MM Racing Chapter 49 High-Efficiency Rescue
Chapter 49 High-Efficiency Rescue
Lu Chen led the team directly toward Building 5. This time, the goal was very clear. He wrote down a total of 15 room numbers in his notebook, which were distributed across the 13 floors.
Upon entering the first floor, two zombies were roaming the corridor.
Hearing the sound of the unit door being pushed open, they turned their heads almost simultaneously and pounced over with a hissing sound.
Lu Chen didn't stop walking. He only raised a finger. Tie Zhu led the horde of corpses past him from both sides, like two streams of iron flowing into the corridor.
The two zombies were almost powerless to resist and turned into corpses.
Lu Chen walked to the door of 104.
He had just raised his hand when the door opened from the inside. Clearly, the survivor inside had already heard the commotion in the corridor.
The man who opened the door was in his thirties, carrying a bulging travel bag and a plastic bag full of things in his hand, clearly having packed in advance.
He saw Lu Chen standing at the door and kept saying "Thank you, thank you," his voice trembling.
Lu Chen felt the heat emanating from the meteorite imprint and patted the other person's shoulder with satisfaction: "Let's go when you're ready!"
The man nodded vigorously, picked up the plastic bag, stepped out the door, and consciously walked to the back of the zombie horde.
Tie Zhu had already led his team to clear out the first-floor corridor and was turning back from the end of the corridor.
Lu Chen didn't rush upstairs. He directed Tie Zhu to enter the fire escape and tap the stair railing with the back of his knife.
The clanging of metal echoed through the stairwell, immediately followed by groans and hurried footsteps from upstairs, drawing all the zombies roaming the fire escape down to the top.
Iron Pillar and Two Pillars stood side by side blocking the fire escape, and zombies came crashing into their blades one after another.
Tie Zhu and Er Zhu took turns wielding their knives, killing one zombie with each strike—their efficiency was terrifying. In less than two minutes, the dozen or so zombies that had been drawn down into the fire escape were all turned into corpses on the steps.
Everyone quickly went upstairs.
Then, following the same procedure as before, clear out the zombies in the corridor.
Lu Chen walked to the door of 202 and knocked. A woman in her fifties opened the door and thanked him profusely, but her belongings were completely unpacked.
Lu Chen left Zhao Yongqiang behind to assist her, and kept two zombies as guards.
Then take the others to the 3rd floor.
304 was occupied by an elderly couple who had packed two large woven bags, too many to move. Lu Chen had Er Zhuang go in and lift one bag in each hand. The elderly couple stared in disbelief as the helmeted zombie easily carried away the packages that they couldn't even move together, and quickly followed.
They went up one floor at a time, from the 4th floor to the 5th floor and the 6th floor.
Lu Chen personally knocked on the doors of the rooms with red cloth hanging on each floor to lead people in. Tie Zhu led the team to clear the remaining zombies in the corridor, while Er Zhu and San Zhu guarded the fire escape entrance to prevent any zombies from rushing up the stairwell.
The whole process is like an assembly line: knock on the door, lead people in, and leave.
No need for persuasion, no need to search for supplies, no need to clear the zombies from the room—the efficiency is astonishing.
Room 1401 on the 14th floor, this is the last room.
I knocked on the door, but no one answered.
Lu Chen knocked twice more, and a faint response came from inside. The door opened after a while.
The person who opened the door was a college student who was so thin he looked unrecognizable, with chapped lips, sunken eyes, and could barely stand.
There was no food in his room; the last bit of food he had eaten was gone the day before yesterday, and he had been hungry for two days.
Lu Chen asked Wei Dong to help him walk, and then took out half a compressed biscuit from his backpack and stuffed it into his hand.
The college student was holding a cookie, his fingers trembling so much that he couldn't tear open the packaging for a long time. In the end, Wei Dong helped him tear it open.
Lu Chen stood at the end of the corridor on the 14th floor and glanced down at his notebook—all the rooms in Building 5 that had been covered with red cloth had been cleared out.
From the 1st floor to the 14th floor, 16 survivors were taken away, and 35 zombies were killed. The whole process took 40 minutes.
This is three to four times faster than in the morning.
Without delay, he led the team back. The survivors followed behind the zombie horde, some still bewildered.
I thought it would take a long time and involve lengthy persuasion and procedures, but it turned out to be as simple as knocking on a door and leaving—it was unbelievably easy.
Back at the entrance of Building 3, Lu Chen handed over all 16 survivors to Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan had already set up a registration desk at the entrance of Building 3. Two registrars were sitting behind the desk. When they saw Lu Chen return, they immediately stood up and began to record the information.
The 16 people were quickly registered, assigned rooms, and informed of the basic rules. Then, someone led them to their respective floors to put their luggage away.
Lu Chen didn't go to Building 6. Instead, he turned and walked quickly toward Building 1 where Shen Qingci was.
He wasn't going there to help; he was going to pick up zombies!
Shen Qingci was standing at the entrance of Unit 1, followed by a horde of zombies and two field agents. On the ground in front of her lay four zombies bound together like rice dumplings with nylon rope.
Four zombies were dragged and rolled on the ground, their mouths stuffed with strips of cloth, unable to even make a gurgling sound.
Two Iron Pillar-class and two Big Strong-class. Although the quantity is small, the quality is ridiculously high.
Lu Chen currently only has 3 Iron Pillar-level weapons under his command, and this time he has gained 2 more, bringing his total number of Iron Pillar-level weapons from 3 to 5.
The number of strong individuals can also be increased from 13 to 15.
He didn't have much to say and just started the replacement.
First, remove the control from 4 ordinary zombies in the team, and then control 2 Iron Pillar level and 2 Big Strong level zombies.
He had the field staff re-tie up the four zombies that had been replaced, so they could be thrown back to the fourth floor and kept there for later use.
"Are there any other people hanging red cloths on this building who haven't accepted them yet?" Lu Chen asked.
"All done. Twelve households in one building had red cloth hanging, it was quick." Shen Qingci closed her notebook. "And you?"
"Buildings 5 are done, 6 more to go!"
Lu Chen glanced at his watch.
It's 2 p.m., one hour to go.
He accompanied Shen Qingci to bring the survivors from Building 1 back to Building 3, where they were also handed over to Gao Yuan for registration and allocation.
Then the two sides separated again at the entrance of Building 3. Shen Qingci led the team to Building 7, and Lu Chen led the team to Building 6.
While Lu Chen and the others were busy, Gao Yuan was also working tirelessly.
More than an hour after Lu Chen finished explaining the mission and left, Gao Yuan immediately took four people to the rooftop.
No one had been up there for a long time; the rooftop was piled with clutter: abandoned solar water heater brackets, stacks of old flowerpots that someone had moved up and then forgotten to take down, and scattered building scraps.
Gao Yuan had people clear all the clutter to one side, making room for a clean open space.
Then he began to lay out the red cloth.
The red fabrics, bed sheets, duvet covers, red T-shirts, red towels, and all usable red textiles that had been scavenged from various floors were all gathered on the rooftop.
He brought up six middle-aged women skilled in needlework and asked them to sew dozens of pieces of red cloth of various sizes into one piece.
When they ran out of needles and thread, they took threads from old clothes. If the thread was too thin, they used double strands. Six women sat on the edge of the rooftop, their fingers flying, piecing together pieces of red cloth, the stitches dense and neat.
Gao Yuan measured it and found that the part that has been pieced together so far is already about ten meters long. Once it is all pieced together, the huge red cloth is estimated to be over a hundred square meters.
It's laid directly above the rooftop, and when viewed from above, it's the most eye-catching thing in the entire Xiangyang residential area.
Even with the naked eye looking down, this building can be spotted from several kilometers away.
After laying down the red cloth, Gao Yuan arranged for several people to stand guard on the rooftop from various directions with binoculars.
These telescopes were all looted from the homes of the residents.
Each of the four men guards a different direction, ensuring that they can detect any military liaison team coming from any direction immediately.
In addition to this, these people with binoculars had an extra task: to record the density of the hordes of corpses on the surrounding streets.
Which sections of the road have the most zombies, which sections are relatively clean, and which intersections are blocked by abandoned vehicles—every piece of information needs to be recorded.
He knew that Lu Chen couldn't stay in Xiangyang Residential Area forever; there would always be times when he needed to go out and take action. This intelligence would then be the most valuable first-hand information.