After taking down the first Tier 8 zombie, Ethan and the squad didn't stop to rest. They kept it going—wiping out two more hordes and killing two more Tier 8s before the day was over.
By sundown, they'd slaughtered over a hundred thousand zombies.
Even with Emily constantly restoring their stamina, that level of combat was brutal. Everyone was running on fumes by the end.
The difference between a major city and a rural county like Redwood... was night and day.
Redwood County had a total population of maybe three hundred thousand, and zombies were scattered thin across the area. Outside the core zones of small towns, even running into a few thousand was considered a big deal.
But in a real city? Zombies moved in organized crowds. You'd bump into tens of thousands just walking a few blocks. Without serious power, you wouldn't even make it out your front door.
And with a bigger population base, the chances of high-Tier zombies showing up naturally went up too.
