Everyone moved instantly, each face showing urgency. Zhou Rong turned back and shouted to Guo Weixiang, who was heading to the garage: “Don’t leave Ying Jie behind!”
Guo Weixiang’s nose tingled: “Understood!”
The people transporting explosives were almost running back and forth. Zhou Rong did not have time to wipe oil, personally moving the “Flying Fire Meteor” for Si Nan, half-burying the extremely powerful nitroglycerin in the path of the zombie tide, shouting for someone to urge Guo Weixiang.
Whoosh— The second signal flare rose into the sky! Chun Cao’s deafening roar erupted in the distant black night: “Everyone evacuate—! Quickly quickly quickly!!” Survivors ran back in a panic, while Zhou Rong unloaded the assault rifle from his shoulder, holding it in front of him and striding against the human flow.
“Captain Zhou!” A sharp female voice suddenly broke through the chaos: “Captain Zhou, something’s wrong!”
Zhou Rong trembled at the words “something’s wrong”.
Turning back, he saw Wu Xinyan stumbling and running from the direction of the factory dormitory, her hair disheveled and face flushed: “Cap—Captain Zhou, Dr. Zheng, Dr. Zheng told me…”
“The pregnant woman cannot be moved.” She staggered to a stop, catching her breath, saying in despair: “She can’t leave, she’s having a difficult labor.”
He had just finished speaking when a loud boom erupted nearby. The zombie tide stepped into the minefield, instantly triggering a world-shaking chain of explosions!
In the ink-black night, a life-and-death chase measured in seconds was unfolding. North of the highway, explosions gradually pushed forward, the zombie legion staggering but purposeful, rows of fragmented corpses falling on the road, carpeting the ground with layers of rotting flesh and black blood. More zombies howled, treading on this carpet, continuing toward the fertilizer factory, falling one after another, tireless. In the distance from City B, an endless tide of corpses surged, forming an overwhelming wave. Guo Weixiang escorted all the remaining people from the dormitory building into the armored vehicle, except for Dr. Zheng and the pregnant woman, and received the first batch of survivors brought by Ding Shi, almost bursting the vehicle. Ding Shi returned almost like lightning, and before the car could fully stop, more than ten people could be seen rushing toward them against the backdrop of sky-high flames. “Where’s the pregnant woman—!
Zhou Rong shouted. Ding Shi was almost crying: “Can’t give birth! Can’t be moved! I had Xiangzi drive the armored vehicle south first!” “Chun Cao, Si Nan, get in the back seat!” Zhou Rong yanked open the driver’s door, signaling Ding Shi to move: “I’ll drive, quickly go to the dormitory building to get the pregnant woman. Just remove a door panel and carry her!” Ding Shi: “Don’t know, Xiangzi said moving would cause massive bleeding…” Zhou Rong: “You don’t understand, this is how they do it in TV dramas!” Chun Cao yelled from the back of the vehicle: “I know, I know, the female lead in the second season of the Village Committee did it this way, no problem!” Si Nan: “Zombies are coming!” The first wave of zombies dragged their feet, shrieking, crowding into the gap in the northern fence of the factory area. Ding Shi leaped from the passenger seat, climbing onto the roof with a flamethrower, firing at the rear. Instantly, a fire dragon roared out, covering the sky and burning rows of zombies to carbon ash! Zhou Rong slammed the accelerator, and the biochemical vehicle howled away. Chun Cao stuck out his head and shouted: “Two o’clock ahead, Brother Rong, be careful!”
The flamethrower triggered a second explosion of nitroglycerin, and Si Nan’s meticulously etched millions of glass fragments erupted, slicing through countless zombie heads in the hurricane. However, there were too many zombies, and the remaining fence could not withstand them, quickly collapsing under the overwhelming zombie legion. Corpse tides from all directions converged on the entire factory area! Zhou Rong steered with one hand and shifted gears with the other, the biochemical vehicle performing multiple drifts, cutting a bloody path with moves rivaling an F1 race car, mercilessly grinding several zombies into bone fragments. “Tsss—” A sharp sound of tire friction, and the biochemical vehicle steadily stopped at the dormitory building, Zhou Rong loudly commanding: “Chun Cao, go up to get the pregnant woman! Ding Shi, provide cover!” Chun Cao shouldered an assault rifle, kicked open the door, and rushed down. Si Nan’s hoarse voice said: “I’ll go with you.” In the rearview mirror, Zhou Rong’s brow jumped, about to speak but stopping. Si Nan turned back and waved to Zhou Rong, carrying a submachine gun and jumping down.
Ding Shi activated the flamethrower again, instantly clearing the staggering zombies behind the car. Just as he was about to switch to the Type 89 heavy machine gun for precision shooting, a cry erupted from the crowd in the vehicle: ”Behind! Behind!” Ding Shi looked back to see Si Nan and Chun Cao rushing into the dormitory building, immediately followed by a zombie tide that seemed to have emerged from nowhere, blocking the pregnant woman’s escape route. ”Damn!” Ding Shi grabbed the flamethrower and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. —High-energy gasoline was depleted, no more fire! ”Brother Rong!” Ding Shi looked back to see the zombie tide at the rear of the vehicle getting closer, less than a hundred meters away! Their armored biochemical vehicle was already riddled with holes, its windows shattered by Chun Cao’s rocket launcher when entering the city center. Not to mention the vehicle’s low chassis—once surrounded by the zombie tide, everyone in the car would be beyond salvation! Amidst the fearful screams of everyone in the vehicle, Zhou Rong remained calm, but his face was unmistakably pale, cold sweat rolling down from his sideburns.
“Si Nan, pay attention, Si Nan,” he opened the vehicle’s loudspeaker, asking in a low voice: “You might not be able to retreat, report the pregnant woman’s situation.”
Meanwhile, inside the dormitory building. The pregnant woman’s dying screams grew more urgent, half of Dr. Zheng’s body covered in blood, eyes filled with blood vessels, suddenly erupting in a joyous roar: “I see the head! I see the head!!”
Si Nan and Chun Cao looked at the dense zombie tide below, exchanging a glance, with no joy in their eyes. “Si Nan, Chun Cao,” Zhou Rong’s voice slightly trembling: “Report the situation.”
Crash! The Type 89 heavy machine gun roared in Ding Shi’s furious cry, yet ultimately unable to stop death’s advancing steps. The first zombie hit the vehicle’s side, numbly striking and shattering the rear window. Broken glass scattered onto the back seat, everyone crouching and crying out in terror!
“Keep going!” Dr. Zheng screamed: “Push! Push harder!”
“Let’s go, Brother Rong,” Si Nan murmured. He took a deep breath, suddenly leaning out the window, shouting with all his might: “Go, Brother Rong! Go!!” In the driver’s seat, Zhou Rong closed his eyes.
The zombies gathered in increasing numbers, with both side windows smashed.
Zombies stretched their hands into the car, grabbing around above the survivors’ heads; some even grabbed the rear ladder, trying to climb onto the roof to catch Ding Shi.
Zhou Rong opened his eyes and pressed down on the accelerator.
The biochemical vehicle slowly turned around in the zombie tide, crushing rows of undead beneath its wheels, carving out a bloody path like a ship cutting through the sea.
“Si Xiaonan, wait for me,” came Zhou Rong’s concise and powerful voice through the speaker: “Rong-ge will be back soon.”
Si Nan leaned against the window sill, watching the biochemical vehicle slowly drive away, becoming an inconspicuous black dot among the rushing zombies.
