A massive steel hatch built into the ground groaned open, the chanical hum echoing across the empty landscape.
A second later, heavy gears locked into place, and a gust of stale air burst outward from the underground facility.
Then ca the rumble—deep, rhythmic, and growing louder by the second.
One after another, armored vehicles began to climb out of the bunker.
The sunlight glead off their reinforced plating and mounted gun turrets.
Twenty-four of them in total, each fully ard and ready for battle.
Their thick tires crushed the cracked concrete beneath as they assembled in formation.
They had chosen to move in daylight.
So might have called it a reckless decision—after all, the undead were most active under the sun’s glare—but Ross Oakley had reasons of his own.
Fighting at night would have been far too easy for him and his n.
They weren’t ordinary humans at all; they were stronger, faster, sharper.
A few million zombies were hardly enough to make them sweat.
But Ross understood one thing very well: power was most valuable when hidden.
He would not reveal his full hand unless the situation truly demanded it.
Until then, he would play the role of a well-prepared leader—confident, capable, but seemingly human.
The world didn’t need to see a god walking among them. Not yet.
The armored convoy rolled out of the bunker in perfect synchronization, their engines rumbling like a pack of beasts hunting prey.
They drove past the empty land in the outer area of the city.
Parkland City stretched ahead of them—a dead tropolis that once housed over two million souls.
Now, it was a ho for shuffling corpses and the resistance that wanted to restore order amidst the chaos.
No orders were given. None were needed.
Brandon, Ross’s trusted right-hand man, led the column with stoic focus.
Every soldier in the convoy knew their role down to instinct.
Ross himself sat in the second vehicle, relaxed and unconcerned.
He had reclined his seat slightly, a comic book spread open on his lap, the corners of his lips curling faintly as he turned the pages.
The hum of engines was the only sound for ten long minutes. Then, without warning, it began.
"Contact—north and east!" a voice barked through the radio.
The calm morning shattered.
A roar of gunfire erupted as the mounted turrets ca alive, spinning and firing in synchronized bursts.
The chatter of high-caliber machine guns thundered through the streets, each burst cutting through the moaning swarm ahead.
Brass casings poured down from the turrets like golden rain.
From every direction, zombies flooded into view—crawling out of shattered windows, bursting through broken doors, climbing over wrecked cars.
The stench of decay filled the air as thousands beca tens of thousands.
But numbers ant nothing.
The convoy never slowed.
The trucks plowed through the streets, shredding undead flesh to ribbons.
Heavy gunfire, rocket bursts, and grenades painted the battlefield with fire and gore.
Severed limbs flew through the air. Skulls burst apart like rotten fruit.
Inside the armored cabin, Ross barely looked up.
He turned another page of his comic, one hand casually resting on the window fra as explosions flashed outside.
Brandon’s voice crackled over the radio. "Clear. Moving to the central district!"
"Good," Ross murmured, not taking his eyes off the page. "Keep the formation tight. Let them co."
Outside, the slaughter continued. The convoy carved through the horde like a blade through mist.
Every few seconds, another wave of the undead was reduced to ash and blood.
The earth trembled from the constant barrage of firepower.
But through it all, Ross remained serene—unbothered, unreadable.
His n fought like soldiers, but he sat like a man waiting for sothing bigger.
He knew this was only the beginning.
He still needed to harvest more heart stones for his people.
Until then, he let the sound of gunfire play like music while he finished his comic, a faint smirk forming on his lips as the convoy bathed the city in fire and death.
***
An hour passed, and the world above the bunker had turned into a living apocalypse.
The thunder of gunfire never ceased.
It rolled across the plains like a storm that refused to end, shaking the ground and echoing off the ruined shells of distant buildings.
The scent of burning gunpowder mixed with rot and blood until it beca a heavy, choking perfu of death.
Around the convoy, the battlefield was no longer recognizable—there was no ground, only a vast carpet of mangled corpses stretching in every direction.
Every inch of the landscape was painted in crimson and black.
The bodies piled so high that the gunfire began to chew through the dead just to reach the ones still standing.
Yet the horde kept coming, endless and insane, crawling over mountains of their own kind just to die again.
And through it all, the guns never stopped.
The barrels of the mounted turrets glowed a dull red, yet they did not lt.
Ammunition belts that should have run dry after minutes of constant firing never seed to end.
The feed systems didn’t jam, the engines didn’t falter, and the gunners didn’t tire.
It was unnatural, eerie—like sothing out of a dream.
But no one said a word.
Everyone knew.
Ross Oakley didn’t fight fair.
His undead n all knew it so well.
Ross had a way of bending the impossible until it obeyed him.
Infinite ammunition, weapons that never overheated, armor that never broke—it was just another one of his miracles or great luck.
And no one, not even his closest n, dared to question him.
They just fired, killed, and kept moving.
It was shocking to see one man ignoring the carnage, walking directly to the dead zombies to collect heart stones from their bodies with complete absence of fear or hesitation.
Then, through the storm of gunfire, a new sound broke the rhythm.
"Tog-tog-tog-tog!"
The rhythmic pounding of rotor blades.
Heads snapped upward.
A dark shadow cut through the clouds—one helicopter, then another, circling above the smoke like vultures.
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