Chapter 52

Chapter 52 – Talking Again

Translator: Jostena

Editors: playerprophet & Callis

Cheng Jiao and another wounded person drank vegetable and fruit juice, causing their expressions to relax, and their bodies to stop shivering. It was super effective.

At this time, Li Ming also came looking for and found them.

Backup had arrived, and after cleaning up the remaining zombies, the survivors were each given military ID cards.

When Li Ming did a headcount, he found that Zhan Yun wasn't there, so he went looking for him. He was surprised to find a room of wounded people.

After giving Li Ming a brief account of the situation, Zhang Shuoliang was asked to lift Cheng Jiao and the other wounded person into their van. Although they confirmed that the remaining people were completely infected, they had not yet mutated so doing anything about it wouldn't be appropriate. Therefore, Zhan Yun asked them to stay at the police station for a little longer, and wait for them to mutate before dealing with them.

Li Ming of the twelfth team, out of gratitude and responsibility for them, took the initiative to stay. He sawwith his own eyes that all those confirmed as infected by Song Chengshu had undergone mutation, but the two wounded people who had been removed had seemed fine. His opinion of the mysterious team immediately went up a step.

After dealing with mutated zombies on the way, the crowd returned to the stadium without trouble. It had been divided into several areas, each with a passageway in the middle, wide enough for two people to pass through. The ground was covered with blankets for the survivors to rest.

The army set up diesel generators, turning on the air conditioning to cool the stadium, and the temperature made the freshly arrived survivors very comfortable. When they saw the busy soldiers and other survivors coming and going in and out of the stadium, they relaxed. They went to the designated rest area according to the soldiers' guidance.

The soldiers handed out bread, ham, sausages, and drinking water so that everyone could fill their stomachs. Survivors had been frightened for days. Now, under the protection of a large number of armed forces with live ammunition, they finally had a sense of security. After eating all they could, most of them laid down and slept.

They had come in a little late, but the commander made sure to leave them a separate area against the wall closest to the army to rest.

Other search and rescue teams returned over time, but each team came back with casualties. The twelfth team had the best luck since the whole team returned safely, without any injuries.

The wounded were sent to the lounge behind the stadium, where they were cared for by military medical personnel.

Daybreak wasn't far off. When they were finally able to sit against the wall and close their eyes, Zhan Yun suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming toward them.

When Zhan Yun looked up, he found that the commander had come in person, accompanied by several soldiers.

It happened to be CommanderZhang, who had taken Zhan Yun and Su Ruizhe to Jiang Xuzhou before.

“Commander Zhang? Why are you here?”

“A lot of soldiers were injured last night, and I heard Dr. Song’s medical skills were excellent. Do you think he has time to help them? In addition, I have something to talk about with Mr. Zhan and Mr. Su." Commander Zhang’s tone was friendly and respectful.

Before departure, Regimental Commander Jiang had warned him that he should keep an eye on Zhang Yun and Su Ruizhe.

According to the reports of Guan Hong, the captain of the tenth team, and Li Ming, the captain of the twelfth team, there was no way to know what the consequences would have been if Zhan Yun's group hadn't been at the battle at the police station. The strength of their team was definitely stronger than they had assumed. One of them, Dr. Song, had been able to judge whether the other party had been completely destroyed by the virus according to the condition of the patients, so he wanted to ask him to help identify the state of wounded.

“Certainly.” Zhan Yun shared a few words with Cheng Qi and Zhang Shuoliang, telling them to stay here and watch Cheng Jiao and the other wounded person, and then left with Su Ruizhe and Song Chengshu, following Commander Zhang.

In the stadium's restroom, there were dozens of wounded soldiers lying on the floor, all suffering from fever, convulsions and ruddy complexions from time to time. Medical soldiers had cleaned and bandaged their wounds, but couldn't do anything more. They were feverish due to the zombie virus infection rather than an ordinary cold fever, and could not be treated with regular drugs.

It wouldn't be long before the army found out that zombie viruses would not cause mutations 100% of the time, and that there was a 30% chance that the subject would wake up as an ability user. Most people who had seen zombie movies and novels tended to assume that they would surely die after being infected with the virus, which led to some unnecessary sacrifices. But it was very dangerous to be in the same room as the injured when no one could tell who would mutate and who wouldn't. It was also dangerous to keep those who wouldn't mutate near those who would.

The army's solution was to take a one-to-one look at people. Every wounded person was guarded by a soldier. If someone mutated, the danger would be strangled in the cradle. But this was a great waste of military resources. If Dr. Song could show the medical personnel how to identify infection, it would be easier to deal with.

Song Chengshu did not hide anything. He told the medical soldiers what he knew and how to judge the infected person by the change in their pupils. As for those who were still fighting the virus, it was not entirely without problems, they were still likely to mutate, so it would be better to check on them regularly.

As for the fact that vegetable and fruit juice might help the wounded increase their resistance to the virus, Zhan Yun and Su Ruizhe had already spoken to Jiang Xuzhou, and the army already knew about it, so the medics had fed the wounded before. But unlike Su Ruizhe, they didn't have a whole space of plants to choose from. They used vegetables and fruits that they had gotten from stores. After so many days of serving juice, their selection of produce was limited. As long as they were edible fruit and green vegetables, they were all mixed together one by one, bitter melon, winter melon and sponge melon. Celery, cherries, kiwi, watermelon, honeydew, they were all peeled and thrown into the juicer…

The colour and taste of the mixed fruit and vegetable juice was shocking.

Thanks to the high fever, the wounded were unconscious. Otherwise, they would have spit out the drink on the spot.

Perhaps the constitution of soldiers was stronger than that of ordinary people. After drinking the fruit and vegetable juice, most of them became relatively stable, and only a few showed signs of mutation.

The wounded were left to the care of Song Chengshu. Commander Zhang led Zhang Yun and Su Ruizhe to another, separate lounge.

“Sit down, please.” After Commander Zhang invited the two to sit, he got to the point and asked, “Guan Hong and Li Ming mentioned in their reports that you used a red explosive when you were clearing the corpses. I would like to ask if that is also one of your weaponized plants?”

“Yes.” Su Ruizhe was happy to admit it. “Before the search and rescue, we found a few cherries in a family’s home that hadn't completely rotted yet, so I turned it into a cherry bomb, but we used them all in the previous battle.”

“Never mind, never mind.” Commander Zhang’s eyes brightened as he asked, “I wonder if Mr. Su can weaponize any plant?”

“This…” Su Ruizhe looked at Commander Zhangwith some embarrassment. “To be completely honest, Commander Zhang, I haven’t had this ability for very long, and I haven’t fully grasped how to use it. In addition, I have limited access to plants. At present, I've only converted four kinds of plants: peas, cherries, peppers and potatoes.”

“Potatoes?! What can potatoes be converted into?" Commander Zhang’s spirit came alive. They'd recovered many potatoes over their searches.

“Potatoes can be converted into mines. Bury them underground, and when zombies walk over them, they would be blown up.”

Commander Zhang thought for a while, deciding that landmines had a limited utility in combat. They wouldn't be as versatile as bombs and bullets.

He called in a soldier and asked him to see if there were any chillies in the warehouse, and to bring some if there were.

“There's a soldier in our team from A City. He said there's a large farmer’s market near here. There should be a lot of vegetables and fruits there. When we go to the city for the last search and rescue tomorrow evening, we will send two teams to that market. Would you two be interested in going?" There were two reasons for Commander Zhang’s decision, one was the treatment of viruses with vegetables and fruits, and the other was to ask Su Ruize to transform some plants into weapons. Not only could it improve the security of the mission, but also he could bring them back to the base for research.

After Zhan Yun and Su Ruizhe looked at each other, they agreed to go. “Of course.”

What else could they do? They could not refuse, and they also hoped to maintain a good relationship with the Fourth Army. They wanted to stay in the survivor base established by the Southern Military Region, after all.

At that time, the soldier sent to pick up chili peppers returned. He had four or five dry peppers in his hand. He seemed embarrassed, “Lieutenant, can you use these?”

Commander Zhang's eyes shot to Su Ruizhe.

Su Ruizhe looked at them, but he couldn't be sure. He could only say, “Let me try first.”

He held the peppers in his left hand and urged them to turn into weapons. In a moment, the peppers turned into red hand grenades and ammunition.

Commander Zhang was so overjoyed that he ordered people to put away the chili hand grenade and ammunition. He thought about bringing two people with him to search for zombies to test out the power of this little thing tomorrow. The rest he would take back to Regimental Commander Jiang to be used for research when he returned to the base.

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The author has something to say:

Next chapter, Cheng Jiao is going to wake up! Do you want to guess what her powers are? In addition, the mobile phone that Zheng Jiahe picked up to play games will also begin to play the role of textbooks!!! More plant weapons will be developed!!! At Last!!!! Emphasizing one point, the plants in this book reference Plants Vs Zombies 2, that’s the mobile version of the game. Plants will be more diverse~~ Flamingo mushrooms and electric blueberries appearing, Please don’t doubt it. There’s really something in the game~~~ Of course, It may turn into bullets, flames, bombs and electric, magnetic, explosives, bombs and other weapons for use.~~~ Coming soon! <3 =3=

[Small theatre on the street]

Zhan Xiaoyun: Worried, Zheng Jiahe, two cups of vegetable and fruit juice.

Zheng Jiahe: Okay! Right away! (Grasp the fruits and vegetables lightly and splash the juice.)

The crowd took a step backwards: Hey…

Zheng Jiahe lifted Cheng Jiao: Beauty, come on, drink vegetable and fruit juice, it’s nutritious! After drinking, it feels more comfortable and better!

Cheng Jiao’s fierce struggle seems to be resisting something.

Cheng Qi: This young man! What are your hands doing?

Zheng Jiahe: Oh, my hand got dirty when I just squeezed the juice. I want to borrow the beautiful woman’s clothes to wipe it.

Cheng Qi: Who let you wipe your hands with my sister’s clothes? Will you wipe your hands and hold my sister in your arms? How can you wipe your hands and keep touching her face?! You have already revealed a strong otaku atmosphere, stupid brother! You'll never be my brother-in-law!

Zheng Jiahe: What's wrong with an Otaku? The otaku brain is big!

Another wounded person forgotten in the corner of the world: fruit and vegetable juice, clothes or wiping hands, come and save me, or I will become a Zombie King to show you ah hey!

Sorry for the late release guys but my editors already know about the story of how a conflict happened in my life which resulted in my laptop being put through factory reset. (I won't speak too much about it but here's a hint: I wasn't the one to do it and I'm raging mad at the person who did this to my laptop!)

Anyway this just means that I lost a lot of stuff that I kept on my laptop and my translations are one of them T^T

I'll try to get back on track in translating but I'm sorry for a bit of lateness in this coming week while I get back on track!