Chapter 23: Heroic Sacrifice (Book friends with investment slots, please help)

After more than half an hour, Zhang Su let Zheng Xin stop to rest, while he continued.

It wasn't that he was soft-hearted, nor was he strict with himself and lenient with others, but because in a situation where accidents could happen at any time, one couldn't train to the point of exhaustion—at least one had to retain the strength to resist.

"How do you feel?"

After the training, Zhang Su asked Zheng Xin about her feelings while cleaning up with wet wipes.

Zheng Xin had already tidied up and was sitting to the side in clean pajamas, holding an energy drink. She shrugged and said: "I feel I can still add a little intensity, it's not too tiring."

She wasn't not tired, but she felt Zhang Su's effort, and there was an inexplicable sense of tension in her heart.

Zheng Xin was a PUBG streamer who often played in squads. She knew very well the helplessness of not being able to carry teammates. Many times, it really wasn't that she didn't want to save them, but that there was really no way...

She didn't want to be the one crawling in the grass.

"Fine, we'll increase the training intensity little by little, otherwise it's easy to get injured."

As he spoke, Zhang Su walked to the window to observe the situation outside and couldn't help but sigh: "It's getting quieter outside. By the way, Xin, I thought of something when I was killing zombies today..."

The two discussed many issues about zombies, summarized the experience of solving zombies today, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

After ten o'clock at night, Zhang Su lay in bed with his eyes open, unable to sleep. A day ago, he had been woken up from his sleep by Zheng Xin, and then experienced a crazy day, and this craziness would continue, with no end in sight.

"Luezi, Xiaoxue... I wonder how those two are doing."

There weren't many people Zhang Su cared about, but his two employees definitely ranked at the top. They were among the few people in this world he was quite familiar with, and who were quite familiar with him.

Occasionally, he would also think of a certain ex-girlfriend...

Turning over, Zhang Su suddenly felt his hair stand on end. He sat up and said to the door with a bad temper: "Are you a ghost? Walking without a sound!"

In the darkness, a silhouette stood at the door—it was Zheng Xin, hugging a quilt.

Due to a special thought, Zhang Su hadn't closed the door tonight, as if he had anticipated Zheng Xin would run over.

"There's screaming, I'm scared..."

Zheng Xin said in a low voice.

Her bedroom was at the very end of the building. The open environment combined with the silence of the night made her hear many sounds she didn't want to hear: heart-wrenching cries, hoarse pleas for help, painful moans, and the howls of zombies like wild beasts.

She tried wearing headphones to make the world quiet, but losing her hearing in the darkness made her even more terrified.

Zhang Su moved over and patted the bed: "Come on, I specialize in taking in helpless girls, but I will be handsy!"

Zheng Xin didn't hesitate at all, quickly darting onto Zhang Su's bed. She felt relieved and let out a long breath, then laughed: "It sounds like I won't be handsy, heh!"

"Rebelling, are you!"

Zhang Su raised his hand to slap Zheng Xin's butt, but this time he didn't succeed.

Zheng Xin had anticipated Zhang Su's move and used a box to block his evil hand.

Zhang Su knew what it was as soon as he touched the plastic film on the paper box. The atmosphere was right, it was late at night, and it was indeed a good time for a smoke.

Taking a cigarette from the box, he lit it. The tense emotions were relieved to the extreme between puffs, and his taut nerves finally had time to rest.

The first night of the zombie outbreak should have been the hardest to sleep through. After the relaxation of the cigarette, the two fell into a deep sleep, and when they opened their eyes again, it was still pitch black.

Rat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat-tat... Boom...

A series of gunshots shattered the silence, the terrifying roar shook the sky, casting a red glow on the curtains.

Zhang Su and Zheng Xin opened their eyes almost at the same time.

"What sound?"

Zheng Xin asked in terror. People in the Celestial Empire weren't sensitive to the sounds of guns and artillery.

"Gunshots, and artillery? Hurry and look..."

Zhang Su wasn't unfamiliar with it, hearing it every day in games. Zheng Xin was different; she mainly played for the atmosphere and show effects, and she hadn't noticed the game sounds of PUBG at all...

Too busy to put on clothes, Zhang Su ran to the window and found that on the street far to the west of the complex where the explosion hadn't occurred, fire was flashing and smoke was rising.

Through the fire and lights, one could see many people moving while firing, the firelight intertwining in the night to form a halo, trying to block the erosion of evil!

The explosions that rang out from time to time were suspected to be grenades, just like a battlefield, quite shocking.

"Over there, it's probably the army. There's a large amount of thermal weapons clearing out zombies. Haha, we're stable now!"

Zhang Su said with an excited expression.

Facing a bad environment, he was optimistic and didn't bow his head, but he hoped to restore order as soon as possible because his original life was quite good.

"Really, my god, I think I saw a tank. Was that a tank just now?"

Zheng Xin hugged Zhang Su's arm, so excited her eyes were wet.

"That's an armored vehicle. It doesn't look like the army; those are special police armored vehicles. It's very likely those people from the helicopter yesterday. In any case, we're saved!"

A relaxed look appeared on Zhang Su's face, feeling that in the face of powerful thermal weapons, zombies would only be wiped out.

However, his smile quickly stiffened on his face. The fire from the gun barrels was gradually blocked by the buildings, and what followed into view was a black mass, filling the entire street...

"Those... are zombie swarms!"

Due to the distance and light, Zhang Su couldn't see the specific situation, but he could be sure that the entire area was terrifying zombies!

Hair standing on end, gasping for air, scalp tingling! Even separated by two or three hundred meters, the oppressive feeling of covering the sky and blocking the sun still made one feel cold from the bottom of their heart.

Facing an enemy, there was a possibility of negotiation, but facing a sea of zombies...

Those bloodthirsty monsters were born for blood and food and would never leave a glimmer of life for living things.

"Damn it, why are there so many? This... this is not good!"

How Zhang Su and the other wanted to see the end of the black mass, but unfortunately, before they could wait for the end of the zombie swarm, the gunshots gradually weakened.

One could imagine how much ammunition was needed to support that kind of overwhelming firepower. When the ammunition was exhausted, the firearms lost their effect...

Boom! With a fire rising into the sky, the window trembled slightly. After the explosion, all gunshots fell silent. Besides the raging flames, it was as if nothing had happened.

Thud.

Zhang Su sat on the ground in disbelief, not caring at all about the coldness of the floor.

"Zhang Su, those special police..."

Zheng Xin asked blankly.

"Sacrificed."

A heavy answer.

Those warriors turned their lives into brilliant light, trying hard to drive away the filth of evil!

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