Chapter 171: Dead Siege Practice (VIII)
While escaping, Yu Wei seriously thought about how to get into the dormitory building.
The main entrance hall has the highest concentration of zombies, and the dormitory management and security offices nearby don't seem safe either. Is my friend planning a diversion? Or is there a secret passage?
She had thought of many ways, but none of them included the scene before her.
Flying down the eaves and walls?
From the 6th floor? ?
Want to go up again???
In fact, when she first saw the figure on the roof, she thought that a classmate had jumped off the building in anger due to the sudden change, and she was about to meet the end of her life due to the objects thrown from the high altitude.
Before he could come up with his last words, he saw the figure slow down before landing.
Yu Wei: “…”
Only then did she see clearly that the "girl who jumped from the building" had a hemp rope tied around her waist, hanging all the way high up on the sixth-floor balcony. She stepped nimbly on the wall and stopped in the air more than one meter above the ground.
The girl looked at her and took out the phone from her waist:
[Good friend: Yu Wei?]
Yu Wei was startled, then realized the other party didn't want to make any noise, and quickly typed: [It's me! You are...]
Tang Xin Jue: [Come over here, be careful.]
Yu Wei nodded vigorously, looked around to make sure there was no one nearby, then cautiously bent down and trotted to the bottom of Tang Xin Jue.
When she looked up and saw his face up close, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat and was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes: Ah, this is her reliable good friend!
Tang Xinjue looked at her quietly for a moment, then threw another rope into Yu Wei's hands.
[catch.]
For some reason, Yu Wei felt that the personality of her "good friend" seemed a little different from what she remembered, but she didn't have time to think about it and immediately grabbed the rope tightly.
After all, she firmly believed that it was impossible for anyone in the world to jump from the sixth floor just to pretend to be her gay friend.
[Um, are we just going to climb up like this...?]
Yu Wei was just typing halfway nervously when she felt her body suddenly lighten - the other party hugged her by the waist!
The exclamation stopped abruptly before it came out. Yu Wei covered her mouth and heard the zombies' growls and footsteps.
The sound came not only from the main gate, but also from above... It was the infected people in the dormitory on the second floor. Did they discover themselves?
At the same time, Tang Xinjue whispered, "Hold on to the rope tightly and don't make any noise."
After saying that, she held Yu Wei with one hand, and swung the other hand upwards with force, stepping on the head of the infected person rushing out from the second floor and leaping to the other side - and then climbed up repeatedly in this way, leaving the roar far below her body.
…
Grabbing the railing of the 6th floor balcony and her feet being lowered to the ground, the first thing Yu Wei did was to bend over and vomit.
Then she raised her head and glanced at the infected person slowly crawling out from the balcony next door. The other person's bloodshot eyeballs turned towards her and fell out with a pop.
Yu Wei: ...Ugh!
The vomiting became even worse.
After calming down, she immediately turned around to look for her friends: "Sisters, thank you so much this time...?"
The figures of four girls came into her sight.
Yu Wei's voice paused.
How come her gay friends suddenly became four people?
In the silent air, she finally realized that her gay friend seemed to have been using "we" as the subject during the conversation.
So, who is her best friend?
"Well," the only girl with short bob hair replied, "We need to check you out first. After we confirm that you're safe, you can have anyone you want as your gay friend."
Yu Wei immediately patted her chest as a guarantee, but seeing her arm covered in blood, she couldn't help but feel a little scared and asked quietly, "What if I accidentally get infected?"
Guo Guo thought about it and said seriously: "I'm sorry, we don't have a gay friend like you?"
Zhang You pulled out the scalpel and Zheng Wanqing silently picked up the shovel.
Tang Xinjue replied gently, "Then you might have to go back to where you came from."
Yu Wei: “…”
Fortunately, after Zhang You examined her, he quickly gave the result: "She didn't have any wounds on her body, and there was no blood in her eyes or ears."
If there is no new way for zombies to be infected in this copy, then Yu Wei's safety can basically be confirmed.
After that, she looked at Yu Wei and asked seriously, "You didn't bite the zombies, did you?"
Yu Wei: "...Why would I want to bite a zombie?!"
At most, she could just steal a phone from a zombie... Thinking of this, Yu Wei hurriedly took out her turned-off phone and asked, "Do you have a charger?"
Zhang You: "No, the entire campus has a power outage."
Yu Wei was struck by lightning: "It's over, my recording won't be released anymore!"
After Yu Wei gestured and explained, the four of them finally understood why the other party was sighing.
It turned out that after they lost contact for the first time and Yu Wei escaped from the security room, the girl ran to the cafeteria in a panic.
There happened to be no zombies in the cafeteria, so she slipped into the kitchen. However, she didn't expect that as soon as she entered, she heard voices and footsteps outside.
In order to avoid being discovered, Yu Wei simply took a drastic measure and pulled out all the baffles and refrigerators in the freezer and hid herself inside. Then the back kitchen door was opened and she heard a not very clear conversation.
"I recorded the second half on my phone, but unfortunately I can't listen to it again now, otherwise I'm sure I would remember it more clearly."
Yu Wei was filled with regret and could only rack her brains to repeat it from memory:
"As soon as they came in, they started talking about viruses, antidotes, and research and development. They also used a bunch of terms and English that I couldn't remember. Oh, and at the end they said that there weren't enough zombie samples, and the antidote progress had stalled. It would take at least five rounds before the antidote could be released."
The girl clapped her hands and said, "Then I heard another voice outside, saying something like, 'The infected are here, go back quickly, and never come out again.' Then they left."
When she came out of the freezer shivering, there was no one outside, only the low growls of zombies in the distance.
Then she continued to run for her life until she found a FamilyMart that had been looted. She hid inside and contacted the four people from group 606 .
"...This is my entire experience." Yu Wei wiped the blood off her body while recounting every detail.
The four of them originally thought that the girl's frequency of sending messages on the chat software was due to her desire to talk due to a sense of crisis, but it was not until now that they suddenly realized that she was really nagging.
By the time Wei finally happily finished telling what happened on the road, there were less than three minutes left until the next radio broadcast.
Tang Xinjue glanced down at the balcony, then returned to the dormitory and closed the window.
The zombies that had been attracted by the two of them not only did not disperse, but instead became more and more numerous, as if they could sense the scent of food on the walls of this building, and they opened their mouths greedily.
Inside the room, Zhang You summarized the information provided by Yu Wei and said directly: "Those people in the cafeteria should be from the laboratory."
——The source of the zombie virus leak and the only way to end the copy: the school laboratory.
Most of their conversation was easy to understand, but one piece of information made several people's hearts skip a beat:
...What does five wheels mean?
This information flashed through his mind , and Tang Xinjue suddenly said, "We've seen this number before."
"Where?" Everyone was stunned.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Guo Guo's mind: "I remember now, the entrance examination!"
There was a question on the entrance examination paper, the title of which was "Which of the following objects cannot be bitten open by zombies on the fifth day?"
When Tang Xin Jue restated the question, several people immediately remembered:
Although the questions on the test paper are bizarre, they are indeed the contents of each dungeon. If it is applicable to the current situation, it means that the danger of zombies is likely to increase day by day.
"The fifth day, the fifth round... Could it be that one day is one round, which means that the zombies will evolve once a day?" Zheng Wanqing slapped his head.
The conversation in the laboratory indicated that the development of the antidote would have to wait until at least the fifth round of zombies appeared, which meant that they would have to stay in this copy for at least five days .
"How far will zombies evolve?" Guo Guo suddenly became alert upon hearing the relevant words: "They won't be like elves, right?"
Thanks to the elf, she is almost developing a psychological trauma about the word "evolution".
The four of them turned their heads to look at the white ball that had been moved to the plastic basin. It was still fast asleep, completely different from the Smurf's evolved, sanity-defying form.
"Ah, I also want to know if the zombies will continue to mutate and when we can expect support, but who should I ask?"
On the other side, Yu Wei finished cleaning and sat down on the ground exhausted, still muttering to herself.
Tang Xin Jue said, "It doesn't matter. We will be able to see the person we are questioning in 10 seconds."
Yu Wei shuddered: "What? Who do you want to ask?"
Facing the other person's bewildered gaze, Tang Xinjue gestured towards the radio in the center of the dormitory.
“——Ding Dong!”
The radio station started on time.
This time the host was no longer Lily, but the original Xiao Ming. He spoke as if a cat had stepped on his tongue, stretching out each word, trying to fill half an hour with just two sentences.
When he finally and reluctantly finished, they summarized the only valid message from his long and boring speech:
Someone is setting up a small base on campus and inviting surviving students to come over.
"Also, a quick announcement: Since we've learned that the Student Union's contact information has been leaked, in order to satisfy more students' enthusiasm for communication with the Student Union, we will immediately adjust the incoming call policy. Each caller's phone number can only ask one question. Once the limit is exceeded, the caller will be immediately blacklisted by the Student Union and will never be answered again!"
After reading this, Xiao Ming seemed to be relieved: "If there are no questions, this radio show ends here——"
Before he could finish, the phone rang as expected.
However, this time, the voice that came out after the call was connected was not Tang Xinjue's, but an anxious male voice:
"When will we receive the rescue supplies? Why can't I connect to the outside signal? My roommate has been bitten and needs treatment..."
"Sorry, classmate." Xiao Ming interrupted him with a smile: "You have exceeded the limit on the number of questions you can ask. According to the new rules, we will not answer any of your questions and will permanently block your right to ask questions. Goodbye."
The boy's pleading and screaming stopped abruptly when the phone was hung up.
With the previous experience as a lesson, the second caller was much calmer. This time it was a girl:
"Hello, I'd like to know if there's a classmate of mine who has mutated. Is there any way to treat her?"
"The Student Union said in the last radio broadcast that only laboratory research results can handle this virus leak. All you can do is hold on until that moment. Next one."
"I'm a student in Room 505, Building 5, Male Dormitory. I'd like to know how to contact the student base."
"You'll have to find it on your own. The Student Union is just delivering this good news. Those of you eager to join can observe the billboards outside; there might be a surprise. Next one—"
"Hello." Tang Xinjue said.
Yu Wei listened carefully nearby. She didn't know if it was her imagination, but the originally leisurely voice on the radio suddenly stopped, as if it had run into someone it didn't want to meet. After several seconds, it spoke again:
“…I can only ask one question!”
"Sure." Tang Xin Jue smiled and said, "May I ask how long the zombie evolution and mutation cycle is?"
The radio was silent for a few seconds.
Obviously, Tang Xinjue once again raised a question that was beyond their expectations.
This was a question asked in a normal tone, but assuming the premise that "zombies have a mutation cycle", the student union could only give a clear answer.
Xiao Ming said in a muffled voice: "According to current research, it's 24 hours."
——It was just as they guessed.
Tang Xinjue thanked him politely, but before he could finish his words, the student union impatiently hung up the phone.
After a few seconds, no new calls came in. Xiao Ming said cheerfully, "It seems the students have asked all their questions. So, this radio station..."
A new ringtone rang out at the perfect time. Xiao Ming choked and had to answer the call: "Hello?"
"Hello." This time it was Zhang You's voice.
Xiao Ming: “…”
Student Union: “…”
How come you guys can still call me?
Miscalculated again.
At the same time, in dormitory 606, Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing were already holding their phones, ready to make a call—or more accurately, holding their SIM cards, ready to insert them into the phone in the next dormitory.
The phone is locked in the chat interface , but the SIM card is not locked.
A mobile phone card is just a number.
By the way, they also temporarily "borrowed" the phone that Yu Wei had stolen from the zombies. According to the student union rules, they had at least five chances to call a number once!
Seeing how they were behaving, Yu Wei suddenly realized what was going on. She immediately lifted up her clothes and started searching her pockets.
"Do you need a cell phone? It's okay, I have one here!"
As her clothes were lifted, a bunch of various mobile phones appeared at her waist:
"When I stole phones from the zombies, I was afraid one or two wouldn't have enough battery, so I just brought all the ones I could. There are probably about ten in total. Do you think they're enough?"
