Chapter 563: 563
It only took all of us a short mont to exhale a little bit of air to change the expressions we were wearing. It was like a switch we would flick the mont we would start placing a foot in the grave, taking down anything in order to pull it back. These few months felt longer than they should but the feeling was always the sa when we’re outside.
I just pulled my blade and my pistol, “Go.”
We dashed down and broke off into our specific spots, clearing each stall along the way. We were currently on the 3rd floor but it didn’t take long before we were getting ready to blitz the 1st floor from both sides. Leaving a mber from each of our team on the roof, the 3rd floor, and the 2nd floor would lessen our firepower by a chunk but to quote Harold, ‘We’re enough.’
‘More than f.u.c.k.i.n.g enough.’
Mikhail and I pushed down two loaded refrigerators straight down the escalators.
They slid down with force as they went for a few ters, pushing over the deadheads gathered around the escalators. Over a dozen bodies got swept away but a few got crushed the mont the refrigerators slamd on the concrete pillars. However, our little ga wasn’t over because we pushed more refrigerators on one side, slamming into more rotten bodies and creating a small divide because of how they lined up almost perfectly.
“GO! GO! GO!”
Kaley lined up a shot and took out biters one after the other before I jumped down ahead of everybody. I used the central structure between the escalators as a slide to hasten the process while Tatiana followed right behind . Ibarra and Marina were trailing by running down the non-moving stairs but I just heard Mikhail’s PKM locking and loading.
The dead were further divided by a rain of bullets while they were getting surgically targeted from one side. Almost every deadhead in the vicinity turned their heads to face us but another commotion ca from the other side. Several explosions ca one after the other and the undead on the first floor couldn’t figure out where to give chase.
I wouldn’t spend a fraction of a second to think about what they were gonna do next as my blade was already halfway to a dead manager’s face. I lopped the top of its head off with parts of its eyebrows while a knife made its way to a fast-food employee’s ear lobe. Tatiana just pulled it out before throwing it with force to a deadhead missing half its jaw.
We were advancing in the counterclockwise direction while Kaley was taking care of the ones coming from behind us. It was then that Mikhail made his way down, playing whack-a-mole as he stood above the refrigerators. Skulls were getting crushed and bodies were getting dismbered but the sa sound as us was being produced from Ibarra and Marina’s side.
Tatiana went ahead of the mont she brandished her sword and I caught a glimpse of what Ibarra and Marina were doing. Ibarra was the one fanning out opposite us while Marina was bridging the gap between our formations. Ibarra was doing well with his spear but he had to chuck it off to pin down a sprinter coming for him so he had to use his rifle.
Flashes of light ca one after the other, following the sa pattern as the one from above.
Kaley was now in the middle of the escalator, sending shots near my vicinity. It was dangerous, to say the least, but a bullet dangerously brushing past was the least of our concerns.
More and more deadheads ca from the outside because the walls we made didn’t take into account the walkways around this mall. The ones that survived from last ti ca with a vengeance and several stitched-up deadheads ca with them. They were a few sizes larger because of their armor and it was definitely ti for so strategic retreat.
“TATIANA!!!”
“I GOT IT!!!”
“YOU TWO, KEEP IT TIGHT!!!”
“ROGER!!!”
“YES, BOSS!!!”
We’ve already made progress from the short mont we were down but we took several steps back so we could see everything much clearer. Once we got a general idea of where they were coming from, we simultaneously raised our rifles and fired incessantly. Their numbers thinned significantly but the stitched-up f.u.c.kers were soaking up more bullets than necessary.
I wasted half a magazine of bullets just to take one down because firing at the spot where the main head should be located proved to be not as effective as I thought. The cartridge might be tumbling into different skulls before reaching it but I couldn’t be 100% sure. My first target was a deadhead that was top-heavy with several heads hanging like gr.a.p.es and the ti it took to put it down was longer than anticipated.
We had to retreat to the escalator before chucking a couple of grenades at the others and we saw them blow up into several pieces. The ones behind them fell like puppets but the main concern just shifted to our problem earlier. A small crisis was averted but snarling figures and crooked claws coming for us didn’t stop.
The first floor was still infested with the dead and we needed to clear it as fast as possible. More and more deadheads were coming from the food court while a few were spilling out from the arcades. The arcades were closer to Artem’s side but it seed like several grenades were thrown in that direction. Bits and pieces of rotten parts were flying along with debris after the explosions, but the dead seed neverending.
We got yanked back to the sa place as earlier and all we could do was dig down and repeat the sa routine as earlier.
“SA PLAN! SA PLAN! IBARRA!!! HELP MIKHAIL WITH TH-”
“ON IT!!! WHAT THE FU-”
Half of a torso ca flying after another murderous swing ca from Mikhail. His axe-hamr landed on one of the refrigerators we pushed down and it would be better off in the scrapper than to be repaired. With that said, the other half of the deadhead Mikhail murdered was still standing for a few seconds before it plopped with the rest of the bodies he took down.
I could hear gunshots coming from all sides but I had to reload because I just ran out of bullets. However, I had no ti to do it so I just resorted to just switching with my Maxim 9 and then to my TX-22 at close range. It was quicker to switch guns compared to reloading them and I had a few dozen bodies by my feet the mont I was done. The small holes in their heads were leaking a viscous fluid but the problem right now was space.
“COVER !!!”
Tatiana and Marina closed the distance between while I reloaded my guns. They gave a few precious seconds and I even let my magazines fall on the floor. There was no ti to nitpick with gri getting into them as I decided to get back into action. As I looked to my right, Ibarra and Mikhail were doing a great job of keeping the deadheads that were trying to go over the refrigerators to the other side, but they were running out of space.
The radius we could move freely was getting smaller and smaller so we decided to do sothing… normal.
We ran back up the escalator and sealed it before heading towards the spiral staircase for a quick rest and reset. Kaley handed a few extra magazines she had on her pack while sharing a few boxes of 9mms with everyone. An ammo can that Lois brought down after a short call was eventually opened and it contained cartridges my group prepared for themselves. We quickly replenished our supplies and after wiping our handhelds, we unsealed the staircase and headed downstairs.
Artem and the rest were still busy from the other side of the mall but as soon as we went down, a few cl.u.s.ters were still gathered by the escalator we were in earlier while a few had already gone in the opposite direction. They were either slowly swaying as they walked or had their crooked hands stretched in front of them. Mikhail and I mowed them down while Marina and Ibarra fanned to the side.
Tatiana was still by the escalators with Kaley, waiting for the right ti to take action. We only needed to lure the deadheads away from the escalator and we would have two access points to take care of them. Tatiana was agile enough to push a breakthrough even more with the help of Kaley giving her cover. I was back to using my blade and my pistol and I had a better ti maneuvering at an area with fewer bodies littering the floor.
I cut down a zombie wearing a sh suit that had started to be one with its leathery flesh but VW Beetle suddenly ca from the other side of the mall, mowing down anything that crossed its path.
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