Later, in the Dicang Village, the group that went on a mission to come with the gas needed for their helicopter came back without any issue on the long road they''ve taken. The truck stops nearby the helicopters, where the co-pilots and pilots are getting to work to pump the fuel from the tanker to one of the helicopters.


    "There''s not enough fuel for all the helicopters." says a pilot to El Tigro.


    "Doesn''t matter." says El Tigro to the pilot. "All that matters is we need a single helicopter for this task."


    "We understand that, sir."


    "By the way," says El Tigro to a Commander. "Where are my people?"


    "They''ve gone to check a nearby warehouse." says the Commander to El Tigro.


    "Without me?" asks El Tigro, feeling sad. "With whom?"


    "With two fighters from Shi Huang."


    "Shi Huang, ey?" he says as he looks at Ri Ku who is telling the pilots what he and others encountered at the airport. "Good fighters."


    "Indeed." says the Commander to El Tigro, both are looking at the improvised walls made by the fences nearby to protect them from small hordes of zombies. "They managed to make it a great safe zone for us."


    "Did the communication get established?" asks El Tigro.


    "Not yet. Hugo is still working on it."


    The two commanders remain a bit outside the Dicang Village, then they all turn around and walk toward the fences that protect Dicang Village and walk inside the safe zone where they meet the commander of Shi Huang, sitting on a bench and enjoying a can of tea made by one of the soldiers.


    "Care to join for a tea?" asks the commander of Shi Huang to El Tigro and to the other commander.


    "Maybe another time." says the Commander. "I have to make preparations for the voyage the pilots will make."


    "You take charge of it?" asks El Tigro.


    "Yes," says the Commander.


    "We all let him take charge of this operation while you and your people were gone to extract fuel for our helicopters." responds Shi Huang commander.


    The Commander leaves the two alone, walking toward a shack where they did the planning for their task to fortify the village. El Tigro decides to walk toward the bench and sits nearby Commander of Shi Huang, who is drinking his tea in peace. Then, El Tigro asks.


    "Do you have any energy drinks?"


    "Found none while searching," says the commander of Shi Huang. "Hopefully that truck depot has some supplies for us."


    "Hopefully." says El Tigro. "What tea is that?"


    "Green tea. Want to call Jabil to make some for you?"


    "Yes." responds El Tigro. "With three sugar cubes."


    The commander takes out his walkie-talkie station and calls Jabil to prepare tea for El Tigro.


    ***


    Meanwhile, in a warehouse, located about three kilometers away from the Dicang village, a group of seven fighters are killing zombies left and right that have swarmed this warehouse. The group is composed of five people from El Tigro squad, and by two members from Shi Huang squad, Yu Tong and Li Kay.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    "Don''t use guns." says Yu Tong as she uses her machete to cut the head off a zombie with a single slash. "Noise will attract the zombies who cannot feel our presence."


    "Understand!" says a man wearing a fighter''s uniform who uses his assault rifle as a baseball bat, smashing the skull of a zombie with a single swing.


    Many of the fighters are using their melee weapons to beat the small number of zombies in this warehouse. Inside this warehouse, there are a lot of crates locked, a lot of improvised beds and a lot of dead bodies that were eaten by the zombies who were locked inside this warehouse for many months. Now, the fighters are going to put all of them at rest.


    The area that surrounds this warehouse had a lot of cars that were there for a long time. Most of the cars were models that civilians would use in need to travel high distances for different purposes. The squad checked the interior of the cars, and noticed most of the cars weren''t having any gas in their tanks, meaning the people must''ve left their car with the engine on for months, or the gas was stolen by a group of people who needed it for their vehicles.


    "Yu!" says Li Kay throwing a knife toward a zombie that was close to grab Yu Tong.


    The knife gets stuck in the neck of the zombie, but the zombie doesn''t stop from grabbing the shoulder of Yu Tong. A fighter that was closer to Yu Tong rushes to her aid, he charges into the zombie, pins him to the ground and uses a hammer he has to break the skull of the zombie. He sees the zombie continue to move its hands and screech while pinned down, so the fighter turns the hammer around and uses the sharp part to stab the opened brain of the zombie. The zombie stops moving, breathing and eyes become dead again.


    "Thank you." says Yu Tong, seeing the fighter rising from the zombie corpse. "Did it bite you?"


    "No." responds the fighter, he turns around and sees three more zombie''s silhouettes coming from the dark warehouse. "Three on the right."


    "Roger." says Yu Tong, slashing the first zombie head out of the neck with the sharp machete.


    The group continues to fight the zombies in that warehouse for two minutes. There were many zombies in there, most of them looking malnourished pointing out that these things have been locked in there for months without any source of alimentation like human or animal meat to keep their form strong. All the zombies were looking to be common ones inside this warehouse, which was a relief for the group. One fighter counted thirty zombie bodies that they''ve killed, but there were also seven bodies of humans who were eaten by the zombies. Well, these bodies had only their skulls in there with small chunks of meat in their bones.


    "How did this happen?" asks Yu Tong while she and Li Kay check an office.


    "No idea," says Li Kay pointing the flashlight around to help Li Kay search through the desk drawers. "Maybe some sort of improved group establishment like we''ve seen in India."


    "Or like the ones in the city?"


    "It''s a possibility."


    "Check it out." says Yu Tong after he found a notebook in one of the desk drawers.


    Li Kay approaches Yu Tong, he aims the flashlight at the cover of this notebook who reveals it is one of those notebooks that children would take it to write. On the cover it is written in Chinese with the title "Journal". Yu Tong opened the journal.


    "You know it is not good to look through other people''s journals." jokes Li Kay.


    "Why did I catch you looking through Xin Yan phone?" asks Yu Tong as a response to Li Kay''s joke.


    Li Kay shuts up, this reply made him feel guilty and busted. But then, Yu Tong responds again.


    "I won''t tell her this time."


    "What do you mean?" asks Li Kay.


    "I won''t tell her this time unless you help me with something."


    "With what?" asks Li Kay.


    "I''ll tell you at the base." says looking through the journal, then she reads the first sentence to Li Kay. "Day one of isolation, people have gathered all around the village and nearby zones. We''re around twenty people at first, then many more came until nightfall. Right now, I am writing this at what is supposed to be 10 o''clock in the night. Hopefully, the military will come and help us all."


    Yu Tong stops from reading the journal, she and Li Kay leave the office and go outside where the rest of the group have gathered to check the surroundings. While walking toward the main gate, the two observe the brutal image of a dead zombie, who''s left arm continues to move. Yu Tong took her machete, sliced the arm of that zombie, then she cleaned the machete''s by using the dirty clothes of the zombie whose arm got cut off.


    "Don''t want to risk it." says Yu Tong to Li Kay.


    "I know." responds Li Kay, who both continue walking toward the main gate where the rest of the group waits for them.


    Outside, the group of El Tigro is checking the insides of a small truck that is used to transport goods for small markets. The two fighters of Shi Huang, arriving outside the warehouse, walk toward the member that is leading this mission.


    "Go something." says Yu Tong in English to the fighter.


    "Thank you." says the fighter in English, he looks at it confused then says to Yu Tong. "What is this? Chinese?"


    "Yes."


    "What is it?"


    "A journal that was written by someone who lived here with a group."


    "I see… But I don''t know Chinese, ma''am." he hands the journal back to Yu Tong. "You should hand it to the Commanders. Maybe they''ll need it."


    "Alright." says Yu Tong.


    The group checks other vehicles before they go on their own and get back to the safe zone to report their findings to this warehouse they''ve investigated.