End of the World

"Where are the second and third rows?" Gong Shusen looked around. Apart from the zombies on the ground, it seemed that they were the only isolated unit.

"map!"

The deputy platoon leader immediately took out a map and handed it to Gong Shusen.

"The location is correct!" Gong Shusen put down the map and turned his head to the communicator and said, "Contact them and ask them where they are!"

"Yes!"

The communicator quickly contacted the corresponding troops by radio.

"Report to the platoon leader, they are all on the hill to the west!"

"West? Damn it, isn't this a betrayal for our teammates?" Gong Shusen almost burst into curse. They were supposed to land directly at the warehouse, but they went to the west.

"Platoon leader, Platoon Leader Yang asked us whether we should wait for them to act together?" asked the communicator.

Gong Shusen glanced at the zombies surrounding the cage and said, "We won't wait any longer. It's a waste of time!"

Hundreds of zombies gathered around the warehouse, and a row of them were temporarily safe on the top of the warehouse, but how to get down was a problem.

The warehouse has been breached by zombies, so there are also a considerable number of zombies inside the warehouse.

"Platoon leader, we've done some reconnaissance. If we close the warehouse door, we can catch the turtle in the jar!" Deputy platoon leader Guo Chang brought his men back to report after the reconnaissance.

"Is this turtle a zombie or us?" Gong Shusen didn't think it was that simple.

"The warehouse door is controlled by a hydraulic motor and we can't close it manually!"

"There is a ventilation duct on the roof. How about I take some people in to restore the power!" Guo Chang asked.

"The distribution room is on the first floor, but it's useless now. If we want to restore power, we can only go down to the power room in the warehouse!" Gong Shusen took out a simple map of the warehouse and circled the location of the underground floor of the warehouse. He only knew that the power room was on this floor.

"The situation on the underground floor is complicated, so I'll lead people in and you stay outside!" said Gong Shusen.

"But...!" Guo Chang still wanted to argue.

"This is an order!"

"Yes...!" Guo Chang compromised. He was promoted to deputy platoon leader as an exception. The original platoon did not have a deputy rank, and he knew Gong Shusen's temper.

"Class one and class two, get ready!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers from squad one and squad two responded loudly.

The main storage areas of the strategic warehouses are underground, and the underground part can be entered through the main ventilation ducts. The anti-submarine fans in the ventilation ducts have stopped due to lack of electricity, so the ventilation ducts are still very safe.

The third battalion is a reconnaissance battalion and is equipped with some night vision equipment. The soldiers of the first and second squads equipped with night vision goggles lead the way, while the others only rely on the tactical flashlights on their rifles to provide vision.

The underground warehouse with power outage is darker than night, and the roar of zombies can be heard from time to time in the darkness, which is terrifying, even for trained soldiers. Fear of darkness is the nature of many creatures.

The only sound in the ventilation duct was the soldiers' breathing. Of course, when people crawled through the ventilation duct, a series of metallic bumps and grooves would be heard, causing the zombies below to roar wildly.

After crawling forward for more than ten minutes, the leading soldier estimated that he had entered the underground warehouse area and found a ventilation hole to leave the passage.

The leading soldier had a silencer installed on his gun, and he killed the nearby zombies cleanly and efficiently as soon as he came out of the passage. The scout was good at killing the enemy silently.

Gong Shusen successfully led the first and second shifts into the warehouse, but they lost their direction. This place was more like a transportation channel, and the channel was a bit sloped. The main warehouse should be below, and the underground gate of the warehouse was behind it.

"Team one will follow me to the main warehouse area, and Team two will go to the underground gate. When we passed through the ventilation duct of the gate, I noticed that the gate was half closed. You find a way to block the door first!" Gong Shusen arranged the tasks.

"Yes! We will ensure that the task is completed!" replied the squad leader of Class 2.

"Be careful, and meet us at the main library when you're done!"

Watching the soldiers of the second squad disappear into the darkness, Gong Shusen said to the soldiers around him: "Quick, mark it!"

The soldier took out the prepared fluorescent spray and drew marks on the wall. The fluorescent spray on the wall was particularly conspicuous in the dark.

Gong Shusen led his men to the main warehouse. In front of them was a huge and empty warehouse. There was nothing in the warehouse except a few trucks and zombies. It seemed that the Longshan Shelter had consumed a lot of ammunition.

"Get rid of these annoying guys!" Gong Shusen gave the order.

There were not too many zombies in the warehouse, and they seemed sparse, so the fighters killed them with daggers or bayonets.

The blood on the zombies in the warehouse was still fresh. They should be mutated survivors of the Longshan Shelter. Among these zombies, there were soldiers and ordinary people, and a few were doctors and nurses. The blood on their white coats was very eye-catching.

Chen Guangjun stabbed a female nurse zombie to death and Fang Xiaoyun's face suddenly flashed through his mind. He couldn't help but sigh. Doctors and nurses are the most important human resources in the apocalypse. What a pity.

"Why are you sighing, Brother Jun?" A soldier in the same squad heard Chen Guangjun sigh. His name is Chen Haitao. He gets along well with Chen Guangjun and is two years younger than Chen Guangjun.

"I wonder when this will end!"

"It will probably take a long time!" Chen Haitao shrugged.

"Forget it!" Chen Guangjun shook his head and stopped thinking about it, concentrating on assassinating the next zombie.

"Platoon leader, there are two large warehouses here!" After killing the zombies, squad leader Zeng Jincheng discovered a floor plan of the underground warehouse.

Gong Shusen killed the zombie, then came over and picked up the floor plan to study it.

Gong Shusen looked around the warehouse and said, "If that's Warehouse No. 2, then the passage to the power room is on the left!"

The soldiers all nodded, agreeing with the platoon leader's statement. They could understand it if they looked at the floor plan carefully.

At this time, there was a sudden burst of fierce gunfire from the direction of the basement gate. It should be that Team 2 had encountered trouble. Gong Shusen hurriedly looked at the floor plan and found that there were two transportation passages over there at the underground gate, and another one led to the No. 3 main warehouse.

"Zeng Jincheng, you, Chen Guangjun and Chen Haitao stay here and go to the power room after killing the zombies. Everyone else, follow me to support Class Two!" Gong Shusen ordered. Class Two was very likely to engage in a firefight with the zombies in Warehouse No. 3.

"Yes!"

"Chen Guangjun, Chen Haitao, you two follow me!" Zeng Jincheng shouted to them.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Chen Guangjun and Chen Haitao immediately gave up fighting with the zombies and formed a three-person team with the squad leader. The others followed Gong Shusen to support Class 2. There were not many zombies in this large warehouse, and three people were enough to deal with them.

"The platoon leader asked us to go to the power room, so be careful!" Zeng Jincheng stared at the zombies running towards them, turned his head slightly and said to the two of them.

"You should make the zombies careful!" Chen Guangjun did not take the zombies in front of him seriously.

"Yes, I can't wait either!" Chen Haitao also said.

"Okay! Finish the work quickly and go support the platoon leader!" Zeng Jincheng said, and rushed towards a zombie without hesitation. He stabbed the zombie's head accurately with his bayonet and killed it cleanly and neatly.

Chen Guangjun and Chen Haitao are not bad either. They are both good at fighting zombies. If there are fewer zombies, they will not pose any threat at all.

“There’s no one left standing!” The three looked around and confirmed that all the visible zombies were eliminated.

"go!"

Zeng Jincheng led the way, and the three of them soon arrived at a fire door, behind which was the passage to the power room.

The three entered the passage. There were no zombies in the passage, only a few rotten corpses on the ground.

Chen Guangjun squatted next to a corpse and examined it. He said, "They were shot to death. They should be the guards of the warehouse!"

"Why did they die here?" Chen Haitao asked.

"I don't know, let's go!" Zeng Jincheng glanced at the corpses and stepped over.

There is a fire door at the end of the tunnel, and behind the door is the power room. Zeng Jincheng went up and found that the door was locked.

“Locked!”

Chen Haitao also stepped forward and tried looking at Zeng Jincheng.

"What should we do now?"

"Maybe we can try above!" Chen Guangjun pointed to the ventilation net above his head.

"Well, this is the only way!" Zeng Jincheng agreed.

"Up there? It's a little difficult for three people, right?" Chen Haitao immediately felt that the atmosphere was not right after he said that: "Why are you looking at me?"

"..."

……

After Chen Guangjun and Zeng Jincheng's earnest persuasion, Chen Haitao "agreed" and "volunteered" to climb up the ventilation duct.

Chen Guangjun and others looked at each other with a sly smile on their faces. Poor Chen Haitao.

Chen Haitao entered the power room through the pipe and opened the fire door from the inside.

“How do you use these devices?”

None of the three were electrical engineers, and they were all dumbfounded when they saw the equipment in front of them.

"Let's go find a generator first!" Zeng Jincheng said.

The three of them knew what the generator looked like, but they also discovered a rotting corpse next to the generator.

"No wonder the door was locked. It turns out someone ran in here!" Zeng Jincheng picked up a few keys on the ground, which were to the power room.

"There is another message here!" Chen Guangjun found the A4 paper on the generator.

"Oh?" Zeng Jincheng and Chen Haitao came over.

"The alarm has not stopped since yesterday. The battle on the front line is extremely fierce. The troops on the city wall are under tremendous pressure. Intelligence says that two million zombies are attacking our shelter. We have never encountered such a tragic battle. The bodies outside the wall were burned by artillery fire and emit a huge stench. The people in the shelter are so scared that they huddle in their tents. Because of the zombie attack, the people in the shelter are in a panic."

"We paid a heavy price, but we still couldn't repel the zombies' attack. At night, the city wall was lost. It was actually because our wall was not high enough. There were too many corpses outside, and the zombies climbed up the wall by stepping on the corpses."

"Some of us chose to break out. I hope they succeed, but my troops were trapped in the warehouse. Due to negligence, an infection broke out in the warehouse. The soldiers who accompanied me were unfortunately injured. They didn't want to become monsters, so I... just... killed them!"

"I hid in the generator room for two days. The fuel of the generator was almost used up. I tried to escape, but I found that I had an infectious disease prevalent in the shelter. I might not live long. I hope that no matter what you come here for, you will leave immediately. There is a plague in this shelter. This is my advice to strangers. Lu He and Shao Wei are stationed in the warehouse of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Regiment of Longshan."

"Plague?" This scared the three of them and they hurriedly moved away from the corpse. Zeng Jincheng even threw away the key in his hand.

Author's side note: If there are any typos, please correct them.