Chapter 7 (1/2)

Chapter 07

Yan Hao grasped the railings and shouted: ”Run! ”

However, Si Nan refused to move, still clutching onto Yan Hao's hand and pulling it up. His weight was about 20 kilograms lighter than Yan Hao himself, so doing this made him felt like his elbow was being dislocated as terrible cracking noise started sounding fom his bones.

“Si Nan run, the zombies are coming!”

Si Nan gasped: “Don’t talk nonsense.”

Yan Hao tried to put his dangling feet on the wall but slipped several times. He watched wide-eyed as a few burning zombies were heading toward Si Nan, and said sharply: “Listen to me! Just leave me here, run! ”

“How can … No matter what you … ”

“The zombies are behind you!! ”

Suddenly Si Nan felt something heavy on his back; one of the zombie was breathing close to his ear. At the same time, Yan Hao's feet finally stepped successfully on the wall. He quickly called out to Si Nan and leaped up with the help of the other man!

Si Nan grabbed Yan Hao's waist as he was thrown back to the rooftop, bot of them hit the ground and  rolled a few meters!

“Are you all right?!”

Si Nan had missed the corpse’s teeth by seconds, but it took more than a few seconds for him to ease his breath after being slammed by Yan Hao: “I'm… I'm okay. ”

Yan Hao's body was pressed against Si Nan's. With his left elbow propped on the ground, he used his right hand to hold Si Nan's face and looked it over. The young man's neck was hurt, but it wasn't bleeding; probably he was scratched by the cement floor when they tumbled. After seeing this, Yan Hao was finally relieved.

“Not bitten.” Yan Hao buried his head in Si Nan's neck, and murmured happily: “Great, you were not bitten.”

Because there were glands there, neck became one of the most sensitive parts of an Omega' body, a wound there would have been fatal.

If Yan Hao was an alpha, what he was doing right now would be seen as a standard s.e.xual hara.s.sment, and Si Nan’s first instinct would have been to throw him over and kick him.

“You …”

Just as he was about to say something, Yan Hao suddenly raised his head and looked at him deeply—but before Si Nan could discern the emotion behind his gaze, Yan Hao took out a knife, turned sideways, and throw it at one of the zombie. The knife hit the corpse's head, and the body fell heavily on the ground.

”Run!” Yan Hao pulled Si Nan up, “Let's go inside, back to the underground warehouse, quick! ”

The roof had been thoroughly turned into a field full of flesh and blood. There were flames everywhere, along with screaming people and  violently attacking zombies. The survivors were bathed in blood as they cried and rushed to the door heading to the safe corridor. However, many people fell and were trampled to death in the chaos.

“Zhou Rong!” Si Nan shouted aloud.

Zhou Rong was taking care of the zombies in front of the door with a fire axe. However, every time he killed one zombie, two or three more infected people among the crowd would change and rushed to the door. Si Nan grabbed his b.l.o.o.d.y wrist and said loudly, “Let's go! Don’t bother anymore, you can’t control it! ”

Zhou Rong's eyes were red, bloodshot.

“Let’s go, Rong Ge! They’re all infected! ” Chun Cao who was running against the crowd said in a shrill voice: “Come on! Back to the warehouse–!”

There was a fireball in the sky, the crashed helicopter had exploded twice.

More living-dead and survivors were thrown off the roof and fell to pieces on the street below.  Zhou Rong took a sharp intake of breath, looked around at his bloodied teammates, and shouted suddenly: “The rest of you, listen to me–! ”

“We are heading to underground garrage A in the south, run with us!!”

” Underground garrage A in the south –!! ”

Zhou Rong took the lead and rushed into the safe corridor.

The situation in the corridor had turned insane with a lot of infected people suddenly changing into zombies halfway. In the narrow s.p.a.ce, the number of bitten people rapidly increased. The light bulb had been smashed, leaving the echo of people cries as they were devoured in the dark.

Zhou Rong kept leading with the fire axe his his hands. Si Nan followed behind him, rus.h.i.+ng down the slippery, b.l.o.o.d.y staircase.  He didn't even know how many corpses he had stepped on in this chaos.

After what felt like an endless journey, they finally arrived at their destination. Zhou Rong used the fire axe to open the staircase's door and went first into the underground garage!

“Quick, quick! Come here! ”

After the group of survivors stumbled in, Zhou Rong reflexively kicked the door close once again, blocking the zombies behind it. He swept his gaze around the remaining people and said decisively: “I will drive the armored bio-diesel car, Yan Hao will drive the minibus, go!”

When Chun Cao came to talk with Zhou Rong last night, the two of them had agreed on a good retreat route—if the helicopters couldn’t make it to the rooftop, they would  use the minibus that they had taken back from the street to bring the survivors to the landing place.

Yan Hao accepted the key and walked to the minibus.  He stopped in front of the vechile and took a deep beath, before looking up at the anxious crowd.

“Come on! Let’s get in the car!”

“Don’t leave us!”

“They are coming, they are coming …”

The cries of panic were resounding in the mostly empty garage.

Yan Hao gulped, opening and closing his mouth a few times, but no sound came out. At that time, Zhou Rong strode forward, patted him on the shoulder and pushed him back.

With his head held high and his body standing tall, he slowly swept his gaze through the crowd. The screaming and weeping gradually subsided in face of his overwhelming stare– all of them felt frightened and dazed at the same time. Zhou Rong finally began talking, his voice low and clear: ”Left behind those who were bitten.”

The crowd exploded.

“I didn’t!” “I did not!” “Let’s get in the car!” “Please, let me in!”……

“Shut Up!” “Chun Chao shouted, “don't talk all at once!”

Among the stilled crowd, a special force soldier silently took the initiative to come forward. He lifted his cuffs and laughed: “I was bitten, Rong Ge. Any bullet left? Use it on me. ”

Zhou Rong stared at the man's wrist which had started to rot, not saying a word.

Yan Hao tried to block his mouth, but eventually couldn't stop a sad whine from escaping his mouth, and he fell slumped on his kness.

As the sound of chocked breath and crying began to be heard, Zhou Rong closed his eyes and raised his head. After a few seconds, he finally suppressed his tears and took out a bullet hanging by a string around his neck.