This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 54

Yu Jingtang gritted his teeth, hastily pressing his left hand against the wound on his side. Warm liquid flowed out from between his fingers. He tried to prevent the knife in the child’s hand from advancing any further, using all his strength to push against the head of the small zombie, trying to increase the distance between them.

The fresh blood only stimulated the zombie more. The small zombie’s mouth was close at hand, straining its neck forward. Its face was ferocious, the sound of its sharp teeth clashing together, making a ‘kaka’ sound in the rainy night, it was hair-raising.

“Jingtang!” Zou Lang saw Yu Jingtang and the mutated zombie locked in a stalemate, but because it was too dark, he couldn’t see the details. He called out anxiously, his heart burning with impatience, but he was still entangled with three zombies at his side, and there was no time to rush over to help.

With the high fever, pain, and exhaustion, Yu Jingtang felt that he couldn’t hold on much longer. As soon as his arm relaxed a little, the small zombie would bite him.

Seeing that it couldn’t bite its prey, the small zombie pushed the knife in its hands forward again, starting to twist it. At this point, the fruit knife, which was more than ten centimeters long, had completely pierced into Yu Jingtang’s body.

Ugh…Yu Jingtang’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, letting out a low moan, cold sweat dripping down his forehead.

His arm began to tremble uncontrollably…

“Xinxin!” Just then, a woman’s call suddenly sounded.

Someone was standing not far from Yu Jingtang and the mutated zombie, shouting.

Yu Jingtang raised his head with difficulty, and then he saw Gong Qianye.

The girl who should have been inside the room somehow appeared here.

The night was deep, like thick ink that had been dyed. In the parking lot, there were only two broken and lonely buses, still lit with orange lights. In the dark night, looking down from above, this point of light was like a firefly in the darkness, the light was weak, but it warmed people’s hearts.

Gong Qianye stood in front of the bus, panting, obviously having just run over. The light from the bus illuminated her face, making her look even more gentle but also more determined. She raised something in her hand, shaking it and shouting, “Xinxin, look, what is this?”

In her hand was a gray rabbit doll. The rabbit was quite large, about several tens of centimeters tall, with drooping ears, looking very cute and adorable.

Gong Qianye was speaking, her voice sweet, like a mother lulling her child to sleep. She tried to put on a smiling face.

But in reality, she was scared. Her legs were shaking continuously, and cold sweat slid down her neck into her clothes. She was taking a huge risk in luring this zombie. The mutated zombie was too fast, and it might rush over and bite her.

She was gambling.

If she won, both of them would be saved. If she lost, they might both die here tonight.

After Zou Lang and Yu Jingtang left, Gong Qianye re-read the diary. The rabbit doll was a gift from Xinxin’s mother on his last birthday, and it was his favorite toy. Even when he was sick, he would hold onto this rabbit. She found this rabbit doll on a bed, let Uncle Qin take care of the driver, and walked through the corridor where zombies could pop out at any time, to get here.

By the grace of God, Gong Qianye did not encounter any zombies along the way.

She hoped to awaken a trace of memory in the child’s heart.

Up to now, whether a zombie’s behavior before death was a conditioned reflex or a residual memory had always been a point of academic debate.

But Gong Qianye had a premonition that this zombie retained some language functions, perhaps because it had some residual memory.

Staring at the rabbit, a small group of neurons in the small zombie’s brain, which had been corroded by the zombie virus, suddenly started to pulsate.

Those were his memories from when he was alive…

Mother, father, family, his past life, his past life as a human.

Yu Jingtang felt the small zombie’s strength gradually weakening. It let go of the knife in its hand, put away the ferocity on its face, turned its head slightly, seemed to be in a daze for a moment, and then it softly called out, “Mom!”

The smile of the mother in his memory and Gong Qianye’s smile at this moment overlapped in his brain.

The small zombie reached out a hand in the direction of Gong Qianye, cautiously, as if wanting to touch her…

Finally able to free himself, Yu Jingtang naturally wouldn’t miss this opportunity. He used both hands to grip the small zombie’s neck, and with a ‘crack’, he twisted its neck and broke it.

The small zombie fell down like a lifeless rag doll.

Then, enduring the intense pain, Yu Jingtang pulled out the fruit knife from his abdomen, and stabbed the small zombie’s eyes twice more.

After doing all this, Yu Jingtang knelt on the ground, completely drained of strength, his vision darkening. Gong Qianye ran over, she placed the rabbit in the arms of the dead small zombie. Then she helped Yu Jingtang up, using her hand to cover his wound. The wound was deep, and blood quickly flowed out, continuously running down his pants.

“Thank you, but you shouldn’t have…” Yu Jingtang said in a low voice, enduring waves of intense pain in his body.

Gong Qianye nodded in acknowledgment, unyielding, “I know…I was wrong…I didn’t listen to you, but…taking this risk, I think it was worth it.”

She was still immersed in excitement. This action not only saved Yu Jingtang and herself, but also saved many others, and it advanced the research on zombies a step further.

Her current experimental results could prove that zombies might also have residual human memories and human emotions. Although these emotions were weak, possibly only momentary, they couldn’t resist the zombie’s natural instinct to kill.

With the loss of the mutated zombie’s command, the other zombies lost their direction. Their reaction speed and mobility were reduced, and they were quickly killed by the combined efforts of the passengers. The parking lot was finally cleared, and the survivors helped each other, crawling out from under the buses.

The people who had narrowly escaped death finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Jingtang wanted to say something else, but suddenly a bloody taste rose in his throat. He furrowed his brows, closed his eyes, and covered his mouth with his hand in pain. Warm, red liquid flowed out from between his fingers.

This sudden turn of events terrified Gong Qianye. She was well-versed in pathology, but Yu Jingtang’s reaction at this moment was completely contrary to medical norms. She didn’t know whether it was internal or external injuries that caused such a large area of internal bleeding.

“Jingtang!” Zou Lang also finally killed the few zombies entangling him and ran over here.

Yu Jingtang bent over in pain, the wound under his left hand was bleeding continuously. But the pain in his body was not just from the wound, it felt as if something was wringing his internal organs, twisting them forcefully in one direction like a towel. He felt like he was falling apart, his temperature and sensations were being pulled away from his body.

“Jingtang, Jingtang,…” Zou Lang’s voice seemed to drift from a faraway place.

Yu Jingtang was about to be driven mad by the sweeping pain. He was vomiting blood in large mouthfuls, as if he wanted to vomit all the blood in his body clean. Both Gong Qianye and Zou Lang couldn’t hold him up. Yu Jingtang’s body was convulsing uncontrollably, he didn’t know how to suppress the pain in his body. A huge roaring sound appeared in his ears, the whole world was spinning non-stop, he finally had no strength left, the world in his eyes tilted. He fell on the wet ground, curling up his body.

The rain was still falling, the other survivors gathered around, panting.

They had gathered together for various reasons, boarded this bus, and drove towards the unknown territory in their lives.

Fortunately, this unforgettable journey was finally about to end…