Chapter 131 - Zombie Army

Mathew got out of the shaft as soon as he could. Yet, rather than heading for the staircase and then the ground floor, he moved in the opposite direction, approaching the main-gate facing window instead.

“This looks far worse in reality than it does on the map,” he muttered under his nose while gritting his teeth and grabbing hard at the edge of the window’s ledge.

“How bad is it?” Nadia asked as soon as she joined her man by the window and looked down. She then swallowed her saliva before freezing by Mathew’s side. “This doesn’t look good,” she admitted when her eyes moved beyond the wall and then the gate.

The entire street that led to the compound’s main gate was now overflowing with zombies. Yet, contrary to how the horde would act in all the cases that Mathew experienced so far, there wasn’t any crowding issue at the small plaza in front of the entrance.

There were roughly two thousand zombies, neatly arranged into formation blocks of twenty zombies wide and ten zombies deep. Three such blocks stood in a small arc in front of the main gate. Five more blocks were arranged in a neat line behind the frontline with one more block left to the far left and a spare, incomplete one standing in the third line.

‘What the hell is this kind of deployment?’ Mathew thought, opening his eyes wide as he stared at the peculiarity. ‘Sure, it looks neat and domineering… but it doesn’t make any sense at all! If they want to lay siege to the fortress, spreading their numbers as wide as possible would be more beneficial!’

Mathew’s thoughts speed down the hallways of his brain as he attempted to figure out the intent that put the zombies in those exact formations.

“Is this all a work of a single evolved one?” Nadia muttered to Mathew’s side while her hands trembled a tiny little bit.

“That’s unlikely.” Mathew shook his head. “I find it highly unlikely for a single evolved one to be able to control so many zombies at once,” he explained his own take only to squint his eyes as he send the army of zombies another look.

‘Wait, if we assume that there is more than just a single commander…’ Mathew thought. He then scanned the picture just a fewteen meters away from the window again.

“No, there are three field commanders and one that manages the entire picture,” Mathew muttered after taking a long look