Chapter 46 - 45: Leave No Survivors
The person who escaped from the duty office was shouting as he went upstairs,
but on the eleventh floor, a few people were playing mahjong.
At first, they vaguely heard the sound of a loudspeaker coming from downstairs but didn’t pay much attention, intending to go down later to check it out—
the man with the horse-like face sitting in the center was about to win the game, with a cigarette in his mouth.
But at this moment, as the duty office person continued to call out while ascending,
the sound grew louder, and Horse-Face finally realized something was wrong and couldn’t sit still anymore.
He ran a few steps to the staircase of the eleventh floor and saw the duty office person, panting and not daring to stop as he climbed.
Horse-Face was about to scold the duty office person for making such a fuss.
But then he heard a shout from behind: "Brother Ma, the zombies are all below, hiss, so freakin’ many of them!"
Horse-Face immediately turned around and looked towards the staircase.
He saw the duty office person who had slowed down a bit due to fatigue from the climb,
but with a slight turn of his head, he saw behind the duty office person, a horde of zombies closely following!
Bang!
Horse-Face made a split-second decision and promptly closed the door to the eleventh floor.
As the old saying goes, better for the Tao to die than for the fellow Taoists.
Seeing this, the duty office person pushed the door of the eleventh floor but found it completely immovable, and a sense of despair took over him, eventually giving up on pushing the door.
He looked up the stairs and continued upward, but now, he dared not shout loudly anymore.
What if the people upstairs also closed the door when they heard zombies were coming?
On the twelfth floor, there were also about a dozen people idling around, each doing their own thing.
Thump, thump, thump—the duty office person had climbed about ten floors in one go and was gasping for breath as he looked at the door on the twelfth floor, only four steps away.
Just then!
A man who got up to go to the bathroom saw the duty office person on the stairs and also the throng of zombies behind him.
"Zombies are coming!!!" The man about to use the restroom shouted loudly.
Everyone was instantly startled and gathered at the doorway.
And at that moment, the man who was about to use the bathroom closed the door to the twelfth floor!
He saw the plea in the eyes of the duty office person, but the zombies were just too close!
Bang!
The door to the twelfth floor was also shut.
Rage flared in the heart of the duty office person, thinking to himself: if they didn’t want to open the door to save me, then I won’t let them off easily!
He had always been one of the lower status members in this group, so all the dirty work was left to him.
He knew the rooftop terrace was where they committed their evil deeds, and anger surged in his heart.
So he continued to run upstairs, heading straight for the rooftop.
What he didn’t expect was that this group of people weren’t afraid to commit evil deeds in broad daylight, but now they had even closed the door.
At this moment, he was on the verge of tears.
If only he had known, he would have entered on some floor downstairs; if only he had known, he wouldn’t have tipped them off about the zombies; if only he had known, he wouldn’t have joined these people...
But zombies don’t care about your if-onlys.
The swarm of zombies flooded in, and the duty office person closed his eyes in despair.
Creak, crunch...
The duty office person was tackled by zombies and torn apart and eaten.
Downstairs, the loudspeaker—whether because of damage caused by the zombies or because it broke when Yang Tianlong threw something at it—stopped making noise.
Suddenly,
Drip...
The alarm sound that Li Yu and the others had heard earlier started up again, louder than ever, seeming as if it could be heard throughout the entire city.
At the Lotus Mart, zombies were roaring at the entrance, but they couldn’t push the doors open.
As the alarm blared, the zombies were drawn by the louder sound, wandering downstairs towards its source.
Watching the zombies flood into Lotus Mart like a tide and then retreat just as swiftly,
Li Yu and the others behind the mart felt utterly dejected.
On this hidden alleyway, Li Yu and his group clearly saw the zombies ascend the building and now watched as they continuously streamed out.
Felt like the freaking gods were against them...
This timing, could it be any more coincidental?
Li Yu glanced in the direction of the honking, his eyes flashing with a cold intent.
"Brother Yu, what do we do now?" Li Tie asked.
Li Yu looked at the zombies still running towards the source of the honking, pondered for a moment, and said, "Wait, we’ll wait for the zombies to leave, then we’ll deal with these people!"
Twenty minutes later, the zombies had all left one after another.
Li Yu and the others drove their vehicle to the base of the Lotus Shopping Mall, where they saw the smashed loudspeaker.
"Let’s go, time to deal with the trouble!" Li Yu led the charge, gun in hand and knife on his back as he rushed forward.
The four men followed closely behind.
Suddenly, as if Li Yu had remembered something, he turned back and said, "Don’t leave any survivors from this group!"
The four men nodded.
Upstairs!
They searched floor by floor.
But they didn’t see a single person; they encountered several zombies, all of which were swiftly dealt with.
Finally, they arrived at the eleventh floor and saw a closed door.
Recalling that all the other floors had open doors, it was only the eleventh floor’s door that was closed.
The men exchanged glances, already having a rough idea.
The door was wooden but tightly locked. Li Yu didn’t hesitate and fired his gun directly at it; two screams emanated from behind the door.
Looking at the wooden door riddled with bullets, the once sturdy door was now akin to paper mache.
He kicked it down.
The door broke!
Li Yu and the others entered, seeing the panicked faces of Ma Lian and others.
So he asked, "Who else is there? Where’s your boss?"
Ma Lian looked fearfully at the guns in the five men’s hands and said, "Brother Sheng is on the top floor, on the top floor..."
Having received the answer he wanted, Li Yu fired his gun, and several people fell into a pool of blood.
Upstairs.
The people on the twelfth floor were initially relieved to see the zombies had left downstairs, but were startled by the sudden gunfire and couldn’t figure out what was happening.
Wanting to grasp what was going on, they sent someone to crack the door slightly and have a peek.
The person looked down the corridor, saw no zombies, and felt a hint of relief at having escaped danger.
But at that moment, the door was pushed open.
He looked up and saw the almost smiling face of Li Yu.
He was startled and fell backward.
Li Yu took the opportunity to open the door fully.
Looking at the people inside, the four others also surged in.
At that moment, the gang from the top floor finally seemed to snap back to reality, with several shirtless men descending.
Among them, a man with a snake tattoo on his chest and wearing glasses boisterously yelled, "What’s with all the damn noise? You’re ruining my good time!"
He was about to step inside when he suddenly saw Li Yu and the others.
Especially noting that all four men were holding guns.
The man with glasses halted, attempting to back away.
Li Yu, seeing this, said, "You must be Brother Sheng, right?"
The man with glasses broke into a sweat and awkwardly smiled, trying to ingratiate himself, "Bro, bro, just call me Little Sheng, my name is Zhou Sheng, you can call me Little Zhou too, okay? What’s all this about? Seeing you with guns, I’m quite scared. Haha." His voice was full of fawning.
Li Yu, seeing that there were more people behind Sheng, pointed with his chin towards the corridor and signaled Li Tie and Li Gang with his eyes.
The two understood and walked directly to the corridor. One stood at the corridor entrance, the other at the door; no one was going to escape.
At that moment, Li Yu looked toward where the glasses man had come from, figuring there must be more people upstairs.
He pointed his gun at the men who had just come down from the rooftop and ordered them to stand together with the people from the twelfth floor.
Then he and Zhang Tianlong went upstairs to the rooftop to check.
On the rooftop...
Li Yu saw a ground covered with white flesh and several men lost in their depravity, oblivious to all else.
One of the men, with a scar on his face, showed no care that the person beneath him seemed lifeless.
Yang Tianlong was seething with rage at the sight.
Li Yu’s face was devoid of expression; before his rebirth, he had seen too many similarly heartless acts.
Yang Tianlong’s face was grim and his eyes revealed a merciless glint as he muttered, "Yuzi, you were right, these people deserve to die!"
Every word was laden with murderous intent.