The team spread out beh the high walls, creating a circur formation that allowed them to cover one another. Whenever one of them was overwhelmed, the others quickly provided support. On the walls, the soldiers of Washington DC base intensified their firepower.

  No one questioned where Andre and his team had e from. In this moment, it didn’t matter. They were human. They were fighting zombies. That was enough to make them allies. "Team Three! Where’s your recoilless rifle?!" Scott shouted. "Provide support to the fur bears below!"

  At the same time, the transport phat had dropped Andre and his team circled back, flying dangerously low—barely skimming the ground. The maneuver made Scott’s heart skip a beat. "What’s that pne doing?!" he yelled down at Andre. Hearing the question, Aurned his massive tiger head toward the wall, a faint smile pying across his face despite the chaos.

  "rade!" Andre roared, his voice humae his animal form. "We have nothing to fear!"

  "U!"

  Andre spun around, his massive tiger tail sweeping aer huhat lu him. Without pausing, he pounced on two more super hunters, his razor-sharp cws ripping through their chests with ease.

  At the same time, the transport pne circled back, its iions being clear. The rear hatch remained open, revealing more than thirty soldiers simple exoskeletons. They carried heavy mae guns, their ammunitios draped over their shoulders like trophies. Their faces were filled with a burniermination.

  As the pne passed over the high wall, the soldiers of Washington DC stared in disbelief. One by ohe soldiers leapt from the transport pne, each jumping down from a height of over teers."They’re insane!""Do they even have superpowers?!"

  Scott’s voice cut through the shocked murmurs. "They’re not mutants!" he shouted, realizing the truth. "They’re just men with ce!"

  The soldiers watched in awe as they nded solidly on the high tform. Their crude exoskeletons absorbed most of the impact, leaving them ready for a. "Cover the officer!" one of the soldiers bellowed. Without hesitation, they rushed to the edge of the wall, heavy mae guns bzing as they unleashed a relentless barrage oide of zombies below.

  Scott noticed something peculiar about their ammunition. "What bullets are they using?!" he yelled.

  The nguage barrier made it impossible for them to respond. "Does anyone here know their nguage? Ask them what caliber they’re using!"

  A quick-thinking soldier picked up a spent g and exami. "ander Scott! It’s 12.7x108mm!"

  "Logistics! Find every st box of 12.7x108mm ammo a up here!" Scott ordered.

  The soldiers, uanding the gesture when the ammunition boxes arrived, shouted with renewed vigor. "Зачеловечество!" "For humanity, rades!" They redoubled their efforts, their heavy mae guns tearing through the endless horde with uing precision.

  "ander Scott! Reinforts are here!" Scott turo see Scarlett aeam of mutants arriving on the high wall.

  "And us!" shouted a voice from behind. The security team, notorious for their misdeeds, joihe fray.

  "You’re just in time!" Scott said, a rare smile breaking through his grim expression.

  With the bined forces of the mutants, the city defense army, the outside soldiers, and the gers battling at cle below the wall, the tide of zombies began to falter. For the first time, the base’s firepower outpaced the flow of zombies. To the soldiers, it appeared as though the horde was retreating."We’re holding them back!""Long live humanity!""U!"

  The morale of the defenders soared. But their celebration was short-lived.

  Boom!

  The ground trembled violently. The joy on everyone’s faces quickly shifted to fear and panic as they saproached . Hundreds of Lords. The massive, hulking zombies that had destroyed the tanks earlier were now charging toward the base. Their sheer size and brute force were overwhelming—a true tide of humanoid steel. "No…" Scott’s voice was barely a whisper. His face paled as despair overtook him.

  Aill in his tiger form, turo look at the advang Lords. L his head slightly, he sighed. "rades… I may have led us to a path of urn." He khe truth. His decision to fight for strao protect a cause greater than himself—had sealed their fate. He and his brothers would die far from home, in a pce that might never remember their names.

  "Is there still hope for a miracle?" On the high wall, Scarlett gazed skyward, her usually posed faow showing signs of despair. Even her sharp mind couldn’t jure a way out of this situation.

  Theiced it. A faint white light streaked across the sky. "Wait…" she muttered. "Is that… a meteor?" The light grew brighter, desding rapidly toward the earth. But this wasn’t a meteor—it was something far more precise.

  A tungsten rod, fired from space, was falling at Mach 61. It tore through the atmosphere, glowing white-hot from the fri. Its target: the ter of the zombie horde. "What is that?!" someone shouted, pointing at the sky.

  "Roar——!" As the tungsten rod desded, a gray wolf ger near Andre roared, sensing the approag juggernaut wave. But this time, hope was falling from the sky. Andre spun around, his massive tiger tail sweeping aer huhat lu him. Without pausing, he pounced on two more super hunters, his razor-sharp cws ripping through their chests with ease.

  "Josh! e back!" Andre roared, his deep voice desperate. But Josh didn’t stop. He had already decided to throw everything into this final stand. The Lords were closing in fast. "Roar——!" Josh leapt into the air, aiming for the juggernaut.

  At that moment, the white light streaking across the sky, moving at Mach 61, smmed into the ground with ah-shattering impact.

  Boom!

  The explosion shook the battlefield, but Josh didn’t falter. He sank his teeth into the juggernaut’s pale flesh, tearing off ks with savage ferocity. The juggernaut’s filthy blood sprayed everywhere, staining the lone wolf’s fur crimson. Josh growled, refusing to let go. But soon, the Lords swarmed him. Massive humanoid tanks, standing three meters tall, grabbed Josh by his limbs and tail.

  With terrifying strength, they tore his body apart. ks of flesh and fur scattered across the blood-soaked battlefield. "Josh!!!" Andre’s voice echoed, filled with rage and grief as his rade fell.

  The ground trembled violently. The shockwave from the white light’s impact rippled outward like ahquake of unpreted magnitude. Cracks snaked across the high walls of the Washington DC base, and soldiers g to anything solid to avoid being thrown off. "What just happened?!" Scott shouted, his voice trembling as he gripped a t pilr. "Send a droo check it out!"