About Apocalypse Black Sun book One: Crimson Wave

Underground Parking Lot Assault

Shop gate collapsed through which zombie horde rushed like a madman. Xie Feng kept his hands blocking his mouth to stop the urge to throwing up.

The sounds of furniture breaking down outside make Xie Feng shiver. He thought after becoming strong he could save his life but he was wrong, life had shown him his cruel fate. He could now stay hidden inside this small washroom.

He chooses to cover himself with his dead filth cause he found how zombies didn’t attack their own and how they keep moving aimlessly around other corpses-filled regions.

Xie Feng already confirmed their sense of vision is very poor. He hopes for the same for their smell, the decayed smell he was covered in tricked the zombies into not able to sense a living being here.

As if his calculations were correct after almost half an hour the sound outside decreased. He could still hear the roars of them but they were at some distance and he was sure not inside the shop.

Still, he didn’t move carelessly as he clearly remembers how they not always roared and many of them stayed in the same place after not finding anything to attack.

Opening a little Xie Feng takes a peek outside. The already destroyed shop had become worse like an abandoned place which left for decades. the rotten smell intensified by many zombies lingering in the air.

Thanks to his decision he was safe, for now at least.

‘I had to reach underground lot sooner, or not I had to keep struggling between life and death.’

Xie Feng lamented as he hardens his will to be more ruthless and more careful at his planning. This time he was saved couldn’t be said to all-cause he was able to fool their sense of smell. It could be sheer luck too.

Next, he crossed the same route as planned and encounter many zombies. He didn’t run as before and take down them one by one.

If he found a group he lures them into some shops by making a sound and deals with them swiftly. Still one time he was failed to lead to create another horde after him.

Like before he didn’t run for long and hide inside a broken post office. Seeing their target had been disappeared zombies didn’t dwell on chasing and scatter like before moving aimlessly. After many hours of circling the same is he finally reached his hardpoint.

Hiding inside opposite a small restaurant Xie Feng found stored water and some frozen food which were still edible. Washing completely and changing his worker's cloth to waiter dinner jacket he collapsed on the marble-floored inside kitchen.

He was stained with many blood gores like no different from corpses themselves. Finally, he could relax a little. Little he said cause there still a group of around 20 zombies outside the restaurant. He had blocked the entrance with stools and other furniture. They could hold them outside for some time.

He already had found a way to deal with them.

After resting a little and eating some frozen chicken raw he felt good as energetic. Xie Feng didn't know how many zombies he had killed on his way but no less than 200 of them. The black threads he absorbed were many which keep making him stronger. One more thing he noticed that the hot-cooling sensation dropped. Now he didn’t even notice if he feeling cold or hot.

‘Maybe it's all because my physique was adapting faster than before.’

Xie Feng patiently waits for them to break the entrance door and come inside. This has become his fighting style- calmly wait for an opponent and strike them from dark, One Shot One Kill.

As planned before he swiftly deals with those dead walkers.

After dealing with them he comes to the side of the building where the entrance of the underground parking lot stands.

Following his memory, he saw a small slope going downwards.

The automatic door was closed in front. He had to reach inside from a different route.

He circled to the back of the building and climb on it through the pipe attached to it.

If this was before he could hardly keep his grip. Now with a stronger body, he climbed faster and soon entered through the half-opened window.

He saw scattered office files and broken electronics. Xie Feng straight went to the stairs situated by the lift side.

He stepped downwards through the stairs to the end of the way of the underground lot.

The moment he stepped through the door, an iron rod came towards him. With his quick reflexes, he blocked it with his forearm but there was another came hitting him on the shoulder.

Xie Feng couldn’t react fast as before he failed to comprehend what was happened. Even if the strike didn't hurt him much he was still angered cause of a sudden attack or his lack of vigilance.

“What the hell were you doing?” Xie Feng called out at two men in the office formal wearing.

For a moment the scene froze. Hao Jiang didn’t know what to do.

Seeing their still movement Xie Feng snapped.

“Get away from me,” He said pushing them away. “Are you both deaf ?”

Noticing their lack of reply Xie Feng raised his voice. Did these people have gone mad o lose their minds attacking someone from the moment they saw.

“Yu-You are alive!? coming from outside!” Hao Jiang exclaimed.

“Of course I am a living person. Did Zombie eat your brain to didn’t even notice the difference between living or dead,” Xie Feng scoffed.

The sudden attack from before scared him so he was still a little angry.

“Sorry for before. My name is Hao Jiang, he was my colleague Dong Lin” Hao Jiang talked apologetically introducing himself.

“Y-you just appeared out of thin air,” the other man named Dong Lin spluttered.

“What thin air, I descended from the stairs.”

“Upstairs—”

Before he finished speaking a loud voice came their way.

“What are you doing?

Xie Feng turned to see a man wearing a raincoat coming towards them. His heavy boots strike with the floor like a drum. As the distance was shortened Xie Feng could smell the heavy stench of alcohol from him. His senses were sharper than any other he smell blood on him which make him frown for a moment before he relaxed again.

The man closed the distance shortly. Seeing Xie Feng his eyebrows raised.

“You are?” He asked.

Xie Feng sensed the commanding tone in his voice maybe a little hostile. He didn’t like when someone talks to him like that.

“Brother Ji, he said he came from upstairs,” Dong Lin standing with Hao Jiang answered.

“Huh,” The man in the raincoat was surprised. “There was nobody on the upper stairs before how come you appear from there.”

“Does it really matter ?” Xie Feng replied irritatingly. “Anyway, I didn’t expect there will be people present here.”

“Of Course it doesn’t really matter that much as long as you were not those filthy animals roaming out there,” the man smiled talking. “But since you were here you had to follow our rules.”

“Brother Ji, we have already on short of man. Maybe with him and others, we could fight our way from this dead zone”

‘Fight our way’ He sneered in his mind. “Let’s go first to see big brother Guo then we will decide how things should be going.”

“You come with us,” The Raincoat man said looking at Xi Feng before he turned to walk back.

‘Big Brother Guo’ It’s been few days since the crimson rain and these undead appearances but the people have already started working together to survive.

It’s not a good sign for him. He came here to fulfill his food shortage and now if they were working in a group with a leader it’s going to be a little difficult to get all food.