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."