Chapter 175: Dead Siege Practice (XII)
After hearing Tang Xinjue's answer, Yu Wei said:...I don't understand, but it feels very reasonable.
So she followed them around in a daze all day, and only after dinner at dusk did she suddenly realize: "Wait, if we have the entire sixth floor as our territory, what about the other dormitories on this floor?"
She remembered that they brutally raided 12 rooms in Room 606 yesterday, but the remaining 12 dormitories on the other side remained untouched.
Looking at the expressions of the four people in 606, Yu Wei's heart trembled: "Could it be... that they also want..."
Guo Guo patted her shoulder sympathetically, his tone full of experience and maturity: "From the moment we visited the first dormitory, there was no turning back."
Either they stay in Room 606 completely and ignore the outside world; or once they have explored the outside world, they will go all out and explore it all without stopping halfway.
"It's a pity that there is not enough time today. It's better to wait until tomorrow to continue." Zhang You glanced at the sky and was as cautious as ever.
After dusk, night falls, and the zombies that have been crowded in certain places will come out in droves again. They need to use the corridor layout that night to judge the strength level of the mutated zombies.
Tang Xin Jue picked up two pieces of beef jerky for Zhang You, then said, "Maybe I can do it before 12 o'clock..."
Zhang You: "It's too dangerous. No."
Tang Xin Jue: "...Okay."
Her roommate was firm in his attitude, so she could only shrug her shoulders resignedly, then quickly took the beef jerky from his bowl.
Zhang You: “…”
Guo Guo took advantage of the moment when Tang Xin Jue and Zhang You were fighting, and quietly took a piece of boneless chicken feet from Tang Xin Jue's bowl, and took a few dates from Zhang You's bowl, stuffed them into his mouth and said vaguely:
"Jueshen, you have to control your urge to escape. If you leave, and Sister You gets tricked into going jungle again, it'll be just Wanqing and I left in the dorm, crying bitterly..."
Zheng Wanqing woke up in the middle of her meal, slapped the metal arm on the table, and looked around: "Who's crying? Why are they crying?"
Guo Guo: "...I'm the only one left crying alone. I'm so pitiful."
She finished her meal, leaned back in her chair, and burped. "Scientific research says that adequate sleep is the secret to growing healthy hair. But I've only slept less than 10 hours in the past two days. Could this affect the effectiveness of the hair growth product?"
Guo Guo touched his head worriedly, and out of the corner of his eye he saw the last ray of sunset disappear into the sky.
Her pupils suddenly shrank, and she opened her eyes wide as if she saw something, but her neck suddenly tilted back, and her head and whole body fell off the chair!
"Guo Guo!"
Tang Xinjue immediately picked her up. The body in his hands was tense, with large patches of white in her eyes and her lips moving as if she was speaking , but no sound came out.
Yu Wei was so nervous that her hands were sweating: "She, what happened to her?"
Mutation? Epilepsy? Stroke?
Countless terrifying thoughts flashed through her head. Yu Wei held her breath and didn't have time to breathe out, but she saw Guo Guo suddenly take a deep breath and his eyes returned to normal.
Tang Xin Jue asked, "What did you see?"
Guo Guo pursed his pale lips. "On the playground, there were many, many student corpses, arranged in a huge circle. In the middle was a glass box, and the contents seemed to be, seemed to be..."
She suddenly choked up, unable to describe the precise appearance of the object in the box. She could only imagine it bit by bit: "It has no shape, no fixed appearance. Sometimes it looks like gas, sometimes like water, sand, or a ball of red thread - in short, it's very strange and very dangerous! And I can feel that the zombie virus must have come from inside."
Tang Xin Jue handed her a bottle of water to calm her down. After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Are there any living people in the picture? Or are they all corpses?"
Guo Guo thought for a moment and said, "There are living people."
At the outermost edge of the giant circle, there were several male and female students dressed in uniform. They were holding paper and pen in their hands, seemingly recording something.
The image in the hallucination only flashed by, and she couldn't see the faces of these people clearly. She only remembered that there were several red stripes on their clothes, which looked like some kind of sportswear.
After telling everyone what he had seen, Guo Guo felt his hands and feet slowly warming up and gradually breaking away from the influence of the illusion.
Zhang You recreated the scene described by Guo Guo on paper. When the finished product came out, everyone felt an indescribable feeling of nausea rising from their stomachs.
The dense black dots within the "disc" represented the bodies of the students, circling and shrinking until they finally converged at a point in the center. But viewed from the other side, it resembled a petalless sunflower, sprawled eerily across the playground.
Although Yu Wei's cheeks were twitching this time, she surprisingly didn't vomit. Instead, she looked carefully several times and exclaimed, "Isn't this the number one track and field stadium in your school?"
When she came here, she didn't find the right way. She went around from the teaching campus and ended up in the track and field stadium by mistake. She only relied on her strong and unyielding willpower to get out.
Looking at this picture, she couldn't tell exactly what was similar about it, but she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity and certainty.
"Also," Yu Wei scratched her head, "Do you think this picture looks a bit like..."
606 looked at each other and blurted out: "Like a sacrifice?"
Since activating his "Third Eye," Guo Guo had yet to identify a pattern to his hallucinations. Sometimes they were premonitions, other times they seemed like simple "observations," and the objects of observation could occur in the present, the future, or the past—perhaps even forever unverifiable.
"First, we need to determine whether this scenario has already occurred in the school or has not yet occurred."
Tang Xinjue's gaze slowly scanned the map. After Guo Guo's diligent review and refinement, the suspected "sacrifice" scene became much clearer.
The bodies were bloody, likely students who had already transformed into zombies. There were at least several thousand of them, excluding those in the early stages of mutation.
The light is clear, it is daytime, excluding the present.
"—It's very likely a scene from the later stages of the zombie outbreak, or even the last day."
"So the outcome of this mutation is a cult ritual like a sacrifice?"
Zhang You frowned.
But what does this ceremony have to do with the candidates?
Several people simultaneously recalled the clue on the paper that Tang Xinjue had obtained before.
"Experiment 091...Experiment recovery..."
Guo Guo muttered a few words, then suddenly realized: "Yes, this is an experiment!"
If we ignore the incomprehensible nouns and only look at the understandable parts, the message contained in this part is very simple:
Viruses are experiments, and viral outbreaks are also experiments.
If you think of the entire dungeon as an experimental process, then everything is a pre-set process - including letting zombies dry people out on the playground for sacrifice.
Yu Wei spent a long time finally sorting out the core point in her mind, and immediately said in horror:
"So the lab leak and all that was fake—were we really sacrificed by a cult?!"
Help, she really just made a random guess at that time! !
As if responding to her fear, the only small desk lamp that kept the light in the dormitory bright suddenly went out, and darkness suddenly enveloped the window inside and outside.
Yu Wei: Cardiac arrest.
After taking several deep breaths, Yu Wei calmed down a little, and glanced cautiously in the direction of the four people in the faint moonlight - and then saw nothing.
The space that originally belonged to four people is now empty.
“…”
Just as Yu Wei was trying hard to suppress her first scream of the day, a small face suddenly popped up from the side of her, and the eyes on the face looked like two big black grapes in the moonlight.
Yu Wei: “Ah!!!”
Guo Guo : “Ah!!!”
Zheng Wanqing: "What's wrong? Where are the zombies?"
The lights came on again, and the two people who were scared by each other looked at each other, while the three people holding lights in the distance looked confused.
Yu Wei looked here and there, still in shock: "I, I thought you just disappeared."
Zhang You: "We're changing the batteries in the lamp."
Guo Guo said quietly, "I saw you were motionless, so I wanted to comfort you."
Instead of getting comforted, he almost got himself into trouble.
…
As the lights came back on, Yu Wei finally felt alive again and began to look outside nervously, fearing that the shout she had just made would attract all the zombies.
Tang Xin Jue smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Whether we make any noise or not, the zombies will always come."
In other words, as long as the four people in Room 606 are still here, even if the dormitory is sealed into the center of the earth, the zombies will still be able to stubbornly smell their way in.
Yu Wei responded with a half-comprehending sound, but soon her ears pricked up in alertness, her attention drawn to the noise outside.
——The zombies are coming!
But before long, the people in the house realized another problem:
...The defense outside the corridor seems a little too good this time?
After waiting for most of the day, the roars and fluttering sounds of the zombies were still lingering at the entrance of the corridor. I couldn't even get to my workplace - 606 door to clock in.
As she waited, Yu Wei actually felt a little sleepy, perhaps because she was too tired during the day.
The first zombie finally won the obstacle race. When it was shot in the head by the iron spikes at the finish line, the originally creepy roar and struggle sounded extremely distant in Yu Wei's ears.
Even the faint noises and screams coming from outside the window became a faint noise in her ears as sleepiness set in. She didn't even have time to say another word before she completely lost consciousness.
When I woke up again, it was already early morning.
Yu Wei rubbed her hair sleepily. Her first reaction was to look for the four people in Room 606. But then she found that there was no one under the bed... nor on the bed... nor on the balcony...
Wait, why does it seem like there's no one here?
Yu Wei thought it was a recurrence of the misunderstanding from the night before, and she blinked for a long time before sitting up in a state of near-death shock.
Damn, this time the person is really gone!!
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Yu Wei: I woke up and found all my friends missing
