Chapter 40 Untitled
The group rested for the night at the service area.
As dawn broke, the convoy rolled over the broken asphalt road and headed towards Ning City.
Considering they would be staying in Ning City for some time, they decided to find a place to stay about five kilometers from the city center.
This distance allows you to avoid the densest hordes of corpses while also making it convenient to gather supplies.
The allocation of supplies was decided on the first day that Lu Nange had a storage space.
Lu Nange took half of all the supplies for herself.
The remaining half, including her and everyone else, is then divided equally.
The roar of engines was particularly jarring in the deathly silent city, and countless hunched figures staggered out from street corners and alleyways.
But they showed no sign of slowing down, and the black blood splattered on the windshield was quickly wiped away by the wipers.
The closer you get to the city center, the worse the road conditions become.
Abandoned vehicles are carelessly discarded in the middle of the road like toys; some have even overturned and burned, leaving only charred skeletons.
Gu Qi, who was leading the way, had to frequently change lanes, and the chassis of the SUV occasionally emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound.
Most of the residential areas I passed by had their gates locked, with rusty iron gates covered in barbed wire.
Looking through the binoculars, Chi Yanzhou could vaguely see the swaying figure behind him.
It's just unclear whether they are survivors or trapped zombies.
"squeak--"
With a screeching sound of brakes, the SUV came to a stop.
Gu Qi and the other two jumped out of the car carrying their weapons.
The dull thuds of knives splitting skulls rang out one after another, and when they returned to the RV, their clothes and shoes were covered in a sticky, dark red liquid.
"There's a police station to the right, it seems to share offices with the Armed Police Force." Gu Qi took the towel Gu Wan handed him and wiped the bloodstains splattered on his face. "Should we go check it out?"
Chi Yanzhou: "Chi Yi and He Zhuo will check the car; the rest of you will go together."
"Brother Yan!" He Zhuo said urgently, "Can't we have Nan Nan put the car into her spatial storage and go together?"
Chi Yanzhou's eyes swept over the towering buildings on both sides: "Shut up! Lao He! Everyone in the car, and Nan Nan's space, from now on, you are not allowed to mention a single word about it!"
"He Zhuo, look outside. Do you know if anyone's watching us?"
He Zhuo was taken aback, then scratched his head in frustration: "Nan Nan, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, I just... wanted to act with you."
Lu Nange shook her head. Ji Xian patted He Zhuo on the shoulder and laughed, "Alright, I'll stay. You go with Brother Yan and the others."
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The boys worked together to pull up the police station's roller shutter door, the rusty metal chain making a grating sound.
As the light seeped in, the group of people all took a step back.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Inside the glass door, a dense swarm of zombies was crammed behind it.
The rotting hand pounded frantically against the tempered glass.
Several festering faces were pressed against the glass, their cloudy eyeballs turning mechanically.
A U-shaped lock hangs on the glass door.
The person who fled was probably in a hurry; the key was even still in the lock.
Chi Yanzhou turned around, and everyone gripped their weapons tightly and nodded slightly.
Chi Yanzhou and Lu Xici exchanged a glance, then each took one side and unlocked the glass door.
"Clang—"
The moment the door opened, the zombie at the front tumbled out.
After Chi Yanzhou awakened his superpower, Lu Nange replaced the stun gun with a Tang sword.
She was strong; with her left hand holding Lu Beiye's hand and her right hand wielding a Tang sword, she sliced watermelons one by one.
Gu Wan watched as the zombies charged towards her.
With lightning speed, the steel pipe slammed into the back of its neck with a whooshing sound!
"Crack!"
With a crisp crack of breaking neck bones, the zombie's head twisted at an eerie angle.
His torn mouth stretched almost to his ears, revealing rows of white teeth, and a foul, putrid stench assaulted Gu Wan's face.
The zombie turned around, baring its large mouth as it approached.
Gu Wan almost choked on her breath, gripping the iron rod tightly and striking it several more times.
"Damn!" Her breath hitched, and she swung the steel pipe several more times.
Thump! Thump!
The zombie's head hung askew on its neck like a tattered rag doll, but that didn't stop it from continuing to march towards Gu Wan.
The group, having dealt with the remaining zombies, stood not far away.
He looked at Gu Wan, ready to make a move at any moment.
Seeing that no help was needed, Lu Nange picked up her Tang sword and began to examine the crystal core.
Gu Wan jumped, and the steel pipe made a sound as it cut through the air.
"Pfft!"
The head rolled to the ground, its dust-covered jaw still opening and closing.
She stepped forward, panting heavily, and the steel pipe slammed down again and again until the dull thud of skulls shattering turned into a sticky, crushing sound.
Black and red slurry splattered onto her trouser legs.
Everyone stared silently at the shapeless mass of minced meat and the brains that Lu Nange had picked out.
"Ugh—" He Zhuo suddenly covered his mouth, his Adam's apple bobbing violently.
...
Knowing that the crystal core would be useful to Chi Yanzhou, everyone immediately bent down and picked it up.
Across the street, several survivors were taking turns using binoculars to observe the police station from the floor-to-ceiling windows of a high-rise building.
"Ugh—" Another person suddenly took off their binoculars, turned around, and dry heaved towards the trash can.
"Damn it...they're actually ripping out zombie brains..."
"That woman looks like a fairy, yet she has such a bizarre fetish!"
After collecting the crystal cores, the group locked the glass door again, the clanging of metal particularly jarring in the empty police station.
The police station was in complete disarray, with overturned desks, scattered documents, and dried bloodstains...
Apart from a few unopened bottles of water, there were almost no usable supplies.
After passing through the messy corridor, a heavy iron door appeared at the end.
The door was covered with dents and scratches of varying depths, clearly indicating that it had been violently smashed.
There was a steering wheel-like turntable in the center of the door, next to which was a combination lock.
"Let's try it together." Several boys stepped forward and pulled together, but the iron gate didn't budge.
Chi Yanzhou ran his fingertips along the crack in the door: "This kind of door locks automatically when the power is off. It's faster to break a hole in the wall next to it than to open it!"
"Use that small generator from before?" Lu Nange asked.
Chi Yanzhou nodded, and Lu Nange immediately took out the device from the system backpack.
Chi Yanzhou tightened screws here and disassembled things there. After he connected the wires, the screen of the combination lock suddenly lit up with a blue light.
"It's reacting!" He Zhu clapped his hands excitedly.
Gu Wan frowned: "It's lit up, but we don't know the password either."
Lu Nange silently took out a magnetic card and gently taped it against the sensor area.
"Clatter."
The turntable began to rotate automatically, and the mechanical sound of the gears meshing was particularly clear in the silence.
A dozen seconds later, accompanied by a hissing sound of air pressure, the iron gate slowly opened.
"Is it the card you found?" Lu Xici raised an eyebrow.
Lu Nange and Lu Beiye nodded at the same time.
He Zhuo: "You mean what your sister picked up, wasn't it equipment used by foreign spies to steal from banks?"
Lu Nange...A product of the system, guaranteed to be of high quality!
"Watch fewer movies." Gu Qi slapped him on the back of the head: "Hurry up and move your things!"
The moment he stepped into the secret room, even the usually composed Chi Yanzhou's pupils constricted slightly—
The firearms covering the entire wall gleamed coldly under the emergency lights, with ammunition boxes neatly stacked to the side.
"Nan Nan, there are bullets all here, take them all!"
"Over here! Assault rifle! Put it away quickly!"
He Zhuo deftly opened a box of hand grenades: "I'm rich."
Chi Yanzhou's brow twitched: "He Zhuo, put it down right now!"
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