Doomsday Officers Operation Team-Chapter 83 Passing Zombies

Zoe slept uncomfortably, her eyelashes fluttering in her sleep. Of course, it was impossible to sleep comfortably sitting on a cold, hard stone, but with Suwan beside her, she at least slept peacefully.

Suwan never fell into a deep sleep completely, as that would make her lose her vigilance. If she was alone, she might climb up a tree to rest and perhaps feel less nervous, but Zoe, who had no self-protection ability, was by her side and needed her protection, so she couldn't relax at any time.

Suwan was just in a light sleep, holding the gun in her hand all the time. She opened her eyes when it was just getting light in the sky and checked the time. It was just past three in the morning. Zoe was leaning in her arms, still sleeping soundly. So Suwan maintained that posture without moving, looking aimlessly ahead.

I don't know what the situation is at home now. Even if their landing point is as close to the city as possible, it will take at least three days to walk from here to the city where her home is. If they encounter zombies or other problems that hinder them, it will take longer. Because she has made plans to leave in advance, Suwan tried her best to prepare her equipment. The vitamins and compressed biscuits in the combat bag are enough for two people to sustain for five days. Suwan has strong enough survival ability in the wild, so compared to food, Suwan is worried about whether Zoe's physical strength can keep up with her speed. Even if the journey is safe, Zoe's physical fitness cannot keep moving forward, so she will have to prepare for a longer time.

Suwan was also worried about one thing. The noise of the plane flying over the forest yesterday would definitely attract the attention of all parties, whether it was humans or zombies. In the central town, Suwan had already seen the zombies evolve into hunters. Their speed was close to the running speed of adults. It would be terrible if groups of zombies were attracted. They were very lucky to spend a peaceful night and could not expect too much.

Suwan looked at the frost on the fallen leaves on the ground and felt that he shouldn't let Zoe continue sleeping.

Suwan moved his arm around Zoe's shoulder and held Zoe's cold hand, rubbing it gently. Zoe woke up immediately, but not completely. She rubbed her eyes, stretched her body that was stiff due to the low temperature and sleeping posture, and asked sleepily, "Are we leaving?"

"You rest for a while, then we'll set off," Suwan said considerately. She stood up and stretched her sore shoulders and body, took out a piece of compressed biscuit from the combat bag and gave it to Zoe. Then she stood up and kicked the ashes of the burnt fire on the ground to cover up the traces of their stay here, and climbed up a nearby tall tree to look into the distance with a telescope.

The trees in this forest were not as dense and tall as the ones in the forest near Cole City. Suwan could see the outline of the city in the distance by standing on a tall tree. Suwan adjusted the focus of the telescope and this time he could see more clearly.

It was a dead city.

That's right, dead silence.

The road was crowded with randomly parked vehicles and there was no sign of human activity. Even from such a long distance, Suwan could feel the lifelessness of the city. Even though the sun had just risen, the warm and pleasant yellow sunlight could not bring warmth to this cold city.

The paralysis of traffic roads means that the city has stopped normal operation, which is basically equivalent to the city being abandoned.

In other words, there is a high possibility that this city has been occupied by zombies.

Suwan gritted his teeth lightly.

She had expected this result, but was still unwilling to accept it. She had originally held high hopes after listening to Mike's words.

If the city was occupied by zombies, what happened to her parents? Did they reach the military zone safely? Are they still alive now? All this is unknown.

But no matter what, Suwan has to go back and take a look. This is her obsession, and because of this obsession, she is so persistent in coming back.

Then Suwan noticed that the treetops in the woods ahead were shaking.

Something was coming towards her direction. It could be a human, or more likely a zombie. No matter which one it was, Suwan was alert.

After all, she had seen it with her own eyes. In this situation, some people were not much different from zombies.

Suwan jumped down from the tree and watched Zoe blowing on her frozen fingers while swallowing the biscuits with difficulty, without saying anything.

"Shall we set off?" Zoe stuffed the remaining half of a compressed biscuit into the wide pocket of her lab coat and asked Suwan. Suwan had no intention of urging her, but seeing that Zoe was so proactive, he did not refute her. He walked a few steps forward with Zoe and asked Zoe: "Zoe, can you climb a tree?"

Zoe was a little dumbfounded when she heard Suwan ask this.

Of course she wouldn't.

She is a scientific researcher with a delicate body, and climbing a tree is too difficult for her.

Suwan knew the answer from Zoe's reaction. She immediately said without any objection: "I will teach you how to climb a tree." She emphasized: "Now."

Zoe reacted quickly. She looked ahead, then looked at Suwan and asked, "Is it a zombie?"

"I'm not sure," Suwan said, "but something is coming."

"How to climb?" Zoe asked immediately.

Zoe has a quick learning ability, but climbing a tree requires a certain amount of physical strength. With the help of Suwan, it took Zoe more than half an hour to climb up a tall tree, sweating all over. After that, she collapsed on the branch, hugging the trunk, and had no strength to move.

"Are you okay?" Suwan also climbed up the tree and asked beside her.

Zoe thought Suwan was asking her if she was tired, but was that even necessary? She was sweating and out of breath, so even if she insisted that she was not tired, Suwan would have to believe her. Then Zoe realized that Suwan was asking her if she was afraid of this height.

Zoe looked up at the ground. There was a tall and sturdy white pine tree. She was now on a branch about six meters above the ground. But unlike the shaking plane, Zoe was not afraid of heights on the stable branch.

"You stay here, I'll go check out the front and be back soon," Suwan said, leaving no room for argument.

"You..." You want to leave me here alone? Zoe stopped talking after only a sound. No matter what was coming, the two of them couldn't just hide in the tree. She had no ability to protect herself and would only bring trouble to Suwan. It was best for Suwan to check it out alone.

Zoe was so upset that she felt like a useless baby.

"Go ahead, I'll be waiting for you, be careful," Zoe said casually.

Suwan nodded, kissed Zoe's forehead, climbed down the tree, and after landing on the ground, she looked up at the tree and saw that Zoe was still looking at her worriedly. She waved to her to let her rest assured, then ran forward with light steps, and soon Zoe could no longer see her figure.

Zoe sat on the tree trunk stupidly, crouching down to reduce her sense of security. For a moment, she had nothing to do, so she simply reached for the remaining half of the cookie in her pocket and planned to eat it. She reached into her lab coat and touched the small pistol. This small pistol was her private collection, and she believed that it would be useful. Now it seems that if she doesn't want to cause trouble for Suwan, she must learn how to use this small pistol as soon as possible. She still has a lot to learn.

After running towards the city for more than twenty minutes, Suwan slowed down. She held an assault rifle in her hand and was alert to the movements around her.

Due to the low temperature in the north at this time of year, there are basically no insects or ants, and the birds have already flown south, so the forest is very quiet, at least for now, which means that the thing coming is still some distance away from her.

Walking in such a forest made Suwan feel a little dazed.

It reminded Suwan of the days when she wandered in the primeval forest of Cole City.

That kind of loneliness and despair of being abandoned by the world is too painful.

There was a crisp sound under Suwan's feet. She kicked away the thick fallen leaves under her feet and saw a corpse exposed under the leaves. In fact, it was not a corpse because there was not much rotten flesh on it. Basically, only a skeleton was left.

This is a skeleton that has been eaten by zombies.

Suwan had just stepped on the skeleton's leg bone.

Suwan only glanced down, then looked away and continued walking, but she was still thinking about the skeleton in her mind.

The skeleton's posture was twisted and its jaw was wide open, obviously it had experienced a lot of pain before death. Perhaps when it was alive, every piece of flesh on its body was eaten by zombies. How desperate it must have been to watch itself being eaten alive.

A desperate scream suddenly rang in Suwan's ears.

Suwan's pupils shrank rapidly, he stopped abruptly, and looked around with the gun in hand.

But the forest was still so quiet, it was just her hallucination.

Suwan paused for a moment, calmed down, and then continued to move forward. She was extremely grateful that she was not alone in the forest at this time, and that Zoe was waiting for her to return. Otherwise, it would be too devastating for her to experience the feeling of being forgotten by the world again.

This time, Suwan didn't go far before she noticed movement in the front. This time it was not an illusion. She immediately climbed up the tall tree next to her and observed the front through the telescope.

What she expected was correct, it was zombies.

The number is not too large. A rough estimate is that there are about twenty or so of them. They were probably attracted by the roar of the planes last night.

Suwan didn't plan to expose herself. There was no need to do so in the face of such danger. She planned to hide in the tree and wait quietly for the zombies to pass by. She believed that with Zoe's calmness, she would do the same thing as her.

Suwan waited on the tree for more than ten minutes, and the zombies passed by the tree where she was hiding. Perhaps because there was no prey ahead to attract them, their pace was not the running speed of the central town, but more like the walking speed of an adult. Judging from the degree of decay, they were no different from the zombies Suwan had seen before. It seems that the dark crisis has indeed erupted all over the world, even in China, which is so far away.

Suwan took a deep breath and looked down at the zombies passing by. Without being discovered, the zombies passed under the tree where Suwan was and continued to move towards Zoe.

Suwan planned to go back to find Zoe after twenty minutes, when she was farther away from the zombies. She waited quietly on the tree for time to pass. Just as she was about to get down from the tree, she noticed movement coming from the front again.

Another zombie? Suwan frowned.

No, not zombies.

Suwan vaguely heard human voices.

It's a living person.