Chaos In The Hotel
2059 Words
“Where am I?”
Silence.
Xie Feng could not able to see things clearly.
Whenever he tried to open his eyes a heavy force make them close.
The only thing he could able to see is the black sun above him.
There were no clouds present, only a crimson sky, and a black sphere.
There is a cold liquid sensation coming from his back like he was floating on the water.
He looked at the sky, only the black sun was hanging there like an eternity.
Xie Feng continuously looked at the black sphere, after some time he observe the sun was becoming bigger as every minute passed by.
Xie Feng subconsciously wants to flee but found he could not control his body anymore. He could not even feel anything. Only his eyes are able to see.
Somehow he feel like time was passing through his side. One hour, One day, One month, a whole year.
He lost the sense of time at one moment.
Xie Feng feel he was spending countless years laying down here.
The black sun was still coming closer to him. Now it already had covered half of the sky.
At a sudden moment, Xie Feng saw something which shook his soul.
“What are you?” he asked in horror.
The black sun parted into a vertical slit-like opening an eye. A whirlpool formed inside it.
The raging wave was moving in it look like it wants to devour everything inside it.
It was the first time he had to feel the terror in his bones. His body was frozen but his soul was shaking just looking at the dark whirlpool eye.
The movement of the sun start increasing as it came closer to Xie Feng.
“What the hell are you!?”
He could sense that the whirlpool eye was aiming straight at him. He feel he laid naked in front of that. Nothing about him could be hidden from that whirlpool.
‘Move! Move! Move!”
Xie Feng tried his best to move his body to run as far away as possible, but he laid frozen at the same place.
Next, he saw the dark sun seems to fall on him.
‘Nooooo’
….
Xie Feng wake up jolted.
Huff Huff
“Hahh, hahh”
That was a nightmare.
How come it feels so real. He found his whole body was soaked in sweat.
His throat was dried out completely. Xie Feng gets up from the bed coming in front of the washbasin. He splashes his face any time to clear his eyes.
He does not know how could he get a nightmare.
Did he scare subconsciously or having guilt regarding taking lives?
He was killing zombies since the day of catastrophe, why should he feel guilty or going against morals.
This is the end of the world. Only strong can set foot and make their path. If not he should have been dead already.
Xie Feng hardened his will to survive. He surpasses the nightmare deep in his heart.
That must have been too much killing that caused his mind to have those thoughts.
Xie Feng put his thoughts back in his head and changed his clothes. There are many sets of t-shirts in the wardrobe.
Today he thought about how should he proceed.
Should he keep killing zombies from each floor until he reached the topmost fast or do it slowly to create less noise and look for supplies?
‘Let’s take things a little slowly.’
The whole day Xie Feng deal with the zombies.
Every time he passes the floor, corpses piled up like rags.
Until sunset, the only thing he did was to kill the zombies. Not only he did have to kill all of them but also move their bodies to an empty room. If not every floor would be filled with dead and disgusting rotting smells.
While Xie Feng was clearing the floors, the survivors hiding in the rooms were shivering to hold their breaths.
From yesterday they had been living under too much pressure to even move a little. There were loud roars and objects hitting noises coming from the outside the whole day. Whenever they thought it over, the next moment more mad shrieks sounded the whole floor.
“Bastard, who was pushing those zombies?”
“For f**k sake, do not create so much noise.”
*cries* “Please do not kill me.”
Until now they had cursed Xie Feng eighteen generation ancestor to create so much disturbance inside the hotel.
Some were so scared they did not even voice their thoughts in the fear of attracting zombies.
They all had heard helping last sounds of people who had tried to get out of the hotel. But the reality was awfully disappointing for those. They could not even leave their floor in the presence of the undead waiting for them patiently.
In one of the hotel rooms on the upper floor. There were few people hiding inside keep looking from the small opening of the door.
“Are people below fighting with the zombies?” A man with a round head looked outside with his mug bean-like eyes.
“Should we get out and help?” Another person standing behind him asked in a soft voice.
“I don’t think there were many people are there to take so many zombies.” A man with glasses speaks with a pondering face.
“We haven’t heard any person’s voice until now, which is strange,” A female voice came from inside the room, “We haven’t noticed any activity from the lower floor from past days.”
Usually, at the start, many people were trying to run from here but zombies killed them at the very moment. Which had to fill the hearts of all people with more fear towards zombies.
The zombies presented on their floor had run away below from hearing the loud sounds.
“It might be the small group of people who were fighting for food.”
Suddenly the same female voice sounded excited.
“We can make use of the situation. Right now all people’s attention present inside the hotel must be on zombies sound. We can search for food in that meantime.”
“Whoever that was, he had helped us very much,” Hearing her all of them understood what did she mean,” Now we can enter other rooms to search for food and water.”
“Ahh yes, I haven’t eaten anything to my fill for the past week.”
“Let go, remember do not make sounds.” The man with glasses speaks strictly.
Hearing him the persons behind nodded in agreement.
Each of them carried some kind of useable weapon against zombies. They carefully enter the corridor.
Unknown to the actions of various survivors, Xie Feng keeps doing his cleaning work continuously.
Today after fighting with zombies for the last few days, he had developed a kind of fighting technique of his own to kill. It was much better than simply waving the blade, chopping the heads and limbs.
Even if it was mostly the same as previous movements, Xie Feng tried to do them more swiftly and decisively. With a little flick and rotation to add some speed movements.
‘I didn’t do this to look cooler just for better control onto the blade.’
Xie Feng assures himself with his fake words and carries on his tasks.
He found that his assumptions were wrong regarding the number of zombies present inside the building, somehow he had already killed close to a thousand in numbers.
There was still one-third of the floors he had to climb later.
‘It looks like I am staying for one day more here.’
Originally Xie Feng wanted to get things done pretty quickly.
He planned to enter the hotel, killed the zombies, absorb black threads, increase his strength, and finds ways to get out of the city by seeing the best route from height.
But now he had to clean the floors too as there were too many zombies present. It becoming difficult to even breathe peacefully in such a closed dense environment.
‘Tomorrow will be the last day I am staying in this filth.’
Xie Feng made a decision and resume his work for today.
Same as before he looks inhumane after a whole day of clearing work.
Xie Feng did not goes to the same room he had slept in last night. He chooses a better room than yesterday with a good view for outside.
After washing himself up and changing his bloody clothes. He came to the balcony to saw the view.
The sun had been already set. Somehow Xie Feng didn’t want to see the sunset today. The dream he had last night was not very good.
Because of Xi Feng’s aggressive actions, there were very few zombies present outside the hotel. They were moving slowly like a lifeless doll until some fresh blood they smell.
The moon was the same as yesterday, bright with a red hue outlining it. The cold air move silently like autumn leaves falling from the dead tree.
Xie Feng feel like his feet were turning cold, he returned to the bedroom after closing the all windows and doors.
At next morning he wakes up early.
He got up from his bed and came to the same window to saw the view outside.
Xie Feng yawned. Even though he did not feel tired but he was still sleepy.
The morning today was a little dark today. The sun has not risen fully for now.
Xie Feng moved his eyes at the end of the straight road, a large number of zombies were roaming mindlessly.
It’s been a day since only Xie Feng killed so many zombies outside but there were already sign of new ones.
With so many zombies wandering in the city, it is conceivable how terrifying the number of zombies exists in the light and dark in various places.
As long as you will be careful regarding your movements, you can able to avoid the zombie’s attention and bypass them.
With Xie Feng’s ability, it does not matter if zombies noticed him or not. As long as the numbers were not overwhelmingly tight like previously he had to protect the group, he was able to cope with the situation.
He freshen up and ate some leftover food left.
‘I have to stock up supplies again.’
He finished eating and came to the bedside.
“Well, today I will be able to clear the further remaining zombies.” Xie Feng said holding his daggers. He picked a clean piece of white cloth to clean them for a bit.
Unfortunately, his short sword became unusable after few days of grinding and cutting through the zombie’s bones.
With only two daggers left he was pretty confident to take the remaining ones.
After stretching for few minutes he was fully ready to continue his task.
Headless corpses fall as he passed by each floor.
He did not have to care about zombie’s dead bodies anymore as he will be moving constantly and will leave as his goal was completed.
The once again loud noises scared the people hiding inside the rooms.
“It’s come again.”
“Who is the one who keeps provoking the zombies?”
“I hate myself. If I am strong enough, I want to run away from here.”
“Don’t choose my door, Don’t eat me, I don’t want to die.”
Many people complained and cried in their minds. The horrifying cutting and roars noises were no different from any torture for them.
Obvious to all these thoughts Xie Feng reached the next floor.
Surprisingly he found no irritated zombies shouting at him. The floor was somehow clean with still stains here and there.
Xie Feng became more alert seeing no one at his front.
At that moment a falling sound came from at end of the floor.
‘Someone present in the room.’
Due to his enhanced hearing, he was sure he heard a sound from the room.
Xie Feng came in front of the door.
Now he can clearly hear the sound of heavy breathing coming from inside.
And there is more than one person present inside.
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