Chapter 217 - 201: Iron-Blood Wang Dingbei

Chapter 217: Chapter 201: Iron-Blood Wang Dingbei

A zombie outbreak erupted on the cruise ship. The first reaction of the people at A Port was to run for the ship.

The ship was safe, and they could go back to their rooms and hide.

Down at A Port, there was nothing but shipping containers. Many of the workshops were also inside containers.

It was completely indefensible.

The crowd spontaneously ran for the ship, while zombies frantically chased them from behind, their mouths covered in blood. Their roars were as terrifying as the tolling of hell’s bells!

Most of the people who stayed behind at the base to work were those who didn’t want to, didn’t dare to, or were incapable of fighting zombies. What’s more, they were all in everyday clothes. Being pursued by zombies at such close range... they were utterly unable to resist!

To be caught meant death.

At this moment, the combat team had gone out with most of the equipment, leaving the base’s internal armed forces extremely limited.

If the zombies also managed to charge onto the ship...

Huang Henian watched the crowd and the zombies, his hands and feet growing cold.

He never expected that his attempt to lure a single zombie would... cause such a disaster.

At that moment, his eyes scanned frantically below. Among the zombies, he saw an old woman... a zombie.

"Sister Ying..."

Huang Henian, a man nearly fifty, couldn’t hold it back any longer. Tears streamed down his face.

They were among the first to board the ship, and all of them were Yu Dong’s people. They were all very close, often eating together, chatting, and trading barbs.

’I’m the one who got Sister Ying killed... I’ve doomed everyone...’

Below, everything had descended into chaos!

During the day, the cruise ship’s gangways were left down for easy access. There were two of them, and many people believed that as long as they weren’t caught by the zombies, they would survive if they could just run onto the ship!

They ran for their lives. Even if they couldn’t outrun the zombies, they had to outrun everyone else!

Some of those running frantically didn’t even notice the few scratches on their legs that were already seeping blood.

Just as the front of the crowd was about to set foot on the gangway and board the cruise ship...

CRACK!

With the crack of a gunshot, Wang Dingbei emerged from inside the cruise ship, holding an MP9 submachine gun. He stood directly above the left gangway and roared himself hoarse:

"Everyone! Stay back! Move to the sides!!!"

Lin Mo moved to the other gangway to block the crowd.

Wang Dingbei’s words still carried weight. The crowd subconsciously parted to either side, clearing a space in the middle.

But three people seemed to be in a daze. Not only did they fail to move aside, but they also charged toward the gangway like madmen!

"Warning! Get down!!!"

Wang Dingbei fired a shot into the ground. The concrete in front of the trio cratered, and one of them immediately snapped out of it, quickly crouching down and not daring to move.

Of the other two, a woman from the greenhouse team was muttering, "Retribution! This is all retribution!" as she ran up.

The other was a young man whose leg was bleeding:

"Save me! Save me! I need an amputation! Get a doctor to amputate it! I don’t want my leg anymore, I just want to live!"

He kept running upward, his face a mask of utter panic!

He knew he’d been bitten by a zombie.

CRACK!

Wang Dingbei shot him right in the head, blowing his brains out.

The woman was still muttering something about "the inescapable cycle of karma and retribution" as she charged forward. Wang Dingbei aimed his gun at her.

Jing Yanwei, who had run up behind him, shouted, "Officer Wang, don’t!"

The woman had no visible wounds.

CRACK!

Wang Dingbei shot the woman in the leg, sending her tumbling to the ground, incapacitated.

"Move again and I’ll shoot to kill!"

At a time like this, he couldn’t afford the slightest hesitation!

Otherwise, even more people would die!

Then he quickly began firing at the zombies pursuing from behind!

Xiao Dabe of the security team and Jing Yanwei of the ship’s affairs team, who had just arrived, also began to fire.

It was the same for Lin Mo on the other gangway, but when she faced someone stubbornly trying to run past her, she hesitated.

Her routine training didn’t allow her to open fire on civilians, and besides, she couldn’t see any injuries...

BANG!

A 7.62mm bullet whistled past her from behind, slamming directly into the charging person’s leg and forcing them to their knees.

Yang Ze stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Lin Mo, holding an AK-103.

"Chief, we can’t set that precedent..."

In moments of extreme danger, a rational man’s heart is a bit more ruthless.

Order was more important than anything!

If the crowd got onto the ship with even a few who were about to turn hidden among them... it would all be over!

Lin Mo took a deep breath, instantly recalling the mistakes the army had made in the "previous world" that Yu Dong had told her about.

"You were right... I was too slow to act."

She kept that AK in her office and had just told Yang Ze to grab it. She herself was using her own QSZ-193 service pistol.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Once the people below cleared a path, Lin Mo and Yang Ze also began firing on the zombies.

Five people, five guns.

They guarded the tops of the gangways, quickly clearing out the zombies.

Wang Dingbei emptied his MP9 magazine, pulled a fresh one from his belt, slapped it in, and resumed firing!

He had to suppress the zombies as quickly as possible to keep them from getting to the crowds huddled on either side. He simply unleashed a torrent of bullets!

The scene was quickly brought under control. After all, the outbreak had just begun, so there weren’t that many infected and turned yet. After they had shot more than forty zombies, no more appeared.

At this, Huang Henian, watching from a mid-level deck, breathed a small sigh of relief.

He had thought the entire base was done for...

If that had happened, he truly wouldn’t have known how to face his son and Yu Dong, who were out fighting the zombie horde.

The others were also grateful to be alive. The two who had been shot in the leg and had fallen to the ground were also slowly coming to their senses; just moments ago, they had been possessed by the single-minded urge to run.

But Wang Dingbei did not relax. His eyes remained vigilant as he watched the people below.

"Is anyone else injured? Come out right now, stand in the open where I can see you..."

Before Wang Dingbei could finish, a man in the crowd who had been keeping his head down suddenly lunged and bit the neck of the person next to him!

The bite punctured an artery, and blood gushed out!

The metallic scent of red blood filled the air once more as it splattered onto the surrounding crowd, who had just begun to relax.

"AHHH!!!!"

A woman touched her own blood-splattered face, her eyes rolled back in terror, and she fainted on the spot.

Someone had turned in the middle of the crowd!

Someone who was bitten or scratched hadn’t reported it!

Wang Dingbei tried to aim, but there were too many people!!!

To create a clear firing lane for them, everyone had squeezed together. Now it was just a sea of heads, people packed shoulder-to-shoulder, making it nearly impossible to get a clean shot at the zombie!

"Fuck!"

The crowd, which they had just managed to bring under control, erupted into chaos once more.

There was a zombie in their midst!!!

Not running meant death!

A huge wave of people began to surge toward the ship. Some tried to retreat to the side, only to discover more zombies approaching from the direction of the shipping containers. They were caught in a pincer attack!

Trapped with nowhere to run, getting on the ship became their only option. The crowd descended into utter chaos!

Wang Dingbei bellowed, "Do not advance! Nobody move forward!!!"

If they got onto the ship under these circumstances, it would be over.

This time, however, Wang Dingbei’s words had little effect. When a crowd is surging, it’s difficult for the people at the front to stop.

Seeing the situation, Lin Mo shouted, "Everyone, get down! We’ll shoot the zombies! Once we kill the zombies, everything will be fine!"

No one listened.

Besides, there wasn’t just one hidden zombie. Soon, another person turned at the back of the crowd!

The gangways were about to be completely overrun by the crowd. The others holding guns were trembling. What could they do?

In that moment, Wang Dingbei could almost see the entire cruise ship base being destroyed under his watch.

They had worked hard for nearly two months. The number of survivors on the cruise ship had just surpassed 1,000, and now all of them would die because of this outbreak. In the end, when Yu Dong and the others returned, all they would find was a cruise ship full of zombies.

He had promised Yu Dong he would watch over the base... He had said he could suppress any troublemakers and protect its safety.

’Not even dragons or tigers will get past!’

’He had made a clear promise, and people had believed him. How could he...’

Wang Dingbei clenched his jaw so tightly his eyes became shot with blood. A horrifyingly grim and ruthless expression appeared on his face.

RAT-A-TAT-TAT-A-TAT-TAT-A-TAT~

Wang Dingbei raised his submachine gun, its muzzle spitting red flames, and mowed down the entire front row of ordinary people before quickly swapping to a fresh magazine.

"Everyone get the fuck down!!! You lot, raise your guns! Anyone who charges this line gets executed!"

That one burst from Wang Dingbei’s submachine gun snapped everyone to their senses, including Lin Mo, Yang Ze, Xiao Dabe, and Jing Yanwei.

Squatting down might get you bitten by a zombie, but charging forward would get you shot dead for sure! 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

With an act of extreme violence, Wang Dingbei brutally forced the crowd back into submission!

And once the entire crowd was squatting, the turned zombies were completely exposed. Lin Mo and the others began picking them off.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"Officer Wang, I’ve been bitten... Just let me say goodbye to my mom..." a young boy stood up on his own, clutching a wound on his hand, his face a mask of grief.

BANG!

Wang Dingbei shot him.

For anyone who had obviously just been bitten, Wang Dingbei didn’t wait for them to turn. The moment he saw them, he shot them in the head.

"Xiao Dabe, Jing Yanwei, Yang Ze, go down there! Pull out the injured and put them to one side. Everyone else stays down!"

After a grim round of shooting, all the infected had been eliminated.

This time, they had killed another 14 infected people, not counting the row Wang Dingbei had gunned down in his sweep.

In the end, Wang Dingbei had suppressed the outbreak that could have consumed the entire cruise ship with an iron fist.

But... in front of the gangway, the row of ordinary people mowed down by Wang Dingbei lay in pools of their own blood.

At that moment, no one dared to say a single word.

Wang Dingbei had maintained the ship’s stability and safety, but now, everyone looked at him with an added hint of fear.

He wearily grabbed the handrail and sank down onto the ship’s gangway. With a trembling hand, he pulled a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

The white smoke rose, splitting the scene in two: the bloody gore below and the quiet peace on board.

From within the smoke came Wang Dingbei’s voice, trembling slightly.

"Get the ones who were shot and are still alive to the infirmary for emergency treatment..."

"Everyone else, stay where you are. We’ll observe you for another half hour."

"Notify Yu Dong. Tell him to get back here. Fast."