Three were dead.
The fourth still had a weak pulse.
She crouched beside him and fed him a diluted drop of spiritual spring water.
The guard coughed and slowly opened his eyes.
"Don't move," Chu Miao told him. "You have several broken ribs."
The guard looked toward the zombie's burning body. "It...looked like one of us."
"I noticed."
"It knew the guard captain's name. We thought it had been transferred from the western wall."
Intelligent zombies were learning how to imitate humans more convincingly.
They could speak, wear uniforms, and use stolen information to pass basic questions.
Chu Miao's expression became serious. "How long was it inside the base?"
"I don't know. It arrived at the power station twenty minutes ago."
That wasn't enough time for it to have traveled from the abandoned town after the horde began moving.
The intelligent zombies must have infiltrated the surrounding area before City A discovered the gathering point.
