"Lao Gao, our armed police in Jiangcheng are too miserable. We can't even see any advanced weapons. Why are they all the ancestral Eight-One Bar? No matter 95 or 03, you leaders should at least get one for others, right?" Thomas Xu kept picking up handfuls of Eight-One Bar and One Style on the ground. Automatic rifles, and kept throwing them away, because after trying them, he found that most of the guns could no longer be used normally, and only a few of them could be used by exchanging parts. At this time, he was sitting on a gasoline barrel holding two rifles, looking at Gao Chujiang with squinting eyes.
"You really know how to tell a joke. I am a cadre of the People's Armed Forces Ministry, not the army. I also want to give them original bullets by myself, but I have to have this ability." Gao Chujiang squatted on the ground and was also fiddling with a few rifles. Gun, turned around and said depressingly, "Just be content. In this windy and sandy weather, the Bayi bar is the most reliable. I don't know if I can still beat it if I switch it to 95. I have never liked that gun. It always feels like holding a toy."
"But my parents are handsomer than the old Bayi. I wear casual clothes and carry the Bayi bar. No matter how I look at it, I feel like a Somali pirate." Thomas Xu curled his lips and quickly replaced the parts of the rifle. After taking a bottle of gun oil from a corpse to maintain it, Thomas Xu held the gun and pulled the trigger into the sky. However, after hearing a slight "click", the rifle in his hand did not even react at all.
"Holy crap, why are all these bullets misfiring?" Thomas Xu kept pulling the gun bolt angrily. After about five or six rounds of bullets, he finally fired a gun.
"Look at the ammunition in those boxes. I guess the ones there are still usable." Jack stood up straight from the ground and pointed at the ammunition boxes piled up against the wall and protected by an awning. He had expected that the bullet would become damp and unusable.
"Lin...Jack..."
At this moment, Boss Hu, who was probably addicted to rummaging through the trunk, suddenly screamed in surprise from behind a military Dongfeng Warrior vehicle standing in front of the sandbags. Jack and the others followed the sound and saw Boss Hu holding a shiny tubular object in his hand. He turned around with a stiff neck and said to everyone in a loud voice, "Look... is this a rocket launcher?"
"Holy shit, I got a big buck now, it's actually 40 fires." Thomas Xu jumped up from the gasoline barrel, rushed to Boss Hu's side in a few steps, pushed him away from the Warrior car, excitedly flipped the contents inside, and then held up a 40mm rocket launcher with a warhead, and shouted triumphantly, "Haha... AK with RPG, I have really become an authentic Somali pirate now."
"Come here and let me see, how many warheads are there?" Gao Chujiang also ran over excitedly, stretched his head to look into a wooden box behind the car, but soon became frustrated and said speechlessly, "Damn, there are four launchers, how come there are only three warheads left? How many living corpses can be killed by this?"
"Cut it out, Lao Gao, you're being naive!" Thomas Xu proudly patted the rocket launcher slung over his shoulder and said in a condescending tone, "Using a 40mm grenade to blow up zombies is just for show; it's not effective at all. Even if it explodes in a crowd of zombies, it won't kill many of them. The real purpose of this thing now is to intimidate humans. If I carry this rocket launcher back, none of those bastards in the settlement will dare to mess with me. Otherwise, if I fire this rocket, it would easily wipe out a large number of humans!"
"You're right, using this to deal with the zombies is indeed a bit of a waste!" Gao Chujing nodded in realization, immediately cherishing the rocket launcher in his hands.
"Lin Ge, should we start this Hummer? This vehicle is much better than our pickup truck, and it even has a machine gun turret!" Thomas Xu stuffed the rocket launcher back into the car and pointed at the dusty Dongfeng Hummer beside them.
Jack approached with two usable Type 81 rifles slung over his back, standing by the car and knocking on the steel plate. A solid thud echoed from the plate, and Jack nodded, tossing the gun into the car and saying, "Let's hurry up, the wind has changed, and the zombie horde will soon catch our scent!"
Before long, after Thomas Xu cheerfully found some diesel to fill the tank, Jack took the wheel, and the other three men pushed hard from behind. As the Hummer belched out a large amount of black smoke, it roared to life. The four of them quickly searched the area for any usable supplies and weapons, loaded everything into the car, and sped away in the powerful Hummer.
In fact, Jack and the others didn't find many usable guns this time, but they couldn't carry that many anyway. They managed to take about a dozen of the best rifles, and they wanted to grab more handguns, but no matter how hard they searched, they could only find a pitiful four. However, they did manage to find a considerable amount of rifle bullets, regardless of whether they were damp or not, with four heavy wooden boxes stacked in the back of the truck.
Jack drove the Hummer towards the elevated highway they had come from. Although the highway was blocked, the road below was still clear except for a few zombies. As soon as Thomas Xu got in the car, he climbed up into the machine gun turret, discarded the rusty machine gun that had been there for ages, and set up his Type 81 rifle. With a cigarette in his mouth, Thomas laughed wildly, firing a burst of bullets at any zombies that dared to block their path, exuding a reckless and domineering vibe.
However, the ruckus caused by Thomas ultimately attracted the zombies' retaliation. Just as Thomas Xu was enjoying himself and hadn't finished the new magazine, a massive horde of zombies surged in like a wave from around the corner, so numerous that they were impossible to count. The half-burnt cigarette butt in his mouth fell into the truck, burning Hu Laoda, who screamed inside, but he had no time to apologize, frantically banging on the roof and shouting, "Hurry! Retreat!"
"Creak…"
Jack, who was driving, slammed on the brakes, coming to a halt in the middle of the road. Thomas Xu initially thought Jack was going to reverse, but he realized the Hummer was completely still, like a fool, watching the horde charge towards them.
He could even see the strands of flesh in the zombies' mouths clearly, and he panicked, frantically pulling the trigger and taking down one zombie after another. Soon, he emptied a magazine, and while reloading, he shouted desperately, "Retreat! If we don't retreat now, it'll be too late!"
"Ugh..."
The armored vehicle suddenly roared, causing the entire body to shake. A harsh screech of tires accompanied by a strong burnt smell filled everyone's nostrils. Jack at the driver's seat abruptly turned the steering wheel all the way, executing a beautiful drift with the armored vehicle, which belched out thick black smoke, charging down the street like a roaring rhinoceros, "rumbling" towards the roadside.
"Stop shooting! Hold on tight!"
Jack shouted loudly, slamming the accelerator to the floor. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared between two buildings at the street corner. He wasn't scared; he just knew that if he didn't get out of there before the horde of corpses arrived, they would definitely face a fierce battle, and it was likely that a few people would die. But now, the active corpses that needed to come out had all emerged, rushing after the armored vehicle in a frenzy.
After creating some distance from the horde, Jack slowed down to wait for them. Once he saw that all the active corpses had basically rushed into the small street, he accelerated again, not giving any of the corpses a chance. He crashed through several buildings, making a "loop" while shaking off the horde and returning to the main road they had come from.
The other three men in the vehicle were drenched in cold sweat from Jack's reckless baiting tactic. They understood that Jack was essentially gambling on luck. If there had been a large number of active corpses on that small road, they would have been trapped with no way out, and their only fate would be to get out and fight to the death, with total annihilation not being out of the question!
Gao Chujing looked at Jack, who wore a calm expression at the driver's seat, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with trembling hands. He didn't know whether Jack's daring nature was instinctual or if he truly had an extraordinary intuition. There were clearly other routes available, and even if he chose that path, getting back to the women would be a hassle, but it was still better than recklessly charging into the most dangerous place!
Life, everyone only has one!