This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 53

In the hands of Gong Qianye was a diary. It contained various entries, starting with mundane daily life, even recipes, accounts, but as she turned to the later pages, the content suddenly became heavy. She began to read from there.

The cabin was quiet at night, the rain outside the window had lessened a lot, making a rustling sound.

Gong Qianye read the contents of the book, her voice was pleasant to hear, a somewhat sentimental story was being narrated…

[My husband and I were in charge of this inspection center. Since the end of the world began, and the inspection system was established, we and the other three staff members began to be stationed here, inspecting countless people every day. We worked mechanically and repetitively, isolated from the world, far away from the city and our previous lives.

I knew the hardships of the end of the world, it needed many ordinary people like us, we would strive to persist until the crisis passed.

We no longer had holidays, someone regularly delivered food, we were like prisoners in this small inspection station.

Every month, wages were deposited into our cards, but in the end of the world, we didn’t even know how to spend this money.

The work at the inspection station was day after day.

Since the inspection station was established, we had detected three patients who were infected after being bitten, and according to orders, we waited for them to turn into zombies and then killed them with tools, this was probably the meaning of our work.

Those things were done by my husband and another male colleague, but that feeling made me shudder.

We killed people who were once alive.

I would occasionally be awakened by nightmares, in the dream were those zombies or the people we killed.

Today was the darkest day of my life, my son Xinxin was bitten by a zombie.

He was so young, so obedient, helping us maintain order.

But that bad person hid at the end of the waiting line until he turned into a zombie. He bit Xinxin and killed two other passengers.

Why! Why did he bite my son?!

Today is the third day since my son was bitten. My husband couldn’t bring himself to do it, we both cried our hearts out, lamenting the injustice of fate. We worked day after day for the safety of others, but our child did not receive the best protection.

Investigators were sent from above to handle the situation, and by some strange twist of fate, we concealed the fact that Xinxin had been bitten. We handed over the other three corpses.

According to the regulations, we should have killed Xinxin or handed him over.

He was very well-behaved, not crying or making a fuss. We found some raw meat to feed him, and he ate obediently.

He was different from the other zombies. He could speak, saying simple words like “hungry”, “cold”, and calling me “mom”. I felt that he was not a zombie, he was still my child! We locked him in the room every day, only going out after locking the door. We would take good care of him.

A passenger went missing, and my husband suspected it had something to do with our child.

No, it’s impossible. He couldn’t have unlocked the door himself, he never left the room.

We found a zombie at the back of the quarantine station. It was probably the passenger who went missing last time. Investigators were sent from above, and I hid my child in a cave in the back mountain. I hoped he wouldn’t be discovered.

The child hidden in the back mountain was gone!

Where could he be?

My husband and I were very scared. What should we do? It would have been better if we had handed him over earlier.

There was a landslide in the back mountain, and a guardrail was washed away. My husband was worried, he said he seemed to have seen Xinxin’s figure in the crowd.

I couldn’t confirm, maybe it was Xinxin, or maybe he was just missing his son too much and saw wrong.

Zombies bitten by the child wouldn’t scream!

Those zombies listened to my son!

He was luring passengers who were alone, dragging people away, specifically acting on the less crowded lawn!

They would set traps!

He was no longer my child, he was a devil! A devil that I had raised!

I must find him!

In just one day, the entire quarantine station was occupied by zombies. There were only three of us left, and my husband had also turned into a zombie. If you see this diary, I might already be dead.

I was wrong, I must kill him!]

The diary ended here, and the rest was blank.

Obviously, the person in charge of the inspection center who wrote this diary may have encountered an accident.

Gong Qianye closed the notebook and looked at everyone.

“So, the mutated zombie was raised here by the staff?” The driver’s eyes were red, “How could they…”

It was such behavior that laid the groundwork for today’s tragedy. It was their selfish desires that destroyed hundreds of lives, these hundreds of people, who also had families, children, friends, were vibrant lives.

“I know what you want to say, how could they do this knowing the possible outcome of zombification.” Zou Lang said softly, he sat on the armrest of the sofa, picked up a bowl, and while talking, fed Yu Jingtang, “They were wrong, and outrageously so, and they also implicated so many people. But some things are easy to say, for people to face the fact that the most important person in their life is about to or has become a zombie, this in itself is a very cruel, very painful thing. I say this not to sympathize with them, or to feel that they deserve forgiveness, but to say that things happening to others are always different from happening to oneself.”

At this time, Zou Lang looked at Yu Jingtang’s face, unable to imagine, if one day, Yu Jingtang was bitten, facing this life and death decision, what would he do.

Life always faces many situations, and also faces many choices, regardless of right or wrong, these choices would always cause the trajectory of life to deviate.

When the disaster happened, Zou Lang, because of a thought, cut off the driver’s hand, brought him back to the bus, and accompanied him off the bus, putting them in a dangerous situation. He did all this, and did not regret it, because he saved a life.

The few people in the room suddenly fell silent, all starting to eat the food in their hands.

Yu Jingtang couldn’t eat much, after a few bites he pushed the bowl away with his hand and closed his eyes. Gong Qianye came over to touch him, the towel was already dry, so she changed it for him again.

Suddenly, a tragic scream pierced the night sky.

It was a girl’s scream, the sound came from not far away.

Immediately after, a chaotic scream erupted!

“It’s in the direction of the bus!” Zou Lang looked at Yu Jingtang with a serious expression.

Yu Jingtang frowned and stood up from the sofa, the cooling towel on his forehead fell to the ground. Suddenly standing up made him dizzy, he steadied himself by holding onto the back of the sofa.

Gong Qianye looked at Zou Lang, already knowing what they were going to do, then she looked at Yu Jingtang with some worry, his face was so pale it was a bit scary, “You… you still have a high fever!”

“I won’t die!” Yu Jingtang coldly replied with four words, on the way here, the ribs of the umbrella he was holding had already broken, he casually picked up a knife from the table and said to Zou Lang, “Let’s go.”

Zou Lang looked at him, picked up the axe and told the others, “You guys hide here!”

The two of them once again walked down that road, to the locked entrance of the inspection area. From inside the door, they could already see the outside parking lot was in chaos, with zombies chasing after the survivors on the bus.

Zou Lang put his hand on the lock, opening it as he said, “Instructor, I know whatever I say, you definitely won’t listen, but your condition is not good right now…”

He didn’t call him Jingtang, nor did he jokingly call him wife, but called him instructor, his tone was especially serious, “If you take risks alone it’s nothing, just don’t leave me behind.”

“I won’t drag you down.” Yu Jingtang said.

Zou Lang helped him straighten his collar, then kissed his burning lips, “You know that’s not what I meant!”

Then he pushed the door open with his hand…

Compared to before, the rain had lessened a lot.

After the mutated zombie got on the bus, it bit several people. Although it looked like a child and was small in stature, its speed and strength were far beyond ordinary people.

Under the command of the mutated zombie, the other zombies appeared again as if they had received an order, and surrounded the bus.

There was a moment of chaos in the bus, fortunately at the critical moment, the fat man smashed the rear glass of the vehicle with an escape hammer, allowing a few survivors to escape from it, narrowly escaping disaster.

The bus was still parked there, the door wide open, and the rear glass completely shattered, it was no longer safe.

There was a trail of blood in the parking lot outside the bus.

The entire parking lot was full of zombies chasing after the surviving passengers.

Some of the passengers had died, some had already turned into zombies.

Yu Jingtang was killing zombies while identifying whether there were still living people among the injured on the ground.

This was one of the two girls who went to the toilet yesterday.

That was the old lady who started the conversation.

That was the fat man who had argued with them. In the end, he smashed the bus window, but he couldn’t save himself. Now he had been bitten and turned into a zombie. The knife in Yu Jingtang’s hand was inserted into his head. The fat man fell to the ground, his eyes wide open, refusing to close even in death.

They were dead, all dead, some had turned into zombies, some were already dead.

Yu Jingtang’s chest was heaving, his speed was very fast, he kept rushing forward, his eyes bloodshot, and his heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.

He kept asking himself over and over again, “Why, why? I clearly told them not to open the door.”

…Why did they still open the door?

These people were not bad people, nor could they be called 100% good people, they were just ordinary people in the end of the world.

They died because of their one-time misplaced kindness.

They did nothing wrong, but they paid with their lives for it.

Zou Lang followed behind Yu Jingtang, watching Yu Jingtang fight as if he didn’t care about his life, and gradually a distance opened up between the two of them.

Seeing the two of them appear, some passengers who were entangled by zombies ran over. Yu Jingtang saved a girl and let her hide under a car on the side, while he used the knife in his hand to stab into the temple of a zombie. After the fierce battle just now, the blade of his knife had already curled up. After this strike, the knife got stuck in the zombie’s skull and couldn’t be pulled out.

At this time, the mutated zombie jumped down from the bus, its mouth and body were all red with blood plasma. Despite the injury to its leg, its speed was still very fast.

Yu Jingtang had just turned his head, panting, when he saw the mutated zombie rushing towards him. The child-like short stature, and a head hit him in the lower abdomen.

The strength of this little zombie was completely unlike that of a few years old child, Yu Jingtang was hit and grunted.

He quickly retreated two steps, then felt a severe pain in his abdomen.

The little zombie’s hand was holding a fruit knife that a passenger had dropped in the car, and it was stabbed into his body.