Stronghold In The Apocalypse

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The Pelican arrived at the skies above Pearl City, and the pilot flew the aircraft around to look for a helipad on top of the buildings it flew by.

The pilot finally found a suitable landing spot on top of a five story hospital. Where the helipad is surrounded by a couple dozens of zombies.

Graaaa!

The soft buzzing sound produced by the aircraft quickly attracted their attention as the zombies all looked up by following the direction of where the sound was coming from.

A couple of zombies standing on top of the helipad was squashed to death when it touched down, while the surrounding zombies started to crowd towards it.

The hatch door slowly opened down, followed by Leo and Alex who first stepped out and cleared up the zombies on the rooftop.

The people on the aircraft disembarked from the ship one by one and looked at the desolate city before their eyes, that's filled with ruin and death.

And memories from before all this madness happened surfaced in their minds, which made them nostalgic and grateful to those days when society was still intact.

"Alright, enough looking around. Come over here and get your spare weapons"

Leo, who walked back inside the Pelican quickly called out the rest, and in front of him was a rectangular wooden cargo box containing a set of different weapons.

"Those who can carry an additional rifle and a handgun, take one of each. Those who can't, then just take a handgun and two magazines, and don't forget to take one pocket knife for each of you"

"You're gonna need it when you ran out of bullets, or give mercy to yourselves"

When the people except for the soldiers who came with Leo heard the words "give mercy to yourselves", they couldn't help but swallow their saliva as they knew what those words really meant.

When Bella heard those words, her eyes suddenly became dull when she remembered a memory she wouldn't be able to forget.

Tap.

Darius placed his hand on her shoulder when he noticed her expression, as he knew what she was thinking about.

Bella turned her head towards him, and both of them just smiled at each other, already knowing what the other person was thinking about.

Because they both know that they had lost a dear companion because of it.

"Bella, come and take your pick"

"Ahh, yes!"

Leo called out to her when he noticed that she's not stepping forward to grab a spare weapon, and the latter became flustered and quickly stepped forward and hurriedly took a handgun with additional magazine and a pocket knife before scurrying off to the back of the group.

"Okay, gather up!"

Leo yelled to get the attention of the people around him. The armed men then looked at Leo, waiting for what he was about to say.

"Our plan is to exterminate at least half of the zombie horde hiding in the shopping mall, better yet, clean them all up!"

"We'll make a stronghold on top of this building, while me and Alex lure the zombie horde towards this building. Don't worry, the Pelican will provide air support for us and we'll retreat immediately if we ran out of bullets"

Leo didn't continue and just looked at the doubtful faces of the people before him, especially those who had recently joined as they were having trouble understanding how their small team could face an entire horde of flesh eating zombies!

"I know that most of you, especially the new recruits, are probably confused and feeling fearful right now. Fear not, me and the members of the Special Forces are already used to facing hordes of zombies. You just need to follow their lead and listen to commands obediently when I'm not here later, unless you want to die though"

"The objectives of the Special Forces are different from all of you. While the rest of you are raining hell on the horde, the Special Forces will pick off the mutant zombies among the horde so that you guys won't suffer surprised attacks from them, but you will still need to be careful"

"As for those who have special abilities, use them sparingly, better yet use them in decisive moments like when a mutated zombie is able to reach this place, and you will need to quickly kill it before it kills someone, got it?"

"Yes sir"

Austin quickly nodded his head when he saw Leo looking at him, and two other people in the group, the only young female in the group along with Bella, and a guy around mid to late 30s.

"And besides, you just need to trust our two machine guns and my baby!"

Leo suddenly laughed and gestured to Alex with a nod, and the latter nodded in acknowledgement and walked over towards the cockpit door and pressed something beside it.

Bang!

The moment he did that, the small three meter tall metal container hanging from aft overhang of the aircraft dropped with a loud bang on the ground.

Dang! Dang!

"And this one in here is my baby, and our trump card when we face the horde later"

Leo tapped on the cargo as he looked at the people looking at the cargo with anticipation, and he didn't let them wait any longer and slowly opened the container and revealed his Powered Assault Armor inside.

"Whoa!"

"What the hell!?"

"It's an armor, but what does it do?"

"It looks familiar of some sort, I wonder where I've seen it before"

The people suddenly started murmuring to themselves when they saw the object inside. All the eyes were filled with curiosity, excitement and anticipation, but those who had already seen that armor in action can only feel amazement and respect at it.

"It's Halo's" murmured Bella to herself when she saw the armor. She was extremely familiar with it as she had been playing that game before from time to time.

"Pelican and a Spartan Armor, where did he get all these things? Is this his ability? It be absurd if it is"

Leo smiled at the people who were looking at the armor with curiosity and opened his mouth, "This is my unique mutated ability, [Artifact Summoning]. I can summon any kind of item that I had knowledge of as long I offer the required items for it"

After much deliberation for a long time, this is the excuse that Leo had managed to come up with to explain his absurd ability to take out things that shouldn't even exist in this era, and at the same time, to also conceal that he had a freaking cheat system..

After all, there was already a lot of talk going around about where he's getting these kinds of weapons, and fortunately, he can make an excuse for it using the so-called mutant ability that the populace had already gotten used to.

Which would make a pretty good excuse as it would explain a lot of things.

After all, someone even has the ability to wield lightning, which is already beyond common sense.

So he just decided to throw common sense out of the window and came up with the so-called [Artifact Summoning], and even if there are still people doubtful about it, what can they do about it?

Question Leo?

They'd be just asking to be killed.

They would rather shut their mouths as they know those things are what keeps them safe.