Kingdom of Living II - Part 8

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Days ago there used to be a radio tower in the Ubon Ratchathani that was used by the people who lived in the golf course outpost, used to establish communications in the artificial islands (also natural islands near Thailand) made by The Organization in hopes to create a peaceful environment from these Z's. A human used to stay there and make communications like how Hugo is doing in the Dicang Village, but it got overrun by zombies and these zombies killed the man inside. This wouldn't have happened if he would have a fighter or a gun with him.

The fighters that have been sent to the fight have been divided into two sides, one side is doing the attacking part, and the other is doing the defending objective. No point in explaining again what they are doing because their objectives are simple, attackers are basically trying to attract as many zombies by using the vehicles and loud music, while the defenders are taking control of the radio tower and calling for reinforcements nearby artificial islands.

"Alright, people!" says Ri Ku to his members while Li Kay drives the van on a busy road with many zombie bodies and cars lying around. "Listen up! Our mission is to park the car somewhere open! We turn on the music, then we time the bomb inside, we flee to safety and regroup with the defenders. Got it?"

"Yes, sir!" says his four comrades in arms.

"You think we will make it?" asks Yu.

"We will." says Ahmed. "This is an easy walk for us after what went through in Dicang."

"Ahmed is right." says Ri Ku to Yu. "With what happened in Dicang, this mission sounds easy for us. But you never knew… We will fight together. Conserve your ammo. Don't let any zombie bite your armor. And always protect everyone's back." says Ri Ku, then he looks at Li Kay, who is starting to slow down the speed of the car. "We'll leave here!"

"Okay." says Li Kay starting to stop the car, turns on the radio and plug the audio jack cable of the speaker into the radio that has the USB stick, then he plays it a song from the band Labanoon.

"Bomb placed it." says Ahmed placing a C4 bomb on the car with a timer that is set to detonate in the next five minutes.

"Now, everybody!" says Ri Ku, taking a shotgun and kicking the door of the backside of the van, making a zombie fall on the street. "Run!"

The whole group runs from the van toward the direction where the radio station is supposed to be. While running, the group has managed to push, kill and knockout zombies with their melee weapons that consist of baseball bats, machetes and knives. None of them used their guns on no normal zombies, they all used it once to kill a supposed class F zombie who was about to throw a car at the group at close distance. They've killed more than fifty zombies, but they managed to get to somewhere safe, avoiding the van that exploded and engulfed a whole street into flames.

The group look back at the explosion in amazement, none of them think this explosion will be this big to cover an entire street, several buildings and kill more than a hundred zombies. Li Kay looks at this cloud of smoke in wonder, and asks the group.

"You sure there was only one C4?"

"Must've been the other cars," says Ri Ku. "Remember, most of these cars still have some fuel left in them."

"We have to go!" says Xin to the group pointing at a few zombies who are walking in their direction. "Z's!"

"Move, move!" says Ri Ku to the group in a hurry.

All the five members of Shi Huang Squad are running toward the direction where the radio tower is stationed. The distance they ran was one kilometer and half, but they did not reach the radio tower because of a wave of zombies that came from a hundred meters away from another street. The group of five fighters are running inside a building that looks like a bank, close the door after them and run down the bank to safety. The zombies manage to break down the doors. Zombies are walking in a slow pace to the upstairs where the group has run, guided by the smell of human blood.

In a secured room that looks like a vault bank, the group of fighters is locking the doors, moving the furniture to the door and remain near the wall, breathing heavily, feeling anxious and sweating bullets. Xin and Li were scared of this, but the other three were only tired, but still held their calm and thought rationally to a solution from the dilemma they are facing at this moment. The group couldn't try to kill an entire horde of zombies with limited ammunition and with their melee, not a horde that surpasses more than a hundred zombies.

"We need a plan." says Ahmed, and he looks at Ri Ku.

"I'm thinking." says RiKu feeling nervous and calm at the same time. "I'm thinking!"

"We are so fucked." says Li Kay in Mandarin language. 

"We aren't." says Yu to Li Kay, she looks around the room.

The room they are all locked in is a money vault that contains a lot of cabinets that are empty which means someone decided to steal all the money during a zombie apocalypse. Some people in this situation may view this as a dumbass situation, but there is also the possibility that if the world will rise up again, that said person who stole the money will be one of the richest people on the planet. Instead of the empty cabinets, there isn't much to help them in this situation, only worthless money and a lot of blood around the place. Then, Yu thought of something.

"Blood… Blood."

"Blood?" asks Xin Yan.

"Yeah, there's everywhere." says Li Kay.

"We need fresh blood." says Yu to the group.

"Wait." says Ri Ku. "You may be onto something."

"Yeah," says Yu Tong happily. "We can cover our armor with blood, and we can go through the horde."

"Is it safe?" asks Li Kay.

"Would you like to remain here until these things break down the vault?" asks Ahmed.

A knock is heard at the vault door, which makes all the fighters look scared at the vault, shaking out of fear. Li Kay is looking at the group, nervous, then he shakes his head in approval.

"Have it your way." says Li Kay to Yu Tong.

"Look." she says, raising up and pointing at a cabinet that is inside a zombie body. "Here's a zombie."

"How did he end up there?" asks Li Kay, confused.

"Convenient." says Xin Yan with a smile.

"Get ready to cover your armors in blood."