This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 21

Yu Jingtang went out from the back, took a shortcut, and two teaching assistants were already waiting there in an off-road vehicle. Yu Jingtang got in the car, and a teaching assistant surnamed Bai handed him a stack of student profiles, saying, “Team Yu, there are a few good prospects.”

Yu Jingtang flipped through it.

He Ye, he remembered this person, he was the boxing champion that his comrade had mentioned before.

He flipped through a few pages and saw another impressive profile.

Wei Lin, proficient in four languages.

……

As he was looking at the profiles, the off-road vehicle was waiting for the students to run past, then chased after them, and drove to the front of the students.

Yu Jingtang’s profile turned to the last page, which was Zou Lang’s. He gave a bitter smile. He touched his chest, where it was still suffocatingly uncomfortable, and he said to himself.

‘Yu Jingtang, you take yourself too seriously, you even have some regrets occasionally? Do you still hope that Zou Lang is serious? Stop dreaming, two months is enough for him to fall in love several times.’

They might really have a moment when they loved each other, but unfortunately, he didn’t die at that time, so what was called loyalty had become an impossible thing.

Fortunately, he was rational enough to restrain himself and didn’t make himself a joke.

It took Zou Lang about ten minutes to catch up with the people in front. His physical fitness was not bad. He slowly chased from the last one and gradually caught up to the position of He Ye and Wei Lin in the team.

He Ye was still running with spare energy, seeing that he could not fall into the last five, he said, “Hey, I just saw Class C, they took the things and went back, they didn’t run like us at all.”

Zou Lang had just been tossed around, thinking of Yu Jingtang’s face that was indifferent and unmoved, he felt extremely annoyed in his heart, and cursed, “This instructor is really abnormal.”

He Ye agreed, “Yes, you see that the face is tense. It is estimated that it can’t find a man all year round, and the hormones are out of balance, both indifferent and abnormal.”

Wei Lin reminded them from the side, “Say less, or the instructor will deduct points again.”

He Ye continued to chew his gum with a smile, “Ah, did I say something wrong? With such a strange personality, what’s the use of looking good? If anyone fancies him, it’s not just that their eyes are not working, but they’ve also had bad luck for eighteen generations.”

Zou Lang gave him a glance. At this moment, the person with non-functioning eyes and who had bad luck for eighteen generations was right beside him. He suddenly started to sprint, leaving his teammates behind.

He Ye chased after him from behind, “Hey, wait for us.”

People who haven’t run ten kilometers didn’t know the difference between ten kilometers and ten thousand meters. Ten thousand meters was a very flat road, while ten kilometers was complex terrain. Ten kilometers was armed off-road, ten thousand meters was shorts and vests.

As they ran, the distance between everyone started to widen, and after running ten kilometers in a circle, they returned to the gathering place.

Yu Jingtang really did ruthlessly send the last five back.

The others packed up their things and returned to the dormitory, all looking a bit like defeated soldiers.

This dormitory was the kind for new recruits, fifty people in one room, with many beds lined up.

The only consolation was that the dinner in the cafeteria was really good, the master chef’s stewed beef was very delicious. It replenished a lot of energy.

The students hurriedly took a shower, and there were evening classes later, but these courses were all theoretical and not managed by Yu Jingtang. At the end, there would be an exam, and the scores would also be included in the total assessment score.

After eight o’clock, the students finally had a moment of rest.

He Ye slept on the upper bunk of Zou Lang, and Wei Lin’s bed was not far away.

He Ye first sprawled on Zou Lang’s bed, angrily said, “During the theory class just now, I took the time to ask other classes, and sure enough, there is a problem with Yu Jingtang. Class A hasn’t started to eliminate people yet, and Class B is running five kilometers. Only Class D seems to be quite strict.”

Wei Lin said, “Don’t call the instructor’s name so directly, it’s not good if someone hears it.”

Just as Zou Lang was about to scold him, Wei Lin said, “Let’s give him a nickname, so others won’t know who we’re talking about.”

He Ye took over the conversation, “Hey, I thought you were a gentleman, but I didn’t expect you to be so cunning. Then you come up with one.”

Wei Lin thought for a moment and said, “That guy is clean and white, and girly, why not call him Little Dragon Girl.”

He Ye laughed, “I like this nickname.”

Zou Lang really wanted to add a sentence, what broken nickname, Lao Tzu is still Yang Guo. He rolled his eyes and held back, asking them, “How many people do you think can recite the rules tomorrow?”

(TL: Yang Guo, was born in Jiangnan and his native place is Shandong Province. The male protagonist in Jin Yong’s martial arts novel “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” is one of the most accomplished martial arts masters in Jin Yong’s novels. Yang Guo is also the adopted son of Ouyang Feng and a disciple of Little Dragon Girl.)

He Ye suddenly sat up from the bed, “I forgot about this, I didn’t remember much.”

Zou Lang was angry when he brought up this matter, and scolded He Ye by his number, “Die 38, how much did you remember? I was still doing push-ups at that time, and I had to count, I didn’t listen carefully.”

(t/n: Die 38 or Die San Ba-used to curse people, generally refers to an unpopular woman, expressing feelings of dislike,  and disgust. It can also refer to a meddlesome man.)

Seeing them start discussing tomorrow’s recitation, the other people in the room who were there all gathered around, all at a loss.

Zou Lang calmed down and said to everyone, “This is a problem, we need to solve it. I don’t believe Little Dragon Girl dares to kick us all out on the first day. He can’t explain it either.” He thought for a moment and said, “This is the time for us to work together. So, no matter what we recite, as long as the answers of fifty people are similar, he can’t do anything to us.”

He Ye slapped him and corrected, “You fool, where do we still have fifty people? There are only 45 people left.”

Zou Lang ignored him and asked everyone, “So, who has a good memory? Whoever can recite a few items, just a few items, we gather them together, and everyone recites one version. This way, we can all get through this level together.”

Wei Lin on the side said, “I probably still remember some.” After finishing speaking, he took out a pen and paper, thought for a moment, wrote silently for a while, and handed it to them, “Although I dare not say it’s all correct, at least 99% should be correct.”

This move shocked everyone else. Zou Lang looked at the full page of elegant handwriting and exclaimed, “That’s really awesome, everyone quickly copy and memorize it.” He turned to Wei Lin and said, “Thanks, I’ll buy you a drink when we go out.”

Wei Lin replied, “No need, we will inevitably help each other in the future.”

The inspection the next day went smoothly for everyone, and Yu Jingtang was slightly surprised at this result.

All the students credited the idea to Zou Lang and the answers to Wei Lin.

After another day of hard training, when the lights went out at night, Yu Jingtang actually came to inspect the dormitory, under the pretext of seeing the students’ lives.

As he passed by Zou Lang’s bed, he glanced at Zou Lang and kicked the two shoes that Zou Lang had casually taken off.

As soon as Yu Jingtang left, Zou Lang got up and whispered in the dark, “Get dressed, pack your quilt, three horizontal and two vertical, be alert for an emergency assembly tonight.”

(TL: Don’t know if I’m correct. three horizontal and two vertical-A military backpacking method).

These students were all selected from various military regions and were already old soldiers. They hadn’t practiced emergency assembly for a long time.

He Ye rubbed his eyes and poked his head down from the upper bunk, “We only had two emergency assemblies when we were recruits, how are you so sure there will be an emergency assembly tonight?”

Zou Lang answered him, “Didn’t you see? Little Dragon Girl just kicked my shoes in.”

He Ye hummed, “What’s that? Maybe he thinks they smell too bad.”

Zou Lang had a sentence on the tip of his tongue, ‘he’s afraid I’ll fall when I put on my shoes in the middle of the night’. He thought about it and held back, and said, “Anyway, I have a premonition, believe it or not.”

Zou Lang had a bad habit of throwing his shoes everywhere, even more exaggeratedly, one in the east corner and one in the west corner. Yu Jingtang had scolded him several times. Once there was a zombie in the middle of the night, and he almost tripped when he got up. Since then, Yu Jingtang has developed a habit of picking up his shoes for him. The more he felt there might be danger and needed to get up at night, the more neatly he put his shoes.

He Ye muttered a word and went to sleep, but after five minutes he got up again and cursed at the lower bunk, “You idiot, I’ll listen to you once, if there really is an emergency assembly tonight, I’ll wash your socks for a week. If there’s no assembly tonight, you’ll see what happens tomorrow morning.”

As expected, there was an emergency assembly at two o’clock in the middle of the second night. At 45 seconds, the first person from the other classes had just come out, while Class E had already completed the assembly. This result was praised by the division commander and also made the instructors like Li Jin and Su Rui stare.

Yu Jingtang’s shoe-picking action was completely subconscious, he didn’t even think of it himself, and could only attribute the experience to, ‘our Class E children are more alert when they sleep’.

The students were pulled out to run laps, Class E ran three laps, and the other classes ran ten laps. When everyone came back, they all marveled at Zou Lang’s foresight.

Thanks to these two things, Zou Lang was quite popular among the students. Everyone was a new student full of vigor, naturally they would form a group, and slowly, the students began to differentiate, and those with ability began to show their talents, becoming the spiritual leaders among the students. The leaders of Class E were He Ye, who could fight, and Zou Lang, the military second generation, and Wei Lin was like a military adviser, secretly advising these two big bosses.

The entire Class E, under the leadership of these two bosses, always did the opposite, and confronted Yu Jingtang, trying to embarrass him.

Even Su Rui reminded Yu Jingtang, “The wave in your class is not a good crop.”

Yu Jingtang sneered, “No matter how powerful, they can’t make trouble.”

After two days, it was time for the combat class again. Yu Jingtang took a swing stick and wandered among the students, hitting wherever it was wrong.

His figure was straight and slender, his face was cold as ice, and the swing stick in his hand was merciless, beating a group of little rabbits to show their teeth.

After being so majestic for a week, Yu Jingtang was still quite refreshed. He looked at the assistant’s record and eliminated a total of eighteen people this week.

Zou Lang’s score was actually only two points left, already on the edge of going home. And he didn’t make any big mistakes, they were all little mistakes, deducting a dozen points every day.

Yu Jingtao frowned at this, after all, this was the son of the army commander. If he directly deducted all the points for these small things and swept him out, when it came to accountability, he and the leaders would not be able to explain.

So he decided to let Zou Lang go for the time being, let him mess around, and wait until he made a big mistake to kick him out. Anyway, even if Sun Wukong was so powerful, he couldn’t make any new tricks in the palm of the Buddha.

(TL: Sun Wukong (Monkey King)=one of the main characters who appears in the novel “Journey to the West “)