Horror at Night, Time to Act

"Ahh!"

Apart from the noise that the zombies were making, there was only the soft sound of breath while everybody was sleeping in the evening, until a blast of scream broke the harmony.

"What? What happened?"

"What the hell happened?"

"Come on, I'm trying to get some sleep here."

"What was it? I just fell asleep!"

The sleepy crowd was aroused. Everybody swore and cursed without opening the eyes. After hearing the news Yun Che brought back to them, everyone more or less had trouble falling asleep until around midnight. Anyone would get upset after being awakened this way.

"Is this…"

Fire superfunction possessors conjured fireballs to light up the place, what they saw immediately cleared their heads. In a small corner, Major General Zeng leaned on the wall, face covered in blood. His skull was crushed, a medium-sized cat with a hole in its belly was gnawing on Zeng's head, slurping his brain, making a disgusting sound. Major General Zeng was very much dead.

Meow!

Even the most seasoned ones would be stunned by the scene. The zombie cat raised its head from the gorge and looked at the superfunction possessors. Its face was covered with red and white goo, stinking fluids dripped from its sharp tusks as it snarled at the humans.

"What are you waiting for? Kill it!"

"OK, OK!"

Mo Wenyang regained his wits and roared with a sullen look on his face. Wei Soldiers who were near Major General Zeng's dead body shot superfunction power at the cat in a flurry.

Meow! Meow!

It would be a surprise if they could hit the cat in a panic. The zombie cat leaped out of the barrage zone and pounced at the nearest person. It scratched the person's face with its sharp claws and almost poked his eye out, but the other people around the guy still stood where they were like dummies.

Zoom!

Meow!

Right before the poor guy was about to go blind, a pitch-black blade dashed across the air and stabbed right through the zombie cat's head, pinning it on the wall. The owner of the blade slowly walked up to the cat, picked the crystal nucleus out when he pulled the blade. "It's just a level-2 zombie cat. Are you really that scared?"

Said Yun Che with a contemptuous look on the face while flipping the brown crystal nucleus after cleaning it. Everybody felt embarrassed, they hung their heads but wasn't able to talk Yun Che back. In fact, their bodies were still stiff till now. It wasn't the level-2 zombie cat but the gory scene that scared them. But anyone would react the same if that was the first thing they had to see after opening their eyes from sleep.

"Commander?!"

"Commander!"

It finally occurred to Wei Army that their commander was dead. Zeng's deputies bewailed around his body, Wei Soldiers took off their caps, bowed their heads, and mourned quietly. No one got emotional though. The doomsday was just like that. People were dying every day, there was no guarantee that one would survive in any quest. Death was especially common to the soldiers at the frontline.

"Untie those guys. They've been under observation for more than 10 hours. The zombification would have happened if there was any."

Yun Che didn't have time for the little mourning ceremony of Wei Army. He stopped when walking past Mo Wenyang and signaled him with a pout at the heavily injured soldiers. Mo Wengyang said nothing but ordered his deputy to untie them with a wave of hand. Yun Che wasn't in a mood for a chat in the middle of the night, he walked straight back to their corner.

"You guys did this?"

After wrapping the gang with a layer of transparent air membrane, Yun Che snuggled up to Xing Feng when he was back in the sleeping bag. His eyes were half-closed, so it appeared that he was ready to sleep again, no one could know he was asking this serious question.

"How do you know that?"

Zhou Zeyu opened up his eyes in surprise. "What? Is Che a mind-reader?"

"Duh! Of all the people, why did the cat pick Major General Zeng? Do you think I'm an idiot? It must have been you."

Yun Che knew that the cat was controlled by Ye Xingchen, or else how could it be so precise? "Way to go, boys, a revenge behind my back, huh? It looks like I don't need to watch over you guys anymore." Yun Che thought.

"Served him right! How dare he plot against you? The captain of Peak deserves some respect!"

Zhou Zeyu muttered as he was worried that Yun Che didn't approve of his action even though he thought he did the right thing. Ye Xingchen apologized as well, "Sorry, we…"

Yun Che lifted his hand, indicating them to stop. He then turned his head and slightly opened his eyes to look at them and said, "I wasn't blaming you, this is how you survive longer in the doomsday. If we passively take the offense and fight back afterward every time, we'll be dead in no time. Even if you hadn't ended his life, I wouldn't let the asshole live another day anyway. You did well. Remember, the mercy you show to your enemies will be the death of you eventually. Leniency is the last thing we need in the doomsday."

Everybody could tell that Major General Zeng had had it in for Yun Che this afternoon, sooner or later, Zeng would make his move against Yun Che. Yun Che didn't have time for the nonsense but he had already made up his mind, he planned get Zeng killed in the chaotic battle tomorrow. Well, now he didn't have to because the problem had been solved.

"OK."

They all nodded. They were relieved when they got Yun Che's approval, after all, most of them had never done this before.

"Get some sleep, it's 3 am. A gruesome battle is ahead of us.

Yun Che shook his head with a smile. He removed the air membrane, snuggled in Xing Feng's arms, and fell asleep. Xing Feng never said anything the whole time, he just gave an approving look at Yu Wenqing before falling asleep. They were on the same page, Major General Zeng would only cause more problems, or even a disaster. It was in their best interest to snuff the son of a bitch sooner.

It was 7 am, people woke up one by one after a rough night. Wei Army had disposed of Major General Zeng's body. No one knew how but didn't ask anyway. Everybody's attention was on the upcoming battle, everybody brushed their teeth and ate their breakfast like a robot. It wouldn't be an everyday battle.

"Counting all the level-3 superfunction possessors and you, there are 101 people in total. Now the problem is, how do we get out of here without disturbing the zombies out there."

Mo Wenyang the freeloader went to join Yun Che's breakfast again. Their steaming wholesome food was surely more appealing than the dry, insipid field rations.

"Can we not talk about it during breakfast?"

Yun Che took a bite on the stuffed bun that Xing Feng got for him. He looked at Mo Wenyang while chewing and then slurped the vegetable porridge in his spoon. "101 level-3 superfunction possessors available? Well, this is good news. It's not that bad after all." He thought.

"Can you just be frank with me? I can't even enjoy my breakfast."

If Mo Wenyang wasn't swallowing a steam bun when saying this, it would have been more convincing. Everyone focused on breakfast instead of responding to him. Even Xing Feng, Mo's cousin, didn't spare a look at him. He devoured the rest of the bun that Yun Che took a bite on. After slurping the porridge, he got another bun and still, he let Yun Che took the first bite.

"Senpai, eat. Eat more."

Xing Feng and Yun Che were silently doing what a couple would do whereas Jiang Shang showed off their relationship the high-profile way as if he wanted the whole world to know. He fed Xingchen with the porridge spoon by spoon. He kept doing this, even Ye Xingchen was embarrassed. Like a machine, Ye just swallowed everything served to his mouth regardless of his mates' green eyes.

It took them half an hour to finish eating breakfast and it was already 8 am after everyone got ready. Led by Yun Che and Xing Feng, the team of 101 people went to the top floor. Before Mo Wenyang left, he told his deputies to put people on guard and look after the injured ones. Those dudes were proud, they wouldn't feel good about being left behind because they were not good enough or injured.

Fortunately, the KTV was big enough. The team didn't feel crowded on the top floor. Yun Che got the air panel out for a check. He chose a direction with less level-3 zombies. He looked down and pinpointed the two level-3 zombies, then turned around and whispered to Heiyu and the Wolf King. After making sure they understood his instruction, Yun Che took a lot of unassembled hang gliders from Space.

"You're mostly soldiers, you should know how to assemble the stuff. Two men a group, but every space superfunction possessor must be with a level-3 partner. We'll glide down there. Remember, these are all the hang gliders I have. When you land, you give the glider to the nearest space superfunction possessor, and they'll give it back to me when we get around to it."

Hang gliders were space-efficient and useful. Yun Che would hate to see these gliders got wasted. They still got a long doomsday ahead of them, these hang gliders would come in handy in many places.

Everybody knew Yun Che would be petty about the equipment so none of them responded to him. They started assembling the hang gliders as soon as they got it. Mo Wenyang walked over to Yun Che and checked the situation down there. "The building isn't very high, the hang gliders won't soar in the sky. I'm afraid we'll drop right into the zombies."

"You forget about my air superfunction?"

Yun Che wouldn't keep people guessing at this point, he continued, "I'll send you down with air superfunction later. See that crossroads over there? The zombies are all here, that place is empty. We'll land there. But we'll need to be quick, everyone must land before the zombies catch us. We can't waste time on them."

Yun Che pointed at the crossroads 600 meters away from them. He had already checked the area last night. After a left turn at the crossroads, soon they could see the considerably large research institute.

"OK."

It seemed Yun Che had got it all planned out. Mo Wenyang didn't want to ask more questions. He had decided to turn the leadership over to Yun Che and Xing Feng in today's operation.

"All good?"

"All good!"

Several minutes later, our capable soldiers assembled all the hang gliders and were divided into groups. Yun Che asked the groups made of his own people and Mo Wenyang to step forward. The rest duteously stood in line.

"Heiyu, Wolf King, you're on. Draw those two level-3 away."

"Sure thing, just kick back and watch. When have I ever failed you? Wolfie, follow me to…"

Thud!

Before Heiyu even finished, he leaped down in the direction where one of the level-3 zombies might take for the dodge, the Wolf King pounced at the other level-3 one. The zombie herd was stirred up as two bombs dropped in them.

"Right now! Go!"

Yun Che gave the order, 10 people jumped off the railing. Right before they hit into the zombies' faces, a soft force held them up and propelled them to glide forward. The navigators controlled the gliders to fly at low altitudes. Afterward, rows of hang gliders took flight, causing a commotion among the zombies down there.