Infinite Ebullience-Chapter 74 - 43 Layout Part 1

74: Chapter 43: Layout (Part 1)

74: Chapter 43: Layout (Part 1)

Within just thirty minutes, the first rest area on Highway 15 came into view.

When they saw the three big Greyhound buses parked in the lot, the stewardesses couldn’t help but cheer, and the Bald man even blew a whistle.

This was a lifesaving escape tool.

“Qin Yan, stop the bus.” Fifty meters away from the rest area, Tang Zheng asked Qin Yan to stop their rickety bus.

He then climbed up onto the roof to study the terrain and surroundings through a telescope.

The outside of the rest area was a parking lot marked out with white lines, already filled with about thirty cars.

Further in was the main building, a dozen two-story houses painted in brownish-red, with various English signs hanging above.

Tang Zheng, with his translation skills, could understand that they included a half-price hotel, a Chinese restaurant, an Italian restaurant, a gift shop, a medium-sized supermarket with vending machines at the door, and of course, indispensable public telephones and a gas station.

A few zombies wandered around the streets of the rest area.

Their numbers weren’t many, only about a dozen or so, and there were no special infected.

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“Is there a problem?” The Bald man was eager to charge into the rest area and capture the three Greyhound buses.

“Let’s go.

Bald man and Zhao Jingye, you go first.

We’ll clear out the zombies,” Tang Zheng handed the telescope to Qin Yan.

“When I give the safe signal, you guys drive over.

Try not to move Lin Wei’s body too much.”

“It was Lin Wei’s fortune to know you,” the Bald man patted Tang Zheng’s shoulder and sighed with regret.

Although Lin Wei was a fellow villager and prison buddy, he had thought about leaving him behind.

After all, with a fractured sternum, it was already admirable for Lin Wei to be breathing.

What else could you expect from him?

Such a burden, but Tang Zheng insisted on bringing him along, even assigning Li Xin Lan to take care of him.

“You’re talking about that stewardess?

How come she’s so obedient to Tang Zheng in just a few days?” The Bald man couldn’t help but whisper into Zhao Jingye’s ear.

He was eager to vent to someone, or else the envy, jealousy, and hatred in his heart would suffocate him.

“You must be envious.

But forget about it in this lifetime, the caliber of people like him, you can’t learn.” Zhao Jingye patted the Bald man on the shoulder and headed towards the rest area.

The work of clearing out the zombies went smoothly, taking just ten minutes.

After experiencing a baptism of special infections, these common zombies had become mere trash, easily abused.

The drivers of the three Greyhound buses were found.

They all wore uniforms of the same style, easy to recognize.

However, finding bus keys could be tricky.

“Which one is it?” The Bald man held the three key chains taken from the bus drivers and complained to Tang Zheng with a frown, “You don’t mean we have to try them all, eh?

Such a waste of time.”

“Maybe Tang Zheng has a way?” Bai Guo didn’t know what to do and looked over at Tang Zheng.

“He’s not a fortune teller.” Pang Meiqin didn’t think Tang Zheng could do it, with Zhou Zhou next to her nodding in agreement.

“Don’t worry, everyone will have some problems they just can’t solve.” Qin Yan comforted Tang Zheng, “You guys are being too much, huh?”

“Qin Yan, we mean no disrespect.

We just want to see if there’s anything this kid can’t do, which would otherwise be too much of a blow.” The Bald man wiped his nose and winked at Tang Zheng, “I’m already dying from low self-esteem.”

“I’m sorry, Bald man, letting you have hope.

You may continue with your low self-esteem.” Tang Zheng shrugged his shoulders, looking at the three sets of keys in the Bald man’s hand, “There should be three that are identical in shape, those are the bus keys.”

Everyone paused for a moment, then looked at the keys in the Bald man’s hand, indeed.

They then realized that the same company’s buses should have keys of the same shape, the only difference might be the key chain.

“Impressive.” The Bald man gave a thumbs-up admiringly, beyond words.

Bai Guo and Pang Meiqin were even more impressed, although it was only a small trick, it also proved Tang Zheng’s meticulous thinking.

Zhao Jingye, who was still racking his brain for the answer, sighed.

He felt so small.

The answers that he couldn’t think of could just be easily told by others.

“Alright, cut the crap.

Captain Zhao, Bald man, you’re in charge of searching the buildings.

I’ll set up a trap in the gas station.” After settling Lin Wei and the supplies on one bus, and getting it ready for escape anytime, Tang Zheng began to assign tasks to everyone.

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“I feel like I can 1V5 now.” Standing in front of the supermarket’s vending machine, the Bald man broke it, pulled out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and took a beautiful puff, “Want one?”

“No thanks.” Zhao Jingye refused and picked up a can of beer.

While glancing inside the supermarket, he casually asked, “Tang Zheng and Qin Yan went to the front gas station.

Will there be any problem?”

“Ha, you’re worried about those two getting frisky, aren’t you?” The Bald man blew out a smoke ring and said enviously, “I genuinely wish they would, so I would have an excuse for hooking up with a stewardess.

That Pang Meiqin isn’t bad.

Her legs are really long.

Wrapping them around my waist must feel powerful.

Bai Guo is okay too, she’s pretty busty.”

Out of place, Zhao Jingye walked into the supermarket, looking at the shelves filled with a wide variety of goods, and he suddenly felt something wrong.

“What happened?” The Bald man walked in, “Hurry up.

Tang Zheng asked us to search all the buildings in thirty minutes, and confirm they’re safe.

We only have this left.

Let’s do it quickly.

I want to sleep comfortably during the exemption time.”

“Why does it seem so quiet?

It shouldn’t be.” Zhao Jingye muttered to himself, stepping forward to inspect the shelves row by row.

The entire supermarket was about a thousand square meters, so it could be checked in less than two minutes.

That’s why he didn’t act together with the Bald man.

When he saw a chewed-up corpse of a supermarket clerk on the ground, he realized that his decision was terrible.

Just as he turned to leave, a hazy, indistinct shadow lunged at his chest.

He quickly sidestepped, but it was still too late.

His left arm suddenly sunk down as he realized he had been grabbed.

Immediately after, a sharp, biting pain rippled into his brain.

As his blood sprayed out, the shadow took shape and revealed itself to be a young female zombie in a dress.

“Invisibility, Shadow Barbie?” At that moment, Zhao Jingye remembered Tang Zheng’s earlier warning and didn’t expect to encounter it here.

Cursing his bad luck, he quickly slammed the zombie on his left arm into a shelf, while his right hand drew the handgun from his leg holster, aiming it at the girl zombie’s head and pulling the trigger.