Infinite Ebullience-Chapter 53 - 35 Whack A Mole Part 1
53: Chapter 35 Whack A Mole (Part 1)
53: Chapter 35 Whack A Mole (Part 1)
After finding several iron shovels and pickaxes in the hotel’s engineering department, the digging process sped up.
By the eighth day at noon, all the preparations were complete.
“That should do it, four holes in total.” Looking at the four evenly distributed holes with a radius of one meter in the hotel lobby, Tang Zheng nodded in satisfaction.
“The floor is really thick, I didn’t expect there to be an underground parking lot underneath.” Lin Weiguo leaned over, looking down.
The view was about four and a half meters high and a bit dark due to the lack of sunlight.
Various brands of cars were parked in the parking spots, making Lin Weiguo’s mouth water – they were all unowned now.
“Little Tang, you’re the only one among us who has been to the parking lot, you knew what was under the hotel lobby, didn’t you?” Qin Yan, sitting next to him panting, guessed, “You’re planning to lead the zombies into the underground parking lot, aren’t you?
Then stand in the lobby, shoot them through the holes?”
“Hey, that’s not a bad idea.
Four and a half meters high, no one can climb up except for the Hunter Zombies.” Lin Weiguo walked over to Tang Zheng, patting his shoulder, “You’ve really got a plan.
There’s no safer tactic than this.”
“I don’t ever want to run into an invisible Shadow Barbie again, but it’s safe, just not sure about the efficiency?” Tang Zheng half-jokingly explained, causing a burst of teasing laughter since no one present thought he was a coward.
“Who will lure the zombies?” Li Xinlan’s gaze swept over the other three people.
That was the concern she was more interested in.
“I’ll go.
It’s about time I did my part – otherwise, I wouldn’t feel right about claiming the Seed.” Lin Weiguo picked up the MG42 machine gun, found it a bit heavy, put it aside, and chose an M4A1 Carbine instead.
After capturing the ammunition and equipment from the Nazi Zombie Soldiers, the team had no shortage of weapons.
Qin Yan didn’t protest.
She was confident but also self-aware.
“Why have you never asked me about my Seed Ability?” Tang Zheng looked quietly at Lin Weiguo, signaling him to hold his horses.
“Everyone needs to have secrets, even more so when it concerns one’s life.” Hearing Qin Yan say this, Lin Weiguo nodded, adding, “However, I would reveal my abilities to a Group Leader I trust.
That way, they can formulate tactics that perfectly harness each team member’s potential.”
“That’s a good answer.
As for the task of luring the zombies, I’ll leave it to my Sophie.” As Tang Zheng’s voice trailed off, a fabulously attired female musketeer appeared beside him.
Qin Yan and Lin Weiguo were taken aback at the sudden appearance of this stranger.
Li Xinlan on the side, however, remained composed, but upon beholding Sophie’s breathtaking beauty and fiery physique, she made a face.
“Why does she look like the French actress Sophie Marceau?” Qin Yan sized Sophie up and down, asking, “Is she some gorgeous vase with a firearm?
How strong is her attack power?”
“Holy crap, your ability materializes a beautiful woman out of thin air?
And a starlet at that?
Incredible!” Each of Lin Weiguo’s exclamations was louder than the last.
His gaze swept up and down Sophie’s high-heeled boots that reached over her knees, then took in her full chest before shaking his head in admiration.
“Man, I’m really jealous of your ability.”
In fact, Lin Weiguo had more to say.
With someone as ravishing and obedient as Sophie, her attacking power was a mere afterthought.
The main point was having such a woman to keep him warm in bed.
However, after stealing a glance at Qin Yan and Li Xinlan, he didn’t dare to voice his thoughts, resorting to throwing Tang Zheng meaningful looks instead.
“Sophie, lure the zombies, but don’t bring back more than three hundred.” After Tang Zheng finished speaking, Sophie nodded, jumped directly through the hole, landed on top of a Ford car, then made a leap that covered at least four to five meters, landing on the roof of another Hummer…
Sophie’s actions startled the three of them, but after seeing that she was unharmed, the group collectively sighed in relief.
Then, they started admiring her formidable jumping abilities.
About two minutes later, Sophie ran back to the entrance of the pit, made a swift leap, and shot straight up.
From the gap, they could hear disordered footsteps and roars.
Predictably, there soon came a massive swarm of zombies crowding under the opening, raising their heads, restlessly leaping in an attempt to climb up, or pull down the human figures they spotted.
However, the jumping ability of common zombies was too lackluster, even if slightly better than humans, they couldn’t even reach halfway up a meter, posing no threats whatsoever.
They could clearly see the faces of the zombies below the pit, it was the first time anyone had such a clear, close-up look at living zombies.
Suddenly, Qin Yan pulled out her cellphone and started snapping photos.
“Putting these guys in a park would make a killing,” Lin Weiguo swallowed hard, feeling he should do something, and thus he pulled the bolt of his gun, aimed, and blew the head off a zombie.
Tang Zheng removed the M1911A1 from his leg gun holster and started shooting at the zombies one by one.
The zombies below were all clumped up and oblivious to the bullets, making them perfect targets.
Amid the popping of gunfire, one after another, the zombies fell to the ground, and any gap left by their fall was instantly filled by zombies from the sides.
“Seems there are over three hundred, but it’s okay, we’re not feeling any pressure,” Qin Yan also pulled out her gun and started shooting.
After emptying a clip, she frowned, “This is too wasteful of bullets, among these, there seem to be only three police zombies with handguns.”
“Let’s take our time, no rush.
We stirred up such a big commotion eight days ago, I bet at least eighty percent of Los Angeles’ police force must have assembled here, a total of a few thousand people.
We can definitely recoup our losses from ammo expended, and besides, our most important aim is to blow up these zombies and get seeds,” Lin Weiguo picked up an MP38 and fired single shots at the zombies.
“Let’s also have fun with this classic World War II weapon.”
“I prefer the PPSh,” Qin Yan replaced her handgun’s clip, then asked Little Tang, who had gone to sit to the side and seemed quite tired, while noticing that Sophie had disappeared.
“No choice, it’s the aftermath of using abilities,” Tang Zheng shrugged, and started to shamelessly slack off.
“So you guys work a bit more.”
After wiping out this first wave of nearly four hundred zombies in less than half an hour, Lin Weiguo got addicted to the thrill and suggested that Little Tang use the Shadow Barbie to draw out more zombies.
“There’s still a half-hour cooldown time, why don’t you clean up the battlefield yourself?” Tang Zheng shook his head in refusal, suggesting more subtly that they go look for seeds, and ribbed, “Tasks requiring physical exertion are not meant for the team leader.”
Qin Yan and Li Xinlan glared at Tang Zheng, knowing he intentionally gave them the opportunity to acquire the seeds.
However, the drop rate of the seeds was way too low.
In the entire afternoon, they killed six waves of zombies, amounting to over three thousand, but only obtained two Black Iron Seeds.
Looking at the lowest-valued seeds, Qin Yan and Lin Weiguo shook their heads, having no interest in using them.
Although they have already learned that any seed can activate abilities, and the specifics of these abilities rely exclusively on individual talent which has nothing to do with seed type, everyone instinctively rejected the Black Iron Seeds.
“I’m not asking for Star Seeds, or those superior quality Golden Seeds.
They keep dropping Silvers for me, ok, at least drop a Bronze Seed.
But these Black Iron things are total rubbish,” Lin Weiguo was increasingly frustrated by the afternoon’s gains, which made him appreciate the preciousness of the Golden Seed in Tang Zheng’s possession even more.
