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The next day, a group of seven fighters arrive in front of a gate where a lot of kids' decayed bodies are laying down, eaten by zombies and with only clothes and bones to show they were there during The Infection Days. The group of seven have arrived at the kindergarten in their two jeeps, all seven of them are wearing their anti-armor, helmets, with their weapons being a bunch of different melee weapons, handguns and assault rifles, and some gadgets like a walkie-talkie and a thermometer to measure the temperature of the survivors. Yu is carrying a medical aid kit in case one of them gets wounded in an attack.
The fighters who have been sent to this kindergarten are the following: Ri Ku, Ahmed, Li Kay, Xin Yan, Yu Tong, Eduardo and Gordon, which is a combination between Shi Huang Squad and El Tigro's Squad. These seven people, after they looked around and saw the perimeter is safe, they walked inside the area of the kindergarten and walked slowly toward the gate, armed and ready to shoot at any moment. The person that is leading the pack is Ri Ku since he is one of the most qualified among all of them.
Ri Ku arrives at the main door of this building with a shattered window, bullet holes on the walls and a skull on the steps. Ri Ku listens closely to look for the sound of breathing from people inside by leaning his head on the door. A technique that not many would do, but he has to do it since a signal came from here yesterday. While Ri Ku was listening to the other side, a zombie rose from the ground, which made Xin Yan to turn around, since she is on the last pack. The woman takes out her dagger and stabs the head of the zombie multiple times, until this skinny creature stops moving and falls hard on the ground.
"Sorry." whispers Xin Yan to the whole group who were watching her, with some looks.
After a few seconds, a knock is heard from the other side, Ri Ku backs away, and grabs his rifle, then he says out loud to that other person.
"We are not a threat! Do not be afraid! We are The Organization Fighter Squad Shi Huang."
"What?" asks a person in the Mandarin language, who seems like he did not understand a single thing.
"We are not a threat! Do not be afraid!" says Ri Ku in Chinese.
Soon, the doors are opened by a man with long brown hair and long beard, who is looking at them like he has not seen humans in a long time. The group of fighters is aiming their weapons at the man with the long hair and long beard, which made the man retaliate back, with hands up and saying in Chinese the following.
"Don't shoot. Don't shoot!"
"Xin." says Ri Ku to Xin. "Check for temperature."
"36.1 Celsius." says Xin to Ri Ku after she aimed her thermometer to the head of the Chinese man.
The group enters the building, closes the door behind them and walks with the Chinese man toward a room where the other survivors are waiting. But when they arrived there, they saw in a classroom, five people had jumped at them with knives. The group of fighters immediately opened fire to those five survivors, killing all five men who were dressed in black and gray, looking unwashed and stinking like a homeless person from a 7-Eleven. Eduardo saw the Chinese man was fleeing from them, the one who led them here, and he shot him in the leg, making the person fall on the ground and yelling out of pain.
From another classroom, a door gets kicked, and a woman runs with a knife at the group, but Yan manages to take a shot with her handgun, killing the deranged woman on the spot. When that woman was killed, the man that got shot in the leg backs away and whimpers as he sees Eduardo approaching him.
"What are you doing to him?" asks Ri Ku in English to Eduardo who arrived close to the man.
"I'll make him talk!" says Eduardo who, without any hesitation, steps on the leg of the man that got shot.
The attacker yells out in pain for a few minutes, then Eduardo takes his foot off, kicks the man in the stomach, and raises him up with his hands, yelling at him in English.
"Who are you?!"
"I-I… don't speak… English." tries the Chinese man to say to Eduardo, sweating and having his eyes closed.
"Hmph." says Eduardo who pushes the man down the floor, and looks at the people. "Talking with him. Maybe he'll give us some info-"
A shoot is heard, coming from another classroom. That shot sounded like a handgun. The shot came from the room that is left to Eduardo, the one where the woman fled and tried to attack the group of fighters with a suicide attack. The shot has hit Eduardo, who made him fall quickly on the floor, on his side, holding the arm that got shot and holding his screams of pain.
After this, the group of fighters runs to that room, shoot the people in the classroom, killing all the three people that were in there, not leaving a single human alive in there. Yan and Xin go over Eduardo, to inspect his wounds and use their training on first aid to stop the bleeding that comes from the arm of Eduardo. While the girls are doing their thing, the remaining people of the group start to slowly check the remaining rooms. They found a lot of sinsisters things in classrooms, like a room that displays about ten human bodies, who were hanged like pigs meat in a butcher shop, all naked and most of them were skinned alive, some also had mushrooms going to their bodies, indicating sooner of later would become a source of infesting. Li Kay almost vomited to this, but he held himself to not vomit on his mask that would stop the breathing mechanisms and asphyxiate him.
"These are cannibals." says Ri Ku looking shocked in the room with the human bodies that were hanged on hooks.
"We have to burn this palace." propose Ahmed.
"Agreed." says Li Kay to Ri Ku. "We cannot let this place remain standing."
"First we check the remaining classrooms." says Ri Ku. "Then we'll burn everything. Any supplies from here are infected with this virus."
The group continues to check the remaining classrooms of this school. Every classroom had one to two people in there, who were hiding and having weapons on them. The group has killed about six people in that school, and found a lot of human bodies who were skinned and eaten by humans. But one thing they found in a classroom was the body of a pregnant woman, who was lying on the teacher's desk, naked and with her stomach cut. The body looked fresh, which means it was recently found, killed and eaten. They discovered the belly of the woman was the body of the unborn child, but without its head and looking like it was still in the phase of development.
"Savages." says Ahmed looking at the body of the woman with sadness and feeling his blood boiling.
"That's the last room?" asks Li Kay to Ri Ku.
"Yes." responds Ri Ku.
"Good." responds Li Kay who is taking from his pants pocket a lighter. "We should start burning this vile place."
The group of six people evacuated the school grounds, while Li Kay was busy gathering all the books from this school in one place, a classroom full of degraded desks that can burn fast causing the fire to grow bigger. This man alone has managed to throw more than one hundred notebooks, books and papers in the middle of a classroom, then he ignites them with his lighter and leaves the school ground after he saw the books were starting to burn.
"How did it go?" asks Eduardo to Li Kay who came in the jeep that stayed behind.
"I've finished it." says Li Kay to the four people that are in the jeep. "Any zombies showed up?"
"Only five," says Yan. "Five zombies."
"Good." says Li Kay. "Means the numbers are going down, right?"
"Even if they do," says Ahmed. "There's still a lot more in the nearby places."
"I know." says Li Kay. "I was trying to give some hope."
"Sorry," says Ahmed.
The group remained close to the school to see if it starts burning. When the first smoke evacuated through the shattered window, the group of fighters that were in the jeep, left the area and went back to the Dicang village. While they were fleeing, some zombies that were laying nearby the fences got up and looked at the burning smoke then went through the shattered windows of the school. Some of the zombies are getting up and walking to that building, while others remain still and look at the smoke coming from the windows in amazement.