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After a while, the van arrives at the outpost, where the higher-ups look impressed at Shi Huang Squad. Ri Ku told the group that he had not found anything besides a USB sticker, and the group said,

"Whatever is in that stick. I hope it works," says a commander to Ri Ku after he takes the USB stick.

"Don't know if it works, though," says Ri Ku.

"Well, let's see." says the commander, walking to the van. Shi Huang's squad was captured a while ago.

The commander puts the USB stick into the socket, turns on the motor engine, and instantly, the music plays on the radio. The song that is playing is one known by people from Thailand. The song is popular and comes from a band called Labanoon, as one person from the outpost told Ri Ku after he heard the lyrics. Even if this song isn't exactly what they thought it would be, something loud like any music that can play in a nightclub, they'll use it at maximum volume.

"What about speakers?" asks Ahmed.

"What?" asked a commander while listening to this song.

"We need speakers to make it louder."

"We found one," says a fighter to Ahmed. The fighter leads Ahmed to a car he captured a while ago, revealing a giant speaker.

"How the fuck you found this, buddy?" asks Ahmed, surprised to find a speaker that is bigger than a trunk of a standard car.

"After today's attacks, I want to kill the zombies that were still alive, my friend," says the fighter to Ahmed. Then, I saw this car in the street, heavily damaged and with a zombie body that this speaker pressed." He says this as he points at the blood stains on the speaker. Now, now. I tested if it works, and it does. But it's on battery."

"That's the bad part," says Ahmed. "How much we have left?"

"For about an hour, I hope."

"That's enough," says Ahmed, taking a breath of relief. "Well, thanks for this, Jimmy."

Later, the supreme commander called the forty-seven fighters to the meeting area, the building that was once the hotel of this golf course. There, the entire population of these outposts, besides the survivors, gathered to discuss their plan for tomorrow morning and how they would fight. All the fighters besides the commanders sat at the tables. The commanders of this mission stood on the podium, explaining the plan for tomorrow to the group of fighters.

The attack phase consists of the squads going with their cars, including the van, at a distance about a kilometer away from the radio tower they need to capture. The attackers will have to attract as many zombies as possible from the tower, making the defenders part of the mission much more manageable. The defender's job is to capture the radio tower, establish a connection with the group in the outpost, and kill the remaining zombies that come into the perimeter. The attackers and defenders will then reunite at the radio tower, where they'll have to kill the remaining zombies on the perimeter, build battles, and wait for reinforcements. This operation will have only twenty fighter personnel with two commanders, one of whom will lead the defensive side, and the other will lead the attacker.

"Any question?" asks the commander to the group of fighters that have been gathered.

"Yes," responds a fighter. "Why were only twenty?"

"We cannot send the entire squads to leave the outpost unprotected," says the commander. We don't want to lose this place again, do we?"

"Of course not, sir." says that fighter. "M-My apologizes."

"Any other questions?" asks the commander.

"How will we be selected for defenders and attackers?" asks Ri Ku.

"Simple. Shi Huang and Rock Ya Teams are attackers. Teams Rotten Onions, Badgers, and Hanu Lah will be on defense. The attackers will be composed of eight people, while the defenders will be fourteen people.

"I see," says Ri Ku, looking at his teammates. "Well, then. I have no other questions, sir."

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"That's Good to hear," says the commander, then glances at everyone. Is there anyone else?"

Nobody answers it in the next ten seconds to conclude this meeting, and everyone rises from their seats and walks outside the hotel to their tents to get a well-deserved night's sleep for tomorrow.

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Days ago, there used to be a radio tower in the Ubon Ratchathani that was used by the people who lived in the golf course outpost, used to establish communications in the artificial islands (also natural islands near Thailand) made by The Organization in hopes of creating a peaceful environment from these Z's. A human used to stay there and communicate like Hugo does in the Dicang Village, but it got overrun by zombies, killing the man inside. This wouldn't have happened if he had a fighter or gun.

The fighters sent to the fight were divided into two sides: one side attacked, and the other defended. There is no point in explaining again what they are doing because of their goals. The simple: attackers are trying to attract as many as possible by using vehicles and loud music, while the defenders are taking control of the radio tower and calling for reinforcements near artificial islands.

"Alright, people!" says Ri Ku to his members while Li Kay drives the van on a busy road with many zombie bodies and cars lying around. "Listen up! Our mission is to park the car somewhere open! We turn on the music, and then we time the bomb inside. We flee to safety and regroup with the defenders. Got it?"

"Yes, sir!" says his four comrades in arms.

"You think we will make it?" asks Yu.

"We will," says Ahmed. "This is an easy walk for us after what we went through in Dicang."

"Ahmed is right," Ri Ku says to Yu. With what happened in Dicang, this mission sounds easy for us. But you never knew… We will fight together. Conserve your ammo. Don't let any zombie bite your armor. And always protect everyone's back." Ri Ku looks at Li Kay, who is slowing the car's speed. We'll leave here!"

"Okay," says Li Kay, starting to stop the car, turns on the radio and plugs the audio jack cable of the speaker into the radio that has the USB stick, then he plays a song from the band Labanoon.

"Bomb placed,t., says Ahmed, placing a C4 bomb on the car with a timer that is set to detonate in the next five minutes.

"Now, everybody!" says Ri Ku, taking a shotgun and kicking the door of the van's backside, causing a zombie to fall on the street. Run!"

The whole group runs from the van toward where the radio station is supposed to be. While running, the group managed to push, kil,l, and knockout zombies with melee weapons consisting of baseball bats, machetes, and knives. None of them used their guns on regular zombies; they all used them once to kill a supposed class F zombie who was about to throw a car at the group at a close distance. They killed more than fifty zombies, but they managed to get somewhere safe, avoiding the van that exploded and engulfed a whole street into flames.

The group look back at the explosion in amazement, none of them think this explosion will be this big to cover an entire street, several buildings and kill more than a hundred zombies. Li Kay looks at this cloud of smoke in wonder and asks the group.

"You sure there was only one C4?"

"Must've been the other cars," says Ri Ku. "Remember, most of these cars still have some fuel left in them."

"We have to go!" Xin says to the group, pointing at a few zombies walking toward them. Z's!"

"Move, move!" says Ri Ku to the group quickly.

All five members of the Shi Huang Squad run in the direction of the radio tower. They ran one kilometer and a half, but they did not reach the radio tower because of a wave of zombies from a hundred meters away from another street. The five fighters run inside a building that looks like a bank, close the door after them, and run down the bank to safety. The zombies manage to break down the doors. Zombies are strolling upstairs, where the group has run, guided by the smell of human blood.

In a secured room that looks like a vault bank, the fighters lock the doors, move the furniture to the door, and remain near the wall, breathing heavily, anxious, and sweating bullets. Xin and Li were scared of this, but the other three were only tired. They still held their calm and reasoned about a solution to the dilemma they were facing The group couldn't try to kill an entire horde of zombies with limited ammunition and with their melee, not a horde that surpasses more than a hundred zombies.

"We need a plan," Ahmed says, looking at Ri Ku.

"I'm thinking," says RiKu, feeling nervous and calm simultaneously. "I'm thinking!"

"We are so fucked." says Li Kay in Mandarin language.

"We are',." says Yu to Li Kay; she looks around the room.

The room they are all locked in is a money vault containing many empty empty cabinets, meaning someone decided to steal all the money during a zombie apocalypse. Some people in this situation may view this as a dumbass situation. Still, there is also the possibility that if the world rises again, the person who stole the money would be one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Instead of empty cabinets, there isn't much to help them in this situation; there is only worthless money and blood around the place. Then, Yu thought of something.

"Blood… Blood."

"Blood?" asks Xin Yan.

"Yeah, there's everywhere," says Li Kay.

"We need fresh blood," says Yu to the group.

"Wait," says Ri Ku. "You may be onto something."

"Yeah," says Yu Tong happily. "We can cover our armor with blood and go through the horde."

"Is it safe?" asks Li Kay.

"Would you like to remain here until these things break down the vault?" asks Ahmed.

A knock is heard at the vault door, which makes all the fighters look scared at the vault, shaking out of fear. Li Kay looks at the group, nervous, then shakes his head in approval.

"Have it your way," says Li Kay to Yu Tong.

"Look," she says, raising and pointing at a cabinet inside a zombie body. "Here's a zombie."

"How did he end up there?" asks Li Kay, confused.

"Convenient," says Xin Yan with a smile.

"Get ready to cover your armor in blood."