Chapter 1 Rescue
"Help! Help!"

Zhang Jinlong's face was filled with horror. Together with four others, they rushed past the front of the hotel littered with zombie corpses, arrived at the main entrance, and pounded hard on the glass door, shouting,

"Open the door and save us!"

The two guarding the door both looked towards a square-faced, burly middle-aged man standing beside the fountain in the lobby. The middle-aged man's face was full of indifference, and his eyes swept over Zhang Jinlong and the others like sharp swords, then he nodded slightly.

A young man of about thirty immediately stepped forward, pulled out the steel bar that was blocking the central revolving door, and then pushed the revolving door.

The hotel's revolving door had three sections, which could not accommodate all of Zhang Jinlong and the others at once. Zhang Jinlong hesitated, signaled Huang Mao (Yellow Hair) to take another person in first, and then he and the scarred face man carrying Duan Xue walked in, while the other could only stay behind.

"Clack!"

When the revolving door turned to just reveal Huang Mao and the other person, the young man inserted the steel bar again, blocking the revolving door, and then said to Huang Mao and the other person:

"Put down your weapons and then come in!"

"Huh?"

Huang Mao was stunned, turned to look at Zhang Jinlong, who shook his head almost imperceptibly. Huang Mao immediately turned back to look at the young man, and said with a flattering smile:

"Comrade Officer... look, there are zombies everywhere now. I don't feel safe without something in my hand. We just encountered a group, there were originally more than a dozen of us, and in the end only five...six of us escaped! Why don't you let us keep them?"

"There are no zombies here. Put down your weapons and come out!"

The middle-aged man stepped forward and looked at Huang Mao coldly, with a trace of disgust in his eyes.

"Uh~! Okay! Okay!"

Seeing the middle-aged man's expression, Huang Mao immediately chickened out, nodding and bowing, and then gently placed the machete in his hand on the ground. The other person followed suit, putting down the kitchen knife in his hand.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Jinlong frowned, but at this time they were already sealed in the revolving door, unable to get out. Although they could try to break the glass door, if they did that, there would probably be no room for negotiation.

He glanced at the scarred-face man, and the two exchanged glances. At this time, Huang Mao and the other person had already walked into the hotel lobby, and the young man pulled out the steel bar and turned the revolving door again.

This time, without any reminders, Zhang Jinlong and the scarred-face man proactively put down the machetes in their hands. Zhang Jinlong even pointed to Duan Xue, who was being carried by the scarred-face man, and said to the middle-aged man:

"This is my niece. She always screams when she sees zombies, and I can't just leave her alone. In order not to attract more zombies, I had to knock her out!"

The middle-aged man remained motionless, just waved his head to the side. Zhang Jinlong didn't feel embarrassed at all and walked to Huang Mao's side with the scarred-face man.

"Clack!"

When the last person also walked into the hotel, the steel bar blocked the revolving door again. At this time, the middle-aged man looked at Duan Xue, who was being carried by the scarred-face man and unwilling to put down, and said:

"Bailing, see how she is? Give her some treatment!"

"Yes!"

A girl in her twenties immediately agreed and ran over, reaching out to take Duan Xue from the scarred-face man's shoulder.

"Hey! No need, no need! She was just knocked out by me. I know how much force to use. Just give us a room, and if it's convenient, give us some water. We can take care of her!"

Zhang Jinlong quickly stepped forward to block Bailing, and said with a smile.

Just then, two people holding rifles suddenly rushed out from the side, and the two at the door also neatly drew their pistols and pointed them at Zhang Jinlong and the others.

"Don't move, put the person down! Otherwise, you will bear the consequences!"

The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Jinlong calmly, his plain baritone voice carrying a hint of majesty.

"You...you are police officers, how can you rob a civilian girl?"

Huang Mao became a little anxious and shouted fiercely.

"How do you know we are police officers?"

The middle-aged man raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, and Huang Mao was immediately speechless.

"You...you have guns. In our place, who else would have this thing besides the police?"

Zhang Jinlong glared fiercely at his pig teammate and quickly tried to smooth things over.

"Since you know we are police officers, why don't you let us treat your niece? Or...is she not your niece at all?"

The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Jinlong and said.

"This...no, it's just that I'm afraid of troubling you. It's already this time, there's no need to waste your time for a little girl. You still have to find ways to protect everyone, right?"

Zhang Jinlong quickly stepped forward, smiling obsequiously at the middle-aged man, while his right hand behind his back quickly made several gestures.

"No trouble! Put the person down immediately!"

The middle-aged man looked at the scarred-face man and said.

The scarred-face man had already seen Zhang Jinlong's gestures. Hearing the middle-aged man's words, which left no room for maneuver, a hint of ferociousness suddenly appeared on his face. He reached out and went to his waist.

Just as his hand grabbed the dagger hidden in his waist, he suddenly felt that his wrist was like being箍住(gūzhù - hoop bound), and then, with a snap, the sharp pain from his wrist made the scarred-face man scream uncontrollably.

At the same time, he felt a lightness on his shoulder. He then realized that the person who twisted his wrist and took the opportunity to rescue Duan Xue was actually Bailing, who had approached him earlier and looked quite cute and harmless.

Immediately afterwards, the two who were guarding the door held their guns in one hand and took out handcuffs from their waists with the other, walking towards Zhang Jinlong and the others.

Looking at the dark gun muzzles, none of Zhang Jinlong dared to move and were obediently handcuffed together. Bailing had also checked Duan Xue's body and looked up at the middle-aged man:

"Captain! She's just unconscious, nothing else is wrong!"

"Okay! Take her..."

The middle-aged man nodded slightly, and was about to have Bailing take Duan Xue to the back room to wake her up, when a voice suddenly came from his earpiece:

"Captain! A male around eighteen years old has been spotted at ten o'clock, naked from the waist up, with a head injury, looks like a concussion. No weapons are detected! The target is also our location, over!"

"Roger that, continue to be vigilant, over!"

After the middle-aged man replied, he came to the door and looked at the highway on the left, and immediately saw Duan Lei running towards this side!

Duan Lei had actually absorbed the mutated crystal nucleus long ago. The whole process took at most a minute, so he personally watched Zhang Jinlong and the others enter the hotel.

After sensing the changes in his body after absorbing the crystal nucleus, Duan Lei's eyes were filled with suppressed joy, and he also had enough confidence.

Therefore, after seeing Zhang Jinlong and the others being arrested, he immediately got out of the car and rushed towards the hotel all the way.

"Only one person?"

Seeing Duan Lei, who was about to run to the front door of the hotel, the middle-aged man couldn't help but frown, and muttered to himself, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a burst of dizziness in his brain, and quickly reached out and扶住(fúzhù - support) the door frame of the revolving door…