This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 30

The brief holiday ended, and everyone welcomed the final assessment for the students.

Early the next morning, after the students had gathered, a large military helicopter landed on the playground.

All instructors and teaching assistants were assembled. This assessment was led by the higher-ups, with the division commander personally mobilizing for the assessment. Next, the overall person in charge, Li Jin, read out the rules.

The location of this assessment was chosen to be in City Z. This was once a small city with a population of over 100,000. It was also one of the cities that fell at the beginning of the zombie outbreak and was later divided into the third quarantine zone. Recently, the military had been cleaning up the quarantine zone, and this was the first fallen city to be cleaned up.

The students needed to cross a simulated war zone and survive for three days. There were 150 zombies deployed inside, all of which were training zombies. These zombies were all experimental subjects with muzzles, and each zombie had a locator on its neck. Each student must kill at least five zombies to complete the assessment. Each person was equipped with fifty bullets and a knife. Food was not provided, but one could voluntarily bring some non-prohibited items. After completing three days of survival training, gather at the designated location in the city center square, and there would be a plane to pick up the students.

When students encounter danger, they could ignite a signal flare. The locator of the zombies near the signal flare would self-destruct, but at the same time, the student would also lose their eligibility for the exam.

Next was the announcement of various rules of the assessment, and the distribution of equipment…

Zou Lang was bored listening there, only listened to half of it and muttered quietly, “Really uncreative, this assessment is too simple, I did it when I was in the rescue team, I played minesweeper with the soldiers below, the most one time I killed dozens of zombies in one trip.”

Wei Lin glanced at Zou Lang, thinking that he didn’t have the patience to listen to the end, and didn’t understand the test question at all, “27 students, 150 zombies, an average of 5 per person is just enough, but it is estimated that in practice, there will definitely be people who kill more and people who kill less.”

The number of zombies was not about how many, but about finding them. Some zombies may be in some dangerous environments. This kind of scene would definitely cause competition. It was inevitable to think of some methods or meet with soldiers. Therefore, it was specifically stated in the rules that if one intentionally harmed his comrades, his assessment qualifications would immediately be canceled.

He also suddenly realized, “This is to play hide and seek with zombies in the city.”

Hide and seek, survival, killing zombies, combined, was the difficulty of this assessment.

Yu Jingtang finished listening to the rule announcement, slightly frowned, he thought this assessment was too risky. At the beginning of the zombie virus outbreak, it quickly spread to half of the empire, but many inland areas, the zombie virus did not invade, individual students have not yet contacted zombies, only saw a few in the training a few days ago, yet suddenly throwing the students into the pile of zombies to play the assessment, this was still not appropriate. Thinking of this, he asked Su Rui next to him, “Where is this test question set?”

“This was decided by the higher-ups,” Su Rui answered him in a low voice, “It’s said that it went through layers of review, all to simulate the real zombie environment to the greatest extent. Probably the leaders are thinking that these new soldiers will eventually have to go to the battlefield, and many of them have already experienced zombies. These zombies are muzzled, so there should be no big problem.”

The students quickly got their equipment, were issued parachute packs, and made their final preparations. They were a bit nervous, but also eager to try this real combat.

Before boarding, Zou Lang secretly gave Yu Jingtang a thumbs up in the crowd, and his finger even shook a bit.

Yu Jingtang glanced at him, afraid of being seen as abnormal, he didn’t dare to stare. Then his right eyelid suddenly twitched without warning, he didn’t know why, but he felt a bit uneasy.

The plane took off quickly, and the noise of the propeller could be heard in the plane. The students sat on both sides of the cabin in two rows.

Zou Lang sat in the innermost part, next to He Ye, and across from him sat a student from another class. That guy was tanned, with only a pair of bright eyes, and a black mole on the right side of his ear.

Zou Lang thought about saying hello, turned his head and asked him, “What’s your name, student?”

That little black guy glanced at him, “Number 95.”

…Really obedient and rule-abiding, still not reporting his real name until now.

“Haha, take care of me later.” Zou Lang gave an awkward laugh, thought about it, and didn’t continue chatting because his own number didn’t sound good when reported.

The air in the cabin was a bit solidified, most people regarded each other as competitors, except for Zou Lang who had super good psychological quality, everyone else sat straight and was silent throughout.

The plane flew for about an hour, and a co-pilot came out and said, “According to the radar display, we have reached the designated drop-off location, please check your equipment for the last time, and start parachuting immediately!”

After he finished speaking, the cabin door was opened by the captain, and the wind was pouring in. The students sitting next to the door started to jump down one by one like dumplings.

The last one was Zou Lang. He looked down from the cabin door, and there were already parachutes opened below, looking like white flowers floating in the air.

Zou Lang finally felt a bit of tension, holding onto the handrail next to the plane, turned his head and asked the co-pilot, “I’m the last one to jump, you guys haven’t flown out of the drop-off range, have you?”

He was thinking that if he fell outside the assessment area, that would be funny.

The co-pilot said, “Stop talking nonsense, if you don’t hurry up, you will really fly out.” After finishing speaking, he kicked Zou Lang, and Zou Lang slipped under his feet and fell directly out of the cabin.

Only the wind was heard whistling past his ears, Zou Lang looked at the positions of He Ye and Wei Lin in the air, and tried to move towards them.

After calculating this and that, the last one to fall was still hung on a tree. Zou Lang tossed about for half a day and ten minutes before he cut the parachute rope with a dagger and climbed down from the tree. He thought about it, this rope was quite strong, maybe it was useful, and climbed up again to cut the parachute rope.

The entire street was empty, occasionally there was a bird chirping, there was no one on the dilapidated street, and there were still some blood stains on the road that had not been cleaned up in time.

Zou Lang wandered around for a few minutes, and saw a sign left by Wei Lin, a c trapped in a circle, and an arrow was drawn below. Zou Lang understood and walked towards there.

As he walked, he came across a supermarket on the road. The door of this supermarket was pried open, and it was almost looted inside. Zou Lang went in and walked through the messy shelves, wanting to see what was left. He had just walked a few steps when he heard a noise in the shelves. He walked over carefully and saw a person in camouflage squatting on the ground, rummaging for something.

Zou Lang looked at the person’s figure and felt a bit familiar. After a closer look, he saw the black mole on the right side of his ear, and made a judgment in his heart, this person was eight out of ten like him, coming in to search for things.

“Hey, Number 95?” Zou Lang patted the man’s shoulder.

The man’s movement stopped, and when he turned around, it was a zombie’s face, holding something in both hands, gnawing on a half-rotten human hand.

Damn it! Zou Lang jumped up like he was flying, ran out of the supermarket and closed the door.

The zombie also chased after him, the half-rotten human hand naturally didn’t taste as good as fresh human flesh, the zombie controlled by hunger was there, patting the supermarket window glass.

Zou Lang hid outside the door, took another look at the zombie’s dark face, and then at the student equipment he was carrying. It was number 95, no doubt. He used the parachute rope in his hand to bolt the door, and didn’t expect this rope to come in handy so quickly.

Number 95 jumped before Zou Lang, plus the time Zou Lang’s parachute was hung, it was probably half an hour. The shortest onset time of the zombie virus was less than 30 seconds, and the longest was 12 hours. How long has it been, and he has become a zombie?

This guy is really unlucky, isn’t he?

Zou Lang thought about it again, this is not right, it was said that the zombies here are all muzzled? Even if the training is cruel, it’s impossible to play killing people like this.

Then Zou Lang walked another block according to Wei Lin’s mark, saw two people standing by the roadside, it was Wei Lin and He Ye, and there were two zombie corpses on the ground. Zou Lang confirmed that the two people were comrades, not zombies, and then hurriedly ran over.

The squad of Class E was assembled, but everyone was not happy at all.

“Something’s wrong with this place.” Zou Lang got straight to the point.

“It’s not right.” Wei Lin pointed at the zombie corpse on the ground, “We just killed two zombies, without muzzles.”

“Signal! Signal!” Zou Lang thought of reporting for the first time, “I just met a student who has turned into a zombie.”

He Ye seemed to react at this time, pulled Zou Lang and said, “Hey, if you light the signal flare, you will be eliminated.”

“People are dying, and you’re still thinking about elimination at this time?!” Zou Lang couldn’t understand this value, “And He Ye, are you stupid, I didn’t say I want to light mine, we can go back to find that zombie student, and then use his signal flare to light.”

Zou Lang had just looked carefully, all the equipment on the zombie was not missing, and there were signal flares. If it’s a disguise, it’s a test of the students’ psychological quality or something, it’s basically unlikely.

They just landed here half an hour ago, and found a zombie wearing student equipment, this thing was too strange.

Wei Lin glanced at He Ye, and defended him, “He’s not stupid, he just doesn’t think.”

He Ye was very self-aware, retorted, “Thank you, your explanation is not much different from being stupid.”

“Let’s go, let’s go, don’t chat here, let’s find a place to have a meeting.” Zou Lang said, pulling the two to a mahjong parlor by the road. There were still a few customers who had turned into zombies in the mahjong parlor. They were touching the mahjong with their hands. When they saw a few people coming in, they pounced on them. The three of them took out their daggers and cleared the field in an instant.

The zombies were piled aside, and the three of them sat around the mahjong table, feeling like they were missing one.

Wei Lin started the meeting first and discussed with the two, “Now the meaning of the signal flare is not great, it is just a spare item that can help others find us, but I don’t agree to light the signal now, we should keep it until there is danger.”

Zou Lang said, “Let’s sort out the current situation first. According to reason, we should be in a place full of muzzled zombies, but zombies have appeared here, this thing is strange.

Possibility 1, the higher-ups and instructors of K Division all know the situation and deliberately let us experience it.

Possibility 2, the person who set up this link has a problem and did not follow the leader’s request.

Possibility 3, someone sabotaged it, the purpose is unknown, but they don’t want us to go back.

Possibility 4, this is an accidental situation, individual zombies have not been cleaned up.

Possibility 5, ……”

“Stop with the possibility, I choose 3,” Wei Lin interrupted Zou Lang’s endless chatter, “And, here, that is, the place where we were dropped, is not City Z at all.”

Upon hearing this, Zou Lang was taken aback, “How are you so sure?”

Wei Lin explained, “Because the road we just walked through, I have never seen it on the map of City Z.”

“Never seen it? What do you mean?” He Ye also asked.

“Every city has its own 3D map, the map will have the names of the streets, and there will be landmark buildings, this place obviously does not match. Because I stole the information, knew the test questions in advance, and remembered the map of City Z, so I can be sure that this is not City Z.”

Zou Lang was shocked by Wei Lin’s ability, as if looking at the strongest brain, he asked him, “Can you memorize the map?”

He Ye was also surprised and couldn’t speak. They had learned courses such as war zone topography shorthand, but to memorize an entire city, how big a brain capacity would that require?

Wei Lin didn’t quite understand their surprise, “It’s easy, it’s not a difficult thing.”

“So what you mean is…” Zou Lang felt that the more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became. At this time, they were like a group of students who had entered the wrong examination room.

“It’s possible that the radar system on the plane was hacked and gave the wrong coordinate information. The pilot was also flying this route for the first time, so he didn’t notice anything abnormal.” Wei Lin looked at the two and said, “According to the name of the road just now, I guess, we might be in City N. Although I haven’t deliberately memorized the topography and landforms here, I know the general direction.”

“The test has become like this, it’s considered an accident, right? It feels like the division is going to be done this time.” Zou Lang thought of the officialdom.

“So now we are being shaded, dropped in the land of zombies, lost contact with K Division, each person has fifty bullets, can only rely on ourselves?” He Ye summarized, and then sighed, “Tsk tsk tsk, this test is really exciting!”

Zou Lang couldn’t listen anymore and kicked him, “Exciting your ass, it’s important to save your life.”

He Ye smiled, not taking the danger seriously at all, “Let’s go, I’ll cover you two.”

Zou Lang also put on his equipment, gave him the middle finger, “Who’s covering who?”

Wei Lin saw that the two were about to start walking aimlessly, and said, “Hey, the communication here has been blocked, if you want to restore communication, you need to repair the communication equipment.”

“Even if we find the communication base station, no one will fix it.” Zou Lang didn’t expect to encounter the same situation as last time.

“I can.” Wei Lin said, he supported himself on the mahjong table with both hands, “If we don’t restore communication, we can find a place to protect ourselves and wait for rescue, this might be safer; if we try to restore communication, even if we can’t contact K Division, at least we can contact everyone in the city, but, the risk will be high all the way, I’m just suggesting, you guys decide.”

Zou Lang and He Ye looked at each other, Zou Lang said, “Staying here is not necessarily safer, trying it may not be riskier, if we can reach the base station, at least we can report our situation to others, let others know our location. Or contact all the team members, I am willing to take risks.”