Chapter 07
Yan Hao grasped the railings and shouted: "Run! "
However, Si Nan refused to move, still clutching onto Yan Hao's hand and pulling it up. His weight was about 20 kilograms lighter than Yan Hao himself, so doing this made him felt like his elbow was being dislocated as terrible cracking noise started sounding fom his bones.
“Si Nan run, the zombies are coming!”
Si Nan gasped: “Don’t talk nonsense.”
Yan Hao tried to put his dangling feet on the wall but slipped several times. He watched wide-eyed as a few burning zombies were heading toward Si Nan, and said sharply: “Listen to me! Just leave me here, run! "
“How can … No matter what you … ”
“The zombies are behind you!! "
Suddenly Si Nan felt something heavy on his back; one of the zombie was breathing close to his ear. At the same time, Yan Hao's feet finally stepped successfully on the wall. He quickly called out to Si Nan and leaped up with the help of the other man!
Si Nan grabbed Yan Hao's waist as he was thrown back to the rooftop, bot of them hit the ground and rolled a few meters!
“Are you all right?!”
Si Nan had missed the corpse’s teeth by seconds, but it took more than a few seconds for him to ease his breath after being slammed by Yan Hao: “I'm… I'm okay. "
Yan Hao's body was pressed against Si Nan's. With his left elbow propped on the ground, he used his right hand to hold Si Nan's face and looked it over. The young man's neck was hurt, but it wasn't bleeding; probably he was scratched by the cement floor when they tumbled. After seeing this, Yan Hao was finally relieved.
“Not bitten.” Yan Hao buried his head in Si Nan's neck, and murmured happily: “Great, you were not bitten."
Because there were glands there, neck became one of the most sensitive parts of an Omega' body, a wound there would have been fatal.
If Yan Hao was an alpha, what he was doing right now would be seen as a standard sexual harassment, and Si Nan’s first instinct would have been to throw him over and kick him.
“You …”
Just as he was about to say something, Yan Hao suddenly raised his head and looked at him deeply—but before Si Nan could discern the emotion behind his gaze, Yan Hao took out a knife, turned sideways, and throw it at one of the zombie. The knife hit the corpse's head, and the body fell heavily on the ground.
"Run!" Yan Hao pulled Si Nan up, “Let's go inside, back to the underground warehouse, quick! "
The roof had been thoroughly turned into a field full of flesh and blood. There were flames everywhere, along with screaming people and violently attacking zombies. The survivors were bathed in blood as they cried and rushed to the door heading to the safe corridor. However, many people fell and were trampled to death in the chaos.
“Zhou Rong!" Si Nan shouted aloud.
Zhou Rong was taking care of the zombies in front of the door with a fire axe. However, every time he killed one zombie, two or three more infected people among the crowd would change and rushed to the door. Si Nan grabbed his bloody wrist and said loudly, “Let's go! Don’t bother anymore, you can’t control it! "
Zhou Rong's eyes were red, bloodshot.
“Let’s go, Rong Ge! They’re all infected! ” Chun Cao who was running against the crowd said in a shrill voice: “Come on! Back to the warehouse–!"
There was a fireball in the sky, the crashed helicopter had exploded twice.
More living-dead and survivors were thrown off the roof and fell to pieces on the street below. Zhou Rong took a sharp intake of breath, looked around at his bloodied teammates, and shouted suddenly: “The rest of you, listen to me–! "
“We are heading to underground garrage A in the south, run with us!!”
” Underground garrage A in the south –!! "
Zhou Rong took the lead and rushed into the safe corridor.
The situation in the corridor had turned insane with a lot of infected people suddenly changing into zombies halfway. In the narrow space, the number of bitten people rapidly increased. The light bulb had been smashed, leaving the echo of people cries as they were devoured in the dark.
Zhou Rong kept leading with the fire axe his his hands. Si Nan followed behind him, rushing down the slippery, bloody staircase. He didn't even know how many corpses he had stepped on in this chaos.
After what felt like an endless journey, they finally arrived at their destination. Zhou Rong used the fire axe to open the staircase's door and went first into the underground garage!
“Quick, quick! Come here! "
After the group of survivors stumbled in, Zhou Rong reflexively kicked the door close once again, blocking the zombies behind it. He swept his gaze around the remaining people and said decisively: “I will drive the armored bio-diesel car, Yan Hao will drive the minibus, go!”
When Chun Cao came to talk with Zhou Rong last night, the two of them had agreed on a good retreat route—if the helicopters couldn’t make it to the rooftop, they would use the minibus that they had taken back from the street to bring the survivors to the landing place.
Yan Hao accepted the key and walked to the minibus. He stopped in front of the vechile and took a deep beath, before looking up at the anxious crowd.
“Come on! Let’s get in the car!"
“Don’t leave us!"
“They are coming, they are coming …”
The cries of panic were resounding in the mostly empty garage.
Yan Hao gulped, opening and closing his mouth a few times, but no sound came out. At that time, Zhou Rong strode forward, patted him on the shoulder and pushed him back.
With his head held high and his body standing tall, he slowly swept his gaze through the crowd. The screaming and weeping gradually subsided in face of his overwhelming stare– all of them felt frightened and dazed at the same time. Zhou Rong finally began talking, his voice low and clear: "Left behind those who were bitten.”
The crowd exploded.
“I didn’t!” “I did not!” “Let’s get in the car!” “Please, let me in!”……
“Shut Up!” “Chun Chao shouted, “don't talk all at once!"
Among the stilled crowd, a special force soldier silently took the initiative to come forward. He lifted his cuffs and laughed: “I was bitten, Rong Ge. Any bullet left? Use it on me. "
Zhou Rong stared at the man's wrist which had started to rot, not saying a word.
Yan Hao tried to block his mouth, but eventually couldn't stop a sad whine from escaping his mouth, and he fell slumped on his kness.
As the sound of chocked breath and crying began to be heard, Zhou Rong closed his eyes and raised his head. After a few seconds, he finally suppressed his tears and took out a bullet hanging by a string around his neck.
“This is…” he said hoarsely, “my last one, which I've planned to use on myself if the time ever comes.”
Zhou Rong put the bulled into his rifle and loaded it. Then, he stepped forward to embrace the brave soldier.
Each of their team members followed suit to say tearful goodbye to him. Chun Cao was shaking violently. The special soldier patted her on the back, and gave a brotherly kiss on her forehead. After that, he finally pushed her and turned to face Zhou Rong with tears in his eyes.
“Thank you for the past few years, Rong Ge." He smiled, wiped his eyes, and continued, “Send me to my last journey.”
Zhou Rong closed his eyes and lifted his trembling hands, putting the gun's barrel on the soldier's head.
"…… Goodbye, ” he whispered.
There was a dead silence for a while, until finally, the shooting sound resounded in the garage.
The crowd's restlessness was subsided in that moment, like boiling magma which has yet to explode and was surpressed back into the ground. The panicked survivors looked at each other. Then, another woman moved forward hesitatingly, her bloodshot eyes were full of tears as she said: “I … I’m a bit scared."
She asked, “Is there another bullet?”
She looked very young, with makeup-covered face and messy hair. She seemed like a new office worker.
Zhou Rong buried his face in his palm; during this fleeting moment, his usually rigid and strong shoulder looked like it could collapse at anytime.
Chun Cao hesitated for a bit before slowly began reaching to the back of her waist. However, before she had the chance to take out her gun, someone from her side suddenly approached the young woman.
…… Si Nan? She thought in surprise.
Si Nan stood still in front of the girl, then asked in a low voice: “They have no more bullet, can I help you? I promise it will be quick."
The girl was a little scared and disoriented, “but I…”
“There will be no pain,” Si nan said.
Under the eyes of all the people there, Si Nan lifted his hand to clean the dust on the girl's face, and wipe the eyeshadows that had been ruined by her tears. Then, he combed her hair neatly. folded her collar and took away the dirt from her dress. His action was gentle, like a gentleman who was serving his princess.
The girl’s body trembled as she tried to hold back her sobs. Si Nan opened his arms and hugged her, asking, “What’s your name?”
"…… Zhao … Zhao MaioMiao …
"MiaoMiao," Si Nan whispered in her ear,” Don’t be afraid, you look really beautiful."
The girl swallowed her sour tears, smiled, and forced out an “Yeah!” .
The next second, she felt something hit the back of her neck, and then… nothing. Before long, her body immediately went limp.
Si Nan held onto her lifeless body before slowly putting her down on the ground. His gentle movement made it seem as if the girl was merely stuck in an eternal and warm sleep.
"…… Any others?, “Zhou Rong looked at the crowd and asked once again, “Are there any others? Move forward by yourself."
No one spoke, no one moved, a think silence covered the place. After a long while, Zhou Rong nodded at Yan Hao. Yan Hao took out the car key, and was about to enter the minibus when Si Nan suddenly said: “-Stop!”
He turned to look, a middle-aged man was trembling as he walked toward the car. Si Nan stepped forward and pulled him out of the crowd, saying coldly: "You were also bitten. "
“I didn’t! I.. I… ”
Si Nan grabbed the man's hand that he had hidden behind his back and brushed his cuffs open. The wound on his arm had already started festering, it was emitting a thick foul stench.
“This is not an infection, I haven't been bitten, this, I was cut by a glass! That's why it was bleeding! "
Si Nan pushed the man to the far corner and told Yan Hao: “Go to the car's door.”
The man flew into a rage and screamed: “You will pay for it! Son of a bitch! You mustn’t die easily! ……"
Si Nan ignored all his angry curses and observed untill all the survivors had entered the biodiesel-car and minibus. Then he turned to the man and asked: “You want to do it yourself, or should I help you?”
The man threw a punch at him, which Si Nan avoided easily. However, the man took that chance to break free of Si Nan's hold, turned around, and run. Upon seeing him heading in the direction of the staircase's door, Si Nan immediately reacted and shouted out: “Stop-”
Zhou Rong slammed open his car's door, and exclaimed: “Si Nan! Get on the car!"
Si Nan, like an enraged leopard looking at its prey, started to went after the man. At the same time, Zhou Rong stepped on the accelerator, the car's tires created a sharp friction on the underground parking ground as it rushed lightning past, before braking stop in front of Si Nan!
Zhou Rong leaned out and seized him, using his iron pliers-like strong hands to grab Si Nan's waist and caried him directly into the driver seat!
“Let him go!” Zhou Rong roared: "Come with me!"
The bullet-proof biodiesel car performed a neat drift, and with a raging speed, it crashed into the garage's door!
As all of them were bumped around, Si Nan caught a glimpse of the rear view mirror from the corner of his eye. He saw that the middle-aged man had opened the staircase's door, and the living-dead which had previously been blocked behind it were rushing out, heading to the minibus.
But they were too late. Yan Hao had closed car's door, and started driving away. It hit and crushed a few zombies into the bottom of the car, before finally following the biodiesel armored car into the street!
The last scene he saw in the mirror was of the man being drowned amidst the undead. Si Nan closed his eyes, feeling like his throat was being clogged by something hot and acid, making him unable to even speak.
Suddenly a hand reached out to his head, and he was pulled over focibly into Zhou Rong's embrace by the man himself: “Don’t think about it, okay.”
With his head burried in the warm of Zhou Rong's sturdy shoulder, Si Nan finally nodded after a moment of silence.
“We are speeding to the city at the north, we must leave this place before dark.” Zhou Rong punched the steering wheel with one hand before saying in a heavy voice: “After three hours, the B-Military region will launch a nuclear bomb to clean the T city, we don't have much time.”
Unedited, will be replaced once my editor is done with the chapter. So, pardon the mistakes please, feel free to tell me if you find any!
One more coming tomorrow, and then I’m done with Undead for this week! Yay! 0/
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