This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 34

N City, 4:48 in the early morning.

The sky was just a bit dimly lit, a burst of intense gunfire suddenly rang out in the quiet street, followed by a whoosh, a flare soared into the sky, cutting through the sky and illuminating the entire dawn.

That was the surrender flare launched from the ground by the students.

Zou Lang had just opened his eyes in a daze, Yu Jingtang had already gotten up from the bed, neatly hung the equipment on his body, and then rushed out of the room door.

Wei Lin and He Ye in the next room also heard the sound and got up.

Yu Jingtang knocked on their door, “There’s a situation, we’re leaving early!”

For a moment, this tense atmosphere was like an emergency assembly.

No one spoke, several people were nervously packing their things.

Zou Lang sobered up a bit, hurriedly put on his coat, and then he watched Yu Jingtang pack up his things and go downstairs.

He Ye was a bit sleepy, smeared a handful of cold water on his face, wore a vest, tied the coat around his waist, and walked out with his bag.

Wei Lin didn’t forget to tuck the book into his bag before leaving.

The whole assembly process took a total of one minute and thirty seconds. By the time the three of them went downstairs, Yu Jingtang was already waiting there, he had his own equipment on his back, and Zou Lang’s in his hand. Watching them go downstairs, he threw the backpack to Zou Lang, and then opened the front door.

The air in the early morning was still a bit cold, carrying a bit of the smell of soil and blood.

The sky was already a bit bright, much better than the pitch black of the night, the city was shrouded in a fog, visibility was very low.

The entire city did not have the vitality of the dawn, only a piece of desolation.

The road surface was all blood, no one cleaned it up, occasionally there were some zombie corpses.

Judging from the sound, the direction of the gunfire that just rang out was about a kilometer away from them.

The gunfire continued. Guiding their direction.

Yu Jingtang said, “Let’s go, don’t attract the zombies, speed up! The fog is heavy, don’t accidentally hurt your companions.”

The four of them held silent pistols in their hands, marching in formation, with Yu Jingtang leading the way, He Ye covering the rear, and Zou Lang and Wei Lin responsible for the left and right protection.

On the street full of fog and zombies, the team moved very quickly.

Wei Lin was making an estimate, “About two more blocks, a 2-minute journey.”

Zou Lang saw vague figures moving in front of him, their movements and shapes didn’t look like humans, “There seems to be a zombie at six o’clock ahead!”

Before he finished speaking, Yu Jingtang raised his hand and fired a shot, the bullet pierced through the fog and accurately shot into the zombie’s head, bringing out a blood arrow.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and zombie corpses began to appear on the ground, and there were zombies gnawing at their companions’ corpses. Zou Lang raised his gun and shot the gnawing zombie down.

They heard someone’s painful cry, then two more gunshots, the gunfire in front suddenly stopped, and never sounded again.

The distance was very close!

Yu Jingtang smelled a strong smell of blood, he ran a few steps and passed through the fog.

A fierce battle had just ended, with corpses and flesh all over the ground.

The smell of rotten corpses and fresh flesh were completely different, Yu Jingtang, who had been fighting for a long time, could distinguish it just by this.

Most of that blood was from zombies, but there was still a small part of it that was human–fresh flesh.

They were still too late…

Yu Jingtang walked past several corpses, looking for anyone who was still alive.

Zou Lang also walked up, he looked down and saw a student’s corpse wearing camouflage, he didn’t know how it was caused, the whole body was split in half from top to bottom. Blood and viscera flowed out, and it was gnawed by zombies into a bloody mess, there was still a dead eye on his half of the corpse. It was wide open, as if it was looking at him.

Zou Lang couldn’t help but back up two steps, he had seen corpses bitten by zombies before, and had killed many zombies, but this feeling of a living person being dissected just now was completely different from hitting a rotten corpse or seeing a relatively complete corpse.

That was a body that was alive just a few minutes ago, just like them.

He Ye also saw that corpse, his area had not been attacked by zombies, his own endurance was much worse than other students, at this time seeing this scene he ran to the side of the road and started vomiting.

Among the few people, only Wei Lin still had a bit of sanity.

“Wei Lin! Medical kit!” Yu Jingtang’s voice came from the front. He had just inspected the surroundings and found that a student on the ground was still breathing.

Yu Jingtang had brought some equipment before and distributed some to everyone. Because Wei Lin had passed the battlefield medical exam, the medical part was put with Wei Lin.

Wei Lin hurriedly ran over, saw a person lying on the ground, still breathing, that was a student, the artery in his neck was broken, blood was spurting out, at this time Yu Jingtang was squatting next to him, his hands tightly covering his neck, trying to stop the bleeding for him, but the bright red blood was still spraying out from between Yu Jingtang’s fingers.

Apart from this wound, his ribs were unnaturally sunken, obviously having suffered a heavy blow, injuring his internal organs, and fresh blood kept sliding from the corner of his mouth.

Wei Lin was frantically taking gauze, hemostatic items, and various medicines from his bag, but looking at the person’s ashen face, his movements paused for a moment. As clear-headed as he was, he didn’t know what to use on this person. In the end, he took a dose of morphine and injected it into the person’s leg.

With such a heavy injury, there was no hope of saving him, they could only use a sedative to slightly reduce his pain.

The student seemed to have a moment of lucidity, convulsing as he opened his eyes, his lips trembling, “Don’t save me…it’s useless…I… have been bitten…”

Only then did Wei Lin realize that the wound on his neck was bitten to injury, but ordinary zombies definitely couldn’t cause such a large wound.

Yu Jingtang asked him, “Did you encounter a special zombie?”

The student’s voice became low, “That monster…can’t be killed…”

After he finished these few sentences, his body suddenly stiffened, his legs kicked twice, his body stopped convulsing, and his head weakly tilted to one side.

Yu Jingtang was silent for a moment, then he moved his hand that was covering the wound on his neck, and with his blood-stained hand, he closed his eyes. Then he raised his gun and fired a shot at his forehead.

For a moment, there was silence, there were at least three student corpses on the ground, and one that was completely unrecognizable, leaving only a right hand holding a gun.

This was the first time the students had come so close to death, these life and death situations, although they knew they would have to face them sooner or later, but now, presented in front of them in such a bloody manner, it was still inevitably chilling.

They truly experienced the cruelty of battle.

Just yesterday, they had killed dozens of zombies with just four people, everyone was immersed in a kind of joy, but today, a few hours later, they experienced a baptism of death, all of this was like a bucket of cold water poured on their heads.

It was a slap in the face.

They were mourning the death of their comrades and worrying about their own fate.

This was the end of the world.

Yu Jingtang wanted to find the nameplates of the three people, but in the end, he only found two. He put the two metal plates in his pocket, took off his hat in front of the corpse, made a moment of silence, and then turned back to ask the three, “Is everyone okay?”

Again, there was silence. He Ye seemed to have not reacted yet and looked shocked. Zou Lang, who usually talked a lot, didn’t speak either. Then Wei Lin replied, “I’m fine. Instructor, what should we do now?”

Yu Jingtang said, “Eat something, regroup, go to the base station as soon as possible, and then leave this area.”

The four found a small restaurant to sit in. Zou Lang found a gas canister that hadn’t been used up in the back and insisted on boiling some hot water to make noodles. No matter how difficult the environment, he was unwilling to skip meals.

Yu Jingtang sat at the table, wiping the blood on his hands. The blood was thick and not easy to clean. He lowered his head, having just witnessed life and death, everyone’s mood was not very good.

Zou Lang was not only reflecting, how did he end up in such an environment again? He was a bit worried, not knowing what the situation outside was now. Which force, with just a light flick of a finger, plunged them into a desperate situation. Whether they, the soldiers, live or die, no one cares. They were just pawns of politicians.

When Zou Lang brought the noodles up and divided them among the four, he complained, “I didn’t sleep well last night. After thinking about it, I suspect that this was done by the reformist faction. The whole country is still in danger, and they have started infighting. No matter what, the K Division will be greatly damaged this time, and may even change generals. Those people just want to overthrow the K Division, so they can further control the power. The country is like this, why can’t they calm down?”

He Ye said, “It’s more dangerous for the country to be in the hands of the conservative faction, right? At first, it was those people who wanted to divert the attention of the public, delay the change of term, and secure their own positions, which delayed the rescue and led to the outbreak of this disaster.”

He did not hide his disgust for the conservative faction in his words. The current government indeed has many disadvantages in terms of rescue, and there are not a few people in the public who have this kind of thinking.

As for the struggle between the reformist faction and the conservative faction, Yu Jingtang had also heard some. The reformist faction was more radical, the main actors were younger, mainly some consortia, the conservative faction was more conservative, mainly the current ruling personnel and old aristocrats. But he didn’t want to express too much, and he didn’t want his students to get involved too much, he said coldly, “I am a soldier, I obey orders. I don’t care about these.”

Wei Lin glanced at them, “Let’s get out alive first.”