Living Dead's

Chapter 55 - Planning a Strategy

Feifei looked boredly out the window. As far as he could see were only zombies, zombies, and zombies. As well as the number of houses, and damaged shops. Feifei did not know, whether in the future he could still go to the playground or watch in the cinema with his father. Feifei sighed sadly.

"Bored?" His father's voice sounded next to him.

Currently, the two of them occupied the passenger seats in the front compartment of the armored vehicle. Xi Zihe himself asked the two of them to get inside the vehicle.

"En." Feifei replied with a hum.

"Then go to sleep."

Shen Yuan started hugging Feifei with one arm, then started patting his back gently. Feifei who was not so sleepy, suddenly his eyelids became heavy. It didn't take long for him to fall asleep under his father's light claps.

Their entourage headed south, moving through small villages and towns along the way. They try their best to avoid highways crowded with zombies, as well as densely populated cities. Every time they passed by a village, Xi Zihe would personally lead a small team to look for necessities, and could sometimes save a few survivors.

But as time went on, the amount of food they could get, and the number of civilians they could save began to decrease.

The number of people living is starting to thin.

If counted from the people who left the factory with the army, and the survivors from the various villages, they had now formed a group of over fifty people.

They could only be grateful that Xi Zihe could get a tour bus that could accommodate them.

Xi Zihe said that if they entered the big cities, they would definitely be able to find more survivors. However, they were running out of time, nor did they have the ability to struggle in high-risk areas to search for people who were still alive.

However, the more they managed to save, the heavier the responsibility Xi Zihe had to carry.

With this many people, they will find it difficult to protect them if there is a herd of zombies that attack. Every day Xi Zihe always felt anxious so he could not sleep well. He did not know from when, but the frequency of Xi Zihe eating sweets more and more every day.

Wen Fan lay in the back compartment. The rear door of the armored vehicle is fully open. Wen Fan narrowed his eyes, and aimed at the zombie about 30 meters away from his vision. He called, "Captain."

The bullets darted accurately, and the zombies fell down.

Xi Zihe, "What?"

They had just finished searching through a village. It was completely destroyed, with no survivors found in it. The supplies that could be found were just a few vegetables in the garden plot, and He Zhao managed to catch a frightened rooster after running a half-round chase around the village. With his knife skills, Shen Yuan killed the chicken very quickly and was immediately handed over to the women in charge of cooking.

"I've thought about this." Wen Fan spoke solemnly, "Rather than cigarettes, I think now you're starting to get addicted to sweets."

Xi Zihe, "...."

Wen Fan kindly warned her, "If Xiao Fei knew you stole candy from her bear bag again, maybe she would really be angry with you."

Xi Zihe defended himself, "I only ate soft candies that he didn't like, okay?"

"Well whatever." After saying that, Wen Fan started to close his eyes to sleep inside the vehicle.

Xi Zihe fell silent, then he quietly wandered inside the village in search of replacement sweets.

***

This group of fifty of their fleeing people was finally at a stage where they would face danger. They would pass through a large city where the density of zombies was highly concentrated.

"There's no way we're driving past it." Xi Zihe chewed on the exhausted stalks of the lollipop candy, his fingers dragging the torn and tattered map they found along the way. "The population of G city is too high, and they eat everything. When I was in the military academy, at the bottom of the bed was a man from the city of G. He's nice, but I always suspected that the disappearance of a classmate from the barracks next door had something to do with him..."

"Oh I know! I know!" Yao Yue raised his hand with vigor. "I've seen something like this in television dramas. Surely your friend from G city is a mysterious person and rarely speaks, right?"

"You're wrong Yue'er." Lu Lin interrupted seriously. "Definitely people from the city of G, precisely people who are extroverts. So people wouldn't think he was the antagonist!"

"En! Exactly like that!" Xi Zihe applauded symbolically.

"Stop your bullshit." Sela Shen Yuan who had been holding back her patience since earlier. He sat in the corner of the vehicle, with Feifei sleeping on his lap. "Now what's the plan?"

Xi Zihe returned to serious mode, "Therefore, it is best that we do not pass through the city of G. Through here-"

His fingers stopped around the road that was on the side of the mountain on the map. "We can pass through this mountain road only. Although we have to rotate further and further, at least the zombies we encounter are getting fewer and fewer. Moreover, the military barracks were right in one of the mountains that were there."

They all surrounded the map, staring fixedly at the red X mark on one of the mountains. That place is their purpose.

"Are we still going to be divided into groups?" Li Yan asked doubtfully.

"Mrs. My plan was to split the team in two. The first team will infiltrate the barracks and take the helicopters, while the second team will guard the civilians and find a place for the helicopter landing."

Suddenly Wen Fan raised his hand. "Captain, I'd like to suggest."

Xi Zihe nodded, "Speak."

"Preferably before infiltrating, we should ask Xiao Zhao to observe the situation inside the barracks with his drone. If there's too many zombies there, we're gonna need three teams."

Wen Fan continued, "The first team will infiltrate, the second team is the communication team, the task is to observe the situation inside the barracks with drones and report it to team one in real time. And the third team, will be in charge of guarding the entourage and looking for a helicopter landing spot."

Xi Zihe thought about this idea carefully. Indeed the chances of survival became greater, but that meant they had to take He Zhao with them...