The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse - Chapter 121
Chapter 121: Chapter 119, Waiting for nightfall_1
Outside the residential complex.
Li Yahong and the others were all waiting outside.
On the flatbed cart, a girl with a face pale from blood loss lay.
It was the sister from the sibling pair they had rescued from the hotel last time.
According to Li Yahong, her brother was named Jia Zheng and her sister was called Jia Yingying. When they were children, Jia Yingying had injured her spine in a car accident. Their family didn’t have the money for treatment at the time, and they missed the window for her to recover. Since then, she had been unable to stand.
With their current medical conditions, this type of injury was a death sentence.
Wang Ke was only a trainee nurse. She could handle basic wound dressing, but a gunshot wound that had pierced the body was beyond her. If she botched it, it would only hasten the girl’s death.
“Please save my sister. She has always been dealt a bad hand in life. If you save her, I will be forever in your debt,” pleaded Jia Zheng, kneeling and bowing repeatedly as Wu Heng emerged.
Everyone knew that they couldn’t save the girl.
All hopes for her survival rested on Wu Heng now.
Wu Heng glanced at them and ordered, “You all stay here. Li Yahong, push the cart and follow me. Whether we can save her depends on her luck now.”
Although he didn’t want to watch a person die, he had no guarantees he could save her.
Li Yahong pushed the cart and followed him into the residential complex.
Behind them, Jia Zheng’s voice echoed, “Thank you, thank you.”
Entering the residential complex.
The girl was carried into a room by the skeleton.
It was filled with bottles, jars, various tools, and ground medicinal herbs.
“Can you save her?” asked Wu Heng to the dwarf skeleton.
The dwarf skeleton knelt down, unwrapped the bandage.
Blood gushed out from the wound, quickly staining the floor.
After examining the wound quickly.
The skeleton grabbed a scalpel from the side, and started cutting around the wound.
Its desiccated fingers reached into the wound without hesitation, pulling out the bullet lodged inside.
Then it picked up a bottle of finely ground red powder from a shelf, sprinkled it over the wound, and began stitching it up.
Wu Heng recognized that medicinal plant.
It was the leaf of the Demon Red Flower, a common ingredient for medicinal concoctions.
After stitching up the wound, a medicine was administered to the girl.
The girl’s face immediately looked better, a clear improvement from her previous ghostly pallor.
“It’s your job now.” Wu Heng patted the dwarf’s shoulder and walked out.
The alchemist was apparently even more professional than he had imagined.
At the very least, it knew how to stitch up a wound.
…
As he exited the building, Li Yahong was waiting at the entrance.
“How is she?”
“She’s stabilized. She might need some time to recover, let’s keep her here for now.” Wu Heng continued, “Now, tell me what happened.”
Li Yahong recounted, “At noon, an armored vehicle came barreling in, they started shooting as soon as they stormed our base. They injured several of us, but Jia Yingying was directly hit. Then the gunshots attracted the patrolling skeletons. They shot at the skeletons and ended up being killed by them.”
The patrolling skeletons all have basic souls and are at level five.
Wu Heng had given them an explicit order not to attack humans.
This was mainly to protect Li Yahong and her group, as well as to prevent innocent survivors from getting caught in the crossfire.
However, this only applied if they didn’t attack the skeletons first.
If they attacked the skeletons, they would be identified as enemies and retaliated against accordingly.
Those fellows were probably startled by the skeletons and attacked them out of panic.
As a result, they were encircled and killed by a group of skeletons.
Given the numbers and strength of the skeletons, even if they had managed to get back in their vehicle, they would not have been able to escape.
Unless they had a tank.
“Were they from the prison?”
“They should be. The prison hasn’t been responding for the past two days to the messages about the scam to deceive survivors. They must have been planning this attack, intending to kill us all.” As Li Yahong spoke, her face turned pale.
Even though the attackers were all dead in the end.
It still left her with a lingering fear.
Like facing off against someone online, lashing out with arguments till they had no comeback, feeling confident about having the upper hand.
But then, the person on the other side just buys a train ticket and shows up at your doorstep.
The sensation of being confronted in person wasn’t pleasant at all.
Even in a dangerous environment like this, they were willing to pursue and kill.
Such audacity and ferociousness was not something average criminals would possess.
“How did the inmates of the prison find out about this place?” Wu Heng continued.
“Unclear.” Li Yahong thought for a while, then added, “The few people who joined us yesterday have been separated and locked up. We don’t know if they have anything to do with this.”
It seemed they were suspicious of the eight people who joined yesterday.
But there was no reason for them to divulge the information.
Unless, they had been in contact with the prison before joining.
“Let’s go and ask them,” Wu Heng proposed.
The two of them walked up to the corpses.
Wu Heng cast ‘Communicate with the Dead’, and a corpse sat up abruptly.
Its empty gaze fixed on them.
Wu Heng asked directly, “Where did you come from?”
The corpse answered, “City South Prison.”
As Li Yahong had guessed, they were indeed the inmates seeking revenge from the prison.
“How did you find out about the auto repair shop?”
“We’ve met a group of new survivors at the prison who had passed through here. They provided a rough idea of the location, and we recognised the shop’s sign when we arrived.”
Wu Heng glanced at Li Yahong, who frowned in thought.
It wasn’t the information leaked by the eight people who joined yesterday.
Their position was exposed due to their own sign instead.
Wu Heng continued with his inquiries, “How many of you came?”
“12 people.”
“What was your original plan?”
“To go to the auto repair shop, capture the woman who had made contact, and kill everyone else,” the corpse replied.
After some thought, Wu Heng asked again, “Which route did you take to get here?”
“From the north, passing by Sun Light Hotel.”
With the fifth question answered, the corpse fell back motionless.
The situation was already very clear now.
Some survivors in the area knew the location of the auto repair shop and had informed the City South Prison.
The ones who came here were a bunch of desperadoes who drove over for a killing spree.
“Do you have any ideas?” Wu Heng asked Li Yahong.
Li Yahong stood still for a moment, thinking before she quietly said, “Either we deal with them, or we move elsewhere.”
Wu Heng nodded, “Check the vehicles, we leave for City South Prison tomorrow.”
“Alright!”
Continuing, Wu Heng asked, “What about the guns they brought?”
“We have them. Earlier, while you were away, I worried that they had others, so I had someone keep them,” Li Yahong explained.
“Bring them all here, it’s more dangerous with you guys holding onto the guns.”
“Okay, I’ll bring them when I go back.”
Li Yahong left and Wu Heng looked over at the little girl again.
She was still unconscious, but her complexion seemed slightly better.
The wound had clotted under the effect of the medicinal powder and no longer bled.
The medicine from the world of magic had significant effects indeed.
It was fortunate that he had a dwarf alchemist, else they could only wait for a slow death.
Before long, Li Yahong returned with rifles and submachine guns.
As well as some blue, anti-stab vests.
Wu Heng said, “You all keep those vests, make sure to wear them when we leave tomorrow.”
“Oh, alright!” Li Yahong took the vests and left again.
Next, Wu Heng equipped Second Chunk with armor.
He and Big Guy looked at each other, each checking the other out.
Wu Heng converted all the corpses on the ground then went back to his lodging.
…
The next day, early in the morning.
There were several trucks parked in the middle of the road.
In addition to last time’s four, there were three more large trucks, welded with iron plates and steel bars.
“There are no problems with the cars, right?” Wu Heng asked.
Li Yahong nodded, “No problem, we checked them overnight.”
“We should leave now! Don’t delay any more.”
“Alright!”
The drivers got in the vehicles and Wu Heng also instructed the skeletons to climb up onto the trucks. Swarms of skeletons came out from the residential block and climbed into the lorries.
Wu Heng still sat in the van, along with Big Head, Basen, Bawudong, and numerous skeletons of slightly higher levels.
After everything was ready.
He picked up the radio and said, “Depart!”
All the vehicles started and formed a long line, driving towards the front.
The journey was indeed smooth.
The occasional solitary zombies that appeared on the road did not need to be concerned about.
…
City South Prison.
A few shirtless strongmen were gathered around playing cards.
Nearby, women dressed in revealing clothes and bearing whip marks on their skin, were carefully filling up the men’s wine glasses and cleaning the ashtrays filled with cigarette butts.
They were cautiously serving the men on the sidelines.
“Brother Long, the sixth brother didn’t come back yesterday. Do you think something happened?” A man with a cigarette in his mouth pulled the woman pouring wine next to him and began groping her body.
Chen Jinlong threw his cards on the table and said, “He should have been back by now.”
“Couldn’t anything have happened, right? We grabbed quite a few guns from the repair shop yesterday.”
“Those bumpkins wouldn’t know how to use a gun even if they had one. It’s another thing if they could shoot, the sixth brother is good with guns.”
“Even if they don’t know how to use, holding it and blindly shooting could hit someone.” Someone else refuted.
Chen Jinlong didn’t say anything. Without any news for a whole day, there might be really something wrong.
“Tell the brothers to be cautious tonight. We’ll take some people there to check tomorrow.” Chen Jinlong ordered.
“Brother Long, are you afraid of the people from the repair shop coming here? Isn’t that worrying too much? Our walls are high, unless they can fly, they can only come to get beaten.” Someone commented.
Chen Jinlong nodded, “Being cautious is never wrong. See that my orders are passed down.”
“Alright!”
Talking about it killed the mood for cards.
Dropping their cards onto the table, they exited the room to prepare as per the instructions.
…
It was deep into the night.
The convoy progressed in the dark, entering the village beneath the prison.
Earlier, they had traded rifles here.
There weren’t any zombies, nor were there any checkpoints set up by the prison.
Everyone got out of the vehicles.
A swarm of skeletons jumped out of the vehicles, the sound of bones shifting echoing in the surroundings.
“Qiangzi, you guys stay here and watch the cars.” Wu Heng instructed.
“Alright.”
“Boss, let me come with you. I need to avenge my sister.” Jia Zheng straight out said.
“Your sister isn’t even dead, what revenge are you talking about? Follow my instructions. Watch the radio, come to get us if there’s danger.” Wu Heng directly countered.
Jia Zheng wanted to say something, but realized his presence was rather useless.
His fighting ability was even less than that of a skeleton.
He could only nod and agree to do his part.
After confirming with everyone.
Wu Heng proceeded to say, “Let’s go.”
With a loud noise!
The skeleton army, under the cover of night, quickly advanced forward.
After traveling a distance.
They could see the prison lit up with searchlights from afar.
Searchlights?
They still had electricity to power such equipment here.
Though it was surprising that the prison had lighting, the situation on the walls could be seen clearly.
The walls were approximately six meters high, with a ring of barbed wire at the top.
There were surveillance tactics on all four towers.
In addition to the patrolling men with rifles, they could also see two machine guns.
The team stopped their advance and hid in the darkness.
Li Yahong came over and whispered, “What do we do? It looks hard to break in.”
“Wait until it’s dark, I refuse to believe that they won’t be tired.”
