The Reborn Otaku's Code of Practice for the Apocalypse Chapter 64

A row of people went downstairs, got on the bus and squeezed inside the vehicle to reach the barracks. The camp entrance looked more desolate than before the spring festival. There were people and vehicles coming and going but there were fewer unauthorized people wandering around.

Luo Xun and Yan Fei locked the car before entering the barracks. Li Tie and the others entered earlier. After entering the small square at the front, they found the military truck they normally rode in and saw the captain.

The captain gave a greeting as he saw the two. "They shipped in materials yesterday afternoon, we’re busy again today." He said as he motioned for everyone to get on the truck.

After climbing in the car, the captain took out three heavy bags for the tal ability users, his expression was slightly heavy. "So of the team already knows, but I have to explain the situation for those who are not clear." It was obviously for Luo Xun and Yan Fei to listen, the other soldiers had nothing else to do but seriously listen.

"The number of zombies outside skyrocketed on New Year’s Eve near several outside established monitoring points. The warning has brought a great threat, that night, only a few soldiers managed to escape the guard positions. The remaining majority of soldiers...all died." The captain’s voice was heavy, no one made a sound.

Luo Xun looked at Yan Fei, both of them thought of the firecrackers that night.

"Yesterday a number of earth ability users continued to heighten and thicken the outer wall. Also built a staircase leading to the top of the wall, to make the walls into an ancient bunker so the soldiers can patrol the large periter. Yesterday teams went out to find a large quantity of tal materials, we have to go through those stairs to continue building the outer tal wall." The captain briefly explained the situation, said the task was more difficult than before because-" There are more zombies around, they are now blocked outside the wall but there is a steady stream of zombies towards the base. We can not go out of the city to build the wall, you can only climb from the inside to try and handle the outside walls."

Although the base had thought of so ideas, how the tal users operated would have to wait for arrangents to be made. Otherwise, zombies right now might not be able to climb the three ter high tal wall, but what if they evolved like how the slow, stiff zombies evolved into the currently nimble and powerful zombies, would they be able to make the jump? So the wall needed to be built higher.

When they arrived at the designated position, once they exited the car they could tell the wall was much higher than before. The outer walls were not six ters high! Also seed to have widened a lot and there was a staircase in the distance.

They wondered if all these things were made by earth ability users during overti? Or were there ordinary people involved?

Luo Xun parked near the newly built door at the wall periter, the wall was stacked with a lot of various tals. It looked as if the military had pulled all the material from a nearby steel field.

After looking at the stacked tal materials, they slowly approached the newly repaired wall to look outside. Only to see the claw of a zombie waving horrifying long fingernails in the direction of the wall blocking the scent of human flesh.

"The future seems grim...will miracles appear?" They turned away and ignored the zombies who were waving like demons from hell. Thinking of those creatures that wanted to drag people away, the tal user looked at the walls with a headache.

Now the six ter earth wall was double the full height of the tal wall. If one wanted to use their hand to stick tal at those positions...How were they going to get down? It had been thought that the three ter wall was already very high, but now looking below at the zombies at the top of the tal walls...they might be able to jump this distance!

This was not like before when everyone stood on the edge of the fence where there were people protecting the area. Now there was only a short ten centiters to stand on! If one was not careful, they would fall!

The captain also did not think it would so dangerous today, even worse that the number of zombies below was far more than previously forecast. What could they do to protect the tal users as they were building the wall?

It was not wonder that the earth ability users were busy for a day and night working overti to build the wall, the base was afraid the zombies would leap over the three ter wall. But could they have not slowly repaired ter by ter, leaving a way for others to reach that height as well?

"I’ll get soone to help." The captain thought for a mont.

It would be difficult for the tal users to work their abilities since like earth users, they had to touch the material to create the wall. Unlike other people with fire, water or wind powers, they could not wave their hand and materialize earth or tal!

Seeing living beings on the wall, the zombies waved their arms excitedly while screaming like babies. Luo Xun and several others standing on the wall, triggered a headache while looking down at the mass of zombies. The number was far from the point of a death siege, but if this slowly continued sooner or later it would reach that scale.

But these days marked the first month spent inside, the outer wall had just been repaired and thus many people did not want to go out in order to find supplies.

Luo Xun suddenly looked north towards the new gate which faced a large road, there was an eccentric small building at the intersection. The building was very tall, but not very large, like a simple watchtower from the set of an ancient historical film.

Of course, the role of that and a watchtower were similar, they were the alarm towers the captain had ntioned in the briefing. The small building would see trouble early and alert any external circumstances.

But at this ti, the outside roads were full of wandering zombies, the base of the tower was also surrounded by a lot of zombies. The creatures were tirelessly battering against the building walls, there was soone on the roof!

The distance was a little too far for Luo Xun to clearly see the situation, but there was definitely soone up there. They were likely soldiers who were stuck there and could not withdraw.

Now there were so soldiers ready to go out the gate, looked as if they were going to rescue them.

Not long after the captain hurried back, said while lightly gasping. "Already negotiated, the base will open the door and rescue the people who have been trapped outside for two days. When the door opens, zombies will obviously be attracted, our priority is to fire upon the zombies. Let the tal users tie ropes around themselves and speed up wall construction.

Afterwards, all the tal materials were transported one by one to the wall which took so ti.

Luo Xun’s expression was not good, only having one rope attached was too dangerous! If there was no other way then fine, but now there was a way to sowhat avoid the danger.

Luo Xun glanced towards the wall in thought, there were no less than fifty to sixty zombies near the target’s position, even if opening the gate would attract a portion, it would only be a minority. If a few zombies instead attacked the people hanging from the rope, how would those standing above walls enact ergency response asures? And what if the ropes snapped?

Luo Xun suddenly turned to the captain and added his comnts. "Captain, only having the tal users hanging on the rope is too dangerous."

Hearing Luo Xun, the captain understood, of course he was worried about the safety of his ’cousin’ but there was no other way right now. "I have reported this matter to my superiors but at present there is no other way to take advantage of the open gate for repairs. Today troops were sent out to clean out nearby zombies, it should soon be more convenient."

Of course Luo Xun knew that the base would send out people to clean up zombies, but the problem was that zombies were constantly coming to this place. The outer wall area was now stretched too long, there was no way for all the zombies outside the walls to be killed.

Of if all the survivors on base participated in an extermination mission at once, they may be able to clear out the zombies in just a day’s ti, but that was not realistic at the mont.

"There’s safer way than hanging the three of them on a rope."

The captain froze and asked. "What thod?!"

"Seek cooperation from the earth power users."

Luo Xun’s advice was simple, but was a bit of a hassle. His idea was to the have the earth users open a ’mouth’ from the inside of the wall at a designated location, allowing the tal users to build from inside the holes.

But this required the help of the earth users and for the three users to form three groups of people working together. It was sowhat troubleso to partially dismantle the already built wall.

However this was a more practical approach and would also ensure the safety of the tal users. The problem was that workers could not be scheduled to co over and not convenient for people to cooperate.

The captain thought for a mont and decided to speak with his superiors out a team protection ntality. Unfortunately the captain returned ten minutes later downtrodden.

"Superiors ordered us to act as planned." He sighed and looked at Luo Xun with lancholy. "There are not enough earth users or crystal nuclei..."

This part of the wall had been built, if they followed Luo Xun’s advice, opening then resealing after the tal walls were done would be a duplication of work.

The superiors disagreed, there were not enough earth users to do sothing so extravagant. The number of nuclei on base was limited, they had deliberately given more to the tal departnt to support their work. Now having crystal nuclei did not work but also tried to find excuses to ask others for cooperation...although tal powers were rare, they could not waste resources.

So, the captain was scolded and sent back.

The wall teams of earth users and tal users were separated, the others were also competing who could finish faster. Climb down to repair the tal casing? Even if there was no tal shell, the defensive properties of earth were not bad, could they not just make the wall thicker? Did they always find excuses to look for trouble?

The captain did not need to find the leader of the earth users, he could guess what they would say to each other. Moreover, his own superiors all disagreed with this proposal.

Yan Fei was working with two of tal users to discuss the operation details. He ca over to hear Luo Xun and the captain speaking, understood that he was worried about him and smiled. "I have a way, don’t need the help of the earth users but can also build the wall from the inside and not have to go down personally."

"Oh? What way?" The captain perked up and excitedly looked at Yan Fei.

"Ability conduction."

Yan Fei had just spoken with the two other tal users and learned that they did not have the ability to float tal. Although he did not know if it was a unique aspect of his powers or if this kind of effect naturally occurred when a tal ability rose to a higher level? But the wall construction would not only rely on one person floating things, so these two individuals would be responsible for handling the other materials?

Yan Fei did not know how much attention this would attract, or if he would get stolen into a laboratory. He had a better way to let the three tal users remotely manipulate tal, using conduction effect to make external walls.

The thod he had used at ho to reinforce the doors, windows and other things, using the tal bars in the concrete walls.

In his personal experience, he had a range where he could sense tal, which was similar to fire user sensing internal heat, or wind users like Zhang Yi being able to sense wind. Yan Fei had a similar ability.

At ho, he was roughly certain that his range had a diater of about ten ters, which was comparable to Zhang Yi. Of course, the tal arrows that he made could have far range but were not under his control. Those were launched long range attacks whose intensity depended on the ntal strength used.

This effective scope of operation was not limited by other’s ranges, so ’conduction’. With tal as a dium, the tal’s shape, appearance and so on could be changed using spiritual power.

The other two tal users could do the sa, it was not unique to Yan Fei.

Although not clear, but strong feelings appeared – all the soldiers who heard Yan Fei’s explanation had the sa idea.

The captain was also dazed, after all as a person without powers he could not intuitively understand the situation. He chose the simplest and direct way to verify. "You two can do it?"

The two tal users nodded with excited faces. "We experinted. There will be difficulties if the distance is too far, but certainly possible within three ters, although it consurs so more ntal strength than usual."

The captain waved his hand. "Don’t worry about the crystal nucleus problem, we’ll find a way to deal with it! Use however many you need! Safety first!" This was one of his own soldiers, and he would never sacrifice one if he did not have to. Even if face of his superior’s orders, even if the wall construction speed slowed down, he would rather choose the more secure thod.

Yan Fei’s idea was simply use a piece of tal as a ’pen’, use the tal materials at hand as ’ink’ to build what they want like using a 3D doodle pen.

Plus, it was easier than making a giant, stiff iron wall. As long as they pinched the tal afterwards, the walls would be hard and smooth!

The two n copied Yan Fei, using tal to make a long, fine iron bar. The tal around grabbed a piece and fused together, gradually the tal wall thickened and grew.

Although this would require a greater concentration of ntal strength, the two unexpectedly found their strength after each supplent had beco more clear, concise and easy to operate. They seed to perceive every inch of the tal which changed in accordance with their own ideas. Much more wonderful and free than the simple hand ’pinching’ before.

Seeing the three people getting down to work and they did not need to risk hanging from a rope. So long as they were lying on the wall, with a little bit of tal ’painting’ could build the outside wall. All of them breathed a sigh of relief.

While Yan Fei was resting, the captain asked with a comforting smile. "How did you think of this approach?" It was not just him that had been surprised, the other two tal users were also curious. Although they were tal users, they had not thought of a way to manipulate tal without touching it.

Yan Fei’s heart made a sound, he was able to do this once he discovered he had tal powers, it was just using pure ntal power to manipulate tal. He had been surprised upon seeing that the other tal users did not do the sa.

But he did not want to expose the matter for the ti being, he casually found an excuse. "The windows in my house were not strong enough, I subconsciously connected the tal bars in the concrete wall. Later I was afraid that the walls could not bear the weight and tried to reinforce the steel bars, did not expect I could manipulate the bars without actually touching them."

The crowd started and the captain laughed. "No wonder you wanted so tal. DId you want to reinforce the wall in your house?"

Yan Fei smiled and nodded while giving Luo Xun a look from the corner of his eye. "If we have the resources for it."

"Don’t worry, I’ll let you bring so ho with you when we return! Teams go out in a few days to gather so more steel, but be careful and do not let other people see."

"That’s fine, we have a car. We’ll just stop at the parking place when we get back." Yan Fei nodded cheerfully.

There was a lot of and he had heard that there were two water cisterns on the roof. They were worried that the floor would not be able to support the weight – they lived on the 16th floor! If the floor collapsed...

Luo Xun did not notice Yan Fei looking at him, also did not fear his roof would collapse under the weight of the two water tanks. However nothing was more important than getting sothing back for Yan Fei!

The three power user’s wall building smoothly started, the captain saw that the three had a good run and called over the people responsible for protection, plus to give them so things. He carried the rest of the team to the next place to deal with the zombies.

Now that the base gate had been opened, an armored car rushed out to rescue the trapped soldiers in the vicinity of the surveillance guard tower. The zombies were part of the group at the wall but the scent of human flesh was too delicious, they refused to leave even after forty to fifty corpses were dealt with.

The captain’s goal was to kill these dozens of zombies, they would only be relieved when the zombies were completely destroyed. Otherwise the ability users and soldiers were tied with ropes in case they fell, but were not completely reassured – what if they really did fall? Getting scratched up was no joke!

After a dozen zombie kills, the other soldiers tried to use a hooked rope to dig out the nucleus from the zombie’s heads in midair. The speed and efficiency was slower, but better than no gains at all.

Luo Xun was at Yan Fei’s side transporting tal materials, on guard at all tis against the zombies. He occasionally helped shoot several heads with his crossbow.

Such operations drained Yan Fei and the other tal user’s nuclei and ntal strength, but the effect was good. Consumption efficiency was comparable to making tal sh net from a lump of tal that he did every night before bedti – although still not as good.