“Be careful behind you, don’t walk in a straight line,” Chen Wan whispered a reminder.
“Got it.” Qin Ke was already on guard and didn’t walk in a straight line towards the granary with Chen Wan.
Instead, they moved in an irregular curve.
“Captain, what are they doing?” The man with the broken eyebrow nervously watched the commotion at the granary door.
“They’re afraid we’ll shoot them in the back, underestimating us.
We’re legitimate soldiers of the base,” Xing Feng had already forgotten about his demotion and boasted to the soldiers around him.
In reality, if it weren’t for needing Chen Wan and Qin Ke to scout ahead, Xing Feng might have already opened fire.
Chen Wan and Qin Ke cautiously moved forward.
After about four hundred meters, they reached the granary door.
To be precise, it wasn’t just one granary but four granaries tightly connected, each as tall as a six or seven-story building.
Chen Wan scanned the corridors on both sides of the granary and found many corpses and black-purple bloodstains.
She gestured to Qin Ke, and the two quickly ran to the back of the granary, soon hidden by the multiple pipes laid out beside them, showing no intention of pushing open the granary door to take a look.
From a distance, Xing Feng, observing the situation through binoculars, cursed, “Damn it, daring to disobey orders.
I should have shot earlier.” Then, as if he thought of something, he grinned viciously, “Want to run? I’ll catch you all and execute you on the spot.
Everyone, level one alert, follow my orders to advance to the warehouse.
They’re cowards, but we’re not.
We need to prove to the big leaders that we deserve to live in Area A! Move out.”
After Xing Feng finished speaking, he let the man with the broken eyebrow and a few other male alphas who had mocked Chen Wan earlier lead the way.
The plaza in front of the granary remained eerily quiet, as if there were no other living creatures besides their squad.
Meanwhile, Chen Wan and Qin Ke climbed the open-air safety passage stairs on the side of the granary and found a hidden spot to hide.
It was impossible for them to sacrifice themselves.
Since it was a military matter, they would let the military handle it.
Chen Wan and Qin Ke slightly exposed their heads to observe the situation not far away.
From their position, they could only see Xing Feng leading sixteen people, excluding the driver, cautiously approaching the first granary door.
Whether they opened the door or not was out of their line of sight.
But soon, Chen Wan and Qin Ke heard a loud noise, like something heavy being pushed open.
Xing Feng and his men saw layers of reserve grain inside the door and showed excited expressions.
“Captain, with so much grain, we’ve really made a great contribution this time,” the short male alpha laughed excitedly.
Even Xing Feng slightly relaxed and began to give orders, “You guys go in and check first.
If there’s no problem, everyone starts loading the grain onto the trucks.”
“Yes, Captain!” The man with the broken eyebrow took the order and led a few people to scout inside the hall.
Xing Feng took out a walkie-talkie and instructed the soldier driving the truck, “Drive the truck over, there’s no problem, just a false alarm.”
“Okay, Captain.” The soldier driving the truck had already driven over, and because it was so close, it took less than a minute for the truck to stop in front of the first warehouse door.
Of course, Chen Wan also saw the truck, but she and Qin Ke still didn’t move.
Her experience from the previous life told her that it was eerily quiet here, and it couldn’t be that simple to take the grain away.
While Chen Wan was still thinking, a gunshot rang out from the direction of the first granary, and both Chen Wan and Qin Ke raised their rifles, becoming serious.
Inside the granary, the man with the broken eyebrow reported the situation to Xing Feng in a panic, his voice trembling, “Captain, there are zombies here.”
“If there are zombies, just kill them, do I need to teach you?” Xing Feng scolded the man with the broken eyebrow and walked towards him, only to be stunned by the scene before him.
The two staircases leading to the second floor were densely packed with zombies, standing motionless, no wonder Xing Feng and his men hadn’t noticed them.
“What are you waiting for? Shoot them,” Xing Feng cursed and started shooting at the zombies.
The zombies, who had been standing still, suddenly surged towards Xing Feng and his men like a tide.
“Damn, why are these things faster than the ones we’ve seen before?” The man with the broken eyebrow shouted to his teammates while shooting at the approaching zombies with his rifle.
“How would I know? This is just sending us to our deaths.
Even if there were hundreds of us, it would be tough to handle so many zombies,” the short male alpha had already switched to using a handgun and a knife.
At such close range, a rifle was impractical, and sometimes there wasn’t even time to shoot.
A machete would have been more useful.
“It’s all because of those two women.
They should be the ones dying, not us,” the man with the broken eyebrow shouted, his eyes red with rage, but the zombies remained relentless.
He felt as if they were being surrounded by the zombies.
Wave after wave of gunfire didn’t repel the zombies.
Instead, the zombies at the back used the height of the ones in front to climb over them and pounce on the soldiers.
“Damn, these things seem smarter and faster than before,” the short man warned.
“Do you even need to say that? If we don’t break through, we’ll all die here,” Xing Feng shouted loudly.
Meanwhile, the soldier sitting in the military truck saw the scene inside the hall.
He gritted his teeth, not wanting to run away alone, hoping to escape with his teammates.
However, while he was willing to wait for his teammates, they might not be willing to wait for him.
“Captain, Lao Gao is outside.
Let him help draw some fire, or we’ll all die.” But just as the word “die” was spoken, the soldier was already pinned down by two zombies, and moments later, blood gushed from his neck.
Xing Feng gritted his teeth and hesitated no longer.
In just this short time, five members of the squad had already died.
If this continued, they would all die here.
He used a knife to fend off a zombie, then fired his gun at the military truck’s bulletproof glass.
Although the glass was bulletproof, the bullets still made a noise when they hit it.
With a crisp “bang” outside, some zombies finally noticed the truck parked outside.
Lao Gao, who had been waiting to assist, didn’t expect his teammates to shoot in his direction.
In that brief moment, many zombies realized there was someone over there and rushed towards Lao Gao.
Facing the threat of death, Lao Gao couldn’t care less.
He stepped on the gas, ready to turn around and escape.
But the speed of these zombies was far beyond those they had encountered before.
In an instant, they surrounded the military truck.
These zombies were smart; instead of charging straight at the truck, they seemed to have a strategy, surrounding it from all sides.
In the blink of an eye, five or six zombies had climbed onto the truck.
Chen Wan and Qin Ke couldn’t see what was happening at the door, but they could clearly see the situation with the truck.
“These zombies are moving faster and seem smarter than before?”
“Maybe they’ve evolved?” Chen Wan was still uncertain, but she and Qin Ke had to leave.
Right now, the soldiers were the targets, but once they were all dead, it would be hard for just the two of them to handle so many zombies.
“We have to go, Qin Ke.
I’ll cover the rear and hold off the zombies.
You find a vehicle in the abandoned cars on the plaza that can start.”
Chen Wan said as she led the way downstairs, and Qin Ke nodded, “Okay.”
They didn’t have an RV for protection this time, so they could only rely on themselves.
They needed to leave this place quickly.
What worried Chen Wan the most was that if the zombies here had evolved, what about the ones near the Funan City base? Would they evolve at the same time and gain some intelligence? Chen Wan relayed what she and Qin Ke had encountered to Yi Yi through mental communication.
She waited for Yi Yi’s response while she and Qin Ke carefully circled around the right side of the first warehouse.
Since the military truck was parked on the left, there were more zombies on the left and in the hall.
“It seems the zombies have started evolving to level 2.
Level 2 zombies have increased speed and agility and possess some intelligence.
You and Qin Ke need to be careful,” Yi Yi, sitting in the villa’s hall with her eyes closed, was actually answering Chen Wan’s questions.
“Okay, take care of them for me.
The base might also see level 2 zombies soon,” Chen Wan said the last sentence and then stopped talking.
She and Qin Ke had already reached the outermost part of the right side of the warehouse.
One more step out, and they would no longer be in the zombies’ blind spot.
Chen Wan glanced at Qin Ke, who nodded at her, then sprinted from the right wall.
Chen Wan followed closely behind, and the two of them ran desperately towards the vehicles on the plaza, immediately attracting the zombies’ attention.
Especially the zombies on the truck.
The driver, Lao Gao, had long been bitten to death by the zombies, and several zombies were feasting on his body.
They were quickly drawn to Chen Wan and Qin Ke.
Not only the ones on the truck but also many from the hall were attracted over.
Chen Wan stopped about ten steps away from the vehicles, preparing to form a defense here.
But the problem was that no matter how strong she was, without a suitable weapon, it was difficult to defend in an environment full of zombies.
But the current situation left her no time to think.
The zombies were already within dozens of steps of Chen Wan.
She gritted her teeth and raised her rifle to shoot at them.
But the zombies didn’t feel pain.
Except for those hit in the head, which fell immediately, the rest continued to surge towards Chen Wan like a tide.
In just a few seconds, the zombies were only a dozen steps away from her.
Seeing that her rifle was no longer effective, Chen Wan quickly discarded it and switched to holding a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other.
