Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Chapter 457: The Bridge's Other Side

When Xiaoyun and Kate left the tent together, all of the soldiers had already packed up everything.

As the two of them finished packing up, all of them had finished eating breakfast.

The two didn't force the soldiers to wait as they skipped breakfast and started marching alongside them.

Morning soon turned into noon as Xiaoyun, along with the army, could finally see the bridge in the distance.

After a short lunch break, everyone was pumped up as they walked past a small city section before arriving at an empty field nearby.

Several trucks were already parked there, with soldiers all heading over there to get their supplies.

A small camp quickly formed as the 12th Division unloaded all the building material from the truck and started building.

Meanwhile, the 13th Division was already building up the basic defense of the bridge.

With sandbags and hundreds of thousands of heavy machine guns, there was simply not a single gap down the road.

The 14th Division was all the way in the back, setting up the artillery and making space for a small temporary airfield.

Next, the 16th Division wasn't near the bridge at all. Instead, they were all headed towards the nearby buildings.

Their job was to disperse all the nearby populations, even though the record stated that less than a hundred people lived nearby.

With everything coming together, Xiaoyun and Kate themselves weren't near any of the Divisions.

Instead, they were halfway on the bridge, trying to pass all the rubble to reach the other side.

"Jesus, this car is so damn hard to climb," Kate complained as her hand kept on slipping.

"Just hold onto my hand."

As Kate jumped and grabbed Xiaoyun's hand, she was slowly lifted to the top of the car.

"Why are we trying to get to the other side?" Kate curiously asked.

"I just want to have a look at it myself... Having a binocular looking at it in the distance doesn't tell the full picture."

"Whatever..."

As Xiaoyun jumped down to continue advancing, he finally encountered the biggest challenge on this bridge.

A flipped-over semi-truck that had been all burnt up, with sharp, rusty edges that can definitely give someone tetanus if they get cuts.

"How do we get through this one?"

Kate asked as another burnt-up semi-truck was lying on the other side of the bridge, leaving them completely stuck.

"Just follow me."

Seeing Xiaoyun suddenly climbing over the bridge fences, Kate immediately panicked for a second.

However, as he moved past the tuck, she quickly realized there was a slight ledge on the side that allowed him to stand diagonally.

With his back facing the ocean right below, Kate's heart started uncontrollably beating faster and faster.

Just as she was about to climb over the fence to begin sliding towards him, he suddenly started sliding back.

"What's wrong?"

"The ledges doesn't extend all the way... Let me just come up with a different idea instead."

As Xiaoyun climbed over the fence again and landed on the bridge's road, the two of them quickly walked over to the burnt-up semi-truck again.

After waiting for a bit, Xiaoyun finally came up with an idea.

"Take a few steps back."

With five steps away from the tuck, an empty box suddenly appeared before them.

Next, more empty boxes appeared, each bigger than the last one, as they started stacking up on each other.

Soon, it became almost like a staircase, allowing them to walk all the way to the same level as the semi-truck's top side.

"Hmm... Just a small little bridge should work."

Xiaoyun quickly created a relatively thick sheet of metal and placed it directly on top of the semi-truck's wreckage.

Slowly, he put one foot onto it, testing if the wreckage could support the weight.

After it didn't bend or move at all, he slowly got on top of the metal sheet before walking all the way to the other side.

Even though it was almost an entire story tall, Xiaoyun didn't hesitate to jump forward, landing on the ground with a roll.

"You can walk on the metal sheet. It should be fine for you." Xiaoyun yelled as he quickly created several mattresses for her to jump to.

Kate hesitated for a second, but she eventually walked onto the metal sheet before reaching the end.

With several mattresses right below her, she jumped down and braced herself.

A loud stomp could be heard as the spring pushed her back up a little before she was lying on the mattress.

"Okay, now we can continue."

After Xiaoyun helped Katherine get down from the mattress, he quickly turned his attention down the road.

There were finally no more big wreckages that blocked the road, with only abandoned cars on the other side as they continued walking down.

The two soon reached the end of the bridge and arrived on the other side, where there were hundreds of thousands of buildings in the distance.

Up close, there were a few smaller buildings, seemingly to be a convenience store and a short pit stop.

Kate quickly followed Xiaoyun down the road as they approached the convenience store, but he suddenly signaled her to stop.

With his gun drawn, Kate quickly also raised her gun as they walked closer and closer to the front door of the store.

After standing and examining it from the outside, I saw that it seemed to be empty. However, there was a locked door further inside.

Seeing a ton of food seemingly inside the store with no signs of looting, Xiaoyun didn't lower his guard a single bit.

To see if someone was inside, Xiaoyun quickly pulled out a flashlight and threw it straight through the window.

A loud crackling sound echoed through the building as the flashlight shattered the window glass.

"Kate, take this."

Xiaoyun quickly handed her an invisible cloak before putting one on himself.

With both of them now invisible, they began slowly walking inside as they held their hands together.

Looking left and right, the two couldn't find a single soul inside as they approached the last place in the convenience store.

Xiaoyun tried to turn the doorknob, but only a clank sound appeared, indicating it was locked.

"I'm going to bust it open."

Kate squeezed his hand twice, indicating she was ready, as a gun barrel could be seen floating in the air.

After the two separated, Xiaoyun quickly turned around against the door before putting his foot against it.

With a strong backward kick, the locked door popped right open, revealing a small, dark figure inside.

Xiaoyun immediately ran a few steps back, with Katherine doing the same as they watched the small, dark figure in the distance.

After standing there for almost a whole minute, the figure didn't seem to move a single bit.

"Why is it not moving?" Kate murmured, as the skin on the dark figure looked like that of a zombie.

"Maybe it starved to death inside or something."

As Xiaoyun approached closer with his gun in hand, he soon realized why the dark figure didn't move at all.

It was just a prop that looked like a zombie, and everything else in the room was Halloween decorations of some sort.

"Fuck for sake."

As the two of them both lowered their gun and turned off their invisible cloak, they couldn't believe a statue had just tricked them.

"Stupid statue."

Just as Kate was about to kick it in anger, Xiaoyun suddenly noticed the statue's eye's color changing.

Within seconds, he pulled her back last second before pulling his gun out and firing several shots.

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"What was that for?" Kate asked in confusion as she looked over at him with a slight anger.

"That isn't a statue... I'm 100% that thing is living."

As Kate turned around and examined the statue again, she quickly realized it was bleeding down green blood from its head.

"What kind of zombies is that?" Kate asked, unable to believe she had almost fallen for the trap.

"I don't know... It's probably some sort of mutant... Anyway, let's go now."

Kate quickly turned around and followed him all the way back to the outside before he stopped again.

"Wait, there's a car nearby."

The two immediately walked to the sidewalk, standing still as they waited for the car to arrive.

After waiting for a minute, the car finally arrived as it parked right outside the convenience store.

Four people jumped right out of the car, two men and two women, both having one young and one much older, fully armed to the teeth.

From their makeshift gears, it was clear they were just some sort of survival group.

Xiaoyun and Kate both quickly approached the four of them, walking just close enough to hear what they were saying.

"I'm so hungry!" One of the women complained as she grabbed a bag of chips from the shelf and opened it.

"Be quiet. You literally just ate a few hours ago, " A much older man murmured as he grabbed several of the foods on the shelf.

"Boss, I think there's someone that had been here." A young woman yelled from the inside.