Gan Shuo was holding the shield and his sword tightly. He wanted to make sure that he was not going to lose his grip on his weapon and shield.
Now, the army was stopped a few hundred meters away from what was supposed to be Hangzhou. However, Gan Shuo did not recognize the Hangzhou he was seeing right now.
There was a thirty meters wall or maybe higher that protected the city. He could see the zombies on the top of the wall. Not just a few, but many of them. The zombies packed the wall.
Even if he tried to put aside the thought of millions of zombies. The city wall alone was enough to intimidate Gan Shuo.
'How are we supposed to break the wall? We need a tank to do that!' Gan Shuo could not think of a way to break the wall.
"It seems your hunch is wrong, Zhen Yang!" He called out Zhen Yang. The man said that they could win, but he was aware that their chance to win against the zombies was very small.
"No, my hunch is rarely wrong. Even if it's wrong, not this time!" Zhen Yang could keep his calm despite the wall that prevented the army from entering the city.
Before Gan Shuo could lash out at his friend, Zhen Yang spoke first, "Look more closely! Don't just look at what is in front of you, but also look at your surroundings!"
Gan Shuo listened to his friend and looked around. He furrowed his brow. There was something wrong here. He could sense fear and nervousness from the people from his old group, but other than them, these people showed a tinge of excitement and also confidence.
This baffled Gan Shuo. He did not know where the excitement and the confidence came from.
"The Original Army of the Empire does not waver in front of the enemy we will face. They are confident that we will win the battle, you can see it from their expression!" Zhen Yang's voice entered his ears.
"Look, even your Squad Captain is quite excited about the battle," Zhen Yang pointed at Gu Yingjie.
Yes, Gan Shuo was part of Gu Yingjie's unit. Gan Shuo looked toward his young Squad Captain. Sure enough, he could see not only the confidence, the excitement, but also Squad Captain Gu looked impatient to jump into the battle.
Gu Yingjie had been listening to the newcomers' discussion. He turned around, "Of course, we are excited. This is a chance for us to get stronger, killing the zombies! In a world where power matters, you will thirst for power!"
'That's cringe,' of course, Gan Zhuo did not dare to say it out loud. He saved that for himself since he was talking to his superior despite the gap of their age.
"You will feel it after you see Lord Shaoyang and the other commanders make their move!" Gu Yingjie could tell that the older man was not used to his words. However, it was hard to convert his feelings into words.
Liao Zhenya kept listening to them, but she had been observing the front line. She noticed a man and a red-haired woman came forward.
'The red-haired woman should be the Fire Witch that Captain Cao talked about. That young man, he is the Zombie Ruler, the guy who has the power to control the zombies!'
'Those should be the zombies,' Liao Zhenya noticed the giant zombies and the small zombies in the black cloak.
"It's about to start!" Gu Yingjie glanced at the nine people behind him. Those nine were his subordinate, he was responsible for their lives, "Remember what I said, don't split from the group and follow my lead! Unless you want to get killed, you can rush toward the swarm by yourself! Get ready for the battle!"
At Gu Yingjie's words, big fireballs formed in the sky and descended toward the city wall. Not only big fireballs but the city wall was also rained down by the fire spear.
"How is that possible!?" Gan Shuo was shocked to see the fire. It was not a feat that a human could do, at least, he thought so.
The first fireballs managed to hit the city and burned the zombies on top. However, the next few attacks were blocked by a barrier. The fireballs and the fire spear exploded midair.
"The fire does not work!" Gan Shuo could not help but get panicked.
"Who's that!?" Liao Zhenya noticed a figure was floating in the air. She pointed at the figure and hoped Gu Yingjie would answer her.
"He is Lord Shaoyang. The Founding Emperor of the Tang Empire!" That simple answer shocked the three.
Gan Shuo opened his mouth and closed his mouth. He wanted to say something, but he did not know what to say. The man was walking in the air, how was that possible?
"Stop complicating your own thoughts. The zombie is a creature that should not exist, but they exist anyway. So in this new world, almost everything is possible! Just accept and embrace it!" Zhen Yang said. His eyes focused on the figure in the air.
The man became a lord for a reason. He wanted to know what the reason was. The fireball and the fire spear could not reach the city because of the invisible barrier. That man would be the one who broke the invisible barrier. He wanted to see how strong the Lord was.
Then the man in the air spat fire. The fire was spread into a big wave. The fire was much bigger than the fireball.
The fire met with the invisible barrier and spread out. The fire then engulfed the big space in the sky.
Reflection of the fire was in his eyes, Zhen Yang could not look away from the fire. The earlier fireball and fire spear were big enough to shock him. But the scale of this fire was out of the league compared to the earlier one.
Just like a glass that could not handle the pressure, the invisible broke into pieces. The barrier was blue, it was burned by the fire.
"If he is our Lord, then he alone may win against the zombies? We don't need to fight, right?" Gan Shuo had become numb from the shock. This was something he never expected to see one day.
"No, he will not fight unless something strong that we could not handle comes out from the zombie armies. He will join the battle by then, but this is not his battle but ours!" Gu Yingjie replied without looking back.
Gu Yingjie's words come true. Before the fire could pour onto the zombies, it disappeared. The fire that could burn thousands of zombies dissipated. Gu Yingjie was speaking the truth.
"But why?" Gan Shuo did not understand it. If the Lord was so powerful, shouldn't he fight to protect his people? With great power must also come great responsibility, that was the right words for the current issue.
"Because Lord Shaoyang wants us to be strong as well! Maybe he can handle the threat that comes for us now, but what about later? We don't know! The world has changed, Uncle Gan. We don't know what kind of monster will appear later!" Liao Zhenya understood the reason behind the action.
"He is letting us fight the zombies so we can level up so we are ready to face the unknown future. We don't know that maybe there is a being that is as strong as Lord Shaoyang or even stronger. By that time, he will need us to fight with him!" Zhen Yang added as he agreed with Liao Zhenya.
"And I finally know what Squad Captain Gu tried to say earlier. Don't you feel your blood boil? Don't you want to be as strong as Lord Shaoyang? They are excited to fight because they want to catch up to Lord Shaoyang. They are confident that we will defeat the zombies because they have Lord Shaoyang!"
The man with a few words, Zhen Yang finally let out a smile. This one made him even more excited than a beauty.
"It's not like we have other choices. With or without the Empire, we have to be strong if we want to survive anyway," Liao Zhenya held the spear as she was in a battle stance.
The zombies on top of the wall were wiped out by the fireball and the fire spear. She noticed the gate was opened and the swarm of zombies poured out from the gate. It was time for the battle.