Chapter 8: First Small Attack

He could hear the sound of fast and noisy footsteps in the distance. A crowd of ferocious-looking, blood-soaked zombies were rapidly approaching their base.

"The zombies are coming!"

Jiang Zhi, who was inexperienced in dealing with zombies in the last days, looked a little nervous and worried. Fortunately, he kept his cool, knowing that they wouldn't be able to survive for long if the zombies made it in.

Shen Yize looked very calm, as if he was used to hearing Jiang Zhi's words. He rushed out and looked carefully in the direction of the settlement in question.

In the distance, he saw several figures moving slowly and irregularly. They looked human, but there was something strange about their movements, which were too stiff and staggered.

"Pretty fast. I thought they would come in half an hour," Shen Yize muttered, trying to justify what he saw.

"Unfortunately, reality speaks otherwise," Jiang Zhi replied, raising his weapon. "We must be prepared to face them."

Jiang Zhi pressed a button, making a hole open in the thick wall. It was a human-sized hole with strong wire lining the outside. They designed that way to make it easier to shoot the zombies.

Seeing that Jiang Zhi had already started shooting the zombies one by one, Shen Yize was still on the edge of his seat. Thinking of a more effective method.

"Isn't there a Zhang Rui car outside?"

"Hm. Why?"

"We should lure them to the car and blow it up." Shen Yize began to analyze the situation and thought this idea was doable. "We have Zhang Rui's severed hand that can be used as bait."

Jiang Zhi turns to Shen Yize, who looks very serious. He thought about you briefly and responded, "Yes, it's quite effective."

"The problem is that there are only a few pieces of Zhang Rui's hand." Shen Yize tapped his chin, glancing at the abandoned car outside the gate and the approaching zombies.

"If we want to gain an advantage, the only way is to let those zombies swarm the car, prevent them from being the first to damage the car and consume the bait."

Jiang Zhi aimed at the head of one of the zombies, squeezed the trigger of his rifle, and the whizzing of bullets sounded. The zombie died a second time when he shot its head and it fell to the ground. The other zombie comrades stepped on the zombie's body.

After that, he glanced at Shen Yize again. "Can't we use the raw meat in the storage room?"

Shen Yize was stunned for a moment, looking at Jiang Zhi in disbelief. "You want to lure zombies with that? Are you kidding me? Zombies don't completely eat human flesh, let alone raw animal flesh that they just processed. They feed on the essence of human life, which coincidentally accumulates the most in their blood and flesh."

"Is that so?"

"You really don't know?!" Shen Yize choked on his own saliva after hearing Jiang Zhi's response. Even Zhang Rui's flesh infected with the zombie virus had no effect on luring the zombies, but there was still pure blood dripping from Zhang Rui's used clothes. That could be utilized by them.

"Never mind. I'm going out to put Zhang Rui's hand meat and blood-stained clothes into the car. While that's happening, you should keep an eye out for zombies approaching me."

"Okay..." replied Jiang Zhi without much thought, then he realized something. "What do you mean, you're the one going out? Let me get out and you watch from the inside."

Shen Yize was already walking away, but his steps stopped. "Let me go out and take care of this."

"How could you? Let me do it. It's dangerous for you outside."

"Don't insist, Jiang Zhi. I'll go out, it's easier for me, anyway. Even if I get hurt, with the body of a special ability owner, my wounds will heal quickly."

Shen Yize had no intention of offending Jiang Zhi for not having special abilities, but his words were enough to make Jiang Zhi feel a little depressed. True enough, he was just a vulnerable and fragile human being in the end of times.

Jiang Zhi turned an indifferent face and focused his aim again. While Shen Yize returned to the medical room to wrap the rotting flesh of the hand with a blood-soaked cloth, also added to the time bomb.

When Shen Yize stepped out of the gate, Jiang Zhi did not stand still and seek safety on his own. He followed a few meters behind him.

Shen Yize stepped quickly. The zombies had already begun to approach. He watched the car intently.

"Shit! The car keys are inside. It's locked from the inside."

"Is that so hard?" Jiang Zhi helped him open the car door by force, but the security features in the car were really difficult to penetrate. Moreover, the key was still hanging and the heavy weight forcibly turned the key.

"How is it now? Those zombies are so close!" Shen Yize showed a trace of panic. Although he was used to dealing with zombies and had adjusted in the past, it didn't mean he didn't have any fears.

Especially since he had experienced being surrounded by zombies to death, whether it was a dream or reality, the incident really gave him a psychological burden. He thought he would be able to face this fear, but it turned out that his mental strength was still weak.

Recognizing Shen Yize's panic and fear, Jiang Zhi tapped his shoulder to wake him up. He handed Shen Yize his rifle and pulled the roll of clothes in his hand.

"Go hide. I'll stand on top of the car. When I jump and get away from the crowd of zombies," Jiang Zhi explained.

"Do you understand?" he asked again as he faced a dazed Shen Yize.

Jiang Zhi let out a long breath, pushed Shen Yize back, and forced him to hide behind the fence. Meanwhile, Jiang Zhi ran and stood on top of the car.

The zombies began to move towards the car as soon as they smelled blood and human presence. Jiang Zhi stood alert and tried to remain calm, kicking and stomping on any zombies that tried to climb up. From behind the fence, Shen Yize shot each zombie, that tried to get close to Jiang Zhi, in the head.

The zombies swarmed in numbers, surrounding Jiang Zhi.

"Jiang Zhi, leave the cloth and jump!"

Shen Yize didn't want to see anyone die surrounded by zombies before his eyes, especially Jiang Zhi. He came out of the gate and called out, "Hurry up, the bomb will go off in a minute!"

Jiang Zhi unrolled the cloth, stepped on the zombies' heads, and sprinted. Shen Yize reached out to him and Jiang Zhi grabbed his hand without hesitation, pulling his body to safety. Just as he rolled over by Shen Yize's side, the car exploded and burned the zombies that surrounded the car.

"Come on, get in. There are still some zombies left." Shen Yize roused the dumbfounded Jiang Zhi.

"Be careful," Jiang Zhi said when he realized a zombie was approaching Shen Yize.

The rifle in Shen Yize's hand was less effective for close combat, so Jiang Zhi pulled out the dagger hidden in Shen Yize's pants pocket. He used his long-honed hand skills to rip the zombie's head off.

They ran through the gate and closed it again. Then started shooting at the surviving zombies. Not so many, but not a few either.

"Tomorrow we have to clean up the corpses of those zombies, huh ...." Shen Yize said with a slight complaint.

Realizing that, Jiang Zhi thought of something. "Then let Zhang Rui do it. He brought the zombies here. He'll take care of the corpses."

Shen Yize chuckled. "Do you think he's capable? He'll be so scared. He can only use his strength halfway too. This might be a problem for him later."

"He won't have that problem."

Yes, but there will be many people who look down on him, especially since his body strength is not as good as yours, who have received training. This is how the world ends. People become very cruel and arrogant, especially those with strong special abilities."

Jiang Zhi glanced at Shen Yize and looked at him seriously. Sometimes he found Shen Yize strange for knowing so many things about the doomsday situation so specifically.

"What's wrong? Why look at me like that?" Shen Yize felt a little uncomfortable.

Shaking his head, Jiang Zhi took another look at the situation outside the gate to make sure there were no zombies left.

"You seem to have a lot of secrets," Jiang Zhi said lightly.

Shen Yize clucked his tongue. "It's true that I have many dark secrets."

He turned to enter the base and clean herself up, leaving Jiang Zhi still standing behind the iron fence. After making sure the overall situation was safe, Jiang Zhi pressed the button again to cover the hole in the wall. He checked the gate before returning to the base.

Cleansing himself and burning his zombie blood-stained clothes.

It was late when everything was done. Jiang Zhi looked at the food on the table, but there was no Shen Yize. So he decided to eat alone, check on Zhang Rui's condition, and return to his room.

In the darkness, he saw a red light glowing on the nightstand. Jiang Zhi turned on the light and the red light disappeared. He turned the light back off, the red light appeared again.

Was it jade?

Jiang Zhi stepped closer to the nightstand. He saw the familiar jade on the nightstand, but with a different color. It covered its white color in blood red.

"This... My blood fused with it." He touched the new jade. When the skin came into contact with the cold jade, Jiang Zhi could feel something permeating his body.

He frantically withdrew his han, but didn't feel anything strange. So he touched the jade again, grasped it, and took it to bed.

The jade in his grasp slowly melted through the night and seeped into his body. Jiang Zhi breathed in the cool smell of the mountains, when he opened his eyes, he was in the middle of a dense forest that was unfamiliar to him.

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