Infected - Chapter 540



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Side story episode 27

Gaon, Seonwoo, his squad members, and three friends galloped up the ridge.

In times like these, decisions had to be made quickly.

So instead of watching the battle unfold outside, he ordered a retreat to the military base.

Once you get in and start holding out based on internal supplies, it will be your enemies who will be at a disadvantage.

Although it was a decision made before even knowing the number of enemy soldiers.

In fact, in this situation, it wasn’t that important to first figure out the scale.

What was more important was the fact that the main force was greatly shaken.

Because if you start to hesitate, you can take a big hit even from a small number of enemies.

Gaon ordered a retreat without looking back.

A special force quickly retreats, dealing with any remaining enemies on the straight road.

As soon as they passed the guard post, they lined up and prepared for defense.

Meanwhile, Gaon, who had passed halfway through the military camp, was making a large detour along the front lines with his group.

Because the military unit was relatively low compared to the ridge, they had to keep some distance to secure a view.

When everyone’s breath was caught in their throats.

Gaon arrived at the vinyl house, which was now nothing more than a skeleton, and received a telescope from Eugene.

Thousands of people advancing up the ridge.

Gaon noticed their attire.

Unlike the branch’s safe zone, which wore combat uniforms with unified marks, they were dressed differently.

Besides, the movements were a bit strange.

“… … ?”

“what’s the matter?”

Seonwoo, who was standing nearby, asked with a puzzled look on his face.

“…they are not ordinary guys.”

“see.”

Seonwoo looked at the ridge through the telescope.

The back view of the enemies splitting up into squad units and pushing forward like waves.

Indeed, it was an extraordinary movement, just as Gaon said.

“Where did you guys come from?”

“well.”

“You don’t know either?”

Seonwoo asked Eugene and his squad members, but the answer was the same.

“It’s strange… … .”

Gaon didn’t understand this situation.

If they had come to help the governor, why did they only show up when the troops trapped on the straight road were on the verge of destruction?

Besides, if they were planning to attack from the rear like they were doing now, they should have known that Gaon’s forces would appear.

“I’m helping, but I don’t care if my allies die… … .”

Gaon, who was muttering as if talking to himself, called the group together.

“Eugene, you take Spotted and return to the safe zone and bring the reinforcements waiting. Tell them to leave as soon as we reach radio range.”

“The two of us?”

“Okay. The rest of you, follow me.”

“What are you going to do?”

Eugene grabbed Gaon, who was turning around, and asked.

Seonwoo’s gaze turned to the two people’s hands that were held together.

widely!

At that moment, Seonwoo unconsciously struck Eugene’s hand away.

The awkward atmosphere continued for a moment.

Gaon pointed to the enemy trucks lined up in the distance.

Places that were hidden by vines on the ridge were clearly visible from here.

I had to use my brain to hide the truck.

“There’s no time. We have to move while they’re focused. Blow up the truck with a grenade before they leave. That’ll be the signal for us to start a counterattack.”

“… … .”

Eugene couldn’t bring himself to respond.

This is because Seonwoo followed Gaon and blocked his view.

The platoon members salute Eugene and Dotboki.

Eugene, who was watching them moving away, asked Dotboki.

“What did I do wrong?”

“Then why are you holding hands?”

“I tried to grab the clothes, but I grabbed the wrong one.”

“Well then, that’s good. Let’s go too.”

“It’s so unfair… … .”

The two men quickened their pace.

We had to get out of here as quickly as possible while the enemies were fighting the guard post.

Fortunately, the enemy had no time to look back as the friendly forces were fiercely resisting, centered around the guard post.

The two men hid between a line of trucks.

The spotted one asked, sticking his head out.

“But… you’re not tall.”

“ah!”

The two stared at each other blankly.

“Hey, there must be at least one key stuck in there.”

“therefore.”

Crunch! Crunch!

One, two, three, four, five… … .

Both people’s gazes turned to the side at the same time.

There were so many trucks parked that it was hard to count them with the naked eye.

If I opened them all one by one, not only would the battle end, but the sun might even set.

Eugene lowered his head with a sigh.

“Ha… I’m done.”

*???*???*

A fierce battle was taking place at the guard post.

The enemy formed a front line using trucks parked on both ridges and straight roads as cover.

But getting through the guard post wasn’t as easy as I thought.

Despite the geographical advantage, the nature of the military base meant there was too much cover and heavy weapon support was lined up.

As expected, Gaon’s judgment was correct.

Soldiers who had taken their heavy weapons from the armory gathered one by one at the guard post.

The key to modern warfare is firepower.

There was nothing better than heavy weapons to attack the enemy positioned on the ridge.

Dozens of rockets fly by, spewing pure white tails.

Piles of dirt erupt simultaneously from both ridges.

The enemies were not easy either.

They bypassed the ridge and climbed over the fence, and deployed snipers to kill soldiers firing heavy weapons.

In a small magnification, the crosshairs are aimed at those running towards them with heavy weapons.

bang!?

A soldier who missed the target as if he was being thrown with an anti-tank rocket fell to the ground, splattering blood.

As the sniper moved his scope towards his next target.

Something shiny caught the sniper’s eye.

I raised my gun belatedly to find the location, but before I could react, my neck started burning.

The bullet penetrated through.

A point at least 200 meters away from the ridge.

On the rooftop of the headquarters building, Gaon and Seonwoo were holding their breath, holding sticks on either side of them and covering them with ghillies.

A high-power optical scope scans the ridge.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As the two men pulled the trigger, the snipers attacking the guard post fell, grabbing their necks.

There was not a single exception.

Each and every step passed with precision, breaking his neck.

It was an accuracy that was hard to believe even when I saw it with my own eyes.

Unlike the enemies who could barely pull the trigger after focusing so hard, the two of them took them down as soon as they reached their crosshairs.

Gaon and Seonwoo didn’t hit their heads on purpose.

Because it was much more effective to shoot them in the neck and chest to turn them into zombies.

Thanks to this, the number of zombies increased rapidly.

As the battle becomes more intense, you will have to deal with the mutations that occur internally.

Gaon, who had reassembled the magazine, shot the enemy trying to deal with the sniper who had turned into a zombie.

Bang! Bang!

In this situation, the enemy had no way to stop the heavy weapons.

As soon as you deploy a sniper, not only will you turn into a zombie, you won’t even be able to approach the zombies.

Meanwhile, friendly forces also suffered numerous casualties.

It seemed that at least a thousand of the five thousand special forces had been killed.

The only silver lining is that there weren’t many casualties compared to the time they endured.

The situation for the enemies was not much different.

No, to put it another way, it was they who were becoming more disadvantaged as time went on.

Unlike the open military camp, the ridge was covered with thickets of bushes and trees on all sides.

So I couldn’t fight while checking my surroundings one by one.

Bang! Bang!

Gaon, who had been pulling the trigger, runs down the stairs with Seonwoo.

Now, enemies will not be able to place snipers arbitrarily.

I don’t know what it will be like as time goes by, but for now, that’s how it was.

Therefore, I had to take advantage of the gap that time gave me.

Three friends and their platoon members shooting frantically toward the ridge behind the transport battalion building.

“Follow me!”

Gaon led them and ran to the opposite wall.

Then, he gave orders via radio to some companies to bypass the ridge.

Now that the enemies were psychologically weakened, this was the only chance to counterattack.

“Take the claymore!”

Then he stuck his head out over the fence and looked at the bushes that hid the line of trucks in the distance.

What on earth are Eugene and Dotty doing?

By now, the explosion should have attracted attention.

Losing transportation means being stranded.

If you shake up your enemies with sniping and heavy weapons, and draw their attention from behind by blowing up trucks, they will naturally become psychologically intimidated.

That was exactly the moment Gaon was aiming for.

The platoon members lined up along the fence swallow dry saliva.

There have been many crises so far, but no one has died and survived.

But this time it was different.

If you were caught in the enemy’s sight while moving, you would end up in a beehive.

The companies are gathering one after another to bypass the ridge as ordered by Gaon.

In order to safely return to the enemy’s rear, the companies assigned to the flank had to depart before they could strike the flank.

Gaon, who was counting numbers in his head, gestured towards his platoon members.

I couldn’t wait any longer.

“I have to go.”

“There’s still no signal.”

Seonwoo said with an embarrassed face.

“We can’t help it. Let’s go!”

Gaon and his group quickly moved between the skeleton-like vinyl greenhouses.

The roadside we arrived at after circling the rice fields.

It was the starting point of both ridges and the beginning of a straight road leading to the military base.

In other words, it is the last line of defense of the enemies.

The platoon members looked at the ridge with anxious eyes.

Fortunately, the enemies were not visible.

The ridge was too long to accommodate a mere few thousand people.

In addition, everyone was rushing towards the military base to break through the guard post.

Soon the truck will explode and you will realize that there are enemies behind you, so unless you have a sharp countermeasure, you will have no choice but to retreat.

“Install Claymore!”

The group splits into two and climbs the ridge.

Then he started installing claymores among the piled up fallen leaves and vines.

Normally, you would have to press the trigger directly, but with just a little bit of effort, you could trigger it by just pulling the string taut.

At that moment, explosions poured out from a convoy of trucks hidden in the bushes.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The signal for a counterattack has gone off.

A truck was leisurely pulling off the road amid the flames of the exploding vehicles.

“… It goes by so quickly.”

While Gaon shook his head.

Seonwoo, who had grabbed the radio, ordered a counterattack.

The order was to retake the ridge with heavy weapons at the forefront.

A bunch of claymores installed at the rear.

The companies succeeded in bypassing the ridge and cutting the enemy’s waist.

And the rest of the troops came out of the guard post and started to charge.

Although it was a little late, the three beats were coming together, however clumsily.

The enemies’ reaction was as expected.

More than anything else, the explosions that occur at the rear will be of concern.

If there is such a thing as thinking.

Gaon and his group passed through the bushes and hid in a line of trucks.

The gunshots heard from afar are getting closer and closer.

When the enemies who appeared on the ridge came rushing down the road in a frenzy.

Claymores installed in various locations were triggered simultaneously.

The destructive power of Claymore, with thousands of beads embedded throughout the body, was indescribably terrifying.

“Ahh!”

“Kwaaak!”

The screams of the enemies echoed throughout the heavens and earth.

The ridge was quickly thrown into chaos as the retreating leaders encountered an unexpected trap.

Those who shout to get down and those who are stuck in the middle and can’t do anything.

And then there are the zombies that were hit by Claymore and then rose up in a horrible state.

The size of the enemies began to diminish noticeably.

The group sat in the back of the truck, holding their breath, listening to the island’s screams.

It was then that the enemies who had broken through the Claymore Line came running towards the truck.

Gaon, who had been silently observing the situation, shouted at the top of his lungs.

“percussion!”

The platoon members and three friends start firing simultaneously.

The enemies, who were running towards the truck with their guns down, stumbled over each other in the sudden ambush, causing chaos.

Although the number was only a few dozen, it could have been quite threatening in the current situation.

That’s the effect of surprise.

While I was shooting like that.

Gaon and Seonwoo felt a strange sense of discomfort once again.

At this point, it would be reasonable to throw down your weapons and surrender.

The enemies did not give up until the very end, even when they were attacked to the point of near-massacre.

As if they had nowhere to return to, they were being torn apart by their zombie-turned-comrades, but they couldn’t let go of the trigger.

In the end, what we were worried about happened.

“Ahh!”

A bullet flew through the window and struck a platoon member in the shoulder.

He was shooting from behind the passenger seat and naturally fell out of the front tire.

Seonwoo quickly pulled his leg when he saw the sight, but a bullet flying in from somewhere pierced the platoon member’s head.

A pool of blood splattered on the floor in a fan shape.

He was the first casualty.

And the number just kept growing.

Gaon and Seonwoo, who saw the deaths of their platoon members, were overcome with intense anger that they had never felt before.

People who believed in him and followed him. Their deaths were unexpected.

Although some may criticize it as crocodile tears, it was a very shocking scene for both of them.

The life of one of my people is more precious than the lives of enemies dying by the thousands.

That’s what humans were like.

Gaon and Seonwoo pulled out their daggers without hesitation as they watched the enemies rushing in with the truck.

And he screamed at his platoon members in a fit of rage.

“Sword!”

It was the beginning of a close combat.

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