He smirked as the screams started, knowing that the ground team would be having a field day pretty quick, as six inches of adamantine armor surrounding a divine construct would be a tough nut to crack for zombies. Still, he checked their weapon load outs. Energy casters, heavy force machine guns, one anti-armor energy launcher, and the rest were 'making do' with their weapons of preference, the energy rifles. They already had swapped the bolt settings to the most effective combination that had been found on Sigium Terraria, a combination of force damage and plain old kinetic energy. He started talking to Ama and Inari, keeping the transport sealed. "Yes, definitely seems to be the predecessor of the Sigium Terraria virus. Only encountered it there, but that was because we managed to keep it confined to the planet, and it didn't spread. Had to shoot down a LOT of refugee and civilian transports, and then win the hive world back, block by block. Nasty work, and we didn't allow anyone that wasn't a super soldier down on the planet to help. Too easy for the soldiers to catch it.<br/><br/>It primarily spread by bites, but it could also get to you through the water. That there are survivors indicates that this one doesn't have the water ability yet, or else they would all be dead already. Took about a minute after the bite to kill you AND bring you back as a super zombie. Fast, strong, and pretty damn damage resistant. As long as the brain was somewhat intact, the host corpse, or whatever was left of it, would continue to produce more of the virus, which took us forever to notice that the relapses of areas that we head cleared were ones where we hadn't sterilized the entire place with fire.<br/><br/>That temple and palace structure is likely the only place where the survivors are, though there might be tiny pockets hidden throughout the city, a handful at each at most. This many dead? Likely took a couple days, maybe a week at absolute most. You two are going to stay with the survivors, and I am not placing a foot outside of the transport when not in that compound. We are gonna clear out this horde, and then retreat to the compound, and work on clearing things from there, and contacting the rest of the regiment. I mean the rest of us. Let them all know we are fine."<br/><br/>As he finished speaking, one of the energy rifles barked, and then the rest opened up, as the zombies began appearing in the streets. All in all, he expected this to take about thirty minutes to an hour, depending on the damage resistance of the zombies, and if they could get into close combat. They had built in, directional kinetic pulse systems, so they could knock things off them to get back up, an early issue with a similar situation, but that had been a horde of aliens that thought casualties and wounded just made for good food.