End of the World

"Brother Chen, which unit were you from before?" In their spare time, the two people in the watchtower would chat. After a few hours of adaptation, Xiao Wu felt much better, but he didn't dare to look down.

"I served in the army for three years, and then I have been working in the special police team!" Chen Guangjun raised the binoculars and looked at the zombies that were still there, observing their movements.

"So Brother Chen is a special police officer!" Xiao Wu saw that Chen Guangjun had good qualities in all aspects and thought he was from the Army Special Forces.

"Which unit are you from?" Chen Guangjun put down the telescope and looked back at Xiao Wu. He found that he was much better now and his complexion was back to normal.

"From the Army Aviation Regiment." Xiao Wu sighed. After joining the army, he was assigned to the Army Aviation, but he was a technical sergeant and didn't know how he was assigned to a combat unit.

"You've just joined the army not long ago!" Chen Guangjun saw that Xiao Wu did not have the unique temperament of a soldier and knew that he had just passed the recruit training camp.

"About half a year. Brother Chen, you said I'm a technical soldier, so how come I was assigned to a combat team?" Xiao Wu couldn't understand it, because he clearly applied to be a technical soldier.

"Oh?" Chen Guangjun was surprised. No wonder he felt that Xiao Wu's physical fitness was not as good as others. It turned out that he was a technical sergeant.

"It should be a test from the army!" Chen Guangjun had heard about civilian soldiers being assigned to combat teams when he was in the army. Apparently this was a routine operation in the army.

"Did I fail to pass?" Xiao Wu thought about how his superiors did not object when he applied for transfer.

"Not necessarily. It's possible that the platoon leader arranged you here at the instruction of your superior!" Chen Guangjun knew that the army generally would not easily transfer individuals' positions, which could easily disrupt subsequent plans and arrangements. If anyone could transfer positions at will, it would be a mess.

Xiao Wu felt that there was some truth to it. Maybe the leader wanted him to change his environment and adjust his mentality before returning to the Army Aviation Regiment.

The two of them were not busy chatting, but paying attention to the situation of the zombies from time to time. They are sentinels now, and any negligence will lead to big mistakes.

"Sergeant, Sergeant, there are five zombies approaching the west side of the outpost, three hundred meters away!" Chen Guangjun, who was on a high place, easily spotted the zombies trying to approach the outpost. Generally speaking, zombies that were too far away would be ignored, and there would be too many to handle. Only zombies that might pose a threat to the outpost would be cleared.

"Got it, good job, we'll go over and clean it up now, stay alert!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the message, the squad leader of the first squad led four people out of the post. The gunshots would attract zombies, so they needed to use cold weapons to fight. The post was originally equipped with gun silencers, but they were cancelled after too much wear and tear.

Facts have proved that in a one-on-one situation, zombies are no match for humans using cold weapons. Ordinary people can do it, not to mention soldiers. You know, bayonet fighting is still one of their training subjects.

The squad leader led his men to easily deal with them, preparing to pack them in body bags and drive them to a designated location to dump them. A large pit was dug near each post to hold the bodies, and when the pit was almost full, the engineering troops would come over to dig up the dirt and bury it, and then find another place to dig a new one.

"Brother Chen, is there a dog over there?" Xiao Wu patted Chen Guangjun and pointed to a place farther to the west. He saw something like a dog running around in the woods over there, but he couldn't see clearly without a telescope.

"Where?" Chen Guangjun was shocked. The scene of being chased out of the factory by zombie dogs was still vivid in his mind.

"In the woods to the west!" Xiao Wu replied. He didn't quite understand why Chen Guangjun was so nervous. He went to the shelter after the disaster and naturally didn't know the horror of zombie dogs.

Chen Guangjun quickly raised his telescope and indeed saw some four-legged black shadows running around in the woods, but due to the light problem he couldn't see clearly what they were.

The black shadows soon stopped moving. They spotted the five dead bodies outside the outpost and ran out immediately at a very fast speed.

When Chen Guangjun saw that it was indeed a zombie dog running out, he felt unwell again.

"Sergeant, there are several zombie dogs at the nine o'clock direction, kill them quickly!" Chen Guangjun said anxiously as he picked up the communicator.

"What?" The squad leader heard Chen Guangjun's call, turned around and saw several black shadows running towards them at an incredibly fast speed.

"Quick! Enemy attack at nine o'clock, shoot!" The squad leader had never seen zombies move so fast. He had no time to explain to others. He raised his gun and shot at the black shadow in front of him.

The other four were also well-trained. They were only one second slower than the squad leader and raised their guns to shoot. They might not be able to hit the target every time, but they still had a certain hit rate. The firepower of five assault rifles effectively curbed the charge of the zombie dogs.

The squad leader finished a magazine first, and before he could change bullets, the other guys' guns misfired, obviously they had also used up all the bullets in their magazines.

In the moment when the five people were changing magazines, the zombie dogs rushed to within dozens of meters. The squad leader loaded the magazine and fired the rifle again, but he only had enough time to knock down two zombie dogs, and the remaining one had already run to the five people.

The zombie dog flew up and pounced on one of them, catching him off guard and knocking him down. The zombie dog bit his neck, and it was too late for the others to stop it. Blood splattered everywhere. The zombie dog bit his throat so hard that he could not make any sound.

"Chen Zhen!" a soldier next to him shouted, obviously familiar with it. The soldier had just loaded the gun in his hand with bullets, and the muzzle was almost pointing at the zombie dog's head. A row of bullets shot directly into pieces the zombie dog's head.

"Quick! Carry him back!" The squad leader saw a group of zombies surrounding him, attracted by the gunshots.

Several people put away their guns, one raised their hands and one lifted their feet, and carried them back to the outpost. The other people in the outpost gathered around. No one spoke. Although they were not familiar with each other, they were comrades in the same trench.

When the other people in the outpost heard the gunshots, they all climbed onto the wall and saw Chen Zhen being knocked down by the zombie dog. They wanted to provide support, but they were basically outside the effective range of the rifles, and careless shooting might even injure themselves by mistake.

Chen Zhen is now breathing in more than out, and it is obvious that he is not going to survive. What's more, he was bitten by a zombie dog, so he will soon become a zombie.

"boom!"

A gunshot rang out over the sentry post, and Chen Zhen's good friend helped him end his pain. Everyone took off their helmets and observed a moment of silence for their fallen comrade.

Chen Guangjun on the watchtower sighed. He knew the meaning of the gunshots. A comrade in their class had died. Chen Guangjun blamed himself. If he had found the zombie dog earlier, perhaps all this would not have happened. Xiao Wu on the side bowed his head to mourn for the fallen comrade. They had just gathered together today and might not know each other's names, but it was undeniable that they were comrades in the same unit.

Outpost No. 9 is only one thousand meters away from outpost No. 10, and both places are in open areas, so the gunfire from outpost No. 9 can basically be heard by outpost No. 10.

Hearing the gunshots from Post No. 9, Platoon Leader Gong Shusen rushed over from Post No. 10. Post No. 9 was surrounded by a number of zombies attracted by the gunshots, and Gong Shusen took a lot of effort to enter Post No. 9.

"What's going on? Why are you shooting?" Gong Shusen asked with a gloomy face as soon as he came in. He had repeatedly emphasized that they should try not to shoot, but they didn't listen. It would have been fine if they just shot, but they made it seem like a war.

"Platoon leader, Chen Zhen from the first squad has died!" said the squad leader with some sadness. As a squad leader, he bears a great responsibility.

"What? Chen Zhen died?" Gong Shusen was shocked. It seemed that the matter was more serious than he had imagined, so he did not pursue the matter of the shooting anymore.

"How did Chen Zhen die?" Gong Shusen wanted to know what happened so that he could explain to the company commander and the battalion headquarters.

"We were attacked by zombie dogs!" The squad leader briefly explained what happened to Gong Shusen.

"Good-for-nothings! What do you do for a living? Don't you know how to provide covering fire?" After hearing this, Gong Shusen pointed at the squad leader and cursed him. What did the army teach them?

The squad leader blushed, not daring to refute. The most taboo in battle is unsystematic attacks. If they used cross-fire in that situation, there might be a different result. However, they had already forgotten what the army taught them, and there was no teamwork at all.

Gong Shusen cursed for a full ten minutes before he stopped. He was so angry that Chen Zhen's life was lost in vain because of a mistake. However, he also knew that this was a common problem of newly built troops. They were sent to the battlefield without any running-in period. Their ability indicators were less than half of those of the old troops, so the casualty rate was naturally much higher than that of the old troops.

"You mean we were attacked by zombie dogs?" After cursing, Gong Shusen began to study the zombie dogs. He had heard that other troops had also encountered them, and the results of their first encounter were no better than those of Squad One, with some casualties.

"That's right. After Chen Guangjun discovered them, he immediately sounded the alarm and asked us to eliminate them!" The squad leader answered truthfully. They were also frightened when they saw the extremely fast zombie dogs, so they shot in panic.

"We're going to destroy them as soon as they appear?" Gong Shusen asked. He wondered if Chen Guangjun knew something.

"Yes, let's eliminate them!" The squad leader didn't think anything of it at the time, but now he thinks it's a little strange.

"Send someone to temporarily replace Chen Guangjun!" Gong Shusen ordered.

"Yes!" The squad leader immediately arranged another person to replace Chen Guangjun.

Chen Guangjun came down from the watchtower and guessed what the platoon leader wanted him to do.

"Chen Guangjun, how much do you know about zombie dogs?" Gong Shusen asked directly.

Chen Guangjun saluted Gong Shusen before saying, "Not many. Generally speaking, zombie dogs have inherited the characteristics of normal dogs!"

"Be more specific!" Gong Shusen was very interested in zombie dogs. The threat they posed was several times greater than that of human zombies, and he had to know more about them in order to avoid greater casualties among the troops.

"Specifically, for example, its agility and tracking capabilities. It can recognize and track human scents," said Chen Guangjun. He and Wu Bin had already experienced these.