Fighting the way out after being surrounded

Zhang Xiao Qiang woke up in the morning. Looking out the window, the sky was hazy. There was a cool breeze blowing against his face, making ripples in his heart.

Zhang Xiao Qiang has moved houses 3 times before. The house he’s living in this time has been the longest time. He’s spent half his life here. At first he thought that he would have spent the rest of his life there as well but fates changes. Today he will have to abandon it.

After packing his travel bag and checking his weapons. He changed his clothes and went outside, doing one last look around his house. He kept everything in this house firmly in his mind as he doesn’t know if he will ever return. He also didn’t know what he would face in the future. Walking from the living room to the kitchen to all the way to the bed room and finally touching his computer, he sighed,

“In future with no computers or the internet, I forever bid farewell to the t.i.tle of recluse.”

Next to the computer was the c.o.c.kroach in the plastic bottle. The c.o.c.kroach was still at the bottom, playing dead. It seemed to be oblivious to what was happening outside the bottle. Zhang Xiao Qiang picked up the bottle and shook it. The c.o.c.kroach, being subjected to movement, crawled around, trying to find a way out. Two days without water and food didn’t seem to have an impact on it.

Zhang Xiao Qiang suddenly felt compa.s.sion. c.o.c.kroaches are so humble, so small, yet so calm in such a desperate situation. It saved up every bit of energy in its body, minimizing energy consumption, silently waiting for the opportunity to escape one day. Even if it is the c.o.c.kroach’s natural instinct, it is this very instinct that he admires. Suddenly Zhang Xiao Qiang had hope for the future, he was no longer worried.

“I will follow the c.o.c.kroach’s example. I will survive in this apocalypse like the c.o.c.kroach.” Zhang Xiao Qiang told himself.

Uns.c.r.e.w.i.n.g the lid, he poured the c.o.c.kroach out and it quickly run to a corner. Zhang Xiao Qiang blessed it in his heart “May you live on”.

Zhang Xiao Qiang opened the iron gate and took one last look back at the house then walked out.

The iron gates were locked. He wore the key on a string around his neck. It was close to his heart, it will forever be his spiritual guide, the home of his soul.

27th March 2013, it’s been 90 days since the apocalypse. Zhang Xiao Qiang had officially left the house to face the apocalyptic future.

The mutant cat body had already been burnt to ashes. The air was filled with a burnt stench, mixed with the smell of dead bodies. There were still 7-8 zombie bodies scattered across the concrete floor. Zhang Xiao Qiang was too lazy to bother with them and started heading downstairs. The zombie crowd from yesterday had already scattered, but there was still 40+ zombies out in the garden.

Zhang Xiao Qiang reached downstairs. There were a dozen zombies near him on the ground with bones that were crushed by the zombie crowd. These zombies turned to face him, opening their mouths wide, they released an odor. They wanted to bite him but were unable to climb up. He crossed the floor of zombies and went down the path leading to the street.

He used the MP9 Sniper crossbow to take care of any zombies on the street that got in the way.  After pa.s.sing by the 2 mutated dogs hunting, plus the ones that he had killed yesterday on the platform, there were now only a dozen zombies left in the garden. Now within the 1000m was a total of less than 100 zombies, so there was only 1 in a 10m radius.

The street that lead to the city centre had been blocked. The end of the street that leads to the outer city would take 3-4 hours walking. There would definitely be zombies on the way there, even though the population density was low, there still could be tens of thousands! Now he could only just start walking and see.

Zhang Xiao Qiang was standing at the centre of the street. He only needed to face the less than 50 zombies at the end of the street. Looking at these zombies, he felt distressed about the remaining steel b.a.l.l.s. Even though he had half a pound worth of b.a.l.l.s, once used they’ll be lost. He needed to at least kill one zombie for each ball.

Zhang Xiao Qiang walked along the street carefully, sprinkling some rice wine on his body. The pungent smell of alcohol made him feel a little dizzy, “Had I knew this day was coming, I would have learnt to take alcohol better”.

Zhang Xiao Qiang was carrying the sniper crossbow, carefully tip toeing. He was carefully walking around the broken gla.s.s on the ground. The spear was slotted in the leather buckle at the side of the backpack. The tip was pointing up and every now and then it would hit the back of his legs. The smell of the rice wine made it so that zombies outside of a 30m radius couldn’t smell him. Too bad it doesn’t work if they are any closer.

Zhang Xiao Qiang walked past the zombies one at a time, carefully making sure not to alarm them. It felt like a live action version of