"What should we do?" Jiang Roulan glanced my way while biting her lip and furrowing her brows. The current situation wasn't positive—not long after leaving my apartment, we found ourselves surrounded by zombies.
I extended my arm, motioning her to lower herself.
"Careful, get down..."
Wang Yun shifted behind while heaving, almost giving away our position.
We hid behind a group of cars and a huge metal bin.
At first, it was quite simple to fight through the zombies, kill one, kill two.
However, once the zombies appeared in groups of twelve or more, their danger quickly increased. I felt confident in fighting them for a while, but the issue was that their numbers constantly increased with all the noise.
Zombies shambled around the cars, dragging their legs with low groans, eating away at our collective sanity.
Me and Roulan would be fine, but Wang Yun might not last long.
"Why did we come here?"
"Because Roulan needed something."
I whispered, trying to get my point across without raising my voice.
Roulan shifted closer to me and looked over the hood of the car. Her eyes focused on the police station to the left and the apartments in our vision. I placed a hand on her waist, ready to pull her down at a moment's notice while observing the surrounding zombies.
'At least a hundred...'
Jiang Roulan turned around with a look of uncertainty, but her lips curled into a slight grin as her eyes sparkled with a strange flicker of light.
"Up there, can you see the beams leading to the convenience store?"
Following her finger to the large beams connecting the buildings, I could barely make out the steel structure supporting the signs and electrical wires.
Although it could hold our weight, I felt nervous about Wang Yun...
Wang Yun had been acting like an entitled student from the West, shouting and complaining whenever Jiang Roulan led us to this area, telling us to go back.
"Do you think we can do it?"
"Let me go first..." Jiang Roulan said.
I nodded as she crawled across the gap and then climbed on top of the garbage bin. I put my foot against the metal box to avoid creating noise that would attract zombies as she scaled up to the top.
"Come on." Roulan excitedly waved down at me.
My eyes glanced towards Wang Yun, who was looking around in a panic.
I felt like he might be the death of us, and I felt anxious about him messing something up. He nodded, the fear on his face clear before he started to make his way up to Jiang Roulan.
The zombies started to approach us, but it was too slow to matter.
Once Wang Yun was halfway up, he suddenly slipped...
His cry echoed through the street.
The zombies shambled closer, in a larger group, now that our position was compromised. I shifted to the back of the car, picked up the lid of the garbage bin, and tossed it into the air; my arms ached from the heavy steel before it slammed down, crushing several zombies.
There wasn't any need to be quiet now.
I started running and jumped into the air, kicking off the back wall, then pushing myself off and grabbing the ledge Wang Yun almost fell from.
Jiang Roulan couldn't help me as she was dragging Wang Yun up.
But that didn't matter.
I sucked in a deep breath, then pulled myself up, the zombies now gathering at our feet.
Groaning and clicking their jaws.
Once on top of the beam, Jiang Roulan pointed toward the convenience store, but now it seemed dangerous to follow this path. At one point, the beam tipped close to the ground and within biting range—if one of them got caught, the danger would be far too much.
And despite how it might have seemed to them.
I wasn't some magical genius who could come up with a plan instantly, first observing the area and checking places or things I could use.
The zombies lingered around the base of the building. Below the steel beam was a small store canopy which would stop us from falling.
There was a path using those, but it involved a long jump to reach the convenience store outside the apartment. The thing that made me doubtful was the number of zombies near the apartment.
'How much were those grenades?'
[System Message: Explosive grenades 1000 ZKP]
Three grenades appeared in my hands, cold and heavy with slight rivets. But the sound of the explosion would only draw more zombies, so for the best usage, wouldn't it be best to draw them closer first?
"Jiang Roulan, Wang Yun... follow me!"
I ran across the steel beam to the canopy while storing the three grenades, with Jiang Roulan following behind. Wang Yun, however, hesitated before catching up, lagging far behind.
We stood at the place closest to the bar, where I pulled out my smartphone and flicked through the most irritating sound files and set my alarm to go off in five minutes.
"Jiang Roulan, Wang Yun... both of you, rush across that bar now!"
"NOW, FUCKING GO!" I screamed, scaring Wang Yun, who almost stumbled from the sudden shift in tone.
Jiang Roulan looked at me before I took out a grenade, and she suddenly moved while glancing back at me several times.
Although I didn't know the strength of these things, I still believed they could help, even if it was only for a moment. The weaker zombies didn't see well, but they picked up on the scent of blood and sound well.
"Phew... they're coming."
Zombies from all down the street gradually shambled towards us. I could feel my chest pounding from the excitement and anxiety of this moment. I grasped the grenade and watched them amassing just below me, hammering the wall with a low thud.
A metallic clink sounded as I pulled the pin.
The zombies grouped up as I tossed the grenade into the centre of them, jumping back against the wall as I prepared for the explosion.