Chapter 18 (1/2)
Chapter 18
Chun Cao, ”The f.u.c.k is this, a gorilla can grow so big?”
Zhang Yingjie, ”The zombies have caught up, Rong-ge, what to do?!”
Zhou Rong, ”I don't know! I've never been so unlucky on my missions before—!”
Si Nan, ”… Stop talking, let's run quickly.”
The gorilla zombie gave an ear-shattering roar, a pound from its fist crumbling the corner of the staircase above. The four people simultaneously scrambled to the next lower level, and came face to face with the swaying zombies coming up.
Chun Cao and Zhang Yingjie desperately cleared the zombies away, but the number of zombies were unceasing. Under the shower of bullets, they still continued inching towards them.
Zhou Rong shot at the gorilla as he tried to look for a way upstairs. However, in the chaos within the stairways, a regular bullet was completely ineffective towards a zombie beast. Instead, it got further enraged, and lunged for the group!
The cement platform was unable to withstand the weight of the zombie gorilla, immediately fragmenting into pieces, and the four people fell.
Chun Cao yelled in panic. ”Rong-ge! Think of something!”
Zhou Rong's shout shook the entire place, ”Si Nan—”
Si Nan landed heavily. In the dark he raised the heavy machine gun, and shot a torrent of bullets at the wall of the stairway!
The close distance caused the bullets, sh.e.l.ls and cement fragments to scatter about. If not for the bulletproof clothing the special force soldiers were wearing, they would have been covered with cuts and injuries already.
Even so, the other three were still forced back by the unceasing bullets, and could only protect their heads and faces.
When the bullets finally stopped, the concrete wall was now riddled with holes. Si Nan kicked a giant hole on the wall, and in there was actually a pa.s.sage towards the interior section!
Zhou Rong turned and shot wildly at the sea of zombies, exclaiming, ”You guys go first, quick! One by one!”
Si Nan, Chun Cao and Zhang Yingjie quickly made their way into the pa.s.sage, and Zhou Rong took the end. Just as he was halfway through the hole, he felt a grip around his leg. It had been caught by a zombie, and only after he gave a few good hard kicks, could he finally escape and crawl through.
Bam—!
The zombie gorilla's night vision was clearly not good. Suddenly losing its target, it was irritable, and it savagely ripped some zombies apart, then an even more terrifying crack to appear on the unsteady wall.
”The wall won't hold up any longer!” Zhou Rong shouted, ”Quick, let's go!”
There were eleven floors in the shelter, but between every floor were cramped s.p.a.ces for insulation, fireproofing and other things. Normally, only the personnel would check on them periodically, and no one else was allowed to enter — and this was where they were after breaking through the wall.
The four people flew through the empty pa.s.sage. Suddenly, they suddenly felt the ground under their feet tremble. That wall had been destroyed by the zombie gorilla!
Chun Cao was gasping for breath as she ran. ”The virus outbreak has now created a copy of King Kong, you sure everything's going to work out?!”
”It's coming! We have to quickly come up with something!” Zhang Yingjie's bag hanging off one shoulder, clanging as he ran, and he was suffering. ”Rong-ge, I think there's still some armour-piercing bullets in your bag! We'll provide cover as you look?”
Zhou Rong replied firmly, ”There's no time to look through it! The bullets are all the way at the bottom of the box, I had wanted to use them to blast the research lab!”
”Why are we so unlucky?!” Chun Cao was incredulous.
Si Nan, ”… When running for our lives, don't be so talkative!”
They had reached the end of the pa.s.sage, and the four special force soldiers made a quick turn. Suddenly Zhou Rong saw something through his night vision goggles. ”Hold on, this way!” In the moment, Zhou Rong could have shed tears of joy. ”— A garbage truck!”
At the garbage collection point of the shelter, a compactor garbage truck was quietly sitting there, with a smell that no one could not ignore.
The heavens always left a way out.
With a fist, Zhang Yingjie shattered the window. From under the steering wheel he yanked out two red and two blue cables, his fingers trembling slightly, and touched them together.
A moment later, the engine came alive with a roar, and the other three people leapt up onto the truck. Just as the zombie gorilla appeared from the pa.s.sage, the truck sped out!
Outside the truck compartment, Zhou Rong rapidly pulled out the armour-piercing bullets from his bag, and took over the Type-89 heavy machine gun. Si Nan leaned closer, and Zhou Rong used his shoulder as a support for the gun, squinting his eyes and aiming.
Si Nan was motionless like a rock, while Zhou Rong's body could not stop jerking along with the truck. In his scope, he saw the zombie gorilla sprinting over, drawing closer and closer to the trunk.
On the other side of the compartment, Chun Cao was watching them closely, not daring to make a sound. Cold sweat slid down her face.
Bang! Bang! Bang—
Zombie King Kong flew up, and the wind carrying its putrid scent blew across them!
— If time stopped at that moment, that would have been an extremely terrifying scene.
The zombie gorilla's body weighing several tons was like a mountain, casting its shadow on the three people. Blood and flesh could be seen clinging onto its sharp claws, and the body was less than a foot away from Si Nan's eyeb.a.l.l.s.
At this moment, the red dot from the scope lit up.
Zhou Rong pressed the trigger.
Bang!!
The enormous head of the zombie gorilla exploded, bits flying into the air!
Right when Zhou Rong released the trigger, he straightened, turned around, and wrapped himself over Si Nan, holding onto him tightly. A second later, the blood and juices from the gorilla spray across his back.
The truck sped up, the headless corpse of the zombie gorilla falling over, landing heavily behind it. Quickly, it disappeared from sight.
Five minutes later, on the garbage truck.
Gag…
Si Nan wearily sat up. Finally, he could no longer vomit out anything, and managed to drink a mouthful of water.
Zhou Rong was gloomy. ”Does it smell that bad?”
Gag…
Chun Cao turned her head around, panting as she wiped at her nose, her answer resolute. ”Yes it is, Rong-ge.”
In revenge, Zhou Rong s.h.i.+fted towards them, and the two of them immediately retreated. Chun Cao was furious. ”Don't come over! By keeping a distance, we can still remain father and daughter!”
Zhou Rong felt the disappointment of being scorned. From the top of the truck compartment, he bent down and knocked on the driver's window. ”Yingjie! Stop the truck and let me go in for a while!”
He did not get a response. The truck continued moving steadily forward, as though nothing had happened.
Resigned, Zhou Rong sat up, the vein in his forehead twitching. The back of his uniform was stained and half-dried with the fluids from the zombie gorilla. The smell of that mingled together with the smell from the untouched garbage from the truck, and it was simply overwhelming.
”Comrade Xiao-si,” Zhou Rong cleared his throat, preparing to convince him through persuasion. ”Let's come up with a scenario.”
”Just now, if I didn't sacrifice myself and protect you with my body, then, who would be the one covered in zombie fluids now? Who would be the one outcasted by their teammates, scorned at, and suffer a blow to their heart? During such times of low morale…”
”Rong-ge, have a drink.” Comrade Xiao-Si hurriedly said.
Zhou Rong took the water bottle in dissatisfaction. Drinking from it, he nearly vomited from the smell his own body was emitting.
”We'll traverse through the isolation section here, and twenty minutes later, we'll hit the west B Zone. That's above the emergency contact station. There's a lift here that's specifically for the use of the garbage disposal workers. 60 metres down we'll be able to reach the destination, and proceed with blasting our way in.”
Zhou Rong's finger stopped on the map shown on the tablet, and made a red mark.
Chun Cao raised her hand.
”Comrade Xiao-Cao, please speak.”
Chun Cao sat far away in the corner, and she shouted over, ”If we meet more King Kongs — what should we do—!”
”What to do.” Zhou Rong's voice was cold. ”You really think we're here on an outing?”