“Hey! Xiaoquan, what exactly are you trying to do?” Wang Qiang couldn’t stand the aimless following any longer, and finally blurted out the question that had been nagging him.

“I’m planning to make some noise to distract the zombies!”

“What? Distract the zombies! You’re not joking, are you? How do you plan to do that?”

“You’ll find out soon enough!” Time was pressing, and Tang Xiaoquan didn’t have the leisure to explain in detail to his friends. After briefly replying, he turned his gaze to Hu Xiaodong behind him:

“Hu, could you please take Chao and Qiang to the bedroom and cut some pieces of cloth, about this size!”

Tang Xiaoquan gestured briefly, finished his instructions, and then waved the nearby Wenquan Xin over, walking together into the storage room.

Once inside, Wenquan Xin was bewildered and asked, “Hey~ Xiao Tang, is there anything you need me to help with?”

“There is!” With a firm nod, Tang Xiaoquan opened the cabinet and pointed at the neatly arranged various liquors inside, instructing, “I need you to tear off the packaging of these things, oh, and open the caps as well.”

“What!” With a slight hesitation, Wenquan Xin uncertainly confirmed, “You mean… tear all of these apart?”

Looking back at Wenquan Xin, Tang Xiaoquan’s slightly hesitant gaze indicated he hadn’t considered this issue before. However, his response was quick. After a brief moment of thought, he provided the answer: “Not all of them; let’s try with five bottles first!”

What? Five bottles? Try it out first! Wenquan Xin involuntarily swallowed as a hint of skepticism surfaced in his mind:

What kind of plan is this? Even you don’t seem entirely sure yourself!

However, despite his doubts, Wenquan Xin did not show any of it on his face.

After all, besides Tang Xiaoquan, no one else had come up with a solution to deal with the zombies.

So, anyway, we have to put this plan to the test.

Following orders, he started to strip the packaging. Unfortunately, for Wenquan Xin, who rarely had contact with these high-end liquors, the job was far more complicated than anticipated.

He truly couldn’t understand what the manufacturers were thinking, making a simple bottle of liquor so complexly packaged.

Is this about drinking or defusing bombs!

After stupidly working on it for over five minutes, five distinct bottles of liquor finally “emerged from their packaging” revealing their true selves.

Meanwhile, in another room, tasked with cutting cloth strips, Hu Xiaodong and the others also successfully completed their mission and returned to the storage room.

Spreading out the cut cloth strips on the box surface, Hu Xiaodong instinctively glanced at the clutter of cardboard packaging on the floor, feeling a bit inexplicably puzzled.

He couldn’t understand what the young man in front of him aimed to do, but he restrained his urge to ask and straightforwardly said, “Xiao Tang, everything’s done as you asked. Is the size okay?”

“It’s fine, thank you!” Brief and to the point, without a hint of unnecessary words, Tang Xiaoquan immediately picked out two cloth strips, grabbed two bottles of freshly opened liquor, and walked out of the room without further explanation.

Now everyone felt even more perplexed; Tang Xiaoquan’s action of silently and mysteriously moving around left them at a loss for words.

No one knew what Tang Xiaoquan intended, nor did anyone know what he would do. The only thing the group could do now was to wait quietly, waiting for the young man to finish his work, and for him to explain.

However, what everyone didn’t realize was that Tang Xiaoquan was not deliberately acting mysterious; he was…

Taking a deep breath, he placed the items onto the table one by one, raised his eyebrows slightly as he looked at the girl curled up in the corner with a gloomy face, then formally started his work.

Picking up the liquor, Tang Xiaoquan tilted the bottle slightly, releasing a long, angled stream flowing out of the bottle.

The group could clearly smell the gradually dispersing aroma of alcohol, which only confused their already muddled minds further.

After pouring out about half the neck of the bottle’s contents, Tang Xiaoquan tilted the bottle upright with his right hand, then took a cloth strip and soaked it in the poured liquor.

Watching the young man incessantly roll the cloth strip, Hu Xiaodong suddenly widened his eyes in sudden realization; at that moment, he understood the other’s plan:

“Incendiary Bottle, Xiao Tang is making an Incendiary Bottle!”

As soon as he spoke, Tang Xiaoquan finished stuffing the soaked cloth strip into the bottle.

No further explanation was needed; the “Incendiary Bottle” placed on the table perfectly conveyed everything.

Wang Qiang stepped forward with curiosity, eyes glued to the “Incendiary Bottle,” his mouth involuntarily clicking his tongue.

He’d often heard about this kind of thing in news reports, but seeing a “finished product” was truly a first for him.

“Hey~ Xiaoquan, you aren’t planning on using this thing against the zombies downstairs, are you?” Wenquan Xin also showed considerable interest in the “Incendiary Bottle,” though he was more concerned about how Tang Xiaoquan intended to use it.

Immediately after Wenquan Xin’s question, Wang Qiang, who had been simmering with anger and eagerly looking for a chance to avenge himself, straightened up as if energized, grabbing the “Incendiary Bottle” off the table and shouted, “Damn it! Enough talk, let’s go kill those beasts!”

“Hey! Hold on! Qiang!” Tang Xiaoquan stepped in front to block Wang Qiang’s path, signaling for him to calm down: “Listen, Qiang, you can’t rely on this thing against zombies; it won’t destroy those beasts’ brains, so I’m thinking…”

“You’re thinking of using it to distract the zombies, right?” Hu Xiaodong interrupted, understanding where Tang Xiaoquan was going before he finished.

“Yes!”

With all questions now answered, there was only one thing left to do: Experiment!

Feeling anxious, everyone moved to the balcony, where Tang Xiaoquan handed a lighter from his pocket to Wang Qiang.

Without a doubt, success depended entirely on the next move; whether the “Incendiary Bottle” could achieve the intended purpose and successfully drive away the zombies was entirely up to Wang Qiang’s throw.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Wang Qiang ignited the lighter with such caution as though about to light the Olympic flame.

With his right hand holding the bottle slowly moving towards the flame, the cloth strip pressed against the bottle wall was about to undergo a fiery baptism.

However…

“Ah!”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep