This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 55
Yu Jingtang woke up again, gently opened his eyes, and found himself lying sideways on the back seat of a car, his head resting on Zou Lang’s leg, and covered with Zou Lang’s coat. The car was moving, occasionally shaking slightly.
Outside the car window, the sky was no longer black, but was tinged with the light of dawn. It was a new day.
Yu Jingtang moved his body, and Zou Lang immediately held his hand, softly asking him, “Does it still hurt?”
Yu Jingtang’s wound had been bandaged, and the tumultuous pain in his body had finally stopped. The fever seemed to have subsided, and his heart was beating strongly in his chest. He gently shook his head, it didn’t hurt that much anymore. Compared to the intense pain that had driven him crazy before, this residual pain was nothing.
He was just exhausted, as if he had died once.
Zou Lang told him that they were already in a car being taken into K City by the rescue team. He gave him a little water to drink.
“How long was I unconscious?”
“From last night until now, about 8 hours.”
After losing a lot of blood, Yu Jingtang’s voice was still a bit hoarse, “How many people are still alive in the end?”
“Including the driver, you, and me, there are eighteen people left,” Zou Lang answered him.
Yu Jingtang nodded, then closed his eyes with a bit of sadness. Zou Lang patted him, comforting him, “You’re not a savior, you can’t save everyone.”
This was already a good result. They had done their best.
“Is Miss Gong alright?” Yu Jingtang asked again.
“She’s fine, she was the one who treated your wound. She’s also in another car.”
Zou Lang left out some details. Last night, Gong Qianye had been taking care of Yu Jingtang all the time, fearing that his internal organs had been injured. Only after Yu Jingtang’s vital signs stabilized in the late night did she go to rest for a while.
With Yu Jingtang unconscious, Gong Qianye could only instruct Zou Lang to take good care of Yu Jingtang in the future. If he needed help, he could contact her again. She left her contact information with Zou Lang.
But all of this, Zou Lang did not tell Yu Jingtang.
Regaining a bit of strength, Yu Jingtang propped himself up and sat in the back seat, lowering the window a bit, and the morning breeze rushed in.
By this time, the sky was already bright. After being washed by the heavy rain last night, today was a rare good weather. The sky was a light blue, with a few strands of clouds floating.
The trees on both sides of the road were lush, and the morning air was fresh.
Yu Jingtang observed the surrounding environment. This was an Audi car, the back row was spacious, and apart from the driver who was sitting in the front seat without saying a word, only the two of them were sitting in the car.
In front of them was a bus transporting survivors.
And behind them was a police car used by the city’s rescue team.
This was obviously special care after Zou Lang had used his “connections”.
After his body recovered a bit, Yu Jingtang made a judgment about his injury. The pain from the wound was not severe, and his actions were not affected at all. It seemed that it was not a knife that had almost penetrated the abdomen, but just a small wound on his body.
This situation made Yu Jingtang very puzzled. The only reasonable explanation seemed to be that the knife had avoided the internal organs, and the injury was not as serious as he had imagined. But the severe pain yesterday was real, and even if his physical strength was good, it was unlikely that he would recover overnight.
Despite the doubts, Yu Jingtang was just guessing and reasoning, and now he still needed to consider the situation he needed to deal with next.
Then…Yu Jingtang felt hungry and regretfully said, “It’s a pity that I didn’t eat much of the food you cooked…”
Zou Lang said, “I brought it in a box, do you want to heat it up and eat some later?”
Yu Jingtang: “…”
The car drove all the way, finally got off the highway, and entered the city. Since all personnel had been re-examined before getting on the car, there was no repeated examination when entering the city this time, but they were let go all the way.
K City was not big, but it was a very modern city. There were high-rise buildings in the city, full of urban atmosphere, and there were constantly pedestrians passing by on the road. The roads on the roadside were wide, and there were various small shops on the street. There was not much of an apocalyptic scene.
Finally, the car stopped at the entrance of a luxury hotel.
It was only then that Yu Jingtang discovered that at some unknown time, the vehicles transporting survivors and the rescue team had gone their separate ways. Only they had arrived here.
The door of the Mercedes-Benz car was opened by the attendant, Zou Lang first got out of the car, and then reached out to help Yu Jingtang. Yu Jingtang made an ‘it’s unnecessary’ gesture and got off by himself.
From the revolving door of the hotel, a young man about twenty-seven or eight years old came out, smiling and greeted the two.
Zou Lang, covered in blood, walked ahead with a bag.
Yu Jingtang followed behind him, frowning at the grand reception.
The young man walked straight up to Zou Lang, excitedly grasping Zou Lang’s hand.
“Colonel Yu! Indeed really do look extraordinary. Your Commander Zou has already called, saying that there are two special forces soldiers here, it’s an honor to have you both!”
Zou Lang pulled his hand out of his, pointed to Yu Jingtang behind him and said, “I’m not, this is Colonel Yu. I’m his student.”
The scene was awkward for a moment.
The young man’s eyes swept up and down over Yu Jingtang. He was very young, slender, with a handsome face, and his waist was still bandaged…He had initially mistaken this person for the useless military second generation from the Zou family.
Even if he felt nervous, this young man, who had been in the officialdom for a long time, immediately laughed, “Ah ha, Colonel Yu is much younger than I imagined, truly a hero from youth.”
Yu Jingtang didn’t take this step down, and coldly said, “I’ve been a soldier for five years.”
The scene became even more awkward.
The young man could only continue to laugh, “Hahaha, I couldn’t tell, I couldn’t tell.”
Seeing that both sides were about to freeze there, Zou Lang said, “Just say it, what do you want?” With such a car pick-up and luxury hotel, they wouldn’t be kindly letting them come for a vacation.
Only then did the young man speak, “Then this must be Lieutenant Zou, my name is Liang Xiao, I’m the deputy mayor of K City.”
Upon hearing his self-introduction, Zou Lang couldn’t help but look him up and down a few more times. This person had thin eyebrows and eyes, and a good temper. He looked like someone who had been in the officialdom for many years. The deputy mayor came out to greet them, which was quite a face for Zou Lang. After the apocalypse, many city leaders have become younger. The Liang family is also a famous big family in the empire, and it’s not surprising that a collateral relative could be a deputy mayor.
Then Liang Xiao showed a difficult expression and said, “The thing is, starting yesterday, K City has been attacked by special zombies, hundreds of people have died, and currently three blocks in the west of the city have fallen. The zombies on the road still cannot be cleared. In addition to deploying regular troops and rescue teams, we also asked for help from K Division. Division Commander Zou said…it happened that two of you were nearby…”
Then he apologized slightly, “We should have picked you up earlier, but we really couldn’t spare the time here, so we picked you up a bit late. I know you two just got here, tired from the journey, please rest for a while, we have prepared meals inside. After you finish eating, we can look at the data and discuss the details.”
Upon hearing this, Zou Lang nearly bit through his back teeth. He recalled what Zou Fang had said to him before—
“I’ll contact the local military, someone will contact you later, and they will cooperate with you. Also, I’ll give you three more days off to handle things. Hanging up.” What handling things meant, it turned out, was not preparing to rescue them, but letting them take on another hot potato!
Turns out he had been sold out by his own brother before!
Not only did no one rescue them when they were in danger, but they also had to rescue the people from the disaster.
Yu Jingtang stepped forward, seeing that the usually talkative Zou Lang was silent, knowing that he wished he could stab a few transparent holes in Zou Fang, patted his shoulder, “Forget it, let’s go.”
Liang Xiao led the two into a conference room. The table in the conference room was full of various breakfast items, absolutely five-star buffet standard. Now Zou Lang’s packed food was probably useless.
The two had been tossing around all night yesterday, and they were hungry now, so they started eating without being asked.
Zou Lang took a sandwich, fried dough sticks, wontons, fruit, and fried eggs, while Yu Jingtang had a bowl of white porridge in front of him.
Liang Xiao sat respectfully on the side, not speaking, just waiting for them to eat.
After eating half a bowl of white porridge, Yu Jingtang felt a bit of warmth in his body, and asked Liang Xiao, “Didn’t you say you have some information for us? To save time, let’s talk while we eat.”
Liang Xiao said, “Uh…I was thinking of waiting for you two to finish eating, but indeed, time is urgent.” As he spoke, he had someone connect a small screen to a laptop. He pressed the play button and first showed them a video, “This is footage taken by a drone yesterday.”
Zou Lang, with a fried dough stick in his left hand and a sandwich in his right, was eating happily. He only glanced at the video and almost spat out the breakfast he had just eaten, “What the hell is that monster?”
Yu Jingtang also put down the spoon in his hand and frowned at the screen.
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