This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 35
They were not far from the base station now. The sky was already bright, and the fog had dissipated somewhat. After passing through two more streets, Wei Lin pointed to an old three-story building in front and said, “That’s it!”
He Ye looked at the building and asked, “Why don’t I see the base station? Shouldn’t a base station be a tower?”
In his understanding, a base station should be a tower made of white scaffolding, but now looking up from below, he only saw a few central air conditioning units on the roof.
Zou Lang was also a bit puzzled about this, but he was smarter than He Ye and wouldn’t ask himself to find a slap in the face. He also believed that Wei Lin would not be wrong, so he turned his head and waited for Wei Lin to explain.
Sure enough, Wei Lin said, “Many base stations are camouflaged, such as those disguised as street lights, solar water heaters, trees. And this one, it’s disguised as an air conditioning unit.”
He Ye didn’t understand, “Why go to this trouble?”
Wei Lin closed his mouth and looked at him with a look of “you’re so stupid I don’t want to talk to you.”
Yu Jingtang glanced at them and explained softly, “One is to avoid complaints from residents, and the other is to avoid being targeted during wartime.”
The three of them walked to the front of the building, the door was wide open. Yu Jingtang led the other three in.
Inside the building was a hollow atrium, surrounded by wooden spiral stairs, with rooms on the side of the stairs. This was a common layout in old buildings, the window grids were very small, and the height of each floor was a bit higher than ordinary buildings. The floor was paved with marble, and now some glass was broken, and there was some broken glass on the floor of the atrium.
As soon as Yu Jingtang stepped in, he felt that the temperature here was at least two degrees lower than outside, and a cool wind came over. Because the lighting was not good, although it was morning, it was still a bit dim inside. He held his gun and walked carefully, his combat boots stepping on the broken glass, making a creaking sound.
This was an old cultural relic house in N City, but it hadn’t been precious enough to be protected, so it was converted into an office for a government department.
This place had obviously been ravaged by zombies, full of dried blood stains, and two or three corpses lying scattered on the ground, which had long decayed.
Suddenly, a door on the first floor made a bang, and a female zombie wearing a skirt staggered out. He Ye turned around and fired a shot. Although he used a silencer, the shot still caused an echo in the quiet building.
After a moment of silence, a somewhat strange sound came from the building, like the sound of water just starting to bubble before boiling. This sound became louder and louder, echoing in the old building, spreading out like waves.
The entire building suddenly seemed to come alive, and nearly a hundred zombies suddenly surged out from the rooms of the return line of the building, roaring and running out. Some of the zombies stood at the circular guardrail, and some surged down.
Everyone looked up, and for a moment they didn’t realize that so many zombies were hiding in this seemingly quiet building. The zombies’ screams were one after another, making people shudder.
In such a dark environment, it made people feel a bit desperate.
Yu Jingtang tucked his gun into his waist and said, “Change equipment! Control the field! Don’t let the zombies come down! Zou Lang and I attack upstairs, He Ye and Wei Lin close combat defense.”
For a while, the four of them fired at the same time, the gunfire carrying the flesh and blood of the zombies, splashing everywhere, deafening.
Yu Jingtang was firing with a light machine gun, and zombies kept screaming and falling from upstairs, falling into a pool of flesh and blood.
There were also many zombies on the first floor. He Ye and Wei Lin were a bit overwhelmed for a while. He Ye was anxious and threw a grenade out, rolling to the feet of a few zombies not far away. It exploded with a bang, killing those zombies, but at the same time the wall ash upstairs fell down.
Yu Jingtang hurriedly said, “This building is old! It might collapse later!”
He Ye didn’t think about this, and was a bit scared afterwards. Fortunately, he killed a few zombies, and the crisis was temporarily relieved.
The whole process lasted about ten minutes, from the beginning of long-distance shooting to the final encirclement and hand-to-hand combat.
There was a railing upstairs that was crushed by the zombies, and a few zombies fell from downstairs.
“Be careful!” Yu Jingtang said as he pulled Zou Lang, those zombies almost pressed on him.
After a fierce battle, Yu Jingtang asked, “Is anyone injured?”
“No problem!”
Just now when the zombies fell to the ground, the splashed glass slag cut Zou Lang’s hand, but this small injury really didn’t count.
Everyone was sweating and panting.
Just this wave of attack, more than half of the bullets were gone.
The entire hall was in a mess, the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder from the ammunition mixed with the smell of flesh and blood of the zombies, and the floor was full of zombie corpses, and the sticky blood was all over the marble floor.
Yu Jingtang clenched his gun and walked upstairs, “Everyone go upstairs, be careful, there may still be zombies upstairs.”
Several people walked upstairs, which was darker and quieter than downstairs.
Zou Lang walked at the end, his hand was broken, and blood dripped down his fingers. He didn’t notice that at this time, something like a snake was following him, wriggling on the ground. When it touched his blood, the thing actually started to shake happily with a hiss.
“It seems… there’s some noise…” He Ye noticed something was wrong, but they searched and found nothing unusual.
“Maybe… I heard it wrong?” After searching around, He Ye felt a bit sorry for falsely reporting the situation.
“I seem to have heard a sound too… like something… rubbing…” Wei Lin said with a slight frown.
Just then, suddenly a rope-like thing coiled around Zou Lang’s foot, hanging him upside down.
In that instant, Zou Lang felt the whole world was spinning. He was pulled by a strong force, swung towards a wall.
Yu Jingtang was the first to react, he pulled out his dagger and cut the rope, then reached out to catch Zou Lang who fell from the air, so he wouldn’t fall too badly.
Zou Lang staggered to his feet.
From a room not far away, a roar came out. A crawling zombie came out, its back was bloody, what Yu Jingtang had just cut off was this zombie’s tail.
It was the first time He Ye had seen a mutated zombie, and all his hairs stood on end, “What the hell… is this thing?”
The zombie in front of them was crawling on all fours, its body was black, and it emitted a nauseating stench. Its tail swung, looking a bit like a rotten alien.
“Who cares what it is! Shoot!” Zou Lang said, raising his gun, “This is a special zombie, even if you shoot its head, it may not die!”
As they spoke, they all fired at the zombie.
The zombie was not small, but it was very fast, like a flash of lightning in front of everyone, most of the bullets did not hit the monster’s body, a few hit the wall and pierced the wall, revealing a few bright lights.
Then the monster suddenly disappeared.
Two seconds of silence, they could only hear their own breathing, they didn’t know where the monster would appear next second.
Yu Jingtang licked his chapped lips, his eyes always on the sight, his nerves tense, he dared not let go of the trigger. He suddenly smelled a foul smell, coming from above his head.
He looked up, and the monster was lying on the huge chandelier on the top of the building, looking down at them.
Wei Lin also spotted the zombie and shouted, “Above!”
A few more shots, the chandelier swayed, the monster opened its mouth wide and pounced at them.
“Be careful!” Wei Lin suddenly shouted, “Its tail is growing!”
Yu Jingtang also noticed this abnormality, the blood flow from the zombie’s tail had stopped, like a gecko that had its tail cut off, it was regenerating at the tail, growing a sharp point.
They did not completely miss the monster, even several shots hit the head, but the wounds of the zombie monster were healing rapidly.
It was healing too fast!
In an instant, the zombie’s tail swept towards He Ye again, He Ye saw that shooting was useless, he ran with his head in his arms, the monster’s tail swept across his waist, the sharp tail drew a blood mark on his back.
The uninjured Xiao Ye let out a wail, “Damn! Wei Lin, bandage me!”
Wei Lin rolled his eyes, “It’s just a scratch! Don’t waste medicine!”
As he spoke, Wei Lin aimed his gun, two shots hit the monster’s leg, the monster was in pain, let out a strange cry, the whole floor seemed to be shaking.
The monster turned its head and rushed towards Wei Lin, ran a few steps, and pounced, knocking Wei Lin to the ground, opened its mouth and bit heavily towards Wei Lin’s neck. This sudden change caught everyone off guard. Wei Lin gripped his gun tightly, pressing it against the monster’s neck to prevent it from pressing down.
Zou Lang ran a few steps quickly on the side, he didn’t have time to change other weapons, he turned the direction of the gun in his hand, swung the butt of the gun hard, and it hit the monster’s shoulder in one go, the monster took a heavy hit, finally let go of Wei Lin, and let out a roar again.
“Zou Lang!”
Yu Jingtang called out, this time without him saying anything else, Zou Lang obediently squatted down.
Yu Jingtang borrowed strength on his shoulder, kicked up, holding the gun and flipped up, his whole body rotated 180 degrees in the air, a heavy kick hit the zombie monster’s chin, a few teeth of the zombie flew out like meteors, along with a bloody spurt.
The zombie, now missing its jaw, could only make a hissing sound from its throat as it pounced again.
Yu Jingtang landed lightly, the gun in his hand flicked upwards, pressing into the zombie’s mouth that couldn’t close. He gritted his teeth and pressed the trigger hard, firing a series of flames and bullets from the gun.
The smell of gunpowder spread in the air, bullet casings kept falling on the cold ground, the continuous shooting for several seconds made the bullets directly blow off the zombie’s skull. The rotten blood of the zombie sprayed out several meters high with a whoosh.
The gunfire continued, the magazine was completely used up, and the brain of the zombie was also completely destroyed.
Finally, the huge monster finally twitched and fell to the ground.
Yu Jingtang was still in shock. He was afraid that the zombie would not die, he pulled out his knife and cut at the zombie’s neck until the monster’s head rolled aside.
“Damn, it’s finally over…” Zou Lang cursed softly.
“Yes, it’s over.” Yu Jingtang nodded.
In just a few minutes, they seemed to have experienced a life-and-death race.
He Ye touched his lower back, making sure he didn’t bleed much before he calmed down.
Wei Lin breathed a sigh of relief, laid on the ground for a few seconds, then turned over and got up.
Just as everyone was relaxing, the bloody, headless monster suddenly stood up again, clasped Yu Jingtang and fell from the broken railing upstairs towards the atrium.
Yu Jingtang hadn’t reacted yet, he was tightly held by the zombie’s claws, in front of him was the monster’s neck, splashing with blood. Cells were decomposing at a rapid speed, this monster was like a regenerating earthworm, growing its head.
In the moment of falling in the air, Yu Jingtang finally understood what the student’s last words meant that this monster couldn’t be killed.
This is an undead zombie!
No matter how many times it is injured, as long as the root is not destroyed, it will heal quickly!
Even without a head, the wound of the zombie is still healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
And its head, like its tail, will grow again!
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