lcionline Chapter 65 The Female Zombie with an Archery Skill
Chapter 65 The Female Zombie with an Archery Skill
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"The zombies around us might have been attracted by those bastards." Zhong Qiang was furious. First, Ruan Wen attracted the zombies, and now someone else did. If it weren't for the fact that Gu Nanfeng's villa had expensive doors and windows and that they had built their own defensive walls, the seven of them might have become friends with the zombies before Qin Yuan and Lin Yun even left.
"People's hearts have changed!" Yang Xiao lay on the floor. After witnessing the whole "funeral" being brought into the house yesterday, they hadn't gone back to their rooms to rest. The five of them just lay down on the balcony on the third floor, silently waiting for dawn.
"Who is this person, so ruthless?" Although Lu Yuan knew that not everyone in this world was a good person, he didn't want to assume everyone was a bad one. Ruan Wen had lured the zombies here to provoke everyone to leave the villa area and head to the safe base, and there was a reason for that. So, what was the reason behind the person who did this last night?
“There are at least thirty-four zombies in that house now.” Pei Sihao sat in a single sofa, observing the house through binoculars. Now that it was daylight, the view was better, so he observed more carefully. “But I still haven’t seen the zombie you mentioned.”
Gu Nanfeng went downstairs to make breakfast for them half an hour ago. Since Lin Yun wasn't there, Gu Nanfeng usually took on this task, since the remaining four of them weren't very good at cooking. Lu Yuan could only cook hot pot using ready-made hot pot base.
Their villa is now completely enclosed, with all the curtains drawn on the floor-to-ceiling windows and the glass roof fully covered with solar panels, so you can't see anything from the outside, and it's pitch black inside even during the day. Fortunately, they have a lot of solar panels, so they have plenty of electricity.
Pei Sihao made his usual phone call home to let them know he was safe, and then the four of them went downstairs for breakfast.
Lu Yuan had just slurped up a mouthful of noodles when he heard a series of knocking sounds. The sound was very close to them, and all five of them involuntarily looked towards the living room.
The living room's floor-to-ceiling windows remained intact, and the group breathed a sigh of relief, after all, they had witnessed dozens of zombies smashing through the villa's windows last night.
The sound suddenly disappeared again, and everyone wondered if they were hallucinating. They then turned around and happily slurped up their noodles again.
But just as Lu Yuan picked up the bowl, he heard another series of banging sounds, seemingly coming from upstairs. This time, none of the five thought it was a hallucination. They quickly ran up to the third floor. Although the balcony roof was covered with solar panels, there were still some gaps. They saw a bluish-purple-skinned zombie crawling around.
"It's it!" Lu Yuan vaguely saw the bow and arrows on its back.
The female zombie climbed a few steps and then banged on the glass roof. Lu Yuan was certain that it had indeed made eye contact with him last night. It could actually see him from a distance of four or five hundred meters!
"Shh!" Gu Nanfeng gestured for everyone to be quiet and signaled them to leave the balcony. When they returned, Lu Yuan had taken back all their firearms, but now Gu Nanfeng was asking him to give each of them one. This female zombie appeared to be an evolved second-generation zombie.
Thinking back to that zombie in the suit at the resort, the four of us in the armored vehicle still feel nauseous, after all, that guy's death was truly gruesome.
However, it did make them realize that the second-generation zombies were intelligent and vengeful.
"We didn't provoke it, did we?" Pei Sihao thought back carefully, "It holds a grudge just because we saw her twice?"
"Perhaps it thought we led it there yesterday," Gu Nanfeng pondered.
Last night, the five of them had been observing the villa from the third floor using binoculars, or perhaps it wasn't just them. After Lu Yuan spotted it, they didn't see it in the villa anymore. It's possible that from that point on, the female zombie began systematically checking everyone she discovered who might have lured her zombie horde there.
It's a little past six in the morning now, and it has found its way here.
"It wasn't us, it was a drone that flew out from the townhouses!" Zhong Qiang was one of the people who watched the drone fly out. He was a little annoyed. How did they become suspects just because they witnessed the whole thing?
The female zombie circled the entire villa, banging on the windows and walls. Sometimes the noise was so loud that Lu Yuan thought it was going to break through the walls and come in, but after about half an hour, the noise stopped.
The five men, who were on guard, put down their guns. Worried that there might be an emergency in the next few days, Lu Yuan did not take the guns back and left them with them. Gu Nanfeng told them to keep them on their bodies in case of any accidents.
They peeked through the curtains on each floor to make sure the female zombie had left before returning to the restaurant to continue eating noodles.
"How did it determine that we weren't the people it was looking for?" Lu Yuan was a little confused.
“Blood, of course.” Zhong Qiang was unusually clever for once, and said with a smug smile, “Even if that piece of meat last night wasn’t from a human, it must have been from killing some kind of animal. It would definitely have a bloody smell. We might not be able to smell it, but these zombies definitely can.”
"Great job, my son has finally grown up." Yang Xiao was about to wash his empty bowl when he passed by Zhong Qiang, who was beaming with pride, and couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder with satisfaction.
"Thank you for the compliment, Dad!" Zhong Qiang didn't mind being Yang Xiao's son at all. After all, Qin Yuan and Lin Yun were gone, and among the five of them, Yang Xiao's fighting strength was top-notch. Besides, a teacher for a day is a father for life.
After breakfast, Zhong Qiang and Lu Yuan went back to their rooms to catch up on sleep. Yang Xiao, who was on duty this morning, sat down on the single sofa on the third floor and started fiddling with the binoculars.
Pei Sihao and Gu Nanfeng took the radio and went up to the third floor. Usually, they would do their own thing, or when they weren't on duty, the four of them would gather in the living room on the first floor to play mahjong and games. But today was different. After thinking for a moment, Gu Nanfeng decided to take the radio with him and Pei Sihao up to the third floor so they could spot anything that might happen.
After Qin Yuan and Lin Yun left, Gu Nanfeng turned on that old-fashioned radio every day, and most of the time he no longer listened to the local radio channels, but to national channels.
"H Province has been continuously attacked by highly aggressive wild animals for several days. Currently, all major government security bases have been overrun. The government is urging survivors to pay attention to their safety, protect themselves, and try to form teams to await rescue."
As expected, Gu Nanfeng was right. It wasn't just Y Province that had fallen; now, many other safe bases were collapsing. Resource shortages were one problem, but the most crucial factor was the base's sturdiness. Their safe base in G City had survived until now because of the sparse surrounding buildings, the demolition of some areas, the low density of zombies, and the scarcity of animals. This was truly thanks to Commander Wang Qiang's brilliant location selection.
The broadcast in G City also mentioned that they had been receiving several temporary survivors recently. Gu Nanfeng secretly contacted his mentor via satellite phone and learned that Wang Qiang had been strengthening infrastructure construction recently. He seemed to be a person who was prepared for danger even in times of peace. Even Gu Nanfeng admired him for this.