Chapter 49 (1/2)

Thud, thud, thud!

Sounds as though a massive hammer being drawn back and smashing against the ground echoed.

It was hard to imagine that human bodies hitting against a metal door could produce such sounds. And those were even… dead bodies.

By right, the durability and whatnot of a corpse should actually be very low.

To be able to create such a great ruckus, these were evidently not your average zombies.

The corpse transporter hiding somewhere out there was likely much more formidable than the driver.

“It’s bending!”

“It’s bending!”

A yelling Auntie Shufen pointed at the door frame.

Due to the pounding, the door frame had visibly bent a little. Although the metal door was very solid, the door frame wasn’t quite as sturdy.

If this went on, the zombies would probably be able to break through the walls in five minutes.

With a sinister expression on his face, K suddenly charged into the tiny room at the side.

A short while later, K came running back out and then toward the bus resting stationary on the other side. He turned on the engine. Leaving the lights off, he drove toward the metal door, veering left and right the whole time.

The bus turned and stopped with its side to the metal door, blocking it off.

“Ha!” K jumped down the bus and ran happily into the other bus.

This time, he didn’t need to change the direction that the bus was facing anymore—ramming straight into it would do!

Originally, a gap had remained between the bus and the metal door. But with this crash, the two came into intimate zero-distance contact.

The metal door was now fully and thoroughly blocked off.

“With this, they can’t get in so easily anymore.” K was incredibly pleased with his heroic undertaking.

The red scarf in front of his chest[1]… No, even his limbs that were originally weak and sluggish felt a lot stronger.

Auntie Shufen generously gave him a thumbs up and complimented him, “The young man still thinks on his feet pretty quickly after all, doesn’t he?”

“Monk, this is much more useful than you shooting everywhere thoughtlessly,” said K to Tang Luo.

Tang Luo replied, “You can block the door, but it’s not necessary.”

K sneered.

‘Be stubborn all you want.’

He involuntarily looked toward Mico.

Compared to the praise from a middle-aged lady, a typical man would definitely prefer to receive the favor and attention of beauties instead.

Except that there wasn’t the scene that K had imagined.

Mico didn’t look at him with adoration and idolization in her eyes. On the contrary, she was looking in the direction of the metal door with unconcealable horror in her eyes.

“What’s…”

K looked toward where Mico was looking at.

The remaining two words, ‘the matter’, were swallowed back down alive.

On top of the bus that was blocking the metal door was a zombie.

“Zombies don’t possess any intelligence, but most corpse transporters do. There’s no need to block the door when you can just use a ladder to climb in,” said Tang Luo.

K couldn’t help yelling, “Then what the hell were they slamming against the door for earlier!”

“Just trying their luck before the ladder arrived, I guess? If they had managed to slam their way in, wouldn’t it be much easier than climbing in using the ladder?” replied Tang Luo. “Giving it a go didn’t pose any loss to them anyway.”

As they spoke, the zombie had already fallen from the top of the bus.

It landed on the ground in an awful way. It seemed like it had even injured its leg and it started to limp. Its movements slowed down significantly.

The walls and the metal door of the terminal were moderately higher than the bus.

It was impossible for every zombie, which climbed in to have the same body durability as the one that had nearly slammed the door open.

If they fell onto the ground, even becoming paralyzed from the waist down was something within reason. But with the buses there, part of the height was instead lowered.

The damage they would have suffered from the fall was significantly reduced.

Bang, bang!

Tang Luo shattered all four limbs of the zombie with a few shots.

There wasn’t anything like blood and flesh flying everywhere. The only things there were broken bones and air-dried cured meat. It was a typical corpse that had been dead for many years.

The loss of its limbs successfully prevented the zombie’s actions even though the corpse transporter’s commands were still in effect.

Its body wriggled like a caterpillar and continued to attempt to get nearer to Tang Luo and the rest.

Its contorted form under the moonlight sent chills down one’s spine.

By this point, the second zombie also landed on top of the bus.

These zombies were unlike those hopping zombies[2] in zombie movies.

The way they moved was more similar to the zombies in western movies, though not the slow-moving kind. Their speed was probably comparable to the speed of a normal human.

“Get on the bus,” said Tang Luo after he blasted the second zombie into a few parts with a few shots.

“Get on the bus?” K didn’t understand what Tang Luo meant.

Getting back onto the bus at this point?

“The one that’s filled with corpses,” replied Tang Luo. “We had slightly cleaner ones, but you have wasted them.”

K had an awful look on his face.

What did he mean by waste? If he hadn’t used the buses to block the door, that horde of zombies would have rushed in here a long time ago, alright?

“You’ll drive.” Tang Luo walked toward the bus that they had taken to the terminal. He stepped on the wheel and leaped on top of the bus with great ease. “Bring these zombies around in circles. I’ll shoot them down.”

“…”

So it could actually work like this too?

Without waiting for K to respond, Auntie Shufen had already run into the bus. Mico was hot on her heels.

Auntie Shufen opened the window and shouted at K, “Young man, what are you still standing there for? Hurry over and drive! All of us are already on-board!”

“Where am I supposed to drive to?!”

Nothing was going smoothly in the mission this time. K felt extremely troubled.

“You know, around in circles! Even I know better than you!” answered Auntie Shufen.

A terminal the size of a soccer field was enough for a medium-sized bus to go around in circles and take those zombies out for a walk.

In addition, they could even run over a few to death.

“…”

K endured the stench from the corpses in the bus and ignited the engine.

At this point, more zombies entered the terminal. The sound of the door being slammed into had also stopped.

Knowing how to drive didn’t mean that K knew how to drive a bus.

Unlike how he had carelessly driven the buses earlier, having to truly operate a large vehicle like this was a task of mammoth proportions to K.

The bus veered all over the place. It looked like it was in extreme danger of toppling over.

Monotonous and mechanical gunshots rang out.