Living Dead's

Chapter 30 - Seizing the Factory

At 5:30 am, the motorway

"Hatchy!" Feifei rubbed his nose after he finished sneezing.

"Is it fever?" Shen Yuan looked at him anxiously. After he touched his forehead, and felt that his body temperature was normal, he heaved a sigh of relief. He added a blanket to be wrapped around Feifei's body.

A hint of sunlight peered through the gaps of the clouds, the cold air quickly waking the survivors.

The victims woke up from their sleep. Some talked to each other, and some left the bus to stretch their bodies.

Feifei himself was still sitting inside the armored vehicle, tightly wrapped in blankets. He shifted his gaze, in the rear compartment, the 3 special forces members were still sleeping quietly. Every now and then they would move, punch and kick the person who was beside him.

They were still sleeping soundly before Xi Zihe personally woke them up by giving a kick in the stomach.

"Wake up! No lazy word! Aren't you guys ashamed of Xiao Fei who woke up earlier?!"

"Aiyo's... My old waist..." Lu Lin woke up with a hand stroking his waist in sadness.

"You're not even half a century old!" Xi Zihe was so angry that it was like he was going to spurt fire from his mouth.

Xi Zihe did not want to hear their grievances anymore and directly walked out by dragging their collars.

Shen Yuan and Feifei were speechless watching their commotion.

But what they didn't expect was Xi Zihe coming back and having Shen Yuan follow them.

"You, come help us find fuel."

Shen Yuan sighed, only being able to give up and follow them.

Xi Zihe ended up leading some people to inspect the vehicles that were on the highway. As they expected, many vehicles still had a lot of fuel. Using hoses, they managed to suck up some diesel tanks. Everyone's mouth had an inherent diesel taste and they could only spit endlessly on the roadside.

Due to the unfailing taste, they were finally able to get a pack of fruit candy from the Feifei bear bag.

Feifei distributed them one by one selflessly.

They went back to breakfast with the potluck. Since they still could not cook, they could only rely on canned food to relieve hunger.

After breakfast and making sure no one was left behind, they left at exactly 7 o'clock. There were no obstacles on the way, and they made it to the towel factory at 7:30 a.m.

Wen Fan brought a small team to scout the factory, and Shen Yuan was dragged into it.

"Aren't you afraid your father was bitten by a zombie?" Xi Zihe asked Feifei inside the armored vehicle.

"No, my father is very strong."

Other than Xi Zihe giving directions from afar, there was still Yao Yue and some civilians inside the bus not far from the towel factory.

Xi Zihe patted Feifei's head lightly, before saying in a low voice to his walkie talkie. "Wen Fan, how's the situation?"

"There are only a few zombies inside the towel factory. Now we'll check out the dorm area."

"Continue."

Finally Xi Zihe could enjoy having the men, he leaned back in the driver's seat and chewed on the orange fruit-flavored lollipop, beside him was Feifei who was seriously assembling the rifle.

***

Shen Yuan followed little team Wen Fan raided the six-story dormitory area. Beyond a doubt the zombies in this area were very few, not even reaching ten.

When entering the towel warehouse, they were very happy to see the many piles of towels that were there.

Lu Lin immediately smashed into one of the piles and rolled on top of it. He said happily, "If the towels are this much, we don't have to fear the cold at night."

"Lu Lin, you better be careful. It could be here-"

"Revelation!"

Wen Fan had yet to finish his words as a zombie came out from behind the tall pile of towels.

Shen Yuan dashed towards the zombie, plucking the military knife from its thigh and slashing its neck horizontally. The head of the zombie was neatly cut off, and it fell rolling over on a pile of clean towels.

After the zombie died, Shen Yuan flicked his knife, removing the black blood of the zombie from the blade.

"Wow, Dad, you're so great!" Lu Lin finally regained consciousness from that scene that was unfolding so quickly. He just blinked and after that, he had already seen the head of the fallen zombie roll over.

Shen Yuan frowned in disdain, "Dad? I don't have a son like you."

"Hey come on," Lu Lin wrapped his arm around Shen Yuan's neck. "If I call you Father Xiao Fei, it's too long and Father Shen's name doesn't sound too good either. Then! I'll call you dad!"

Shen Yuan was too lazy to serve him, he brushed off Lu Lin's hand that was on his neck then went out of the warehouse.

Shen Yuan still did not know, that since that incident, he had been called father by the other members of the special forces squad.

***

After they cleared the towel factory area, Wen Fan signaled to Xi Zihe that it was safe for them to enter.

The park around the factory was a mess, and there was blood everywhere. But luckily the facility was not badly damaged. They even found a small patch of vegetables in the backyard of the dormitory along with some chickens and pigs.

Led by Lu Lin and Li Yan, they brought 27 men to clean the dormitory and fix the barbed wire fence around the dormitory. As for the women, Yao Yue took them to go to the kitchen to find pots and pans for cooking. Since there were no gas lines, they could only take a little gasoline and cook using firewood.

Xi Zihe stood by the tap in the courtyard. Replacing Shen Yuan who was repairing the barbed wire fence to guard Feifei.

He turned on the faucet, washed his face, and waited for the report from Yang Ruisi.

"The plant is safe, and because it is on high ground, we can monitor the movement of zombies from afar. There's cattle and vegetables." Yang Ruisi stood behind him, reporting methodically. "If we still can't contact the military base, we can stay here for a while. At least until winter. However, we are short of other food supplies such as rice."

Xi Zihe did not respond and waited for his report to be completed.

"Although there is no electricity, there is a diesel generator in the factory. Now Wen Fan was recording more detailed information from every civilian. After that we'll start dividing the schedule for the roving patrol..."

"Tomorrow."

Yang Ruisi asked confusedly, "What?"

"After we set up this place, tomorrow I'll look for supplies of groceries to the city."

Feifei who had been listening from the side suddenly said, "Can uncle find me some more candy? Mine's over."

Feifei thought his sweets had already been spent the most by Xi Zihe sadly. He had only eaten a few and by the time he opened his bear bag, it had already vanished!

Xi Zihe felt a little guilty, in order to reduce his addiction to cigarettes, he endlessly ate Feifei's fruit candy. He coughed awkwardly, "Ehem! Of course, of course. Uncle will find it for you!"

There should be plenty of candy left in town...

At least, after the outbreak of the virus broke out, it was easier to find candy than to find cigarettes...