A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 604 Rest for a Night

Duan Rong carried the stack of sleeping bags back to the French windows and tossed them in front of Guo Tian and the others.

Guo Tian and the others had never seen anything like it before, and were completely baffled.

Duan Rong said, "Each person should carry one of these." After he finished speaking, he took a sleeping bag, rolled it up, and stuffed it into his backpack.

The sleeping bag wasn't made of cotton, but rather of synthetic fibers, and it was quite thin. Even so, the backpack was stuffed full and bulged.

After Duan Rong finished doing all this, he stepped out again and landed on the edge of the protruding floor. Then he jumped and grabbed the cable. He then did the same thing, sticking his butt out and using his hands and feet to cross the street.

Inside the floor-to-ceiling window, Du Wan glanced at Duan Rong, then at the stack of unfamiliar objects in front of her, and couldn't help but ask, "How do you use this thing?"

Guo Tian said, "We'll see how Duan Rong uses it later."

As Guo Tian spoke, he stood in front of the French windows and looked outside. He saw that as soon as Duan Rong hung from the cable, the horde of corpses on the street began to surge again. His eyelids twitched. He believed that Duan Rong wouldn't have brought such a stack of things over for no reason.

Since he dared to climb back over, he must have solved the problem of being besieged by the zombie horde. Otherwise, wouldn't he just face the same problem again if he went back?
Duan Rong glanced down at the surging tide of corpses from time to time. The tide of corpses was like waves, coming and going. Although it was slowly rising, there was nowhere to hold onto, so it was impossible for it to rise to a height of twenty meters.

Before long, Duan Rong was standing on the iron power tower across the street again. The zombie horde, which had previously had nothing to rely on, immediately surged toward the iron power tower.

Duan Rong took off his backpack and hung it on the iron frame. Then he took out the sleeping bag from it, put it on, sat down, zipped it up, leaving only a small gap, and looked out.

The moment Duan Rong was covered by the sleeping bag, the surging tide of zombies surrounding the iron power tower suddenly lost its momentum and scattered in all directions. The madness in the eyes of the zombies that were climbing faded, and they were once again filled with confusion.

After the zombie horde dispersed, Guo Tian, ​​standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

He didn't understand what had happened, but Duan Rong had clearly solved what he considered a very difficult problem with such a small device.

Duan Rong had never discussed the characteristics of zombies with Guo Tian and the others. It wasn't that he was unwilling to talk about it, but rather that he didn't know how to explain to Guo Tian and the others that humans emit infrared light waves.

This was common knowledge to him, but to Guo Tian and his group it was practically mythical. Since he knew it was impossible to explain, he simply kept quiet.

Since Guo Tian and the others did not know the characteristics of zombies, they naturally could not understand how Duan Rong could cover the surging zombie horde with a sleeping bag and cause it to collapse on its own.

In their eyes, this was truly amazing.

Du Wan stared in astonishment at the sleeping bag on the ground, immediately sensing that it was something extraordinary. She couldn't help but ask, "What on earth is this? It's so wondrous!"

As Du Wan spoke, she turned to look at Jiang Hanyan and asked, "Where did Duan Rong find this?"

Jiang Hanyan said, "It's in that storage room over there. It's thrown in an inconspicuous corner. It's covered in dust."

A hint of doubt flashed in Du Wan's eyes. According to Jiang Hanyan, this thing was quite ordinary.

Guo Tian stopped worrying about it and said, "Whatever it is, as long as it works!" As he spoke, he rolled up a sleeping bag, stuffed it into his backpack, stepped out of the window, and jumped to grab the cable.

As Guo Tian climbed, the horde of corpses on the street surged up once more.

After Duan Rong, it was Guo Tian's turn. The cable was constantly being stimulated by living creatures emitting infrared light waves, attracting waves of zombies from afar.

The horde of zombies on the street below was gradually increasing, but very slowly, given the wide street surface and the lack of support. After turning into zombies, they only possess biological instincts and lack human thinking abilities. They have only the most primal urge to rush towards the infrared light waves, but they don't think about how to approach the living creature emitting infrared light waves.

Duan Rong sat atop the iron power tower, peering through the gap in his sleeping bag at the horde of zombies on the street. He needed to see how high the zombie horde would rise after the seven of them had climbed the same power cable, and whether it would pose a threat to them.

Guo Tian quickly stood next to Duan Rong, and he also put on a sleeping bag and sat down.

Then Jiang Hanyan climbed over, followed by Du Wan...

Duan Rong sat there motionless, watching the changes in the zombie horde on the street. In fact, after Du Wan, the zombie horde on the street had stopped growing.

With wide streets and no support, the zombie horde could not keep rising indefinitely.

It seems that as long as they cover themselves with sleeping bags when they rest, they can follow this cable and walk out of this zombie-infested CBD from the southeast.

After the others had all been covered in body bags and sat down, Duan Rong said, "The zombie horde on the street stopped growing after Du Wan's death. This shows that the sleeping bag method is quite effective. Since this method has been proven to be effective, let's use it to get out of this CBD."

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he suddenly emerged from his sleeping bag, causing the horde of corpses below to surge once more towards the iron power tower. He rolled up his sleeping bag and put it into his backpack, then slung the backpack over his shoulder, crossed the iron power cable, grabbed the cable on the other side, and continued climbing southeast.

Just as the horde of zombies surged toward the iron-framed power tower, the target shifted, and the zombies, following the moving infrared beam, tumbled and fell...

Everyone sitting on the iron power tower turned around and looked at Duan Rong through the narrow gaps in their sleeping bags. They could see the dark cable running through the gaps between the buildings and into the distance...

One by one, the group climbed along the cable, heading southeast.

Their first step was climbing through the French windows, which was only a short distance and not too tiring.

However, climbing over the two iron power towers was quite strenuous for them, given their bodies which had not undergone martial arts training.

Duan Rong sat on another iron-framed power tower, covered with a sleeping bag. He was panting heavily inside, and from where he was, he could no longer see Guo Tian and the others, as the buildings blocked his view.

However, he knew that once Guo Tian and the others saw the cable stop swaying, they would know he had gotten rid of it. Sure enough, Duan Rong stared at the cable in front of him, and after a while, the cable, which had stopped swaying, started swaying again. It seemed that Guo Tian had begun to approach. Duan Rong rested for a while, took out a bottle of soda from his backpack and gulped it down, then packed up his sleeping bag and continued forward.

The horde of corpses surged up again below. Duan Rong stopped looking down and instead used both hands and feet to move southeast along the cable.

Halfway up the mountain, we could see the elevated highway leading out of the CBD in the distance. The highway was also completely blocked, packed with cars and zombies.

Duan Rong stood there, glancing around. Once he crossed this overpass, he would be out of the CBD.

He quickened his pace, and once he was out of the CBD, the view opened up. After a while, he was closer to the overpass, and without the surrounding tall buildings obstructing his view, he could suddenly see further.

He examined the cable in his hand closely; it seemed to be heading southeast along the Jintang River. Beyond the CBD overpass lay Jintang Road, a major east-west thoroughfare in S City.

Duan Rong originally thought that there might be fewer zombies and better road conditions once they left the CBD, but now that they were heading towards Jintang Road, he was afraid that if there was a traffic jam in the CBD, Jintang Road would definitely be congested as well, and the road conditions would probably not be good.

He had originally thought that if he could get to a place with better road conditions, he might be able to get a car and storm the railway line, but now it seemed unlikely. He could only huff and puff as he climbed over the cable.

An hour later, Duan Rong sat on an iron power tower by the Jintang River. Although there were not as many zombies on the streets as in the CBD, there were still quite a few, and they swarmed towards the iron power tower in dense numbers.

But at this moment, Duan Rong was too hot. He didn't want to put on the sleeping bag immediately, so he let the zombies below climb on him. He took out a meat floss bread and ate and drank it with cola.

Surprisingly, quite a few zombies were floating in the Jintang River next to the iron power tower. Because of his arrival, many of the zombies that were climbing the iron power tower fell into the Jintang River with a splash.

After Duan Rong finished eating and drinking, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, put the sleeping bag over himself, and the zombies that were frantically climbing below suddenly lost their target...

Duan Rong sat there panting heavily. After resting for a while, he continued climbing forward. After climbing for several more hours, he suddenly sat on the iron power tower, looked at a residential building not far away, and swallowed hard.

Duan Rong glanced at the sun rising between the city's skyscrapers; he estimated there was still about an hour until sunset. But he had already decided to stop.

Because the cable not far away was only a little over a meter away from the open-air balcony of a certain household. It was an old residential area.

There probably aren't many places to rest along the way while climbing the cable.

Below them was a horde of zombies, and the roads were still congested. Unless they managed to squeeze into a building, they couldn't rest. To be honest, sitting on this metal power tower was fine for a short break, but if they fell asleep and fell, they'd be done for.

Because this was twenty meters in the air, his sleeping bag had a small gap, and the infrared light that peeked out was barely noticeable to the zombies. But if he were in a horde of zombies, so close that the infrared light that peeked out would be enough to make the zombies pounce.

Moreover, they had climbed all the way out of the CBD, and Duan Rong himself was already exhausted; after all, his body's strength was limited. The moment he saw that old building, he decided to rest there for the night and continue his journey early the next morning.

Having made up his mind, he put on his sleeping bag, sat there, and waited for Guo Tian and the others to come over.

Soon, Guo Tian and Jiang Hanyan climbed over one after another. Both of them looked tired and were obviously exhausted.

Duan Rong then told the two men about going to rest in the front, and they, being quite tired, naturally agreed.

By the time everyone arrived, it was already dusk.

Lu Chu was the last to arrive. He sat down, panting heavily, and couldn't help but ask, "Why aren't you all leaving?"

Duan Rong then stood up and said, "Now that everyone is here, I'll go scout ahead. Let's get some rest tonight and set off tomorrow morning."

After he finished speaking, he opened his sleeping bag, put his backpack in, and then, with the backpack on his back, grabbed the cable, dangled there, and used both hands to move forward.

At this moment, Lu Chu no longer needed to ask, because he had already seen the cable not far away, very close to an old building, and Duan Rong had just said he wanted to rest, obviously he was going to that building. He wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, looked at the zombies climbing on the iron frame below in the twilight sky, and immediately took out his sleeping bag and covered himself with it.

Duan Rong soon arrived at the open-air balcony of the old building. Although the balcony was not surrounded by an iron frame, it was filled with various flowers and trees, as well as several potted cacti.

A distance of a meter or so was nothing to Duan Rong. He grabbed the cable with both hands and started swinging it around like a swing twice before suddenly letting go.

His entire body flew diagonally downwards in mid-air, with a dense horde of corpses below.

Duan Rong tilted and landed steadily on the balcony platform. There was a cactus pot on each side of his feet, and his feet were placed precisely in the gaps between the cactus pots.

At this moment, Duan Rong bent his legs, leaned slightly forward, and swung his hands behind him like swallow tails. His posture was strange, but he stood there steadily.

Those sitting on the iron power tower not far away were all shocked!

They could accept it if Duan Rong were to fall awkwardly onto the balcony or step into a potted plant, because that would be the normal situation.

You see, that family might really love potted plants, as their balcony was filled with them. But Duan Rong managed to step into the gaps between the potted plants with such precision, especially after dangling from the power cable. Clearly, his control over his body had reached a terrifying level, something none of them could do!
After Duan Rong steadied himself, he glanced at the balcony to make sure there was no danger inside before jumping down. He then threw the potted plants on the balcony downstairs to clear the way for Guo Tian and the others.

He knew very well that Guo Tian and the others hadn't reached the same level of mastery over their bodies as he had. Guo Tian and the others would either fall straight in or inevitably step on the potted plants; stepping on them would likely cause them to fall and become easy prey for the zombie horde.

Seeing that Duan Rong had cleared the obstacles, Guo Tian crawled out of his sleeping bag and headed this way. Duan Rong stood there, watching Guo Tian sway as he approached in the twilight.

Just then, Duan Rong suddenly turned around, and at the doorway connecting the balcony and the master bedroom, a zombie appeared. The zombie had long, flowing hair and was wearing a sexy nightgown, but her face had turned a terrifying grayish-brown...

(End of this chapter)