Doomsday Officers Operation Team-Chapter 84 Family Team

Suwan listened carefully. She heard correctly. There were people coming from the front. It sounded like there were quite a few of them. Suwan picked up the telescope and observed through the gaps in the trees. She saw more than a dozen people coming this way. Each of them was wearing a bulky down jacket and a safety helmet like the one worn by motorcycle riders. However, the transparent face shields on their helmets were now open, so Suwan could see their faces clearly.

Suwan raised his eyebrows. He had to admit that this was a very good protective measure, which could at least prevent him from getting hurt by the zombies' scratches.

Among these people, several adult men led the way, some holding homemade hunting rifles and some holding long machetes. The rest were women and children, all holding baseball bats, iron bars and other weapons. They looked like a team composed of several families. In such an environment, the more people united, the greater the hope of survival.

It was a good thing to meet living people. Suwan knew nothing about this place now, and could get a lot of information about it from them. Suwan and Zoe's safety would be more guaranteed if they were with them. But Suwan had experienced too much, and her vigilance and experience told her that not everyone she met in the apocalypse was kind. It was just that Suwan couldn't tell whether these people were good or evil from the surface. Compared to this family team, Suwan hoped to meet a small and easy-to-control team of two or three people. So after a little hesitation, Suwan decided to do the same as she had just seen those zombies. She would hide in the tree and wait for these people to pass by before going back to find Zoe. Just in case, she didn't plan to expose herself in front of these people.

Suwan crouched low on the tree branch. She was wearing camouflage combat pants, a black short-sleeved top, and a camouflage combat bag on her back, which made it difficult to be discovered while hiding among the branches.

As the men got closer, Suwan could see more clearly and hear their conversation.

There were twelve people in this family team, each of them carrying a luggage bag, a school bag or a shoulder bag, which seemed to contain the supplies they had collected. Among them were five men, who should be the main force of the team. They had the most bloodstains on the facial masks on their helmets and their clothes. There were also four women and three children in their teens, one boy and two girls. The pace of the women and children was slower than that of the men, so Suwan heard the conversation of the men first.

"That plane was flying this way, wasn't it?"

"That's right. Aren't those zombies coming this way? They're probably not far ahead."

"I don't know who is coming."

"I see the color of the plane, it looks like a military one."

"I saw it too. There seemed to be some letters on it, but I couldn't see clearly what they said."

"Letters? It's English, right? What's a foreign plane doing here?"

"Maybe one of those International Rescue planes?"

"Hey, Old Liu, you're still dreaming at this hour. International rescue team, you finally know some professional terms, right?"

"Haha, maybe it's true."

These people...are they following the zombies from a distance? Suwan looked down at them passing under the tree, thinking.

The topics discussed by the women and children following behind were completely different from those of the men.

"Mom, I'm hungry," a boy chased after the woman and shouted coquettishly.

"Didn't you just eat it?" the woman said impatiently, but she still took out a bar of chocolate from her bag, broke off a piece and gave it to the boy.

"I'm still growing. What I ate just now is not enough," the boy muttered in retort. The woman glared at him helplessly. The younger girl next to them with a small backpack had been following them silently. When she saw the woman giving the boy chocolate, she quickened her pace, probably because she wanted to have a piece of chocolate as well. But then she slowed down as if nothing had happened and did not ask for anything.

These women and children seemed to be well protected, with less blood and dirt on their bodies than men. It seemed that they had enough food and supplies. They must have sensed the crisis as soon as the conspiracy crisis broke out and had made preparations, otherwise it would be impossible for them to have prepared so many safety helmets, one for each person. Suwan waited on the tree for another 20 minutes after all of them passed by. She estimated that she would not meet these people if she went back to find Zoe, so she climbed down the tree and returned in Zoe's direction. She returned quickly because she was delayed by meeting this family team, and she was worried that Zoe would be anxious waiting for her. After all, she promised Zoe that she would be back soon.

The closer Suwan got to the place where they separated, the more he had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, as she approached, she heard voices, and she immediately recognized a boy's voice as the voice of the boy from the family team just now.

It's the family team we just met. Why are they here?

Suwan hid behind a tree at a distance and looked in the direction of the sound. She saw that the family team was surrounding a tree, and several men were pointing their shotguns at Zoe on the tree!

Zoe on the tree tried her best to stick close to the trunk to reduce the exposed area of ​​her body. She held a small pistol and pointed it at the people under the tree.

The two sides were facing each other.

Perhaps because there were not many bullets in the shotgun, or perhaps because the branch where Zoe was standing was too high and it was difficult to hit the target, the men just pointed their guns at Zoe but did not shoot.

"Dad, Uncle Liu, please shoot her to death!" The boy jumped and shouted under the tree. When the girl tried to persuade him, he pushed the girl instead. The girl took a step back and ignored him.

"Keep your voice down," the woman pulled the boy into her arms, and the boy calmed down a little. He said unwillingly: "She still has a gun in her hand, can you let me use the gun to kill her?" The woman slapped him on the head, knocking off the protective shield of his helmet. After that, the boy said something else, and the sound coming through the protective shield was unclear, and no one paid attention to him. The other women and children did not want to be accidentally injured, so they stayed far away, but it seemed that they were used to this kind of situation, and no one stopped the men's behavior.

"Come down, we won't hurt you," the man called Uncle Liu by the boy said to the tree in a slightly higher voice, but his behavior was like playing the lute to a cow, because Zoe couldn't understand what he was saying. Even if Zoe understood, she was not a child. Would she believe that someone would not hurt her when someone pointed a gun at her? Even if she believed it, she had just learned how to climb a tree and had not yet learned how to get down from a tree, so she couldn't get down at all.

Suwan's eyes were furious as he watched from behind the tree. No wonder these people followed the zombies from a distance. Their purpose was to pick up the leftovers. After the zombies had eaten the living people, they would pick up the living people's resources.

Zoe did not panic when she saw the group of zombies. She was a scientific researcher who dissected zombies with her bare hands, so she just waited quietly for the zombies to pass by and for Suwan to come back. But she could not hide from the family team that came later, because the lab coat she was wearing was very loose. Even with Suwan's combat uniform jacket, half of the lab coat was exposed from the jacket. The white clothes were too conspicuous. These people came to look for people, so Zoe was discovered during their careful search. Seeing that Zoe was alone, they naturally attacked Zoe.

Suwan gritted her teeth, her eyes were almost blazing with anger. If she had come back a little later, who knew what would have happened!

"Stand back," Zoe pointed her gun at one of the men in the tree. Hearing that she was speaking English, the men looked at each other. The girl who had been pushed away said in stiff English, "They told you to come down." She lowered her voice, looked at the men, and then said, "Don't believe them. Don't come down."

Zoe ignored him. Although she was nervous, her hand holding the gun did not shake. At least she did not look scared at all. The men could not figure out what she was relying on, but they obviously did not intend to wait any longer.

Behind Zoe, a man quietly took off his belongings and prepared to climb up the tree.

Suwan stood out from behind the tree. When someone in the family team heard the noise and looked at her, Suwan had already shot two men in the shotgun with two bursts of fire. The impact of the bullets made the two men unable to hold the guns in their hands. Their hands became numb and the guns fell to the ground. Everyone in the family team nervously clenched their weapons and looked at Suwan who suddenly appeared. Suwan did not hesitate and fired another shot at the feet of the boy's father. The boy's father took a step back in fear and fell to the ground. Suwan's gun was equipped with a silencer. She calmly took control of the situation in just a few seconds. Now only 'Uncle Liu' was left with a shotgun pointed at Suwan, but he posed no danger to Suwan.

"Back off," Suwan also pointed her gun at the man surnamed Liu, expressionless. She was a good-tempered person most of the time.

When Zoe saw Suwan appear in the tree, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes were a little red, she knew Suwan would come back. Although Zoe was not too scared, she couldn't help but become vulnerable when she saw her supporter coming back, just like a child who could hold back tears, but once comforted, all the grievances burst out.

The man surnamed Liu originally pointed his gun at Suwan, but he looked at the woman and child beside him, and weighed the strength of both sides. He noticed Suwan's clothes, lowered the gun to indicate that he had no ill intentions. He noticed Suwan's camouflage uniform and said to Suwan, "You are a soldier, right?"

Suwan was very familiar with the trick of lowering the other party's guard by chatting him up. She took a step forward, ignored the man's words, and just said, "All of you step back."

"You came here by plane last night. Are there only two of you?" The man surnamed Liu was still trying to find out the news.

Suwan's impatience was shown on his face. Seeing that she was just intimidating and had no intention of shooting again, even though they were unwilling, the family team had to retreat and leave Suwan's sight.

After making sure they had left, Suwan immediately climbed up the tree and took Zoe down. As soon as Zoe landed on the ground, she immediately threw herself into Suwan's arms without caring about anything else.

"I'm back late," Suwan was very upset. It was because of her pride that she left Zoe here alone and almost put Zoe in danger.

"I'm glad you're okay," Zoe said. She buried her head in Suwan's neck and took a deep breath. Her rapid heartbeat slowly calmed down after she smelled Suwan's breath. When she saw this family team, Zoe's first reaction was whether Suwan had met these people? Was Suwan injured? Even though such worries were a bit redundant and even questioned Suwan's ability, Zoe was completely relieved when she saw that Suwan was okay.

Behind Zoe, the girl who reminded her not to get down from the tree came out from the gap between the trees. She was not wearing a bulky down jacket or a safety helmet. She just walked towards them alone in a thin shirt with nothing on her.