, it took only minutes to reach the top of the tower where they began their rampage. The zombies had no idea was this menacing force that came to eliminate their lazy carefree lives. But the fact that they killed almost without a sound, had allowed them to be captured by the System after their deaths.
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