Chapter 6 Chapter 6 (2/2)
The two didn’t dare relax after entering and quickly patrolled around with their guns at the ready.
All they could see was a completely trashed convenience store. Most of the shelves were empty, as if they had just been raided. Apart from that, there were no other zombies, so it looked safe.
Amid the gunfire, Li Chun was the third one to roll in.
And following that was Zhou Mingxuan and Song Qinglan.
Corpses quickly piled up. Song Qinglan kicked away the zombies trying to get in and added a shot for each of them, but the appearance of living humans attracted more and more zombies. These zombies pushed at the door and frantically tried to burrow in. The zombie’s blood and brain juices instantly dyed the entrance of the convenience store red and the metal barrier had caved in looking like it was soon about to collapse!
Just as they were at their limits of holding the fort, Tang Le was forcefully pushed into the convenience store by Tang Qi.
Tang Le’s hair was wet with blood. He quickly turned back and shouted, “Brother! Hurry in!!”
Tang Qi however remained standing outside with fresh blood stains on his face. After sending Tang Le in, he slammed the metal barrier down and proceeded to shut himself out!
Everyone was shocked!
“Tang Qi———”
Song Qinglan immediately dropped Shen Mian and moved to lift up the metal barrier but at this moment Tang Qi raised his right hand and used it to wipe away the blood on his face.
Three fingers on his right hand were missing and the fresh bite mark was still dripping with blood.
Just like that woman earlier, Tang Qi’s youthful appearance gradually turned pale and his bright and determined eyes turned grey and turbid at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Countless zombies appeared from behind Tang Qi, biting and tearing at his flesh.
He remained unmoved.
“Brother!!!” A despairing cry sounded through the convenience store. Tang Le who had witnessed everything rushed to the door like an injured beast.
His teammates held him back, their eyes equally as red.
Tang Qi’s eyes outside the door were completely glazed over. Within a few seconds, everything that belonged to him was gone. He started to let out low growls and started to slap and hit the metal barrier outside like the other zombies.
He had become a member of the zombies now.
“Brother!!!” Tang Le was pressed down onto the ground by his teammates. This one metre eighty man cried with extreme sorrow, “Brother!!!”
Song Qinglan stepped back and slammed his fist heavily on the wall.
His dark hair scattered loosely against his forehead and there were faint veins along his neck. Strong anger and aggression could be felt emanating from his body.
“Are we going to die?! Behind us is the black wall and before us are those zombies!” Li Chun looked around with red eyes, “It hadn’t been long and we already………There are so many outside. What should we do?!”
The zombies outside rushed over like waves. One wave after another, there was no chance of them breaking through. As shown by Tang Qi just now, once bitten, one would mutate within just a few seconds.
The metal barrier of this convenience store probably wouldn’t be able to last very long either.
As soon as this question was asked, the convenience store fell silent.
Their current predicament was a hundred times more dangerous than expected. No one had expected that someone would lose their lives so soon!
Standing in the corner was Ji Yushi. Sticky blood slowly dripped from the hair on the side of his ears.
The scene of Tang Qi mutating was too terrifying.
The metal barrier creaked. More and more zombies gathered outside the convenience store.
Hearing the growls at such a close proximity while trapped inside a small convenience store, despair enveloped everyone.
But Song Qinglan said, “If we stay, we’re only waiting for our deaths. Now isn’t the time to give up!”
Ji Yushi raised his head.
He saw Song Qinglan pick up Shen Mian from the ground, no longer looking at the terrible looking teammate outside who had followed him through countless life and death situations.
Knowing that everyone was counting on him, Song Qinglan gritted his teeth and gave an order in a deep voice, “Check and see if there is another exit!”
The teammates started to move but they soon returned to their original positions.
“Cap Song, we made no discoveries!”
“There is a window in the bathroom, but it is only thirty centimetres in size. We can’t get out from it.”
“There should be an exit in the warehouse.”
Ji Yushi’s ears were still ringing from the close proximity blast earlier and his eardrums hurt severely so the tone of his voice was a little strange.
After witnessing the death of a teammate, Ji Yushi’s pale face that was stained with blood was even paler than before, “But I’m not sure what’s outside that exit. It may be even worse.”
Everyone was slightly surprised.
This newly joined Advisor Ji who had just revealed his abilities earlier at the door looked extremely fragile at this moment, like a wounded flower in a greenhouse.
Everyone suddenly thought of the zombies that have fallen under his gun.
Duan Wen, “I’ve already checked. The four walls of the warehouse are just walls!”
Ji Yushi said, “Not possible. I remember the layout for this area!”
Song Qinglan asked, “Have you been here before?”
No. Song Qinglan quickly dismissed that thought. They had only just come this this so-called PU-31 and haven’t even had the chance to figure out what this place was so it wasn’t possible for Ji Yushi to have come here before.
Ji Yushi explained, “No! On the way here, I saw a plan of the window layout for the buildings in this area. This place is a commercial district and the buildings have fixed requirements, so the ground floor layout of each building is exactly the same. There should be an exit in the warehouse.”
Someone couldn’t help but ask, “Are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?”
Ji Yushi, “I’m certain.”
Everyone quickly came to warehouse which didn’t have any windows in sight.
If one didn’t have a good sense of direction, it would be difficult to tell where they were facing when in an unfamiliar space.
But Ji Yushi’s mind was like a living 3D architectural drawing. He pointed at a wall and said quickly, “This place here should have a window about 120cm high and 80cm wide. Because this place was planned to be the convenience store’s warehouse and considering issues of theft and humidity, it was likely sealed up. The shop keeper kept the fake windows outside to keep the appearance of the building the same.”
Everyone was suspicious. Was there really someone who could remember everything they see without a single mistake?
Song Qinglan had now calmed down. He knocked on that wall.
Time was running out. After confirming that it was indeed a flimsy brick wall, Song Qinglan asked, “What’s behind the wall?!”
Ji Yushi could see some trust in his eyes. He calmly said again, “Back alley. But I’m not clear on the situation in the back alley.”
It wasn’t a situation for them to hesitate: “Directly blow it open!”
They did as they were told.
Everyone backed away and, together with Song Qinglan, Tang Le used a high energy gun to blow open that wall.
‘Boom—–’
Loud noise travelled in from outside the warehouse!!
That metal barrier at the entrance had finally collapsed! Countless crazed zombies rushed into the store. Their chaotic footsteps and the sounds of shelves being overturned sounded like the death god warning them of their imminent death.
“Quick, quick, quick!!”
“You guys go first!!”
The opportunity was just in front of them, but the warehouse door was just a thin piece of wood and it was very quickly deformed by the zombies.
Zhou Mingxuan leaned back against it, barely supporting it with his body as a shield. He urged loudly, “Go!”
Li Chun followed Duan Wen quickly and hurriedly climbed out of the window which was revealed after blasting open the wall.
But soon, the flimsy warehouse door fell to the ground and countless zombies rushed in. Zhou Mingxuan reacted too late and was instantly overwhelmed by the zombies!
Gunshots sounded and blood spattered.
Tang Le who was already on the verge of breaking down cursed with red eyes, “Fuck you!! This father here will kill you all!!”
Blood and flesh splattered across the warehouse. Song Qinglan’s face was tense. He fired Shen Mian round after round.
After catching his breath, Song Qinglan grabbed Tang Le’s clothes. When he looked back at Ji Yushi, his gaze was filled with force, “Ji Yushi! Take him away!!”
Ji Yushi’s body was completely covered in blood, looking extremely horrible, “There are too many! Let’s go together!!”
Tang Le, whose face was stained with someone’s brain juices, staggered back a few steps from Song Qinglan’s pull.
Song Qinglan killed a new wave of zombies with the gun in one hand while he used the other to push his teammate over, “Didn’t you want to help? Don’t speak nonsense and leave now!! I’ll hold up the fort!”
More and more zombies poured in. There were also zombies attracted to the back alley.
Seeing that Song Qinglan was too busy to take care of anything else, Ji Yushi no longer hesitated. He pushed Tang Le out of the window and closely followed behind him.
Li Chun shouted from a car not far away, “Get in!!”
‘Bang!’
After landing, Ji Yushi killed a zombie rushing over and quickly got in the car with Tang Le.
There were deafening gunshots behind him.
“Where’s Cap Song?!” Ji Yushi heard Duan Wen in the car ask, “Tang Le!! Where’s Cap Song?!”
Intense gunfire in the warehouse stopped abruptly.
Ji Yushi instantly realised something and Song Qinglan’s determined expression floated to his mind.
He immediately turned to look at the window where they had jumped out from. Zombies poured out of it continuously but the domineering Song Qinglan was nowhere in sight.
Duan Wen’s voice changed. It was as if he was crying and also as if he was howling, “Identification card!! Find it!!”
Dozens of zombies surrounded the car, the pounding outside reverberating in everyone’s heart.
In this era, the car had to be unlocked using one’s fingerprint and starting it up the usual way wouldn’t work. Li Chun searched around the cars storage box while trembling in fear before finally finding a spare identification card.
The car roared and white smoke formed as the tyres spun against the ground. The zombies ahead were hit by the car leaving dark red marks following the collision.
Outside of the back alley, the street as usual was bright and sunny.
The black wall in the distance had become the city’s backdrop.
At this moment, time seemed to have slowed down. Everyone’s faces showed disbelief and their faces were frozen with fear and horror.
Under the sun, a large spacecar suddenly appeared before them.
As soon as they started their escape, they were crushed to pulp and completely wiped out.
KK has something to say:
Aaaannnd everyone is dead. THE END! (Just kidding)