I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 348 - 345: Preparing for Dragon Fight_1

Chapter 348: Chapter 345: Preparing for Dragon Fight_1

By the time they arrived near Zhiyang Lake, Tang Ye found a place to rest, and quietly led Ah Fu and Xu Haishui towards the lakeshore.

From afar, Tang Ye could already see countless soldiers assembling cannons in the distance.

Armed helicopters hovered back and forth in the sky, scouting for something. The words "Qinshan Base" were painted on their bodies, making it clear where they had come from.

They were taking tube after tube of steel, each over twenty meters long and five meters tall, from a massive transport plane and securing them on the ground.

By rough estimation, there were around two hundred soldiers, each contributing to the effort. Within no time, observation decks were erected along the shore of Zhiyang Lake, with silvery quantum weapons being hoisted onto them one by one.

"Cables! Get the cables connected!"

Someone was giving orders, pulling spools of iron wire from the transport plane and attaching them to the quantum cannons on the observation decks.

"Over there, adjust the parameters! Hurry up!"

"Hey, what... what the hell are you doing? Slacking off? F*ck you!"

An NCO noticed a lackluster soldier, shouted in anger, and briskly marched over to kick him harshly to the ground.

"Get the hell up! This isn’t your home. If you want to sleep, get lost, or else I’ll let you sleep forever!"

The soldier almost lost his breath from the kick. But the very next second, hearing this, he hastily staggered up to his feet and eagerly resumed his duties.

As time passed, the decks the soldiers had set up obstructed Tang Ye and his team’s view, forcing them to look from elsewhere.

The passage of time was blurred. By the time Tang Ye checked the time, it was already past five in the evening. The thin layer of snow along the shore of Zhiyang Lake had been trampled, revealing wet soil beneath it. Some soldiers yawned and sat down, not caring about the dirt.

By this point, the soldiers’ work was done. Tang Ye quickly counted twenty observation decks, each carrying a massive quantum weapon, manned by soldiers wiping down the control levers.

Xu Haishui and Ah Fu were bored, strolling behind Tang Ye. Xu Haishui occasionally asked Tang Ye for a cigarette as they silently awaited the soldiers’ next move.

Tang Ye himself was also restless, wondering if the Pseudo-dragon in Zhiyang Lake had returned. They had only come to take a look; if the creature was there, they would take action, otherwise, they would leave. But they hadn’t expected the soldiers from Qinshan Base to come in such full force, spending a whole day preparing.

All this time wasted. If the Pseudo-dragon wasn’t in the lake, it would be a great loss. No one wanted to wait this long just to get such disappointing results.

The longer he waited, the more frustrated Tang Ye grew. The soldiers seemed to have completed all their tasks, but they were still delaying their next steps, resting on the spot instead.

Looking at the fiery red sunset on the horizon, the sky gradually growing dark, Tang Ye suppressed his agitation and began studying the group of people, deep in thought.

"They are waiting for nightfall?"

This thought crossed his mind, and he looked at them with a glint in his eyes. Would acting at night, in complete darkness, really work?

Surely such conditions would only make it harder for the soldiers to accomplish their tasks.

Any idiot could guess their plans simply by observing their actions.

Shaking his head, Tang Ye put his previous assumptions aside and turned to Xu Haishui. "Are they going to wait till tomorrow?"

After a moment of contemplation, Xu Haishui replied, "I suppose so?" His tone was hesitant.

"Oh well, let’s go back."

Nagging suspicions that these soldiers would not act until tomorrow prompted Tang Ye to consider returning first and coming back to look the next morning.

Without a word, Xu Haishui stood up quietly, ready to leave.

Just as Tang Ye was about to gather Ah Fu and Xu Haishui to fly away, they heard a voice: "Time’s up, everyone get ready!"

At the sound, Tang Ye halted. He exchanged a glance with Xu Haishui and crouched down, together they watched the unfolding scene with rapt attention, all previous irritation had vanished in an instant!

A middle-aged man with the highest rank among the NCOs emerged from the transport plane, carrying a small unmanned aerial vehicle. He fiddled with it, sending the drone into the sky before passing the remote control to his subordinate and returning to the plane.

Inside, there was a screen displaying Chen Huaijiang. After exchanging a few words with him, another frame appeared in the middle of the screen, showing the drone’s point of view.

At the command given earlier, the soldiers began equipping themselves with armor made from biological nano-materials and returned to their stations. All the soldiers manning the quantum cannons on the twenty observation decks were accounted for. The armada of attack helicopters soared into the air, hovering in formation.

An NCO drew his military saber and said a whole lot of something, and when he finished, he said seriously, "That’s all I have to say. Now, we’ll be proceeding in shifts! First Group, go!"

"Roger!"

Upon receiving the confirmation, all the soldiers readied themselves. Three helicopters broke off from the airborne fleet and headed to either side of Zhiyang Lake. Under the watchful eyes of Tang Ye, Ah Fu, and Xu Haishui, they saw the bottoms of the three attack helicopters open up to reveal cylindrical tubes, each the size of a grown man’s finger, of a dark green color.

These cylindrical tubes were thrown into Zhiyang Lake, tube after tube, like the falling rain. Initially, Tang Ye thought they were a new type of weapon, but on second thought, they didn’t seem to be.

Like rain, the cylindrical tubes from the attack helicopters fell densely into the lake. The helicopters continued their circling routine until all the tubes were deployed before retreating back to the fleet.

Then, another three helicopters took off and repeated the process, throwing cylindrical tubes into the lake without a second thought, as though determined to cover the entire Zhiyang Lake with these tubes!

Several minutes later, when the cylindrical tubes from the third wave of helicopters hadn’t been entirely deployed yet, Tang Ye and Xu Haishui saw glimmers of light starting to shine in Zhiyang Lake. Tang Ye was stunned for a moment but reacted almost instantly in the next second.

The cylindrical tubes were used for illumination!

Tang Ye now understood why these soldiers had been waiting until it was dark. If all the tubes were for illumination, then, at night, the whole of Zhiyang Lake would be lit up, an advantageous situation for the soldiers!

Even if the dragon hid under the water, they would still be able to see it!

"Retreat, Third Group to fallback positions!"

Seeing the lights turning on, an NCO immediately barked into the walkie-talkie. The three helicopters hastily withdrew from Zhiyang Lake, awaiting the moment when all the light points reached maximum brightness.

This waiting period felt like an eternity. The soldier controlling the lever to fire the quantum cannon on the tower gripped it so tightly that a fine sweat broke out on his palm.