End of the World

At night, the three of them lit a bonfire at the No. 13 outpost camp. The firelight shone on their faces. Thinking that they might be able to return to the shelter tomorrow, the three of them felt a lot more relaxed.

"Brother Bin, can we go back as refugees tomorrow?" Dafeng didn't think there was anything wrong, but he was afraid of being discovered, which would be troublesome.

"What are you afraid of? The guards at the door don't recognize us. Not to mention them, even the people in the barracks may not remember us!" Qiao Xinghua was relaxed. As long as he disguised himself, as long as they were not acquaintances, they would not be able to recognize him. Then he could make up a name and they would not be able to verify its authenticity.

"No wonder Brother Bin asked us to prepare another set of clothes before. He had planned it in advance!" Dafeng looked at Wu Bin. He was still wondering at that time!

"I'm worried that we came back at the wrong time!" Wu Bin looked at the two of them. The two of them didn't speak, knowing that Wu Bin hadn't finished speaking.

"I've thought that the troops withdrew so suddenly, most likely to return to support the shelter. The troops were willing to give up the airport that they had taken with great effort, so it must be a matter of life and death for the shelter!" Wu Bin said after organizing his thoughts.

"We haven't encountered a large-scale group of zombies here, so we should be fine!" said Qiao Xinghua.

"What about under the city wall? If there are zombies in other directions, the noise of the battle will definitely attract the surrounding zombies. Their numbers may not threaten the city wall, but we can't get in!"

"I understand. What Brother Bin means is that except for the main attack direction, troops in other places will not actively attack zombies!" Dafeng understood that if there were zombies outside the city wall, the defense troops would definitely not open the door.

"How are we going to get in then?" Qiao Xinghua knew this. It would be very uncomfortable if he really couldn't get in, just like the feeling of being at the door of his home but unable to go back.

"Let's see tomorrow. Who of you will be on duty first tonight? I'll be on duty for the second half of the night!" Wu Bin stood up and prepared to rest.

"I'll go first, you have no objection, right?" Dafeng said to Qiao Xinghua.

"You go first, then you go first!" Qiao Xinghua didn't want to argue and prepared to take a rest.

Seeing the two men leave, Dafeng climbed up the wall first, used a flashlight, patrolled the post, returned to the campfire, fanned the fire with branches, and added some firewood to make the fire burn more vigorously.

The nights in the wild will be cooler. The north wind is howling now, indicating that winter will come soon. This year's winter seems to come faster than in previous years. Without greenhouse gases produced by human activities, the temperature may be slightly lower. Of course, it will take decades for the temperature to reach nature's constant temperature. If humans have not recovered their population by then, nature will retake human cities.

"Aren't you on duty? Why are you sleeping?" At midnight, Qiao Xinghua got up to change shifts. Oh my god, Dafeng was actually sleeping soundly with his gun in his arms.

Dafeng: “……!”

"Still sleeping!" Qiao Xinghua went up and kicked him.

“…What’s wrong…?” Dafeng opened his eyes in a daze.

"What do you think? What should you do?" Qiao Xinghua was a little angry. This guy, what happened to the night duty he promised to do? He was in trouble when the zombies came!

"I...! I'm sorry...!" Dafeng finally remembered that he seemed to be on night duty, but how come he fell asleep while looking at the campfire!

"Is saying sorry useful? You have to know that you are not alone!" Qiao Xinghua was thankful that no zombies came, otherwise he would have died in his dream in a minute.

Dafeng knew he was in the wrong and didn't want to argue with Qiao Xinghua, so he stood up, picked up the flashlight and night vision goggles, shone the flashlight around the outpost, and then slowly climbed up the watchtower, where he could see very far.

Dafeng himself is a little afraid of heights, but it was pitch black all around at night, and there was not much moonlight in the sky, so he couldn't see the ground clearly.

Dafeng went up to the watchtower and saw flares rising in the direction of the shelter, and sometimes flashing yellow flames. It should be the artillery firing. It seems that the battle in the shelter is very fierce!

I should be able to go back tomorrow, Dafeng thought, and then he picked up the night vision goggles to observe farther away. All he saw was black shadows. Dafeng softened his eyes, wondering if he hadn't woken up yet or what, or was he dazzled.

Looking again, I realized that I was not seeing things. There were indeed a lot of dark shadows in front of the outpost. If the night vision goggles were not broken, there would really be a group of zombies!

Dafeng did not dare to delay and hurried down from the watchtower. The problem was serious.

"Look at you, are you okay?" Qiao Xinghua saw that Dafeng's face looked strange and knew that he was afraid of heights and thought he was scared.

"There seems to be a bunch of dark shadows outside!" Dafeng took a few breaths.

"you sure?"

"Really!" Dafeng said anxiously.

"Go call Brother Bin!" Qiao Xinghua snatched the night vision goggles from Dafeng's hand and climbed up the watchtower. He knew that although this guy was unreliable, he would never joke like this.

"Brother Bin, Brother Bin!"

Dafeng rushed into the barracks and woke Wu Bin up.

Wu Bin was dreaming. He dreamed that he returned to the shelter. Everything was warm and cozy. He heard He Yuxin calling him, and then there was an inexplicable earthquake. Then he woke up.

"What's wrong? Is it my turn?" Wu Bin got up and covered his dizzy head, which was a sign of lack of sleep.

"No, it looks like zombies are coming!"

"Zombies? How many are there?" Wu Bin yawned and thought to himself, what a damn zombies, disturbing his sweet dream.

"A lot. A lot!"

"A pile?" Wu Bin had trouble understanding this adjective. How much is a pile?

"Where is Qiao Xinghua?" Wu Bin walked out of the barracks and asked when he didn't see Qiao Xinghua.

"He's on the watchtower!" Dafeng pointed upwards.

"Okay, let's wait for him to come down!" Wu Bin looked up and cleared his mind first. It was really unpleasant to be woken up in the middle of the night.

Two minutes later, Qiao Xinghua came down with a serious look on his face.

"Xinghua, how many zombies are there? Dafeng said there are a lot of them!" Because it was too dark, Wu Bin couldn't see Qiao Xinghua's expression clearly.

"There are a lot of them, all in front of the outpost. We'd better leave now!"

"It's so serious! Okay!" Wu Bin knew that Qiao Xinghua would not joke about serious matters.

The three of them took some equipment and got on an armored vehicle. The appearance of a large number of zombies disrupted their plans, and they might not be able to return as refugees.

The armored assault vehicle rushed out of the outpost. All the zombies were in the open space in front of the outpost, forming a dark mass. They had not yet completely surrounded it.

The armored assault vehicle rushed out, attracting the zombies' attention. The zombie dogs in the front heard the sound and chased the tail lights of the armored assault vehicle.

"Brother Bin, there are a few zombie dogs chasing us!" Dafeng was sitting in the back of the car and saw the ferocious zombie dogs through the observation hole at the back.

"We can't control them. They can't do anything to us!" Wu Bin sat in the passenger seat and pulled out the seat belt and tied it around himself. The journey ahead would be very bumpy.

"I can shoot them!" Dafeng discovered the shooting holes on the car body.

"Okay, be careful not to hit your head!" Wu Bin hated zombie dogs so much that he would kill one if it counted.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

Dafeng put the muzzle of his gun into the shooting hole, aimed at the running black shadow, pulled the trigger, and a string of bullets went past, but only a few hit the target.

"Brother Bin, how about I operate the machine gun and shoot with it!" Dafeng emptied a magazine and the rifle's firepower was slightly lacking.

"Be careful!" Wu Bin unbuckled his seat belt and came over to help. Qiao Xinghua glanced at the two of them and tried his best to stabilize the vehicle, but it was dark and the armored assault vehicle had poor visibility, so they almost couldn't find the road.

"Pay attention, there seems to be a pit ahead that cannot be avoided!" Qiao Xinghua lightly lifted the accelerator and corrected the direction.

The two people at the back heard Qiao Xinghua's reminder and held on tight. After passing the pit, Dafeng opened the roof hatch and climbed up. Wu Bin took out a box of machine gun bullets and handed it to him.

Dafeng took the bullets, fixed the box on the ammunition rack, loaded the bullets into the chamber, pulled the bolt, and loaded the bullets.

Dafeng shook the machine gun turret, turned the muzzle to the back, aimed at several zombie dogs, and pulled the trigger.

"Da da da!"

The machine gun spewed out flames, sweeping towards the zombie dogs behind the car. Although the caliber of the machine gun was a 7.62mm medium-caliber machine gun, the threat was much higher than that of a rifle, but it was still a machine gun after all.

The zombie dogs that were hit by the bullets were directly shattered into pieces, turning into disgusting pieces of meat. This wave of shooting killed more than half of the zombie dogs, and the others were too close to the car body and were in the blind spot.

"Xinghua, drive faster. They are following too closely and the machine guns can't hit us!" Dafeng said into the car with his head down.

"Okay, but the ride will get bumpier if we go faster, so hold on tight!"

The car speed began to increase, and just as Qiao Xinghua said, the car body vibrated more violently, making the two people in the back very uncomfortable.

Wu Bin was about to speak when the vehicle suddenly shook violently and he was almost falling down. Qiao Xinghua hurriedly grabbed the steering wheel.

"Dafeng! Hurry! There's a zombie in front of the car, kill him quickly!" Qiao Xinghua was driving the car, and suddenly a zombie jumped up from the side of the road and completely blocked his view on the hood.

When Dafeng heard Qiao Xinghua's anxious voice, he immediately turned around the machine gun turret and looked forward, where he saw a zombie with a dark red body and a long tongue.

"Go to hell!" Dafeng pulled the trigger and fired hot bullets, all hitting the zombies' heads.

The attacking zombies were the night zombies. They always moved around at night or in dark places. They were agile and almost no one could be their match in close combat.

"Da da da!"

The night zombie that jumped onto the hood of the car seemed to be killed instantly, its head exploded, and bloody red blood covered the entire front of the car.

Qiao Xinghua turned the wipers to brush away the disgusting blood. Just when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, another night zombie jumped onto the front of the car.

Dafeng continued shooting and killed the night zombie.

At this time, another night zombie jumped onto the roof of the car and attacked Dafeng. Dafeng had no time to turn the machine gun turret.

The night zombie grabbed some protrusions on the roof of the car, steadied its body, and attacked Dafeng. Its blood-red tongue stabbed at Dafeng. Dafeng had no time to react and could only watch the tongue stabbing at him.

At the critical moment, Wu Bin pulled Dafeng back into the car, and his long blood-red tongue narrowly brushed over Dafeng's head.

"Thank you, Brother Bin!" Dafeng was still in shock. If Wu Bin hadn't helped him, he would have died here today.