Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 277 Zombies in a Small Mountain Village
Not long after Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang returned, before Jiang Minglang and the others could make a move, Xi Yu's ears twitched again. He said, "Boss, a truck is approaching this way."

Two minutes later, Xi Yu said again, "The truck has entered the village."

Old Sheng pulled Zhao Kang along, "Let's go take a look."

Jiang Minglang stood up and said, "No need to look anymore. Now that we've confirmed they're specially raised zombies, then..."

Let's do it!

Qiao Fei, who was squatting next to him, stuffed the remaining two segments of orange into his mouth and, after a brief pause by Jiang Minglang, uttered two indistinct words.

He's been so comfortable in Yunxi Village, and with Song Huanyan's excellent cooking skills, he's gained weight recently.

So it's time to start exercising and lose some weight.

The car was parked in the woods, leaving behind three drivers and the military doctor Zeng Mei. The rest of the people, including Sang Er, rushed to the small village.

It's already 3 PM. Zombies are more active at night than during the day, so we must clear them all out before dark.

A group of more than ten people fanned out towards the village. When they were about fifty meters away from the house on the far side, a large tree of unknown species moved without wind. It swayed its thick trunk, and its thin, dense branches drooped slowly, with small thorns growing on its green leaves.

When they were only twenty meters away, the thorny leaves suddenly broke off from the branches and shot towards them with a whoosh.

Qiao Fei, who was closest to the tree, quickly knocked off the thorny leaves with his knife. Du Qiyan, who was right behind him, darted out and slapped the ground with his right hand. Instantly, layers of ice spread out in front of them, freezing all the trees, wildflowers, and weeds surrounding the village in no time.

A blanket of silvery white light made Sang Er's eyes widen in amazement.

I knew these people were powerful, but I never imagined they were this powerful. A bespectacled, seemingly refined man actually took down all the mutated plants with a single move.

What Sang Er didn't know was that Du Qiyan was able to set up an ice rink so easily because his mischievous son insisted on ice skating. He couldn't manage to build a large rink by himself, so he dragged Du Qiyan along. After a few times, Du Qiyan's ability to turn water into ice improved considerably.

Once the obstacles at the village entrance and surrounding areas are cleared, entering the village becomes much easier.

Ho ho!

Hehehe.
Perhaps they smelled a lot of unfamiliar people, but the cries from the dozen or so courtyards in the middle of the village grew increasingly frantic and loud as they approached.

"what happened?"

"I don't know, it was fine just now."

Did you apply any medicine to your body?

"It's been wiped clean, it definitely wasn't me."

"how about you?"

"I wiped it too."

"Weird"

"Forget about the reason for now, let's just get it on the truck and take it away."

In front of the courtyard gate of a brick house in the very center of the village, seven or eight strong young men, all bundled up tightly, were gnawing on hard flatbreads while lowering the specially modified high stop on the back of a truck. They then started the truck, reversed to the courtyard gate, and positioned the back of the truck directly against the closed gate.

Then one of the two men who had just spoken opened the door.
The moment the door opened, a horde of zombies rushed out of the yard, howling and scrambling to climb onto the car.

"what"

A scream suddenly came from the truck bed covered with a tarpaulin. Jiang Minglang and the others who were gathering in the middle of the village all tensed up at the same time: There was someone in the truck.

Damn it, is this some kind of tactic where living people lure zombies into the car?

"You son of a bitch~"

Old Sheng cursed silently, and after receiving a signal from Jiang Minglang, he and Zhao Kang rushed towards the two people standing on either side of the truck.

The people who came to collect the zombies were well-prepared in terms of clothing, covering themselves from head to toe, especially their necks, making it impossible to attack them except for their faces.

but
They felt a gust of wind blow by, and before they could react, they heard a snap, their heads turned 180 degrees on their shoulders, and they fell straight down without making a sound.

As they got closer, Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang smelled a strong stench of blood emanating from the carriage, along with the distinct sounds of flesh being torn apart and zombies chewing, which made their faces turn ashen.

More zombies continued to emerge from the courtyard, each with a hideous face, tattered clothes, and a bluish-white, decaying skin that emitted a nauseating stench.

Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang raised their knives without changing their expressions. The zombies passing by seemed to smell something unusual, stopped rushing towards the truck, and turned around to look at them with their pale eyes.

Just then, the truck driver spotted Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang through his rearview mirror and instinctively shouted, "Who goes there?"

Before Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang could react, the gate of the courtyard next to theirs was slammed shut with a loud bang, accompanied by the 'hoarse' roars of zombies.

The men who were about to drive another truck turned around at the sound.

Before they could even see what was happening, they were punched in the head and immediately went black and passed out.

In the end, only the truck driver who had spoken first remained, staring wide-eyed and terrified as they surrounded them.
They weren't surrounding him, but rather the zombies that had already crawled into the carriage behind him.

Finally, only one bespectacled, seemingly refined man stared at him. After a moment, he pulled him from the driver's seat and threw him to the ground, then asked in a very good-natured manner, "Where are you planning to take these zombies?"

The driver's eyes flickered, and he stammered, "Took...took it to clean up."

boom!
Before the driver could finish a sentence, he was kicked in the stomach and his back hit the front wheel, causing him to bend over in pain like a shrimp.

Du Qiyan crouched down, still looking at him with a good-natured expression, his voice unusually gentle, "I asked you because I wanted to give you a chance. Actually, it doesn't matter whether you tell the truth or not. For us, when we encounter zombies or people like you who raise zombies, we just kill them and that's it. After all, you're just a small fry, what could you possibly know?"

Without giving the driver a chance to react, he grabbed his head and snapped his neck with a swift and decisive motion, much like the rough and ruthless Lao Sheng. "Sang Er, strip all your clothes off. You can put everything you find here in that modified pickup truck; you can drive it when you leave."

In the post-apocalyptic world where resources are scarce, it's not easy to come across anything good. Sang Er came out with them, so we can't let him go back empty-handed.

Seeing these people feeding living people to zombies, Sang Er was just as furious as they were. He even wondered if his brother and cousin had also been captured and fed to the zombies.

He brought a fire axe with him when he came out, and with his superhuman strength, he was now gritting his teeth and hacking at the zombies one blow at a time. Unlike at the beginning of the apocalypse, the zombies now weren't exactly as hard as rocks, but they were close.

So, is the zombies here being turned into this state all the result of these people?
What are they planning to do with the zombies? Where are they going to take them? Are they going to use them against ordinary people like us who are struggling to survive in this world?
In that instant, Sang Er thought of many things and felt a burning hatred in his heart, so he put all his strength into every swing of the axe.

He chopped so hard that Du Qiyan called him twice before he heard him.

"Brother Du."

"Don't worry. Didn't you say your brother is a superhuman like you? They wouldn't feed superhumans to zombies, so your brother might not be in trouble. He might just be locked up."

Sang Er's eyes lit up upon hearing this. "So, my brother is still alive?"

"That's possible. Okay, hurry up and pack your things, we'll take care of the rest."

"Hey, okay."

Sang Er let out a heavy sigh, feeling the pent-up frustration in his chest dissipate considerably.

The zombies in the truck were soon cleared out. On the other side of the courtyard wall, Ren Bin and Sanpao were setting fire to the zombies in the courtyard. The crackling and sizzling sounds filled the air, and a strong smell of burning and decay swept through the entire village.

After a rough calculation, it was found that there were a total of five courtyards where zombies were kept, with each courtyard containing between sixty and eighty zombies. In other words, there were about four hundred zombies being kept here.

But this small mountain village only has a little over a hundred households. Even if many of them are the original inhabitants of the village, what about the other people?
A zombie that was captured, bitten, and became infected?
Judging from their performance just now, these zombies do not possess superpowers like He Yan's. They are just ordinary zombies, only slightly stronger physically than the zombies at the beginning of the apocalypse.

At this moment, Lao Sheng brought out two teenagers from another truck. They were both about fifteen or sixteen years old. Their hands were tied behind their backs, their faces were bruised and swollen, and they were wearing summer clothes that were so dirty that their original color could not be identified.

Both men had wounds on their arms, the cuts from which the skin was turned inside out, and bright red blood stained a corner of the carriage. If any zombies came along, they would surely be attracted to them.

Sang Er took the initiative to help them bandage their wounds. During the conversation, they exchanged a few words and discovered that the small base where the two of them were located was only fifty miles away from their technical school.

"The other superhumans who were with us were taken away by them. We vaguely heard them talking about using zombies to intercept someone."

After their wounds were bandaged, they put on the thick clothes they had taken from those people, ate something, and the two boys seemed to come back to life.

The two recounted their experiences over the two weeks following their capture: "There were eleven of us in total. When they captured us, they threw something smoking among us, and then everyone lost their strength and couldn't move."

"At first, they locked us in a small hut, giving us only a biscuit and a cup of water a day. On the tenth day, the two other superhumans who were with us were taken away. Everyone else was terrified and didn't dare to move. Only the two of us were unwilling to give up and tried to escape. Unfortunately, not only did we fail to escape, but we were also injured and taken to be fed to the zombies."

Sang Er asked, "Do you know where you're being held?"

“I know. Although I was kept indoors at the time, I heard birds outside. It was a pine sparrow that only lives in Luanfeng Valley. Its call is very special, it chirps first and then chirps. I can be sure it was a pine sparrow.”

The boy spoke with great certainty, and added at the end, "Although half of Luanfeng Valley was buried due to the earthquake, I'm sure the house where we were locked up is there."

Even without Sang Er's explanation, Du Qiyan knew this place; it was a relatively well-known tourist attraction in Southwest China. He had once spent a week staying at a guesthouse here during a vacation.

After cleaning up the village, the two boys sat in Sang Erkai's modified pickup truck and led the way to Luanfeng Valley.

Meanwhile, in a small town about 100 kilometers away from them, Zeng Xi also encountered a wave of zombies blocking his way.

He came from Kyoto, and the interceptions and hardships he encountered along the way were far greater than those faced by Jiang Minglang and his group.

But it was precisely because of these interceptions that he suddenly realized that so many mercenaries had entered their country.

Is it because everything was in chaos after the apocalypse that they fled from the border into China and became henchmen of You Junyan and his gang?
Another possibility is that they were already preparing to come before the apocalypse, but the border defenses were so tight that these people couldn't find a loophole to escape.
Either way, Zeng Xi was furious. Damn it, since when did you get the freedom to come and go as you please on our turf?

"Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"

He also brought out his own elite troops, and with his elder brother Zeng Dong, who had the same metal-type superpower as Jiang Minglang, the fight wasn't too difficult.

They never expected that before they even got close to their experimental base, they would be stopped by a bunch of artificial zombies.

There were over a thousand of them, and these were different from the ordinary zombies that Jiang Minglang and his group had cleared out in the small mountain village. They had special abilities, just like He Yan, and had been given a comprehensive virus drug.

Old Huo had previously tested He Yan's blood, and in addition to the obvious zombie virus, there was also energy blood extracted from no less than three different types of superhumans.

These three types of blood and the zombie virus were mixed together, which Old Huo temporarily called a comprehensive viral drug.

Zeng Xi frowned as he looked at the superhuman zombies, some agile and others incredibly strong. He thought to himself that those bastards must have captured countless superhumans and extracted so much of their energy and blood to create so many superhuman zombies.

He also discovered that these zombies were different from the zombie named He Yan that Zeng Bei had described. They had no reason and no clear thinking.

It's unclear whether it's due to the different drugs or the fact that this particular drug, if left in the body for too long, could also cause brain death.

Finally, Zeng Xi had his team use firearms, and it took them two hours to clear out all the zombies.

"I wonder where Lao Jiang and the others have gone."

"Never mind Lao Jiang for now. Have you heard anything about the men we sent out to intercept Bai Xingye?"

Zeng Mei's older brother, Zeng Dong, was resentful that Bai Xingye had left Kyoto alive because the investigation revealed that the reason he was able to freely enter the military and get along so well with several people in their defense department was because of his brother-in-law.

He hadn't paid attention to him for a while, but he never expected to cause him such a big problem.

When he found out, he almost strangled the kid to death, but what was the use? It was already too late.

What Zeng Dong didn't know was that Bai Xingye had died in Pengcheng three days earlier.