Kingdom of Living II - Part 1

Many countries in Asia have fallen into this apocalypse trap, where many humans have fled to nearby artificial islands owned by The Organization. Other people have dedicated themselves to take their luck and fight the unfortunate infected in the urban streets and the rural areas. And some folks have decided to take it to themselves, giving up their survival to the beasts. 

Those lucky ones who are dedicated to remain alive, have adapted to their new way of life which now consists of eating less food, scavenging the cities and killing zombies who stand in their way. Many groups have different ideas to get food, but most of the living humans were never going to resort to eating zombie flesh or their own people. Not even if they are dead.

One of the cities that was overflowed with zombies was one in Thailand, that one being Ubon Ratchathani, a town that had a population of about three hundred thousand people who were living their life. Now, most of these poor souls have been infected with this Z virus and destroyed many people close to them, strangers and families of strangers. This said town was known for many things, but now, it would be known to be an outpost, which was overrun in the beginning, but thanks to several fighters from The Organization, the outpost will soon rise back to its feet after the big wave of zombies that came days ago and ravaged the entire town. Before The Organization would send a squad to deal with them, they initiated an airstrike to make this task less difficult, which damaged a lot of buildings which were new, historical buildings and the only airport which was still functioning in this town. 

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In Ubon Ratchathani Airport, who been taken control by humans a day ago, a group of Thialandese soldiers are waiting for the two airplanes that are coming from Taiwan with trained fighters, with supplies and with better arsenal to help the remaining members of the outpost retake it back from the wave of zombie. This group in Ubon Ratchathani Airport has managed to raise an electric fence to deal with zombies who were trying to climb and overrun the said fence. Now, an electric fence functions thanks to a power generator that was found in the wreckage in a hangar. Surprisingly, this thing still works and can help the group in the airport deal with the zombies from outside the perimeter.

The two ordinary cargo planes are coming from Taiwan, these planes carry each other an enormous quantity with supplies, twenty-five fighters in each plane and a tank in each plane that will be used to take control from the waves of zombies. And unfortunately, Shi Huang squad hasn't been assigned to control any of the tanks, their mission is to kill zombies and provide support fire to the other ten fighter squads from all around East Asia.

"Listen up, teammates!" says Ri Ku to his four comrades in arms. "We are tasked to support the groups of fighters in their mission to retake an outpost not far from here, that was a place known as Golf 21 from what some of our colleagues told us. The said outpost has been taken over by class E and Class F zombies."

"Class E zombies?" asks Li Kay, surprised by this. "W-What are these?"

"So far," says Ri Ku. "The Organization has told us these things resist fire, can swim and explode blood when they kill. If we were to take the reports of fighters, knights and soldiers who were sent on the frontline."

"But they ain't bulletproof, right?" asks Ahmed to Ri Ku.

"Correct." says Ri Ku to Ahmed. "Now. Carrying on. This will be the first outpost out of the two we will be liberating from zombies."

"What's the second one?" asks Xin Yan to Ri Ku.

"The second one is in Sisaka province." says Ri Ku looking through the folder he was handed to him a while ago by their commander back in Dicang Village. "Sorry. Sisaket. That's the name of the province. Anyway, the temple is known under the name of Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew… or something like that. This said temple has something very valuable hidden."

"What's that?" asks Xin Yan.

"Drones. Military drones."

"How many?"

"More than a hundred."

"We are risking our life for just a hundred drones?" asks Li Kay.

"For a hundred drones with shotguns."

"With what?" asks Yu Tong, not believing what she just heard.

"Drones with shotguns."

"They do exist?" asks Xin Yan to everyone.

"You have no idea," says Ri Ku to Xin Yan. "What the military industry has achieved since the beginning of the 21st century."

"What do you mean?" asks Ahmed.

"You'll see. Now prepare for landing in 5." says Ri Ku walking away from his teammates toward the commander of this special fighter operation, he hands him the folder, speaks in English like he did to his teammates. "Here's the folder, sir."

"Good." says the commander of this operation, who is a man older than Ri Ku, with a prosthetic arm, wearing military uniform and not having his mask on like everyone on this plane. "Are you in the Shi Huang squad?"

"Yes, sir."

"Aha. Your group has cleaned that village by themselves, right?"

"Yes, sir."

"That's good to hear. We'll need your skills in this mission."

"If you can tell me. How did this outpost get overrun by zombies from class F and class E?"

"Well." says the commander, looking at Ri Ku. "I'll tell you this. We thought this class E wasn't going to be a threat to us. They weren't. Nor class F was a threat to us. But somehow, a zombie has infiltrated inside without our acknowledgement, and infected one by a civilian that were in this outpost… And it did not help that we had about two hundred civilians who were in a bad health situation, nor the fact that ten were older than both of us combined, and there were a lot of kids who couldn't protect themselves."

"Did you suspect it was a sabotage?" asks Ri Ku.

"That thought has crossed my man." says the commander, looking at Ri Ku with interest. "Tell me your name."

"My name is Ri Ku. Squad Leader of Shi Huang Fighter Squad."

"Ri Ku, eh?" says the commander. "My name is Somchai Arna. But you can call me Somchai."

"Very well."

"How do you think this was a sabotage?"

"I have heard several stories about how people from the interior of the outpost were sabotaging the structure The Organization has built."

"Like the report from Germany? Where a group of so-called "Free Zombies" have destroyed the gates of an outpost overnight to let a pack of zombies they've led in to kill the people inside?"

"When did this happen?" asks Ri Ku curios.

"About a week ago. The report said three people from inside have been killed in the process, twenty-nine zombies have been killed and five members of the group have been captured. But I have to tell you. Some folks think this is better. To fight monsters to live. To be on the verge of dying because of the lack of food. And to always worry about getting sick by the virus. I can tell that these types of assholes never went through hardships before this apocalypse happened."

The commander Somachi looks outside the window, he sees the plane is starting to approach the airfield, he walks to get his helmet on, puts a Kevlar on him and takes his weapon. Ri Ku looks at him, a bit worried, but Somachi assures him.

"This… This is all I need, Ri Ku."

Soon, the whole group of fighters from the plane prepares for the landing that is about to follow.