[1] Apocalypse: Third Rebirth

Chapter 107: Trojan Horse

"We will definitely be talking about this later," said Rear Admiral Zhou Gang Jia as he stared, hypnotized, at Liu Yu Zeng's hands. The black mist had taken on an almost snake-like quality to it as it continued to circle around the black leather gloves.

A small part of me wanted to pet the mist, if that were possible, but then I didn't know what the consequences would be. The snake-like mist started to raise a part of it, like a head, and looked in my direction as if it could sense my thoughts. I raised an eyebrow at Liu Yu Zeng, wondering if he had done that on purpose, but he simply shook his head, as entranced with his mist as the rest of us were.

The groaning sound of the gates being opened further snapped us out of our thoughts and, as one, we looked at the outside world.

While the landscape was covered as far as the eye could see in white, the snowdrifts forming hills that were easily above my head, the zombies hadn't changed at all. Still wearing whatever outfit they took the vaccine in, they seemed as warm as a summer day.

Truth be told, I was a little jealous.

Pulling out all of the swords from my space, I handed one to Zhou Gang Jia and gave Liu Yu Zeng his. Wang Chao, Liu Wei, and Chen Zi Han distributed the rest of the swords to the men around them and then took their own, ready to fight.

"I have a lot of questions," admitted the Rear Admiral as he looked at the sword in his hand.

"If you survive this, then I will be more than happy to answer all of them," I assured him. "But the most important thing to know is to not hack off any limbs unless it is the head."

"Dare I ask why?"

I shrugged in response as Wang Chao took the first step out of the gate and into the fray. "Because they multiply," came my oversimplified answer.

"Yup, so many questions," Zhou Gang Jia groaned as I followed my four men out of the gate and ahead of the rest of the men. Zhou Gang Jia was at my side, staring at the seemingly never ending horde of zombies.

Even I had to admit the number looked a lot smaller from the watch tower, or maybe more had gathered as we prepared things on our side. Either way, there were a lot of them. Hopefully, there were a lot of us too.

"Don't cut off limbs, cut off heads, call for fire. Am I missing anything?" Zhou Gang Jia asked, taking a deep breath. The calmness was back, only emphasized by the winter setting.

"Don't leave my side," I answered as one zombie stepped out of the horde. "Do you boys have this?" I called out. I would not stop them if they wanted to answer a challenge, but I would always stand by their side when they needed me.

"I got it," said Liu Yu Zeng as he too took a step forward. The Rear Admiral looked on in absolute fascination.

"What is going on?" he demanded, his eyes narrowing on Liu Yu Zeng and the lone zombie.

"Alpha battle," I replied, my eyes never leaving my man.

A low, rumbling growl echoed on the cold wind, seemingly spreading for miles before the sound died off. The zombie Alpha looked at Liu Yu Zeng in front of him and snarled, showing off his teeth, but only a small amount of them. I wondered what his game plan was. Normally an Alpha showed as much dominance as possible as soon as possible to end things quickly, but this did not seem to be the case for him.

What kind of Alpha was he?

Liu Yu Zeng returned the gesture with a low growl of his own and he allowed his poisonous mist to engulf the lower half of his body. Small tendrils of it seemed to slither across the white snow, edging closer and closer to the zombie.