Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 82: Chapter 77: Forcing Our Enemies Out

Seeing the fire grow larger, the group quickly backed away from the main gate.

The commotion attracted more zombies from farther away, but this time... they wouldn’t get a taste of the Xiangti Bay Squad’s spears.

After clawing at the gate for a moment, they caught fire and started to burn as well.

"Flaming zombies, interesting... Zhou, do you think these flaming zombies could ignite the others and wipe out a whole horde?"

"Impossible. The human body isn’t flammable. You’d need prolonged heat to damage the skin, evaporate the moisture, and get the fat to render out and act as an accelerant. A normal flame would just be extinguished as the zombies walk around and bump into each other..."

"But I saw some netizens say..."

"Are you going to listen to a netizen, or are you going to listen to your chemistry teacher?"

Zhou’s words left Yu Dong speechless.

The truth was, before the apocalypse, he had read a lot of "clever tricks" from netizens on how to get rid of zombies. Most of them were just wishful thinking and would require the zombies’ full cooperation to pull off.

The group watched from a distance for a while. Only after seeing the clueless zombies collapse amidst the burning pile of corpses did they return to the green belt to deal with the bodies inside the complex.

They started by laying down a thick layer of chopped wood blocks and wooden furniture from one of the houses.

Then, they stuffed some blankets into the larger gaps to act as kindling.

Finally, they hauled the zombies on top and stacked them up.

Zhou scraped the bottom of a plastic container and symbolically smeared a bit of yellow paste onto the corpses.

"All right, light it up."

With a single spark, these zombies also went up in flames.

The yellow paste seemed to burn endlessly, continuously spewing flames.

Huang couldn’t help but ask, "Zhou, what did you make this yellow crap out of? Why does it burn for so long?"

"The main ingredients are potassium nitrate, white sugar, and sulfur. It’s a formula similar to solid rocket propellant. It can sustain high-temperature combustion without exploding."

BOOM! BOOM BOOM!

Explosions erupted from the corpses.

Huang Zhiqiang: "?"

"That’s methane from the bodies’ internal decay mixing with dripping fat, causing flash explosions. Not a big deal. Once it’s burning, we can just leave it. The fat inside the bodies will ensure they’re all reduced to ash."

When he was playing with chemistry, it was like Zhou became a different person. His ordinary, black-framed glasses seemed to gleam with a brilliant light.

In that moment, Yu Dong kind of understood why the young woman in the yoga pants had fallen for Zhou.

This fire, too, began to billow thick, black smoke.

When the wind blew, the entire residential complex was shrouded in smoke.

"Looks like today’s not a good day for work... We’re tired enough anyway. Let’s rest this afternoon."

Huang Zhiqiang, who had been waiting to go to Building 3 to move supplies, felt his heart sink when he heard that.

"Dongzi, I’m not tired! I feel like I can still move some stuff!"

Yu Dong glanced at him.

"Then you can spend the afternoon climbing stairs with a weighted pack."

Huang Zhiqiang: "???"

The main door of Building 1 opened. Two women wearing masks welcomed the group inside, then closed the door behind them.

Up on the fifth floor, Qiao Ping also quickly sealed her doors and windows.

In the afternoon, Yu Dong sat by the window, watching the paper sign on the 4th floor of Building 2 that read "STAY AWAY, OR DIE!" gradually get stained black by the smoke.

Day seven of the apocalypse ended amidst the billowing black smoke.

Late that night, a figure approached the fire door on the 2nd floor and opened it with a key.

...

「Day Eight of the Apocalypse.」

Only two piles of black, carbonized matter and some white bones remained in the complex’s green belt and at the main gate.

Zhou poked them with a spear, and the heavily carbonized bones immediately crumbled into fragments.

"Good. A thorough burn."

Seeing this, Huang Zhiqiang’s face lit up. "Dongzi, we should be heading to Building 3 today, right? I’m dying to move some supplies!"

Yu Dong chuckled and pointed to the few zombies wandering by the gate.

"Look, more zombies have shown up."

"Damn it! Dongzi, are you an addict or something? How can you resist looting the place?"

Huang Zhiqiang had already written a list of items to look for yesterday. Besides... when he was talking with Qiao Ping last night, he’d promised he would go to her apartment today and get her folic acid pills.

"The apocalypse isn’t a game. We clear out the zombies outside first, then we can work properly... Let’s go."

Yu Dong clapped him on the shoulder, and the men went back to the main gate to deal with the zombies.

There were noticeably fewer zombies today. And without a pile of bodies to climb on, the zombies in the back couldn’t get over the gate.

The men simply speared the zombies through the gate. Huang was so bored he spent the morning eating shredded rabbit jerky.

The moment they finished, Huang perked up immediately.

"Let’s go, Dongzi! Building 3!"

"Not so fast," Yu Dong said into his chest mic. "Ye Ye, can the drone go outside the complex?"

"Yes... but not far."

"Good. Do a loop around the perimeter wall and lure the zombies over here."

Huang Zhiqiang: "..."

BZZZZZ~

Liu Ye’ye’s drone lured over a dozen more zombies, which were also dispatched by the men lying in wait at the gate.

After they were all dealt with, the drone ascended... its field of view gradually widening.

"Yu Dong, there are very few visible zombies in the area. It’s relatively safe."

"What about the underground garage?"

"Can’t go in. It’ll lose signal and crash..."

"All right, then that’s it."

Turning his head, Yu Dong met Huang’s expectant gaze and paused in thought.

"Zhou, can you make a loud noise? Something to stir up any zombies nearby."

"How loud? Extremely loud? Moderately loud? Or not very loud?"

"Loud enough for the zombies on the street to hear, but quiet enough that it hopefully won’t alert any zombies in the upper floors."

"Okay, give me a minute."

For a chemistry teacher, making a bang was child’s play.

Huang shot Yu Dong a resentful look.

"Dongzi, tell me. Are you doing this just to mess with me...?"

Just then, Zhao Youcai also seemed to realize something.

"Dongzi, do you... have some other plan?"

Yu Dong glanced at Building 2. It remained utterly silent, as if the words on that paper sign had been written by a ghost.

"I do have a plan. We’ll talk about it after we’ve cleared the zombies."

Zhou quickly put together a small explosive charge.

He lit the fuse and hurled it outside, right into the middle of the street.

BOOM!!!

A relatively controlled explosion echoed down the street.

Soon, zombies hidden in the storefronts and the underground garage heard the sound and came running out.

They were drawn to the group of four at the gate and gathered there, pounding on the door and leaving bloody handprints all over it.

"Stab."

After another fierce battle, they left the ground littered with more corpses.

Zhou lit a fire and burned the bodies.

The group returned to Building 1 once more.

Seeing Yu Dong work so hard to kill zombies outside for the past few days, the other team members weren’t stupid. They all felt that he must have a plan.

After they got back, Yu Dong glanced at his phone.

"Tomorrow is the ninth day of the apocalypse... Our enemies should have let their guard down by now. It’s time to make our move."

Everyone: "What move?"

"We’re going to force our enemies out."

That night, Yu Dong held a meeting, and the group talked for a long, long time.

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