Chapter 44

"Pfft!"

The cold dagger stabbed into the head of the infected person who was climbing up. Harry, whose face was covered with blood, raised his foot and kicked the opponent into the group of corpses, knocking down the infected person who was also climbing up behind him. 

There was a mountain of corpses piled up in front of the bus. Even if most of the infected people were shot dead by soldiers from the roofs on both sides when they climbed the corpses and tried to get on the bus, there would still be a few infected people who would survive by chance. 

It was impossible for the soldiers to actually point their guns at the roof of the car and shoot at them, as that would be very easy to injure teammates accidentally, so these scattered infected people could only be dealt with by the people on the roof of the car themselves.

Harry kicked the pistol that was out of bullets away from his feet to avoid accidentally stepping on it and tripping. He raised his trembling hand and used the dagger to once again kill an infected person who was pestering the soldier.

At this moment, the soldiers on the roof were basically fighting the infected with their bare hands. Since the corpses under the bus were piled up enough for the infected to climb up, they did not have time to change the magazines for their firearms, so they could only use daggers to attack them. Deal with these infected people up close.

But no matter how powerful the soldiers are, their manpower is always running low. In the face of endless infected people, their strength gradually becomes insufficient.

Some of the soldiers on the roof of the car were scratched or bitten by the infected in close combat, but this did not make them fearful at all. On the contrary, knowing that they were bound to die completely erased the fear of their bodies. their eyes were like wild beasts, and they struck harder and harder, and the more they cut, the more desperate they became.

There was a critical situation when more than a dozen infected people climbed up together. A soldier opened his arms and swooped over to take all the infected people down.

After an unknown amount of time, Harry's eyes gradually became blurry, and he waved the dagger in his hand numbly. After one stab in the air, he collapsed and fell to the ground.

But no infected person attacked him anymore. It turned out that, at some point, no infected person could climb onto the roof of the car anymore.

The outskirts of the town had already turned into a sea of fire. The infected people who were ignited by the Molotov cocktail rushed into the nearby houses and ignited the flammable materials inside. Within ten minutes, the entire house was on fire. The fire was raging and quickly spread to neighboring houses.

A large number of infected people crowded in the sea of fire could not escape the fate of being burned by the flames. Hundreds of infected people struggled desperately in the sea of fire, and finally, they all fell to the ground and turned into charred corpses.

The burning sea of fire blocked the progress of the infected people at the rear and separated the entire group of infected people from the front and back.

As the soldiers in the defense area threw more and more Molotov cocktails, even the houses a little further away were all ignited by flames.

Seeing that the road ahead was becoming increasingly difficult, although the infected who were not afraid of death still rushed forward, some of the infected, under the guidance of the Cordyceps fungus, chose to go around the river from both sides, heading towards the south and north where there were no fires.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!"

Seeing that the situation was gradually reversing, the soldiers turned red, their faces turned red, they howled, and they fired harder and harder with the guns in their hands.

Instead of the soldiers, the civilians blocked the bus and helped transport ammunition and Molotov cocktails. Some of them were even unafraid of death. They used homemade, long-handled weapons to poke out the bodies stuck in the gaps of the bus. Everyone worked together to help each other. 

The infected people, who gradually crowded around the bus, were no longer able to move forward and could only be trapped to death on the street. They could not move forward or retreat. They could only let the soldiers on the roof of the bus shoot at them. 

The remaining infected were either attacked from both sides to other parts of the town or were blocked outside the sea of corpses. They tried to climb over the corpses and continued to charge towards the bus, but they often stumbled halfway. They will be shot by soldiers.

Seeing that the situation was looking great, Harry couldn't hold on any longer and lay back, his chest rising and falling violently.

The other soldiers on the roof of the car also followed suit and lay down together, with smiles on their faces involuntarily, as if they had finished something great, but some people felt that something was coming from them. When they felt the pain, their eyes couldn't help but dim.

After a long time, Harry regained his composure. As if he had thought of something, he began to grope desperately on his body to see if there were any traces of being scratched by the infected. After carefully feeling that he was really not injured, this is when he breathed a sigh of relief, climbed up with difficulty, and looked around.

Most of the soldiers gathered on the rooftops on both sides, shooting alternately to prevent the infected from having any chance to attack the bus again.

When the civilians realized that there was no serious problem, they spontaneously formed a team and left on both sides of the street to reinforce other defense areas that needed manpower.

But when he looked at all the soldiers lying down on the roof of the car next to him, his eyes were full of regret and guilt from deep in his heart. He knew that there was a high probability that someone among them might have been infected.

All the soldiers on the roof of the bus slowly climbed down from the roof with the help of others and were replaced by other civilians who were armed with firearms and could shoot.

However, because they may be infected by the Cordyceps fungus, they were all temporarily kept in one place, waiting for medical staff to scan them.

These dozens of people looked at those who passed by. Although their eyes were full of admiration, they kept a distance from these people. They didn't say anything. They just leaned against each other and stared blankly ahead, not knowing where they were. What to think about...

After being confirmed by the scanner that he was not infected with the Cordyceps virus, Harry limped quickly into the high-rise residence nearby. Since the situation here was basically stable, he now had to re-evaluate the current situation. 

Harry ran to the top floor in one breath, took the binoculars handed over by the soldier, and looked at the densely packed and piled-up corpses of infected people on the main street. He couldn't help but feel extremely shocked.

The strong smell of blood, the smell of burning corpses, the smell of gasoline in the incendiary bottles, and other smells were intertwined together. The refreshing smell made everyone who smelled it hold their breath tightly. They don't want to smell it anymore.

"How are the other street defense areas now?" After watching silently for a while, he squinted at the time and found it was almost three o'clock. Then he turned his head and asked the liaison officer next to him. The status of other lines of defense.

"Sir, most of the block defense lines have not been attacked by a large number of infected people. A small number of defense lines have been attacked by a large number of infected people. However, under the command of Chief Colbert, the situation has gradually stabilized. The north and south sides have been attacked by a large number of infected people. The number of infected people cannot pose any threat to the block's defense line, and there are still signs of infected people in the west."

"Also, I just received news from Lieutenant Moben of the neighborhood defense team that most of the infected people in the defense zone who entered from the houses and dark alleys have been eliminated, but there are still some infected people who have evolved and are still hiding. We are currently conducting a large-scale manhunt, and it is expected that all infected people who have invaded the interior will be eliminated in half an hour."

As he talked about good news one after another, even the corners of the liaison officer's lips could not help but raise slightly, and his tone was slightly brisk, indicating that they had basically overcome this crisis, and it was only a matter of time before they could deal with the remaining infected.

"Well, I understand..."

Harry picked up the telescope again and looked towards the outermost part of the town. Even though the black smoke was filling the front and his line of sight was greatly obstructed, he could still see that there were very few infected people left there. It seemed that they were infected. All of them have entered the town.

He estimated in his heart that during this period, they should have eliminated at least nearly one-third of the infected people, and as the fire grew stronger and stronger, more and more infected people would be burned to death. Now all they need to be careful about is preventing the fire from spreading towards them.

Just when everyone was filled with joy, a liaison officer ran up from downstairs in a hurry. When he saw Harry, he immediately stood up and said,

"Sorry, sir, news just came from the center of the town. Seven people broke into the east parking lot and drove away a truck full of food and ammunition. One of our people died. Four people were captured and killed. One person and two others drove to the west side of the town to escape!"

Upon hearing the news, everyone's expressions darkened instantly. You must know that there were not many trucks containing supplies—only a dozen or so—and the emergence of this crisis consumed a lot of their ammunition.

They had only left Dallas for less than a day, and they would need these supplies in the future. Now, at this critical moment of life and death, if someone held back while everyone was fighting on the front line, they were simply seeking death.

"Bang!"

Harry punched the table hard. His temper was not very good, and his anger was suddenly aroused. He shouted angrily, "Who is it? Have you confirmed their identity?"

The liaison officer was slightly shaken by such a slap, but he still spoke clearly: "The people who were caught said that these people were severely punished by us for taking the lead in provoking trouble this morning."

Everyone fell silent immediately, understanding what was going on. Harry's eyes seemed to be spitting fire, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Notify all the personnel on the western defense line that they must be intercepted. You can destroy the vehicle if necessary, but you can't let them get away!"

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