“…” Ning Yu’s facial muscles twitched, helplessly starting the car: “…You win.”
Zhou Rong seemed to sense something, tightly holding Si Nan’s hand, encircling him in his arms and sitting silently in the back seat.
The Jeep shuttled through the quiet abandoned area in the night, passing by deserted research buildings. After some time, Si Nan softly called out: “Zhou Rong.”
“It’s okay, don’t overthink it,” Zhou Rong whispered back. “Rong-ge just checked, this base is solid, definitely won’t break. Even if it’s breached, I’ll evacuate with the bus, and we’ll meet at the port.”
Zhou Rong buried his face in Si Nan’s neck, almost greedily inhaling the scent mixed with his own pheromones, then forcefully lifted Si Nan to sit on his lap.
Si Nan’s elbows rested on Zhou Rong’s broad shoulders, the two facing each other in the cramped back seat, foreheads touching.
“When in danger, remember to call for Si Nan…” Si Nan whispered. “No matter how far, I’ll come to rescue you…”
Zhou Rong’s eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, staring into his amber-like clear eyes.
“Hm?” Ning Yu casually asked from the front: “Aren’t you called Noah?”
Si Nan didn’t even turn back: “What’s Noah, forget about him.”
Zhou Rong couldn’t help but smile. Si Nan lowered his head, entangling in a lingering kiss with his thin, warm lips in the swaying vehicle.
Bang!
The Jeep suddenly braked, everyone caught off guard by the inertia, Yan Hao almost pulling the trigger, his face instantly turning white: “What are you doing?!”
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Ning Yu completely ignored the issue at his groin, staring intently at the shadowy figures in the headlights, squeezing out a few words through his teeth: “Something’s there.”
Yan Hao reached out to turn on the high beams, the snow-white light column extending forward, revealing a dozen swaying, unsteady figures approaching the Jeep in the vast night.
Zombies?
But how could zombies have infiltrated the base?!
“Not my doing, nothing to do with the experiment,” Ning Yu firmly stated: “Probably because all patrol teams were concentrated at the front gate tonight, a small group of zombies hidden in the northern forest broke through the wire fence. What now?”
Zhou Rong made an instant decision: “Full-speed crush!”
Zhou Rong and Yan Hao simultaneously stuck their gun barrels out the window, firing bang bang!
Seven or eight zombies instantly fell, but in the high beam’s illumination, more zombies emerged from the darkness, revealing their hideous, twisted figures. The Jeep charged forward, Zhou Rong wrapping the ammunition belt around his arm, angrily saying: “Dr. Ning! This ‘small group’ of zombies is quite numerous!”
Ning Yu: “You… you’ve seen several ten thousands…”
Dr. Ning clearly wasn’t skilled in high-risk driving. Si Nan leaned forward from the back seat, grabbing the steering wheel with one hand, and sharply turned, narrowly avoiding five or six zombies rushing towards the car’s front.
Boom boom, the car’s side sent zombies flying.”
Simultaneously, a bloody, tumbling black hand stretched through the broken window, blindly scratching, almost grabbing Zhou Rong’s neck!
Si Nan opened the car door and pushed hard, followed by a flying kick, sending the zombie tumbling away, instantly disappearing into the black night behind the car.
“Five hundred meters ahead is the signal tower! See the gray building!” Yan Hao shouted amid the continuous submachine gun fire: “Captain, should we grab a couple of positioning devices…”
Yan Hao turned back to see Zhou Rong facing Si Nan.
Zhou Rong brazenly pointed his gun: “In the middle of the night! As an Alpha, I have the duty to maintain my wife’s good mood! What do you want to say?”
Ning Yu’s driving was extremely unstable, causing the vehicle to shake constantly. Yan Hao supported the seat back and pointed forward, Zhou Rong following his hand to see several buildings emerging among the trees, with the signal transmission tower built on top of one.
Yan Hao asked: “Chen Yajing said she repaired the communication station, the signal tower should work. Want to try grabbing a couple of positioning devices?”
This seemed feasible. The positioning devices could emit a specific frequency wave to allow headquarters to unilaterally lock onto them, but due to hardware limitations, the signal had always been weak.
Using the transmission tower to enhance the frequency wave and increase radiation range would dramatically increase the likelihood of headquarters receiving the positioning signal by hundreds or thousands of times.
“Useless,” came the reply.
Three people looked over simultaneously. Ning Yu said calmly, “During the disaster outbreak, we tried calling hundreds of times, but no one paid any attention. Although you insist on the so-called military, I must be frank… the military probably no longer exists.”
Yan Hao shot down zombies lunging towards the Jeep from the roadside, looking questioningly at Zhou Rong. Zombies flickering in the night gradually gathered in groups. Once the base had a breach, the zombies that infiltrated would only increase with time.
Zhou Rong pondered for a few seconds. Si Nan leaned by the car window, one eye slightly narrowed and fixed on the sight, giving an almost imperceptible nod.
“—Let’s try,” Zhou Rong made a decision, saying, “We’re using the military’s top-secret communication channel, worth taking a risk. You two give me your earpieces. Later, drop me off at the signal tower; Yan Hao will escort Si Nan and Dr. Ning to find the helicopter. After I send the signal, I’ll rendezvous with you…”
Yan Hao said, “No, Captain, I’ll go instead; you escort Si Nan and the others.”
Zhou Rong coldly replied, “What are you talking about? Your shooting is terrible.”
You failed the electronic communications course at military school, don’t think I didn’t check your graduation transcripts…”
Yan Hao: “Da Ding was the one who failed! I shoot very well, want to test me?!”
Zhou Rong: “Oh? Who’s testing whom? Come on…”
A gunshot interrupted them, with Si Nan shooting down two zombies in one shot, seriously saying: “Dr. Ning, please drop me off at the signal tower. Let these two go get a room.”
“Let me go, Captain,” Yan Hao sighed, “The zombie numbers are controllable, not that dangerous. I’ll come down after sending the signal, Si Nan can give me some extra bullets… I’ll be completely fine on my own.”
The Jeep screeched to a stop in front of the signal tower, with a gray concrete building standing quietly in the darkness two hundred meters away.
Zhou Rong was silent for a few seconds, then hoarsely said: “Thank you.”
Yan Hao opened the car door, blasting several zombies seven or eight meters away, then turned back with a slight smile: “We’re brothers, what thanks are needed?” Then he swiftly exited the car and sprinted towards the building housing the signal tower.
At this time, there weren’t too many zombies on the open ground, roughly less than a hundred. Ning Yu pressed the accelerator again, covering two hundred meters in just a few seconds, stopping like lightning in front of the gray concrete building.
Zhou Rong jumped out and shot the door lock, Si Nan providing cover, both protecting Ning Yu in the middle. They rushed into the silent lobby and pushed through the safety door before zombies could follow.
The building was long without electricity, the stairwell pitch black. Ning Yu stumbled every three steps, eventually being almost carried by Si Nan, quickly ascending seven or eight floors to the top.
“Here… here…” Ning Yu was breathless, his gold-rimmed glasses askew, using his last bit of strength to push open the door to the rooftop.
Under the sky, the rooftop was covered by a huge gray tarp. Zhou Rong and Si Nan worked together to pull it down, revealing a small helicopter.
