It is now four o'clock in the afternoon. If all goes well, it will take about five hours to get to Cole City. By that time, it will be dark, which is very suitable for dealing with al-Qaeda members. I just don't know if the zombies in Cole City have been wiped out by al-Qaeda members. If al-Qaeda members have done so, it will be convenient for Suwan and his gang.
After checking the direction with the compass on his watch, Suwan put away the map and prepared to head towards Cole City. If he was lucky, he would meet the students on the way and it would be safer. Suwan was about to jump off the tree when he suddenly heard a noise coming from the bushes in front of him. Suwan immediately leaned over the branch and pulled out the parachute and soldier knife from the holster on his waist with his backhand. This multifunctional parachute and soldier knife is a common close-quarters weapon for Belster students. It has been improved to be multi-purpose. The handle is short and the blade is sharp. There are also barbed serrations on the blade. Being stabbed by such a knife is no joke. Once stabbed into the body, the serrations will expand the wound and hook out a piece of flesh when the blade is pulled out, causing the opponent's wound to bleed profusely. It is very suitable for students to deal with emergencies.
But if you are facing zombies, they won't feel any pain.
The students of Belster are born with a sixth sense that is superior to ordinary people, and it is because of this that they are selected into Belster Academy. Relying on this sixth sense, they escape from many dangers. But now, Suwan has a premonition of danger, and any movement cannot escape her ears. Suwan lies prone on the tree trunk, looking in the direction of the bushes in front, vigilantly holding her parachute, soldier and knife, ready to take action at any time.
Although Suwan looked calm, it would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous. Hundreds of students in Belster College died because of those zombies. These zombies were horrible and cruel. If you were just a little hurt by them, you would die and become their kind. Once you fall into the zombie group, no matter how powerful you are, you will be torn to pieces. No one wants to die, but no one can live forever. If this mutation cannot be suppressed, humanity will be destroyed in its own hands.
Suwan had just thought a lot on the plane, about her parents, her friends, and even Zoe. Suwan felt that she should reject Zoe like this. If she died and turned into a zombie, Zoe would at least not be so sad.
Suwan lay on the branch tightly, looking at the direction where the noise came from. Then he saw the half-man-high grass shaking, and a tiger almost two meters tall jumped out!
Suwan was surprised, but then he remembered that this was a primeval forest and it was normal to have ferocious beasts.
Animals are born with the instinct to avoid powerful enemies. Although zombies have affected humans, it does not seem to have affected the survival of animals much, especially in the primeval forests. Instead, they live very comfortably, as if this nature has belonged to them from the beginning to the end. Even if these animals die, they will be eaten by other animals as soon as they die. They rarely have the chance to turn into corpses. Instead, nothing is left except bones. Moreover, the animals seem to understand the horror of zombies and will not approach them easily, nor will they eat their meat.
But animals that have transformed into corpses are more difficult to deal with than zombies.
Suwan observed carefully and found that the tiger's fur was shiny. It was not a zombie tiger, but a real beast. The tiger did not notice Suwan, but ran directly past the tree where Suwan was hiding, as if avoiding something. Then Suwan saw two zombies moving towards this side about ten meters away.
Judging from their clothes, they should be rangers. Their clothes were stained with black blood. Suwan observed the blood stains on their clothes and guessed that the two rangers were probably killed by machine gun fire. If he was right, it was those al-Qaeda members who did it. However, Suwan took a closer look and felt something strange.
The two rangers have been dead for at most a month, but their exposed limbs show that they are badly decomposed. It seems that the mutation of the dark side has accelerated the decay of these zombies. Suwan can't bear to watch it any longer. Chinese people pay the most attention to being buried in peace. It is the most painful thing to not be able to rest in peace after death.
It seems that the noise of the plane crash just now was too loud, which startled the tiger, and it ended up running into the forest ranger zombies in the forest.
Suwan lay on the branch without moving. As long as she didn't make a big noise to attract the attention of the zombies, she would not be easily discovered. The zombies were pursuing the magnetic field of living things, and their attention was now on the tiger in action. As for the zombies chasing the tiger, it had nothing to do with her. She just had to lie quietly on the tree and wait for the zombies to leave to ensure her own safety.
However, Suwan thought of the persistence of the zombies she had seen at Belster College. Once they set their sights on a target, they would keep chasing it, but the tiger would always need a break. Once a tiger was scratched by a zombie, it would die within a few hours. A tiger that had transformed into a zombie would be difficult to deal with and might very likely encounter members of other groups and cause harm to them. It would be better to kill the tiger now to prevent future troubles.
So when the two zombies walked under the tree, Suwan took out his pistol and shot two shots through the heads of the two ranger zombies. Then he jumped down the tree, holding a parachute in one hand and a gun in the other and looked at the tiger.
Suwan silently dealt with two zombies in the dark. The tiger heard the sound of zombies falling to the ground behind it and turned around to look. It must have felt that Suwan was not that scary zombie, so it stopped running, turned back and stared at Suwan from a distance of several meters. Suwan held the knife in reverse, thinking that the tiger probably regarded her as fresh meat.
If zombies are dead meat, then living people are of course fresh meat.
Suwan crouched in a fighting stance, waiting for the tiger to pounce on him. Unexpectedly, the big tiger probably felt that Suwan was not someone who could be bullied easily, so it bared its teeth and opened its mouth wide towards Suwan, then turned and ran away.
Suwan didn't want the tiger to escape, but there were too many trees in the forest, blocking his view and making it impossible to aim. Suwan had no choice but to give up, put away his gun and headed towards Cole City.
There were tigers in this forest, and who knew if there were other beasts? So Suwan became more alert, but that tiger was probably a different kind, and Suwan didn't encounter any other beasts on the way to Cole City.
When it got darker, Suwan looked at his watch. Three hours had passed and it was already getting dark. Because he had been cautious along the way, he had not walked the planned distance. Suwan had to speed up to meet up with the other students. Suwan took a deep breath and started running forward quickly, moving as fast as a leopard that had exploded.
8:22 p.m.
The sky had grown dark.
Great for concealment.
Suwan ran for an hour, a little out of breath, and then she heard light footsteps, the footsteps were very chaotic, at least three people, coming from the opposite direction, definitely not members of the rescue team. Suwan immediately stopped, climbed up the tree to take advantage of the height, and looked forward with the night vision goggles hanging around her neck.
Because the distance was too far, the scene seen through the lens was a bit blurry. Suwan quickly adjusted the focus in a few seconds and saw several people forming an image in the lens. Suwan looked carefully and found that there were seven people. And from the outlines obscured in the night vision image, these seven people were holding weapons similar to light machine guns.
It must be the al-Qaeda operatives who shot down their plane, Suwan came to the conclusion immediately.
This place is close to the edge of Cole City. Al-Qaeda members should be patrolling nearby and want to kill the members of the rescue team.
If the predicted route is correct, we should be able to meet up with Mike in another twenty minutes. I wonder if he has encountered the same situation. Since I didn't hear any gunshots, there should be no conflict. It is also possible that Mike used cold weapons.
Suwan should do the same.
Try to move as lightly as possible and avoid making any loud noise so as not to attract a large force of al-Qaeda members.
Suwan reached for the dagger on his leg, took a slow breath and waited until he could vaguely hear the men talking.
They were talking about rescuing the team.
"Should we continue to move forward? The plane has been bombed. Can they still survive?"
"Since the chief has asked us to patrol, let's look for it."
"I say, even if they weren't dead, they wouldn't be so stupid as to run into the muzzle of a gun."
As luck would have it, they ran right into the muzzle of the gun.
The seven al-Qaeda members were getting closer and closer. They walked in a scattered manner, apparently unaware that someone was watching them in the dark.
The fastest al-Qaeda member was only twenty meters in front of Suwan on the right, with several trees between them. It would be difficult to kill them all quietly with cold weapons. But it didn't matter. Suwan changed his strategy. Instead of using cold weapons, he half-crouched on a tree, took off the assault rifle slung over his shoulder, took it in his hand lightly, then aimed in that direction, squinted at the human figure in the night vision sight, found a good opportunity, and without hesitation, Suwan aimed at the human figure's head and fired.
The assault rifle was equipped with a silencer, so the sound was not as loud as the footsteps of these people. Suwan picked out the one who was at the back and shot him. The man immediately fell headfirst. Before he fell to the ground and attracted attention, the second person came. While Suwan was shooting, these people were still approaching and had already come to the tree where Suwan was hiding.
The sound of people falling down made the remaining five people realize that they were attacked. They immediately raised their guns and looked around in panic. When another person fell down, they looked over according to the trajectory of the bullet and saw Suwan half-crouching on the tree. They quickly raised their guns to shoot her, but for Suwan, their movements were too slow. Seeing that she was discovered, Suwan stepped on the branches and jumped down the tree. The butt of the gun hit the person closest to her, knocking the person unconscious for a few seconds. Suwan used the gun body as a stick to hit another person's head, knocking the person to the ground directly, and then raised the assault rifle and pointed it at the two people in front of him and pulled the trigger twice to fire a few bursts. At such a close distance, there was no need to aim, and there was no reason for any deviation. The bullets hit the hearts of the two people.
Hearing the noise behind him, Suwan kicked back fiercely, injuring the man who was rushing at him, and at the same time pulled out the parachute knife from the knife sheath on his waist and stabbed it into his heart, pushing him back a few steps. Hearing the noise behind him, Suwan did not relax, pulled out the parachute knife that had already stabbed into the other person's heart, turned around and threw it out, hitting the target, the parachute knife stabbed into the head of the man behind Suwan who was about to shoot Suwan, the man opened his eyes wide, and fell backwards on his back.