"Jarvis, calculate how long it will take for the zombies outside to reach the door." Having decided on a course of action, Ray spoke again, addressing Jarvis.
"Sir, approximately seventeen seconds!" Jarvis replied.
Seventeen seconds...
That's not much time, but still manageable for him.
"It takes at least ten seconds to close the electric rolling door, which means, after opening the iron gate at the staircase on the first floor, I must take care of the eight zombies inside the supermarket within seven seconds!"
Ray did a quick calculation in his mind.
Taking out eight zombies in seven seconds, he was still confident in his ability to do so.
However, just to be on the safe side, he turned to Liu Yuqing and said, "After we open the iron gate on the first floor, don't worry about anything else. Just go and close the electric rolling door. Leave the zombies to me."
"Okay, got it!"
While Ray was communicating with Jarvis, Liu Yuqing, who had been watching him, suddenly saw him turn around. Her face flushed, and she quickly averted her gaze, agreeing to his plan.
Ray gave her a curious look but didn't think much of it, calling out, "Let's go!"
"Okay!"
Liu Yuqing lowered her head and stood up to follow him.
A little over a minute later!
The two of them tiptoed down the stairs from the second floor to the iron gate on the first floor.
Ray, holding Liu Yuqing, pressed against the wall at the staircase entrance on the first floor, carefully poking his head out and observing the positions of the eight zombies through the iron gate.
To avoid alarming them prematurely, he didn't directly attack through the iron gate with a nail gun.
Instead, he used a key to quietly unlock the iron gate. Then, after giving Liu Yuqing a three-two-one signal, he suddenly pulled open the iron gate and rushed out with Liu Yuqing!
The sound of chaos ensued—
"Heh heh...heh heh..."
"Ho ho..."
At this moment, the sound of the iron gate being pulled open instantly attracted the attention of the eight zombies inside the supermarket. With eyes full of blood vessels and mouths smeared with filthy blood, they snarled viciously as they lunged toward them.
In addition, some zombies outside the supermarket also noticed the noise and rushed towards the supermarket.
Seeing this scene, Liu Yuqing instantly panicked, but in order not to hold Ray back, she gritted her teeth, suppressed her fear, and rushed towards the door switch button as Ray had instructed her before.
At the same time!
Ray, who had also rushed out with her, holding a nail gun in his left hand and a short knife in his right, faced the eight ferocious zombies without fear and charged at them.
Puff puff—
Ray raised the nail gun, tightly gripped in his left hand, towards the zombies' heads. With his index finger continuously pulling the trigger, he fired nails, killing the two front-most zombies.
"Heh heh..."
The next moment, as a zombie got close, Ray swung the short knife with great force, instantly decapitating a zombie that bit at him.
His left hand didn't stop either; he pulled the trigger again, taking down two more.
Then, with only three zombies left, they almost simultaneously pounced on him. Ray remained calm, retracted the short knife, and fiercely kicked out with his right foot, sending the middle one flying.
He then leaned back to dodge the attack of the other two zombies.
Puff puff—
As he got up, Ray twisted his body, raised the nail gun, and continuously pulled the trigger, exploding the heads of the two zombies that missed their attack and ended up behind him.
At this time, the zombie he had kicked away had already gotten back up and lunged at him from behind.
Without looking back, Ray threw the short knife in his right hand backward.
Pffft—
The next moment, the short knife precisely hit the zombie's head, exploding it and killing it instantly!
"Wow...so impressive!"
The scene of Ray eliminating the zombies was naturally witnessed by Liu Yuqing, who couldn't help but shrink her beautiful eyes in shock, revealing a hint of astonishment.
Although she had seen Ray deal with those people upstairs just a moment ago, Ray's actions now were even more clean and composed than before.
"Quick! Press the switch for the main door!"
Ray pulled out the short knife and shouted at Liu Yuqing, who had already reached the doorway, while quickly moving to support her.
"Beep—"
The moment Ray's voice rang out, Liu Yuqing raised her hand and pressed the switch on the wall for the main door.
Whirr whirr...
The rolling door of the supermarket made a significant noise as it slowly descended.
At this time, several zombies outside the door had already lunged over, only a little more than two meters away from the door.
Liu Yuqing's face turned slightly pale, and she could even smell the foul stench coming from the zombies.
"They're really fast!"
Puff puff puff—
Watching this scene, Ray, who had already reached Liu Yuqing's side, took a deep breath and rapidly fired the nail gun, killing the few zombies at the front that had entered the range of the nail gun.
He then called to Liu Yuqing to push a row of shopping carts near them towards the door to block the zombies' advance.
"Wuu wuu...wuu wuu wuu..."
"Heh heh heh..."
Just then, the roaring of three zombies suddenly came from behind them in the supermarket.
"Zombies without a signal on their cell phones!"
Fortunately, Ray reacted very quickly and immediately instructed Liu Yuqing, "Keep using the shopping carts to block the zombies outside; I'll handle the ones behind us!"
The zombies originally attracted to the outside of the door weren't many, only about seven or eight, but now, at least forty to fifty zombies, having heard the noise, lunged over.
However, these zombies were still far away, and with the shopping carts blocking their path, they were already too late to charge over.
With the threat from these zombies outside gone, Ray no longer had any concerns and turned to face the three zombies directly.
These three were a woman in her thirties wearing office lady attire, an elderly zombie that looked to be around sixty, and one that seemed a bit more challenging to deal with—a towering hulk of a man nearly two meters tall.
At this moment, there weren't many nails left in the nail gun, but he didn't hold back, continuously pulling the trigger and firing all the remaining nails.
Puff puff puff—
However, an unexpected event occurred. The first two zombies were fine; the nails from the nail gun pierced through their heads, killing them on the spot.
But the towering hulk, the nails only penetrated halfway.
Unable to explode the head, let alone kill it!
"Is this zombie high? Why is its head so tough?"
Ray frowned but didn't think much of it. He stepped forward and kicked with a force four times that of an ordinary person, 'bang', knocking it to the ground. The next moment, the short knife followed swiftly, piercing through its eye socket into the brain, exploding its head.
Clang!
It was then that the sound of the rolling door hitting the ground came from behind.
"Phew...we did it!"
Turning back to make sure the main door was successfully closed, Ray breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, it was time to take care of the seven on the fifth floor and complete the final step.