EOTWR Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Ai Wei listened to him talk about the plan, put away the emotions in his heart, and nodded, “Not bad, we need to make a plan. Zombies have hearing, we can have one person drive a car, turn on the horn, and lure away some of the zombies. After luring the zombie horde away, we can go into the school to save people.”

Doctor Li nodded and said, “Zombies may have a sense of smell. I did an experiment at home today and they can smell living people. So if we want to go into the zombie horde, it’s best to put something with a strong smell on our bodies. And I only have formalin that smells the strongest, we can apply formalin. However, I soaked some things in that formalin.”

As soon as he said this, the other three couldn’t help but change their expressions. Formalin… and it was soaked with something. Without having to think about it, they knew what formalin was used to soak. Thinking about the things soaked in formalin, and having to smear that stuff all over their bodies, Ai Wei felt it was simply disgusting and terrifying!

Ai Wei couldn’t help but twitch his mouth and said, “Doctor Li, putting formalin on our bodies is probably not a good idea…”

Forgive him for not being able to accept it for a moment.

Doctor Li looked at him solemnly and said, “For safety, I suggest you better put it on. Actually, I have cleanliness habits. Every time I touch these things, I have to wear gloves, and I have to wash my hands after touching them. But, I am willing to smear these things on my clothes.”

What?

“Just smear it on the clothes?” Ai Wei said.

“Of course, you didn’t think we had to smear it on the skin, did you?” Doctor Li asked back.

Ai Wei… he really thought so.

Suddenly, he felt that he was really stupid! Although that stuff was disgusting, compared to smearing it on the skin, smearing it only on the clothes was much more acceptable.

The group discussed again, planned how to rescue her, and prepared some things. Doctor Li then took Ai Wei to another room.

He opened the refrigerator and took out a transparent container with a deformed small embryo soaked in formalin.

The embryo was only the size of a fist, with two faces on its small head, which looked a little scary.

Ai Wei looked at the thing, and his face couldn’t help but turn pale.

Doctor Li put the transparent container on the table, a trace of remembrance appearing in his eyes, and said, “This is my son. His mother is a researcher who develops pesticides in the laboratory. When she found out she was pregnant, the child became like this.”

Ai Wei watched his slender fingers caress the embryo’s deformed little face through the container, and suddenly shuddered.

Doctor Li actually soaked his child’s corpse in formalin and put it in the refrigerator at home. He, he wouldn’t have some kind of necrophilia, would he?

Ai Wei thought of this and couldn’t help swallowing.

Also, did the child’s mother agree to him doing this to the child? “Then, what about his mother?” Ai Wei couldn’t help but ask.

“We’re already divorced,” Doctor Li said.

“Sorry,” Ai Wei said.

“It’s okay, it’s getting late, let’s put it on quickly. Don’t worry, just put it on your clothes. This stuff has a pungent smell, it can completely cover up the smell of living people.” After Doctor Li finished speaking, he opened the lid of the container and started applying it to one of his coats.

Because two people were going out, he applied it to two coats in total.

Ai Wei looked at the somewhat cloudy liquid in the jar and couldn’t help but feel tears welling up.

First he had to crack open zombie skulls, and now he had to wear this kind of clothes. It was really challenging his limits time and time again.

Smelling that pungent and somewhat disgusting smell, Ai Wei’s face was already a little green.

The two returned to the living room, put on gloves, wrapped a few books around their arms, and took two helmets, some levers and cleavers as weapons, and prepared to leave.

Just then, Han Lu suddenly said, “Let me go with you, I want to exercise myself more. I can drive and pick you up.”

Doctor Li said, “Okay, you can come with us.”

Thus, Han Lu was added to the plan to rescue Doctor Li’s daughter. However, Han Lu didn’t need to get out of the car and was only responsible for driving, so there was no need for her to put on that kind of thing.

The three prepared and went downstairs to drive to the school where Doctor Li’s daughter was.

The elementary school where Doctor Li’s daughter attended was only a ten-minute drive from here. Because it was in the suburbs, there were not many zombies on the road here. Only occasionally could one see a car driving past on the road.

Han Lu drove the car, and the car had been driving very smoothly. However, just as they were passing a crossroads, four cars lined up in a row suddenly appeared on the road in front of them, blocking the wide road tightly.

“Not good, quickly back the car up!” Seeing this, Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel a jump in his heart and hurriedly said to Han Lu.

Han Lu also sensed something was wrong, and hurriedly turned the steering wheel to turn the car around and drive back. However, at this time, the road behind them was blocked by several other cars that suddenly appeared. They had been surrounded by several cars in the middle of the road.

Seeing this situation, Han Lu couldn’t help but feel a little flustered and asked the two people next to her, “What should we do?”

Ai Wei frowned, and some bad scenarios from books popped into his head. He said to Han Lu, “Make yourself look uglier, don’t speak later, I’ll talk to them.”

Han Lu nodded in a panic, she had never encountered this kind of highway robbery situation before, and she couldn’t help but feel a little scared. She messed up her hair, and lowered her bangs to cover most of her face. She covered up a lot of her still somewhat delicate face.

Then, she quietly turned on the recording button on her clothes.

Doctor Li clenched the cleaver in his hand, his face very tense.

Ai Wei touched the brand-name cigarettes he always kept in his pocket, took a deep breath, put on a flattering smile, opened the car door and got out of the car.

At this time, people also got out of the cars blocking the road.

There were more than a dozen of these people, all teenagers in their teens, and all dressed in a gangster-like manner, looking like a group of small gangsters.

They were all holding tools such as baseball bats and cleavers in their hands, with a fierce aura. The one in the lead was a black-clothed teenager with a somewhat cruel expression.

These people surrounded Ai Wei like they were surrounding a chick. Then they all wrinkled their noses, disliking the pungent smell on Ai Wei’s body.

“What’s this smell? It’s so unpleasant!” These people didn’t look like they were adults yet, but at a glance, it could be seen that they were in the underworld. Ai Wei still took out the cigarettes, with a smiling face, and handed cigarettes to them, saying, “Nice to meet you, handsome guys, have a cigarette…”

Before he could finish speaking, a small gangster slapped the cigarette in his hand to the ground, making a “pa” sound, and cursed, “Who wants your stinky cigarette!”

Ai Wei’s heart couldn’t help but sink. Looking at the other party’s attitude, today was probably not going to be easy to get through!

At this moment, a few other small gangsters also patted their car, pulling Doctor Li and Han Lu out of the car as well. Han Lu lowered her head, her fingers tightly intertwined.

Although Doctor Li looked calm on the outside, he was also a little anxious in his heart.

It was now 7:30 in the evening, and although it wasn’t dark yet, it was almost dark. If they didn’t go to save his daughter now, they would have to sneak into the school full of zombies in the dark. At that time, they wouldn’t be able to see anything in the dark, which would be very disadvantageous to them. Thinking of this, a fierce glint flashed in Doctor Li’s lowered eyes.

“Yo, there’s a chick too.” A thug with his hair dyed yellowish-brown saw Han Lu and immediately whistled. The other thugs also clamored.

Seeing this, Han Lu couldn’t help but tense up.

But those small gangsters were obviously not willing to let her go. The Yellow Hair thug took the lead and reached out to push Ai Wei away to pull her out.

But Ai Wei grabbed Yellow Hair’s hand and blocked him.

Han Lu had not only saved him and Xia Junchi, but was also their companion. Moreover, he couldn’t let a girl be harmed by these thugs.

Ai Wei said with a non-smiling expression, “What do you want to do, handsome guy?”

Seeing that Ai Wei dared to resist, Yellow Hair immediately shouted angrily, “mlgb, you pretty boy dares to grab your grandpa’s hand, see how your grandpa will teach you a lesson!” While cursing, he swung the baseball bat towards Ai Wei.

Ai Wei had really never seen anyone who would use a stick at the slightest disagreement. He cursed inwardly and didn’t have time to think carefully. He reached out and grabbed the little Yellow Hair’s arm. He was half a head taller than Yellow Hair, which gave him an advantage. Plus, after gaining mental power, his strength had also increased a lot, so he wasn’t afraid at all when facing this skinny Yellow Hair. He actually restrained Yellow Hair all at once, twisting the other party’s arm behind his back. Then he took out the small knife from his pocket and held the blade against Yellow Hair’s neck.

The surrounding thugs all came over to surround him upon seeing this. Han Lu and Doctor Li also quickly surrounded him.

“Don’t move! Otherwise, I’ll kill him!” Ai Wei’s hand holding the knife was trembling a little, but he glared fiercely at these people and shouted.

The thugs couldn’t help but feel a jump in their hearts when they saw his fierce look. They looked at me, I looked at you, and didn’t dare to go forward. Only the black-clothed teenager was still staring at Ai Wei with a look that made one’s spine tingle.

Yellow Hair, however, felt Ai Wei’s trembling and felt a sense of relief in his heart. He felt that Ai Wei’s hands were shaking so much that he was simply a coward who didn’t dare to kill anyone. He was just putting on a show of strength now.

After feeling Ai Wei’s timidity, the bit of fear that had arisen earlier because the knife was held against his neck was greatly reduced. He was very angry that Ai Wei dared to use a knife against him, and just wanted to teach Ai Wei a lesson and vent his anger.

So, he struggled violently, while struggling, he shouted, “What are you afraid of? He doesn’t dare to really use the knife! Everyone, come on together, grab them!”

Doctor Li and Han Lu surrounded Ai Wei, and Han Lu suddenly said, “Ai Wei! That black-clothed teenager is named Shao Ziqian, he is a murderer. Half a year ago, because he was jealous that his classmate’s family was rich, he killed and dismembered that classmate. As a result, because he was under the age of fourteen, he was only sentenced to compensate the victim 200,000 and three years of custody. I am a reporter from B City Radio Station, I met him at the time.”

Ai Wei’s heart trembled when he heard this and looked at the black-clothed teenager.

A teenage murderer! This was the first time he had seen a real person!

Just now he felt that Shao Ziqian’s appearance looked a bit cruel, but now after hearing that he was actually a murderer, he felt even more cruel.

Although Shao Ziqian looked ordinary, his eyes looked like they could make people feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts.

Shao Ziqian saw his fear and smiled a little sarcastically. He pointed at him, Doctor Li, and Han Lu and said, “Today, all three of you have to stay here. If you know what’s good for you, release Yellow Hair, otherwise, we won’t let you go!” Ai Wei looked at his teasing and cruel expression, and only felt a little hairy in his heart.

The B City junior high school student murder and dismemberment case half a year ago caused a national sensation, and Ai Wei also followed the case. Because he felt that this student was too perverted at the time, Ai Wei still had some impression of his face, which was only pixelated in the eye area.

He wouldn’t have remembered if Han Lu hadn’t mentioned it, but now that Han Lu reminded him, he felt that the black-clothed teenager’s face really looked like the junior high school student in the picture.

His vigilance immediately increased to the highest level.

If he was still trying to resolve the issue peacefully just now, then now he had begun to prepare to kill as soon as they started.

The other party was someone who could kill for that kind of meaningless reason, and he might really kill himself today with this formation. He must not hold back when facing such a person.

They were now facing a critical moment of life and death, and he couldn’t be cowardly at this time.

He clenched the knife in his hand tightly, and the blade pierced into Yellow Hair’s neck, seeping out a bloodstain.

Yellow Hair felt the pain in his neck and felt that Ai Wei’s aura had suddenly become fierce. He couldn’t help but feel a little scared and howled, “It’s stuck in my neck, take the knife away a little…”

“Shut up!” Ai Wei pressed the blade inward again by two points. The blade entered the flesh, and Yellow Hair, who had been arrogant just now, was immediately frightened and shut his mouth.

Ai Wei looked at the circle of teenagers around him. These teenagers were mostly only in their teens. Their figures were all thin, which was unique to teenagers. The tallest was over 1.7 meters, and the shortest was only 1.6 meters. And he himself was 1.78 meters tall, and because he was an adult, he looked much taller and sturdier than these teenagers. If he risked his life, he could really pull a few backs before he died.

So, he sneered and said, “What if there are more of you?! Let me tell you, I’ve already cracked open the heads of several zombies along the way. Are you living people more terrifying than zombies? I won’t hold back when I kill! Even if the three of us can’t beat you people, it’s definitely no problem to pull a few backs before we die! If you know what’s good for you, let us leave, and I’ll return Yellow Hair to you, and we’ll all be fine. Otherwise, I’ll fight you!”

As he spoke, the knife in his hand pressed down another point, cutting the wound on Yellow Hair’s neck even deeper.

“Ah ah…” Yellow Hair felt the severe pain in his neck and was frightened and couldn’t help but scream. But this time he didn’t dare to scold Ai Wei, because he felt that Ai Wei could really be ruthless. He said to the group of thugs, “What are you still doing?! Hurry up and let them go! My life is still in their hands!”

Although those thugs had all been to the Juvenile Detention Center, they were still relatively loyal. Seeing Yellow Hair being frightened like this, they were a little disgusted in their hearts, but they didn’t want Yellow Hair to really die.

“Boss, why don’t we let them go?” One of the thugs couldn’t help but say to Shao Ziqian.

“Yeah, boss, he looks like a tough nut to crack. Don’t really fight him later. If he tries his best, he’ll really kill a few of us!” Another subordinate was a little afraid to fight Ai Wei.

“That’s right, that’s right, why don’t we just let them go!” The thugs persuaded Shao Ziqian in a flurry of voices. Shao Ziqian looked at Ai Wei and Yellow Hair with a gloomy expression. He didn’t really care about Yellow Hair’s life or death in his heart, but if he didn’t care about Yellow Hair’s life or death now, I’m afraid these subordinates would not obey him.

These dozen or so thugs had all escaped from the Juvenile Detention Center. Among them were robbers, rapists, thieves, etc. When they were in prison, several people had already formed gangs and gathered together. Shao Ziqian, because of his overly cruel nature, was actually ostracized by many prisoners in the Juvenile Detention Center. But unexpectedly, some people were willing to follow him because of his cruelty. Today, zombies suddenly broke out, and many people in the Juvenile Detention Center turned into zombies. They took advantage of the chaos to escape.

At that time, many juvenile offenders in the Juvenile Detention Center were scared to death by the zombies. Some also fought back and killed the zombies. Only Shao Ziqian, seeing the zombies, was not afraid but excitedly took a knife and rushed to chop the zombies, cutting out a bloody path. These thugs saw how powerful he was and followed him out of the zombies’ encirclement. Then, he rectified these people and made them all his subordinates.

Although Shao Ziqian was naturally cruel, he was not a fool. He had just become the boss, and his position was not that stable. If he didn’t care about Yellow Hair’s life or death now, I’m afraid these younger brothers who had just become his subordinates would become estranged or kill him.

His sinister eyes looked at Ai Wei and said, “You release Yellow Hair, and I’ll let you go.”

Ai Wei looked around at the thugs and said, “You all step back, drive away the cars blocking the road ahead, and let us drive away! When we get to the intersection ahead, I’ll drop Yellow Hair off the car.”

The thugs looked at him fiercely and retreated one after another. Then they drove away a car that was blocking them on the road, clearing the way for Ai Wei and the others.

The three of them hijacked Yellow Hair into the car, and Han Lu immediately started the car and drove it out of the thugs’ encirclement.

When they reached the first intersection, they stopped the car and threw Yellow Hair out of the car. Then they turned to another intersection, made a few turns, and deliberately took a detour to the school.

“We should have shaken them off, right?” Han Lu looked at the road ahead and asked with lingering fear.

“We should have shaken them off, but we still need to be careful,” Ai Wei said.

“Thank you for helping me just now.” Han Lu thought of the scene where those thugs were about to pull her just now, and couldn’t help but feel a burst of fear. Now that she was safe, she quickly thanked Ai Wei.

She was a reporter and had come into contact with many cases. In a situation like just now, if she fell into the hands of those people, the consequences would be unimaginable. She couldn’t help but be very grateful that she had found Ai Wei as a companion.

“You’re welcome, you also saved me and my friend. It’s right for me to help you,” Ai Wei said with a smile.

The car drove all the way to B City Seventh Experimental Elementary School. The closer they got to the school, the more zombies there were on the road. When they arrived at the school gate, they saw that the street in front of the school gate had been blocked by various cars, large and small. Some cars were overturned on the side of the road, emitting bursts of black smoke.

Everywhere on the road were zombies, large and small, covered in blood and with dull eyes.

The children who studied at B City Seventh Experimental Elementary School were all nearby children. After the zombies broke out, many surviving parents immediately rushed over to pick up their children. Because there were too many people, traffic jams and car accidents were caused. Those who could run away had run away, and those who were left behind had basically turned into zombies.

Seeing the road full of vehicles and zombies, and the small zombies all over the school, the three couldn’t help but feel a little scalp tingling.

At this time, it was already dark, and against the faint night, the ferocious and roaring zombies all over the campus looked even more terrifying.

Ai Wei took a deep breath and said to Doctor Li, “We’re here, let’s start.”

He put on his helmet, put on thick clothes smeared with the pungent smell of formalin, and got out of the car with Doctor Li. They walked a few steps like zombies.

The zombies around them had already been attracted, but the zombies only glanced at the two of them and lost interest in them. Doctor Li was right, the smell of formalin was too strong, it completely covered up their own smell. They then learned the appearance of zombies, and deceived these unintelligent zombies.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this result. It seemed that their mission today would be smoother.

Han Lu followed the plan, turned the car around, and honked the car horn. Immediately, the loud “beep beep” sound pierced through the entire campus. Even the zombies hundreds of meters away were attracted by the sound and suddenly turned their heads to look in their direction. Then, the zombies roared and gathered towards this side as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

Looking at a large group of zombies rushing towards this side in a hurry, Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel a little scalp tingling. He and Doctor Li found a hidden place to hide, and watched the small zombies pour out from the school gate like a tide. The roar they made was as huge as a sea wave.

Han Lu honked the car horn all the way, leading the zombie horde all the way to the distance. She had already looked at the map and had some understanding of the nearby terrain. After leading the zombie horde to the nearby fields, she would circle back from the main road.

Most of the zombies in the school were led away by Han Lu. After the zombie tide passed, only less than a third of the zombies were left on campus.

Ai Wei and Doctor Li imitated the appearance of zombies, walked through the street that was blocked tightly, walked into the campus, passed through the zombie horde, and walked towards the laboratory building.

They passed one zombie after another. After passing by a one-meter-tall small zombie, Ai Wei couldn’t help but whisper, “God, this is too exciting!”

“Don’t talk, they can hear you,” Doctor Li said in a low voice. A zombie next to them heard their voices and turned to look at them. He didn’t seem to find anything unusual, so he turned his head away and continued to roar and look for food.

Seeing this, Ai Wei couldn’t help but swallow and closed his mouth.

The two carefully imitated the zombies’ stiff movements and moved forward. After seven or eight minutes, they finally arrived at the laboratory building.

The laboratory building had five floors. Usually, because the school didn’t have many experimental classes, the zombies in the laboratory building were very scarce compared to the zombies that could be seen everywhere in the teaching building.

Doctor Li’s daughter happened to be in physics lab when the zombies broke out. She was now hiding in the storage cabinet in the laboratory. Fortunately, Doctor Li had asked her to bring a watch that could make calls and send text messages, so she could tell her father her location.

Otherwise, it would be a very troublesome thing for Ai Wei and Doctor Li to find someone in such a large campus.

The two went up to the fourth floor. A few small zombies were wandering in the corridor on the fourth floor. Seeing the two of them come up, they stiffly glanced at them and lost interest in them.

The two walked through the corridor and came to the physics laboratory. As soon as they entered the door, they saw shadows in the dimly lit laboratory, and they also heard the roar of “ho ho”. There were actually more than thirty small zombies.

A few small zombies heard the movement coming from the door and turned to look at the door. Maybe because it was too dark, they couldn’t tell the difference between living people and zombies, but when they saw human-shaped objects, they immediately stretched out their claws and pounced on them.

The strong smell of formalin on Ai Wei and Doctor Li covered up their own smell, so they had not attracted the attention of the zombies all the way up. But now seeing so many small zombies opening their mouths wide and stretching out their claws with sharp nails, the two couldn’t help but worry about being hurt by their nails and teeth.

If they were scratched by a zombie, they might be infected with the zombie virus like in the movies and turn into zombies as well.

“Go to the corridor and throw them downstairs,” Doctor Li gritted his teeth and said.

Ai Wei looked at those small zombies, but he was a little hesitant. Most of these small zombies were only under 10 years old, and they all had the appearance of humans. Facing zombies with this appearance, he couldn’t help but be a little unable to do it. Although these small zombies were full of blood, stretching out their claws and pouncing on him with ferocious faces.