Ch. 44

"Net? F#ck, Chen Bin, don't scare me. My hands are numb from holding the knife." Chen Youbo was horrified. His fierce face was full of fear. "Give me a bed. I can show you how to fall asleep in three seconds."

"You think I'm incapable? I can fall asleep in one second instead of three." The speaker was Xia Lexuan, who was making nets with Xia Si. "The key point is what these nets are used for?" Xia Lexuan looked at Lou Ai and shuddered at his own imagination.

"Yeah, it hasn't been used yet!" Bai Ni murmured, "The net is definitely not prepared for zombies!"

"Hmm." Lou Ai hummed softly and looked not far away. The zombies had not been completely repelled yet. They were wandering not far away, staring at the humans from a distance with greedy eyes.

Due to fatigue, not many people went to chase the zombies.

Just when the zombies cross the cordon, step forward and stab the zombies to death.

Lou Ai had never seen a scene of birds attacking a city, but she thought that it would not be too gentle. If the smell of blood was too strong and too attractive, it would definitely cause these zombies to counterattack.

"Captain Lou, here are the nets for your squad." A soldier dragged a cart and delivered bird-catching nets to each squad. "There are many squads in our base, and there are not enough small or large nets. So each squad only has three nets, and some sticks and stones."

"Okay, when you go back, tell the commander to leave a team here to prevent the zombies from counterattacking."

"Okay, Captain Lou, I will convey your opinion truthfully." The soldier nodded with a smile and continued to distribute the nets.

"Look, there's a net erected on the wall over there." Bai Ni asked in surprise, "Captain, what are we going to fight later?"

"Birds." Lou Ai uttered a word.

"Stop joking. If they were birds, why would you make so much noise? You can just raise your hand and kill two of them." Xia Lexuan had just finished speaking.

Flutter, flutter, the sound of wings feathers stirring the air was heard.

——Quack, quack, chirp.

Various sounds that had disappeared during the purple moon gradually came back to life, one after another, reaching everyone's ears from all directions.

"When did there become so many bugs here?"

"Not only bugs, but also mice, rabbits, and I even saw wild cats and dogs."

"If there were so many zombie birds just now..."

Bai Ni murmured and looked at Xia Lexuan, who couldn't help but shudder again: "F#ck!"

Lou Ai took out the pistol that Yin Chong left for her, carefully loaded the bullets, and then took out a handkerchief to wipe the zombie blood left on the pistol.

"Now please, the well-rested teams, immediately go around the base wall and enter the forest behind the base." After a while, the voice of the military commander came from the loudspeaker in front of the base, "Leave enough people to guard the main gate of the base, the remaining teams, please immediately go around the base wall and enter the rear position, the remaining teams, please immediately go around the base wall and enter the rear position..." The military commander said it three times.

Lou Ai stood up straight. It seemed that the birds were attacking the rear of the base.

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The rear of the base had been destroyed by various gunpowders and explosives due to the previous attack by the zombies.

The zombie wreckage was covered with burn marks, and the hexagonal crystal fragments were more broken and more numerous than in the bombardment Lou Ai had seen before.

Walking on the road, she could still feel the burning breath of the ground through her boots.

There were not even any awakened animals on this land; it seemed that they had all disappeared.

Lou Ai leaned against the back wall of the base, looked around, took out three umbrellas from her backpack, handed them to Bai Ni and Xia Lexuan, and held the remaining one in her own hand and opened it. These were sturdy umbrellas that she had specially selected. Bai Ni and Xia Lexuan didn't have a net, so they used the umbrellas to block the rain.

Flutter, flutter, before long, the sound of a large flock of birds flying suddenly came from the distance.

"Is that black thing the bird you mentioned?" Chen Youbo looked solemn and said with difficulty after a while, "Isn't this too much?"

"It looks like a swarm of locusts!" Someone exclaimed.

Lou Ai looked up at the vast expanse of black running towards them at a constant speed, and was stunned for a moment.

It was also the first time she saw the bird tide her neighbors had mentioned: swallows, sparrows, vultures, eagles, and cranes? The shock caused by the flocks of birds was even more shocking than the zombies. The birds' calls circled incessantly, and the crisp sounds mixed with an irritating noise.

Fortunately, it was not a zombie bird, if it was a group of zombie birds.

Lou Ai was afraid that only a few people in the entire base could survive.

A tide of birds rushed over in an instant, and the forest in front blocked the impact of the tide of birds. The birds flew lower, and all kinds of insects and grass seeds were caught and eaten into their stomachs.

Lou Ai watched and recalled the time when she first awakened her water-based abilities. She felt so hungry at that time, as if she hadn't eaten for two days. She ate all the milk tea in the milk tea shop as if it were a meal. When she looked in the mirror, she could see that she had lost a lot of weight.

It seems that this group of mutant birds are also eating, and they are on the menu of this group of birds.

Relatively speaking, these birds will stop attacking them once they have eaten most of the food.

"Oh, oh, oh." Seeing all kinds of birds swooping down, Chen Youbo used a net to catch a gray bird that was about to peck at him. He could say nothing else except cursing. "My mother always says that I am impetuous and can't stay calm when encountering things, but tell me, how can I stay calm when encountering something like this?"

"These birds shouldn't have eaten anything they shouldn't have, so they won't have any infectious diseases!"

Bai Ni didn't step back when he saw the zombies, but instead collapsed when he saw the sharp-mouthed animals rushing towards him.

Fluttering, flying feathers fell from the sky.

"Bang." It was not known who fired the first shot at the flock of birds in the sky.

Lou Ai held up the black umbrella and swung it upward with force. She could feel a number of birds densely pressing down on her black umbrella. The sturdy umbrella frame was bent by the height of the pressure. Lou Ai fired several shots directly at the umbrella and every shot hit the target.

Countless feathers floated under Lou Ai's umbrella, and soon the umbrella was pecked through. With a sharp sound, several birds squeezed in under the umbrella.

She could even feel a bird's beak pecking at her cheek, and the clothes on her arms and thighs were torn into strips.

But Lou Ai's skin was too hard, and the bird's beak pecked at the "iron" for a long time, only to hurt its own beak.

Lou Ai adjusted the backpack to her chest, held the gun in her left hand and fired it at the sky, and held the spear in her right hand and poked lightly. The entire spear was filled with bird corpses, which Lou Ai pulled off with one hand.

"Oh, sh#t, it hurts so much." Chen Youbo caught a vulture in a net bag and poked the bird's head hard with a machete, smashing it apart.

Bai Ni huddled under the black umbrella, gathered pieces of cement in his hands, and hit the birds indiscriminately.

“Ouch.” “Chirp.” “Chirp.” “Ahhh!”

The screams of various birds and humans mixed together, and for a moment it was unclear whether humans were more miserable or not.

Thick feathers covered the ground, and on top of the zombie corpses was a layer of bird corpses.

"Oh, someone's dead. No, my companion's brain was pecked out by a bird. It was ripped to pieces."

"F#ck, my companion's legs were pecked to pieces." From time to time, people's angry roars could be heard.
　　

"Bang bang bang" the machine guns mounted on the walls of the base never stopped.
　　

The flowing blood gathered into a pool, dyeing the feathers on the ground with bright colors.
　　

It was unknown how long they had been shooting. Lou Ai's pistol had long run out of bullets. The rifle in her hand had brought prey into the space for the nth time. Lou Ai took the bird corpse off the gun barrel and performed repetitive movements numbly. It seemed as if the black mass of birds seemed endless.
　　

The places where they were pecked by birds felt slightly numb and itchy, not to mention ordinary psychics like Chen Youbo, whose cheeks were full of pits and blood pits.
　　

Suddenly, bright sunlight came down from the foggy sky, illuminating the entire earth and bringing scorching heat.
　　

After the second purple moon, winter passed and the world entered the palace of summer in an instant.
　　

The hot sunlight seemed to give the birds a chance to fly higher and higher, catching up with the large group above their heads and circling away.
　　

The bird tide is finally over!!
　　

People stared at the birds flying away in a daze. Some people sat down on the ground because their legs went weak, unable to make a sound.
　　

Lou Ai picked up her clothes with holes all over the sleeves. The backpack on her chest was also pecked to pieces. She glanced around and saw clothes with holes everywhere.
　　

"Roar!!!" In front of the base, the strong smell of blood had already caused the zombies wandering in front of the base to become restless.
　　

The bird tide passed, but the guarding in front of the base was not over.

Lou Ai took a deep breath, concealed her fatigue, and prepared to go to the front to help.
　　

"Buzz." "Buzz." "Buzz buzz buzz."
　　

Suddenly, a strong feeling of disgust swept through Lou Ai's mind.
　　

Lou Ai looked in the direction emitting a strong sense of disgust and oppression. That was the location of Cong Fanghua's laboratory.
　　

Lou Ai took two quick steps and rushed ahead of everyone and returned to the main gate of Qiang'an Base. The zombies that were lingering at the gate of Qiang'an Base and were about to move forward heard the buzzing sound coming from the base, and most of them left quickly, as if there was something deadly and disgusting in there.
　　

It succeeded, the zombie jammer also succeeded!!!
　　

After a long time, cheers rang out and the entire Qiang'an base was immersed in joy, a feeling of relief at surviving the disaster mixed with honor and pride.
　　

"Ahhhhh, we succeeded!! We successfully protected the base!"
　　

"It's over, damn it, it's finally over, I'm so tired!!!"
　　

"Lou Ai, you are so awesome!! I love you so much!" Bai Ni shouted at the top of his voice, "Our Qiang'an base is full of awesome people!"
　　

Listening to the sound of the zombie jammer and the cheers of others, Lou Ai stared at two zombies, one big and one small, holding hands and running away quickly in the distance. The disgust and nausea in her mind collided with the happiness and joy from the bottom of her heart, and a twisted smile formed on her lips.

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