This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 31

At this moment, the atmosphere in K Division was very tense, as if the air had solidified.

The commander, Yan Jinrui, was silent, and the others dared not make a sound. Apart from the occasional beeping from the military surveillance equipment, it was quiet.

It had been over an hour since the plane left. Just ten minutes ago, they learned from the plane’s radio that all team members had been safely delivered. But now, there was no location of the students on the ground radar system of City Z.

The mood in the observation room gradually shifted from calm to uneasy.

“Contact the plane again!” Yan Jinrui, the commander uf K Division, finally couldn’t sit still.

The technician dialed the radio again, “The plane is already on its way back, but the students’ location has not appeared. What is going on?”

After a brief communication with the captain, the technician reported with a pale face, “We just found out that the plane’s radar has been invaded, and the flight path has deviated.”

Everyone was shocked. Such a thing happened in the important assessment of K Division, which would have been unimaginable in the past. But in this chaotic world, it was very possible!

Due to the outbreak of the zombie virus, a large number of high-end technical personnel died, and there was a gap in technology, which gave some people an opportunity.

Yan Jinrui, the commander of K Division, was 56 years old this year. His official career had always been smooth, but he did not expect this situation, and sweat flowed down his forehead instantly.

Intruding into the encrypted military aviation radar, this was something that zombies couldn’t do, it must be an insider or other forces.

At present, the struggle between the reformist and conservative factions within the political arena had reached the point of armed confrontation.

This assessment plan was selected from more than ten assessment plans. There had always been a rumor that the military high-level was infiltrated by reformists. Then their purpose, it was to take this opportunity…

Yan Jinrui didn’t dare to think further, he urgently ordered, “Immediately terminate the final assessment! I will report to the military department myself, and this matter must be thoroughly investigated! Now, Li Jin, you immediately start rescuing the students!”

“Where were the students dropped?” Li Jin asked the technician with his head down.

“The drop-off location… might… might be in City N.”

“Specific coordinates?”

“The plane’s radar system just recovered, and the specific location hasn’t been calculated yet.”

“Restore the plane’s flight path map, I need an exact position.”

Time passed by the minute and second. More than half an hour later, under Li Jin’s repeated urging, the drop-off position was finally calculated. It was a blind spot. The zombies hadn’t been cleared, and communication hadn’t been restored.

Li Jin looked at the situation and said to the other instructors, “Immediately go through the process to apply for a second drop-off. We will go and bring the students out. Jingtang, you wait here for news. Everyone now has ten minutes to prepare. After ten minutes, we will set off.”

Yu Jingtang stepped forward and said, “I’m going too.”

“Yu Jingtang, you just recovered not long ago.” Li Jin didn’t want him to make this trip.

“My students are in there.” Yu Jingtang’s face was expressionless, but his voice was slightly hoarse, not as calm as usual. Zou Lang was also there. He was a little confused in his heart. Why did things always go wrong when Zou Lang was there? Was this a coincidence?

Li Jin looked into Yu Jingtang’s eyes and was silent for a moment. He had been with Yu Jingtang for several years and rarely saw him insist on something so much.

But orders are not child’s play. Sometimes a decision concerns one or even several lives…

At this time, the meeting of the three naughty children in the small mahjong room in City N was still going on.

Zou Lang and He Ye found a pen and A4 paper in the mahjong room. Wei Lin put two A4 papers together, took a few mahjong pieces as paperweights, closed his eyes and rested for a moment, pressed his eyebrows with his fingers, then opened his eyes, and then he began to reproduce the map of City N from his memory on the paper.

As Wei Lin’s pen moved, streets began to appear on the paper, and the entire city was divided into several areas. He drew faster and faster. When the streets were almost drawn, he began to fill in circles between the streets. Those were large residential areas or commercial areas. Then he drew various squares, which were the landmark buildings in the city.

Under his pen, a city seemed to be built and presented on this small mahjong table. Streets, buildings, business circles, residential areas, train stations, hospitals, schools, airports…

Finally, Wei Lin wiped the sweat that had come out of his forehead. He drew a circle on a point on the paper, which was their current location, and then he drew a pentagram in another place, which was the location of the base station.

Wei Lin stood up, pointed at the star on the map, and said, “If I remember correctly, the civilian base station of City N is here. Although it is civilian, I should be able to change it to military use. As long as I adjust the channel, all team members’ communication watches can communicate with each other and send information through there. The hand-drawn map is not very standard now. It is estimated that it will take about five intersections, pass through a small square, and a total of more than 5 kilometers.”

“Not bad!” He Ye patted Wei Lin’s shoulder, almost pushing him over, “You are worthy of being a military adviser, reliable at critical moments.”

Zou Lang memorized the map, then copied a simple map for He Ye and put it in his pocket, saying, “Don’t delay, let’s go!”

Zou Lang’s team set off, and the deeper they went, the more zombies they found. The place where they started to be dropped was near the suburbs, which was still relatively sparsely populated. As they walked further into the city, they found…

“Although City N is not big, it was quite prosperous.” Zou Lang said after clearing the tenth zombie. There were too many zombies here, they couldn’t use guns. If they shot one, other zombies would be attracted by the gunshot, and a bunch would surround them, eventually running out of bullets and supplies.

“City N is a small city, located in the eastern part of the continent, with an area of 377 square kilometers and a permanent population of 210,000.” Wei Lin opened his mouth and it was a piece of data.

“So many!? So are these 210,000 all zombies?” He Ye was a bit dumbfounded when he heard this number, completely forgetting the domineering aura he was supposed to have just now.

Wei Lin glanced at him and said, “More than a hundred thousand people have been evacuated before. I estimate that the total number of zombies in the city is between 30,000 and 50,000. Excluding those in fixed places, trapped at home and other zombies, along this road, a few hundred are estimated to be encountered.”

Hearing this number, Zou Lang also frowned. The number of zombies in the city during his previous rescues was not so many. From 150 zombies with muzzles, suddenly to hundreds of zombies, the gap was a bit large. What he was more worried about was that there were 30,000 to 50,000 ordinary zombies in this city, and he didn’t know if there would be mutated zombies among them.

The three of them had already completed the established task of this assessment with daggers, and the zombies on the road were endless. Every few steps, a few would pop out.

By noon, the three of them found a hidden spot to eat something. When they came out again, a sound of propellers suddenly came from the sky, and a plane quickly passed by in the sky and then disappeared. The three of them looked up and were slightly disappointed.

He Ye asked, “Do you think the Instructor will come to save us?”

“Forget it, the Instructor just recovered a few days ago, do you have any idea what you did to him?” Zou Lang immediately extinguished his idea, he was a bit complicated in his heart, both expecting Yu Jingtang to suddenly appear, but also a bit afraid to face the predicament with him again.

No one came to save them, they could only rely on themselves for the time being. The three of them walked out of the street and encountered a small square. As soon as He Ye rushed out, he retreated. Zou Lang looked from his head and saw dozens of zombies wearing pink clothes on the square – zombie old ladies.

This was obviously a square dance gathering point. It seemed that they were suddenly attacked by zombies while dancing square dance, so the entire team was wiped out.

“I fuck…” He Ye was the first to be scared, “I don’t want to fight to the death with square dance personnel.”

“Wei Lin, is there any other way to go nearby?” Zou Lang turned his head and asked the living map.

Wei Lin shook his head with a heavy face, “This is a must-pass road to the base station.”

“How about… I try to lead these old ladies away?” He Ye suggested.

Wei Lin denied, “Even if it is led away, we may not be able to regroup, but it may put you in danger.”

“I think… we can think of other ways.” Zou Lang squatted down, looked at the group of floating zombies in front of him, bowed his head and thought, a flash of light in his brain, suddenly remembered what Fang Yazhou said when he met last time. “I heard someone say that although zombies have lost their will, they will do what they often did when they were still alive.” As he spoke, he touched his chin and pointed at a loudspeaker not far away on the ground, “That loudspeaker seems to have not been turned on in time, and the zombie virus broke out. Shall we go and try it? If music and square dance can distract the zombies, we might be able to walk past.”

“Who said this?” Wei Lin asked him.

“A…what…zombie research expert.” Zou Lang didn’t remember Fang Yazhou’s title, and casually made up one.

“Is there such a research expert?” He Ye was greatly surprised.

“Well, his name is Fang Yazhou.” Zou Lang nodded seriously.

Hearing this name, Wei Lin suddenly laughed. His expression seemed very familiar with this name. He corrected, “Fang Yanzhou, currently the most famous medical expert in the country, a doctor in cell biology, genetics, and biology. If he said this, then I think, it’s worth a try.”

Anyway, the three of them were trapped here now, they could only treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor. (TL: A metaphor for trying your best to save someone in a desperate situation)

In the end, it was decided that He Ye would turn on the loudspeaker. He Ye didn’t hesitate, ran a few steps to the side of the loudspeaker, swung the dagger in his hand, and inserted it into a zombie’s eye, cleanly killing the zombie, then crouched down and pressed the switch of the loudspeaker. Then He Ye quickly ran back.

The square was suddenly filled with the sound of “The Most Dazzling National Style”.

Those wandering zombies all stopped, listening with their ears tilted, and soon, the zombies began to move, following the music and making stiff movements. Although it wasn’t very good-looking, it was still uniform.

“Wow, this trick really works!” He Ye didn’t expect this effect at all and was extremely excited.

“Let’s go, let’s go, hurry up, let’s slip away! Don’t wait for the music to attract zombies from other places later!” Zou Lang urged the two comrades who were watching the zombies perform square dance.

The three of them crouched down and took advantage of the zombies’ head-turning movement to run past the garden on the side of the square, and when they got to a deserted place, they finally stood up straight.

The experience of easily escaping from the claws of dozens of zombies made Zou Lang very proud, and the danger also made Wei Lin breathe a sigh of relief.

Just as He Ye was about to say something, he suddenly saw a group of zombies wearing school uniforms wandering over from the street on the other side. There were probably forty or fifty people in this group. One of the zombies turned its head and faced them squarely.

The group of zombies didn’t move for a while, and the three of them on this side didn’t dare to move either, and the two groups just stood in a stalemate.

Cold sweat came down on He Ye’s face, and he asked his two buddies, “This group… would it be useful to play broadcast gymnastics?”

Zou Lang asked him back, “Do you know that schools are now doing the tenth broadcast gymnastics?”

Wei Lin rolled his eyes, “Would eye exercises be more useful? He Ye, you can recite it and let us listen!”

He Ye objected, “That’s recited by a woman!”

“Eye exercises may not necessarily be useful. Anyway, when I do eye exercises, I never close my eyes!” Zou Lang said and pulled the two of them.

“Why aren’t you running?!”

At the same time, the group of student zombies started to move, baring their teeth and claws and running towards the three of them. These zombies were all young and strong students before they died, and their speed was much faster than ordinary zombies.

He Ye and Zou Lang were the first to turn their heads and rush out, followed by Wei Lin. After the two of them ran for two hundred meters, they turned into a small alley with a special tacit understanding.

Wei Lin stretched out his hand and shouted from behind, “Don’t run there… it’s a dead end.” But he was thrown a dozen meters by the two of them, and it was useless when he shouted.

When Zou Lang ran into the alley, he saw a person standing not far in front of him. The setting sun was setting, and the sunlight was shining from behind him, casting a long shadow on the ground. He didn’t see the person’s face for a moment, but he swept a glance to make sure it wasn’t a zombie. As he passed by the person, the person grabbed his collar, and a cold and gloomy voice came, “Stop running, it’s a dead end.”

Yu Jingtang parachuted down from nearby, had just finished surveying the terrain, and didn’t expect to run into the three of them here. At this moment, his voice sounded like heavenly music in Zou Lang’s ears.

Zou Lang turned around, covered his choked neck and coughed twice, then began to rub against Yu Jingtang, “Whimpering, Instructor, I miss you so much…”

Yu Jingtang had a cold face, he hadn’t seen him for several hours since this morning, he was really shameless.

He silently pushed Zou Lang off him, looked at He Ye and Wei Lin who had rushed over, and the zombies behind them, and frowned, “Dozens of ordinary zombies, what are you panicking about?”