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Chapter 11

Everyone was dumbfounded and stared at each other.

However, Zhou Rong did not let them have any time to panic. In a short moment he had issued a series of clear instructions.

“Everyone, go to the North Point, strengthen the barbed wire there. Chun Cao , call Xiangzi back.”

“I'll start the armored car to lead the zombies away. Si Nan, take the explosives. "

“There are hundreds of zombies in this district, we can defend ourselves against them, don't panic!"

The survivors who had experienced the breakout at T city did not disappoint Zhou Rong. After a short pause, everyone quickly moved  ̶  taking out axes, hoes, crowbars, and all kind of other tools from the factory, before rus.h.i.+ng to the factory's north in the direction of the zombies.

Zhou Rong arrived at the armored car as fast as lightning and opened the door without stopping. When the car pa.s.sed by, Si Nan grabbed the shotgun seat's door handle while Yan Hao grabbed the iron ladder of the back compartment. The two men hopped into the car at the same time.

“What's in the bag?” Zhou Rong bellowed.

Sinan clutched at the backpack and slammed the car door shut, “Flying meteor!”

Zhou Rong: “What?”

Zhou Rong stepped on the accelerator and the car whizzed out from the north gate. After a few seconds, Yan Hao jumped from the back compartment, rolled on the ground, and began throwing nitrocellulose on both sides of the road..

Chun Cao rushed out of the warehouse, carrying three bundles of dark green metal jars that were almost half her height and holding a huge spray gun. She climbed to the top of the barbed wire and said, " Yan Hao, hurry and come back!”

The screams of people and the roar of the zombies could be heard clearly in the silent of the night. The zombies moved in groups, grabbing onto two or three women on the run and tearing into them, filling the night sky with the sound of their screams.

Si Nan looked at the scene through a telescope, his pupil narrowed slightly.

Zhou Rong shouted: “Open the back compartment door, release the iron ladder!”

The 10 or so escapers on the road saw the armored car and started shouting. Zhou Rong did a beautiful braking drift, the tires letting out a deafening screech as it rubbed against the road. At the same time, Si Nan kicked open the back compartment door and grabbed the rolled up iron ladder, doing his utmost best in the situation.

The escapers' leader didn't waste the chance and hurriedly seized the iron ladder, then climbed up onto the back compartment with Si Nan's help.

"Hurry!"  Zhou Rong yelled.

After a few of the escapers had been pulled up, the roaring of the zombies could be heard coming closer to them. Si Nan couldn't even afford to turn back and shouted, “Drive! The zombies are coming!"

The armored-car began to move forward slowly. However, a spectacled man who was two steps away from the ladder suddenly yelled, “Don't leave me!”

Si Nan's eyebrows furrowed. He quickly slipped out of the back compartment door, climbed to the end of the iron ladder, and stretched out a hand towards the man.

However, the b.u.mpy road made the man fail to grasp Si Nan's hand for several times, his grip kept on slipping off. During this time, one of the zombies grabbed the man's back with b.l.o.o.d.y hand. He quickly turned and pushed the zombie hard.

“Grab my hand!" Si Nan yelled.

The man gasped in horror, his eyes fixed at the army of zombies behind him, suddenly realizing that it might be too late.

Si Nan tried to reach out more: “Hurry!!”

The man kept on running, his brain a blank, and finally caught hold of Si Nan's hand.

The next second, he pulled Si Nan to him.

The shamelessness of people in desperate situation really was unimaginable. Completely unprepared, Si Nan's body became off balance, and he fell from the car!

The expression on Zhou Rong's eyes changed drastically. He slammed at the brakes.

The man who had now successfully boarded the car yelled: “What are you stopping for?! Hurry up!"

When Si Nan fell down, the spectacled man took the chance created by Si Nan's body now blocking the zombies to jump and reach the iron ladder!

“Si Nan!” Zhou Rong shouted.

Si Nan rolled a few times on the ground, falling right into the group of zombies. He immediately pulled out a military dagger from the pocket on his left thigh, cut off a few rotten hands grabbing at him, and got up quickly.

Meanwhile, the men in the car's back compartment screamed wildly, “They're coming!” “Don't let them come!” “Close the door, hurry up!”

The spectacled man's hand moved to close the back compartment door. However, at the same time, without saying anything Zhou Rong punched on a red b.u.t.ton at the driver seat.

BZZZT —

Electric current pa.s.sed through the door, shocking the spectacled man's body.

Si Nan looked at his hand and saw a wound on his palm, blood seeping slowly from it.

A few steps away from him were the zombies army, which rotten faces and foul mouths could be seen clearly even in the dark; and at 20 metres away, the armored car driven by Zhou Rong was turning, moving back in his direction.

During this life or death situation, Si Nan made a decision. “Zhou Rong! Don't come here!!"

With trembling hand, Si Nan opened his backpack and took out a gla.s.s bottle with pitted surface. He threw it at the zombies behind him then turned around immediately, squatting down while hugging his head.

–BOOM!!!

The ground shook violently, fire crackling everywhere. The shock waves of the explosion threw Si Nan's body away, causing him to spurt out blood where he landed.

The high temperature of the nitroglycerin explosion quickly triggered the thermite reaction, molten iron soon mixed with countless pieces of gla.s.s. Amidst the night sky, sharp streams of fire erupted, sweeping the zombies away!

The zombies' bodies flew all over the place. Zhou Rong's shocked eyes were reflected in the rearview mirror as he witnessed this scene. At that moment he finally understood why this thing was called a flying meteor.

“Si Nan!" Zhou Rong banged the car door: "Get in!"

Si Nan got up exhaustedly, almost fell, and took two staggering steps.

“Get in the car!”

Si Nan finally shook his head and cleared his mind. However, he didn't get into the back compartment and instead climbed the iron ladder and jumped straight to the roof.

In the surrounding industrial district, the zombies' groans and and footsteps sounded one after another, until soon enough a new group of zombies had gathered. The armored-car turned around, hitting and running over a few zombies in its way and moving farther away.

At the fertilizer factory, the sound of a car coming closer at full speed was heard. Yan Hao put down the last pack of nitrocellulose. The car burst into the factory's front yard like a vigorous cheetah before coming to a screeching stop.

The survivors who had been waiting for this moment quickly joined forces to push the barbed wire gate and entangled it with iron chain. The next moment, black shadows appeared at the end of the road. Their roars resounded throughout the place, and their dragging footsteps apparent.

The number was more than imagined!

Although they knew there was a barbed wire spread in front of them, seeing so many rotten corpses stepping closer and closer brought an unimaginable sense of horror to the survivors; many of them started screaming.

With face full of sweat, Yan Hao shouted, "Don't be afraid! Hold on!"

His shout teared into the survivors' hearts, stopping their fearful retreats with a strange power. The next moment, the zombies tide entered the 200-meters nitrocellulose zone.

–Chun Cao lifted her spray gun and brazenly pulled the trigger.

With a loud, earth-shattering bang, a huge fire dragon spurted out of the gun, flying through the night sky right in front of everyone's gazes, and roaring towards the zombies.

The hundreds of meters spread of nitrocellulose was sprinkled with the giant flame, causing a big explosion!

A full 200 meters of asphalt turned into powder, trees flown away, and the zombies were torn apart amidst the explosion light, leaving mere flesh and bones which rained down from the sky.

All the survivors watching erupted into a big cheer.

On the other hand, the newly rescued people in the armored car were speechless, looking at the scene in stunned silence.

When the last batch of nitrocellulose turned into a beautiful explosion, all the zombies had been completely wiped out. Smoke covered the now flesh-and-blood-filled road, visible just as the blinding explosion light finally disappeared,

Zhou Rong jumped from the driver seat and turned to the front of the car.

Several men followed him out. The first man was dressed in a dust-filled, but expensive looking suit. He offered his hand to shake, revealing the platinum-plated diamond watch on his wrist, “Are you the leader here? Thank you, I am…"

Zhou Rong ignored him and grabbed the spectacled man from the car.

He dragged the man like one would a small chicken and slammed him into a wall. He held his elbow against the man's neck and, with an amazing show of strength, lifted him up!

Everyone was shocked. The spectacled man's dangling feet were squirming, yet Zhou Rong never loosened his steel grip on his neck, not even when the man's face had changed color from purple to black.

“Brother,” Zhou Rong stared at his bloodshot eyes and said slowly, “what you did before wasn't very nice.”

The rescued men's leader rushed over, “Excuse me, it was a misunderstanding! Please calm down, brother."

“Calm down?” Zhou Rong laughed, “He pulled my man into the horde of zombies. I'm afraid calming down isn't something I can easily do right now."

Most people there didn't know what had happened, yet after Zhou Rong said that Yan Hao and Chun Cao immediately came over to stand by his side.

“Sorry, I'm really sorry! My hand was slippery from the running.  I will never forget that brother's kindness for saving me, he has my undying grat.i.tude!”

The group's leader smiled, seemingly very sorry, and said sincerely, "These men are are my bodyguards. We are all alphbrothers, at least give me some face…”

The expression on everyone's faces suddenly changed.

The strength of Zhou Rong's elbow didn't loosen, but a smile now graced his face.

Zhou Rong's facial features were very eccentric. When he smiled, he gave off the calm feeling of spring rain; the group's leader couldn't help but relax - however, a moment later he saw Zhou Rong stretching out his other hand, taking off the spectacled man's eyegla.s.ses. Zhou Rong dropped the gla.s.ses on the ground and stepped on it, crus.h.i.+ng it under his feet.

“That explains it,” Zhou Rong said calmly, “but I wonder, what got you luring all the zombies over here?”

This time, when the group's leader looked at Zhou Rong's smiling face, a chill suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart.

“…” He glanced at his subordinate's rolled eyes, his dying struggle, and his chocked throat which now had began emitting gurgled sounds. The man was silent for a moment, seemingly weighing the situation. Finally, he raised his hand and slapped his subordinate's face!

“You Inhuman dog! If you want to die, then just die alone, don't drag others! Who can save you from this 'heart of a wolf and lungs of a dog' man[1] now! Really disgraceful!"

The man then turned to Zhou Rong, smiled, and whispered: “Big brother, you need to cool your temper. Please call your little brother here, I want to give this inhuman dog to him to do as he like as payment for the sin done to him. I'll follow your decision, even if you decided to kill him."

The 30 or so survivors in the courtyard, along with the few alphbodyguards looked at each other. The burning scent in the air had yet to dissipate, but the atmosphere had became tense.

After a while, Zhou Rong's elbow finally loosened a bit. The dangled man coughed violently, his complexion changed from purple to the color of a pig's liver.

“Si Nan,” Zhou Rong called faintly, “come here."

There was no answer from the armored car's roof.

Zhou Rong turned back and made a look. Yun Hao walked to the car and knocked, “Si Nan! Don't be angry, come down!"

At the top of the car, Si Nan gasped  silently, swallowing down a b.l.o.o.d.y spit.

He looked at his hand ̶  at the broken skin of his palm. Blood continued to seep out from the wound. The scent breaking through the heavy disguise of his inhibitor, leaking out the hidden sweet smell ̶

of omega's pheromone.

Yan Hao didn't wait long for an answer. The moment he felt something was amiss, he immediately climbed onto the car's roof. “Si Nan? Are you all right?"

T/N:

[1] heart of a wolf and lungs of a dog = someone cruel and unscrupulous

Meet Chun Cao!

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