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    Tomorrow morning, at exactly 5:32 AM, two military trucks are leaving the Dicang village, each having ten fighters, armed with their anti-biting armor, gas masks, melee and firearms weapons for today''s big mission. Each fighter has a different weapon from each other, for example, Ahmed has an UZI, Li Kay has a M4A1 rifle, Ri Ku an AK-47 rifle, Yan has what it looks like to be a Gali, and Tang a shotgun and a Glock on her belt. These are not new weapons, these have been found in a warehouse that was visited a while ago. Looks damaged, but they were fixed by the specialists gunsmiths of this outpost.


    After about an hour of driving, the two military trucks arrive close to the entrance of Xining, the entire group of twenty fighters get out of the vehicle, arm themselves with weapons and proceed to open fire on the nearby zombies. The plan is to make enough noise to alert the group of survivors who live here. Only two fighters from Turbo squad remained at the trucks to look after it in case something bad were to happen. These two fighters remain close to the trucks, killing the groups of zombies who are walking and crawling toward them. The rest of eighteen fighters are advancing inside the perimeter, shooting and slashing any zombie in their way.


    The group of combined fighters arrive close to an intersection, and before they are about to make a turn to the left, a bullet flies from a ninth story building, hitting a fighter''s head, putting him on the ground. The rest of seventeen fighters are quickly running toward the nearest building, avoiding other shots that are fired at them. The building they''ve entered is a Hotel, where there lays a lot of dead corpses, some waking up by the smell of human flesh. Those zombies who were rising from their slumber, were quickly put down by the fighters who are walking to the upper floors of this hotel.


    "Over there!" says Ri Ku to the group, leading them into what it looks like to be a dinning hall.


    The group enters this dining hall, closes the doors after them and walks away from the windows after they heard a shot and a bullet that almost took someone''s head. The group enters the kitchen, and there they all lock the door and proceed to rest after this exhausted run from zombies and stray bullets.


    "Take your masks off." says an exhausted Ri Ku to the group.


    "Yes, sir." says his squad mates to Ri Ku, taking their masks off.


    Soon, the squad leaders of his people proceed to do the same, to get some air and rest properly. When everyone has taken off their masks, Ahmed notices the person that has been shot is Eduardo, a member of El Tigro squad.


    "They''ve got Eduardo." says Ahmed.


    "Poor fighter…" says the squad leader of El Tigro.


    "These savages." says another fighter. "How can we face them?"


    "We won''t." says Ri Ku to the people. "This group is like Shin and Yan described to us. Shoot us without hesitation. We have to do it."


    "What do you mean?" asks Ahmed.


    "Bomb this place."


    The fighters were looking at Ri Ku, they knew this was the procedure, but isn''t this going too far as one of the fighters asked. Where Ri Ku replied to him.


    "And we cannot risk getting them in our outposts. Many survivors have used this chance to turn their weapons against us, attack from the interior and decimate the number of valuable fighters and soldiers."


    "But what about the supplies?" asks another fighter.


    "We''ll search another city." says Ri Ku taking from his backpack a walkie-talkie, sets the coordinates of his outpost and proceeds to talk over it. "Commander Shi Huang! Commander Shi Huang! Do you copy?"


    "Hear you loud and clear." says Commander Shi Huang over the station. "How''s the status?"


    "Not good. We''ve lost a fighter. And the group is shooting at us."


    "I see." says the Commander, sounding disappointed. "Guess we have to execute Order 24."The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    "Look like it, sir."


    "Leave this place as soon as you can. We''ll call for an airstrike."


    A minute later, the commander tells Ri Ku on the station.


    "You and the remaining group have about an hour to leave the city. We''ve made contact with a nearby base to send an airstrike to demolish the remains of this city."


    "Thank you, Commander."


    The transmission is over, Ri Ku looks over to the others who have understood what is about to happen now. All of them proceed to put on their helmets, reload their weapons and prepare for a leave to get back to their military trucks. Ri Ku kicks the door, takes down a zombie that was close to them, the others do the same with the other five zombies. The group of fighters quickly run downstairs, killing three more zombies on their way to the hallway.


    When they arrived in the hallway, they saw a human who was aiming his shotgun at them and was about to shoot, but Yu Tang was quicker and put a bullet through the neck of the aggressor, then another fighter put a bullet through the aggressor''s head. They were close to leaving the hotel, but shots were heard coming from the nearby buildings. The entire group of seventeen fighters are leaning by the wall, waiting for an opportunity to escape.


    "How many snipers are there?" asks Li Kay.


    "I don''t know." says Ahmed. "But we have got to do something."


    Xin Yan looks around, she sees a map of the building that is on the floor, she quickly takes it, looks at it, then she hands it to Ri Ku, who was next to her and tells her.


    "We should take the exit from the back."


    "Yes," says Ri Ku to Xin Yan. "But we have to distract them somehow."


    "I have an idea." responds a fighter taking out a pipe bomb from the belt. "I''ll toss this outside. Saw a tanker trailer not far from here. If it has any gas, it will enlighten the whole palace and maybe start a big fire that will distract us from the zombies, and hopefully from these snipers."


    "And what are you going to do?" asks Ahmed to the fighter.


    I''ll catch up with all of you."


    "Good luck." says most of the fighters to that anonymous fighter who proceeds to go back upstairs to the top floors to execute his plan.


    After a minute, a pipe bomb is thrown from the window, and lands nearby a tanker trailer that is having "Shell" logo on the sides. The pipe bomb explodes in a few seconds, and this explosion has somehow made this tanker explode. This bang was loud and provoked enough havoc to make the swarm of zombies from nearby look at the source of noise, walk toad the fire unaware of the consequences. And this explosion has made the group of attackers stops their shooting at the building where the fighters are now escaping from.


    They all left the place through the backdoor, killing a zombie on their way by smashing his head with the back of an assault rifle. The group has entered another building, which looks like it is another hotel. There the group has killed five zombies on their way and proceed to walk further to the other side of the building without too much effort. The fighters proceed to walk toward the way they''ve come from, avoiding shots of the enemy snipers by running through buildings who are still standing, half destroyed and with walls gone.


    While the group was running through another eight buildings, the group managed to arrive at the open road where their military trucks are located. There they see a swarm of zombies who have encircled the two special vehicles. All the group members proceed to shoot the zombies with their weapons. All of them have shot from a building, not taking a chance to get outside to get in one of the snipers'' scope and have their heads blown-up.


    Five minutes later, the swarm of zombies has run down, and the group proceed to run toward the special vehicles, killing the small amount of zombies who were in their way. While they were all running to the military trucks, a bullet almost hit Ahmed, but it gazed into his ear, almost taking it out with the bullet hitting the ground. Ahmed did not stop from running toward the trucks like the others.


    "Get in everyone!" yells the driver of the first military truck.


    In the first military truck, ten people had climbed in it, and in the other there were only seven people who ran into it. The group remained there for a bit for the other fighter to come. All of them haven''t caught a glimpse of him on their run. Some were starting to feel the fighter has fallen, or was captured, or wounded, or worse, has been stopped by a zombie. But to their surprise, the fighter proceeds to come out from a building and run toward them.


    "Hey!" says a fighter to the other, waving his hand. "We''re here, buddy!"


    Then, a shot was heard, coming from a nearby building. That shot was heard from the people inside the military truck, who all peeked outside, and saw their comrade, falling to his knees and to his face on the ground. The people from the military truck look sad by this, but they all quickly get back to reality and proceed to do their missions. The military trucks proceed to leave this area, who will be hit by an airstrike minutes later.


    "We''ve failed!" says Ahmed inside the moving military truck, to his squad mates.


    "Yeah…" says Li Kay. "Let''s hope these criminals are killed in the airstrike."


    "They''ll be," says a fighter. "Feel bad for the two fighters we''ve lost."


    "Eduardo and Rajak will be missed," says another fighter.


    "That one was Rajak?" asks Ahmed, surprised. "Poor dude."


    "You''ve known him?" asks Ri Ku.


    "Yeah. Back at the bootcamp before he was transferred to Pakistan as a fighter."


    "We''ll do a funeral back at our house." says Ri Ku to Ahmed and to everyone.


    The trucks are entering the main street they''ve taken to come here, and proceed to go fast toward Dicang village, where the commanders are starting their meeting with the mysterious Mister Twenty, who is considered to be the President of China.