Chapter 202 - 194: Caught Off Guard
The crowd surged.
Li Yu was focused on the people below from atop the wall, with Second Uncle beside him, watching as people flooded into Weng City from the forest, stretching endlessly as if there was no end.
There were just too many people.
10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds.
Weng City was crammed with countless people, the space of several hundred square meters becoming congested for a moment.
As time passed, the counterflow of the crowd increased, and finally, from the forest side, no more people were seen pouring in.
At this moment, if viewed from the entire perspective, more than half of the people had already flooded into Weng City, with half of them inside Weng City.
Li Yu roughly estimated, both inside and outside Weng City, there were at least 1500 people.
The counterflow increasingly grew, and at the gate, the incoming flow of people also stagnated.
It was clear that the entrance was getting congested by those moving in the opposite direction.
If the gate wasn't closed now, instead of allowing more people into Weng City, on the contrary, those already inside Weng City would start to flee.
"Close the gates!" Li Yu shouted towards Li Hang beside him.
Li Hang and Second Uncle triggered the button to close the gate.
The iron gate made a creaking sound.
This heavy iron gate, designed with bearings, now seemed like a giant rock, lowering with a creak.
People around the gate, upon hearing this noise, frantically moved away from the gate's vicinity, fearing being crushed by it.
Closing the gate took some time, and those far outside the gate, seeing it about to close, thought they no longer had a chance to enter and started shoving the people in front of them fiercely toward the gate.
Meanwhile, the people inside the gate realized something was wrong, pushing hard in the opposite direction, towards outside the gate, hoping to escape before it closed!
These two streams of people.
Like water and fire, moving in opposite directions, incompatible.
Around the gate, people divided into three groups, one portion surged into Weng City, another spilled outwards, and another portion seemed unsure of which way to run.
But the overhead iron gate slowly descended, forcing them to make decisions in these urgent moments.
Exit, or enter.
Often at such critical moments, some people always become panicked, whether advancing or retreating is a decision, but at such a critical time, some seemed either too scared or indecisive.
Staying put on the spot.
The gate gradually lowered, yet beneath it, six or seven people remained motionless.
Just watching as the iron gate descended.
2 meters, 1 meter.
Among them, two to three people, under the congestion of others, managed to escape towards outside Weng City.
The gate's closure became increasingly evident, akin to a mandarin duck hotpot blazing at its highest fire, both sides of the broth boiling - one spicy and one mild.
This closing caught them off guard.
Sensing the timing was almost right, Li Yu then shouted towards Second Uncle and the others: "*!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
**Ringing out!
In an instant, everyone straightened up from below the parapet, holding machine guns, pouring fire down towards the crowd below.
Yang Tianlong and Li Tie along with others arrived later and were now inside Weng City.
The idea of luring them into the trap had been a sudden stroke of inspiration for Li Yu; they originally thought this moment would be used to eliminate the people inside Weng City.
But, the influx of people was way beyond their expectations.
Over a thousand people.
Even though there were already so many people in Weng City, less than half were outside the city.
As Li Tie and others fired, people inside Weng City fell like wheat.
Shock, despair, regret...
A chorus of wails rose.
...
On the other hand, Li Yu on the city gate, when he shouted "Fire!", raised his gun and started shooting at the people outside Weng City.
Second Uncle, the scruffy Yutong, Li Hang, and Third Uncle beside him also aimed their guns outside Weng City.
At this moment, the people outside Weng City needed to be dealt with.
Those inside Weng City were doomed to die, to be slowly taken care of later.
The people outside Weng City were now the primary targets.
Boom.
Boom.
After firing a salvo, Li Hang, feeling unfulfilled, threw two grenades several meters away from the wall, causing figures to tumble wildly in the blasts.
People outside Weng City, hearing the gunfire, especially seeing people falling from the bullets beside them, wished they had extra legs to run towards the forest.
In the forest meanwhile, the big-backhaired mature man, hearing the first gunshot, began to feel lucky.
He hadn't run fast, even stopping later.
Because he always felt something wasn't right, especially the conversation just now between the siblings and the man on the wall seemed abnormal, suddenly opening the gates.
Reasonably speaking, such a big base that had operated until now, in this apocalyptic world, the survivors couldn't be ordinary.
How could they easily let people in?
Something was amiss.
While he was thinking outside, seeing the influx of people inside, he almost felt like an observer watching everything unfold.
Later, hearing some chaotic noises inside saying "No way out." "Get out." From the voices of over a thousand people, it wasn't clear enough.
Unexpectedly, in less than 30 seconds.
The gates fell, gunfire rained down.
Behind the big-backhaired man, another dozen people were following him. Seeing people running from the gate, they felt relieved as Li Yu and others fired upon them.
Ratatat!
Suddenly, the urgent sound of machine gun fire rang out. Li Yu, with his submachine gun, didn't stop, fluidly changing to a loaded magazine, snapping it in, and continued firing towards the edge of the forest.
He intended to prevent these people from escaping into the forest, so he didn't kill the ones below the wall first, but targeted those who had already reached the forest's edge.
Hearing the noise beside him, through peripheral vision, seeing Li Tie and others seeing Li Yu's group shooting outside the wall, they quickly reacted, rushing to the gate to attack.
Suddenly, the firepower greatly increased.
On the wall, over thirty streams of bullet flashes poured down outside the wall. As Li Yu lured these people in, Second Uncle had already turned on the walkie-talkie, summoning other members of the base.
This gunfire was the loudest sound in the area.
All the screams of sorrow, curses, pleas for mercy.
Were drowned out.
In less than 10 seconds, nearly a hundred people had run from under the wall towards the forest.
This was unavoidable, a strategy hastily thought of by Li Yu, under those pressing circumstances, with Second Uncle and others beside him reacting swiftly.
At this moment, achieving such an effect was already quite impressive.