The Walking Dead: I Sell Arms as a Sixth-Rate Seller in the Apocalypse

15:16 p.m.

Galveston, Texas, a downtown plaza.

Rick led the three to the helicopter and spoke to Denise and Jennifer.

"You two take my helicopter and go check out the CRM (Civil Republic Army) fuel depot to get some reconnaissance, then come back to pick us up."

However, Jennifer and Denise whispered awkwardly to each other.

"Neither of us knows how to fly a helicopter..."

Hearing this, Rickton was speechless, but then he thought that the two of them were still young and probably hadn't learned how to fly a helicopter yet.

Thinking of this, Rick changed his mind and picked up the walkie-talkie to shout inside.

"Falcon One, Falcon One, this is Dongyao. Return to the plaza immediately. Over."

"Roger that, we have captured the sniper and are returning."

five minutes later.

Falcon One, along with three CRM Republican soldiers, led a middle-aged man dressed in camping clothes with a blonde ponytail who was already unconscious to Rick.

The moment Rick saw the man, he recognized him as Arnold Valack, one of Theodore Maddox's trusted lieutenants.

"Sir, please allow me to kill him myself to avenge our fallen comrades!"

Rick calmly replied to the angry CRM Republican soldier's words.

"Letting him die now would be too easy on him. We need to pry him out of the organization behind him and everything he knows. Otherwise, it would be a waste to just kill him like this."

Upon hearing Rick's words, the other soldiers took out cable ties, bound his hands and feet, and threw him on the ground.

At that moment, Falcon One walked over and asked.

"Dongyao, did you call me here to give some combat orders?"

“That’s right, Falcon One. You will lead all the CRM Republican Army soldiers in my Bell-206L helicopter to the refueling point in Galveston, according to the markers on the CRM map. Then report your location to me via walkie-talkie, and I will bring men there again. As for the damaged helicopter you brought, leave it to me.”

"Understood, Dongyao. The rest of you, come with me immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, Falcon One opened the door to the helicopter cockpit and got in. The other three team members, along with Jennifer, Denise, and the wounded soldier who had just undergone surgery, boarded the helicopter.

Tens of seconds later.

Falcon One then piloted the intact Bell-206L helicopter and flew off into the distance.

Now, in the empty square, only Rick, Al, Rosita, Abraham, and the madman named Arnold Valack, who was tied to the ground, remained.

Abraham slung the MG-338 machine gun behind his back, took out the cigarette Rick had given him from his pocket, lit it, took a puff, and then walked over to Rick and asked.

"Buddy, where do we go next?"

"You four stay here. I'll go get a car and come pick you up later."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

Finished.

Rick walked alone towards the city.

To prevent a sneak attack from the sixth brother, Rick materialized the VSSM Night Demon silenced sniper rifle that he hadn't used in a long time after walking away, and then activated the heartbeat detector on it.

Upon opening the display, an anomaly was discovered: five jumping white dots appeared on the side of the gun's monitor, and these dots were moving rapidly toward the user's location.

Seeing this, Rick immediately dodged to the side of a silver Buick Excelle sedan, propped his VSSM Night Demon silenced sniper rifle on the roof, and aimed intently at the road ahead.

After a few seconds.

A black and white Ford Crown Victoria police car sped toward them from the front, carrying five thugs armed with AKM and AR15 assault rifles.

Seeing this, Rick raised his weapon and pulled the trigger at the driver's position.

"Clap clap clap—"

Three 9x39 subsonic armor-piercing rounds shot out from the muzzle and instantly hit the oncoming police car. One of the subsonic armor-piercing rounds penetrated the windshield of the police car and hit the driver's chest directly, instantly blasting his heart apart.

The other two subsonic armor-piercing rounds penetrated the seats and directly hit the bodies of the two thugs in the back seat. The powerful kinetic energy from the 9x39 subsonic armor-piercing rounds shredded their internal organs, killing them instantly in the back seat.

The two remaining passengers watched in horror as the out-of-control police car crashed into the street corner.

"Bang---"

The police car crashed into the edge of a shop at the corner, and the front of the car was severely deformed in the impact, while all the airbags inside the car deployed.

The two unfortunate souls who escaped the attack were thrown from the car because they weren't wearing seatbelts. Of the two, the most unlucky one was the one sitting in the passenger seat, whose head hit a red brick wall the instant he was thrown out.

The powerful impact instantly shattered his head into pieces, and bright red blood and brain matter smeared the red brick wall, turning it into a bloody and terrifying graffiti.

The other thug in the back seat was a little luckier; he wasn't thrown out of the car, but the passenger seat crushed his legs, trapping him in the back seat and making escape impossible.

The Ford Crown Victoria police car was reduced to a pile of scrap metal in the violent collision. At this moment, its fuel tank was severely damaged in the impact, and golden gasoline mixed with the blood of the rioters inside the car was flowing out of the vehicle.

Seeing this, Rick didn't stay ahead and continued walking forward.

Shortly after he left, the three dead thugs in the car, who had turned into zombies, immediately attacked their former human companion, whose legs were trapped under the car seat and who had fallen into a coma.

"Ughhhhhh—"

A heart-wrenching scream came from behind Rick. He scoffed and continued walking forward without turning around.

After a while.

"Boom—"

An explosion came from behind; the car battery ignited the gasoline on the ground, finally sending the police car flying into the air.

Just then, Falcon One's voice came through Rick's walkie-talkie.

"Falcon One calling Dong Yao, Falcon One calling Dong Yao, we have arrived at the Republican Army fuel supply point, but the supplies and fuel here have already been moved out."

"I received it, Falcon One. You can land and stay there now. I will bring people over later."

"Received, over."

Rick clipped the walkie-talkie to his waist and continued searching for a suitable vehicle on the street. Finally, his efforts paid off, and Rick found an unarmed military Humvee. However, when he opened the door, he discovered that the Humvee had been damaged, the fuel tank was punctured, and one of the tires had been removed.

Upon seeing this, Rick started cursing at the air.

"Damn! 凸(艹皿艹)"

"Is it really that hard for me to find a suitable car?!"

Thinking about this, Rick felt a little regretful. In order to save that one eraser opportunity, he left behind the summoning authority that prevented him from using war vehicles. As a result, he could only store the damaged vehicles in the storage space of his personal space, but he could not materialize those vehicles again.

"Damn it, I miscalculated, damn it!"

Just as Rick was cursing in the street, the voices of zombies came from one side of the street.

A group of zombies were seen attacking a silver-gray Toyota Hilux four-door pickup truck.

Upon seeing this pickup truck, Rick recalled seeing things like the ZU-23-2 twin-barreled 23mm anti-aircraft gun mounted in the back of pickup trucks in the Middle East in his previous life. The pickup trucks that underwent this modification were Toyota's 'Hilux' two-door or four-door pickup trucks, which were tailored for the Middle Eastern battlefield environment.

With that in mind, Rick decided to acquire the Hilux for future mass production.

He raised the VSSM Night Demon silenced sniper rifle, switched the firing mode from single shot to full automatic, and then pulled the trigger.

"Clap clap clap—"

"Clap clap clap—"

Gunshots as faint as mosquitoes rang out one after another from the muzzle of the Night Demon silenced sniper rifle, and several 9x39 subsonic armor-piercing rounds flew toward the horde of corpses ahead.

In an instant, the zombies that were baring their fangs and claws and attacking the Toyota Hilux pickup truck were all hit by the subsonic armor-piercing bullets.

The powerful penetration of the subsonic armor-piercing rounds tore these rotting bodies into pieces, and the air was immediately filled with the stench of black blood.

five minutes later.

After the last zombie was eliminated, Rick changed to a new magazine. He noticed that the display on the gun showed two flickering lights inside the Hilux pickup truck in front of him.

Rick didn't dare to be careless. He slowly walked forward with his gun raised, and after stepping over several shattered zombie bodies, he arrived at the door of the pickup truck.

"Hey, you guys inside, get out of the car right now! Don't give me a second chance, or I'll send you to see your great-grandmother!"

Upon hearing Rick's words, the people inside the car slowly opened the door and stepped out.

An Asian-looking man stepped out of the car with an Asian woman who had been shot.

The man was wearing a disheveled suit and looked extremely haggard.

The woman had beautiful black hair, but her face looked haggard due to long-term malnutrition.

When the two saw the mess of severed limbs on the ground, they immediately leaned against the door and began to vomit.

"Ugh ugh ugh—"

Rick could tell from their appearance that they had never been in battle and had only survived by sheer luck. A seasoned survivor would not have felt nauseous at the sight of them.

Thinking of this, Rick scoffed at the two of them in fluent Beijing dialect.

"Oh ho ho, it seems you two are expecting a baby. I congratulate you both in advance."

Upon hearing the fluent Beijing dialect, the two were taken aback. The woman also asked in fluent Beijing dialect.

"A Chinese person? From the capital? No way, what a coincidence!"

Upon hearing this, Rick looked up at the two of them and continued to ask in Chinese.

"You two are also Chinese? Judging from your tone of voice, you're from the capital?"

Upon hearing Rick's words, the man was overjoyed and exclaimed.

"Holy crap! Ruyan, we've met a fellow countryman, and he's from the same capital city as us! Hahaha, we're saved!"

The man in the suit immediately stepped forward, hugged Rick, and said excitedly.

"Brother, my dear brother, it's so good to see you here."

This was Rick's second time meeting a fellow countryman. The last time was with Zhang Hao, a pilot from Shanghai. This time, it was someone from his hometown.

At this moment, the woman took the initiative to introduce herself.

"Let me introduce myself. My surname is Liu and my given name is Ruyan. I am the eldest daughter of the Liu family in the capital."

The man who had been holding Rick released him and began to introduce himself with a serious expression.

"My name is Yun Che, the eldest son of the Yun family in the capital. This woman named Liu Ruyan is my fiancée."