The first gunshot woke him up out of dead sleep.
Not because it was loud.
But because it was close.
Zhou Chenghai opened his eyes slowly before reaching automatically toward the knife sitting on the bedside table beside him. The room stayed dark around him while another burst of gunfire echoed faintly through the distance outside.
Then came the sound of something exploding.
Chenghai stared at the ceiling for a second. "…if that's another zombie siege, I'm going back to sleep."
A muffled snort came from the other side of the room.
Rouxi didn't even open her eyes. "Tell them to be quieter," she muttered into the pillow. "Some of us are trying to sleep."
Chenghai barked out a quiet laugh before pushing himself upright. Another series of gunshots rattled through the dawn outside while the windows vibrated faintly from something much heavier moving somewhere nearby.
That definitely wasn't normal.
