Chapter 64: The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building, once the symbol of the United States, derives its name from the nickname of New York State, the Empire State.
Located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York, the Empire State Building is the fourth tallest building in the United States and the Americas, the 25th tallest skyscraper in the world, and the world's oldest skyscraper. It wasn't until 1972 that the Empire State Building was surpassed by other buildings.
The Empire State Building, a 381-metre-tall, 103-storey building, was upgraded in 1951 with a 62-metre antenna, raising its total height to 443 metres. Construction began in 1930 and was completed in 1931 in just 410 days, a record for the fastest pace of construction in the world.
The Empire State Building is positioned as a modern commercial building, with a large number of companies working in it, and its daily visitor volume has reached more than 100,000, and when the end comes, the number of zombies inside can be imagined.
When they heard that Chen Hang had decided to target the Empire State Building, the members of the group immediately began to make plans.
"We need to find a safe passage. Now that there is a power outage in the city, we need to climb more than a thousand steps to reach the top floor of the building, and there is no way for us to avoid the massive zombies. β
Verelle draws on the paper as she points out the dangers of climbing the stairs. After listening to Verier's analysis, Lu Lili looked at Chen Hang: "Hang, how do you know that there is a laboratory on the top floor of the building?"
If I'm not mistaken, the ownership of the Empire State Building was already vested in a Chinese businessman twenty years ago. By the way, I remember that he seems to be surnamed Chen. β
Chen Hang smiled, a wry smile appeared on his face, but Lu Lili, who was talking, was suddenly stunned.
After a while, Lu Lili suddenly stared at Chen Hang, her eyes looked very surprised, and Lu Lili muttered:
"When I was in college, I read biographies of celebrities whose fortunes mentioned certain deeds of businessmen surnamed Chen.
He started out as a trader, rose through the financial world, and eventually dominated the business world through high technology. The Chen family acquired the Empire State Building at its peak, but it was from that time that they began to move towards twilight.
The Chen family had only one son, and he suddenly suffered from headaches at the age of sixteen, and Chen Gongzi's condition never improved, and began to worsen when he was eighteen.
In order to treat their only son, the Chen family invested a lot of money and invited world-famous doctors, hoping to cure their own child.
But in the end, they still failed, and the Chen couple finally died of depression.
Chen Hang, you said that you had a headache in your last life, I have been secretly observing you and found that you are very particular about life. Your so-called past life won't be Chen Gongzi, right? β
Chen Hang didn't speak, his eyes were still fixed on the building, but everyone noticed that Chen Hang's fists were clenched.
"Come ashore, let's go up. I know there's also a 'secret' passage. β
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Verelle drew a scoop on a gourd, and this time she chose a sewer pipe. From the bubbling steam coming out of the manhole covers, Verelle judged that the methane gas in the sewers was thick enough, and she aimed her sniper rifle there.
With a "poof", the sniper rifle went off, and the bullet accurately hit a metal manhole cover two kilometers away, and the bullet grazed the manhole cover, and a little starlight faintly burst out of it, and then everything was quiet again.
"Didn't ignite, try again."
Verelle spoke, and she fired a new shot.
This shot was more accurate, the bullet hit the hook of the manhole cover directly from the side, and all the sparks from the bullet hitting the iron plate were poured into the sewer.
I heard a "boom", and the entire sewer more than 200 meters long was completely blown up.
It was like cutting open a fish, the entire road surface was completely torn apart, metal manhole covers sprayed into the sky, the concrete floor cracked to both sides like a zipper, and a fire dragon ran down the street into the sky.
The fire dragon faded in the air, and then there was a "whoosh". The methane gas in the sewer was all ignited, and the sudden strong air pressure threw everything inside into the sky, and corpses erupted from the sewer.
Like rain, the corpses that were sprayed into the sky fell in dense clusters, and they smashed all over the street, and the street turned into hell in an instant.
The five people, including the still crying Little Hope, all looked at the side in a daze, and no one thought that a single shot would trigger such a result.
It's horrible.
The tsunami poured a large number of shredded corpses into the sewers, where they quietly decomposed. The corrupted corpse released a large amount of methane, which Verelle inadvertently detonated.
A loud movement shook the streets, and only a moment later the sound of dense footsteps was heard, the ground began to shake again, and the stench of rancid breath filled the sky againβa dense mass of zombies poured out of the buildings like ants.
The tide of zombies poured out two kilometers away, they smelled carrion, and the hungry zombies made a "uh, uh" sound. They pounced on the pile of debris like a madman, and a devil's feast unfolded before the team's eyes.
"Vomit", Lu Lili and others were disgusted and vomited, and Chen Hang was also very disgusted. He endured the disgust in his heart, and when he saw that the zombies on the street were gradually decreasing, Chen Hang issued an order to set off.
One by one, the five men climbed to the bank of the river, and they ran toward the Empire State Building. The streets were still covered with a thin layer of ice, and the roads were very slippery, but they couldn't care about it anymore.
Stumbling, the team sprinted across two avenues, and the majestic edifice finally appeared in front of them.
By this time, the Empire State Building had long since changed beyond recognition: its outer edge was covered with thick icicles, and the entire building was covered in snow.
The glass doors of the Empire State Building were completely knocked down, and the stairs were in shambles. An out-of-control car rushed up the stairs and landed headlong in the lobby on the first floor of the building.
The five men cautiously entered the lobby, and they saw a scene of the end of the world.
The lobby of the Empire State Building is full of corpses, human bones are littered, these bitten bones are covered in thin ice, and the flesh seems to tell the misfortune of the master, this is a devil's canteen.
Entering the lobby, Chen Hang ran towards the side stairs, so the four girls hurriedly followed him, each of them carefully avoiding the bones under their feet, and no one wanted to disturb the peace of the dead soul.
The five of them ran up the stairs to the third floor, and they didn't encounter a single zombie along the way. This should be because the previous movement was too big, and all the zombies in the building were attracted out.
When they reached the third floor, there was another dense sound of footsteps on the roof, Chen Hang opened a door, and when a new wave of corpses came, they had already hid in a power distribution room.
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