Chapter 11: Caught Off Guard (1/2)
[TN: Releases might be a bit slow this week. Don’t tell me anymore errors T_T. Jk, I lied]
Chapter 11: Caught Off Guard
“Yes, but we weren’t able to send out an SOS before the crash. Moreover, when we first headed out, we said that we wouldn’t be able to return until nighttime, so they probably won’t come to our rescue immediately.” The female crewmember thought a bit before replying to Liu Gan.
“Do you have any way of contacting them? After it gets dark, they won’t find us here.” Liu Gan told the female crewmember.
“The Helicopter is equipped with devices for communicating. If you get to it, you can call for them…” The female crewmember looked in the direction of the ruined helicopter. Right now the helicopter’s inside was crawling with zombies. Inside of it was thick smoke, which came from the ignited part of the helicopter which in turn engulfed the zombies bodies in flame. They kept piling on top of each other without being afraid of being burned.
“Forget it.” Liu Gan shook his head while looking at the helicopter.
“I’m internally bleeding… I can’t survive much longer.” The female crewmember’s face continuously paled, and her voice gradually weakened.
“I’m not a doctor. I can’t help you.” Liu Gan looked at the metal that pierced her body. He felt remorseful after saying that.
“There’s something else you can help me with…” The female crewmember told Liu Gan with a begging gaze.
“Tell me, and I’ll see if I can help. But if I’m not not able to, then I’m sorry.” Liu Gan replied to the female crewmember. To survive in this apocalyptic era, helping others could not involve any harm to himself.
“If you wait until the next search and rescue crew, please tell them that this virus could possibly be man-made. In the gene, it has a lot of human fragments. Conventional vaccines don’t work. We have to change our method of thinking, even though I haven’t obtained all the evidence to show it. But…”
The female crewmember didn’t finish her sentence. Ten meters away, the thick smoke coming from the helicopter suddenly produced a loud explosion’ The noise deafened their ears, and produced flames that reached the sky. The dozens of zombies on it were blown away. The explosion created a shockwave from the materials scattered around, with some reaching the billboard nearby. It even lifted Liu Gan and the female crewmember off of the support structure.
Liu Gan grabbed the bottom part of the structure just in time, so that he wouldn’t get blasted away. However, the female crewmember wasn’t as lucky. She was already severely injured, so the shockwave caught her off guard when it blew her off the support structure.
Liu Gan’s other hand reached and grabbed onto the clothing of the female crewmember, and right before the clothing slipped off, the female crewmember grabbed Liu Gan’s hand. Both people were suspended in midair.
Right below them, the zombies became even more excited, crowding on top of each other. They wanted to reach above them, to the food waiting to fall.
“Damn! Today is yet another bad day?” Liu Gan cursed in frustration. One person surrounded in the plaza on the billboard was enough bad luck. Yet now that rescue was here, the result was the helicopter crashing. Now it wasn’t even safe to sit on the billboard.
However, the unluckiest one was the person in his hand – the girl. The two of them were interlocked hand in hand, yet, because of their sweat and rain water, their hand-hold started slipping. Liu gan couldn’t hold her for much longer.
“This is for you, help me give it to them…” The female crewmember, with her other hand, reached into her clothes and pulled out a USB stick. Forcefully, she shoved it into Liu Gan’s hand. At the same time, her other hand slipped out, letting her plunge into the zombies that had gathered below in the plaza.