Chapter 173: Zombie Siege Practice (10)
"where?"
Guo Guo immediately focused his attention: "Is it a living person or a zombie?"
Yu Wei quickly stuffed the remaining chips into her mouth: "It's too clear to see, it feels more like an injury that has provoked a living person."
Guo Guo quickly recorded: "8 to 15 people, injured, walking along the grass, very vigilant, with a clear destination..."
Without further analysis, the two of them almost guessed the purpose of this group of people.
They will definitely go to the student base.
Over the next afternoon, the two observed about eight or nine groups of students "migrating" in this way. They were moving in different directions and were probably not going to the same base.
The sun sets in the west and dusk falls.
The dormitory area became extremely dark without electricity, and objects in the distance were almost invisible. Tang Xinjue and Zhang You finally returned with a full load. They washed the blood off their bodies, packed up their things and had dinner.
The moment she saw the inside of refrigerator 606, Yu Wei no longer worried about the supplies and even felt that it would be enough to eat for another month.
"Eat more now, replenish your energy and get some sleep."
Tang Xin Jue said succinctly: "Things will get complicated tonight."
Maybe it was because night was falling and the time for the next wave of mutations was approaching, but they felt the chilly atmosphere was getting thicker, and even putting on coats couldn't dispel the cold.
"It's getting more and more dangerous out there."
Tang Xinjue rolled up his sleeves, pulled up his hat, and his voice was even colder than during the day.
"I'll be back in about two hours."
Zheng Wanqing: "I'll go with you."
Tang Xin Jue: "I can handle it myself, you stay in the dormitory and guard the main door."
Zhang You nodded: "Guo Guo and I will guard the balcony."
Yu Wei swallowed the biscuit with difficulty and rubbed her sweaty palms. Emotionally, she felt that she should step forward to share the burden, but her reason told her that not holding the boss back was already an exceptional performance.
After thinking carefully, she whispered, "I'll sew clothes for you. I won first prize in the school for handicrafts. It's awesome."
…
As the clock ticked back, the low roar outside the window became more and more obvious.
At first it was just the bottom floor, then gradually spread to the second and third floors... until footsteps were heard outside the door.
Yu Wei's heart stopped for a moment.
Guo Guo looked relatively calm, but in fact, he had already tightly grasped the pendant in his hand, and was anxiously looking in the direction where Tang Xinjue left.
Theoretically, now is the best time to go out and look for clues. Once it is past 12 o'clock, the danger level outside will inevitably increase significantly.
But looking at the bottomless darkness, they couldn't help feeling uneasy as if they were on an isolated island.
Zhang You comforted her: "It's okay. If you don't come back in two hours, I will go to receive the Heart Sutra."
Guo Guo gasped: "In the flag, this is usually called Calabash Brothers saving Grandpa."
Zhang You: “…”
Before he could say anything else, footsteps were heard outside the door again.
It was like something was moving on two flopping legs, gradually approaching the door.
"Bang!"
The door was slammed hard, and the muffled sound of the iron door shaking was even clearer in the silent night.
Zombies are coming!
Zheng Wanqing signaled for everyone to be quiet and mouthed, "I can hold on."
One person's strength is not enough to easily break open an iron door, and the same goes for zombies.
Everyone calmed down and waited quietly for a few seconds. Then, amid the slow collision, they heard another sound of footsteps coming from far away.
“Bang—bang!”
Outside the door, two bodies collided alternately.
Everyone: ...a bad premonition came to mind.
Sure enough, within ten minutes, the third zombie also joined the camp that was banging on the door.
The iron door changed from making a thud to a clanging sound, and the three iron chains swayed and collided, spreading the sound like a rusty rock performance, making the people in the house almost have tinnitus.
"No, if this continues, the noise will definitely attract more infected people."
Zheng Wanqing's face was serious.
As soon as night fell, these zombies seemed to suddenly become active. All kinds of strange noises came out of the originally empty and silent corridor, and there was also a rustling sound of unidentified objects rubbing from the direction of the stairs in the distance. The sounds were mixed together in a random manner, making it impossible to distinguish the specific situation.
"There are two possible reasons for the increase in zombies. One is that the students who hid in other dormitories during the day were infected and left their dormitories to pour into the corridors. The other is that the zombies are gathering in the lobby on the first floor."
At this point, Zhang You frowned: "...They started climbing up the stairs."
The second possibility was rather bizarre. Why would the zombies gather downstairs during the day and then climb up at night? Are they worshiping the moon?
"So at the moment, I'm more inclined to the first possibility. The zombies outside were originally from the nearby dormitories. They might have smelled us, heard our voices, or there's some other attraction mechanism."
The student union radio station didn't reveal the zombies' specific characteristics. To prevent their scent from being detected, the men sprayed every corner of the room with floral water and wrapped themselves tightly, leaving no trace of blood.
But even so, it could not prevent the 606 gate from being attacked.
"The fourth one."
Zheng Wanqing pulled out a sharp dagger.
Yu Wei's hair stood on end: "Are we going to fight the zombies with bayonets?"
Zhang You comforted her: "This iron door won't be broken open so quickly. Even if a group of zombies keep knocking on it, it will take at least a few hours. You can still get some sleep now and get up in the morning."
Yu Wei: ...Does she look like someone who could sleep soundly even with the sound of zombies banging on the door?
She didn't dare to go to the weapon rack to get the shovel, so she picked up a Nokia and an 8878 gold phone from the pile of mobile phones and held them in her hands to increase her sense of security.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
From time to time, the door lock made a harsh noise of fingernails scratching, and even the sound of keys rubbing against each other - several people shuddered, and then they heard that the lock holes of the object were not aligned. The zombie seemed to give up after trying a few times and continued to use its head to collide with the iron sheet.
"Ah, if I had known earlier, I should have installed a 10-centimeter-thick alloy security door with a fingerprint lock and a door mirror."
Guo Guo covered her head with her hands. She finally understood why she saw the illusion on the door in her dream of dormitory renovation - weren't these the zombies swarming outside the door at this moment!
Fortunately, we chose to replace the dormitory door at that time, otherwise, given the hardness of the original wooden door, they would have started fighting with each other by now.
Half an hour later, a few people began to think that it would be better to just go for the fight.
Even if I face the zombies right away, it’s better than suffering here!
Every second that the zombies were pounding outside was a heart-wrenching moment, and the sturdier dormitory door actually prolonged the torture - especially since the longer it went on, the harder it was to be sure what would happen next.
The door might be unlocked in the next second, or I might have to wait another three hours, or even...
"It seems someone is coming."
Zheng Wanqing suddenly spoke.
——Aren’t there people coming outside our door all the time?
Guo Guo was stunned for just a second, then he immediately realized: Zheng Wanqing was talking about people in the literal sense!
Zheng Wanqing wasn't sure if she heard it correctly, so she asked Zhang You to come over. Zhang You listened carefully for two seconds and nodded in confirmation: "Yes, it is indeed a person."
Firstly, human footsteps have a rhythmic pattern, completely different from zombies. Secondly, from the moment that sound appeared, the force of the pounding outside the dormitory door had noticeably weakened.
They seemed to be attracted by the people coming over.
A guess suddenly occurred to Guo Guo, and he suddenly stood up from his chair: "Could it be—— "
At this moment, the roars of zombies and the sounds of headshots exploded simultaneously from outside the door!
"Heart Secret!"
Zheng Wanqing was about to press the door handle without hesitation, but Zhang You stopped her: "Let's check first."
"No need to confirm."
Guo Guo suddenly spoke from behind, holding her phone screen upright in her palm: "Jue Shen is calling."
After the call was connected, the other end of the speaker was indeed filled with a noisy environment identical to that outside the door.
Tang Xinjue's voice didn't sound strained. "No need to open the door. There aren't many people outside. I'll be in soon."
Before he finished speaking, there was another sound of blood splattering, and something hit the receiver, making the signal unclear. Only Tang Xinjue's voice could be heard faintly:
"My phone is soaked in blood... Never mind, I'll fix it when I get back."
Compared to the persistent wave of banging on the door, this time the riot outside the door died down quickly. A few minutes later, normal knocks sounded from the iron door:
"It's me."
It was Tang Xinjue's voice.
"I think you need to explain."
Zhang You looked at Tang Xin Jue calmly.
If you ignore the fact that she adjusted the frame three times in one minute.
Tang Xin Jue also said calmly: "Put down the shovel first, everything will be easy to talk about."
“…”
In the quiet dormitory, only Yu Wei was huddled in the corner, not daring to make a sound.
In fact, she was also frightened when she saw Tang Xinjue coming in. If it weren't for the other three people in 606 who could recognize him, she almost thought it was a zombie coming in -
Tang Xinjue's entire body was soaked in blood. The shovel and dagger at his waist had long been deformed, leaving only a bloody object in his hand that looked like a toilet plunger, the rubber head of which was covered in minced meat.
It's scarier than a ghost!
"Something happened. I couldn't use the balcony, so I had to come back through the corridor."
Tang Xinjue wet a tissue to wipe the blood, but found that he could not wipe it all away, so he had no choice but to raise the bottle of water and pour it on his head.
After removing the clothes and blood stains, Zhang You saw that the man had no wounds, and his expression eased slightly.
"We didn't hear any zombies moving in the dormitory you went to. Were they blocked by the sound of banging on the door?"
Coming back from the dormitory's main entrance meant facing the zombies in the corridor. Tang Xinjue wasn't as impatient as Zheng Wanqing, and unless the situation got really dire, he wouldn't hastily change his plans.
Tang Xinjue shook his head:
"This time it's not zombies, it's people."
Just before midnight, she gave a brief summary of what had happened in the past two hours.
There were 24 dormitories along one corridor, and a maximum of 12 could be reached from the balcony on one side. After the afternoon sweep, there were still 7 rooms that had not been touched. Her original plan was to search for dungeon information in these rooms.
In the last room at the end of the corridor, information and surprise appeared at the same time.
Tang Xinjue took out a piece of paper from his arms. The blood stains had not yet spread, but the blurry words on it could still be seen.
[Experiment 091]
[Process…Mutated Virus]
[Experimental period: 5 to 7 days]
[Tuning rate 875…approximation 0.718…matching failed]
[Start recycling]
[Recovery Date: September 20]
Guo Guo: "September 20th, isn't that today!"
But she read the words over and over again and still could only understand half of them.
I can understand experiments, but what is experimental recycling?
I understand the experimental cycle, but what are the adjustment rate and convergence?
After failing to understand everything he had learned, Guo Guo could only come to one intuitive conclusion: "Is this information important?"
Tang Xin Jue: "Yes."
Otherwise, she would not have been attacked the moment she got the paper.
First there were several ambushes, then there was an unknown gas that suddenly gushed out of the room. When she returned to the balcony, the entire balcony suddenly collapsed, and she felt an extremely strong sense of danger.
A sense of danger told her that if she opened the balcony window, she would unlock something even more difficult.
In comparison, walking through the pile of zombies in the corridor became a safer option.
"Fortunately, there aren't many zombies." Tang Xinjue said without exaggeration, "If there were dozens of them, I would have shouted for help the moment I saw them."
Zhang You subconsciously thought of a flag: "Huluwa saves grandpa?"
Guo Guo: “…”
The problem of people banging on doors was temporarily resolved, but the atmosphere in the dormitory was not much more relaxed.
Because midnight is coming.
Even with only a few dozen minutes left, 606 wasn't idle. Tang Xinjue briefly discussed with Zhang You and the others, found a few sharp pieces of iron or wood on the scene, and immediately began working.
Zheng Wanqing's right hand came in handy at this time. The effect of chopping with her hand was comparable to that of a saw. Not long after, huge spikes appeared on the ground.
Yu Wei quietly moved away from the beauty's prosthetic limb. She wanted to help but didn't know where to start. She could only quietly pull Guo Guo's sleeve and ask, "Um, what are you doing now?"
Guo Guo raised a thorn and said excitedly: "Build fortifications!"
Tang Xin Jue corrected: "No, it's about making some decorations."
Soon, Yu Wei saw the true appearance of the "ornament":
These spikes were hung firmly outside the dormitory door with several iron chains, and each spike emitted a cold light, facing the outside!
After manually adding the decorations, the upgraded thorn iron door was closed heavily with the stroke of midnight.
Not a fan of banging doors? Then go for it.
…
The five people didn't know what changes happened to the zombies after 12 o'clock. They only knew that they were facing another wave of door-breaking attacks.
The only difference was that this time the noise changed from a harsh bang to a plop sound like cutting watermelon.
The door behind them was probably filled with bullets, with the bodies in front blocking the bodies behind. By the second half of the night, all the noises gradually quieted down again. Several people slept peacefully until dawn.
It was unknown how the other students in the copy slept that night, but when the student union radio sounded again, they knew that the student union must not have slept well.
——Especially when Tang Xinjue’s call was connected, the strong sense of despair and exhaustion almost rushed out of the radio.
Guo Guo: "When I woke up on Monday morning to go to my internship, I didn't seem as desperate as they did ."
This time, Lily was silent for a full minute, as if she had made some important decision, before she spoke solemnly:
"Dear students, we apologize for interrupting with an announcement. Due to a sudden and significant trauma within the Student Union, we are unable to continue the radio Q&A program. Therefore, the call-in channel for this program will be temporarily closed."
"Oh?" Tang Xinjue was quite interested: "Where is the major injury?"
There was no immediate answer from the other end of the line. The faint sounds of fists and kicks, reminiscent of a fight, were heard. A few seconds later, the miserable cries of another host, Xiao Ming, echoed through the radio station, followed by the sound of something heavy falling and being dragged.
Lily's voice returned, slightly breathless but brisk, and she said confidently, "Now I have it."
The author has something to say:
Don't confront 606 head-on, they will get hurt and you will lose your life
——Diary of an Infected Person
