Chapter 004: Butcher Instructor
Chen Ning left Blackwater Town with a dagger, a pistol, and a marching ration, all the way in the direction of the recruiting place of the Immortal Bird and Blue Bird Training Camp.
Because he was scratched by a zombie and felt that his life was short, he was disheartened, so he only walked 20 kilometers on the first day. At nightfall, he found a small cave, cut down a few branches to cover the entrance, and spent the night in the cave.
He ate some dry food, and then lay down on a large flat rock, his eyes happened to the simple fortification of the cave entrance to defend against zombies, and he thought a little self-deprecatingly: I am about to become a zombie, and now I am still on guard against the sneak attack of zombies, which is ridiculous.
In the first half of the night, Chen Ning couldn't sleep, thinking about his little daughter Xiaoguo for a while, and thinking that he was about to become a zombie.
In the second half of the night, the zombie virus in Chen Ning's body seemed to have begun to attack.
He felt as if his body had a high fever, and the snort he exhaled was also very hot, his whole body was as uncomfortable as a fire, and there seemed to be insects crawling under his skin, and he felt the urge to scratch his skin and dig up the flesh. Slowly, consciousness began to blur......
The next day, Chen Ning woke up from a deep sleep, and he sat up with a grunt.
Am I a zombie?
This was Chen Ning's first thought after waking up, and then he hurriedly checked his body, but there was nothing unusual, it was still the same as before. Even, the chest that was scratched by the zombie yesterday has also healed with scars!
I didn't turn into a zombie!
Chen Ning was overjoyed, and the catastrophe made him excited: "Haha, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I haven't turned into a zombie......"
Just when Chen Ning took the opportunity to be in ecstasy, there was a commotion at the entrance of the cave, and the branches and other coverings that he had not stopped last night were knocked open, and a rotting zombie appeared in front of Chen Ning, which frightened Chen Ning.
Chen Ning's intestines were all green with regret, he knew that he wouldn't shout anymore, but now it's okay, and he attracted the zombies wandering in the wild.
Although this zombie looks like the most ordinary and common first-level walking corpse, its movements are a little slow, and its strength is not very large, just like ordinary people, but Chen Ning, who has no experience in fighting zombies, is still so nervous that his heart is in his throat. His eyes were fixed on the walking corpse, and he quietly took out a pistol in his right hand, ready to shoot the zombie in the head first.
Usually zombies encounter humans, and they will rush up and attack like piranhas that smell blood.
But now, what made Chen Ning a little puzzled was that after this zombie broke into the cave, although it looked at him for the first time, after coming a few steps, it actually stopped. The zombie tilted its rotten and disgusting head, as if it was looking at Chen Ning suspiciously?
What is it wondering about?
Chen Ning was not in the mood to care so much at this time, the zombies did not attack wildly, that is, to give themselves a chance.
He raised his pistol and pointed it at the zombie's head.
The zombie made a dull sound, like a beast making a low voice to communicate with its companions, and then it staggered and walked towards Chen Ning a little more.
The zombie was only three meters away from Chen Ning, Chen Ning held his breath nervously, and aimed at the zombie's rotten head with the pistol crosshair.
The zombie didn't raise its hands, and a weird and dull sound came out of its throat, as if it continued to greet Chen Ning, and it even took two more steps. It seems that it mistook Chen Ning and regarded Chen Ning as the same kind.
Chen Ning didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
There was a thud of gunfire and bullets whizzing out.
It's a pity that Chen Ning has never been trained to properly try out the pistol, so he didn't hit the zombie's head with this shot. The bullet just grazed the left side of the zombie's head, knocking the zombie's left ear to pieces.
The zombie was attacked by Chen Ning, and it seemed to be stunned for a second, and then it realized that the one in front of it was not its kind at all. It no longer had any doubts, and instantly raised its hands with sharp nails, opened its mouth full of fangs, roared angrily, and rushed towards Chen Ning, wanting to bite Chen Ning to death.
"Bang ......"
Chen Ning's face turned pale with fright, and he continuously pulled the trigger, and shot out all the remaining bullets in the pistol at once.
Most of the bullets hit the zombies, causing the zombies to stagger, and the last shot hit the zombie's head with a bang, and the zombie finally fell to the ground with a bang, looking dead.
Chen Ning let out a long sigh of relief, it was too dangerous just now.
However, he also began to wonder, why didn't the zombies attack him in the first place?
Could it be because he was scratched by a predator zombie yesterday, although the zombie virus on his body did not attack, he did not turn himself into a zombie. But this zombie can sense the zombie virus it is carrying, which makes it mistakenly think that it is also a zombie, so it didn't attack itself in the first place?
It wasn't until he shot and wounded it that it was sure it wasn't a zombie, and then pounced desperately?
This idea surprised Chen Ning, because in this era, there are zombies everywhere, if you can "deceive" the zombies to a certain extent because you carry the zombie virus, so that they don't take the initiative to attack you, then your chances of surviving in this world will be much greater!
Chen Ning wanted to find another zombie to verify his idea, but unfortunately, this area was close to the recruitment place of the Blue Bird Training Camp of the Undead Bird Legion, and there were often soldiers of the Undead Bird Legion here, and generally zombies were also killed, so Chen Ning did not encounter any zombies in the next two days until he arrived at the training base of the Blue Bird Training Camp.
couldn't verify the authenticity of his ideas, which made Chen Ning a little disappointed.
However, when he came to the Immortal Bird Legion's Blue Bird Training Base, the disappointment in his heart was instantly thrown out of the Nine Heavens.
The Blue Bird Training Camp was built in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, and a particularly majestic city wall and gate were built in front of it, and there were armed soldiers standing guard on the city wall, wearing black imperial soldier uniforms, and a crimson firebird embroidered on the armband, which was the symbol of the Immortal Bird Legion.
In front of the base of the Blue Bird Training Camp, there were tens of thousands of people wandering around the recruiting office.
Most of the people who came to sign up to join the army were scavengers or residents of the slum kilns, although a few were young people from some minor aristocracy. Because the Huaxia Empire, like other empires, attaches great importance to military merits, even if it is a noble child, it is also a shortcut to life to make meritorious contributions by joining the army, and the Immortal Bird Legion can rank in the top ten in strength among all the legions in Huaxia.
However, the Immortal Bird Legion has strict conditions for recruiting new recruits, so not many people who come here to sign up can have the opportunity to enter the Blue Bird Training Camp.
Because Chen Ning had a letter of recommendation from Major Rahu, he successfully became one of the last recruits recruited by the Blue Bird Training Camp.
The recruiting officer gave Chen Ning a nameplate representing his military identity, with the Blue Bird badge of the Blue Bird Training Camp printed on the front, Chen Ning's name printed on the back, and a number 999!
I heard that the Immortal Bird and Blue Bird Training Camp only recruited a thousand recruits this time, and if Chen Ning came two minutes late, it was estimated that even if he had a letter of recommendation from Major Rahu, he would not be able to enter the Blue Bird Training Camp.
Chen Ning and all the recruits were all gathered together, and then lined up to enter the heavily guarded Blue Bird Training Camp base.
When the officers of the Blue Bird Training Camp arranged for Chen Ning, a thousand newcomers, to enter the camp through the gate, Chen Ning, like all the newcomers, was extremely excited, and Chen Ning remembered an idiom: the fish leaps over the dragon gate.
It is said that the carp will swim against the water and finally come to a place called the dragon gate, and if the carp can jump over the dragon gate, it will be able to stand out and turn into a dragon.
Chen Ning and the other newcomers all felt that they were the lucky ones who jumped into the dragon gate at this moment, and they changed their fate from then on.
Chen Ning and the newcomers are all full of confidence, vigor and hope!
However, at this moment, there was a commotion at the gate of the base.
It turned out that the tens of thousands of waste pickers and poor people who were not able to successfully join the army and enter the Blue Bird Training Camp saw Chen Ning, a thousand newcomers, enter the base and start a new life. And they have to go back to face the threat of zombies, hunger, poverty, disease, death, etc., some of them are starting to go crazy, and even start to storm the gates of the base, many crazy people scream: "Take me, let me go in, I want to be a warrior, I also want to eat meat and drink wine......"
The mob intensified, they were unwilling to leave, and more and more people joined in the assault on the Blue Bird training base.
At the same time, the air defense siren of the Jade Bird training base has sounded, sounding for 36 seconds and stopping for 24 seconds, which is a signal that the base is under attack.
At the head of the city, a burly middle-aged man shirtless, wearing only a pair of military trousers and a pair of military leather boots, with a hideous tattoo of the eight-faced Buddha tattooed on his chest, a cigar in his mouth, and a pair of narrow eyes, condescendingly looked at the rioters who stormed the base below the city.
A tall and thin officer next to him whispered and respectfully said, "Lieutenant Colonel Butcher, those guys who were not selected have rioted, what should I do?"
Lieutenant Colonel Butcher looked at the rioters below, with a grim smile on his face, like a butcher looking at a herd of pigs waiting to be slaughtered in a pigsty!
Chen Ning and the other newcomers felt that they were the lucky ones, and those unfortunate guys began to mess around, and even stormed the gate of the base together, Chen Ning and the other newcomers stood in the middle of the city gate, turned around and looked at the mob outside, and followed the guards who rushed to stop the mob.
Suddenly, the originally muffled air defense sirens turned into a sharp whistle, and it seemed that someone had given the order to attack.
Sure enough, Chen Ning was shocked to see a Blue Bird guard soldier using the bayonet on his rifle to directly stab a rioter who tried to rush into the gate of the base.
The Blue Bird Warrior has killed!
This thought just rose in the hearts of Chen Ning and the others, and then they heard the sound of gunfire, the guards at the gate of the base, and the soldiers at the head of the city, all shot at the same time, and the bullets rained down towards the mob, and the mob fell in pieces like wheat in the screams, and the scene was like Shura hell.
The mob began to get frightened, screaming and fleeing, until finally there was no one left in front of the base gates, leaving only a few hundred bloody corpses......
Chen Ning and the other newcomers were completely shocked by the scene in front of them, and the joy of the lucky ones quietly disappeared.
Next, Chen Ning and the other newcomers were all gathered on the huge open-air training ground at the base, and the butcher lieutenant colonel of the base wanted to give these recruits a lecture.
The butcher chief instructor was extremely burly, the muscles on his body were swelling, and the most terrifying thing was the weird smile on his face and the slight grinning movements, which looked like a terrible ogre.
The butcher stood on the stage, looking at Chen Ning and his group of recruits shivering in the cold wind, just like the butcher looking at the thousands of lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the livestock pen, and grinned: "Hello everyone, I am your chief instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Butcher. I guess each of you must feel like you're the lucky ones to be picked by the Blue Bird Training Camp. But I must tell you that it is not your luck that you have been selected to be a recruit of the Blue Bird Training Camp, but your misfortune!"
Chen Ning and the other thousand recruits, when they heard the words of the butcher lieutenant colonel, they all looked at each other, and they didn't understand what the butcher lieutenant colonel meant.
The butcher lieutenant colonel did not explain, only grinned and sneered: "Welcome, to hell." ”