On the following morning, the Shi Huang Squad is leaving one of the many houses that look alike to look at the aftermath of the battle they've had last night. Walking down the streets, they see all the bodies that have been killed by this squad. Children, women, elderly and what were once healthier individuals, are all resting on this cold ground, with shots to the heads and all around their zombified and decaying bodies. What happened last night was a massacre for this future outpost, but this is how humanity fights during this period of time.
"How many did you count?" asks Li Kay to Ri Ku while they are walking down the street.
"There's definitely more than a thousand." says Ri Ku walking with Li Kay to the street, passing by a decomposed body. "Some of them were here before our arrival. Maybe months ago."
"The apocalypse started six months ago, right?"
"In some places around the world, yes," says Ri Ku. "But in Asia, I heard the latest report stating the apocalypse came in 3–4 months later than in Europe. In Sri Lanka it was the first infection, then it spread quickly in just a week all over Asia."
"I know that." says Li Kay to Ri Ku who both stops from walking, and look to the direction of a house.
The two are equipped in their uniforms, with their breathing masks, anti-biting armor and both having an assault rifle with a few bullets remaining. Li Kay is looking at the opened door of the house and sees there is a zombie walking down the stairs.
"Undeads?" ask Ri Ku to Li Kay.
"I don't know." says Li Kay backing up to let the said zombie walk out in the sunlight.
After the zombie walks outside the house, they see who that zombie is, and they are looking baffled by this. The zombie is what used to be a man, with a missing left arm, which is tied in bandages, meaning he had his arm cut a while ago because of the blood that now has become a darker color on the bandage. The body wears a military uniform without any bulletproof vest and has on his back a ripped backpack in half. The body doesn't have the facial features an Asian would have, he is looking to have those of a person that is born in North America, somewhere in the Southwest. That zombie walks slowly to Ri Ku and Li Kay, raising his arm while growling.
"I'll take it." says Ri Ku taking out a knife, walking closer to the zombie and stabbing the head of the said zombie with a precise move. "You can rest." he says, catching the zombie's body and laying with ease on the ground on his face.
"A soldier from US?" asks Li Kay to Ri Ku who starts to look at the half-ripped backpack and check its insides.
"I think." says Ri Ku looking in the backpack, he spots a watch. "Look."
"I already have one." says Li Kay.
"Alright." says Ri Ku taking the watch on his right arm, revealing another three watches on his arm. "A fourth one wouldn't hurt."
"Why are you taking so many watches?" asks Li Kay curios. "We never heard your reason for this weird thing of yours."
"It is because I have heard the story of someone who was collecting watches and using them as an "armor" against zombies. At first, I was skeptical, but after he showed it to me, I believed him. I know we have this armor, but a second layer of protection wouldn't hurt, don't you think?"
"Right." says Li Kay.
Soon, Ri Ku finds on this half-eaten backpack a map that was hidden in a special pocket that hasn't been ripped apart. Ri Ku takes the map and shows it to Li Kay. Both are looking at the map feeling curious. They see some markings on this map, like one in red ink that says in English: "Do not go in there. Bad people." in an area not too far from there. In that circle, there is something written in Chinese, the name of an elementary school, that name is: "Xiahe Sangke Jisuzhi Elementary School".
"Should we go there?" asks Li Kay to Ri Ku feeling unsure.
"No." says Ri Ku looking at the map. "First we'll wait for the reinforcements to come, then we'll see what we'll do from now on.
Ri Ku puts the backpack away from the dead soldier's body to check the insides better. The two fighters leave the body and continue their checking to see if there's any remaining zombie alive. Later, they'll have the task to make piles of these bodies and burn them outside the Dicang village.
While the two were walking to the entrance of Dicang village, the two saw two helicopters approaching the area. Li Kay takes out his pair of binoculars that are hidden under the anti-biting armor to check to see if these helicopters are friendly. And Li Kay says to Ri Ku while looking at the binoculars.
"That's them."
"Turbos squad?" asks Ri Ku to Li Kay.
"Yes," says Li Kay, passing the binoculars to Ri Ku to watch the helicopters approaching. "Also the El Tigro squad. I thought there were many more helicopters."
The helicopters proceed to land on a plain land, with a low number of trees but a high number of decayed corpses from humans and animals. When the helicopters land in the area, the fighters from those aircraft leave and walk with their equipment toward where the Shi Huang Squad has gathered to see them. There are only two squads of soldiers from those five that were ordered to check Xiahou and see if they can establish a safe zone, but since they see there are only two squads rather than five, means the three squads have gone down.
"Greetings!" says the commander of Shi Huang Squad to the leader of a squad. "What happened?"
"We failed, sir." says the leader of a squad, one who looks to be at the same age as the fighters from Shi Huang squad.
The three squads are wearing different emblems than the one that Shi Huang has, to help identify the difference between the squads, something that The Organization has thought of at the beginning.
"H-How?" asks the commander, shocked by this. "How many have died?"
"From our reports," says another leader of the second squad. "three squads have been destroyed, that consisted of 15 humans."
"You've lost fifteen people out of fifty?"
"Yeah." responds the leader feeling bad. "But, we have an idea how. There weren't zombies that decimated two squads. There were humans."
"Humans?" asks Li Kay to his group, stunned by this.
"Why would they do this?" asks Ahmed to Ri Ku.
"I don't know." says Ri Ku.
"How large was the group?" asks the commander. "The ones that have attacked the two squads?"
"We don't know, sir." says that young leader. "We only found one that attacked the squad. Was shot down on the spot. But I think there are many more like this."
"I see." says the commander. "Alright. Go to the village and rest for now."
"Is the village safe?" asks a soldier from the group.
"From now…" says the commander who is walking with the remaining thirty-five fighters inside the village while the other five fighters are ordered by their commanders to carry all the nearby bodies in a pile and burn them. "If a horde will show up, we'll announce it to you and ask for help."
This whole plain has around more than a hundred bodies, all of them were new and others were so decomposed the bodies show bones, bullet holes and stab wounds all around their bodies who still have some meat on them. The five fighters started to place the first corpses far from the helicopters, then they were burning them after the pile of corpses became big enough and emptied the whole village, a process that has taken more than three hours. It would've taken double the time if it weren't for some other fighters who wanted to join the action.
Soon, a third helicopter appeared, this one was one of the reinforcements that had to come. The helicopter is transporting only ten fighters and the commander of squad Reido Dragons, Reido. Squad know to be one of the most dangerous ones against zombies due to their way of fighting close and not losing any person since the beginning of this apocalypse.