Chapter 1 (2/2)
Not only in this city, but the whole country and even the world.
The young man was slightly startled, he didn't know where that sad inner-thought had come from.
“Let go of your hostage, and we will act as if nothing has happened. If my soldiers have been rude to you, then I can apologize in their behalf…”
“No … No. ” Tang Hao’s voice was interrupted by the young man, who had stepped back until his back was pressed against the wall. He gasped and shook his head: “Put down your weapons and let me go, I must go … Now… ”
Tang Hao wanted to say something, however his expression suddenly changed.
He focused his ears to listen carefully, and heard sounds of countless dragging footsteps coming closer and closer to their place. In the distant, a continuous pounding sound was also issued clearly from the direction of the prison's iron gate!
The walls began shaking, causing everyone's expressions to undergo a drastic change. The adjutant started shouting: “Lieutenant Colonel! The door downstairs has fallen! The zombies are coming here!”
The young man shouted: “Put your guns down!”
”Colonel!”
“Let Me Go–! ”
Tang Hao turned back, raised the stun-gun he was holding in his hand and fired a few times.
The s.h.i.+ning blue-lights from the shots were almost pouring over the hostage alpha soldier and the young man. The severe pain caused by the electric shock immediately brought the young man to fall on his knees, and even lost consciousness for several seconds.
With a sudden heavy chest, Tang Hao squatted down beside the squirming young man who had started coughing up blood. He tried to raise his hand, but it was easily caught by Tang Hao; the electric current made him unable to even steady his twitching muscle.
“…” Tang Hao cursed in his heart, his expression turning a bit embarra.s.sed- not because of the fighting, but because of the b.l.o.o.d.y omega under his body.
Even the dusty face could not cover the young man’s handsome and clear facial features. His profile was not as soft as the general Omega, instead it was more profound, with sharp eyebrows, straight nose, and a very neat chin-to-neck curve.
The pheromone-filled blood spattered onto Tang Hao’s uniform cuffs. It felt like a whip in his mind, which was attacking and burning each of his nerve endlessly, causing an unspeakable stimulus to rise rapidly from his instinct.
“The apocalypse world will put Omega's live in h.e.l.l, and if you leave here now, living outside might be even scarier than the zombies. Especially for you, ” Tang Hao rubbed the young man’s face with his thumb, wiping the dust covering it until his shockingly fair skin was finally exposed.
“You’re not even going to survive tonight, being eaten by a zombie may be the kindest way for you to die. ”
“Somebody take him away! Retreat at full speed!” As if trying to conceal his instinctive reaction, Tang Hao got up and walked out.
At this moment, he saw a sudden change of expression from the soldier in front of him, and before he had the chance to react, something hit his ankle strongly, and he was being pulled down-
“s.h.i.+t! ”
This time, the nearly fallen Tang Hao couldn't hold back the curse word from leaving his mouth.
He couldn't believe the stun gun's effect on the omega would wear off after only such a short time. He did not have time to ponder about this though, because he then caught sight of the young man picking up his previously discarded gun, before leaning down near his ear. Tang Hao's ear was soon greeted by a husky voice talking so closely to him-
“I prefer to die.”
After saying this, the young man took an ammunition clip from Tang Hao’s trouser pocket, and got up quickly. He pointed his gun back and forth to the soldiers around him, while moving closer and closer to the window.
[T/N: Ammunition (ammo) clip]
Tang Hao suddenly realized what he was going to do, and shouted: “No–”
But it was too late.
Under Tang Hao's watchful eyes, the young man smashed the gla.s.s windows, and leaped out of it.
—This is the third floor!
Tang Hao rushed to the window, with the soldiers flocking behind him. Time seemed to pa.s.s by so slowly as he watched the young man fell down… and did a sudden flip mid-air, crouching his body as tight as the ultimate bowstring.
Bang!
Obviously it happened from far away, but the dull landing sound felt like a heavy knock on Tang Hao's ears.
The crouching young man rolled a few times on the ground, before he finally stopped and got up on his knees, with the gun is his hand raised high.
What’s with this guy?!
As Tang Hao was still feeling puzzled, one of his soldier suddenly said anxiously: “Lieutenant Colonel, do you want to chase after him?”
Tang Hao reached out a hand to stop them—because it was too late.
He looked down and saw more than 10 zombies had crowded the parking lot downstairs. They were the ones who had not entered the prison building.
After feeling the young man's presence, those zombies were quick to put down the wreckage of fleshes and bones in their hands and tumbled around in the young man's direction.
The young man did not seem to expect this situation, and was stunned when he was suddenly faced with those living-dead creatures. At the same time, Tang Hao grabbed the gun of one of his soldier, and quickly pulled the trigger, hitting a zombie a few paces away from the young man, right between his eyebrows.
Bang–
The living dead fell down, his body oozing dark purple sticky blood on the ground.
However, the other living deads had no awareness of this, and continued to wail and wobble as they walked to the young man.
“You will be infected if you are bitten!” Tang Hao shouted from above, ”you must run!! ”
Hearing this, the young man finally snapped back to his sense, and began to move.
Tang Hao really had no idea when the young man had gotten on his foot. In a blink of an eye, he was already rus.h.i.+ng out as fast as the wind and pa.s.sed the second corpse. The zombie was way too late in reaching out and trying to stop him, and only able to grasp onto his shadow.
The young man stepped on the third corpse’s shoulder – a felon who broke out of prison during the zombie attack. His face had been torn off by half, with dark b.l.o.o.d.y rotten flesh framing his yellowed teeth- and immediately shots the zombie a few times. Among the living-deads in the crowd, it was the first time for him to burst open a zombie's head by his own hands.
However, more living-deads were soon scrambling to squeeze him. Tang Hao could see them clearly from the third floor's window; even the zombies on the streets were wandering in droves to reach this place!
–his bullets are not enough!
The young man did not show any hesitation nor fear as he dodged them decisively. He almost stepped on the head and shoulders of all the zombies, each step he took was as fast as lightning and extremely breathtaking. In just a few seconds, he had completely left the forest-like Corpse Group behind, and landed on one knee at the roadway side of the prison's door.
Tang Hao raised his eyebrows as he instantly understood what the young man was going to do.
As he expected, the young man didn’t even pause, and immediately rushed to a nearest car.
It was an ordinary Toyota Camry, with the front and rear doors open fully. The driver had been turned into a blood-stained middle-aged man who kept on howling under the shackles of the seat belt.
[T/N: Toyota Camry – silver]
Not far from there, the zombies crowd were starting to turn around, and heading toward the car. The young man no longer looked back, and smashed the driver’s head with one shoot. He lifted the body out of the car, adjusted his seat, and snapped the door shut.
Meanwhile, from a distance, Tang Huo looked at the young man's figure, who had just smashed the corpse's head and would soon leave that place, with a slightly gloomy face.
“Colonel, we must retreat immediately, the shutter door has been …”
The solid Iron door at the end of the hall was crumbling under the tireless pounding of the corpses, and a large chunk of concrete rustled down from the ceiling, until finally, the door fell down with a shrieking squeak.
A flood tide of ragged, b.l.o.o.d.y corpses came tumbling into that place, causing the front-row soldiers to immediately began shouting loudly, the prison's hall had become a field of corpses!
Tang Hao strode forward, his shoulder snapping as he unloaded the MP5 automatic with red-dot from his back, and began shooting countless bullets to the zombies in the hall. The living-deads were thrown backwards under the tremendous impact of the 9-millimeter luger.
[T/N: MP5 automatic 9mm luger (according to mr.google)]
”Lieutenant Colonel!”
Tang Hao kept fighting and did not look back. He waved his left hand fiercely and ordered, “Go!”
The soldiers retreated rapidly into the safe corridor with Tang Hao as the last one. Before he left, Tang Hao’s gaze once again s.h.i.+fted from the ghastly faces of the living-dead to the ground outside the window.
On the streets filled with zombies, ruins and sc.r.a.pped cars, the silver Camry speed through like an arrow and quickly vanished into the burning flames at the end of the street.
Tang Hao took his gaze back, and kicked the safety corridor's door closed, effectively blocking the zombies in the hall. The hordes of soldiers rushed to the top of the building. Tang Hao was going to follow, when his nose suddenly caught a whiff of an alluring scent, causing his adam's apple to bobble in hidden desire.
–that scent came from his uniform's cuff, a sweet and rich aroma of an omega 's pheromone.
”Colonel?” One of the soldier asked, jerking him back from his thoughts.
Tang Hao began walking, and pointed at the blood on his cuffs:
“Once we are back at the base, extract DNA from this blood and run it through T city’s population database and compare them until you found a match. I want to know the ident.i.ty and background of this omega.”
The man nodded.
T/N: This story is longer, word-count wise, than WFYO and RG, and filled with a few action scenes. Totally different from my usual stuffs lol, but I’ll try my best!
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