Chapter 115: Clearly Audible

Only this spot on the rooftop had supplies, and a place with supplies was suitable for a defensive position. However… the helipad was a raised platform, bare and exposed, with no cover for players to hide behind.

Besides the helipad at the northernmost part of the rooftop, there were more than a dozen huge iron boxes scattered around the edges of the rooftop. They might have been water tanks or some kind of equipment boxes. Then, there was the small cabin at the southernmost part of the rooftop, facing the helipad from afar, which was less than four square meters in size.

When Lü Yang walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down at the building below, he couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his back…

The game had actually already started, but since no zombies had appeared on the rooftop yet, it gave people the illusion that the game hadn’t begun…

The ten-minute countdown indeed hadn’t started yet. According to Lü Yang’s guess, the game would probably start the timer when the first wave of zombies climbed onto the rooftop. At that moment, countless zombies appeared in the streets and alleys below the building, a dark mass with no end in sight. They were climbing up the outer walls of the building. Based on the building’s height and their speed, it would take about three or four minutes for them to reach the rooftop!

This task definitely couldn’t be completed for long relying on individual strength alone. Everyone had to work together to survive these ten long minutes.

Just as Lü Yang turned around to get weapons and gather the players to arrange tactics, he instinctively glanced down at the building below once more…

This wasn’t some kind of Road to Survival game. Climbing up from below weren’t just zombies—there were also four-legged crawlers! Although their numbers were small, their size was terrifying. Lü Yang seriously doubted whether a full magazine of bullets could take down one of those crawlers…

This wasn’t Road to Survival; this was Road to Survival plus Starship Troopers, or maybe even StarCraft…

“Everyone who doesn’t want to die, gather here!” Lü Yang ran up onto the helipad and shouted loudly to the people on the rooftop.

Lü Yang no longer strongly believed that Death Killer would throw himself into this Mysterious Domain to become a Survivor. At this point, it was more likely that Death Killer was just an Observer hiding in some dark corner, watching these people he had forcibly dragged into the Mysterious Domain struggle to survive, to satisfy his perverted pleasure of holding power over life and death.

However, Lü Yang didn’t completely rule out the possibility that Death Killer was mixed in among these players. Although the likelihood was extremely low, for someone as twisted as Death Killer, nothing was impossible.

Even so, Lü Yang knew that if he couldn’t hold out on the rooftop for more than ten minutes and wait for the rescue Helicopter to arrive safely, he would likely die here. Therefore, the top priority was to survive this round of the game first.

If he couldn’t survive, everything else was just empty talk.

To survive this round, he had to unite and organize the people in front of him. Otherwise, once the more than twenty people fell into chaos, they wouldn’t last ten minutes—they wouldn’t even last a minute under the assault of the zombies and crawlers from below.

These more than twenty people were already panicked and lacked a leader. Hearing someone loudly calling everyone together, they instinctively gathered toward Lü Yang.

“Some of you should have already seen that those things downstairs, whether zombies or crawlers, are quickly climbing up toward the rooftop. We don’t have much time left. We must set up our defensive formation before they climb up. Otherwise, once chaos breaks out and everyone fights on their own, no one will survive these ten minutes!”

“Where should we defend?” someone asked Lü Yang.

“Right here on the helipad. I’ve looked around just now, and only this spot has sufficient ammunition supplies. We’ll form a square formation. Divide the twenty people into pairs. One person stands on the outer perimeter, and the other stands near the ammunition boxes. The outer person shoots, and when they run out of bullets, they immediately fall back inside to get ammo and reload. The inner person must step up to replace them at the same time the outer person falls back. Take turns shooting to prevent the zombies and crawlers from having a chance to get close to the helipad!”

Time was short, and since these people hadn’t received professional training, Lü Yang could only arrange for a relatively simple and easy-to-execute tactic for now.

“I think we should take some ammunition and defend inside that small cabin over there!” someone loudly objected to Lü Yang’s opinion. “In the Road to Survival game, on rooftops like this, hiding in the small cabin is the easiest way to clear the level!”

“Yeah, hiding in that small cabin would be safer,” someone else immediately agreed.

“This isn’t Road to Survival! And that small cabin is less than four square meters; it can only hold seven or eight people at most. What about the others? Judging from the situation in the streets and alleys below, once the zombies and crawlers climb onto the rooftop, they’ll keep pouring up endlessly. We won’t have any chance to catch our breath! There’s at least twenty meters between the cabin and the helipad. When the rescue Helicopter arrives after ten minutes, if the cabin gets surrounded, breaking out from the cabin back to the helipad will be impossible!” Lü Yang loudly rejected that person’s suggestion and analyzed the situation for everyone.

Precious time was being wasted on these arguments. Lü Yang felt very frustrated and helpless, but he truly needed to rely on this group of people to fight alongside him now, so he had to try his best to persuade them.

Even if the more than twenty people split into two groups, it would be very difficult to last ten minutes. Everyone had to gather together and follow his command to have a chance of surviving.

After hearing Lü Yang’s analysis, the few people who had wanted to hide in the small cabin no longer insisted. Everyone began loading ammunition and, following Lü Yang’s instructions, split into groups, setting up a defensive formation around the area with the ammunition boxes.

The sounds of the zombies and crawlers were already clearly audible. Their strange cries sent chills down people’s spines.

This wasn’t a game; this was an extremely dangerous Mysterious Domain. Dying here meant real death.

After experiencing the bloody and brutal first round of the game, no one felt relaxed at this moment. Although they didn’t know why they had come to such a strange place, they had reached this point. Driven by the instinct to survive, they could only fight desperately alongside the others.

“I’ll handle the Heavy Machine Gun for sweeping fire, but you all need to protect my safety,” a burly man walked over to the machine gun, told everyone, and test-fired the machine gun into the distance.

“Okay, you’ll be mainly responsible for defending this side! Don’t worry! We’ll provide extra protection for your sides and back!” Lü Yang nodded at the man. He picked a Light Machine Gun from the weapon crate, slung it over his shoulder, wrapped the ammunition belt around himself, and stood beside the burly man.

Originally, Lü Yang had been considering that if no one was willing to operate this Heavy Machine Gun, he would have to do it himself. But once enemies got close, the machine gunner would have a hard time protecting themselves. So unless absolutely necessary, Lü Yang didn’t want to personally operate this Heavy Machine Gun. Having someone volunteer was much better.

The Electronic Voice also sounded again at this moment…

“The game will begin after a ten-second countdown.”

“Ten, nine, eight…”

“…”

“Three, two, one, game start!”

With this announcement, a ten-minute countdown timer appeared in the upper corner of everyone’s vision. Everyone clearly understood that only by enduring these ten minutes could they wait for the rescue Helicopter to arrive.