Chapter 7: Zombies That Love The Rain (1/2)
Zombies That Love The Rain
31st Jan 2013, Thursday, the virus outbreak happened a month ago. It has been 11 days since Zhang Xiao Qiang returned from the roof. He was now training, doing 3000 leapfrogs instead of 2000, increased number of push ups, sit-ups, high leg lifts etcs. Right now his main weapon wass the spear and his ranged weapon was the MP9 sniper crossbow. It doesn’t matter ifit was melee or ranged, he was ready. Only by increasing his training, can he continue to live in these more and more difficult times.
Rushing forwards, he used his waist to thrust the spear in his arm. Once, then again, and again, ten thousand times of practice in 11 days. This made Zhang Xiao Qiang become more proficient at the spear. The practice everyday made his belly bulge disappear, there were even traces of muscle on his chest. The high leg movements made his body more flexible, so at least he doesn’t run out of breath after a running a few steps.
Thinking back to when he first started, large amounts of exercise made Zhang Xiao Qiang’s body ache all over. Now after a week, even though its the apocalypse, his physical state has never been better, he cant even remember how many years its been since he last exercised!
Everyday he sweated a lot, making Zhang Xiao Qiang’s water reserves gradually deplete, so he couldn’t shower and his body started to let off a stench. It made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he didn’t care, he was used to the stench, what could be worse than the smell of a corpse?
“huff… ”Zhang Xiao Qiang put his spear down, picked up a water bottle and unscrewed the cap, took a sip in his mouth, then he gurgled it for a while before swallowing. Although he felt thirsty, he put the cap back on and put the bottle back on the table. He looked at his watch, it was 5pm, due to habit he picked up his binoculars and went to look out the window.
There has been a heavy rain since 11 days ago till now, the sky was mostly black with some patches of light, this made the window hazy, and the zombies downstairs were standing still like telephone poles, the whole street looked like a strange landscape.
Using the binoculars he saw the zombies open their mouths to catch rainwater, and although he couldn’t see the facial features of the zombies, he felt like the zombies really liked rainwater, it seems as if even their need for flesh has decreased.
This is a strange feeling, Zhang Xiao Qiang has never had any kind of sixth sense, he also thought that a sixth sense was nonsense, but now this feeling randomly started to form in his mind. His subconscious decided that this feeling was true, so he put down the binoculars, patted his face, wanting to forget this strange feeling that this mindset was giving!
Picking up the soft shell of the Yellow Crane cigarette and lighting it,he sat on his bed and stared at the smoke rings in a daze. The strange feeling did not disappear but became even more intense. Zhang Xiao Qiang suddenly thought of something to try, and in that moment his urge for violence overtook his mind. He stood up to look for a raincoat.
After putting on the raincoat, Zhang Xiao Qiang took his spear and went outside. He walked downstairs to the first floor, the 11 days of heavy rain caused some water to start pooling and the heavy rain flushed out the stench in the air. He took a deep breath, it felt like it had been years since he smelt this kind of air with no stench. Even though there was no smell, the air had an additional smell that tasted like rust.
The zombies were also standing in the garden in the rain, with their mouths open catching water. Zhang Xiao Qiang tiptoed towards the garden, the rain kept falling and he caused many ripples in the puddles that he stepped on. When he stepped in the water it caused a small wave to blossom which turned into a large ripple.
“30m, 20m, he got closer and closer to the zombie, his heartrate increased, carrying the spear with 2 hands tighter and tighter, with two deep breaths, he rushed at the zombie. 10m, 5m, 2m… “