Chapter 65: Weapons Are Waiting for Me
Away from the zombie gathering place, Lin Yimu let out a heavy breath, took out the map, glanced at it, and directed, “Go straight and turn left, take the side road to find the others and meet up.”
Li Zhuang responded. Only then did Lin Yimu turn sideways and ask Lu Weiyi in the back seat about the situation he had scouted inside.
“Three days ago, Li Ji and the Li Mingli brothers returned to Qingyuan City first. Last night, someone came back to have Zhuang Mingxu brought over. This morning at eight o’clock, they left with eighteen people and Zhuang Mingxu, taking some weapons and an oil tanker. They have a total of twelve ability users, with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth abilities. Two were left behind, and the rest all left.” Only then did Lu Weiyi remember that if there were two ability users inside, the zombie energy would definitely be useless against them, and surviving was certain.
There were still some who had slipped through the net. Lu Weiyi sighed inwardly.
So he wasn’t suitable for carrying out missions alone. Lu Weiyi was a bit anxious, he needed to find Zhuang Mingxu quickly.
I want to be a salted fish.
“With the oil tanker, the speed definitely won’t be too fast. We should try to find their resting place tonight and launch a surprise attack under the cover of night,” Li Zhuang analyzed.
“Mmm,” Lu Weiyi thought the same, but…
“We need to go to Dongshan County Hospital. Li Ji stored some weapons there.”
“Quite clever,”
Taking a detour, they passed a mechanical store, Li Zhuang said, “Let’s go change cars.”
“Okay,” Lin Yimu also felt that the car in front of them, which had been smashed into a mess, looked very uncomfortable.
They made a turn and stopped directly at the entrance. There weren’t many cars parked in the small county town to begin with, and some must have been driven away. There were no more than five or six parked inside. Li Zhuang pointed to three SUVs and said, “These three are good, spacious.”
They siphoned some gasoline from the tanker and evenly distributed it among the three cars. Each of them drove one out, and Lu Weiyi used his space to store the rest. When they arrived at the rendezvous point, Antonio was still leading people to clear out zombies. Seeing three brand-new cars appear, the people inside became alert for a moment. But when they saw the three of them get out of the cars, they were surprised and quickly opened the building door.
“Why so fast? Where’s Mingxu?” Ning Yuan asked anxiously, looking behind them.
“He was taken back to Qingyuan,” Lin Yimu replied. “He just left this morning at eight.”
“Alive is good, alive is good,” Ning Yuan muttered, the worry that had been secretly hanging over him finally easing a bit.
“You guys found out so quickly? We’ve only cleared three floors and were just about to lock up the middle floors and go straight to the upper floors when you returned,” Xu Sa said, then asked, “So we don’t need to clear anymore? Let’s just eat and then go chase after them.”
“Right,” Li Zhuang said.
“Then let’s just eat meat patties and buns together,” Xu Sa said, suddenly looking at Lu Weiyi with a serious expression. “Lu Xiaoyi, did you bring the generator from Guyang City?”
Lu Weiyi nodded. Xu Sa saw several people breathe a sigh of relief. “I was really afraid you wouldn’t take it if you thought it wasn’t necessary.”
Lu Weiyi looked at him with a gaze as if he were an idiot. “I just thought it wasn’t necessary to waste time and energy looking for supplies. It’s not like if something is handed to me, I’d throw it away. Did you get stupid from being in prison?”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’m stupid. What did you store? Can we have hot pot? I haven’t had it in years,” Xu Sa smacked his lips, as if saliva could drip out at any moment.
“Once we find Zhuang Mingxu, I’ll treat you to your fill,” Lu Weiyi said, his mood much better now that he knew Zhuang Mingxu’s whereabouts.
“Is there meat?” Xu Sa’s eyes lit up.
“All you can eat,” Lu Weiyi replied generously.
The two chatted and laughed as Lu Weiyi took out the prepared food, and they began to eat heartily.
Li Zhuang said while biting into a pancake, “It’s impossible for us to completely clear out the zombies in a place like a hospital. The best way to get in is to lure away some of the zombies and then go straight to where the weapons are stored, grab them and leave, and try to stay as little as possible.”
“But what can we use to lure them?” Gu Qingyue pondered. “Blood? We can’t possibly cut ourselves, right? Then we’d be moving blood bags ourselves. Sound…?”
“Here,” Xiong Jie pointed to an inconspicuous shop. Zooming in on the map, they saw the words “Fireworks and Firecrackers Retail.”
“That could work,” Li Zhuang said. “Two teams take firecrackers to lure away the zombies, and the rest go in to find the supplies.” After saying that, Li Zhuang looked at Lu Weiyi and specifically instructed, “Besides the weapons, try to bring back those medicines as well.”
Lu Weiyi gave an OK sign.
Xu Sa whispered to Lin Yimu with a smile, “He’s definitely afraid that Lu Xiaoyi will think Zhuang Mingxu will have prepared them and won’t bring them.”
Lin Yimu smiled awkwardly. Lu Weiyi kicked over, and Xu Sa, with a bun in his mouth, jumped up and dodged to the side with a chuckle.
The hospital was in a completely different direction from the safe zone. According to a normal person’s route, those who had been to the safe zone would definitely not go in this direction again. Moreover, everyone knew that at the beginning of the apocalypse, hospitals were the places with the most zombies. No one would go to such a place for no reason. So, Li Ji was indeed a clever person.
“He’s the boss of the West District Prison, went in for organized crime and murder. He’s ruthless and has many followers who are completely obedient to him. He likes young boys and has harmed several inside,” Xiong Jie said, sighing when he spoke of Li Ji.
“Isn’t anyone in charge?” Gu Qingyue was just an ordinary law-abiding citizen and found this hard to believe upon hearing it.
“There are always a few people in a prison that even the prison guards don’t want to mess with. He’s one of them,” Xu Sa said coldly, a hint of gritted teeth in his voice if you listened closely.
“Did he bully you?” Lu Weiyi, who rarely participated in conversations, looked up and sized up Xu Sa. His androgynous face could be said to appeal to both men and women. Back in school, both boys and girls had written him love letters. He had just come of age the year he went to prison, a tender age when he could be squeezed for water, so it wasn’t surprising that he was coveted.
“No,” Xu Sa pinched Lu Weiyi’s face, his voice softening a few degrees. “Before he could even make a move, you used money to bribe all the prison guards from top to bottom, and even brought the director out once. They couldn’t even curry favor with me fast enough, who would dare to go against me?”
“Our little young master also had a moment of rage for a beauty,” Li Zhuang looked at Lu Weiyi with a smile. “I really can’t quite imagine it.”
“That’s right, Little Young Master Lu was so impressive back then that I even wanted to offer myself in marriage,” Xu Sa said with a laugh, then immediately turned his head back to Lu Weiyi. “It’s not too late now. I’m so good-looking, take care of me, just feed me. I guarantee you won’t lose out…”
“Scram!” Lu Weiyi replied expressionlessly.
Amidst the laughter, Xiong Jie said again, “We’d better wipe out all of his subordinates in one go, otherwise, when he recovers, he’ll definitely try every means to retaliate against us.”
“What can a dead man do to retaliate?” Li Zhuang said nonchalantly, his light tone as if he were just talking about the meat buns he had for lunch.
The group paused, but ultimately no one refuted.
After eating, the group hurried to set off. According to the plan, they first retrieved the fireworks and firecrackers. Li Zhuang drove two cars to a place not far from the hospital and hid. Xiong Jie and Xi Shi took the lead in driving a car over, lit the firecrackers, and drove away, followed by a long string of roaring zombies, leaving a trail of dripping sticky flesh along the way.
Most of the zombies in the hospital courtyard had been lured away. Li Zhuang looked from afar and said to Antonio on the walkie-talkie, who was in the second team, “Wait a moment.”
“Something’s wrong. Most of the zombies in the courtyard have left, but not a single zombie from the first floor of the hospital has come out,” Li Zhuang turned to look at Lu Weiyi. “Do you have binoculars?”
Lu Weiyi rummaged through his space and handed over a pair of pink pig binoculars that looked like a child’s toy.
“The zombies on the first floor are locked inside, locked from the outside,” Li Zhuang said, looking through the binoculars. “We must first open the metal lock at the door, then release the zombies inside, and then light the firecrackers to lure away some of them.”
“He and Dean can’t do it,” Lu Weiyi took another pair of binoculars from his space, saw the zombies pressing their faces against the glass door of the hospital entrance, thought for a moment, and said to Antonio, “You remotely control the unlocking, and I’ll open the door.”
“Okay,” Antonio replied. After a good while, they heard Antonio say, “Done.”
“Metal abilities are really useful,” Li Zhuang glanced over and exclaimed. They saw the metal at the lock break, as if it had been cut by something. Lu Weiyi knew that Antonio had controlled and changed the shape of the metal. He immediately directed the little green branch to reach out, move the large lock aside, and then directly pulled open the two glass doors.
The distance was too far, and Lu Weiyi hadn’t scanned how many zombies were inside. Now, seeing the group rushing out one after another, he was also faintly shocked. Li Zhuang decisively said to the people in the other car parked beside them, “Gu Qingyue, Gu Qingji, after they’ve passed, lure away another group.”
“Okay,” Gu Qingji replied.
Just as the others were about to get out of their car and squeeze into this one, Lu Weiyi directly took a car out of his space, had Gu Qingji and Gu Qingyue switch cars, took a bunch of firecrackers, and immediately drove off.
After luring them away twice more, the number of zombies coming out of the hospital seemed to have decreased. At this point, Li Zhuang drove directly into the courtyard and rushed towards the lobby.
Dongshan County People’s Hospital had a total of nine floors. The first floor was divided by the lobby. The left side was the pharmacy and the cashier, and the right side was the outpatient clinic, which extended to the emergency room. The second floor was the infusion hall, emergency observation room, and traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy. The third floor was the operating room, and the floors above were the wards of various departments. In addition, there was a morgue located in the basement.
The two cars had attracted at least a hundred zombies on the first floor. Even so, there were still forty or fifty left. Forty or fifty zombies for six people meant each person had to face seven or eight zombies.
Lu Weiyi took the lead and directly manipulated the little green branch to go in. As a green branch swept across, it directly wrapped around the necks of eight or nine zombies. As he exerted force and suddenly pulled back, “crack, crack” sounds rang out, and the necks of eight or nine zombies instantly fell to the ground. Then, more zombies swarmed over, another eight or nine.
It was comparable to a zombie harvester.
This is so exciting!!!!