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Chapter 173 Revisiting the Research Institute (2)

The five of them arrived at the basement laboratory below the underground parking garage once again. Under the dimmed lights of their new protective suits, they were still greeted by hundreds of first and second generation low-level zombies. Ji Lang and Lin Yun looked at each other. They had clearly eliminated at least half of them yesterday, but today there were even more than yesterday.

With no other option, Lin Yun and Ji Lang could only stand in front of the other three, using their wind and snow elemental abilities to slow down the zombies' movement towards them while shooting them in the head one by one.

"How can there be so many zombies here?" Zhong Qiang followed behind the two men, also firing his gun, but his accuracy wasn't as good as Ji Lang's and Lin Yun's. He found it all unbelievable; the corridor was densely packed with low-level zombies, some of them crippled and awkward. Moreover, judging from the appearance, every open laboratory door must have been crammed with zombies. He sighed, "Even if you grit your teeth and try to squeeze through, you still can't get through."

“None of us have fire-based abilities, otherwise we would have been burned to a crisp.” Ji Lang was quite frustrated yesterday because none of his team members were pure fire-based ability users. Otherwise, if they set a fire and Lin Yun added some wind, these low-level zombies would be no problem at all.

"Will this work?" As the group was talking, Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao were fiddling with something behind them. When Lin Yun heard Lu Yuan's voice, he turned around and saw Lu Yuan carrying a cannon on his shoulder, and Yang Xiao holding a pipe behind him. Extending down the pipe, it turned out to be a huge fuel tank.

"Holy crap!" Zhong Qiang turned around and saw the situation. He was shocked and quickly put away the gun that was missing the zombies. He turned around and helped Lu Yuan carry the cannon barrel.

"Here it comes!" With Yang Xiao's shout, Lin Yun quickly pulled Ji Lang, who was still shooting, down to crouch. Then, a fire dragon shot out from above their heads...

Because they were facing low-level zombies, the fire attack was very effective. As Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang shook the cannon, the flames meandered and swirled, burning the zombies in their path to black and gray, and a large number of them fell. Of course, they didn't die instantly from the fire, but compared to Ji Lang and Lin Yun's headshots one by one, this effect was simply amazing.

"Again!" Lin Yun said, and Yang Xiao at the back refueled, and another tongue of fire shot out from the cannon. Lin Yun immediately used the flames to manipulate the wind, which greatly increased the area of ​​their fire attack.

Soon, the zombies in front of them stopped advancing and instead tried to circle around behind them. Even more zombies appeared out of nowhere and rushed out of the stairwell behind them.

They hadn't seen a single zombie on their way down from the parking lot, but now they were being attacked from both sides by these low-level zombies.

"Holy crap! Where did they come from?!" Yang Xiao was still excitedly scattering the zombies in front of him with two cannon shots when he noticed that Ji Lang, who had turned around, fired two shots in his direction. When he looked back, he found that many zombies had also appeared behind him.

"Everyone be careful, these are just low-level zombies, don't let your guard down." Ji Lang and his group suffered from carelessness yesterday, and since there were fewer of them today, he was even more cautious.

"Xiao Lu, Xiao Zhong, let's turn around and launch another wave! Xiao Yang, get ready!" Lin Yun continued to command, while Ji Lang fired in all directions to take down the few zombies that managed to get close to them by avoiding the flames.

"Alright!" Yang Xiao was quite agile. As soon as he heard Lin Yun's command, he turned around with the fuel barrel and quickly stepped back from the gap between Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang, moving out of the cannon's attack range.

"Alright!" Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang turned around quickly. Before Yang Xiao could retreat, they turned the cannon around and aimed at the corridor behind them.

As soon as Yang Xiao got into position, he turned on the fuel, and flames shot out of the cannon muzzle with a "whoosh". Because the corridor was relatively narrow, Lin Yun did not operate the wind power, but Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang held the cannon and fired.

Soon, the low-level zombies surrounding them were burned to ashes. Perhaps their firepower was too strong this time, because after a few waves, Ji Lang found that no new low-level zombies were rushing forward. Although there were still quite a few, they all retreated in unison, maintaining a distance of two or three meters from them.

"I was just about to ask why we didn't just go through this stairwell." After helping Lu Yuan put away the large fuel canister, Yang Xiao took the small fuel canister that Lu Yuan gave him, which would be more suitable for their next move.

“We went through that yesterday. The third basement level down here is full of advanced superhuman zombies. Our target office is over there. Let’s go through the first basement level first; it’s relatively safer there.” After saying that, Lin Yun took the ammunition from Lu Yuan and, while loading the magazine, led them forward.

"Let's go first, or they'll come back later." As Ji Lang spoke, he stepped behind Yang Xiao, so that he and Lin Yun could better protect the safety of the other three people.

"Hey, why didn't we think of using cannons before?" Yang Xiao walked up to Lu Yuan and chatted as they walked, making him seem less like someone moving through a zombie apocalypse and more like someone on their way to dinner after get off work.

“At first, we didn’t know it was a cannon barrel. Later, didn’t we all have Qin…” Lu Yuan said, mentioning Qin Yuan again, but fortunately he reacted quickly and stopped immediately. However, the five of them fell silent. Apart from their footsteps, the only other sound in the corridor was the low growl of the zombies that were surrounding them but keeping their distance.

As the five of them slowly made their way to the middle of the basement, the two low-level zombies that had been keeping their distance from them charged at them once again.

It's unclear what the mindset was when the research institute built the underground research labs. The corridor on the first basement floor is lined with laboratories of various sizes, divided according to different needs, which makes the entire corridor very narrow, especially the middle section, where Lu Yuan and his two companions cannot walk side by side.

"Holy crap! What kind of research did the leader of these zombies do before? How come he's so smart? He even knows how to trap zombies in a jar?" Seeing the two zombies charging at him again, Zhong Qiang could only spit fire at the zombie horde with his small musket. The large cannons they used before couldn't turn around here at all. So before coming over, Lu Yuan not only replenished bullets for Lin Yun and Ji Lang, but also arranged two small muskets for everyone.

"Let's charge to the safety passage in one go!" Ji Lang roared. All five of them raised their small muskets. Lu Yuan and Lin Yun sprayed the fire forward. With Lin Yun's wind power, the fire was not only large but also did not affect their progress at all. The other three turned around and sprayed fire backward while retreating to follow Lin Yun and Lu Yuan.