167 Alpha

Since the dawn this morning, Aria went along with Rama and the four master of martial art to go scouting on the red zone condition. Rama and the four pencak silat masters knew the intricacies on Bali, while Aria had a special ability that can help him going easily undetected. They entered the red zone by riding the mutated bear. There were a Black mutated bear that Rama's rode and five smaller mutated brown ones. The mutated black one was a second-stage mutated bear, with Tiffany's ability, Rama's succeeded in taming the black one. and with the help of black bear, younger brown bears were not too difficult to tame.

This small group was the best choice for this mission. This mutated bear was insusceptible to the bites and attacks from the first-stage and second-stage zombies. Furthermore, with its size almost equal to tanks', Rama and his partners on the back of the mutated bears was able to easily break in and pave the way to pass through the zombies hordes. The ability of these martial art masters in using the spear was also a deadly combination for all the approaching zombies.

BANNGG!!

"Crashhh!!"

"Watch out behind you!"

"Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa!!"

"Come before they start coming altogether here; we must get going!"

After walking through the border area of Denpasar city for one kilometer away, they finally entered the red zone area. There were 3 million zombies in this area. As far as they viewed, the entire streets were packed with zombies, and almost one of ten zombies was currently the red ones. Although the attack of both types of zombies was much easier to deal with due to the bear they rid on. However, if dozens to hundreds of red zombies jumped to them at the same time, it was impossible for this group to survive.

It has been a long time since the last time they entered this red zone area. The last time was in the first week along with Alex when they were fighting in the airport. At that time, the ratio of the red zombie was still one out of one thousand ones. The situation was now very much different.

"Do we have to keep moving to the red zone center?"

"With many zombies following us, I am worried that we are not able to find the way back …."

When they made a short stop to decide their direction ... five red zombies jumped from a three storeys building next to them.

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

Pa!! Swisshh!

Aria launched three shots from his AWP sniper rifle. Three shots ... three bullets of high caliber magnum went straight through the head of three red zombies. The remaining ones were easily defeated by other fighters.

"Don't stop! Let's keep moving."

The bear's speed can easily exceed the speed of first stage zombies. As for the red zombies, however, if the group came to a stop for a minute ... All the red zombies that followed him can easily chase him.

"Remember, get ready. It seems going to happen soon."

Not long after Rama said that, from the hallway next to the road they were passing through ... a black creature jumped toward them ….

"!!! Watch out!!"

The five bears were ready and dodged away from the black zombie's attack ….

"One black zombie was found in this location …!."

"BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!"

As for the plan, once they found a black zombie, Aria and the others would soon launch a long-range shot attack and jointly ran and left the black zombies as soon as possible. Also, after successfully dodging away, they will move out from the location. This tactic appeared very risky, but Alex dared to suggest this tactic, as he knew better the characteristics of black zombies according to his previous experience in life ….

This black zombie was an alpha zombie over the first and second-stage zombies. Also, just as the same as alpha in a pack of wolves, there will be no more than one alpha in a pack. When two alphas met together, they will fight for the new Alpha position. Most of defeated black zombies will not be left alive by those who won the fight and if the loses survived, then the black zombie will go find another herds of zombie.

Thus the goal of Aria and Rama's mission was currently identifying how many herds with alpha zombies were formed in an area. This information will be very useful for the battle to clean up Bali island later.

However tonight, in front of Alex, Rama was telling him that their mission met with failure ... What was going on?

"We were ambushed by two different black zombies ... we cannot run and finally we were forced to fight. We manage to kill one black zombie. But the other ones escaped ... we decided to return back to the base because one of us was injured, and it looked like this tactic ...."

"Well I understand."

Alex understood that Rama did not wish to blame the tactics he has given him. However, Alex was directly haunted by fear in his mind. In his past life, there were zombies above third stage that were able to unite these herds and lead them all ... but the zombies did not exist untill at least one year ahead ….

"Impossible!!" Alex said to his mind.

"Then what about Aria?"

Rama replied, "Aria decided to follow the escaped black zombie."

"...."

Aria had a special ability to make her go undetected. She was also trained as a ranger in the Deadsquad troop. But she was all by herself in the sea of zombies... this make Alex concerned. Moreover, Alex was certain that Aria could not easily use her special power for a long time. With this information, the situation was currently turn much uncertain. The battle in three more days turned into very risky one. But Alex realized if the condition has worsened, then it was more important to immediately clear up all these threats as soon as possible, before the mutation make this zombie much stronger.

"Immediately call for Farell and the Battle Consul!! Tonight we are going to prepare a strategy of clearing the Bali island."

Farell, Donny, Dario, and Sandi, all gathered to discuss the battle strategy ... until the morning they have gained most maximum strategy and arrangement of troops according to capacity of the army from their observation today.

Farell opened the map of Bali Island, it appears that for the last three months, star army had cleared almost 90% of the north, west and east area of the Bali island. Except the southern area was the most crowded area that has not been successfully cleared.

"This is the current strategy: Bali's clearing campaign will be divided into 3 zones. The outer zone located outside the Denpasar area, the Yellow Zone within the Denpasar city and  the red zone located in the southern part of Denpasar City and proceed to the area of Legian and Kuta, which is the most crowded area."

The outer zone was currently centered in 7 areas, which was 7 small towns around northern part of Denpasar. These seven areas were: Krambit, Tabanan, Mengwi, Abiansemal, Ubud, Gianyar and Semarapura. There will be 7 posts of force mobilization that will besiege over the yellow zone.

Thus, overall star troops will be divided into 7 regiments. Each regiment will consist of 1,000 elite troops, 10,000 troops of division 1, and 10,000 troops of division 2. All militia forces will guard the main base and the four posts and will not be involved in this battle.

Farell explained and arranged specifically the strategy he had prepared. This time the battle was very different from that of the clearing of Semarang city. Not only it was almost five-fold in number and the ratio of level two zombies was getting higher, but also it should be noted that the battlefield area was much wider. The southern area of Bali was more than 10 times the size  of Semarang city.

In the Semarang battle, it was not very difficult to send 20,000 troops to surround the city area. But today, 100,000 more troops are not enough to cover the whole southern part of Bali Island. And the most frightening matter in the battle against Zombie hordes was to be surrounded by thousands of zombies from every sides.

Farell has prepared the detailed tactics from each of these seven regiments. Alex was not questioning the prepared tactics; even he was always amazed with Farell's idea. But today his mind still put more concerns on the threat of two black zombies that can work together....

Alex needed to make sure that these seven regiments had enough power to be prepared in dealing with unpredicted things....

Seven regiments: Alex currently had Donny, Dario and Arief, the three of them was the head of trained forces from Deathsquad troops. Donny has already had a special tiger squad that had followed him from the early days of doomsday. Dario was with the Deadsquad troops from Surabaya, while Arief was fitted with new troop that Regent Suryo had lent them. For the next four regiments, Alex can entrust one troop for Major Sandi and one more on the wolf troops led by Jerry that were going to arrive today. However he's not sure he have any capable leader for the next two regiments....

It was likely that both of them can be filled by Alex and Farell, but Alex hope that he and Farell could remained to be positioned in monitoring the battle and can adjust the conditions immediately.

While Alex was getting carried away in this thought, suddenly someone got into the room....

"Aria!!"

Aria entered with very fatigue conditions, her body was full of sweat and her face looked very pale. It seemed like she had just pushed herself to complete this mission.

"Report the reconnaissance mission."

Aria handed over the previously prepared reports ... the map of Denpasar area that she had this time was completely filled with analysis of the numbers of zombie hordes and black zombies from each location. She had managed to move around at least two-thirds of the southern area of Bali. Alex could only imagine what Aria did in the last 12 hours.

Alex can see that there were about 20 locations of hordes with black zombies. But once Alex looked towards the bottom of the map....

"What is this Aria ...?"

"Yeah … it… the data is correct."

Alex saw one sign in the Kuta area of Bali Island.... Seven black zombies that should not work together gathered in one area.

"... that numbers ... was likely inaccurate and could be more than that ... I was unable to get any closer, I counted the number from the amount I have seen from my long-range scope."

"..."

"it's impossible"