Chapter 101: Strange Zombie Horde

The four cars moved slowly along a dilapidated street, just like the bumpy fate everyone was about to face. The wheels sometimes had no choice but to roll over corpses, sometimes crashing into zombies that pounced on the front of the cars. Each car had varying degrees of scrapes, but it wouldn't affect normal driving.

Arriving at another intersection, the street lying in front of them was Jianshe Road, where the Irewen Convenience Store was located.

Zhang Su turned right naturally. He used to walk this familiar road almost twice a day, but unfortunately, it had now become a strange sight.

When turning right, he subconsciously turned his head to look to the left, just like paying attention to avoiding oncoming traffic. This look was not a big deal, but it scared him so much his hand shook.

He was walking toward the west side of the intersection, and about two or three hundred meters to the east of the intersection, countless zombies were gathered, filling the entire lane densely, and the sidewalks on both sides were no exception!

The entire street was blocked by zombies, like sardines in a can. The most terrifying thing wasn't the huge number of zombies, but the fact that the group of zombies was actually moving!

Moving toward his side!

"What's the situation..."

Zhang Su almost shouted. He wanted to stop and take a closer look at what was going on with the zombies, but there were also quite a few zombies around attracted by the movement of the cars. Once he stopped, he would have to deal with the surrounding zombies first, and if a chain reaction was triggered, it would be very bad!

Having no choice, Zhang Su had to put away his damn curiosity and continue driving forward.

Besides Zhang Su, people in other cars also discovered the abnormal situation, which made the already uneasy atmosphere even more tense.

"Why are the zombies gathering? I don't see anything attracting them, otherwise, it wouldn't be at that speed..."

Zhang Su couldn't help but ponder. Unfortunately, he wasn't a zombie, and after racking his brain, he had no clue and could only attribute it to the instinctive habits of zombies.

"Gathering is gathering, why move? Are they like locusts? When the group reaches a certain number, the individual will... hmm?"

While thinking, Zhang Su suddenly saw a familiar figure curled up on the sign of a hot pot restaurant by the road.

"Wu Lue?!"

Zhang Su couldn't help but shout.

This trip to Irewen Convenience Store was mainly to get weapons, and of course, he hoped to see Wu Lue and Zhao Xue, but he never expected to see him on the side of the street four or five hundred meters away from the convenience store, and his state was very strange.

Zhang Su quickly observed the situation nearby and found that the zombies within a radius of dozens of meters were all gathered at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant, reaching up like hellish evil ghosts, wishing they could drag the living life sitting on the sign down from the air!

"Damn! What's wrong with this kid? Can't he hear the sound of the cars?"

Zhang Su frowned secretly, hesitating whether to save him. After thinking for two or three seconds, he decided to save Wu Lue.

Thinking of this, he turned on the left turn signal, and in the surprised eyes of the drivers behind, he drove onto the curb.

"How can this... holy crap, Brother Su is crazy!"

Lu Yubo was at the back of the motorcade. He watched the cars in front turn one by one and subconsciously followed the direction, but at this moment, he saw Zhang Su's van accelerate suddenly and crash into the dozen or so zombies at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant!

*Bang, bang, bang... *

Zhang Su stepped on the gas, and the zombies at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant were knocked around like bowling pins!

*Pfft! *

Something Zhang Su didn't expect happened. The battle-hardened van finally popped its airbag in this collision, and white powder flew all over the cabin...

"*Pfft, pfft, ptooey... * Damn, Lue-zi, you have to pay for my car!"

Zhang Su vomited for a while. Although sodium azide was non-toxic and odorless, it was very uncomfortable to eat.

Just as he was preparing to turn around and give the zombies another hit, he found that the zombies had basically all fallen to the ground and couldn't move.

It turned out that Zhong Xiaoshan saw Zhang Su driving into the zombies, so she learned from his example and crashed into them, followed by the H6 and Prado behind, and the scene was immediately cleaned up.

"It's still our own people who have tacit understanding!"

Zhang Su grinned, and then he frowned again because he found that Wu Lue, who was curled up on the sign, had been unresponsive?

"Damn, my airbag popped, and this guy is still dazed!"

He slammed on the brakes to stop the car, pulled out his axe, and jumped out of the car.

Quite a few people also got out of the other three cars, and everyone had a tacit understanding to finish off the zombies that weren't completely dead.

"Wu Lue! What's wrong with you, hey!"

Zhang Su solved a zombie, ran under the hot pot restaurant sign, and waved at Wu Lue, but the other party still ignored him.

Seeing Zhang Su's actions, everyone knew that he knew the guy who was dumbfounded above.

They knew Zhang Su's personality; he would never save someone for no reason. Since he stopped specifically to save him, he must have some importance.

Wu Lue, sitting on the sign, had empty eyes, his face covered in various stains, and his hair and clothes were a mess. If it weren't for Zhang Su's long-term association with him, it would be impossible to recognize him.

"Brother Su... what's wrong with him?"

Zheng Xinyu asked curiously.

"Scared silly, maybe..."

Zhang Su looked left and right, picked up a few stones from the ground, and threw them at Wu Lue.

*Pitter-patter. *

Wu Lue's head was hit, and he let out a hiss. He looked down, and light suddenly appeared in his eyes. He was about to speak, but because he was too excited, he lost his balance and fell straight down.

"Oh my god!" Zhao Dezhu was quick-eyed and stepped forward to catch Wu Lue with Zhang Su.

The two supported Wu Lue and stood him on the ground.

"Su, Su, Su, Su..."

Wu Lue's feet touched the ground, but his legs were shaking and his whole body was trembling. Even his lips couldn't be controlled, and it was difficult to say a complete sentence.

However, at this moment, a few subtle sounds reached Zhang Su's ears.

"Damn, everything others do has to be approved by him. He doesn't ask for others' opinions when saving people, and he drags us along. It's speechless."

"Can you talk less? If you still want to stay in the team, don't talk too much!"

"Since you dislike Zhang Su so much, why not choose to leave and do what you like?"

Zhang Su didn't look back, but he knew who was muttering. He pulled out a bottle of water and handed it to Wu Lue: "Don't be blindly excited, here, drink some water! Bo-zai, keep an eye on the zombies behind."

"Don't worry, Brother Su, they're far away, can't even see them!" Lu Yubo looked into the distance and said.

Zhong Xiaoshan walked up and took the water bottle Wu Lue was about to put in his mouth: "You must not have eaten for several days. Drinking too much will be a big burden. You must drink slowly!"

She poured the water into the bottle cap and fed it to Wu Lue's mouth. After more than ten times, Wu Lue's trembling body gradually improved.

"Lue-zi, what's your situation?"

Seeing that Wu Lue was finally a little better, Zhang Su asked impatiently.

Wu Lue's mouth pouted, and tears welled up in his eyes: "Brother Su, save Sister Xue, save Sister Xue, *sob, sob*..."

Zhang Su knew that the Sister Xue in Wu Lue's mouth was Zhao Xue. He frowned: "What happened? Tell me slowly!"

"That day, that day the zombies broke out..."

"Start from the time you left the store!" Zhang Su interrupted him directly. If he had to start from the beginning, wouldn't it be dark by then?

"Oh, oh, the day before yesterday morning, the employees and chefs of Datielu (Big Iron Stove) broke into the convenience store. Sister Xue and I didn't, didn't dare to resist. I was kicked out, Sister Xue, they didn't let Sister Xue go... Brother Su, save her!"

After Wu Lue finished speaking, he was a little exhausted. Fortunately, Zhao Dezhu supported him, or he would have fallen.

"Datielu..."

Zhang Su whispered. He knew this restaurant. It was on another street not far from Irewen Convenience Store, only a hundred or eighty meters away, with three floors in total. He had also been there to eat.

"Everyone get in the car. Let's go. Lue-zi, tell me the detailed situation!"

After speaking, Zhang Su supported Wu Lue and walked toward the van. On the way, he looked at Kuang Miao and the others as if nothing had happened.

"You've lost a lot of weight in less than half a month. It just so happens you can squeeze in."

Zhang Su opened the passenger door and cleared a small space for Wu Lue to sit.

"There are Sachima in the box next to you. Take some and eat, don't eat too fast!" Zhang Su sat in the car, took out a rag, reached out to wipe the blood off the windshield, and threw the deflated airbag out the window.

"Brother Su, I thought I was dead for sure. I didn't expect to meet you. It's really great... Let's go save Sister Xue quickly. I'm afraid she'll be ruined by those scumbags!"

Wu Lue said while chewing, with urgency on his face.

"With your current bear-like appearance, you still want to save people? Damn, if I wasn't thinking about going to the store to get things, you would have died here today. Didn't you know there were weapons under the warehouse? Didn't you take them out to use?"

Zhang Su was both angry and amused to see Wu Lue's weak appearance. By rights, with the weapons he left at Irewen, it should have been enough for the two of them to conduct an effective defense.

"Damn, we were tricked! That... that little punk who always came to the store to buy things, I forgot his name, anyway, it was him. He pretended to be a refugee, and Sister Xue and I decided to open the rolling shutter door, and then six people rushed into the store!"

Wu Lue recalled the scene that day, with a painful expression on his face, and said mournfully: "It was too late, it was too late to resist at all, and Sister Xue and I were controlled. That group of bastards didn't reason at all, they aren't human!"

Zhang Su sighed: "Listening to you, you two have been trapped in the store all along?"

"Yes." Wu Lue nodded: "There is food and drink in the store. We thought we could hold out, even for a month or two, just waiting for rescue. As a result, we didn't wait for rescue, but waited for a group of animals!"

Zhang Su shook his head: "No wonder you fell for the trick. If you knew the situation outside, you wouldn't have been easily fooled. To tell you the truth, the whole world is like this now. Let alone rescue, human civilization has collapsed!"

"*Hiccup! *"

Wu Lue's neck stiffened, as if he were choking. His eyes were wide, staring at Zhang Su, unable to speak.

*Slap! *

Zhang Su slapped Wu Lue on the back of the head.

"*Cough, cough, cough... *"

Wu Lue coughed violently, and the Sachima stuck in his throat sprayed everywhere.

"If this were in the past, I would have charged you two hundred for a car wash, damn." Zhang Su brushed the Sachima crumbs off his body with his arm guard.

"Brother Su, you aren't lying to me, right? The whole world is like this?" Wu Lue looked at Zhang Su with red eyes.

"Yes, yes." Zhang Su nodded: "Your teachers are all gone, study by yourself in the future."

"Stop talking about useless things, tell me about the situation of those people at Datielu!"

There would be plenty of time to chat after stabilizing. The top priority now was to solve the situation in the store and save people.

Wu Lue put down the Sachima and recalled: "There were six of them in total. Anyway, I only saw six dog bastards at the time. Listening to their conversation, I knew there were four waiters and two kitchen staff. The one giving orders was a cook!"

"Those guys were fierce. Sister Xue and I didn't resist, and they beat me up..." Wu Lue was very aggrieved.

"They didn't find the things I hid, did they?"

Zhang Su asked nervously.

"They must have rummaged through everything. I don't know if they found them." Wu Lue was unsure.

"Good, let's assume they found them and deal with it! As long as they haven't left, we can get them back! They haven't left, right?" Zhang Su cared very much about the weapons he left at Irewen; each one was a boutique.

Wu Lue thought for a while and said: "I heard them say at the time that they planned to wait in the city for ten days and a half months. If there was no rescue, they would go to Funing. It seems one of them's parents run a strawberry greenhouse there."

"Okay, those guys are dead!"

Zhang Su nodded and looked at the time. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was darkening. He looked back at the street behind him, and he could vaguely see a black mass in the distance.

The appearance of the zombie horde was weird and tricky. Fortunately, the speed of travel was very slow, and it was not difficult to avoid, but it was unclear what their purpose was.

"A zombie horde appeared on the west side of the road. Let's go to Xiangyang Road first to find a place to rest, avoid the passing zombie horde, and then find a way to save Zhao Xue at night!"

After Zhang Su finished speaking, he started the car and led the way.

Wu Lue was surprised to find that the other three cars were following behind, and said in surprise: "Brother Su, are they all hanging out with you? You are too awesome, you pulled up a team so quickly."

"Stop flattering me, damn. I don't want a team, I want to live my old life!"

Zhang Su curled his lips and took a cigarette out of his pocket.

Wu Lue consciously took the lighter from his hand and lit the cigarette for him, just like he did at Irewen before.

"Yes, the old life was so good... Sigh, by the way, Brother Su, is there any news about our boss? Thanks to the things in the store, Sister Xue and I survived, hehe."

While talking, they arrived at the intersection. Continuing straight for more than fifty meters was Irewen Convenience Store, and turning left or right was a side street next to a main road.

Zhang Su took a deep puff of the cigarette, rolled his eyes at Wu Lue, and said: "Stop laughing, damn. I am the boss, you idiot!"

He slowed down, looked left and right, and turned to the left where there were not many zombies.

"*Cough, cough, cough... *" Wu Lue coughed violently again, looking at Zhang Su in shock, and suddenly realized: "My god, Brother Su, it has to be you. Wow, admire, admire!"

At this moment, countless questions in Wu Lue's mind were all solved. No wonder every time he took things from the store, he was criticized by Zhang Su; no wonder every time he wasted water and electricity in the store, he was muttered about; no wonder every move he made while on duty was monitored...

"Don't talk nonsense, Lue-zi. Now the world has changed completely. No one can protect you except yourself! I can save you once, but I may not be able to save you a second time. You need to adapt quickly, understand?"

"How to adapt... Brother Su."

Wu Lue asked naively.

"You were kicked out by that group of guys, how many zombies have you killed?" Zhang Su asked.

Wu Lue had a strange expression on his face: "Kill zombies? I rely entirely on running. That thing is too scary. If you get scratched, you will be infected. I saw it with my own eyes!"

"I didn't see it. You can still run when you are so weak... That's right, the zombie virus is terrifying, but this is not a reason for you to be afraid of zombies. The first rule of adapting to this world is to have the ability to kill zombies alone!"

While Zhang Su was talking, he saw a dry cleaner with a relatively intact storefront, so he pulled the car over.

Wu Lue nodded with a tangled face, knowing that Zhang Su would definitely not fool him, and said with no confidence: "I'll try my best..."

"Why are you so spineless, damn? It's not trying your best, it's trying with all your might. Go, watch how we do it first!"

After speaking, Zhang Su got out of the car, kicked over a zombie that walked out of the ramen restaurant next to him, and then swung his axe and hammer a few times to solve the zombie.

"Did you see how to kill zombies!"

Zhang Su turned his head and said to Wu Lue, who was stunned.

"See, saw it..." Wu Lue nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. It turned out that the zombies he feared like tigers were not so hard to kill!

The others didn't need to be ordered; they had already formed a basic tacit understanding. After getting out of the car, they solved the hidden dangers first, and then gathered together.

"I believe everyone saw the zombie horde before. I feel it will walk along the road. We will rest here for the time being, eat first!"

Zhang Su ordered.

Everyone nodded and went back to the car to get food and drink.

According to the agreement, the four students only had two people's supplies, but because half of the supplies in the convenience store belonged to Kuang Miao and the others, Song Yijun and Pei Lan could also eat their fill.

The situation of Yu Wen's trio was also okay. They received two people's food from Zheng Xinyu. If they saved it, it was enough for the three of them to eat. Mainly, Yu Qing had no appetite.

"Uh, Xiaoshan, hurry up and give the medicine to Teacher Yu, use a stronger dose. Also... give her two marinated eggs, patients need nutrition."

Zhang Su felt that blind suppression was not the way. Only by combining kindness and power could he win people's hearts.

"Thank you, big brother, you are really a top-notch good person, haha!"

Zhao Dezhu was overjoyed.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang."

Yu Wen nodded repeatedly to express his thanks. From the brief contact, he judged the ability of the young man in front of him. He didn't wear colored glasses like Song Yijun; from Zhang Su's series of actions, he saw meticulousness, decisiveness, shrewdness, and ruthlessness!

Yu Wen made a decision in his heart: follow the footsteps of such a person and never fall behind!

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The IV drip is indeed faster than taking medicine. I feel much better after just one day. There are still today and tomorrow. I feel that today's dose is enough. I'll ask later if I can return tomorrow's medicine, otherwise, it's too uncomfortable to lie in the clinic for the Little New Year. Book friends, don't worry, I guarantee a 10,000-word update to celebrate once I'm comfortable!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 102 =====