This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 24

Zou Lang ran to Yu Jingtang, the rain was heavy, soaking his uniform. The rain flowed down his hair, dripping non-stop into his clothes. He saw Yu Jingtang’s mouth move, but before he could hear what he said, he saw Yu Jingtang’s body fall.

Zou Lang was nervous, he propped up Yu Jingtang’s back with one hand, put the other hand into his knee bend, and carried him sideways into the simulation training field.

Yu Jingtang fainted, scaring a class of students. Everyone gathered around, Zou Lang knew that fainting, it’s best to avoid crowding, and shouted to everyone, “All step aside, don’t block, go and call someone quickly.”

Today, only Yu Jingtang was leading the class here, and both teaching assistants were not there. Several students heard Zou Lang’s words and hurriedly ran into the rain, wanting to contact other leaders and instructors.

Zou Lang held up Yu Jingtang’s face, at this time Yu Jingtang’s face was pale to the extreme, his hair was wet by the raindrops, his eyes were tightly closed, his long eyelashes drooped, and without a tremor, the color on his lips seemed to be washed away by the rainwater, instantly faded.

“Instructor! Instructor!” Zou Lang lightly patted his face and called out, not knowing if it was because of the rain. His body temperature was strangely low, and there was no response.

A trace of fear surged in Zou Lang’s heart, he gritted his teeth and turned his head to yell at the culprit, “He Ye!”

He Ye was also very anxious at this time, and he felt wronged in his heart. “Where do I know that the Instructor can’t stand the fight?!”

“He fainted because you hit his old injury!” Zou Lang said, at this time he didn’t care about any taboos, he was eager to check Yu Jingtang’s wound situation, he unbuttoned his clothes. Yu Jingtang’s body was exposed, with several hideous scars on it, and at this time, it was bruised.

The other team members were speechless when they saw this injury, looking at these scars, it was hard to imagine what he had experienced.

Zou Lang felt his hands trembling, and he reached out to touch Yu Jingtang’s side again, his pulse was weak, almost imperceptible.

Wei Lin on the side said, “It may be traumatic shock! Lift his head, don’t move him first, maintain his body temperature.”

“Yu Jingtang, Yu Jingtang!” Zou Lang unbuttoned his military coat and hugged him in his arms, one hand lightly pressing on his chest, and the other hand pressing on his wound.”

Yu Jingtang finally showed a slight reaction. His eyelashes trembled, his brows slightly furrowed, his body stiffened, and a red line fell from the corner of his mouth. Then his hands clenched tightly on his body, emitting a weak sound. Afterward, he seemed to regain a bit of will, his eyes moved slightly, but he just couldn’t open them.

The students who had run out to find someone earlier called over Instructor Su Rui from Class B. On the way here, Su Rui had already heard the students roughly explain what had happened. When he came over to check the situation, it was even worse than he had thought. He felt Yu Jingtang’s pulse and scolded, “You guys are really lawless, quickly send him to the medical room. I’ll take you there.”

Upon hearing this, Zou Lang quickly buttoned up Yu Jingtang’s clothes and squatted down to He Ye and Su Rui, saying, “Put him on my back.”

Yu Jingtang’s eyes were still closed, and after being moved, he frowned and made a slight sound, his hands hanging down Zou Lang’s neck.

Zou Lang carried Yu Jingtang and was about to rush into the rain.

“Wait!” He Ye took off his coat and draped it over Yu Jingtang, which could block some rain.

The medical room was at the back of the training field, and Su Rui led them there all the way.

Yu Jingtang was leaning against Zou Lang’s back, seemingly feeling a bit of warmth. But the bumping made the pain even worse, he couldn’t help but tremble, and a weak sound came out, “Uh… it hurts…”

Hearing his words, Zou Lang only felt heartache for him. He carried him, feeling his faint heartbeat, and gently said, “Yu Jingtang, cheer up…”

And also…

“Yu Jingtang, happy birthday.”

Zou Lang still remembered that Yu Jingtang’s birthday was written as today on the military tag. He later told him that his age had increased by one year, but his birthday did not change.

The person on his back still had not regained consciousness, Zou Lang gave a bitter smile, this birthday wish, he probably would not hear.

A group of people arrived at the medical room of the training camp, where the nurse helped Yu Jingtang change into dry clothes and did a simple check. The doctor said, “It’s shock, there may be some bleeding inside, now we can only do conservative treatment, we will first infuse anti-inflammatory and hemostatic fluid to see if it can alleviate his symptoms, the specific diagnosis still needs to find an outside physician to come over, if the situation worsens, he may need to be transferred to the hospital.”

Zou Lang said, “His arm was also injured by a nail, don’t forget to bandage it and give a tetanus shot later.”

Su Rui looked at Zou Lang and He Ye and asked them, “Are you two waiting here or going back to train?”

Zou Lang was not at ease to leave, he said, “I’m not leaving, anyway, my points have been deducted, I’ll stay here with him.”

He Ye also said, “It was me who injured the Instructor, I’ll wait until he’s confirmed to be okay before I go back.”

Su Rui nodded and left first.

Zou Lang and He Ye waited in the corridor outside the medical room, watching the nurse take various medicines, going in and out several times. After more than half an hour, the nurse came over and said, “Don’t worry, his vital signs are gradually stabilizing, he should not be in danger anymore, but he is still unconscious.”

Zou Lang finally breathed a sigh of relief, leaning against the wall of the corridor of the medical room.

He Ye also let go of his worries and asked Zou Lang, “How do you know that the Little… cough, the Instructor was injured?”

Zou Lang was almost choked by the question, he lied, “Would you believe me if I said I saw it when I was taking a shower?”

“Tsk tsk tsk… I…don’t believe…” He Ye shook his head, his reaction was a bit slow, he occasionally was rigid in doing things and couldn’t adapt, but he wasn’t really stupid.

“I heard it from others.” Zou Lang continued to make up.

Yu Jingtang gradually woke up in the room, opened his eyes and looked around blankly, after thinking for a moment, he realized it was the medical room of K Division.

He didn’t expect that he would faint in front of everyone, and he was full of regret.

At this time lying down, he was in so much pain that he had no strength and didn’t want to speak, and didn’t call anyone.

The voices of Zou Lang and He Ye came from outside.

Probably because they thought he was still unconscious, the conversation of the two people outside was spoken in a low voice, but unscrupulously, every word reached his ears.

He Ye’s voice came, “I feel…you’re different from usual today, honestly, do you like the Instructor?”

Zou Lang’s face turned red, and he stubbornly said, “How is that possible?!”

He had tried to pursue relentlessly before, and after such a round of torment, what was left besides hurting himself? Since Yu Jingtang was unwilling, then it was better to save face.

All kinds of love and hate intertwined, various emotions entagled in his heart, Zou Lang suddenly understood what it meant to say one thing and mean another.

Yu Jingtang laid on the bed, hearing these four words, his eyes suddenly moved, and the light inside gradually dimmed. He was a bit sad, but he didn’t know what he wanted to hear. He knew clearly in his heart that Zou Lang would never admit in front of He Ye that he and the instructor had a past. He perhaps just hoped that Zou Lang would answer a little slower, even if just taking a second to consider.

He Ye’s voice came again, “If it weren’t for you, he might have died today, really, I’ve killed people with my bare hands before… although it was in battle, and also, those punches you threw at me when you rushed out, hiss, it really hurt… when have I, He Ye, ever been beaten like this by someone.”

Zou Lang was making up lies, “I don’t have many points left, I was hoping to earn some by helping the Instructor, but he, haha. Maybe in a few days, I’ll have to pack up and leave.” As he spoke, Zou Lang felt that it wasn’t his voice at all. Every word he spat out, his entire heart was in pain.

But he…

He didn’t care if Yu Jingtang punished him to run ten thousand meters.

But he was angry at Yu Jingtang, angry that he would rather hurt his own arm to save He Ye, angry that he didn’t know his own physical condition and still wanted to fight with the students. He was almost angry to death by this person who didn’t know how to cherish himself. But even if he was angry again, he wouldn’t know, and he wouldn’t care.

This time, seeing Yu Jingtang being attacked and falling to the ground, he remembered the last time that person was lying in his arms covered in blood. He was glad that when he needed him, he was still by his side, but what use was that, everything was already different. Yu Jingtang had already pushed him away. It made the love for him in his heart become a kind of irony.

“The Instructor has already said it’s a special situation, you just wait patiently for the instructions from above.” At this time, He Ye was actually advising Zou Lang.

“Choosing the soft persimmons to pinch, just knowing to punish me. You beat him half to death, but I didn’t see you lose any points.” Unable to get what he wanted, unable to love, this feeling was driving him crazy. But that person was only willing to be in his arms when he was unconscious.

(t/n: Choosing the soft persimmons to pinch-weak people are easily bullied)

“Then you still brought him here…” He Ye just saw that Zou Lang’s anxious look was not a pretense, but Yu Jingtang had just stabilized a bit, and he was still not admitting it in his mouth.

Zou Lang turned his head and hummed a rebuttal, “If I didn’t carry him here, would I be stupid to run ten thousand meters?”

He slowly squatted down, burying his head between his knees, afraid that he couldn’t help but shed tears in front of He Ye. He was born a chatterbox, naturally talkative and harsh, all his cheerful spirit had collapsed with this emotional breakdown, and now only loneliness was left. The sadder he was in his heart, the more vicious the words he spoke out of his mouth.

“An instructor who insists on fighting with students, and can’t even win, he deserves it.”

Yu Jingtang was lying on the bed in the observation room, hearing every word of the few sentences, each sentence was like a knife stabbing into his body, heartbreaking, stabbing him all over, making his spirit dazed. He slowly curled up his body, the pierced wound on his arm bled again, cold sweat flowed down his forehead, wetting the corner of his eyes. That shouldn’t be tears, just sweat.

The warmth and coldness of this world, indeed, are ruthless.

Then he thought about it, no matter what the purpose was, Zou Lang did save him, it was him who first repaid kindness with enmity, what right did he have to think that what Zou Lang said was wrong?